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JACKSON HERALD.
ROBERT S. HOWARD,?
Editor and Publisher. \
VOLUME L-
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VYAVVOO - - VtWEAS, IV, V.,
(Below S. G. Dobbs and opposite A. S. Dorsey.)
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
FURNITURE, COFFINS & CASKETS.
I have the largest stock of this kind ever brought to the city, ad can undersell any house in
the South. Be sure to give me a call, and I will save you money. 1 also keep, at my store on
Jackson Street, all sizes
IDoors, Sash, and 331inds,
And Builders Material of All Kinds.
M. B. McGINTY,
Sept 23 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
£epf iUpettisements.
3NJ" otice.
WILL he let to the lowest bidder, before the
Court House door in Jefferson, Jackson
county, (la., on Tuesday, the2oth day ofOcioher,
ISSI, the contract for superintending, managing
and caring for the inmates of t!ic Poor House of
said county for the years ISB2 and 1883, the coun
ty to furnish all provisions, clothing, medical at
tention, Ac., necessary for the paupers, and the
person making the lowest bid, per month, for
said service ©{'superintending, Ac., will be award
ed the contract, upon the following conditions:
The contractor will be required to do and per
form all duties necessary for the comfort and
welfare of said paupers, and to control said in
mates with humanity, looking both to their wel
fare and the county's interests ; to plant and cul
tivate, at his expense, a garden sufficient to sup
ply vegetables for the inmates of.said Poor House ;
and will he required to give bond, with good se
curity, in tlie sum of live hundred dollars, condi
tioned for an honest administration, respectful
and humane treatment of the paupers, and faith
lid discharge of all duties thereto required; and
will be required to make monthly reports to the
Ordinary, showing the number and condition of
the inmates, amount expended for provisions,
clothing, medical attention, Ac., during the
month, and the amount of provisions, Ac., on
hand at the end of each month. Besides forfeit
ing said bond, the contractor will be subject to
removal by the Ordinary at any time upon a case
made for failure or refusal to comply with any of
the conditions or regulations. The person to
whom said contract shall he awarded will be al
lowed the proceeds of the farm, cultivated at his
own expense, to be taken as a part compensation
for services as Superintendent.
Also, at the same time and place, will be let to
the physician who is the lowest bidder, the con
tract for rendering medical services to the inmates
of said Poor House per month, subject to like
regulations as to duty, monthly reports, Ac., as
the Superintendent.
For more definite specilications, apply at this
office. 11. W. BELL,
Sept. 23, 1881. Ord’y Jackson County.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
ILL be sold, before the Court House door in
t? Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Octo
ber, 1881, within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder, the following property, to-wit:
A tract of land, lying in the 218th District, G.
M., in said county, containing one hundred and
seventeen acres, more or less, adjoining lands of
J. A. Me Ever and Webster White on the east,
lands belonging to the estate of T. R. Kiningham
on the north, lands of M. R. Messer on the west,
lands of C. M. Shockley on the south. On said
land is a comfortable dwelling and out-buildings,
and three tenant houses and out-buildings. There
is about seventy-eight acres in a good state of cul
tivation, about fifteen acres in original forest,
about twenty-four acres in old pine field ; all good
up-land. On said place is a good orchard. Levi
ed on as the property of Martha King, deceased,
to satisfy a li. fa, issued from the Justice’s Court
of the 448th District, G. M., in favor of J. 11. New
ton vs. Martha King. Levy made and returned
to me by J. O. Tolbert, L. C. Notice of the levy
given to 11. C. Gilbert, Howard Vandiver and F.
A. Reinhardt, tenants in possession, as the law
directs.
T. A. McELII ANNON, Sh'lf.
Administrator's Sale.
