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JACKSON HERALD. !!• I 1# •* # i ## #- 'i vi it ROBERT S. HOWARD,/ Editor and Publisher. $ VOLUME I. |)tofeßßionaf & business (Ennis. j. vnti< ki,i\i>, ATTOK N E Y-AT-L A W, Danielsvili.r, Ga., Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to him. dec 17, ’BO. Dr. r%. it. 4 asii, NICHOLSON, GA., Tenders his professional services to the surround ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis eases of wo men a specially. l-Vh.i3ih.lßHo. ■ 1y Howard nion ■*<>>, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Ga. Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi ness placed in his Imnds. WILEY €. HOW ARD, Attorne ami (Jiin<clor at I<;w, JEFFERSON, GA. Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted to his care. mefi4, QILMAX A THOMPSON, O ATTORNE YS-AT-L AW, Jefferson,Ga, Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties. £cgaf jliliicdisciiu'iifs. a I'IOIKCiIA, Jackson Count}’. Whereas, the road commissioners appointed for the purpose of running and reporting upon the public utility of discontinuing tlie public road in said county leading from the Federal road near Green Wood’s residence, thence by the residences of E. A. Veal and Coopers to the Ilall county line, near said Cooper, having filed 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. (liven under my official signature. March 23d, 1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y Jctchson Postponed Sheriff’s Sale. WILL he sold before the 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, . 1881, the following property, t(Kwit: Une tract of.haul, lying in said county, : an6 in CUrkesbor®’ District, on the waters of Red Stone creek, ad joining lands of Mrs. Martin* E. P. Clayton and others, and further described as £hc place, where-, on Jab? f. MoJjtniy resided At Jtlie tirhe of his< death, "containing two hundred arid sixty-five acres, more or less. Said land moderately well improved. Said tract of land levied on as the property J. Flournoy, to satisfy a ft. fa. lssm-d from the Superior Court of said ednnty in favor of Charles Witt 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 levy given tenant in possession. * i .S. E. BAIIiEY, Deputy Sheriff Jackson County. Jackson Sheriff’s Sale. WILL be sold, before the Court House door in Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in May, 1881, 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, <fcc. About thirty-five or forty acres in cultivation, balance in old field pines and forest timber. Levied on as the property of M. N. and M. J. Duke, to satisfy a ti. fa. issued-from the County Court of Jackson county in* favor of Upshaw & Griffeth vs. M. N. and M. J. Duke. Fi. fa. now controlled by T. R. Holder. Written notice served upon Thomas Bennett, tenant in possession, as the law directs. T. A. McELIIANNON, Sheriff J. C., Ga. Q.HOIHIIIA, JneksonCoHiity. Whereas, Jas. L. Williamson applies to me for Letters of Administration on the estate of Mica gah Williamson, dec’d, late of said county— This is to cite alj 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. Given under mv official signature, this March 28th, 13SU M W. BELL, Ordinary. Administrator’s Sale. \ GREE7VBLE totau or (for from the court of Or jl Vdiiifiry of Jackson bounty, will be sold, before ; the'Co l t 3! ffofis(rdb6f in Jefferson 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 Beech Creek, containing five acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Harper Arnold and Jas. Mc- Daniel. About one ana a half acres bottom land and the balance old field. Being a part of the Bailey Chandler estate, and sold for distribution. Terms cash. J. W. H. HAMILTON, T. K. SMITH, Admr’s of Bailey Chandler, dec'd. Notice to Tax-Payers! I will be at tho following named places and dates, for the purpose of receiving your Tax Kcturns for the year 18S1: Randolph's, April 4th., May 2d and 17th. House’s, April sth, May 4th and 18th. Chandler’s, April Gth, May sth and 19th. San ter Fe, April 7th, May Gth and 20th. Clarkesborough, ‘April Bth and 18th, May 9th. lluiuan’s Store, April* 11th and 29th, May 23d. William Hritteth’s, April 12tli and 27th, May 24th. Maysville, April 13th and 20th. May 25th. llarmony drove. April 14th and 22d, May 12th. Nicholson, April 15th and 20th, May 11th. Center. April 19thr M lute's Mill, April 21st. Nifhn s Store. April iotli. Benjamin Atkins’, April 2Sth. Jasper X. Thompson's, May 3d. Williamson’s Mill, May loth. Apple Valley, May 13th. Maddox's Mill, May lGtli. James M. Stockton's May 20th, (forenoon). DeLaperriere’s Store, May 27th. I will be at Jefferson every Saturday till first of June, at which time my books will be closed J. W. X. LAXIER, Tax Receiver Jackson County. "Watches, Clocks, JEWELRY, £c., 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, April I—3m E. M. THOMPSON. SUBSCRIBE FOR . “THE JACKSON HERALD.” Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. “ SPIDERS” INSIGNIFICANCE NO EXCUSE FOj| INACTION. The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings* palaces.