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The Jackson Herald. ROBERT S. HOWARD, Edilor. JEFFERSON, <3-A.. FKK2VI .MORAIAXJ, Itarch IH. I^l. Gainesville wants anew Court House an<l an Opera House. Well, we bet she will have llicm, for to have follows right after the want, in that plucky little city. It is rumored that Dr. Felton will be an Independent candidate for Gubernatorial honors iu this State next year, and that Con gressman Blount will be in the same Gx on the Organized track. It is reported that Garfield lia9 requested Grant to assist Lim in shaping his policy to wards the Southern States. If this be true, the South will not have such a nice time as in the four years just past. A revolution lias broken out in Venezuela, South America, against the government of General Guzman Blanco, and up to the pres ent appears to have gained some advantage over the government troops. Keeper Nelms says that the number of convicted criminals is yearly decreasing, and that the decrease for the years 1878 and 1879 was about per cent., and that it was about 15 per cont. for the year 1880. Yes, but is there a corresponding decrease in the commission of crime ? AH criminals are not sent to the Penitentiary—they get no farther than the Court House. It was stated that Dr. Felton was after Gen. LeDtic’s place as Commissioner of Agriculture, but it turns out that LeDuc pro poses to hold on to his place, as his commis sion is not limited, and docs not expire on the coining in of anew administration. Here tofore, the custom has been for the Commis sioner of Agriculture to rctiro with the ad ministration that appointed him. In order to effect and defeat the passage of the refunding bill, then before Congress, several of the National Banks surrendered their circulation, in the hopes that their action would cause a stringency in the money market. The amount withdrawn from circulation in this mnnnor was.over nineteen millions, and the bankers came near attaining their object, but Gually failed and the country was saved from a panic. Now these banks want their circulation returned to them, but the President and Cabinet have decided not to grant their requost, so they have been ©ought and pinched on all sides. This scores one good point for Mr. Garfield’s administration. The following are the figures of Georgia’s population as finally corrected: Whites 814,218; colored 724,624* Indians 94; Chineso 17 ;*total 1,589,048. In 1870 there were 638,926 white and 545,142 colored. It will thus be soon that while the white popula* tion in ten yoars has increased 175,292, the negroes have increased 179,512, making their relative increase much greater than that of the whites. While the total population of 4,he country has increased 30 06 per cent, the whites show an increase of only 28 82 per cent and the negroes of 34 78 per cent. Ihe Chinese have increased 67 07 per cent. Wc took the liberty, sometime ago, to ex press tliQ opinion that Garfield's administra tion would be intensely Republican. The following, from a letter to the Atlanta Con stitution from Washington, confirms our prediction. Look out for Radical postmasters from now on: “In regard to Southern ap pointments generally a prominent Tennessee Republican said to night: ‘-The man who gets an office from Mr. Garfield in my State has got to be a positive man in his Republi can principles, and must also have been active in his affiliations with our party. Iu other words, lie must have the indorsement of the Republican party and be a stalwart. Of course a man must be fitted for the duties of the office, but, everything else being equal, stalwarts will be preferred. The Postmas ter General Key policy will not be tolerated by tfie present administration. It is wrong in principle, vicious in theory and injudicious in policy. We have enough stalwarts to fill the offices, and I am assured that none but this kind will be appointed, for none other merit reward.’ ” Big Luck for a Georgia College. The following item we get from the Wash ington letter of the Constitution, and is reliable. It is a big streak of luck to a deserving institution: “ There is a big hearted man in New York who has turned his attention to Georgia. A lew weeks ago when President 11 ay good, of Emory college, was in that city Mr. George I. Seney, president of the Metropolitan bank, entirely unsolicited, wrote his check for $lO,- 000 to complete the fund for the endowment of the Lovick Pierce professorship at Oxford. It was a noble deed, but it docs not appear to have satisfied one of the parties, that is Mr. JSeney himself.