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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XLI.—NO. 1—NEW SMILES. VOI, 4. NO. 45 That Womflii Jury—An Injured Hus- -• - (wad's Protest. New York Extravagance. Industrial Miscellany. < o t Narrow Gauge Railways. *• , This is the title of a highly interest- 1 ing pamphlet of thirty-five pages, by ' Col. £. Hulbert of Atlanta. It is an interesting document, in which the Narrow Gauge System is fully consid- 1 ered and its merits thoroughly dis cussed. He urges the absurdity of ' building costly broad gauge roads wh Are cheaper ones, constructed on the nar row gauge plan, will do all the business that a broad gauge will ever get, and when the price of freights will be re- A Nice Girl. Though that dlass of girls is by no means extinct, still they arc not so numerous as might be wished. There is nothing half so sweet in life, half so delightful, or so lovable as a nice girl. Not a pretty, or a dashing girl; but a nice girl. One of those lovely, likely, good hearted, sweet facd, amiable, neate natty, domestic creatures, met within the sphere of 44 home,” diffusing around the^^ence of her goodness, like flowers. A the beauty^^^^^^Vtlic sofa, cussingw^^^H^el, or opera, or the SCHOOLS. ANCIENT LANGUAGES: W. H. Waddell, A. M. MODERN LANGUAGES: M. J. Smead, Ph. D. RHETORIC A BELLES LET: Cbu. Morris, A. M. ETHICS A METAPHYSICS: P. H. Mell, f). D. MATHEMATICS : William! Rutherford, A. M. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: W. L. Broun, A.M. CHEMISTRY, GEOLOGY A AGRICULTURE. How many walk with bleeding feet. Seeking the loved and the lost to meet, While the dear visions flit and fleet And vanish on the other side. While life’s fresh lore and youth's sweet •rVJtf trust,- *' Those Edch-Mooms in earthly dust, Lie bruised and broken, stained and crushed, ’Neath toot-steps on the other side. case. When night came—the case not being concluded—the husband applied to the court to,have his wife sent home, as there wtye several small children there requiring her attention—the avenue exceeds 750; those on Madisou avenue exceed 570; there are between Fourteenth and Ffty-mnth streets alone fartv; fiye sidc street*; that-vrillfitfriy CIVIL ENGINEERING : D. H.'«'arb!mn!< LAW: W. L. Mitchell. A. M.,IED.Moore liMK* COBB. A. S. ERWIN. HOWELL COBB COBB. ERWIN & COBB, bulldlof. b! T. Hunter,' A.M. | Jaimlg foiml—Jtboteb to Jjtetos, Ijolitb, Stature, Agriculture, anil % Jukstrial Interests of % three dollars per annum in advance. aimer. ' * riai.imilii wkkklv. jjY S. A. ATKINSON, At THREE dollars per annum, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Office, Brand st., over J. H. Huggins. IttTES OF ADVERTISING, jdrartiwmenu will be Inerted at One Dollar and f,flr Ceht. prr Square of 11 lines, for the drat,and $,»tntr.l\*e Cent! for each auliscquent Inaertlon, f,ran. time nnderone month. For a lunger period lit.nl eontracu will be made Business Directory. Miscellaneous. UNIVERSITY OF GEORCIA. SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR. FACULTY. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D., L. L. D., Chancellor. P. H. MELL, D. D., Vice Chdneellor. Fireside Miscellany. Foot-Steps on the Other Side. How ninny wenrv prilgrims lie And, watching wait, and waiting sigh, For steps that never wander nigb, But pass upon tbe other side; For steps that trampled heart and brain And made their lives a lingering pain, And passed, and never came again— - Lost foot-stepson the other side. WHAT IT COSTS TO LIVE IN THE AMER ICAN METROPOLIS. An outraged husband at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, where female suf- Incredible as it seems, there must be J foge, and the political and social ap- more than 10,000 families in this city I purtenanccs thereto appertaining are who keep up an establishment in fash- recognized, denounces the female jury ionable style, and spend at least 810, J business, and in justification offers a 000 a year. Ten thousand families '[pertinent scrap from his domestic his- a hundred millions a year! The fig- j tory. His wife was summoned and ures will seem impossible, but here is j impanncled as a juror in an important D. «. CANDLER, ^TTORNEY AT LAW, _ — Honor,-DanMn County. Ob. Will practice lathe louniitn of lltnk*, Jackson, 1I*H» Haber- •hstn anJ Franklin. Mivm iv. itwr.x. \ T T O H N E Y AT LAW : V nntl Notary Public, Athena, Ga. Will pra*-. tic. in t-i* Wdern i lrvult; will give particulai a-wnlion tu the collection ofelaima, and will act a:, awntf >r the nurehaw nod aalcof real eauie and taaca uu wild lan J*. ian 1311 , a. jtlKLTOJt, c. W. SEIDELL, SKELTON & SKI DEI L. