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BREVITIES. , i :s' J -- - - V i Jo? 01), for a shower! { sTTossutns are getting ripe ! still need those brick ! LleTDrummers by the bushel this week ! peach brandy is the popular drink ! £ cTFruit jars at Pendergrass Bros. & Cos! is still a great demand for brick in this city. Harrison lost a good horse last week in Athens. J 1 I'tTDr. Pendergrass has bought the Bailey brick store of Mr. Martin. tlTThe dust in the roads around this town is two to three inches deep. watermelon crop has reached its zenith, and is now on the decline. L3P*The hands at work on the railroad arc disposed to gamble more or less. I know of several parties who would locate here, but prices don’t suit. OTTlio exercises of the fall term of the Martin Institute commenced yesterday. jars at Pendergrass Bros. & Cos! fcPDicd, on Saturday last, the infant child of J. L. and Alice Blalock, aged about three months. GePMiss Lizzio Elrod, daughter of Mr. Jacob Elrod, died on last Saturday, after a severe illness. PePFolks “ what” sells liquor on the sly keep their weather eye on Bose Duke when ever he is about. FF’Thc camp meeting at Wood’s Camp Ground was well attended. It ended on last Wednesday morning. HTThe Athens Presbytery will hold its meeting hero, commencing next Wednesday and continue until Sunday. I‘tTAunt Hannah Carithers, an aged colored woman of this place, died on last Saturday after a short illness. IWhen you ask a man a long price for a piece of property you must convince him that lie can get his money’s worth out of it. rrwe regret that our Atlanta cor respondent failed to send us a letter this week, and trust that he will be on time next week. E'F’Fruit jars at Pendergrass Bros. & Cos! remains of the late Mr. Samuel Watson were removed from the burying ground at Thyatira on last Tuesday to the cemetery in this place. interesting meeting is in progress at Gillsvillc, conducted by Rev. R. D. Hawkins. So far there have boon 12 additions to the church.— Belton North Georgian. LlPThoruns Niblack took an extra hitch in iiis pantaloons one day last week, stepped out to his watermelon patch, and brought in one that weighed fifty six pounds. It was a genuine monster, and wo helped devour it. is on a boom, except cotton. Anil have you noticed that there is even more fluctuation (taking the year through) in the corn market than there is in cotton'? Our advice is to get out your cotton and selJ quick. . , S W. A. Watson has sold out his interest in the firm of A. 11. Brock & Cos. Dr. Watson will keep the stock of drugs and con tinue at the present stand lor the present, Mr. A. 11. Brock will continue the provision trade at the same place. f-iP’Tlic Rev. Mr. McGarrity (Protestant Methodist) organized a church out at Dick Williams’ school-house at the close of the recent protracted meeting held there. We presume it will be I'iiown as the “Glades,” as that is the name it goes by. MPSpecial attention is called to Borden town Female College, the advertisement of which appear in our columns this week. It is an institution of established reputation, and every way worth}’ of patronage. Young ladies there are woll cared for and thoroughly instructed. week Mr. G. R. Duke, United States Deputy Marshal, arrested and carried olf to Athens Tobe McLester, col’d, upon a charge of violating the revenue laws. We learn that he has warrants for several more around town, and there are several parlies, of the colored persuasion, that are dodging out: • learn that a harrible accident oc curred over in Walton county, near the line of this county, on last Monday. An engine exploded, killing Mr. John 0. Perry, Sr., and the engineer, and wounding Mr. Thompson Perry. We have not been able to obtain the full particulars. UfPWe notice that our county cor respondents are becoming very remiss in their favors to us. What is tiic matter ? Is nothing transpiring in your neighborhood? Please come up to the scratch in the future, like pretty boys; we need your assistance, and cannot do without you. £i?Tq another column will be seen Judge Bell a notice in regard to the amount of tax to be assessed for county purposes this fall, and for the different purposes for which it is assessed. In all, making forty-two cents on the one hundred dollars tor county purposes and thirty cents on the hundred dollars for State purposes—seventy two cents in all. OP Intelligence reached hero last Monday ofthc death of Mr. \V. F. Hunter, inNavasota, Texas, of congestion of the-brain. Mr. Hunter had just left this place for Texas week before last, in company with Mr. Lev Ware, and was stricken down before he arrived at his destination. 