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VOLUME XXI.
ATHENS, GEORGIA—WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1874
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ly ATTORNEYS At LAW.
.1 THE NS, tiEORGTA.
Office in the Deuptee BaiMic?. Dec2l
B ANKRUPTCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond,
Attomcy-at-Law. Athens. Ga.
Office o4 Broad street,over the morn of Flurry A Now,
Will give special attest inn to cases »n Bankruptcy. Al
so, to the collection of all claims entrusted to his care.
AMES K* L\LL«
Attorxkt at Law.
Dec22 WATKISSVILLE, GA.
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"0H.V II. MATTHKWS.
Attocisrt at Law,
Daniels
Pr imp! itteati-in will be given to any
usted to hi* cars.
MEMORIAL OAT.
BY FATHER RYAN.
Gatber the sacred dust
Of the warriors tried and true;
Who bore the Sag' of oar nation's trust.
And fell in the cat«e, though Lost, still just.
And died for me and you.
Gather them, each and qli.
From the private to the chief.
Come they from hovel or princely hall.
They fell for us. ami for them should fall
The tears of a Natiou’s grief.
Gatber the corpses strewn
O’er many a battle-plain;
From many a grave that lies so lone, ■
Without a name am : without a stone.
Gather the Southern slain.
We care not whence they came.
Dear is their lifeless clay !
Whether unknown or known to fame.
Their cause and country still the same—
They died—and wore" the Gray.
Wherever the bravo have died,
They should not rest apart;
Living, they struggled side by side;
Why should the hand of Death divide
A single heart from heart t
Gather their scattered clay.
Wherever it may rest;
Just as they marched to the bloody fray.
Just as they fell on the battle day,’
Bury them, breast to breast.
The foeman need not dread
This gathering of the brave;
Without sword or Bag, and with soundless
tread,
We muster once more our deathless dead,
Out of each lonely grave.
The foeman need not frown.
They all are powerless now ;
We gather them here and we lay them dowu.
And tears and prayers are the only crown.
We bring to wreathe each brow.
the Azoic age. Ail we need here is capital and
enterprise to develop millions, at one-half the
expense of working the mines on the Pacific
eoast. Central and South America or Austra
lia. Hundreds of rich veins have been worked
to the water level and abandoned long since
for want of capital.
Hew Soon can yon Ceunt Two Billions sad a
Half’
TTINY.LASD £ ORR.
1J Wh Goal* and Retail Dealer?,
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Dupree Hall Broad St, Athens, G.
We aro now prepared to store Cotton at 25 oenf? per
bale, and aril ! advance caih when desired. Oct29.
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SC.LISH £ CLASSICAL SCHOOL,
For B«y,. cwr. Wrny an! Luoipkin at.,.. Atb-
jips—3m LEE M. LYI.E. Prin.
drachms; spirit ef nutmeg, one drachm.—
Twice a day. This preparation acta ae a tonic
and stimulant, and so’partially supplies tha
place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents
that absolute physical and moral prostration
that follows a sadden breaking off horn the
oso of stimulating drinks. It is to be taken in
quantities equal to an ordinary dram, and as
often as the desire for a dram returns.
And the dead thus meet the dead.
While the living o'er them weep.
And men who Lee and Stonewall led,
And the hearts that once together bled,
Together still shall sleep 1
There is something wonderful in figures;
and numbers, when carefully considered, startle
j us by their immensity. We talk of millions
j and billions with little thought of the vastness
! of the sums we name. The Ups may utter the
I words glibly, but the understanding fails to
grasp their real significance. Take our own
national debt as an illustration. Everybody
j knows it is large, but few have ever stopped
i to cousider its appalling magnitude. A lew
calculations will not be uninteresting.
Let us suppose that the national debt i3, in
round numbers, $2,500,000,000. If an expe
rienced cashier were to commence counting
this at the rate of three silver dollars per sec
ond, and work diligently eight hours per day,
three handrvd days in the year; it would take
j him about one hundred years to complete the
count.
j If the silver dollars were placed side by side,
j touching each other, they frould reach nearly
j three times round the world; they would pave
, a highway the width of our Chicago streets
| more than two hundred miles in length.
; Fused into one solid mass of pure silver,
: they would make a column ten feet square and
i two thousand five hundred feet high; or a bar
| fifty miles long and one foot square,
j If each silver dollar be estimated at one
ouuce in weight, and the money loaded into
; carts containing one ton each, and driven one
! before the other, each horse and cart occnpy-
; ing two rods, the procession would extend five
| hundred miles.
j Or cousider that only about 1,000,000,000
{ minutes have elapsed since the birth of Christ,
and that if one dollar bad been put away each
The Gold Fields of Georgia.
T II. HLOGIN’S,
•J . Iiole.da anil RaUil Dealer in
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. HARDWARE. Ac.
Pah!* Broad -street, Athens, 0a.
TORN H. CHRISTY,
J Plain and Fancy 300K AND JOB PRINTER,
BroaiSt.. Athens, Ga.
