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Ilel! is a Texas town that deserves its name, judging by the brutality of three recent murders. Mrs. Hatcheldcr, of Bangor, Me., a glib and persistent talker, has had her husband arrested for attempting to pull out her longue. The crest emblazoned on a San Francisco millionaire's carriage, a rising sun, is consid ered appropriate, because he has risen from stage driving and his wife from domestic service. William Brown is to be hanged at Fort Smith, Arkansas, for accidentally killing a man ; hut the chance shot was intended to take the life of another, and bad aim was held to be no defence under the law. The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes a list of Ohioans who hold office under the Federal Government, filling three of its ample col umns. The list docs not include postmas ters, but consists largely of hangers-on at Washington. A pension of £4.000 was granted in 1790 by the British Parliament to the heirs and descendants of William Penn, in considera tion of bis meritorious services, and of the losses which his family sustained in conse quence of the American war. It is now paid to Col. William Stuart, a descendant. Beacon Falls is a mill town in Connecti cut. The inhabitants are chiefly operatives in the mills, and own no property. The taxes, therefore, fall on a few persons, who manage to keep them small by doing without police or police courts. The two Grand Ju rors, or magistrates, refuse to grant warrants, and the constable never makes any arrests. Differences between individuals are settled on the monthly pay days, either by arbitra tion or fisticuffs. Offenders are whipped by self-appointed committees, or driven out of the place. Several years ago, in East Tennessee, near the present site of Rugby, two intimate friends, Guill and Dent, quarrelled, and Dent stabbed Guill to death. Before dying, Guill made an ofd negro servant, who had formerly been a slave, promise to avenge him, but in a fair fight with a knife. Dent fled to Texas, but returned, and was found by the colored man, who told him his purpose. Dent met him near the grave of Guill, and the duel re sulted in the death of both. The father of Charlie Ross, writing to the latest discoverers of the lost boy in Canada, says tiiat the last spark of hope has gone out, and he mourns the lost one as dead. After giving reasons why the Canada boy cannot possibly be Charlie, be adds : “I have always believed that my Charlie, although only 4 years and 3 months old at the time he was taken, would remember his brother Walter, who was taken away with him, and had also thought that he would even have a distinct recollection of tbe feeling ol loneliness that he must have experienced when he found he was in the hands of strangers and separated from bis parents.” On another recent occa sion, Mr. Ross said: -The only tidings I have ever 4 received of Charlie since he was atolen was the demand for a ransom of $20,- 000. If I had paid that, I would have had him long before this. As it is, I have spent $60,000, and have not got him.” Judge Jameson, of Chicago, granted a di vorce to a wife on the ground of habitual drunkenness in her husband, though tbe evi dence showed that the man was no more than a very moderate tippler. “Is he fit,” his Honor argued, in his remarkable decision, “to be tbe father of his wife's children ? The greatest cruelty that can possibly be inflicted upon a woman is to make her the mother of children likely to become drunkards. The Legislature would be justified in providing that, where a maq has so indulged in drink as to have tainted bis blood and thus made it probable that his offspring will take by inheritance a tendency to vicious courses, that fact alone should be good ground for a divorce, although he may in all other cases l>e a kind, indulgent husband, able and will ing to give his wife an abundant support.” The last system proposed for the improve* meat of the Mississippi river is an engineer ing project of extraordinary magnitude. The object to be accomplished is, in brief, to col lect the vast volume of water furnished by the spring floods of the numerous streams and lakes constituting the headwaters of the river into immense reservoirs, for the pur pose of maintaining a steady depth of four feet in the upper Mississippi from July to November. To do this will