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BREVITIES. (3PDusty! [y Carpenters arc in demand ! [y Mr. O. 11. Pettyjohn is dead ! iy We need rain around town for the tur nip patches. I yThc Athens merchants have not yet re turned from market. iy Some sections of the county have had fine seasons since our last issue. tyMiss Leila Long, of Gainesville, is vis iting the family ot Dr. John Burns. lyOur Jug Tavern correspondent is grow ing remiss in his favors to the Herald. tyThc gin at Long's mills will be under the management of Mr. Kelly this season. I‘cPTbe attendance at the Martin Institute is unusually good for so early in the term. tyjohnnic Ross says that it is not pride that makes him walk around town with his arms akimbo. gyMark Few has added a handsome yoke of oxen to his livery stable. He proposes to suit all comers. lyWo return thanks to Mr. J. 11. Hinton, of McComb City, Miss., for a file of late New Orleans papers. I y Corn is worth one dollar a bushel in Athens, and meat is too high for gravy ex cept once a week. ty Cotton is climbing up. Gentle farmer, take a twelve cent grip on your crop, and don't let go until you get it. ty Henry Winburn is building for himself a handsome cottage on the upper end of his father’s lot. It will be for rent. iyWc learn that Major Wilkes l’ruitt is tracking the lato recommendation of the Grand Jury in regard to certain matters. jy The funeral sermon of Mrs. M. A. Hunter will bo preached at Oconco church on the 3d Sunday in this month, by the Rev. W. F. Stark. iy Parties desiring to contribute anything to Mr. Ben Matthews, who had his gin house burned last week, will find a subscription pa per for that purpose at this office. irr he Walton News says that Dr. Bush now wants a cotton factory at Laura City. We suggest that the Dr. had better become the 11. I. Kimball of the new town and build one. tyjohn Wilhite gave us an idea that may save somebody a nicklc. He says that, while his farm was in the drouth, yet his crop did not suffer much, because he uses stable ma nure instead of guano. rrßev. Mr. Grow has been carrying on a protracted meeting in this place since last Monday night, and will closo it to-night, when the good work will be continued by Rev. Mr. .Scale, of the Methodist church. lyThc orphans of Benjamin Otwell, who died in this count}- about the year 1839, will hear something to their advantage by making their present whereabouts known to Henry Banks, at No. 113 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia. iy Mr. S. P. Orr showed us, last week, a sample of sorghum syrup made by Mr. A. 11. Yearwood, of Clarkesboro' District, for Mr. Orr. It is really a first-class article of the kind. Mr. Orr made one hundred and twen ty gallons off of one acre. ty Those who will take the trouble to rise before day can see in the eastern sky a beautiful and brilliant star, which is well worth looking at. It is the star which guided the Shepherd’s to the birth place of the Saviour, and as it appears only once in 300 years those of this generation will not have an opportunity to see it again, if they fail to do so this time. iy The meetings of the Athens Presbytery contiuued until Saturday night, and the dele gates went home on Monday morning. We made a request for the minutes for publica tion, but they were not furnished us, which we regret. As far as we arc able to judge, the meeting was a success in every particular. Every day the business meetings were sus pended for religious services, which were en joyed by large and attentive audiences. MP*We invite your attention to the ad vertisement of Mr. J. N. Montgomery, to be found elsewhere. lie has been dealing in agricultural machinery for several years past, and when this is coupled with his well known success as an agriculturist, purchasers may rest satisfied that they will get what they want, and will have no unreliable machinery placed upon their hands. Mr. Montgomery has unequalled facilities and advantages, which enable him to sell better machinery at reasonable prices, and he deals exclusively in this line of business, being the only house in this section of country that makes a specialty of agricultural implements, buggies, wagons, steam engines, threshers, &c. A Card. I would respectfully call the attention of my friends in Jackson county to the fact that, having severed my connection with Tender grass Bros. & Cos., of Jefferson, I am now located in Athens with the well known firm of O’Farrell Bros. & Cos., where I will take pleasure in serving the wants of all who desire to purchase or look at our stock. I will be glad to have my friends call upon me, and trust that I can make it to their advantage to do so. Respectfully, Tuos. Harrison. Ladies who Appreciate Elegance and purity are using Parker’s Hair Balsam. It is the best article sold for restoring gray hair to its Dots from Logansville. Sore eyes raging. Cotton opening rapidly. Ginning has begun. Messrs. Rockmore and Brazil have a trac tion engine which travels six or eight miles per hour and pulls fifteen thousand pounds. It needs nothing to guide it, but “ weeds its own row.’’ Mr. Camp, of Covington, says his company will surely build a railroad from that point through Logansville. We think it would be a wise move to extend the Gainesville, Jef ferson & Southern road by this place. It would open a fine and paying section. Many of the citizens here own stock in the Law rcnccvillc road—took it with the understand ing that it should be extended to Logansville, but Lawrencevillc ran the road into a big hill in the edge of the place, and now, as far as that road is concerned, Logansville thinks she was the cats-paw which pulled out the mon- key’s chestnuts. We learn that a large portion of Covington was burned on the 31st—seven stores, some groceries and dwellings. Hadn’t you better cavort around with the old engine ? It would help things considerably, give Uncle Winn and John Ross something to do and keep off fires generally. We guess that melon-patch will give out soon and Tom Niblack will hitch up that other gallus and step ’round to the chincapin and ’siramon bushes. We hear from two or three reliable sources that Texas has not had any rains since May, and that she will not produce enough to sup port her people until next fall. The papers say that Col. Silman is one of the handsomest and ablest men in the House. So much for Jackson. Now, if they will speak of Capt. Bennett as he deserves, we will feel better. Wc would advise those who have, or can have, ponds to apply at onoc for a supply of German carp. We see ti it Commissioner Orr has decided that a student leaving one school and going to another, is not entitled to his or her pro rata of the school fund. The fall term of the Academy here closes on the 23d prox. Come over, Bob. Mr. E. M. Rockmore, of this place, has the finest English setter in Georgia. We learn that Dr. Wayne Sword wa3 seri ously cut in a difficulty at Conyers on last Saturday. Cause, liquor as usual. Bill Goss loveß to talk about spring chick ens and babies, but he makes an A No. 1 correspondent. Prof. Dobbins has gone home to recruit. State School Commissioner Orr will fill the vacancies in the Normal College by appoint ment, and not b\- competitive examination. Fag. Logansville, Ga., Sept. 3d, 1881. Notes from Madison County. Fodder-pulling and cotton-picking is the order of the day. Crops have been considerably cut off during the recent drouth. Less cotton and more corn, is the password with many of our farmers for 1882. Ye cor respondent is for more hog and hominy. Wc think the scarcity of provisions in the South, and especially in Madison, this year, will make many hog and hominy converts. Let ’er roll. There are more turnips being sowed in this section than we ever knew. They are afraid they will have to cat cotton seed. Smith & Emory have started a gin in con nection with their steam saw mill. And thus we progress. Mrs. Jennie Smith is visiting friends in Jackson, the guest of Mrs. Mary Smith. Miss Mamie Howard, of Jackson, is visit ing friends in Oglethorpe. The railroad boom is still booming. The illegality of the bond system is troubling some of its advocates. The Sandy Creek Sunday School has been organized but a short while, but is doing a good work, and we anticipate for it a bright future. More anon. Chips. [communicated .] Sunday School Celebration. Editor Jackson Herald: —Please allow us space in }’our valuable paper to say that there will be a celebration given by the col ored people at Newhope church, Jackson county, Oa., (Randolph’s District) on Satur day before the third Sunday in September, (17th) and all the Sabbath Schools of the col ored people of Jackson county are cordially invited to attend and participate in the exer cises. A large turn out is expected. Respectfully, Green Brown, W. P. Moon, Superintendents. [communicated.] A Good Sermon. Mr. Editor:— The Rev. Z. IJ. Graves, by request of the Baptist brethren, preached a sermon at Apple Valley, on the evening of the 4th instant, using the first elause of the 39th verse of the 11th chapter of the Gospel by John, which sermon, any Christian having heard, would have been influenced, to some extent, to roll from his or iier heart the con cealed stone of prejudice. Friend. Lost Cows. Lost, stra3 T ed, or stolen, from near Thomp son’s Mills, in this county, one deep red cow, short horns, pointing together, no ear marks, and one yearling, red and whitespotted, Any one taking up the above described cows, and notify me at Thompson’s Mills, Ga., will be paid for their trouble. W. 11. Harrison. Look out for Sudden Changes Of weather, and guard against them by using Harmony Grove. BY OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. —Uncle