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ROOT CULTURS. GREAT DEMOCRATIC PAPER An Act to fix by law the standard weight of a bushel of the articles and commodities hereinafter mentioned, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Gene ral Assembly of the State of Georgia, that the legal weight of the follow ing articles and commodities per bushel shall he as follows: Wheat 60 lbs. Shelled corn.. 56 Corn in ear 70 Peas....' - GO Eye I. 56" Oats 32 Barley . 47 Irish pofatoss 60 Sweet potatoes. 55 White -beaBS .... ,.60 Gloyer seed ,60 Timothy seed. 56 Flax seeds 56 Hemp Seed. 44 Buckwheat 52 Blue glass seed’ 14 Dried peaches funpeeled) 1 ..... .33 Dried peaches (peeled); .38 Dried apples- ..24 OnfoDS 57 Stone coal .80’ Unslaked lime 80 Turnios 55 Corn meal 48 Wheat bran 20 Cotton seed 60 Gronnd peas.... ......25 Plastering hair. 8 Sec. I 2. Repeals all conflicting law Approved Februrary 20th, 1875. The street commissioners earnestly desire that old boo's hats, croctory, tin cans, ashes, dead cats and potato par ings should be sown broadcast in many streets,* which are now in splendid or der for planting. Plant stoves in the garret, cellar or shed. They require dry soil. An ap plication of grease will prevent rnst. Clothes pegs should be .planted Mon day mornings on lines about eight feet from the ground. The T-weetf, formerly abundant about the City Hall, is bow very scarce. Cats, rakishly inclined abont fresh- dug garden beds should be shoo’d off. This is the time for raising spring nl- sters. It is not always suefi an easy matter. The best variety of egg plant is a ;hen. The best oyster plants are found at Saddle Eock. Now sew buttons promptly on your pantaloons and shirts. The kerosine is a bright, pretty flow er, audit’s little trouble to raise it and many things with it. Early cabbages should .be planted in pots full of boiling 1 about four o’clock In the morniBg. The cheapest way to raise green peas in the city is to biiv them by the can. Plant mouse-traps in the pantry. Apply a top-dressing of cheese.. Tramps are easiest “received” by a heroic application of elab, shot-gnn, or wateb-dog. Brisks should be sown in beds of mortar. *• Plough deep while the blackguards sleep. ft- Much attention this spring is being devoted to raising the wind, especially in Wall street. Its cultivation requires THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS ‘ THE LARGEST AND BEST THEY HAVE EVER HAD. INCLUDING Leaves Atlanta Arrives at Macon, Leaves Macon Arrives at MiUedgeville. Arrives at Elton ton Arrives at Augusta Arrives at Savannah..... \XTIXH THE OPFNING'of another political cam- V V paign and business season, we desire to pre sent the claims of the DAILY MORNING NEWS * to the patronage of the public. The features that have rendered the Morning News so popular will be maintained, and the am ple facilities os the establishment devoted to ma ting it, if possible; still more worthy of the confi dence and patronage of the. peoaie of Georgia and Florida. re The editorial deparment will be conducted, as heretofore, with dignified moderation, but, at the same time, with vigorous and earnest devotion to the interests of onr section, anc the principles of the Natio lal Democratic Party. Its State, General and Telegraphic news departments, and its T ocal and Commercial columns will be kept up to their old s'andard of completeness and reliablility, and improvements made whenever they may suggest themselves. In a word, the M«ming NewB will comprise every feature that renders the newspaper of to-day attractive, audits patrons may confident ly look to its. columns for the latest information in regard tscurreut events. Yielding to no rivary in its own-proper Held, it will ollow no competitor to outstrip it in josnallstic enterprise. Notions, Clothing, Hats, Boots, Shoes Crockery, Class-Ware, etc., etc, Goods. Leaves Augusta Arrives at MiUedgeville Arrives at Eatonton Arrives at Macon Lea res’Macon for Atlanta......." Arrives at Atlanta. Leave? Macon for Albany and Enfahi* Arrives at Enfanla..... Arrives at Albany PLANTATION SUPPLIES* ETC. MOORE & TUTTLE* PERRY, GEORGIA. PROVISIONS, daily except Sunday, and at Juthbeit for Gaines Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday.. 71 returning leave Fort ermines Tuesdays, ThmLn.. and Saturdays at 4:A7 a. m. ’ Train on Blakely Extension leaves Albanr Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. ' COMTNG- SODTS AND EAST. Leaves Atlanta ...2.