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BREVITIES.
reeds half a million brick?
IsTMr. Martin is finishing his brick store
house.
MPTjots of the railroad hands spend their
money in this place.
t’cPThe “ city dads” have decided to have
a little street work done.
A. T. Ycarwood lost his milldam
by the rain last Monday.
SlTOur doctors keep busy. These hot days
make plenty of work for them.
JIT” Frying size” chickens arc as scarce
as their mother's teeth in this bailiwick.
roti. all the information we can gather,
the rain was general all over this count}’.
IdPMt is a noticeable fact that the colored
people buy more watermelons than the whites.
LsPMr. Green Bailey scores the first open
Colton boll. It was found on the 27th inst.
Monday’s season benefited grow
ing crops in this county some three or four
thousand dollars.
overseers should take advantage
of the weather and put in a few licks in the
most need}' places.
IT’Mim Randolph has moved into his new
house, and lie complains that it is not yet
large enough for him.
members of the New Salem Sun
day School (colored) will have a celebration
on to-morrow and Sunday. All are invited
to attend.
l.TP’Clerk Williamson has all of his dockets
in working order, and we venture the asser
tion that no county in Georgia has a more
handsome set.
since last Monday has assured
you good crops, you can return thanks for
the same in no better way than to subscribe
for the Herald.
Lip George Davis (the barber) will be in
town during the first week of Court, prepared
to trim your heads and faces up in style.
You should not let the opportunity slip.
LPMudge Erwin opened the fall riding of
his Circuit last Monday morning at Watkins
villc, in Oconee county. Next week he will
dispense justice to the citizens of this county.
I'p'The ran last Monday morning was
unusually heavy for the time of the year. It
overflowed the banks of most of the water
courses and did great damage to bottom corn.
LF’We would like to know who the new
schedule on the Northeastern suits. Won’t
we be glad when we get a railroad of our own,
and won’t have to depend upon other people.
will be a protracted meeting at
Galilee church, beginning on Friday night
before the first Sunday in August. The ser
vices will bo conducted by Elder J. M. Rat
liff.
□Tlf you are not a subscriber already, we
would be glad if you would call and give us
your name for the Jackson Herald, during
Court week. Wo will not rest contented until
it reaches every fireside in Jackson county.
( week is here and something re
markable is about to happen—there is nobody
in jail awaiting trial at this term of the Court.
There is of business, however, to keep
the Court running for several weeks.
New “ Hartsel” Gin Saw Filing
Machine will be on exhibition in Jefferson
next week. The most perfect machine for
sliarpcning gins ever invented. Bring your
gins to Jefferson and have them sharpened.
County rights for sale.
I P’Our town has been on the temperance
list so long that the boys have forgotten what
saloon means, as is evidenced by the fact that
one of them seeing the once familiar legend
in Atlanta, while in that city, calmly walked
in and asked for a drink of water.
LP*Bud Bacon is a fruitful source for news.
If lie was at liberty, he would furnish us with
a good genuine item every week. As it is,
he is certainly doing his best to help us along.
Last Friday his friends again carried him off,
and he remained away until last Tuesday
morning, when he was brought back and
placed in his old home. At dinner time some
parties down town discovered smoke coming
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out of the grates of the jail, and an investiga
tion showed that Bacon had set fire to an old
straw mattress that was in the cage, but, from
some cause, he had put the fire out, (we
presume it was smoking him too bad) before
the crowd could get to him. Upon examining
Dim, a box of matches, some tobacco, a pipe,
some nails, a powder flask and some other
articles were found in his pockets. He said
that he just wanted to warm, was tho reason
why he set tho straw a fire.
Horse and Buggy Stolen.
On last Monday night some unknown per
son stole Mr. W. 1\ Hogg’s grey horse, and
going from there to Mr. J. G. MeLcstcr’s,
took his buggy, and departed for parts un
known, going in the direction of Atlanta.
Mr. Boggs did not discover his loss until late
luesday evening, when a party was made up
to go in pursuit of the theif. Mr. McLester
did not note the absence of his buggy until
M ednesday, after the pursuing party had
passed his house, and too late to give them
any information in regard to it. The tracks
indicated that the person was traveling the
Ilog Mountain road towards Lawrenccvillc.
