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ROBSJa-T a. HOW-ARD,/.,
EclCtor and Publisher. i/
VOLUME I.
fcflflf UlllH’rfisClllCllts.
mAfriid!# to Contractors .
\\/lU-1 let* to the lowest bidder, before the
the Oth day of September, ISSI. 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 built 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 I*2,
fifty-four feet long; two bolsters, G by 12, 10 feet
long, to be 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 limbers, S 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 holts ; truss to he 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,
1 k 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#exfending up to surface of the watef
and to be fr lied up wfi rock; length andwvidthj
of said crib to Stnt height h’NSf trestle/ o'lf
bank to be 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 be let into the ground three feet and filled
with rock and dirt; live sleepers to each span, 8
by 12 inches; two outside sleepers to each span,
at each ond of sleeper to be rodded 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
by 12, same length ; cap sills, 10 by 12, fifteen
feet long, morticed half through, to fit on tenant
on upright, and well pinned; mud sill on crib to
be well pinned aud banded with iron to ciw legs,
as seen in plans. Hand-rail to be placed on each
side of end spans; uprights to same to be S feet
apart and morticed through lloor and keyed on
underside and braced on outside. Flooring, 2by
12, 14 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 he well and smoothly done. Said
bridge to be completed in fifty days frotfi time of
letting. Ilond, with t\vp good securities, in dou
ble the amount of the bid, will be required imme
diately after the letting, conditioned lora faithful
compfyancc of the contract.- The work to be paid
for when completed in accordance with the speci
fications. Full and complete specifications can
be scon at this oflicc.'
Aug. il. ‘ 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door in
Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Septem
ber, 1881, within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder, the following property, to-wit:
A tract of land, situated in the 242d District (4.
M. of said county, containing seventy acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of J. E. Arnold, LeeMor
ri*,-Robert Morris and others. Levied on as the
property of J. 11. Eads a.ul S. J. Eads, to satisfy
a fi. fa. issued from the Justice's Court of the
242d District <l. M.',’ in favor of J. K.. £’ranc vs.
•I. 11. and S. J. Eads. Levy made a#. il returned
to me by J. Cl Williamson. L. C. Notice’ given
the tenant in possession as the law directs.
T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’ff.
Whereas, CL 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 oaasc, if any they can, on the first
Monday in September, 1881, 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.
(liven under my official signature, this May 30.
1881. fi YV. BELL, Onl’y. '
Whereas, JVII. slAey, Administrator of the
estate of Johnson Maley, late of said county,
dec’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, 1881, at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should
not be granted the applicant.
Uivcn under my oliicial signature, this Ang. 3,
ISSI. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
W hercas, John A. fsodt.li makes application to
me in proper form for Letters of Administration
on the of Booth, late of said county,
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, 18S1, why said Letters should not be
granted the applicant.
Given under in y official signature, this Aug. 3,
188 J • , 11/ W. BELL Ord'y.
QKOlttilA, Jackson County.
Whereas, the reviewers, appointed for the pur-,
pose of reviewing the road in said county com
mencing on the Athens and Lawrenceville road,*
near the residence of Charles Furgerson, thence
by the residences of James and Nancy Spencer,
John Marlow, C. P. Furgerson. Lewis Anthen
and IV. Collms, intersecting with the Watkins
vdlc 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
lav of August, 1881, finally granting the estab
lishment of said road as one of the public roads cf
the county, if no good cause to tlie contrary be
shown. i '' . * .
(liven under my official signature, this July 20,
1381. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
£*EORGIA, Jackson County.
\\ liercas. M. J. Dowdy applies for Letters of
Guardianship of the persons and property of John
W. Do wily and Joseph F. Dowdy, minors of W.
F. Dowdy, deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin,
A-c.. to show cause, if any. at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, ou the first
Monday in September, ISSI, whv said Letters
should not he granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
ISSI. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
To Debtors and Creditors.
A LI. persons having demands against Stephen
'Wilson, late of said county, deceased, are
hereby notified and required to present them,
properly attested, to the undersigned, within the
time proscribed by law. and all persons indebted
to said deceased,are hereby required to make im
mediate payment.
Z. W. HOOD. Adm'r.
with the will annexed, of Stephen Wilson, dec’d.
August 0.
Q.RORCIII, Jackson County.
Whereas. Martha J. Watson, Executrix of the
estate of Harriet A. Watson, latp of said county,
for leavedo 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, 18S1, why said leave should not be grant
ed the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Whereas, T. S. Shankle and >S. S. Smith, Execu
tors of the estate of D. W. 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. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
{'JEORGI A, Jackson County.
