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ROBERT S. HOWARD,)
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VOLUME I.
Jldoertißemenfe.
Notice to Contractors.
WILL be let. to the lowest bidder, before the
Court House door in Jefferson, on Tuesday,
the oth day of September, 18S1, the contract for
building the bridge across the Walnut Fork of the
Oconee river at the old bridge location near Mad
dox's mill, in accordance with the following speci
fications : Said bridge to be huiit with one queen
post truss span fifty feet and two end spans;
length of end spans to suit length of bridge. Tim
bers to truss span. 5 sleepers, 8 by 12 or 10 by 12.
fifty-four feet long ; two bolsters, G hy 12, 1G feet
long, to he placed one-third the length of span
apart, the same to extend across bottom of bridge
under sleepers, and be supported by main rods
running through from top of truss to bolster.
(See plans.) Truss timbers, 8 by 10, length to
suit one-third length of span; to be even notched
at the foot or lower end and well pinned and bolt
ed with iron bolts ; truss to be braced with two
braces on each side, extending from lower end of
bolster to top of truss, of 3 by 4 scantling; truss
to be framed 3 feet 3 inches from top edge of
sleepers to top of truss ; iron rods for trussing,
11 inch best round iron, with taps and washers.
.Said span to extend from arch of trestle in water
on south side of river to bank ; on opposite side,
trestle in water to be built on crib made of 10 by
12 inch timbers, notched in and well pinned at
each corner, extending up to surface of the water
ami to be filled up with rock ; length and width
of said crib to suit heighth of trestle. Trestle on
hank to he let into the ground by digging trench
as deep as water will allow and filled in on with
rock and dirt. Each end span to extend from
trestles under truss span well out to short tres
tles, to he let into the ground three feet and filled
with rock and dirt; five sleepers to eacli span, 8
hy 12 inches; two outside sleepers to each span,
at each end of sleeper to he redded with 1] inch
iron rod, extending from mud sills up through
sleepers Trestle timbers, mud sills to he 10 by
12, length to suit heighth of trestle ; uprights, 10
hy 12, same length ; cap sills, 10 by 12, iifteen
feet long, morticed half through, to fit on tenant
on upright, and well pinned; mud sill on crib to
he wcil pinned and handed with iron to crib legs,
as seen in plans. Hand-rail to be placed on eacli
side of end spans; uprights to same to be S feet
apart and morticed through iloor and keyed on
underside and braced on outside. Flooring, 2by
12, 11 feet long, well spiked down with forty pen
ny spikes, two in each end, right and left in inter
mediate sleepers. All timbers to be good heart,
and if hewn, to be well and smoothly done. Said
bridge to be completed in iifty days from time of
letting. Bond, with two good securities, in dou
ble the amount of the hid, will he required imme
diately after the letting, conditioned fora faithful
complyance of the contract. The work to be paid
for when completed in accordance with the speci
fications. Full and complete specifications can
be seen at this ollicc.
Aug. 5. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Sheriff's Sale.
WILL he sold, before the Court House door in
Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Septem
ber, 18.il, within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder, the following property, to-wit:
A tract of land, situated in the 242d District G.
M. of said county, containing seventy acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of J. E." Arnold, Lee Mor
ris, .Robert Morris and others. Levied on as the
property of J. 11. Eads a.id S. J. Eads, to’satisfy
a ti. fa. issued from the Justice’s Court of the
212d District G. M., in favor of J. It. Crane vs.
J. 11. and S. J. Eads. Levy made a* and returned
to me by J. C. Williamson. L. C. Notice given
the tenant in possession as the law directs.
T. A. MeELIIANNON, Sh’ff.
/ 1 liOl.h! A, Jackson Comity*
VT
Whereas, C. W. Hood, Executor of Z. S. Hood,
deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition
duly filed, 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, ISSI, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let
ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap
plicant from said trust.
Given under my official signature, this May 30.
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Comity.
Whereas, O. M. Wood, Administrator on the
estate of A. M. Loggins, late of said county, de
ceased, represents to the Court, hy his petition
duly filed, that he has fully administered said es
tate, and is entitled to a discharge—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of
said county, ou the first Monday in October, 18S1,
why said applicant should not have Letters of Dis
mission from his said trust.
