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15 V JOHN 11. CHRISTY.
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VOLUME XXI.
ATHENS, GEORGIA,—WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1874.
NUMBER 2.
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The Southern Watchman.
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Allan COBB. I A. S. ERWIN. I HOWBLI. COBB,Jit.
Hill!, ERWIN <fc COIU!.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Office in'the Deuproe Building. Dee21
B AN KRUPTCY.—Samuel P. Tuunnond,
Attorncy-at-Law. Athens. Ga.
Office on liroad afreet,orer the atore of Harry k Son,
Will give special attention to eases in Bankruptcy. Al
io, to the collection of all claims cntiustcd to his «nrc.
Tames r7 lyle7
ArTon^rr at Law,
l)ee22 rWATK.'ySVnM!. GA.
Torn m. mattoys.
Attobney at Law,
Danielivlilc, Ga.
Prompt attention will be givon to any business on-
ru.ud to his care. Marehld.
inland Torr,
Pj Wholesnlo and Kotail Dealers,
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Dupree Hall.Broad St, Athene, (la.
We a.*« now prepa-ed to store Cotton at 25 cent* per
bale,ar.«l wiUadvnnee cash when desired. Oet28.
NfiLISH & CLASSICAL SCHOOL,
For Boys, cor. Wrav an<l Lumpkin sts., Ath
ens. (In. apS~:in» ' LKK M. LYLE, lV;n.
T H. JIUGGINS,
fj # holesale nnd Kotail Dealer in
DKV O00DS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE. Ac.
Feblfi . Broad Street, Athens, tin.
TORN H. CHRISTY,
tl Plain and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER,
Broad St., Athens. Ga.
Office corner Broad and Wall street!*, over tbs store
Jtrncs D. Pittard. tf
PAVILION HOTEL,
X CBAItLESTOX, S. C.
Tbi* KIllST-GLASS llotcl la situated in the very
centre of the business part of the city, nnd oil who
stop there will find overy convenience and luxury that
osnbeprocnred. Hoard, per day, $3.00.
R. Ha'iiltox, S«pi. ’ Mn. L. lI.BurTr.nriEi.il, 1
Dec22 tf Vruprit trttt. j
qniMEY & NEWTON,
O Dealers in
Foroign and Domestic HARDWaRE,
June? No. C,Broad street, Athens, Ga.
Q C. DOBBS,
k3* Wholesale nnd Retail Dealer in
Staplo and Fancy DRY GOODS. GROCERIES, Ac.
Fol>9 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
STEER,
TT'MORY
AH LAWYER, ATHENS, GA.
Ai Solicitor»»on oral of Western Circuit, will fljtend
the Courts of Clarke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall. Sinks,
Jackson, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun nnd Whito,
and give attention to collecting and other claims in
those conntief. March 19.1873.
K ELIAS, Attorney at Lray,
. FRANKLIN, N. C.
Practices in all tho Courts of Western North Caro
lina, and in the Federal Courts. Claims collected in
all parts of tho State. aplfi—ly
TpDWARD R. HARDEN,
JLLi (Lute Judge U. S. Conrts Nebraska and Utah,
and now Judge of Brooks County Court)
Attorney at Law,
jnl)*23 ly Quitman, JJrool’t County, Oa.
T P. O’KELLEY'S
U . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Om Williams’Shoe s»ore, Broad streot, Athens,
Genrgia. «ep3.
TOUR MISSION.
If you cannot, on the ocean.
Sail among the swiftest fleet,
Rocking on tho highest billows.
Laughing at the storms you meet.
You can stand among the sailors.
Anchored yet within the bay ; t
And you can lend a hand to help them
As they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey
Up the mountain steep and high,
Yon can stand within the valley
As tho multitude go by ;
You can chant in happy measure
As they slowly pass along;
Though they may forget the singer,
, They will not forget tho song.
If you cannot in tho conflict
Trove yourself a warrior trne.
If where tho flro and smolto are thickest
There's no work for you «V4o-—
When the battle-field is silent.
You can go with gentle tread.
You can bear away tlio wounded.
You can cover up tho dead.
If you cannot in tho harvest
Garner up the richest sheaves.
Many a grain, both ripo and golden,
Whic-li the careless reaper leaves—
You can glean among the briers
Growing rank against the wall,
And it may bo that tho shadows
■Hide the heaviest wheat of all.
If you have not gold and silver
Ever ready at command.
If you cannot towards tho needy
Reach ever an open hand—
You can visit the afflicted.
O'er tho erring you cm weep,
You can be a truo disciple,
.Sitting at tho Saviour's feet.
Do not, then, stand idly waiting
For some nobler work to do.
For your Heavenly Father’s glory,
Ever earnest, ever true.
Go and work in every vineyard—
Work in paticnco and in prayer—
If yon want a field of labor
You can find it anywhere.
B P. UAMP,
. Attobx*y at Law,
CARNESVILLE, GA.