11 is many friends will deeply 1 egret to hear of his sudden death, when, to ; dl appearances, be was so stout and healthy. 1 caee to his ashes, for, with all of his faults, he had a good heart,'and most of those who knew him will ever remember him for his u,aii y deeds of kindness and clever disposi was ILa worst enemy, Advice to .Hardheads. We have hinted several times before at what we apprehend will be a serious draw back to Jefferson’s advancement when we get our railroad, and would damage any town without a railroad or the prospects of one. We mean the excessive prices that land in and around Jefferson is held at. And the trouble is not a recent one by any means, and, as a consequence, all of the sales of real estate in this town, in the last few years, have cither been at exhorbitant figures or at forced prices. The market has not been in a good health}' condition in years. You either get a bargain out of some follow that lias bit off more than he can chew, or you buy at big prices, and it is only a question of time be fore you will have to sell at a sacrifice. Hitherto this state of affairs has not been so noticeable. Now, the near approach of the iron-horse makes it the imperative duty of our citizens to offer every inducement to parties who desire to come here to live. Every dollar added to our town will make it that much better and bring in time another dollar. At best, we have hut a poor location to offer to the settler, but more the reason why we should strive to accommodate him. and not try and shove or keep him off the top of the hill. Another consideration (and wo commend it to those who live close to the old Square) is that unless business houses can be obtained near the present ones, and thus keep the busi ness part of the town in it3 present location, the railroad authorities will be compelled to locate the depot some distance off, so that lots can be purchased near it, and we will enjoy the spectacle of seeing anew town go up right under our noses. Some people seem to think that the first train that arrives in Jefferson will come loaded with men, who in turn are loaded with greenbacks, which they wish to invest in land in this desirable town —price being no object—and all that they will have to do is to count their money to get rich. We advise tin's class to abandon that dream immediately and take a view of the realities in the case. Jefferson has no extraordinary inducements to offer to settlors more than any other town in this county ; there is nothing in the world to create in the minds of other people an un eonlrolablc desire to live or do business here, and they will not come unless we can show them that it is to their advantage to come, and it is poor encouragement that you give them when you ask them three times the market price for a piece of land. You turn that man off with disgust, and his abuse of the place will damage it by influencing others not to come and make their homes with us. You must not wait for your new popula tion to come on the railroad, but you should be getting them up now. From now until the railroad arrives is the time to work the real estate boom, and to do lots of the work that will in the future bring the actual pros perity. Suppose a merchant should desire to open a store, where can lie buy a lot at a rea sonable figure in close distance to the Public Square? Suppose lie wanted a dwelling house, who would sell him ten feet offof their garden, or who would divide his lot with him, unless at figures that two yean ago would have bought the entire place ? What is here that will afford consolation for this extortion? Nothing. And you will find the man with money in his pocket who wants to stay with you going somewhere else. We do not want you to sell for nothing to accommodate other people, but, on the con trary, we want you to make a good profit on what you sell. Your real estate—your house and lot is worth more than it was before the railroad prospect was so bright, but the trou ble was you had too high a figure set upon your property before the railroad talk com menced. But there was no market, and when property was forced to sale it brought noth ing. Get down to hard pan prices. Make a boom, and then get your property off, if you want to sell. But don’t wait for somebody else to start, for everybody else is waiting for the same thing. If you do not care to sell, improve your lots so that they will bring in something while you are waiting to get rich. Do something with them rather than let them remain idle. Stagnation is death, and any kind of life or activity is desirable to that condition. • - . ') ii/■i Who Will Get It? We mean the other end of the Great Southern Railroad. It is, metaphorically speaking, swinging about loose