Death of Mr. John Kittle.
During the early part of last week, Mr.
John Kittle’s foot slipped, while he was get
ting out of a wagon, and he fell across the
wheel, inflicting severe and fatal injuries,
from which he died last Friday night, after
suffering excruciating pain. Mr. Kittle was
a well-to-do and successful farmer, having
amassed a considerable property by his own
cllbrts. lie leaves a wife and several chil
dren.
JEFFERSON’S RAILROAD.
Facts Carved in the Hills!
M e paid a long contemplated visit, on last
Friday, to where Mr. Blaekstock is at work
on the Jefferson end of the railroad that has
been projected from this place to Gainesville.
We were anxious to see for ourselves what
had actually been done ; how much work was
yet to be accomplished, &c.
Mrs Blaekstock, the contractor, is at pres
ent at work near the upper end of his section,
close to the Hall line. When we visited the
works he was nearly half through one of the
deepest cuts on the road. lie was working
about eighteen hands, and had started in that
week with about thirty, but lie says that it is
almost impossible to keep his forces up to
any desired number, as they are constantly
going and coming, and will work two or three
days and then drop out one or two days to
rest, or it is lost in going and returning from
home each wock. The work has been very
severe during the hot weather just past, and
only those who were old hands at the busi
ness could stand the exhaustion. It is worth
a trip to sec how the whole matter is man
aged. You may think that you could make
an embankment for a railroad as good as any
body else, but if you will just go and see one
in actual construction you will soon become
convinced that you know but little about it.
How to save your dirt so as to make it pay
twice with one handling, and to determine
how far it will pay to move it, how to get it
ready to be moved without having to use
picks, how to get it out of your way in deep
cuts, how to keep your hands always busy
and your carts always running, arc questions
that will keep you busy all day long and most
of the night. Profitable railroading is a
science, and you can just put it down that
green hands at the business generally get bit.
Mr. Blaekstock lias been doing some good
work, and when wo take into consideration
the small force lie has had at work, we are
forced to tho conclusion that he has done lots
of it. With the completion of the above
mentioned cut and the adjoining fill, lie will
have two miles finished up ready for the cross
tics. He will then move down below his
shanties and commence work to the river.
Competent judges, who have been over the
line and have seen the profile, say that the
same amount of work that it took for the two
miles already graded will grade five miles
this side of the shanties. This amount of
work will put him across the river some dis
tance.
Since our visit we learn that quite an ad
ditional number of bands have been put to
work ; in fact, just as many as tools could be
procured for, and the report came down to
town that plenty of hands were standing on
the side of the cuts waiting for someone in
the cut to drop his tools, so that they could
go to work in his place. Additional tools
have been sent up, and it is hoped that he
will be able to give all that come something
to do.
We learn that one or two parties are about
to take sections and put forces to work upon
them in the next two weeks, and those in
charge are contemplating the advisability of
securing fifty convicts from Oglethorpe coun
ty and putting them to work on this side of
the river, and thus commence work at this
end of the line. Matters arc in such a shape
that the dirt can be moved just as fast as our
stockholders will pay in the money, and the
sooner it is (lor.e the quicker will the road
bed be read}' for cross Lies and iron.