Office corner Broad and Wall street*, the store
Jane? D. Pittard. •
P AVILION HOTEL,
CHARLESTON S. C.
This FIRST-CLASS Hjtel D situated in the very
centre o:* the biume.e part of the city, and nti who
atop there will lind every eon venienee and luxury that
can be procured. Board, per day, S3.00.
R. H micros, E./.t. lira. L. H.BcTTKartat-D, 1
Dec'IS tf Proprittrtat. j
minute, day and night, since that event, the
The following, taken from a letter just re- j accumulation would amount to but little more
ceived in Boston from Dr. M. F. Stephenson, than one-third of the debt this nation now
former assayer at the United States branch owes. If this calculation were applied to Eng
mint, will be read with interest: ! land or France, whose national debt is nearly
The Chestatee river rises in the Appalachian j twice as Iar S e as ou ' rs ’ tLo resu!t would be still
mountains of Georgia, in Lumpkin county, and I more startling. _______
dons southward through one of the most pic- \ \ g^ ar $t or y with a Moral,
tnresque and charming countries in America, j A man killed a bear and brought the meat
and falls into the Chattahoochee river in Hall to town to sell. I asked him if it was good to
county, and then sweeps onward to the Gulf j eat. He said, certainly it was, and cheap as
of Mexico. The Chattahoochee is so called in i dirt at twenty-five ceuts per pound. I asked
the Cherokee language, from rubies being j him why bear meat should be any higher than
found in its sands. It has become historical j any other meat. He told me bear meat had a
as being the western base of “ De Soto’s cou- peculiar effect on the human system ; that
quering march’ through the Seminole, Creek those eating it would oartake for a time, not
and Cherokee nations of Indians. All along only of the meat, but of the nature of the ani-
QUMMEY £ NEWTON,
Dealers in
Foreign an<l Domestic HARDWARE,
Juae5) No. rt.Br -ad street, Athens, Ga.
Q C. DOBBS,
lO. Wholesale aa«l Retail Dealer ir.
Staple ana Fancy DRY GOODS. GROCERIES, Ac*.
F«b9 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
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LTH0RY SPEER.
LAWYER, ATHENS, GA.
i Solicitor General of Western Circuit. *nri!l attend
the Courts of Clarke, Walton. Gwir.neft. Hall. Banks,
Jackson, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun and White,
and £ive attention to collecting and other claim* in
those counties. March 19. 1S73.
K ELIAS, Attorney at Law.
. FRANKLIN. N. C.
Practice* in all the Courts of Western North Caro
lina, and in the Federal Court*. Claims collected in
all parts of the State. aplfi—ly
TT'DWARD R. HARDEN.
Jli (Late Judge IT. 3. Courts Nebraska and Utah,
and uow Judge of Brooks County Court)
Attorney at Law,
juljSS ly Quitman, Brooks Coumty, Ga.
T F. 0’KELLEY’S
tj . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Over Williams’ Shoo ilore, Broad street, Athens,
Georgia. sep3.
B f. camp,
• Attorney at Law.
CARNESYILLE, GA
Will £tve prompt attention to all business entrusted
to him. Ue will attend the Courts of Habersham,
Frankliu and Hall. sepl7—ly.
C. PEEPLES. K. P. HOWELL.
PEEPLES & HOWELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
20 and 22, Kimball Uoute,
ATLANTA, GA.
P RACTICE in the State and Federal Courts, and
attend regularly all the Court* in Atlanta, includ
ing the Supreme Court of the State, and will argue
cases upon briefs for absent parties, on reason
terms.
They also practice in the Court* of the counties con
tiguous or accessible to Atlanta by Railroad, aepll
M.W.RIDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
0.8. Claim Agent and notary PnMic
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
34- Office on Wilson street, below King X Bro’s,
February 19, 1873.
his route, from St. Augustine, in Florida, to mal; that bears were great fellows to hog;
Sacoocbee Valley, are found numerous relics j that if I was a married man I should buy some
of bis fortifications, his battles yid explora- j for my wife and get her to eat it for sn iper,
tions for gold, the last being his chief object. I and she would undoubtedly hug me.
The Chestatee, as well as the Chattahoochee.J Now, mv wife isn’t an angel, so I bought
traverses the gold region for a distance of 1 four pounds and paid that man a dollar—my
twenty or thirty miles, mostly at right angles ; last dollar—and he folded it up, rolled a paper
to the strata or trehd of the gold veins; which j around it and put it down in his pocket. Then
necessarily has produced rich and extensive I he slapped his pocket to see if it was there.—
deposits in the creeks and river beds, as well 1 He then went on to say that sometimes when
as places on the table lands and hill sides. ! the bile wasn’t right the meat had the coa-
Tbe Chestatee, from its mouth to the juuction i trary effect, and made the woman growl; and
with the Teseutee above Dahlonega, is vastly soramimes in place of wantiug to hug her bus-
rich, but has not been worked, excepting the ! baud she would want to hug the man that kill-
« Don’t Charley.”
