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THE JEFFERSON |3fc NEWS & FARMER
Vol. 1.
THE
Jefferson News & Farmer,
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HARRISON & ROBERTS!
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LOUISVILLE, GA
TERMS $2 50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
1 year. !
6 months.
3 months.
4 weeks.
1 week.
I
SQUARES:
1 , SI.UU $2.25 $7.50 i512.00 $20.00
2 1.75 5.00 12.00 18.00 30.00
„ 2.00 7.00 10.00 2800 40.00
| 3.50 9.00 25.00 35.00 50.00
; ' 4.00 12.00 28.00 40.00 60.00
7 col I 6.00 16.00 34.00 60.00 75.00
Icoli 10.00 25.00 60.00 BU.OO 120.00
fcol| 20.00 50.00 80 00 1120.00 160.00
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Ordinary's, —Citations tor letters
ot ad ninistration, guardianship, &c. $ 3 00
Homestead notice 2 00
Applicationtor dism’n from adm’n.. ,5 00
Applicationfor dism’n of guard’ll 3 50
Application for leave to sell Land f> 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors---. 3 00
Sales of Land, per square of ten lines 500
Sale of personal per sq., ten days 1 50
Sheriff's —Each levy often lines 2so
Mortgage sales of ten lines or less.. 500
Tax Collector’s sales, (2 months.... 500
Clerk's- -Foreclosure of mortgage and
other monthly’s, per square.... .... 100
Estray notices,thirty days 3 00
Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execu
tors or Guardians, are required, by law to
be held on the tirst Tuesday in the month,
between the hours of ten in the forenoon
aud three in the afternoon. At the Court
house iu the county in the .property
s situated.
Notice ofthese sales must be published 40
days previous to the day of sale.
Notiee for the sale of personal property
must Do published 10 days previous to sale
day.
Notice to debtors and creditors, 40 day
Notice that application will be made of
the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land,
4 weeks.
Citations for letters of Administration,
Guarlianship, &c., must be published 30
lays—for dismission from Administration,
nonthlysix months , for dismission fronf guar
limship, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must
be published monthly for four months —for
establishing lost papers, for the full space of
Wrce months —for compelling titles from Ex
ecutors or Administrators, where bond has
seen given by the deceased, the full space
of three months.
Application for Homestead to be published
twice in the space of ten consecutive days.
LOUIS VILLE GAUDS.
J G. CAIN J. H. FOLHILL.
GAIN <fc POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE, GA.
May?, 1871. 1 ly.
"tTF" harlo w
W atctL Maker
—AND—
REPAIRER,
Louisville, Oa.
Special attention given to reno
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SEWIN'O MACHINES &c., &c.
Also Agent to* 1 ike best Sewing Machine
that is made-
May 5,1871. 1 lyr:
"DR. I. R. POWELL,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Thankful for tiie paronage
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinuing the offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
ftMay 5,1871. 1 lyr.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.—
Wh-reas, Nathan Ellis applies to me for
Letters of Guardianship of the person and
property of Michael Pool, Minor Heir of Isaac
B. Po and, deceased :
These are, therefore, to cite all persons in
■t erested to be and appear at my office in Louis
ville. Ga., on or before the August Term of
•lie Court of Ordinary for said county, and
nake known their objections, if any they
mve, why said letters should not be granted,
luly 14 11 ts W. H. WATKINS, Ordinary.
OEORGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY.
J Letters of Dismission.
W .ereas, George W. Farmer, Guardian of
illiam D. Swan, has applied to me for letters
dismission:
-'hese are therefore, to cite and admonish
persons interested, to be and appear at tko
rt of Ordinary, to be held at Louisville Ga.
aid county, on the first Monday in August
. and to show cause if any they can, why
‘letters should not be granted.
W. H. WATKINS, Ord’y.
. e, 16 7, ts.
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, August 4, 1871.
PistcHaucotts.
FICKLENESS.
The following Composition was read
at a public School Examination recent
ly, and is furnished us by request, for
publication : —Ed.
