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The Norcross Advance. H'BUSHEP EVERY WEDNESDAY UY BIJUMONS, VINCENT & CO. 81 INSCRIPTION HATES: One copy, one year ------ $2.00 Five copies “ * - ------ sx.so Ten •• “ “ $15.00 —A I» V KRTI SI NG »AT E S Space 1 w 2 w 1 m n |6 ni,l2 m 1 incb SIW $1505250 $450 $6 OOi $lO 00 2 “ 150 2 50| 450 72510 00 18 00 41 “ 200 8 00| 500 0 00115 001 22 00 4 “ 250 3 501 550 11 00i IS 00l 27 00 col. 3 (X) 425 650 14 00 25 00l 35 00 % “ 550 800 .12 50; 25 00 40 00 50 00 1 “ 10 00 15 00 15 00 22 00' 02 00 100 (X) Advertisements less than one-tonrth of a column to be charged for by the square —for first insertion $i 00 and for each sub sequent insertion 50 cents. Special con - tracts o: n be made where short advertise ments are inserted for a longer period -than thr • months. One inch shall const’- tuteas* tare. Y arr'a ;e notices and obituaries, ex ’cevdiing ’six lines, will be charged for as wdvertt euicnts. Pergonal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any price. 'Genin.unications of general or local in- Werest, under a genuine signature, are respectfully solicited from any source. SIMMONS, VINf ENT & CO., Publishers. J. L. ALLEN D. C. JONES eV EW G &8 • LOW PRICES! HAVING just received a new stock of goi’ds, we mean business when we say we intend to sell them cheap for cash. Our stock is now complete, and we would respect fully ask our friends and the public generally to call and examine our goods ’before | utchasing elsewi ere. We call especial a tention to the following lines of goods, which we have priced to suit the times. DRY GOODS. Calico.., Bleaching, Shirting and Sheeting, Qsnaburgs, Drilling, Jeans and Cassi men-s, Cambric, Poplins, Japanese ), Clotii, Black Alpacca, White and Rud Flannel, Opera Flannel, Bed Fkßring, Stripes, Shawls, »nd doves, Hose and Half Hose, Lady's and Gent’s Collars, Coats’ Thread,Balmorals Towels, Sash, Belt and Trimming Ribbons, And other things too numerous to mention. GROCERIES. Bae >n. Flour, Meal, Molasses, Syrup Sugar, Coffee, 8. C. ILims, Lard, Salt, Soap, Sin.>king and (’hewing Tobacco, Ketosi nr <>ll, Starch, Soda, Pepper, Can dy, Mitill'a, Candles, etc. Tab’e -tnJ Pocket Cutlery, Crockery mu’. Glasawaie. SHOES. tScfifV V.Ulf Boots, Gent's Calf Shoes, Gent’s kip Boots, Boy’s Kip Breganx Gent's kip Brogans, Boy’s Buff Shoes, Lady’s C.ilf Shoes, (pegged), Lady’s Cloth Gaiters, 1 -idy’sCalf Shors, (sewed,) Igudy’s Half Clot! Gaiters, Lady's Morocco Shoes; Children’s Shosx A nice assortment of Men’s, Boy's and laxly’s Uulu. AVe have alsp oe hand a select assort ment of Drugs, which we are offering cheap. Give ns a call ut Lively, McElroy it Co’s old stand, rnd bear in mind that it Is no trouble t.» show cir goods. But we sei, only for ea-h. septio ts ALLEN * JONES. THE NORCROSS LIVERY STABLE Hn« Just opened and can now furnish the public with HORSES, BUGGIES, DRAYS, CAERIAGES, and WAGONS. And will convey partit s to ALPHA RETT A, LAWRENCEVILLE. STONE MOUNTAIN, CUMMING. ROSWELL. CANTON. DECATUR. And to any point in Gwinnett or adjoining Counties. FINE STOCK. GOOD DRIVERS —AND— -7? A'J 50 XI L E CHA R GES, ROBERT ( AMI', 10-Manager. THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. 'I HE MONEYLESS MAN. Is there no secret place on the face of the earth, Where charity dwelleth, where virtue hath birth ? Where bosoms i i mercy and kindness will heave, And the poor and the wretched shall “ ask and receive ? ” Is there no place on earth where a knock from the poor Will bring a kind angel to open the door? Ah, search the wide world whenever you can, I’ll' re is no open door for a moneyless man. Go, look in yon hall, where the chand Tier’s light Drives off with its splendor the darkness of night! Where ti e rich hanging velvet, in shadowy fold, Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming of gold, And the mirrors of silver take up and re new, I.i Jong-lighted vistas the wildering view— Go there, in your patches, and find, if you can, A welcoming smile for a moneyless man! Go, look in yon church of the c'oud-reach ing sp’re, Which gives back to the sun his same look of red lire; Where the arches and columns are gorgeous within, And the walls seem as pure as a soul with out sin; Go down the long aisles—see the rich and the great, In the pomp and the pride of their worldly estate Walk down in your patches, and find, if you can, B ho opens a pew to a moneyless man ! Go, look, to yon judge in his dark'flowing gown, With the scales wherein law weigheth equity down, Where he frowns on the weak aud smiles on the strong, And punishes