—Prey. xxx. 28. Wc are all watching for phenomena. A sky full of stars, shining from year to year, calls out not so many remarks as the blazing of one meteor. A whole flock of robbins take not so much of our attention as one blunder ing bat darting into the window on a summer eve. Things of ordinary sound and occur rence fail to reach us, yet no grasshoppers ever spring up iu our path, no mote ever dashes into the evening candle, no mote ever floats in the sunbeam That pours through the crack of the window shutter, no barnacles on ship’s hull, no burr on a chestnut, no limpet clinging to a rock, nor rind of an artichoke but would teach us a lesson if we were not so stupid. God in Ilis Bible sets forth for our consideration the lily, and the snowflake, and the locust and the stork’s nest, and the hind's foot, and the aurora borealis, and the ant hills. One of the sacred writers, sitting amid the mountains, sees a hind skipping over the rocks. This hind has such a peculiarly shaped foot that it can go over the steepest places without falling, and as the prophet looks upon that marking of the hind’s foot upon the rocks, and thinks of the divine care over him, he says : “ Thou makest my feet like hinds’, that I may walk in high places.” And another sacred writer sees the ostrich leave its egg in the sand of the desert, and without any care of incubation, walk off; and the Scripture sa3 r s that is like some parents leaving their children without any wing of protection or care. In my text inspiration opens before us the gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid the pomp of the throne and the courtiers, and while we are looking around upon the magnificence, inspiration points us to a spider plying its shuttle and weaving its net on the wall, it does not call us to regard the grand surroundings of the palace, but fob a solemn anti earnest consid eration of the fact that “the spider taketh hold with her hands and is in Kings’ palaces.” It is certain what was the partic ular species of insect spoken of in the text, but I shall proceed to learn from it— First, the exquisiteness of the divine me chanism. The king’s chamberlain comes into the palace and looks around, and sees the spider on the wall, and says, “Away witty that intruder,” and tlie servant of Solomon’s palace comes with his broom and dashes down the insect, saying, “What a loathsome thing it is.” But under microscopic inspection I find it more wondrous of construction than the embroideries on the palace walls, and the upholstery about the windows. All the ma chinery of the earth could not make anything so delicate and beautiful as the prehensile with which that spider clutched its prey, or any of its eight e3 r es. We do not have to go so far up to see the power of God in the tapestry hanging around the windows of heaven, or in the horses and chariots of fire with which the dying day departs, or to look at the mountain swinging its sword arm from under the mantle of darkness until it can strike with its scimiter of the lightning. I love better to study God in the shape of a fly’s wing, rri the formation of a fish’s scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond-lily. I love to track His footsteps in the mountain mists and to hear His voice in the hum of the rye field, and discover the rustle of llis robe of light in the south-wind. Oil ! this wonder of divine power that can build a habitation for God in an apple-blossom, and tune a bee’s voice until it is fit for the eternal orchestra, and can say to a fire fly, “ Let there be light,” and from holding an ocean in the lioliow of His hand, goes forth to find heights and depths and breadths of omnipotenc3 r in a dew- drop, and dismount from a chariot of mid night hurricane to cross over on the suspen sion bridge of a spider’s web. You may take your telescope and sway it across the heavens in order to behold the glory of God ; but I shall take the leaf holding the spider’s web, and I shall bring the microscope to m} r eye, and while I gaze, and look, and study, and am confounded, I will kneel down in the grass and cry : “Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty.” Second : Again, my text teaches me that insignificance is no excuse for inaction. This spider that Solomon saw on the wall might have said, “I can’t weave a web worthy of this great palace ; what can I do amid all the gold and embroidery ? I am not able to make anything fit for so grand a place, and so 1 will not work my spinning jenny.” Not so said the spider. “ The spider taketh hold with his hands.” Oh! what a lesson this is for you and me. You say if yon had some great sermon to preach, if you only had a great audience to talk to, if you had a great army to marshal, if you only had a constitution to write, if there were some tremendous thing iu the world for 3’ou to do, then you would show us. l'ea, you would show us ! What if the Levite in the ancient temple had refused to snuff the candle because he could not be a high priest ? What if the humming-bird should refuse to sing its song into the ear of the honeysuckle, because it cannot, like the eagle, dash its wing into JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1881. .the sun ? What if the raindrop refuse to de scend