Every one.interested in the railroad should
go up and see what has been done and what
is being done, and they will be convinced of
two things, viz : First, that the railroad is
being built towards Jefferson just as fast as
hands can do it. Second, that it is pointing
this way, and will not go around us, and can
not stop until it gets here, Gainesville, Jug
Tavern, Redwine & Cos., and the powers be
low to the contrary notwithstanding. The
reason why we speak so positive is, that it is
palpable to any one who will think for a mo
ment. We have already spent too much to
let the work stop; it is impossible. It would
be an outrage on common sense to half finish
the work and then drop it. Grass roust never
grow on the embankments of the Jefferson
railroad; it is true it is a big job, but if we
keep working away at it the end will soon be
reached. We have passed the wind work
stage of the business and have got to the hard
part of the job. The road has passed out of
the list of possibilities and is rapidly nearing
realty. The demand for our hard earnings is
heard every day. It takes cash now and not
promises. And for every dollar wc put into
it we are conscious that wo are bringing it
that much nearer to old Jefferson. Yes, to
old Jefferson—much abused, much cursed and
wantonly insulted ; poor thing, she is at last
on a boom—a real, genuine boom ; none of
your shoddy, unsubstantial affairs; not a
wind concern, bolstered up by airy nothings,
but one resting on a solid foundation of dol
lars and cents. Yet, our people do not boast
of it. The fact is, they have been so often
disappointed that they cannot realize the
true situation ; they are afraid that it is too
good to be true, and they will not even ad
mit the fact to their nearest neighbor, but you
go to one of them and talk about buying his lot,
or a town lot from him, and he will, in an un
conscious and childlike manner, stick between
twenty-five and fifty per cent, on the price be
asked for the same piece of property last fall.
And the good part about it is, that you can
now determine whether it is to be a business
lot or a pasture lot, for this same old town is
located and has been located for some time,
notwithstanding the elements and its numer
ous enemies have been using their utmost
endeavors to dislocate it. Fossibly as soon
as our citizens realize that they must lay off
anew town, it will be done; and then we will
be ready to invite outside capital to come in
and locate with us. We may then have a few
of the minor considerations that tend to make
a prosperous town and yield a fair return for
money invested, such as a good territory for
merchandizing and manufacturing, good cli
mate and water, extra church and school fa
cilities, and other items too tedious to men
tion. Our only want is a highway to connect
us with the living and moving world, and
then we will make even our worst traduccrs
proud of our attainments.
But wc are digressing and progressing into
a long article, without telling all we want to
about our railroad—when it will probably
reach here, &c. The Gainesville end of the
road hacks but somewhere between three and
four miles of being finished, and we have
about nine and a half miles yet unfinished.
But this will be built much moro rapidly in
the future, now that labor is plentiful, and
should the stockholders furnish the means,
we may expect to see the grading completed
by the first of December, if not before that
time. And after the grading is completed, it
will not consume much time to put on the
cross ties and lay the iron. Before we get
our grading done the iron will be laid and
cars running on the first ten miles, so that we
will have that much to console us and urge
us forward. At present the enterprise is
working smoothly, and will continue to do so.
It has been determined amongest our people
to build the road at all hazards, and they
have just got the pluck to carry out their in
tentions. So the sooner you come and pick
out your lot and buy it, the cheaper you will
get it, and you can just count on the railroad
as one of the inevitables. As for the boom,
why, just tell your people that it is on a
steady rise and shows no indications of
weakening in the future, and that the people
of Jefferson are making every preparation to
grasp and hold tho solid prosperity that will
come to them with the completion of her
railroad.
Personal Mention.
Col. Pike is absent this week attending
court in Oconee county.
Rev. Mr. Grow and lady left this week for
a trip up in the mountains.
Dr. McElhannon took in Atlanta and the
Georgia Legislature last week.
Miss Lula Rhodes has returned from a visit
to Miss Barnes, near Nicholson.
The most of our young ladies are off sum
mering it in cooler climes, no doubt.
Thomas Johnson has a large school at
Thompson’s school-house. Miss Bessie Kelly
is assisting him.
Judge Bell, J. E. Randolph, J. A. B. Ma
haffey and Frank Pendergrass visited Atlanta
this week in the interest of our railroad.
We note in the Legislative proceedings of
the 20th instant, that Col. Silman had, on the
previous day, presided over the deliberations
of the House.
Prof. G. J. Orr, our State School Com
missioner, was elected President of the
National Educational Association, at its re
cent meeting in Atlanta.
Prof. W. S. McCarty, of Hogansville, lias
been spending part of his vacation in our
town. He still “ totes his own skillet,” from
a matrimonial stand point.
John Ross, Dr. Pendergrass and Harr}’
Bell have organized a Lodge of Sorrow. They
have meetings several times a week, and
appear to be getting on nicely. May they
find the much needed consolation for their
mourning hearts.
