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ROBERT S, HOWARD,/ Editor and Publisher. \ VOLUME I. jWessiounl' it Jousiticss (Tncils. I Oil > .1. O ATTORN KY-AT-L AW, Danielkville, Oa., Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to him. dec 17, ’BO. hit. ■>. It. 4 A sill. NICHOLSON, GA., Tenders his professional services to the surround ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis eases of women a specialty. Feb. tilth, 1880. ly I|OU\ltl> TNOHPMKI, I A TT( >RN K Y-A T-L AW, GAINESVILLE, (iA. Prompt and failliful attention given to a’l busi ness placed in his hands. \yn.i:v •. motviuih /tltorae)’ ami <'oniiselor nl JEFFERSON, GA. Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted to his care. inch!, f~Z'ZZ I_N I- • \ L:~, |l IO „ it ,*T /.;■% Vftl Sflir V f 'l'lie lending Srientisls of hnliij’ agree that most diseases are caused by disordered Kid neys or Liver. If, therefore, the Kidneys and Liver arc kept in perfect order, perfect health will he the result. *This truth has only been known a short time and for years people snlfercd great agony without being able to lind relict. The dis covery of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver (Jure marks anew era in the treatment of these troubles. Made from a simple tropical leaf of rare value, it contains just tlrc elements necessary to nourish and invigorate both of these great organs, and safely restore and keep them in order. It is a POXITIVE ICcmcdy for all the diseases that cause pains in the lower part of the body—for Torpid Liver—Headaches—Jaundice —Dizziness —Gravel—Fever, Ague—Malarial Fever, and all difficulties of the Kidneys, Liver and Urinary Or gans. It is an excellent and safe remedy for females during Pregnancy. It will control Menstruation and is invaluable for Lcucorrhoea or Falling of the Womb. Asa Blood Purifier it is unequalcd, for it cures the organs that make the blood. Till! ItECORIh “ It saved my life.” — E. 11. Lakcly. Selma , Ala. “ It is the remedy that will cure the many dis eases peculiar to woman.” — Mothers' Magazine. ”it has passed severe tests and won endorse ments from some of the highest medical talent in the country.” —Netc Dor A: World. ” No remedy heretofore discovered can be held for one moment in comparison with it.” — Rev. C. A. Harvey. I). D.. Washington , D. C. This Remedy, which has done such wonders, is put up in the LARGEST SIZED DOTTLE of any medicine upon the market, and is sold by Drug gists and all dealers ot per bottle. For Diabetes, enquire for WARNER’S SAFE Dl- A BETES CURE. It is a POSITIVE Remedy. H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, N. Y. HOLMES, BOOTH fc HAY MANUFACTURERS OF FINEST QUALITY Silver-Plated Spoons, Forks, Knives, etc. encourlge “home manufactures. Maysvillc JShoe Factory. We manufacture all kinds of shoes ; mens' Brogans and Boots, ladies’ High and Low Quar tered Shoes, childrens' Shoes, HARNESS and HR IDLES, Wc are prepared to make all kinds of tine work. We work the best material in the most popular styles, and Warrant our Work Equal to any Goods on the Market. We have experienced workmen employed, for both coarse and line work. As we deiy competi tion in quality, prices and service, we hope to have the pleasure of supplying you with Boots and Shoes. BROWN A RILEY. Maysville. (la. Jft3f“Wc also keep constantly on hand a select stock of (i roceries and Provisions. Bacon, Lard. Sugar. Codec, Syrup. Dry Coeds, Ac., Ac. WYJ.i.AS.C'S XYvHCVVnLXWV. To My Bible. BY KEV. K. W. FULLER, I). I>. 1 love thee."sacred volume. With fondness o’er thee bend, I love thee well my Bible. My old, my faithful friend. The time I still remember—- Long years since then have llown— When first upon 1113' vision Thy truths in glory shone. .Since then how many shadows Have croosed my earthly lot! But all of earth’s sad changes, Dear Book, have changed me not. From friends of earlier days I "m wide asunder thrown. And in the prime of manhood, 1 feel almost alone. Disease hath laid its hand, too, Upon this feeble form ; And o’er my once glad homestead, Hath burst affliction's storm. I've stood beside my Mary. And seen her features mild Grow rigid ’neath Death's signet— M} r first, my dearest child. But oh. thou guiding pillar. All bright with Jesus’ name, ’Mid scenes of change and darkness, Thou still hast been the same. Sweet through each lonely valley Thy peaceful rays were shed, Sweet in the silent chamber, Where lay the sheeted dead. Sweet in tly sacred pages The Savior's form has shone, And pointed from earth’s trials To Heaven's eternal throne. 