Will giro prompt attention to all basinets entrusted
to him. Ha will attend the Court! of Habersham,
Franklin and Hall. seplT—ly.
C. rtEl’lES. X. p. DOWELL.
PEEPLES & HOWELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
20 and 22, Kimball House,
ATLANTA, GA.
DRACTICE in the State nnd Federal Courts, and
A attend regularly all the Courte in Atlanta, includ
ing the Supreme Court of the State, and will argue
eaees upon briefs for absent parties, on reasonable
terms.
They also practice in the Courts of the counties eon-
tigaons or accessible to Atlantahy Railroad, aepll
M.W.KLDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
U. S. Claim Agent and Mary Pale
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
Offico on Wilson street, balow King A Bro’n.
February 1#, 1873.
*0=1* ». ESTES. 1TABIS0N BELL.
ESTES Sc BELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
G.mKSYJILE. GEORGIA.
\V ILL practlee in theeountles composing the West-
era Circuit, and Dawson and Forsyth counties
of tbs Blus Ridge Circuit. Tbay will also practice in
the Supreme Coart of Georgia, and in the United States
Comt at Atlanta. mayU
A.A.EDGE,
Boot, Shoe and Harness
MAKER,
juau-i, WATKIN8VIEIK, GA
JAS. L. LONG, M. D.
burgeon, Accoucheur and Physician,
(Offic. at Ur. Thomas Shtats’ Store,)
Go °d Hope District, Walton co., Ga.
Offers his professions 1 , nerriens to tho eitisens of the
Unrounding eonntry. augST
Livery,
i, Feed & Sale Stable,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
OAKN & REAVES, PROPEIETOHS,
tWlLL be round at thairold eland, roar Franklin
••'‘“ilding.Thewgaa street. Keep alwaya
* 58*^ Tprn-oute and careful driven.
n. S " . °* r ®4 for when entrusted to our oaro.
J” 0,k « Land for sale at all timas. dec25—ti
WALTON HOTEL,
leipoetfully inform travelers
pnhlio generally that he has taken ebarga
all -I*,.? 0 *? 1, * ud »P«« »o ps.ffa to make
ootafartnbln whu may favor him with tnelr patros-
TguJfeoVtrtas will be reasonable. jan28 1m
k R.B. ADAIR, D.D.S.,
r GAINESVILLE, GA.
fficoO^SoutheastcontcrFuhllcSquare. 27mar
THE SOLDIER AT FI.ENSBI RG.
Some year-’ ’qo at the timo of peace, a de
tachment of soldiers was quartered at Flens-
burg, in Schleswig. Some of them had mar
ried, of whom a majority had largo families and
wero very poor. Povorty is bard to bearwhen
a man sees his littlo ones in rag3, shivering
from cold, and crying for bread.
Ono of theso soldiers, on a keen Autumn
night, was seut with a dispatch, as an orderly,
several miles across tho country. As ho re
turned ho passed about midnight a bleachiag-
m'.’l and perceived a quantity of linon placed
upon a licdgo to bleach, but which tho
owner had forgotten to take in at nightfall.
Ho rode very slowly. The air was very
still; no sound was heard save tho woodland
stream shimmering in the moonlight, and the
measured tread of tho horse's feet.
Ue was tempted. Ho said to himself:
“ Could it roally bo any harm to take out of
this great quantity of linen a single piece to
sell for my poor children t The owner would
scarcely feol tho loss of it, and it would be a
great help to mo in my poverty; the injustice
could not be very ^reat.’
He stopped his horse and dismounted. Bnt
when ho came to tho hedge, a voice within him
seemed to say, ‘ It is sin ; till now thou hast
never stolen ; trust in God and do right, and
thon shalt never starve.’
He left tho hedge, and quickly mounting his
horse, but soon looked round again ; the temp
tation came upon him with a greater power ;
tho sorrow of his home and his hungry chil
dren rose before his mind. He again dis
mounted and again stood before the hedge.
All was silent save the crisp leaves dropping
in tho shadows, and the music of the stream
silvered by the moon. Ho was about to put
out bis hand to take the linen, when his con
science again awoke. The conflict was a hard
ono; but the persuasive voice within again
triumphed, and, without touching the linen,
be again mounted his horse. He rode on, but
presently drew the rein and looked back.
The tempter now approached him on anoth
er side. “ I am in misery,” said tho soldier,
and here is the opportunity to alleviate it.
Is it not my duty to do so f I would not steal
for tho mere purpose of gain. God knows I
am not at heart a thief. Who can say that
Providence has not placed this means of help
in my way I’
He looked back again, saw tho linen still
nnwatched, lying in the moonlight. He again
dismounted and climbed the hedge. He put
forth his band; but the good angel had fol
lowed him, and the inward monjjor again as
serted its power. It seemed to say, ** What
art thon doing f It is sin."
Then be beheld his poor children again
whom in the previous winter be had been an
able to protect from the famine and frost. As
a father, be reflected that he should care for
his children.
He was now in a most intense state of ex
citement; the straggle was at its height.