Given under my official signature, this June 28,
1881. 11. W. BELL. Ord’y.
.lackson €onnty.
Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrator on the
estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county,
deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully
administered said estate, and is therefore entitled
to Letters of Dismission—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of
said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881,
why said letters should not be granted the appli
cant.
Given under my official signature, this June2S,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Only.
Q.EOKGIA, County.
Whereas, the reviewers, appointed for the pur
pose of reviewing the road in said county com
mencing on the Athens and Lawrcnceville road,
near the residence of Charles Furgerson. thence
by the residences of James and Nancy Spencer,
John Marlow, C. P. Furgerson. Lewis Anthen
and W. Collins, intersecting with the Watkins*
vdle and Hog Mountain road at or near the resi
dence of the Widow Jones, having marked out and
reported that the establishment of said road as
one of the public roads of said county will con
duce to the convenience of the traveling public,
an order will be passed on Monday, the 22d
day of August, ISSI, finally granting the estab
lishment of said road as one of the public roads cf
the county, if no good cause to the contrary be
shown.
Given under my official signature, this July 20,
ISSI. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
QEGRGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas. M. J. Dowdy applies fur Letters of
Guardianship of the persons and property of John
W. Dowdy and Joseph F. Dowdy, minors of IV.
F. Dowdy, deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin,
Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first
Monday in September, 1881, why said Letters
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3.
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
QEORGIA, Jackson County.
James L. Bailey has applied for exemption of
personalty and setting apart and valuation of
homestead; and I will pass upon the same at 10
o clock A. M., on the loth day of August, 1881.
a' my office in Jefferson.
EOIKhSA, Jacksjou County.
VJ
Whereas, Martha J. Watson, Executrix of the
estate of Harriet A. Watson, late of said county,
dcc’d, applies for leave to sell the real estate of
said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred-and cred
itors. to show cause, if any, before the Court of
Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep
tember, 1881, why said leave should not he grant
ed the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. H. VV. BELL, Ord’y.
HOKCaIA, Ja< ksou County.
At hereas, T. S. Shanklc and S. S. Smith, Execu
tors of the estate of I). AV. Smith, late of said coun
ty, deceased, applies for leave’to sell the land be
longing to the estate of said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the
first Monday in September, 1881, why said leave
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3.
1881. ' U. W. BELL, Ord’y.
J EORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, E. J. Sharp, Guardian of his minor
children, applies for leave to sell one share of
stock m the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com
pany belonging to said minors—
This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin,
Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first
Monday in September, ISSI. why said leave should
not he granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. __ 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
| llOittiilA, Jackson County.
Whereas. J. 11. Malcy, Administrator of the
estate of Johnson Maley, late of said county,
dcc’d, applies for leave to sell the land and real
estate of said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday
in September, 1381, at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should
not be granted the applicant.
Given under mv official signature, this Ang. 3,
ISBI. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
(1 EOItGIA, JacliMm Coimiv.
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A\ hereas, John A. Booth makes application to
me in proper form for Letters of Administration
on the estate of Sarah Booth, late of said county,
deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if anjq before the Court of
Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep
tember, ISSI, why said Letters should not be
granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
To Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons having demands against Stephen
AY i Ison, late of said county, deceased, are
hereby notified and required to present them,
properly attested, to the undersigned, within the
time prescribed by law. and all persons indebted
to said deceased arc hereby required to make im
-mediatc payment.
Z. W. HOOD. Adm’r,
with the will annexed, of Stephen AVilson, dec’d.
August o.
JDrofcßsionnl' k (Business (Ennis.
DENTIST,
JunclO-'SI. Gainesville, Ga.
JOHN J. MTIiH
AT T OKN E Y-A T-L AW,
Danielsville, Ga.,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
him. dec 17, ’BO.
DSC. N. IS. CMKIt.
NICHOLSON, GA.,
Tenders his professional services to the surround
ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis
eases of women a specialty.
Feb.l3th. 1880. ly
HOWAStD THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Gainesville, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi
ness placed in his hands.
