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$ Jamilg Journal—Jptboteb to gtetos, politics, literature, Agriculture, an& % fnksttial Interests of % people JIIREE DOLLARS PfK ASiBO It ADVANCE. ATHENS, 6A. SEPTEMBER S, !87l. * VOL XLI.—NO. 2—NEW SERIES. VQL 4. NO. 46. hmmiv :* whkhl.lt jn * a A. ATKINSON, r three hollars PER annum, strkti.vix advance. ,'nr, UdmJ st., over J. H. Uuggin*. KtTKS OF tllVEUTIKIXfi. j W ,i*iiu9i>t* will twinwmd'atOneJIoUw Mid »v ,vht< prr Square oflJ lines. for The trj.t, and «'-itr-4»* Cent* for each subsequent !ns*runn. ,.,v time under one month. For * longer period ,-jeontrueu will be ia*4e. Business Directory. «\n cou». b. iRtrijr. howkll conn cobb, ERvm * conn, i TTORNEYSat law, V. RDtcm, Gsetgla. Often In the Deuprec Win*. l». (J. CANDLER, ^ T T O U N E Y A T Summey & Newton, ■ HOAD «T., ATHENA, OA —:o:— IRON, PLOW STEEL, STEEL, HOES, NAILS, PLOWS, HILL SAWS, COTTON GINS, And General Hardware and Cutlery, at Wholesale and Retail. Sl/MMEY Jt NEWTON thenr. Ga.. April lith. tt No. • Broad SI. L A W Hanks County. Ga. Will practice of Hanks. Jackson, Hall, llabcr A Franklin. Home MISTI\ W. BflHIN, v T T O H N E Y A T L A W \ and Notary Public, Athens, Da. Will pra ... u. :ac Western circuit: will K' vt particular i,tion to the (vllcclion of claim-, and will act as ,'ii f*r t ho pur* base and sate df real estate and uses on wild lands. |anl5tl „ ,K St. TO It. C. W. SKIDKLL, hKELTON & SBIBKI L. 4 T T O U N E Y S AT L A W ■ 1 Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia. Fireside Miscellany. Work. BT ALICE CART. ARTHUR EVAN A Watchmaker & Jeweller, (LATE WITH CHILDS A MOSS,) "IDEtiPECTFULLY imnouncps to _LY the cIUmos of Athens ana rlcSidtjr that h* has locate^ at the N*j* IfroiStoT. of Dr. tVm. dll kind. of repairs on t, etc. All work promptly (Aug. II—8ut. TO THE_PUBLIC. T HAVE PURCHASED the inter- .I. eM of Mr Wm. J. M >rt«n in the late firm of Hitch A MurUri. mu! will continue the business. I hope, by f.tir Uealint; to icisin the customers of the late firm, jud to receive a fair share of the ir.ule in my hue of business. A fresh stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods will l»e received for the Commencement trade. July 21. J. E. HITCH. PITTMAN A MINTON, V TTORNEYS AT LAW, / Y Jefferson, Jackson county, Oa. SAMUEL P. THURMOND. A ttorney atlaw, £jL Athens, (is. Office on Broad street, oyer Isrry .% SsMi’a .Store. Will rive special attention o oaics in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of 11 claims entrusted to his care. J. 4. ft J. i\ ALEXIMIKR, HEALERS IN HARDWARE, L-f- Inn Suwi, Nails, C.rriage Malarial, Mining ipMhaaia^Ac., While Kill >t., Atlanta. M.V.IN ESTES, VTTORNEY AT O. Homer, Bank* County, Oa. LAW, J. B. MTLESKET. A ttorney atlaw, CemesviUc, Franklin county, Ga. Office nsrly occupied byJ. F. Langston, Esq. ia21 WM. WOOD DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF P U RNITURB. jJ'URNITURE REPAIRED, UP- EBBLGUAN & BROWN, Wholesale Dealers in Soots, Shoes, and leather, LHtENCH and American Calf Skins, J? Last,, Pc*., Lining and Binding bkins, Shoo findings, Ar. OpiH.site Klnilull House, Decatur street, Atlanta, tia. P. O. R»i 1S6. Shoe manuCu-turers and Merchants will #n.t It to tksii adraiitagc to call on us before making their purrlUkMS. |»r>6-3ro. of wood coftns and Fisk’s Patent Meulic Burial * 'fttet al wavs on hand. Ware rooms on Clayton St., next to Episcopal Church. Sop9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD. O'HARA’S Giant Pocket Corn Slieller, T3RICE ONLY 81 50. Call and see JT It at CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO’S. HARNESS LEATHER, -AND HARNESS MATERIAL. LT'OR SALE BY X 1 CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO. Carriage, Buggy ft Wagon SXKsAYAJPSJBiJaa4iaa» A LARGE and well selected assort ment, for sale by CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO. Horse, Cow, Hog ft Chicken at the NEW DRUG STORE. Down and up, and up and down, Over and over and over; Turn in the little seed, dry and brown. Turn out the bright red clover. Work, and the sun your work will share. And the rain in its time will fall; For Nature she worketb everywhere. And the grace of God through all. With band on the spade and heart in the sky. Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed brown and dry, Turn out the gnlded millet. Work, and your house shall lie duly fed; Work, and rest shall be won. I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive, when his woik it done l Down and up, and up and down, On the hill top, low in the valley ; Turn in the little seed dry and brown, Turn out the rose nnd lily. Work with a plan or without a plan, And your ends shall be shaped true. Work, and learn at first hand, like a man. The best way is to know and to do 1 Down and up. till life shall close, Ceasing not your praises; Turn in the wild white winter snows, Turn out the sweet wild daisies. Work, nnd the sun your work will share, And the min in its time will fall; For nature\she worketh eveiywh re, And the grace of God through all. The Fairy of the Glen. Turnip Seed. EARLY FLAT DUTCH, STRAP LEAVED. POME III AN GLOBE, LARGE NORFOLK, SEVEN TOP, M.ihunv Reb) AMBER GLOBE. YELLOW HUT A BAG A, WHITE RUTA BAGA, FRESH AND GENUINE, AT THE NEW DRUG STORE. hilst Miiland Cattofl Seed Kulle COMBINED. , t\VN El > in Georgia, made in Goor- ' ' <>u. tt:;-l <>i tit-urgia material. This ia a mr m K *.i tr iii Mill. «e/r:tM and is «*aae harden ed *.* d' i>» rau for sear* without wearing out l int' Ilumony, Hulls Cotton Seed, I.. hn: it r.Wheat. 1: i. Hi • ... - />.r i .> sun.,0.1 S' vkH.V;, itfl I'nllv warranted f *'.»! ^rin 11*. Bushels of corn, and hull 300 hushfJ .1 fte.si |»rr <i.iv. wiih.bf Sor*r /totter, on romtn 'jin jfor Send f<»r .-ijvul.ir and pri« e list, lo K. RGCETCIirUSi CO., Jtai v t*.ai. Columbus, Ga. Life of Gen. Lee. T 1FK nt‘ Gen. Roliort U. Lrr— J J «l!h In For Sale or Exchange. T HAVE 300 acres of land in Cle- burns I’a, Ala., which 1 will sell cheap, or ex clause fur rt-ui cataie in this city. There are tio acres cleared, aiiufii the beat bottom land on Uane creek, pruilurlng .10 to <5 buabcla of corn per acre, and coiloii in proportion. Tlie remainder is in the wotala. The farm ta '10 miles from the Selma, Rome and Urliou Kallroad, oncandaquarler miles tVom the eoiioly site, Gtlwunl.silie, 6 miles fr..tu the located de|iot of the C<duu)l.ut and Cliat- lanouga Railroad, and one mile ft-om the route of the Uritfin anti North Aialiaina Railroad There is an excellent store house (not he- long'-tg to the place), which can be bought or re .tied chea.p end ia a . Mplrndid Stand for a Country Store. Titles in*lUj»utable. For further information a^ ply to, or addim Da. J. W. MURRELL, March SI -3m Athens. Ga. THE GEH! THE GEM!! r PHE BEST FRUIT JAR ever in X vented. Forialrutthe NEW DRUG STORE. I'HAT BROWN’S GIN I pur ■ enved ui Summey A Newton (Agents fur it in Athens) a out two years ago. is as good as new now, uud ihei e is none .wtu r. ' THUS. HOLDER. you’ll have to help me do the turns.” May took the candle-stick, contain ing the half inch of tallow candle, and with alow “ good-night, ma’am,” went sadly up the stair-case pointed out, to little room at the top that she was to occupy. Then closing the door, May fell on her knees and wept bitterly. *' Oh,” she cried, “ how can I live with these hard, unloving people?— Pray, God, take me away to my dear, dead Mamma 1” It was early daybreak when the harsh voice called, “Mary, make haste down 1” Fm no longer May,” thought the ddMi^rtn somebody «£&"' She hurried down, and assisted all day at “ the turns,” but oh, that never- ending, first week at Unde Lyndon’s. No relief from toil—no companions— not a single book—such waste of time Aunt Martha would condemn. “ When you want amusement, Mary,” she said, “ go on with knitting Uncle’s stockings.” At length the sweet springtime had come, the trees were bursting into bud and blossom, and the swallows had come, too. A little twittering an nounced the building of a nest under the eaves of the old farm-house. Oh, for something to love—some thing to love me!” sighed louely, little Mary. Another week of glad sunshine, and thick, green foliage dotlied the trees, and wild flowers covered the hedge rows of the pleasant lanes. “Shall you be lonesome, Mary?" asked Aunt Martha, one night, “ if Unde Roger and I leave you fora whole day ? We are going to the town, and it will be quite dork before we get home; but you’re quite safe, for the men will be about the farm, and the dogs always bark if a stranger comes round.” Mary assured her aunt that she would not feel afraid, and she fell asleep, wondering if Aunt Martha made her journeys to the town in that striped skirt and faded sun-bonnet— But no. Mrs. Lyndon, though a score of years behind the mode, looked quite respectable the next morning. They started after an early breakfast, and May, standing on tip-toe. .gazed after them until they were out of sij then her eyes fell upon the undulating line of hill and valley, and she called to mind a deep hollow at the foot of one of the hills, remembering her dis appointment as Uncle Roger drove by W 1 "IW y illuAtnttions, ar.tl maps. By Brice, §5. T. d\. Bruvr a A. B. FAIMIUIIAIt, of F| rvnsylvsnia Agricultural WorltS, *uuifkrfi;!rr cf Irupro*ui * [YORK, Pkkw’a. MClaivMffFm KOl-in STEEL SWEEPS, and scjtAPElW, JLj-waSkz qMBf Hoasa-Powins, Tuxsuu- «»* Macni*~' noun & FEED STORE! ON COLLEGE AVENUE, (OPrOBITE NBWTON HOUSE.) Nay I! WM. HENRY HULL. Wilkie Collins’ Novels. A KM A DALE; paper, 81 60 U Cloth. 