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SPARTA, GEORG I A ■
FRIDAY MORNWG, Oct. 22, 1869
Oup Corps of Contributors.
Col. B. T. Harris
F. L. Little, Esq
Dr. E. M. Pendleton,
Col. C. W. QuBosb,
J. T. Jordan, Esq. Jr. Esq
Geo. F. Pierce,
PIIOTOGRFHS.
Those in want of Pictures, are respect¬
fully invited to call at the New Gallery,
in tho old Alley, South of the Hotel,
where Mr. T. C. Glenn is prepared finest style to ex¬ of
ecute work in bis line in the
the Art. Charges moderate. *.
July, 2, tf. ■. * .- JUj:
Dr. TuTT' 8 ExrKCTORANT«.-~-All yho for
have used this invalpable medicine
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Spitting uf Blood,
.Croup, Inflamation of the Lungs or Chest,
Hoarsncss, Difficulty of Breathing, Bron
• -chitis, and all diseases of the Lungs attest lias
its usefulness, tor IiUtigaffections it
no equal.
The Slierm»n €ase
the Criminal Court Monday, Judge
Fisher delivered an opinion on the motion
in arreBt of judgment in the case df Jaa.
H. Schureinan, recently convicted on the
indictment for taking aud carrying un
signed bank notes from the Treasury
building. He read a section of the act of
February, 1867, as applicable to tbe case
and set forth the characteristics which an
instrument roust have to become the sub¬
ject o£ the crime. It must be a paper
printed and stamped and intended to be
put into circulation by or on behalf of the
United States, as a note authorized by law
to be put in circulation by or on behalf of
the U. States. The offence, then, describe
ed in the act* is simply taking and carry¬
ing away, without authority from the U
States, of any paper, printed, stamped and
intended to be put in circulation on be
half of tho United States, as a note an
thorized by law to be so circulated If
the indictment docs not charge this of
fence it is fatal.
He placed in collocation the offence set
.faith in the statute and the offenoe charg¬
ed in the indictment, showing there were
essential variations, and maintaining the
indictment, failed utterly to charge any
,£„r |fi& f>11mg yithin the statutory Ptovi
*He said he was constrained against
his will to grant the motion, because he
was __jathfied the verdict, on a proper in
djoitfient, would liave-bcen the samCason
this, which is so defective, and because
the trial has been so long deferred that a
proper indictment would now be barred
by the act of limitation, and justice mu
fail of its object. Tho courilel for th
government called attention to an indict¬
ment recdlUly found by the Grand Jury,
when tho Court stated that Shurcmau
would he required to give bail. The de¬
fendant then serlt for aOme of bis friends
with that View.— Herald.
I.lcctlon IVewH.
While the Democrats have made consi¬
derable gains, both in Ohio and Pennsyl¬
vania, yet the lato dispatches show that
both these States hdvc gone for the Radi¬
cals by considerably decreased majorities.
The race has been very sharply and vigors.
ously contested, and those two large States
which vote six hundred thousand each,
have only gpnc Radical by a lew hundred,
and at most two or three thousand majori
ty. Tho Democracy to be sure, should
and do sincerely regret the defeat of their
great champion in Ohio; but their very
approximation to victory should animate
them to redoubled activitythe future ;
and they should givo themselves no rest
until their principles have there and else¬
where been perfectly triumphant. It is
often the case in history |hat right is de¬
feated and temporarily under par, but so
much the rooro urgent the reason wily its
friends and advocates should fally with
might and main to lift it from the dust of
the encounter into success.
L We say thou to our Democratic frieuds
be not diseonraged. The day of our deli.
veranoe is surely coming, as surely as that
. tho country has been scourged and cursed
by our Radioal enemies. Thc current of
events shows this beyond all doilbt. Gra
dually these great States, Ohio and Penn¬
sylvania, approach the truth and right;
and from all the indications we have,
Radicalism has about come to its death in
both of them. Another election aud the
deliverance will have come.