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ."V Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia. PITTMAN' E HINTON, A yTOKNEYS AT LAW, Jef.'crjun, Jackvm county, tia. SAML’El. P. THURMOND, A tto kn ey at l a w, Athena, Ga. Oili.-c r.n Broad street, over B.rry .% Son*. Store. .Will give special attention to aaae. in H inkruptce. Also, to the collection of all claim! entrusted to his care. J. J. A J. r. ALEXANDER, TNEALERS IN HARDWARE X-' Iron Steel, Nall*, Carriage Material, Mining nplc:uent», Ac., Whitcliallst., Atlanta. A M.VAN ESTES, TTORNEY AT Homer, Banka County, Ga. L A W, J. It. X’tT.KSKKY. TTOHN EY A T LAW, Carneadllr, Franklin counte, Ga. Office merly ocrupied by J. F’. l-ngnton, Eaq. laH a; LONGS & BILLUPS, BROAD <S7'., ATHENS, GEO., DEALERS IN DRUGS AND MEDICIHES, CHEMICALS, DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS, OILS, CLASS, PUTTY, STATIONERY ; FFBFOKRY. UQ! OliS BITTERS, AND EVERY I’ll ING usually X\. usual!; kr|»t in a 1 ir*t Class Drugstore. Particular attfiit * n l*.*** he«*n |*:inl in iLe selection wfauratock. t«i ihi* purity nnd reliability of out goods, apd fa in ih iv uml jiliysiriniiN nre assured that •rdcnwill I** tilled with prompt nc;* and fidelity. r PHE NEXT SESSION opens Sept 1~ 15,1871. JThe above named Schools are in ful ^iteration. Students may aclect whatever Coarse ttn*y with i teration. iey with. Special attention is i*aid to the Professional ing, which have been expanded to embrace a much larger field. Iritlustri.il School* of Telegraphs', .tc., nre e*tih- lNhed in connection with the University High School, which opens on September 1st. Tuition, includingull other fees, in all Depart ments. $l •«: via: $40 upon 13th .September, and $60 upon 1 »th January. Board $16 to $30 a month. By mesMn-', students reduce this to $10 a month. Total expeti.^es, $275 per annum. For further particular*, address the Chancellor, or WILLI AM HENRY WADDELL, Secretary of Ihe Faculty, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. aug. 18—3m UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHQO.L And so wc watch, and watching sigli, While youth nnd truth and hope go by, While life nnd love and gladness die With foot-steps on the other side, And so avc wait Avith ear and eye, For one dear echo floating by— A grief, a woe, a AA’andering sigh— A foot-step on the other side. Athens, Ga., Aug. 3d. 1871. H^HE FALL TERM OF THE JL University High School will commence on the first day of September, and close on the fifteen th day of December. Beside a full course of instruction in the regular branches, a number of industrial schools will be started. As this department is one of peculiar im portance to the youths of the country, particular attention will be given to it. Tuition Six D ’liars per month. j The school will be under the supervision of the 1 following faculty. W. W. Lumpkin, President, English Literature. Benjamin T. IIuntek, Superintendent of Industrial Schools and Depart ment of Mathematics. A. L. Hull, Ancient Languages, Book-keeping and Drawing. August Ilf. O heavy hearts, that ache nrul break ! O heavy eyes, that droop and sleep 1 Why must ye ever wake and weep At foot-steps on the other side l' Why must ye ever lie torlom, And ache nnd Avake and Avcep so long, Because one foot-step has gone wrong And passed, upon the other side ? King Alcohol. ATHENS, GEORGIA. Madame S. Sosnnwski. Principal. T'HE Exercises of this Institute will -L be resumed ofi Monday. Sept. 18th, 1871. For Circulars and further information apply to 2u-2m. The history of King Alcohol is a history of shame and corruption, of cruelty, crime, rage and ruin. He lias taken the glory of health from the cheek and placed there the reddish hue of the Avine cup. He has taken the lustre from the eye and made it dim and bloodshot. He has taken beauty and comeliness from the face aud left it ill-shapen and bloated. He has taken strength from the limbs and made them weak and totter- the Principal. July: Summey & Newton, BROAD ST., ATHENS, GA. IRON', PLOW STEEL, STEEL, HOES, NAIL'S PLOWS, MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS, And General Hardware anti Cutlery, at Wholesale and Retail. SU.V.VEY A NEWTON then*, Ga., April 14th. tf -Vo. 6 Broad St. STOCK OF FAN< Y GOODS It lam anti attractive, embracing a great variety PERFUMERY, TOILET ARTICLES, BRUSHES, COMBS, &C. llelmbold'a nnd Ayer'a Preparation., llurley'a Worm Candy and