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ROBERT S. HOWARD,/
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VOLUME I.
frofessiowif & ebusiness Cards.
rOHS .1. HTRICKLANIK
ATTORN E Y-AT-L A AY,
LLR, Ga ~
M ill promptly attend to all business entrusted to
bim. dec 17, ’BO.
Dl6. N. It. < ASH,
NIUIIOLSON, GA.,
Tenders his professioual services to the surround
ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis
eases of women a specialty.
Feb. 13th, ISBO. ly
V T<nv ti:i> THOtIE'MI i,
11 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Gainksville, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to a’l busi
ness placed in his hands.
WILKY HOM
' T Atlorne :ui:i ihumsolor ;i,t
JEFFERSON, GA.
A ill attend faithfully to all business entrusted
to his cafe. mch4,
UJ ATTORN J: YS-AT-L A AY,
J PI’PEHSON^Ga,
A\ ill practice in Jackson and ad joining counties.
icijnt JUiH’discmmls.
C V iOltliil.t, .lacltson C'okuly.
Whereas, the road commissioners appointed for
the purpose of running and reporting upon the
public utility of discontinuing the public road in
said county leading from the Federal road near
Green Wood's residence, thence by the residences
of E. A. A'eal and Coopers to the liall county
line, near said Cooper, having tiled their report
that said public road is of no public utility, an
order will be granted finally discontinuing said
road on Friday, the 22d day of April next, if no
good cause to the contrary is shown on or by
that day. Given under my official signature.
March 23d, 1881. H. AY. BELL, Ord’y
Jackson Postponed Sheriff’s
Sale.
WILL be sold before the Court House door in
Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the
legal hours of sale, to the highest and best bidder
at public out-cry, on the Ist Tuesday in May,
1 SSI, the following property, to-wit i One tract
of land, lying in said county, and in Clarkesboro’
District, on the waters of Red Stone creek, ad
joining lands of Mrs. Martin, E. P. Clayton and
others, and further described as the place where
on John J. Flournoy resided at the time of his
death, containing -two bundled and sixty-live
acres, moitc or less. Said land moderately well
improved/ Said tract of land levied on as the
property of John J. Flournoy, to satisfy a ii. fa.
issued from the Superior Court of said county in
favor of Charles AYitt against said John J. Flour
noy, which said fi. fa. is now controlled by L. C.
Matthews. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s
attorney. Legal notice of lew given tenant in
possession. S.'E. BAILEY,
Deputy Sheriff Jackson County.
Jaehsoii Sheriff’s Sale.
Will be sold, before the Court House door in
Jefferson. Jackson count}', Ha., within the
legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in .May.
ISSI, to the highest and best bidder, the following
property, to-wit : A tract of land, situated in
said county, on the waters of the South Oconee
river, adjoining lands of Lanier, Duke, Webb and
others, and known as a part of the Washington
Lay place, containing eighty-four acres, more or
less. On said place there is a good log dwelling
house, out-houses, Ac. About thirty-five or forty
acres in cultivation, oalance in old field pines and
forest timber. Levied on as the property of M.
N. and M. J. Duke, to satisfy ft fi. fa. issued from
the County Court of Jackson county in favor of
l pshaw & Oriii'cth vs.' jNI. N. and M. J. Duke.
Fi. fa. now controlled by T. It. Holder. Written
notice served upon Thomas Bennett, tenant in
possession, as the law direct*.
T. A. McELHANXON,
Sheriff* J. C., (Ja.
A\ hercas. Jas. L. Williamson applies to me for
Letters of Administration on t!ie estate of Mica
gall A\ illiamson, dec'd, late of said county—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and credi
tors. to show cause, if any exist, at the regular
term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on
the first Monday in May, 1881, why said letters
should not be granted the applicant.
Liven under my official signature, this March
28th, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ordinary.
< Idm inistrcitov s Sale.
