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Newspaper Page TextVOL XL—HO. 51—NEW SKRI®». VOL 4. NO. 43. ATHENS, GA. AUGUST 18, 1871 Miscellaneous. Fireside Miscellany. a degradation,to a good woman and an opportunity taa bad one, she would do more towaiid saving the world than any pulpit but ilie New Testament, and than any preacher but St. John. When the world learns that there is worse than no ^ reason why women should sacrifice any more time, money, strength, intellect, or modesty to their digs* than men, we shall 'have ten women citizens, scholars, sculptors, ar tists, poets, scientists, and rulers where it would Seim possible, in the nature of thingSj to find more than one now. RsfomWtofea WMAWSilt. FLOUR & FEED STORE! ON COLLEGE AVENUE, (opposite newton house.) WM. HENRY HULL. Business Directory. '7? m '■* ■ n three dollars per annum in advance. geLJ-t 1 --B=^ |hc|o«lHrn fanner. by S? A. ATKINSON, XX three dollars per annum, STEICTI. Y IS ADVAS’CE. Otict, Broad st., ocerJ. H. Iluggin*. turns of wkrtisino. ,.!..ni.r-mcnl» will ba in«crlfd at One Dollar and Fiftr 0*11. prr Square of 11 Unea, for the Ural, and ftonnir-tlre Ccnta fir each Mihaeque-.it Insertion, f„»nr time under one month. For a lencer<jeriod Ilk ral contraeta will he made. LA.kt.VR COBB. A. R. EltWIN. IlOWEU, COBB CORB, ERWIN * COBB, a TTotesE AT Lt^W, ■'TNT'AtUaui*, tleurgla. 0«ee In the Deuprec D. «J. CANDLER, A ttorney at law Homer, HaiiIc* County. (»«. *»VSH practice In the cmintle* of Ii.iuk«, Jackson, Hall, ll»ber- tiiA.n *n«l Franklin. ~~ HHHTIN W, RIDKX, A TTORNEY A T L A AV , A and Notary Public, Athena, Ga. Will prac tice la tUo WoMern circuit; will give particular •licnti"-' to the collection ofclalma, and will act aa anal f r the purchase aud aale of real eatate and M n wild landa. iantsn lanlAtt , a. .KULTOS, c. W. 3K1DEX.L SKKLTOY & SBIDEl L. attorneys at l a w il lUrlwell, Hart County, Georgia. PITTMAN A; IlINTON, A ttorneys atlaw, Jatferom, Jachaon county, Ga. p. TIU KMOND, A t T O It N E Y A T L A \V , Athena, Ga. OlBoo on Broad atrcct, over Barr; A Son** .Store. Will give apecial attention laaoe.il Bankruptcy. AUc, to the collection of all cUima onirttated to hi. cmiy- t ' J. J. A J. f. AlKVtNBKR, D ealers in hardware, Iron Stool, Kail*. Carriage Material, Mining m;*lc.ut?n;«, Ac., iVliilolulLl., Atlanta. V.VAV FSTKS, A TTO It X K Y A T L A W , 2 V. II inter, Banka County, Ga. I w. liARBKTT. | (JO. r>. WILIIOIT*. UK. UrTt-K. / < W. W. mi.tlOITB. II L, tV. I.ITtl.K. j (.V. f. WILHOITK. . Barrett, Little k Co., FORK.s*ACKa:iss, Shelby ville, Tenn. CASSlZZi AJ)AJlX, DESIGNER, |ngraver and F.LF.CTRf*iTVPTN O-. 1W. Cor.NKn Foi’hth and Walnut Stueetb IdtM'k llor. -- ‘ AND MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOR SILVER PLATED WARE. (GLASS TOP.) -w FRUIT JARS! od To Merchants. Who can judge a mao from nature T Who shall know him by his dress? Paupers may be fit for priocaa, Princes fit for something less. Crumpled shirts and dirty jacket May beclothe tbs'golden ore, Of the deepest thoughts and feeling— Satin vest could do no more. There are springs of crystal nectar Even swelling ontof atone; There are purple buds and golden, Hidden, crushed and overgrown. God who counts, by souls not dresses, Loves and prospers you and me; While he value* thrones thehigliest But aa pebbles on the sea. Man appraised above his fellows. Oft forgets his fellows then ; Masters—rulers—lords remember That your meanest hands are men I Men of labor, men of feeling, Men by thought nud men by fame ; Claiming equal rights to sunshine In a man’s ennobling name. There are foam-embroidered oceans, There arc little wo<h1 clad rills; There arc feeble inch-high saplings. There are cedars on the hills. God counts by souls, not stations. Loves and prospers you und me ; For to him all vain distinctions Are os pebbles on the sen. Toiling hands alone are builders Of a nation's wealth nnd fame ; Titled laziness is pensioned, Fed nnd fattened on the same ; By the sweat of others’ foreheads, Living only to rejoice— While the poor man’s outraged freedom. Vainly lifteth up its voice. Truth and Justice are eternal, Born with loveliness and light: Secret wrongs shall never prosper While there is a sunny height. God, whose-heard voice is singing Boundless love to you and me, Sinks position with its titles As the pebbles on the sea. \s. e. nouns, TAEALKU IN DRY GOODS, U groceries, run uni:, hardware, READ Y-MA U E CLOTH ISO, HOOTS, SHOES, HATS, A»J in abort. .VI ii—ortcl of family nn plantation mo:rim ».ii I* Too market pre al«aya|>a!il ior ruultl.y nr 1 - Kinsman & Howellj Factors ana Commission Merchants. Liberal Advances made on Cotton and Naval Stores. Charleston, S. C. J'tllN P'tTTS. CALV N W. FARR. POTTS &, P« HR. PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTERS, J-idtoiiLi Door above Xat. Hank, ATHENS, GEORGIA. \\riU. give prompt attention to nil l 1 fi«r House, Sign a:i«l Fan* y painting f t*er\ tls-w. ripti *n. Furniture tleaucd, jiainte i .a *u,ut notit c. Orient from tlw '•unify ^rttiujillv lillttl. Mixed painty. ready lor We will duplicate any AVw York xxsortruent of Crockery, Cutlery or Glass- irarr. We have assorted Crates of BEST IRONSTONE SC. C.WARE of our own importation, packed to our order, and exactly suited to the vault oj Country Merchants, containing no high-priced diahea or tureens, or other hard stock, hut Just such Goods at those in constant cash demand. We sell these Crates for net cash, for $3000, and . uarantee entire satistaciion to every purchaser. WU1 send Hat on application. A Woman Problem.—Dress. BY A WOMAN. i*ne4 to order. lulv &J tf- oOO Kegs Nails. ( \U> DOMINION AND ROME ■ “»»aViurc, f.r sale nt niU-lis. NICKERSON& CO’S. T-TOKs, SHOVELS, Spade?, Axe?, “d Manure Fork., Straw Cutters, ». Ac. For sale by tillLbS. NICKERSON & CO. J®®tf* tclic Anodyne, WILL RELIEVE INSTANTLY ** *le»of»teaay of toothache. Prepared by hr. KING, at NEW 1>UUU STOKE. UlVflEto ON FIRE aNSUKANt'E s A P*J-1TIsK«hy the L»w of Fite Insurance; ' '•. '* V«-nrv Flamlfr*, author of “A Tnatfee 'J'Taiimc ftc. One vol., »heep. $7 50. Jaar i F „ r M i 0 hy T. A. BUHKE. Mrs. Hill’s Cook Hook. V E\Y SUPPLY just received, bv t. a. burke." tOW$OS3 At-t 11 ILL S BRYDYE, nt the old es- * -L tablUhod H.\RBER-SHOP, ’J 6 hrooul ttmd, over the store of Messrs. J. It. A J- 1 ■ Matthew., have the beat and most attentive i,*. r " *"’• all the modern appliances for SUAV* sHtMP.qtiive. ntlK.llhbsIMi. rte. Ea- “d cUUdrca waitetl an at their reaklonc*., attire,!. Pott mortem cases sr.ll receive *«d carrful attention. July 28. GRANTV3LLE, GA., APRIL 7,1871 Messrs. McBride ft Co—Atlanta, Ga : We have just markad the Crockery, Ac. We are pleased with the bill. Allow us to congratulate you oa securing such a Good Packer. Scarcely a piece broken. Fill the order f r Cutlery at lowest prices. ' Truly Yours, GARRETT A ZELLARS. June 2',-lv. SAVE YOliRCQTTONSEfD. it Is More Valuable thnn Corn. Sliaw’s Cotton Seed Duller. O Y RUBBING OFF THE HULL JL_> of cotton seed, which Is nnwalmosl valucles? xcept as manure, gives the pi inter 1. HI I.LEU SKEU. in whole kernels, clean as wheat and worth almost almost as much. 2. COTTON SEEK HEAL, more valuable than corn aa a feed for stock. a. TIIE 111 l.l>. which contain all the mineral parts of the need for manure. SIIAW’S HULLER Is the Only Practicable Plantation Hullcr, IT HAS TAKEN THEFIKST PREMIUM AT NEW’ ORLEANS, COLUMBUS, AND HOUSTON STATE FAIRS. Price $200 complete. The Company also manufacture six sites of Grist Mills, for baud or power use, ranging in price from $12 AO to $175 and In capacity front & to 20' pet hour*. I These mills are very strong and durable, require hut little power to run them, are aelGaharpenlng, and have taken the first premium nt most of the state Fain over many competitors. They also man ufacture two ala*, of Bon. Mills, prioe ftWand <200. Agents wanted in eecry town and county. For eiraabm or Ikll Ituerma 1 Inn address TBS DIAMOND MILL MAMIEaCTCVING CO., c/yci.vxA tj. o mo- .<5*1 ES —W M ^tilland Cotton Seed Hollei / DVNv COMBINED. ' sit * n Georgia, niotle in Geor- ’/"“-••■i *r,.n lilfi '-^rgla material. Tills Is a * n *‘ T >« ar» without wearing out. II //,,,,U) »y. Hulls Cotton Seed, S».i 'Ill'll', a * } v l>eat. It la Ihc Simplest, Cheap- :\' , 1 r 'Ulc Mill and Seed Muller in this u-rind warranted for five vers. It “ i,'"'.'' 1 * of corn, anil hull SOOhiuhela S' .