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Interesting and Important Experiments
xvtth Concentrated Fertilizers on Corn.
A country like ours.. possessed ol. every
variety of soil end climate, and for "eueral
agricultural purposes, not only tlie largest
but ilie finest on the globe, should take the
lead iu all that relates to tlie production of
those staple articles upon which the perpet
uation of the life and tlie prouioiion of the
comforts of the human race so entirely de
pond. As a wheat producing country the
area adapted to the successful cultivation
of that important cereal is so la-gc that
Were it taxed to its full capacity, we would
he able to supply the entire world. Bat,
uu fortunately, our farmers have not held
iu proper esteem, the broad principles
which undeilie agriculture, and .vithout re
gard for which successful farming for a
lo- g continuous terai of years upon the
same soil is simply ;-u impossibility. This
i ■ fully demonstrated ir. the agric iltur 1
history of all the old as '.veil as the new
States v irginia and Marylae 1 furnished
the first uutabic examples. The “skinning
system" pursued there impoverished the
soil, and eventually compelled its owners
to abandon their exhausted farms. - Mti
lions upon millions of originally fertile acres
were thus given up. Mother nature re
pelled against a system which took every
thing from the land and gave nothing
hack
In the newer States of the West the
same error prevailed. Tiie great alluvial
bottoms of the Ohio, Mississippi and other
Western rivers, with their ton and fifteen
feet of rich soil, were supposed to be ices
liaustible. Corn was grown upon them of
almost fabulous size and quality, and tor a
number of years it was conffden'ly believed
(bat it was impossible to exhaust their fer
tility. Manures wero regarded not merely
as superfluous but an absolute eucumbrancc
The object of the farmer of the West was
to know how to get rid of it without incur
ring the costcf drawing it upon his land
But the day of reckoning came at last.—
Tlie soil deteriorated, the crops diminished
aud farming became a losing occupation —
ho will read this paragraph,j who prayed
and murniug, prcaolied on Sundays,
aud was a-rigli farmer .besides. His. wife
milked the cows in all s:rts uf weather,' cut
most of the wood, built the fires, churned,
“economized” and died ot consumption '. in;
the prime of life. H put a weed on his
hat, tried to rekigu himself to the “dispen
sation of Providence,” when lie ought to
huve been tried for woman slaughter in the
first decree aud sentenced in chop wood
aud milt cows iu the rain all the rest of
hisiiib. We don’t quite believe in capital
punishment, whichis why we did’t suggest
hemp and the gallows.—Runt/ New Yor
leer.
With these facts staring them in the face,
the products of the barnyard began to be
economized.
Instead of being carted to the rivers, and
dumped in, the farmer now spreads it upon
his lauds, and with marked beneficial effect,
It was, however, soon apparent that even
the addition of his rich material was insuf
ficient to maintian the soil at a standard of
paying fertility. New tnanurial aeents were
necessary, and the aid of science was in
voked to point them out. Science respond
ed, aud the result has been ; the production
of a large number Jof what is known as
conceutrat d fertilizers—super-phosphates,
the principal ingredients of which are
bones dissolved in sulphuric acid, and mix
ed iu due proportions with other soil rnok
iug ingredients.
In order to test the value of those spe
cial manures, Thos. II. Burrows, Esq., iate
President of the Agricultural College of
Pennsylvania, instituted a series of expert
men s. which have been given to the pub
lie iu the recently published report of that
institution. A special trst was made with
corn, the results of which are of a very in
teresting cha.actei Forty d-ffereut kinds
of concentrated manure were u-cd. Six
I o tuds of each wore applied to sixty eight
hills of corn, planted four feet by four,
three stalks in the hill.
From the tabular results we observe that
tiie quantity produced varied lroui 53ji
pounds of corn to 117*. The largest yield
was produced by th^ use of B ngh’s llaw-
bone Superphosphate, extensively manu
factured in this city and Chicago. This
manure wo learn has for the past seventeen
year* had a very extensive sale in the
South and We,t. as well ss the other States
adjacent to Pennsylvania. It has main
tained throughout a cell deserved reputa
tion. es the constantly increasing demand
for it prove*.
As- a consequence of the success attend-
tnnding its use, quite a large number of
other manufactories have sprung up, from
which fertilizers of various qualities have
been turned oat This is a healthful in
dication. It proves that farmers are be*
ginning to appreciate the fact that good
crops cannot be grown without manure, and
that the supply of the farm yard generally
is wholly inadequate for the purpose.—
Journal.
Kitchen Aids.
Of coune every farmer must have* a
reaptr aud mower, a horse-rake and a drill,
and all the oilier lab r-saving inventions,
just as rapidly as no can pay for them,
eveu though they are stowed away as dead
property the greater part of the ...year
Such things are necessary, and the wii'e.
perhaps, gets along with a new dress less
that tii a Uu hand may hare a . labor-savin
machine. But how about labor saving ma
chines aud inventions indoors? ~'X ' wouia
who lias a sewiag machine, a machine to do
the churning, and one servant as “help” is
usually the n.ost favored house keeper in
che ucighboi hood. V ou may- look a who!
township through, aud in nine cisei out i
tea, the labor saving affairs are brought t
tiie help of man first. It is no wonder hat
good mothers are so scarce,.stepmothers
common,and invalid women not a rarity
“A woman’s work is cover done,” is a true
proverb, with by far too many housewives.
S i aeeusto ued arc women to doing their
work in the oid-fishiuocd way,—by the
pure virtue of mek and elbow power,—thai
they look askauee at ucw i'angled tliiuj:
and believe it is more bother to use ttia
chim-ry, than to do the work in the ol
way. The caving ol “physical strength
see .s :m unheard, or unthought ot thin.