V( < R EE A BLE to an order from the court of Or
dinary of Jackson county, will be sold, before
the Court House door in Jefferson, on the first
Tuesday in May next, within the legal hours of
sale, the following property, to-wit : A tract of
land situated in said county, on the waters of
1 leech Creek, containing live acres, more or less,
adjoining lands of Harper Arnold and Jas. Mc-
Daniel. About one ami a half acres bottom land
and the balance old field. Being a part of the
Dailey Chandler estate, and sold for distribution.
Terms cash. J. AY. 11. HAMILTON,
T. K. SMITH,
Admr’s of Bailey Chandler, dee‘d.
Notice to Tax-Payers!
{will be at the following named places and
dates, for the purpose of receiving your Tax
Keturns for the year JBBI ;
Randolph's, April -ith. May 2d and 17th.
1 louse's, April sth, May 4th and 18th.
Chandler’s, April Oth, May sth and 19th.
banter Fc, April 7th, May titli and 20th.
t hirkesborough, April Bth ami 1-Sth, May Oth.
Human's Store, April 11th and 20th, May 23d.
'Mill lUlm Brilt'eth .s, Apri! 32th and 27th, May
MaysviUe, April 13th and 2Gth. Mav 25th.
JlaiTnony.Grove, April 1 Uhand22d, May 12th.
Nicholson, April loth and 20th, May lltli.
Center, April 19th. .
A\ bite’s Mill. April 21st
Nunn's Store, AprilV>th.
Benjamin Atkins', April2Bth.
Jasper N. Thompson's, May id.
Williamson’s Mill, May lOtk. *
Apple A'alley, May 15th.
Maddox’s Mill, May 16th.
•lames M. .Stockton’s May 26th, (forenoon).
Dei.aperricre's Store, May 27th.
1 will be at Jefferson every Saturday till first
of June, at which time my books will'be closed
J\ AV. N. LANIER,
Tax Receiver Jackson Ounty.
Watches, Clocks,
TLA\ LLEY, Ac., left in Jefferson with F. L.
Pendergrass, F. M. Bailey, or J. C. White
head, will be sent out to me, repaired and return
ed promptly. Charges moderate.
Apnl I—ifm E. M. THOMPSON.
SUBSCRIBE FOR
‘‘Tilt; JACKSON IIEUALD.”
Wfi i/VA"v' •NYvSC'E.irLVfcX.
ROBBING THE RAIL.
Fourteen years ago I drove from Danbury
to Littleton, a distance of fort3’-two miles, and
as I had to await the arrival of two or three
coaches, and did not start until after dinner,
I often had a good distance to drive aften
dark. It was in the dead of winter, and the
season had been a rough one. A great deal
of snow had fallen, and the drifts were plenty
and deep. The mail that I carried was not
due at Littleton by contract until one o’clock
in the morning, but that winter the postmaster
was obliged to sit up later than that hour for
me.
One day when I drove up to Danbury, the
postmaster called me into his office.
“ Fete,” said he, with an important, serious
look, “ there’s some pretty heavy money
packages in the bag,” and lie pointed to it
as he spoke. He said the money was from
Boston to some land agents up near the
Canada line. Then lie asked if I had any
passengers who were going to Littleton. I
told him I. did not know. •* But suppose I
have not?” said I.
“ hy,” said he, “ the agent of the lower
route came to-da3 r , and he says there were
two suspicious characters on the stage that
came up last night, and he suspected that
they have an eye upon the mail, so that it will
stand you in band to be a little careful this
evening.”
He said that the agent had described one
of them as a short, thick-set fellow, about
forty years of age, with long hair, and a thick,
heavy clump of beard under his chin, but
noneon the side of his face, lie didn't know
anything about the other. I told him I
guessed there wasn’t much danger.
“Oh no; not if3oll have passengers all
the way through, but I only told you this that
you might look out sharp when you change
horses.” 1
I answered that I should do so, and then
took the bag under my arm and left the office.