right, while he justifies wrong; Wh re jurors their lips on the Bible have laid, To render a verdict they’ve already made— Go there, in the court-room, and find, if you can, Any law for the cause of a moneyless man! Go, look in the banks, where Mammon has told His hundreds and thousands of silver and gold; Where, safe from the hands of the starving aud poor, Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore ; Walk up to the counter—ah, there you may stay, Till your limbs grow old and your hair turns gray, And you’ll find at the banks no one of the clan With money to lend to a moneyless man ! Then go to your hovel; no raven has fed The wife wiio has suffered too L ng for her i read; Kneel (town by her pallet, and kiss the death frost. From the lips of the angel your pov -rtv lost; o -1 . 'hen turn in your agony upward to Go!, Ami bliss, while it smites you, the chasten ing rod; And you’ll find at the end of your life’s little span, There’s a welcome above for a moneyless man' PURSE PRIDE. A toss of the head, or turning up of the nose ilia's no one any sp rial harm, whi’e it seems to do those who indulge in such childlike expressions of emotions, a deal of good. So who car. sis the proud and lofty, the spite fid and disdainful, or the showy and shallow headed signify their innocent disapprobation in that way? Nice people never do such tilings. The nicer a ja rson is the less inclined is he or she to look down iqwn anybody, even the hum blest and most ignorant. The least creature serves some purpose in the world. It happens occasionally that people who appear tac most important and imagine themselves indispensihle to the chosen few nice and most favored lieinsrs, are of far less account than those they look down upon. A small amount of money, with laig? debts added to a short allowance of br ins, in a little while constitutes a most super cilious creature of one, who as a poor woman might have been agreeable and obliging. Good fortune is so trying to the mind that few can withstand its ruinous efiecta. Money spoils so many pleasant people tha ! it is almost a pity that everybody are not purse poor. Any one who estimates character inde. pendent of its surrounding, is sorry for the feeble efforts of snobbish jieople who set themselves above real merit merely on ac count of money. However the starched skirts of self ap pointed nice people will be drawn aside to avoid touching the garments of thoee not happening to have studied good man ners and moral excellence from the same ehau-ehism; and there is no help for it, until everybody strives as hard for com mon si use as they do for money. —Elin i Orlu. Gkskn Old Agb. - Bohrer says; “I know not a more beautiful spectacle in the world than an old man who has gone with honor through all its storms and ccmqutsta, and who retains to the last the fresh new of the feeling that adorned his youth. This is the true green old age: this makes ih southern winter of declining years, in which the sunlight warms,though the hearts have gone are ever welcome to the sympathy .unitis, while wisdom guide*. There «this distinction between respect and veneration: the latter has always in it sometlung of love.” There is no aubjcct existing, within the nmgv and grasp of tbe human intellect, be lt the m"st subtle and various, be It high as the heavens above, or as deep as the earth Ix-nealli. llure is no secret of crea tion into which the science of En.-i-inasonty do«* *M>t enter; in pursuit of wisdom, knowF -Ire ami vlrtw Ba G. Koh rts. THE PANIC—ITS CAUSE AND CURE. [Our Southwest Georgia Correspondent.] We live in eventful times, and the up-heavings of business “brings strange things to our ears,” and yet it is but the legitimate fruit of tlie present system of fi nance. It demonstrates what every sensible man must have seen, that the present system of finance is a huge imposture, without any basis on which to rest and only was current because of a purely imaginary value. The “Panic” spreads like a wild de lirium and suspends business'witk the “magic ot a wand.” Is it not a “monstrosity” that fie suspension (failure is the right word) of Jay- Cooke should shake to the centre the entire commerce and business of this country? Is there a parallel to it? and is it not time that the American people should crush at a blow the bloated system of an unredeemable paper currency? All sensible men will answer aflir matively and no more opportune time will occur to strangle the mon ter. The cotton crop is stil] in the hands of planters, and they can control the question if they will. But passing strange, less unamimity