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THREfi DOLLARKfER ANNUM IN ADYANCE.
*(trm Miscellatij>,
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Tfce Use of Fertilizers.
Miscellaneous.
BT CAPT. HENRY T. STANTON, OF XT,
We saw the fragile maiden, May,
Trip down the pati^ofmormng,
And Quc«%July m'^enUat^ay,
Her flower 111jpjue'AriorniDg-;
And weeping Apes in sombre lmea
Took up an tuithem murmur,
K Fl lll.lSIIKD WKKKI.T,
|BY S. A. ATKINSON,-'
BT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM,
■ STRICTt. r AY ADnpXClp**
Broad «L, overJ. H. liuggin*.
\ «AfBS OF ADTKKTIS1X0.
v&VtSlS?™'" will 1*|n»ertad»t One DolUr and
fr* say Um* under one month. For a longer period
li h'r.ll cunt rartii will kI”.- |ionw>
of suntracr.
Now yellow husks are on the grain,
And leaves are browa and sober,
And fefindjown clouds have caught again
The flush' of ripe October; ~
Wo hear the woody hill-tops croon,
•Us ailT mafea-Nadn* whisper,
The year is in its afternoon,
And leaf-bolls ring the vesper.
Business Directory. _
coeu. a. u ntmn;irolSri^OoiiB.
COBB, ERWIN & COBB,
A TTORNEYS AT LAAV,
pL Athens, Georgia. Office in the Heuprec
Hunter, llank. County, Ga,
1>. U. ANDLER,
\ TTORNEY AT LAW,
A. Homer, Bank, County. Ga. Will practice
the countle, of Bank., Jackson, Hall, Haber-
sm end Krenklln.
kCi
MASTIN' H. lilDKN,
T T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
. and Notary Public, Athens, Ga. Will prac-
_ > In the Western circuit; will give particular
attention to the collection of claims, and will act as
i agent for tbn purchase and wit* of real estate and
l*ar Uxeson wild lands. janlttf
J. u. SKELTON,
SKKLT01V &
C. tv. SKI DEM.,
SEIDELL.
attorneys at law,
Hart'vell, Hart County, Georgia.
PITTMAN A HINTON,
A ttorneys at law,
Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
SAMUEL 1*. THURMOND,
A TTORNey a t l a w ,
Athens, Ga. Office on Broad street, over
Barry A Son's .Store. Will give special attention
to eases in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of
all claims entrusted to his care.
4. J. A J. i\ ALEXAMlKK,
D ealers ix hardware,
Iron Steel, Nalls, Carriage Material, Mining
mpleiuenu, Ac,,. Whitehall »t„ Atlanta.
Corn Shelters
—AND—
Agricultural Implements.
W J AllE AGENTS FOR THE
following standard Machine.. :
Barker Keeper en.l M.mer ;
llell, Moore A llurkhard’a Hotter Jt Threaher ,
Suitticrn Sorgho 5! orb Inc t'o’s
Cane Mill. and Sugar Etaporatora ;
W* also have > Tin Shop in the rear of the store,
where w.- kce-. .11 kiuda of Tin, Sheet Iron and
Copper w.rk. .’ ■ alao keep a goo 1 stock of Tin
War. on ban 1. :»»l "the best io Georgia," but
no.- better t . "i ■ irt, and at low p*'«m.
\V« most cm.- K illy return our a.n ■ -re thanks to
out friend, an Uni .mors in Ath •■)■. old the conn-
try, an l hop . .irict ntienti "I to liualueaa, to
merit a coot no io of their cu-i • o.
All comma i U V > o the coun. >’/ -irictly attend
ed to, We w.i. •• tappy lose- .11 t our stuud,
Tio. .1, Broad at." -f, AffiSris, G t.
Sl’MMnV A NEWTON.
OHO VEKA BA a >: l
SEWING MATH INKS! !
rm.Noi'M -:n tiie itesr ; tse,
DY ALL ,VHO II \ V l. TRIED
a A the.u. Toco m. -’title.., o’.to .1! tlto
IMPROVEMENT:)
AND
ATT AC IIMENTS,
in.y he had, at inanuf.ctnrer’s price., freight
a Id. I, at the
BANNER OFFICE.
Notice.
To the Citizens of Franklin and adjoin
ing Counties.
M. V. GURLEY,
O U R G E O N DENTIST,
O list recently located at CarnesTllle for the
purjuvipof practicing his profession. Persons doir-
iui work in his line will give him n call. Teeth
in«f»rtcd on the most Improved basis for from $7 50
t»SS5 00. Office in Franklin lfouse, o*cr A. D.