He took off his hat and kneeled down with
his forehead bared to heaven, and gazed up
ward for a moment on tho calm moon and
golden clusters of stars. The sublimities
of the celestial scenery, like a vision, revealed
to him the greatness and goodness of God
The good angels were with him, and his tri
nmph was at band.
'• oh Lord,” ho prayed, “ look down upon
me, help me in my extremity, and control me
For the sake of Jesus Christ, thy beloved Son
have mercy on me, a miserable, tempted sin
ner, and save me. Be tboa my strength in
this my hoar of weakness, and be thon my
life, my helpand mv portion forever.'
His prayer was beard. No soul ever perish
ed praying. The tempter fled, and the good
angels were glad. With a joyous and free
spirit, he mounted his horse, inwardly prais
ing God, who had helped himont of this temp
tation, which would have brought a curse and
destruction upon him.
As he came to the court-yard of the miller,
be stopped, and knocked at the door.
The miller opened the window, and called
out:
' Who is there f ’
*' An orderly from Flensbnrg. I want aeon
pie oi words with yon.'
• What is it?’ asked tho miller, opening the
door.
• My dear miller,' said the soldier, “ as I
was riding by I perceived that yon had for
gotten to take in yonr linen which was left on
tho hedge to bleach. This is no business of
mine, but I will conceal nothing from yon. I
am a very poor soldier, and have a wife and
five small children, who aTe naked and starv
ing. My miserable condition indneed me to
stop when I saw the linen, and I was strongly
i tempted to approach it too nearly. Three
; limes I dismounted my horso under tho influ
ence of temptation. I was assaulted on all
sides, and it seemed as if I must submit. Then
I looked up to heaven, prayed to the Almighty.
He heard mo and gavo me power to resist.
I Friend miller, this is a high road, along which
j others may come after me, and be similarly
| tompted, and perhaps fall This would be a
j bad thing; therefore I am come to warn yon
; to take in your linen. And now I wish you
good night."
• My good soldier come, iu, and take a little
refreshment. Tho air is cold to-night.'
. The offer was a most acceptable one to tho
soldier, for he was hungry and thirsty. A
bountiful supper was placed before him. As
he enjoyed the good fare, ho said to himself:
‘ O God, thou hast hitherto helped me. Thou
hclpest mo now again, and thou wilt help
me to tlio end.’
As ho was about to depart, tho miller
brought out a piece of linon. and said, “ My
good soldier, this Is the largest and best piece
of nil thoso which were left out to bleach.
Take it as a remembrance; take it in honor,
because you sought help from tho Lord in
prayer, and steadfastly resisted sin. If you
are ever in groat distress, do not fail to come
and see me.’
Tho heart of tho bearded veteran was touch
ed, and tho tears rolled down his sunburned
checks. IIo could not speak ; but bo took the
piece of linen, receiviug it as a gift from the
Lord.
' Thou, O Lord, lias saved mo to-night,’ he
said, ns be stood beneath tho moon and tho
stars.
“ So wilt thou keep mo always.’
Ho rode away, a happy man. It was tho
battle of his life, and tho victory was decisive-
Tho good angels followed him to the end.—
Youth's Comjxniion.
The Oldest Inhabitant.
Judge Basil Harrison, of Prairie Rounde,
Mich., tho original “ Bee Hunter” of J. Foni
more Cooper's "Oak Opening,” is now in the
103d year of his ago.
Tho above item suggests the following ex
cellent take off on tho oldest citizen topics,
from tho Pulaski Citizen :
It Is fashionable in nows'paperdom to inter
view the oldest inhabitant, and give to the
world the miraculous varus they tell—miracu
lous, because it is difficult to conceive how a
mind bowed down with decrcpitudo and age
can study np tales so marvelously life-like.—
TVo glvo below tho results of an interview with
the oldest lady in Giles county :
“ Como in, and don’t stand thar and star
like a fool, like you never seed anybody afore
Take a chair. Caliine, fetch the man a gourd
of water, and fetcii the pan; I know he’d like
to wash his hands, they’re awful dirty, my
sates!”
“ Thank you, madam, for the chair and the
delicious draught from your rustic dipper, but
the pan is unnecessary, since I laved my ex
tremities in tho limpid stream that gargles
from the hill-side down tho way. Pardon any
seeming impertinence on my part, but I will
rest under lasting obligations to you, if you
will divulge the most important events of your
life—a life which I am led to believe, by re
port, has stretched out over the waste of time
to an extent not usually allotted to man, and
which has comprehended events which, bnt
for the vital spark that still animates your
physical frame, would belong only to tho dead
past. Your Creator has endowed—”
Caliine, fetch the Bible and the hymn book.
Drat a preacher what won’t take a text afore
he commences. When I was a gal, preaching
was preaching, bnt these times people have
got queer notions. But yon might as well go
on with yoursermon.sinceyou’vecommenced.”
“ You misapprehend me entirely, madam.
