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VOLUME XX. • | .
ATHENS, G-A.—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27,1873.
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f TERMS.
j $2.00 Per Annum,
1 PAYABLE XM ADVANCE.
NUMBER 23.
PaMW ,yM. «» | WAGON YARD IN ATHENS
r mrurr of Broad and Vail Stmt*. (upstairs.)
TEH MS.
TWO DOLLIES PEE ANNUM}
ISVARIABLY in advance.
advertising.
will be inserted *t ONE DOLLAR
in FIFTY CENTS per »qo*re’ for the first inser-
SD .. I SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per square for
, ‘ n! inusnoe, fir any time under one month. For
r neri>><l*« **
A liberal faction on yearly *4veTti»emti»ti.
leoal advertising
.»*. iftle* per levy of 10 line*. «. $500
'•"* * ..lie.** d«ye... S.0«
lM |0 \ XK9t by Administrator*, Bxecntora, or
a ration orlVuerdianship
■ Debtor* end Creditors™
, Vi.i per square, each insertion
,0 , , orll Heal Estate
* for dismission of Administrator...
1 ,, .1 •• Guardian
To ..-ortsin the number of square* in an adrertise-
• .’r .ibitaerr. count the words—one hundred heinp
, ten lines. Allfractlone are eoqoted as full | J0Jn j- w BURKE...
J MERCER GREEN....
T HE enbsoTlberliea fitted up and opened
fortable and eommodions Wagon Yar
•treat, in the neighborhood of the Upper Bi
CORN, FODDER, and alf other necessary
be purchased on reasonable terms. Charg
The highest market price paid for Connti
and Bank bills received in exehsngefnr Go
JulyT—tf WILEY.F.
COTTON STA'
Lite Insurance Co.
OF MACON, GEORGIA,
(1.50 |
4.00
5.00
1.50
4.00 j
5.00
5.25
OFFICERS
WM B JOHNSTON
WM S HOLT
GKO S O’BEAR
C F McCAY......
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS.
man conn. I t. s.nawts. | «owsll cosi.re.
'itilHI. ERWIN & conn, .
; ’ ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
~ y ATHENS, 0BORGTA
Office in the Drupree Building. P" nil
VNKKITMJ.’
.President.
......Vloe President.
.Secretary,
......... .A«teery._
........General AgentP
...Medical Examiner.
W J MAGILL. Roperintendeot of Agencies.
-Samuel P. Thurmond,
Attorncy-nt-Law. Athens. Ga.
, flP „„ Irfff.orrr the «for« of Harry A Sou,
'" ivf epocia! »ttenf inn locate* »n Bankruptcy. Al*
jg the collection of al! claims entrusted to hiteaw.
Select |$is«llang.
WHAT IS LOVE f
BY EUGENE H. MUNDAY.
“ Wbat ia love t” the maiden asked.
Then I wrote these words of truth—
When the brain is lightly tasked,
Love's a passion in our you tn.
When we enter manhood’s race.
Grasp the honors of our time.
Find them empty, worthless, base—
Love’s a solace in oar prime.
When our hairs are blanched by years.
Pain and fears oar thoughts engage;
Still it glistens through our tears—
Lore’s a habit in our age.
Leant the maiden on my chair.
Stayed my band with playful strife,
Shook her snnny silken hair—
•Love,’ she whispered, “ is our life.”
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I’. LUMPKIN,
Attorsky iT Law.
ATHENS, GA.
,-xr- office over Crime A Berry’s etore,formerly oe-
P i.<i by G. Dalooy.Esq. SeptlS
r.\MF,S R. LYLE,
Attorney at Law,
WA TKfNSVILLE, GA. | in many other ways.
Every Suuttiuri. man will be sure to assent to this,
and favor a Southern company, if it ia safe. Wo offer
him precisely the same security ee the Northern mu
tual companies—the accumulated premiums of the in
sured, paid by tbe young, to meet the amounts insured
when they grow old and die, and in addition thereto,
a capital commencing with
EVERY' SOUTHERN MAN
11§ interested in keeping the large eeeoinnletion* of
Life Compmnies at home. In Fire Insurance the pre
miums are mostly returned to meetlosse*; but in Life
Insurance they
ARE ACCUMULATED,
to meet the death* at old age, and only
Returned after Many Years*
The money retained here will bring better interest,
and thus swell the profits of a mutual company, and
BENEFIT THE INSURED
f>dc*2
fOlIN M. MATTHEWS.
Attorney at Law,
D*nic1«Yiile, Ga.
vopt ittentioi. will he giren to Any business en-
'•t to his care. MafehU.
jiNGLAND &0RR,
li Wholesale and Retail Dealers,
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Dupree llall.Broad St, Atheui. Ga
\y, „„ nl ,w prepared to store Cotton at 25 cents per
tl will advance oash when desired. Oct28.
r li. ncr.Gixs,
h„lc,ale and Retail Dealer in
i.Y GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac.
y.,1,1 S Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
$300,000!
