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ATHENS, GA. AUGUST 2, 1372.
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Miscellaneous.
VOL XLU.-NO. 6—NEW SERIES VOL 5. NO. 4L
!•; ||.!S;IM> WEEKLY,
IJV 8. A. ATKINSON,
IT r |’jfvi'* TVHiLIRS PS<1 ANNUM)
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) i ., t /I,„ 11 si., oner J. 11. lluggin-.
>n <»!■’ »:iv-iari«ii\o.
»iwani**n »nts will He Invrted at One D«*llar ami
F:i'iv • • .• ^,*nri» afli linen, forth© first.and
S .»* • it /- Ivt* ”* it* f ,f ea»ih subsequent portion,
1 ' »i • li •» * ‘ *n»* »»p»nth. Fora longer i>erto<l
IK . will h* usi-.
ilninasa Directory.
\>- 'OMP. A 6 KIWIS HOWEt-L COJ-.B
C MU, KKWIN A Conn,
i r o n n t e y s a r l a w .
Aihr.i,, Gear*!*. Office In Hie Deup. c
J iY 0. GaILcY,
IP T [Avro | I'NVITESATTENTION TO HIS
r J .lL.JUiMi,o, MEW fall stock
OK
CEOC&EET
DEALER IN
STOVES,
GS.B3 Wlf E,
\
r: f I.U I K’Y Iir.MRY jackson
L 111 >-ii:i & Jackson,
V r r »;ls’ :»'S \r LAW will practice in t v
s t ,r ' • »rf »f Ciarkc-uiniy, the Suprnn
*» in;' :'if v ! no 1 i||> Unite-1 St.it®*s I'miri
vr **» X *r*n«rn •'.strict <* r»rsia. feH.Btf
SV'IL’BL I*. THURMONO,
r r > i > ! -: Y A T L A W
v • i *n, fi. Hi^4i ’toil street, over
CHIMNEYS AND
PURE KEIIOSEXE
OIL.
Ci'.l *n4 examine hie stock belore nurcUse!ng.
tt]>l 13-tf..
SEHOVATE YOJR CARPUS,
Something Sew !
Fireside Jitiscdlany.
One HnndreiMn the Shade... *
Our renders are in a condition to ap
preciate the following extravagant piece
of isothermal fancy, by Olivkb Wendell
Holmes.
At least two Fahrenheits blew up,
And killed two children small,
And one barometer shot dead
A tutor with his ball.
Now all day long the locust sang
Among the leafy trees;
Three new hotels warped inside out,
Tlu: pumps cuoid only wheese:
And ripe old wiue, that twenty years
Had cobwebbed o’er in vain,
Came ^-pouting through the rotten corks,
Like July's best chnmpaigne!
nwa Bver asked the old man.
He was directed, and ere long was
nation with the unfortunate
corroborated tne laud-
don't you take a new shop ?*
said the oW man; “ there’s a new one
iD the block right opposite the other
barteftfthop.”
“!\Yhat!” said the other, “you
must be mzy. “Why, that block
belongs to old Billy Gibbons; he’d
never let ooe of these stores for a
’* shop; they are a mighty sight
besides that, I haven’t g n
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irr'.ige .1 iTeri .1. Mining
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HOUSE FURNISHING GCOilS,
r HAVE STILL OX HAXD
I. the
Largest Variety of Stoves
•n M’l-n., whi. h I will fumiali at tin- incut lit-
A DISCOVERY has recently I»een
ittiJe t*y which Velvet, Bru.^eht ^nd In-
! gr ;in t'jtrpeLs **an he thoroughly ,.uue«i atu.i ren^»-
I v.iicd, wlUioi.r removing them fr«>ut ti.c it
ahiMl,-.vr.ivs and preveutn moths It thoroughly
cleanses all rov.*r«*d r uni : t«r»* f «uc- a.« Plush Chairs, !
Sociable*, Divans, ihickera.etc. It is the acknowl- :
edged cleanser for clothing of all descriptions, re- And brimstone soon became a dru?.
i nioving grease »j>ots und restoring thfir original . . , . ...
! c .h.rs. For silks, rib*»on- *nd lace there is noth- i And Ii>COtocos tell;
iugthit oq.i.l* it. snd c n he used wi hout the
! lic Worcester locomotive did
Their trip iu half an hour;
, The Lowell cars ran torty miles
Before they checked the power ;
Saudis a pur- K *nov King s luticn Thli
entirely a he«r or* •«*«,'« ml •'o-nme*.dsi self when
ever used. Wi* w'.il le’UNourear ets.etc.,or foi-
nish the solution, wi*h d rod •*-.*for using.
Saltpetre was to sell.
Plump men of mornings ordered tights,
This c-rtif
Cleanse • lor :
in4 all crease
r 'Storing the or gi
mend hi
M.V V\ BSTRS,
> .i X E Y A T
it* County, <>a.
