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ROBERT S. HOWARD,/
Editor and Publisher. \
VOLUME I.
IWessiounf & Jksiuess (Ennis.
JOlU* J. NT*UKB,tYfi>,
ATTORNEY-A T-LAW, .
DaNIELSVIIjEB,* Ga.,
A\ ill promptly attend to all business entrusted to
him. dec 17, ’BO.
DSC. I*. . CASH,
NICHOLSON, GA.,
Tenders his professional services to the surround
ing country. Rheumatism, NeuralgiaUnd the dis
eases of women a specialty.
Feb. 13th, 1880. ly
noiv usi) TIIOm'SO.\
ATTORNE Y- A T-L A W,
GAINESVILLE, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi
ness placed in his hands.
WfbllV C. DIOWAIth,
Attorue an:l CtMitiselor at Baw,
JEFFERSON, GA.
W ill attend faithfully to all business entrusted
t° his carc - mch4,
SiLMAI 4c THOMPSON,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Jefferson, G a,
A\ ill practice in Jackson and adjoining counties.
£egaf Adoertiscments.
Whereas, /. W. Ilood makes application to me
in proper form for Letters of Administration with
the will annexed of Steven Wilson, late of said
county, (lec’d—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in June, 1881, at the regular term of the
Court of Ordinary of said county, why said letters
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this May 4,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
G llOKtilA, Jacloton CoimJy.
\\ hcreas, W. A. Watson makes application to
me in proper form for Letters of Administration
upon the estate of Martha A. llnnter. late of said
county, dec’d—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the Court
of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday
in June, 1881, why said letters should not be
granted the applicant. ■
Given under my official signature, this May 4th,
1881. 11. W. BF.LL, Ord'y.
Whereas, James Greer applies to me for Letters
of Administration dc bonis non, with the will an
nexed, of Winney Williamson, late of said coun
ty, deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the
first Monday in June, 18S1, why said letters
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under mv official signature, this May 4th,
1881. ‘ 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Ja<'kMvn County.
Whereas, the estate of Columbus Long, col’d,
late of said county, deceased, is likely to be with
out a representative and to continue so, no one
applying for Letters of Administration on said
deceased's estate—
Administration dc bonis non will be vested in
J. L. Williamson, Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county, or some “other tit and proper person,
on the first Monday in June, 1881, unless some
valid objection is made to said appointment.
Given under my official signature, this May 4th,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Guardian 9 s Sale.
AGREEABLY to an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county, Ga.. 1 will sell
at public out-cry, in the town of Jeftefsoii, Ga.,
on the first Tuesday in June next, to the highest
bidder, tho following property, to-wit: One tract
of land, situated in said county, containing twen
ty-live acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Bar
nett. Dunson and others. About six acres in
cultivation, balance in old iield and woods. No
improvements. Terms cash.
A. A. WILLIAMS,
Guardian of J. M. Williams.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors,
ALL persons having demands against Thomas
Dalton, late of said county, deceased, are
hereby notiiied and required to present them,
properly attested, to the undersigned, within the
time prescribed by law, and all persons indebted
to said deceased are hereby required to make im
mediate payment.
may 0 J. L. WILLIAMSON, Adm’r.
To Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons having demands against Micagcr
Williamson, late of said county, deceased,
are hereby notiiied and required to p'resont them,
properly attested, to the undersigned, within the
time prescribed by law. and all persons indebted
to said deceased are hereby required to make im
mediate payment,
may 0 J, L. WILLIAMSON, Adm’r.
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■ House’s, April sth, May 4th and 18th.
Chandler’s, April Gth, May sth and 19th.
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Benjamin Atkins', April 28th.
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JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. MAY 27. 1881.
VIVA’S LANDLORD.
“ Viva, dear, it’s coming near the first of
May !”
And gentle Mrs. Raynor laid down the coat
that was perpetually becoming elbowless, and
looked across the lamplit table with anxious
eyes.
“ Yes, mamma, I know,” a trifle wearily.
Viva, a slender, pretty girl, with dark
brown hair gathered loosely behind shell-pink
ears, and lip 9 red as the cactus flower, met
her mother’s gaze with eyes bright with wistful
thoughtfulness.
“ And we must move, of course,” cried a
shrill young voice from the sofa, where sat
Jessie, a volatile, evergrown school-girl,
“ because the front gate’s off its hinges, and
tine roof leaks, and—”
“ l r es, Jessie, we all know the reasons for
moving, but give mamma an opportunity to
suggest whore.”