WIMIV <’. HOWAltfl>,
Attorney anti Counselor at Law,
JEFFERSON, GA.
Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted
to his care. mch4,
SIIAIAA A THOMPSON,
A T T ORN E Y S- A T -LAW,
J EFFERSON, GA,
Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties.
MOIIE YET!
Notwithstanding the heavy inroads up
on our stock, we still keep enough of
>-Vuv\Av tv\u\ V' ow.ev\
33: ry G-oods
on hand to supply our customers, and shall con
tinue to add to the same as the requirements of
the trade demand.
WE ARE STILL OFFERING
BARGAINS
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Staple Dry Goods
and
G 110 CER IE S.
Call and price. ,We will take pleasure in show
ing our stock.
A. 11. BROCK & CO.
Jefferson, Ga . April 23th, 1881.
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881.
sv.'LWf msc'aiiiAT&x.
Goin’ Home To-Day.
My business on the jury's done—the quibblin' all
is through—
I’ve watched the lawyers right and left, and given
my verdict true ;
I stuck so long unto my chair, I thought I would
grow in ;
And if I do not know myself, they’ll get me there
ag’in ;
Hut now the court’s adjourned for good, and I
have got iny pay.
I'm loose at last, and, thank the Lord, I'm going
home to-day.
I've somehow felt uneasy like, since the lirst day
1 came down ;
It is an awkward game to play the gentleman in
town;
And this ’ere Sunday suit of mine < n Sunday
rightly sets;
Hut when ( wear the stuff a week, it somehow
galls and frets.
I'd rather wear my In mespun rig of pepper, salt,
and gwy —
I'll have it oil in hall a jilt when I get home to
day.
The mornin’ that 1 came away we had a little
bout;
I coolly took my hat and left before the show was
out.
For what I said was naught whereat she ought to
take olfense,
And she was always quick at words and ready to
commence ;
But then she’s first one to give up when she has
had her say ;
And she will meet me with a kiss when 1 go home
to-day.
1 have no doubt my wife looked out, as well as
any one—
As well as any woman could—to sec that th.ngs
was done ;
For though Melinda, when I'm there, won’t set
her foot outdoors,
She's very careful, when I’m gone, to tend to all
the chores ;
But nothing prospers halLso well when 1 go oil*
to stay,
And I will put things into shape when I get home
to-day.
My little boy—l’ll give ’em leave to match him,
if they can ;
It’s fun to see him strut about, and try to be a
man ;
The gamest, cheeriest little chap you'll ever want
to sec !
And then they laugh, because I think the child
resembles me.
The little rogue ! he goes for inc like robbers for
their prey;
He’ll turn my pockets inside out when I get home
to-day.
My little girl—l can't contrive how it should hap
pen thus—
That God should pick that sweet bouquet and
lling it down to us !
My wife, she says that lian'somc face will some
day make a stir ;
And then l laugh, because she thinks the child
resembles her.
She’ll meet me half way down the hill, and kiss
me any way ;
And light my heart up with her smiles when I go
home to-day.
If there’s a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows
it when
lie's been away from home a week, and then gets
home again ;
If there's a heaven above the earth, there often.
I’ll he bound,
Some homesick fellow meets his folks, and hugs
’em all around.
But let my creed be right or wrong, or be it as it
may,
My heaven is just ahead of me—l’m going home
to-day.
Will Carldon, la “ Farm Ballads .”
Guileau’s Crime.
Authentic History of Its Inception and Exe
cution —Hoiv lie Planned to Kill the
President at Church—Other Places
Where lie Lay in Wait for
Him—Detailed Statement
hy District Attorney
Corlchill.