require the con struction of forty-one dams, seven on the upper Mississippi, fourteen on the St. Croix, twelve on the Chippewa, and eight on the Wisconsin. The first set of dams will be lo cated at the outlets of Lakes Winnebagosish, Leccli, Mudd, and Vermilion, and at Poke gama Falls, Gull Lake, and Pine River. The total holding capacity of these reservoirs will equal in extent an unbroken sea of 400 square miles, with a uniform depth of eight feet. The plan specifies that all the reser voirs shall be constructed of earth and wood, no suitable stone being found in the region in sufficient quantity. Congress has already granted an appropriation for beginning the work at Lake Winnebagosish. where it is pro posed to build a dam sixteen feet high. The total cost of dams, including telegraph lines for operating them, is set down at less than $1,500,000. The Reward for Jeff*. Davis. There stands to day on tl.e books of the Treasury an unexpended balance of $2,9G8 of the reward of SIOO,OOO offered for the cap ture of Jefferson Davis. President Andrew Johnson, by proclamation of May 2, 1865, offered a reward of SIOO,OOO for the capture of Jefferson Davis, but Congress did not au thorize the payment of the same until 1868. Congress hedged the appropriation with the strictest provisions and precautions as to the payment, requiring every one concerned in the capture to be fully ideutified beforo re ceiving any portion of the * reward. There were a grea*. many claimants, and the Treas ury officials had much trouble and difficulty in arriving at a correct conclusion as to who really were entitled to benefits. In conse quence of the thorough examination required the payments have been distributed through the years from 1868 to the present time. In 1869, $12,000 was paid; in 1870, $879; in 1871, $1,611 50; in 1873, $2,051 ; in 1874 $79,904 12; in 1876, $293, and in 1879, $293. The amount yet unpaid ($2,968 38) belongs to a half dozen or so privates in an lowa cavalry regiment, wliose identity has not yet been established, although if the Treasury officials were permitted to take their own word for it enough of them took part in the capture to constitute a brigade. Defective Cotton seed. From Southern Texas, where the farmers have legun to think about the new cotton season, we have already received a few scat tering letters complaining of the injury to seed caused by the rainy fall and winter sea son ; and if we are not mistakeu this will be a prolific source of trouble throughout the South before a good stand is achieved for the next crop. Many thousands of dollars were lost from this cause last season, in Middle and South Georgia, and in the cotton-growing region of Florida. Asa rule, no very large amount of cotton seed is kept through the winter in the Cotton States, tbe only considerable demand for seed, except for planting, being from the cotton seed oil companies, and those using up most of what they crush in the fall and winter. This year, to be sure, the oil companies will continue tbeir operations later than usu al, owing to the extraordinarily late character of the cotton season, and some of the compa nies that shut down in the early part of Jan uary for lack of seed have already started up, using seed from the January picking; but this late-gathcrcd seed is, as a rule, of exceed ingly poor quality. In fact, for planting purposes this seed would be worse than use less. Besides the wholesale retardation of plant ing through waiting for the germination of one hatch of seed, and then perhaps being obliged to sow another lot, a good deal of loss is occasioned by the fact that under the present system planters have so little confi dencc in the quality of the seed they use that they sow three or four times as much gener ally as is really needful. The excellent practice of testing the seed just before planting time is made use of in some parts of Georgia. The quality may be very readily determined by counting out one or two hundred seed and planting them even ly In a shallow box of mellow soil, and, after watering the box with warm water, set it in a light, warm place. In a few days the seed will germinate, when they may be counted, and, if only seventy-five or eighty out of the hundred come up, it will show that the quali ty is sufficiently good to justify the use only of a bushel to the acre on any but very stiff