42. Man and With; paper, ft: doth. Il so. Tho Moon-Siona; paper, 41SO idoth, 43. N-tSomc, paper, 41 SO; cloth: 3. The Woman lo Wkjo; ***,„ M; e, °‘ h ’ W T F °a“WkE. New Books. THE COMIC BLACKSTONE; by -4, Hilbert Abbot A’Beckett, with Uluatratloua Notice to Planters. E HAVE perfected arrange- munis wii the Brown Colton Gin Co., so that w«» can allow lliu® on these* i t !e‘-rated Gins. All letters cheerftillyanswered. SUMMEY & NEWTON. fall and Winter Importation. 1871. RIBBONS, Millinery and Straw Goods & MSTRONGj CATdii & GO*, ixroaTXK, aXd jobbers or BONNET, TRIMMING, AND VELVET Bonnet Silks, Satins and Velvets, Bluk NtUs, Crapes, lluchts, Flowers, Feathers, OJiSAMESTS, jitai |qulbI$ and files’ $&U, TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED, SHAKER HOODS, AC. 237 and 239 Baltimore Street, HAI.TI.il«KK,Wn. Offer the -aigeM Hock to be found in thD coun try, and unequalled in choice variety and ebeap- ns, comprising the latest European noealtico. Orders solicited, uud prompt allautlou giren. Aug II St BY E. ANDERSON. Roger Lyndon led nway his little orphan niece from the grave of her mother. Her father, his only brother, had died a year before, and at that time he had promised, should the child ever want a home, he would provide one; “ but,” he had added, “ there are no pets at our house; we work all day, and don’t sit down to read poetry, and make fanciful gew-gaws, like these,” aud he looked scornfully on the little ornaments of the widow’s best room. So when the poor mother, who, for her child’s sake, had struggled on iu failing health, was released from earth ly suffering, Roger Lyndon came again. The furniture was all sold, and May only allowed a few mementoes of her childhood to carry away to her new home. The poor child was scarcely ten years old, but had promised her moth er she would endeavor to conform Uncle Roger's rules, and above all, not trouble him with her griefs, for hated tears, and like some others, never laughed and never cried. Oh, what miserable people these are!— They oiiglitt.ign away into somegloomy I Yittle glen' world of their own, where there is 1 nothing bright, and beautiful, and loveable. No, Roger Lyndon looked not down at the sweet, earthly flowers,. , ... , ' home some of my own, Bweet blos- nor upward to those flowers of Heaven I „ —the glorious stars, As poor, little May rode along by her uncle’s side, but few words were exchanged between them. He was re gretting the two days he had lost, and An entire day, and no work!” I cried the child. “HI be May once more, and go to the glen, and bring soms. May put on her sun-down, packed her dinner into a little basket, and away she tripi-cd over the lonely moor. There was the very place they had passed upon that dreary ride. How hoping work at the farm had gone on |t looked the deep shad . all right during his absence; aud his I of ^ lcafy treca! And in that young companion, mourning her sever- L^ ghe heard ;he drop . ■nee from the graves of all she loved. | ^ rf a tby CMCade< and fo , lowing the sounds, descended lower and lower into the glen. A little brook was flow ing by, its sparkling waters cool and At times forgetting her troubles, she gazed, with pleasure, on the varying landscape, or uttered an exclamation of delight as a little red or blue ' ,ird | pleasant to the young wanderer’s eyes, flew belore them, and then poor May * „ pm . ^ M tQ ^ my ^ was checked by a gruff “ don t talk \ f Ma >a0> kDee Ungdown, suck nonsense, cn ild! 1 Towards evening they reached a great tract of moor-land country; the she drank of the sweet water, then rest ing her head against a tree which dip- . , . , . , . ped its long branches into the biook, last few Jn.l^ bad been up and down fcU ^ and drearaed of honie steep, rough hills, and it seejned to be-1 ^ unf ^ home> and during come more bleak and lonelyas they K h dreani8( the hours past advanced; then here and there stood a few clumps of trees; field? and mead- y w J' long ^ noon when she ows succeeded, and beyoud them stood l woke> dy refreshed, but oh, so a solitary house and out-budding h , May open her litUe basket. Three or four great dogs rushed out 1 b J 'OrotttCruikahank. One largo Tolumo. _ ,"'»l4id ho not Die? or, tho Child from the if-yiM*. From tho German j by Mra. A. L. J**- II ». , IWa « rolumo Aral of Selene* for tho iff*-'-! Jaeub AuboU, with numerousUlustra- • i. Il *>. SaSr? By Maurice Sand (aoa of George **» Wr5 By 8. A. Depoutc, of fiiijfij 1 *! 