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JACKSON HERALD. ROBERT S. HOWARDS Editor and Publisher. $ VOLUME I. C. w_ DUPRE, Gainesville, Ga., IS lIEADQI ARTERS for good reliable goods, and the Reader in Low Prices. My stock of General Merchandise is the largest I have ever carried, and the most extensive and best selected stock ever brought to Gainesville. My Dry Groodss Department Is full and replete in every line. The most elegant line of DRESS GOODS. SILKS, SAT INS, ULAIDS, STRIPES and HIIOCADKS ever offered here. A superb line of I - L ANN ELS, V\ AI ERPROOFS, UASIMEKES, JEANS, CIA) 1 IIS. Ac. My stock of LADIES’ CLOAKS will equal that of every house in the city together. This line fs complete in all grades. Every lady can he suited here. M3' Glove, Hosiery and Corset Departments Arc full of the best goods and lowest prices. In MILLINERY, II ATS, RIBBONS and TRIMMINGS, for ladies wear, 1 have an elegant line, with MISS MARY lIEADEN, a superb Trimmer, at the head of this Department. Clotliing:! Clotliing l In my Clothing Department may always he found everything pertaining to a first-class clotliing store. This stock is uncqual cd in this section. “ KEEP’S” Shirts, Collars and Cutis a specialty. No fancy prices. 1 have the largest stock of Boots and Shoes, for Gents, Ladies and Children, ever ottered to the trade in Northeast Georgia. Ziegler’s Shoes, and other noted brands in full lines. My stock is complete in every department, and as to prices 1 will guarantee to sell an} r tliing in 1:13' stock as low as similar goods can be bought in Atlanta or Athens, or any other market. All! ask is an opportunity to convince you. Conic to Gainesville. Come to see me. C. W. DuPRE. P. S. —I buy all kinds of Country Produce at highest market prices. £egtf JWiwtisemeiik Executrix’s Sale . A GREEABLY to an order of the Court J\. of Ordinary of Jackson county. Ga.. gran'ed at the J)icemb:r term, ISSI, of said Court, will lie sold, before the Court House door in Jefferson, in said county, on the first Tuesday iu February, 18S2, four ecu acres of land, more or less, lying in the 428th District, G. M., said county, being a portion of the Wm. Porter tract, adjoining lands of James Roberts and Helena Long. Said land lies along the Gainesville and Jefferson Rail Road, about four miles from Jefferson, and is the very best quality of land. Sold as the property of William Porter, dec'd, for the purpose of paving the debts of said dec’d. Terms cash. JULIA A. PORTER, Executrix of William Porter. Jackson County. Whereas. Robert E. Green, Adminis trator of Caroline A. Colt, dec’d. makes application to me in proper form for leave to sell the real estate belonging to said deceased— This is to cite all persons concerned, heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordi nary, to be held in and for said county on the first Monday m February, ISS2, why said leave should not be granted the ap plicant. Given under my official signature, Jan. r. 18S2. H. % BELL, Ord’y. J.EORGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, S. P. Higgins, Administrator of Mar3 T Simmons, Ueo’d, represents to the Court that he has fully and completely ad ministered said deceased’s estate accord ing to law, and is therefore entitled to a discharge from said administration— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Mon day in April, 1882, why Letters of Dis mission from said estate should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this January 4th, 18S2. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson Countv. Whereas, G. W. Strickland makes ap plication for Letters of Guardianship of the property of Z. T. Hardman, Tildcn Hardman and Adell Hardman, minors of Z. J. Hardman, dec'd— This is to cite all concerned and/the next of kin to show cause, if any they can, at the regular term of the Court of Ordi nary of said county, on the lirst Monday in February, ISS2, why said letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my otticial signature, Jan. 4, 18S2. H. W. BELL, Ord'y. Jackson County. Whereas, Marcus L. Sell makes appli cation for Letters of Guardianship of the persons and property of A. V. Sell (for merly Pirkle), John T. Pirklc and Charles T. Pirklc, minors of John T. Pirklc — This is to cite all persons concerned and the next of kin to show cause, if any they can, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Mon day in February, 1882, why said Letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, Jan. 4. 