L A W
V t r >>
. V. .Inner, Bin
PI rr« IN St HINTON, .
A T TORNBYS A r LAW,
a V. JeTersoii, J tcksou county, tia.
NOni’E UK CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
JN TIIK
GEORGIA ancl M ACOX and
AUGUSTA RAILRODS.
*uperiutrnriei«t*M Ofllre,
(•eiiritU and laron It Augusta |tni;r ml, -
Aug ist 4, <> ., Juhe 5,1872. ) ■
/ AN AND AFTER WLtLA'E>-
" * Y, Ju i ; 5tl», l>72, the fttasenger I’.ains |
oil ih i teo.-gi 4 .i4i 1 M t?»m’ and Augusta K iilroaUs
'Aid r»4U is loilowN :
UJXHiUL 1 RAILROAD.
Dai/ l\t**enjcr Train will
Leave August
THE MARION,
r tn o. o .. . , . will proiunily attend t« all orders left a: h
Jj’irj^At (fv 'u Step n‘icz .1/ inuf tciure l / . shop, oil Jackson street, near the National
Hundreds of the Marion havel^en sold in Ath- a l ,ri * >9 ~ tf JOHN Pi
The undcrsigne*l has oirehased the recei|4 f*»r
theatMkve **»luG.»n from Mr. Max M. Myersou. and
will promptly attend to all orders left u: his I*aiut
Bank.
POTTS.
without an ex ep i
;tv.*n in Kiu-idel tali-faction. :o|» 4rii.-» wishing
i good stove t a sm.4.1 pr.ee 1 can safety say that
T:ie Mirion is the Stove.
THE S3U THERfUDME,
Win. A. Talmailge,
PONT OFFin:, VOL. AVF.XL'E, ATHENS
An entirely
By i ii ««i Vi
d.r-edy on 1
strong neu *
R ivo in lesij» i a
r in^ *in ?n.. i4ie
• the .
5 .1
L ave A.lao
\i » iv • as Atlanta at t* 4 * •>. ir.
Arrive at \ugus*a at A 3” •». i..
Sijltt t‘<issen<jer Train.
L -avc A ug.ist tat H 15 p m.
I.e»ve. V lauia ;t -H is) p. m.
Arrive ai Allan!a at ♦> 45a. in.
Arrive at Au^uniaat C IS)a. in.
MACOX AXD AUGUSTA R. R.
Day I’assenger Train.
1.C1W All :u,ia a) II '«» a. m.
. M.I It ii :io a. in..
Arrive in An ;ti,t:l at X-4S |>. in.
Ann- in Mat >n ut...-. 7 IB (>■«■.
Sight I’is&'njer Train.
leave A u-ll-la al * IS m.
I. we M it .n it !** <X)p. 111.
rrivv-in «n.*nst.i -it ♦> Oh a. in.
Ar.ivt* .ii Alat-ou at 4 15a. m.
Alla it i
nak
*>.Miger Tr
ill. (lie lr
Athens, Washington, J
lilroid, hy taking the >
»a'-e t onnec.iou at Ca- ,
id const rue*ion.
part of the oven
• i»rote te l fr .in ihe
lire in Ibis particular pla -e, au.1
u iioiioriii -ie;»i :s oiilaincd, in ad parts of iheoven,
thu* securing the most desirable 1:11114 in a iy stove,
vs*: Kvcn halting an « ro .sting. This siovc has
l»con in the mark *t but a short ti ne, and the largo
*alv* since its introduction wanaids the conclusion .
that it will soon he the
L£A0!JG isTdV «»the(JOUMTP.Y
I A Lilt KEEP TilE {
FOMENT CITY,
QUEEN OF THE SOUTH.
FIRESIDE,
CAIMI’OL CITY,
And Many Oiliei* Leading
Slaves.
1 have on hand at all times a large stock of
Ti m * Vare of all Kinds
. 4t:s; c-ssth.t JOSES' TIX IVA HE ha* met
w . ti » t. e i.s iuimauction, s . s.i(Uc>eot guarantee
Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver-plated
Ware, Mas cal Instruments, >peotacles, l«uus.
Pistols, .S|M>rting Equipments, Ac. Ac.
A Select St«ick of American and im
ported Watches, DouhIel*uns with
40 inch barrel, rscellrnt for long
rang*. Putols ol all kinds.
Penetration of hull G*-£
inches into wood.
With a desire to please all, will sed the above good
at very reasonable prices.
REPAIRING.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Guns and Pistols,
pr onptly tttendetl to in a satisfactory manner—
Call anil see for Yourselves. anr 4
X* Wi KALL4M)
TEACEIER OS U8IC.