‘ Don't. Charley,’ came to my ears in a sweet,
musical tone, while I was seated in a railway
ear, last summer. I should net have heard
the soft, touching voice, had it not been very
near me. I looked to see who it was that had
spokeo, and saw a sweet, beautiful woman
upon the seat in front of me. A half-sad look
rested upon the young face that was all aglow
with lore and tenderness. A yonng man was
seated by her side whose face wore a restless
dissipated look, and in a moment I compre
hended it all. His fhee wss flashed slightly,
and I knew why it was thos. He was talking
very fast to some one in advance of him, and
ence I heard a low oath. ‘ Don’t, Charley,’
she said again, in the same sweet voice. But
Charley did not seem to heed the words, but
went on in a half wild way to the man. Sev
eral more oaths came from bis lips; bat tha
woman remained silent, yet looking so plead
ingly at the erring one that I thought if he
had been half human, he would have heeded
the mild, loving reproof that was so visible in
her tear dimmed eyes.
A friend by my side whispered in my ear,
* They have been married just one year.’
• He is a brute,’ I only said in reply.
At that moment I saw the young husband
wink slyly to the man, and then they both
arose and went into the baggage car. I nn-
destood the movement when I saw a bottle pro-
truding from the husband's coat pocket.
* Don’t, Charley; don’t go,’ the yonng wife
had pleaded before he got beyond ber roach
bat be tore himself from her light grasp, and
rushed along. Her eyes filled with (ears, and
a low moan eame from her pale lips, and then
she hewed her bead and wept silently.
He came back in a few moments, bi3 face
flushed still more, and his voice a key or two
loader than before. He brushed rudely past
the wife, evidently to get near the car window.
‘ Let me alone, Mag,* he said as she laid her
white band upon his arm. ‘ Women are al
ways in the way,’ hs said, again turning to the
man in front of him.
The wife turned away, and I did not hear her
sweet, reproving voice again.
How I pitied that young, loving wife, and
how often I wonder if her sensitive heart
must suffer and bleed for many long years!
I thihk not; for her teuder, loving sonl, and
frail, slender body will not bear such unkind
ness. Strange bow soon liqnor will transform
human beings into unfeeling monsters, and
chill the ardeut, loving nature of a tender hus
band and trusting wife!
If he didn’t apologize, bat insist that the
duel should go on, I'd wait until the seconds
bad measured off the ground, and then I’d
give the rash young man ono more chance for
his life. I’d say:
Mr. Jinx, I understand that you are the
•olcLsapporter of an aged fondly, and that yon
are engaged to be married. Under these cir
cumstances and after much persuasion on the
part of year friends, I have eoncladed, in case
yen will apologize, to let yon off this time.”
If he demanded that the revolvers be loaded
and the ground measured, rashly rushing head
long toward his daath, I would make np my
mind to kill him and be done with it. Then,
as the vision of his aged family rose before my
eyes, I would repent and give him a last
chance. I would say:
“ Mr. Jinx, you aro standing upon the brink
of the grave. Ton will make the fortieth man
I have shot in affairs of this kind. Owing to
yonr extreme yoath and the pressing demands
ef year friends, I have concluded to let yon off
with an apology, but it mast be an ample
one.”
If he rofased to apologize I would take my
position, remove my boots, hat and coat, and
prepare to kill him at the word. I weald feel
at first as if nothing could remove me from my
purpose, bat as I remembered bis poor old
mother, and seemed to hear her wails of grief,
I would falter and break down and offer him
one more chance. If he refused to accept it,
madly rushing to his fote, I should go to his
farm boose, half a mile away, to see what time
it was, and probably allow the women to pre
vail on me not to go back and shoot Jinx, bat
to give him a little time to ponder, repeat and
apologize.— 14 If. Quod,” in the Chicago Fireside
and Friend.
A (TITLE ELBOW BOOM.
Good friend, don’t crowd so very tight,
There’s room eneagh for two;
Keep year mind that I have a right
Te live as well as yon.
Ton rich and strong, I poor and weak,
Bat think yoa I presame.
When only this poor boon I ask—
A little elbow room 1
Tis such as yon, the rieh aad strong,
If yonvhave hot the will,
Could give the weak a lift along, *
Aad help him np the hill.
But no—you jostle, crowd and drive.
Ton storm, von fret and fame;
Are yoa the only man alive,
In want of elbow room 1
But thus it-is on life’s round path,
Self seems the God of all;
The strong will crash the weak to death,
The big devour the small.
Far better be a rieh man’s hound—
A valet, serf or groom—
That straggles ’midst the mam around,
When vte've no elbow room.
Up. heart, my boy! don't mind the shook ;
Up heart and posh along!
Yonr skin will soon grow rough with knocks,
Your liadjs with labor strong.
And there’s a band nnseen to aid,
A star to light the gloom ;
Up heart, my boy, nor be afraid,
Strike oat for elbow room.