I stowed the mail away under my seat a little
more carefully than usual, placing it so that
I could keep my feet against it, but beyond
that I did not feel any concern. A little past
one wc started, and I had four passengers,
two of whom rode only to my (irst stopping
place. I reached Cowan's Mills at dark,
where we stopped for supper, and where my
two passengers concluded to stop fur the
night.
About six o'clock in the evening, I left
Gowan’s Mills alone, having two horses and
a pang.
I had seventeen miles to go, and a hard
seventeen it was. The night was quite clear,
but the wind was sharp and cold, the loose
snow flying in all directions, while the drifts
were deep and closely packed. It was slow
and tedious work, and my horses soon became
leg-weary and restive. At a distance of six
miles I came to a little settlement called
Bull's Corner, where I took fresh horses. I
had been two hours going that distance. As
I was going to start a man came up and
asked me if I was going to Littleton. I told
him I should go through if the thing could
possibly be done, lie said he was very
anxious to go, and as lie had no baggage, I
told him to jump in and make himself as
comfortable as possible. 1 was gathering up
my lines when the hostler came up and asked
me if I knew that one of my horses had cut
himself badly. I jumped out and went with
him and found that one of the animals had
got a deep cork cut on the oIF fore-foot. I
gave such directions as I thought necessary,
and was about to turn away when the hostler
remarked that he thought I came alone. 1
told him I did.
“Then where did you get the passenger ?*’
1 said he.
“ lie just got in,” I answered.
“ Got in from where?”
“ l don’t know.”
“AA ell now, sat'd the hostler, “ that's kind
of curious. There ain’t been any such man
at the house, and I know there ain't been none
at any of the neighbors'.”
“ Let’s have a look at him,” said I. “ \Vc
can get that at any rate. Do you go back
with me, and when I get into the pung just
hold your lantern so that the light will shine
into his face.”
lie did as I wished, and as I stepped into
the pung I got a fair view of such portions
of my passenger's face as were not muffled
up.
I saw a short, thick frame, dull, hard features
and I could see that there was a heavy beard
under the chill. I thought of the man whom
the postmaster had described to me, but I
did not think seriously about it till I had
started. Perhaps I had gone half a mile
when I noticed the mail-bag wasn't in its
place under my feet.
“Hallo!” said I, holding up my horses a
little, “ where’s my mai' ?”
My passenger sat on the seat behind me,
and I turned towards him.
“ Here’s a bag of some kind slipped back
under my feet,” lie said, giving it a kick as
though he would shove it forward.
Just at that moment my horses lumbered
into a deep snow-drift, and I wasTorccd to
get out and tread it down in front of them,
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 1881.
and lead them through it.
This took me all o£ fifteen minutfes, and
when I got in again I pulled the mail bag
forward and put my feet upon it. As I was
doing this I saw the man taking something
from his lap beneath the buffalo robe and
putting it in his breast pocket.
This I thought was a pistol. I had caught
a gleam of a barrel in the dim light, and
having time to reflect I knew I could not be
mistaken.
About this time I began to think somewhat
seriously. From what I had heard and seen,
I soon made up my mind that the individual
behind me not only wanted to rob me of my
mail, but was prepared to rob me of my -life.
If I resisted him he would shoot me, and
perhaps he meant to perform that delectable
operation at any rate. While I was ponder
ing. the horses pin Iged into another snow
drift, and I was again forced to get out and
tread down the snow before them. I asked
m3’ passenger if lie wouldn’t help me, but he
didn’t feel very well and would not try ; so I
worked alone, and was all of a quarter of an
hour getting my team through the drifts.
When I got into the sleigh again I began
to feci for the mail bag with 013’ feet. I found
it where I had left it, but when I attempted
to withdraw 1113’ foot I discovered that it had
become fast to something. I thought it was
the buffalo, and tried to kick it clear, but the
more I kicked, the more closely it held. I
reached down my hand, and feeling about a
few moments, I found my foot was in the mail
bag, I felt again, and found my hand in
among the letters and papers. I ran my
fingers over the edges of the opening, and
came assured that the stout leather had been
cut with a knife.