/ vFI'TvJE o—>r.~ i.i !.u.ii,»kin a-id
' * riavMi, .IIV..I- -,r • ‘
ing the sponges that the greatest dex
terity is shown. The spears used by
the Greeks are shorter than those em
ployed by the natives, but they man
age them with such adroitness as some
times to reach sponges covered by six
ty feet of water. The British Vice-
Oonsul at Tunis reports that thee
Greeks hold in their hands three or
four spears, and dart them with such
precision one after the other, that be
fore the first has tune to disappear the
second strikes its upper extremity, and
thus gives it additional impetus to
reach the sponge aimed at. What-
it op cver a sponge teremoved a- new one is
produced within a year to take its
place. The finest sponges are found
in the Mediterranean, the chief mar
ket being Smyrna. Coarse sponges
are procured in great numbers in the
vraters of the Bahamas, and form an
important article of export from those
Islands. A very good article of sponge
is found on the coast of Florida,
m .
illui mN \ Firsi-Cl Sle-pini Cars <
ii-4.1t l*.c*«M»4-r rr tins •»!! tbe ■ ie-u^ia Kail
* I First- '!»'> 4 -eping Canon all Night Trains
be nI.4 v -o » an.1 Angaria Uiilro-ul.
S. K. JD.I.N30N, Sn/il.
C.'/ SS/L /, ) .'l '/)AMrS,
TO -’.SIGNTE Ft,
|ngrav3E and Printer,
ELEOTR iTYPINa,
S. IV. A'OHNKR 1VX RTII WilKOT STRtKT-
Cin-innnti, Ohio.
Loek Box 22C,
Full anil Winter Clothing.
J. E. 11ITCIL
I N VI 1'E. - * the attention of his friends
.uni last public to nis 1 »rge ami carefully selec
ted slock ol
Raar Mto- Glotiims
AND
lien’s Imi in Dili ns (iiod'.
“ u i l.t) )FI Nil,
GUrrKKING.
AND JOB WORK,
OF ALL KtXDS,
al ten led in promptly. The inauu actory is still in
» h .rge of M.. W. .1. JCN ES, wu » will b j pleased
t«» s«v hisoUl r ends and cu^onuei**.
Orders from tliv c uutry for w,»rk or goods will
meet wit 11 |»ioiu ( »i at.en.itm.
E. E. JUNES,
C truer Brnal anil T torn is sts.,
A THEXS.
Duves Frent'll, Her n 111 and Fn *' >1» |
variety Ueoior d .oths, fmicy cj**-
r lot.4 , cft'Unrs, ucltt»n>,;ur -e.ivc.s,
c *t ii oatiug , silk velvet hii.1 tan-'y
M> stocK of Furn.sniug Gmidsein-
S tirls, Collar*. Ties, Saspen lers, Uwler-
Shistsanl Drawers, Half-Hose.
(iloves in great variety, etc.
(jjjii -JV, \ |li311U
J. E. BITCH.
FREE! FREE!! FREE!!!
SINGLE COPIES OF
c Lam’s f.u it wdud,
V WEEKLY’ Agricultural Journal
that h s Ik?
1 s Ik? *n published ;we’ty-:hreeye trs
m Units, having the L rgest Ci.cu a.l n and
» ieti 1 urp <f contributors of any agf cultural
*«r published in the valley of the Mississippi,
ill appli** -.nts. .^end for a
wm| b . >e f rw to
inu n. A ldress Norman J.
■ Funl.sher, sb.utst. . Mo dee *.9H
S0BG1A STATE COLLEGE
Agriculture and the Me-
chiiuic Arts.
R » <>r 'Lr nl tne B >aril of Trustees
i^alr^oualt w‘.u ;^l7 i ^;heT.. , of Luy
Vi* ut} r.r .h,. c u , r,^ , '^;,^. 8,i * h - ' ic '« r »i'hr -n,i
iK»rJ ‘tim p'r mom'h rran * ,:,n « :,, »lo furnish
All applicxiiuu. sllmiW l« art lrr.M,,l
. U UUOI X. l-r^rten,.
Athens, Georgia.
april 12-it
TUe&muiijfth Republican.
Established in 1H02.
BY H Ua’DKK a-
It. T. BRUMBY & CO.,
Druggists and Pharmacists,
.4 1 IHsiiensrrs of Fxiiily Medicines,
1 r ■ >UL! > re-peeifully eatl utten*inn
• ’ their clogaut pr^par uion of e.fervescing
>/ Mijnesia, or 1-tsieless Silts,
Aperient Seitlulz Powders,
Cra’i Orchard Silts.
This article is m *nufacture 1 from the waters of the
celebrated springs at Crab Drclianl, KLy., and is a
complete suiwiitale Cur cathartic 1M-s, 1 psoiu >alt,
Blue Mass, Calomel, Ac. It ex rts a specific action
upon the liv.tr,.*xnt ug t when 1 mguid to scert?-
tiou, and resoiviug its c.irouic e:igor 0 em-nu.
ROSE TOOTH POWDER
A superior and well selected stock ot
PERFUMERY,
FANCY ARTICLES,
FINE SOAPS,
FINE SPONGER
And Plin 111 icculi al >(irriui us.