So long as a woman can drag around she
Usually docs; altluugii she arouses as inmy
aches nod pa-os front their lairs as ti ere
r■ -- window pains in the house
Women do not begin to take one quarter
the the 'iuie for recuperation that.men .d
Me.u sit a oun-i evenings, read smoke, play
games, or gossip; while the women of the
house sew. or kuit, darn itoekjngs, crochet,
tat, or are busy iu other ways. To
glc down into an easy chair he for.
and play with the tassel -or'/het
string, or simply listen to sotite une’ttrcjfil:
ing. wuuld seem to most farmers wivS
she; r ’aziucss or wicked waste of tiu cW
We do not believe woman are so wilt
rule to eudttre incessant labor as
And if it is ne t good for men, how much
more pernicious is it to the physical health
•jf women? Su we argue that labor savin;
machines should come first to the house
wife, because she is the weaker, and be
cause in her health and comfort and liappi
ness, the happiness of the whole housludd
lies, more than in that- of any ot her mem
ber of it
Tiie wiiy i.u which very many people
•'practice economy” a quite like one’s eat
ing more than he needs, lor tile “sake ot
saying it.” That which saves health and
time is economy That which conduces to
. human happiness is Divine economy. That
which is saving iu. the cud,, even if an ex
tra expense at the beginning, is economy.
So houshold conveniences are economies of
which the two paramount ones are thus*.of
waterjand wood.
We feel the wrath iu us wriggling its If
to pouncu down upon those Gentiles who,
year after year, postpone the wood-liouso
arrangement, or the cistern building, - or
bringing the -.rater in the well to a civiliz
ed get at able state. A man who allows
his wife to be a hewer of wood and drawer
of water to an unaided extent ought, to be
—well, excommunicated from his church
ou Biblical grounds;*for “a man who has
failed to'provide fur bis own household. ;is
worse thau an infidel.” ye c
We knew ^ man once, (he livesyfet; hops
Does it pay to raise Uloodcd Stock t
It is said figures never lie, and they an
swer this question iu the affirmative iu the
following ease very emphatically. Mr. L
L Dorsey, who resides six miles from this
city, has one ot the finest stock farms in
the State and makes the business of rais
ing blooded h.rses a speciality. His horses
have been among the finest formed animals
and most d-stinguished for speed exhibited
at the Fairs On <he 3d of last month, the
fallajv.inV list of affinals of the Golddust
stock, were sold at auction, aud brought the
following large sums. It always pays to
have fine hoists, cattle or .
1 sorrel gelding,
I brown mare. *
1 sorrel stallion, 3 yrs old,
1 sorrel mare,
1 clicsiiat brood mare,
1 Messenger mare,
1 chesnut brood mare
1 brood mare, .Mollie Able,
1 brown bay brotd mare,
1 mave ly Lexington,
1 bright bay brood mare,
l.brood piare, Nofipan,
1 dark gray filly,
1 brawn'filly,
1 chesnut filly, *
1 bay filly,
1 chesnut filly,
Bay geluing and mate,
1 Gold Dust colt,
1 gelding, libra Adams,
1 Gold just So 2 stallion, r ,
1 mare, Mary Gold Dust,
1 chesnut stallion 2 yrs old,
1 dark staljiou, 3 years old,;
1 dark s allion, 2 yrs old,
1 sbter to Gold Dust and mate,
1 stallion, Red Gold Dust, 4 yrs old
1 sorrell filly, 2 yrs old,
I brown filly, 2 yrs old,
1 bay filly, 2 yrs old,
1 John Henry brood mare,
1 Glencoe brood mare,
1 Ilingold brood mare,
1 chesnut stallion, 3 yrs old,
1 bay stallion, 3 yrs old,
1 dark chesnut stal., 2 yrs old,
1 sorrel stallion, 3 yrs o.'d,
1 bay stallion, 2 yrs old,
To keep Eggs lor Setting.
I notice and inquiry as to > he best mode
of keeping eggs lor setting. I have a very
simple way, and cheap, that answers ar ex
cellent purpose—what we call an egg rack.
Take two pieces of board, the length and
width according to the quantity to be kept.
Mine is 2 feet loeg and 18 inches wide;
the two end pieces 2 feet long, 1 foot
wide. I have five shelves, C inches
apart, the top and bottom one nailed on to
the end pieces. The' rack is open, back
and front. Grooves may be cut for the
other three shelves, or they can be nailed
in by driving the uails through the end
pieces. Before putting together, bore the
shelves with 31 inch spur bit as full of
holes as they will admit, a- d not have the
eggs torching 'one another. Half-inch
boards lor shelves are plenty thick, and J-
inch for the end pieces. To hang it up I
put two screws at the top on each eDd, and
let them stick ont far enough L< tie a cord
to. Let the curd go over curner wise, and
it will hold it more steady, and it is done.
Set the eegs in the holes, the little eDd
down.—Stock Joirual.
$ 325
155
365
280
245
210
215
276
150
220
200
170
200
400
315
255
310
500
200
158
1.000
725
340
1250
1275
720
1400
115
165
115
140
275
260
535
510
1000
375
1105
Total, 40 horses,
S16,200
[ Southern Ajricuiluralitt.
Lexington lave Stock Market.
[Corrected by T. C. Kidd, Auctioneer.]
Cattle.—Butchers are paying lor fat
caws and heifers from 4 to 5c; extra 5} to
Sheep.—Batchers are raying from 4 to
County Court Day —There were* about
600 catile ou the market, mostly calves and
yerlings ol medium quality. About two.
hnndred 2 year olds; and the best of them
said at Ole; one lot of short steers sold at
852 40, good quality; a lot of forward
calves, eveu and smooth, 840 15; medium
t?25 to 830 er head. The demand for cat
tle was very good, and nearly all offerings
were dispo ed of. A number of common
horses were ou baud, aud sold at fair prices.
Very few sales of fine saddle and harness
stock. There was a meagre display of mules
No green stock in lots. A few pairs of
broke mules sold as high as 8400. There
were several buyers present for medium 2
year old greeu ftoek for tho Southern aud
Pennsylvania markets. They are scarce
and hard to get in the blue grass region
just now A large crowd was iu attend
ance. * ’ *’ ' • : "
Saturday’s Stock sales.—A number of
catt e aud sheep on the market. Prices ob
tained were good.