-05,« Arrives at Macon from Atlanta ’.’sis » I Leaves Albany l'lOi* Leaves Enfanla g-JO.J Arrives at Macon fromEufanla and Albany r« Leaves Cohnnbus lliooii Arrives at Macon from. Columbus .‘iau " Leaves Macon Arrives at Augusta 5:hu» Leaves Augusta. ..9:15,* Arrives at Savannah 7:Lix Making connection at Savauuah with Atlantis and Gulf Bailroad for all points in Florida. Passengers for MiUedgeville aud Eaioutou via take train No. 2 from Savannah aud train X... 1 f r01o Macou, which trains connect daily ex.-erit Mt.mhr for these ttoitiIL THE WEEKLY NEWS, the largest paper in the Southern States. This pa per contains a carcfnl compUotion of the general news from the daily issues of the week, Telegraph ic Dispatches and Market Reports, carefully edited Agricultural aud Military Departments, with choice Literary and Mifcellaneous reading, and os a dis tinctive feature ORIGINAL, SERIAL STORIES, written expressly for its pages by popular authors; thus constituting it a comprehensive, entertaining. March , 27 lyr. NOW OPENING and instructive fan ily newspaper. Wo also issue a lively Snnday paper, THE SUNDAY TELEGRAM, which contains the Local and Telegraphic news of Saturday night. AN EXTENSIVE STOCK OF Sobscuii-tion, (Peepaid.) Daily, six months, $500; twelve months, SI 00. Tri-weekly, six months, $3 oO; twelve mouths, $600. The Weekly, six mouths, $100; twelve inoutha, j $200. Sunday Telegram, six months, $150; twelve mouths, $2 50. - Money can be sent to my address by registered letter, cr P. O- order at my risk. j. ri. E5TILL, No. 3:Whitaker street, Savannah, Ga. wh.n other Oils Fail. WILLSON’S CARBOLATED (Norwegian) Cod Liver Oil Immediate!y Arrests Decay and Builds Hii the System. WILLSON’S CABBOLATED (Norwegian) Cod Liver Oil Is retained l>y ike Weak»st Stomach. V F« JP.ee from Unpleasant Tat.*'*. To Steadily ijige«ted. Sever gets RancitL WILLSON’S CABBOLATED (Norwegian) Cod Liver Oil Cores Consumption. Scrofula, Emaciation, Coughs, Colds, All Lung and Constetctionai, Complaints and is a remarkably efficient IicooD Punii'ina. and checki the Ravages of-Disease. WILLSONS CABBdlATEO (Norwegian) Cod Liver Oil la sold onlv in large wedge-shapod bottles. Willaou i spoiled with a double * L.” Remember the word “ Carbolated inttrderittg from your Druggist, and ineist on having the right kind. Bend for Circulars to the* Proprietors, GUEMP MANUFACTURING CO., as PARK PLACE, NEW YORK. For Men, Roys and Children, tor Spring and Summer, oulGOODS ARE CHOICE, AND ALL OUR PRICES LOW. W1N|UIP & CALLAWAY, DO SECOND STREET, MACON, - GEORGIA, April 10—Ira. TO AND FliOai ST. NICHOLAS, ScriJniers’s Illustrated Magazine. For Boys and Girls Macon & Brunswick X. fi. GENEILLXSUTKBINTENDKXT’s OFFICE.) Macou, Ga., May 2tt, 1873.) iN and after Sunday, the 26th instant, passage* ' trains on this road vill run as follows: This body will hold its next session in Macon, Georgia, on the 30—31 of May, 1879. Having received many let ters iu reference to representation in the State Association I take this method of answering all. Every County Association is entitled to one delegate fer every 300 officers and members, or fractional part of 300, composing the County Associa tion, In counties where no association ex ists the representation is two delegates for each member to widen such coun ty is entitled.in the Legislature. These last named are aDpointed by the viee-pvesidpnt of the Congressional district iu which snch comity is loca ted. Separate schools are not entitled as such to. representation, but must- either form county Associations and let such Association sead delegates, or else must apply to the vice-presidents to select delegates. I most earnestly call upon the minis- 1 ters of religion of all names and Snn- dav-sheool workers all over the State, and especially upon the vice-presidents, Assistants, Secretaries and members of the Executive Committee, to use their utmost endeavors to have ev ery county in Georgia represented iu the next Association in Macon. J. B.