[From Washington Star , July l l//<_]
United States District Attorney Coikhill
lias authorized the publication of the follow
ing, in order to correct certain false state
ments :
“The interest felt b}’ the public in the de
tails of the assassination and the many
stories published justify me in stating that
the following is a correct and accurate state
ment concerning the points to which refer
ence is made : The assassin, Charles Guiteau,
came to Washington City on Sunday evening,
March 6th, 1881, and stopped at the Ebbitt
House, remaining only one day. lie then
secured a room in another part of the city,
and has boarded and roomed at various
places, the full details of which I have. On
Wednesday, May 18th, 1881, the assassin
determined to murder the President. lie had
neither money nor pistol at the time. About
the last of May he went into O'Meara’s store,
corner of loth and F streets, this city, and
examined some pistols, asking for the largest
calibre, lie was shown two, similar in cali
bre, and only different in the price. On
Wednesday, June Bth, he purchased the pis
tol which he used, for which he paid $lO, lie
having in the meantime borrowed sls of a
gentleman in this city, on the plea that lie
wanted to pay his hoard bill. On the same
evening about 7 o'clock he took the pistol
and went to the foot of 17th street and prac
ticed firing at a board, firing ten shots. lie
then returned to his boarding place and wiped
the pistol dry and wrapped it in his coat, and
waited his opportunity. Ou Sunday morn
ing, June 12th, he was sitting in LaFayette
Park and saw the President leave for the
Christian Church, on Vermont avenue, and he
at once returned to his room, obtained his
pistol, put it in his hip pocket and followed
the President to church; he entered the
church, but found that he could not kill him
there without danger of killing someone else,
lie noticed that the President sat near a win
dow ; after ehurcli lie made an examination
of the window’ and found he could reach it
without any trouble, and that from this point
FOR THE PEOPLE.
of Mr. Morton’s late residence, corner Fif
teenth and H, for some time, and then, as he
was afraid he would attract attention, he
went into the alley in the rear of Mr. Mor
ton’s residence, examined his pistol and
waited. The President and Secretary Blaine
came out together, and he followed them over
to the gate of the White House, but could get
no opportunity to use hi3 weapon. On the
morning of Saturdays July 2d, he breakfasted
at the Biggs House about G o’clock. lie then
walked up into the park and sat tliore for an
hour. lie then took a one-horse avenue car
and rode to Sixth street, got out and went
into tiic depot and loitered around there, had
his shoes blacked, engaged a hackman for §2
to take him to the jail, went into the water
closet and took his pistol out of his hip pocket
and unwrapped the paper from around it,
which he had put there for the purpose of
preventing the perspiration from the body
dampening the powder, examined his pistol,
carefully tried the trigger, and then returned
and took a scat in the ladies’ waiting room,
and, as soon as the President entered, ad
vanced behind him and fired two shots.
These facts, I think, can be relied on as ac
curate, and I give them to the public to con
tradict certain false rumors in connection
with this most atrocious of atrocious crimes.”
he could shoot the President through the head
without killing any one else. The following
A\ r eduesday he went to the church, examined
the location and window and became satisfied
he could accomplish his purpose, and lie de
termined, therefore, to make the attempt the
following Sunday, lie learned from the pa
pers that the President would leave the city
on Saturday, the Bth of June, for Long
Branch ; be therefore determined to meet him
at the depot. He left his boarding place
about 5 o’clock Saturday morning, June 18,
and went down to the river, at the foot of
Seventeenth street, and fired five shots to
practice his aim and be certain his pistol was
in good order. lie then went to the depot,
and was in the ladies’ waiting room of the
depot, with his pistol read}’, when the Presi
dential party entered, lie says Mrs. Gar
field looked so weak and frail that lie had not
the heart to shoot the President in her pres
ence, and as he knew he would have another
opportunity lie left the depot. lie had pre
viously engaged a carriage to take him to the
jail. On Wednesday evening the President
and his son, and I think United States Mar
shal Ilenry, went out for a ride. The assas
sin took his pistol and followed them and
watched them for some time in hopes the car
riage would stop, but no opportunity was
given. On Friday evening, July Ist, he was
sitting on the scat in the park opposite the
White House, when he saw the President
come out alone ; he followed him down the
Avenue to Fifteenth street, and then kept on
the opposite side of the street up Fifteenth,
until the President entered the residence of
Secretary Blaine. lie waited at the corner
The Methodists *
MEET IN COUNCIL IN ELBERTON, AND HAVE
A GOOD TIME.
The town of Elberton was considerably
enlivened last week by the conference of the
Methodists of the Elberton District.
The opening sermon was preached last
Wednesday night by Rev. W. D. Anderson,
the presiding elder.