Mr. Ben Grooms is ou the lookout for
stock hogs that will weigh 150 pounds He
is now milking 100 co«s for the bine grass
Cheese Factory, and purposes to add sevcu
ty-fire more.
Mr A E Boiling and Mr. John Thorn
have purchased at St. Louis four car loads
razing cattle for their farms in this
county. ft - ••’ 7* -
Shipments by the Kentucky Central
lailroad • William Arnold of Madison
county, 70 hogs; J P Whitaker, 60 begs.—
Forty cars of stack passed over the toad
or the East.—Reporter. -vrv-i
Kentucky S ock aud Crap News.
The oat and wheat crops are looking wcli
in Hart county
Corn is scarce in.Scott. .Some sales have
been tnaue at $4 at the house.
Mr. David Cleaver, of Marion, sold n few
aavs since; to Messrs. Lyon &- Cleaver, a
pair of'mules, over 16 hands high, for
8400. ; ;
There were 21,250 gallons of whisky
manufactured in the Second District of
Kentucky durttig the mouths of January
aud February last. i
Mo: can V. Smith, gt' Lincoln, has sold
his thoroughbred station, -Bay Dick, by
Lexington, dam Alabama, bv'B.-own Dick,
to Alexander Adams, for 81,000.
John Trimble, of Mercer, has two pigs
— nut of a litter of nine—that, at tho age
ol for mouths, weighed respectively. 10G
and 104 pounds, without any extra feed
A New Industry.—The sweet potato,
used in various fora s as an esculent, in
making bread, as a substitute for coffee, iu
the brewing of beer, as well as for fatten
ing fafm animals, is now beginning to be
used in making a syrup, far surpassing that
of the beet aud cvrn of sorghum, iu deli
cacy of flavor, while the yield is much
moro abundant. The averaue product of a
bushel of sweet potatoes—the yam variety
being preferred—is alleged tn be over two
gallons, and as the average yield per acre
on poor sandy soi', is from 156 to ISO
bushels, the product must necessarily be
from 300 to 350 callous of syrup. This
must open to tiie view of the piney woods
agriculturalist a new and most profitable
industry, one man, with a mule, being able
to cultivate at least fifteen acres in pctatces.
The residu,n, after the juice for syrup has
been extracted, is pronounc.-d a valuable
edible either for man or beast
Stock.—Every wise farmer will use all
due diligence in taking care ot stock, for it
is certain that the stock that enters sum
mer in good condition can better bear any
short fare, and vice versa. Why not save
food by comfortable quarters? Why try to
keep stock iu condition, shivering in the
cold, rain, shet aad snow, varying the
scenes ?
These hints, though not on cve.-y subject
or object in f irm life, will tend to suggest
to the mind other things.
We love these monthly greetings as if a
fireside conversation with friends. We re
ally believe our labor is better appreciated
lrorn its free and easy manner, instead of
the straight jacket stylo of learned lore, or
an attempt.
We would ask those who knew onr way
of doing busines at Log Hall from Janua
ry, 1830, to May, 1863, if having the best
of stock, and taking care of them, did not
have a material influence on our planting
succes ? We had largely of fine stock, and
if as worthless as some try to believe, there
would have beeu enough to have ruined us,
We killed from fitly to one hnndred an
twenty-five head of hogs yearly, as size of
family demanded, for we bough’; no bacon
or pork worthy of the name—really selling
in the thirty-three years largely over all
purchase. We have raised hogs to weigh,
from fifteen to nineteen months old, two
hundred and fifty to six hnndred pounds;
lour did weigh net three hundred and thir
ty six to three hundred and seventy-six
pounds at .fille,m months, and one at nine
teen months old weighed six hundred and
two pounds.
We urge upon our brethren to begin to
put their land in the condition to make a
crop, rain or no rain. Drain land well, then
subsoil all, and use all the manure possible.
Why not make land to produce seventy five
bushels from an acre, instead of workiu
three or four to do it? Wc affirm it—any
n J that has produced twenty five bushels,
as ordinarily cultivated can he put in
condition to make seventy-five to one hun
dred bnsbels cheaper than wearing ont
three or four to do it.
Remember all we have ever written ou
husbandry manure,and increasing the quan
tity; and we repeat it.
So. Farmer.
FOR SALS BT
BURNS & DWINELL,
Real Estate Agents,
ROME, CA.
w
Cheap farm Near Rome.
. E offer the Marable Place, 3 miles west
Rome, and containing 320 acres, for sale. About
70 acres cleared and in cultivation. Good fhun-
ed dwelling with six rooms, stables. Ac-,
PRICE $1,600. halfcash bSarniinoi..
year. Apply to
BURKS A DWINELL.
COOSA RIVER PLANTATION,
3 1-2 Miles Irom Rome.
HE place formerly known a* the Ed. Hull
Plantation, i$ offered for sale on favorable terms.
it contains 4S3 acres, about 300 of which is
well fenced and in a high state of cultivation.
The place is well watered; with excellent or
chards, elegant dwelling and ou buildings, and
good Gin house and screw only half a mile *
■ending on the river.
There are a plenty of comfortable Tencnt
houses on the place.
There arc lew places in North Georgia so de
atre-ble as this, so far as productiveness, conven
lcnco and plcasanteees of location are concerned.
Terms, one third cash, and balance in one and
two years, with interest. Apply to
BURKS 4 DWISEI
MOUNTAIN FARM,
IlE offer a good Mountain Farm—two lots,
320 acres—within four miles of Rome; good iaad
and can’t bo beat for orcharding. The rents
now pay 20 per cent, on the price asked for the
BURES
place. Apply to
i A BWIKELL.
FORREST DALE.
J.'nis valuable plantation, the formor home
of Gen. M. A. Stovall, located on the Summer
ville road, 2} miles from Rome, is cow offered
for sale very low. This farm contains three
hundred' and twenty-eight seres, a large por
tion bottom land, abont one half in cultivation,
the balance splendidly timbered. Improvements
tolerably good, with good well and never failing
stock water in abundance. Kow is the time to
secure a good home cheap. Apply to
BURX8 A DWIKELL.