Fuller's Store. Nov. 11, 1870-Gtn
Isaac T. Heard & Co.,
Cotton .factor*,
Corner Reynold* and M’lntosh Street*,
AUGUSTA, CKORGIA.
\<jENTS for TIIE sale of
tiulHt’s Patent Sttel Brush Cotton (Jin,
Hau.’s Patent Cotton (tin Feeder
—and—
(.’irehton* Ammoniatrd Soluble Snper-
jJmphate of Lime.
In ac.-ardance with the will of the late Kmc T.
Heard, the business of the firm of Isaac T. Heard
, , 1,0 continued under the aamo name and
atyle aa heretofore .under the management of the
surrirtng partner. O. M. STONE,
.. .. •‘•urriTing Partner and Executor for
Not lS-lnt Eaiatc of Isaac T. Heard, dee’d.
Bemarcst & Woodruff,
(Succeaeor. to Touussox-DrjiARSsT Co.,)
028 & 631, Broadway, N. Y.
manufacturers of
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, k,
E«penally adapted to Southern Hoads.
OUR STOCK .'COMPRISES
LIGHT VICTORIAS,
PHAETONS,
CABRIOLAS,
ROCK A WAYS,
And all •thoratylcaof Fine Carriages,
For one or two bonca.
TOP <& X0 TOP BUGGIES,
On Ellptlc and Side Springe.
CONCORD BUGGIES,
*S« II ItacKs and Jersey Wagons,
We are alao sole manufacturers of the
^odreff Concord Buggy
Ti* Utlw w *5 on Ar It *• * and ® Horae..
" V " 1 Buggy and Wagon in America for the
Money.
“•Akin*I* ft' 1 *1 exporiense of thirty yean in
etaeti; fo r the Southern States, and know
m»lt«Vl, *“'« wanted to etthd tho roads. We
New for Ctrculara, and parties visiting
«.***N**laHy Invite to eaSlat our Ware-
iii„” l "at tho trade of merchanU ud
,,lu »ir.ited Circulars, with price*. lent by
, A. T. DKilAREUT, N. Y.
W. W. WCtQDRUF!■', GA.
What is it gives this glooming song
Its melancholy tcature t
What is it makes our souls prolong
This monotone ol' nature ?
What Icarful grief is in our hearts—
What aivnjing under reason ?
What real sorrow now imparts
Its spirit to the season ?
The crisping leaves may shoal the ways,
The sun turn down the heavens--
Still all the years liavcfading days,
.And nil the days have evens.
Enough—whatever else may be—
That in this autumn weather,
The verdure of the world and Lee
Have silent fled together.
So prone are men where'er they move
I o tread the ways of evil,
They seldom hold their kind nbove
A common grade and level;
But Lee, beside his fellow-man.
Stood, over all, a giant—
The higher type—the perfect plan—
God-tearing—God-reliant.
A giant not alone in fields,
Where tri d the sanguine Reaper,
Where death threw o'erliis harvest yields
An autumn crimson deeper:
But with an iron strength of will
He sought his lite to fashion—
He held his ruder pulses still,
And closed the gates of passion.
There have been men, whose mighty
deeds
On cold historic pages,
Arc driven, like October seeds,
Along the reaching ages,
Whose statues stund like sentinels,
On whited shafts and bases.
Whose ashes rest in marble cells,
And sepulchres and vases.
But he who in this autumn time
Was lost beyond the river,
Has found a glory-path to climb,
Forever and forever!
And monumental marble here,
With deeds ol' honor graven,
Wl|at can it be to one so near
The inner gates of Heaven ?
By still Potomac's margin dun,
Where shrilly calls the plover,
Where lean the height sof Arlington,
i Its glassing waters over,
No autumn voices haunt the moles,
No breezy covert ripples,
No longer whirl the leaves in shoals
Beneath the stately maples.
Some vandal's axe has shorn the crest—
The woody slopes are shaven—
No longer builds the dove her nest.
Where mournful croaks the raven;
But down the Southland's fruity plain
The leaves are all a quiver,
And there his memory shall reign
Forever and forever!
r*Kt) UV
'h’Alpr*
^Hieketj
John Cntls’ Secret.
and Best Route
to tiie
-NORTH, EAST AND WEST,
Louisville, Ky.
1. EXPRESS trains,
"MUns , | " !T“ R > ir«»» Nashville to EouUville
l' 1 ' North train* and boa)* Ibr
' r :‘m biuUTiiui^'ij! No change cf care
p '<Gh„ r “| 1 Ufaff 1 , ft; bwl», Clnrinnrtl, Chicago,
ell, »ncp tT, i:T,i„*i*lphla. New York. Only ouo
tflfin _.J” ,orB * n<l Washington,
w th,^,T i * ,£AND * ErnE, ‘ awomsoiutioss
T hs>ug|. ii*!" Tle ‘‘« , - v‘« ■.••iavllln.