• Coining nearer home, we find much in
the kucooss of the Democratic ticket in
S.,,nn„h , i, gives u, genuine
m^ii| f lhe colored voting population
there have gono almost in solid phalanx
to t dm %jfcr polls with their own white friends,
Tw most^kthc th * point f* of A open r *°“ rupture WCre “ at U
Savaonau^^d wo shall not soon forget
Urn terror inspired among the Ogeecheo
planters4n the uprising which occurred '
thee. i„ the d .y.o, Braa,.y
But they base learned who are their
t|4e friends ; and have abandoned their
former political relations^ and stand now
where doubtless they will continue to
stand, by the side of the white man and
aiding him to put worthy and trusted men
into office.
Southern Agricultural Pairs.—
Among the most encouraging signs of the
improved condition of the Southern States, j
is the interest which is taken in-the great
annual I'uirs of Virginia and. North Caro¬
lina, to be held during the present month.
The third and annual Border Agricultural
Fair of Virginia and North Carolina will
take place at Danville, Va., on the 13th,
14th and 15th of October j the fair of the
North Carolina State Agricultural Society
at Raleigh, on the 19th, 20th, 21st and
22d of October; that of the Lynchburg
Agricultural and Mechanical Society of
Lynchburg, Va., on the 26tb^27$, 28th
and 29th of October; and that of the Vir¬
ginia State Agricultural Society at Rich
mond, on the 2d, 3d, 4th arid 5th of No*
Vember. County fairs will also be held
during the soma period at Staunton, Lex¬
ington, Wytheville and Leesburg, in Vir
ginia. The unquestionable advantages of
agricultural fairs will doubtless bo illus¬
trated at all of these meetings, whioi may
well take the place of the Old Southern
commercial conventions, where commerce
was the pretext for worse than idle dis¬
cussions of political subjects. There can
be no doubt that the approaching South¬
ern agricultural fairs will give a new and
powerful impetus to practical
tion .—New York Bulletin.
\ For the Hancock Journal.
Mk. Editor : I write a brief line to
inquire what has become of the ‘‘Hancock
Agricultural Club.” For sometime I have
been confidently expecting it would be
resurrected from its long sleep and have
been on the outlook for eome public an.
nouncement to this effect, but thus far atn
disappointed.
While this institution had anjictive
existence, it was decidedly promotive of
good in bringing to each individual who
attended its deliberations, the light aud
aid of every other member’s information
and experience. It is certainly not true,
ns would seem to be the case from their
complete silence, that tbe farmers of Han.
cock arc apathetic in regard to the inter*
ests of agriculture. They feel that their
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While making ».
r
demonstration in its LoL«U',
work at home strividg with .wliat wisdom
they have acquired in the past, to adjust
the system and themselves to the times.
Tho time for retvospeeting the. year’s
labprs and experiments will soon be upon
us. The season for fairs will soon be at
hand, and there is every reason why the
“ Hancock Agricultural Club” should
awake from its lethargy and become a liv¬
ing and useful institution of the land.—
There are many young men who. liko the
writer, feel the need of a Club of Farmers,
aud who knowing the prominent planters
of the county and their capacity for im¬
parting useful information, feels satisfied
that the re-inauguration of the Club would
bo more profitable now than it has ev«r
been in tho past.
We trust the farmers then will move in
this matter, and that wo shall spon see a
general County Club in full blast. And
uothing would more likely eondueo to this
end than the formation of neighborhood
clubs like that which now iucludes in its
lists members from Culverton toward
Mount Zion. One of Them.
For the Hancock Journal,
Cotton might or Itust.
Mr. Eilitor : A recent letter from a
gentleman of your placo says, that ‘ the
cotton crops have been seriously injured
in this neighborhood by rust, especia.ly
where fertilizers have been used. Some
attribute it to ammonia and some to the
phosphates remedy?” &c. What is the cause and
I propose to answer this letter briefly
through the medium of your paper.