Whereas, E. J. Sharp, Guardian of his minor
children, applies for leave to sell oile share of
stock in the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com
pany belonging to said minors—
Xhis is4o cite all conceded, the next of kin,
A.C., -Ufcslittw e*Se, if*nyj'at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first
Monday in September, 1881, why said leave should
not he granted-the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
ISSI. IT. W. BELL, Ord y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, C. M. Wood/ Administrator on the
estate of A. M. Loggias, late of said county, de
ceased. represents to the Court, by 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, on the first Monday in October, 1881,
why said applicant should not have Letters of Dis
mission from his said trust.
Given under my official signature, this June 28,
1881. 11. \V. BELL, Ord’y.
Q.EORGIA, Jackson County.
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 June 28,
ISSI. 11. YV. BELL, Ord’y.
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.professional & Jousincss (Cards.
JQR. It. It. A OASIS,
DENTIST,
June 10-’Bl. Gainesville, Ga.
JOIIY J. NTRHkI.VVO.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Danielsville, Ga.,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
him. dec 17, ’BO.
Die. m* it. ( \sii,
NLGIIOLSON, GA.,
Tenders his professional services to the surround
ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis
eases of women a specialty.
Feb.l3th, 1880. ly
EOWA It 9> riHDI I'SOV,
ATTOItNEY-AT-LAW,
Gainesville, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi
ness placed in his hands.
WILEY 4’. HOWARD,
Attorney ami i'oiinseloi* sit Law,
JEFFERSON, GA.
Wilt attend faithfully to all business entrusted
to his care. , , mch4,
SIIIIAA A TIIOVIftSOA',
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Jefferson,Ga,
Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties.
Home Manufacture.
SHOES! HARNESS!! LEATHER!!!
WE are now making the very best quality of
the above articles right hare at home, and
they are for sale. . We do not expect to sell them
merely because they arc home manufacture, but
because of their excellent quality and low priced
We are making regular
V ;
of the very best material amLwgrkiffanship, ami
offering them for 25 per cent, less than the usual
price. i-/.
Our BROGANS cannot be beaten jn excel
lence. or cheapness for the quality. . These sell
only by the case. Bridles, Collars and Harness]
double or single, always on hand, or made to or
der. We have the most experienced workmen.
All wc ask is a trial.
ATKINS. CARR & CO.
Maysville, Ga., June 17th, 1881.
Martin Institute.
Fall Term, 1881, Opens Anpst 25th.
LET the citizens of Jackson county, who would
secure the lowest (possibly free) tuition, pa
tronize the School this fait..
The Martin Fund pays a larger proportion in
the fall than in the spring.
To students from other counties wc promise
lower rates of Board and Tuition than almost any
other Cpllcgiate Institute.
For further information, apply to
aug 12 4t JNO. W. GLENN, Prin.
NEW ROCKS!
I HAVE just put in operation a NEW SET of
WHE AT ROCKS at the
Long UVEillsi,
and all of the machinery is in order to make first
class flour. Send your NEW WHEAT right
along, and I will give satisfaction.
JAMES E. RANDOLPH.
Jefferson, Ga., July Ist, 188 J.
JEFEERBON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST If), 1881.
Facts Concerning Jay Gould.
The other morning, while Mr. Cole, the
proprietor of the approaching circus and
menagerie of that name, was picking his teeth
on the steps of that excellent hotel, the Kuss
House, a tall, sun burned, baldheaded man,
with pine burrs in his clothes and a stick of
sassafras in his mouth, approached and said ;
“ Be j'ou the wild animal man, mister?”
The proprietor of the “ Double Mammoth
Mastodon Aggregation” admitted that such
was the fact.
“Then,” proceeded the man from the
mountains, “ 1 think I’ll get you to make too
an offer for a large sized California lion I’ve
got.”
“Good specimen, eh?” asked the circus
man.
“Good? Well I' should say so.. Meas
ures eleven feet from the tip of his nose to
the tip of his tail. Caught him myself when
a cub. Just four years old to-morrow.”
“ Ilum—good appetite?”
“ Appetite ? Great Scott—appetite ! Well,
I should smile—that’s just the point—that’s
just why I’m parting w ith Jay—l call him
Jay Gould because he takes everything in.
If it wasn’t for his appetite and the queer
little things it makes him do, I wouldn't part
with Gould for a fortune.”
“ Savage, ch ?”