And when yoa see amid the throng,
A fellow toiler slip.
Just give him as yon pass along,
A brave and kindly grip;
Let noble deeds, though poor yea be,
Your path in life illume.
And with true Christian charity,
Give others elbow room.
A Hill of Sulphur.—One of the most re
markable deposits of native sulphur, as yet
discovered, is a great hill composed of a pure
article, found some two years ago at a distance
of thirty miles south of the Union Pacific Rail
way, and nine hundred miles west of Omaha.
This marvelous deposit is found to consist al
most wholly of snlphnr, containing only 15 per
cent, of imparities. The best deposits hereto
fore available are these found in Sicily. The
principal supplies for the manufacture of sal
phuric acid come from there; the deposits con
tain 35 per cent, of imparities and 65 per cent,
of snlphnr. Our western sulphur hill, there
fore, is much the more valuable, and promises
to become, ere long, of great importance to the
country.
shoals, which yielded large profits te the ope
rator. Several companies have been hereto
fore organized to turn the river by canals;
and one by a wooden flume for some ten or
twenty miles, but the war prevented a suc
cessful development of their plans. Two com
panies are now engaged in preparations to
ed the bear. I told him that I didn't like boar
meat, and never did; that I felt sick; that I
owed a man the dollar and he would sue me
if I did not pay him right off. Bat he told me
he had just paid his internal revenue tax, and
hadn't a cent in the world. I thought then,
and still think, that he epust have told a lie.
-.Every day in the week is tho Sabbath of
some nation; Sunday is observed by the Chris
tians; Monday by the Greeks; Tuesday by
the Persians; Wednesday by the Assyrians;
Thursday by the Egyptians; Friday by the
Tnrks and Saturday by the Jews.
work the river bed—one from Ohio, under the In fact, after thinking over the matter, I would
control of Col. Price, who is cutting a canal i not believe Him under oath. Novr, I am a
and tunneling through a ridge so as to bare 1 poor man, and could not afford to throw the
Joan *. SSTXS. H1DMOS BELL.
ESTES Sc BELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
GAINESVILLE GEORGIA.
II’ ILL practice in th« coca tic* ci>mpo»iEg the Weat-
• > cm Circuit, nail Damon ami Forsyth counties
of tha Bin* Kilgn Circuit. The; will also practice in
thoSapran.adoartot Georgia, and in the United State*
may IS
Court at Atlanta.
A, A. EDGE,
and make available three miles of. gold depo
sits. This caaal is near its mouth. The other
is controlled by J. R. Bartlette, of Boston, who
has engrossed nearly ten mi'.ea of the river.
Both are practical men, and have not only the
capital, but the skill and determination of pur
pose to carry it out to completion. All the
workings in years gone by, in the shoal water,
yielded from one to ten dollars per square yard,
which, if properly worked with energy, as the
above parties indicate, will give millions an
nually to the currency of the country.
The vast mineral wealth of this region, here
tofore scarcely known, is beginning to be ap
preciated. Capital and enterprise from the
North and West is coming in, people of the
State are excited, and already, on every hand,
evidence is increasing of the practicability of
gold mining, which bids fair to excel the most
flattering productions of California. Another
company from Ohio, under the supervision of
Col. Hand, of Cleveland, it preparing te work
the extensive placers controlled by the charter
of the old * Yahoola Mining Company' around
Dahlonega, upon the canals and mills of which
the former company expended nearly half a
million dollars. Whsn the rich and extensive
gold field is put under the hydraulic process
the yield will be enormous; and the same pro
cess will expose handreds of rich veins, which
have now no outcrop. Of their success, no
practical miner here has any doubt. The cap-
Boot, Shoe and Harness rSTJiSSEEnSEl
MAKKli.
jipriUJ—ly WATKINSVILLE, GA.
3AS. L. LONG, M. D.
Surgeon, Accoucheur and Physician,
( Otfiet at JVr. Thomas Sheets’ Stars,)
Good Hope Distriot, Walton eo^ Ga.
01en hi* profnuioaal MrrUn* to thn eitiian* of th«
•irroouding country. *H(Z7
Livery,
r, Feed & Sale Stable,
ATHENS. GEORGIA.
GANN St REAVES, PBOFBTETOBS,
\V T ILlb*fi»*4*t thoirold Sul, mar Franklin
** Houo build leg. Thorn** atrnnt. Koop alwaya
on hud good Tara-out* aad esnM driran.
Stuck v«U und t!»r when «atrusted to onr euro.
Stock >n hand for nla at >11 tin**. d«33—ti
WALTON HOTEL,
__ MONROE, GA.
'pH! nWrihcr Would impoctfally infers traveler*
iiiSfetf 8 *. gnamally tbit he ha* taken c Largo
HowviqAwai apart no p* Mt to aak*
“* *** Uunhimwith tt*ir patron-
H*- Hi* vkarga* will he waaonaMa. janlt la
R. B. ADAIR, D.D.S,
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Southcait corner Public Square. mar27
meat away, and so I took it home, and Mary
Ann (that's my wife's name) couked it, and
we ate it for supper. It tasted good. I think
bears and 'possums are made out of the same
timber, only put up on different plans and
specifications.