IAY virtue of an order from the Court of Ordi
) nary of Gwinnett county, Georgia, will be
sold before the Court House door in the town of
Lawrcnccvillc, on the lirst Tuesday in October,
1881, the following described tract or parcel of
land, situated in Jackson county, Georgia, and
belonging to the estate of Jesse Osborn, deceased,
to-wit:
One hundred acrcs~of land, more or less, adjoin
ing the line between Jackson and Gwinnett coun
ties on the west, the lands of I. N. McMillan on
the east, Martha llenson on the north, and on the
south by the road le ding from Lawrenceville to
Jefferson, and being the place whereon Mr. Shell
nut now reside;.
Sold for the purpose of distribution among the
heirs of said Osborn, and to carry out his last
will. Terms cash. V
ROB’T 11. BRADFORD,
Adm’r de bonis non.
Jackson Mortgage Sheriff's
Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door in
Jefferson, Jackson county, tia., on the first
Tuesday in November, 1 SSI, within the legal hours
of sale, to the highest bidder, the following prop
erty, to-wit: One black mare mule, about eight
years old. Levied on as the property of Crotf
Duke, by virtue of and to satisfy a mortgage li. fa.
in favor of 11. Atkins k Cos., vs. Croll’Duke, issu
ed from the Superior Court of said county. The
property described in said fi. fa.
T. A. McELHANNON, Sheriff.
Q.UOKCU, JaOisoa County.
Whereas, J. C. Wheeler, Administrator de
lion, with will annexed, of DanT Wheeler,
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—
4his is to cite all concerned, kindred and crcd
itQfs, tq show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in December, 1881, at the regular term
uf tl\c Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let
ters of Dismission should not he granted the ap
plicant from s;ud trust.
Givep under ipy official signature, this Aug. 31
1881. r il. W. BELL, Ord’y. '
{ JacKson County.
\\ herv-as. Nancy Lyle and J. W. Lyle, Adm'rs
pn the estate of J. B. Lyle, late of said county,
dec and. applies for leave to sell the land belonging
to said deceased— '
ltfis is Ip cite all concerned, kindred and crtJ
jtors, t° show cause, if any, before the Court of
ruinary of said the Ist Mo; ’.ay in Oc
, c ,h 1881, why said leave not l>e grant
the applicants.
■uwi lVeu Ul *der my signature, tips Sept. 1,
Wl- 4|. \V. HELL, Unity.
Jaclison County.
Whereas, C. M. Wood, Administrator on the
estate of A. M. Loggins, late of said county, de
ceased, represents to the Court, by his petition
duly.filed, that lie 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. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jaclixioii 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,
wliy said letters should not be granted the appli
cant.
Given under my official signature, this June 28,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, J. B. Pendergrass, Administrator of
the estate of Hugh Sargent, 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 October, ISSI, why said leave
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 31.
1881. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
JacliMMi County.
Whereas, /. T. Niblack, Guardian of P. L.
Niblack, applies for leave to sell six shares of the
stock of the Georgia Kail ltoad and Banking Com
pany belonging to the estate of said ward—
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 October, 1881, why said leave should
not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 31,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL he sold, before the Court House door in
the town of Jefferson, within the legal hours
of sale, on the first Tuesday in October next, the
one undivided one-half interest in and to seventy
acres of land, more or less; the place whereon
Julia Burson, late of said county, uec'd, resided
at the time of her death (together with her sister,
Sarah A. Flannigan, who owns the other half, and
her husband, AY . S. Flannigan,) adjoining land of
AY . W. Millsaps, Randall Craft and Mary Burson,
on Barber's creek, in said county. On said land
is situate two dwellings, small orchard, twent} 7 -
five acres cleared land, remainder in pine old field.
.Sold for the purpose of paying debts and distribu
tion. Terms cash. VY. S. FLANNIGAN,
Administrator of Julia Burson.
Jacliseii County.
W. P. Kent has applied for exemption of per
sonal; and I will pass upon the same at 10
o'clock A. M., on Saturday, the first day of Octo
ber. 1881, at my office,
sep 23 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Notice to Debtors Creditors.