Surely, this makes it eqft; and if *o, let every man
insure at home.
Terms of Insurance.
Onr premiums are ns low as most of the Northern
I companies, and lower than many of tHem.
And as our policies have no restrictions on Southern
rollN II CHRISTY*
Uio and Fancy BOOK AND .TOB PRINTER, t,- ve j or residence, they are really cheaper than those
Broad St., Athens, Ga. | ofNfswY ork.
address T« -flu BURKE*
mar27 District Agent, Athens, Ga.
•e corner Broad and Wall streets, over the store |
. !>. Pittard. ‘ f
DAVI LION HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
hi< FIRST-CLASS Hotel ia nitoated in the very I
ir. .if the hiiaineas patt of thecity, and all who
i (h? - - will lind every convenience and luxury that
h.procured. Board, per day, $S.OO.
B. IUau.ro*, Snpu Mra. L. II. BtJTTr.nvin.il, |
Pro;inVfr#M.
NEW FIRM ! NEW GOODS!
AND NEW STAND!
T HE subscribers having entered into copartnership
in mercantile buaincas, will
_m:MMKY t fc NEWTON,
J Dealer* in
Foreign and Domeetie HARDWARE,
Jnnf9 No. ft.Broad street, Athens, Ga.
: o' 0015BS,
Wholesale aud Retail Dealer in
and Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. Ac.
9 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
DOftTHlfc CHAFFIN,
D in WHISKIES. BRANDIES,
Ale. Lager Beer, all kinds of Fancy Drinks
IN AMD OCT OF LOTE.
• How did I know she was a widow V
* Don’t you give me credit for any common
sense or discrimination at all f
• How do you know that a rose is red 1’
* How do you know lobster salad from sar
dines f
I knew she was a widow from the very mo
ment I took the cornor scat in the car oppo
site to her little black bonnet with her flut
tering breath of cra|te veil, and the Astrakhan
muff that held her two tiny black-gloved
hcrnls.
How I envied that muff.
Don’t tell me of your Venus, your Madonna,
and your Mary. Queen of Scots—they couldn't
have held a candle to this delicious little widow.
1 never did believe in graud beauties*!
A woman has no business overawing and
impressing you against your will,
And she was one of your dimpled, daisy
faced creatures, with soft brown eyes long-
lashed and limpid, and a red mouth, which
looked as if it was just made to be kissed.
And then there was a tangle of golden spi
rals of hair, banging over her forehead, and
braids upon braids pinned under her bonnet,
until a hairdresser would have gone frantic
at the sight.
Just as I was taking an inventory of these
thiDgs, in that sort of unobservant way that I
flatter myself belongs to a man of tbe world,
she dropped her muff, and, of course, it rolled
under tbe far seat.
Wasn’t I down on my knees at once after it !
I rather think so.
* Thank you, sir,’ said the delicious little
widow
• Not at all,' I replied. * Can I do anything
more for you I’
No, thank you—unless you could tell me
wbat time we get into Glendale.’
Glendale,’ I replied. * Why, I am going to
Glendale.’
Of course we were friends ht once, and the
daisy faced enchantress made room for me
said the widow, looking intently at the hem of
her pocket handkerchief. ‘You’re only living
half a life, now.' Ah, you can not think how
much happier yon wonld be with some gentle,
clinging being at your side, congenial soul to [
mirror your own.’
Instin'tively I laid my hand on my heart.
* Do npt fancy that I shall lose an instant I
in tbe search ,’ I said. ‘ I have already pictur
ed to myself tbe pleasures of a newer existence.’
Have yon V The brown eyes shotan arch,
challenging sparkle toward me- * Tell me all |
abont her.*'
* Do you really wish to knowt’
* Of course I do.*
I congratulated myself mentally on the fine I
progress I was making, considering the small
practice in love-making I had bad. Bob Car
ter himself, with all of his ready tpngue and
good looking fase. could not have carried on a |
flirtation more ii
Dress Sixty Years Ago.
Of tbe high-born dames and their daughters
who, in the early part of the present century,
sunned their beautiful faces, bonnets, symme
trical shoulders and busts, artistic and other
wise. it will be scarcely necessary to say that
many of them preferred to drive in open phm-
tons, landaus and landaulets. Of their cos
tumes the present writer is not competent to
speak in appropriate terms; but he is quite
sure that nothing so monstrous, ugly and ridi
culous as tbe bewigged and bewitched head
dresses of tbe present day (at least in tbe streets
and public places) was ever seen in the fash
ionable localities of the days above referred to.
In one respect, however, tbe costume certainly
did surpass all that is at present seen either
abroad or in theatres and ball-rooms. But
this specialty was reserved for the evening full
dre&s, concerning which the less we, say the
more characteristic will be'the imaginings.-
* Is she fair or dark V questioned the widow, I An exquisite illustration, however, of* village
mercantile business* will open on tbe first day
of January* in tbe bnilding on tbe corner of Thomas
and Clavton streets, (a short distance North of Pen
pr*e’s Hall) m large and general assortmentof
J^amilv Groceries, I beside her, lest, as she said, some horrid, disa-
'LJj! DRY GOODS. I Rreeable creature should crowd iu and bore
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
PROVISIONS, HARDWARE,
CROCKERY, SADDLERY,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, &c.