* I have it on good authority that he has authorized President Haygood to draw on him for $*230,000 more to erect a building which the growing need of the college demands.” Pictorial Illustrations. —“The useful ness of pictures in a general way is seen by comparing the keenness of observation, the general intelligence, the accurac}* of knowl edge exhibited by children brought up in the midst of an abundance of wholesomo illus trated literature, with the comparative dull ness of vision and narrowness of information shown by those who have not been so privi leged.” The foregoing, which we take from the “Canada School Journal,” truthfully ap plies to the 3,000 Illustrations in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, in which more than 340 words and terms arc illustrated and de fined under the following twelve words: Beef, Boiler, Castle, Column, Eye, Horse, .Holdings, Phrenology, Ravelin, Ships, Steam Engine. Timbers, as may bo seen by examin ing the Dictionary.! Railroad Notes. Wc informed our readers sometime ago that wc had some railroad news of interest to them that was worth relating. Other matters pressing upon us have prevented the relation of it before now. * It was generally known that there had been enough money subscribed to make the road bed and put down the cross tics, but that these expenditures would about exhaust all of the funds on hand, and it was hoped that when this much of the work was accomplished that, by means of bonds or some outside help, the iron and rolling stock could be secured. Nothing definite had been determined upon up to sometime ago. Now, however, the matter is arranged all the way through, and has been done through the in strumentality of the Air-Line Railroad. Dur ing the meeting of the stockholders of that company in New York, last month, Gen. G. J. Foreacre, the able Superintendent of that road, made arrangements to help our road when the proper time arrived. So that hence- forth it is all plain sailing, and there is but one possible way for the matter to fall through, and that lies in our power and con trol. In other words, our share of the funds is all that is required. We ourselves are the delinquents, and with us must rest the blame for slowness in the enterprise. It is known that a good many of those who have subscribed have failed to meet their assessments, and have expressed a dis position to lag behind so earty in the progress of the work. This has a dampering effect upon the balance, and the result does not by any means stir up or push the work forward. Why this is the cause we cannot divine, for the parties who have subscribed are good and can pay the amounts they have agreed to contribute to the enterprise. Then what is the trouble ? As to the cause of this in difference wc leave others to surmise, but as to its effects it will take no prophet to fore tell. It means no railroad until you come up and perform your part of the contract. You are just keeping your ownselves out of reach of the profit and benefits that will arrive from the advent of the iron horse in our midst. You are not putting off the evil day ; you are shutting yourselves off from many profitable days that will surely come with the railroad. Every day that we lose now is putting us at least ten days behind the pro gress of the rest of the world, and it will be ju9t that much more difficult to catch up in the race. The news is most encouraging from the works. Hands are coming in rap idly. They would come more rapidly if there was more money to pay them with. The contractors arc pushing the work. The men whom you have placed at the head of the enterprise ars prudent and energetic. The management is first-class. The prospects cannot be more encouraging in every partic ular. Only one trouble, and that is amongst those who will he most bonefittod by the en terprise. They must indeed be blind, to thus stand in the way of their own prosperity. Wc do not mean this as a complaint. We are just giving the facts and the effect of your conduct. The matter is one of your own volition, and we have spoken only as a re minder, Prosperity awaits you. We can see it if you cannot, and you must pardon us if we get impatient at 3 T our tardiness. We know that your intentions are good, but you must move up; take a quicker step. The railroad is a coming, and you must quicken your pace, if you want to go with the rest of the world and not get loft. A Little Advice. We cannot refrain from commenting upon the meeting of the colored people that was held here last Saturday, and we will offer a little advice to our colored citizens, although we are well aware of the fact that it will not be heeded. While the speakers in that meet ing uttered a good many truths, they at the same time hid them with misstatements so as to mislead those who were in the dark and wanted light upon the subject. While we arc not disposed to defend the action or work of the Jury Commissioners, yet we are willing to stand to the assertion that there is not a man upon the Commission who wonkl be afraid to put a colored man or men upon the jury if he thought he was qualified under the law. While they may err, and possibly have erred, in their work, it has not been know ingly done; but from an inability for any five men in Jackson county to know everybody in it. The TaW is necessarily defective from the fact that there is no way to remedy it. We admit that there may be in the eight hun dred colored voters in the county some who are competent and qualified to sit upon a jury, and that there may be lots more who are better qualified than some who arc in the jury box, but our colored friends will find five white men out of the jury box who are fully qualified to be in it to where he will find one colored man in the Same condition. Y'et, the five white men do not complain because they are_so unfortunate as not to be known to one of the five Commissioners ; they do not blame them, but the law. " The time when