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i; as -1 THREfi DOLLARKfER ANNUM IN ADYANCE. *(trm Miscellatij>, O 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.