4 LL persons having demands against the estate
-XjL of Julia F. Burson, late of said county, tie
ceased, are hereby required to present them”, duly
authenticated, for payment to the undersigned,
and those due said estate arc requested to come
forward and settle. W. S. FLANNIGAN.
Sept 2 Administrator of Julia F. Burson.
Notice to Debtors §' Creditors.
A LL persons having demands against the estate
XI. of Sarah Booth, late of Jackson county, de
ceased, are hereby required to present them, duly
authenticated, for payment to the undersigned,
and those due said estate are requested to come
forward and settle. JOHN A. BOOTH,
sop 23 Administrator of Sarah Booth.
A<- l-IAT* WAX n:3> for the Best and
Fastest-Selling Pictorial Books and Bibles.
Prices reduced 33 per cent. National Publishing
Cos., Atlanta, Ga. apl 1 3m
Jackson Coimi.v.
Whereas, J. R. Crane makes application to me
in proper form for Letters of Administration on
the estate of John li. Colt, 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 Oc
tober, 1881, why said Letters should not be
granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3L
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, Jas. L. Williamson, Administrator of
the estate of Micagcr Williamson, late of said coun
ty, dccM. applies for leave to sell a tract of land
belonging to said deceased’s estate, known as the
E. M. Thompson place, tying in said county —
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors. to show cause, if any, on the lirst Monday
in October, 1881, at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should
not he granted the applicant.
Given under mv official signature, this Ang. 31,
1881. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Land, for Sale!
I OFFER for sale the place whereon 1 live, near
Hood’s mills, in Jackson county, containing
two hundred acres. Fifty acres o£good land open
for cultivation, a very fair residence and other
buildings, and plenty of good strong lands in for
est and old field pine, and also bottom land un
cleared. Will sell at a bergain. Call on W. C.
Howard, JelVerson, Ga., or myself, on the place,
for information.
M ARG A RET CAR ITT! EPS,
Sept. 23d, lSsl. Apple Valley, Ga.
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1881.
wy/\;vA‘\' mscwLiAm.
The Garnered Life Full of Usefulness With
Its Work.
The History of the Struggles of the Garfield
Family—ln the Wilds of Ohio—The suc
cessive Steps that Led from Obscu
rity to the White 1 louse and
to Death.
The following sketch of General James A.
Garfield is from the pen of the well-known
journalist and Republican, Mr. E. V. Smalley,
and appeared shortly before his nomination
for the Presidency by the Republican Nation
al Convention :
“James Abram Garfield was born Novem
ber 19, 1831, in the township ofOrange, Cuya
hoga county, Ohio, about 15 miles from Cleve
land. IPs father, Abraham Garfield, came
from New Y'ork, but, like his mother, was of
New England stock. James was the youngest
of four children. The lather died in 1833,
leaving the family dependent upon a small
farm and the exertions of the mother. There
was nothing about the elder Garfield to dis
tinguish him from the other plodding farmers
of the rather sterile township of Orange. No
one could discern any qualities in him which,
transmitted to the next generation, might
help to make a statesman, unless it was in
duslry ; but his wife, who is still living at an
advanced age, was always fond of reading
when she could get leisure from her hard
household duties, and was a thoroughly capa
ble woman, of strong will, stern principles
and more than average force of character. Of
the children no one besides James has made
the slightest mark in the world. The elder
brother is a farmer in Michigan, and the two
sisters are, I believe, farmers’ wives. James
had a tough time of it as a boy. lie toiled
hard on the farm early and late in summer
and worked at the carpenter's bench in win
ter. The best of it was that he liked work.