^Estes, Pres. G. S. S. A. The an fortunate city of Elizabeth, N, J., which has been “improved to death,” is now brought face to face with its agony with nearly two bun. dred thousand dollars of interest and principal due, without a cent in the treasury. OVER 50,000 COPIES- It is published simultaneously in- London and New York, and the transatlantic recognition is al most as general and .hearty as the American, Al though the progress of the Magazine Las been a , steady advance, it has not reached its editor's ideas of best, because her ideal eo -tinually outruns it, ; and the magazine witty follows al ter. To-day ; St, Nicholas stands alone in THE WORLD 0E BOOKS, The New York Tribune has said of it-- “St. Nicho- las has reached a higher platform, and command, for its service wider resources in art aud letters. : ban any of its .predecessors or contemporarinics The Londou Literary World says; “There is hot magazine for the young that can be said to eu ua 1 this choice production of Scribners’ Press.” Uood Tilings for 1878-9. The arrangements for literary and art contribu tions for tlie new volume—the sixth—are complete ; drawing from already favorite sources as well a •from promising new ones. Mr. Frank R. Stock ton’s new serial story for boys, “AJOLlY FELLOWSHIP,” WiUrnn through twelve monthly parts—beginning with the number fer November, If'78. the first volume,- and will be illustrated by James E. Kelly. The story is oue oj travel and adventure iu Florida and the Bahamas. For the gi.-ls, a con- tinned fairy-tale, . “HALF A DOZEN HOUSEKEEPERS. F By Katharine D. Smith, with illustrations by Fred erick Deilmau, ’ cgins in the- same numbefand a fresh serial by Susan Coolijge, entitled “Eye bright,” with plenty of pictures, will be commenc ed early in the volume. There will also he > con tinued fairy-tai e, caUed • ‘KUMPTY DUDGET’S TOWER. ” Written by Juiian Hawthorne, and illustrated by , Alfred Fredericks. About the ether familiar fea tures of St. Nicholas, the editor preserves a good-* humored silence, content, perhaps, to let her five volumes already issued, prophesy concerning the sixth, in respect to short stories, pictnrcs, poeniB, ; humor; instructive sketches, aud the lure and the lore of “Jack-in-the-Pulpit,” the “Very Little Folks’; Department, and the “Letter Box” and the “Biddle Box.” Terms, $3,00 a ycar;35-cents a number. Subscriptions received by tbo publisher of this paper, and by all booksellers and postmasters, Per sons wishing to subscrib e direct with the publish- ers 6hould write name, post-ofllce, county, and 98 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga- Manufacturers and Dealers in Arrive Feriiandiua. Arrive Jacksonville. NIGHT PASSENGER NO. NORTH—DAILY Lervc Jacksonville .. IG.<n a jt Leave Fcrnaudina xier steamer. 2:43 r m Arrive * Brunswick- i :13 pm Leave Brunswick r » po1 x. Leave Jesup 9:50 r» Leave Eastman 3:02ait Leave L'ocliraii * 4 3J5 a M Arrive at Macon 6:35 a U Close connection at Macon for all points North East and West via Atlanta and Augusta. DAY ACCOMMODATION NO. 3. SOUTH, Via Jesup and Live Oak—Daily, except SuuBj. Leave Macon 7;30 a m Arrive Cocliran 10:28am Arrive Eastman 11:57 a it Arrive Jesup 6:31 nr Arrive Jacksonville 9:25 a k f, „ \ Best Salvo in the •World. Trade Mark. Quick; and Startling; Cures, It Heals Without a Sear. Allays Pain & Stops Blooding, Soothes a Bin or Scald. Heals a Cct Like Magic. Draws Poison cut cf a Wound. HA r MESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, BRIDLES, COLLARS AND NAMES, TRUNKS, TRAVELLING SACS, LEATHER, CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES. X3~ Call and cx iuiinc otir stock before' purchasing. Repositories—98 Cherry Street, Macon, and 2C8 Broad otreet, Augusta. sep <• 7g BUCHANS’ CARBOLIC BALM OINTMENT so. 4. sorth—daily except Sunday. CONTAINS NO eaSASE AND WASHES OFF WITHOUT SOAP II acts LxsUini y and like Magic. Fen SaH- Rlieunt, 3 »ro Tliraai, fleers. Burns, Scab's, tills, Wounds, I’iie*. So, e *■ yea, i'oisont.us ft-ug, an-i Bi-e . Barbel’s Itch, Chnpp.,1 Hands. Scri.fu- l„u„ Sore*, and any aud every uth nrpurpoce for which a Halve or Oiutmeut ca, he used, Bu chan’s Ca-lsolio 3«lm Ointment is thr only preparation that ean always be relied upon I ia a boantifal Jeliy-co.orod article, sold in glas bottles with tha above “ trade-mark.” withoul which none is genuine. 