Here was a discovery. I began to wish I
had taken a little more forethought before
leaving Danbury; but as I knew making
such wishes was onl}’ a waste of time, quickty
gave it up and began to consider what I had
better do under the circumstances. I wasn't
long in making up my mind upon a few es
sential points. First, the- man behind me
was a villain ; second, he had cut open the
mail bag and robbed it of some valuable
matter—he must have known the mone} r let
ters by their size and shape ; third, he meant
to leave the stage at the first opportunity ;
arid fourthly, he was prepared to shoot me if
L attempted to arrest or detain him.
I revolved these things in 103' mind, and
soon thought of a course to pursue. 1 knew
that to geC my hands safely’ upon the rascal,
I must take him unawares, and this I could
not do while he w T as behind me, for his eyes
were upon me all the time, so I must resort
Ito strategem. Only a little distance ahead
| was a house, and an old farmer named Lou
gee lived there, and directly before it a huge
snow bank stretched across the road, through
which a track had been cleared with a shovel.
As we approached the cot I saw a light in the
front room, as I felt confident I should, for
the old man generally sat up until the stage
went by. I drove on, and when nearly oppo
site the dwelling, stood up. I frequently did
when approaching difficult place's. I saw the
snow bank ahead, and could distinguish the
deep cut which had been shoveled through it.
I urged my horses to a good speed, and when
near the bank forced them into it. 0;io of
the runners mounted the edge of the bank,
after which the other ran into the cut, throw
ing the sleigh over about as quick as though
lightning had struck it. My passenger had
not calculated on any such movement and
| wasn't prepared for it. But I had calculated,
I and was prepared. He rolled out into the
deep snow with a buffalo robe around him,
while I alighted directly on top of him. I
! punched his head into the snow, and sung
out for-old Lougee. I didn't have to call a
second time for the farmer had come to the
window to sec me pass, and as soon as he
saw my sleigh overturned, he had lighted his
lantcrrrnnd hurried out.
“What’s to pay ?” asked the old man as he
came up.
“Lead the horses into the track, and then
come here,” said 1.
As 1 spoke I partially Loosened my hold
on the villain's throat, and lie drew a pistol
from his bosom ; but I saw it in season and
| jammed his head into the snow again, and
| got it away from him.
I>y this time Lougee had led the horses out
and come back, and i explained the matter
to him in as few words as possible.
We hauled the rascal out into the road,
and upon examination, we found about twen
ty packages of letters which lie had stowed
away in his pockets.
lie swore, threatened and prayed, but we
paid no attention to his blarney.
Lougee got some stout cord, and when he
had securely bound the villain wc tumbled
him into the pung. I asked the old man if
lie would accompany me to Leighton, and he
said, “Of course.”
So he got his overcoat and mulller, and ere
long we started on.
I reached the end of the route with my
I mail all safe, though not as snug as it might
: have been, and ny mailbag was a little the
, worse for the game that had been played
! upon it.
However, the mail robber was secure, and
FOR THE PEOPLE.
| within a week he was identified by some offi
, cer.s from Cor/cord a3 an old offender, and I
am rather inclined to the opinion that he is
in the State prison at the present time. At
any rate lie was there the last I heard of him.
I hat s the only time I ever had any troub
le, and I think that under the circumstances
I came out of it prettv well.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.
Bill Arp’s Remarks upon Various Matters
Now Attracting His Attention.
Six and a half million bales of cotton !
And it sold for §350,000,000. That’s a power
of money, and it looks like the farmers were
getting rich, but they are not. It costs some
farmers ten cents a pound to make it. It
costs the majority of ’em about eight, and
then there is the wear and tear of mules and
wagons, and harness, and plows to be consid
ered. Cotton brings the money all in a lump,
and a fellow feels so rich and good with it in
his pocket lie struts around and buys a nice
dress for his wife and something all round
for the children. lie has worked hard, and
so has the old lady and the boys, and it does
look like they ought to have something out
of it, and the cooking stove is about burnt
out, and Susan is obliged to have anew bon
net, and Jack wants a pair of Sunday boots,
and there’s lots of things they can’t do with
out any longer, and so by the time the guano
is paid for and the advances and hired labor.
and so forth, there is mighty little left ; and
the corn is low in the crib, and the meat
won't hold out for another crop. That's about
Hie way with small farmers all over the coun
try, and tho3" make the bulk of the crop.