I simply came to ask yonr age and name, and
get you to toll me what yon have seen a long
time ago, and what yon heard, and what hap
pened.”
Lor sakes, why’nt yon say so. ^y name
is Lucinda Smith, and I’ll be three hundred
and foarteen years old next grass. I’ve seed
a heap of things in my day, and I can’t tell
yon all, bnt I remember somethings maybe yon
never hearn of. I’ve been married thirty-nine
times, the last time I counted np, and the
school-marm has been addin' np my children
for three weeks. She was a little over seven
teen hundred last week, and there's no tollin'
whar she is now. My first husband was Julias
Ctesar'8 carriage driver, and I nnssed Julius
hissolf. I was present when Pompey the Great
and Napoleon Bonaparte fit on the Boeky
Mountains. And I seed Lord Wellin’ton take
George Washln’ton pris’ner. Lorzy my, how
George did cose and aware, and he went right
straight to General Grant and took the oath,
and they sent him onto an island what they
called the Isle of Elbow; and he came back
and fit the battle of Waterey and Montalew
the same day. I had thirteen eons got drown
ed that day in the Potomac, and Lord Corn
wallis wouldn’t give me their back pay. A
heap of men got killed in that skrimmage.—
Thar was Massadonia and Mark Anterny, and
Sbilow, and Sherman, and Bnna Vister, and
Boregard. and heaps of’em, and I recon they’d
a bin figbtin till yet, bnt Martin Lather come
up with his rigiment, and killed Licnrgns and
Banker Hill, and took Fort Sumter, and had
all the niggera marched ont and give 'em guns,
and told ’em to bam Moscow if it took all
summer. General Shakespeare eat dinner at
my house that day, and Jay Cooke and Victor
Hugo, and Robinson Cruso—say. Mister, wbat's
yonr hurry, I ain't get through the first hun
dred years yot. Come again, andTil toil yon
all about it. Lorzy my, how I remember
everything same as if it was yesterday.”
ports and sold or hypothecated with European
bankers. It was freely discussed In the press,
and to some extent upon the hustings, and
one member to the first permanent Congress,
from Georgia, owed bis election to the advoca
cy of this measnre, the Hon. Hines Holt, of the
then Third Congressional District. Bat this
cotton project received its death blow at the
hands of another Georgian (Gen. Toombs)
some time before Col. Holt took his seat. In
the Fall following the opening of hostilities,
money had become to bo scarce m some sec
tions of the eonntry. Mississippi planters
complained most loudly, declaring that they
bad no market for their cotton, and conse
quently no monoy to pay their taxes. So when
the Provisional Congress commenced its last
session in the city of Richmond in November,
this cotton project came up for discussion.
One morning ths Hon. Walker Brooke, ofMis-
sissippi, moved a resolutioiutti.at tho Commit
tee on Finance be requested to inquire into
the practicability of reporting a bill requiring
the government to advance money to cotton
planters on their crops, and to tako tho cotton
advanced upon to ship abroad or to sell iu or
der to raise monoy. When the resolution was
read at the clerk's desk, Gen. Toombs,
who was just loaving the hall, stopped and ad
dressed the President as follows :
Mr. President : I desire that this motion
shall be discussed and disposed of at once on
its merits, and to that end I move to amend
the resolution, by striking out tho word “ re
quest” and inserting in lieu thereof tho word
“ instruct,” and I desire to bo heard on my
amendment.
At that time Gen. Toombs was a Brigadier
General and had just returned from tho Army.
Ho was dressed in a full suit of citizen's clothes,
bat had a military short cloak thrown over o ne
of his shoulders, and held his hat in his hand.
He was in the primo of physical manhood an d
intellectual strength, and nevor looked more
impressive and commanding. Standing by
his chair, (desk3 were not usod in the Provis
ional Congress,) he at once addressed himself
to the subject. Though it was a dry ono ho
garnished it around ami about with the most
thrilling and eloquent language. Laying
down his opposition to any measure looking to
lending the public credit to the private citi
zen, he rapidly reviewed the consequences
which had followed such measures in all coun
tries where the experiment had been made
His speech did not occnpy more than thirty
minutes, but it impressed the writer of theso
lines, who has heard some of his ablest efforts
at the bar, in the Senate and on the stamp,
that it was the best effort of his life.
Referring to tho statement that cotton was
tho strength and backbone of the Confedera
cy, be closed somewhat a3 follows: “ But ;
few months since we wero told that cotton
was king, and that at the foot of his throne
the crowned monarchs of the world would
crouch and sne for favor j but now before a
frost has whitened a single leaf in his coronet,
becomes into this hall a shivering pauper, aod
says, * Give me drink, or I perish ?* ”
Tho speech produced a profound effect on
the Congress. Mr. Atkins, a member from
Tennessee, enthused by its power and elo-
qnenco, arose from his seat atfd remarked that
he would be willing to die if Robert Toombs
could be chiseled on tho monument which
should mark his grave. The logic, eloquence
and facts of Mr. Toomb3 were too strong for the
plodding arguments of Mr. Brooke, or the more
careful and consise reasoning of one of his col
leagues, the Hon. Wiley P. Harris, both able
men, and the resolution as -amended failed.