between Monroe and Covington, with a slight disposi tion to locate permanently in Monroe. As the following letter of the President will show, it means to locate somewhere, and the longest pole will get the persimmon. As far as we are concerned, wo don't care a copper where it goes, since a branch of it has lodged in this town : Gainesville, Aug. 10, 1881. Coi.. D. 11. Walker —Dear Sir: I will put a corps of engineers iu the field Lu the early part of next week to survey one or more lines from Jug Tavern to Monroe and Coving* ton. Please post the people of your town and county and try to have them determine what subscriptions they can offer us to go to Monroe. Also determine in your own mind what arrangement you can offer us that will give us a practical connection with the Georgia road over the Walton road. Proposi tions are before us to go to other points in stead of Mon roe—one a very liberal one— but we will wait two or three weeks to hear from you. If Monroe lias any favorite line, if you will point it out, I will have it run. Truly yours, A. D. Candler. Has Everything Failed You? Then try Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. _____ i. Harmony Grove. BY OUR REGULAR CORK KSUONDKNT. —Last week was a fine time to save fod der. —We want rain badly, so that we can sow turnips. —Saturday is Morgan Nix’s day to furnish our people with eider. —Mrs. 11. A. Carithers, of Walton county, visited our town last week. —The dry, scorching weather is reaping a good share of the cotton crop. —An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shore was buried last Sunday. —Messrs. Wood & Wilbanks are putting up a brick store-house, 20x60 feet. —Walter C. Davis says the hogs and or gaus are about to take Apple Valiev. —Esquire Pruitt, of Harrisburg, gave us a decision last week on a criminal case. —“ Old Foggy” is a chance man—he chances to be at all of our Justice courts. —Mrs. Russell Porter, of Nicholson, >vas buried last Sabbath at Black’s Creek church. —Mr. R. S. Cheney sold his farm, near our village, to Miss N. J. Dowdy one day this weekj —Messrs. Pittman, Mahaffey and Thomp son were on hand last week, before our Jus tice Court. —There is some talk of prosecuting the railroad authorities for running freight trains on Suadfty. —The drum and fife was with us a few days ago, and made some of the boys think of old tinned —The Northeastern Railroad Company had an engine and flat cars on the road last Sun day hauling cross tios. —We heard an old widower say a few days ago that Jefferson beat all places for widows in the State. llow many is there. Bob ? —Judge M. M. Pittman has the last muster roll made out for his company before they were disbanded in North Carolina. lie also has some fine grapes and peaches. —Newt Me. says the Grand Jury thought more of him than anybody else. He says that they thought of him about three times and only one time of their other pets. —Mr. Marion Dunson, more familiarly known as “Old Foggy,” and Mrs. Frances Dunson were joined in wedlock last Tuesday, by J. C. Wade, Esq., of Banks county. —Mr. W. O. Jackson is canning a fine chance of fruit. Some young lady might share it with him next winter, if they would only let him know that they were willing. —Mr. John 11. Gunnels, of Banks county, was the first plan.with new cotton atour place. He brought two fine bales, which brought a little more than 1 lets, and he went off well pleased. —Organs are getting as thick as sewing machine agents a few years ago. The lucky ones will buy instruments a few years later, when those that are being purchased now will he worn out and almost forgotten. —Mr. W. C. Farabeo came to town last Saturday and organized a squad of young men into a wood cock hunting party, to charge the evil doers that were destroying his corn. The boys report a fine time. —The Athehs Watchman says: “Mr. G. P. Bofcne, of our cit3*, has formed a co partner ship with Mr. J. E. Massey, formerly of this city, and opened a furniture store at Harmony Grove. We hope they may achieve much success.” —The following is a list of. the jury drawn for September term of the Justice’s Court in and for the 255th District, G. M., which con venes on the 2d Monday : A. C. Appleby, W. C. Davis, Anderson Ray, B. S. Bohannon and W. C. Ilood. —W. T. Duncan, who recently embarbed as salesman in the store with Messrs. Chan dler, Power & Cos., learned his first lesson b} T selling a box of worm candy to an eccentric old gentleman in Banks county, to be used as chill medicine. The balance of thi3 piece took place behind the scenes. r ■ Crop Prospecls. More than one farmer has been after us this week because in our last issue we said that crops were doing welt. And at that time over