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J. J. TOON, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.
Talks With Our Little Boys.
No 3.
If any of you have forgotten where I left off
about Robbie Rineheart, you must hunt up the
paper and read it over again; thatwill refresh
your minds and make it like one continued story.
The gentleman who carried Robbie from
the Orphans’ Home, was named Mr. Ogles
by. He was a merchant, and carried on a
very large dry goods business. Those who
knew him best, said he was a very eccen
tric man.” They meant by eccentric, that he
had some strange notions and ways different
from other people. He was a good man,
however—a fact you learn for yourselves, be
fore I get through with my story, and his
being different from others, was one reason
he choose this little Robbie in preference to
all the other boys in the Asylum. Mr.
Oglesby was childless. One by one in their
infancy, God had taken from him three
children, two boys and one girl, and his home,
though surrounded with every comfort, was
cheerless for the want of a childish voice.—
He had his mind set upon the kind of boy he
wanted, and no other would suit him. He
wanted one of a disposition easy to be con
trolled and with two main qualities in his
character — truthfulness and honesty ! “ Give
me such a boy as that,” said he when he went
to the Asylum, “and Pll make a man of him.
I’ll do a good part by him ; and, when he
comes of age, I’ll give him a nice start in life.”
The Superintendent told him to look .about
among the boys ■ some were on the play
ground, and some in the school room,
and when he found a face that suited him,
to let him know, and as far as he could he
would give him the boy’s character. Mr.
Oglesby went out into the play ground, and
presently came upon a group of three or four
little boys swinging. He sat down on a bench
close by, and heard them contending: Said
one, “ You are cheating; it’s my time to
swing, Robbie said so. “ ’Tis,” said another,
“Robbie did say it was Will’s [time to swing,
and Phil must get out.”
The contention was getting hotter, when
Mr. Oglesby, whom the little boys had not be
fore noticed, inquired in a loud voice, “ Which
boy was named Will?” “My name is Will,
sir, and it is my time to swing, for Robbie
said so.” How do you know that Robbie is
right?” inquired Mr. Oglesby. “Because,
sir, Robbie keeps the account, and he always
tells the truth ; and we all know that.” “He
always tells the truth, does he ?” “ Yes sir,”
said two other little fellows, “ that he does,
and he don’t cheat, neither, like Phil, there;
he wants to swing his time, and every other
boy’s, too.” Phil sat in the swing and looked
pretty black, but said nothing. “ Well,”
said Mr. Oglesby, “ that’s bad ; but where
is this Robbie?” I’d like to see him. “He’s,
gone after a bucket of water for the school
room, sir; it’s his time to do that.” Just
then the bell rang, and away scampered the
boys to the school room.
Mr. Oglesby followed, and soon after no
ticed a fair-haired, blue eyed boy bending
earnestly over his slate. “ What is the name
of that little fellow ?” inquired he of the
teacher. “ Robbie Rineheart, sir,” was the
answer. “Is he truthful ?” “ Never knew
him to deviate from the truth once, sir, in
his life, here.” “Is he honest?” “ Perfectly so,
sir; too honest to hurt another by thought,
word, or deed.” “ That is the boy then for
me,” said Mr. Oglesby, the very first sight
of him pleased me;” and so the consequence
was, as I have already told you, that Robbie
was adopted by Mr. Oglesby. You see bythis
how important it is for a little boy to have a
good character. This love of truth in Robbie
was of more value to him than gold and rubies.
You may take a little boy and dress him ever
so fine, —you may give him every advantage,
teach him all he can learn, and let him have
plenty of money, but if he is wanting in
truthfulness, his character is spoiled, and he
is good for nothing; he don’t stand near so
well in the estimation of sensible people as
the poor, ignorant but truthful boy; Robbie
had a character among his school-mates, and
with his teacher for truthfulness, and this, was
of more value than fine clothes or money,
because anybody could take those things from
him, but his character they could not. When
1 get through with my story I am going to
tell you something about honesty, which you
know belonged to Robbie also. The first
thing Mr., Oglesby did for Robbie was to
carry him straight to the tailor’s and order
for him several suits of good, substantial
clothing. From there he took him to his
home. A nice little room was given him,
with everything in the way of books and pic
tures to make it pleasant, so that Robbie
soon began to get over his sadness and take
an interest in his new home. There was a
large New FouncHand dog to play with, a
mocking-bird in a cage just like one at the
Asylum, and Mrs. Oglesby was as kind as
she could be, In a few days his clothing
came home and then he started to school.
“Now,” said Mr. Oglesby, as he went with
him to enter school, “you are ten years old, I
am going to send you to school two years, in
that time I want you to learn to write, read
and spell well, and to have a pretty good
understanding of the first rules of arithmetic.
Can you do this ?” “I will try, sir, as hard
as I can.” “That is right, you can’t do any
more. And now,” said Mr. Oglesby, “I am
going to introduce you to the teacher as “Rob
ert Rineheart Oglesby.” Don’t let any one,
after this, call you ‘Robbie,’ that name will
do for a baby or a girl, but 1 wan. to hear the
full ring of your name 'Robert' it sounds
manly, and you’l feel bettqj to fear yourself
called that way. Do you undei stand?” “Yes
sir.” “Well, all right, here's the school
room.” And so Robert, as we must now
call him, entered school. Said the teacher,
as he put down his name and age, “'any par
ticular course of study you wish this child to
pursue ?” “Yes sir,” replied Mr. Oglesby,
with emphasis, “if you please, sir, no Latin,
no Greek, but teach him to spell, read, write
and cipher, well.” “We will do it, sir,” and
Robert was left in that great crowd of boys
of all ages and sizes. Some were young men,
some half-grown, a good many his own age,
and a few younger. They were all strange
faces to him, and looked nothing like the
boys in the Asylum. But I shall have to
stop, and tell you some more about Robert
another time, this number is long enough.
Aunt Edith.
Do yon Read the Obituaries ?
My Christian friends, do you read, regular
ly, the obituary notices that, from time to
time, appear in this paper? If you do not,
it seems to me that you miss one of the most
instructive and useful portions of the journal.