• , M. '; r'"> ■“■e horse psneee, oa "* ” r ’ rand j*fl r l*kt, in j,„ l! • ><EIHT.s & (.’0., « il in 1 nns f >4. n'i-,1'!), h at imtcii. CAROLINA uFEmumusEm OF MEMPHIS, 1ENN. Hob. JEFFERSON DAVIS, President. ASSETS. JAN. 1st, 1871, C1.OSS.703 OS ANNUAL INf-OIK, ever. 000,000 00 ANNUL DIVIDEND, Jane I, IS70,40 per cent. Cel. R. A. ALLSTON. Gen. State Ag’t. Col. T. T. SMITH, Assistant State Ag’t. June 2S-3m s^;|n'ortolk K ’ bag a, FftvLu A BAGA ’ RKSH AND GENUINE, AT THE * N’EW DRUG STORK. Berkshire Pigs for Sale. r U KENTUCKY WE HAVE tried the various breeds of hogs, Incindlng the Whit* Cheater and Essex, and regard the Berkshire oa superior. The Berkshireatands unrivalled with ourhog breeder., and at onr fairs, aa a fine hog. * am preporad to furniib pin to thaw wishing tot dcr nom me, at aa raasuuable rate, aa any one. can fbrniali them by the single pig or the pair, from the very beat stock in the country, rangini from those almost pure, up to the pumt thorough' bred, with pedigree. 1 wi|l box and deliver a p: it of pigs at the railroad depot ready for shipment, with tlielr pedigree accompanying, showing stock aceitrately, at from $ 3« to *90 a pair, according to tlieirpiiniv : they will he front luto 14 weckauld, ao.| weigh front An to tut) Ihs. elcli. Address deeO-ly IIkv. IV. T. WOOD, l’erry v Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, au thor of “ Gates Ajar,” and other bril liant works, discusses dress in the Independent, in a sufficiently racy manner to make it interesting. We make an extract: The average young man walks into his tailor’s twice a year, pays a bill, and has coats and pantaloons and vests. That is all he knows. He requires shirts, and somebody makes him shirts. He thinks no more. Will he have a hat ? Behold! a piece of felt, with a galloon string. It does not flop over his forehead. It will never twitch off his back hair. It does not blow into his eyes. Its clastic cannot blister his neck, or produce depressions of the C2rebelluai. It will not be out of date before the summer is over, seldom or never a matter of anxious reflexion.— It is a fixed fact, like yesterday’s din ner or the last election. The average young woman expends enough inventive power, euough finan cial shrewdness, enough close foresight, enough perturbation of spirit, enough presence <>f mind, enough patience of tope and anguish of regret upon one season’s outfit—I had almost said upon one single street suit—to make an ex celleut bank cashier or a comfortable graduate of a theological seminary, If you doubt the truth of this state ment, just take in for yourself, with the “ cricket’s eye,” the first young girl you may meet down town. How fern fully nnd wonderfully made 1 How do you suppose those bias folds, and double box plaits, and fluted ruffles, and cor ded bonds, an<j shirred waists, and pnniered skirts, and bowed, and corded, and laced, and buttoned, and spangled, and fringed, and folded, and dotted and hunched, and bunched, and hor rible mysteries got together ? There was nianotuvering enough ex pended upon the dressmaker to have elected a representative, and concentra- tu n of mind upon the seamstress in tense enough to have withstood a Wall street panic, and headache enough pat into the sewing machine to have mas tered “ Porter’s Human Intellect And now it requires care enough to keep herself together to save a soul. I once saw a young lady ride the whole way from Portland to Boston in the cars without once leaning back against the cushioned seat so that she should not tumble her black silk sash A barber told me that he “ curled Four hundred and twenty-five yards 5 Conceive of the Hon. Charles Sumner. Or Professor'Longfellow in four hun dred and twenty-five yards of trimm ing 1 Imagine the speech on San Do mingo, or the Psalm of Life, written in a black silk sash tied in a snail to the authors coat tail, he pausing at every classic methaphor, or at' the dose of each martial stanza, to see if he had tumbled himself behind. Fancy Brown Sequord at a consultation in two hundred and forty-eeven curia.— Picture him timing the pulse of a dy ing man with one hand and tightening his hairpins with the other.^ It is a threadbare experiment of out raged taste to fire broadsides of ridicule at women’s dress; but it is neither fair play nor fair logic to do “ only that and nothing more.” Women are what men have made them. You had the first chance, sir. " Our hour is uot yet come.” It is quite as much your fault as ours that you write epics while we hem frils; and that you support the family while we punch stiletto holes in a piece of cambric, or prick yards of muslin into embroidered “ inserting to Chrich our necks and arms withal. From the time that a girl-baby is put into a flimsy mnslin underskirt, with three frills, and a boy-baby into a solid piece of blue flannel, with a sail or-collar and