Saraaparllla, Drake'i Plantation Bitten. Domain'. Crimean Bitten, Hoofiana'aUernuin Bitten, ud many other popular preparations always on FltESlI GARDEN SEEDS •f iht most approved varieties on baud and for uis icauy quantity desired. Also Grass Seed. ST. LOUIS LEAD, Warranted strictly pure—Ihe beat In the market Htirse. Ilnr, and Cauie Pcwders, Invaluable for -.7! diseases of (took. CAROLINA UR INSURANCE GO., OF XEM THIS, 7ENN. 1 Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, President. iTwhlP- *'•-1‘■it, $i.oas.;on os IVVi f W* 000,000 00 A-A.AI ALMTIDIM), June 1,1870,40 per cent. Cal r tLH-J- ALL8TON, Gan. State Ag't. Aul,Unl A *’‘' Hlg. average 150 houses between Sixth ave- smallest> in fact> ^ in a 8tarving nueand Fourth avenue, the boundaries condition, owing to the fact that it lmd ° a Th L eS ^ a i? ne W ° uld ^' vc not been habituated to the use of the i ,000, and with Fifth and Madison 1)ottle . But ^ husband . s t was avenues over 8,000. And now we have denied The judge ^ the ju . ^ to include Lexingtcn avenue, Park not ^ The husband theu avenue, and the streets beyond Fifty- L** pc rmission to send the infant to ninth street, and the other fashionable the mother> This waa als0 refused> on localities, scattered over th , e ^ty-and the ground that the j aw does not the number of four story brown stone L; t a inajury room , front houses will easily reach 1,300. i ... ... ant ^ there is no statute to show that an which would leave our calculation far infedt inarmsis not a .. person” within too low. Some of the men who keep the intent and meaniug of t l ic law. up these establishments are poor.— The oesperate husband then attempt- There is many a poor fellow on a salary ^ to iuduce the court t0 ^,1 tl n the of perhaps 85,000 a year for a man j urors t 0 b { 3 ] l0 use for the night; hut of 85,000 a year is poor in New Y ork tbe e g' or j W as a failure, and the hus- who lives in a new brown stone front baud was informed that quarters had house on a fashionable side street. He been p rov ; ded his w ifo a t the hotel, and has to keep, at the very least, four tlmt if he wished to speak to her for a servants: a cook, a scully maid, who moment, he would have to take the helps her, and may do at the same time I place of the cook. The husbaud went the laundry work, an upstairs girl, and home. How he got through the night —if he has children (poor people most i s no t told; but when he learned the do have children)—a nurse. He pays next day tba t the trial was likely to last 83,000 rent for the house, and, after I a week, he straightway proceeded to he has paid the servants, has nothing I employ the best looking house-keeper left to live on. Nevertheless, it costs and cook in the country. At last ac- him all of $10,000 to live. How can I counts, his wife was still on the jury; he do it ? He does do it, no matter if but he was becoming resigned to the he can or no. People live recklessly in situation—in fact, it may be said tlmt New York, and in the vain struggle of he ivas quite happy. The “brute” emulation they go far beyond their concludes his communication as fol- means. They starve themselves, as|lows: some Italian nobles do—to keep up ARTHUR EVANS, Watchmaker & Jeweller, (LATE WITH CHILDS * MOSS,) "RESPECTFULLY announces to JLi; the citisena of Athens and vicinity that he liaa located at the New Drug .Store of Dr. Win, King, and is prepared to do all kinds of repairs on Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc. All work promptly done and warranted. fAug. 11—Sin. TO THE PUBLIC. HAVE PURCHASED the inter- estof Mr. Wm. J. Morton in the late firm of Ritoh A Morton, and will continue the husi.ncss. 1 hope, by fair dealing to retain thoVustomers of 1 hope, ny lair dealing to retain inc^cusiomers oi the late firm, and to receive a fair share of the trade in my line of business. A fresh stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods will be received for the Commencement trade. July 21. J. E. HITCH. WM. WOOD, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF PU RNXTURE. RURNITURE REPAIRED, UP- P holitered and vamiahed, alao a Urge variety *rge of wood coffin, and Fisk'a Patent Mctaltc Burial Oaea always on hand. Waroruoma on Clayton St., next to Eplaeopal Church, Sep9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD. Wall Paper. A stock of Wall Papei I,, f™ varlaty of pattern.