Onr Poultry Yard.
Hen Profits.—A correspondent ol the
Massachusetts Plowman writes that jour
nal: “At the beginning of 1870 1 bad
seven hens and one cock. The hens have
been confined in their yard mest of tho
time. Corn has beta their principle food.
ive the following account of eggs for
each month:
January they laid 66 eggs
February 58 “
Margh ............ 83 “
April 132 -
May 152 “
Jane 103 “
July 88 “
August 74 “
September 48 „
October
November..
December .
37
29
17
J (I R an -y, of Marion, sold to Jno. Cop
paga, a Berkshire sow]’ ’'Ann Davis” two
years old, for 8100. Mr. R, refused of A r:
C. 8150 for his sow -'Mollie Irvine ”
There was sold on Nicholas-County court
day tiie hr! owing stock : Seven head of
~ year old cuttle, at $40 per .load; 18 head
of 3 y at- olds at-857 10 per head; aud an
otherjot of 3 year olds at 860 25 pe: head;
aad 5 head of 4 year olds at SS5 05 per
head.
.Madison items—Court day sales: Horses
874 ’to 8250,. and hot few offered; 1 one lot of
2 yea: old mules, tolerably good; was With
drawn at 890; one let of 3 year cattle, sor
ry, a! 850 50;'one lot o! 2 year olds, same
quality, 33; cotvs and calves 836 to $70
All stoek was Sold o. 30 and 00 days’
■tirun . * , M| ~ . - ,
NutMiellyjA (Jaimes sold one blooded bull
81001 -MI iney- -Very scarce, and taken
readily at 10 per cent.
At John F Ttjvis’ sale horses brought
fforii *60 t»ir$100] : -&:e pair of mules'sdld
fir §280; one pair taken down at S448;siu-
gle work mules sold from 8130 to S140;
oows hr iugiit from 842 to 885] bogs 87 50
per lUU pounds; sheep 84 per head; bacon
' ' --ides 10c, ha.us 17c; oats brought
><C#r4ep(73ixS%<’fr.'. ; " a!)
' Grasses!—Jl-ffifetiJ a‘k‘s onr opinion'as
i tine of sowing, and; w en we said
the best time is in the fa!!, as £bot^ as land
is in good conditirn. he' insisted' we were
amiss; that', e-c,_ “knows all about It, and
he says iu the spring.” We replied] why
ask cureclf ? The fact is, and no man of
efcpitrienFe wHi controvert, get grass seed
in .fair growth in the fall, before freezes,
and the first summer is nff so apt to kill;
aud beddes, some use can be Lid from a
part oi tlie grasses the • fiist year. The
clovers-might freeze ont when young and
tatdcr. if sown in the fall, yet .the best we
ever had was sown the 1st to tho 3d of J
cemhet.—So. Farmer. .
e o o.
I De-
Mr. W. P. Henderson, of Tampa, Fla.]
killed « wild turkey recently, which weigh
ed thirty pounds.
Total for tlic-year.tj.j... 888
The ergs sold at an average of thirty six
cents per dozen.
888 eggs, at 3 cents each ; ..826 64
Whole cost of food for the year 8 70
—Reporter.
817 94
Tub Clovers would be more certain if
sown early now than to have risked heavy
freezes. • Prepare by thorough, deep plow
ing and harrowinga; sow abont ten to twelve
pounds per acre—sixty pounds to the bush
el—without any covering,, unless it boa
ro'lir merely to compress the earth. Long
ago we bad fifty to seventy-five young stock
kept in prime condition from March to Oc
tober on clover withont one grain of corn.
Evau should it be killed by hot and dry
weather in July and August, yet if there
be a stock of hogs, the use of it three
months will save corn and make meat to pay,
-The ■- eoeral cleaning up. fencing, etc,
cau be done during the inclement weather,
not- favorable to the plow. Our advice is
press the plowing all fine weather.
An Upland and Meadow Farm
NEAR ROME, GA. FOR SALE.
GCniSFarm contains 400 acres rich red lanj.
of which 125 acres are in cultivation, the re-
mainderffnely timbered. It has several springs
on it, and is finely adapted to stock raising, or
for fruit and Dairy purpose?. There is a good
orchard of a variety of frnit. Several acres cov
et ed with a splendid stand of clover, herds grass,
orchard grass timothy and blue grass. The im
provements ample and good. This place is lo
cated 3} miles from Rome and £ mile of the 8.
R. 4 D. Railroad. Good churches and schools
near, and in an excellent neighborhood.
Terms $4000—one half cash, balance in 12
months. Apply to BURNS 4 DWINELL. at
Rome, Ga-, or W. 8. Hills on the placa aprl.
A RESIDENCE FOR SALE.
Centrally Located.
W E OFFER for sale a house and lot in the
very heart of the city, new and well ini-
proveJ, has five room*, and all the necessary
outbuildings, has a fine selection of fruit trees
and everything necessary for comfort. We will
sell this property for CASH at very low figures,
For particular* enquire of
BURNS 4 DWINELL.
Real Estate Agents.
CHOICE HOTEL,
Cheapest Property in Ga.
JL HIS is one of the best pieces of property in
Upper Georgia. It is a first class Brick building.
three stories high, with 35 rooms, including a
good Store, Bar and Billiard room. The size of
the lot ti 112 feet on Broad Street by 155 feet on
Bridge street.
It is located in tbe center of the city, only forty
yards from the City H\ll and eighty yards from
the Court House.
Price $18,500, half cash and balance in 12
month, with interest. The Store and Bar and
Billiard rooms now rent for more than enough to
pay the interest on the entire price of the proper
ty. Some improvements are contemplated, and
if made before sale, their cost will be added to
the above named price. Apply to
BURNS k DWINELL, Or,
mar2ltw-wtf J. C. RAWLINS.