1 lore thee, sacred volume, With fondness o'er thee bend, I love thee well, my Bible, My old, my faithful friend. A Town Built on Diamonds. No town in Africa can boast such rapid growth as Kimberly, the seat of Government in Griqualand West, and the headquarters of the South African diamond diggings. Eleven 3 7 cars ago not a hut stood where now some IG,OOO people, with a trade of over two mill ions a year, form one of the most thriving communities on the African continent. It is now discovered that the town is built upon land which promises to be as productive of diamonds as the neighboring “ diggings,” which have been the source of its wealth and the very origin of its existence. Kimberly is identical with the “ New Rush” Diamond Settlement of 1870; and the thousands who flocked to the locality to secure a “claim” in the valuable reefs, which have been worked further and further to the east of the site of the future town, were in such a hurry to seek their fortune in the diggings that they forgot to inquire whether the soil on which they pitched their tents or erected their log-huts were not equally diamond-iferous. As the wooden shanties have given place to more substantial buildings, it has been found that Kimberly itself lias been built on a diamond-field, and that the West end or residential part of the town is as full ofgems as the actual diggings themselves at the eas tern or working end of the town. New claims arc being taken up in all directions, and land which was beginning to acquire considerable value as building sites has suddenly assumed fresh importance as possibly containing some new “Star of South Africa.” llow many houses will be pulled down in the search for the diamonds upon which they are built it would be ditlicult to say. But it will be in teresting to watch the future progress of a town which owes its existence and its subse quent partial destruction and removal to the same cause—the abundance of the diamonds in the midst of which it appears to have grown. What the Obelisk Suggests. Discussing the Egyptian obelisk in New York’s park, the St. Louis Republican calls attention to the fact that in all that makes such a relic of antiquity interesting this mon ument is quite as rich as either its smaller companion now erected in London or the larger one in lvome. Here are the striking suggestions made by our St. Louis contem porary : “ There was no Greece or Rome when it was born, and Greece and Rome have come and gone, and the obelisk still survives. Na tions now the most civilized and cultured were then in far deeper and darker barbarism than the Indians we arc now hurrying toward the Pacific. The proudest capitals of Europe to day, if then they existed at all, were a little collection of mud huts, inhabited by half naked savages. The hemisphere whose com mercial metropolis it now graces was not so much as known to Europe until two thou sand years after our obelisk saluted the wor shipers at the Temple of the Sun. Christian ity is young compared to this sculptured granite, which Abraham and Moses may have gazed upon, and which has outlasted the an cient faith that reared it —a faith then thought to be eternal. The religion, the philosophy, the polities and the art to which it once belonged are now the puzzle of schol ars and antiquarians ; yet here is the obelisk, worn, indeed, by the assaults of time, but still as firm and strong as when it left the hands of the workmen of Syenc. How strange, how sadly suggestive, that a bit of carved stone has so much more immortality in it than the noblest products of the immortal intellect! Our obelisk has witnessed the rise and fall of the mightiest empires earth has seen, lias it crossed 10,000 miles of ocean to witness the marvelous growth, the glorious consummation and the final decay of the greatest republic earth has seen ? It has stood by the death beds of Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome. Who dares to say it will not stapd by ours ?” JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 4. 