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ffffffff ROBERT S. HOWARD,/ Editor and Publisher. \ 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. '( SI.OO for Six Months. AYwvysAAc &o\\\cyv\w&. 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.