To me this column has a pleasingly sad and
sacred interest; and I always feel in a better
and more spiritual frame of mind after having
read it. Its perusal tones down my worldly
thoughts, and leads me to think of the Eter
nal—the great hereafter, of Christ, and the
comforts and consolations that attend the true
Christian in the hour of death. Some of the
best thoughts that I have, come to me when
reading these notices; and I have thought
that if you, kind reader, would make a habit
of reading these mementoes of friends gone
before, that you, too, would sometimes have
these pleasing and useful thoughts. This is
why 1 have written this little reminder. I
beg you, for your own spiritual good, read
the obituaries. I have just turned from the
perusal of the obituary column, in No. 2,555
of the Index , and 1 ask can any one who has
read Dagg’s Manual of Theology, fail to read |
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9,1871.
the notice of Mrs. Kiddoo without pleasing
interest ?
I have often thought that it was wrong for
editors to curtail the obituary column as they
do, and then make a charge for printing. It
seems to me that editors ought to prios_Buch
matter, when known to be correct in state
ment, gratis, for the benefit of the readers.
Christian biography is one of the best species
of reading'that can be furnished to any class
of readers, and we ought to have more of
it.—B. W. J.
ON FURLOUGH.
BY J. E. K.
A SUNDAY IN BADEN-BADEN.
I am tempted to use the caption, -A Sunday
in Hell. I have never before felt quite so
near that evil centre. The town ot Baden
lies in a deep valley, and the lofty hills that
surround it make it, by the reflection of the
sun’s rays, a veritable fiery furnace. The
day has been of extraordinary and consuming
heat. The medicinal waters which distin
guish the place, issue from the earth at a
temperature almost boiling. All this, in
connection with the preternatural wickedness
of the town, is awfully suggestive of prox
imity to the spot which a certain fashionable
preacher declared improper to be named to
a polite congregation.
Some one might question whether a Sunday
were passable in the place which Rev. Cream
Cheese refused to mention, but I have Satan’s
authority for affirming that it is, or Milton’s,
which is far better. He describes the lost
Archangel as saying, “The mind is its own
place, and can make a heaven of hell, a hell
of heaven.” There are a few truer or greater
truths than that. A good man can have a
Sabbath even in Baden.
The wholesome old Puritan custom began
Sunday or. Saturday evening. On this oc
casion I will follow the fashion of our de
vout ancestors,"at least in my description. —
We reached Baden on Saturday evening, and
soon after tea set out for an exploration of
the world-renowned Kursaal. Like every
body else I had often read of its splendor,
and of its open and shameless'gambling. The
splendor equalled my expectations, and the
gambling surpassed them. In four large
connected apartments the tables stood sur
rounded by groups of eager players and
curious spectators. With quick, nervous in
terest, or a nonchalance devoid of all appa
rent concern, the various devotees of fortune
tossed their silver or gold or bank-notes
upon the tables, waiting the drop of the
fatal ball, or the turn of the fatal card.
Packages of sovereigns or napoleons were
freely adventured by bold operators. Wo
men were nearly as numerous and reckless
as men in the desperate business, some young
and beautifnl, some gray and wrinkled with
age, a few seemingly modest and pure. The
most staring publicity characterizes all the pro
ceedings. There are no conditions of admit
tance to the hall, there is no attempt at secrecy
in playing—no apparent sense of shame or
consciousness of impropriety, on the part of
those engaged. A quiet, gentlemanly de
meanor prevails in all the rooms. Conver
sation is conducted in whispers, and a silence
reigns] unbrokened save by the drop of the
ball and the clink of the coin as it is raked
into the bank, or pushed to the fortunate
winner. If this Kursaal is not a genteel quar
ter of hell, then I do not know what to call
it.
As I was gazing upon one of the tables, I
stood by a young man of unusually great
expectations —I refer to the Prince of Wales.
He was dressed like the rest of us, and was
probably seeking to pass incog. He is rather
a handsome man, much resembling his de
ceased father, though his face gives no sign
of high intellect or strong character. It is
a greivous scandal that the heir apparent to
the loftest throne in Christendom should be
found betting at the gaming-tables of Hom
burg and Baden.
It may be thought by some good people
that my Saturday evening was not spent in
a way adapted to prepare one for a profita
ble Sabbath. Perhaps so; and perhaps other
wise. Ido not think any ot us were harmed
by what we saw at Baden. Our observation
intensified our horror of human wickedness,
and our gratitude to God that our lines had
fallen in better places. Some things may
properly enough be seen once or twice. Re
peated views would be foolish and fatal.—
“ Vice is a monster,” &c.
As at The Hague, so here my actual Sun
day did not amount to much. The best
thing about it was the following little incident.
On the day previous we had travelled from
Heidelberg in the same compartment with a
Scotch gentleman and his family. I found
him an intelligent and cultivated person, with
whom I had much edyfying discourse on re
ligious and secular themes. On Sunday
morning, while seeking the Episcopal church,
I came again upon my Scotch friend, strolling
about town. In the course of a little conver
sation, I remarked, “ I am what they call in
America a Baptist preacher.” “ You a Bap
tist?” was the quick response; “ why, bless
you, so am Ia Baptist, and so are my wife
and daughter here.” Thereupon we gave the
hand of fellowship all around, and had a lit
tle Baptist church meeting right in the centre
of II (Baden-Baden, I mean).
After this pleasing incident I pursued my
way to the Episcopal church, a neat little
building, in which I was gratified to see a
congregation of two or three hundred people.
For the rest, the least said, the better. The
service was miserably intoned, and the Scrip
tures were read in the merest school boy
fashion. How is it that the Church of England
clergymen can’t read ? The sermon was ex
ceedingly commonplace in pueril and style,
but it was sound in doctrine. That covers a
multitude of infirmities. Certainly the church
of England merits our gratitude for establish
ing religious services at nearly all important
places on the Continent.
It makes one blush to confess that this
Baden-Baden is in a principality called Pro
testant, and is presided over by a Duke called
Protestant. Alas for us, when we throw
stones!— Examiner and Chronicle, Oct. \9th.