The Provisional Congress passed upon the
cotton project and disapproved it. Efforts
were made to resuscitate it in various shapes,
bnt they never amounted to much.
hoar, CO per minate, 1 every second. So that
it will be seen that every pnlsation of the
heart marks tho death of a human being.
Tho dissolution of the human race, as set
forth in the above rate or estimate, is over
balanced by the births, which average a little
more than those given by theso figures. So
that the population of the earth is constantly
increasing. The averago of a man's life all
over the world is 33 years. One fourth of the
population of the earth die' before they reach
tho age of seven years, and one half before
the seventeenth year of ago. Of every 10,
00U persons only one livos to be lOOyoars old;
of every 5,000 only ono reaches the ago ot 90,
and only one in every 1,000 reaches the age of
70 yoars. Married men live loDger than bach
elors and a tall man has a better chance of
longevity than a short man.
Of each 1,000 persons only65gotmarried, and
by far tho greater number marry in Juno and
December than in any ether months daring
the year. Births and deaths occur most gen
erally at night, as almost every ono has ob
served. Only about one-eighth of tho popu
lation of the world are fit for military service.
Tho different professions have a great influ
ence upon tho life of a man.
make a woman by force thy slave, and she
will bear it still less, but will seek by craft
and canning to obtain dominion over thee.
For the empire of love is the empire of con
tradictions ; the wise man marks this and acts
accordingly. The more one has to do with
women, the more he learns to know them, and
the more one learns to know them the more
one learns to love them; and the more one
loves them, the more one is loved again—for
every true love finds its response and the high
est wisdom.
In the Arms of Morpheus”--An Indignar.t
Darkey.
Onr friend, Col. S., residing not a thousand
miles from here, informs ns that he has a co
lored youth in his employ who has been with
him for some considerable length of timo, and
for whom, as he has proven himself fai thful
and trustworthy, ho naturally feols some at
tachment. The young man concluded a short
time since that he would like to see a little of
the world and take a little recreation, so he
applied for permission, which was rtiadily
granted, drew the wages dne him, anionnting
to about one hundred and fifty dollars, depart
ed on a trip np the eonntry. After being ab
sent for some weeks and spending ail his money-
he returned and reported for dnty. In a few
days afterwards be solicited an interview with
Col. S., informing him that during his trip he
bad met with a dnsky damsel who bad cap
tured his Affections, and be wished his employ
er to write to her for him- The request was
complied with, and in dne coarse of mail an
answer came, written in a very neat female
hand, the boy’s sweetheart having; evidently
secured as amanaensis a young lady of culture
and refinement. The correspondeo ce was kept
up for some time, our friend. Col. S., enjoying
it as well as the parties most intimately inter
ested. At last there came a billet doux abound
ing more in expressions of tender regard and
affection than any that had preceded it, which
was duly read to the smitten youth, the con
clnding lines of which were, os nearly as can
be recollected, as follows:
‘ I think of yon the first thing iu the morn
ing, and I think of you the last thing at night,
as I fall into tho arms of Morpheus—”
The reader had progressed thus far when
the boy suddenly sprang up, commenced pull
ing off bis coat, and excitedly exclaimed, * In
the arms of who ? By , Col. S., TO whip
that#,—d nigger, if it costs me half tny yto it's
na/jes.’—Wilmington Star.
[From the Fort Smith Herald.]
How Five Jacks Beat Four Aces.
During tho session of the United States Dis
trict Grand Jury, a witness was called before
them named Scipio Chotean, a half breed Creek
Indian and negro, bright, sharp and intelli
gent. He was the last witness to be called be
fore adjournment that day. After adjourn
ment, some one of tho Grand Jury who knew
him, asked him if ho was tho man who bad
four aces beaten.
He answered, * yes, sah; I’se do man.’
* Will you havo any objections to telling it?’
* I’se afeared it will get mo into trouble; but,
if do Judge is willin’,’ appealing to tho fore
man, ‘I will tell it.’
The Judge consented, then Scipio said: ■
‘ You see, I lives on de cattle trail from
Texas, through do Creek country, to Kansas,
and I was ont on de road one day, and I meets
a gentleman ahead of a big drove of cattle.
‘ He says, ‘ old man, does you live in dis
country ?’
* I say yes, sah
‘ Ho says, ‘ it’s a mighty poor country. How
do you make a living!’
I says, sah, tis putty good country; wo has
plenty meat and bread, and I makes a good
livin’ a—
•Hesays, ‘old man, does you ever play
kerds ?’
* I say, yes, sah; I does sometimes.’
‘ Ho says, would you have any objections to
a little game of draw V
* I says, no, sah.’