II hat is here called rust is simply a
blight, premature decay. There is no
weak stem, defficicncy of silicate of potash
in the stalk, perhaps it cracks open and
there exudes a portion ol tho sap, which
oxiJiso “<* ptesente the appear
course the grain i s injured by it according
to tts Client. ,
1 here arc three kinds of cotron blight
which tony be tonne.!, ,/ry hum ../and faint
particularly bhght. lhe first has prevsW this year
in sandy land>, where stimula
ting fertilizers have been m-ed. Up to
early in August with plenty of rain the
crops were excellent, full of sap, juicy and
8,icculcu ^ The drought came, hot sun,
^oody “ ^^ISLSYSl
fibre of the stalk, closed the* pores
and cut off nutrition to tho leaves and
forms. Obstruction, premature decay, and
t”ied’“t'iu whet! We 8 d«ig’a« “
dry bHght VVhat afe thc re Q lcdies ?
Subsoil our lands, use fertilisers, that are
less stimulating, aud not in such undue
9J*® 14 ** and do n 1 crowd y° ur P lant «
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perhaps if ffiick BIs nS^usc plenty of rain, as tboae
who plant pure manure. In
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my Peruvian experiment platt all the fertilizers with
guano as a base suffered early
from drought, and blight. The phosphatic
compounds later. Those rows with natu¬
ral soil simply, last of all.
The humid blight is where the subsoil
is a hard pan, pipe elay far instance, and
there is too much raip. The water does
not percolate through the subsoil, the roots
are blight submerged, toutriciou obstructed, and
comes on very similar in appearance
to the other. The remedy for this is un
derd raining.
The land rust is owing to an inherent
deficiency of nutriment in the soil, and
occurs every year in the same land.. Some
one or more of the inOaganic elements are
lacking. The remedy is a good coating of*
ashes which . contains all of the inorganic
elements, and supplies the deficiency at
once. '• E. M. "PENDLETON.
Sparta, Sept. 1869.
Scliool-Tcacbing as a Profrsdon
WRITTEN FOR THE HANCOCK FARMER.
' BY PROFESSOR N-.
How fewjrfung men, who are properly
prepared, ever.choose School Teaching as
a profession. Young men of me^n never
do. The business is always undertaken as
a necessity, with the determination to aban¬
don it as soon as b’ecuuiary circumstances
will allow. Being kept up by force of
circumstances, with an earnest looking af¬
ter little things, it' certainly brings no
pleasure, and it fails in a large degree to
accomplish the groat end. which ought to
be had in view. That the edu>ation of
the people should be almost exclusively in
the hands of men, who feel no special in
terest in it, is indeed, a misfortune, ?s the
tone of socieiy is always determined by
the education of the people, and the char¬
acter of this education depends aluost en¬
tirely upon the Teachers of the Common
Schools. The strength of this position
may cot be apparent upon its simyle^sug.
ge8tioo, yet it will certainly be evident
upon reflection. It must be remembered
that it is a very small number of our peo¬
ple that ever have the advantiges of a
College education, and the training of the
remainder is left wit! th*Common and
High Schools.
Again, the Colleges do not propose to
g'.vuino necessary fundamental drill in any
ease, nor do thoy.- ever go back of their
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duties, to bfirig up what' may be the de¬
ficiencies of the ‘ Schools. If' then, the
young man does ,not make .up 'these do
ficiencies in himself, he fallowed to spend
but idleness ’ ppd u??," bad ImhD a ». » » return, T to
be turned loose upon society, a puffed up
booby, without a single element to advance
it# interests. * •) »
Then, T repeat it,if the School Teachers
of the country, from any cause whatever,
fail to be faithful in their high trusts, the
damages to education, will bo fearfully de¬
structive.
Is it in human nature to be faithful in
any business that brings no pleasure; or
to prosecute with the largest measure of
success, a profession entered upon simply
as a itepping-stqne to something else ?—
With no reputation at stake, and tio char¬
acter to make, Lhe dull routine'of d-uty is
clumsily and carelessly gone through, and
there can be no interest except.in tho pay.
This, as a matter of course, when tempered
by higher considerations is not to le dies
pised, but when it become* the only ac
tuat^ng motive,.let us fear the result.