Alter sapper we set down by the stove.—
Mary Ann went to sewing, and I sat looking
at her. Directly my bear meat began to take
effect, and I felt like I wanted to hag Mary
Ann. So I pat my arm aronnd her, and she
told me to take it away, and wanted to know
if I hadn't been drinking again, (I never drank
a drop in my life.) I bugged her a little and
■he growled. I knew then the jig was up, and
the bear meat had gone back on me in her
case, bat I thought I would try it again. Hex
arm flew back and I saw a thousand stars—
This riled me, my bear meat turned on me,
and I slapped her square in the month. Well,
I have a confused remembrance of seeing her
spring toward ene, of bearing a frightful roar
ing in my head, and feeling!* sensation as if I
was being ran through a threshing machine,
and then all was blank.
I can see a little oat of one eye this morning,
and can set np in bed with a pillow behind me.
Mary Ann has gone oat to bay seme chairs.—
The servant girl says they all got broken,
feel sore aad bod, and I don’t want any more
bear meat in mine, and if ever I get hold of
the man that sold it to me—well, yoa know
how it is yoareelf.
lively small, and mapy veins found without
any expense. It was thos with the celebrated
‘ Boly-Fieids vein,* which is now being devel
oped by Mr. Bartlette, of Boston.
This vein is in hornWendic gneiss, and when
Bret opened yielded the richest ora ever work
ed in the world. Its most singular character
istic Is that it is in the oldest formation, and
disproves the absurd theory of Lord Murcb Ison,
Lytii, Dana and other authors, viz: that gold
waa brought te the surface only a short period
before the appearance of man on earth. We
have two other mines which prove the same,
one where the gold fejliffhsed through the
oldest granite, in paying* quantities for mOes,
and the ether in feldspar, ever a hundred miles
from any over-lying rock containing organic
remains, proving this mountain range to bo
millions of years older than the Rocky Moan-
tain chain, the Alps, the Andes or Himalaya,
where yon find vegetables and animal organ
isms from 10,000 to 16,000 feet above the sea,
in the overlying rocks on the mountain sides,
incontrovertibly proving that they were ele-
, vated above the sea in the tertiary period,
Another Yietim.
A young man from Union county, S. C.,
made a trip to Colombia a few days since on
board one of the cotton boats on Broad River,
and having attended to bis business, was
making preparations to return. Among oth
er things, as is too freequently the case, whis
key must be secured. With jug in hand, and
in the act of entering the bar, he was met by
ons of his neighbors with the interrogation,
What are you going to do t’ He simply smiled.
You had bettsr let that alone, Bill, and be
have yourself,’ was the advice given. Would
that dram drinkers would only hear the warn
ing voice of their friends! Had this yonng
man hearkened to the friendly admonition of
hie neighbor, be wonld not have met with so
sadden and terrible an end. He returned on
the boat as far as Shelton Station, where he
took the train for Fishdam. Being in a state
of intoxication, be remained at the station un
til near dark, when he attempted to walk
home. He proceeded op the railroad, and
when one mile from the station the down freight
train on the Spartanburg Sc Union Railroad,
running at a rapid rate, with no head-light,
struck him, and carrying him about forty
yards, passed over him, severing his head from
his body. When found on the following morn
ing. his body was dreadfully mangled, with
brains crashed oat and one eye stashed from
its socket. In bis pocket were found a deek
of cards and the remains of a flask of whiskey.
Wine bibbers 1 here is a voice, like thousands
of others yon have bad, crying to yon from the
threshold of eternity, attesting the dangers
and sure death attending the coarse of tho
dram drinker. Yonng man, pause! Will yo a
still drink 1 Will yoa still say ‘there is no
danger’ is such a coarset Ah! this young
man thought so once, but alas! he is now
another beacon light along the road to ruin.
Are yon determined that yon shall have a
tragical death, and be another signal example
to ‘ strong drink t’ If such is not yonr deter
mination, stop! As yon value yonr immortal
soul, stop! Let not another drop of the ac
cursed stuff pass your lips. Join a temper
ance society. Shnn the bar keeper as yon
would the Devil, for be is tho Devil’s agent.—
Orphans’ Friend. ■
Wayside Gatherings.
The Drunkard’s Cure.
Some months ago a gentleman advertised
that he had discovered a sore specific for the
core of drunkenness. He wonld not divulge
theaeraetof what compounds he need, bat
faraisfed the medicine at co much per bottle.