They are the honest yeomen of the land, who
have families dependent upon their own la
bor. They are the people who keep up the
schools and the churches, and support the
merchants and mechanics, for they pay a fair
profit on what they buy, and if they wasn’t
willing to do it, they have to do it anyhow,
for they are always just a little behind, and
when a man has to ask for credit or indul
jgence, it doesn't become him to be over par
ticular about the prices. Big planters and
rich men are worth mighty little to the com
munity, for what the3' buy comes from awav
off, at the wholesale price, and if they can't
get convict-labor, the3 r don't give much for
any other, and they make their own advances,
and do their own ginning and blacksmithing,
which is all well enough for them, but if I
was a merchant or mechanic, and had to de
pend upon them sort for a living, I would
either quit or move away, and that speedily.
The farmers in m3’ neighborhood made a
good crop of cotton last year, and sold it for
a right good price, but as shore as you are
born, a good many of 'em are buying corn
right now, and buying it on a credit, and pay
ing 25 per cent, more than they could buy it
for cash. Fodder has been bringing three
dollars a hundred ever since Christinas, and
those farmers who have got corn and forage
to sell are the only independent ones I know
of, and those who didn’t run heavy on cotton
are the only ones who sowed any wheat to
speak of, and it does look like our people
ought to learn something from experience
and make cotton the secondary crop instead
of the first. The cotton exposition wiil ex
pose a good many things I reckon, and if it
will expose to our small farmers how little
they make in raising the great staple it will
do a world of good in this up country. I am
hopeful, very hopeful of the exposition. It
is going to bring the right sort of people to
gether and it is obliged to result in substan
tial good. Thinking men, ingenious men,
industrious men haven’t got time to be fool
ing around spending money and wasting
time. Those who come from the north will
learn something from us, and we will learn
something from them. We arc willing to mix
up with that sort of people, for it will all be
honest business, and concerns our great sta
ple that clothes the world and keeps the
South respectable, notwithstanding the out
rages. John Branson says that -jollifications
among the bloods and politicians don’t do
any good, but he is hopeful of the exposition.
Says he went up to Cincinnati last year, and
they wined him and dined him and had a
love feast, and while the champaign lasted
they hugged and kissed and slobbered all
over one another, and after the jubilee was
over they went oil' to slander us as usual and
waved the bloody shirt, and we came home
and went to hatin’ of’em all samee as before.
Says he: “I tell you what, Bill, they are the
curiosest people in the world.” We arc the
best customers they have got, and they get
all we make one way or another, and a body
would think they would honey us up and be
kind, but they cuss us and persecute us, and
keep on a trading with 'em and buy every
(logon thing they put at us. We make sugar
and sell it to ’em, and they adulterate it and
sell it back to us. We make cotton seed oil
and sell it to ’em at -10 cents a gallon, and
they work it over and brand it olive oil and
sell it back to us at 50 cents a pint. They
adulterate colfce and candy and butter and
baking powders and Ilnur and syrup and
everything else they can. I hey are a nation
of adulterers. I saw a fell at Montgomery a
selling Cincinnati buggies for forty dollars a
piece, and throwing in a set of harness, and
the poor white folks and the niggers were
abuying of 'em like hot cakes, and a man told
me that the harness was made of leather
shavings, stitched on to pasteboard with a
machine and all blacked over and shined up
so you couldent tell it and would come all to
pieces in the first shower that come along,
and the chaps that made ’em was all Repub
licans and at every election would howl
around about Southern ku klux and Southern
outrages and the way we treated the poor
nigger. \uu can t take up a newspaper that
aint full of swindling medicines and adver
tisements. Now, here is the llev. Joseph
Inman, Station 1)., Bible N. Y., and
•Manhood Lost and Manhood Restored,’ and
•A Startling Discovery,’ and ‘All Sorts of
Rads for \\ omen s Backs and Men’s Bosoms,’
and vice versa; and ‘Shiloh's Consumption
Cure and Neuralgine,’ and *My Wif<j has
been a Great Sufferer,’ and ‘Buckingham’s
\\ hisker Dye, and liver medicine by the ton
and -Hub Punch,’ and pills by the quintillion
that will cure every disease under the sun.