It is an old and oft repeated charge
against woman, that she is fickle. Poets
have told us that to write the name in
tbe sand of the sea-shore, believing that
the next wave would not efface it, would
be as rational as to put any faith in wo
man’s vows. Ever since mother Eve
plucked the forbidden fruit, mau has
proclaimed that woman was fickle, uu
stable, swayed like the reed by every
changing breeze. True, be admits, that
when woman does love, she loves for
ever. That, like the ivy, she clings
more closely, as desolation blights the
object of her affection. And yet he de
lights in calling her fickle. Rather than
point to her impccfection, should ho not
remember that womau. was mado weak,
that she might lean on a strong arm ;
was made trusting, that she might con
fide in a stout heait 1 Alas! how often
has the staff on which she has leaned,
pioveu a broken reed to pierce her ten
der side ! How often have the bright
hopes that promised her a safe passage
over life’s ocean, been wrecked upon the
breakers of mau’s inconstancy. Won
der not that the once noble ships-when
torn of her mast, deprived of her ballast,
robbed of her anchor, and deserted by
her crew, is driven at the mercy of wind
aud wave.
That woman is fickle in some degree,
Ido not deny. She is not amachiiie,
so adjusted with fly-wheel and governor,
as always to preserve uuiformily of mo
tion. Her impulsive nature, her un
suspecting confidence, and her disinter
ested affection, often cause her to reach
conclusions and form resolutions, which
experience aud reflection compel her to
reconsider. It is wrong to make a bad
promise, but it is often much worse to
keep it than to break it. If you want a
proof of this, witness the many wrecks
that pave the highway to matrimony.
Mauy of these would have been avoided,
had woman been less fixed in iier pur
pose, less firm in her resolution, and
more yielding to tbe solicitations of par
ents and friends. Let us pity, rather
than blame the unsuspecting girl, who,
without nature reflection, hastily enters
upon matrimonial engagements. She
knows not what she does. The uncon
scious boy may be delighted with the
current, which is bearing bis little boat
toward Niagara’s awful brink.
That woman wants to be right, wants
to be faithful, wants to be good, is evin
ced by her readiness to frown upon the
willful errors of her sex, and thereby
guard its purity. That she wants to bo
unchacgable is evinced by the tears
through which she wades, when retra
cing the steps where hope has once
lighted her pathway. It is an excep
tion to the general rule when one lays
aside truth aud honesty of purpose, and
with hearties vanity flatters a love she
cannot reciprocate. Whenever it be
comes just and right to condemn a whole
society for the bad conduct of an un
worthy memher. then, and not until
then, should woman bo branded as
fickle because her sex has been disgra
ced by a flirt.
Having considered the claims of wo
man, tbe weaker vessel, to the appella
tion of fickleness, let us contemplate
man : Firm as a rock ; unshaken as the
bills; immutable as the laws of the
Medes and the Persians. Who ever
knew man to change his opinions; un
less, forsooth, be found it would bo to
his interest to do so 1 Who ever knew
man to be overtaken in a fault, when be
could not find a scape goat to bear his
sins; when he did up his iu
nocent bands, and exfclaim : “The' w/
man whom thon gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did' cat.”
If a bear happens to be .killed ho is
ready to shout: ‘‘Old woman, ain’t-we
brave !” "Who ever knew a young man.
to fall in ve with a wealthy lady, de
clare that she was not perfection purified,
swear that lie would love her as long as
the rivers run into tbe sea, threaten sui
cide it she did not become bis wife ; and
yet, when ber estate was gone, discover
that be did not love ber well enough to
marry her? «
• Oh ! consistency; tliou art a jeweV
But lam reminded that man does not
expect to display his firmness in so flim
sy a matter as love ; a thing that was
invented only to tickle the fancy of wo
men and children. • Man was horn to
commaud.; end the important matters
of amassing fortunes, framing constitu
tions, erecting bulwarks of liberty, estab
lishing governments, and making laws,
these call forth his mighty energies, his
great decision of character. Let the
(history of the world bear witness. Let
the corruption and proud flesh that de
files a polluted North ; let the wail that
rises from the widowed hearts of an af
flicted South, testify to the stability of
governments made by man. Ask Na
poleon the Great, on St. Helena ; ask
Napoleou the Little in his humiliation ;
ask bleeding France aud desolated Par
is, wbat is more fickle than mau, aud
bis boasted achievements?