'W I’hrxic; or, Ererrbody'o Ufa *■ w. Half, M. D. 41 *0. |, y Brotllane. with eight W ‘ *Tiee««nU. »"«^^ URKE . r I ’’ SUMMEY & NEWTOrtj l.'ijotrUra ami Dealer1 in [Wi Steel, Nails, Hollow Ware, ««Jsiii. 4KVU.S. ra»BN, V 4k«l, ^ Uroad Street, Athens, Oa. OffleeNortheastcrnRailroad, i XTfVrrra^ . A,h *“. -fuua 17; lib. * N°Jl C ? » hereby given that to tha Northeastern ? g °P* B far oubacriptloB. at u«ct u • .*•”• * per rout on tha aulMerlMd “ro, oi£!u?*E b fel2“■ D- Mo^Trou- Uiot* aaSluS^i**™*®- Uom * r ’ “W- Wm. A. Talmadgc, OP. POST OFFICE, COL. ATKNCK. ATHEK Dealer In Watches, docks, Jewelry, Sllrer-pla Were, Musical Iustruments, Speolacles, Gun "f&MS JKSBK-Jfui* ported Watches, Double Gun, with 40 inch barrel, eirrUentfor long raagt. Pistols of all kinds. Penetration of buU 6J4 inchos Into wood. With ■ desire to please aU.will sell the’hboTegood at very reasonable prices. REPAIRING. Watches, docks, Jewelry, Guns end Pistols, promptly attended to in n istisfrctery manner.— CaU and ms ‘ I wish I had brought more,” sai»l she; “I could have eaten twice as much.” She started to find she was not alone, for near her, a little, old, weary-look- the men are all I woman was bending over the brook and trying to sip a few drops of water from the hollow of her withered hand. Stay, good mother,” said May; “ I have a little cup in my basket— here, drink from this. But are you “ What a namel too fantastic for j not too?” me-Mary, more like!” “ 0h ’ dear! and 1 have no nice Papa and Mamma always called d,nner 8Uch 88 y° ure *” metharma’am and poor, liSe Mary “Thenmkemine. lamyoungand pressed back the tears which trended f^S’ and there is more at Uncle’s on her dark lashes. boa * wh “ 1 f ^ ome ” She looked with dismay on the But at length the dinner was shared, strange figure of her aunt, in a cotton and 88 ^ together and ate, May to form two told her ® m P le 8tor y* with a rough greeting to their master, and May, scared at their savage looks, was lifted from the vehicle on to the porch of the lone farm-house. ‘ My! how late you are 1” exclaim ed a harsh voice; gone home, Roger; you will have to put up the horses yourself. So this is your brother's child—what’s your name, girl!” “ May, ma’am, May Lyndon. 1 you are not more happy, farewell!” ) The .old woman took the staff upon which she had leaned, aud with sur prising swiftness, walked on. She onoe turned and waved her hand, then disappeared amid the trees. “ She cannot he a witch, surely 1” cried May;/ 1 ’ perhaps some fairy in disguise. I> have read of such, and how they protected the lonely and the friendless. _ Yes, I will strive to be good, doing my duty as she bade me. May found another road, by which she could walk along under the trees for some distance, and thus shorten the track over moor; and there were the hawthorns, laden with their sweet, white blossoms, and the birds flitting before her path, so the little wanderer was cheered and comforted. It’s right pleasant to find all in or der when a body comes home tired,' said Aunt Martha, “ and a nice sup per all set ready. You’re getting quite handy, little Mary.” One day, long after, Aunt Martha was busy over a great household wash, aud unlucky, in lifting a large kettle of boiling water, it fell from her grasp, and (loured over one of her feet Then she found the value of her lit tle orphan niece, aud os she sat in her rocking-chair, day after day, lame and helpless, watching the child, working, working with all her strength and en ergy, even the hard heart of Aunt Martha was softened. “Roger Lyndon,” said she to her husband, “ I’ve been a cruel, wicked woman, and I grumbled when you brought home little Mary. But what should I have without her, now?— Please God, if I get better, her young life shall be a happier one.” I’ve thought of that, too, wife,” he answered, “ The child is growing pale aud thin, and slaving herself to death. She has a look, in her face, like my poor, dead sister-in-law, when in her coffin.” So remorse or fear, and, perhaps, one little stem of kiudness, softened his heart, also. A good, strong, colered girl was hired, and May promoted to the post of housekeeper; then, gradually, she came to have entire sway over that lit tle household? - With her sweet, child*- like influence, she had humanized those stony hearts. Flowers were planted round the old farm-house, and in the summer cluster ing roses will peep into May’s little room. And Aunt Martha wears a nice dress and neat cap. Long since, she discarded the patched skirt, and as to the old sun-bonnet, had said, “ burn it, child, burn it, for the beggars would not pick it up if they came round.”