A SUNDAY IN GENEVA.
Switzerland is a land to love. not
wonder that her children, when forced or vol
untary exiles, droop and pine in incurable
home sickness. All other countries must
seem tame and flat to those whose young eves
were familiar with the dizzy grandeurs of "her
mountains and glaciers. Switzerland has
quite enchanted me. I expected much, but
the whole had not been told. The Rhine,
with its “castled crags,” and Switzerland with
its mountains that often resemble gorgeous
clouds, these are the points that thus far over
top all the rest of my trip. And nowhere
else in my wanderings—nor even in England,
the mother of us all—have I had such a
home feeling as I experience here. Perhaps
this is partly due to the mercy which cast my
birth-lot in a region of hills. Switzerland, in
truth, is my native Vermont, expanded apd
intensified with all its characteristic features
of mountains, valleys, and lakes, presented
on a far grander scale. Switzerland is a land
in which to worship God. Os the undevout
Alpine traveller, as well as the undevout as-*
tronomer, it may be said, “he is mad.” This
region is full of signs of the Divine Al
mightiness. Stupendous contrasts meet you
at every turn. Here are the “mountains of
God” that prop the sky, and there are valleys
soft with the luxuriance of the vine. I have
not yet seen the monarch of this land of moun
tain giants, but I have seen almost enough.
My soul has leaped up before the snowy
peaks of Jung-Frau, and sunk down in trem
bling awe before the towering ruggedness of
Wetterhorn and Eiger.
Anywhere in Switzerland each day should
be a Sunday—a day of hushed and solemn
gladness. But if at any one point in this re
gion, so marked by Jehovah’s f otsteps, Sun
day should be a season of special and exalted
interest, this Geneva is surely the spot. For
here a great history and associations of
momentous import blend with the natural
scenery, and make lake and mountain thrice
eloquent. This Geneva was another cradle
of the Reformation—another fountain of
healing for the nations. As the Rhone rushes
from Lake Leman, just at this point, so
flowed from this reservoir of truth, streams
to make glad the world’s broad moral waste.
In a word, this was the home of Calvin. Here
he came from his native France an exile for
Christ’s sake;- here he lived, and here he
died. He walked these streets; he often
gazed, in the grave perplexity of his spirit,
upon this lake’s tranquil beauty; he preached
in that Cathedral where I attended service
yesterday morning. He ruled this fractious
and turbulent little State by his single will of
adamant, and imposed upon it laws of Puri
tanical rigor. Here he made a grand, though
vain experiment—he sought to found and
perpetuate a civil society ordered in all things
after the perfect ideal of godliness. I write
the name of John Calvin with mingled emo
tions—with reverence and shame, in love and
sorrow. Amongst men he was a sort of
Mont Blanc. His genius towered towards the
stars. His mind was of granite hardness
and crys'al clearness, as well as of gigantic
proportions, the centuries roll on, I
think Calvin is growing greater rather than
less in the world’s respect. As an expositor
of Scriptere, where is his equal ? His word,
to-day, is very apt to be an end of contro
versy over a disputed passage.
And yet —and yet —-just yonder is the
fatal hill on which Michael Servetus was
burnt to ashes by Calvin’s word. From that
eminence rose the black smoke that will for
ever cloud the reputation of this great, good
man.
To me, Geneva speaks briefly of Calvin.
There be those, doubtless, who feel a charm
in this place, arising from Bonnivard, Rous
seau, Voltaire, Byron and other names illus
trious in Art, Literature, or Science. As
for me, as I walk the streets of this fine old
town, I love to think of the stern Reformer
and his wide influence ; how John Knox—
kindred soul—carried hence the sacred fire
to Scotland ; how England almost look the
Genevan ecclesiastical stamp; and how our
Pilgrim Fathers repeated, on remote shores,
the noble failure of Calvin.
The burial-place of this man of might is
unknown. In accordance with his own direo
tions, no monument marks his grave. Did
he thus utter a dim, half-conscious prophecy
that his influence would one day disappear
from his beloved Geneva! Such, sad to say,
is very much the fact. Calvin’s peculiar doc
trines are not greatly esteemed, I suppose, in
the very Cathedral where he piopounded and
defended them with matchless power. The
home in which he lived so long, and where he
died, is actually turned into a residence of
the Sisters of Charity. I asked one of them
if she was a Protestant, and she exclaimed,
in reply in mingled horror and surprise—
“ Protestant! Protestant! — no—no ; Catho
lic, Catholic!” Romanists, no doubt, re
gard this occupancy of Calvin’s house as a
fine example of poetic justice.
1 have written right on, just as the thoughts
and emotions have flowed from the point of
my poor steel pen. The result is that my
Sunday in Geneva is considerably mingled,
and is little better than a medley, made up
of Swiss mountains, valleys, lakes, and John
Calvin. Just to put a little order into this
confusion, I must go back for a moment.
As already intimated, I took pains to at
tend morning service at the church where
Calvin once preached. It is a noble structure,
very massive, and a little gloomy, thus har
monizing, as some would say, with the Cal
vinistic theology. No one extended to me,
as 1 entered, the poor hospitality of a seat;
so I walked up to a ministering angel, or
female verger, and paid a few sous for a chair.
The congregation was quite respectable in
appearance, as well as size, not filling the
Cathedral, yet numbering, I should say, five
or six hundred. My second attempt to be
edified by a sermon in an unknown tongue,
was somewhat more encouraging than my
first in Holland, though the discourse on this
occasion, as I gathered was rather a patri
otic harangue than a gospel sermon. It was
delivered without notes, with true Gallic grace
and fire, and held the close attention of the
audience. As in Scotland, amongst the Eng
lish Dissenters, and in Holland, the singing
was congregational, and as there, it was not
good. At the close of the service I looked
around, and there, just to my right,'occupy
ing a high seat in the temple, was my neighbor,
Rev. Way land Hoyt, of Brooklyn, with his
father. We had a pleasant greeting, and in
company with the Hoyts, I sought the house
in which Calvin died. Probably we three
Baptist sinners, all the way from America,
were about the best Calvinists to be found
that morning in the old Cathedral of Geneva.