1882. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Whereas, W. I. Pike, Administrator of Lloyd Brooks, late of said county, dec’d, applies for leave to sell the lands belong ing to said deceased's estate— This is to cite all concerned, kindri>d and creditors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday in February, 1882. at the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should not be granted the ap plicant. Given under my official signature, Jan. 4. 1882. 11. W. BELL. Ord’y. Q.KORUJA, Jackson County. Thomas H. Gober lias applied for ex emption of personalty and setting apart the same; and I will pass upon the same at 10 o'clock A. M., on the ISth day of January, 1882, at my office, in Jefferson. jan G* 11. W. BELL, Ord’}'. J. MONROE TAYLOR ESTABLISHED 1544. Cold itlcdßl Soda, Cold Medal Snlorntn*, I rrAyJr 113 WATER ST., NEW YORK. The whitest, nicest and best goods made. Guaranteed pure, superior in quality and style of package to any brand in the world. Takes less quantity to do the same work. Ask your grocer for it, and have no other. Subscribe for the Herald, | Jackson County. Whereas. O. 11. P. Pettyjohn, Admin istrator on the estate of Temperance 4>et | tyjohn. late of said count}’, deceased, rep resents to the Court that he has full}’ and completely administered said deceased’s estate and is entitled to a discharge— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if an}’, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinal’}’ of said county, on the first Monday in Feb ruary. ISS2, why said Letters of Dismis sion should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, Oc tober 2‘Jth, 1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. THE SUN. NEW YORK, 1882. 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Do not suffer\°f sutler.but use and urge lo use HOP B Remember, Hop Bitters is noV' '* e > drunken nostrum, but the Purest^^. a nt l , Medicine ever made; the “INVALIDS zIUKNI> Hand HOPE” and no person or family Xk. R houid be without them. &->**. -ic.^afc ■ □ I.C. is an absolute and irrestible cure ¥ jSSBI ■forbrunkeness, use of opium, tobacco and S AWES ■narcotics. All sold bv druggists. Send# L w3 ■ for Circular. Hep Bitter, Sfe. Cos., Jr gog&SI ■ Rochester, N.Y and Toronto, Out. s§Sgß FOR THE PEOPLE. vßc\.vit\vA Wvs c cWavy\a\ . FORTY DOLLARS FOR FOUR TEETH. A Real Incident. BY MRS. 11. S. CLARKE. “ Elsie !” “ Yes pnpu and the child dashed away her fetus and sprang to the bed where her father lay bandaged and helpless. That day an explosion had happened in the mill where he worked, and he was badly hurt. “ Water!” lie said feebly. She gave it to him, and he went on speaking ; “ Where's the money, Elsie?” “ Here, papa," putting hef hand on the bosom of her dress. ” That’s right. Take good care of it. God only knows when we shall have any more. Poor child !” he added fondly. ‘ Not a bit of it,” she answered gaily. “ You’ll be at home all the time now. and we’ll have such a good time to gethcr. Her father gave her a loving smile, and closed his eyes wearily. Elsie began to stroke his hand, and he soon fell into an uneasy slumber. The two were all in all to each other. They came from England and had been in America but a few months. Elsie was a plain, delicate child of thirteen, hut, Her father called her his dove of coinfort, and now she was proving her right to the name. She tended him day and night, with a cheery, skillful patience that made everybody love her. But the weeks went by, the money was spent, and still he lay on his bed. The wolf was at the door. How could they keep him out? Then it was that her father said : *• Elsie, where are the silver spoons ?” ” In mamma’s little trunk, with the ring and the locket,” she answered. “ You must get them out and carry them to Mr. Black.” ‘•Oh.papa.no! It’s all the silver we have, and mamma thought every thing of them,” she cried impulsively. The sick man made no answer, but lie put his hands over his eyes, and ; soon Elsie saw the tears steal slowly through his fingers. “ Papa, dear papa ! I didn’t mean it. How cruel of me!” she exclaimed, throwing her arms about him. “I’ll take them this minute, and when you get well and earn money we'll have them back again.” “ When I get well! I wonder when that will be?” he said despairingly. “ Before