No man will deny that a living is the
object of all life, and that it should be
aim of every good and sensible man to
make money, both 'for present demands
and future investments, yet, no cautious or
prudent man deals with a neighbor, who
tells him his interest goes no further than
his money!
Let us see then, some of the evils Con
sequent upon the plans now pursued.
Is it not true, under the existing system
that when a man is found fit for nothing
else, from this very fact he is wisely ad¬
judged as finely adapted to school teach¬
ing. He straighway enters upon it and
finds himself fearfully overrun with pa*
tror.agc, this certainly degrades the pro
fessiou. Men of talent and capacity will
not submit to tbe classification : and whilst
th**n to school teaching, they are driven
to other fields, where a success would be
an honur; rather than degrade their talent
, lld cov , r , | if , of , 10ue „ lbc
“ u<!h assot ,'“ 1 “'“' ?'" v ' ll,an
tlm, the prefeeston n degraded in the eyes
of the people. Finding that it is a busi
ness followed by such s utongrel herd,
„„„ h e»ring of so tndividu.1, not to ssv ^
general ..... distinctions m ... it, they must accept
the conclusion that it is “a fine business
for women and sprouts,” but it certainly
has nothing in it to develop the elements
I streets of one of our largest
cities, a man who has done faithfully his
sliare of ]abor as an cJuCatorj and that t0Q
’ ,ilh lb « ° bM ™ »>' circles —
Tome he lamented this fact. Said he,
upon being introduced into society, my
company seems agreeable and even desired,
until I unfortunately J make known my
I left a,Sue. i, not
universally true? The profession
that ought to be the most honored, is the
ft
uiO't despised, and its follower regarded
as among the weakcV of the rate.
The second evil effects more particularly
the youth who are to be educated. Did
you ever think of the great diversity of
School System 1 I speak of the instruc¬
tion. Under the "preset pljp you know
we are obliged to change leachefs as often
as our young men get money enough to
commence Law and Medicine. Another
teacher is introduced, and the little folks
all go home to tell father that the whole
school has been revolutionized- These
books we aio using have been successfully
denounced by. otir new teacher, and he
says we must supply ourselves With differ
ent authors—not, as the teacher would
have the people believe, because the books
domot fully answer tftc purposes of educa¬
tion, but because he never studied them,
and he does not understand them. Al¬
though his text books are out of date,-they
are to be called up as a necessity, aud hi?
pupils are to be taught as he was twenty
years ago. * «
The'book money, although it amount^,
to a considerable item before the education
of a large family is completed, is indeed a
small matter when it stands by the loss o i
time and consequent loss of .tuition, in
keeping always at the same place; the
great injury done tine pupils in.the way
of diseouragcipent, and the still greater
curse brought upon the world, by giving
encouragement to the never ending pub¬
lication of school books.
Let us have men who will go into the
business as a profession—then wo will
adopt a uniform system of instruction, and
all keep pace with improvements that are
being constantly made, and by concert of
action we will kill out tho living evils that
steal away the intellect of the young even
before it has budded N.
Cuba’s sugar crop this year is estimated
at 2,218,000 boxes, 600 000 less than last
year.
Blind Tom. the great Southern negro
pianist is holding forth to awe-struck audi
cnees away up in Indiana and Illinois.
» A Nevada editor can see into a den of
’rattlesnakes from his back window, and
at the frontdoor stands a buffalo bull re.ady
to go for him.
In some parts of Wisconsin, the whole
p<H»u!atiori is at work gathering cranberries.
The^Wldjg larger than for several years
past. * ^
The Sr. Paul'l^ '»neer thinks thornot
less than one hundred ami fifty thousand
bushels of apples will be gathered in 3 i£ n
.
ncsota this year.
,Tfec Montgomery and Selma iLiilvoad,
on and alter next Monday, will run to
M bite’s, five miles beyond the present
terminus and about ten miles from Benton.