“ There’s hardly much choice about that,”
the pale-faced little woman said sadly. “ Some
place where the rent would be moderate ; but”
—a sudden look of longing shining out of the
painworn face—“ 1 would give all the world,
dear, to see the country again. I feel stifling
here.”
A gleam of quick determination came into
Viva’s velvety-brown eyes.
“ And so yon shall, mamma !” she said,
emphatically.
“ My darling, how ?” in mild surprise.
“ Well”—Viva puckered up her low, white
brow, and tried to look wise and business
like—“ you see we could get a cottage in some
of the suburban villages at half what a city
house would cost. Besides everything is so
much cheaper in the country, and we could
return to the city the coming winter. There !”
“ But your pupils, Viva ?”
44 I could manage to give all the lessons in
three days of the week—taking the train in,
you know, is almost as cheap—and do work
for Crumley the intervening days. Now,
mamma !” triumphantly.
“It looks plausible at first sight, my pet,
but I’m almost afraid to hope. Dear, dear!
how that boy does wear out his clothes.”
Viva came over and clasped two maroon
merino arms around the invalid figure before
her.
“ Hope as much as you like, mamma
darling,” she cried, gayly ; “ for we’ll watch
the papers till we see a treasure advertised
‘ cheap’—in italics, you know—and then—”
The rest was too glorious to describe.
Three days later, Viva danced in, out of a
blinding April shower, with rose-red cheeks
and starry eyes.
“ Here it is, mamma,” she cried, enigmatic
ally, with a hearty kiss and-hug that almost
demolished tiie small figure in the arm-chair.
“ Now listen !’^
And from the open paper of that morning,
she read aloud;
TO RENT—IN SUBURBAN VILLAGE,
X Twenty minutes ride from the city, aa eight
room cottage, with garden attached. Cheap, to
good tenant. Apply to Clifford Chandos, Room
12, 74 E St., City.
“ I am sure this will suit— ‘ cheap,’ in
italics, as I said, mamma. You will have our
happy country lied summer, after all,” with an
exultant little laugh. “ Now, for a while,
good-bye !”
“ Where are 3*oll going, d<far ?”
“To see about this, mamma. Lessons are
over—”
“ Yes, but I do not quite like your going
alone, Viva.”
“ What! An old-maid music teacher like
me ? I almost acquire the dignity of age in
this voluminous waterproof and green veil.
Green! Just think of it! I might as well
have red hair and spectacles. My nervous
old darling, I’ll bo back before you know I’m
gone.”
And with this decidedly sweeping, but
scarcely possible assertion, she was out again
under the rifting, drifting April sky, and
going cityward as fast as the street cars
could take her.
In the thickest, busiest portion of the city,
up two flights of dingy stairs went Viva.
A timid knock at Room 12.
“ Come in !”
She turned handle, and with the green veil
well down, went in.
Two or three gentlemen, writing at baize
covered desks/- looked up carelessly as slie
entered, and went on with their work.
A gentleman enveloped in clouds of cigar
smoke, with feet considerabty elevated above
the level of his head, glanced toward tho door,
as the graceful figure in threadbare water
proof came timidly in. Down came the feet,
out went the cigar, and Clifford Chandos,
pushing a chair forward, bowed gravely,
questioningly, to the lady before him.
“ I—l called to inquire about a cottage
advertised.”
“ The cottage ? Oh, yes, to he sure ! Will
you please to be seated, and I will give you
the particulars ?”
And Viva, taking the proffered seat, listened
while the tall, grave man, with straight, black
brows and keen, kindly eyes, explained the
terms with pleasant courtesj*.
And when she lifted the obnoxious green
veil a moment, to conclude some necessary
FOR THE PEOPLE.
arrangement, Clifford Chandos started ever
so slightly as ho saw the pretty, girlish face
before him, as serene and dignified in its
grave, business-like composure as though its
owner were eight-andfifty instead of cight
and-ten.
“ When will you look at the place, Miss—”
“ Rayner !” supplemented Viva.
“ Miss Rayner. Shall we say to morrow
at one ?”
“ At two, if as convenient.”
“ Certainly. Two, if preferable.”
Then he held the door open as courteously
as though she wore sealskin and diamonds,
while with a quiet grace she bowed slightly
and passed from the room.
And Clifford Chandos went slowly back to
his chair, a softer light in his keen gray eyes,
and actually for once in his life forgot to re
light his cigar.