R. T. BRUMBY <t- CO.
t>ru^;i.u anrt Fharoi. ciMa.
liat, ere the scorching noons,
- Tlicir CAti.lle-moulds had grown as loose
I’ J As Cossack pantaloons!
'his"kiUfti 1 wr»"e!' iie “ sof A,hens ^ ( The dogs ran inad-mcn could not try
If water they would choose;
A horse fell dead—he only left
Four red-hot, rusty shoes 1
And all about the warehouse steps
Were angry men in droves.
Crashing and splintering thro' the doors
To mash the patent stoves!
Sharing a Millionaire.
Every body who lives in New Jer
sey will recollect Billy Gibbons, the
millionaire. He was an eccentric
man, and numerous stories are told of
his freaks. Here is one of them :
It seems that Billy, while in a coun
try village, in which he owned some
property, stepped into a barber's shop
to get shaved. The shop was full of
customers, and the old gentleman
quietly waited for his turn.
A customer, who was under the bar-
lier’s bands when the old gentleman
came in, asked the “ knight of the
razor,” in an undertone, if he knew
who that was ? and, on receiving a
negative reply, he informed him, iu a
whisper, it was “ Old Billy Gibbons,
the richest man in the State.”
“ Gad,” said the barber, “ I’ll charge
him for his shave.”
Accordingly, after the old man had
bad that operation performed, he was
somewhat surprised upon asking the
pi io*, <o be told “ seventy-five cents.”
“ Seventy-five cents!” said he,
qu e lv, “ isn’t that rather a high
price ?”
“It’s my price,” said he of the lather
brush, independently, “ and as this is
t'te only barber’s shop in the place,
them as comes into it must pay what
I ask.”
To the old man this was evidently a
knock-down argument, for he drew
three-quarters of a dollar from his
pocket, paid them over to the barber,
and left the shop.
A short time after he was in close
conversation with the landlord of a
tavern hard hy, and the topic of con
versation-was “ barbers’ shops.”
** tVity is it,” said he, “there’s only
one barber’s shop in the town ? There
seems to be nearly enough work for
two.” .
“ Well there used to be two,” Btud
the landlord, “ till last winter, when
this new man came up from the city
and opened a new shop, and as every
thing in it was fresh and new, folks
sort of deserted Bill Harrington’s
shop, which had been going for nigh
fourteen years.”
But didn’t this Bill do good work ?
Pupils Ii'
anti practice at theolfic
Pianos, Organs & That Music
for sa!«, '*n th * ,»i -a; rea*>m v le t:ruis. Al! inst. u-
■lentsul'the beat-maVers and TArrir.L^J.—
Persons de>irin.' r. can !lnv/» aa in 'ru
men! placed in th-4r house, wvch. \ r no* *:•»!*•» -
lory after ftir trial, caa t»c returned *»r exchanned.
Pianos in 1 Organs toll on Monthly Pay
ments, an lo d Instruments taken ia part payment,
if in good condition. [oct 27-tf
nr
TB STAHMXS.
3 ii C ESTER 1
DICTIONARIES.
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BY
mm flour
PEARL GRITS and
BIG HOMINY,
At
June 14-2t
ENGLAND & ORB’S.
SCUDDKK.
m. v.
7 rCnls :
On* Y.ar ....
lav iri ihly in Adsause:
M .nihly ... ..... . ? JS
R dss of Advertisin'/:
«',e •!«»«, «,Mt in.tcrtioD $1. Each ,„h«.
lu^ntiDiicrtiun.Sicii. A -mar. I*
, A1 ‘-iwirtU.-a.enuorilcVrt ininirt "Sk?;
1 * Inly |up.*r will no charged il iM-r muiM
"'r aal«.Ulher«I»«roulract«d* Ulr * ^
;ais.S;SHf
.SSSasssass&£k£s
4&rirssa5sf
T OB PRINTING neatly and qdickly
* J executed at ibe Uai.u. r Offite.
MARY A. EDWARDS. ~i I.IIk-I for Divorce, in
v«. V Franklin ouj'r t'ouit,
HENRY EDWARDS. J Ajirfi Ter.u, ISIS.
It .tp(»earifig to the Court that the Defendant,
Henry KI wards, cannot be found in this county,
and it furtner ipp>nring that h.s residence is un
known , it is ordered by toe Court that service of
tins Ub«! tie pcrle *ted by publication of this order
once a month for four mouths previous to the next
Ur.u *f this Court iu the rmuthern l.a* ner, a pa-
pvr published in Athens, <3a.
A lr '»L* extract from t »e minutes of Franklin Su
perior Court. June it, 1X72.
Til OS. A. LITTLE. Clerk.
Picture Frames,
\ T.VDETO ORDER, of any size,
-a-VJ. aind in various styles of moulding, at
[ BURKE’S bookstore.