“ Is Mr. Cutts in ?” nsketl a gentle
man who, having knocked at ths door,
was saluted by a woman fiom an up
per window with, “ Well, what’s want
ing now ?”
“ Is Mr. Cults in ?”
“ Yes, he’s in or about somewhere,
I suppose,” she replied ; “ but I’m Mr.
Cutts when any business is to be done.
He’s Mr. Cutts eatin’ and drinkin’ and
sleeping sometimes.”
11 Well, my good woman,” said the
gentleman, “ I think he will be Mr,
Cutts for my business too. I wish to
see him.”
“ What do you want of him 7” asked
the shrew, thrusting her head still
farther out of the window.
“ To do something for nte. But I
must see himself,” was the reply.
“ Is it real business, for pay, or only
a favor you want; I can let your hoss
have a pock of oats, or I can direct
you to the shortest road to the Four
Corners, or I can—I can—why I can
do anything for you that he could and
a good deal more! I take tho money
and write the receipts, and pay the
men, and I take of the produce! I’
us good a judge of stock as he is, and
I can’t be beat on horseflesh.”
“ But,” said the gentleman drawing
down his face solemnly, “youcan’t
take his place now. Find him for me
at once.”
The shrew was baffled. “ Look-a-
hcre, Mister, maybe you don’t know
the circumstances of the case. This
here farm is mine, and it was my filth-
eFs afore me; and Cutts, he haint no
more claim to it ihan that hen down
there has. And, besides, Tm seven
ygars older than he is, a foot higher
and weigh twenty pounds more!—
What’s your busuess on our place, if I
may make so bold If”
“ To see and talk with your hus
band,” replied the gentleman, getting
out of his chaise and hitching bis horse
to a post, as if he meant to stay until
he did see him.
“Be you a doctor? Cause there
aint a living thing the matter with
Cutts. He's the wellest man in town,
and bo be I,” said this “woman for
the times.”
“No, roy good woman, Tm not ft
doctrr. Do you think your husband
will be in soon.? Send that boy to find
him,” said the stranger.
The boy looked up in his mother’s
face—but he knew his own interests too
well to start without orders.
“ Then you’re a minister, I suppose,
by your black coat I may as well tell
you and save your time, that we don’t
go to meeting and don’t want to. It
aint no use for you to leave no tracts
for nothing—for Fve got a big dairy
and haint no time to idle away readin’,
and I keep him about so early and late,
that when he’s done work lie’s glad to
go to bedaud rest.” ' ..
“ I’m no minister, madam ; I wish I
was, though, for your sake,” said the
gentleman.
“ Look here, mister,” now appearing
at the door, and looking defiantly at
him, “you’re a schoolmaster huntin’
up a district school; and you think he’s
a committee man; but he aint this
year.”
“ >Send for your husband; I cannot
wait much longer. I must see him at
once.”
The boy started to his feet again, and
looked iu his mother’s eye; but she
gave no marching orders.
“ Ma’am Cutts,” as the neighbors
called her, dropped her hands at her
side and heaved a groan. She had
found a man she couldn’t manage.
“ See here now, mister,” she said,
“ I can read a man right through, and
I knew what you was the blessed min
ute I clapped my eyes ou you. I can
tell by your everlastin’ arguin’ that
you are a lawyer. We liain’t got no
quarrels; don’t want no deeds drawed
or wills made ; so if you’re huntin’ a
job of my husband, you may as well
ouhitch your horse and drive on. We
know enough to make a little money,
and I know enough to hold on to it.”
“ My good woman, you entirely mis
understand my errand. I can tell no
person but himself what it is, and must
tell him ih confidence and alone. If
he chooses he can break it to you the
best way he can.”
“ O, my goodness sake alive! Broth
er LiFs Mowed up on the Mississippi
boat, I bet! O, la me, the poor fel
low ! He left a little something, didn’t
W* " "*
“ I never heard of him, and no
body’s Mowed up, that I know of,” said
the gentleman.
* O, now I know ! You’re the nmn
what wants to go to Congress, and have
come here hunting after votes. He
shall not vote for you. I hate politi
cians, especially them that goes agin
women, and thinks they were made to
drudge and nothin’ else. I go in for
free and equal rights for white folks—
men and women—for Scriptur says,
* there isn’t neither men or women but
all’s one in politics.’ I believe the day
is coming when such ns you and me
will have to bow the knee to woman,
afore you can get the big place and
high pay that’s eatin’ us up with taxes!
You can’t sec my husband. We are
going to the polls on the way to the
mill, and I’ll promise you that lie vote*
right.”