* So we gits off our horses, along side do
road, and sot down, and I pulls out do
kerds. Well, in a short time, I beats de gen
tleman out’n sixty-two dollars and a half, and
I thought I bad him; so I puts up a band on
him—fori is, do I say it myself, a mighty
smart hand at kerds—and I knowed he would
have three jacks and I would have three aces,
and in de draw I knowed he would git de ud
der jack and I would git de udder ace. So, he
raises a bit, and I raises on back; till, at last,
I pats up all de money I had winned from de
gentleman and all de change I had, and I
knwwed I had him. Well, in de draw, de gent
got de udder jack and I got de udder ace. Do
gent wanted to bet, bnt I claimed a right for
do money, and I tol’ him I bad a inwinciblo
hand dat couldn’t be beat.
* He says, old man.dem is right good britches
you is got on; bow much did dey cost ?’
I says, yes, sah; dey cost me ten dollars.'
He says, I puts up ten dollars agin dem.’
I says, berry well, sah; but I tell you I got
a inwinciblo hand.
He puts up de money, and I holds up my
legs, and he pulls off de britches and lays dem
down.
Now, sah,’ I says, * I told you I had a in
wincible hand. I’s got four aces.’
Do gent says, * ole man, did you ever hear
of five jacks heatin’ four aces 1’
I says, I’s heard it, sah, bnt I’s RBver seed
it; and if you con wince me of it, de money's
yourn.’
* Berry well,’ he says, layin' down one kerd,
ain’t dat de jack of clubs ?’
‘ Yes, sah,’ I says, * dat am do jack of clubs.’
He lays down anudder kerd, ‘ ain't dat de
jack of spades t’
* Yes, sab, dat am de jaok of spades.’
He lays down anudder, ‘ ain’t dat de jack of
diamonds?’
* Yes, sab, dat am do jack of diamonds.'
He put down anudder, and edys, ' ain't dat
de jack of hearts?’
* I says, yes, sah, dat am de jack of hearts.'
Den he runs bis hand in his bosom and palls
ont a great long pistol, and points it at me,
and says, 'ain't dat jack haul?’
I says, yes, sah.’
Tho Yalno of a Newspaper.
A mechanic tells an interesting story of bow
ho was induced to take a nowspaper, and what
came of it, as follows:
Ten years ago I lived in a town in Indiana.
On returning home one night—for I am a car-
ponter by trade—I saw a little girl leave my
door, and I asked my wife vko she was. She
said Mrs. Harris had sent after their news
paper, which my wife had borrowed. As we
sat down to tea my wife said to me:
‘ I wish you would subscribe for the nows
paper; it is so much comfort to me when yon
are away from homo.’
* I would like to do so,' said I, ‘bnt you
know I owe a payment on the boaso and lot,
It will bo all I can do to meet it.’
She replied: ‘ If yon will tako this paper I
will sew for tho tailor to pay for it.'
I subscribed for tho paper; it came in duo
time to the shop. While reading one noon and
looking over it, I saw an advertisement of the
county commissioners to let a bridge that was
to bo built. I put in a bid for the bridge, and
tho job was awarded to me, on which I cleared
83,000, which enabled me to pay for my house
and lot easily and tho newspaper. If I had
not subscribed for the newspaper I should not
have known anything about the contract, and
I could not havo met my payment on the house
and lot. A mechanic never loses acything by
taking a newspaper.
ting and draining, when cheaper buildings
would have answered. Another works a wet
field year after year, at a great loss and incon
venience, and with small resnlts. because he
is too busy to (inderdrain it. Ho dues every
thing at a disadvantage.
Very different is the coarse of the good
manager. He looks at all his work—has it
mapped ont before him—estimates accurately
the labor to accomplish each job, and the time
when it should bo done to prevent loss, and
then goes on systematically. It does not re
quire a grant genius to do this, bnt common
sense, and for tho farmer to keep bis wits
abont him. This is what makes a man prac
tical and successful.—Cor. Country Gent.
. .The estimated number of Mexican soldiers
now surviving is 39,570.- There are also esti
mated to be about 14,000 widows of the- Mex
ican war veterans how surviving. The amount
required per annum to pay tho pensions mem
orialized for will be 85.140.760, and the ag
gregate sum to pay them for their average
duration of life would reach the amount of
$97,160,364.
tji'iciiltut'al
And he says, ‘ ain’t dat five jacks? and don’t
dat win de money?’
* t says, yes, sah; dat’s Jack Hani, and dat'a
five jacks, and five jacks beats a inwinciblo
hand.’
‘ So he puts de money in bis pocket, and ties
my britches on hiud of his saddle,and tells mei
to scatter—and I did.
‘ You see, it served me right, fori thought
the man was a green Missourian when I put up
de hand on him; but be was a Arkanaaw chap,
and I finds dem mighty sharp, Judge.*
The above is vouched for by the foreman
and several members of the Grand Jury as
fact—every word of it.
Savannah Advertiser-Republican.
The Fall of the Confederacy.
THE COTTON SUBSIDY—A GRAPHIC AND DRAM
ATIC SKETCH OF GEN. TOOMBS.