..... . . J And, in fnct, all article, usually kept in an asanrtad I
,r,. Totiacon, Ac., Ac., Market street, near court , toc | |j w hiefa they invite the attention oftheirfriendc I
\thc-ns. Ga. Feb2n—ly an( , the pubUc gener ,Uy.
,.,.,1,v cpt’l'D Their Gooda will be aold cheap for eaab, or ex-
1 K ' ' LAWYER. ATHENS. GA. “ d0 * h " Co “ n ‘ r J Produc.athigh-1
..licitorGone^l of WertOT eireoit. will attand P PITNER,O’FARRELL A JACKSON.
Conrtfl of Clarke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall, Banks,
, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun and White,
ki ci' t* attention to collecting and other claims in
e counties. March l», 1873.
ELLAS, Attorney at Law,
IV. FRANKLIN. N. C.
etlrc, in all the Court, of Western North Caro-1
>. ami in the Federal Court,. Claim, collected ia |
l parti of the State. apl#—ly
Ai A, EDGIfji
[Boot, Shoe and Harness
MAKER,
apriii;_iy WATKINSV1LLE, GA.
• irarKiN. henrt jacksor.
LUMPKIN & JACKSON,
A TTOliNE YS AT LAW,
I7ILL practice in the Superior Court Clarke conn-
’ ty.tho Supreme Court of tbe State, and the U.
I Court fur the Northern District of Georgia. feb7
ANTI-PYROTIC,
OR,
G-reat Fire-Killer.
NO HUMBUG!
• CERTAIN, SURE, RELIABLE.
B Y a recent diacovery, we are enabled to offer the
pnblie a aafe, certain and sttra enra for
Burns, Scalds, Scald-Head, Stings by Insects,
Tetter, King Worm, Files, Sore Byes
and Old 8ores ot long standing.
tested—in
hat never
Thla preparation hae been thoroughly ta
- ... , liaf _ h
" under*igned la now nrepared to fnrniali
MOSGMENTS,
:eadstones
Or anything in tho Marble or
IRON-RAILING
'•»>•!»r< notice. I have quite a nnmbar of NEW
'BINS or Pattern,, which can bo reen hy apply-
Nov.10—tf J. R. CRANE
»t«V*U.T. J. C. RALLWAX. ’ V. J. ntORTnWxa. |
JNNALLY, HALLMAN & C0„
rholesale Grocers*!
And dealara in
1‘IinviSlONS, GRAIN, Ac.
Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Geo.
p*. AUKNTS FOR THE ARROW TIE. fab2» |
| r «rrit,. k. r. nowrLL. |
PEEPLES & HOWELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
20 and 22, Kimball House,
ATLANTA, GA.
I bnrna alwaya intone almoit initant rebel
failed in a (ingle inatanco.
We have in onr poetesaion number* or oertificataa
■bowing th* WONDERFUL OURFS affected by thla
preparation, which navar fail*.
Every Family should have a Bottle of it
READY FOR USB!
No one knowt how aoon a tcamber of tho family may
oeed R -
It i, a Georgia production nnd perfectly fno from
mineral poiton.
For Attain Athena at the Drugstore* of Dr. R*
M. Smith A Co. nod Dr. Wm. King, Jr.
Orders ahonld bouddretnd tn
JARRETT A MULKEY,
AugS Walton’* Ford. Gn.
THE ECLIPSE
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P I meeting with nnprecedentwl sucm»s,|
fully MlahltibiogHi claim* a* tho STANDARD,
>IUCTICE in the Statoand Federal Court,, and I WATER WHEBL.”°Th*y nn in ua* all over th*
L Y ,# * 4 tegularly *!! the Court, in Atlanta, inclnd- Union, nnd orery wheel heard from ia giving nnqnali.
R t..» Supreme Court of tho State, and will argne | fild aati,faction. All aiiea, from S to 72 inch** in
n’upoa brief, for abient partial, on rtaonthlo I diameter, manufactured by tho
STILLWELL * BIERCE UANOFACrG CO.
her to death and I stepped right out of the
musty, ill-ventilated world of tbe railway car
riage into an atmosphere of Eden.
When a bachelor of forty falls in lore at first
—‘ oh, what a fall is there, my coautrymen!’
No half measures, I tell you.
Before we bad been speeding through the
wintry landscape an hoar, I had already built
np several blocks of chateaux d 1 Etpagne, in my
mind
I saw my bachelor rooms brightened with
her presence.
I fancied myself walking to church with her
band on my arm.
I heard her dulcet voice saying: ‘ My dear
Thomas, what would yon like for sapper, to-
niglitf I beheld mysell a respectable member
ofeociety—the head of a family.
What would Bob Carter say now!’—I meant
then.
