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VOLUME I.
£eggf Jldoerfeements.
Notice to Contractors.
WILL be let to the lowest bidder, before the
Court House door in Jefferson, on Satur
day, the 2d day of July, ISSI, the contract for
building a lattice bridge across Middle Oconee
river at Tallasce Bridge site, under the following
specifications:
One span of lattice bridge spanning the river
one hundred and twenty feet, and fifty feet of tres
tling on eacli side of the river, each fifty feet of
trestle work to be in spans of twenty-five feet
each. Said trestle work to descend from the bridge
to within two feet of the ground, resting upon a
trestle placed three feet in the ground and filled
in with rock. This approach to be continued,
with the same descent, by a stone wall on each
side, the space filled in with rock and dirt. Each
space of land-bridge to have five sleepers, equally
divided on trestle; outside sleepers to be placed
directly over outside posts in trestle. All outside
sleepers to splice on caps, making a straight line
for hand-rail. All sleepers to be six by twelve,
twenty-five feet long.
lland-rail.—Hand-rail posts eight feet apart,
notched out to tit over sleepers, and securely
spiked to the same. Posts to be 4 by G, 3 feet
high. Hailing to be 4by G, notched down on top
of posts and securely spiked.
Hill of lumber for lattice to be as follows :
Cords. —Cords, both bottom and top, to be 2.J
by 12, 28 feet long ; itermediate to be 2.] by 10, 28
feet long.
Lattice.—Lattice to be 2\ by 10. 13 feet long.
All to be framed and well pinned together with
two-inch white oak pins.
Beams. —Floor beams to be 4 by 14 inches, 19
feet long, notched to fit over cords as shown upon
plans; ends of beams to extend two feet beyond
outside of cords. All beams to be placed seven
feet apart from center to center. Lattice braces
to lock across the top of each beam, so as to tie
all snugly together. Each beam to be well braced
bv substantial latteral bracing, as shown upon
plans. All latteral bracing to be 3J by G inches,
securely fastened to floor-beams by four forty
penny spikes at each end. Every other beam to
have a brace on outside of lattice, extending from
end of beam to bottom edge of top cord, brace to
be framed so as to fit under cord and against side
of lattice braces, the same to be securely fastened
to floor-beam at the bottom, and at the top to
both brace and cords. Braces to be made of 4by
G scantling.
SleedekS. —Floor sleepers to be 4 by G, 28 feet
long. There must be live lines, equally divided,
under floor, running entire length of lattice.
Flooring.—Flooring to be 2by 12,13 feet long,
securely fastened down by spiking to sleepers,
and a strip at each end spiked to intermediate
cords.
Pins.—All pins for lattice to be made of best
white oak, two inches in diameter, holding their
sides the entire length.
Piers. —This bridge to rest upon two wooden
piers, the same to be framed as shown upon plans.
JSizcs of pier posts, 10 by 12, 14 feet long ; eight
posts to each pier. Two caps 8 by 12, 15 met
long; two mud sills, 8 by 12, 19 feet long; four
braces, Gby 10, 10 feet long. Each pier to rest
uf>on a crib, framed of timber, 10 by 12, 23 feet
long. This crib to be notched together and se
curely pinned at the ends. This crib to be framed
to a sufficient heighih to suit depth of water.
Size of crib in the clear to be 7by 20. Crib to be
filled with rock to surface of water. Lattice to be
weatherboarded on both sides and capped. All
timbers to be good heart. Bond, with two good
securities, in a sum double the amount of the bid,
conditioned for a faithful compliance with the con
tract, required immediately after the letting. The
work to be paid for when completed in accordance
with the specifiications, and to be completed in
sixty days from the time of letting. Full and
complete specifications can be seen at this office.