exists among planters than any other class. Much alarm was felt at first in this section of the State, but that alarm has to a great extent sub sided, and reasoning people begin to see the truth as it is. The “pan ic” will ultimate in good, both in showing the real value of the pre sent currency and the rotteness of such huge impositions as the house of Jay Cooke & Co., and others like them. In this mael stroom all such vast swindlers ought to go and pass from public gaze in ignominy and in execra tion. What is to be the final result is difficult to determine. The pre sent probability is that things, like a rotten craft, will right itself ■ip, and the cotton crop will pass to the manufacturers under the prestige of the present currency with a full knowledge of its worth lessness. Among the vast evils en tailed upon the country by the results of the war is (his irredeem able currency, and its legitimate sequence, placing the cum new of the country in the hands of a few “jockeys” in Wall Street. How far Government officials are com plicated in these swindles, time done will disclose. That the Gov ernment is largely rcponsible can not be questioned. The supremely ridiculous idea of quoting gold as worth so much, would be amusing, if it were not so serious. None but a Yankee would ever have thought of ma king “Greenbacks” a standard of value, and qilotinggold at market value, when the truth is apparent to every* one that gold has a fixed value, and “Greenbacks” no value at all, except as they can be con verted into gold. “Greenbacks” to-day is 12 per cent, discount and not gold 12 per cent premium, and so the factitious values attached to every tiling abundently illus trates. Under “Yankee” rule, bus iness in nearly all its relations as well as the currency, is a huge fic tion. Rail Roads are built on paper, and in fact without capital, and immense fortunes realized, if there was any- real value in pa per, and the projectors and engi liters become princes in apparent wealth, but it is all a fiction, like Jay Cooke & Co, And this same spirit enters every’ branch of trade and many business men expand and expand, and when the blad der bursts. nothing but empty air results. Social life is terribly con taminated by this same spirit, and most people of this day, especial ly in towns and cities, live a life of fiction. Fine dress, equipage and d splay, works like a cancer and mus: d'no remedy be applied' end in utter ruin to all pure mor ality, virtue, and unmixed integ rity. Again of the remedy. More Anon. Far Western papers, as a rule spare neither age nor sex when a joke is wanted. For instance a Carson City journal says: “Our county clerk can boast of a wife with the biggest ieet and the lon gest nose of any female in the ter i tory.” According to latest definitions, a bachelor is a man who has lost the opportunity of making a wo man miserable. NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1873. BEE PASTURAGE. [From the Southern Cultivator.] Unless there is an abundance of honey-producing plants, it is im possible for the best arranged apiary to bring its owner any profit. Bee forage is found, more or less, in all parts of our coun try; but while this is true, there is no doubt but that some neigh borhoods are much better adap ted to bee culture than others. In our Southern country most of the honey comes from the re sources of our forests, swamps and hedges. And for years to come we will have to look to (he pas trage growing in ’ these localities for our yield. Among the uncultivated trees, shrubs aftd plants whose blooms seem to be particularly- rich in honey, I will name the poplar, black-gum, bay-tree, persimmon, sour wood, holly, sparkle-berry, bntton-bush, sumac, golden rod, catnip, astors, and many others that yield no doubt morerer less honey. The alder blooms in Feb ruary and yields pollen but no honey. Most of the above bloom during the last of Apil, May- and June in our latitude. The button bush, which grows in low places along water-courses, flowers in July, and yields some honey. It usually- remains in bloom for about one week. Sumac comes in August, and lasts for several weeks—it is rich in a dark colored honey. The golden rod and the asters bloom in September and are good honey plants. From these alone in favorable seasons bees often gather enough fortheir win ter supplies. Catnip I regard as one of our best honey plants. It commences to flower in spring and continues till frost. It will thrive and grow- well along fences, hedges, etc., and might be planted to advantage in all waste placer that cannot be cultivated in any thing else. The magnolia, varnish tree, and privet alibi'd gc*Jd i&sstuhige.