— And May laughed aloud as she watch ed the very last shred consumed by the flames. Aunt Martha never quite recovered from her lameness; the muscles of her foot were contracted by that severe scald, so she knits all the stockings now, and exhibits to the admiring ueigliliors, when they call, the tasteful fancy-work or her little niece. But, oh, dou’t think May wastes her time 1 for it is she who makes the pies, and puddings, and cakes ; and I would like to know who else looks after all the young ducklings and chickens ? Once more came round that day when Mary Lyndon had rambled, so lonely and so sorrowing, to the glen ; and true to her promise, she set forth though scarcely expecting to meet that old woman—so did aud feeble; how had she lived through the cold, cold winter ? * She was not there, but on that very spot sat a lady, so young, and fair, and lovely, and so richly dressed, that May believed her some princess, who had lost her way. “ If you please, ma’am,” she asked, dropping a little courtesy, Until then, I Mark Twain and the Car Peddler. Farm Miscellany. Lime as a Fertiliser. Clover! Clover t WB WflHtt me recently. “Ia limestone countries clover it sown to enrich land; throughout the Cotton States we have to enrich the land W fore We can grow clover.” My experience teaches that this is ft great mistake. I am convinced that nowhere on this continent can clover be grown at leu expense and with greater remuneration than on the day lands of the South, at least as far South as the latitude of the City of Colum bia, S. C. A detail of a few experi- And then there were the peddlers.— I bought out the pop-corn boy to get rid of him because I was trying to I Manures may be dassed under three compose a poem for a young lady’s I principal heads: first, those which sup- album and I did not want to be dis- ply » me «sential dement to the pkmt; turbed. But he came right back with a**® 1 . *«» wtich « mere stimu- a stock of peanuts. I took a new sup- ^ an * 8 * ^*^7* t ^ ose do not ply and hurried him away aud he re- 804 directly on the plant, but act on sub turned with some ice cream candy.— I stances already in the soil, rendering I don’t like ice cream candy and pea- them moresuitableforplant life. Lime nuts together, but I invested at once, Wongs to this last dass almost entire- becausean inspired rhyme bad been >7. as there are very few soils that do born to me, and I wanted to get it not containsuflidentlime forany direct down before it slipped my mind. Then demands that plants are likely to make I meats may not be uninteresting to our dm sooundrd came back to me with on tliem. readers, tobacco and sqmre, nnd afterwards lnorder “*7 ** on In November. 1867,1 with oranges, imitation ivory baby| the ^organic matter in the soil, or. of old red land in barley and whistles, figpaste and apples; then he indeed ’ on any matter » must ^ I clover, manured with two hundred went away and was gone for some time, br0U S ht into 8 Wubie state. Plants pounds of Soluble?Pacific Guano par and I was encouraged to hope the train ^ eed only on liquids and gases; they Mre . I n June, 1868,1 reaped on. had run over him. He was only keep- have n0 P° wer of 8 “ imUatin K ,olld hundred and forty-five bushels of bar- ing hid most malignant outrage to the • .. . , . tty* and secured a beautiful stand of last. He was getting his literature The inorganic portionslof plants Lover on about five acres. In May. ready g 5 built up chiefly of potash, soda, time, twenty-three heavy two-hora* Andfromthat time forward ft.Hr*^ of clover hay were houred. Th- degraded youth did nothing but march ^ ^J lC> ^ 0S ? ° nC ’. , y . fall of 1869 was so dry the crop was from one car to the other and afflict **! , 3 ’ ^ W * * Uan ^ a j pastured off by cattle aud sheep. Th. the passengers with specimen copies of ^ m n/Lantf 6 mrelv 9 P r ‘ n 8 1^70, thuugh uncommonly the vilest blood-and-thunder romances °- n ti ,n t i 1 n i ant « themselves heina| dry ’ produced * fair cro P o^ Hover; on earth. “The Perjurer’s Doom” * ‘ f themsel ^ 81 the fall crqi was agaiu grazed off end “The Desperado’s Revenge” were y , fo . rmed from ° f . s Last May I mowed a beautiful crop of some of his milder works, and on their urin g e t*™ 063 ? rni . hay, and in July a second cutting was backs were pictures of stabbing affrays J . ^ °f 0 . 