11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
Postponed Sheriff-s Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door in
the town of Jelferson, Jackson county, (la.,
at public out-cry. to the highest bidder, on the
first Tuesday in July next, within the legal hours
of sale, the following described property, to-wit:
One tract of land, containing twenty-five acres,
more or less, lying in said county, on the waters
of Turkey creek, about one mile below Jackson’s
mill, and adjoining lands of McDonald, Davis and
others, and known as the place where 11. C. Wil
hite lived. About fifteen acres in cultivation.
There is a good mill house and dam on the place ;
also, a {mod framed dwelling and out-buildings
and good orchard. Levied on as the property of
It. C. Wilhite to satisfy a ti. fa. issued from Jack
son Superior Court in favorofO. W. Hood. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintiff, and notice given to
J. Foster Daniel, tenant in possession, as the law
directs. T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’ff J. C.
ELECTION NOTICE.
Jnckwon County.
It is hereby ordered that an election be held at
the various precincts in said county, in manner
and form as elections are held for members of the
General Assembly, on the first Monday in July,
ISBI, in which the question shall be submitted to
the lawful voters of said county of fence or no
fence. Those voting at said election who are in
favor of fences, shall have written or printed on
their ballots the word “ Fence,” and those who
favor no fences shall have written or printed on
their ballots the words “No Fence.” Managers
of said election will keep, or cause to be kept,
three lists of voters and tally sheets, which, to
gether with the tickets and consolidated returns,
must be forwarded to this office immediately after
the election. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
.lackson County.
Whereas, C. W. Ilood, Executor of /. S. Hood,
deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition
duly tiled, that he has fully and completely ad
ministered said deceased's estate, and is entitled
to a discharge from said administration—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on “the first
Monday in September, 1881, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said count}’, why Let
ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap
plicant from said trust.
(liven under my official signature, this May 110.
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
.lacU-toii County.
Whereas, Nancy Lyle and J. W. Lyle applies
to me for Letters of Administration on the estate
of James B. Lyle, late of said county, dec'd—
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 July, 1881, why said letters
should not be granted the applicants.
Given under my official signature, this May 30,
ISSI. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
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adjourned session of the General Assembly,
which will rt-convene in July next, a Bill with
the following title, to-wit:
“A Bill, to be entitled An Act to amend the
charter of the Gainesville, Jefferson and South
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of Directors, and to confer on them the author
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THE PAINTED FAN.
“ You won’t forget me, little one?” said
Earl Lysle, in his softest accents, looking
down with earnest eyes into the sweet flower
face, so trustfully uplifted to his own.
“No, I will never forget you,” answered
the girl.
And the blue eyes grew moist, and the red
lips trembled. The promise broke down the
last remnant of her strength ; the next mo
ment she had burst into passionate, bitter
weeping.
It seemed as though the branches in the
tree above them bent pityingly down upon
them ; as though the sun lingered a moment
in its tendcrcst sympathy, ere breathing his
good night to the world ; though the robin
checked his notes to listen to the sob3 which
echoed through the silence of the wood, and
stirred Earl Lysle’s heart as it had not been
stirred before for many a long year.
He had won the love of many women—won
it often for the mere pleasure of winning;
sometimes lie had won and worn it until it
wearied him, but always believing that, had
the condition been reversed, the woman would
have done even as lie did. In this case he
knew differently. When lie first met Lena
Manning she had been a child. It had been
his hand which had guided her wavering steps
across the boundary line from childhood to
womanhood ; he who had wakened her child
heart from its slumber. For what ? For this!
It had been in his life a summer-idyl, a pass
ing folly ; in hers, the one spot from which
all things henceforth must date. He was a
man of the world ; she a child of nature,
whose world henceforth was bounded b} r the
horizon of his presence.
“ Hush, Lena—hush !” he entreated, pass
ing his arm about her waist. “Do 3011 really
care for me like this ?”
A passing pride stirred at his question.
“Do you care for me so little that you can
not understand it ?” she answered.
