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BREVITIES. t e?’Harvest time ! {jTßipc peaches! U# Xo spring chickens yet! IjpDc blackberry am here! is our fence law issue! tiPJefTerson has but three loafers ! EjpThe town cows arc in favor of a stock law. wheat threshers start out next week. t c? A load of home-made corn was in town this week. t female crowd is happy—garden truck is becoming plentiful. { cPßacon, the lunatic, is a real nuisance. He is all the time making a fuss. was a shooting match at Duke's still house last Saturday evening. S. Howard has sent in his resigna tion as Justice of the Peace for this District. J Hp'Our colored brethren did not turn out numerously last Saturday, but what w as here were unanimously for fence. MTWc invite your especial attention to J. 11. Huggins’ proclamation. It will be to your interest to heed its requests. people arc more sanguin about procuring a railroad now than ever before. In fact, they are real sanguinary. I on the 9th inst., at the residence of Mr. Wiley’s, in this county, Rev. J. M. Venable officiating, Mr. J. A. Wills and Miss 11. A. Rutledge. may just put it down in yourjittle book that there will be at least four hundred to five hundred colored votes cast against the stock law when the election comes oIT. I eUJefferson sends a railroad delegation some where out into the world every few days. It reminds us of a somewhat similar incident that is in the Bible (old version) that occurred during old man Noah’s nautical voyage. it?'We judge from a conversation yester day morning between two doctors that there was but very little sickness in our town. They were proposing to run a foot race, play a game of croquet or mumble peg, or, in fact anything to kill time. [ #'Mr. Winn Worsham has contracted to carry the mail from this place to Jug Tavern on and after the first of July. The time of arrival and departure will also be changed, so that the mail will leave here Friday morn ing and get back the same night. Myrtie McCarty will give a concert on Friday night, July Ist, 1881, at the Baptist and Presbyterian church in this place. The evening’s entertainment will be varied with readings and recitations as well ns much music. Remember this, and honor her with your presence, since she will indeavor to make the programme interesting and attractive. ViPCoweta County will take a pull at the stock law the same time we do, and at a meenting of her citizens last week a com mitteeofone from each District was appointed to go over to South Carolina and see how “ no fence” was working over there and come back and report upon the subject. This kind of a project was suggested by some of our citizens this week, but presume it will not be carried out. A Renter’s View. Mu. Editor : —As you have offered the use of your columns to those desiring to discuss the stock law, I shall avail myself of the opportunity to give my views upon the subject. I am a land renter now and always have been, and up to two years ago it made me mad for any man to name stock law to me. Since then I have considered the matter more fully and I am now a strong advocate for “ no fence.” My reasons for this change is, that if there was a “ no fence” law in this county, I believe that in less than two years 1 could rent as much land as I wanted for one-fourth of what it made, when now I have to pay one third. First, because there would be more land for cultivation ; we would then have the whole count}’ to cultivate, exceptone or two pastures on each farm. Second, because the land owners would be at less expense to keep up their farms, and crfuld better afford to rent at lower figures. Third, because I believe I would be enabled in a shot time to buy land and open me a farm at half the expense that it costs now. My stock runs in a good pasture provided for them, and I have never paid no rent for it yet. I have a good house, and I pay no rent for it. But there are some land owners that you could not get along with under no circumstances. I have learnt how to manage them now, and I think I can still do so if we have a stock law. So I say to all renters, lay down your prejudices and come up to the election and vote to try something new, and, take my word for it, you will not regret it. J. M. 11. Muysville, Ga., June 1881. MONEY! MONEY!! NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS! The stockholders in the Gainesville, Jef ferson and Southern Railroad Company are hereby informed that more money is wanted at once, to continue the work on the road iu Jackson county, and it is hoped and expect ed that every one will now come forward and pay up, as all risk of the funds being diverted from the construction of the road has passed away. The building of our road will now be pushed rapidly to completion. I expect to call on each stockholder in a few days per sonally. Wiley C. Howard, Sec’y, and Collecting Agent for the Company. Personal Mention. Miss Emma Carter is still improving. Miss Lula Rhodes is visiting in Athens. Mrs. Few has been very sick this week. 1 hos. Harrison is able to go out serenading. Jim Williamson is laid up with the sore eyes. Dr. McElhannon’s fame as a trianglist is extending. Mrs. J. W. Glenn is visiting