clayey soil. On land of the latter character, or on any land very poorly prepared, it may be safe to use a bushel and a half, and over this is never necessary if the seed are of good quality. Three to five bushels of seed were all well enough, perhaps, when a planter wanted to insure a “perfect stand” of three stalks in the hill, and hills nine inches apart, but now, when intelligent and progressive farmers are getting to see that not over 7,000 stalks are desirable, and that in most cases 5,000 arc better, they find a bushel of seed amply suffi cient. Even when drilled this i* enough, and when tbe land is checked half this quantity will insure a perfect stand. — Cotton. Cherokee Census. The Cherokee census of 1880, taken under authority of the native law, exhibits a Chero kee and mixed population of 20,336, and an actual population in the country of 27,001. The cattle of the nation number 67,400 ; the hogs, 108,552 and the horses, 13,643. During the war vast herds were destroyed or stolen, and the nation is just recovering from the losses it sustained at that time. Only sixteen of the Cherokees are hunters and five fisher men. Out of a population of 5,196 males over 18 years of age, 3,549 are farmers. A single district last year exported 1,200 bales of cotton, which is anew crop in that country. About one half the people can speak the English language, and, as English is the only tongue taught or used in the schools, it is expected that the whole nation will be thoroughly anglicized in another generation. Liquor is excluded from the Territory by the intercourse laws, and the nation also has stringent prohibitory lawsofitsown. Property is not held in common as alleged, but by personal title, and the Cherokees are very jealous of their rights in this respect. The prevalence of crime in the nation has been greatly exaggerated. There are but twenty eight inmates of the penitentiary. A lare proportion of the cases of violence reported are caused by the lawless invasion of the Territory by white men and the attempts to eject them. The population has increased twenty-five per cent, since the war, and the native officials refer to the growth and pros perity of the people as evidence that the experiment of civilization in their case, at least, has not been a failure. The Cherokees are more tractable and industrious than the majority of Indians ; but the results of their labors seem to show that the plan of giving all the tribes land in severalty, and gradually weaning them from nomadic life, is the one chance for the salvation of the race. Cracking Wheat into Flour. Minnesota millers no longer “grind”’ wheat into flour. They “crack” it, and the people of the Northwest claim that the new process makes their hitherto inferior wheat the most valuable in the world. Burr stones are things of tho past and Hungarian steel rollers have taken their place. These rollers are about thirty inches long and eight inches in diame ter. It takes five sets of steel rollers to finish the flour. Each set of rollers run closer than the preceding. After the wheat passes each set of rollers it is bolted or sifted through course cloth. This cloth lets the disinter grated particles of wheat through and passes off the bulky and larger pieces, which are run through another and a closer set of rollers and cracked again. The last rollers have little else but wheat hulls and waxy germs of wheat, which do not crack up, but smash down like a piece of wax. The germ of a kernel of wheat is not good food. It makes flour black. By the old millstone process this waxy germ was ground up with the starchy portion and bolted through with the flour. By the new system of cracking the kernel instead of grinding it this germ is not ground, but flattened out and sifted or bolted our, while the starchy portions of the wheat are crushed into powdered wheat or flour. All the big mills of Minneapolis now manufac* ture by the new process. An Interesting Experiment. Louisiana is rejoicing over the prospective success of a movement initiated some time ago to substitute Italian for colored labor in its cotton and cane fields. The first instal ment of these Italian emigrants, two hundred and ten in number, have reached New Orleans, and it is reported that other laborers of the same class are expected in large numbers during the winter and spring. Heretofore the drift of