******
The day came at last when, from the stuffy
city house, the Raynors moved to the pretty,
roomy, raftered cottage, where honeysuckle
and wild roses straggled at their own sweet
will over roof and porch.
And Viva, coming home from the dusty
city three evenings in the week, pale and
tired, brightened and laughed her own low,
happy laugh at the sight of her mother’s face
—grown young again—at the window, at the
sound of Dick and Jessie’s boisterous laugh
ter.
It was curious all the repairing that cot
tage needed after thc3' moved in. It was
more curious that their quiet, handsome land
lord should insist on supervising it all him
self.
lie grew into their simplo lives in those
days. Mrs. Rayner came to think the cherry
voice better than any medicine, the children
to shout lustily at sight of him, and Viva to
listen for the sound of his firm footstep on
the garden path.
One evening, when the soft May wind was
swaying the “lady-fingers,” as the children
call them, over the door, Viva snatched up
her hat and strolled down to the pretty rustic
gate.
Just a little more tired than usual after a
desperate struggle to teach an irritably ob
tuse pupil the mysteries of crotchets and
quavers and demi semiquavers.
She stood there, a fair, girlish figure in her
soft white dress, a great bunch of blue mea
dow-violets at her slender throat and waist.
The scented wind gently loosened the dark
brown hair and blew a fitful drift of rose
bloom into the pure, pale face.
Very pretty ?
Well, Clifford Chandos thought so, at all
events, as he came along the unoven country
road with his light, firm footfall.
“ Good evening, Miss Rayner !”
She turned swldenty, the faint flush deep
ening to carnation. *
“Good evening, Mr. Chandos !”
I think a person can give one a very toler
able shake hands without holding one’s fin
gers quite a minute. But apparently Mr.
Chandos thought differently.
“ Miss Rayner, will 3*oll como for a walk
—just a little way down the road ? There is
a show place there I should like to havo you
see.” '
He asked pleadingly, hurriedty, as though
fearful of a refusal.
“ Is it far ?”
“No,” eagerly; “quite near. Besides.
Miss Viva, I have something to tell you—or,
rather, ask j'ou.”
They were already strolling slowly on.
She paused and looked up in vague alarm.
“To ask me, Mr. Chandos?”
“ Yes. Viva, I want to ask }*ou to leave
Rose cottage.”
Was he mad ?
“To leave Rose cottago !” she repeated,
blankly.
She stopped short, and looked up at him
with brown, bewildered eyes.
“ Are you not satisfied with us as tenants ?
What will mamma say ?’’
“ I did not ask your mother to leave Rose
cottage”—and his voice was trembling and
low—“ I asked you !”
“Me? Why, Mr. Chandos—”
She broke off abruptly as she saw the look
in the eyes of the man regarding her. Such
a look as would make more successful wooers
in the world to-day—a look of passionate
love and resolute determination to have her
in spite of herself.
“ Viva, darling— m3’ darling !” he cried,
all the mischief in his voice swept away in
his fiery earnestness, “won’t you understand?
I love you very dearly, Viva, and I want3'du
for my wife !”
“ Yes—l understand,” she said, simply.
“ I am not a rich man, dear, but I would
give my life to make 3 T ou happy !”
She looked up at him with bright, outshin
ing eyes, and though her cheeks flamed hotly,
she said, in her gentle, straightforward, girl
ish way :
“ I would be honored to bo your wife wero
you penniless, Mr. Chandos !”
“ Mr. Chandos !” stern!j r . “ Little wife,
say * Clifford !’ ”
And, her hand in his, she said it, simply:
“ Clifford!”
In a short time they paused before a mas
sive entrance gate and pretty gothic lodge.
4 “ This is the great place of the neighbor
hood, Viva. Shall we go up and look at it ?”
The} 7 paused at the great stone steps of an
ideal country-seat, stretching, vorandahod,
porticoed, with huge stone lion3 on guard at
the door.
44 Como in, dear!” holding out his hand,
with a curious smile.
44 But the owner
44 1 go with his permission.”
Then, passing the servant at the dour, he
led her through rooms where the mighty touch
of Midas was softened and made perfect by
the mightier touch of taste. Through a con
servatory where birds and flowers were drow
sily falling asleep, and marble statues gleam
ed palely forth from tropical, dusky nooks.
44 It's a handsome place, dear, isn't it!”
he asked, when once again they stood ’ncath
the darkening sky.
44 Handsome? Oh, Clifford !” with an ec
static, long-drawn breath.