“ Well, no ; I don’t know as I should call
Jay savage, exactly—sorter nibbish, though,
he may be. Has a kinder habit of gnawing
up things, so to speak. In fact the neighbors
—I live up at Bladder's Peak—have gotten
to be so noisy and fussy and particular of late
that I can’t so much as unchain J. Gould for
a little fresh air without their getting grumpey
about it.”
“ There’s no pleasing some people,” said the
hippodromer.
“ I should say not. Now, f’rinstance,
'bout three months after Jay got to be as big
as a boarding house sofa, I came homo one
day from a picnic and found be had eaten up
Aunt Maria, who had been left at home to
mind the house—leastwise she was nowhere
to be found ; and as Jay Gonld seemed sorter
bulgy-like, and kept coughing up hairpins
and false teeth for a day or two, wo kinder
suspicioncd the whole thing.”
“ Maternal aunt?” inquired the showman,
thoughtfully.
“Exactly. My wife took on dreadfully at
first, and wanted me to shoot Jay right off.
But I told her that he had probably suffered
a good deal as it was, and that as most likely
he’d catch rheumatism aud things from the
remains,, we’d better call it square.”
“ And did she ?”
“ Well, she kinder got reconciled after a
while, especially as Jay seemed fond of
playi-ng with the children. One morning soon
after that my wife’s mother—whole family
lived with me, 3’ou see—didn’t come down to
breadfast. As all her false hair was hanging
over a chair back, and Gould crawled out
from under the bed licking his chops, and
with his tongue a good deal coated—mother
in-law was always taking things for the liver
complaint — we saw at once it was another
visitation of Providence, and that the heavy
hand of afflction was again upon us.”
“ Looked that way, didn’t it?”
“ Well, as you may suppose, the old lady
—that's my wife—pranced around a good
deal then, and got down the breech-loader
right away. But just then arrived a gold
medal from the S. P. C. A. Society, awarded
on account of my forbearance in the Aunt
Maria business, and so I got her calmed down
after awhile.”
, “ Pacified her, ch ?”
“ Yes,-; T-managed to arrange a reprieve
for Jay somehow. Y r ou see, I was always;
fbnd of pUts, and tender-hearted, and
4tll tlmk you understand. I argued that thei
poor animal didn’t know that he was doing
wrong-f-merciful man is merciful to his beast,
ete. That smoothed things over for another
month/* -
“ What happened then ?”
“ Well, one day I sent Johnn3%onr youngest
boy, down to the store for some sugar, and
he took Gould along for company. Now,
whether it was because Jay was fond of sugar
or-not, I don’t know, but he came home alone,
and soon as wc noticed a peculiar kind of
bulge on his ribs, about as big as Johnny, we
concluded that the dread archer had marked
another Skidmore—my name is Skidmore—
for his own. The whole family took on like
mad, and Mrs. Skid was about to shove the
powder keg under Jay Gould and touch it off
herself when I pointed out that it wouldn’t
do to desecrate our offspring’s tomb in that
way. So I just had the burial service read
over the lion and tied crape around his neck
for thiTty days. How does that strike yon ?”
“ After that time you kept the animal
chained ?”
“ Well, no. The fact is I set out to get
a chain several times, but one tiling and
another prevented, until one dai' last week I
actuall}' missed the old lady herself. I looked
around for her a couple of days, when some
how of a sudden I sorter intentioned where
she was. I gave Gould about half a pound
of emetic right away, but all wc could get out
FOR THE PEOPLE.
%
-of him was a pair of high-heeled shoes and a
chest-protcctof. It was too late—too late.
We put the shoes and things into a coffin and
had Jay led behind the hearse to the cem
etery. Wc wanted to have as much of the
corpse present as possible—don’t you sec?
YVe had the animal all decorated with flowers
and things, as fine as you please. Folks said
it was the touchingest thing that ever took
place in them parts,” and the bereaved
husband sighed heavily.
“ Don't wonder you want to sell the beast,”
remarked the menagerie man, after a pause.
“ Well, I sorter do and I sorter don’t,” said
Mr. Skidmore, abstractedly. “There’s so
Jtiany memories and things clustering around
J. G. —seems kinder like parting with one’s
family burying lot, as it were. On the other
hand though, now that the old lady is gone,
I sorter feel a9 if the old insect had—well,
outlived his usefulness, so to speak. So
suppose I jus’ have this box hauled around
to your show after the performance this after
noon and see if we can’t strike a bargain.”
“ All right,” said the manager. “ I’m going
up Salt Lake way after awhile, and perhaps
I can work him off for big money to some of
the Mormon elders.”