“ I’m no candidate, and I don’t know
what you’re talking about. Ah! there
comos the man I want!” and the
stranger went towards Mr. Cutts, who
had just leaped a pair of bars which
led from the potato patch into the lane.
Mrs. Cutts flew into the house for
her sun bonnet, to follow them; but
by the time she got to the bars, her
mysterious visitor and Cutts were driv
ing rapidly down the road.
The strong minded woman shouted
after her husband, “ You’d better come
back, I tell you 1” but the wind was the
wrong way, and carried her words into
the potato patch.
“ Sir,” said tho gentleman to honest
Cutts, “ I have a very simple question
to ask you, but 1 shall have to ask you
in confidence. I will give you five
dollars if you will promise not to re
peat my words until to-morrow.”
•* Well, sir,” replied Cutts, “ I should
not like to answer any question that
would make trouble among my neigh
bors. I have my hands full, I can tell
you, to keep out of scrapes now; but
I’ve done it, and hain’t an enemy in the
world, as I know.”
“ But, sir, you needn’t reply to my
question unless you are perfectly wip
ing,” said the stranger.
“ Ask your question,” said Cutts,
“ and I will not repeat it”
“ Well, Mr. Cutts, I am laying fence
on the Briskley place, that I have just
bought, and I was directed to inquire
of you where I could buy cedar posts.
A fellow in the store said, “ Cutts can
toll you, if his wife will let him, but
she won’t. She’ll insist on telling you
herself and perhaps offer to drive you
wherever you go to order them.”
“ I told them I would see you and
ask you only; and the fellows bet on
it.' They are to give , you ten dollars,
and to two or three widowsin the town
a cord of wood each, if I succeeded in
asking you . this question alone, and
making sure your wife does not know
my business until after lireakfast to
morrow morning.”
ff Cutts knew his wife’s standing too
well to feel very sensitive, and taking
the bill from the stranger, he smiled
and said:
“ Til go back with you to look out
cedar posts, and keep dark, for the
joke’s sake, but I don’t know as she’ll
let me stay in the house to-night; I
don’t own it,” replied the good-natured
Cutts.
“ Suppose you go to the place and
see to setting the post3. I will send a
boy to tdl her you had to go off sud
denly on a little business, and will lf(?
back in the morning,” said the stranger.
‘Til do that,” replied Cutts, “for I
never quarrel with her, but let her have
her owu way. I don’t want to worry
myself about trifles.”
“ Good man,” said the stranger,
“ there are no trifles in thU life. The
smallest act is important, and that
easy good nature of yours will ruin
your family. Baffle that spirit to-day,
and next Sunday take your boys and
go to the house of God, whatever she
says, and be a real man—at the head
of your own house and family.”
“ It’s rather late to begin,” said
Cutts, shaking his head in a way that
would have warned others from the
trap into which his feet were fast.
“ You see the purse is hers,” he add
ed, “ and that has been a cruder fet
ter than her will to me. But I will
try to begin auew, for her good and
the children’s.”
The boy was sent with the message,
but the boy wasn’t sharp enough.—
Madame Cutts discovered the where
abouts of her lord, tackled up and went
after him.
All the way home, and far into the
night, she used her eloquence, both in
pleading and threatenings, to find out
the mysterious errand of that hateful
town nabob that had come into the
country to sejuirate happy families.
But Cutts yielded himself up to a
“ dumb spirit” for the night, and no
measures could induce him to talk on
any subject, lest she should pry the
mighty secret out of him.
About midnight she wore herself out
and went to sleep; but at daybreak she
began again. He then ventnrod to say,
“ As soon as breakfast is over, I’ll
break the news to you.”
“ You’ll never cat a morsel in my
house, I can tell you,” cried Xantippe,
“ till you have told me what the man
wanted of you.”
“ Then you’ll wait a'good while to
hear it,” said Cutts, “ for I have vow
ed I’d never tell it till I hod first eaten
my breakfast,” and with these words
he weut out
Ma’am Cutts endured the torture as
long as possible, and then got breakfast .
She called to the door to no one in {ar
ticular—“Come.”
“ But Cutts didn’t come. After a
while she went out to the barn and
found him seated on an unturned half-
bushel measure, calmly peeling and
eating a raw turnip.
It docs seem as if this man here
had possessed you.” Your breakfast is
cooling; do come iu.”
Here was a point gained.
Cutts went in as required, and ate
his breakfast When that was over
ma’am settled herself back in her chair
with her face full of eager expectation,
and said:
“ Now begin. What did that ere
man want ?”
“ He wanted some cedar posts,” re
plied Cutts, calmly, without looking
up; and tlrnt was all.”
If an arrow had struck Madame
Cutts, she could not have manifested
more surprise and shame.