—which will b J ?? “» kt - Ucheaper to paper yourb O’HARA’S Giant Pocket Corn Slicllcr, U>RICE ONLY 81 50. Call and see X It at CHILUS, NICKEBSON & CO'S. • MPtr yo . llUUKt, •t tho Book Stare. SHARP & FLOYD W- Successors to George Sharp, Jr., IveT&mit'huy A tlanta, Ga. OFFER a large variety of FIXE WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, spectacles, ;-^cy GOODS, BRONZES, -LYD STATUARY. havs a full corps of HARNESS LEATHER, AND HARNESS MATERIAL. TPOR SALE BY X 1 CHILDS. NICKERSON & CO. Carriage, Buggy & Wagon A LARGE and well selected assort ment, for wle by GUILDS, NICKERSON & CO. Horse, Cow, Hog & Chicken at the NEW DRUG STORE. For Sale or Exchange. ,T HAVE 300 acres of land in Cle- _L burnc Co., Ala., which I will aell cheap, or ex- cbadge for real estate in thia city. There arc *0 acre, cleared, 38 of it the best bottom land on Cane creek, producing 30 to 75 bushels of corn per acre, and cotton la proportion. The remainder ia in flfoliikin, }evellK$& Jng?a? m , r „ t , Fine Goods A!|foud.mU ,r ¥o r k »»H*mptly. ''«•wJt*, a *j n . °f charga. SSpOR FAIRS! •olonnatloa on e P - 'AUGEST ASS0R TEMNT, hlNEST GOODS 1 9S&WWT PttICES, AN DTHEBEST WORK. SH ARP & FLOYD, Hqa,, Whitehall Street. Atlanta. and cotton in prqpoi—_ - - - - the wooda. The (arm la 30 miles from the Selma, Borne and Dalton Railroad, one end e quarter mile, from the county site, Edwardsvllie, • mile* from the located depot of the Columhns and Chat tanooga Railroad, and one mile from the route of tbe Griffin and North Alabama - Railroad There U an excellent store house (not be longing to the pluee), wjtlch tur w bough rented chc" ” ght or iea,p and lit Splendid Stand.for a Conntrj Store. Title* indlaputable. For further intornuiUon ap- "’“•““"■■d.. j. W. MUUKEIL, March 31-3m Athens, G*. He has taken firmness nnd elasticity from the steps and made them faltering and treacherous. Ho lias taken vigor from the arm and loft flabbiness and weakness. He has taken vitality from the blood and filled it with poison and seeds of disease and death. He lias transformed the body—fear fully and wonderfully and majestically inode, God’s master-piece of animal mechanism—into a vile, loathsome, stinking moss of humanity. He has entered the brain—the tem ple of thought—dethroned reason and made it reel with folly. He has taken the beam of intelli gence from the eye, and exchanged it for the stupid stare of idiocy and dull ness. He has taken the impress of enno bled manhood from off the face and left the marks of sensuality and brut- iahness. He has token cunning from the hands and turned them from the deeds of use fulness to become instruments of brut ality and murder. He has broken the ties of friendship and planted seeds of enmity. He has made a kind, indulgent fath er a brute, a tyraut, a murderer. He has transformed the loving moth er into a very fiend of brutish iucarna- tion. He has made obedient and affection ate sons and daughters the breakers of hearts and the destroyers of home. He has taken luxuries from off the table and compelled men to cry on ac count of famine, and beg for bread. He has stripped backs of broadcloth and silk, and clothed them with rags. He has stolen men’s palaces and given them wretched hovels in ex change. He has taken away acres and given not even a decent burial place in death. He has filled our streets and byways with violence and lawlessness. He has complicated our laws and crowded our courts. He has filled to overflowing our pen itentiaries and houses of correction. He has peopled with his multitude our poor-houses. He has straitened us for room in our insane asylums. He has filled our world with .tears and groans, with the poor and helpless, with wretchedness and want. He has banished Christ from the heart, and erected a hell within. These are the counts of our indict ment. Let the world judge of the truths “ I don’t know how the ladies felt, grand state before the world. Your I but I was perfectly satisfied with not readers will scarce believe it, hut here only the law of equal rights, but its in many a family the food is scanty practical workings, as laid down tome, because of the carriage being elegaut; I most respectfully aud cordially invite that many , lady on Fifth avenue has I any and all persons, those in favor of nothing to wear at home because - she I -woman’s sunra§S > aud those opposed, to gives parties in which she likes to he call at my house and sec for themselves gorgeously dressed. There is nothing the practical workings of woman’s suf- of the morbid extravagance of New frage. , It is having a fair trial. ‘ I York in your staid city. People in am lord of all I survey; my right there St. Louis do not, as a class, make is none to dispute.’ My cook is a per iods of themselves because they sec feet success; children are happy, and others fool away a great deal of money, when asked how they like home with- Here they do, as a dass. out a mother, say, “ It’s nice.” P. S. fashionable hotels. A canary bird, which had faithfully There are ten hotels here, kept on and patiently sat on her nest until yes- the European plan in each of which terday, got off end left, with one young some 100 persons board. These fami- one just hatched and another egg just lies pay for a suite of rooms, consisting I pipped, and steadfastly refuses to come of parlor and bedroom, from 815 to I for her brood. If any one can suggest $30 a day. This price is paid, uo mat- any way to arrange canary matters, ter whether the guests stay a week or I the cook and ourselves can get along two years. In the Grand Hotel there j in the domestic business.” are a few suites which are higher—8300 All of which is significant. Should a week. You can get two good sized the gentleman’s wife ever get off that rooms in most of the European hotds jury, however, she will make it very for 8200 a week, or 810,000 a year.— l troublesome for the cook, with whom In regard to your meals, you pay for he is gettiug along so well. But, per- what you eat. You pay for peas 50c; haps, the story is a fiction. Neveithe- for a cup of coffee 50c. An examine- less, it might all be true under the laws tion of one of the restaurant bills in 0 f Wyoming, and the lesson remains, one of these hotels gives the following result: Average for breakfast (one | The Elder Sister.—There is no el, or opera, or the giraffeeg like creature sweeping majes tically through the drawing room.— The nice girl may not even play or dance well, and knows nothing about using her eyes, or coquetting with a fan. She never lanquishcs, she is too active. She is not given to sensati on novels, she is too busy. In the opera she is not in front to show her should ers ; she sits quiet and unobtrusive at the back of the box, most likely. In fact it’s not often we discover her.— Home is her place. Who rises betimes and superintends the morning meal ? Who makes the toast and tea, and buttons the hoy’s shirts, and waters the flowers, and feeds the chickens, aud brightens up the parlor, and sitting room ? Is it the lau»uishcr, or the giraffe, or the “ ele gante ?” Not a bit of it; it’s the nice young girl. Her maiden toilet is made in the shortest possible time, yet how charm ingly done, and how elegant her neat dress and collar! Breakfast over, dowu to the kitchen to see about dinner, and all day long she is up and down, always cheerful and lighthearted. She never ceases to be active and useful until the day is gone, when she will polka with the boys, or rend, or sing old songs and play old tunes to her father and moth er for hours together. She is a perfect treasure, is a nice girl. When sick ness comes it is she who attends with unwearying patience in the sick cham ber. There, is uo risk, no fatigue that she will not undergo ; no sacrifice that she will uot make. She is all love, all devotion. I have often thought it would be happinesrto bo ill, to be watched by such loving eyes, and ten ded by such fair hands. One of the most strongly marked characteristics of “ a nice girl” is tidi ness and simplicity of dress. She is invariably associated in my mind with a high frock, plain collar, and the neat est of neck ribbons, bound with the most modest brooch in the world. I never knew “ a nice girl” who display ed a profusion of rings and bracelets- and who wore low dresses or a splen did bonnet. I say again, there is nothing in the world half so beautiful, half so intrin sically good as “ a nice girl.” She is the sweetest flower in the path of life. There are others far more stately, far more gorgeous, but these we merely admire as we go by. It is where the daisy grows that we like to rest.