1881. Feeding Cows for Milk. A New Jersey correspondent of the Coun try Gentleman , writing on the subject of feed ing cows for milk, $a3 7 s that his experience tcacl;es him that the food that is good for butter is also good for milk. lie finds it more profitable to turn his milk into butter, as bis customers do not so readi 13” recognize the difference between good and inferior milk Us between good and bad butter. With them milk is milk, and if a competitor couics around with the commonest kind, at five cents a quart, UIC3 7 will give up taking milk that yields twenty per cent, more cream, if it costs six cents a quart. But as other dairy farmers may have customers with better tastes, the writer referred to gives his experience as to the best feed. He says: "If one wants a large quantity of fairly good, well flavored milk for sale, be will find the best and cheapest food to consist of su gar beets, or mangels cut and sprinkled with wheat shorts, or sharps, or bran, and the best clover luyy or corn fodder cut and mixed with a thin slop of steeped malt sprouts and cotton seed meal or corn meal. I have fed my milking cows as follows: Morning feed, cut hay or cornstalks, wetted with the above mentioned slop, made as follows : Two quarts of malt sprouts and one quart of cotton seed meal or corn meal per head, soaked in water in a barrel for twelve hours. This slop is poured over the cut fodder in a mixing box, and the whole mixed, until the slop is equally distributed ; then a jieaped bushel basket is given to each cow. Any cow that is a spe cialty good feeder, and will pay for it, is treated to a quart or so of ground feed of corn and rye bran in addition, scattered over her mess. At noon, a peck per head of cut sugar beets or mangels, sprinkled with a quart of the above ground, is given. At night the morning feed is repeated. But if I could not get six cents a quart for milk, I would double the allowance of roots, giving no meal with them, and give malt sprouts and bran, or only coarse wheat or rye middlings, made into the slop above described. This will make as much or more milk of good salable quality, but not so much cream. If one is near a brewery, and can procure brewers’ grains, these are an excellent and wholesome food when mixed with corn meal. A bushel a day, with four quarts of corn meal, given to a large cow, with liay and fodder, will pro duce a copious yield of rich-flavored milk, of a good bod} r and color, although not rich in cream ; but a thick, creamy-looking milk, with only five per cent, of cream, will be more satisfactory to the consumer than pure Jcrse3 r milk with twenty-five per cent, of cream, but which is thin and blue when the cream is taken off. This should not be forgotten when considering the feeding of cows for milk. The best cows for a milk dairy arc large grades of Short-Horn, or Dutch, and native, as these yield a large flow of milk, not rich in cream, but thick and of rich color. Food is a necessary condition, but if it is not put into the right kind of milk machines, it is wasted, or diverted from its most profitable use.” Mysteries of a Bee-Hive. A life-time might be spent in investigating the mysteries hidden in a bee-hive, and still half the secrets would be undiscovered. The formation of the cell has long been a cele brated problem for the mathematician, while the changes which the honey undergoes offer at least an equal interest to the chemist. Ev er}’ one knows what honey fresh from comb is like. It is a clear yellow 9yrup, without a trace of solid sugar in it. Upon straining, however, it gradually assumes a crystalline appearance—it candies, as the saying is, and ultimately becomes a solid lump of sugar. It has ro been suspected that this change was due to a photographic action ; that the same agent which alters the molecular arrangement of the iodine of silver on the excited collo dion plate, and determines the formation of camphor and iodine crystals in a bottle, causes the syrup-honey to assume a crystal line form. This, however, is the case. M. Schcibler has inclosed honey in stoppered flasks, some of which he has kept in perfect darkness, while others have been exposed to the light. The invariable results have been that the sunned portion rapidly crystallized, while that kept in the dark has remained per fectly liquid. We now see why bees work in perfect darkness, and why they are so careful to obscure the glass windows which arc some times placed in their hives. The existence of their young depends on the liquidity of saccharine