The students of the University of Mich¬
igan have determined to have female lec¬
turers this season, and have, invited Anna
Dickinson,. Mrs. Stanton, Miss Field, and
G. F. Train.
Mrs. Lva Lancaster, of Navasota, Texas;
is now running three institutions herself
—the Navasota llanger (newspaper), a
millinery shop, aud a cradle with a fresh
incuufrbeut.
^ FOREXOV. •
1 he waters of lhe Nile arc subsiding.
Tho Portugese army is to-be reduced.
England thinks that Spain ss able to
suppress her revolution.
The Paris coachmen and merchants'
clerks are about to .strike'
The ship ‘Sir Lauucelot has arrived in
London, winning tho tea ship prize.
The Rev. Harvey Goodwin * has been
appointed Bishop of Carlisle, England. *
l he Vulcan Oil -Work and Engle Iron
Works, Glasgow, have been .burned.
Another detachment of Spanish troops
liave left Havana for active service.
Gen; Gastello is dead,
The London Times condemns the action
of the French Government in allowing the
people to hold meetings, and then permit
ting the police to'break them up.
Daniel O’Dunoliue, uiemberof Parlia¬
ment wishes for Kerry, writea that the Govern¬
ment to release the Fenian prieon
ers, but ^cannot do so while *the faintest
semblance of unconstitutional pressure re.
mfains. ? t
—A small piece of cotton, dipt icd in a
»<*luti<i» of ammonia, affords' speedy relief
piaoc
—The tallest chimney in the world is
at the port Dundas Work, Glasgow.
height above ground is four hundred
fifty-four fct. In Europt, titer, am only
tLTraraL‘sl/srapW hicl ‘ 8 °cwch,“!n A
enn> . „ , b a f e« feet exceed the
height -Vs of this structure.
1 .VFAt.l.lHLK Bkceipt. —To make
P 1 ** at t ' lin ' 1 '» » printi» e
office. '
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dot ton llarbcfs.
0ct * 20.—Market to-day;
^ nominally 24Je.
“““ L ' VCr[W ‘ markf,e
Hybrid Cotton Seed.
TV EATS DICKSON'S Prol.fic both in quan*
1 > tity and quality of lint.
The uudrrsigufed having produced a Hybrid
cotton superb r to auy in the mark-t. off.rs for 1
eate about one hundred b ahela o» the seed.
This cotton sold in Augusta, on the 30tb of
September, for 26f cents, when New York mid-!
No agencies wia be grantee, aud no genuine seed
of th,i kitd can be had except on appfi at.on di
reel 10 the producer. j
L- G. MORRIS, j
Oct 5th 1869 tf.
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Fair & Winter Trade 9
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DRY-GI>GDS, DRY-GOODS.
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CD Jf dr ■ GEORGIA.
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.O k is coinplete in every department; is bought .
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L : . *«•■ V. GUARANTEE
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WE' OFFER INDUCEMENTS HERETOFORE UN
SOLICIT A CALL, FEELING ASSURED THAT ..
, WILL FIND US PREPARED TO SELL
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TAX NOTICE,
I AM NOW READY TO COLLECT STATE ANU COUNTY TAX
FOR 1869. » , ->*
SPECIFIED WILL BE BELOW—EMPLOYERS AT THE COURT GROUNDS* Pi,EASE AT THE TIME EMPLOYEES^ AND PLAOiSf
SJ’ARTa NOTIFY
L12.&-113 WI..G. M. FROM TUESDAY SEPT. 21 TO SAT
Uni'AY; OCTOBER 2ND y
CULVl ltTON (Culver <fc Connell’s' Store,) 111 LIST. G. M. Monday 0#i. 4th *
MEDLOLKb, / 112 “ . «Tuesday “ .5
MRS. RACHEL’S, 114 “ r ■ \Y e dny “ fi
DEVREAUX, (ID -j’ Store,) : l,Ki tf « .Thursday « • V
*W <3
ilf. /.iON, ‘i “ Siunnjay * Vk
• PA1VIA Kl'2 & 11■) I l i»t G. M. (Coorl V\ cck) Irimi Monilny Oct. M.ttS.y l Lto Sat'd, 1A
IIIN'ION'S STOBH, IMDtat, v «. M. Tticlv (tat. 1»
UABTON’S, .. . l6r “ « • “ 19
A MOSS, i 103 “■ -.»-»<■ Wcrinif’y M •
BONNER'S, 109 “ “ r J hurtda'y ■* 21
MlILLxMMX S, > /- ' . ' ' 107 u Friday ' ♦* 22
SHELTER, L. . .. 117 “ “ Satoftlay « • 2S
8PARTA* GA ,,sms,■ i m ■
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• *, «. HANCOCK* COUNTY, CA
A. A. BEALL. J. Ilf. SPEAKS. fV W. II. POTTER
BEALL, SPEARS '& GO.,
WAREHOUSE Continue their business AND at COffllirariKRCHANTSL their QJ<T
rjmtnoith, btaiui, the Commodioua
firN- p iioop i
, I I AUGUSTA GA.>
All bus in,-*.- entrusted lo them will have strict personal attention— Order* far Bagfiliff Univer**
lies, Lope and laindy Supplies, promptly filled. Liberal Cash Advmicea on produce in store.