long,—slow and sure, you know,” she answered brightly, and in a few minutes she set out on her first visit to the pawnbroker. But it was not her last. Time and again she went, till every possible thi g had been carried ; and meantime she was learn ing cheerfully to bear hunger and cold r or “ papa’s sake.” He. too. poor man. must see bis lading grow hollow-cheeked and big eyed. with no power to save her. What could they do but lie down together and die ? As Elsie went home from her. last visit to the pawnbroker she stopped at a grocery to buy a little coal, and. while she waited for other customers, she looked listlessly at the morning paper lying on the counter. As she did so, these words caught tier eye: Wanted—four perfect front teeth, for which I will gi\e forty dollars. C has. Dow, Dentist, No. 5 K street. FIRE PROOF MESSENGER BOXES The poor little face flushed scarlet with a sudden hope. ” Perhaps lie would take mine,” she thought; •• Mother Savage said yesterday she wondered how such a homely child came to have such handsome tenth.” She seemed to herself to be dreaming. “ Forty dolh.rs,” “ Forty dollars,” k< pt saving itself over in her brain, and when the shopman turned to wait on her .dm was gone. A few minutes after, stie stood in the dentist’s office. “Please, will you sec if my teeth are good enough to buy ?” she asked timidly. The doctor was engaged in a delicate ope-alion, but he stopped to give the teeth a hurried examination. “llow beautiful! They arc just what I want. Come to morrow,” he said, going back to his work. The rest of the day Elsie's father thought her won lerfully gay, but he could not think why. for she said nothing of her plan, about winch she began to lose courage when the first °xcitementof itsuhsi led. Hard things look easier in the morning than they lo at night; and as she sat in the twilight, studying herself in a bit of looking-glass,she thoughtsorrowfully : ” I shall be homelier than ever when they are gone; but then how silly if me to care about that. Papa will love me just the same. But it w ; ll hurt 90 to have them out,” she went on think ing. and every nerve •in her body quivered at the prospect.. •* 1 fit wa-n’i for the rent, and the medicine for papa and ever so many other things I never could beg. never. Yes. Elsie Bctison, it’s got to be done, if it kills you !” The next morning she entered the dentist’s office by the mere force of will. Her courage was all gone. Dr. Dow was alone, and said “ Good morning.” very kindly ; but when he saw how she trembled, he put her on the lounge and made her drink something that quieted her. Then he sat down by her, and said : “ Now tell me what your name is, and why you want to sell your teeth.” He spoke so gently that at first Elsie could only answer him with tears : but at last he contrived to get all her sad story, and his eyes were wet and his voice husk}’ several times while she was telling it. “ You are a dear, brave child.” be said when she finished. “Now lam going with you to see your father.” “ Butyou’ll take the teetii first, won’t you ?” she asked imploringly. “ I shall never have courage to come again.” “Never mind that. We'll see if t here isn’t some better way out of this trouble,” be answered. 80. hand in hand, they went back to the sick man ; but I cannot tell you how happy and proud he was when the doctor told him alxntt Elsie, or how gratefully he fell in with the plan of going to a nice hospital, where he soon got well enough to work in the doctor’s handsome grounds ; while Elsie, in her place as nurse to the doctor's baby, rolled it over the gravel walks. So, though Elsie kept her teeth, they saved both her and her father from pov erty and distress. Solid Advice About Mothers-in-Law. “ I vas dalking mit old Mrs. Robs de oder da)’, Herman,” said lioffen stein, “ und she dells me dat she heard you vas going to get married in de vintcr. Vot haf you to say to dot?” Herman looked confused for a mo ment, hut finally controlling his cm harrassment replied : “Veil, I did dink, Misder Iloffen stein, dot 1 vould marry Rachael Go slinsky in de vinter, und den I dinks dot it vould be pctter if I vait undil I got a leetlc money in de pank.” ” Dot vas righd, Herman,” said Ilof fenstein. with a smile of approval. “ Safe up your money so dot yon viil bafsomcding to sdart mit, und ven you get married dake ray advice und keep your vile's moder avay. All