Tbe history of our Savior furnishes
some instances of inconsistency not
very complimentary to man. While Ju
das betray ed Him with a kiss, and Pe
ter, after declaring that he would die
with Him, swore that he knew Him not,
woman was the last to leave His buiia),
and the first to announce His resurrec
tion. She may be poor, but she never
refuses ber last mite to an object of char
ity. She may bear her own afflictions
without sympathy and attention, but she
never fails to be an Angel of mercy bc
sido the couch of tho sick and the dy
ing.
Happy is that family where woman is
appreciated, aud her counsels not disre
garded, Happy is be who merits and
obtains a faithful heart, ever ready to
exclaim : “Whither thou goest I willgo,
thy people shall be my people, and thy
God ray .God. Where thou diest will I
die, and there will I be buried.”
A LEGACY OF NOBLE WORDS—PETES
COOPEB.
At the Twelfth Annual Coni'
inducement of the Cooper Union,
New York, held on the evening ol
May of, a complimentary and most
grateful address was presented ba
ilie graduates to the venerable Peter
Cooper, through whose benefactions
the Union had been established.—
To this address Mr. Cooper respond
ed substantially as follows
My Young Friends : If I needed
any reward lor my humble eflbrts
to benefit my fellow-raen, the touch
ing language of your address, and
this expression ot your affection and
gratitude, would be ample compen
sation for labors however exacting
and sacrifices however great.—
While yet a child, I learned that
ihe “hand of lire diligent makelli
rich,” and whatever of wealth I
have achieved lias been due prima
rily to habits of patient industry
formed at the outset of my career.
AlfotD ALCOHOLIC DRINKS.
It did not take long for me to
learn that drunkenness was the pa
rent of the larger portion of the pov
erty, vice, and-crime which afflicts
the American people: and hence,
until advancing age seemed to de
mand moderate stimulants, I care*
fully avoided alcoholic liquors as
the greatest curse of the young, and
the most deadly foe to domestic
happiness and the public welfare.
HOW TO PROSPER.
I always avoided debt, and en
deavored to keep some ready money
on hand to avail of a favorable ap
portunity for its profitable use.—
But I found it far more difficult to
learn what I wanted to know, than to
be industrious, temperate, and pru
dent. Hence I decided, if I should
prosper in the acquisition of worldly
means to found an institution to
which all young people of the work
ing classes, who desired to be good
citizens, and to rise in life, could re
sort, without money and without
price.
TRIBUTE TO A WIFE.
Providence did bless my efforts;
and; this institution is the result of
this resolution, never lost sight of
during a business career of nearly
sixty years, in which I was cheered,
comforted 1 , sustained, and encour
aged by the greatest of human bless
ings, a diligent, wise, industrious,
faithful, and affectionate wife.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
Hence my last lesson to the young
is to marry at the proper age when,
and not before, they can see the way
clear to a decent and comfortable
support, and thus fulfil the first law
of nature, with a high and holy
sense of its hapipness, and its duties,
the greatest and most serious in the
path of life. Love and duty 1 have
ever found to he the password of all
that is true rind noble in life, and
when they are separated, the fires
on the family altar die out, and life
loses all its charms, never to be
compensated by the false jewels
which are often worn in the public
gize.
WEALTH A SACRED TRUST.
But having also acquired what is
regarded as riches, have I earned
the right, by the use I have made of
them, to give any advice or speak a
word of encouragement to others,
who, by the will of (iod, are en
trusted with the great responsibility
of wealth? Whether I have this
right or not, I feel compelled to re
cord my conviciion, derived from
personal experience, that the rich
man who regards his wealth as a
sacred trust to be used for the wel-
fare of his fellow tnen, will
surely derive more true enjoyment
from it in this world than from the
most lavish expenditure on mere per
sonal enjoyments and social display.