— These are at the same time line ornamental trees. In planting tre<es along our lawns and in our yards it is advisable to have an eye to utility as well as beauty. I have experimented with Rocky Mountain bee-plant, migo nette, borage, sweet alyssum and many others highly recommended and I am satisfied that it will nev er pay in this country to cultivate plants exclusively for the honey-. The above plants will not grow in grass. The ground must be kept worked, and this labor will cost more than the honey they yield will be worth. Our various fruit trees give the bees their earliest honey forage in the spring. In some seasons bees will work briskly- on straw bery blooms. The raspberry (par ticularly’ the red variety,) and the blackberry are usually- rich in honey. Mustard, white cloven buck-wheat, corn and some oth ers yield honey. White clover, should be cultivated wherever it will thrive, and I believe it will grow in most any land that is not too poor and sandy. Bees collect pollen and probably some honey from corn-tassels—particularly of the white flint variety. Buck wheat is a good honey-plant, but as the secretion of honey in this plant is so much influenced by atmospheric conditions, it often fails. Bees often gather pollen from the cotton-bloom, but I do not think they get any honey. In this lattide our spring honey harvest is all over by the last of June, and then we have none of any account until the tall flowers come in September. In order to keep up the working force of our colonies, it would be very desira ble to have some forage to fill up this great vacancy. There is great room here for the bee-keepers to observe and to experiment. Because we see a bee on a flow er does not prove that it is gath ering any honey. In seasons of scanty, bees may be seen work ing vigorously on certain flowers, while the amount of stores in the hive is growing less every day. It is very difficult to determine the worth of a plant for honey when there are only a few of the plants within range of the bees.— When there are enough plants to aflnrd constant employment for the bees, and approximate esti mate of the yield may be deter mined by placing the hive on a pair of scales, and noticing the dailv increase or lo>.-. Cf course due allowance must always be made forbad days. The number of stocks of bees that can be profitably kept in a neighbo hood must always be governed by the honey resources of the locality. Hence it will be folly for a bee-keeper to think of multiplying his colonies in a poor section to the extent of one who Lves where there is an abundance of pasture. Tiie nearer the apia ry is located to the pasture, the better. It is supposed that the range of a bee lor forage does not usually extend over two miles. The Italians will go much farther than the blacks. Some say they have known them to go four miles. But this is travelling' too far to lay up much surplus honey. With strong colonies, and properly constructed movable comb hives well man aged, we can generally secure large yields of honey, if there is any in the flowers to gather. J. P. 11. BROWN. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 1873. The Clayton Courier says : “The present process of destroying the caterpillar is playing sad havoc with the bird family. The birds, we learn, are dying by the whole sale from eating the dead worms poisoned by Paris green. “This is a great mi. l -fortune, as we believe more damage will ac crue in the long rin to the farm ing interest by thus dest oying the birds than by letting the worms eat the cotton.” Railway Speed. —The London Engineer states that the highest rate of speed in the world, is at tained on the Great Western Railroad. The average is fifty miles per hour, and sometimes seventy. It is said to be impos sible to attain a speed of one hun dred miles an hour. A young gentleman, having called in his physician,said : ■'■Now sir, I want no trilling; I wish you to strike at the cause of my dis ease.” “It shall be done,’’ replied the doctor, and, lifting his cane, he smashed tlie decanter of wine upon the table. “Many Christians” <ays Beech er, are like cheslnu.s—very pleas ant nuts, but enclosed in yerv prickly burrs, which need various dealings of nature, and her grip of froU, before the kernel is dis closed.” ——• . One of-Josh Billings’ maxims ; Rise early, work hard and Jatt, live on what you can't sell, give nothing away, and if you don't die rich, and go to the devil, you may sue me for damages.” A small child being asked