As in all other Continental cities, Protes
tant as well as Catholic, the meagre Sabbath
observance closed with the morning service,
and the rest of the day was surrendered to
recreation. Can the best virtues be success
fully cultivated in any country without the
nurturing influences of a holy Sunday ?
i notice on various monuments and public
buildings here, the inscription, “Post tenebras
lux.” It is probably the legend on the Can
tonal coat-of-arms, and may have been sug
gested by Calvin himself. At all events, as
I am passing through different countries, and
noticing the evils that cloud and the corrup
tions that prevail; above all, as I blush at
the personal consciousness of ignorance, in
firmity and error, I hail with joy the Genevan
motto, Post tenebras lux. “There shall be
no night there.”— Examiner and Chronicle.
Settle your Sons Around You.
The Banyan tree of the East throws out
its young and tender branches till they reach
the ground, where, taking root they spring up
into trees again, forming a very grove about
the parent stem. As each branch in succes
sion oomes in contact with the soil, this work
of multiplying trees goes on. Thus, in time,
a mighty grove, capable of sheltering armies,
is formed from what was at first a single plant.
Thus it should be with the owners and til
lers of the soil. You who own so many
broad acres in the best agricultural region in
the world, should, as your children grow up
by your sides, settle them around you on
homes of their own, giving them 50 or 100
acres of the old tract. And thereby, in pro
cess of time, as one and another of them
grow up and begin to assume the responsi
bilities of life, there would be gathered around
the parent tree several yOung and vigorous
branches to shelter it, and protect and streng
then it in the. decrepitude of old age.
It is a sad sight to see the children, as soon
as they grow up, leave the old home and the
watch care and counsel of their parents, to
try their fortunes among strangers ip a strange
laud. Better remain and build up the old
place, and take care of father and mother in
their old age.
Fathers, settle your sons around you. The
best fortune you can leave a boy is a good
farm. See about this farm yourself before
you go hence.—B. W. J.
' Ten cents a day spent for liquour, is
50 taken frotoa the comforts of (your family a
year, besides, the habit you acquire and the
example you set, may carry your souls and
others to hell.
To B. W. I.
My Christian Brother : Permit a stranger
to you, though a friend, and advooate of the
temperance cause, to thank you for the noble
stand you are taking in warning the chhrches
and the people of their danger.: I say, gq
on in your good work. .Do not fail- or fal
ter, but battle manfully for'reform, and your
reward is pure, though it may be after many
days.
I know there are many who regard the use
of ardent spirits as evil to be deplored, but
who cannot yet assume the moral courage to
take a decided stand. There are others, and
some in the churches, too, who care for no
thing but the dimes. With the former there is
hope; but with the latter none, except the
grace of ogr God work a miricle.
We can only pray and work on. God
will be with us if we are faithful. Let us
all, the advocates of temperance everywhere
struggle on, and continue to raise our voice
against this mighty curse, this stupendous
evil, till not a distillery remains to fold its,
poison coils among us. Let all the churches
organize their Total Abstinence Clubs, and
put themselves right upon this question. The
reform must begin in the churches. Breth
ren, take heed. Let us be up and doing, for
the enemy does not tarry. B. W. J.
BEST VARIETIES OF FRUITS.
At the recent meeting of the American Bo
rnological Society at Richmond, Va., general
discussions took place upon the different kinds
of fruit, and as each-was named, each del
egate gave his opinion as to its success in his
State. We condense a statement of the re
sult for the Southern States, from the South
ern Planter cfc Farmer:
PEARS.
Bartlett—Cultivated with excelleut success
in Alabama, Virginia, District of
Columbia, Maryland and Florida.
Belle Lucrative—excels in Georgia and Ala
bama, and succeeds in South Carolina.
Bloodgcod—Very successful in Illinois and
Kentucky, and successful in South Carolina,
District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia
Flemish Beauty—Excels in South Carolina,
District of Columbia, Maryland, * Kentucky,
Virginia and successfully raised in Alabama.
Kingsessing—Successful in District of Co
lumbia, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia and
Illinois.
Seckel—Profitably cultivated in Virginia
and South Carolina.
Beurre d’ Anjon Reared with first rate
success in South Carolina.
Beurre Clairgeau—Very successful in Dis
trict of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina,
Georgia and Virginia.
Beurre Diel—Very successful in District
of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and suc
cessful in Kentucky and South Carolina.
Beurre Superfin—Excels in District of Co
lumbia and Georgia.
Duchesse D’Angouleme—Very successful
in Virginia, South Carolinia, District of Co
lumbia, Maryland and Georgia.
Lawrence—Excels in Virginia and Mary
land.
Onandaigua—Very successful in Maryland,
District of Columbia, and successful in Ken
tucky, Alabama and Virginia.
STRAWBERRIES.
Wilson’s Albany—This berry was spoken
of in most complimentary terms by every
speaker except one—Mr. Saul of Wash
irigton, D. C. It is cultivated with high suc
cess and great profit in Georgia, Virginia,
Alabama, and Florida.
Barnes’ Mammoth —Very successfully cul
tivated in Virginia, Georgia, and District
of Columbia; promising in Maryland.
Stewart—Successful in Middle Georgia
and Virginia.
Agriculturalists Successful in Middle
Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, District of Co
lumbia and Maryland.
Longworth Prolific—Excels in Georgia,
Alabama, California; no report from Vir
ginia; successful in District of Columbia,
Maryland, Illinois and Kentucky.
Thriomphe de Gand—Profitably raised in
District ot Columbia and Alabama; success
ful in Virginia and Georgia.
Sethßoyden —Raised for market with profit
in Georgia ; successful in District of Colum
bia, Alabama and Kentucky.
Charles Downing—Very successful in Ken
tucky, Maryland, District of Columbia and
South Carolina; and successful in Georgia
and Alabama.
Kentucky—Very successfully and profita
bly raised in Georgia and Kentucky.
President Wilder—Of perfect form and
superior quality, but burns in the South.