I do not pretend to prescribe any
standard of expenditure lor others,
and lam quite ready ip subscribe to
the doctrine that a just and faithful
trustee should be liberally paid for
his services, and should not be re
stricted in the reasonable gratifica
tion of his desires, so long as the
rights of others are not thereby in
fringed ; and 1 desire to give the
fullest recognition to the sacredness
ol private properly, and the conser
vation of capital, as for the best in
terests of society and all the mem
bers thereo! ; but I cannot shut my
eyes to the tact that the production of
wealth is not the work of any one
man, and the acquisition of great
fortunes is not poss : b'e without the
co-operation ol multitudes of tnen,
and that, therefore, the individuals
to whose lot these fortunes fall,
whether by inheritance, or the laws
ol production and tra !e, should nev
er lose sight ot the fact that as they
hold them only by the wilt of soci
ety, expressed in statue law, so
they should administer them as trus
tees for the benefit of society, as in
culcated by the moral law.
MUTUAL DUTIES OF RICH AND POOR.
W hen rich men are thus brought
to regard themselves as trustees,
and poor men learn lobe industrious,
economical, temperate, and self-de
nyiog, and diligent in the acquisition
ol knowledge, then the deplorable
strife between capital and labor,
tending to destroy their fundamen
tal, necessary, and irrel'ragtble har
mony will cease; and the world will
no longer bealHicted. with such un
natural industrial conflict as we
have seen during the past century in
every quarter ol the civilized globe,
and latterly on so grand a scale in
this country, arraying those whom
nature intended to be firm allies and
inseparable friends into hostile
camps, in which the great law ol
love anil mutual forbearance is extin
guished by selfish passions.
THE GOI.DEN LAW.
The law of force, whether ex
pressed in trade associations, pre
venting other men from exercising
their inalienable right to labor
where they can find work, or in
combinations of capitalists, seeking
by lock-outs to close up the avenues
ol labor, are equally reprehensible,
and should never be allowed, under
any provocation whatever, to take
the place of Divine law, “Whatso
ever ye would that men should do
unto you, do ye even so unto them
nor will such an unnatural and
criminal substitution ever he possi
ble if the poor man will remember
that it is the duty and therefore tire'
right of every poor man to strive to
become rich by honest, intelligent,
and patient labor, and if rich men
will remember that the possession
of wealth, which is the fruit of the
general effort, confers no right to its
use as an engine of oppression or
coercion upon any class which is
concerned in its production.
KEEP THE HEART RIGHT.
Reform, to be of any permanent
value, must be based upon personal
virtue, not force; and it seems to
me that the millenium will not be
tar oil when each individual shall
set about reforming himself rather
than society, and conforming his life
to the great law of loving God and
this ellow-men,
FAREWELL LEGACY.
While I thank you, my young
friends, (l had alrhost said my chil
dren,) for this manifestation of your
respect and gratitude, so touching
because so full of love, let me ask
you to accept of this feeble but heart
felt reply, as a kind of last will and
testament of the general experience
of an old friend, whose days are al
most numbered, and who asks only
to be remembered as one who loved
his fellowmen.” Health i) Home.
One ot Disraeli’s admirers, in
speaking about him to John Blight
said : “You ought to give him creel
it lor w hat he has accomplished, as
he is a self-made man.” “1 know
he is,” retorted Bright, “and he
adotes his maker.”
A Charleston woman keeps the
“most fashionable and attractive
undertaker’s establishment in the
city.”
Mary L. Booth gets $4,000 a year
for editing Bazar.”
The English declamation and
composition prize at Trimly Col
lege, University of Cambridge, has
been awarded to an American—
Geo. L Rives, of Virginia.
The female writers of America
are now furnishing a larger amount
of reading matter to the magazines
than ever before. The contribu
tions are improving in quality.
CHIPS.
William H. Seward is insured for
; SIOO,OOO.
The New York Directory for
| 1871-2 contains 200,952 names.
London is said to contain two
I hundred female students of medi-
I cine.
J There were manufactured in the
United Stales last year over a half
million sewing machines.
There is a lady eighty years of
age now living at Griifin Ga., who
never saw a railroad train.
Dr. W. J. Y oumans, formerly a
pupil ol Prof. Huxley, is the scien
tific editor of the Galaxy.