| arfd ‘Rosadalos,’ and the ‘AYonder of the
jAYorld. and ‘Bain killer’ for man anil beast,
and ‘Worm Medicine,’ and $66 a week,’ and
5‘ 77 a year,’ and SOO9 and any other niiin
j her of dollars, and ‘AY by Will You Die,’ and
'St. Jacob’s Oil,' and ‘Brescription Free,’ and
i‘Just Behold,’ and ‘Read Attentively,’ and
i 'Henson’s Blaster,’ and ‘Cheney's Kxpacto
j rant,’ and ‘Cuticura,’ and ‘George B. Rowell
6 Cos., and liere’s one headed ‘Thieves,’ and
I don’t know how many more in one single
paper and last night I started to read a whole
column about the world coining to an end in
July for* if it was coming I wanted to know
it and fix up and prepare and make a will
and before I had got fur in the reading of the
durn thing branched off into a kidney medi
cine. A\ hat in the dickens do I care about
a kidney medicine if the world is coming to
an end in July ? My kidneys are all right
and if they ain't I reckon they will run me
three or four months anyhow. I tell you,
Bill Arp, them fellers up there beat all crea
tion for inventin’ ways to get our money and
live without work. A few years ago two fel
lers come along here with a passel of apple
grafts and they had samples of the apples
with ’em and books full of beautiful pictures
of all sorts of fruit, and they talked so con-
fidin and affectionate I let cm cut mv old
trees all to pieces and they stuck in a hun
dred grafts at 20 cents a piece and I paid cm
and they went on to the next house and done
about the same thing, and I found out after
wards that they brought my grafts from
Mack Crawford's old trees and carried some
they cut from my trees over to my next na
bors and so on and so forth, world without
end, and here they go, and if the can’t beat
tne world the llesh and the devil a lyin and
swindlin then lam mistaken, that’s all. 1
used to think our people were a good strong
healthy people, but these fellers have got
about half the men and most all the women
to believin they are busted up and broke
down in the lines or get heart disease, or
Bright s disease of the kidney, or a tape
worm, or internal suggestions, and they go
to dosin and dosin with patent medicine tell
they get shore enuf sick, and then go to bed
and send for the doctor. Ive been thinking
about all this business and at the next ses
sion I'm goin to introduce a bill that a feller
sliant sell his inidieines nor advertise it in a
newspaper until it lias gone through the sweat
box and been pronounced a harmless tlrrrg
hy a board of medical examiners of this
State. AYe make the guano men go through
the buro and get certificates, and that con
cerns property only, but our health and our
lives is concerned in these piseu medicines,
and ought to be protected.”
Mv friend John seems sorter demoralized,
but lie has got sense, he has and I'm a bettin
on him. The credulity of our people is most
amazin. AA hen they get sick they experiment
with all sorts of humbugs that’s got certifi
cates, forged or genuine, with Alek Stephens’
or Alek anybody else’s name to cm, and if
the}’ don’t get well some of era go to con
jurin. Some of em carry buck eyes in their
pockets, and now they’ve got to carrying an
Irish potato as an antidote for rumatism. I
was a wonderin what made potatoes so high
and scarce, and a man told me in Rome the
other day that about half that population
carry one in the breeches pocket and that
Bulk county was infected in the same way.