— Household. (faced thereby nearly one half. After demonstrating the superior capacity of the narrow gauge in pro portion to cost, Col. Hulbert contrasts the narrow and broad gauge system us the means of development. We make the following extract cheap coal, cheap iron, sheep iztcs of transportation on the r»w m^.ir.l as well ns his manufactured goods, cheap rales on supplies for his operatives, an ample supply of skilled labor, ample banking facilities, aud what is of the first importance to the manufacturer,* a cash market. “ The Southern manufacturer ha* dear coal, dear iron, dear rates of trans portation on both the raw material and his manufactured articles, dear rates on supplies for his operatives, a scarcity of skilled labor, almost a total want of banking facilities, and worse than all, is compelled to sell .his'wares on a credit. “ Under existing circumstances, our railways aud iron manufacturers can not possibly develop coal and iron to any great extent, and hence these sources of cuormous wealth remain We have iu the Southern States locked U P ° ur and mountains, vast and inexhaustible supplies of coal our ra 'l' va )' 9 importing their rail to ay and iron, unequalled for their purity l^ ov ' u over » nu< * contiguous to beds ot and richness, and the ease and cheap ness with which they can he mined (or rather, gathered up) aud worked, nev ertheless they remain locked up iu our hills and mountains. It Ls a conceded fact that they are. the base or founds-, . . , .. ~ x great interests, is cheap transportation tiou for all other manufacturers. It b . . \, . r , , This, for reasons already named, is a historical fuct that to their devel- ’ . , , 1 , . ,, . „ .. . . . wc cannot have with our broad-gauge opment Great Britain owes her supen- 1 ° ° iron ore, aud we import our supplies of iron and hardware, even to the noils and screws used in the construction of our coffins. “The first step towards indepen dence, and the development of these ority as the leading commercial power of the world. Our deposits of coal and iron are vastly superior to hers; yet, with this enormous wealth withiu our we are dependent upon railways. “ With cheap narrow gauge railways, with their cheap operating expenses, and consequently cheap rates, we can develop our coal and iron, build up easy gnisp, uv^uu^u* u^aju ■ - , § - others for the commonest articles of manufactures, stimulate our agricultu- necessity, even to the knives with which | ^ interests, establish our indepen- we carve our food. • I flrpn w “ Some years since, the Congress of | the United States enacted a high pro- dence, and enrich ourselves and chil- tective tariff, and among the articles included were coal and iron in its va rious forms. About this time Northern “Light Drahaatas.”^ person), S3; for dinner 810 or 811; character in the home circle more use- for supper about 85 or 86. A whole I ful and beautiful than a devoted elder family can live somewhat cheaper, for sister, who stands side by side with the of some of the dishes, as for instance toiling mother, lightening all her cares beef, an order for one will bring enough I and burdens. How beautiful the house- for two. But on the whole, tbe result hold machinery moves on with such is the same. A family of three per- efficient help! Now she presides at sous, living economically, spend easily the table in her mother’s absence, al- between 830 and 840 a day in their ways so neatly attired that it is with meals, which would amount in the year pride and pleasure the father intro- to more than 810,000. | duces her to his guests as “ our eldest daughter.? Now she takes a little troop with her into the garden, and amuses THE GEM! THE GEM!! HHHE BEST FRUIT JAR ever in J- veoted. For aale et the NEW DRUG STORE. rpHAT BROWN’S GIN I pur JL chaaed of Summer A Newton (Agenta Tor it In Athena) about two renn nan, it u good at new now, end there U none better. THOS. HOLDER. Notice to Planters. WE HAVE perfected arrange- V V menu with the Brown Cotton Gln Oo., no that we esn allow time on thee* celebrated Gina. AU letter* cheerfully answered. SUMMEY & NEWTON. Ned Marshal and Matne Reid. —Mayne Reid, the prolific author of I them> ^ mot h er may not be disturbed wildstories for little and big children, in her work or rest. Now she helps was once a gallant soldier, and dis- the hoys over their hard lessons, or tinguished himself in the Mexican war. f art her’s paper aloud to rest his After thecapture of the City of Mexico, tired eyes . if mot her can run away he was wont to employ his truuk in f or a f ew days’ recreation, she leaves adorning his htodsome person before home without anxiety, for Mary will While a young vender of greens in Boston was endeavoring to dispose of his stock in trade, his poor old nog balked and refused to budge an inch. The driver finally commenced belabor ing the animal with a stick, when an old lady thrust her head out of a win dow and exclaimed: “ Have you no mercyr “No, ma’raa,” replied the peddler, “ nothin’ but greens.” calling upon the fair Gaudaloupe, and while doing so would stir up his enthu siasm by reciting poetry, much to the wrath and disgust of his brother officers, who had no fine clothes and no loves. One day while dressing he roared out: “ At midnight in his guarded tent. The Turk lay dreaming of the hour, When Greece her knees—” “I say, Reid,” interrupted Ned Marshal “why did she grease her knees?” “ What?” “You said 4 grease her knees.’ Now, the question that agitates the country is, why did she grease her knees T The gay lieutenant gazed for a moment in blank amazement, and said sternly: “ You’re a fool.” A duel was the consequence, in which Ned Marshal, with his usual luck, got the worst of it Mule wagons are called 44 prairie schooners” by the New Mexicans. Ol the 1,001 young ladies who fain ted last year, 987 fell into the arms of gentlemen, two fell on the floor, and one into a water butt. guide the house wisely and happily in her absence. But in the sick-room her presenoe is an especial blessing. Her hand is next to mother’s own in gentle ness and skilL .He sweet music can charm away pain, aud brighten the weariest hours. There are elder sisters whose presence is not such a blessing in the house. Their own selfish ends and aims are the main pursuit of life, and anything that stands in the way of those is regarded with great impatience. Such daughters are no comfort to a mother’s heart. 4 To Die is Gain.”—It is a univer sal statement universally disbelieved. I have searched the graves of twenty graveyards, and not a marble slab or shaft, plainly wrought, or chiselled in costly design, bore this immortal asser tion. 1 have prayed above a hundred coffins, and watched the faces of the mourners anxiously; not one betrayed a knowledge of this sentence. I have carried a bright face to the funeral chamber, and spoken the words of cheerful faith; and men have marvell ed, revealing their skepticism by their surprise. I have found it hard to per suade men that death is sunrise; but when I compare the conditions of this life writh those of the next; when I set the body sensual over against the body spiritual, the mind in bondage over against the mind emancipated; when I have bowed myself over the white face, beautiful as it lay in sleep, un ruffled peace, and remembered how passionate and painful was the life when I have stood beside the dying, heard their murmured words of won der, their exclamations of rapture, and seen a light, not of this world, fall upon their faces as they touched the margin of the great change—I have said, 44 Death, thou art a gain.”—Rev. W. W. Murray. 44 Paddy, my boy,” said a gentle man to an Irishman, whom he observ ed fishing away at a favorite pool, 44 that mast be a fine stream for trout’ 44 Faith and sore it must be that same, for I have been standing here this three hours and not ono of’em will come out of it.” If we could , see our own faults os easily as we do those of others, we would become alarmed for our safety. The following, which I found in somer stray paper, so" nearly expresses mj railways in their mineral districts, with I own experience in the keeping of a view to the development of these I ** Light Brahmas,” that I forward it sinews of wealth, adopted what was I ^ or benefit of the readers of tho then considered very low rates of I Floughman. C. L. Parker. freight. , “ After several years’trial of Light Fully impressed with the idea that Brahmas, and a most careful compari- if these rates could be maintained, that son of them with other meritorious it would eventually result in a grand breeds, I am convinced that they are success, they struggled on for years as decidedly the fowl for our farm yards under the most adverse circumstances, as the Shorthorns are the cattle for our until at last the business reached an pastures. The Brahmas are a laigo amount in the aggregate, that notwith-1 fowl and a rapidly maturing one. In standing the extreme low rates, it be- two months from hatching they are gan to pay. ready for the table if they are well at- “ From that day their success was a tended to. They are hardy, standing fixed fact, and has resulted in enrich- much better than common breeds the iug their people, and giving to those cold months of spring when chicks, and railways a vast power, which, to-day, the rigors of winter when grown.