6 ? 0,1 I housed for winter feeding of sheep.-— and duels, and people shoving other! . a . y ** ID , & S °* n U n February, 1869, the patch was people over precipices, and itched ** ^“JT"'‘“-broadetot with a mixture of eight ha*s wood cuts of women being rescued °° e mso u e • l 0 f Wando and six hundred pounds of from terrible periis of all lrinds—and j ^ however we add causLc lime to thev are always women who are so a Sod ’ * render8 theS ® insoluble 8ub * Last January I turned over, with m . y . ,, , y , ... . , stances soluble, and prepares them for two-horse Monitor plow, all of tbi» criminally homely that any nght-mind-1 ^ uge of the Unt twenty-five acre field, but the five aero* All soils formed from the decompo- * e . U in clover, and in AprU pUnted . . . . . , , I it m sorghum. The three acres, upon violent 'Wh But the ueddler bov 1 81tl ° n ° f gr ” lte 001118111 “ abundance which there was a scattering stand of l . • i of potassa and silica, the most import- c i over , hashed, from its first appear- peddled these atrocious books fop the growth of the Luce above the^ ground, infinitely the wheat plants. But these two elements hes* sovghum in the field. And why T r ,. , ., , , ... I Because the dead clover, the young, o urivijt'-...... »w»t »u« , a f° C ° mblned l Wl ^ eacb0tb ° r ’ “ d ^ clover, and the roots of clover turneS ... ... ° , alumina, m the form ol feldspar, which L nderin j anuary have manured thfr trying to say things that would make | ^ perfect , y iusoluble . Caustic ^ 7 lime breaks up this combination; and I Another experiment. In 1867 l accordingly, when the farmer finds sow<*l a cow-peiinedpatch ofoue and ,. ° • ^ . . a half acres in barley aud clover. that bis wheat straw is getting too fee- &Uy 1870> a very p^r crop was taken ble to support its own weight, he ap-1 from the patch, and in October last plies lime to the soil, with the imme-1 the young clover was pastured off by along for hours together, and 1 gave up my poem at last, and devoted all my energies to driving him away and trying to say things that w him happy.—Mark Twain. Chiuese Productions. The beautiful fabric knownas Grass-1 cloth is of China production. The term grass is peculiarly inappropriate, diate effect of stiffening up tho straw. I sheep tUfscaxcely average was appa- as the fibres from which the cloth > 8 p:<v v or ojrtv vears a»o the farms in rent *>’ ^ t ’, Immediately after the lap. 1 manufactured are as far removed from New Y or k, Pennsylvania, and Virgin- j ey> followed by a two horse Murfee in grass as possible. There are tnree I had almost i un down, anti were not | same Furrow, and sownin wheat. Thia different plants ftom which the fibre* Lon^ered worth fencing. These were land. vhp* years ago was a day bank, Sido | .» .,:u I seemed now a nch, friable, black soil r which I folt sure would produeo • wheats • mi i>~ B a * crop; but I feared the clover was gone- are cultivated to a large extent. T e and Virginia. They had been 186 after harrowing I sowed the surface fm t makes the finest fabric, and » cropped through consecutive years with with orchard grass #eed. The wheat used in the Southern provinces of Chi- ^ same lant3> uatU they would no and grow came up well, but when i n^Ur^lyfor clothins There .real nger j«d enough » pn, f« U.e great many varieties of this cloth, as trouble In 80ia e parts of Pennsyl- c i over as ever I saw. Where tho seed we have of cotton and wool, and they 1 yan j a jj me jg a bundant, and upon ap-1 came from 1 can’t tell, but the crop is range in price from eight cents to 81- . • it to the W0nWJUt soils the cf- there to show for itself. 25 per yard. They are not considered s wa3 remarkable . Farms that . Tbi ^ expe«trmnt. J have stated as desirable as linen. We get a quan-J thipty Qr forty year3 ag0 could almost I °D5ri n g this time th* tity of this production in the form of j,ave been had for the asking, are now j cattle and sheep were housed every cloth and linen handkerchiefs. Can- known as being among the best in the night, and their dropninga sheltered ton is the port from which this cloth is g. I until March, 1870, wnen they were .tmnojtaik;. ro.int.ir J; . . , . . hauled out and thrown in furrows upon shipped to this country. But lt ^ not on t he inorganic P«r- w hich beds were made, and the land. Vegetable Tallow is an article °* Lion of the soil alone that lime acts.