food presented to them ; and if light wore allowed access to the syrup it would gradually acquire a more or less solid consistency ; it would seal up the cells, and in all probability prove fatal to the inmates of the hive. Woman as an Inventor. Some time since Dr. Clark, of Troy, pub lished a series of political articles, or pamphlets, in which he demonstrated the unfitness of women for exercising the right of voting by urging, among other things, their lack of invention, insisting that to the better sex had not been given, apparently, the power to invent any of the numberless household appliances which have found their way into American homes. The subject has since been discussed, and it is mentioned that women obtain from the United States Government an average of about sixty patents yearly. As might be expected, most of them relate to lightening women's work. Among them are a jar-lifter, a bag-holder, a pillow-sham hold er, a dress protector, two dustpans, a washing machine, a fluting iron, a dress chart, a fish boner, a sleeve adjuster, a lap table, a sewing machine treadle, a wash-basin, an iron heater and irons, a garment stiffener, a folding chair, a wardrobe bed, a weather-strip, a churn, an invalid's bed, a strainer, a milk-cooler, a sofa bed, a dipper, a paper dish and a plaiting device. In a patent law suit, a woman (Helen M. McDonald) conducted her own case and won it, establishing her right to her skirt protector, planting an injunction, on a bold infringement, and utterly routing one of the most distinguished of tiic patent law bar risters. FOR TIIE PEOPLE. Gigantic Enterprises. The present year will witness the inaugu ration, and possibly the completion of a number of the most colossal projects that ever engaged the attention and enlisted the energies of mankind. A number of submarine cables are bcin" O laid in order to establish instantaneous com munication between the most distant points. The Panama and Nicaragua canals will undoubtedly be constructed. A ship railway will be built across the Isthmus of Tckuancpcc, which will enable ships of any size to be transported from one ocean to the other. A system of railways will be extended from this country into Mexico, and the South ern, Northern and Canadian Pacific railwavs will be finished. An American slock company lias been formed for the building of one hundred iron steamships for coast, river and lake naviga tion. These great internal improvements arc by no means confined to this country. France expects to spend one billion dollars this year on canals and railways. Russia proposed to push a railway through Central Asia. China is going to establish a railway 8} r stcm. In Africa a railway will be stretched through the great Sahara, and it is the determination of the French to occupy all Northeast Africa. A glance at the nature of these enteprises will convince an} 7 one that we arc on UlO eve of remarkable movements in the industrial and commercial world. Within the next few 3'ears many of the greatest problems of our complex civilization will be solved, and it behooves every man to be up and doing, and to put forth the best work of both brain and hand. This is emphatically the age of work ! He who "lags superfluous on the stage*’ will inevitably be pushed to the wall. The doc trine of the " survival of the fittest” prevails everywhere, and the rising generation is thor oughly imbued with utilitarian ideas. Our young men who are just entering upon a busy life will do well to note the drift of material affairs and go with the tide.— Exchange . The Trade Winds. The earth turns on its axis from west to cast, and with it rotates daity the envelope of the atmosphere. The velocity of rotation at the equator is something over 1,000 miles an hour ; at thirty degrees distance it is about 150 miles less. In higher latitudes it is still less, at the poles nothing. Therefore, when ever the air moves north or south on the sur face of the earth, it will carry witli it less or greater velocity of the rotation than the place it passes over, and will turn in an easterly or westerly wind, according as it approaches or recedes from the equator. In the region of the sun’s greatest heat, the air, rarified, and lighted, is continually rising, and cooler cur rents come in on both sides to take the place of the ascending volume. As these side currents come from a distance