Seeding Eliza—Very successful with high
culture in District of Columbia and Maryland ;
not productive in Georgia.
PEACHES.
Hale’s Early—Excels in Georgia, District
of Columbia, Maryland, South Carolina, mid
dle Alabama, northern Georgia and northern
Mississippi; failure in Southern Alabama
and Southern Mississippi.
Yellow St. John : or, May Beauty of Louis
iana—Very successful in Georgia, Alabama
and South Carolina.
Early Tillottson—Excels in Georgia, Ala
bama, Kansas and South Carolina ; flourishes
in the District of Columbia and Virginia.
Amelia—Very large, and excels for home
use in Georgia, South Carolina and Ala
bama.
Crawford’s Early Very successful in
Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Virginia,
District of Columbia and Maryland. Highly
praised by all speakers.
Walker’s Early, or Large York—Flour
ishes and is profitable in South Carolina, Geor
gia, Alabama, District of Columbia and Mary
land.
Troth’s Early—Very successful in District
of Columbia, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia
and Alabama.
Columbia, or Yellow Indian—Good shifter.
Profitably raised in Georgia, South Carolina
and Alabama; and successful in District of
Columbia and Maryland.
Susquehanna Ranks high in Georgia,
South Carolina, Alabama, District of Colum
bia, Maryland and Virginia.
Stump the World—Ranks high in Georgia,
District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland,
Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina.
Grosse Mignonne—Excels in District of
Columbia, Maryland, Georgia, Virginia and
Alabama.
Picquet Late—Little cultivated ; very suc
cessful in Georgia.
Baldwin’s Late —Same report as of Picquetj
also very successful in Alabama.
Lady in Georgia, Ken
tucky, South Carolina and Alabama. Same
report of Mountain Rose.
Chinese Cling—Very large, and brings a
high price. Veiy successful in Georgia and
South Carolina; successful in Virginia, Mary
land, District of Columbia and Kentucky.
Lemon Cling, Pineapple, or Kennedy’s
Carolina—Very successful in Georgia, Ala
bama and South Carolina; successful in
Maryland and Kentucky. > v ;
Indian BJood Cling—Excels in Georgia;
succeeds in Alabama and Kentucky;
Heath Cling—-Very profitable in Georgia,
Alabama, Virginia, District of Columbia,
Maryland, Kentucky aDd South Carolina.
Old Mixon Cling, or Congress-Very suc
cessful in Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, South ;
Carolina, District of Columbia, Maryland and'
Kentucky.
orapes.
• Delaware —Cultivated to perfection and
with profit in Florida, Virginia, Kentucky,
Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
Ives —Very successful in'Alabama, Geor
gia, Kentucky, Illinois and Virginia. Com-
mended as early ripening fruit, of second
quality.,
.Concord Very successful in Florida,
(South Carolina, Alabama and Virginia; suc
cessful in Georgia.
i t Norton’s Virginia Very successful in
Florida and Georgia, and successful in Ala
bama, Kentucky and South Carolina.
.’.Herbemontr—Successful in Georgia.
.( Black July, or Devereux—An exquisite
grape of medium size, successfully raised in
Georgia and Alabama.
Sciippernong—-Very profitable in North
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina
and Florida.
oi Fkjtffcrs, or Muscadine—A late variety of
the genuine Muscadine; very dark, and ripens
late; cultivated with great success in Georgia.
Thomas —A light pink, ripening before the
Scuppernong; originated In South Carolina,
and is cultivated with great success there ar.d
in Georgia.
Mish—A member of the Scuppernong
famjly, black, vyell known and successfully
cultivated in North Carolina.
Clinton and the Hartford Prolific—Very
successful in the Middle States, South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida ; success
ful in Kentucky.
Martha—-Of inferior flavor, but equal in
growth to the Concord and Delaware.
Anna—Tough skin and pulp like India
rubber, says Mr. Berckmans, of Georgia.
Wilder—Fine grape, with healthy vine;
successfully cultivated in Alabama and
Florida.
Mr. Allen, of Virginia: With us the
Wilder grape rots badly.
FIGS.
Brown Turkey—Successfully cultivated in
Florida and Alabama.
Black Ischa-—Very successful in Florida.
White Nesii—Very successful in Florida.
Small Sugar Fig—Very successful in Flo
rida, Georgia and South Carolina.
Brunswick—Large Brown ; excels in Geor
gia.
Green Italian—Very successfully cultiva
ted in Georgia and Florida.
Lemon—Bright Green ; very successful in
Georgia.
Chemical Manures. —Agricultural Lec
tures delivered at the Experimental Farm at
Vincennes, France, in 1807, by George Ville,
and now first translated from the French,
by Miss E. L. Howard, of Georgia. 8 vo.
108 pages. The work before us is of almost
inestimable value to the farming interests of
our country, and the period will come when
the work of Miss Howard, in this depart
ment, will be appreciated as it so richly de
serves to be. The articles embraced in the
work, having passed through the columns of
the Plantation during its mechanical execution
in our office, enabled us to form a hasty opin
ion of its merits; and now, that it has as
sumed permanent shape (book form,) we
most cordially commend it to the attention
of all readers. The Georgia Agricultural
Convention gave to the work the highest
endorsement at the August session in Rome.
It is handsomely printed by the Plantation
Publishing Company of this city.
jj£§gT“The Pioneer Agricultural Journal of
Georgia and of the Southern States— The
Southern Cultivator —will soon enter upon
its 30th volume. It has Ren, is now, and
we trust will be, a publication of great prac
tical value to our people. To advance the
interest of the farmer is its leading feature.
At the hands of our agriculturalists it is
worthy of the largest circulation and pat
ronage. Subscription, $2 a year.
“The Memories of Fifty Years” (by
Hon. W. H. Sparks) will certainly attract
the attention of a large number of readers.
Georgians will be deeply and particular in
terested in its pages, though it is worthy of
general circulation. The publication price of
the book is $2.50, and copies can be had of
Phillips & Crew, and J. J. & S. P. Richards.
|3gP’For three new subscribers and one re
newal to the Index & Baptist, with sl2, a
copy of “Spark’s 50Years” will be given to
the party securing the club.