brass buttons, to the day when Mary leaves school and begins (alas! poor Mary!) to “ do her owu sewing,” the girl’s roeutal force is ini perceptibly, insidiously, poisouous’y draining away into the covering of her poor, little, innoceut, beautiful body. By that it is “ time for her to be mar ried” ; and then the last state of that woman shall be worse than the first. Men dress to please themselves. Women dress to please the men. A man’s attire has regard to his comfort, his convenience, his means, ^ps busi ness, his whereabouts, his health, his happiness. A woman’s has regard to the whims, the fancies, the weak ness, the admiration, and the passions of men. Run your eye over any “ female’ seminar}’ that you may chance upon and how often would you find a girl to whom-it has ever occurred to why it is that she should put ten rows of velvet in a “ Grecian pattern” on A very funny incident occurred at a small hotel in Michigan a few weeks ago, which, having sever been recorded in ink, and being too rich to lose, is hereby thrown out as a lunch to the lovers of fun and reform. Owing to an auction sale of considerable pro perty, real and personal, the town during theday was lively with strangeri, an.i the lending hotel so densely crowd ed with guests, that every room was filled to its fullest extent. One big, brawny fellow, who when sober, was a favorite with everybody, but who on this occasion bad indulged in a little more corn juice than he could con veniently control, was so boisterous and quarrelsome that bis conduct be came almost unendurable. He forci bly kissed the pretty landlady, pulled the bar-tender’s nose, and threatened if he was not allowed a whole bed to himself to whip his weight in wild cats before morning. Entering a room containing four beds—with two persons in each—at about the hour of midnight, he pulled both occupants from one bed, and threatened to punch the eyes out of any dozen men who doubted his science and superiority as a shou'der-hitter. No one dared express a doubt on the subject, and a few minutes afterward, when all was quiet and the light ex tinguished, the door was suddenly heard to open and dose with a slam, and the calm, iron voice of a man, e jnuldk of the .room, exclaimed, “Bill Kurdv, get out of that bed! and don’t speak a word or from there to the barn, but no where could the fighting officer be found. A few hours afterward, while at breakfast, sitting opposite Signor Blitz, the world renowned ventriloquist, and Forfces, the successful manager, the man was honestly and persistently recounting his night of fright and misery, and ex pressed a willingness to pay a hundred dollars to know how the Marshal left the room without being seen, he was suddenly strode dumb with terror by hearing the click of a pistol at his ear, and the magic like exclamation: f ‘ Mount the window sill l" The joke was instantly seen and ap preciated by al} present, and Kurdy had the practical sense and good na ture to join in the laugh and exdaim: Cap’n, I ain’t so bad as I look. I was drunk last night, nnd made a fool of mvsdf; and I'm- glad you taught me a lesson. But by the horned spoons, I’ll get even with you by foot ing your party’s bill at the hotel!” Bill kept his word; and as he mounted his horse a short time after wards, he exclaimed, “ Gentlemen ! I’ve drank my last glass of liquor, and ycu can put this down as the first case on record of drunkenness cured by ventriloquism.”—St. Paul Prets. What the Bob. Robert Toomhe Xaewa About Farming. We were pleased, a few days »mce, to welcome in our sanctum this distin guished gentleman and statesman, and to converse with him for two hours. We had heard, through our friend “ Progress,” (JohnT. Wingfield, Esq., of Washington, Ga.,) that Gen. Toombs manifested much interest in, devoted considerable time to, the cultivation of his farm on which he re sides, near Washington, but we were not prepared to find in him the enthu siast that he is on the subject of im proving our agriculture. We did not expect to find a man who has spent almost his entire life in public affairs and trusts an analytical agriculturist But his knowledge of this, as of all other matters, is comprehensive. “ Suppose, General Toombs, that the South plant, in cotton only, one half the area that she does, and dovote the remainder of her lands to grains and grasses, what would be the res ah V we asked. “ Why, in five years she would be the