“ I am the laughing stock of this
town,” added Cutts, “ and from this
hour I turn over a new leaf. I am
henceforth the head of my family and
unless this house is made mine, I shall
finish off a room in the barn—which is
mine—and you will be welcome to
share it with me. If not, Til live there
with my boys, and you’ll find me a
civil neighbor.”
Ma’am Cutts’ power was broken.
Since then the farm bos been called
“ John Cut# place,” and he’s the head
of the house.
We are in receipt of numerous in
quiries, -soliciting information and ad
vice in reference to the use of commer
cial matures. It is a subject on which
there is such a diversity of opinions
and of experience, that we do not con
sider it qur province to recommend, or
to discourage the use of any particular
com ruodity. There are perhaps a hun
dred different varieties, within the
reach of our readers, all having au
thentic eisrittrseineats of their value.—
So much depends upon the way these
fertilizers are applied, and the kind of
soil to which they are applied, that no
general data, applicable to all, can be
given. A manure should be selected
with intelligent reference to the wants
of the soil, and to the plant food re
quired for the crop proposed. In the
absence of a thorough knowledge of
chemistry, with an analytical test of
the elements of the soil he cultivates,
the farmer must learn by observation
and experience, whether fertilizers pay,
and what kinds to use. It is safe to
say that throughout middle Georgia
the soil is generally so deficient in lime
as to render the super-phosphates val
uable. We have endeavored to pre
sent such a variety of experiments
by skillful farmers, with numerous
standard fertilizers, as to afford a fair
test of their merits; we have also given
a number of simple, practicable modes
for utilizing bones, cotton seed, ashes
and other substances, whereby farmers
may, with a little care, make a large
amount of manure at home. We are
not prepared to say that farmers ought
to make all the manure they use at
home. On the contrary, in large ope
rations, it would be impracticable to do
so. And almost every fair test we have
seen, of the various standard manures,
shows that they have increased the
yield largely more than their cost.—
Still, many who have used them have,
from various causes, failed to make
money. They have been too much
used to increase the crop of cotton,
while corn and food crops have been
neglqeted.' Much money has been
MKiM
but it is not*tmr to attribute tho loss to
fertilizers.
The land must he supplied with plant
food, ns crop after crop takes it from
the original soil; and farmers must
judge whether it is cheaper to furnish
it in part in a concentrated form, or to
rely solely upon the compost heap.—
One thing is certain, it will not pay to
farm without manure of some sort, and
until farmers learn to save the elements
of fertility which go to waste around
them, they must rely largely on com
mercial manures.—Farmer <£• Artisan.
constantly, as other people chew tobac
co. It is to be hoped that in time gin
seng will entirely supplant opium, for
which the Asiatics have such a passion
ate longing, and which yearly destroys
vast numbers of people who are slaves
to its enorvating influences.
Ginseng is sometimes^exported in its
crude state, but it is also sent to mar
ket cured or clarified.. The prices for
prime descriptions of this root rauge
from 80 to 85c. per lb., and the ex
ports are said to reach several hundred
thousand dollars annually.
Within a very receftt period medieal
men in this cottfffry have recommend
ed it to patients for severe attacks of
rheumatism, for which it is said to be
a sovereign remedy. In many phar
macopeias, it is dispensed for various
diseases of the blood, and it is claimed
that it is an excellent purifier, and
cleanses the vital fluid from all taint in
duced by improper living or extreme
dissipation.
It has been a matter of wonder to
shippers that agriculturists have not
turned their attention to the cultiva
tion of ginseng in fields and gardens.
A Premium Corn Crop.
The Brandywine Farmers’ Club of
Chester county, Penn., has awarded to
David H. Bronson, of Guthrieville,
the premium for the best four acres of
Indian com, his crop averaging one
hundred and twenty-seven bushels and
thirty-three pounds to the acre. The
height of the stelks varied from thir
teen to sixteen feet, many measuring
Seven inches iu circumference. In his
statement to the Club, Mr. Bronson
said that lost fall and spring he applied
one hundred wagons loads of unleach
ed livery and barnyard manure, broad
cast, ou twenty-five acres of clover and
timothy sward,, fifty loads of which,
were hauled a distance of three miles,
all furrowed down in. April and. the
first week in- May- On the land oil
which the premium, crop was grown,
he applied, in addition to the stable
manure, ou. the sod, three cartloads of.
hog-pen manure to the acre. After
plowing and thoroughly pulverizing
the soil, he marked out the rows one
way three and one-half feet apart,
dropping th« corn by hand, two grains,
BSTABLISHED 1311.
Cushings & Bailey,
"OXJOKSELLERS and Stationers,
262, BALTIMORE ST., BALTIMORE, haw,
the largest amt best assorted stock in the city, o(
School, Medical, and Law.
