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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 D 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. CO —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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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