of about thirt3 r degrees from the equator, they have at a starting, an eastward velocity of many miles an hour less than the localities they will eventually reach. Consequently they will appear to lag behind in all the course of their progress to the equator—that is, they will have a easterly motion united with their north and south movements. These are the great trade winds, blowing constantly from the northeast on this side, and the southwest on the other side of the equator. —London Truth. National Debt. The debt of England is equal to SIOO for each man, woman and child in the country. The debt of the United States of America is less than S4O for each person in the coun try. In England bonds arc now sold in sums of ten pounds, or SSO, and over. The same is true in this country. British Funds pay only three and a half per cent, interest, and as our four per cent, bonds are more than ten per cent, above par, an investor gets only three and a half per cent, for his money. The British debt was increased more than five hundred millions of dollars by the Amer ican Revolutionary War. The European war that ended in 1815 raised the debt to eight hundred and sixty millions of pounds—more than four thousand millions of dollars. The debts of this and every other country are created and increased by t oar, It is now clearly understood that intemperance is the greatest curse of any country in a time of peace. The taxation required to pay the interest on the National Debt is not nearly so great as the tax and loss occasioned by the intemperate use of intoxicating drinks. Locusts in 1881. There are two breeds of periodical locusts, one appearing once in 17 j'ears and the other once in 13 years. The earliest appearance of the 17-year locusts iu this country, so far as the records go, was in 1634, at Plymouth, Mass., and they have not failed to appear once in 17 years ever since. Both breeds wili appear this j'car, but not in the same lo calities. Professor Riley, the entomologist, says that the 17-year locusts will abound next June in Marquette and Green Lake counties, Wis.; in the neighborhood of Wheeling, West Va., and probably in Maryland, Virgin ia, and the District of Columbia. They may also appear, he says, in the west part of North Carolina, in Northeastern Ohio, Lan caster county, Penn., and Westchester coun ty, N. Y. The Professor says that the 13 year brood will probably be seen in Southern Illinois, in all of Missouri except the north west corner, in Louisiana, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The two kinds of locusts ditfer very little in appearance,” REPORT OF School Commissioner for 1830. OFFICE COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. > Jefferson, Jackson County, Ceokoia, February 7th. ISM. f To the Grand Jury , Spring Term Jackson Superior Court , ISST; Okn'TljEmkx :—ln accordance with an Act. approved February -Ist, 1577. I have the honor t<* herewith present you my Annual Report for the ISSO, together with my books ami papers for your examination. Our Public School System has been in operation ten years, a period of time sutlictent. under or dinary circumstances, to fully test its merits. An impartial survey of the work done will. 1 think, convince any intelligent mind that while much good has been accomplished, the System will remain a comparative failure until enough money is appropriated to make the Schools entirely free for whatevet length of time it is proposed to run them. I am fully aware of the fact that our school law has much opposition in the county, and those who have in charge its administration, have many difficulties to encounter of which the public know almost nothing. For instance, many worthy teachers are seriously censured ; the school law is considered utterly worthless ; and its officers meet with ridicule and unjust accusations, because our schools are not more successful. This, and much moro is said without stopping to consider that the average attendance of pupils actually enrolled is only one and a half months in twelve, and that a large per ccntagc of our school population never enter the schools at all. 1 have said this much to direct your attention to the fact that, if we have failures, teachers and school officers, are not wholly responsible for them. Hut, notwithstanding the serious defects of our School System, I have, by a close comparison with