the CQlored man was denied his civil rights by the white men of the South on account of liis color is rapidly passing away, and it is remarkable that the dying out of the prejudice is keeping pace with the progress in uprightness and compentency of the colored man to exercise the duties of citizenship. But tiiere is a higher law before which all must bend, regardless of color, previous condition, or Constitutional amend ments, and that is moral integrity, coupled with the necessary modicum of ability, and this essential, we are sorry to say, our col ored brethren do not possess. We would, therefore, advise our colored friends to qualify themselves in this particu lar, and then they can reasonably demand admission to this empty honor. Want to be Jurors. Agreeable to the call published, quite a large crowd of the colored citizens of the county met in the Court House in this place la9t Saturday. It was not generally known what the purpose of the meeting was, and many were the conjectures made in regard thereto. All speculation upon the subject was put to rest when Henry MeLestcr was called to the Chair and explained the busi ness before the house. lie said that the colored people of the countv had been called together for the pur pose of taking action in a matter in which they were, as he thought, most shamefully cheated out of their rights and deprived of a most material part of their privileges a3 a citizen. That there are eight hundred col ored voters in this county, and two hundred names in the jury boxes, and yet not one of those two hundred is a colored man. That this was wrong, arnMhat the} T were there to take some measures to secure the representa tion that was so dear to them. lie then took his 3cat, and, upon motion, was made perma cent Chairman. Mr. Ap. Horton was then called upon for a few remarks upon the sub jeet. lie is the same that run for the Legis lature last fall upon the color line. Horton is a good speaker, and has got ideas in his head, and his speech was to the point in more than one respect, and while he stated at the outset that he was not prepared to make much of a speech upon the subject, yet it was evident that ho was full to overflowing upon the Question, and was well up in the facts. We would like very much to be able to give his speech in whole, but we can only give one or two of the leading ideas, so that you can get the drift of the argument. After go- ing over the points made by the Chairman, and elaborating them more fully, lie said that they blamed nobody with the omission except the five Commissioners, and he presumed that they had overlooked them because they were not known, and that this was the object of the meeting, to make themselves and their wishes known, so that the Commissioners would in the future recognize their rights, lie said that it was impossible for the color ed people to get justice as long as they were tried by white jurors, and, as evidence upon this point, he instanced the fact that when a lawyer plead a case for a colored mart he al ways asked the jury to give his client justice, even if he was colored. He grew eloquent along here, and clinched his arguments with illustrations and anecdotes, and made the assertion that the Georgia chain-gang was black because the jurors who convicted them were white. He said that the colored people were fully as competent to sit upon juries as the white people, and instanced the fact that they stood their ground in competition wifh the whites in educational matters. lie then spoke of the duties of a juror, and said that he was pretty well satisfied that he Oouhi make a first class juror. Their l&tentiorf wks to ask humbly and respectfully for this right, which they thought they were entitled to en joy as much so as any other privilege of citi zenship. He said that they paid their taxes, were liable to be called upon as citizens to defend the country, work upon the roads, &c., and he did not see why they were not enti tled to have their names put in the jury box. After Horton’s conclusion, the meeting decided that it was not large enough to deal with the subject, and concluded to call an | other meeting, to be held here on the second Saturday in April, to take final action in the premises. With this agreement, they ad journed. PARKER & CAMP BROS. . !j • e *4 > *. II !. } efiovn . ' 1 !, ; ([,-• -■ •; r We have within the last few weeks opened up a first-class stock of FANCY and FAMILY GROCERIES, it- > J • "ii ■ * tIL/ * •■% '** \ ~ CIGARS AND TOBACCO, STAPLE VllY GOODS, IIATS AND SHOES, All of which we are offering at HoclsL Bottom Prices i Our Hoods Andtdusfltt? From Manufacturers For Cash, •J. ; Oil - /4& >■. ’■ cn I'■ '■ And We Will Sell As Cheap As The Cheapest. G-IVE TT£3 -At. K\\A\v CoV\.