44 1 hardly know how much rent I ought to
charge you, little woman,” lc cried, quizzi
cally, drawing her closer to him; 44 but I'll
be moderate. Suppose we say—one thousand
kisses per annum !”
44 Yours!” she gasped. ‘‘You said you
were not rich.”
44 Well, not Rothschild nor Vanderbilt, love,
but,” with a sudden change of tone, 41 richer
than all the world, sweetheart, in vou.”
So, after all, Viva graces a home worthy of
her. And Jessie sententious!}’ remarks:
,4 ’Twas well wc moved.”
And Viva nods and smiles as she slips her
iLLIe sparkling hand into her husband's lov
ing clasp.
Resisted.
Four young men, clerks and students,
whilo on a summer vacation tramp through
Northern New England, engaged for a guide
to a certain romantic forest waterfall a boy
named Forrest Graves. Forrest was a fine,
athletic fellow, who could outwalk and out
climb any amateur in the mountains, and his
moral courage was quite equal to his physical
health and strength.
After he had guided the young men to the
waterfall, and they had satisfied themselves
with sight-seeing, they invited him to lunch
with them.
“ Thank you, I have my own lunch arid
the boy went away by himself. Later, when
full justice had been done to their repast, and
a flask-of brandy had furnished each of the
young men with a stimulating draught, Graves
was called.
“ You must drink with us, if you will not
eat with us,” now said the owner of the flask,
and the most reckless of the party.
“ No, sir, thank )'ou,” was tho boy’s courte
ous response.
“ But I shall insist upon it.”
“ 1 ou can do as you please, and I shall do
as I please.”
The young man sprang to his feet, and with
a bound stood beside the boy, too much ab
sorbed in his own purpose to heed the quiv
ering lips and flashing c)’es of another.
“Now, you are bound to try my brand)'.
I always rule.”
“ You can’t rule me.”
These words were scarcely uttered when
the flask was seized and hurled into the
stream, where the clinking of glass betrayed
its utter destruction. Thon a clear, defiant
tone rang out:
“ I did it in sslf-defense. You had no right
to tempt me. My father was once a rich and
honorable man, but he died a miserable
drunkard, and my mother came here to live
to keep me away from liquor till I should be
old enough to take care of myself. I have
promised her a hundred time3 I wouldn’t
taste it, and I’d die before I’d break my
promise.”
“ Bravely said. Forgive mo, and let us
shake hands. M3' mother would be a happy
woman if I was as brave as you. I wouldn’t
tempt you to do wrong. I shall never forget
you, nor the lesson 3'ou have taught me.”
The most reckless was the most generous,
and seeing his error apologized frankly.
How many boys need to bejeept from strong
drink ; and, alas, how man}' men and women !
Who dares tempt them ? Let it not be you
and I.— Youth's Companion.
A Lie Told by a Finger.
Rev. Dr. Deems told the following story to
the children of his congregation : A little
boy, for a trick, pointed with his finger to the
wrong road, when a man asked him which
way the doctor went. Asa result the man
missed the doctor, and his little boy died,
because the doctor came too late to take a
fishbone from his throat- At the funeral the
minister said “ that the boy was killed by a
lie which another boy told with a finger.” I
suppose the boy did not know the mischief
he did. Of course, nobody thinks he meant
to kill a little boy when he pointed the wrong
way. lie only wanted to have a little fun ;
but it was fun that cost somebody a great
deal; and if he ever heard the result of it?he
must have felt guilty of doing a mean and
wicked thing. We ought never to trifle with
the truth.
) TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM,
) SI.OO for Six Months.
AY Ouv\\\tYY\VT s.
Most of the great Roman families still hold
aloof from the Quirinal.
Bebel, a member of the German Reichstag,
says that “the German people have now only
one want, and that is for money enough to
get to America.”
France is to send a regiment of cavalry,,
mounted on camels instead of horses, to hunt
up and punish the murderers of Colonel
Flatters and his force.
It is not strange that writers sometimes get'
puzzled in their choice between “ that,”
“ which ’ and “ who.” Relatives are always
more or less troublesome.
1 he fence between the Bemister and Grace*
lanns, near Utica, ip the subject) of a lawsuit.
The ground involved is worth about $3, and
thus far $3,000 have been spent in litigation.
Dr. V ordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, having
inducted Mr. Pelham Dale, a condemned
ritualist, into a living, the Archdeacon of the
district in which it is situate has resigned.