Tom Harrison and Brant Maxwell returned
last Tuesday night from their trip to the falls.
We have not been able to interview them yet,
but learn that Brant got homesick, and that
an old maid, who represented herself as being
rich, tried to get Thomas to e’.ope with her,
and all that prevented was Brant’s refusal to
give his consent.
Sunday School Mass Meeting.
The Jefferson Circuit Sunday School Mass
Meeting will be held at Thompson’s school
house, August 6th, 1881, beginning at 10
o’clock A. M.
MORNING PROGRAMME.
Exercises will begin with a song by the
schools, and reading the Scriptures and prayer
by the pastor.
Song, by the schools.
Address, by Prof. J. W. Glenn. Subject
—Sunday School Work and Workers. One
hour.
Song, by Lebanon School.
Song, by Bethany School.
Song, by Thompson’s School.
Song, by all the schools.
Adjourn for dinner.
EVENING PROGRAMME.
Call to order at o’clock P. M.
Song, by all the schools.
Statements as to how Sunday Schools aro
conducted, by S. S. Superintendents.
Questions asked them upon modes and
means employed for the development of the
Sunday School work.
Song, by Jefferson School.
Essay, or address, from Lebanon.
Song, by Thompson’s School.
Essay, or address, from Bethany.
Song, by Lebanon School.'
Essay, or address, from Thompson's.
Song, by Bethany School.
Song, by all the schools.
The public are cordially invited to attend.
Families are requested to bring their luuch
baskets.
There will be a meeting of the official mem
bers of the Circuit on Friday, the sth of Au
gust, at 11 o’clock A. M. A full attendance
is desired.
Yours, &c., R. A. Seale.
Harmony Grove.
by our regular correspondent.
—Cotton is throwing off.
—The cholera is among the chickens.
—Good milch cows are in demand.
Mrs. R. S. Chencv is quite sick.
—“ Old ned” (bacon) is still advancing in
price.
—Mr. C. M. Wood has bought anew top
buggy.
—Messrs. C. M. & J. N. Wood arc supply
ing our people with beef.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Simpkins are visit
ing at Conyers this week.
—Mr. T. E. Key has been feeble this week
—not able to be at his post.
—Mr. W. T. Gordon spent a portion of
last week with relatives in Banks county.
—lt was so very warm here last week that
a hen would almost cook on a nest of e2gs.
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—Col. Socrates Pruitt, of Athens, resusci
tated and perambulated Banks county last
week.
—Mr. R. L. Hardman has a couple of pet
kittens. All young men about the age of Mr.
H. want pets.
—Monday morning brought with it a fine
shower, which gladdened the hearts of our
farmer friends.
—Some of the road overseers are taking
advantage of the rain that came last Monday
by putting thoir roads in order.
—The rain will help a great deal now, but
if it had been ten days earlier upland corn
would have turned out first-rate.
The sun’s path was marked with a line
of thin cloud at sunset on Tuesday evoning.
The line was as straight as an arrow.
—“ I should smile,” and so will you, when
you buy some of Bill Goss’ fresh turnip seed,
and sec what fine turnips you can grow. At
the Post Office at Harmony Grove, Ga.
—Young men should always provide means,
or to furnish a boy to return answers to their
notes; they should not wait for the young
lady to hunt up a porter or Bridget to return
their answers.
—Hurrah for Wiley Bush and Laura City.
Now, if Wiley will connect at this place with
the Harmony Grove & Broad River Railroad,
he will have a city in a few years equal to
any of the Southern cities.
—A man was tried for lunacy in Walton
county a few days ago, and the strongest evi
dence against him is said to have been that
he loved a }’oung lady so much that he tried
to force her to marry him. Don’t know but
what we will have to try somo of our bloods
this fall.
—A change of schedule on the North
eastern Railroad took effect Monday, leaving
Athens at about 6.30 A. M. and returning at
8.30 P. M., which will make our mails about
eight hours later, and will throw Jefferson
twenty-four hours later with mail.
—Mr. and Miss Lear, of Elbert county, are
visiting friends in our village, and from the
information obtained from parties who pro
fess to be judges of such matters, we will lose
one of our pretty young ladies some of these
days. A hint to wise young men is suffici
ent.