Piano-making at present takes the
third rank among the manufacturing
interests in the United States.
It is said that a tourist traveling
continuously without any stoppages
can now go round the world in eigh
ty days.
A Boston paper is responsible for
this atrocity : “Another nude de
parture— Lydia Thompson has
sailed for Europe.”
A good news paper does more
towards building up a town and
county than any other public institu
tion, and gets less for it.
The rush of visitors to the Yrose
mite Valley is very great this year.
Among them is Lord Campbell,
brother to the Marquis of Lome.
In some parts of Colorado water
sells at two cents a pint, which
shows that they have not dug their
wells deep enough to reach, the
quartz.
An old lady being asked to sub
scribe for a newspaper, declined on
die ground that when she wanted
news she manufactured it herself.
A Paris hatter, whose stock was
riddled with bullets during the siege,
now sells the damaged hats at fabu
lous prices as souvenirs of the war.
The steam power employed in the
United St iles does the labor of 140,-
000,000 men, while that of Great
Britain is equivalent to 490,000,000.
A Cincinnati paper thinks it neces
sary to correct a typographical error
in a late issue by saying that “rev
elling” should read “machinery.”
Children should, >n all cases, be
allowed plenty of water to drink,
and caused to retire never later than
eight o’clock if disease is to be
avoided.
There are 53,000 miles of railroad
in operation in the United States.—
Their cost is pul down at $2,400,-
000,000, or just about the amount
of the National debt.
Franklin said : “A newspaper and
Bible in every house, and a good
school in every district, are the prin
cipal supporters of virtue morality
and civil liberty/’
There are 6,000,000,000 cotton
spindles now in operation in the
United States, of which over 2,000,-
000,000 are running on cloths for
printing, and producing 450,000,000
yards per annum.
Bret Harte, Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, Miss Nills.in and Charlotte
Cushman are among the celebrities
already settled down at Newport
this summer.
A Louisville editor regrpts that
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Antho
ny are going to the Pacific in June,
as that is a little late in the season
for Camanches and too early for Ar
apahoes.
“This world is all a show,” said a
priest to a culprit on the gallows.
“Yes,” was the prompt reply,
“but if you have no objection, Pd
like to see the show a little longer.”
Personals are scarce. Every one
is trying his best to do nothing in
this hot weather. Ex-Empress Eu
genie is the stock in trade for the
most of them—she is still selling
millions upon millions of “crown
diamonds.”
Napoleon, relieved of the cares of
Empire, has turned to writing for
the press, and is said to contribute
some of the most vigorous editorials
in The Situation, the London organ
of the Imperialists. So say the
persevering paragraphists.
The Rev. Edward Eggleston, D.
D., has resigned his post as superin
tending editor of The Independent,
Rumor assigns as the reason of his
withdrawal an irreconcilable differ
ence upon questions involving the
independence of the paper in its re
lations to party and pecuniary mat
ters.
A Washington editor is mad be
cause a compositor headed his edito
rials, “The Champagne Opened, 5 '
when he wrote, “The Campaign
Opened.” He says that printer is
always thinking of something to
drink
DRIFT-WOOD.
Lisbon lias bad a destructive fire.
I
Yellow fever lias disappeared from
| Buenos Ayres.
Ireland lias only two hundred and
] fifty eight Jews.
| An Irishman calls his sweetheart honey
j because she is bee-loved.
J Jim Fisk passed breezily over five
fences in getting away from tbe mob.
i Bret Ilarte is going to study profan
[ ity among the rauequitoes of New Jer
sey-
I John G. Saxe is at Saratoga. He
says women have neither originality,
inventive genius, nor beauty.
A Philadelphia back driver drove a
dead man around for halt a day, and
didn’t know it until ho tried to collect
his fare.
The European powers are soon to
have a conference for the purpose of
agreeing upon a uniform system of im
port duties.
Miss Tennie C. Claflin has annouuced
he rself as a candidate for Congress iu
the Sib New York District.
How to keep your head clear—Shave
every hair off.
Nine elephants from Ceylon, have ar
rived iu New York.
The aggregate .receipts of cotton af
Selma. Ala., for the season are 86,572
bales.