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UnJcr date of Man-k 20, Hoa. Ht*rucc Greely,
of the New York Tribune, write.*: ,4 J. Ball, ol
our city, is a conscientious and xesponiblc man,
who is incapable of intentional dcccp ion or im
position.
Prof W. Merrick, of Lexington, Ky., wrote
April 24th, 1S6D; Without my Spectacles I pen
;rou this note, after usin" tho Fatent Ivory Eyo
Oup« thirteen days, ana this m«»rning perused
the entire contents of a Daily News Paper, and
all with the unassisted Eye.
Truly am I grateful to year nobis inveution,
may Htaven bless and preserve you I have
been using spectacles twenty years; I am seven
ty-one years old. Truly yours,
PROF. W. MERRICK.
REV. JOSEPH SMITE, Malden, Mass., Cur
ed of Partial blindness, of IS yean standing in
One Minute, by tho Patent Ivory Eye Cops.
E. C. Ellis, Late Mayor of Dayton, Ohio, wrote
ns Nov. 15tb, 1S*>9:1 have tested the. Fatent Ivo
ry Eye Cups, and I am satisfied they are good.
I am pleased with them; they are certainly the
Greatest Invention of the age.
All persons wishing for full particulars, certif
icates of cures, prices, 4c., will please send your
address to us, and we will send* our treatise on
the Eye, of forty-four Pages, free by return mais
Write to Dr. J. BALL 4 CO., P. O. Box. 957, No.
91 Liberty Street New York.
For the worst cases of MYOPIA, or NEAR
SIGHTEDNESS, use our New Patent Myopic
Attachments applied t> the Ivory Eyo Cups.has
proved a certain cure for this disease.
8end for pamphlets and certificates free.—
Waste no more money by adjusting huge glasse-
on your nose and disfigure your face.
jST Our Agant for Floyd County, Ga., is
ALLEN PLEDGER, Cave Spring.
D. A. MIZE, Cedar Town, Polk Co.
fcb28tww3m
C01CL0UCH,HARKINS&CLOVER
JOBBERS OF '
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
Would CALL TilE ATIEXXtOti. OR MERCitAXTS AND PLAKTERS TO TIIETR BX
tensive Spring nnd Summer Cr.ods now in Store and Constantly arriving*
Tlisir Wholesale Department
Is well furatibed with good* suited to the Vfiioltsalc trade exclusively,^herc Merchants may
supply fhpm8c1vcs open ns ftvfcid-Jt: Ipniv its at sny of the Northern Markets.
Their Betail Department
roign and Domestic Markets, comprising Dlt fcS? GOODS,
HOUSE FF11NI-HUM OOODS. CARPETdif CANTON
WHITE GOODS, LTEENS, NOTION
MATTINGS, OIL CLOTH". -?‘c , .V.
An Examination c? /heir Ext csive'Ttock is Invited.
TP ’3B««r-N« S-LIGS'E it AL.
HJ&liNT&ED AS LOW kt TES L0WI3T
their H:ruse a desirable jd-.e^to trade.
PRICES
.££r*It Lh the intention «>f this firm t
No. O, IJroad Street,
Rom,Ci
mar2Swtf
E JL COLCLOUGH.
JOHN IURKINS,
•-CAIN ULOVEK.
It S. BON SI CO.
tltonk. GEORGIA.
V.'r b?g leave to caTDtbe attention of tb**«e pur i
MILL MACHINER Y to the fret that ww «fe rgcntfi
mg
o’clock, a.y *»r »««. ftcll
eggy***
Harper. TO - « A. Y. ^
The undivided bait in. ■
Vo ? .20s, 209, 188, VsV ■» U 1
4th Itction of no, p, ,’? 1 '»«i
a Tax fi fa i„ fa?or J«> "oat,.^
OwgoS- Black. L-ry Va 1 *
me by,a Constable. y “**' «»4 ,
»i»8 7>. ,Uat:Flr n - l U1IPXTj J
Giuvn'i.iA- Fioni Coubiy;
f f .UEiiEtS.W 1 xr:
I : r letters ->f r,
ofah., «ute of Math.*
These are theitfore kTE 1 ’ 0 ' 1
anrt . m-rolsr the kindred ‘'J 31
deceased, to be ami "*™*|
'ihkrilfi’ittitl * *^fl580X, (j
Georgia,
Wt
Biandy’s Celebrated Steam Sn-iuea, Mill,
nn-i cm.furnish Anything fr n» c. size SAW MILL
Ji> the hirgwf •
FLOUBI:k'O- MIL I a,
Complete Would csll s^ci-il attention t.» the
Coleman's Cora and Wheat Mill,
which wo keep in stock. - \
HERE AS, g. P.o*l » j ■ I
Oils, late or said J
me for letters of dismiss.™i *
These are «b.«f„re
“ad sinyolSr tlfaa.:
f "V-office within Urn .
I i-‘ -*n»W c:m?c if th»» v
I »n!d noH*» gr.inft.1. * ^ 1Te W *J
n «.-i- 20nsso* i
BILL fcOlt un ufit( .
Anuie L. Pcwo l, ■)
Jame. W.-Eonell jnaf^S^g";-
FRSITCS
Cognac Bitters,
w,
GOOD V&CAKT LOT.
E offer to members of the Building and
Loan Association, or any one else, a very desir
able lot near the Rome Female College, 70x130
feet, at the extremely low pr.ee of $350 Lack of
cash prompts the oficr. Titles good.
We
COAL LANDS.
E offer for ealo a fine lot of Coal Land
St, Clair county, Alabama, lying in Township 10,
Range 3, East, kuown as the Cowan Coal Beds,
containing 320 scree. This land is within fire
miles of Ferryville, on the Ccosa River. A part
of it is in cultivation, and the remainder
splendid wood land. The Coal is in inexhansti-
mar21tw-wtf
bur:
les per:
;NS 4
DWINELL.
The John Rnsh Plantation.