— is felt throughout the length and Brahma poultry commence laying gen- breadth of the continent. crally when five or six months old, anti 44 To-day our coal and iron interests lay a large number of rich, good sized are less advanced than their*s, when eggs. They are peculiarly a winter they commenced their systematic efforts I laying fowl, and will give us fresh eggs for their development in the worst winter weather, if per- 44 Let us examine into tho condition mitted, by giving them food aud a of tlmt section, aud of their railways house that is comfortable. These at that time, and compare it with our chickens arc quite gentle for domes* present condition, and see what pros- tics; make excellent mothers. Their pect there is for us to develop these flesh is not strong, but solid and juicy, great interests with the high rates of They eat no more food than the com* our present railway system. mon variety, and are as large again, 44 They had an agricultural interest I They lay a much greater number of developed to a much greater extent | eggs than the common fowl, nnd than is ours. much larger and more palatable egg. 4 4 They had a general manufacturing There are other varieties as good lay- interest, established ou a firm basis, ers, as good table fowls, as domestics, \Yc have node. as large as these, but there are none 44 They had a dense population. We that can bring size, beauty, table qua!- have a sparse oue. I ities, productiveness and docility ia 44 They had, and still have, a large such an eminent degree. Those that immigration, containing an element of I produce as many eggs, are non-setters; great value to them, namely, that of I those that surpass them i.t tahloqual- skilled labor. We have no immigra-1 ities, ore not so large, nor so prolific tion, and are deficient in skilled labor. I layers. So with the other breeds. The. So much for the comparative con-1 dark Brahmas are only rivals of tho dition of that section then, and our Light Brahma*. These two specie* section now. differ very little, save in plumage, and While their railways were main- in this respect the Light Brahma has taming these low rates, they had a well I the advantage. We repent, that pure developed agricultural interest, a gene-1 bred Light Brahma fowls are the best ml and firmly established manufactur- ones that our farmers can raise. If ing interest, a dense population, a large they will supply themselves xfith them and steady flow of immigration, and a and give them the ben.fit of a com- supply of labor, both ample and- skill-1 fortable home and a competency ia ful, to sustain them. I food, they will discover that keeping 44 Our railways have none of these chickens pays well." advantages to sustain them; and were they to attempt a similar policy it| would result in a signal failure. The railways in our mineral re-1 gions have cost us full $30,000 per Both in Horses.—Dr. B. N. Wash ington, of Augusta, Ga., in writing to the Southern Cultivator; recommends the following as a cure for bote, tho mi£ and"with"but onT pmtially dll T* perhaps, to which veloped interest, that of agriculture, t ^ ie korse “ subject. Strong sage tea, 4 Why, you’d better knock the door down 1—What do you mean ? “Och, my darling! don’t let me wake any of your family. I’m just using your knocker to wake the people next door. Tm locked* out, d’ye see, and they’ve niver a knocker.” An editor is mad because a compos itor headed his editorial 44 The Cham pagne Opened,” when he wrote 44 The Campaign Op ened.” He says that printer is always thinking of something to drink. with no general manufacturing inter- one ^ P ulv ® ri *? * ^PinflE ests, with sparse population, and no I tcas P°° n f u l. and m°lasses (or. sugar), immigration, they necessarily have a one tcacu P^ uk be very light business, less by several I ^ &l*il the bot ns aqut forti*. hJdri p, cent tJnd J We ■». . fttari rt». parity. oWe horee that has been troubled with ..ir ■ the bote for some yeara Hi. remedy interest on their bonds, and provide al ... , sinking fend lor redemption, or pry c f"“ h a I""! »/ “.»«"• dividends as the case may bo, thoy can-1 ab,lr s * , “ re, ' ef ' H * ... . , ..uses sweet milk and molas.ie», of the not possibly work cheap, they must ... , , , . . have high rates for all they do in order ^ ^ **&*&** ? V r “** • “ sweetened milk, will deta-h itselffrom tosM.mthe.nrelven tk. cents of the, stomnek t. tad upon Xhqf cannot worit st such tow rates ^ He urtU irelop OM coni «nd *>» b UunUri but thinks • ioroform i, competition with Northern railways. 44 We will now. compare the condi tion of the Northern and Southern manufacturers of iron. 44 The Northern manufacturer has more powerful in its acti-»u and quicker in its effects, though i'>uch more severe on the horse. A bawl room-t-Tha nureeiy.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1832-1872, September 01, 1871, Image 1