Dental, Classical _and Miscrilmettin
The growing demand would justify the j ^eighteen inches apart, applied
experiment, and it is thought that the cat ^ hill a handful of lien manure,
crop might be made both sure and
profitable.
Irish Potatoes.
CAN WE RAISE THEM FOR WINTER USE?
We are dependent on the Northern
supply for this vegetable during the
winter months. Can they be raised
and kept here for winter use ?
Potatoes, in this latitude, are planted
from January to April. Beyond the
latter month it is not easy to keep them
sound, ns they sprout and exhaust their
vitality.
They are harvested from May to Ju
ly. Even those planted as late as
possible, are full grown by the latter
month. If left in the ground they bj
come water)' and worthless. If har
vested carefully, allowed to dry off in
the shade, and then housed in a cool
aud dry room, they keep moderately
well, though many will rot in spite of
every precaution; and towards autumn
ugly
An Inclined Plane—An
woman with a Grecian bend.
An anti-kissing society has been
formed by the Galena, III., girls. Isn’t
this a severe case of 44 sour grapes ?”
A Chicago girl says she does not
get married for reason that she docs not
knew whose husband she might be mar
rying.
*' Boy, why did you tike an arm
ful of my shingles on Sunday I”—“ Why,
sir, mother wanted some kindling wood,
and I didn’t want to split wood on a
Sunday.”
A New Hampshire man, when
asked to give his consent to the marriage
of his daughter, turned with a beaming
countenance to the applicant and answer
ed: “Yes, yes; and don’t you know
some likely young man.who will take the
other?”
Ginseng.
The New York Mercantile Journal
gives an interesting account of the
growing demand for ginseng, for ex
portation. The supply is now chiefly
obtained from the Northern States and
from Africa. It grows wild in various
counties of North-East Georgia, and
with a little attention to its cultivation
might become.a valuable source of
revenue to the farmers of that region.
Ginseng, among botanists, is classed
with plants belonging to the genus Pa-
nax. It has {winted, fleshy, taper-root,
about as large as a man’s finger, which,
when dry, is of a yellowish-white color,
and is possessed of a mucilaginous
sweetness, somewhat resembling Cnla-
mns root, but accompanied with a slight
bitterness.
As an article of commerce, ginseng
is very extensively quoted; but few
people, however, know what it is like,
or what properties it contains.
Large quantities of this root are an
nually exported to China, and the de
mand from that quarter is every year
increasing. Previous to the present
century, the Chinese obtained most of
their supplies from the wilds of Tarta
ry, and it was then sold at a very ex
orbitant price. For the last fifty years,
however, this article has been princi
pally obtained in America, and (he
trade has become very profitable. It
was long a matter of -wonder, even to
commercial men, to what use the root was
applied by the inhabitants of the ‘ Flow
ery Kingdombut in course of time
it became known that it was employed
Very extensively for medicinal purposes
and that the Chinese have long bad a
superstitious faith in its virtues. Among
this imaginative people, it is said to
answer the purpose of inciting the par
ties to noble deeds of bravery, while,
at the same time it is a specific for most
bodily ills, to which flesh is heir.
The Chinese call the root Yansam,
and the Tartars, Orhata. The variety
grown in Oriental countries is said to
be very delicate, but much less pung
ent than that-obtained from the West
ern States. The trade of late years is
gradually spreading to other Eastern
lands and .considerable quantities are
now consumed by the natives of India
and Persia. The Chinese chew ginseng
ashes said plaster, of equal parts, cover
ing with hoe May 10, On twehe
acres of the twenty-five cultivated, five
hundred bushels of lime were applied
and cultivated in’; the remaining thir
teen acres had previously been limed
on the sod. In regard to the use of
fertilizers Mr. Bronson remarked
“ Observation has taught me to be
lieve that farmers who have almost
abandoned the use of lime, and substi
tuted many of the various so-called
fertilizers, are impoverishing their
lands, and have been deprived of their
hard earnings, having been induced to
purchase by the ingenuity of manufac
turers, producing numerous testimo
nials of thoir magic results.
“ If we were entirely dependent upon
the patent manures in the market, our
land would in time become almost as
barren as that of the great Sahara, and
our children would be crying for bread.
Twenty-five years back, Brandywine
and her sister townships were illumin
ated almost nightly by the light from
they become more pr less shriveled, and _ . ^ . _
lose the plumpness, which the Northern lime-kiln liTHus neighborKboffi
potato has. They are also disposed to
sprout, and thus lose a portion of their
starchy matter.