8 otoit that your drug gist gives you Bucuas’s, as above described. Cir cu’ars sent freo on u>jll cation to the Manutac turers. GUEMP MANUFACTURING GO.. 22 PARK PLACE, NKW YORK Leave Jacksonvillo. Leave Jesup Leave Eastman Leave Cochran.. Arrive al Macon. hawktnsvHaLe accommodation. Daily except Sunday. eave Macon 3:45 r u rrive IIawkins\ille 7:10a* e:vc Hawkinsville. C.-20H* rrive 3iacoh. 3:45a* GEO. W. ADAMS, General Supwrintendent- W. J. JARVIS, Master Transportation. Stable manure saems to bold it own against all other competing fertilizers, as is indicated lty the fact that in these days cf low prices, the value of good stable manure in the market of New York lias gone up this year at least 20 per cent. Two facts are probably de veloped still, more by this rise. ‘ Firstly, that stable munnro is rather gaining than losing m popularity, and, second ly; that tbs demand is increasing be cause more people are turning their at tention to farming, and because those engaged in it already are improving their methods. Atlantic and Gulf R. B. BLACK AS TEE HAVEN'S WINGS IS KIDDER’S llgk ton indelible Ink. EgsiSsSl Hever Blots! Flows Freely Never Spreads! Always >35jSS§A Beady! Perfect Black 1 No &. ftras or trouble! It is used 'Without preparation! Sold jy by all druggists and station- jewels. Gusnip Mfg. Co., —22 Pahs Place, N. Y. General cn-mENXKXMrvmi Office > Atlantic and Gulf Bah-koad, J Savannah, May 5th, 1S78. j \ AND AFTER THIS DATE, Passenger Trains on Ibis Read win run ss follow*. NIGHT EXPRESS. SFHBER OF WOKDS IX USE. The vocabulary of the ancient sages of Egypt was about 685 words. A well-edu cated person seldom uses more than 3,000 or 1,000 in actual ccmversation. Accurate thinkers and close reasoners employ a larger stock, and eloquent speakers may rise to a command of 10,000. Shakspeare produced all his plays with about 15,000. Milton’s works ave built up with 8,000, yet, witli all-these, there is not enough to. accur ately describe the superiority and general excellence of the world-renowned C’arbo- iine, which is an elegant dressing, removes dandruff, cleans the scalp, prevents the hair from failing out restores the hair on bald heads, restores it to its original color, makes it grow rapidly, will not stain the skin, contains not a particle of lead, silver, sulphur, or other deleterious drugs. It is a Natural product of the earth, containing the elements required by the hair to feed upon. A few applications will show its restorative qualities. Does not require months of continued use before you can perceive any result. It is cooling, cleanly, and too much praise cannot be bestowed upon it Sold by all dealers in drugs and medicines. Price One Dollar a bottle. We advise our readers to give it a trial, feeling satisfied that one application will convince them of its wonderful effects. Leave Savannah daily at. Arrive Jessnp Arr.vj at Bainbridge Arrive at Albany Arrive at Live Oak Arrive at Tallahassee Arrive at Jacksonville Leave Tallahassee Leave Jacksonville Leave Live Oak Leave Albany Leave Bainbridge In California it is proposed to pass around a pledge as folio-vs: ‘ I do pledge myself as an honest and truthful man that I will not patronize Coolie labor, or any person who employs snch Jab or. hud that I will make dilligent inquiry when purchasing any commodity; and tiiis pledge I make without mental .res ervation.” If the present-rush of ne gro emigration to Kansas continues, in twelve months from now a similar pledge will be passing around in that State against the employment of negro labor. ►- o-« The sugar crop of Lonisana will amount- this season to 225,00 hogs heads or 250,000,000 pounds, worth 814,625,000, nml the yield of molasses 300,000 barrels, worth $3,000,000. Last yesr the production of sugar was Jess than 150,000,000 pounds and that of molasSjS in proportion. BLACKWELL’S DURHAM TOBACCO Immediately opposite Passenger Depot, v Macon An Agreeable Aperient & Refrigerant This well-known preparation is highly recommended foi Dyspepsia, Headache, Sickness of the Stomach, Heart burn. and all complaints arising from Acidity. Bilious and Malarial Fevers It cools the blood and regulates the bow els. It is a favorite medicine for children, and its aclditt cwlsweet taste makes it cooling and refreshing- Fat up in 8 oz. "bottles. • . Prepared by