uf de drouble vot I have mit my family vas caused by my vife’s moder ven she came to lif mit me afder her bus band, old Moses Heidenheimer, vas deadt. Sl:e dells my vife pefore she vas dere a veek dot I must get car pets, und vindow curtains, und a whole lot uf oder dings for der house, vot cost money, you know. “My gr r-acious, Herman, my vife she gets der same grazy notions in her headt, und I dinks at von time dot de oxbenses vill prake all der sdore up. My vife’s moder don'd do noting but cadt, und ven she vasn’t eadin’ she vas dalkin’ like a vind-mill. und I haf no beace mit my family. Somedimes 1 vished dot she vould get someding de matter mit her und die, but she vouldn’t. Vliile some uf der best l>eeple aroundt vere I lif vas dyin’ mit der gonsumption und der heart dis ease, dot old voman, Herman, got so fat dot she vas a gouple uf dimes big ger dan a car mule. “ Veil, von day vhen I vas almost grazy mit drouble, my vife sent word to me dot her moder vas all divested mit der grumps, und dot I mustpring a doctor righdt avay. I vent dree miles out uf der vay to get the doctor, und ven lie looked at my vife’s moder und says dot she vas deadt, I vas so happy, Herman, /lot I feels I could lift myself up mit my susbenders. ** Der old voraan’s body veighed ofer dwo hundred bounds, und ven dey brought der coffin to der house, I dook her up und put her in it raidoudt any drouble. She feels to me no more liefy as a leetle fedder, und I could haf put her in do eofli-t if (-In’ veighed a dousand bounds. Recoiled vot I dells you, Herman, und ven you get married keep your vife’s moder avay.” —New Orleans Times. A Corner in Corncobs. “There is a corner in corncobs some where,” said a New York wholesale dealer in pipes. •• for iho demands of manufacturers of corncob pipes can not be met. even at advanced prices. There has never been such a scarcity in the supply. The pipes, too, veetu to be in _n aLer demand than ever. Many men won't smoke any other kind. I know one rich society man who would be in disgrace if he was seen in public with a corncob pipe in bis mouth, but who keeps his pipe in his bedroom and has a quiet smoke before he goes to bed. The man who invented the process of hardening a corncob lias become independently rich. Some cob pipes are costly be cause of the silver mountings, but the pipe that sells for five cents is the most popular. Smokers say that the corncob pipe is sweeter thr n any oth er. Southern negroes who know what is good from a hooeake to a possum, wouldn't give a cobpipe lor the liuest meerschaum if they could n’t get anoth er. I suppose the short corn crop has had something to do with the scarcity. The cobs of a poor crop arc not fit to make pipes out of.” Signs of Good Luck. Wearing out your shoes at the side. Meeting with a white dog. Having a strange cat come to }our house and take up her abode. If you wish to prosper keep a black cat. To put your left boot on your right, foot. To find old iron—particularly horse shoes. To prevent disease among your pigs, nail a horseshoe over the door of your stye. To dream of finding eggs. To dream of a funeral. To break a needle in making a garment is a sign that yon will live to wear the garment out. Great Smokers. The Hollanders arc more given to smoking than any Northern people— “ dreaming with the eyes open.” The boatman of the Treschkrit, the aquatic diligence of Holland, mcnsuredistance by smoke ; from one place to another, not so many miles, but so many pipes. Entering the house, your host offers you a cigar, often insisting on filling your cigar case on leaving. Some go to sleep with pipe in their mouth, relight it on wakening in the night, and in the morn ing before getting out of bed. Diderot says : “A Dutchman is living alembic.” File cigar is not the companion ofindo lence, but the stimulant and aid to labor. Smoke is called their second breath, and the cigar the sixth finger of the hand. A Frenchman tells the story of a rich gentleman of Rotterdam, Van Klaes, surnamed Father Great pipe, being old, fat, and agreat smoker. Asa merchant in India he had amassed a fortune. On his return he built a palace near Rotterdam, in which lie arranged, as in a museum, all the models of pipes from all countries and of every time. This was open to strangers to whom, after his display of smoking erudition, he gave a cata logue of the lnuseu .ti, bound in vel vet., with