“ There’s a mincof money in him as a family
pet,” said the other earnestly, and after
striking the circus proprietor for a season
deadhead the widower shouldered his umbrella
and drifted sadly down the street. —San
Francisco Post.
What to Brink in Hot Weather.
“ What is the beat drink in warm weather ?”
said a Tribune reporter to an official at the
Chambers Street Hospital the other day.
“ Cold water,” he replied, “ but not ice
cold. Ice water chills the stomach and so
ultimately injures the power of digestion.
One of the best drinks in the world for hot
weather is buttermilk with a little ginger in
it. I know people don’t like it excessively,
but it is valuable for all that. If some of our
high livers who suffer so severely at times
would live on nothing for a week but brown
bread and buttermilk they would feel like
lighting cocks. Another excellent drink, and
one which bricklayers use a great deal, is the
old fashioned drink which the farmers use in
the hayfield—water with ginger and molasses
in it. It cools the system and opens the
pores sufficiently for a comfortable perspira
tion.”
“ Is it advisable to drink much in hot
weather?”
“ One must drink more or less; it is
absolutely necessary in order to produce
perspiration. Without that a man would soon
burn up.”
“ Is beer hurtful in hot weather ?”
“ It is one of the worst things in the world,
for the reason that by drinking it you get the
action of alcohol upon the brain at the same
time with the heat. Cases of alcoholic prostra
tion combined with heat are very numerous
in hot weather. If one drinks beer at all he
generally drinks more than one glass, and in
consequence places himself in a condition
where he is the most susceptible to the effects
of heat. Alcoholic drinks of all kinds should,
be avoided. Yet vast numbers use them;,
they drink beer, wines, whisky, gin, brandy
—anything and everything to allay thirst*
without regard to consequences.”
•• What effect does the heat have on the
brain in case of sunstroke?”
“It seems to stupefy the vietim. All his
energies sink away ; he loses power of thought
and lies in a more or less unconscious state,
according to the severity of the attack. lie
recovers if the stroke is not too severe. Some
times he dies; sometimes he is injured
permanently.” ;
“ What is the best way of avoiding prostra
tion by heat ?'
By keeping in the shade, if possible. If
this cannot be done, keep as cool and collected
in mind as possible ; don’t worry, don't hurry,
don't drink alcoholic drinks, and if you find
it necessary to drink at all. use water not too
cold, or some of the drinks I have spoken of.”
Gymnastics as a Cure for Disease.
Physical vigor is the basis of all moral and
bodily welfare, and a chief condition of per
manent health. Like manly strength and fe
male purity, gymnastics and temperance
should go hand in hand. An effeminate man
is half sick; without the stimulus of physical
exercise, the complex organism of the human
body is liable to disorders which abstinence
and chastity can only partly counteract. By
increasing the action of the circulatory sys
tem, athletic sports promote the elimination
of effete matter and quicken all the vital pro
cesses till languor and dyspepsia disappear
like rust from a busy plowshare. “ When I
reflect on the immunity of hardworking peo
ple from the effects of wrong and overfeed
ing,” says Dr. Boerhaavc, “ I cannot help
thinking that most of our fashionable diseases
might be cured mechanically, instead of chem
ically, by climbing a bitterwood tree or chop
ping it down, if you like, rather than swallow
ing a decoction of its disgusting leaves.” The
medical philosopher, Asclcpiades, Pliny tells
us, has found that health could be preserved
—and, if lost, restored—by physical exercise
alone, and not only discarded the use of in
ternal remedies, but made a public declara
tion that he would forfeit all claim to the title
of a physician if lie should ever fall sick or
die but by violence or extreme old age.
Asclepiades kept his word, for lie lived up
ward of a century, and died from the effects
of an accident. He used to prescribe a
course of gymnastics for ever}' form of bodily
ailment, and the same physic might be suc
cessfully applied to certain moral disorders
—incontinence, for instance, and the in
cipient stages of the alcohol. It would he a
remedy and principiuna, curing the symptoms
by removing the cause, for some of the
besetting vices of youth can with certainty be
ascribed to an excess of that potential energy
which finds no outlet in the functions of bar
sedentary mode of life. In large cities parents
owe their children a provision for a frequent
opportunity of active exercise, as they owe
them an antiseptic diet in a malarious climate.
— Dr. Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly.
A Rigid Examination.
“Cap’ll,” said a colored man. entering the
office of a school examiner whose skin was
so black that to sec him you would think he
had spent his life in boiling crows for dissat
isfied politicians; “Cnp’n.” repeated the
visitor, lightly tapping on the door facing.