one-half of the county was truthfully described by that paragraph. But we did not intend for that remark to stand good for all time to come, for, on the contrary, the stale of affairs might have been changed in less than twenty-four hours after the item was printed. All during Court week, and every time afterwards that we had an opportunity, we enquired after the condition of the crops in different parts of the county. Up to the end of the last week of court we received but one reply, and that was that they were as good as it was possible to make them. Every one agtecd that the prospects were never better. But at that time souio remarked that a little rain would not hurt, if for nothin" O else but just to make the.turnips come up. From that time the demand for rain has in creased in some sections to such an extent that the cotton is now almost ruined, and will be if the drouth continues much longer, and upland corn, generally speaking is also suffer ing. This, however, is only the case in some ?. - sections of the county. In some places they are not yet suffering, and the crops are fine. But take it as a whole, and they have been cut off already about twenty-five per cent., and" from now on the injury increases iu rapidity every day. It is really heartrending to sec some of our farmers who, three weeks ago, thought that they were going to get rich, and were perfectly carried away with the prospects. Nobody hardly counted on loss than half a bale to the acre, and most every til lilt/ L * Cill its ba’c to the acre with ease. Now they are down below zero, and nothing,but the price of cotton up to fifteen cents would put them in a good humor. By the way, it may be possible that the compensation will come in that way. The indications arc very good for a short crop, and even if this should fail we see no reason why cotton should not show a sympathetic rise with provisions, for if it costs more to produce a bale, it will have to sell for more in order to make its production possible. High provisions and low priced cotton this fall and winter will not have a stimulating effect upon the farmer when he goes to pitch his cctton crop next spring. It might be well to wait and think a little before you sell many bales. T? q. • * Personal. Mention. , . Coot England has gone to California. Mrs. Rhodes’ sister, from Atlanta, is visiting iISC. Johnnie Orr has been suffering from a pair of sore eyes. Miss Willie McCoy is spending the week over at Laura City. A carriage full of Athens bloods took in the camp meeting last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I). C. Smith, of Elbcrton, have been visiting in this county. Tom Niblack is waiting for the weather to get cool so he can go to picking cotton. Thomas Harrison pulled out last Monday morning for Athene. The boy has our best wishes. Judge Howard aud family returned last Wednesday from a weeks trip to Oglethorpe county. Ernest Youngkin wields the yardstick at Pendergrass Bros. & Cos., in plate of Thomas Harrison, • J JiOi *! /I IU Dr. Watson says that his principal objection to the grocery business was that he could not keep his.clothes clean. Mr. Joe Orr, one of the members of the firm of Orr & Hunter, of Athens, was in our town for a short while last week. Dr. MoEllmnnon gets right up on the back of a chair and shouts whenever you sin<>\ “Nobody knows the trouble I see,” to him. Mr. John G. -Justice was one of the first public school commissioners of Hart county, after the county was organized. Col. F. G. Thompson notifies us that he has secured anew flame around which in the future (moth like) he will flicker, only to get scorched. ' Thomas Niblack i3 so eluted over his success as a watermelon culturist that lie will take to lecturing the farmers this winter. II is •subject is, “ llow I raise watermelons.” i r-o, . f - - : 1 t f 1" * . • .._ ' List of Jurors. The following i3 a list of Grand and Tra. verse Jurors, drawn for February Term, 1882, Jackson Superior Court: GRAND JURORS. William Roberts, jW. S. Matthews, Washington Arnold, ;D. M. Nix, •J. W. N. Lanier, |J. It. Shields, Z. T. Addington, j W. L. Williamson, L. J. Johnson, ;S. P. Orr, \V. F. Stark, jJ. M. Chandler, M. L. Parker, j Robert McEver, J. M. Glenn, I Abner J. Wills, \V r . 