pockets of cigars and tobacco. Mynheer Van Klaes smoked 150 grammes of tobacco per day, and died at 98 ; from 18 years of age lie smoked 4.333 kilo grammes—making an un interrupted black line of tobacco of twenty French leagues in length. When but a few days left to complete his 98th year, lie suddenly felt his end approaching, and sent for his notary, a smoker of great merit, and said: "My good notary, fill my pipe and your own ; I am about to die.” When both pipes were lighted Van Klaes dictated his will, celebrated over Holland. After the disposal of the bulk of his property to relatives, friends and hospitals, he dictated the following articles: “I desire that all smokers in the country shall be invited to my funeral by all possible means, newspapers, pri vate letters, circulars and advertise ments. Every smoker who shall accept the invitation shall receive a gift of ten pounds of tobacco and two pipes, upon which shall be engraved my name, my arms, and the date of my death. The poor of the district who shall follow my body to the grave shall re ceive. each man, every year on the anniversary of my death, a large parcel of tobacco. To all those who shall be present at the fnrreral ceremonies, I make the condition, if they wish to benefit by my will, that they shall smoke uninterrupted during the cere mony. My body shall be inclosed in a case lined inside with the wood of my old Havana cigar boxes. At the bottom of the case shall lie deposited a box of French tobacco, so-called capo ral, and a parcel of our own Dutch to bacco. At my side shall be laid my favorite pipe and box of matches, be cause no one knows what may happen. When the coffin is deposited in the vault, every person present shall pass by and cast upon it the ashes of his pipe.” The will was carried out. The funeral was splendid and veiled in a thick cloud of smoke. The poor blessed the memory of the deceased, and the country still rings with his fame. How Camels Thrive in Arizona. Some years ago a number of camels were brought to this territory by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, under the supposition that they would do better service than horses or mules in traversing the then barren wilds through which that road was to pass. Ilewever, after trial, they did not meet the expectation of their owners, and were soon turned loose. Since then they have thrived remarkably' well and increased in numbers. Occasion ally one was caught or killed by the Indians, but a greater portion were unmolested. Not long ago Mr. R. B. Smith, of North Rase, Wayne county. New York, conceived the idea of ob taining a number fur Sells Bros.’ cir cus having ascertained that they could be secured more convenient and at less expense than if imported from their native country’. Having made a satisfactory con fact with Sells Bros, he came here not long ago and sue ceeded. with the assistance of Pantha, chief of the Navajos, in corraling nine camels about forty miles from Gila Bend, at a cost to him of about SSOO, and much finer specimens of the spe cies than arc exhibited in the travel ing menageries. Mr. Smith passed through this city Thursday evening with his cargo, and feels greatly elated over his success. Two of the beasts are very young, and it is feared one will net be able to withstand the cold weather experienced during the pass age East. Signs of a Stranger Coming. A cat washing her face. To spill a cup of tea. To drop a dishcloth. To see a cow. To sneeze before break fast. To have your no3e itch. • The entranoe of a bumble bee into the house. The crowing of a rooster on the doorstep. The breaking of the clothes iine. Dropping your food on its way to your mouth is a sign of the coming of a stranger who will be hungry. Drop ping a fork, or a pair of scissors, if the points penetrate the floor. Upsetting a chair. The running down-of a clock. -♦- c m Men of ax-shun—Tramps. S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO for Six Months. A Wonderful Dwelling. Captain Martin Van Bitren Bates, who lives on a farm near Seville, 0., is seven feet eleven and a half inches high and weighs 479 pounds. Mrs, Bates is seven feet eleven inches high and weighs 413 pounds. It is auifflcult matter to convey an adequate idea of the proportions of such a dwelling as the one occupied by the Ohio giants. A door that is six feet six inches high is a large sized opening in the side of a