The only way to have good potatoes
for winter use, is to plant a second crop
about July or August. If they come
up well, the vines have full time be
fore frost to mature, and the tubers are
fresh, plump and sound, aud keep well
through the winter without rotting.—
But just here lies the difficulty, viz:
the uncertainty of their germinating
in mid-summer.
There seems to be a want of vitality
or excitability in the buds when taken
freshly from the earth, and unless kept
fora time, so that certain chemical
changes may take place in the tuber,
and the buds become mature, and their
excitability increased, but a small pro
portion will germinate.
I will state a plan which I have
adopted with moderate success:
The vines which mature earliest are
first harvested. This can be known
by the change of color, and their be
ginning to decline. The tubers arc se
lected from these, of good average size,
and as having the be.it developed and
mast mature looking buds, and spread
out carefully in a shaded place, cither
under cover, or out of doors. The
longer they lie kept in this way the
more certain they are of germinating.
Some varieties seem better adapted for
this purpose than others, though much
depends upon the previous season for
perfecting and maturing the tubers.—
Last summer, among several different
kinds planted in July, the Early Good
rich aud Garnet Chili came up best.
There seemed to be but little difference
whether they were cut or planted whole.
They should be planted from middle
of July to first of August, in a seed
bed like sweet potatoes, and when about
four to six inches high, may be set out
where they are to grow.
This plan ensures a regular stand,
and saves the trouble of preparing
more ground than would be occupied
if the buds fail to germinate well.
The second crop was harvested early
in November, and the potatoes were
rather larger than those of the spring
planting—sound and healthy. They
keep in this way nearly aD winter; and
in fact, may be left in the ground and
dug out as they are wanted.—H. W.
Ravenel, in Rural Carolinian. ■
A colored barber in Iowa,_ being'
subpoenaed to serve as a juror, was on
the examination asked, “ Are you a
voter ?” and brought down the house by
answering, “ Tse black enough, but not
old enough.”
All immense supply of General Bonk and Gowni
ng H6u*e
STATIONERY.
RUnk Rfoks mtii to order iu any. style of Bi mi-
lug or ruling.
The tame careful attention giron to
ORDERS
a* to personal purchasers. ItfSWK MOttfr.
cl tr ay t.
Send for <'atalogues, Ac. ne|*303m
EXCLUSIVELY CASH !
REDUCED PRICES.
F resh oysters and fish
received every Tuesday and Friday. Fbb
€5 cents per hunch—Oy.stcrs 70 cents per quart.
I have also on hand a large assortment of Cigar*,.
Pipes, Tobacco, Candies, Fruits, Pickle*, Sarv
dines, he,
(SUBJlGJUiEliaSL
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
Soil* (.’lackers 2 Ihs for 23 o
Leuion Snap* per lb. Stic.
Spice Cracker* per lb. 2S*t
Cream Craekwell* peril). Mu.
Eic-NIc Cracker* per lb. 2tto.
C. M.. VON EEK.EI.KN
Will. A. Tiilmatlge.
POST tVFk'-UK, COL- JLWKMJflw ArflttTS
Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Si!ver-pl
Ware, Musical Instruments, Speotaulev, Gui
Pistols, Sporting Equipments, Ac., Ac
A Select Stock of American and Im
ported Watches, Double Guns with
40 inch barrel, excellent /or long
to-day we find them converted into ice
houses, and the trade entirely in the
hands of the few who make it a special
business. When we apply lime and
barnyard manure, we need no stakes
to mark the result. Their application
has long since ceased to be an experi
ment—the effects are evident. Raw-
bone, without doubt, is an excellent
fertilizer; yet its market value is such
that the farmer cannot afford to apply
it iu quantities necessary for a perman
ent substitute for lime. An old horse,
after having faithfully served the will
of his master and {mid the debt of
nature, is more valuable, properly
managed, than one ton of most of the
fertilizers in the market. The depo
sits in the hennery are valuable when
mixed in equal parts with plaster, and
applied to corn, or wheat broadcast.
Good shelter for barnyards is also qne
of the very best investments a farmer
can make; manure exposed to the sun
and drenching rains in the barn-yard,
is, almost worthless, the substance of
fertilizing properties having long since
polluted some rivulet, ami passed into
the ocean.”
Mr. Isaac L. Saltier, of West Brandy
wine, raised on ouc acre one hundred
and thirty-one bushels and twenty-six
poundsof corn, siliowingseventy pounds
of ears to the bushel.