richest country on the face of the globe,” was the earnest reply. Editor—“ Db you consider this sec tion of the South adapted to growing I ter, fed to the stock. A Sad Little Story. you re a dead man I lam the City the bottom of a dress, while her brother XT , , - n . .. . „ . ' . ,. , ’ ., Marshal of Detroit, and I’ve been has lus coat bound once with a silk looki fw a „ * j ^ braid, and then capita “gimp and Bin Kurdv>ofold . and bv * t never knows the difference to his dying . . r * . , . Eternal, it vou so much as open your hour? Why she wears four feathers, ... ' ,. T „, . • . - , mouth in a whisper, I ll send your soul several vards of ribbon, a piece of lace, . . .. , * . * * , I to eternity aa much quicker than cambric flowers and a veil upon her ,. , . lightning is qoicker’n a straw hat; and he only a lute-string g , „ g \ , , . . , J , , . lame cowl” and the sentence was band, pinned straight roundthe crown? tuated b the ominous click of a Why her hat tips over her nose, and revolver his stands square on his head? Why E m£m j. ^ ^ waa „ wide j. it. H’riraxF.T. A ttorney atlaw, CxrnmiUe, Franklin county, Ga. Oflca mcrly occujttad byj. F. Lanfilon, Esq. ia21 Inlaid Picture Frames PARLOR ORNAMENTS. ' I ’’HE UNDERSIGNED has opened 1 an establishment In Athenafortbe mxnutae- tnre of Picture Frame* and Parlor Ornaments. He ia located on the corner of Clayton Md Lump, kin streets (lumarly JodjeHUIyer’e office.) In addition to the obore. particular attention 'A&irdhixssasisrstKiZ wlWtad. C J. DISBRUE. she u burdened with a pink P^I, ^ if ithtdlieeariooadAy . and and he goes hand-lree, sun-burnedland aUllough tbe dark was so intense th»t happy? Why he may freckle from L oteven tho outlines of the intrepid forehead to chin if he likes; and why officer , 8 f()rm CQu]d fe S0CD| hia she locks herself into her roomaud cries, ence was fcU by all present . his firm> when she discovers the .dent on the unfl i nching voice,-with a thrilling bridge of her nose ? corpse-like accent, .told but too plainly Why he should wear comfortable that he had carefully weighed the job loose coats, and she uneasy tight before him, and was prepared on the basques? W r hy he is in broadcloth, slightest provocation to snuff out the she in transparent muslin? Why her bully’s life with as little hesitation as he pretty neck is wantonly bare, liis de- would extiuguish a candle, cently covered ? Why she pays four The rowdy aroee from the be*’, dollars for a lace collar, he twenty-five trembling in the knees like a frightened cents for a linen? Why she is pinched dog,andaftersufficienttiraehadelapsed into corsets, and he is not ? Why his for him to don his nether garments, shirts are made in plain bands, and he was ordered in the same resolute, every article of li?r underdress is trim- death-defying voice to “mount the med ? W r hy her very handkerchiefs window sill!" • are reduced to a senseless, useless mass In a rough end tumble fight Bill of flue embroidery and lace-work, to Kurdy was no coward. He could in which he would refuse the dignity of a 1 8Uc h moments see his way out ol mosquito netting? Why, in short, all trouble “ thelast extremity by scream- the use of dress is his, and all the fuss >ng “ enough;” butlhiswas experience hers? The souse his, the nonsense I °f a different qualjty. The man now hers ? The beauty—I hesitate. Man to contend with was his master by the is not a graceful being; but in this °f ^ w » darkness, and the un cultivated year of our Lord, one thous- mistakeaUe.dick of a Colt's revolver; and right hundred and seventy-one, I aad he mounted the window rill with his very stove-pipe hat and sack coat J the docility of a trained monkey, yield the field to the unapproached I “ Now remain where you are!” ex- and unapproachable deformity of wo-1 churned the bloodthirsty Marshal; and man’s attire. if you so much as cross your legs, or It takes more than brains and money move your arms, or open your mouth to dress as women ore expected to until the clock strikes five, that moment do—it takes morals. you are a dead man!