There was not a lazy hair on his head, lie
had an absorbing ambition to get an educa
tion, and the only road open to this end seem
ed that of manual labor. Ready money was
hard to get in those days. The Ohio canal
ran not far from where he lived, and, finding
that the boatmen got their pay in cash and
earned better wages than he could make at
farming or carpentry, lie hired out as a driver
on the tow-path, and soon got up to the dig
nity of holding the helm of a boat. Then he
determined to ship as a sailor on the lakes,
but an attack of fever and ague interfered
with his plans. lie was ill three months, and
when he recovered he decided to go to a school
called Geauga Academy, in an adjoining
county. llis mother had saved a small sum
of money, which she gave him, together with
a few cooking utensils and a stock of provis
ions. lie hired a small room and cooked his
own food to make his expenses as light as
possible, lie paid his own way after that,
never calling on his mother for any more as
sistance. li}' working at the carpenter’s
bench mornings and evenings and vacation
times, and teaching country schools during
the winter, he managed to attend the Acade
my during the spring and fall terms, and to
save a little money towards going to college,
lie had excellent health, a robust frame and
a capital memory, and the attempt to eom
b ine mental and physical work, which has
broken down many farmer boys’ ambitions to
get an education, did not hurt him.
“ When he was twenty three years of age
he concluded that he had about all there was
to be had in an obscure cross-roads academy,
lie calculated that he had saved about half
enough money to get through college, provi
ded he could* begin, as he hoped, with the
junior year. lie got a life insurance policy
and assigned it to a gentleman as security
for a loan to make up the amount he lacked.
In the fall of 1851 he entered the junior class
of Williams College, Massachusetts, and grad
uated in 1856, with the metaphysical honors
of iiis class. I have seen a daguerreotype of
him taken about this'time. It represents a
rather awkward youth, with a shock of light
hair standing straight up from a big forehead,
and a frank, thoughtful face of a very mark
ed German type. There is not a drop of
German blood in the Garfield family, but bis
picture would be taken for some Fritz or Carl
just over from the fatherland. Before he
went to college Garfield had connected him
self with the Disciples, a sect having a numer
ous membership in eastern and southern
Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, where its
founder, Alexander Campbell, had traveled
and preached. The principle peculiarities of
the denomination are their refusal to formu
late their beliefs into a creed, the independ
ence of each congregation, the hospitality and
fraternal feeling of tire members and the lack
of a regular ministry. When Garfield return
ed to Ohio it was natural that he should soon
gravitate to the struggling little college of the
young sect at Iliram, Portage county, near
his boyhood's home. lie became professor
of Latin and Greek, and threw himself w ith
the energy and industry which are leading
traits of his character into the work of budd
ing up the institution. Before he hud been
two years in the professorship he was rip
pointed president of the college. Iliram is a
lonely country village, three miles from a
railroad, built upon a high hill, overlooking
FOR TIIE PEOPLE.
“During his professorship Garfield married
Miss Lucretia Rudolph, daughter of a farmer
in the neighborhood, who had emigrated from
Harford county, Md., and whose acquaint
ance he had made while at the academy,
where she was also a pupil. She was a quiet,
thoughtful girl, of singularly sweet and re
fined disposition, fond of study and reading,
possessing a warm heart and a mind with the
capacity of steady growth. The marriage
was a love affair on both sides, and has been
a thoroughly happy one. MucH of General
Garfield’s subsequent success in life may be
attributed to the never-failing sympathy and
intellectual companionship of his wife and
the stimulus of a loving home circle. The
young couple bought a neat little cottage
fronting on the college campus and began
their wedded life poor and in debt, but with
brave hearts.
“ In 1859 the college president was elected
to the State Senate from the counties of Port
age and Summit. lie did not resign his pres
idency, because he looked upon a few months
in the Legislature a3 an episode not likely to
change the course of his life. But the war
catne to alter all his plans. During the win
ter of 18G1 he was active in the passage of
measures for arming the State militia, and
his eloquence and energy made him a con
spicuous leader of the union part} 7 . Early in
the summer of 1861 ho was elected Colonel
of an infantry regiment (the forty-second)
raised in northern Ohio, many of the soldiers
in which had been students at Hiram. He
took the field in eastern Kentucky, was soon
put in command of a brigade, and, by making
one of the hardest matches ever made by re
cruits, surprised and routed the Confederate
forces, under Humphrey Marshall, at Pike
ton.