The conference was called to order Thurs
day morning by the presiding elder, and Capt.
J. F. Craft, of the Hartwell circuit, made
clerk of the body, with Dr. B. A. Henry, of
the Bethlehem circuit, an assistant clerk.
Upon a call the following delegates re
sponed:
Bethlehem Circuit.—Rev. A. G. Worley
J. N. Wall, G. E. Heard, 15. A. Ilcnry, M.J.
Thornton, A. L. Rayle, J. A. Clark, J. W*
McCalla, H. P. Mattox.
Carnesville Circuit.—Rev. S. Leak, L. D.
Sewell, J. S. Latner, W. J. Morgan, John
Bagwell, M. A. Herndon, J. L. King.
Clarksville Circuit.—Rev. W. W. Lampkin,
A. 11. McAllister.
Danielsville Circuit.—C. B. Henry, J. 11.
White. J. F. Payne.
Elbert Circuit.—llev. W. T. Norman, J. A.
Harper, W. J. Evinson, I*. A. Wilhite, A. G.
Tynch, M. B. Adams, W. M. Adams, E. B.
Higginbotham.
Franklin Springs Circuit. —Rev. E. T.
Hendrick, D. D. Dickerson, L. N. Cunning
ham, Jas. J. Bond, Pk 11. Agnew, C. N.
Osborne.
Harmony Grove Circuit.—Rev. J. T.
Curtis.
Hartwell Circuit.—Rev. W. A. P"arris, J. C.
Dickerson, J. E. Teasley, J. P\ Craft, E.
Chapman, F. B. Hodges.
Homer Circuit.—W. B. Neal, T. B. Mize,
J. 11. Gunnels.
Jefferson Circuit.—Rev. R. A. Seal, J. W.
Glenn.
Lavonia Mission.—Rev. J. 11. Grogan,
G. W. Sewell, Pk’chbcrger.
Eibcrton.—Rev. J. 11. Baxter, W. A. Swift,
W. M. Shumate, J. H. Jones, W. C. Prcssle} 7 ,
T. R. Adams.
Without any delay the business of the con
ference was proceeded with.
The reports from the various circuits were
of a very encouraging character, showing an
increase in membership and a generally favor
able spiritual condition.
In the matter of infant baptism as an
ordinance of the church, it would appear that
there was not that interest taken in it by
parents which its character requires.
There was also a lack of interest shown in
the class meetings, if wo judge by the reports
m ade.
Asa rule the Saturday meetings are poorly
attended, and counsel was taken as to hew
the interest in these meetings could be revived.
Punctuality on the part of the minister, coupled
with earnestness in the work, was thought to
be a necessity.
Rev. W. P. Lovejoy, financial agent of
Emory College, during the conference, made
an appeal for help for that institution, which
was liberally responded to, about S2OO being
given to help relieve the college from debt.
Mr. Lovejoy is an able gentleman and well
up in theology, as all will bear us out who
heard his sermon Sunday morning at the
Presbyterian church.
The conference was, according to the verdict
of the delegates in attendance, one of the
most pleasant in the history of district con
ferences, and all the delegates loft with re
newed determination to consecrate their
energies to the cause of the Master.
The closing scenes of the conference, on
Saturday, were of the most delightful character
partaking more of the character of a love
feast than a conference. Every one came
away from the church with a feeling that the
Holy Spirit has been unmistakably manifest
ed.
The business of the body closed Saturday
evening with the selection of the place for
the next conference (Wood’s Camp Ground,
Jackson county), and the appointing of
delegates to the Annual Conference, as fol
lows: Rev. L. W. Sewell, A. 11. McAllister,
J. W. Glenn, J. F. Craft. Alternates, iicv.
J. N. Wall, J. 11. Jones.
The session of the district conference at
Elbcrton was a source of congratulation to
the people of tho town, and we hope the
elfects will be visible for a long time to
come.— Elberton Gazette and News.
A Sad Experience.
lie was on his way home from Leadvillc.
He had on a ragged old summer suit, and he
had been taking his meals about thirty hours
apart to make his money carry him through.