560 Acres.
Seven mites from Rome and half a mite from the
Selma Rome A Dalton Railroad.
An excellent plantation, with some 300 acre
oi rich Valley land, well fenced and in cnltira
tion. The plac, i, well watered with water in
crery field. A good two story dwelling, built of
ail select lumber, with ten rooms and cellar, to
gether with barn and all necessary out buildings.
An excellent Apple, Pear, Peach and Cherry
Orchard on the place. It is an excellent place
for a Tan Tard, and there are 20 rats now beilt.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Bushel.
Wheat............ ..
- Lbs.
Shelledcorn.
Com in the ear... ..........
Pease .....
R ye rf
Oats
Barlov
.7.1-
Irish Potatoes av
Sweet Potatoes..... ..d... ...
White Beans
* **** *6ft
{fastor Beans...... ......... m *45
Clover Seed........
-....2..UW
Timothy Seed.....
Flax 8eed" _ . ..
Hemp Seed.....'..;...,
Bine Grass Seed .„
Buckwheat.....
Dried Peaober..
Dried Apples.'.'. d—..‘ 21
Onios ............ 5n
Sait i s; 60
Stone Coal.... i..™?.
Turnips. “55
Plastering Hair : 8
Uni lacked Tdme............ 1 ...... SO
BOCK BEER!]!
X SHALL open, this day, and tat this season,
the colobrated Cincinnati -Rock ana Hammer
r acer Hrarnmr '.'n-a
aprlltwtf H. Q. PETER.
I. NORTON,
CARPENTER and BUILDER.
promt)
Satisfaction guaranteed. I
2ast of Etowah Street
msytttwtf.
There is a good well in the yard, and two first
rate Springs acccssable.
The. unimproved land is heavily timbered,
mostly Oak and Hickory.
A Good School and six churches within four
miles of the place. Mr. Rush has lived on the
place 34 years, and never had a case of Fever on
the plantation.
TERMS—half cosh, and the balance in one
and two years, with interest from date.
Address, BURNS 4 DWINELL,
mar23 _______ Borne, Ga.
City .Property-House and Lot
OcWHER Booth snd Alpine Streets. Size 88x
185 feet House hss six well finished and ele
gant roams, lately fitted up, beudes closets and
cellar, a good servants honse end s never failing
well of exrellcht ester in the yard. The lot is
300 yards from lower end of Broad street
mar23
ICE-$3,000 Cash. Appi
er. n. jozes.
Z. T. ALUfAX
NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS,
Jones & Allman,
106 Empire Block,
Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
HEALERS IK
tieneral Merchandize
GRE4T IKDUCEMEKTS
Offered to Gash Purchasers.
call ahd Examine "
Goods and Prices.
Felr Trado with no Deception or Special “Belts*
offered. i -. dec8w6m
—i—Ubi■
ROME
IRON MANUFACTURING CO,
15 Per Cent. Ofvldebd Guaranteed,;
k
IK ORDER to complete our Rolling HR] and
aU Works, I am' authorized to self$25,000 in
■ d Stock, guaranteeing 15 per cent divi-
preferred Stock, guaranteeing U per
dend, payable seml-annuany. Th&St
two years, whan it can be converted into general
Stock; or the amount refunded at the option of
Urn.holder. Wearenow in sneneumieiiai alioi.,
making MRRCHAKT BAB IBOH, KAILS and
Railroad Spikes of superior quality. The ncit
earnings of tbs. Company for tho six months
ending December Sin, 1870, were over 10 per
cent. Capitalists, and others, wishing to make a
Rome, Ga, Jrn.31, 1871— tw-wtf.'
FIRST PRIZE
Paris Exhibition 1867.
Purify the blood and
strengthen the system,
eradicating the effect of
dissipation, maintain the
human frame in condition
of healthfullness, dispel the
Blues and all mental dis
tempers, and relieve those
whose sedentary habits lay
them open to depression.
They prevent and cure Bili
ous and other Fevers, Fever and
Ague, Chills, diarrhoea, Dysen
tery, Dyspepsia, Sea-Sickness,
Colie, Cholera, Cholera Morbus,
and every complaint inci
dental to diet or atmos
phere. Ladies will find
them a sovereign boon, as
they eradicate ail traces
of Debility, Nervousness,
Inertness, and Diseases
peculiar to the sex.
(^Thousands of Testimo
nials can be seen at the
office of
M. JACOBSON, Sole Proprietor,
C4&C0 Water Street, N. Y.
t-IEA-K'tjyk: testimony-
year Cedar Eju^Aht^ Fib. 23, 157:.
Messns_J._ 4. S. Doxks <2 C»>:—i car. havoipivrm.
the 1C inch Mill (Coleman's) bought ofyau, athor- .. 0 ..
and can best express myself i*crfectJy sa’iefied.
The Power applied was tl e rnnrfirg >Vnr 5f 'iav Gfn.
which, although ia verr bad order, wthi-f uflietent !<> grind
ONE .BUSHEL of Gore, {by the wafcii). an ELEVEN.
MINUTES.
I find it-no trouble to coall my grinding before break fiat.
Several of my neighbor* wer* prevent at the time, and all
were perfectly satisfied with tho result, ami astonished at
tLe quality of meal produced ic so short a time. I prefer
the meal to any Steam Mill meal.
Respectfully yours,
. H. H. MILLER.
F- S-—Tha focoatl 10 inch Mill I bought of vou for the
Foster iarn^jSjncs the above was written. ba3 b?*en"'leytcdf“
and works rJJ or better, than tbo first. I* tin com- —
plete Mill
circa ful! guar an tea with cveryplcee of Machinery sold.
Jlg^Send lor Catal»gne and Price List.
H. H. MILLER
gAar21»w-wtja.i
It appearing to the com L' j’. .
m the cause, anj from the
^’Sheriff, that the .lefen.Untk*
of the State of Georgia, it if
that publication be made
months, in the Rome Co W ie“*T' 4 -N
fenfiant,'James W. Powell,
tb. next term of the Court, (STiS “
Monday in July next, and
mur to said bill, or the same im
confessed, and set down for henfo.T. 6 .