— I planted in cotton. This last spring, some importance. It is an envelope I j t bears, perhaps, an even more im-! almost every one of those beds, for of the seeds of the StiUingieae Sebifera, Nation to the organic portion I several inches on either side of the row the “ tallow tree.” This tree grows of the goii. i a Norway and Sweden, of cotton BtalkB was cove ^ d Wl - b -* spontaneously in China, and has been every f armer has to pay a portion of introduced into this country, and hia Ux to t h e government in saltpetre, forms a shade tree in this city. The i n order prepare this, ho heaps to- seeds are steamed to soften the tallow, Igcfoe, 0 j d mortar or lime, manure, which are then washed and pressed, u hes, and earth, and keeps the heap and the tallow formed in cakes. It is I mo igt. The lime and the nitrogenous used for m: king candles, and some is ma tte f of the manure react on each exported. It is much inferior to stear- J other, an( j form nitrate and carbonate ine or ox. The candles are often high-1 oflime. Nitrate of lime is decomposed lyornamented. j by the carbonate of potassa from the wood ashes, and saltpetre is thus form ed. Precisely the same kind of reac- Maryland is excited over an “ Afri- j tfoa is going on continually in the soil can Fire King,” and this is what he wb en we apply lime to it; and thus does: He first heated a shovel red I the nitrogen of the decaying vegetable A Human Salamander. i for yourselxea. apr 4 To Housekeepers. TUST RECEIVED, a large assort- rj meat at which we ere offering at tkj lew prtcae. WARRANTED IN EVKIIV PARTICULAR SOMME Y& NEWTON. met a poor, old woman in the glen?” “ I was that old woman, May,” and she laughed a sweet, musical laugh, that the birds up above, iu the high trees, seemed to uuderstand. “ But 1 have often seen you in your sleep, and watched over you. Tell me, are you not happy now ?” “ Yes, dear lady, so happy 11 have all I wish for—flowers, and birds, and books, and Aunt Martha loves to hear me read to her at night. She calls me ‘May,’ now, and never speaks cross any more. And I no longer stand upon the moor to hearken for the Sabbath bells, for Uncle takes me to church But I thank you, Madame, for before hot, and applied it to the bottom of matter is brought into fit condition for one of his feet It made no impress- the use of plants. For all these uses ion on him whatever. He next heated the more caustic the lime is, the better a shovel red hot and licked it repeated- f or the land. A heap of lime that has ly with bis tongue. It did not even been long exposed to air and run is dry the saliva in his mouth. He then I much less valuable than that which is have you! put his hand in a hot stove and took freshty slacked, as it has absorbed car- « a AM zLaaa/Lam am iwiJItnl nnfltMIAlfa nAnl Ann I t •_ ! J 1* 4a therefrom a redhot anthracite coal, and bonic acid from the air. Carbonate of offered it to the spectators, whodedin- ij me is of but little value as a manure, ed to accept the present. His hand although, when it is finely divided, as was not even scorched. He then call- when it is in the state of chalk, it may dress, pinned up so as most capacious pockets, displaying an “ Yes,” she added, “ I have a she!- ^ old, striped, woolen skirt, and stout, tor, and food, and clothes, but oh, i we met ^ j wa8 hopeless, and heartless, clumsy shoes. She also wore a faded j Ihe 1-6 * 9 no one to t° ve me • an< ^ 13 1 an d fretting my life away. It was you sun-bonnet, whose original color it | work all day long. from | wko p Ut j t j nto their hearts to be kind would have been hard to guess. Aunt I sunrise to its setting. This is my first Martha usually assumed that descrip- Wida 7. «>r I never go out not even to tion of head-gear, “ being handy-like,” <*“«*. 80 1 ramble awa 7 to the moor, sheoid, “Jrai out of doors.” and there listen tothe foDoffSobbath May glanced timidly round the large, bells.” dimly- i^bted room, as she ate her sup-1 “ Patience awhile, little May; goon per, her eyes heavy with sleep, and I in your well-doing, and such goodness 80 yet more so with the repressed tears. I will meet its reward. The poor, weary You’re tired now, child, I guess,” I woman can only now give yon her ?aidherftiuit, “ oo go to bed, for we I thanks; but come again to the glen, rise early *! the £aa,Jftd to-morrow upon Itit day next year, and tell me if and good.' No, no, my child, I but counseled you. But I have seen your happiness, and again bid you farewell.” “ And shall we meet no more ?” “ It is needless, May. You now esess all you want, and there are other little, lonelv wanderers. Mv care must be extended to one of those. “ Oh, yes, kind Fury; go on your errand of love, and take with you the thanks and blessings of the little