Italian emigration has been to wards South America, and principally to the Argentine Republic, of which Buenos Ayres is the capital, and the province of that name the richest province. The climate there ap proxi mates so closely to that of Southern Italy that it agrees well with the emigrants from the latter kingdom. Whether they will find that of Louisiana equally well suited to them, or the labor in the cotton and cane fields congenial to their habits and constitu tions, must necessarily be at present a matter of doubt. The attempt to introduce Chinese labor into Louisiana failed signally. The present attempt to substitute Italian for negro labor may fare better. It is, at all events an interesting experiment, for all accounts agree that as a laborer the Italian is honestf, frugal, temperate and industrious. A Camp-Meeting Anecdote. An incident of camp meeting life, detailed by a clergyman on a Baltimore steamboat, is thus reported in Forest and Stream: An old couple had supplied themselves with a bottle of pennyroyal oil with which to keep off the mosquitoes. They extinguished their light and retired, forgetting the antidote. The mosquitoes were very bad, and, after standing it as long as they could, the old lady got up and got a well filled ink-bottle instead of the oil, and gave the old gentleman a thor ough lubricating with tbe fluid, face, hands and feet ; she then annointed herself in a like manner. They again assayed to court the drowsy god, but could only get an occasional nap. Finally the old lady got up and struck a light. Giving a glance at the bed she had just left, she beheld, to her horror, a colored person, as she supposed, stretched in the place of her spouse. She quietly got the poker, and beat the old fellow over the head before discovering her mistake. Later on in the night, we found the old couple on board the boat with us, he with his head nearly a9 big as a bale ol hay, and she caring for him with the greatest so licitude. The Literary Revolution. CHANGE OF BASE. This very remarkable enterprise continues to make such progress as to astonish its friends and astound its enemies. Its greatly increasing proportions have compelled the removal of its head quarters from the Tribune Building to the very large and beautiful building, No. 764 Broakway, which is in the very midst of the “ book district” of New York City, aud, therefore, of the publishing enterprise of the nation. This building, though six stories in height 25 feet frtntand 101$ feet deep, is sufficient only(for and retail store of the Company. Tiro manu facturing is carried on in several large build ings located in other parts of the city, though it is contemplated concentrating them soon in one immense factor}' to be erected. Their list of recent and early forthcoming publications are extremely interesting to all who enjoy what is choicest in literature. The Library Magazine is unique in both form and character and altogether delightful in the richness of its contents. Of the books an nounced, Green's larger “History of the English People,” reduced from 'slo to $1; C arlyle s “ History ofthe French Revolution,” reduced to 40 cents; Carlyle’s “ Heroes and Hero Worship,” 25 cents, and the “ Revised New lestament,” which is promised to be manufactured with rapidity heretofore un heard of, will attract special attention. It is worth while for every one who has not already seen it, to send and get the illustrated pamphlet, “Book Making, and Typesetting by Steam,” which will be sent free upon ap plication. Address, the American Book Exchange, 764 Broadway, New York. TEETHINA. (TEETHING POWMUS.) ttttttttttttt Cures! ho I era Infantum. Allays Irritation and makes Teething easy. Removes and prevents Worms. Thousands of Children mat / be sated ev er!/ year by using these Fated era. For sale at DR. PENDERGRASS’ Drugstore. T. FLEMING. J. H. FLEMING. 11. FLEMING. T. FLEiMIJVG & SOXS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Hardware, Agricultural Implements, Wagon and Buggy Material, Blacksmith* Tools, RUBBER BELTRYG, TE XX ESSE WAGOXS, HARNESS, DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, Carpenters Tools, A FULL LINE OF HARDWARE. We Would lie (Had to Stow Yon Onr Coeds and C-iye Yon Prices. Very Respectfully, T. FLEMING & SONS, September loth. Athens, Georgia. JUJDSON’S JUDSON’S MARBLE WORKS. ATLANTA, G-EORGTA, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Italian and Rutland Marble, Monuments, Box Tombs, Head and Foot Stones, Iron Railing for G-rave Inclosures, &c. OFFICE AND WORKS ON CORNER OF LOV'D AND ALABAMA STREETS, Opposite Georgia Railroad Depot. Orders Solicited and Promptly Filled. Prices Reasonable. Tens Casb. Addrcss D. N. JUDSON, Atlauta, Gu. Atlanta Charlotte Air-Line Railway. Passenger Department. Atlanta, Ga., January 15th, 1881. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. ON and after January 16th, trains will run oh this road as follows. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. (EASTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 6.J0 A, M. Leave Lula G. 31 A. M. (WESTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 9.3S P. M. Leave Lula 9.39 P. M. NIGIIT PASSENGER TRAIN. (EASTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 5.55 P. M. Leave Lula 5.5(3 P. M. (WESTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 9.57 A. M. Leave Lula 9.58 A. M. LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN. (EASTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 11.33 A. M. Leave Lula 1i.58 A. ,M. 9 (WESTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 11.07 P. M. Leave Lula 12.26 P. M. THROUGH FREIGHT TRAIN. (EASTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 5.20 P. M. Leave Lula 5.35 P. M. (WESTWARD.) Arrive at Lula 8.41 A. M. Leave Lula 8.53 A. M. _ Connecting at Atlanta for all points West and Southwest. Connecting at Charlotte for all Eas tern points, Through Tickets on sale at Gaines ville, Seneca City, Greenville and Spartanburg to all points East and West. G. J. FOREACRE. Gen. Man. W. J. HOUSTON, G. P. & T. Ag't. Coffins ! Coffins! IM ILL keep on hand, in Jefferson, a full sup ply of AND— - BURIAL CASES, of all sizes, and at prices to suit the times. Every effort will b? made to serve parties promptly and satisfactorily. Respectfully, sept 3 W. A. WORSHAM. lfr-f Outfit furnished free, with full instruo tions for conducting the most profitable business that anyone can engage in. The busi ness is so easy to learn, and our instructions are so simple and plain, that any one can make great profits from the very start. No one can fail who is willing to work. Women are as successful as men. Roys and girls can earn largs sums. Many have made at the business over one hundred dol lars in a single week. Nothing like it ever known before. All who engage are surprised at the ease and rapidity with which they are able to make money. Yon can engage in this business during your spare time at great proiit. You do not have to invest capital in it. We take all the risk. Those who need ready money, should write to us at once. All furnished free. Address True <!t Augijgta, v ( j ; j^, RHIPAY agents IJAUA 1 * WANTED. W E W ANT A LIMITED number of active, ener getic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and prof itable business. Good men will find this a rare chance TO HS/TuA-IKE MONEY. Such will please answer this advertisement by letter, enclosing stamp for reply, staling what business they have been engaged in. None but those who mean business need apply. Address FINLEY, IIARVEY & CO., Atlanta, Ga. Outfit sent free to those who wish to en gage in the most pleasant and profitable business known. Everything new. Capital not required. We will furnish you everything. $lO a day and upwards is easily made without staying away from home over night. No risk whatever. Many new workers wanted at once. Many are making fortunes at the business. Ladies make as much as men, and young boys and girls make great pay. No one who is willing to work fails to make more money every day than can be made in a week at any ordinary employment. Those who engage at once will find a short road to for tune. Address 11. Hallett & Cos., Portland, Maine. Yourselves by making money OE 1 A * when a golden chance is offer ed, thereby always keeping poverty from your door. Those who always take advantage of the good chances for making money that are offered, generally become wealthy, while those who do not improve such chances remain in poverty. We want many men. women, boys and girls to work for us right in their own localities. The business will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. We furnish an expensive outfit and all that you need, free. No one who engages fails