He did not have so many applicants for bis
core as he expected, considering the extant of
the disease. In foot, the more malignant cases
did not seem anxious tor reUaf; they rather
appeared to eojoy the malady. A few, how
ever,, placed themselves under treatment, and
boom were cored—whether by taking the
medicine, er by not taking strong drinks,
not stated. Oaa of the cured ease had faith
in the medicine, rigidly carried out the direc
tions of tha doctor, and now has not the least
taste for intoxicating drinks; whereas, one
year age he was aa inebriate, and could not
get along with lees than a pat to a quart of
whiskey per day. He said that, at; some
trouble and expense. Its bad procured the
recipe for tha preparation of the medicine,
which ha bad published l'or the benefit of suf
fering humanity. It is as follows: Sulphate
A Who Choice.
The American Baptist tells the following
good story, which we commend to our young
female readers, and males also:
‘ Where did you first meet with your bride V
I said to a young friend of mine, who had in
vited me to his wedding.
His reply was: ‘ A year ago I was one of a
large dinner party of ladies and geutlemen, at
which a young lady was noticed not to drink
any wine, our hoet observed it and said:
4 A glass of wine with you, miss.’
* Excuse me, sir,’ said she.
4 What excuse! Are yon a teetotaler I—
What! hare we a teetotaler here f Ha! ha!
a teetotaler! Why, do you never drink win# !’
4 Never, sir. 4
4 Why, not t’
4 From principle, sir.’
Nothing more was said. Her decision of
character deeply impressed me. I sought an
introduction to ber, satisfied that one of such
principles wonld make me a good companion.
I became a teetotaler myself, and nob she has
jnst become my wife. That is why I married
her.’
Onr friend was right. Sach a yonng lady
will make a fine woman. Wonld there were
more like her.
A dish for a lawyer—Suet.
.. A good floor-manager—A broom.
. .The gait of a’fast age—Investigate
..Moonlight is merely the beautiful old age
efday.
. Art may be learned, but cannot be taught.
—R. A. Leslie.
.To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause
love is to be useful to others.—Beranger.
..Old minds are like old horses; you must
exercise them if you wish to keep them in
working order.—John Ailams.
..What is the difference between a former
and a bottle of whiskey f One husbands tho
corn and the other corns the husband.
..In life it is difficult to say who do yon the
most mischief—enemies with tho worst inten
tions, or friends with the best.—Buhcer.
. .Grace is a modest girl and refuses to wear
low dresses, ‘Mamma,* she remarks to her
maternal, • that is more than I can bare.’
..A question of precedence is troubling
Cincinnati. The trouble is whether an aider-
man’s wife ranks higher than the wife of the
county recorder.
..Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such
also will be the character of tby mind; for
the soul is dyed by the thoughts.—Jfarct**
Aurelius-
..What’s the difference between the side
a right-angle, triangle and an old maid's tea
pot f One is a bypotheunse, the other a tea-
pot-in-nse.
!|tjrifuU«tal ^Baiters.
--One day last week, says the New York
Commercial, a temperance crusader, on her re
turn from a pilgrimage to the beer shops, was
seen to approach the pantry, and overheard
singing:
LUtl* drop* of toddy,
Little grain* of spice,
Don’t they make a body
Feel so awfai aiee?
..Mark Twain, in speaking of canibalism,
grows serions for once, and solemnly declares
that for his own part 4 he wonld go hungry for
two days rather than eat an old personal
friend.’
whilst the Appalachian chain was npheared in a f iron, five grains; peppermint water, eleven
“ Doing” a Duel.
Ifamanaentmeachallenge through the mail
I should carefully seal it np again, write “ Re
moved” on the envelope and send it back.
This would give him some time to ponder over
tb» matter. If he persisted, and sent it back
by a friend, I should say that I want the man
—that it waa my mate be wanted to aee.-
Tbis wonld give him still further time te pond
er, and perhaps he’d get over hi3 feeling. Bat
if ha seat it the third time I should accept,
and ahoote go and. state to his friend how I
killed fourteen men in Alabama, three in
Texas, five in Nevada, aad a dozen in other
Staten -each one foiling in a duel he had pro
voked. If this didn’t put a stop to proceed
ings, I’d agree to go out and revolver the fel
low on any morning he might name. I would
not go on the morning agreed, preferring to
give him a little longer time to ponder; bat if
he pressed me five or six times more, and was
determined to fight, I’d go and fight him. I'd
be on hand to tho minute, and as he come up
on the ground I would remark :
“ Mr. Jinx, I have incidentally learned that
you are the sole supporter of aa aged mothet.
I don’t care particularly aboutkillingyou, and
if yen’ll apologize I’ll call It all square.”
[St. Loai* Republican.
The South and West.