house—that is a dwelling house, not a cathedral. But the doors in the domicile of the Bates giants are ten feet high, and the knobs are nearly as high as the reporter's head. The house was built by Captain Bates in 1876, and is elegantly furnish' ed. In the main building on the ground floor are, besides the spacious hall, the bed chamber of the giants, a .sitting room and a parlor. The conch upon which the big couple sleep was made especially for them, and it is a curiosity to look at. It is extensive enough to give the great people room to stretch in, and it looks as big as an ordinary-sized floor. It is really ten feet long, wide in proportion and about twice as high as a common bed. The magnificent dressing-case is also a huge affair, with a glass upon it nearly as big as the side of a house. In the sitting room is a piano of ordinary size itself, but it is mounted on blocks two feet high, so that the instrument is away up in the air.- out of the reach of common folks. There are two rocking chairs in this room that are so big that the reporter had to climb up into one of them the same as an infant would clamber up into a “ high chair.” It is very expensive for the giants to live, as they have to pay such an exorbitant price tor everything they wear. For 1 instance, it costs the Captain thirty dollars a pair for boots. It is a most-astonishing sight to come across the two giants out for a drive. City folks who have seen thc ! ponderous wagons with wheels reach ing to the second story of a bouse,- used to haul stones weighing tons and’ tons, can form an idea of the vchiole : U9ed. It is pulled by six stout Nor man horses, and it is enough to make' a man think he has got ’em sure, to’ suddenly meet such a spectacle on the : road out in the country. Passing; wagons have to let the rails down ana drive into the adjoining fields until the giants go by. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Father is Getting WeiL My daughters say. “ llow mueft better father is since he used Hop Bit ters.” lie is getting well after his' long suffering from a disease declared incurable, and we are so glad that ho used your Bitters. A lady of Roches ter, N. Y.— Utica Herald. Novel Argument in Favor of the Stock Law. Yesterday while a large number of colored men were discussing the stock law now before the Legislature, an old man in the party used this pointed argument in favor of it; ,k l>ar is oner ting you niggers aint tinking of in dis matter. You se dat big rock build in’* down by de ribber ? Well, dat place i chock full ob niggers. llow come 80? I’ll tell you. De buckra cow, he hog. and he sheep dey runs through de fields ? some ob dem same niggers see ’em in de woods and kill ’em and etvt ’em, De buckra find ’em out and dc nigger got no money to pay for ’em and den he go to court and den to de peniten tiary. Now, when dis stock law done pass and de cows and de hogs all perv up, de tempta* ion dun gone, and yon won't see so many niggers in dat rock buildin’. I’m talkin’ and you'll see.”’ —Columbia (S. C.) Register. After Twenty Years. Memphis, Tcnn., April 13, 1881. IL 11. Warner & Cos., t Sirs —Your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, in roy case, cured a confirmed sickness of twenty years. 1 believe it to be the remedy for all female disorders, and can cheerfully recommend it. Mrs. B. N. Bolton. Valuable Tables The following table will show the number of checks or hills contained in an acre of ground at certain di&- tanecs: 1 foot apart each way 43,56(1 2 feet apart each way 10,890 3 feet apart each way 4,845 4 feet apart each way 2,722 5 feet apart each way 1,740 6 feet apart each way 1,210 0 feet apart each way 597 10 feet apart each way 435 12 feet apart each way 502 15 feet apart each way 195 20 feet apart each way 108 25 feet apart each way 69 30 feet apart each wa3’ 48 40 feet apart caeh way 27 The Spring Place Times records a terrible accident which occurred to a son of Mr. Jas. Groves, near Holly Creek, Murray county, some days ago. It seems the little boy, aged about eleven years, was riding a spirited horse to water, when the animal took fright and dashed his youthful rider against a tree, causing almost instant death. Nearly all the ills that afflict man? kind can be prevented and cured by keeping the stomach, liver and kid- I neys in perfect working order. 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