“ Yes, I like the country out that way,” he
replied to the query. “ The climate is good,
the scenery fine, and some of the people as
honest as need be. The trouble is to know
how to take the had ones.”
“ I should think that would be easy,” was
the reply.
“ Yes, it looks that way, but I had a little
experience. lam the original diskiverer of
the richest mine around Lcadville.”
“Is that so.”
“ Yes sir, I am the very man, though you
wouldn’t think it to see my old clothes.”
“ Then you don’t own it now ?”
“ Not a bit of it. I’ll explain : I was
poking around on the hills for signs. I collected
some specimens for assay, staked out a claim
and went to tiie assayers. It was two days
before he let me know it was the richest o:e
he had ever seen, and then I hurried back to
my claim. Hang my buttons if it hadn’t been
jumped.”
“ How ?”
“ Why, a gang of sharpers iiad found the
spec and built a pole shanty and liung out a
sign of ‘ P’irst Baptist Church’ over the door.
Sure as shootin’ they had, and the law out
there is that no miner can sink a shaft within
two hundred feet of a church building. They
saw me coming, and when I got there they
were actually holding a revival. There were
just six of them, and they got up one after
another and told how wicked they had been
and how sorry they were, and, would you
believe it, they had the check to ask me to
lead the singing. I went to law but they beat
me. Three days after the verdict the ‘First
Baptist Clinch’ burned down, and before the
ashes were cold the congregation were develop
ing a mine worth over a million of dollars.
You see, I didn’t know how to take them.”
“Was there any particular way of taking
them ?”
“ You bet there was. I ought to have
opened on that revival with a Winchester rille
and given the coroner SSO for a verdict that
they died of too much religion.”
Keep the Life Pure.
Once upon a time an Arabian princess was
presented by her teacher with a ivory casket,
exquisitely wrought, with the instruction not
to open it until a year had rolled around.
Many were the speculations as to what it con
tained, and the time impatiently waited for
when the jeweled key should disclose the
mysterious contents. It came at last, and
the maiden went alone and with, trembling
haste unlocked the treasure ; and lo ! reposing
on delicate satin linings, lay nothing but a
shroud of rust; the form of something beautiful
could be discerned, but the beauty had gone
forever. Tearful with disappointment, she
did not at first see a slip of parchment con
taining these words :
“ Dear pupil: May you learn from this a
lesson for y'our life. This trinket, when in
closed, had upon it a single spot of rust; by
neglect it lias become the useless thing you
now behold, only a blot on its pure surround
ings. So a little stain on your character will,
by inattention and neglect, mar a bright and
useful life, and in time will leave only the
dark record of what might have been. Ifyou
now place within a jewel of gold, and after
many years seek the result, you will find it
still as sparkling as ever. So with yourself;
treasure up only the pure and good, and you
will ever he an ornament to society and a
source of true pleasure to yourself and -your
friends.”
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Before Mrs. Patton died, at lOvansville,
Ind., she induced her husband and her daugh
ter, by a previous union, to promise to marry,
and the arrangement is to be carried out.
A Mr. Anthon. alleged to be an American,-
lias been amazing Rome by violin plaj’ing
with his toes, in the absence of any fingers.
He also wipes his face with a toe held hand
kerchief.
A Wisconsin wife's suit for divorce de
pends upon evidence which she procured by
putting l'rcsli paint on the soles of her hus
band’s boots, thereby marking his footsteps
when he ought to have been abed at home.*
Four more cases of lockjaw, resulting from
wounds from toy pistols, are reported in Bal
timore, making seventeen in all as a conse
quence of the Fourth of July. Three of the
new cases have proved fatal; tho fourth is
not cx'pectcd to recover.
A Chinese mother at Fresno, Oregon, ban
daged her little girl’s feet, after the fashion
of her country, and for several days the cues
of the sufferer were heard throughout tho
mining town. Then a mob of indignant
miners broke into the house, cut off the ban
dages, soaked the feet in liniment, and threat
ened to hang the Woman if she renewed the
process.
It would not be possible for an experienced
raiser of thoroughbred stock, whatever might •
he his nationality, to visit the blue-grass re
gion of Kentucky and the adjoining States of,
Tennessee and Virginia without at once ad
mitting that soil, air, water and climate there
combine to contribute all that is most ncccs.
sary for the production of a perfect type of.',
race horse.