Messrs. T C. & DkL. TURNER will represent us in Hancock Coullty
Hept3 4m. 1
S. B. H^ARD & SON,
1. I C“3
* AUGUSTA GA
/tOSTISUK m the Sale and Storage, of GOTTON. -£
prridpee in store. Consignments > § timeonr
Sept3-4m. ''' * solicited,.
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FALL GOODS!
CQ^n & Watkins,
-’DEALERS [tf
STAPLE AND FANCY
DRY GOODS I
AND
. /IT? DlPPD ies TT?Cf
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CJa n , (J . 1 H I^N-Ct
A /«fc CLaac T L f
OUOCSj ilEtS, JCit/Ci
H ARIIWARF P1ITI PRV
Crockery and Glassware
L} i>SlU(li6S | ,| &/ t Mr. ,,
iritnn.A W «»*> WAJBft, *
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fJ J: 'tJGETilEit kept in this with market. all other articles usually
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Our stock is constantly recruited by thc ar
rival of FRESH GOODS, direct from the best
market.
\\ e will sell as cheap for CASH as any house
can afford l 0 . a COTHERN & WATKINS.
Oct. 15. 1869. tf Sparta, Ga.
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PK«,VTEKs, *5*1 WAREHOIJS»'
• utton street, New York.
Wood Type of Every Beer rip tion'^g ^
Specimen Book nnd Price List on applies.
tion as above, or to Geo P Rowell & Co, Ad
vert icing Agents, 40 Piirk Row, J?ew Tork,
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harper c. bbyson,
' warehouse
Commission Merchant,
. ? AIUJASTA, GA.
: Customers VV ROPE and applied FAMILY with SUPPLIBsT b agging
SALE ' Prompt OF attentiem COT ON paid to SIORAGE and
1 and other produce.
OFFICE: 158 REYNOLDS STREET.
WM. BRYSON, CHARTER CAMPBELL
i Auj>ui*i(>, Ga. Late of Madison, Gs.
! Srpi 10 4m
HI. Pi’ NTOV/tlJ. ^
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WAREHOUSE .
Commision 1 Merchant, ’
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STIIEET,
AUGUSTA, GAi
\ 7 ONTINUES to give his personal attention
to liw storage and and sale of COTTON and
other produce.
Orders for Plantation and Family supplies
promptly pndca re fully filled.
is prepared to make liboial CASH
ADVANCES on all consignments.
July 28d, 3m.
VEGETABLE-LIVER TTTTT’S
Cures Liver Diseases, PILLS,
xuarT?» Dyspepsia, &c.
expectorant
Curos Copgbs, Asthma, &c.
Tutt’B Sarsaparilla and ant^TBleoJ;purifier Queen’s. Deligh
The great Alterative
Tuft’s Improved Hair Oye,
Warranted the best in use.
For sale by 9 W. BERRY,
D«m *
25r--Ij s *# , • , - SPARTA.
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