Lord Shaftesbury has organized a societv
of theologians and scientists to investigate all
philosophical and scientific questions having
a bearing on tho truth of the Bible, and to
publish results.
The ordinance against profane swearing
is so rigidly enforced at Avon, 111., that a
plain “ damn” is a luxury which costs $3,
while fancy oaths can only be indulged in by
the ver}' effluent.
After thirty years’ absence, Robert Thorn,
of Haverhill, Mas3., came home the other day,
and his first business was to kick over a tomb
stone.that had been erected to his memory
man}' }'ears before.
The corn fields along the Missouri Valley
arc alive with flocks of geese, brant and ducks.
They are seen by railroad travelers to rise in
flocks of thousands when disturbed by tho
noise of the trains.
Algiers possesses a river of veritable ink.
Two streams, one starting from a region
where the soil is ferruginous, the other from
a peat swamp, meet and form the river, whoso
inky constituency is due to the tqixing of tho
iron and gallic acid which the two tributary
streams respectively contain.
A pair of Cincinnati lovers quarrelled, and
the man drew a pistol, saying that he meant
to shoot the girl. She quietly told him that
he could kiss or kill her, and she cared very
little which. lie attempted to do both, first
kissing her, and then, while her arms were
still about his neck, sending a bullot into her
head.
An exact counterpart of|the Credit Mobilicr
scandal has been unearthed in Canada. Tho
Credit Foncier applied to the Quebec Parlia
ment for certain privileges and monopolies,
which were finally granted them. It is now
discovered that all these men who voted in
favor of the company had previously received
shares of stock in it. They swear that this
did not influence their view.
A vicar of a country parish in England had
occasion lately to remonstrate witli a lowly
member of his flock, who had regularly been
conspicuous by his absence from the celebra
tion of the Holy Communion, for his non-at
tendance. Hodge hazarded the excuse that
ho didn’t consider himself sufficiently quali
fied to attend. “ Why not ?” urged the vicar;
“ you have been confirmed.” “Ye 9, sir,” re
plied Hodge, “ and vaccinated, too ; but they
neither of ’em took.”
The Alexandria and Fredericksburg Rail
road Company was sued for the value of a
mule which one of its trains had killed. Tho
testimony of persons who had known tho
mule was introduced by tho defep.ee to provo
that the beast was idiotic, and did not know
enough to get off the track when he saw tho
cars coming. It wa3 shown that when tho
whistle was blown he “ simply turned his
head and stared vacantlj' at the locomotive.”
The jury gave a verdict for the company.
Quite a serious fight broke out in Wash
ington the other day between Commissioner
LcDuc, of the Agricultural Department, and
Dr. Rile) f , head of the Entomological Com
mission, about somo dried bugs aud cater
pillars. LeDuc waited on the Attornoy
General with a complaint that Riley had
stolen certain bugs that 1 ightfully and properly
belonged to bis department, and ho called on
him to prosecute the entomologist for grand
larcen)'. There was a great deal of laughter
at the capital over this bug war, but fortu
nately the two angry officials were quieted
without the scandal of a prosecution.
Health Hints.
All stimulants, even tea and coffee, act
upon the system as poison, and are conse-
injurious.
For children, a nearly infallible peptic
corrective is a fast-day passed in cheerful
out-door exercise.
The Family Physician says: Digestion
requires leisure. Never eat until you can bo
sure of leisure for digestion. After rest then
“ give an hour of exercise to every pound of
food.”
Terra alba, or white earth, is used to
adulturate white sugars, cream of tartar, and
other commonly used articles. Its use tends
to produce disease of the kidneys, bladder
and stomach.
Writes Mr. Labocchere: I arrived at
Milan from the Lake of Como. I felt the
symptoms of malaria, and, instead of sending
for a doctor, shut itself up in my bedroom
for two days and two nights, daring which
time my only nourishment was lemonade.
This regime entirely cured me. Were those
who catch any malarial fever to pursue the
same course they would find it worth all the
prescriptions that doctor ever wrote.
Dr. Guillasse, of the French navy, reports
that in thfe earfy stages of typhoid fever coffee
is almost a specific against typhoid fever. 110
gives it to adults, two or three tablespoonfuls
of strong, black coffee every two hours, al
ternating with one or two teaspoonfuls of
claret or Burgundy wine. The beneficial
effect is immediate. A little lemonade or
citrate of magnesia should be given daily and
after awhile u little quinine.
NUMBER 14.