R. D. EfARygY.Jadje 1 ?^
A true extract from ike ili,'.. ''^
March 11,1871. ajmSVT
inarUm-lm Afi-ItS,-;
Notice to Debtors and t
tP^LL Persons indebted to tit ^
II. Barney late of Flojd coaatr,^
hereby notified to come forwtrd .mT
mediate payment, and all renotiLr^l
against said estate are requirfd toim! ■
in the time prescribed bylaw fcrn.wT
ELIZABETH A. ElJJlyrr *
marllwiOd.
POLK COU.NTV.
TH E LADY Gr-A.Y
THE BEST BOOKING STOVES
FOB THE PRICE.
Can Suit Everybody in : Size and Price.
Pjices Range from $23 to $50,
iNOLUiMNS ALL l4SOESMRY*C?9KING VESSELS & PIPE
~,r~
31. FERST A CO.
Principal Agenti for the State of Georgia.
Savannah, Ga.
jau2ttw-wly
COMB TO SEE US
And iiyou desire any PRIKTIKOdone, colored
or plain, large or small, at a high price or at a
low pries, to salt your taste io every way, leave
your orders at the
Courier Job Rooms,
and yon shall be pleased with tho reiult. Don’t
fear to advertise your business, if you bare any,
but make your name and number K NQWN.
We have the beat facilities for printing
HANDBILLS
and all kinds of .
LARGE POSTERS
and in this line we can’t be' hea-.
of plain and fancy work, for
very* hind
Railroads. ^teaRr^rs,
EVERY
KVEBYTHIKG can be advertive-f. lo 1" VERY
BODY by using the magical printer-.- inh, and we
have abuidanee of it on hand, ti-gotLer with all
he other means for producing good and rapid
ELLIOTT & SAMUEL,
Agents fo^tlie Celehroted
Milwaukee Manufacturing Co.
200. Doors, 60 pair Blinds',
354 Windows,
iade of thoroughly
seasoned White Pine. Tho material -m.l work-
manship cannot be snrpaised. 'Price* exceed-1
inglj low. Contractors and Builder* are speci-
invited to call ahd examine trtides and
ally in 1
prices.
atari 6twt£
In addition to the above,
and vre will «e i.nonc that
siant’y hand other Coolring Stoves of the best’ rarielics
WE WILL NOT WARRANT.
Al.o, s Complete stock of Rcadr'Mjrfc 1 **'
Tin, Sheet Iron, Zinc and Copper Ware
SPKCIAL ATTEKTIOKPAIDTO ROOFIKG, GTtiTEBIKG, Ac.
Remember cur Flace, No. 50, Broad Street, Opposite the Bank
ROEBUCK & GRIFFIN.
Notice to Dr’s and I
GEORGIA. Polk County.
A LI. pe sons having ekunuigsiutlkl
of Joel Wheeler, late of said cotntj L
are hereby notified to present them, 4
Ibcnticated, in terms of tbe law,
indebted to said deceased will p*
ward and pay up, C. H. n
R.H. WH
marl640d Adm'rs Joel
W. F. AYER,
A.YEE &
j. c. McDonald
M c X> O 1ST A. L, D,
DEALERS IK
• A€®Ef€WrURAS/« IMPLEMEiYTS,
No.Vl, Broad St., Rome, Ga. .
The Oldest Hardware House in GfiefSkefelUeorgia.
T7e invite special altenfou lojjur h.rgti and complete Stoek o?
HEAVY Am© SHELF HARDWARE,
Iron and Steel, Chains and Traces, Tabla and roc\lt CuKo.ry, of all kinds Hcrse
and MulaShoes, Hubs, Felloes, Spokes,Ac. • ' ? l ■ v
Ieocal Afocta for RUBBER BELTING, NAILS and SPIKES, the best in the market..
•We also invite all intcrcstod in improved’ Agriculture, to an inepactian of our.Stock of Imple
menU We aro Agents for STEAM ENGINES, MILLS, “QUEEN OF THE SOUTH"'FLOURING
MILLS, Buckeye Reaper and Mower, Wood's Reaper and Mower, Excelsior Reaper and Mower,
Thrashers and Horscpoxrcrg, Daw Low Cotton Planters, and Plows ot every description.
Merchants supplied at strictly Wholesale rates. • „*, . . .
marUwly * AYER & McDoXAEP.
a-.,,. ■ ■■
-Fresh ( / ardeu,
Flower, Ilerb, Tree and SbrnV, and Evcr-
20,COO Evergreen an^ Tr. e-Seeds: Apple, P«if,l
Cher<y, Jcc.; Grass Seeds- d- *sij Gablagcs* Cjinjot,
Ouion, Sqacsh, Turnip, and aU .Vegetabtip and
Flower Seed.-; in small or largo quantities; also
BIG THING
‘Rome Fair. Oct llth,
S.VVK .Ypi T R 1 CUAv\GJ3 FOR IT.
riuircr oeouj-, in small or largo qtianciTies; also,, .
Small Fruits, Slocks, Rolh-, Kl-h.l-s, h-u-s, Vrr-1 AND BUY YOU2 CROCKERY,
Glassware, Ijbbs an! Oil Ftui
logtie sent to any plain aJ(Ire‘3, gratis I AgShts
wanted: Wholesafe List to Agrafe C*!bb» cr,d
the Trade. Seeds or* commission. ’
B. M. WATflQNj.Old Quloity; Nuracries ajijl
Seed Warehouse, Plymouth Mass. Established
in 1542. ’ * - ' " jan28w2m
1. A. THOMAS,
J. J. COBW;
Broad Street,' Rome, 6ai.
•«. oetawiy * .mbtib qjjitjji
Everywhere.
G. <!. F.V ANS & CO.,
fav? ' ■ ••
GREAT ORIGINAL AKD QSLX RELIABLE
81 FT BOOK- ENTERPRISE,
17th'- of iti EjtebKshment, .