“ Wall, sail, what is hit?”
“ I’sc called roun’ ter be ’zaminoned. I'se a
Sessional school teacher.”
" Did you know dat hit’s a mighty hot
cross fire to stan’ under the range ob de bat
teries of my knowledge ?”
“ Yas, cap’n,” said the applicant, “ an* be
ing proud of my ’complisliments I hez sought
you sted ob going ’ter do omylyca white
’fessor.”
“ Yer action is dat oh a wise man, qn* fur
sich wisdom I zibited in do very bud ob de
cdycation rose—Oh, I’se flowery— l'll struct
my secretary to mark yer one on de sheep
skin stifikitov know ledge. D.is-am figurative.
We’s out oh sheepskins, an' in der place sub
stituted coon’s skins, tanned by an Atkin
saw nigger and ketched by a justice ob de
peace. Do hit strike yer in de atomic ob
recognitions ?”
“ Yas, cap’n.”
“ Wall now, ter de zamination. Secretary,
git down dat brass pep wid a dogwood hold
er an’ fetch hit hcah, fur I, in decordance
wid de strucktions, is gwine to toat dis man
through de new groun’ ob knowledge, wliar
de briars am thick, an’ wliar dar’s many a
toe nail lyin' raung de grubs. Now fur de
first. Docs } ? er unerstand gogafy ?”
'• O, yassah, dat’s my holt.”
“ What does 3’er know of grammar ? Keep
yer raouf open, fur I’sc de eddycational
dentist, zamining de teeth ob yer lamin’.”
“I eats up grammar like a man handin’
greens.”
“ Wat about de sciences ob phlebotomy ?”
“ I walks all ober dat science on stilts.”
“ What does yer know ’bout
“Do-quilt ob my, bed am patched wid
hit.” -
|“ Misfer Secretary,” said the examiner,
turning to that functionary, “ gin dis man a
double stifikit. Recommend him ter de peo
ple cz de ablest man I hez zamined dis yeah.
Dar's ycr paper, sah ; an’ remember dat de
cloud ob etfdj’cation am a black one. A man
that shows sich a familiarity wid science as
you does is boun’ one day ter put his foot on
a white man’s shouldor, reach up an’ take de
gown obsperiority from de peg in de ward
robe ob life's great competition. Let’s see ;
five dollars for de single dorsement, an’ five
dollars an’ a half for do double dorsement.
Gimray ten dollars.”
The money was cheerfully paid, and the
man with the blotted coonskin went out into
the world to engage in the tournament of
letters.
Business Before Pleasure.
There is a sagacious Newfoundland dog
in Norwich. He will take the basket, in
which is a note, and go to the market, get
meat, vegetables, or whatever the note calls
for, and carry it safely home. But he has a
daily task assigned him which he performs,
rain or shine, and that is to carry his mistress
her dinner. She keeps a millinery establish
ment and does not go home to her noon-day
meal. Rugularly ns the day comes around
the dog may be seen trotting along Main
street at about 11:30 with the basket in his
mouth looking neither to the right nor left,
but going straight to the store, where he sets
it down and watches it until his mistress
comes for it. And he is so well known, too,
among the Norwich dogs that he is never
molested. But on Monday a stranger dog
undertook to have a little racket with him
while he was loaded down with his commissary
stores. lie hung to the basket, but stopped
long enough to get a good look at the cowardly
cur that had interfered with him, and then
started off on a run to the store, where he
dropped the gasket, and immediately returned
to the street and begaj* to search for his
assailant. He found him on Franklin avenue,
and proceeded to chastise him in true canine
style. In al>out half a minute he sat down
and watched that cur put in his best jumps
for the hill-tops of Voluntown, giving a ki hi
at evciy leap.—iAo//br,/
) TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO for Six Months.
¥ OavWveVvw^s.
An eloping couple at Hartford were a black
man ot 30 and a white girl of 15.
Some of the parents at Cambridge City,
Ind„ blew up with dynamite the saloon in
which liquor had been sold to their children.
Several pious women united in a week of
paryer for rain at Eaton Rapids, not because
there was a drought, but that it might spoil
a track for horse racing.
Among tho curiosities of the census of
British India are the extraordinary profes
sions which some persons declare they pursue.
In Allahabad 974 described themselves a*
“ low blackguards.”
Three hundred dissenters from established
denominations residing in the neighborhood
of Charlotte, Mich., have organized the Liv
ing Church of God. Twelve of their number
arc at work on anew Bible..