“ From eastern Kentucky General Garfield
was transferred to Louisville, and from that
place hastened to join the army of General
Buell, which he reached with his brigade in
time to participate in the second day’s fight
ing at Pittsburg landing. He took part in
the siege of Corinth and in the operations
along the Memphis and Charleston railroad.
In January, 1863, lie was appointed chief of
staff of the army of the Cumberland, and bore
prominent share in all the campaigns in mid
dle Tennessee in the spring and summer of
that year. liis last conspicuous military
service was at the battle 'of Chickamauga.
For his conduct in that battle ho was promo
ted to a Major-Generalship. It is said that
he wrote all the orders given to the army that
day, and submitted them to Gen. Itosecrans
for approval, save one. The one he did not
write was the fatal order to General Wood,
which was so worded as not to correctly con
vey the meaning of the commanding General,
and which caused the destruction of the right
wing of the army.
“The congressional district in which Gar
field lived was the one long made famous by
Joshua R. Giddings. The old anti-slavery
champion grew careless of ihe arts of politics
towards the end of his career and came to
look upon a nomination and re-clcction as a
matter of course. liis over-confidence was
taken advantage of in 1858 by an ambitious
lawyer named Hutchins, to carry a conven
tion against him. The friends of G’ddings
never forgave Hutchins, and cast about for a
means of defeating him. The old man himself
was comfortably quartered in his consulate at
Montreal, and did not care to make a fight
to get back to congress. So his supporters
mlde use of the popularity of General Gar
field and nominated him while he was in the
field without asking his consent. That was
in 1862. When he heard of the nomination
Garfield reflected that it would be fifteen
months before the congress would meet to
which he would be elected, and believing, as
did ♦very one else, that the war could not
possibly last a year longer, concluded to ao
ceiJ., I have often heard him express regret
that" he did not help fight the war through and
say that he never wou ! d have left the army
to go to congress had he foreseen that the
sti aggie would continue beyond the year 1863.
He continued his military servieeTip to the
time congress met.
“On entering congress in December, 1363,
twenty miles of cheese-making country to the
southward. It contains fifty or sixfy houses
clustered around the greCTT, in the center of
which stands the homely red brick college
structure. Plain living and high thinking
was the order of things at Hiram college in
those days. The teachers were poor, the pu
pils were poor and the institution was poor,
but there was a great deal of hard, faithful
study done and man}' ambitious plans form
ed. The young president taught, lectured
and preached, and all the time studied as
diligently as any acolyte in the temple of
knowledge. He frequent!} 7 ' spoke on Sundays
in the churches of the towns in the vicinity
to create an interest in the college. Among
the Disciples an} 7 one can preach who has a
mind to, no ordination being required. From
these Sunday discourses came the story that
Garfield was at one time a minister. lie
never considered himself such, and never had
any intention of finding a career in the pulpit.
Ills ambition, if he had any outside of the
school, lay in the direction of law and poli
ties.
General Garfield was placed upon tfie com
mittee on military affairs with Schenck and
Farnsworth, who w.cre also fresh from the
field. He took an active part in the debates
of the house, and won a recognition which
few new members succeed in gaining. lie was
not popular among his fellow members dur
ing his first term. They thought him some
thing of a pedant because he sometime show
ed his scholarship in his speeches, and they
were jealous of his prominence. 11 is solid, at
tainments and amiable social qualtics ena
bled him to prejudice during
his second term, and he became on terms of
close friendship with the best men of both
houses. His committee service during his
second term was on the way3 and means,
which was quite to his taste, for it gave
him an opportunity to prosecute the studies
lie had always felt a fondness for. lie was a
hard worker and a great reader in those days,
going borne with his arms full of books from
the congressional library and sitting up late
at nights to read them. It was t ien that lie
laid the foundations of the convictions on the
subject of national finance which he has since
held to firmly amid all the storms of political
agitation. He was renominated in 1864 with
out opposition, but in 1866 Mr. Hutchins,
whom he had supplanted, made an effort to
defeat him. Hutchins canvassed the district
thoroughly, but the convention nominated
Garfield b3' acclamation.