her daughter in Oglethorpe. John McEntire killed a fine turkey gobbler last Saturday evening. Josh Davenport, of Oglethorpe county, was in town last Wednesday. Bud Gathright got real excited about the eclipse of the mocn last Saturday night. Judge Bell is absent in Clarke county, looking after the late Mrs. Matthews’ estate. M iss Mary Winhurn has returned home, after a sojourn of several months in Gaines viile. Col. J. A. B. MahafTey occupied the pulpit at the Methodist church in this place on last Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Seale have been to Atlanta, attending some kind of Sunday School con vention. Jeff. Shirley dropped in, the latter part of last week, to take a look at the new female addition to his Tamil}’. While cleaning a fish on the creek banks, a water moccasin snatched it out of J. Foster Daniel’s hand and made off with it. Foster has been nervous ever since. Mr. S. P. Orr has been in Athens fur the last two weeks, having been appointed by Gov. Colquitt as one of the members of the Board of Visitors to the University of Georgia. Yon never know what there is in a person until you try them, is a saying that Bill Hunter is proving true —he has been over bis crop three times, and is still at work upon it. Prof. W. S. McCarty, of Ilogansville, made his relatives a pop call last Sunday. Gov. Colquitt re-appointed him as oneofthe visiting board to the University, and he was in Athens on that business. Judge Blcckly lectured this week in Atlanta with marked success. In fact, it was some thing novel and exquisitely entertaining. \ou should not fail to hear him when he delivers his address to the Martin Institute. It will be a treat, the like of which does not fall to Jefferson ever}' year. Capt. Bennett says that crops arc looking well, and that wheat and oats will turn out to be an average crop, and that everybody is happy and doing well out in his neighborhood, exccpt’those that expected the world to come to an end this spring. He says that class is rather backward with their crops. Jug Tavern Notes. Mil Editor :—As we have seen nothing in yonr columns from Jug Tavern for some time, we propose to give your readers a few items from this place. Our people have got the railroad fever, and nothing but a railroad can cure them. One man says there is a bill of “conjunction” entered against the construction of our road. But be that as it may, Jug Tavern is on a boom. The Methodist parsonage is nearly completed, and is a handsome building. Our people are all proud that they have so nice a man as Rev. E. 11. Wood to occupy the par sonage. Wheat harvesting is going on, and the threshing will commence next week. Plenty of rain, and crops are looking fine. Fruit in abundance.. Irish potatoes and beans ; ain’t they good ? If you don't be lieve it, step over and see. K. Jug Tavern, Ga., June IC tih, 1881. Ten Reasons Why The Stock Law Will Not Do. First, Because we will only have our own stock to fence against. Second. Because our neighbors may have some roguish cattle that are dependent upon onr farms for their summer living. Third, Because our cattle would be deprived of all the clover, &c., that our forests are now filled with. Fourth, Because our stock are dear to us, and if they are deprived of trespassing on our neighbors, the little prejudice we have against them would be barred. Fifth, Because we may have a good deal of fine branch bottoms that we might have to work that we don’t now. Sixth, Because some of our colored friends say the campmcetings in Anderson county, S. C., are deprived of much of the nice muttom and shoat that they use to have. (Farmers when they pen their stock usually look after them.) Seventh, Because one milch cow kept up that gets proper attention is worth as much as five running out on our fine woods pasture. Eighth, Because one outofevery fifty where the stock law has been tried say it won’t do. Ninth, Because all good laws arc harder to enact than bad ones. Tenth, Because the farmers in Anderson count}*, S. C., deposited a surplus of SIO,OOO in the bank the first of October or November after the stock law was passed. Those in favor of the stock law will please not read the ten reasons, as it may change them. Yours truly, A la Mode. | —From Hartwell Sun. LUMBER! LUMBER!! Parties desiring to build or improve their farms and houses can be supplied with a first-class article of lumber, in any size, shape and style, at lowest prices, by calling on J. R. Lanier, five miles from Jefferson, near the Academy bridge. Harmony Grove. BY OUR REGULAR COKKESUONDEN’T. —Juno apples are beginning to turn red. —The farmers are busy while our merchants are idle. —Drummers are not so numerous now as they have been. —Several of our young men took in Banks county last Sabbath. —Mr. Charlie Cooper, of Athens, spent last Sabbath in our village. —lt is almost a matter of impossibility to get a peck of mehl in our village. —One or two more good rains and the second crop of clover will be ready for mowing. —The mumps are still raging, and it seems that the longer they stay the worse the}’ get. —Trade with the merchants is just about as dull now as it ever gets to be in our village. —When dogs get to biting hogs over