168 CJirstifbf St./ini’ SO' -€ i fe'lg^Ui. : SU
PH.LADELPHIA,
New Hooks, New tails, New Attraction,.
We will seal you any book published in the
a 8 ift on tht , ,ccei P k of Pok-
- Order any book you may desire and it will be
promptly forwarded with a gift.. .
bmuch of American Literature, With index, seot of '
free-on receipt of postage Mump. If,500:order
'^D-SESD FOR IT. 8EKD FOB IT.
ap4w3m. 19
Polk Sheriff Sale fori
YV 401(1 Court How J
*/ Pol « county, Ga, within theUal L"
sale, on the first Taesdar in Jiir '
lowing property, to wit: *
Two lots of land, So*. tlZ and Jj)
District and 4th Section, by virtue ofliJ
‘Polk. Superior Court, in Uror of
hx^ntoy of Dennir Hills, Jcrea3»il,n.a
IC!ena r iIf. ■
i Aat $ue'a&me time and pUcu, wj
l-ind adjrt’ni-.jj lh« !«pot groundttPrifl
ail .he i a teres: A. P. !|
the Depot grounds, baiMwg* a*] a.
thereto, known as the Pryor** SLUka.iJ,
and being in the 17th DUtrict aad hki
of Polk county, by virtue of a fi!» f r<B i
Court of the l'»75th District,G. M.,«fki|
ty,in favor of Tho?,G. W. MeMiekei. n|
Wimberly, Win. R. White, and J. L !*|
Morgan, J. L. Dodgen, garnliheif, iml
and returned to me by a Constabl# *"
Also, at same time and place, lot of k
410, ]§lh District and 4>h Se<-tion, im i
interest in No. SGtJ, IStb District end 3i fa
it being tbo Daris slate mining lot,U
the property of Glen 4 Wright, tontL,
fi fas issued irom the Justice Court of If
Irict, 6* M.j of Polk county, in (arsr if]
B. Dean and others, rs W.C.Bibb,«ratifr
4 Wright. 6 I
Also at the same time and place, let cl
II.5J DiHlriVl anil ?j! pwirm of M J
861,2d District and Zd Section of Polk «
by virtue of fi fa from Polk Superior C
favor of A. T. Williamson, t< Blasccriil
Mining Company.
^ J J.PRI1
april7td. Dep’jij
Notice for Leave to Sell
GEORGIA, Polk County.
'Thirty days alter date we villi!
Court of Ordinary for said Owntf,
ill all the lands belonging to the
rheeler late of said eounty, dee
C.IU
R.1L1
aarlG-dOd Adm’rs J 1
Miry Jane Hunt, 1 Superior Coo*^»JW
} Sup
1871, present ti* I
D. IIirrej.Mf*-
James R. Hunt,.
libel for Divorce—Rtdi to
It appeal mg to the court by 1
Sheriff, that the defendant do«
county, and it appearing that he doW , J
in this StaU» it ia on motion •*, efl * c **T
plaintiff, ordered that said detatoWC
answer at the next term of this
the caso be considered in defalb.** |Te|
tiff be allowed to proceed/*rd flu‘pY
dered that thls-ltiile be pnbThtri n
Courier oncea naenth for the pin"
mont]
A true extract from the neeri •fjfl
Polk Superior
rFSwdm
HARAL80N C0USIL
Haralson Sheriff Sales fa
Willi
be .eld before tfce Coart
in the town of Bachahaa, M**-jjj
the first Tuesday ia May next,
hour, of rale,-the following P"f«7'y
Tbo inluoztot Elixabeth ffeaeanw^
Ko. 4ti of originally Carrol »wSrJ«
i county; eold aa tha property o'
r. e i. r„. Lew bum
- me by aeonauaie. ■
Lotof laud Ko. thn.lhurt^l
var.-n. now U.ralsia eonau, t>
fi fas from » Joetice «wf'»* 1 %
vor ol Matthew J. Holder v ' - ;f
cipal, and Wm. Aldridge eeeenff
pointed out bypJeiotit io field*
-AUo, 100 acres of lot
and 5th aeetiou, 100 uta el »• ® B , J
5th section; levied en LUpvi I
State vs L. R. Wood ioj, U 1 si
Also, lot Ko. 310 Zfraf
U satialT *«»*
his tax for 1870. Property po'»
Tex Collector. , rdar—iM
Also, one lot in the town el jfil
theka-per«hoplot,coaton° f * J
‘ to satisfy a Ux fifiw, the SUieh
known nonrerident fie ".I
Also, 11 acreseleercd end..a^jel
.nl.l r«- rtlti.fr a UX «•*>“" -1
lapoosa^olJ ro'ratisff a I
known noarasident r
All the above levies
by a (Unstable'. TEKE£ 1
ymUl
April!, 1S71.
DADE countt.
GEORGIA, Dade County,
g". notice
Ml ' ‘
‘ fMTt
at25 and accounts
JOncs^'A Harper" haVe been
’ for co»NM^mn4ei9Hi
d tho most
, Jray; at^OTl
prices. Also, Importer' cf thfi- Dutch Anchor
folting Cloth, and French Burr Blocks, Donblf
^^tor, Wheels, and ^n amount oo .V
S
LAWYERS j .,
UPPT.TED with Legal iorme;- at the .-Coarier
ProlifievOotton Seed.
Tor Sale
i
^.T-TlVE DoIlars per bushel. Hai matured
Mqany aa fifohonfirad bolls ” -
jan31tw3m.
the court of a
nuncupative WiU of JjjJ
revoked and set J^alek .j
leaving said estate
TbJenze
and aiagular, tho SjgjJRSotoSffl
ceased, to »PP«“ /}2 j£m
said county, ontho firA
this April 3,1871. ’ j-A IAl*^
,pr
GEORGIA Dade Counir- \
1!._in. .(ter dele: *8?,jfid **
s^toT.^/«rIS
sm
janldirtn
S.C.1