The Rev. W. W. Colley, recently a mis-,
sionarj' in Africa, lias distinguished himself
at Norwich, Conn., by declaring in,a .lectucr
that there was no barren Sahara, and that the ~
whole country known on the .maps, as stcrilo .
and uninhabitable was fertile and densely •
populated. The wily Arabs started the lie,.
be explained, in order to keep out. ; compcti- .
tiou in the ivory traltic.
At Argosloli, or Cephnlonin, where Lord
Duil’erin lately tom-bed on bis way to Con
stantinople, is a mill, worked by a stream a
Mowing from the sea. An Knglishman dis
covered that the water always ran one way,
and built a mill which has inado his fortune.
He tried hard to find where the water, which ,
disappears into the earth, ultimately went,
and, among other experiments with that end,j
poured oil on its surface, but its course re
mains a mystery.
The Royal Spanish Academy, named, ro-.
ccntlj’, Archbishop Trench, James Russell i
Lowell and Lord Haughton as judges for the .
Calderon prize. The judges reported that ..
they did not feel justified in awarding the .
prize to any of the competitors, whereupon ,
one of the competitors forwarded his rejected
address to the Spanish Academy, in Madrid.
The Academy’ forthwith testified its approba
tion of the poem and awarded its groat medal
to the author, Mr. R. 11. Horne.
At Lasell Seminary for girjs, at Auburn*.,
dale, Mass., an excellent sy-stem of self-go-.,
vernment is practiced. Any student who at
the end of one term is regarded as worthy of
such trust, is enrolled on the list of “ self-,
governed,” and thenceforward docs as sho
pleases so long as she continues to show her
self entitled to unlimited confidence. This
is the highest honor the school lias to bestow
—a recognition of real trustworthiness of
character. It is stated that this system has
proved to be successful.
British India supports a population of 243 •
persons to the square mile, against 180 in,,
France and 200 in England. Wherever the >
population exceeds 200 to the square mile it
ceases to be rural, and has to live to a greator
or less extent by manufactures, mining, or
city industries. Keeping .in view that ninety
per cent, of the rural population of India live .
more or less by the tillage of the soil, it is
easy to understand that, owing to the extreme,
density of population, the struggle for ex
istence is extremely hard.
Mary Clevcnstien, aged 15, was walking
quietly upon the track of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad, near Pottsville, on Satur
day, carrying on her arm a basket of crockery.
So wrapped in thought was she that she heeded
not the approach of a train behind her, and
was struck and thrown into the air as high as
the smokestack of the engine. When tho
train hands went back to pick up t he remaina
she asked, “ What's the matter?” The next
day she was at work as usual. Of the crockery
in the basket which she carried on her arm,
one plate only was broken.
The Americans are carrying everything
before them on the other side on turf, field
and farm. They have now become, to use
the English slang, “ all the cheese.” Tho
silver medal for the best cheese at the Bir
mingham show lias been borne away by Mr.
Jubal Webb, who has been styled “Tho
Cheese Fiend,” in consequence of his inde
fatigable exertions in procuring tho best
cheeses to be had in America. The one
which obtained the prize is pronounced tho
largest cheese ever made, weighing three
quarters of a ton, and came from lowa.
Senator Garland of Arkansas was appealed
to by Forest and Stream for directions how to,
cook a’possum. “The bent of my mind,"
he replied, “is that if you would boil the
’possum in salt and red pepper water until ho
is quite tender, and then brown him well in
an old-fashioned oven, or skillet, wherein
around his body a goodly number of potatoes
are baked and browned, you would have a dish
unrivalled and more than Oriental, and a
person who could not relish it, whether he
took the 'possum hot or cold, would have no
celestial fire in his soul, nor music either."
As to whether a ’possum is best eaten hot or
cold, the Senator confessed inability to decide.
“ Rather than miss him entirely,” he added.
“ I would try to cat him in any way I could
find him, and really lain of opinion that he
is better hot or cold, according to the state ho
is in when I last partake of him.”
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