this way they try what virtue there is in shot guns. —Melon patches are looking well. About five or six weeks from now we will go to work on them. —Col. J. W. Hill and his estimable lady, of Homer, spent last Sunday and Monday in our village. —A couple of hands cutover three hundred dozen wheat on Mr. C. W. Hood’s farm one day last week. —The teachers and students of our High School arc very busy making preparations for their exhibition. —Mr. W. P. Golson, the wide awake travel ing agent for the Pratt Gin Cos., spent last Sunday with us. —We notice Messrs. Ilood, Power & Cos. arc having their engine greased up for the wheat campaign. —We hear of a few crops that arc a little grassy, and right now is better than a little later to clean them out. —The chickensover this way are beginning to get aw a}' high up on the roost. They don’t like the looks of things around here. —We hear of a young lady that was sadly disappointed about two weeks ago. Don’t ask any more questions about it, for it is a secret. —We hear a great deal of talk about cotton squares, corn si Iks and t assels, but none of them don't tell us about their crab grass head ing out. —We learn from parties who have been working in harvest fields that the wheat is good, though quite low and a little trouble some to save. —Mr. D. A. Crislcr brought some nice beef to town last Friday. lie says it was stall-fed on wild mulberries, but it might possibly be one of Dink’s jokes. —lf the rains will continue to visit us, the gardens will be fine, and no danger of suffering as long as wo can get beef, Irish potatoes and beans. —We will soon be able to ride through Rabun Gap on the Northeastern railroad, if Col. Foreacre will push matters right along as we want him to do. —Miss Ida Bohannon has a fine school over in Banks county. Our young men consented for Miss Ida to go over there and teach, and right here I would respectfully remind tho Banks boys that this is as far as can be tolerated ; we need all the young ladies we have right here in Harmony Grove. —The wheat-threshing bo}'s are beginning to get their mouth3, cars and eyes in trim for those good old fashioned, well buttered chicken pies, with lots of dumplings, like our grandmamma’s use to bake on Sunday in the big oven, in the big kitchen fire place, while the little grandchildren would stand around and watch the pie boil and blubber. —Some unknown party raised a white flag on Railroad Street one day last week. Well, we think it was very appropiate, but think it would be belter if our city officials would get together and hold a consultation and have an armistice for about thirty days. I think this length of time would give us all a rest, and we would feel better, do better and live longer. —Our Justice Court convened here on Monday. The jury case was continued by defendant to July term of court. State vs. F. C. Ray, charged with assault and battery, was dismissed, the prosecutor, Mr. J. It. Nash, failing to put in an appearance. Cols. P. G. Thompson and W. I. Pike, of Jefferson, were on band, and seemed in splendid humor, more especially the first named. —M e have heard of a few of the sinners rejoicing over the leaving out the word “ hell” in the revision of the New Testament. Hades has nearly or the same meaning, so we are not out of danger yet. The ten command ments are down without change, and there are no paragraphs found where men are ex cused from paying their honest debts or properly laboring to support their wives and babies. No change has been made in regard to loafers on the streets. There is nothing where a poor man or a poor man’s wife are expected to put on any particular style or follow any new fashions. Dog fights, chicken stealing, playing cards for money, and all such, will be considered meaner than ever. In fact, from the few pages that I have read, Hades will be as hot as Hell ever was, and if any difference, they have added a little more brimstone and enlarged the size of that awful pit, and the best plan is to walk upright in the sight of our Maker. —M rs. \\ .C. Gober, who lives about one mile from Harmony Grove, shouldered a double barrel shot gun, a few days ago, and went out into the woods, and was gone only a short while, when she was seen returning o with a very large wild turkey gobbler. She also shot and killed three crows while she was out. lam willing to put Mrs. Gober agauist the State as a lady shootist, and as for killing turkeys I would not hesitate to take in three or four States. Stock Law Dots. B hen the privilege of ranging stock at large was conceded to all men in common the greater portion of the lands were owned by the government, but when they were granted to individuals all its rights to control them ceased, and it had no more legal right to grant any one the privilege of ranging stock at large upon them than it had to grant the right of way, or the cutting and removing of timber, or other crops. Since your last issue, the following ques tions have been propounded : Do you not take men’s liberties from them when you compel them to fence their stock ? I reply first: Do you not take away my liberty when you force me to expend twice the value of your stock to keep them off my laud that