Georgia Press Convention.
At 12 m., yesterday, November 3d, a num
ber of members of the Convention met at the
hall of the Chamber of Commerce. There
were not enough to constitute a quorum for
the transaction of regular business, but the
members interchonged their views fully and
freely on important subjects.
Colonel C. W. Styles spoke of the manner
in which advertising agencies were conducted,
to the detriment of publishers, and advocated
ignoring completely all of them.
Colonel F. S. Fitch sustained the views
advanced by Colonel Styles, and advocated a
concentrated effort by the weekly press to
establish an agent of their own in New York.
Mr. Anderson, of the Covington Enterprise,
was willing to allow such an agent 25 per
cent, commission on all advertisements re
ceived by him, and thought it a good move
if all would unite in it.
Colonel H. H. Jones related his experience
with the proprietors of the '* Sure Pop,” and
pronounced them swindlers. He would ven
tilate them at an early day.
J. J. Toor said he was sorry to see so much
indifference exhibited by the weekly press in
regard to their own interests. Publishers were
working for the benefit of their employees
and the people. The subject of advertising
and subscription rates and strictly adhering
to them, and of wages, should receive earn
est attention. Advertising agencies were
specially reprehensible, because of the low
rates and character of their advertisements.
The subject of incompentent printers —ap-
prentices who do not serve more than half
their time and pass off for journeymen—
should receive attention.
J*. N. Gilmore said that the press were not
true to eaeh other. Aluch evil might be rem
edied by having uniform prices and adhering
to them. He beiieved ; an agency in Now
York would be practicable and profitable if
the press would unite on it.
The Secretary was instruced to return
thanks to President Brown of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, for the tender of a
special train to.go to lceviile, and to J. Wal
lace Rhodes, Superintendent of the Atlanta
Ice Manufacturing company for an invitation
tp visit the Ice works.
On motion, a vote of thanks was tendered
to the Chamber of Commercr for the use of
their Hall, and to M. E. Cooper, E-sq., Secre
tary of that body fer courtesies extended.
J. J. Toon, C. 11. C. Willingham, and W.
G. W hid by were appointend a committee of
arrangements for the next meeting.
The meeting adjourned lo meet, should the
Legislature take a recess, when that body re
assemble*!, and in case it does not take a re
cess, at the call of the President. —Atlanta
Constitution, Nov. 4<A.
Nowadays. —The olden time bonnets were
worn, so large that one had to peep under to
see the fiwe > nowadays, you see the face and
“find some difficulty in discoveringAhe bonnet.
Mr. Dumb being l ! iri arrears, complained,
one morning, that his coffee- was not settled.
“You had better’settle for the coffee,” said
thd landlady, “ and thtfn complain.
How quietly might many a
one live, if he <k>uld care as little about the
.affairs of others as he does for his own !
A man is apt to think that his personal
freedom involves the right to make his fellow
men do just as he pleases.
Sindey Smith compares the whistle of a
locomotive to the squeel of a lawyer when
Sktanjgeta him.
NeeesrilT of Manures.
Every plant is the result of an organized
seed, endowed with vegetable life, and capa
ble of being acted upon by appropriate sti
muli in the soil. This vegetable life is at
first excited, and subsequently kept up by
the application of natural stimulants much in
like manner as in animals. If thefts is a defi
ciency of these natural stimulants In the soil,
it must be supplied by the hand of man, or
plants cannot thrive and yield their wonted
increase.
Continued cropping, without the restoration
of the proper elements of plant food, wil),
finally, exhaust any soil, no matter how fer
tile originally. No system of agriculture
can ever become a successful one. that does
not return to the soil as much, at least, of
plant food as the successive crops take from
it.
This is the only reason why our lauds be
come less fertile year by year, simply, because
we do not restore to the land as much of
plant food as the crops take from it. Will
your horse hold out to work day by day if
you do not feed him ? Could you long en
dure the toils of the farm without appropri
ate food to supply the waste of the system ?
No more can your land continue to produce
good crops indefinitely, unless the proper food
of plants is supplied by your hand. No
one has ever succeeded in keeping up the
fertility of his soil without an application of
manures. As proof hereof, I cite the case of
Jethro Lull. Hence the necessity of ma
nures.—B. W. J.
Convenient way of preserving Sweet Potatoes.
Dig your potatoes, and spread the large,
fine ones upon boards or shutters, and give
them a week’s sun, ihat they may get cured.
Ilaudle carefully all the time that they may
not be bruised. If any danger of frost, take
them in at night. If not, let them remain
out. If the weather prove cloudy, keep them
longer upon the shelters. At the end of a
week, in the sun, they will be sufficiently
cured, and slight bruises will be healed over.
You can now pack them away in barrels,
putting in first a layer of pine tags, and, also,
tags around the sides as you fill up. Cover
the top with a thick layer of tags, and set
the barrels away in a close room, but keep
the room well veutilated* till cold weather
fully sets in.
This is a good plan to keep potatoes on a
small scale fur family use; and if well cured
in the sun, they will keep through the Win
ter sound and nice. That is the whole secret
to cure them thoroughly before putting them
away. Curing makes them sweet and nice
tasted ; and packing in barrels is convenient,
easy to get at, and you disturb but a small
parcel when you get a basketful in cold wea
ther. The above hint is for the house keeper.
It would be tedious to do on a large scale.—
B. W. J.
To Clean Winows. —Take a wet cloth,
not dripping, rub it over the cake of Sapolio
until it is covered with a creamy lather, and
then briskly over the pane of glass ; clean
off and polish with dry cloth or chamois.
SHARP & FLOYD,
(SUCCESSORS TO GEO. SHARP, Jr.,)
WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA.,
Manufacturing and Merchant Jewelers, Watch-
Makers, Silversmiths, and Engravers.
We Do First Class Work.
We sell only First Class Goods.
We sell the Diamond Spectacle.
We believe it to be the best iu use.
We Keep the very Best ol Workmen.