Liberal Cush Advances on
COTTOW.
GROOVE STUBBilCO..
J3ESPECTFULLY inform the
• Merchant* and plan ten of Georgia, Florida
ae l Alabama, tbit tbeir large
FIRE PROOF WAREHOUSE,
tVIll, * C-pacilv -f33.000 B*tn,
i* now ready lor the tiorage of cotton, and that they
arc uow prepared to
make liberal cash advances
on cotton in «toreand to hold a reaionable length
of time, charging bank rate,of interest. If yon want
money, aend your cotton to
GROOVER, STUBBS & CO.,
«*p» R-tf Savannah, Ga.
with.” -t
“ You don’t know old Billy Gibbons
ms well as I do,” said the other. “ Now
listen to me. »If yon can have that
shop all fitted up, rent free, what will
you work iu it for by the month ?—
wliat is the least you can live on ?”
This proposition somewhat startled
the unfortunate hair-dresser, who
finally found words to stammer out
that perhaps twelve or fifteen dollars
a month would be about enough.
“ Pshaw?” said tfie old man, “ that
won’t do. Now listen to me—I’ll give
you that store, rent free, one year,
and engage your services six months,
all on these conditions. You are to
shave and cut hair for every body that
applies to you, and take no pay; just
ciiarge it all to me, and for services
I’ll pay you tweuty dollars a mouth,
payable in advance—pay to commence
now,” continued, he, placing two ten
dollar notes ou the table before the
astonished barber—who, it Is almost
unnecessary to state, accepted the pro
position, and who was still more sur
prised to learn that it was Billey
Gibbons hiaiself who had hired him.
In a few days the inhabitants of that
village were astonished hy the appear
ance of a splendid new barber’s shop,
far surpassing the other in elegance of
appointments, and in which, with new
mugs, soaps, razors, aud perfumes,
stood a barber aud assistant ready to
do duty on the heads and beards of
the people. Over the door was in
scribed, “ William Harrington, Shav
ing aud Hair Dressing Saloon.”
The people were not long acertain-
availing themselves of
the privileges of this establishment,
and it is not to be wt ndered that it was
crowded and the other deserted. The
other held out some weeks, suspecting
this free shaving—for Bill kept his
secret well—was but a dodge to entice
customers away, who would soon be
charged as usual; but when at the end
of six weeks he found Billy working
away as usual, charging not a cent for
his labor, and having money to spend
into the bargain, he came to the con
clusion that he must have drawn n
prize in the lottery, or stumbled upon
a gold mine, and was keeping a bar
ber’s shop for tun, so he closed bis shop
in despair, and left the place.
Meantime, “ Bill Harrington” kept
on busy as a bee, and one fine morn
ing his employer stepped in, and.
AVK BEEN ADOPTED
the State Boards of Educatiou of
Virginia,
North Carolina,
Alabama, and
Arkansas, i
In use in the ciGes of
Richmond. Va.,
Norfolk, Va.,
Mobile, Ala.,
Savannah, Ga.,
Atlanta, Ga., <fre.
The standard In Orthography and Pronunciation in
Horthm iton and Lee University,
Vie University of Virginia,
Tne College of iilllb
The University of C __
Vie Wesley,n University, Alabama, didn ’ t ^ shav ~ e a ‘ n d-^h^p ?’”
BREWER & TILKSTON,
17 Milk Street,
BOSTON.
v/here the supply is so great that, if
the fisheries were actively prosecuted,
it would suffice for the consumption of
the United States.
Singular Variety »f Cotton.
Dr. T. L. Anderson, of Wilkes
county, has developed, by cultivation
and careful selection of seed, a variety
of cotton which is certainly a curiosity,
Mr. Wall aha
that nothing is more perfect Ia rani
economy than the English flaa—iw*
tation of root and grain crops. Ha
considered that the cast which had
, , ,, been bestowed on root cultivation bad
and may prove a very valuable vane- ^ ^
tv Tkto AnttAn in niwtnliffir nn as. * ‘
ty. This cotton is peculiar on ac
count of its excessive fruitfulness aud
the manner in which the bolls are de
veloped. As described by the Wash
ington Gazette, in growth and appear
ance the weed has- the resemblance of
the prolific varieties, growing np in a
somewhat conical form, though we
thinktim .growth more rigoijms
Popular Varieties of Peaks.—
Pears in American Pomological Socie
ties’ List for 1872 receive the Mow
ing votes in thirty-one States spi Ter
ritories :
Bartlett, 30 votes; Beurre d’Anjoti*
26; Seckel, 25; Beurre Gifford* 1
Sandspouts in Nevada.