In luct, the remedy was discovered by Colo
nel Scab Jones down there, for he had ob
served for 40 years that Irishmen didn’t have
rheumatism, and consequently Irish potatoes
was the remedy. Jesso; you must carry one
till it dries up or sprout and then take anoth
er. I saw a big fat man in Rome the other
day with a sprout six inches long sticking
out of his pocket. Sicli is life.
Yours, Bill Aril
B. S.—lt looks like our people run after
the furriners just as bad as they do after the
Yankees. Sul Bernhardt come down here
and fooled ’em in French, and now I sec that
Sal Veny she is coming to fool’em in Italian.
And they’ll go see if they don’t, and after a
while Sal somebody else will sing to ’em in
Borlugec, and they will never stop going till
they get sallivated I reckon. Lord help us,
I'm afeerd wc are a nation of fools.
• B. A.
The Time Had Come.
Three or four years ago when there was a
grip into the potato market there lived near
an interior village in this State a farmer
named Peters, lie raise 1 good crops, paid
his debts, and was down on rings of all sort.
The price of potatoes kept going up and up,
and the old farmer grew uneasy. lie came
into the village every evening to see how the
market stood, and although he never said
much it was evident that he would burst his
hoops pretty soon if tilings continued on that
way. At length the climax came. One
evening the old man and his son had a warm
corner in a grocery when a citizen entered
with a newspaper in his hand and said :
“ This New York daily says that the price
of potatoes is certain to advance again before
the week is out.”
“ What!” exclaimed Peter 3, “ another ad
vance in ’taters ?”
“Yes, the Lord only knows what is to be
come of tiie poor if this potato ring isn’t
bu rsted.”
The farmer arose, buttoned his old white
overcoat clear to his chin, brought his fist
down hard on the cheese box, and sternly
said :
••The time has come ! I've stood it—and
stood it long as I can, and now I’m going to
act! George we’ll go home and get ready to
throw fifty-six bushels of peach blows on the
market to-morrow, and bust that wicked ring
all to thunder!”— Wall Sired News.
It was an Irishman who remarked of a
miser who had died and was treated to rather
a pretentious burial: “Faith! an* if he’d
lived to see how ruoighty expensive it was to
doie himself he’d niver been born.”
The glass of soda and the looking-glass
resemble each other. You can see the soda’s
fizz in one, and your own phis in the other.
Thar iz advice cmilf now laying around to
| run three just such worlds as this ; what we
are suffering most for iz sum good.examples.
—Josh Billings.
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
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From March 1. 1880. to March 1.-1881,
seven millions of hogs entered Chicago, and
not one of them left the city alive. Mean
while Cincinnati played second fiddle.
It is said Mr. Parnell’s frequent visits to
Paris are made, not to conspire, but to court.
They are transits of Venus, not Mars. Rumor
has it that he is to wed a fair French woman.
there are sixty wholesale and retail deal
ers in sawdust in New York. They have
organised a ‘ Sawdust Dealers’ Protective
Association, ’ and have adopted a standard
of measure and price.
In 1861 there was published at Raleigh a
common school arithmetic with the problem,
If one Confederate soldier can whip seven
Yankees, how many soldiers can whip forty
nine Yankees?” and others of the same
character.
The rural newspapers of Canada complain
of a general exodus of young men to the
l nited States. Towns, in many cases, lose
all their unmarried males, which makes it
bad for the marriageable females and for the
future general prosperity of the community.
The entire Foster family were down with
small-pox, at Lexington, 111. The house was
burned in the night, rather than seek a refuge
with an y of their neighbors, and thus spread
tnc disease, they walked eight miles in the
cold to a pest house, and imperilled their
lives by the exertion and exposure.
Newspaper trains start daily at oh A. M.,
from the great railways in London and deliver
the metropolitan papers in all the large cities
ot Jhngland before noon. The circulation of
the great dailies has been thereby increased.
Flic Telegraph circulates 250,000 copies dai
ly, the Standard 180,000, the Daily Newa
170,000, the Times 100,000.