We have a large stock of Fine Jewelry.
We have the Latest Styles.
We have a large stock of Diamonds.
We are legitimate Diamond Dealers,
We have a large stock of Watches.
We sell at Small Profits.
We buy our goods for Casb.
We buy them very low.
We sell them low as the lowest.
We have m6re Solid Silver Ware manufac
tured than any Jeweller in Georgia.
We Engrave all our Ware free of charge.
We have a motto-Quick Sales, Small Profits.
We guarantee every article sold.
We guarantee ail our work.
We make Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals.
We want to furnish every Fair in the State.
We can make Premiums for Fairs.
We know that we can mike them at a less price than
anv house in Georgia.
We can make Premiums, then, as low as any House
in the United States.
We cannot, shall not be excelled in Finish, Price or
Quality.
We shall not be undersold.
Give us a fair trial. SHARP & FLOYD.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
-A- TO
CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS.
All Retail Orders amounting: to S2O and Over Delivered
in any Part of the Country,
Free of Express Charges.
HAMILTON, EASTER & SONS,
OF BALTIMORE, MD.,
In order the better to meet the wants of their Retail
Customers at a distance, have established a
SAMPLE IBTJPLIEALU-,
and will, upon application, 'promptly send by mail full
lines of Samples of the Newest and most Fashionable
Goods, of FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MAN
UFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times to sell as low,
if not at less prices, than any house in the country.
Buying our Goods from the largest and most celebra
ted manufacturers in different parts of Europe, and
importing the same by Steamors direct to Baltimore,
our stock is at all times promptly supplied with the
novelties of the London and Paris markets.
As we buy and sell only for cash, and malce no bad
debts, we are able and willing to sell our goods at from
Ten to Fifteen Per Cent. Less Profit than if we gave
credit.
In sending for Samples, specify the hind of goods de
sired. We keep the best grades of every class of goods,
from the lowest to the most costly.
Orders unaccompanied by the cash, will be sent C. O. D.
prompt-pa ying Wholesale b uyers are
invited to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Pack
age Department. Address
HAMILTON, EASTER A SONS,
197, 199, 201 and 203 West Baltimore Street.
2525—2575 Baltimore, Md.
6 BELL FOUNDRY,
Established in 1837.
Superior Bells for Churches,
Schools, etc.jof Pure Cop
per and Tin, fully war
ranted, and mounted with
our Latest Improved
Rotary Hangings, the
Illustrated Catalogue tent free.
VAHDUZEN & TIFT, \
102 & 104 £. Second Bt., Ciaciiuti,
2540—80—50 t
THE STEWART COOK STOVE.
WITH DUMPING GRATE.
LATEST IMPROVE 11 ENT! BEST IN THE WORLD'.
MANUFACTURED BY
FULLER, WARREN & CO.,
TROY, N. Y.
The Stewart Stove, which has been in use for more
than a quarter of a century, and by its economy and
complete adaptation to the wauts of the kitcben,|has
maintained an acknowledged superiority over all other
stoves, is now introduced to tne public with all the
modern conveniences of Front Draft, Ash Drawer
mid Dumping Grilte. Tho Fines have also been
enlarged and improved, so as to ensure an excellent
Draft at all times, and still to retain in tho Stove itp
unrivalled economical features. No stove has ever Vet
beeu made to do aa much work with as little fuel as the
Stewart. The following brief summary is the result
of One Day’s Work, recently accomplished at Glo
versvilte, N- Y., with one Stewart Stove:
Baked 415 pounds of bread, half a bushel of po
tatoes, 5 apple pies. Roasted 73 pounds of beet.
Boiled 1 barrel of water; also, 17 jptllons'heated to
150 degrees. All this with one coal fire, not a par tick
of coal being put into the stove alter the tire was Start
ed in the morning. Those in want of Coolt Stoves wijl
secure the most economy by procuring the best. The
Stewart Stoves are for safe in nearly every town and
city throughout the United States.
FULLER, WARREN A c6i>
Exclusive Manufacturers,
Troy, N. Y.
Rrnm-hSHnuspa • 1 63 State St., ‘Chicago, 111.
Branchpiouses . 80 Rlver C j eV eTaßd, O.
The Warren Double Oven Cooking Range
the most perfect operating Range in the market, and
the Lawson Hot Air Furnaces, the very best for
heating Churches, Public Buildings, and Private Resi
dences, are also manufactured and for sate by
FULLER, WARREN k CO.
py Descriptive Pamphlets furnished on application.
For sa»e in Atlanta by *
248tj— - Peachtree Street.
BUSINESS CARDS.
A. CONSTANTINE’S
[Persian Healing Soap.
P*tmtii> March 12. 1867.
FOR THE lOILET, BATH AND NURSERY
This Soap bag no equal. It preserves tbe complex
ion (air, the skin soft, flexible and healthy. It removes
all dandruff, preserves the hair soft and silky, and pre
vents it'from falling off. It cures Pimples, all Diseases
of the fdoulp and Skin, and is a GOOD SHAVING
SOAP. Agents wanted. Office, 43 Ann St., New York.
Ask ahy dealer for A. A. . onbtaktikk’s Soap.
258*— t
pIKST PREMIUM
Awarded at Cotton States Fair, Augusta,
THOMASYILLE FAIR, AND ALL SOUTHERN
FAIRS WHERE EXHIBITED,
1870.
TKCE SIMO-ER
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
AT THE WORLD'S FAIR
Constituted by the homes of the people, received the
Great Award of the Pinkest Sales, und huve left all
rivals far behind them, for they sold in 1870, One Hun
dred und Twenty-seven Thousand Eight Hundred and
Thirty-three Machines.
Tho Singer Manufacturing Company
sold over the Florence Sewing
Machine Company 110,173 Machines.
Sold over the Wilcox A Gibbs Sew
ing Machine Company.. . 98,943 “
Sold over the Weed Sewing Machine
Compuuy 92,881 “
Sold over the Grover & Ilaker Sew
ing Machine Company 70,431 “
Sold over the Howe Machine Compa
ny 52,677 “
Sold over the Wheeler & Wilson
Manufacturing Company 44,605 “
It is the most simple and easily rcguluted Machine
now in use.