Bob, who was already teasing me on mj
prospect of hopeless old-bachelorhood, who
supposed, forsooth, because he happened to be
a trifle yonoger and better looking than my
self, that I had no chances whatever.
I’d show Bob! ,
1 What did we talk about!’
The weather, of course, the scenery, the
prospects—all the available topics, one after
another; and tbe more wo talked, the deeper
grew my admiration.
She was sensible and so original, and every
thing else that she ought to be!
I discovered that she preferred a town life
to the seclusions of a country residence. So
did I. Who would stagnate when he conld
feel the world's pulses as they throbbed t
Sbe loved the show—so did I. She thought
this woman’s suffrage movement all ridlcnlona
with a bewitching little lisp on the last sylla
ble—I agreed with her.
She tbeugbt a woman's true sphere was
home; my feelings surged up too strongly for
utterance, and I merely bowed my assent.
Here was a delicious unanimity of soul—a
mute concord of sympathy
What would Bob Carter say when be saw
this beautiful little robin lured into my cage!
How I wonld lord it over him. How I would
invite him *to happen in any time. How I
wonld figuratively, of course, hold up Mrs.
Thomas Smith over bis envying eyes. I ut
tered an audible obuokle as I thought of the
with the prettiest of interest.
‘ Neither; about your complexion.’
*Oh!’ laughed my interlocutor, ’with a
charming pink suffusion over her dimples. * Is
she yonngf
•Yes, about your ago.*
* Pretty !’ .
* More than pretty, beautiful.’
Tbe widow arched her perfectly penciled
eyebrows. * Wbat a devoted husband you will
make, and when are you to ft married!*
* I will answer that at some other day—
abem.’
* Are you acquainted with Mr. Carter, Mrs.
Alvern’8 brother! asked the widow, presently.
* Yes,' I answered, with R little grimace. ‘ A
self-conceited, disagreeable pappy.’
‘ Do you tbiuk so !' asked the widow, doubt-
fally.
Of courso, as everybody else. So will you
when you meet him.’
Shall I!’
A man who thinks becanse he has got
haadsome face and a smooth tongue, that no
body else has any business in creation.’
Dear, dear!’ twitted my companion; ‘ that
is very bad, indeed.’
Of course, be will pay a good deal of at
tention to yon, it yoa are to be bis sister's
guest,' I pursued; ‘ but it won't do to encour
age him.’
No!’
* By no means. He is a professional flirt.*
‘ Is it possible!' lisped the widow.
And I mentally shook hands with myself for
having thus put a spoke in Bob's wheel.
First impressions are everything and I cer
tainly had been beforehand with the pretty
widow. Neither had I any compunctions of
conscience, for hadn’t Bob been playing prac
tical jokes of all styles and complexions on me
ever since we had entered the bar side by side !
Stupid Tom, has been his pet name for me,
alwuj&i.JitfLtbis was not, sp.yery stupid, a
game after all.
While I was tbns metaphorically pleasing
myself, tbe conductor bawled out, Glendale,
and I sprang np to assist my lovely companion
out of the car cheerfully hardening myself with
bogs baskets, parasols, and bulky wraps.
As we stepped npon tbe platform I nearly
tumbled into the arms of—Bob Carter.
Hullo, Tom!’ was his inelegant greeting
You don’t grow any lighter as you grow older.’
I was about to retort bitter(y, when a sud
den change came over his face, as he beheld
tbe pretty widow behind me. «
Gertie!’ he exclaimed, clasping both her
bands in his. ’
Yes, Robert,’ she answered, with sparkling
eyes and flashed cheeks. ‘That gentleman
has my parcels; has been very kind to me.’
Ob, has be though! well, we won’t trouble
him any further. Iam much obliged to you,
Tom, and we will send you cards to the wed
ding.’
•To what wedding!’ I gasped.
Didn't you tell him, Gertie ! Why to our
wedding, the tenth of next month, to be snrp.
Au recoir l Torn, be careful of yonrself for my
sake.’ ■
And that was the last I ever saw of my dal
sy-faced widow. For If you think I was mean
spirited enough to go to the wedding, you are
mistaken in my character.
P. ROBERTS, M. D.,
f A\ INii located at Monro*, off*** hi* profaialonn I
>ornco,to tho oitiiaoiof tbotown and *arround-
troaUrT.
Maitn aroat, North of Court Homo. janSl
A than a, Ga.
HELLING PUBLIC
C AN now bo (applied with Railroad and Stcamahip I
1
-p TJ ATY A TO n Tt a I tlokou to nil principal point* of tho
■ States and Europe ’
Office, Soathaaat corner Public Square. mar27
b*T alio practice intheCourUof thoeoantioaenn-1 WkW. I iHMl ~me digcuBy lu ChtUlgtog
oracccaaihloto Atlantaby Railroad, tapll j t0 ?™ddro*** Mr ** >t * T * C ' rCO ** , R? D NWKBRloN, * | into a cough.
• You’ve got a cold,’ Eaid the widow, sympa
thetically. * Do, please have one of my troches
they are so soothing to the throat.’