V Idle funeral services were being held for
a dead baby in Philadelphia, the cry of an .
infant at the door was heard, coming from a
basket that had been left on the steps. A .
letter begged the bereaved parents to take
this child in place of the one they had lost,-
as the mother was unable to provide for it.
The offer was not accepted.
A Deadwood firm of lawyers, in an ad
vertisement headed by a picture of a skull
and erossbonos, offer for sale claims against
a number of persons, among whom is a deputy
sheriff and a man described as “a professional
dead beat and amalgamator.” The list is to .
be “ kept standing uutil paid, and other names .
will follow, if the accounts are not settled.”
Avery ugly woman of Leavenworth ob
tained a very handsome man for a husband ;
but her success was not a source of happiness.
She repeatedly heard people’s expressions of
wonder that so attractive a man had married
so unattractive a woman, and finally became
furiously angry, throwing crockery anl furni-,
ture at his fine head, and eventually giving,
him legal grounds for divorce.
One of a graduated class of law students,
who had just passed an examination for ad*,
mission to practice, appeared in court at'.
Rochester to be sworn. llis hand was on the
Bible, when a fellow student objected, on the -
ground that the candidate owed him $3. He.
wished the Court to understand, he said, that
he was not there to collect the paltry debt,,
but he thought a man who would cheat a
classmate out of even a small sum (being, by
the way, money paid as a fine for drunken
ness) ought not to be sent out into the world,
as a lawyer to swindle clients. Judge Mullin
permitted the filing of an affidavit, and the
oath was postponed.
In Persia they bottle up their tears as of
old. This is done in the following manner:
As the mourners are sitting around and weep
ing, the master of ceremonies presents each
one with a piece of cotton wool, with which
he wipes off his tears. This c tton is after-,
wards squeezed into a bottle, and the tears,
are preserved as a powerful and efficacious
remedy for reviving a dying man after every
other means has failed. It is also employed->
as a charm against evil influences. This cus
tom is probably alluded to in Psalm lvi.,
verse 8 : “Put thou my tears into a bottle.”
The practice was once universal, as is found
by the tear bottles which arc found in almost
every ancient tomb, for the ancients buried
them with their dead as a proof of their affec
tion.
Pensacola, with a population of 7,301, ac
cording to the recent census, and a continual
inlluxof strangers, enjoys an extensivo trade.
It is now one of the (orcinost ports of the
country for export business. The chief ex
port is lumber, of which alone upward of.
1,000,000 feet per day are loaded upon vgb,
sels of all descriptions and nationalities, but
the bulk goes to Europe, of which England
receives the largest share. This immense
supply comes fiom Pensacola mills or from
Millville, the greatest lumber site in the
South, besides large quantities from Bagdad,
on the Blackwater River, and Molino, on the
Perdito. Often from 100 to 150 vessels may
be seen at one time anchored or lying along
its wharves. The business of tiie place is
mostly concentrated on Palafox and Govern
ment streets. The rebuilding of the portion
burnt over lately is proceeding rapidly.
The fancies of the Arabian Nights are
of to day. Last Monday weeli a number of
laborers laid the last rails of a railroad which
terminated in a broad and wild prairie in
Colorado. The next Saturday night the
prairie was dotted with houses, half a dozen
dry goods stores, as many groceries, a livery
stable and stock-yard, three blacksmith shops,
fourteen or fifteen eating houses and fifteen
or twenty saloons, those great forerunners of
American civilzation. Three hundred people
had become citizens, and the prairio had be
come the town of Abeline. Next morning
the church bells rung out and the worshippers
■ knelt where seven days before was a wilder
ness. Last Tuesday, or two weeks later, the
population aggregated 1,500 persons, and
3,500 visitors came to attend a sale of town
lots. (Joe hundred and thirty-nino lots were
sold for $24,505. This is the modern realiza
tion of the fanciful story of Aladcdu’s palaco.
NUMBER 7.