because it is not a Niagara? What if .the spider of the text should refuse to move its shuttle because it cannot weave a. Solo mon's robe ? Away with such folly ! If you are lazy with the one talent you wouW be lazy with the ten talents. If Milo cannot lift the calf he never will have strength to lift the ox. In the Lord’s army there is order for promotion, but you cannot be a general until you have been a captain, a lieutenant and a colonel. It is step by step, it i§ inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Chris tian character is builded. , |L ere ft )re be con tent to do what God commands you dp. God is not ashamed to do small things. He is not ashamed to be found chiseling a grain of sand, or helping a honey bee to construct a cell with mathematical accuracy, or tinge ing a shell in the surf, or shaping the bill of a chaffinch. What God does, He does well. What you do, do well, be it a great work or a small work. If ten talents, employ all the ten. If five talents, employ all the five. If one talent, employ the one. If only the thou sandth part of a talent, employ that. “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.” I tell you if you are not faithful to God in a small sphere, you would be indolent and insignificant in a large sphere. Third: Again, my text teaches me that repulsiveness and loathsomeness will some times climb up into very elevated places. You would have tried to kill the spider that Solomon saw. You would have said : “This is not the place for it. If that spider is de termined to weave a web, let it do so down in the cellar of the palace, or some dark dungeon. And the spider in the text could uot be discouraged, It clambered on and climbed up higher, and higher, and higher, until after a while it reached the King’s vis ion, and he said : “ The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings’ palaces.” And so it often is now that things that are loathsome and repulsive get up into very ele vated places. The church of Christ, for instance, is a palace. The King of Heaven on eartl\ lives in it. According to the Bible, her beams are of coder, aud her rafters of fir, and her windows of agate, and the fountains of salva tion dash a rain of light. It is a glorious palace—the church of God is ; and yet some times unseemingly and loathsome things creep up into it—evil speaking, and rancor, and backbiting, and abuse, crawling up on the walls of the church, spinning a web from arch to arch, and from the top of one communion tankard to the top of another communion tankard. Glorious palace, in which there ought only to be light, and love, and pardon, and grace—yet a spider in the palace! Home ought to be a castle. It ought to be the residence of everything loyal. Kindness, love, peace, patience, and forbearance ought to be the princes residing there, and yet some times dissipation crawls up into that home, and the jealous eye comes up, and the scene of peace and plenty becomes the scene of domestic jargon and dissonance. You say, “What is the matter with the home ?” I will tell you what is the matter with it. A spider in the palace. A well developed Christain character is a grand thing to look at. You 9ee some men with great intellectual and spiritual propor tions. You say, “ How useful that man must be ! But 3'ou find amid all his splendor of faculties, there is some prejudice, some whim, some evil habit, that a great many people do not notice, but that you have happened to notice, and it is gradually spoiling that man’s character ; it is gradually going to injure his entire influence. Others may not see it, but 3*ou are anxious in regard to his welfare, and soon you discover it. A dead fly iu the oint ment. A spider in the palace. Fourth: Again my text teaches me that perseverance will mount into the king’s palace. It must have seemed a long distance for that spider to climb in Solomon’s splendid residence, but it started at the very foot of the wall and went up over the panels of Lebanon cedar, higher and higher, until it stood higher than the highest throne in all the nations—the throne of Solomon. And so God has decreed it, that many of those who are down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall gradually attain to the King’s palace. We see it in wordly things. Who is that banker in Philadelphia ? Why, he used to be the boy that held the horses of Stephen Girard while the millionaire went in to collect his dividends. Arkwright toils on up from a barber’s shop until he gets into the palace invention. Sextus V. toils on up from the office of a swineherd until lie gets into the palace of Rome. Fletcher toils on up from the most insignificant family position until he gets into the palace of Christian eloquence. Hogarth, engraving pewter mugs fora living, toils on up until he reaches the palace of world renowned art. And God hath decided that though you ihay be week of arm and slow of tongue and be struck through with a great many mental and moral deficits, by His Almighty grace you shall yet arrive in the King’s palace—not such a one as spoken of in the text, notone of marble, not one adorned with pillars of alabaster, and thrones of