I took tbe troche, but I did'nt swallow it.
would as soon have eaten a priceless pearl,
put it in my left-babd breast pocket, as near
my heart as practicable;
Her first gift!
* • A bachelor like me is used to such things.'
I said, in an off-hand rqanner.
•A bachelor!’ echoed uiy travelling com
patridn. ‘ Bless me, then you are not married!
• Unfortunately, no.’
*It's never too late to mend,* hazarded the
widow, roguishly.
• i hat is my sole consolation,’ I answered,
gallantly. , ' .. • . -
' > There is nothing like married life,’ sighed
tbe widow with a momentary eclipse of tbe
limpid, brown orbs, beneath the whitest of
drooping lids. ‘But what’s the use of my
talking about it to you! You can’t under
stand.’
• I can imagine,’ I replied modestly
PUSTERING
And Ornamental Work
)°.^5* Uh * "botteat notice. Satiafaotibn K uaran.
r 0rder * fro ”tboaurround-
!•»li«lt*d and attended to with despatch,
'•tewoaable. .Order* iaft attbeatoreof J D Pit-
■ F - , 2""r at tho Watchman office, will bo filled at
. Salting Gratea » ' ■- ’
I* 119 WILL
cither by Augnata or Atlanta.
SAVE ALL TROUBLE AUD EXTRA EXPENSE
by buyingyour ticket* andgetting full information at I
to rontes, from Capt. WM. WILLIAMS,
aug28 Agent Southern Exproa* Co., Athen*.
i office, wi
i a apocialty.
.LIAMS A GARRISON.
M. W. BIDEN,
attorney at law,
S. Claim Agent and Rotary Poliiic,
, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
“ rce '' U1 <>» King A Bro’a.
JOHN B. ESTES.
VADt80N BELL.
ESTES & BELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
GAINESVILLE. — ...GEORGIA.
W ’JLL praetlco in theoountieacompoaing the West
ern Circuit, aud Dawann and Forayth countio,
of tho Blue Ridge Circuit. They will aim practice in
•’ " ‘ ia, and in tbe United State*
mayl4
innocence on this subject must not be omitted.
A certain fashionable lady of London, whose
lovely daughters were regarded as the most
olegant belles of the season, having become dis
gusted with tbe arrogance, lies, neglect and
passive insolence of their upper footman, sud
denly discharged the powdered personage, and
imported a man from the country, who had
been strongly recommended to them for bis
attention and respectful behavior and invar!
able trnthfalnes8. On tbe third day of his in
auguration, the poet Moore, who was very in
timate with the family, made a ‘ call’ some
quarter of an boor later than bis dining inten
tions warranted.
* Are Lady B and the Misses B—— at
home!’ inquired Moore.
Tbe new footman from tbe country eyed the
poet with a scrutinizing gaze, then looked be
hind apprehensively. Tbe question being re
peated, he took a step forward, and replied in
a suppressed tone:
They told me ro say they were oat; bat
they’ro tn. They’re gone np stairs to strip for
dinner.’
If the style of dress thus indicated among
ladies of the highest circles ‘ left little myste
ry,' os Lord Byron said, ’ for tbe sacred rights
of Hymen,' the example set by them was snre
to be followed by nearly all who conld afford
it; and we cannot, therefore, be surprised if
some things were adopted in tbe worst man
ner, and carried to exaggeration by the demi
monde,
bish cleaned away. At this writing the tin
ners are.; leaving the building; roofing- and
spouting completed. Plasterers still at work
in the second story- The bnilding has been
insured, and in the coarse of a few hours will
bo ready for a tenant.’
Cut it "short.
A certain barber having the great gift of
gab used to ain use his customers with bis long
yarns, while be went through his functions on
their heads and faces. One day an old codger
came in, took his seat, and ordered a shave
and hair cat. The barber went to work, and
began at the same time one of bis long stories,
to the little dissatisfaction of the old gentle
man, who becoming irritated at the barber,
said .-
• Cut it short.’
• Yes, sir,’ said tho barber, continuing the
yarn, nn til the old ge'dtlemairagaio ordered - :
‘ Cnt it short, I say—cut it short!’,
* Yes, sir,’ catting away and grabbing fas
ter.
‘ Cat it short, I say,’ reiterated the gent.
* Yes, sir,’ said tho barber, going on with
his story.
‘Will yon cnt it short!’ said the old gent,
in q rage.
‘ Can’t, sir,’ said the barber, for if yon look
in the glass yon’ll see I’ve cut it all off.’
And, to bis horror, upon looking in the glass
he (bund his hair all 'cut from his head.
..There are two reasons why people at wa
tering places never mind their own business.
One is that they bAve no business, the other
that they have no mind.
. .The married ladies of a Western oity have
formed a ‘Come-home-husband-club;* it ia
about four feet long and has a brush on tbe
end of it.
. .A Western editor’s statement: * We. are
living at this moment under absolute despo
tism,’ is attributed by his contemporaries to the
(act that he has just been married.