For several hours yesterday after
noon there were visible from this city,
on Twenty-two-miie Desert, five or six
till colutnus of sand, sucked up by as
many whirlwinds. At sea these would
have been waterspouts, but upon the
desert they were ouly what we might
call sand-pouts. The columns appear
ed to he ten feet iu diameter and one
thousand feet in height. Although
they waltzed about over the plain for
two or three hours, they never came
together or never lost their distinctive
cylindrical form, and when they did
go down at once—all failing together.
These sandspouts are well known to
all old prospectors, aud seem to indi
cate a change of weather. We have
frequently seen in the Forty-mile Des
ert, east of the lower Sink of the Car-
son, not less than ten or fifteen of
these tall columns moving about over
the plains at the same time. It is sel
dom that they come together, hut
when they do they dart forward like
more than half of the <
With the exception of three or four
varieties, we think this list would give
general satisfaction in all parts of ihe
country.
varieties. ” Thfe eqdsres ftttfl
blooms grow in clusttis and very
thick. A very large proportion of the! Seedling, Flemish Beauty, each 22;
bolls are what we would call double! Beurre Diel, 21; Bede Lucrative, 20;
for want of a better word; that is, two 1 Lawrence, Onondaga, each 10; Beur-
bolls are produced from the same j re Superfine, Howell. Rostiexer, Ty-
square. This tendency to doubling is j son, each 18; Boyenne Boussock, Vi-
exhibited throughout the plant, and | car of Wakefield, 17.
the stalk and limbs of many specimens \ Twenty-one varieties
seem to take on the same character
istic, there being a groove ou each side,
presenting somewhat the appearance
of a double-barreled gun. This
crowding of the bolls does not seem to
diminish their size, but they are gen
erally very large and healthy in ap
pearance. Upon one stalk in his field
Dr. A. exhibits fifteen young bolls so
closely clustered ns to be covered with
single open hand. He has taken
great pains during the past two or
three years to preserve the seed pure
and unmixed with other varieties.—
He has now several acres planted in
this cotton, and we wish that his ex
periment may be of value to himself
and the cotton interests of the couutry.
Alsyke Clover.
Of this clover, of which so much
has been said in its favor as honey-
producing plant, the English Farmer’s
Dairy for 1872, says:
Alsyke, or Perennial Hybrid Clo
ver, which takes its name from the
Alsyke district, near Stockholm, was
first introduced into Swe len. Within
the last century, v>*st improvements in
agriculture have enabled this valuable
clover to be brought to great perfec
tion, and it is now held in high esti-
without a word, sat down, and was jg that recommended bv an old farmer,
shaved; on rising from his chair he
BLACKSMITHING.
Attention,Ihe Whole!
r |MIE UNDERSIGNED still con-
JL tinu •« iheab .ve (itMinen at hi* oIJ »tand, " lvu 6™ V ‘V
lie BRICK .SHOP, on l*rin * A venue, where »ll though, to tell the truth,” Said the
lasse of work in his line wtllbe faithfully exocti- °
landlord, striking a chin sown with a
“ Well, as for that,” said the land
lord, “ Bill did his work well enough,
but his shop wasn’t on the main street
like the new one, and didn’t have so
many pictures and handsome curtains,
aud folks got in the way of thinking
the new chap was more scientific and
brought more city fashions with him,
l*ttrticular attention given to horse-shoeing.
Taose in waut ol the genuine
H*PULL PLOW,
which is now so popul ir f will do well to oill and
ouy from the old man himself. His superior
will also be kept on hand.
Thankful for past pa ronage, he respectfully!
licits a continuance of theamn.
W. S. HEMPHILL.
dec 29 tf
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Tne Jjargest in Form, the Largest in
Circulation, and the only original
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monthly c.ini in* sick a long time, and Bill had
beard resembling screen wire,” I never
want a lighter touch or a keener razor
than Bill Harrington’s.”
“City fashions—eh f" growled the
old man. “ So the new man’s city
fashions shut up the other barber’s
shop >”
“ Well, not exactly,” said the land
lord, “ though things never did seem
to go well with Bill after the new shop
opened ;—first, one of his little chil
dren died of fever; then his wife was
big
music. MutifcoU m»ltei»,icyu«nu »nd aru»Uc lit- a * .
ernure,*nd the only reli.Ble Fmihionj. with Full bill to pay at the doctors ; then, OS a
S«ze l*attorns. Ye:rlv, only S 00, with the apleu- .v ... ^ j j
did Cbromo, • Isn't She PreUg" siae 13x17, "<>«*» last misfortune, htS SHOD burned dOWH
$8 00, tie it post fre ? to each su»»?riber; or, the , . . , , r ..
largo a. id elegant chnmo, alter Jennings Thump- qqq night, tOQlS, brUdhei, IUrmtUre,
son, HUwatha’s Wooing, size. 15f23.jf’jSgJgill 1 J ii J • ^ »
for tl a» extra, .a*butbehromo»wUh the
,„r*5 00^-^.n- DEMQBEST
dec I 8S8 Broadway, New York.