A. ROGERS* SONS. Chemists. N. Y. smffl'injmmt.g*™.SFjni.rrcmwnm »r. BOOKSSMILMOM E. E. BROWN, PROPRIETOR pa^-with fiin Piets Engraving,, rent for 50 cent,. “The Private Medical Adviser.” on the remit, of im pure CAsocietioM, Ac, Also on the recret hnbit, of youth and their effect, on after Jite. ccn*ing Varicocele. Seminal Emisttons, Nervona debility-. Lore of Stxual Power, etc. 50 plates, CO centt. “Medical Advice.” a lecture on Manhood and Womanocd, IO cents: or all three SI. They contain 600 pages and over 100 Illustrations, em bracing everytiung on thegeneralive avatem that 1a worth knowmg-anamuch that la not published in any other work. Sent m single volmno, or complete in one, for Price in Stamp,, Surer or Currency. tThe author invite, coniulta- non. and letter, are promptly answered without charge.) Address: Dr. Butte’ Dispensary, No. 12 North3th St, St. Lome, Mo. (Established 1847.) ( I earnestly sskpenons suffering from BUPTDBE'V to amdme there name, and address, they will learn B something to their advantage.—Not a Truss.y “After all, no remedy is so certain to cure Consumption as pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, Carbolated toy Willson’s ext client process.”—Dr. Watt. All consumptive patients are earnestly invited to give Wnisofi-B Carbolated Cod liver Oil a fair trial. It is easily and readily digested, where ail Himflar preparations are refused by the stomach, and im mediately enters into the circulation, acting spe cifically upon the decaying lungs. The nutritions properties of the oil sustain and build up the sys tem, while the active curative properties of the preparation complete the work of healing. (Willson’s Carbolated (Norwegian) Cod liver Oil never gets rancid, is free from unpleasant taste, is retained easily by the weakest stomach and is sold at the price of the ordinary OHs- It cures. Consumption, Scrofula, Asthma, Bron chitis. Emaciation, Coughs, Colds, Hemorrhages and all lung and constitutional complaints. As aBlood Purifier the Carbolaiod Oil is remark ably efficient. Its use in Scrofulous Affections, Bhrninntism, Rickets, Ac, is strongly recommend ed. I‘s pari ying power is wondarfnl in Consump tion—depending, A3 it ffequeotly does, upon Scrof- u ous taint. It acts’upon the rational theory of Roeediatelt Ann-isxtNG bsexY while it Bums us the System, an -lilinT it to throw off the disease. S. Id only in wedge-ehaped bottles. * Willson” is swelled with a double ‘ L.” Remember the word Cirboik’ed " in ordering item your druggist, and larisi np-n having therigh^tind. Gvemi ITr’n Cc., -J2 Dark Place, N. Y. A letter from Demiiir.ts, .Tania rv 1st to Gordon -Pasha, Governor General of So'-itiitT.; Egypt, from one of bis offi cers vriio was sent to break np the slave depots in tlie neighborhood of Bahrel Gazabo, in the province of Kordefan. reports an e’lgugoirent with Suleiman, one of Ufo ciiief slavo traders, and own er of t-w^nty-fivo di pots, in which it was stated there were ten thousand women nlctifi awaiting transportation to Egypt. The rosn't of the conflict was the cora- plete defeat of Suleiman, who left one thousand and eighty-ssvep of his men dend on the field. The Egyptian loss was twenty mep. The Baltimore Ornette, alluding to the fact that John Logati lms started in with a little bill in the sena’c to equalize bounties, remarks that the bonniy bnsi- iu. ss isthv last refnge nowadays of a kJow browed po’itic'au. ' * The Home Journal 37 Court Race, LOUISVILLE, KY., One Copy One Year “ «« Six Months “ Ihrec Months •dlubs of Ten One Year ~ “ Six “ “ No Extra Charge for Postage. .13.00 .10.00 10^0 x-a .. -12:15 r-a 3:15 r-H 7:10 T.» 5:15 A. » 9-.32X.W SMr.st .. aii r — ADVERTISIKS RATES. Local Notices 10 cents per fine each insertion, lie jaUr ba^iness advertisement, first in ertio $! .00 per inch.—each snbse^uent insertion 5'J cents per inch. BRATTLEBORO, VT, andcorarynmfenre atriefly - Manhooaand an disordets brought on.by indi cretion or excess. Any Druzgist bus tlie inn clients. Address. Ur. IV. JAfiUES dfc CO 130 tv.-it .Sixth Street, Cincinnati, O. Space. Into. | 3 mo. 6 mo. 12 moj One Inch (2.50 1 5.00 S.0C 12J.0 Two Inches 4.00 8,00 12.00 18.00 Four inches 6.00 lift'- 18.00 27.00 Quar. CoL 7.00 1 15.05 25.00 40.00 Half Col. 12.1-0 25 00 40.00 60.00 One Col. 18.00 j 40.00 00.00 IGO.iiO