Evtr since the Republican party came into]
power, it has been almost absolutely control
led, and through it the Government also, by
New England; the tariff the public debt, the
national banking system, the internal reve
nue system and the reconstruction of the
South, have all been, in a measure, agencies
for the eeosolidatioQ of power and in the hands
of the Northeast. The disintegration going
in the Republican party daring the last two
years, however, has deprived that section of
the instrument by which it seenred the docile
obedienee of the West, and left both the West
and Sooth to .form new associations. It is not
surprising that they should come together in
a voluntary alliance, nor that they should bo
startled by the power which this alliance ex
hibits. It wonld r ather be surprising if, hav
ing discovered the j*v»r of this aacttocal|
onion, they shall nor further compact it for
filters occasions. Indeed, the eonsolidatioo
of the West aad Sooth into the governing au
thority of the country appears to he the prob
able product of this vote oa the currency bill.
The monstrous official corruptions that have
been developed at the ttaat, the growing di
visions in New Eoglaed aad the lamentable
decay of public spirit in Massachusetts, as ex
hibited in the recent history of many of her
public men, conspire with the growing habit of
independent thinking in the West t o make an
opportunity for this transfer of pow.ir. The
very fact that the East is anxious only to pre
serve things just as they are, and that the oth
er two sections are becoming violently and
aggressively clamorous fee something better
than the present condition of things, is, ofit-
Remedy for the Cotton Worm.
In an address delivered at St. Lonis in June,
1372,1 suggested that the Paris Green mix
ture which was doing such good work in pre
serving our potato fields against the attacks
ef the Colorado Potato Beetle, might prove
equally efficient against the ravages of the in
sect which takes the place of this potato ene
my in the cotton fields cf the country.
Haring no opportunity to experiment on
tho Cotton Worm, (Anontys zylina. Say) I tried
the effect of the mixture on several closely al
lied worms which occur in Missouri, and espe
cially on the Fall Army-worm (predeniaautum-
nali«, Riley) in each case with the most satis
factory results. Feeling thns well assured
that the remedy weald work beneficially as an
antidote to the Cotton Worm, and might prove
of nr<toId value to the people of the Sooth, I
took occasion to md an essay on that insect
at an agricultural meeting in Indianapolis, the
last of May, 1S73.
This means ef appealing to the cotton grow
ers of the country had the desired effect. The
iy, giving directions for the proper use of
the poison, together with the natural history
ef the worm, was published either entire or in
abstract in a large number of agricultural jour
nals which circulate in the South. The rem
edy was, in consequence, very thoroughly
tried and generaly used, its merits being so
folly discussed that I received over 100 arti
cles on the subject which a Southern editor
kindly clipped for me from his exchanges. La
ter in the season when experience bad settled
many important points as to the effect ef the
Paris Green on the Cotton Worm and the best
mode of using it, the Department of Agricul
ture conceived the idea of sending out a circu
lar to its cotton-growing correspondents This
circular, with numerous answers, many of which
are ao indefinite in point of detail as to be
no value, or to convey wrong impressions, and
all of which lack signature and date, was pub
lished in the Monthly Report for November
ami December, 137a The general ceneln-
siona which Mr. Glover deduces from them
correspond, however, not only to the mass of
testimony elicited by my own correspondence,
and found In the clippings above alluded to;
bat to the experience had of this insecticide in
the more Northern States.
The remedy has proved most satisfactory
wherever properly and intelligently used; i.
dusted in proportion of one part of pure
green to SO or 25 parte of flour ; or sprinkled
in proportion of one tabla-epoonfnl of tha green
to a common bucketful of water. Improved
methods of applying the poision have been .de
vised, and contrivances for tho more effectual
and more safe dusting of plants, and machines
for sprinkling by horse-power, where the solu
tion is employed, have been patented. The
liquid has tho advantage over tho powder in
that there is less danger from injury iu iu
tho water in finding its level to carry and eon
centrate it wherever a drop finds net and
evaporates. 3d. Too much is wasted on the
ground in the sprinkling. I have therefore
(bond it much more convenient en a small
seal# to me the powder, where it can be ob
tained ready-mixed by machinery. Applied
when the dew is on the plants, it .will adhere
more uniformly, and itobviates the necessity
ef carrying abeat so reach water. _ Bnt whetta-
used in water er as a powder tho floor
will prore a desirable addition, since it ren
ders the green more adhesive, and coneequant-
more serviceable. This adheaiv equalityJa
the liquid may also he obtained by dissolving
dextrine or gum-arabic or glue in the water-
all, however, much more expensive than floor.
Reports from those who have need the remedy
for the Cotton Worm, pat the cost of the ma
terial at from 69 cents to $1 per acre, for each
application—two applications, and sometimes
more, being necessary to save the crop. This
remedy will from the different habit of the in
sect, not prove of any great value agaioat the
Bold-worm. Its use should not be abandon
ed except for extreme reasons, after the bolls
are open; so as to prevent any injury that
might follow ginning of tho poisoned cctton.