L A.N DHETH’-S
TUST RECEIVED, a full supply
tl ofFreslfSeed»tth*
cl>2 NEW DRUG STORE, j
i and all, and no insurance.
“Well," said the old man, pettishly,
“ why don’t he start again T
“ Start again!” said the commu
nicative landlord; “ why, bless your
sole, he hasn’t got any thing to start
with.” . ,
Where does this
asked to see the score for the six
months past. The barber exhibited it,
and after a careful calculation, the
old man said:
“ Plenty of customers, eh ?”
“Lots of’em,” said the barber;
“never did such a business in my
life!”
“ Well,” replied Money Bags, “ you
have kept the account well. I see I’ve
paid you one hundred and twenty
dollars for services.—all right—and
there are three hundred and thirty
charged for shaving all that applied ;
now, this furniture cost one hundred
and eight dollars; balance due you
one hundred and two dollars. Here
it is. Now you own this furniture,
and are to have this shop rent free six
mouths longer, and after to-day you
are to charge the regular price for
work, for your pay from me stops to
day.”
This of course the barber gladly
assented to.
But,” said the old man, on leaving,
take care you never cheat a man by
charging ten times the usual price for
a shave; for it may be another ‘old
Billy Gibbons.”
Sponges.
The work of procuring sponges, as
pursued at Tunis, requires great care
on the part of the sponge fish rs, who
are princif'Uy Greeks, Sicilians and
Arabs? Of these the Greeks are the
ino3t expert in their vocation. The
sponge fishery is most actively carried
on during the months of December,
January |and February, as at other
season, the places wiiere the sponges
exist mw overgrown with sea weeds.
The storms daring November and De
cember destroy and sweep away the
thick marine vegetation and leave the
sponges exposed to view. They are
obtained by spearing, diving with or
without the assistance of an apparatus,
and by dredging with a machine simi
lar to'fen oyster dredge. It is in spear-
two flashes of lightning, and an explov nation by the Swedish farmers, and
sion like a heavy blast ends all, and
the two columns of sand at once fall
to the ground. Those who h ive not
lieen upon our great deserts and have
never witnessed these grand sandspouts
or the wonderful mirages, have but
little idea of the romantic grandeur of
these apparently uninteresting was'es
of sand.— Virginia (Nevada) Enter
prise, July 3.
Preserving Shingles on Roofs.
Some people paint roof shingles af
ter they are laid, which makes them
really decay sooner than they other
wise would. Others paint the courses
<ts they are laid, which is a great pre
servative, if each shingle is painted the
length of three courses. But the sim
plest, surest and least expensive plan
extensively cultivated by leading agri
culturists in Great Britain aud Ire
land. The root is fibrous and the
head globular. The plant bears a
greater resemblance to the White than
to the Red Clover, and may be de
scribed as the Giant White Clover,
with flesh-colored heads. The advant
ages it possesses over other varieties of
clover are: Its perennial or perma
nent character—its greatest hardiness
(for no winter will kill it)—its capa
bility alike of resisting the extremes of
drought and wet—the much greater
weight of herbage it produces daring
the season, and the certainty, of a
plant, when other varieties fail, from
the land having become clover-sick.—
Its powers of production are inexhaus-
table, as is proved by the wonderfully
curious formation of the plant, from
the single crown of which innumera
ble heads are continually being pro
duced all through the season, and till
ering out laterally over the ground.—
The hardy nature of the plant is prov
ed by the fact of its thriving by trans
planting. A single plant may be tak
en up and divided into ten or more
parts, the fibrous roots just cropped,
and each part will produce a luxuriant
plant—so that no farmer need ever
hereafter have a patchy piece of clover.
Twelve pounds of Swedish Alsyke is
sufficient to sow an acre.
English Farming.
Mr. Wall, in an address to the
farmers of New Jersey, alluded to the
very flourishing state of agriculture in
England. He pointed out that in less
than a century the production of wheat
had risen from 16,000,000 to 100,000,-
000 of bushels. This enormous in
crease he attributes to the systematic
attention to all the requirements of
good farming; in the skill and exact
ness with which all the operations are
who says:
4 There is one thing more, that
nearly all people know, if they would
only attend to it; that is, to sprinkle
slaked lime on the roofs of their build
ings, in rainy days. Put it on consid
erably thick, so as to make the roof
look white, and you will never be
troubled with moss, and if the shingles
are covered ever so thick with moss,
by putting the lime on twice, it will
take it all off and leave it white and
clean, and will look almost as well as
if it had been painted. It ought to be
done once a year in my opinion, the
shingles will last almost twice as long
as they will to let the roof grow over
to moss. I tried it on the back of my
house ten years ago, when the shingles
were all covered with moss, and they
appeared to be nearly rotten. I gave
the roof a heavy coat of lime, and
have followed it nearly every year
since, aiid the roof is better now than
it wes then, and to all appearance, if
I follow ray hand, it will last ten or
fifteen years longer. The shingles
have been on the roof over thirty performed; to their careful selection
years. There is no more risk about; of the ^ varieties of seed, and to the
sparks catching on the roof than on a
Hogs. — Hogs require sulphur,
which is best administered to them ia
charcoal, soft coal, rotten wood, or the
green, wild or domestic mustard. A
contemporary smvb they devour the
stem, leaf, blossom and seed of mus
tard, especially when they are penned
or confined to a small lot. As •
means for preserving health, or ta »
pleasant condiment, instinct leads the
hog to seek sulphur in different bodies,
hut especially in the wild mustard, as
they do sail, which they will eat to ex
cess aud be killed thereby if they are
not accustomed to it, bat when they
have, from pigship, had free excess to
it, they never overdose themselves.