to make money very rapidly. You can devote your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. Full information and all that is needed sent* free. Address Stinson & Cos., Portland, Maine. G. W. -WALKER’S '( i elHHlel (s IJ SHOPS , Main Street, G-ainesville, Georgia, MANUFACTURER of Phsetons, Buggies and Farm Wagons. I RESPECT FULL\ invite the people of Jackson county and the public generally to call *.. i amine my work before purchasing elsewhere. As I AM STILL TN THE (M ppr \‘cr NESS, with GOOD STOCK. GOOD WORKMEN, and CLOSE ATTENTION To l’UsiNFssA am prepared to offer them an}’thing in my line at 1 TLocls. Bottom Figures! *' • t u\ V J So send on your orders and work. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Repairing Done in all of Its Branches. Respectfully, Feb. Oth, ISSO. 0. IF. WALKER. BALDWIN & BURNETT, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN ZBOOTSI SH OESJS, j\ r o. o Broad Street, Athens, Georgia. WE HAVE just received the largest and most complete stock of Hoots and Shoos ever brought to Athens. The quality of our goods is of the highest order, and our prices within the roach of all. We deal in this line, and promise the most courteous treatment and perfect satisfaction to all who may call. ' TO MERCHANTS: Our WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT is complete, and we guarantee prices as low as any house in the South, and will save you freight. .•, u . r . t !l . ■ ! ; v .wf, ■„. ! • '] e • Jartoni uw ! m>- * ui. j fcutl’rfio'// ir G- I"V E US -A. C .A. LL . BALDWIN BURNETT. . JL 1 . . i i< !i * Athens, On., October Ist, 18S0. HURLEY & SMITH, io " i J) 3* ;J ? • L.T J;; JmlJj tinhl oil? '’o Junonoc no .Jen! iLeA (SUCCESSORS TO HODGSON DliOS. and I). C. HURLEY.) Athens, - ■ ■ ■ Gr£t. bj Cl IWO lUI HiJ • ' ‘ ’ o ’J 4 WE MANUFACTURE AND DEAL IN _ .. # r rmitt . . Find Vehicles of Every > Description 1 line Hand-Made Harness, of Superior Leather. Wapn and Harness Repairing Promptly Done in tie Best Manner and at the Loret Prices. WE HAVE ON HAND A FEW OF THE CELEHRATED HODGSON BROS. BEST MAKE OPEN BUGGIES. GREATLY REDUCED 3? RICES. WE WARRANT all of our work, and CHALLENGE anj' one else to produce as good for the SAiViE MONEY \ v.sv\. \ euVvwsv YA.scvv\\cye. • r ”, HURLEY & SMITH, Hodgson Bros, old stand, Oconee Street, Athens, Ga. U. S. I have associated with me in business Mr. FRFiD. C, SMITH, of Atlanta. Ga,, a fine Carriage trimmer, and with enlarged means, line shops and good ( workmen in every department, am better prepared than ever to give my friends good work at reasonable prices. Sincerely thank ing them for their liberal patronage in the I>aSt, and soliciting itUcontmllnncc. ’ 1,1 (iozAm: I am, very trulj*, D. C. HURLEY. Marble Works ■ ! u I ..,1 ■ n i< Urdu fuo o h oe .V* WIST ID U M IST XT IF* Ak O fi IP <0 XX "'ST , . : -,i . : :t • .. : '> rt jo,. \ I3ST GAINESVILLE, "GEORGIA. '! bniiß &rtT *' 1 .1. .) a liiJU*) U /iOi'ol! - .1 .V. Ui J W E cal l the attention of the public to our new and the ONLY MARBLE WORKS iu Northeast Georgia. \. e are prepared.with airtple capital, large experience and skilled workmen, to fill orders on short notice for GRAVE STONES beautifully and artistically finished, Monuments, Marble Mantels, Etc. ,^V C P laran teejdl work in our line, and will sell as cheap as the same can be procured in any market. North or South, and respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. Ollicc on Main St., near the Depot. vrrrry MADDEN $ MENGS, Proprietors. December 17th, ISSQ. , . ~ ' ‘ Dr. J. B. DEAD Ell HU. ISS, HAYING BUILT AND FURNISHED A SPLKNpID BRICK DRUG STORE, HAS OPENED UP A FULL LINE OF FRESH AND Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines taSiZifc S° W I>rcparCd l ° fUrDish l ’ ,; pUlJic Wilh <M-jUling.Msa.Hy found in . PAINTS , QILS, I APMSII, L)YP KTHJWi'Si PAINT BRUSHES, TOBACCO . CIGARS. SNUFF. STA TION ER Y, PENS, PENCILS, J NK. t JAI R ItR.CSIII. >. COMBS. TOILET SOAPS , PER FUMER Y, DENTRIFICES. MATCHES, BLACKING, ' BLACKING BRUSHES, s c ., 4c. Special Attention Given to the Compoundiff u of Pi\esci'i t > ■ tions at all lloiu's. D ith thanks for the liberal patronage bestowed upon him in past, lie still offers his i< • Sessional services to the public, and will endeavor to answer calls promptly and treat diseases v. 1 i skill, after the most approved methods. Charges as low as the lowest.