“ He has had no opposition since in his own
party. In 1872 the liberals and democrats
united to beat him, but his'majority was larger
than ever. In 1874 the greenbackers and Jem
ocrats combined and put up a popolar soldier
against him, but the} 7 made no impression on
the result. The Ashtabula district, as it is
generally called, is the most faithful to its
representatives of any in the north. It has
had but four members in half a century.
“In the fortieth congress General Garfield
was chairman of the committee on military
affairs. In the forty-first lie was given the
chairmanship of banking and currency, which
he liked much better, because it was in the
line of his financial studies. liis next promo
tion was to the chairmanship of the appro
priations committee, which he held until the
democrats came into power in the house in
1875. Ilis chief work on that committee was
a steady and judicious reduction of the ex
penses of the government. In all the poli
tical struggles in congress he has borne a lead
ing part, his clear, vigorous and moderate
style of argument, making him one of the
most effective debaters in either house.*
“When James G. Blaine went to the senate,
in 1877, the mantle of republican leadership
in the house was by common consent placed
upon Garfield, and he has worn it ever since.
In January last Gen. Garfield was elected to
the senate to the seat which was vacated b}'
Allen G. Thurman on the 4th of March, 1881.
lie received the unanimous vote of the republi
can caucus, an honor never given to my man
of any party in the State of Ohio.
“ Asa leader in the house he is more cau
tious and less dashing than Blaine, and his
judicial turn of mind makes him too prone to
look for two sides of a question for him to be
an efficient partisan. When the issue fairly
touches his convictions, however, lie becomes
thoroughly aroused and strikes tremendous
blows. Blaine’s tactics were to continually
harrassthe enemy by sharp-shooting surprises
and picket firing. Garfield waits for an op
portunity to deliver a pitched battle, and his
generalship is shown to best advantage when.!
the fight is a fair one and waged on grounds
where each party thinks itself strongest. Then
his solid shot of argument are exceedingly
effective. On the stump Garfield is one of
the very best orators in the republican party,
lie has a good voice, an air of evident sin.
cerity, great clearness and vigor of statement,
and a way of knitting his arguments together
so as to make a speech'deepen its impression
on the mind of the hearer until the climax is
reached.
“ Of his industry and studious habits a great
deal might be said, but a single illustration
will have to suffice here. Once during the
busiest part of a very busy session at Washing
ton l found him in hi3 library, behind a big
barricade of books. This was no unusual sight,
but when I glanced at the volumes I saw they
were all different editions of Horace, or books
relating to that poet. ‘I find I am overworked
and need recreation,’ said the general. ‘Now
my theory is that the best way to rest the
mind is not to let it be idle, but to put it at
something quite outside of the ordinary line
of its employment. So I am resting by learn
ing all the congressional library can show
about Horace and the various editions and
translation of his poems.’
“The nomination, election and inauguration
of James A. Garfield as presidentofthe United
States are events fresh in the memories of all
reatiers. The republican national convention
met at Chicago, June 2, 1880, and balloting
for a presidential candidate commenced June
7. The principal contestants for the nomina
tion were U. S. Grant, James G. Blaine and
John Sherman, the fortune of the latter
being committed to the leadership of General
Garfield. On the-second ballot Generl Gar
field received one vote, which he kept nearly
throughout, occasionally receiving two votes,
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM,
i SI.OO for Six Months.
until the thirty*fourth ballot, when a break
j began. On the thirty-fourth ballot Garfield
| received 17 votes, oil the thirty-fifth ballot
i 250, and on the thirty sixth ballot 399 votes
land the nomination, which was at once made
unanimous. The campaign which followed was
an exceedingly exciting one until the Indiana
election in October, which resulted in a re
iinbliean victory, which greatly disheartened
the democrats and threw a damper on the
canvass. The result in November gave Gar
field 214 electoral votes and Hancock 155.
