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THE JEFFERSON |3fc NEWS & FARMER Vol. 1. THE Jefferson News & Farmer, B Y HARRISON & ROBERTS! A LIVE FIRST CLASS "W eekly IST ewspaper FOR THE Farm, Garden, and Fireside 3?el Wished. Every Friday Morning A T 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.