1). Shields, IA. M. Chandler, J. C, WhiuAujad, iJ. LL Burns, J. M. Bell, iJ. W. Glenn, \Y. It. A. Boyd, IT. E. Koy, W. T. Howard, if. It. Howard, M. J. C. Sratffam, JaspelrN. Thompson, W. T. Barber, jW. J. Colquitt. ‘ TRAVERSE JURORS—FIRST WEEK. J. G. H. Pittman, j.J. C. Patrick, W. 1). Harrison, iJ. A. Nicholson, W. .J. C. Hunt, 'Wv B. Bolton, -J. A. Storey, ;M. W. Park, F. McElhannon, iPhilip M. Kinney, •J. J. Pettyjohn, |\V.' A. Morris, James Roberts, ill. 1). Jackson, M. B. Fuller, ill. M. Wills, J. C. Sorrow, iO. 11. Turner, Jones Sells, ;W. J; Wright, T. C. Roberts, IJ. H. Dunnahoo, J. F. Trout, IJ. A. Wills, C. F. Hardy, jJ. B. Rogers, W. M. Nabers, i James A. Daniel, Z. T. Niblack, jStephen L. Borders, F. B. Henry, IC. M. Wood,* ■> L. B. Erwin, ;L. W. Wallace, W. C. Roberts, ;J. S. P. Richey. SECOND WEEK. W. T. Oakes*, ;Johh Nixon, E. J. Sharpe, i(J. K. Elder, Burgess Caruth, ill. J. Lott, W. C. Rousseau, |W. J. Skelton, J. 11. Reynolds, U. 1). Rice, J. R. Wood, ;E. W. P. Richey, J. J. Harvill, ;D. W. Barnett, W. L. Collier. Sr., AV. T. Stapler, Stephen A. Harris, J. I). .Johnson, J. It. Hosier, . ;L W. Long, Applingll.Pendergrass,;C. A. Moon, •J. P. Arnold, IT. O. It. Lanier, A. IT. Wilkes, :E. M. Damron, J. G. Weir, \W: T. Appleby, J. A. Jarrett, IC. M. Johnson, W. T. Cofer, |W. B. Mitchell, D. M. Jarrett, ;G. D. Walker, J. C. Fowler, ;A. T. Nunn. The Rise in Provisions. Jackson county is, by reason of the diver sity of its soil, a provision producing county, and should sell a surplus every year, and a reported rise in Tood products should be hailed with joy by her farmers. Yet. such is the result brought about by her farmers folly that, instead of jo} r , the announcement that bread and meat is on the rise will produce consternation amongst two-thirds of our in habitants. We have had a suspicion of this advance for some time past, but have been waiting to see if the rumors in regard to the matter would be verified. While there are condi tions yet to be considered before the point can be settled, still enough is known to war rant the conclusion that from now until the crop next year can be ascertained, provisions will be high. The reason of this is the heavy shortage in the Western wheat crop and the unfavorable condition of the growing corn crop. Our farmers have been accustomed to pay ing pretty good prices for corn and bacon with which to make a crop, but they cannot afford to pay heavy prices for supplies during the fall and winter months, which they will WE HAVE NOW ON HAND AND ON THE WAY WOOD, TABER § MORSE JEUSTGrTI^T^ZBi^ Wm. E. RAMMER f CO. B. W. BA VME # SOMS HZJSr€3rTJXr%&&i, One 0-Saw GIM, One GO~Saiu GIM, One J'O-Suiv GIM\ with Feeder. One 10 Saw GEY, with Boeder and Condenser. A.WD OTHERS TO AIIRIVE. 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I■i| i I— , , ~ „ on all of those articles, it will take an un usual amount of cotton money to make up the deficit in the corn crib and meat house. There is but one way to get around the difficulty, and that is to make tho corn and meat that will be made this fall spin out as far as possible, plant a heavy oat crop, plenty of turnips, and economize in every particular. For in, stance, why not save all the grass that you possibly can instead of buying Western hay next summer; take care of shucks, cot ton seed, and everything that will support life. Wc heard one gentleman say that lie had housed the sorghum stalks after they had been-run through the mill, and intended to feed them to stock this winter, as •• it made excellent feed. By using a little foresight, economy and labor the farmers could get along on one-half as much corn as it usually takes, and have their stock in a better condition all the year round. But it makes no difference how you act in the premises, you must manage so as to need but little that you have not already got on your farm, for if you go into the mar kets you will find war prices Confronting you upon every side. If you have not enough to make out on, you had better commence sup plying the deficiency at once. Delay i3 dan gerous, and may-cause you ruin. lltf’Wc have made a thorough examination of the revised New Testament that Mr. VY T . \y. LI inJtou has beqn selling, and must say that the typograpical part of the book and the binding is first-class in every respect, and fully worth the subscription price. This is, however, no more than we expected from .the start, for, from what we knew of the man, we knew that lie would not canvass for anything that was shoddy. [jjp’Mr. A. R. Robertson has just fin' l shed putting up two handsome cradle tombs -over the graves of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hunter. They are excellent specimens of Mr. Robert son’s skill and workmanship. The location of our cemetery is a beautiful one, and could be made an ornamentto the town, but our “city dads’* allow anyone to use it for a pasture, and it looks like a howling wilderness. [JPOn last Thursday Mr. J. D. Johnson, of this place, received severe if not fatal in juries from the falling of a potion of the scaffold around the chimney that is being built for Dr. J. M. GJerfn’s house. Mr. John son