“ Nay ! I love you very dearly—so dearly,
Lena, that, might I carve out my own desires,
and forget ray duties, I would never go back
to the great city and the life which has grown
wearisome. As it is, I must go; but, Lena,
if I may, dear—if I can so shape my destiny
—some day 1 will leave it all behind me, and
come again, this time to pluck and wear my
sweet woodland rose next to my heart for
ever.”
l’rctty words were very natural to Earl
Lysle ; yet, even as he spoke these words, he
knew that ere another year had run its course,
he was destined to lead to the altar his heiress
cousin—a tall, haughty brunette—whose let
ter of recall now lay in the breast-pocket of
his coat.
“ But—but if things should go amiss—not
as you fancy ?”
There was absolute terror in the girl's
tones—terror so great that, to the man, it
seemed cruelty not to quiet it; and, besides,
his heart was stirring within him to nobler,
better purposes.
Perchance he might avow to his betrothed
the truth, that, instead of a marriage of con
venience, he sought a marriage of love, and
ask her to free him from chains which already
began to gall ere they were fully forged.
So he only drew closer to him the girl’s
slender figure, until the blonde head lay on
his shoulder, rs he stooped and pressed his
lips to its golden crown.
“ Have no fear, my little one. I will come
back with the first snow.” •
“ Y r ou promise, Earl ?”
“ I promise !”
*******
Lena had always loved the summer rather
than winter. The leafy trees, the birds, the
flowers, the blue sky—all had been to her as
welcome friends, to be greeted rapturously,
to be parted with almost tearfully ; but this
year she could scarcely wait for the turning
of the foliage, or the southern flight of the
birds.
She smiled from her window, ns she looked
out one bright morning upon the first frost.
•She laughed when people said that it would
be an early winter.
All ber painting—for she possessed great
talent with her brush—depicted winter scenes
—snow and ice.
But just at the Thanksgiving season her
father, a sturdy farmer, was borne-senseless,
one day, to his home, and died before he re
covered consciousness.
It was her first real grief. She had lost
her mother when an infant. It seemed to her
that she could not have had strength to live
through it, but that, as they lowered the coffin
into the grave, a few flakes of snow came
whirling down from the gray sky, and she
welcomed them as heaven sent messengers of
hope.
When she came back to the quiet house,
through whose rooms the dear, cheery voice
would never more echo, she almost expected
to find someone waiting for her ; but all was
still and desolate.
They were dreary weeks that followed—
the more dreary that she found a heavy mort
gage lay on the farm, and that when all things
were cleared up, there would be left to her
but a few hundred dollars.
FOR THE PEOPLE.
“He will not care,” she murmured. “It
will prove his love for me the more.”
The week after the funeral, set in the first
heavy snow-storm, and the papers told how
it had spread from one end of the country to
the other.
Lena was almost barricaded in her lonely
home, but she sat all <lay, with folded hands,
looking upon the soft, feathery flakes—watch
ing the drifts grow higher and higher—and
knew that it was all bringing summer to her
heart.
The neighbors came to take her in their
sleighs, when the sun peeped out again and
all the earth was wrapped in its white mantle.
They said that her cheeks were pale and her
hands feverish, and that she must have more
of this clear, bracing air.
But she shook her head and refused to go.
Could she leave the house, when at any mo
ment he might come ? Besides, she had sent
to him a paper with the announcement of her
father’s death, and this must surely hasten
him.
But da}' succeeded day, until week follow
ed week, and still he neither came nor sent
her word. The snow-clouds had formed and
fallen many times, and each time her heart
grew sick with longing.
She loved him so wholly, she trusted him
so completely that she thought only sickness
or death could have kept him from her.
The hours dragged very slowly. Her lit
tle studio was neglected. She sat all day,
and every day, beside the window, until one
morning she wakened to know that the first
robin had returned, and the first breath of
spring was in the air. He had failed to keep
his promise to her.
That same day they told her that the farm
must be sold. Many neighbors offered her a
home, but she declined them all.
A sudden resolution came to her. She
would go to the city where lie lived. Her
pride forbade her seeking him, but maybe, if
lie were not dead, as she often feared, she
might one day meet him in the street, or at
least hear some news of him.