*\\\ecA W c KVctw\. W\vuV W e Respectfully, PARKER & CAMP BROS., Feb 05 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga. dEXXUSTA. HALL 7 DEUPREE BLOCK, ------ Athens, Ga. For *mxc Spring Trade l A/FERCHANTS and housekeepers are incited to inspect the splended stock which is offered at J3X prices that cannot be surpassed in Atlanta or Augusta. China, Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, CUTLERY, PLATED WARE, WHIPS, Tin, Wooden and Willow W'ares. Jobbing price list figured to the lowest notch—saving freights and danger of breakage. Sept 17 ' Broad Street, Athens. G-a Jim' JWucrtisciiients. Notice to Tax-Payers! Jwill be at the following named places and dates, for the purpose of receiving your Tax Returns for the year 1 SSI : Randolph’s, April 4th, May 2d and 17th. House’s, April sth. May 4th and ISth. Chandler’s, April Oth, May sth and 10th. Santer Fe, April 7th, May Gth and 20th. Clarkesborough. April Bth and 18th, May 9th. Human’s Store, April 11th and 29th, May 23d. William (jriffeth’s, April 12th and 27th, May 2Uh. Maysville, April 13th and 2Gth. May 25th. Harmony Grove, April 14th and22a, May 12th. Nicholson, April loth and 20th, May 11th. Center, April 19th. White’s Mill, April 21st. Nunn's Store, April 25th. Benjamin Atkins', April 2Sth. Jasper N. Thompson's, May 3d. Williamson’s Mill, May 10th. Apple Valley, May 13th. Maddox’s Mill, May 16th. James M. Stockton’s May 26th, (forenoon). DcLaperriere’s Store, May 27th. I will be at Jefferson every Saturday till first of June, at which time my books will be closed. J. W. N. LANIER, Tax Receiver Jackson County. TT 13 Jh "frTQI £3O to SI,OOO ; 2 to 32 Stops. FI AMOS $125 dress Daniel F. Beatty, Washington, N. J. WANTED! *65 to BS& ias Sa ink $l5O per month. Steady work all spring and summer. For particu lars address J* C. McCURDY &CO., Philadelphia, Pa. flower fresh & RELIABLE. True to name, in 7 for 25c fvjl.JgU R'a JvJ?O neat packets, withjlS “ 50c cut, description and culture. Catalogue|3s 1.00 free. F. E. McALLISTER. j Post 31 Fulton St., New York.]- Paid TVvt Udxs\\ O') Tfc* yfovUW HALFORD SAUCE! SOLD BIT ALL GROCERS. " HOMES IN TEXAS ’ IS THE TIILE OF A New Illustrated Pamphlet Descriptive of the country along and tributary to the line of the INTERNATIONAL & GREAT NOTHERN RAILROAD, and contains a good county map of the State. It also contains the name and addresses of Farmers and Plnntcrs in Texas who have FARMS FOR SALE OR RENT, and those who will want Farm Hands for next year. A copy of this book will be mailed free to those who desire reliable information about Texas, upon application by letter or postal card to ALLEN McCOY, Gen’l Freight and Pass'r Ag't. Palestine Texas. WoyYWaa'&Xcvw YauVy ouA FAST MAIL TRAIN. ON and after Wednesday, January 19th, 1881, trains on the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows : TRAINS. .NO. 1. ] NO. 3. Leave Athens 4.30 am 3 30 pm Arrive at Lula G.3Q a m 5.50 p nt Arrive at Atlanta... 9.46 a m 12.40 p m TKA rNt*. I NO. 2. NO. 4. Leave Atlanta 1.00 a m 3.00 p m Arrive at Lula 6.30 a m 5.55 p m Arrive at Athens... 11.30 a in 8.45 pm All trains daily except Sunday. Trains 1, 2 and 3 connect closely with all east and west bound passenger trains on Air-Lino Railway. Train No. 4 with west-bound passenger train on Saturday night only, when it will wait until 9.45 p, m., when by so doing a connection can be made. Passengers leaving Athens at 4.30 a. m. con nect closely at Lula with the Fast Mail train for Atlanta, time 5 hours and 13 minutes —making close connection for all points west and south west. LYMAN WELLS, Sup’t. Inducements Extraordinary! AT THE MAMMOTH China, Crockery and Glassware ISoiixc OF NOHTII-EAST GEORGIA. JAS. H, HUGGINS, No. 7 Broad Street,- Athens, Georgia . HAVING just returned from the Eastern market, we are offering the largest, inos* varied best selected stock of CHINA, CROCKERY, GLASS WARE, LAMPS, CIIANDALIERS, LANTEIIAS, Ac., Ac., 25 per cent, lower thean ever before known in this market. A full and complete line of HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS! Such as Buckets, Brooms, Seivcs, Trays, Knives and Forks, Table and Teaspoons, Coffee Mills, &c. Also, a couvplete stock of Table Linen, Oil Cloths, Napkins, Doylies, Towels, Etc. SILVER PLATED WARE! A handsome stock of TRIPLE-PLATE SILVER CASTORS, TABLE and TEASPOONS. Prices SURPRISINGLY LOW. Kerosene Oil by the Car Load. Also, Ala din and “Red C Oil A Staple Dry Goods, Groceries, Canned Goods, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, LEATHER , Etc., Etc., at prices as low as any house in the State. DON’T FORGET TIIE PLACE. Oct. 1 J. H. HUG-GINS, No. 7 Broad Street. l\7rATqrßT.lil! MARBLK! A. R. ROBERTSON, DEALER IN ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLE Monuments, Tombs, Head & Foot Stones, LARGE and SMALL CRADLE TOMBS, Marble and Granite Box Tombs, AT ALL PRICES TO SUIT PURCHASERS. A Large Lot of Finished Monuments and Tombstones on LLandfor Sale and Ready for Lettering. My Yard is Full of Marble, and Ready to Fill Any Orders. GIVE ME .A. CALL, ATT D GET IMTST PRICES. A. R. ROBERTSON, Monumental Builder, Athens, Georgia. ISAAC LOWE. JOHN COHEN laOWE tfe COHEN, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS, WINES, Etc., E3tc- ALSO AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Stone Mountain Corn Whisky. Corner Broad and Jackson Sts., Athens, Ga. Feb. 2o LOOK AT THIS! thhstik: or* it i . * < * k 9 . . - * COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES. JUST RECEIVED 300 ELEGANT COOK STOVES, 3000 Dozen Wash Pans, 100 Dozen Splendid Baking Pans, 100 Dozen Elegant Dish Pans, And a large stock of goods in our line which will he sold CHEAP FOB CASH. A. K. CHILDS & CO. Feb. to Opposite Reaves, Nicholson A Cos., Athens, G*. JOHN COIIEN.