ivory, FOR THE PEOPLE. ! and flagons of burnished gold—but a palace in which God is the King and the angels of Heaven are the cup-bearers. The spider crawling up the wall of Solomon’s palance was not worth looking after or considering os compared witlFthe fact that we, who are the worms of the du9t, may at last ascend into the palace of the King immortal. By the grace of God we all reach it. Oh ! Heaven is not a dull place. It is not a worn out mansion with faded curtains, and outlandish chairs, and crocked ware. No ; it is as fresh, and fair, and beautiful as though it were com pleted but yesterday. The kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into it. A palace means splendor of apartments. Now, I do not know where Heaven is, and I do not know how it looks, but if our bodies are to be resurrected at the last day, I think Heaven must have a material splendor as well as a spiritual grandeur. What will be the use of a resurrected foot if there is nothing to tread on ? or of a resurrected hand if there be no harp to strike, and no palm to wave, and no place to take hold in the King’s palace ? Oh ! what grandeur of apartments, when that Divine hand which plunges the sea into blue and the foliage into green, and sets the sunset on fire, shall gather all the beautiful colors of earth around His throne, and when that arm which lifted the pillars of Alpine rock and bent the arch of the sk\ r 9hall raise before our soul the eternal architecture, and that hand which hung with loops of fire the curtains of morning shall prepare the uphol stery of our kingly residence ! A palace also means splendor of associa tions. The poor inan, the outcast, cannot get into the Tirillerics, or Windsor Castle. The sentinel stands there and cries “ Halt!” as he tries to enter. But in that palace we may all become residents, and we shall all be princes and kings; We may have been beggars, we may have been outcasts, we may have been wandering as we all have been, but there we shall take our regal power. What companionship in Heaven ! To walk side by side with John aud James, and Peter and Paul, and Moses and Joshua, and Caleb and Ezekiel and Jeremiah, and Micah and Zachariah, and Wilberforce and Oliver Crom well, and Philip Doddridge, and Edward Pay son, and John Miltion, and Elizabeth Fry, and Hannah Moore, and Charlotte Elizabeth, and all the other kings and queens of Heaven. O, my soul, what a companionship. A palace means splendor of banquet. There will be no common ware on that table. There will be no unskilled musicians at that enter tainment. There will be no scanty supply of fruit or beverage. There have been ban quets spread that cost a million of dollars each ; but who can tell the untold wealth of that bahquet ? Ido not know whether John’s description of it is literal or figurative ; but prove it. Ido not know but there it may be real fruits plucked from the tree of life. I do not know but that Christ referred to the real juice of the grape when he said that we should drink new wine in our Father’s king dom. Ido not say it is so ; but I have as much right for thinking it is as you have for thinking the other way. At any rate, it will be a glorious banquet. Hark 1 the chariots rumbling in the distauce. I really believe the guests are coming now. The gates swing open, the guests dismount, the palace is filling, and all the chalices flashing with pearl, and amethyst, and carbuncle, are lifted to the lips of the myriad banqueters, while standing in robes of snowy white they drink to the honor of our Glorious King ! “ Oh,” you say, “ that is too grand a place for me.” No, it is not. If a spider, according to the text, could crawl up on the wall of Solomon’s palace, shall not our poor souls, through the blood of Christ, mount up from the depths of sin and shame, and finally reach the palace of the Eternal King ? “ Where sin abounded grace shall much more abound that whereas sin reigned unto death, even so may grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” In the far east there is a bird called the huma, about which is the beautiful supersti tion that, upon whatever head the shadow of that bird rests, upon that head there shall be a crown. Oh, thou Dove of the Spirit, floating above ns, let the shadow of Thy wing fall upon this congregation, that each at last in Heaven may wear a crown ! a crown ! and hold in his right hand a star ! a star ! Given up by Doctors. Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy?” “ i assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters; and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die I” r “ TVell-a-day ! That is remarkable ! I will go this day and get some for my poor George—l know hops are good.”