^ That few pure-minded women know Kurdy took the seat indicated, and or think that in donning the latest with chattering teeth and swollen eye- modes, they have sprung from the cor- balls, staring into the inky blackness rupt ingenuity of Parisian harlots, only | of uight, watched the gloomily passing makes matters worse. Good women hours until the light of morning began ought to think. It is their duty to I slowly to steal in at the windows and see, not to ignore, to exile, not to I reveal indistinct outlines of the various overlook, an immodest style. The beds and their drowsy occupants. A very curious incident, illustrative of the power which can be exercised over the animal creation by kindness and careful training, occurred but a few days ago at Scoitsville, Kentucky. The sister of Officer Harry Mansfield, of this city, had raised a mocking bird which she taught to go and come at her call, and which, in return for all the kindness bestowed npon it, exhib ited a peculiar fondness for her. Last Monday week Mias Mansfield was tak en ill, and to while away the tedium of the rick room, she had her little pet brought to her bedside, and day and night it cheered her with its sweet carols, bringing to mind many happy thoughts of field and meadow, sunshine and song. As her illness grew more alarming, and day after day brought no relief from suffering, the warblings of the little songster rather served to HDUJ» ing wearily on her pillow she said to him, “ birdie hush, you worry me." Strange to say, the wordp seemed to be understood, for immediately the song was hushed, and the bird retired within himself, as it were. On the next day the lady died, leaving it would seem a command of silence upon the bird, which will never be broken, for although several days elapsed since, and every effort has been made to in duce him to sing, he refuses to respond with song to any lips hut those of his once loved mistress.—Nashville Ban■ ner. the water, add flesh, and slowly boil until thoroughly done, which will lm known by its being soft. It is to lx> seasoned with salt if nut done before, then eaten with butter, or with sugar sprinkled over it, or with syrup, or with sweet, rich, fresh milk; such a dish of mQk and hominy makes a breakfast or supper good -enough and abundant enough for anybody, and if an entire breakfast were inade of it in childhood, it would give the strongest bunes and the best teeth in th • world.—Dr« HV W. Hall. What Ex-Gov. Brown Know* About Farming.— 1 The August num ber of the Bural Southerner lias tlia fotincriwg: Gov. Brown has illustrated tire value of high culture on an acre lot adjoin ing his residence. The forage produced on this single acre feeds several horses and cattle the most of the year. The Governor estimates a clean gni*> of $250 firan> the present season’s crop.— It was sown in corn, which grew to the- hight of ten feet, when it presented more the appearance of a bottom cano brake than a corn patch. Wncn fully, grown, the corn was cut and cured, aud is now, after going through n cut- Fetch on Yonr Rats. young lady” once for a ball; “and sh£ mischief and misery will never be had two hundred and forty-seven curls when she was done, and I began at ten o’clock in the morning, and I never got through with her till nine o’clock at night!” ' Dr. Dio Lewis tells of a bring who pat four hundred and twenty-five (I think) yards of trimming upon one single dress. « “ We get no Christ from you,” said Romney Leigh. “ And, verily, we shall not get a poet, in my mied.”— And, verily, when society has reduced women to such straits as this, one hard ly understands such a fact as Eliza- tersely as sho can that the entire past j you are in. 1 beth Barrett Browning. But no Detroit Marshal to be seen, remedied until they do. Bad women ] the loom was as quiet as the cobwebs think, meanwhile, and society respond I on a contribution box. Thinking that to tho thinker, irrespective of moral there was now an opportunity to re quality. deem his reputation for courage, and These are sharp, plain words in which the effects of bad whisky being nearly to put a very sad, subtle truth; but j gone, Bill fiercely gazed through thedim they are the sad and subtle truths which I tight and exclaimed: require sharp, plain words. This I “ Wher’s the man that’s going to would be no place to say them if they I shoot somebody ?” were said in their place. j “Here!" came a reply in angry If every woman .who has the train-1 tones from the outside of the door, ing of young girls in her hands would I “ Hero! follow me to the office below teach them, os fast and os far, as slow- and learn after this to never play the ly and as finely, as carefully and as bally, unless you know tbe company A judicious wile is always snipping off from her husband’s moral nature, little twigs that are growing in the wrong direction. She keeps him in shape by continual pruning. If you say anything silly, she will affectionate ly tell you so. If you declare you will do some absurd thing, she will find means of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all common sense there is in this world, belongs unquestionably to woman. The wisest things which a man commonly does are those which his wife counsels him to do. A wife is the grand wielder of the moral pruning knife. Gen. Jack80x attheTheater.