Jim Mace, Jim Fisk and U, St. Gran',
are among the “'sports” now rusticating
at long Branch.
The trade of Nashville for IS7O. was
overs4l,ooo,ooo. The book trade of'
that city was over 400,000.
Mrs. Fair has addressed a long let
ter to the public, giving a sketch of her
life, and asking the press for the charily
of silence.
“Invisible switches” are advertised by
a hair dealer. Now give us unseen
chignons we shall be happy.
Not on squeezing terms any more, is
flic way a Prairie du Ciiien young lady
describes the relations between herself
and her lover.
A man iu Kansas, on whose shoulder
a lady laid a lash, didn’t sue for damages,
because it was au eye lash.
A Male Train—“ Off she goes,” said a
lady, speaking of the train as it was start
ing. “You have mistaken the gender,
madam, a gentlcinau said, “this is a
mail train,”
A man died at Pittsburg recently,
and in bis will, after stating that he nev
er forgot a favor, left SI,OOO to an indi
vidual who ten years before ran away
with his wife.
A widower in Terre Haute, Indiana,
offers to marry any young, amiable,
beautiful and accomplished girl who
will take care of his house, keep his chil
dren clean, and let him alone.
“Mr. Post-office-man, I want to pay
the postago on this letter.” “Single or
double, miss ?” “Double, sir,” (with u
courtesy ;) “I was married last week.”
Warren Carmcr, a negro preacher of
Goldsboro', N. 0., lias been arrested for
an attempt at wholesale murder, by poi
soning wells of white people in the vi
cinity. He is sure of some high Feder
al office.
Two hundred and thirty-two thous
and passengers were transported over
the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
during the year euding June 30. 1871.
Receipts derived from this source amoun
ted to $418,000.
John Carsin. a newspaper folder of
the Boston Journal, and James Fitz
patrick, of the Post, had a match re
cently. The latter won, folding 1,500
papers to Carson’s 1,460, each making
four folds to each paper, in one hour’s
time.
A merry, light-hearted damsel rushed
into a colored citizen’s arms at Savannah
exclaiming : “Oh ! yon are my long
lost brother.” She soon discovered her
mistake, and rnshed off in a confused
manner, accompanied by her long lost
brother’s poeket-book.
A vonng man in Oshkosh, Wis., sued
a maiden the other day to compel her to
keep her agreement to marry him Be
fore the case was called for trial the fath
er of tho maiden offered the discarded
lover five dollars to settle mutters, which
the young man accepted as full com
pensation for a broken heart.
The Republican ring that has ruled
Philadelphia since 1861, has increased
the debt from sl9 000,000 to $50,000,-
000, and nothing to show for the money.
Four of tho six Radical journals in
Pbiladelwhia declare that the only way
to put a stop to this is to defeat tho nom
inations of their party.
The Radical darkies over the river, in
Alabama, are in some quarters holding
political meetings, at which “no white
man is allowed to attend.” They say
they intend to have their own way, this
year, and that the “carpet- bagger or
scallawag who interrupts them will go
’way with a flea iu his ear.”
A gentleman of Connecticut, who is
something of a sportsman, went to sleep
In church on one of the late warm Sun
days, and dreamed lie was hunting rab
bits. During an eloquent passage in
the sermon he espied in his dream a rab
bit, and startled tbe congrcgaliou by
shouting “there he goes.”
Champion Pardoner. —Tbe right of
,Governor Bullock “to wear the horns,”
is the “Champion Pardoner,” is becom
ing somewhat doubtful. President Grant
is certainly'gaining on him, if not ahead.
Recently, Grant has been pardoning of
fenders against the revenue laws by
wholesale.— Comtilution,
No. 14.
I Tlie Philadelphia Masons are to erect
j a 810,000 monument to the memory of
i ffm. IS Schneider, who was Gian and Ty
| ler of Pennsylvania for many years.
It is stated that the Brunswick & AN
| bany Railroad will be completed to Al
bany, and the cars running to that city,
by the lOtb of August.
The building of a plank road from At
lanta to Decatur and Stone Mountain
is the topic in Atlanta just now. A
meeting was hold on the 22d and nu
merously addressed, at which SfpOO
was subscribed to the enterprise.