— Salem Fast. A Cincinnati young woman killed her baby by stabbing it thirteen times with a knife. The only witness of the crime was her lover. Ohio law does not compel a husband to testify against his wife in a criminal trial, and there fore the marriage of this couple was considered a sure way of saving the prisoner. The authorities undertook to prevent the union, but were not sufficiently vigilant, for a mar riage ceremony was surreptitiously, though legally, performed in jail. [From the Atlanta Constitution. Nothing Settled. William Arp Discovci's that Everything in the World is Going Wrong , and that Very Little of it Was Ever Right Any hoiv—Bursted Banks, Etc. There’s nothing settled. Spring and win ter keep skirmishing around. The deadlock at Washington continues. Railroad stocks are jumping up and down. Money kings and corporation magnates butt heads awhile and then retire on a still hunt while we, the peo ple, look on and wonder and exclaim what' is all this devilment going to do to us? Farm ing has begun about in spots. The fruit is killed in some orchards and left alive in others. The flood has passed away, but the wreck of it still lingers in the land. The bridges have not been rebuilt, and the soil on many farms has been taken off and left holes and pits which cannot be filled up. Fences have not been replaced, and there’s enough rails in-the Gulf of Mexico to build a cordu rc>3' bridge across it. It would be a good time now to vote on a stock law—“ fence or no-fence.” We have worked hard for ten days hauling rock and building rock pens and filling ’em. It’s double, double toil and trouble, but still we are not unhappy. We don’t set on the bank and cuss at my house. It don’t pay. Corn is going to be corn and wheat wheat this year, and it becomes every farmer to be up and doing. If we don’t make a surplus these railroads will suffer and be impoverished for want of freight. The stock will tumble for want of dividends. The mer chants will have no customers who can pay for what they bu3 r . Then the bankers will have no borrowers they can trust. Says Ito Mr. Dean, at Gadsden, who is a solid mer chant and a close observer : “ Suppose this turns out to be a very poor crop 3 r ear, what then?” “Why, sir,” said lie, “the whole country will be broke. The corn and meat and hay and guano that steamboats and rail roads are pouring into this country on a credit will not be paid for. Everything depends oil a good crop year—more so than I have ever known.” I went round by Dalton to get to Rome— eighty miles to make twenty—for the Rome and Kingston line had not been repaired. It’s all right now, waiting for the next freshet. Dalton is a lively place, and says she wouldent have a river if she could. That’s all right, I reckon, for I like to see folks con tented and happy, though I told Mr. Lewis I couldent help thinking about the feller who wouldent have the corn because it wasent shelled. But he ncedent care about rivers or anything else as long as he can keep that tub mill agoing. Six train loads of passengers a day to feed, and he sets a good table, and everybody knows it. lie is an old line whig —John Quincy Adams Lewis—the only man I know down south who was named for that President. There’s thousands of G. Ws and TANARUS, Js and T. Ms and A. Js and IL Cs and J. Cs, but the old Adams family wasent very popular with our people. When I got to Rome I found a fresh sensation, for a bank had busted and every man who lost bv it thought his own case the hardest, and all of em were mad with the State for bagin r the assets. The State is rich and they are poor and they want to know what right she hns to a prefere'hce. You can argue with the men about it, but Mr. Speer had better keep clear of the women if he knows what’s good for him. One good lady had s6so’in there and when she heard that the bank was a little shaky, she told her husband to take it out, but he put on generous airs about it and said it would be wrong—it would-show a lack of confidence—that it was confidence that sus tained banks and kept em from breaking. A few days afterwards the bank broke and he went home a sadder man and got demoralized and went to bed sick and took on amazin, and woulden’t eat and coulden’t sleep and groaned and tumbled about on the bed and called for morphine, and finally his wife told him to sit up a minute, and then she showed him a package of money marked S6OO, and informed him she took the money out herself before the suspension, and he got well imme diately, and danced all around the room, and kissed her forty times without stopping, and on looking at the package again, “ Why,” says he, “ this is only S6OO, and we had $650.” “That’s so,” said his wife, “ I took out S6OO for us and left SSO in there for con fidence.” But you musent joke with ’em much as} 7 et. They are not in a joking humor. The pulpit text now in that town is ‘‘Lay up your trea. sures in’lleaven,” and one of the ministers added : “ Where there are no preferred cred itors.” Well, it’s bad, very bad, especially on poor folks, but there are a heap of good people who dident have any to put in a bank, and I reckon we will have to be sorry for them, too. I heard of a poor sickly woman who had scratched up fifty dollars and put it in there to pay her burial expenses, and when she heard it was gone she got up out of bed and said she couldent afford to die now, and is sewing away to make some more. An old acquaintance saluted me so gaily I said, “\ou don’t look like you lost anything by the bank.” “ Loss the mischief, no, sir. S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO for Six