Raised Doughnuts.—Two cups of
sweet milk, one cup of sugar, one egg,
a piece of lard the size of an egg, one
half cup yeast. Knead it at night;
in the morning, if light, knead it over;
when raised again, roll out, and cat
them and let them lie on the board
until light before frying.
Peanut Chop nt Tennessee.—
The peanut crop mania is nsgiag i*
such an extent in some of the countiee
of Middle Tennessee (says the- Nash*
-ville Union), that some of the farmers
are confining almost their whole efforte
to their cultivation. The crop is we9
cultivated, and unless some unforeseen
calamity befalls it, it will surpass any
previously grown, both in quality and
quantity. From numerous inquiries
made of dealers and farmers, we are
disposed to put down the total crop for
the year 1872 of Middle Tennessee at
11,000,000 bushels.
Manufacturing States.—Ac
cording to a table in the World the an-
nunl wheat product of Maine lasts her It
days; New Hampshire 10 days, and
Vermont 37 days. Massachusetts
eats up all the wheat she grows in two
meals and consequently has to buy the
greater part of her flour. Connecti
cut travels two days on her wheat pro
duct, while little Rhody does not raise
enough for n single supply of breakfast
rolls. AH these States raise 997,784
bushels of wheat, and buy 47,414,000
bushels yearly.
Cube fob Cancer.—A yolk of an
egg, mixed with fine salt, until it is
made a thick paste, applied three
times a day. After a few days all the
cancerous flesh will be been eaten out,
leaving a considerable hole in the
face. The application of a little salve
will heal it up and the patient is well.
Another cure is simply to take the
dried blossom of the common red clo
ver, put them into hot water, allow
them to steep over night, and thus
make red clover tea. Take a table
spoonful of cold tea five or six times s
day. The dried clover blossoms can
be taken from the clover hay ia the
mow. ,
newly shingled roof. Those who do
not have lime near hy, can use good
wood ashes, and these will answer a
very good purpose to the same end.”
The action of the lime is to cleanse
the surface of all impediments to the
free and rapid passage of the rain wa
ter off. This enables the shingles to
dry very soon, and consequently pre
vents rotting. Moss-covered roofs will
rot very rapidly.
Tea Biscuit.—One pint thick
cream moderately sour; one teaspoon ^
soda, ond teaspoon cream tarter; flour
sufficient to roll out. Bake in quick
oven. These are pronounced better
limn cake. Pulverize the soda and
cream tartar very finely with a knife,
and mix in the flour before adding it
to the other ingredients, for eith-r cake
or biscuit.
extensive and prudent uso of their
barn-yard manure. Nothing is left to
casuality or chance. No expectations
are indulged in that the bounty of
Providence, by an unusually favorable
season, will atone fer their short-com
ings or neglect. He dilated upon the
extraordinary liberality of English
formers, in restoring to the earth, by
means of purchased manures, all those
elements of fertility which are exhaust
ed by cultivation. It is estimated by
chemical oualysis that wheat absorbs
forty per cent of nutriment contained
In 1837, the first year in
which bones came into general use as
a fertilizer, the foreign bones imported
were valued at the custom house at 1,-
500,000 dollars, since which time it ia
estimated that the amount paid for
imported bones alone, amounted to
160,000,000 dollars. Since 1841, up
wards of 1.500.000 ton® of guano have
To Keep Flowers Fresh.—A
few iron nails placed in a vase of flow
ers will keep the water sweet and the
flowers fresh. This arises from the
sulphur eliminated from the plant*
combining with the iron.
• To Polish Tin.—First rob your
tins with a damp cloth; then take dry
flour and rub it on them with your
hands; afterward take an old news
paper and rub the flour off and this
tin wiU shine as well as if half an
hour had been spent in rubbing them
with brick dust or powder, which spoils
the hands.
A Marion Co., Iowa, former, has a
cow that has brought him six calves
withiu the last 20 months, and the
two first have now calves of their own.
making an increase of right bead from
one cow within the last two months.
The Marysville JSaor wants to know
if that on b» brazil .
And now Memphisis to have a stu
pendous exposition building. « m*