Frank Ilaygood has been with us. —lion. 11. A. Carithers, of Walton county, was with us last Sunday. —A shower of rain slipped up on us last Monday evening. Our people were surprised, but their feelings were not rumpled in the least by such an occurence. —Mr. E. C. David’s fish was caught from his mill-pond on a little creek, which I think proves conclusively that our streams should be stocked with carp, and then pass a law that will stop fishing except with hooks. —Mr. E. C. David, who lives about five miles east of Harmony Grove, in Banks coun ty, procured ten German carp in the fall of 1879, and put them in his mill-pond, on a creek, on the 31st September. lie drew the water from the pond and was surprised to find fish that weighed from 7 to 10 pounds, lie caught one that measured 221- inches in length, 16J inches round the body, weight 7 pounds. lie says that he lias a fine chance of small fish, and says they are excellent for the table. —Mr. W. C. Green is not only -a good watchmaker, but he has taken the lead on potato raising, or is ahead of anything that has come under my knowledge. lie exhibit ed to the writer, a few days ago, a yam that measured 37 inches in length and 5J inches around the middle. These are facts, and can be substantiated to the satisfaction of the curious by calling on Bill Goss, who has the big potato on exhibition at five cents a peep. Children between the ages of five and ten years will be admitted free of charge. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. Council Chamber, ) Jefferson, Ca., August 29, ISSI.J Council met at 7 o’clock P. M. Present and presiding. W. A. Worsham, Mayor; and Alder men Williamson, Randolph and Pendergrass. Approved the foil ©wing account: Pendergrass Bros. A Cos., merchandise $ 8 25 1 tt tt 44 £ QO “ “ “ lumber, Ac 51 11 SG9 29 On motion, ordered by the Council that the tax year run from January Ist to December 31st, in clusive. Ordered, by the Mayor and Council, that the Marshal have hasp, staple and lock put on the grave-yard gate. On motion, ordered that the Mayor be allowed fifty dollars for his services from September Ist, ISBO, to September Ist, 1881. On motion, adjourned. W. A. WORSIIAM, Mayor. J. E. RANDOLPH, Clerk pro tern. HOW TO TREAT YOUR WATCH. Wind it up at the same time ever}” 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 cloth, cotton or calico, give by the constant friction a certain Huff, which enters most Watch Cases and makes its way to the delicate parts of the watch. See that the pocket is turned and cleaned often, and take an old linen handkerchief and wipe carefully all the dust from under the backs, bezel and cap of the case. But above all you must be sure that the Case fits firmly, and to he sure of this, select one where the parts (center, hacks, cap, Ac.) arc each made from one piece of metal. The JAMES BOSS’ Patent Stiffened or filled Cold Watch Case is so made, and not only does such a Watch Case become stronger and fit more perfectly, hut 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 appearaces and practical purposes just as good a Watch Case as the solid gold, at about one-half the cost to the purchaser. There arc nearly one hundred thousand of these Watch Cases now carried, and their good qualities are acknowledged by the same number of happy possessors. All Jewelers keep them, also illustrated cata logues for gratuitous distribution. GEORGIA AIAVS. On M. R. Russell’s place, in Carroll coun ty, is a chestnut tree that is eleven feet in diameter and thirty-three feet in circumfer ence. Randolph county has three farmers who will make over 14,000 bushels of corn off of less than 250 acres of land. Judge Watson, of Meriwether county, will make 5,500 bushels of corn and 225 bales of cotton. A great deal of his land will make thirty bushels of corn to the acre. The Bainbridge Democrat draws a graphic picture of the woeful condition of mortgage bound crop-failing farmers, and then presents the glowing contrast of the well-to-do inde pendent tillers of the soil. It is not overdrawn, and should be engraved upon the memory of all its readers. “John Williams, col’d,” says the Wrighs ville Recorder , “ fired his gun into a crowd of colored people the other day, riddling Sarah Hicks’ dress, and wounding two men, name not given. John was mad because the crowd did not appreciate a tale he told as well as they did the tale of another negro.” Pike County News : “ The colored waiting boy employed this week by Sheriff King, of Monroe county, to bring water and keep the court room in order, was branded on his cheek before the war with the letter “ M.” lie was tried and found guilty of murder, and was branded under sentence of the court.” Carroll County Times : “ Mr. Jim Tumi in sold Butler Martin, on last Monday morning, three balls of twine for rather a novel pur pose. Butler says that