The hope of meeting him—of hearing him
—vanished, when she found herself in the
great metropolis, and realized its size and
immensity.
She had secured a comfortable home with
a good, motherly woman, but her purse was
growing scanty, and she could not tell how
long it might hold out, unless she could find
some means of support, when one day, saun
tering idly on the street, glancing into a shop
window, she saw some fancy articles, painted
by hand.
Gathering up her courage, she went in and
asked if there was sale for that sort of work,
and if she might be allowed to test her skill.
From that hour all dread of want vanished,
and, now that hands were busy, she found
less time to brood and think.
“ I want a fan painted,” the man said to
her, one day. “ You may make an original
design, but it must be very beautiful.”
Lena’s heart had been very sad all day, as,
at evening, she unfolded the satin, and sat
down, brush iu hand, to fulfill this latest
order.
“It is a gift to an expectant bride,” the
shopkeeper had said ; and the words had re
called all the long waiting, the weary dis
appointment, those words might bring.
And, as she thought, she sketched, and the
hours crept on and the evening grew into
night, and the night into morning, and still
she bent over her work, silent, engrossed.
The next day, the gentleman who had given
the order for the fan sauntered into the store.
With an air of pardonable satisfaction, the
man drew it from the box.
“Thcyoung artist has outdone herself, sir,”
lie said. “I never saw a more beautiful
piece of work, and the design is entirely her
own. I—”
But lie chocked his sentence.
The gentleman had taken the fan in his
hands, and was examining it with startled
eyes and face, from which every trace of color
had fled.
Could it be that the word Nemesis was
painted upon the satin ? No, this was all he
saw. On one side was a woodland scene,
while, seated on a log beneath the leafy
branches of an old oak, were two figures, one
a man, and one a woman. Ilis arm was about
her waist. Iler lips seemed to move, her
whole expression was full of love and trust,
and his of promise. A little laughing stream
rippled at their feet. A bird sang overhead.
Where had he seen just such a scene be
fore ? He turned the fan on the other side.
Summer had vanished. It was winter here.
Naught but the fast-falling snow drifting in
white heaps upon the earth.
“ Who painted this ?” he asked, in hoarse,
changed tones.
The man gave the name and address. How
well he had known it! but how came Lena
here ? And what was this which stirred
through every fibre of his being? Could it
be that his manhood might yet redeem him ?
With swift steps he walked to the house of
his betrothed. Stately and beautiful, she
came into the drawing room to greet him, and
bent her head that he might touch her fore
head with his lips.
“ Helen, do you love me ?”
She had known him for long years, but
never had she heard such earnestness, such
real passion, in his tones.
It was as thought his very soul hung on her
answer. Strange, she had never dreampt his
love for her was more than friendship, such
as she had felt for him.
A tinge of color crept into her cheek.
“ I have promised to marry you, Earl,
lou know that I am fond of you, and I
highly respect you. Will not this satisfy
you ?”
“ No. I want all the truth. Is your heart
mine—all mine, so that, to tear me from it,
would be to tear it asunder? - ’
“No, Earl. If it were for 3’our happiness
or mine, I could give up my lover and still
hold my friend and cousin.”
He seized her hand and carried it to his lips
more fervently than he had done even in the
moment of his courtship. Then, taking the
fan from his pocket, lie unfolded it. and told
her all the tale of his summer romance.
“ I thought I could forget her,” he said, in
ending, “ and that when the snow fell and I
did not return to her, she would cease to re
member me; but see, Helen! She still re
members, and I still love. I do not know
what brings her here. I have heard nothing
from her since last summer. But, tell me,
cousin mine, what must Ido ? I leave it all
to 3'ou.”