The shuttle gives an even tension from the full to the
empty bobbin.
Makes the most durable, elastic and smooth stitch.
Stitching the softest musliu without drawing it iDto
the feed, and from that to heavy cloth or leather with
out changing the tension, making it capable of ugreuter
range ot work than any other Machine made.
Wo use the straight needle, and it will du more and
liner work than the curved needles.
Tbe work moves from you instead of sideways, which
is much easier to manage.
For speeo and ease of operation it is unequalled.
Our muchiuery Is all protected from dust.
Our corder, tucker, gatherer, quilter, trimmer, fring
er, binder, hemmer, braider, feller and enibroidery at
tachment, are simple and easily used.
We have tbe best of silks of our own manufacture at
wholesale and retail, of all co'.urs und numbers.
We will place the Singer in your family for atrial
with any machine you may wish to try with it.
The sales of our New Family Sewing Machine is
steadily increasing, showing its popularity.
The new No. 1 Machine, for Tuilors and Boot-makers,
is the best in the market.
Examine before purchasing.
Are now sold on easy terms at the Atlanta Agency.
K. T. SMILLIE, Local Agent.
Corner of S. Broad and W. Alabama streets.
Agents wanted everywhere.
Silk Thread, Needles, Oil, etc., always on hand.
Stitching neatly done. 11. D. HAWLEY,
General Agent for Georgia, Suuth Carolina and Florida.
PINCIPAL DISTRIBUTING OFFICES.
182 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga.; 197 King
Street, Charleston, aud the Atlanta Office.
Local Officks:
J. H. Bramball, Columbus, Ga.
A L. Clinkscales, Macon. Ga.
E. H. Sumner, Augusta, Gu.
E. C. Hough, Borne, Ga.
Satterfield, Byron A Cos., Cartersville, Ga.
E. H. Bloodworth, Barnesville, Ga.
S. F. Wilder & Son, Forsyth, Ga.
Mallard Brothers, Thomusville, Ga.
Mrs. B. E. Johnson, Buitibridge, Ga.
Montgomery & Shaw, Americus, Ga.
Geo. A. Peek, Jacksonville, Fla.
And in almost gsvery connty, our Machine is now
ully represe*Bsd.
Anyone ordering a Machine from reading this ad
vertisement, please stute it when ordeiing.
2541—2591—60 t
TRAVELERS' GUIDE.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO
E. W. Cole, Superintendent , Atlanta.
Night Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 10.30 PM
Arrive at Chattanooga 6.16 A.M
Day Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 6 00 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 1.21 P.M
Past Lene to New Yuri — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 2.45 P.M
Arrive at Dalton 7.53 P.M
Night Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5.20 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 1.42 A.M
Day Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5 30 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 2.20 P.M
Accommodation Train — lnward.
Leave Dalton 2.25 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 9.10 A.M
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
S. K. Johnson, Superintendent, Augusta.
Day Pass tiger Train.
Leave Augusta 8.00 A.M
Leave Atlanta 7 10 A.M
Arrive at Augusta •••• 5.40 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 6.20 P.M
Night Passenger and Mail Train.
Leave Augusta 8.15 P.M
Leave Atlanta 5.30 P.M
Arrive at Augusta 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 6.40 A.M
Athens Branch Train leaves Union Point daily,
Sunday excepted, at 1.15 P.M., arriving at Athens at
4.35 P.M. Leave Athens at 9.15 A.M., arriving at
Union Point 12.50 P.M. On Monday and Tuesday
nights, a train leaves Union Point at 2 20 A.M , arrives
at Athens 5.15 A.M.; leaves Athens, 8 P.M., arriving
at Union Point, 11 P.M.
Washington Branch. —Train leaves AVashington
at 10 A.M., arrives at Barnett, 11.30 A.M.; leaves
Barnett 2.15 P.M., arriving at Washington at 4.10
P.M. On Monday and Tuesday nights, leaves Wash
ington at 10.20 P.M., arriving at Barnett, 12 at night.
Leaves Barnett, 1.50 A.M., arrives at Washington,
3.30 A.M.
Macon and Augusta Railroad.— Train leaves
Camak. 12.40 P.M., arriving at Miliedgeville Junction
4.20 P.M.; leaves Junction at 6.15 A.M, arriving at
Camak, 9.25 A.M. Connects Augusta with South
Carolina, Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, aud
Augusta with Savannah Railroad.
ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD.
L. P. Grant, Superintendent, Atlanta.
Day Passenger Train— Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7.10 A.M
Arrive at West Point... 11.40 A.M
Day Passenger Train—lt ward.
Leave West Point 12.46 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta... 5.00 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7.00 P.M
Arrive at West Point ~..10.45 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger — lnward.
Leave West Point 3.00 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 10.07 A.M
N ASUVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD
J. W. Thomas, Superintendent, Nashville.
Day Passenger 'drain.
Leave Nashville 9.30 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga .4.20 P.M
Leave Chattanooga 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Nashville 1.30 P.M
,'d . ' j.,\\Night Paeetngtr Train.
Leave Nashville 6.15 P.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4.30 A.M
Leave Chetfauooga b.OO P.M
Angve at Nashville 500 A M
Night trains run daily; day trains run daily, Sun
.days, excepted.
Both trains cotnnect at Chattanooga for Rome, At
lanta, and all principal Southern cities.
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad.
DAT FASSBNOaa TSAIS— SOUTH.
Leave Selma.
Arrive at Rome.. • • • • • l’ m
Arrive at Dalton , - 1126 P- m
mail* PA«sma*a train—so urn.
Leave Da1t0n....... ••:••••• P m
Arrive at Salma. .„... - lO.tsO a.ui
AOOOMMOSATIO* TRAIN.
Leave Rome ... .V.... ~ • 1:46 p.m.
Arrive at Rome 1:46 p.m.
The accommodation.train rnsa from Romo to Jacksonville
daily, Sandsysexceptod. The through passenger train onljr
will be run on Suuday.