—There was quite a number of people at
the Baptist church last Sabbath. Rev. Mr.
Rainwater, of Middle Georgia, preached a
good sermon to attentive hearers, and at this
writing (Monday) three have joined the
church, and.the indications arc that the
meeting will continue through the week.
—Mr. Dan Q. is really the happiest look
ing young man in town this week. If he has
not already been whispering something soft
into the ears of some pretty j’oung lady, the
day is not far distant when such will be the
case. It will not be out of place, I trust, to
inform the young ladies interested in this
matter that his mind is fully made up.
—The case of P. C. Pittman vs. S. M.
Shankle, a suit for a bale of cotton, was tried
here last Friday, and resulted in a judgment
for plaintiff, and was appealed to Superior
Court by defendant. This caso being a little
novel in its nature, attracted quite a crowd
of the curious. Messrs. Simpkins and Pike
represented the defendant and Messrs. Ilill
and P. C. Pittman the plaintiff.
ORDINATION OF REV. A. 11. BOONE.
Upon a call of the church at Harmony
Grove, Ga., the following Presbytery assem
bled, Revs. W. F. Stark, A. J. Kelly, A. C.
Rainwater, W. T. M. Brock, W. B. J. Hard
man and W. W. Jackson, for the purpose of
ordaining A. H. Boone to the Gospel minis
try. Presbytery organized by appointing
Rev. W. B. J. Hardman Chairman and re
questing R. S. Cheney to act as Secretary.
Opening prayer by Rev. W. T. M. Brock.
Candidate having been presented by the
church, the examination proceeded, led by
Rev. W. F. Stark, in regard to Christian ex
perience, call to the ministry, doctrinal and
practical views, &c. The examination being
eminently satisfactory, the Presbytery pro
cceded with the ordination. The ordination
sermon was preached by Rev. A. C. Rainwa
ter, from 2d Corinth., 6th chapter, Ist clause
of 4th verse—“ But in all things approving
ourselves as the ministers of God.” Prayer
by Rev. W. T. M. Brock, and laying on of
hands by Presbytery. Charge given and
Bible presented by Rev. A. J. Kelly. Hand
of fellowship given by Presbytery and church.
Benediction by Rev. A. H. Boone.
W. B. J. Hardman, Ch’n.
R. S. Cheney, Sec’y.
Har.nony Grove , Ga., July 23d, 1881.
A conductor on the Georgia Railroad very
properly ejected a passenger from one of his
cars the other day for taking off his coat in
the presence of tho ladies and refusing to put
it on. The gentleman hailed from Pennsyl
vania.
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BITTERS
Letter from Hcsch’s Store.
A big meeting going on at Bethlehem.
Brothers Wood, Rutherford and Hudson are
deeply interested, and I think will do much
good for this community.
Schools in full blast, numbering from fifty
to sixty scholars.
The weather is hot and dry, and no appear
ance of rain. Wish it would rain about a
week. John says he don’t care much if it
would rain a month, if it will fall just right.
Neither do I. John and always did
run together in nearly everything. We are
on a line politically, and farmically, too,
’ccpt John farms and I don’t.
The boys won't let the girls alone. Some
thing happened the other night which created
quite a sensation. A great big, long, mooly
fellow, weighing about a couple hundred
pounds, went over to sec his girl, as he called
her, looking as well as he could under the
circumstances. Ho popped up by the side of
his would-be wife and asked her if they
couldn’t abridge their marriage—make it
shorter; when she went right square back on
him. lie being feustrated over the matter,
went straight to her father and told him what
had happened, and tried to get him to make
her stand to her promise. But he, knowing
nothing of the matter, was struck dumb, and,
through excitement and rage, he grabbed a
chair and drew it back, I suppose, to kill him,
but the mooly, with glaring eyes, stooped in
time for the chair to pass over his head, and
out at the door, full speed, twenty feet at a
jump, on he sped, over bushes, small trees,
rocks, logs and everything that came in his
way. When he came to himself he was on
Price’s mountain, with his head scalped. I
refrain from giving this young man’s name,
but he lives on Tandy creek, in this county,
and now goes by the name of “ the boy with
the scar on his head.” He says if he knew
of any ku-klux he’d roako that man git up
and sift. But he says he has one consolation,
he knows something on two young ladies, and
if they don’t let him alone he’ll tell on ’em
certain. John says take warning, young
ladies, and let “ the man with the scar on his
head” alone.