— When Gen. Jackson entered New Or leans, in the year after the memorable defeat of the British, the manager of the theater waited on him to solicit the honor of his presence at one of the performances. This being promised, it was resolved to compliment him with a song composed for the occasion. The performers were all Frenchmen, and none of them very conversant with the English language; but the best among them wasselected, and when thecurtain ruse, the General, lflrho sat in the stage box, was surprised at hearing his feats recorded in a song to the tune of “ God Save the King.” The chorus will give some idea of this song, which afforded much mirth to the Americans who were present: “ God shave General Shackson, God shave General Shackson, He be von very great man, He shave New Orleans, (•od shave General 8hackson.” Whenever the name of the General occurred the performer turned to him and made a profound bow, in the most approved Paris fashion. and present theory of feminine dress is» Kurdy repaired to the office and It is related of Lord Brougham that on one occasion, after having practiced all day as a barrister, he went to the House of Commons, where he was gaged in active debate through the night, till three o’clock in the morn ing; he then returned home; wrote an article for the Edinburg Review; Spent the next day in court practising law, aud the succeeding night in the House of Commons; returned to his lodgings at three o’clock in tbe morning, and 4 » retired simply because he had nothing rise to do.” Gen. Toombs—“ I do. I have nev- ^LKALIK8.-Why ?° P ut hmo erseen any region, either in Europe or w,th >’ ou, i nmnu ™ w, ‘ en /^posting America, where clover and grasses “ r P^ing .it for apphci.t.on to you* succeed more beautifully than they do f * mt tree8 ’ v,ues and vegetable garden V in Middle Georgia.” Because it w the recommendation of Editor—“ Have you grown nny writers is not a sufficient answer. We «raises?” reply that lime has been found to be- r- q. t... ,>t i__-. the best alikali, or nn alkali in the best JZZ'ZZfUZ'ZZS --«* <*• *—* lucerne on uplands, and with herds > ^ ^ r «“% appropri- grass on damp lands. I consider lu- ated b >‘ a11 k,uds of fru,t ^"“8 trecs ’- ceme the finest forage grass that grows, V5ne8a ™l the need oft It is thrifty and hardy, and makes 2111 a ^ udi * c * ae makb, S ve S* more forage for six months in the year I etable8 - trees, etc., give an abundance, than any other crop. It should be “d perfect p«d»cU P a,« irem th* sown more universally than it is.” f act rev ? ,ed * chemlcal amrfysis that Editor—“But can the South affordV™'^ “ them - YoUP ' i t. t/> .i .. . . soil must contain ull the substnuces- to grow only half the cotton that she ... . . “ ... , „ , . that enter into the growth of vine, tree- does? We have topurcha.se such al , , . . . * . . r - . , , Sand plant, and the fruits or products vast amount of manufactures of other [ , .. ; „ . , , .. - of them as well. The fruit of all these countries and other sections of our . . , , . „ _ . „ • I imperatively demand an alkali. Pom— own country# I » • Gen. Toombs—“ If the 8qwth rais-1 <dogI * tg . nd . V !*^. drC88 ^8 the sofl of the would realize as much money for it as ^ rre . Dof ^, uit ’ farmar8 ^ a ** shedoesfor her present crops, and Mressmg of land sowed to wheat, when- would have her provisions and stock at a su c *cut atraw can e grown, yet home besides. She would then be able tke h ,? d3 do D0< ; 611 wel1 for the reas<m to manufacture much more largely at h “ e ,s , necded 10 the 8™"- bomc „ Old sou exhausted of its lime and pot- Editor—“ You think, then, ^ « b . new laud when your vines are every farmer should raise at home ar- at a “ h . ,n 8ett,n <* and P^fecting grapes, tides of consumption?" wdl . 