he has a patch of cotton so heavily fruited that it is all falling on the ground, and to keep it from rotting he has decided to stake it and tie the stalks up. The patch is planted in hills three feet apart.” Henry County Weekly: “ It is a noteworthy fact that mules, horses and stock of every kind are in better condition this summer than has been known since the war at this season of the year. This speaks well for the thrift and prosperity of our farmers.” The same paper says: “Mr. Hill Gray, near Sunny Side, is said to have several acres of bottom corn that will yield one hundred bushels to the acre.” Walton News says : “ Dr. Van Horn’s little seven months old babe has had an ugly rising on one of its hips for several weeks. Last Friday the Doctor lanced it, and to his great surprise found a whole needle, 1L inches long, imbeded in the little one’s flesh. Where it came from or in what manner it entered the little one’s hip no one knows. The wound is Cuthbert Enterprise: “Judge Hood has been requested to hold a special term of the court in Terrell county the first week in Sep tember, to try Frank Hudson, the murderer of the Lee family. The people are represented as wild with indignation, and it is thought it will be impossible to restrain them from tak ing the law into their own hands, unless they are quieted with the promise of a speedy exe cution of justice by the regular tribunals.” Rome Bulletin: “The work of the organized band of burglars in this city goes bravely on. Monday night, about two hours before day light, the livery stable of Messrs. Stewart & Sharpe was entered, and a silver watch, a little money, a hat and seven or eight articles of clothing belonging to some of the stable em ployes were stolen. The burglars, as usual, made their escape and there is no clue as to their identity. The goods stolen amounted to about forty dollars.” The Walton Neivs sa}’s : “The stigma that Walton county, with one exception, has the poorest Court House in the Western circuit, will no longer be heard. The grand jury have appointed a committee of one from each dis trict to employ an architect to draw plans and specifications for the enlargement and im provement of the present building. The very best men in the county arc on that committee, and the county will certainly expect from their hands a court room that will be botli commodious and ornamental.” The Athens Chronicle says : “On Sunday night last, as Mr. Wm. Mcßae, a farmer living a few miles from Watkinsville, was returning home from church, a fatal runaway occurred, lie was accompanied by his wife and two daughters. The mule became frightened and threw them all from the buggy, and all were more or less injured. Mr. Mcßae died from the effects of his injuries on Monday night. The ladies, we learn, arc not seriously hurt. Mr. Mcßae was a good citizen, highly esteemed by all, and his sad death cast a gloom over the community.” Stale Line Press: “A rather ludicrous affair occurred down in Harris county recently. A negro procured a license to marry, and paid therefor $1.50. He also procured the services of a colored minister at $2.50. The ceremony was duly performed, and while the happy cou ple were receiving congratulations of friends, a former lover of the girl stepped up, drew a dangerous looking pistol, told the girl she had promised to marry him, and that she must come right to his homo. Fearing that she might be killed should she decline to obejq the puzzled bride responded to the demand, leav ing the unhappy groom minus $4 and a bran new wife.” Griffin News: “On Friday night Dr. Ellis, of this city, was called to see a patient who had developed the most alarming and remark able symptoms. The patient was a colored man. He exhibited the most utter aversion to liquids of any kind, especially to water, and almost went into convulsions when anything of the kind was brought near him. Upon in quiry it appeared that twenty years ago the man was bitten by a mad dog, without, how ever, any appearance of hydrophobia. The symptoms now developed are peculiarly the symptoms of hydrophobia, and the case is con sidered a most rcmarkableone. The condition of the patient yesterday was unchanged.” Talbotton Register: “Mr. Ben Blanton is another good farmer, hut is too modest to say much about what he does. Last year ho pro duced on fourteen acres of land twelve bales of cotton averaging five hundred and thirty five pounds each. The field was put in wheat in the fall, and about a bale of seed cotton was plowed in. This on a one mule farm. These results should bo satisfactory, con sidering that it was not a good year for cotton. Mr. Blanton is farming on the intensive system, says he considers it an easy task to make a bale of cotton to the acre. In less than two years he expects to produce two bales to the acre. 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