by her Sunday school teacher,“What did the Israelites do after they crossed the Red Sea,” answered, “I don’t know, ma'm but I guess they- dried themselves.” A widow said to her daughter: “When you are of m;> age, it will be time enough to dream of a hus band.” “Yes, mama,” replied the thoughtless girl, “for a second one.” The mother fainted. Horace Greeley says: In noth ing else do sensible, moral, intel ligent men act so irrationally as when they persist in the habi tual use of alchoholic liquors. Fcr the draining of lands—Drink whiskey, and spend all your time in the saloons. This will drain you of all your lands in a short time. The only man who ever had any reputation for honesty in a Utah town is now in jail for stealing a drove of cattle. Ohl that men should put an enemy in theii mouths to steal oway their brains.— -Sfiakc)sp>ai'e. There are thousands hacking at the bending branches of evil to one whois striking at the root. If you visit a sweet girl, and if yon are won and she is won, you shall both be one. With the d’s;>l< y now rvqui r ed for first class funerals, jieople are beginning to un- i derstanil what are the terrors of death.— Danbury News. The manutacture of papei' from the she ith of the hop stalk, after the removal of the I outer skin,is to 1 e introduced in England on j an extensive scale. In America, worth makes tlie man. In Franre. worth makes the woman. Donnals n made a ball con ascension from ■. N w Y - k iflt. VOL. 1.-N0- 17. THE GERMAN EXODUS. [From the Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 16.] Germany is in trouble, more especially Prussia. Every year about fifty thousand strong, healthy and industrious men, to gether with their families, leave the Yater land to seek a homestead of their own in America. Su h a drain of hands, capital and soldiers begin to be seriously felt, and the government is trying to check the tide. Prussia alone has lost five hundred thou sand strong and industrious men, and the total amount of German emigration up to 1872 is placed at 2,500,000 by the Bureau of Statistics at Washington. No wonder Prince Bismark begins to look»seriotis about this matter, for the loss of men is already felt in some of the recruiting districts. The rigid military system of Germany has led to grand results, but some of our Ger man friends prefer reading about them in America to w.tnessing them as participants n.t home. A commission is now investigating the subject; and in the meanwhile the half fare tickets for emigrants have been abol ished on the government lailroads. The cable recently informed us that all emigra tion agents had been driven out of the country. But all these things will not stop the great torrent of emigration. Every family in Germmy has a relative or friend in the I nited States, with whom friendly rela tions are kept up, and letters exchang<d. Large and comforta le steamships sail every day during the summer season from G.rman ports, offering excellent accommo dations at low rates. It is a firm b 'lief of all classes that a second war with France is unavoidable. They see that the work on the new fortifications is conducted with a vigor which is astomslimg. The prices of meat, I read, dry goods and 'most oilier articles of consumption are advancing fas ter than the wages of labor. All these tilings aie steadily swe'ling the current which rolls in from all parts of the empire to the sea-ports, and from there to a new and happier land. The government is naturally perplexed. And well it may be, for tin re is no remedy that can Slay the glorious tide. ' THEY SAY SO. As a rule, whoever habitually uses the phrase “They sav so,’’ deserves to be mis trusted. It is quite certain to be the pre face to something injurious, which Ins either a slender basis or none at all. No one uses it who has a gebd or commendable tiling to relate of another, and it is gener ally a prelude to some scandalous or im rue story. If is a hypocritical phrase, for it pretends to believe the tale which it would have another D(lime. And it is cowardly— more cowardly than a lie—though that is as ■ owardly as anything can well be ; for a lie is a stab, and it makes no pretence to b otherwise; but “they say so” is a stab which feiirns that is not a stab. A down right lie tells that which is contrary to the ‘ruth, !mt “tli y say so 1 does this and more; it fals ly alleges the testimony of a public rumor which it invents in support of a falsehood to which it gives currency. It insinuates a slanderous or evil report, and mppement it with evidence which itself had fabricated to make its falsehood bear the color of tiiith. It is safe to act up n the principle that whenever it is used to the discredit of another, “they say so” is half a liar.