Although aware of the fast that sundry pa
tents had been’'taken oat by persons in the
more Northern States for Paris Green in com
bination with other ingredients to kill potato
beetles, I was not aware that anything of
the sort had been done ia the Sonth till I re
ceived from a Mr. Royal!, of Texas, a letter,
accompanied with several circulars, contain
ing references, etc., and saying that]he had
patented a compound and wae introducing it
in all the cotton States. The patent is num
bered 112,732, and the ingredients ef this
right royal mixture are Paris Green, flonr ef
elm or gum arabic, common flour and powder
ed rosin. Mr. Royall|tells ns^that it takes
from 15 to 20 pounds of the material to an acre
of cotton from four to five feet high for the first
application. For the second application up
on the new growth, about one-third only of
this quantity is required.
It is to be regretted that patents can be ob
tained at all for remedies of this nature after
they have become generally known, and right-
fully bleeng to the public. When the discov
erer of such a remedy does not see fit to pat
ent it, no one subsequently has a moral right
to, whatever speculative right he may possess.
Fortnnateiy, in this case, the patentees can
not ioterfere with the pablic rights, and it is
hoped that no planter, either of potatoes or
cotton, will be induced, by flaming circulars
and threats, to pay even one cent per (000
seres, much less the demand $20 per 100
acres, for the privilege/jf using these patent
ed mixtures. The very fact that so many pat
ents have been granted for the same purpose,
all the mixtures having -Paris Green as a base,
shows clearly that the patent covers oaly the
particular combination. By ringing the chan
ges on the different proportions of the several
ingredients, a thousand of these patented re
medies may be obtained; and any one who
diverges bnt a fraction from the particular
patented combination ceaees to infrioge upon
it. It will therefore be utterly impossible for
the patentees to enforce the penalty for in
fringement without proof that precisely the
same ingredients and combinations as patent
ed were used, and to get such proof will, I take
it, be no easymatter; for were it, we should
hear of hundreds of thousands of proseentioas
where new we hear not of a single one.
Mr. B. F. Pront. of Demopolis, Ala., who is
an appreciative reader of the Tribune's Agri
cultural Department, and who has quite re
cently (aad anonymously) published a little
Essay on the best mode of using Paris Green
for tho Cotton Caterpillar,” found that tho
cost of material per acre, for two applications,
will not exceed $1.75, viz: 40 lbs. floor at 2}
cents per lb, and 2 lbs. Paris Green at 37}
cents per lb; and farther, that in his own ex
perience, an expenditure of $100 on about 80
acres ” increased the crop at least ten bales.”
The pamphlet contains good advice, and I
hope that in future tho anthor will entirely
drop the term “ Army Worm,” as applied te
this insect, because it in reality applies to an
other species, and is net ao appropriate as
44 Cotton Caterpillar."—C. Y. Riley, State En-
temolegist of Missouri.
of
History ot tho Irfak Potato.
It seems scarcely eredihlu that only 100
years have elapsed since the general introduc
tion of this now well known and universally
cultivated esculent into Europe. But suoh is
the fact, and it baa been proposed to bold a
jubilee in Germany this year. 1874, in honor of
the eentennial of the potato.
Whoa the Spaniards conquered Pent in the
sixteenth eeotnry, they carried some potatoes
ta Europe and asnt them to the Pope. The
new plant was cultivated a little in Spain,
Italy, Burgundy, and the Netherlands, and
from a certain resemblance to the traffic, an
eacnlent fungus growing in the earth, the
Italians gave them the name of Tartnft, or
TaratnfoU, whence the Germane derive their
word EartoffhL The F reach called teem “Ap
ples of the earth,” Pommes de terra, while in
Austria and portions of Germany the equiva
lent expression Erd-apfol is used.
I John Hawkins first introduced them into
England in 1565. Walter RaMgh brought
thorn there in 1584, aad finally. Admiral Drake
in 1566k Tha latter sent mow to a friend to
plant, with the remark that the fruit was ex
cellent and nutritions, so that it wonld be very
useful in Europe. His friend actually planted
tee tubers, and they grow nicely. Bat when
the seed balls were ripe, he took these instead
of the tubers, and fried them in batter, and
sprinkled sugar and einaamon .ever them,
placed them before some company as a great
rarity. Of course, these balls tasted disgust- jej
ingly, and the assembly concluded that the
fruit would not ripen in Europe. Tha gardener
pulled up the plants and burned them. A
gentleman who chanced to bo present, stepped
on one cf the baked potatoes as it lay in tha
ashes, when it broke open, and he noticed t.ha
use, and that, on a large scale, it may be ap- it was white as snow, and mealy, ana bid each \i
plied by horse-power from a watering cart. It j an agreeable smell that he tasted it. Tho aev
has three disadvantages : l3t. The green is vegetable was thus rescued, but lor a century
not soluble, for though it quickly givos a green after it was only cultivated in his garden, and
tint to the water, when stirred, it soon settles ia 1000 tho Queen of Eng hind made the ra
te the bottom unless kept in suspense by eon- aark in her house bosk that a pound of pota-
self, an indication of the drift of events in this! tinued stirring or agitation. 2d. It settles iu , coea cost two shillings (about fifty cants.)-—
direction. 4 spots on the leaves, the natural tendency of Journal ef Applied Chemistry.