“ I said that I would bo 3 T our friend. Now,
I will be hers as well. Go to her, Earl. Tell
her all the truth. Then, if she forgives 3’ou,.
moke her your wife. If she is alone in the
world, as perhaps she may be, bring her to
me. She shall be married from my house, as
my sister. I accept this fan, not as a lever's
gift, but a pledge to the truer, more honest
bond which henceforth hinds us.”
Lena was exhausted after her sleepless
night, and throwing herself on the lounge iu
the sitting-room of her kind hostess, she had
fallen into a dreamless slumber.
Long Earl L\*sle stood and watched her,
until the magnetism of his glance aroused her.
She thought that she was dreaming of the fan ;
but as lie stooped and took her in his arms,
she knew that it was reality.
She listened silently while he told her all
—even his struggle for forgetfulness, and his
ignorance of his own heart and its demands.
She heard that she had sent the paper with
the news of her father’s death to the wrong
address, that he had known nothing of the
long, lonely winter to which had succeeded
this wonderful, glorious summer-time of hope.
Poor child 1 She had no room for pride in
the heart so filled by his image. She forgot
that there was sore need for forgiveness.
He loved her now ! Of that she was as
sured ; and after all, the snow had only lain
upon the ground to warm the earth, and foster
the rich, sweet violets, which now bloomed
and clustered at her feet, ready for her to
stoop and pluck them.
Perhaps some women, in their pride, would
have rejected them. She could not; but,
stooping, kissed them, then transplanted them
to her heart, there to shed sweet fragrance
forevermore.
The Yankee Wore the Belt.
It was during the Crimean war that three
officers, one a Englishman one a Frenchman
and the other a Yankee, who had joined the
allies, got into a dispute as to which was the
best swordsman. The dispute finally grew
so hot as to end in a challenge to mortal
combat, the survivor to wear the laurels. As
dueling was contrary to army regulations, and
the afiair coming to the ear of the command
ing officer, he at once took measures to put a
stop to it, but as all the officers were anxious
to witness atrial between those noted experts,
lie hit upon a plan that would test their skill
and at the same time not transgress any of
the “ rules.” v
There were three prisoners under sentence
of death, and the commander decided to let
the belligerents act as executioners, and the
one that would perforin the duty with the
greatest skill should be declared the victor.
So on the day appointed, a large number of
officers were present to witness the trial of
skill. The Englishman was the first one
called upon, and singling out his man, drew
his sword with a flash, and with a single
stroke severed the head from the b )dy. Great
applause followed.
Then the Frenchman’s turn came next.
He, drawing a narrow ribbon from his pocket,
tied it around the neck of his victim; then,
turning his back upon the prisoner, his sword
flew from it3 scabbard, and he, turning on his
heel at the same time, with one stroke cut
the head from his victim, splitting the ribbon
through the centre. Tremendous applause
followed, and the universal opinion was that
he would certainly be the victor.
• Now came the “ Yankee’s” turn. Ilecalmty
walked up to his man, drew his sword with
the rapidity of lightning, and, giving it a
flourish around his head, sheathed it as quickly
and, turning, saluted the commander. Hisses
and groans went up from the crowd, and the
commander sternly asked him what he meant
by such contempt. The Yankee, turning to
the man he was to have slain, said, “ Will
you please to spit, sir ?" The man attempted
to comply with the request, when his head
rolled off, it having been so quickly severed
that he did not know it until he went to move
iiis head. The Yankee wore the belt.—
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
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Union Sabbath School Association.
Ben Smith’s Union Sabbath School Associa
tion met at Masonic Hall. The business was 1
commenced by the president reading the 65tU
Psalm, singing and paryer by Rev. B. T.-
Thomas. Read and received the president’s 1
and superintendent’s reports. The following,
are the schools that were represented :
Harmony Grove.— W. W. Parks, supt.;
J. K. Hughes, Rev. B. T. Thomas, Mrs. Bertio
Parks, delegates.
Apalachee.—B. A. Blakey, supt.; T. O'.
Morris, W. S. Mitchell, S. T. Maughon,
delegates.
Midway.—E. S. Ethridge, supt.; Rev. M. S.