At the inception of the now government, the
idea was put forth that credit might be estab
lished at once it the cotton, rice, tobacco and
naval stores in tho South were'purchased by
tho Government, and either shipped to foreign
Interesting Statistics.
The last universal statistics published let a
late French paper and kindly furnished ue by.
a friend, discloses some very interesting facts
which we take pleasnre in lav ing before onr
readers.
The population of the 'planet upon which
the race of Adam lives ison.e milliard two hun
dred and twenty-eight mi' ilions, divided among
the different races, as follows: 369,000,000
belong to the Caucass ian race; 552,000,000
to the Mongolian rar^ ; 190,000,000 to the
Ethiopian race; 1,003,000 to tho Indian rac e.
Those races speak 34H2 different lagaages, an d
practice. 1,000 di'ffarent kinds of religion or
Green Manure.
In many parts of tho country one of the
most serious questions is that of manure. One
may bo so situated as not to make it profita
ble or convenient to keep much stock; and
yet if manure has to be purchased it is seldom
that it can be done so as to leave much profit.
On tho other band, it iscl^rly a loss to farm
poor ground; and thus between these “ upper
and nether millstones” one hardly knows what
to do.
In some places much use is made of greon
manures. That is, tho land is sown with
some rapid growing crop, which, after it has
grown considerably, is plowed down; and in
this way land is fertilized. Clover is often
used for this purpose, and in tho South the
cow-pea. There is some considerable labor
involved in this stylo of manuring; but this
is not all in most cases. A whole season is
generally lost in this way of fertilizing the
ground.
Still in many cases even this has been found
to pay,instead of bBying stable manure or
commercial fertilizers; and where land is
cheap and taxes low, it perhaps may he the
best thing that can be done.
If only soiSo conld suggest something which
would grow so fast that we could plow it down
and crop the same season, it would be one of
the best possible discoveries. Something of
ttfts kind was in tho January number of the
Report of the Department of Agriculture from
an English source. It appears that some one
had a piece of land so poor that tho wheat
yielded was bnt four bushels to tho acre. In
1869, immediately after harvesting the wheat
he sowed cowpeas at the rate of two bushels
per acre. Early in October he tarned the re
suiting crop under with a deep furrow. A few
weeks later he sowed on his pea-sod, wheat-
harrowing it in carefully. He harvosted nine
bnshels per acre. He repeated the same pro
cess in 1870, and realized 17} bnshels per acre
and again in 1871, followed by a yield of 27
bnshels per acre. Throughout the experiment,
covering five yoars, no fertilizer except the cow
pea was applied.
This, if correctly reported, is a tremendous
result; and; if true, eclipses anything ever
beard of, and is surely worthy of more thought
than is usually given to newspaper paragraphs,
Year after year grain was sown on the same
land and with only about two months’ growth
of peas, the yield, had in four years, increased
from four to forty bushels of wheat! With
such results as these it will hardly pay, even
under the best circumstances, to hani manure
lrom the stable yard for wheat. What has
been done in this way ought to be done again
Somehow we can hardly credit this stupen
dous result; yet we know that green manuring
is excellent generally, when wo give it a year’s
growth of the ground, and it may be that
something like this can be done. We hope
what we have written may have the effect
stimulating trials in this direction.
Eulogy on Women,
How can the rose grow without sunshine ?
How can the violot bloom on the salty soil ?
Lo 1 women are flowers that are always be
coming more and more beautiful and fragrant
the more they are guarded and cared for. But
men should bo keepers in the garden of beau
ty; they may rejoice themselves in the fra
grance of the flowers, but they may not ram-
pie them with rude bands. Just as the weed
is rooted from the flower-bed, so should all
that is baso and common be removed far away
from tho neighborhood of woman! Tread
upon tho roso with tho feet and its thorns
amazotbeo. Make thyself of thine own ac
cord a slave to a woman, and she will not
boar it, but will herself bow before thoe, and
creeds. The nun jbe(r of deaths in one year is _
over 33,000,000, *>r 90 per diem, ^3,650 per in thankful love look up to thee as her lord
Farming to Advantage,
I have known two kinds of industrious farm
era. I do not include the sluggish and negli
gent. But of the real hard workers there are
two distinctclasses. They both rise with dawn
and work after dark, and are worthy of suc
cess ; but one class fails for want of proper
thought and management. Thoso will pat
their energies into ono piece of work, and neg-
loot other things which need them more.
I knew oho man who was so intent on fin
ishing a board fence, that he worked hard at
it at the very time that the woods in his root
crop grew from one to ten inob33 high, in*
“ Direct Trade Union Patrons of Husbandry.”