was on the scaffold at the time it gave wav, and fell about fifteen feet to the ground. His injuries are internal, and at present Dr. Pendergrass has not been able to positively locate them, but lie is afraid that they are of a serious nature. A. L. Barge has secured the agency for Col. Avery’s History of Georgia, and will proeeed at once to canvass this and adjoining counties. The work will undoubtedly be one of great merit, and we predict for it an i immense sale. There is no work of the kind ! extant, and no intelligent familv can afford \to be without it. Col. Avery, the author, is ' one of the finest writers in the South ; he was | one of the original starters of the Constitution, 1 and is now private Secretary to the Governor- No man has had better facilities for getting | up a work of the kind than Col. A., and it will ibe brimful of inlerost to every nat.riot.io EYPOur Harmony Grove man wants to know how many widows are intown. Well, really wc don’t know how many there are, from the fact that there arc several who nro married who had just as well he widows. At any rate, we don’t care to let the old widower who made the remark have any of them they are two precious, llut sotrtebody is missing a powerful chance to get a good'wife. Madison Yeoman says: “ We learn that a fracas took place among the hands on tho Daniel’s ferry road last Tuesday, in which a ditching shovel was brought to bear on op 6 of their shoulders, and that another’s pocket was made lighter by twenty-five dollars damages. f ■ .... , State School Commissioner Orr hasdccided that pupils who enter a public school, and leave it for any cause whatever, cannot enter another school for the remainder of the term. They forfejt their pro rata of fund by such action. It is important, then, for parents toiselcct schools and teachers of stand ing. Marietta Journitl .- “J. G. Dnnn, living On Go's Mayes’ Upper plantation, lias a seven ycar-old boy that has a strangely shaped head, protruding, eyes and has neither fingers or toes, llcleuows his letters and Ls an unusually bright child. He Can only raise his stubby hands parallel with Ids shoulders, and cannot put his hat on his own head. No cause is known for the deformUy.” ; * j T - .. p f „.. . Augusta Chronicle: “ A policeman led to the court house yesterday a } r oothful darkey hardly ‘knee high to a duck,’ and clad in a sin gle garment, which bade defiance to Y r en.nor’s frost and snow. The diminutive prisoner, who was about four years old, was found wander ing about Broad street, helping himself to. whatever came in his way. He would walk up to a huckster’s stand, pick np a watermelon almost as large as himself, let it drop on the pavement and coolly, sit down to a feast without any regard to the rights of meitm and teum. When brought in he showed no fear of the officers, but enrsed one of them and threatened to bite him if he didn’t let him i go. It appears that several weeks ago his mother turned him adrift on the streets. Ho was picked up by the police and given to a ne gro woman to take charge of, but he was so bad that she too became tired of him and put him out on the street. lie was sent back to her with a request to care for him until somo provision can be made in regard to him. Ha is described as a ‘hard citizen J although yet • a baby.” HOW TO TREAT YOUR WATCH. Wind it up at the same time every day. Keep it in as even a temperature as possible. Sudden transition from heat to cold may cause the main spring to break. If you would keep it clean nev er put it in any pocket except one of leather. Those pockets which are lined with eloth, cotton or calico, give by. the constant friction a certain tlulf. which enters most AVatch Cases and makes its way to the delicate parts of the watch. Sco that the pocket is turned and cleaned often, and take an old linen handkerchief arfd wipe carefully all the dust from under the backs, bezel and cap of the case. Rut above all you piust be sure that the Case fits firmly, /md to be sure of this, select one where the parts (center, backs, cap, Ac.) arc each made from one piece of metal. .. . The JAMES I>OSS’ Patent 1 Stiffened oh FITTED Watch Case is so made, and not only does such a Watch Case become stronger and fit more perfectly, but it enables the manu facturer to turn and form three pieces of metal (the outer ones being gold and the inner one of an inferior metal) into shape for the round parts, making to all appcaraces and practical purposes just as good a W atch Case as the solid gold, at about oue-hulf the cost to the purchaser. The re are nearly one hundred thousand dfthese Watch Cases now carried, and theirgoud qualities are acknowledged by the same number of happy possessors.