Months. I’m assets; I owe cm, and I’m enjoined frond paying over. Ain’t it splendid ?” Having some business at Gadsden I jour neyed to that little maritime city and was astonished at its progress since I was there two years ago. The population has nearly doubled. They haven’t built any more falls but they have built more saw mills, and lots of new stores and dwelling houses and a steamboat and a hotel that would do credit to Rome or any other such town. It’s a lively, prosperous city, with fine prospects. Bob Kyle used to own the concern pretty much, but he don’t now. He has worket hard and done much to build it up, and ough “to be proud of his success. It's astonishing bow much one energetic man can do for • place. The ladies are rejoicing over th speedy banishment of whUky from that conn ty. The law has been passed on the vot and before long the bar-rooms will be clo9c<' and a man will have to go out of the count to get it, for the sale is prohibited, both o wholesale and retail. What they want no’ is for public opinion to.sustain the law an give it a fair test. It’s a woman’s movemen to protect their husbands ah'd sons, and wish the women all over the land had th right to vote on that question, if no other, fo they arc more interested in it than anybod else. Gadsden is wide awake about making rai road connections with Georgia. They ar hopeful of the Georgia Western and the Op< lika road, and tfcen with the Coosa opene up to Mobile in a few years it would be considerable city. The coal that was burne in my grate cost only ten cents a bushel, an< that is about $2 50 a ton, and it come fror a mine near the suburbs. Qadsden is prom of Gadsden, and when you ask about th population by the last census they don't kno\ exactly but will tell you that hundreds hav moved in since the census was taken. Irc member asking Cousin John* Thrasher abou the population of Toccoa City, and he sal the census give ’em 700, but it wasen’t hat taken and two families and a nigger ha< moved ffi since. Ido like to see folks stan< up to their town—don’t you ? Bill Arp. Early Melons. A correspondent of the Practical Farme) gives the following rules for securing eafl} melons; “ About a month or so earlier than it v. usual to plant these' seeds, procure a numbei of good sized rutabaga turnips, cut off the tops, and with a knife or other instrument scoop out all the inside, so'that they will re semble gourds, or cups; fill the cavity'of this cup with good, rich earth, and plant in each a few seeds of melons, cucumbers, beans, or seeds of any ether plant that you may desire to have early. They should then be placed' in a warm part of the house or in a protect ing frame, well made and secured from frost; , and the earth in the cup be kept moderately' moist. If kept in a room they should be put out in the open air every clear, fine day ; and if in a frame, let them have air by removing tlie sashes. By doing this you will prevent the plants from growing tall and slender and cause them to become straight, stout and healthy. When the season has advanced be* j T ond all danger of frost, you can put out these turnip cups, plants and all r in the beds where they are to remain, but be careful that you do not put them out too soon. The' plants will continue to grow and the turnip - cup will soon rot and enable the roots to er tend themselves without bounds in search of food, and in time become itself an excellent manure for the plant. When yon set out, in sert the cup in a hole just large enough to hold it, pressing the earth well around tho cup and drawing a little over the top or edge up to the stems of the plants, covering en tirely the turnip. To hasten the process of decay in the cup you may, before putting out, cut off, with a sharp knife, the hard rind from the outside of the turnip, leaving only a thin piece of the rind enclosing the earth. A small hole, as large as a ten-cent piece, should have been cut in the bottom of the cup be fore filling with earth when first:made.”' The Kitchen Garden. The Massachusetts Ploughman very season-, ably says : “ Too many farmers neglect to supply their own tables with any suitable variety of vegetables and fruit. By a small outlay of money and labor every farmer can keep his table supplied with a succession of freslt vegetables through the whole season. Spinach planted as soon as the weather is suitable will furnish the finest greens before other vegetables come on, but if it had been planted in the fall it would have come into use this month, under ordinary conditions. Then radishes, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, peas, beans, sweet corn, summer squashes, bj&ets, melons and turban squashes, will fur nish a welcome and wholesome addition to the farmer’s fare throughout the season. If, in addition to these, there are a few roots of rhubarb, a bed of asparagus, a bed of straw berries, and a small collection of small fruits, a farmer may live in luxury and health, such as his occupation ought to afford, instead of the tiresome monotony and scarc’ty of the good things of the farm that many farmers put up with from sheer carelessness, thought lessness or laziness.” NUMBER 9;