.A photographer requests that h)s sign—
Taken from life’—should be bis epitaph.
.. Ladies traveling across the plains carry
their hair in their pockets, to avoid being
scalped. .
How to Become a MUUonire.
John McDonough, the millionire of New
Orleans, has engraved upon his tomb, a series
of maxims be has prescribed through life,
and to which his success in business is mainly
attributed. They contaiu so much wisdom
that we copy them:
RULES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF MY LIFE.
Remetqber always that labor is one of the
conditions of existence.
Time is gold; throw not one minute away,
but place each to account.
Do unto all men as you would bo done by.
Never put off till to-morrow what-youcan
do to-day.
Never bid another do what yoa can do your'
self. . j
Never covet what is not yonr
Never think any matter so triiliog as not to
deserve ^tice.
Never give oat that which does not first
come in. v
Never spend bat to prodace.
Lot the greatest order regulate the tronsac'
tions of your life.
A Tough *Un.
A good story is told in an Eastern paper of
a drunken husband by bis amiable sponse.—
After trying various experiments, she at last
bethought herself of a plan of reforming her
lord- She engaged a watch for a stipulated
reward to carry Philander to the watch-honse,
while yet in a state of insensibility, and to
frighten him a little when he recovered. Un
tier this arrangement-Phitandor awoko about
eleven o'clock at night and fonnd himself lying
on a pine bench, in a strange and dim apart
ment. Raising himself upon bis elbow, be
looked around until his eyes rested npon
man seated by the stove, smoking a cigar.—
Where am If’ said Philander.
‘ In a medical colloge,’ said tbe cigar smok
er.
• What doing there f*
• Going to be cut np.’
• How came that!’
‘ Why, you died yesterday, while yon were
drank, and we bought yonr body to make an
anotomy!’
• It’s a lie. I’m not dead !’
• No matter, we bonght yonr carcass of your
wife, who had a right to sell it, for it's ail. the
good she ever conld make of yon. If you’re
not dead, that's no fault of tbe doctors, aud
they’ll cat yoa up alive.'
Yon will do it, eh f’ asked the old sot.
Ay, to be sure wo will—now directly,’ was
the resolute answer.
Well, can’t you let me have something to
drink before you begin f'
This last speech satisfied the watchman that
Pbilander’s was a hopeless case, as his reward
was contingent on successful treatment of tho
patient, he was not a little chagrined at the
result; so, with no gentle handling, he tum
bled, .the irreformable drunkard out of the
watchrbouse.
jlgriculiittal ^Matters.,
(From the LaFayette Reporter.)
THE BALLAD OF FARMER BROWN.
A SONG FOR THE TIMES, WITH A MORAL.
Old farmer Brown came into tbe house,
And wrathfnlly slammed the door.
And flopped himself down into a chair.
And flopped bis bat bn the floor.
For farmer Brown was dreadfully wroth,
And bis dander it was up t
And be looked around with an angry scowl.
And wrathfully kicked the pup.
I'm tired from head to foot,” he said.
And hulhnyiwfltW'he'r *“*’* -
a like to have a mouthful to eat—
Is diuner’ most ready ! said be. -
The farmer’s wife she was pale and thin,
And hungry and wan was she ;
And her eye was dim and her step was slow,
And her dress was a sight to see.
A House Built in a Day. ‘
Tbe newspapers of Lancaster, Penn., pnb
lish an account of the building of a brick
dwelling house in that city in ten and a half
hoars, the materials having been prepared and
collected bn tbe site previous to tbe commence
ment. The house is twenty feet by thirty on
tho ground floor, two stories iu height, and
contains eight rooms. There were in all up
ward of one hundred workmen employed.
The cellar foundation was already laid, and
at precisely 6 o’clock Friday morning the men
went to work. The Examiner thus describes
the labor; .
Mr. J. T. Reading, photographer, was
present with bis photographic apparatus, and
took views every fifteen minutes of the build
ing and the workmen while in motion, which,
of course, produced some ridiculous pictures—
men, white and colored, in almost every po
sition, are to be seen represented. At 8 o’clock
a. m., tbe structure was advanced to tbe
height of one story, with two floors—ground
and second—laid, partition in, and lathed and
Study in your course of life to do the great-i| partly plastered, doors hung, stairways up,
Jli^LateJu^eU.^cCurt. Nebraaka and Utah,
and now J urilje of Brook* County Court)
Attorney at Law,
julj23 ly Quitman, lliovti Comity, Ga.
est amount of good.
Deprive yourself of nothing necessary to
your comfort, but live in au honorable sim
plicity.
Labor to the best moment of yonr exis
tence,
Pursue strictly the above rules, and the di
vine blessing and riches of every kin* will
flow npon you to your hearts content,
First of all, remember that tbe chief and
great duty of your life should be to tend, by
all means in your power, to the honor and
glory of onr Divine Creator.
The conclusion to which I bavo arrived is,
that without temperauco there is no health ;
without virtue no order; without religion no
happiness; and that the aim of our being is to
live righteously, wisely and soberly.