I have purchased all the rights*and titles thereto belonging, and in which you have no interest, cither direct or indirect? If you want my stock kept off your land 3 r ou must fence it, otherwise the}’ have the right to go there. Upon the same principle, then, if the merchant does not shut and fasten his doors so that rogues cannot open them, the goods are ns much his as the merchant’s, and therefore lie has the right to take them. Or Mr. Anybody cun walk in and appropri ate them. Or, if you do not lock your doors, Mr. Burglar has the right to ransack your house. If it curtails your liberties to submit to a law when adopted b} r a majority of the quali fied voters of the county, then you had bet ter emigrate to some county where there is no such thing as law. And lastl}’, men have no such thing as ab solute libert}’; all men are restrained either by the laws of God or the laws of men. But if you give the land owner the power lie will use it to such an extent that he will force the renter to keep no stock. This I den}', for the land owner has had that power for years and has not so used it. Has he not the power to fence every acre of his land ? And that done, where will Mr. Renter range his stock ? But, under the “no fence” s}’stctn the land owner is bound to furnish pasturage for all the stock kept on his place, hence the renter is protected in stead of oppressed. The improvement of lands by taking the stock off of them will more than support all the stock in the county. It is a fact, clearly demonstrated by actual experiment, that the custom of pasturing lands after the crops are harvested is more exhaustive than the crops arc. Now, a few facts and figures. I have se lected the years from 1872 to 1874 from which to make up my conclusions, giving my “no stock law” friends the advantage of the high price of cotton and stock. There is in the State of Georgia 11.035,877 acres of land under fence, which cost $45,191,916, and the annual cost of repairs is not less than 10 per cent., which is $4,519,171. The land occu pied by fences is 376,411 acres, (which ren ders no income) which, at the average value of improved lands of the Slate, is $1,217,448, which makes a total investment in fences, for the State, $46,408,364 —not counting the cost of repairs nor interest on the capital invested. Now, the average value of live stock for the State of Georgia is not exceeding $24,- 500,000, which is about one-half the value of the fences. For every dollar invested in live stock in the Stale, two dollars aro required for the construction of fences to protect the growing crops. The repair of fences annu ally calls for the destruction of nearly 100,- 000 acres of timber, which, when taken in connection with other depletions of forest in the next half century, will leave the entire country destitute of timber. It is very evident to every candid, think ing man that stock can be fenced and sup ported for one-eighth of this sum. Now, as j Jackson county has more than her average share ot fences, and less than an average of stock, it is clear that the saving to her is, to say the least, immense. Yours truly, Vande Linctum. A Former Citizen. All of our readers will be rejoiced to read the following complimentary notice, from the Gainesville Southron, of a gentleman who was not long since an honored citizen of our town We are glad to hear of Dr. Long's properity, and suggest to our readers the possibility of its being to their interest to call on him when in Gainesville : “ It will be noticed that Dr. Henry J. Long comes to the front in this issue with his sum mer advertisement. ’ The drug house of Dr. Long needs no commendation from us. Every body knows it is one of the best in upper Georgia, and we need only say that the Doctor has taken special pains to fill up and fix up for the summer trade, and can supply our transient visitors, as well as our regular citi zens, with everything they can think of that ought to be found in a first class drug store. That Dr. Long deserves credit for his enter prise in building up his splendid drug house, while attending at the same time to a large practice, everybody admits ; and we are glad to see him making such an entire success. Call on Dr. Long before making your purchases, and lie and the boys will attend to the balance of the trade.” SI.OO Per Day. Wanted, 50 hands, to work on the Gaines ville & Jefferson Railroad, at ONE DOLLAR per day. Apply to Blackstock & Sons. mmmi u in in m i ■ WE ARE PREPARED TO FURNISH The “ Tanner The “Wood Taber X Morse,” ENGINES, and Thatmail- Taylor ’ “ • lultman- Taylor” SEPARATOR, “Lane $ Bodley” NULLS, “Steel Brush” COTTON Gt-IIST, Chicago” HAY SCALES, cfco. We are manufacturers agents, and can therefore sell as low as any house in the State. Wc refer to a few of the many who have bought from us in the past two years : J. E. Randolph, J. G. Dunnahoo, 13. J. Mathews, J. P. 13ird, Jackson county. Hon. J. M. Smith, J. L. Jarrill, Mathews it Iluff, Tiller it Broach, Oglethorpe county. J. 13. Ebcrhart, A\ . 11. Long, G. G. it J. 0. Daniel, Madison county. J. F. Jackson, A. 13. Jackson, Oconee count}'-. ORR & HUNTER, March 25. Athens, Ga. 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