From the day of his election until
election until that of his inauguration as presi
dent General Garfield received many distin
guished visiting republican politicians, but
carefully kept his own counsels and did not
complete the formation of his cabinet until a
da}* or two before his inauguration. 11 is in
augural address was a thoughtful, scholarly
and generally well-received production, but
his nomination of Senator C'onkling’s most,
bitter personal and political enemy, Judge
Robertson, to the collectorship of the port of
New York precipitated a war between these
giants, whilst the president’s partial recogni
tion of the Mahonc repudiation movement in
Virginia, under the insincere guise of a demand
for “ a free ballot and a fair count,” alienated ,
from him the great bod} r of democratic senators
who were disposed to accord to his administra
tion a cordial support where that could bo
done without a violation of principle. Scarcely
had the impotent extra session of the senate
adjourned when the president was confronted
with anew trial in the critical illness of his
wife. 11 is devotion to his wife during her
long illness and the close attention shown) her
is said to have been very beautiful and touch
ing.”
Circulation of Matter.
Notwithstanding the constant returp. of
plant and animal to the parent earth, all the
mineral matter thev contain does not remain
*■’ . .1 • 1 *ft i
where they arc deposited., Ilpins and rivers
daily remove from the soil a portion of the
materials which arc so essential to the per
petuation of animal and vegetable forms, and
transport them to tho sea. Thus the natural
store of mineral food becomes daily smaller,
and the land in consequence less fitted for
the growth of plants. Hut for this contingency,
also there is a provision. The solid rocks
which form the crust of the earth contain all
these cssent'al forms of inorganic matter in
minute proportion. As these rocks crumble
and mingle with the soil they yield constant
small supplies of each ingredient —of phos
phoric acid, lime, magnesia, etc., etc. These
springs, which trickle through the rocks from
above or from beneath, dissolve and diffuse
wherever they go. Thus, in many localities,
a moderate supply is day by day brought to
the surface to replace that which, by natural
causes, is constantly removed. And the great
seas help in this work of restoration. They
heave their lofty waves into the air, and brcjfle
in foam, that tho rough wind may take up
and bear back-again to the land a portion of
the salty spoils with which the rivers are ever
enriching them. And then, lost these small ,
daily restorations should not succeed in
perpetually maintaining the necessary rich
ness of the soil in mineral plant-food. periods
of convulsions come at last to their aid. Great
physical revolution from time to time in
tervene. Now all at once and now by slow .
degrees, the bottom of the sea becomes dry.
Land and water change places, as they have
.often done during the geological history of
(he globe ; and after each change new races
of plants forthwith begin to take up what
rivers and rains have carried down into former
sea-beds. The same mineral matter begins
to play over again the same part as before in
the constant succession of animal and vegeta
ble life. In this we sec another long cycle,
through which certain ingredients of the solid ,
earth are ever slowly moving.
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 arc 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 hacks, bezel and cap
of the case. But above all you must be sure that *
the Case fits firmly, and to bo sure of this, select,
one where the parts (center, backs, cap, &c.) arc
each made from one piece of metal.
The JAMES BOSS’ Patent Stiffened or
filled Gold 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 appearaoes and practical purposes
just as good a Watch Case as the solid gold, at
about one-half' the cost to the purchaser.
There are nearly one hundred thousand of these
Watch Cases now carried, andtheirgood qualities
are acknowledged by the same number of happy
possessors.
All Jewelers keep them, also illustrated cata
logues for gratuitous distribution. ' ** '''
Mr. James A. Weatherford, of Springfield,
Ohio, says: “Brown’s Iron Bitters cured,
me of the worst case of dyspepsia man ever .
had. The muscles of my stomach, liver and
bowels now seem so strong. I believe I could ,
almost digest petrified cheese ! I recommend -
it to all who suffer as did I.”
NUMBER 32.