Prof. Coe. who made a balloon ascen
sion from Ogdensburg, New York, pass
ed through several snow squalls, and at
one time had two inches of snow in the
basket. He and his companion suffered
greatly from the cold.
The grasshoppers are gelling pretty
numerous in different parts of the coun
try. One of them thought to stop in
Rhode Island a day or two ago. but by
a slight miscalculation as to distance,
it.
In a a trial in Washington County,
New 1 ork, last week, a certain deed was
proved to be fraudulent, it being dated
January 7, 1827. and paper manufactu
rers testifying that such paper as it
was written upon was not in existence
until 1810 the process by which it was
made not being known until about that
time.
I be grave of Gen. J. B. Magruder, in
the Masonic quarters of the Houston
( Texas) Cemetery, is marked by nothing
hut a plain board, on which are Wiitten
merely iiis name and rank in the Con
federate aiuiv. Several flowers, planted
on the mound by some person unknown,
had perished Iroin the excessive heat.
A boy near Omaha, the other day,
struck upon a raltlesnake near his fath
er’s house, and as he was temporarily in
charge of his little sister, he gave her
the reptile to play with. Presently the
snake, tired of the child’s fondling" be
gan to hiss viciou ly and rattie.—
The boy, discovering then its vicous na
ture, snatched it from his sister and
attempted to throw it away. Th
snake fastened about his wrist and threat
ened to bite. The boy alarmed bis fath
er, who was not far off, and by caution
the latter succeeded in enticing the rep
tile so that it left the boy. When killed,
the rattlesnake was found to be full
grown, over two feet long, and with six
rattles.
A Card. —Professor Joseph Henry,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
at Washington, D, C., requests me to
direct an imperfect “list of colleges, li
braries, schools of high grade and public
institutions in Georgia,’’ which he sends
mo.
To avoid doing injustice to any of the
establishments existing—not named in
the list, or sucli as have changed their
locations lately, or have adopted anew
name—l suggest that each of them for
ward to the Professor a correct address,
in order that it may receive any bene
fits to bo secured by being known as a
Uterary institution to society.
The press generally will oblige those
most interested by giving this an inser
tion- Joshua Hill.
Madison, July 15, 1871.
Women Voting in North Carolina. —
According to the Raleigh (N. C) Sen
tinel, woman suffrage was practically
carried out in Johnston connty, in that
State, at the last election, and the people
there are warned to beware of the same
trick again. The Sentinel of July 17tb,
says:
“Major Smith, President of the fforth
Carolina Railroad, told it himself, that
ho voted two hundred negro women in
Johnston county, by having them dress
ed in men’s clothes. His plan was this
The Register's hooks were kept open all
day ; the women in breeches registered
when taken to the polls; the law for
bade any man to challenge, so they were
obliged to vote. At that election the
negroes carried Johnston by four hun
dred aud more. At the sub-equeut
election no women voted, and the white
folks carried the election by five hun
dred aud more.”
A Nut for Lawyers to Crack—Hart
ford, Connecticut, has a will case that is
exciting considerable interest. One of
ihe journals states it and solves it at the
same time It says:
“A. provided by will just before his
death, in expectation of the birth of a
child that it a son was born he should
have two-thirds of his father’s estate
and his mother one-third ; but if the child
was a daughter, she should have one
third and her mother two-thirds of the
same estate. After A’s death twins—a
son and a daughter—are born. How
shall the properly be divided? This is
nothing more than a very old problem,
lounded on an actual occurrence, oneeof
considerable repute, and retained in va
rious shapes in several algebras and
higher arithmetics in use at the present
day. Its solution is comparatively easy.
The manitest intent of the testator is
that the sou’s share shall be twice as
large as the mother’s, and the mother’s
twice us large as the daughter’s. Gall
t’’.o daughter’s share one. The mother's
will be two, and the son's four. Vie
need then only divide the estate into
seven equal parts, giving four to the
son, two to the mother and one to the
daughter.”
Charles Lever, the novelist, has been
made an LL. D, by Trinity College,
Dublin.