the school laws of almost every State in the Union, and with those of the most important and powerful foreign countries, found that ours, with one exception, the monetary feature just mention ed, compares favorably with the best. The fact is, no system can he devised that will meet the views of the age and country in which we live. Generations must conform to systems—not sys tems to generations. In view of tiie.se facts, and because our System, in some form, is an organic law of the State, 1 have tried, as County School Commissioner, under the auspices of ail intelligent Hoard .of Educa tion, to make all of il I could under the circumstances. How far 1 have succeeded remains for you to say after a close examination of the work done. For a detail of this work I respectfully refer you to the Hecord of my official actions, pages 217 to 279 inclusive. As to whether this work has been done in accordance with law, I also refer you to Minutes of the Hoard of Education, pages (il to 77 inclusive, together with the law itself, and the Instructions of the State School Commissioner, copies of which are herewith presented. Hy reference to the Record, page 274, you will find the sum ami sources from which the school revenue is derived, and the sum incidental to its disbursement, which will bo found to be less than six per cent, of the whole sum received. Hy reference to the accompanying Annual Report of the State School Commissioner, taken in connection with the late census, you will find that in proportion to population, as many schools have been established in Jackson county, and as many pupils enrolled in them, as in any other coun ty in the Slate, and many more than in a large majority of similar School Districts. As regards the disbursement of tlie School Fund, which is, of course, the most important feature for your consideration, 1 have, as a matter of convenience to you, prepared the following Table, which will, 1 confidently believe, give you an entirely correct statement of all the particulars, at one view. And when compared with the accompanying Public School Teachers Reports, from No. 1 to No. 75, and with the Teacher’s Accounts and Vouchers herewith presented from No. 1 to 77, inclusive. 1 think the Table will be found to cover every essential feature necessary to a full un derstanding of the disbursement of the Public School Fund for the year 1880. The first part of the Table gives General Statistics for the entire county, which is hy law made a school district, other divisions being sub-districts. The first column of the second part, gives teach ers names and theirnumber; the 2d shows the rates of their monthly compensation ; the fid, their average attendance; the 4th, their whole accounts ; and sth, their pro rata , which will be found to be GO per cent, of all the teachers accounts. TABLE—FIRST PART. Number of White Schools, 5Gi Number of Colored Schools, ID; Total number of Schools, 75; Number .of Principal Teachers, 75; Number of Assistant Teachers, 36; Total number of Teachers, 111; Number of White Pupils, Males, 1,171; Number of White Pupils, Females, 85(1 Total number of White Pupils, 2,027; Number of Colored Pupils, Males, 410: Number of Colored Pupils, Females, 145; Total number of Colored Pupils, SSS: Total number of Pupils, white and colored, 2,912; Number of Pupils Spelling, 2,756; Number of Pupils Reading, 1,930; Number of Pupils Writing, 1,318: Number of Pupils in Arithmetic, 1,197; Number of Pupils in English Grammar, 464; Number of Pupils in Geography, 335: Average Attendance, 1,6581 TABLE—SECOND PART. NAMES. Mo. Com. Av. At.. Whole Acts j Pro llala. 8 j I ■ • 1. Blalock, J. A. i $1.50 ;35 | $157.50 j $ 94.5000 2. Barber, llenry, j 1.50 3 38-GO 1G.35 j 9.8100 3. Blalock, Jesse, : 1.50 2G 7-10i 120.15 ! 72.0900 4. Barge, A. L. i 1.50 26 ; 117.00 j 70.2000 5. Belcher, 11. C. 1.50 23 2 3 10G.50 i G 3.9000 G. Boon, Mollie, 1.50 ;17 7-30: 77.55 i 4G.3300 7. Barton, E. A. 1.00 15 19-20 47.85 i 28.7100 8. Burns, Lula, j 1.50 17 41 GO 79.57 i 47.7420 9. Boggs, B, C. ! 1.25 I9 5 12: 35.31 i 21.1860 10. Braselton, J. R. j 1.25 11 53 GO 55.81 j 33.48G0 11. -Brown, Green, col. 1.00 45 j 135.00 j 81.0000 12. Buffington, Cicero, col. 1.50 19 14-15; 224.70 131.8200 13. Badger, A. I), col. j 1.25 22 82.50 j 49.5000 14. Beal, Ambrosia, col. j 1.25 ! 8 45-60 32.81 i 19.68G0 15. Carithers, M. E. i 1.50 ;24 1-8 ? 