Married, at the residence of Mr. W. D.
Casey, on the loth ult., Mr. M. C. Bryant and
Miss Georgia Fainborougli, P. P. Pirklo of
ficiating. We wish thorn a long and happy
life.
We have the town laid off at Ilosch'e Store,
with its several streets. It is going to be a
fast place, so John says, and John knows, for
he can see farther with his natural cyo than
common men can through a telescope.
lloosier.
P. S.—Well, the hoys don’t say a word
about their Western grain. It was a fudge,
just as John and myself expected. John and
myself have decided that a goober crop would
beat this Western grain ; that is, if they could
get a patent goober hullcr. Try it, boys ;
success is ahead. H.
Hosch's Store, Ga., July 23d, 1881,
Hundreds of Men, Women and Children
Rescued from beds of pain, sickness and
almost death and made strong and hearty by
Parker’s Ginger Tonic are the best evidences
in the world of its sterling worth. You can
find these in every community. Post. See
advertisement.
Items from DeLaperriere's Store.
Mr Editor :—As you were kind enough to
allow my writing to appear in your paper, I
send you a few more items.
Crops, which looked so fine and promising
at my last writing, for the want of rain now
look almost hopeless. Cotton le not suffer
ing so much as corn. Very little cotton, up
to the present, show any signs of shedding.
Wheat threshers arc boused again. The
wheat crop in this section did not turn out as
well as was anticipated.
Dr. J. C. DeLapcrricro and D. B. Olivor
have purchased anew steam engine, snw mill,
gin, &c. I suppose it will be in operation in
a few days. The engine is one of the late
improved self-propelling.
Peaches and apples are ripening. The
crop is bountiful. We have peaches to still,
but these smart Legislature men hnvo pass
ed a prohibition. Well, the most desirable
section of our State is now around the edges,
so as it will bo convenient to the bar. As
for myself, 1 am for peace, but I'll be John,
been if I am going to let any set of men chiz
zle me out of niy egg-nog.
Preparations are being made for the camp
meeting.
I)r. J. C. DeLapcrricro purchased two lots
in Jug Tavern this week, but wo can’t give
him up.
Dr. G. W. DeLaperrierc and lady arc on a
visit to his father. They intend staying un
til after camp meeting.
Well, I guess we are as contented and*
happy without the railroad as we would have
been with it. It will come In about two and'
a half miles of hero, and we can bear the
whistle and rumbling of the cars, if they run
at all. But the road is not built by a jug full.
It is a bad sign to sue stockholders thus
early.
But enough. Yours truly,
July 23d, 1881. A. 0.
Excursion I Excursion I
There will be an excursion, for both black
and white, leave Athens for Atlanta on Friday
morning, August the 12th, 1881, by of
the Northeastern Railroad. The excursionist
will reach Atlanta at 3 P. M. and remain until
Monday morning 7 o’clock, and return to
Athens early in the evening. Fare for the
round trip will be $2.50 from all the
The excursion is under the management of
some of the most prominent and respected
colored men of Athens, who havo had great,
experience in this business, and will be &
guarrantee that good order and proper atten
tion will be given to all. As there has always
been a great demand for them, they have con
tinued the plan of setting apart coaches for
their white friends who may wish to aval)
themselves of this splendid opportunity ta
visit the “ Gate City,” at a small cost, white*
the Legislature is in session.
Way ncsboro Expositor: " A colored youth
sauntered into the Ordinary's office last Satur
day, his object being to procure a marriage
license. Upon being interviewed in regard to
the age of the bride elect, he said she was
about forty years old, and also gave as a rea
son for his preference for a blushing damsel
so much older than himself, that she had four
or fivn