orphan you have protected.” ed out to know if there were any “ un believers” present. To his astonish ment a spectator announced himself still an “ unbeliever.” He then put a shovel in the stove and partially filled it with shot; when the shot had got pretty hot he stirred them with his naked fingers till the lead had melted. He then took the shovel in his right hand and poured the hot melted lead in bis left hand, and then poured the burning solution into his mouth, kept it there till it cooled, and spit it out in a lump. The spectator then expressed himself entirely satisfied. He said that was only a 820 performance; if they would make him up850 he would show them something worth seeing. A quarry of granite has been dis covered on the South Carolina ride of the Savannah river, a short distance above Augusta. The granite, the sup ply of which is almost inhaustible, can be readily split out into blocks of any mm desired, and is pronounced to be the torn" quality of stone which ia used on tho New York pftyoments. serve to neutralize the vegetable acids that exist iu some wet lands. It is undoubtedly better to apply lime di rectly to the soil than to make a com post of it, with peat, or such sub stances, for we do not gain enough by the mixing to pay for the expense of the manipulation. We have been fre quently asked how much lime should be applied to the acre. This is a very difficult question to answer, unless wo know all about the soil to which it is to be applied. What would be an ex cessive quantity for some lands is too little for others. In some sections, or upon some lands, one hundred bushels to the acre may be applied with bene ficial results; mothers, fifty or sixty bushels are an abundance, while some lands will not bear more than twenty or thirty. Lime should never be applied di rectly in association with manure, as it tends to drive off the ammonia, and thus lower its value. If we wish to apply it to corn or wheat land, it i* best, perhaps, to top-dress the sod the year before we intend to plow. The manure may be their applied, and plowed under in the spring, without much danger of loss, as the lime has been doing its work during the winter. thick growth of clover. Those beds were reversed, and the land again planted in cotton. At every working of the crop during the summer • young growth of clover nad to be destroyed. Fourth experiment. In April, 1870, I selected a half acre of good gray land, so thickly covered-with nut grass that the ground could not be seen, for » sweet potato patch, to test the powea of vines in eradicating nut mwa by their shade. The land was laid off in five feet spaces, and heavily manured in the drill with manure from the cow house, and bedded upon. In May the slips were set out. First of July the vines could not be seeu for the nut grass. The patch was then thoroughly plowed and hoed, aud by September • roost luxuriant growth of vine* and nut ;rass covered tho land. Last Novem- jer the vines were cut and carried off; the potatoes dug; the loud plowed and cross-plowed, and about three pecks of barley harrowed iu until the land was perfectly smooth. Last June a fair crop of barley was harvested, and the stubble on at least half the patch was, in a few days, perfectly hid hr • com plete growth of clover; which «U tha summer kept the nut grass so in check that there is not a healthy stalk of this pest to be seen. This first crop of clover has died, and the second crop ia springing up beautifully. What effect the succeeding growth of clover will have upon the nut grass, time ftons can telL The experiment, however, ;& well worth pushing to a further tost, for if clover can be made instrumental in destroying nut grass, its value will be increased tenfold. The only difficulty with clover is se curing a stand. I have sown i. in No vember in all kinds of grain, and se cured a perfect stand. I have, at other times, with the very came practice, been disappointed by a most perfect failure. I nave sown it in Eebruary and never secured a perfect stand.— Good authority says it shoul i be sown on well-prepared, clean land in March, and allowed to battle with weeds and grass for twelve months wit rout bring trod upon. My judgment is a fell sow ing on dear loud, say in .Ssptember or October, will ensure quite as good a stand, and so occupy thn ground by spring, that a contest with seeds ana grass will not be necessary. At any rate, a stand of dover once obtained need never be lost, and is worth more annuailv than a crop of cotton, could the Utter he grown without work^H. Wvtn Aiken, in Bond CberriMaK