108.75 : 65.2500 16. Coleman, Lula, 1.50 16 i 72.00 j 43.2000 17. Clark, Mary, A. col. ; 1.25 22 59-GO; BG.IB i 51.7080 18. Duke, J. R. col. ; 1.00 |l9 55-G0: 59.75 ! 35.8500 19. Evans, T. A. E. j 1.50 ill 37-60! 52.27 j 31.3620 20. Erwine, T. D. I* 1.50 30 28-G0: 137.10 I 82.2G00 21. Favor, T. IX j 1.50 144 1-12; 198.37 ! 119.0220 22. Fcaster, W. T. col. ! 1.25 :33 5-GO; 124.06 j 74.43G0 23. Grubbs, Magg’e, I 1.50 20 1-10; 90.45 ! 34.2700 24. Gilleland, Josie, j 1.50 127 3-20: 122.17 j 73.3020 25. Glenn, J. W. ! 1.50 :5G 13-601 252.77 j 151.GG20 26. Gicger, Lessie, ; 1.50 i27 13-GOi 122.47 ; 73.4820 27. Hudson, Frank S. j 1.50 ;31 11-G0: 140.32 j 84.1920 28. Henry, W. M. ; 1.25 26 11-20 99.5 G : 59.7360 29. Hawks, R. 11. i 1.25 2G 7-15! 99.25 I 59.5500 30. Hardigree, Mary, j 1.25 ! 3 5-6 j 14.37 j 8.G220 31. Howard, Dollic, col. I LOO jl2 33-60 37.65 \ 22.5900 32. II ay good, E. 11., col. j 1.00 ;31 1-02 93.15 j 55.8900 33. Harmon, M. A., col. j 1.00 i 9 27.00 1G.2000 34. Jackson, A. S , col. i 1.00 42 47-60: 128.45 77.0700 35. Lanier, J. W. N. j 1.50 il4 3-10 64.35 j 38.6100 36. Latner, J. T. j 1.50 17 1-5 I 32.40 I 19.4400 37. Moore, R. D. 1.50 39 19-G0: 176.92 ; 106.1520 38. McCulloch, J. J. j 1.00 10 5G GO 32.80 j 19.0800 39. McElhannon, Julia P. ; 1.50 f26 2-15; 117.60 70.5G00 40. McNeal, Michael, I 1.50 11 16 i 50.25 30.1500 41. Mahalfey, M. S. j 1.50 j 3 29-GO 15.67 j 9.4020 42. Merck, Mamie, i 1.50 10 7-30 45.45 : 27.2700 43. Merk, A. B. j 1.25 14 7-40 53.15 : 31.8900 44. Moore, J. W. I 1-25 il4 23! 55.00 | 33.00 45. Matthews, Martha, : 1.25 il2 7-12 47.18 ! 28.3080 46. McDonald, J. D. j 1.25 34 7-15 129.25 | 77.5500 47. Moore, Lula, 1.25 16 17-60 G 1.06 j 3G.G360 48. Mitchell, W. B. 1.50 11 5-12 51.37 30.8220 49. McLester, W. C., col. 1.25 36 8-60 135.50 j 81.3000 [CONTINUED ON the TIIIItD FACE.] A story is told of Van Amburgh, the great lion tamer, now dead. On one occasion, while in a bar-room, be was asked how he got his wonderful power over animals. He said : “It is by showing them that I’m not the least afraid of them and by keeping ray eye stead ily on theirs. I’ll give you an example of the power of my eye.” Pointing to a loutish fel low who was sitting near by, lie said : “ You see that fellow ? He’s a regular clown. I’ll make him come across the room to me and I wont say a word to him.” Sitting down he fixed his keen, steady eye on the man. Pres ently the fellow straightened himself gradu ally, got up and came slowly across to the lion tamer. When he got close enough he drew back his arm and struck Van Amburgh a tremendous blow under the chin, knocking him clear over the chair, with the remark: “ You’ll stare at me like that again, won’t you ?” \ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM I SI.OO for Six Months. Average number of Months Attendance, 1 * Number of Teachers from other Counties, 22 Average number ofPupiis to the Teacher, 2<; Number of good School Houses jn County, lo Number of medium School Houses in County, 2) Number of inferior School Houses in County, ];> No. of Schools without any House in County, i No. of rude Cabins used for School Houses, 1<; Number of Churches used for School Houses, 8 Largest No. of Pupils seen using one hook, I7 No. of Pupils seen without any‘book at all, 12,s Smallest number of books found in any school, 5 Total amount of Teacher’s Accounts, $0709 27 Commissioner’s Salary, $250 0(> Incidental Expenses, sll Whole School Debt, $7029 3() Entire School Fund, .$1522 s<j Ain’t for Apportionment to Teachers, $lOOl ay Amount paid on Teacher’s Accounts, Gy Amount left to be paid by Patrons, 4y “ Your visits remind me of the growth of a successful newspaper,” said Uncle Jabez, leaning his chin on his cane and glancing on William Henry, who was sweet on Angelica. “ Why so ?” inquired William Henry. “ Well, they commenced as a weekly, grew to be a tri-weekly, and have now become daily, with a Sunday supplement.” “ Yes,” said William Henry, bracing up, “ and after wo are married we will issue au extra ’’ “ Sh-h,” said Angelica, and then they went out for a stroll. The car in which General Garfield will rido to Washington in March, lias been made at Jefferson, at the cost of $17,000, and every thing in it except the carpets, and some mahogony, holly and ebony used in decora tion, is the product of Indiana, and it is tho result of Indiana mechanical skill. NUMBER 2 .