. John MqDoni ugh.
New Orleans, March 9tb, 1804.
’ You must find a wife as soou ns
What was tbe result of the trial of that
liorse-stealer!’ asked a Missourian of his ueigb-
le,’ 1 bor. * Ob, bo was left iu suspense.’
and a view taken with the doctor in the
midst of his workmen. Tbe scene is a busy
and comic one—the bricklayers Greeting
scaffolding for the second story. Ten o'clock
a. in., view taken of western front on Prince
street; second story brick work two thirds up,
with carpenters ready to lay tbe floor, qnd
plasterers commence lathing ; western front
painted and brick penciled on first story, and
rnasous run short of brick and then some de
lay in consequence, but it was remedied in a
short while.
Eleven o'clock a. tn. ? the bricklayers are
up to square of ceiling for third floor, with
corners raised to the height required to re
ceive -the rafters for rooflug. Tinner* wait
log. The process of white coating is now
about completed in the first story, 11:18
m., first rafter for the roof 4aid. At 11:21 the
chimneys, and tbe bricklayers are done. Roof
sheathed and tinners begin to • lay roofing
12:50 scaffolds all removed from buildiug. 2:30
p. in., sash in windows of first story and pain
ters finished up ; washboards dowu and rub-
Your dinner is ready, she meekly eaid.
And tbe dodgers is smoking hot;
But I’ve scraped tbe tneal all out of the box,
And tbe last jint’e just from the pot.
Tbe mischief you have, said farmer Brown,
Heaving a doleful sigh :
Thar’s plenty of bacon and corn in town.
But I’ve no money to buy.
Up spoke the farmer’s daaghter, Mailer—
And she hadn't spoke before;
Thar's cotton out under the shed, said she,
Some dozen bales or more.
Cotton, the devil! said farmer Brown,
(It’s dreadfal wrong to swear.)
My cotton’s all mortgaged for last year’s work.
With never a bale to spare.
Well, then, bis daughter npspoke again.
If that won’t do for feed.
You've two or three loads or more
Of Dickson's Prollflo Seed.
Do you think me abeast! said farmer Brown,
I’m neither a cow nor steer;
And what if I was ! I’ve hardly enough
Of seed to plant this year.
Then said his daaghter, Marier, again,
Thar’s guano, lots, she said,
Thar’s twenty sacks full into tho barn,
And barrels under tbe shed.
Guano ! Ob ! Lad! said farmer Brown,
I need all the precious stuff,
To put on my cotton land this year.
And then not have enough.
dut when the farmer had eaten his fill,
He fell into thought profound.
And smoked bis tobacco, which cost at least.
Some ninety cents a pound.
And then hemnttored.thar’ssomething wrong
Abont my farming. I swear.
We don't have enough to eat,
Nor half enough to wear.
My males are starving al most to death,
■My cows are dreadfully thin ;
Thar’s hardly an ear of corn iu the crib;
And nnrry oat imtbe bin. ,
The times ain't like they onco have been,
When I was young and spry ;
We had fat horses and males in the lot,
And fat hogs left in the sty.
My cribs were always chock full of corn,
My 8moke-bouso groaned with meat;
We then had plenty of clothes to wear,
And always enough to eat.
By jings 1 I'll change my habits at once,
From woeful experience learn—
This year my cotton. I’ll plant in a patch,
And plant my fields in corn.
MORAL:
All you whose farms are going to wreck—■
Who've neither corn nor meat—
Jnst make the resolve of farmer Brown,
And go for something to oat 1
. Sandy Higgins.
Savo Crab Grass Hay.
Those farmers who have made the experi
ment’, need not to bo informed that a very su
perior quality of hay can. be made out of tho
crab grass that will infest our corn fields, in
spite of all the cultivation that conld bo given
to the com up to tho time 9f laying l»j tho
crop. This grass, if cut at the proper season,
and cured iu the right way, makes a bay that
our horses prefer to any that we can get from
tho meadows of the Northwestern States. As
our agricultural labor this year has been al
most wholly devoted to tho cotton crop, to the
neglect of corn, there will bo a very great de
ficiency of corn fodder, and other coarse for-
ago. The demand for western hqy, iu tho en
suing winter and spring will be so groat that
prices will necessarily rule high, it therefore
becomes an iiupojLiut matter to save all do-
mestio hay that may be in onr reach, not neg
lecting the proper shelter needed by wheat
straw to preserve its value for cattle.
The most important points in making good
hay of any grass are, to cut at the proper sea
son, and to cure it in as little time as practica
ble, without exposure to rain or dew. The
directions for making all kinds of hay are eo
well given by • C,’ of Bartow county, Ga., in
the July number of * Farm and Home,’ that
we qnote them for the benefit of our'readers:
• 1 know that it is not a settled question
among fanners when hay should be cat, or
rather when grass shoald be cat to make bay.