1x5 ““Proved by a liberal addition, Gen. /Toombs—“ Yes, and every °* bme and as * ia, '~ R f P orter - man can do it, and when he does, he will be the most independent of all men ." • J Adam Belper keeps a tavern in Al- Such was the tenor of Gen. Toombs Dganv. One gloomy eveninga stranger expressions, and who will deny their I presented himself about bed-time; and' practicability ? This is ono “ depart-1 asked to stay all night. ure”from old customs that he in-1 “ Certainly,” said Adam, eyeing the dorses.—.Rural Southerner. rather seedy-looking stranger. “If' -- - yoa take breakfast it will be voust one How to Improve Sandy Molls. I dollar.” I “ But I have no nionev,” said the ' A correspondent in Baltimoreconnty, 1 ^n. » Vtu dead broke ; bllt if vmi> Md., writes the Country Gentleman as win only tr „ 9t me « fi>Uow, » : “Ah,” said Mr. Belper, “I don’t Noticing an inquiry as to the most nke that ^rt of customer. I could fill valuable fertilizer for a thin sandy soil, I m j,ie boose every night mit ilat kind, I have concluded to give you some ex. but dat won . t help me run dis home.” perience of mine. I •» Wdl,” said the stranger, after a About twenty-five years since I came pan*., *< have you got any rats here?” into possession of about nine acres of I <• Yes," said Adam, ‘.‘you’d better- thin sandy land. There had been I believe we have. Why, the place is within, say three or four years pre- dive mit deni.” ' vious, two crops of corn taken from it I “ Well," rejoined the man, “fU that did not exceed ten bushels per 1 tell you. what to do. If you let me acre. I had it plowed deeply, and j have lodging and breakfast, I’ll kill all sowed heavily to oats. As soon as they I the rats to-morrow.” began to ripen we plowed them in, and “ Done,” said Belper, who had lui^ applied about seventy bushels of lime-1 been desperately aunoyed by the num- kiln ashes to the acre; we then seeded I her of old Norwnys that inil-stcd Jtis it with rye, and also sowed clover and I premises. So tlw- stranger, a gaunt, timothy. We cut a splendid crop of j sallow, melancholy louking roan, was rye, and for several years mowed a 1 shown to bed, and no doubt had a good good swarth of grass, since which we | sleep. After breakfust the next mom- have kept up a rotation of com, then ling, Mr. Belper took occasion, in a very wheat or rye, followed by grass which I gentle manner, to remind liis guest off has been either mowed or pastured; I the contract made the previous night, two of the years potatotes have taken I “ What, kill rats! Certainly,” said the place of the com. The corn has I the melancholy stranger. “ Where averaged from fifty to sixty bushelspeiJ are they the thickest?” acre of shelled corn, and the other | “ Dey are pretty dick in the barn- crops have been above the average of I yard,” auswered Adam, the balance of a good farm. We have I “ Well, let’s go out there,” said the put but little if any manure upon it, stranger. “ But stop! Have you got except a moderate amount with pota-1 a piece of hoop iron ?” toes. I may add that a large portion I A piece about fifteen foot long was of this lot is so sandy that it does wdl I given him, and he examined it carefully for building purposes. I from one end to the other. Expressing ~T , . ob himself entirely satisfied finally w ith its Hommy rn^ht be »«le «W u ,eog,t Ml l .mogth, I„ u. universal a dish in the United States I, . . . , r 0 , as rice in the old world; it might be . .. . ^ ^ put on the table every day in the year “S a W* ,dlers . v ‘“° werc to great advantage, especially in the wintertime; it is cheap, nutritious, and wanning. The great print is to cook it properly. If not already made, make it yourself by taking the grains of Indian corn, and pound them well until broken into several pieces; to one gallon add a gallon of the fresh ashes of wood, and as much water as is need ed to boil the whole, until the hull is oosened; take it out, mash alt the boil a few moments, then poor off all very anxious to see in what manner the great rat-killer was gain;-; to work. 'Arriving there, the strain r looked around a little, then placed liis back firmly against the barndoor, and raised his weapon. “Now,” said he to \ilam, “1’iu ready.' Fetch on your ral-. ’ “ Are does bells ringiu-j tor fire?” inquired Simon of Tiber; m 1 . “ No, in deed 1” answered Tibo, “ dey ab got Ihullsoff, put back into the vessel and plenty of fire, and de bells are ringing for water.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1832-1872, August 18, 1871, Image 1