Williams, Miss Lolla Ethridge, Miss Ella
Hawthorn, J. O. Hawthorn, delegates.
Concord.—Z.F.Stanton, supt.; N. J.Kelly,
M ss Dora Wills delegates.
Pleasaut Hill.—Dr. S. 11. Freeman, supt.;
Miss Mattie Watson, delegate.
Nazareth.—R. J. Pentecost, supt.; J. W.
Meadows, sec’y.
Masonic Hall.—W. H.H. Hill, supt.; T. W.
Iloloway, sec’y ; J. M.Tucker. W. 11. Hughes,
Miss Netta Christian, delegates.
The order of business was suspended for
the purpose of offering some resolutions in
regard to the dcatli of Bro. Lovick Betts, who
was a life member of the Association, viz:
Whereas, since the last meeting of this
Association it has pleased God in his provi
dence to take from our midst our much
esteemed and beloved Bro. Lovick Betts, who
was a life member of this Association, and in
which he showed forth his love and anxioty
in the cause of Christ, and the adornment of
the Sunday school work in our midst. But
while his rdisence is mourned by this Associa
tion, as we view his vacant seat, our thoughts
arise to the paradise of God where he is
engaged in a more noble service in the praise
of God ; striking the sweet notes of praise in ’
the congregation that shall never break up;
where pleasures never end ; “ where the wick--
ed cease from troubling and the weary are at '
rest. 1 ’
Resolved, That in the death of Bro. Betts
we mourn the loss of a loving, faithful member
of this Association, but feel that our loss is
his eternal gain.
Resolved, That wo tender to his bereaved
wife, children and relations our heart-felt
sympathy, and that wo join with them in
striving to meet him in that blessed abode.
Resolved, That the above preamble and
resolutions be signed by the president and
secretary of this Association, and that a copy
be furnished the family of our deceased
brother, also a copy be sent to the Walton 1
News for publication, and a page in our record
be set apart for this memorial.
On motion all members of Sabbath schools
wishing to make any remarks for the good of <
the work be allowed to do so.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
On best mode of securing attendance.
J. M. Tucker, chairman. Received and
adopted.
On singing.—There being no written report
ready all the choristers of the schools present
were appointed as a committee to submit a.
report during the evening session.
On best mode of opening and conducting
Sabbath Schools.—E. S. Ethridge, chairman.
Received and adopted.
Duties and qualifications of superinten-.
dents. No written report.
O.i motion, the Sabbath schools of this
Association are requested to unite with their
respective county Associations that they may
be represented in the International Sunday
School Convention.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
On the best mode of securing attendance. .
W. W. Parks, J. M. Tucker and J.O. Haw
thorn.
On singing.—G. O. Jones, W. S. Mitchell I
and S. E. Freeman.
On opening and conducting Sunday School.
—Rev. B. T. Thomas, T. W. Iloloway and
T. O. Morris.
On duties and qualifications of Superinten
dents. —N. J. Kelly, M. M. Williams and
A. J. Mayfield.
Elected officers for the ensuing year n-
W. W. Park, president; B. A. Blakey, vice
president ; N. J. Kelley, secretary and treas
urer ; M. S. Williams, agent; S. H. Freeman,
marshal ; E. S. Ethridge and S. E. Freeman
directors in singing.
The next annual meeting of this Associa
tion will be held at Apalachee church on the
l3t Saturday in Ma}', 1882. The general
celebration will be held at Pleasant Hill on
Saturday, 30th of July next.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Jackson Herald,
with the request that the Walton Neivs and
the Gwinnett Herald copj r the same. Ad- <
journed with the benediction by Rev. B. T.
Thomas. W. W. Parks, President.
N. O. Kelly, Secretary.
There can be no doubt there is teue economy
in a kindly, considerate trcatracht by man of
the domestic and other animals. The motto
of all who have any property in or care over
them should unquestionably be, “Humanity
is the best policy.”
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