I think this difficulty arises because we do not
all raise the same variety of grass, and be
cause some ripen much sooner than others,
but I believe that it wonld be perfectly safe to
lay down as a rale to cut every kind of grass -- -
when It is in full bloom and before the blos
soms begin to fade. It most not be cut before
it blooms, because it is immature,'and there is
a great loss in quantity, and it must not be al
lowed to staud after it hae bloomed, because
it becomes dry and fibrous, loses its succulence
and deteriorates in quality. Of the two, it is
better to cat before it is in full bloom. The
loss is less. This is true of clover as well as
o f grass.
The reason for this is very plain, if we only
give ourselves time to think: When the grass
flowers it has attained its fall strength, and if
cut at that time and carefully oared it retains
in its dry state alt its jniceB and succulence.
Tbe great object in curing bay is to pot it
away os green as possible without danger of
its healing or becoming mouldy. Tbe more
hay is protected from exposure to dew or rain,
the better it is. Drying it in the sun after it
has been saturated with rain, injures it ma
terially. If it should be pat away too groen^
and heat a little in the stack, tbe injury to ir
would be much less than that resulting from
drying after exposare to rain. I wonld recom
mend that tbe grass be cut after tho dew dis
appears. I would leave it in the swath until
evening. I would then gather it into small
cocks which I would open next day and spread
evenly over the ground. If the weather is
good, that is. if there be san and no rain, on
tbe evening of the second day the bay is suf
ficiently cured to haul borne.
If the barn is not capacious enough to hold
it, stacks as large as possible are the next best
way of disposing of it. The advantage of
large stacks consists in the quantity protected
from the weather bearing the largest possible
proportion to that exposed, and tbns rendered
worthless, except for manure.
Wastefulness of Farmers.
Not less than twenty- per cent, of the entire
capital employed in tanning in this country is
wasted. This is a low estimate, for ou many
1 farms the amount of waste is double the sum
named. Perhaps tbe scarcity and high price
oMRtJorln a few localities may be-considered a
M reasonable excuse for this loss, but we hold that
no man should undertake more than be can ac
complish without waste. Tbe first and most •
prolific source of waste can readily be traced
to large farms, as nine out of every ten of onr
farmers owh or undertake to work twice as
much land as they are able to do, with any
sbrt of credit or profit to themselves of others,
j In Spring, more corn, potatoes and other
.crops requiring culture during the period of
j growth, are put in than can be attended to,
J and tbe results are that baying and harvesting
grain crowd upon the hoeing, and waste oceans
on all sides. Scarcity of labor is nlways-pnt
forward as an excuse for this waste, but the
farmer was well aware that he could not ob
tain tbe required amouot long before hie crops
wero put iuto the ground, and should have
known jnst how many men were required to
take care of and harvest any certain number
of acres of any particular crop. We are npt
disposed to excuse a man for waste on the score
of ignorance, especially in farming, because the
bueiness is one that should he well understood.
Contrary to tbe general idea, we believe that
the curse of American agriculture is cheap
lands, producing a low standard of farming,
and encouraging a grasping disposition to pos
sess broad acres, with a corresponding neglect
of the same when once they are obtained. The
first thought of a farmer or bis sons is, how
much laud.can I purchase! Not, how much
will my capital permit me to buy and improve !
In ninety-nine cases out of every hundred, a
man puts his entire capital into land, aud then
rufis in debt for a few acres more, reserving
nothibg with which to make improvements or
purchase stock. A merchant who wonld put
his entire capital into a building, and leave
himself no capital with which to commence
trade, would not deserve pity, if he did fail in
business; and yet this is jnst what a majority
ofour farmers are doing. Tho result of such
a system is a slavish lift) for a term of years in
order to procure stock, implements, barns, and
finally, a comfortable honso for the w'fo and
family.
Now, there is but one way to remedy this
wide-spread ovil, and that is, to own loss land;
make it produce better crops, and thereby pre
vent a waste of time aud labor. A roan should
never put more than one-half his capital into
land, no matter how much or bow little he may
have. We can offer no better proof of this
wide-spread evil of owning rnoro land than can j©
be judiciously cultivated, than the averago
yield of any of our principal farm products.—
Tho averago yield of corn, for instance, ia some
of the Middle and Southern States, is not above
ten bushels per acre, and In Illinois seldom
above twenty; while those farmers who plant
on good, rich laud, obtain from fifty to one
hundred bushels per acre. These results prove
conclusively, that thousands of acres are an
nually planted with this grain, aud the labor
expended thereon is almost, if not entirely
wasted. The same is true in regard to all
kinds of grain cultivated in this country. A
mar. starts out in Spring to plant twenty acres
in corn, when really he has not sufficient help
to put in ten, and the result is a very small re
turn for the labor expended, aud loss corn
than would have been obtained upon ton acres,
with seveuty per ceut. of the capital expended
thereon. Manure is wasted by being spread
so thinly over a large surface of ground that
the benefit is scarcely to be perceived, whilo if
a less area received the amount, it would not
only bring immediate and a large increase in
the crop grown, but be permanently enrich--
ed.—Naxheille Rural Sun.