The Breeding of Mosquitoes.—
The eggs of a mosquito are laitl in a
bowl-shaped mass ujton the surface of
stagnant water, by tiie mother fly.—
After hatching out, they finally .become
the “ wiggletails,” or wriggling worms
tltht may be seen iu the summer in any
barrel^if water that is exposed to the
atmosphere for any length of time.—
Finally, the wiggletails come to the
surface, and the full fledged mosquito
bursts out of them, at first with very
short limp wings, which in a short time
grow both in length and stiffness. The
sexes then cou{ lc, and the above pro
cess is repeated again and again, prob
ably several times in the course of one
season. It is a curious fact that the
male mosquito, which may be known
by its feathered horns, is physically in
capable of sucking blood. The mos
quito is not an unmitigated pest. Al
though in the winged state the female
sucks our blood and disturbs our rest,
in the larva state the iusect is decidedly
beneficial, by purifying stagnant water,
that would otherwise breed malarial
diseases. _
Cotton Growing.—At toe New
Orleans Fair, last April, the cost to
A man named Oats was hauled
up recently for beating his wife and
children. On being sentenced to impris
onment the brute remarked that it was
very hard if a man was not allowed to produce a po U „d c f ‘cotton was dis-
thrash his own oats. cussed. The conclusion reached was,
that on the best alluvial soils, in a good
season and with close management, ten
cents will make a pound; but on the
average upland, and with the average
economy the planter loses when lie
does not receive fifteen cents per pound.
inches into wood.
With • desire to please all, erill soil the above jond i
at very rcaaonabte prirex.
Ti. E :p-A-1 iR 11ST C3-.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Gans and I’iHois.,
promptly attended to in a satlsfactorv manner. --
Call and see for yourselves. ’ *pr t
O TJ T!'
LOOK
JUST ARRIVED,
A FIXE STOCK of DRY GOOI >S..
GROVEIilES, PllOVISIOXS, BOOTS,.
SHOES’ HATS, CAPS,
AND EVERYTHING KEPT IN
A VARIETY STO R E
The highest cash jiriccs pai9 for jwxlure, chiton, .
Ac. I respectfully solicit a liberal share of the
patronage of ray friends and the puhltu, ntd as I
sell at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES,.
I feel confident of giving entire *atisf.irtioin.
.1. L. FRANKLIN,
jan 16-3in Under Newton House, College Avenue .
DISSOLVED
UT^HE FIRM heretofore existing un-
JL der the name and style of
England. Seymour & Orr.
is this day dissolved b? mutual consent. Titos*
indebted will plcaae'pay up immediately, as the
old business must be settled up, Etui ail bat ing
claims again*! us are requested to bring them In at
once f.r settlement. jantat-lm
J. S. ENGLAND.
J. W. SEYMOUR.
\Y. (’. ORlt.
VALUABLE TOWS PROPERTY:
TNCLUDING dwelling bouse ami
I HUt-ln'OHii, large garden :md ten sent* of woods. .
There is :t good well, spring and branch on the •
premise*.
The lot contain via »ere* t and will he .«old rhwp .
for c**h, if applied for awn. K. I*. BISHOP.
Feh i 0— ft.
Something Attrne lve l
JACKSON & O'FERRELL
rpAKE pleasure in announcing to.
JL tli* public that they ha* just opened, on (.’«!•
lege Avenue, uuder tin- Newton House, a vet-,
choice stuck • f
Family ami Fancy Umet rics. &r„
which they proiose »« sell at
TEBY LOW PRICES FOB CASH.
Give them a coll and be convinced. Feb—
Spencer Honse. >
SOCIA.L CIRCLE, GEORGIA.
O NE of the best Eating Houses isi
Georgia. Passenger* by the evening train
from AManlacao get a splendid supper here. It Is
• nice summer resort. Mr. li. L. Spen«cr k«
mods' several beautiful tsmds, an t It is also prepare*!
a splendid place to take “ plunge-arid shower Ik. th»”
—water aa clear a* crvslal, and from eight to t. a
feet deep. No. 1 puce for aquatic exercise mkI
sport. Has • nice keel-bottom boat, f.otn Balti
more, propelled by oars, tor bis patron-aud friend-v
The house i» convenient to he track ; no trouble In
rainy weather to get to it. 1‘artie* coingte Athens,
Washington, or place* on nnv of the branch road*,
and through i>jt*eengen>, will find it -yerv conveni
ent and pleasant to lay over here, and get a good
night's rest and breakfast. II. L. SPENCER* CO.
r. si. EDntr.ssAS. r. t.’nanww
EDDLEMAN & BROWN,
Wholesale Centers In’ '
Boots, Shoes, and Leather,
in, Ac. Opposite 1
street, Atlsnts, Ga. P. O. Box 286.
8boe manufacturer* and Merchants will find it to
their advantage to cull on ns before maki ig their
purchases. jaoeSni.
The Athens House,
BYC. B. VERONEE. M' i
upHE table will always be furnishcJ
JL with thebest the market"alfords. Beard by
day, S2; by the week, 1<: by tie month, fiS*>.
sept 2, tin.