—Christian Intelligencer. Mk. Tunis Vax I’ell has now in his pos session a much-worn document containing the weight of some of the revolutionary worthies. It is dated West Point, August 19,11’83. General Washington weighed 209 lbs. General Lincoti weighed 224 lbs. General Knox weighed 280 lbs. Colonel tl -nry Ja -kson weigh -d 238 lbs. Lieut. Colonel Huntington weighed 232 lbs. Lieut. Cn’on- I Cobb weighed 182 lbs. Lieut. Colonel Hump! rys weighed 221 11ml Lieut. Colonel Huntington (?) weighed 132 lbs. Lieut. Colonel Creation weighed 166 lbs Colonel Swift weighed 219 lbs. Colom 1 Michael Jackson weighed 252 lbs. Average weight 214 lbs It will bes -en by the above list that these old patriots “held their own” notwithstand ing the iiard times they were seven years in getting through. Bad f >r tits Bak.—The patrons of hus bandly have adopted one practice, as a rule of their order, worthy of immitation by the unn-gencratc, which is, never to go to law, aud have all disputes settled by ar bitration. This is emin’-ntly wise, and has many advantages. First, the case comes on without delay, and each man telling bis story a jury of picked neiglibor-i and mu tual friends decide what is right. Law suit* arise in most eases in misunderstand ing*, not in wilfulness. Only think of dilii. allies being settled in this way, and th dismay of lawyers and constables, and sheriffs. A prof, ssor of physiology in explaining to a class of female students the theorv ac cording to which the laxly is renewed every seven years, said, “Thus, Miss 8., in seven years, you will, in reality, be no long er Miss B.” “I realy hope I shan't,” de murly responded, the young lady, casting down her eyes. The Minnesota D-jniocratic Convention , iioiuinated the farm? s’ state ticket and i adopted a platfonn in favor of a “revenue • tariff.” Ex-Presid nt Fillmore is in favor of a ? presidential term of six years and a pension ■ OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Promptly and NkAU y Executed at THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE, At Reasonable Prices. M4F-GIVE US A CALL, PROSPECTUS. —-o T II E .NORCROSS ADVANCE —AND — CHRISTIAN UNION, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNDSDAY At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. o TERMS: One copy one year J 2 00 One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months 50 To clubs of five one year 8 50 To clubs of ten one year 15 00 To Ministers of the gospel half price. o THE ADVANCE Is designed to promote all the great interests of our readers especially, and ot our country and race generally. To do that we promise to give them each week the most important news, both Foreign and Domestic; the Market lte» ports and Atlanta Prices Current ; the Legal Sales of Gwinnett and a few other counties,etc., ami such Literary,Scientific, Eduoationul, Political, Agricultural and Religious reading malter as we may from time to time think most interesting and p roll'able. In Politics the ADVANCE will be independent; but, it will not be partisan, nor do injustice to any party, oi irtd’- vidual, knowingly. And, as we hon estly believe, that the first and chief care of all Christians should be to defend our holy religion against the wiles of Satan— his hosts and their arms, we will discharge this sacred duty, as best we can, under the guidance of Him who is able to direct and keep us in the way of truth. NVe will also studiously avoid giving cause ol otlense to any professed Christian on account of difference of opinion, and will not, through this medium, attempt to build up any one blanch of the Church more than others, nor to injure any one ot them. OUR PLATFORM. We believe that there is a per sonal God —who created and over rules all things—that Jesus Christ is His Son and our Savior, and that the Holy Ghost is Ilis messenger and our instructor. That the Bible wars written by inspiration of God—is true—and the only safe foundation for Christian faith and practice. That the sou) is immortal—that there wil! be a resurrection of the dead and fina l judgment, and that the punishment of the Unre deemed will be eternal. And will insist, that all who tigrec in these fundamental propo sitions,and seek salvation through Christ, constitute his Church, and should all unite and co-operate with Him, and each other, in the sacred work of redemption, as an affectionate family of brothers and sisters. Jambs P. Simmons, J. U. Vincent. John Beats.