A meeting of representatives of the Patrons
of Husbandry was held in Atlanta on Thurs
day last, of which tho Constitution gives the
following brief account:
Several thousand dollars'In excess of tho
amount required by the charter (25.000) of tho
‘‘Direct Trade Union of the Patrons of Hus
bandry” having been subscribed, the stock
holders of the company met pursuant to the
call of the Secretary of tho Commissioners, in
tho Hal! of the House of Representatives at
9.30 a. m. yesterday. On motion, L. F. Liv
ingston was called to the chair, and J. J. Toon
requested to act as Secretary. There were
about two hundred delegates present. All
parts of the State were represented. It was
a fine body of representative men. After dis
posing of preliminary business,- tho charter
was read nnd accepted. The meeting then
proceeded to porfect an organization under
the charter by the election of tho following
officers, for the term of one year: President—
A. H. Colquitt. Directors—J. H. Echols, ot
Lexington; T. J. Smith of Oconee; D. E.
Butler, Madison; R. C. Humbor, Eatonton;
A. Nunnally, Monroe; J. S. Lavender,
Barnesville; L. F. Livingston, Covington;
,. A. Alston, Decatnr; J. B. Jones, Hernden;
T. Paine, Marietta; G. M. T. Fagin, Per-
; T. G. Holt. Macon. Colonel Jones offer
ed the following resolntion. which was, after
discn8sinn, unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That wo look with special favor
and gratification upon the efforts which are
being made to establish the Liverpool. Savan
nah and Great Western Transportation LiDe,
and all other efforts for the establishment of
direct trade between Southern ports and
foreign consnmors of our products, and will
give to thorn our hearty moral and business
support. _____
Stock Raising.
It has always been a matter of astonishment
to us that more attention has not been paid to
the raising of stock by the people in this sec
tion of the country. Wo beliove it would prove
quite as profitable, if not more so, in the end,
than devoting one’s time, attention and labor,
as many of onr farmers have been In the habit
of doolog, to the cultivation of cotton. It is
argned by a great many that the climate is
not suitable, the range i3 not good, and a great
many altogether mistaken and erroneous ideas
are advanced as a reason why stock raising
will not pay. Some say since freedom there
is no protection against thieves. Of course
there is not unless the proper attention is paid
to them. We know farmers who. In the past,
hired men to do nothing else bnt look after
their stock, and they invariably succeeded in
deriving a bandsomo profit from it. Tbo great
trouble is this. In tbis age of progress some
men have, by a lucky turn in the wheel of for
tune, amassed largo sums of money by specu
lation, etc. This has indneed others to aban
don what they considered a slow, plodding
and uncertain method, and caused them to
rush too into the same giddy and exciting
scenes.
We append the following, which wo find in
an exchange, and which may prove Interesting
as relating to this subject:
The best sheep man we overheard of wa»
a soldier, who saw somewhere how yalnabls
sheep were for renovating worn out land, and
after the cruel war was over, he went home
to his poor farm, and bought, thirteen ewes,
all that, fortunately, he was able to buy. Ho
pat them in a small field of briers and weeds,
which they soon destroyed, then be fed them
on bran and meal. In the winter he sheltered
them well, feeding oats and swamp hay, and
in the spring he had thirteen fine lambs.
Saving the manure, be planted the old brier-
patch with corn, and harvested a fine crop.
All bis spare time was devoted to caring for
the sheep. The next spring he bad more
lambshe was able to plant more corn; then
came more lambs, when he sowed clover and
grew turnips, and now, to-day, as the result
of such small beginnings, he has several hun
dred fine young sheep, free from disease, bring
ing him 82,000 a year, wbiie his farm has be
come extremely fertile, aod be is a. rich man.
We know that thousands and thousands of
poor young men have a free coarse before them
to become wealthy by beginning in the same
way. Bat the tronble is, tho way is too hum
ble and slow; they want to get itiong.faster;
they have no patience, no faith, np plnok.
Truly It does seem amall business to watch a
dozen sheep, os if it were beneath the atten
tion of a bright American youth.; but if said
youth will look the subject all over, he will see
it worthy of all his powers. A young man
can well afford to set down with a dozen sheep
on the plains, live in a dug out; and feed on
antelope meat, rather than undertake to be
come independent In a city on a clerkship of
$1,000 a year.’
and reduciug hia crop about one-half. Anoth
er buys costly tools and lets them rust and rot
In the fields because lie is busy with something
else, although tho labor of housing would be
mere nothing. Another builds p costly barn,
and uses up his menus f^ n ^uring, cultiva-
.
®* During the Winter and early Spring
sheep are often affected with colds; these, if
neglected, frequently become so deeply seated
as to be inburable, and end in phthisic or con
sumption. The best remedy for a cold is, first,
place your sheep in a well-v/'atilated, dry
stable, comfortably littered ;'r'id second, give
it any slightly puvgMe medicine, with a mod
erate allowance of hay, and a bran mash
fifth of tfibich should bo oat-moal. Colds
catarrhs are not only epidemic, but endemic
be careful, therefore, where you winter your
creasing labor of clearing oat at least tenfold, sheep, that there be no predisposin'; cause in
their locality; aud when thoy are attacked,
remove them instantly from the flock. By fol
lowing theso precautions and keeping them
well fed, sheltered, aired, watered and salted,
one may bid .deflanco to disease among his
flock.
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