A dying thief was compassionately released'
from the Rhode Island State prison, and sent
to pass his remaining days at home in
Providence; but before his death he crawled
out and robbed seven bouses.
A sheep dairy for the manufacture of
cheese has been started near Chattanooga-
Sheep cheese is a popular; article of food in
Austria, and this enterprise, beginning witb
1.000 sheep, is under tlie management of an
Austrian.
The people of one Kent ticky town, at least,
do not approve of lynch law. When a mob
entered Paris to hang a murderer, an larin
was rung on tho church bells, tho residents
turned out in force, and the lynchers were*
chased away.
A resident of San Jose, California, sent to-
New Yoik for three pairs of blankets, the'
finest to be had for money, and now Califor
nia newspapers arc jubilant over the fact that,
when they arrived, one pair was found to bear
the braud of a San Jo9e woollen mill.
A young man of western Massachusetts,
went to Amherst to get a marriage license,,
and his prospective mother-in law accom
panied him. in order to sec to it that he got
hack in time for the ceremony in the evening ;~
but at Amherst they got drunk together, and
were in jail at the hour appointed for tho
wedding.
In .Alaska, northwest of Behring’s Strait,,
alternate layers of ice and soil arc found in.
the cliffs bordering tho ocean. In the face of
the precipice is, first, a surface of solid ice:
upon this foundation is a layer of soil jtwo or
three feet thick, and bearing luxuriant vege
tation ; a little beyond this tho bank rises
again by a second layer of ice, on which rests
soil yielding, like the first, a vegetable growth-
The wife of a municipal officer died at
Henderson, Ky., and her husband left the last
offices prior to interment to two,pf her friends.
After the coffin lid had been partly fastened,
he could not resist taking one more look. 110
discovered that the jewelry' which lie intended
to be buried on her wa9 gone. That was two
years ago. 110 said nothing, and lately* de
tected one of the friends wearing the articles.
He said to her: “I give you three days to
leave town,” and she went.
An Austrian chemist is said to-have de
vised a soporific, of which a feir drops
sprinkled on the head and face will stupefy
a man in a few seconds. He gave it the
name of “ Tamer,” and offered to sell the se
cret of its preparation to the Austrian Go
vernment. But the Government has not only
refused to purchase it, but has ordered the
police authorities to formally order the in
ventor to discontinue his experiments, and to
abstain from using in any way his invention
or communicating it to others.
A jury in Berne, Switzerland, expressed
regret that the Court was unable to give a
man and woman named Zysset a death sen
tence, capital punishment having been abol
ished in that country. The Zyssets admitted
having murdered five of their children, and
there is good ground for believing that they
put seven to death. They killed them to
escape the cost of keeping them. Their plan
was to starve the little ones to death, unless
they cried too much; then they strangled
them or knocked them on the head.
Three women were standing side by sido
in a dry goods store of London, Ontario.
One hung her umbrella by the handle on the
edge of the counter, and moved away. An
other laid down her pocket-book where it fell
into the umbrella unseen, and when it was
missed the third woman was accused of steal
ing it, searched by an officer, and finally re
leased without being able to relieve herself
from suspicion. The umbrella was rolled up,
with the lost money still in it, and only after
a lapse of a week was the truth revealed.
Two babies were born in the same houso
at Oakland, Tenn. The mothers were sisters,
closely resembling each other, and the infants
were l)oth girls. In the excitement of the
occasion the little ones got mixed, and this
happened before they had been dressed, or in
any other way marked for identification.
There seems to be no way out of the uncer
tainty, for three months have passed withont
developing any resemblance to the father in
either case ; and if the children grow up, as
they seem likely to, with the physical
characteristics of their mothers, nobody will
ever know their exact parentage. The presont
agreement is to decide the qfle3tion by lot.
While all the world nowadays knows of the
torpedo, invented and named by Fulton, as
a machine to blow up ships, comparatively
few know that it takes it 9 name from a fish,
of marvellous electrical properties, which was
anatomized by the famous surgeon John
Hunter. The torpedo is found in the Medi
terranean, the Bay of Biscay, and the south
ern English and Irish waters. The ancients
employed it as a therapeutic agent. It.is be
lieved to use its extraordinary powers to be
numb a big enemy or to capture a smaller
fish. It loves to lie in sand, in which it will
bury itself by flapping its extremities, throw
ing the sand over its hack. Tread on it then
and you will be prone in a moment. It is
NUMBER 26.