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POETICAL.
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A MISTAKE.
BY ETHEL LYNN.
In the warm moonlight,
Shiningclear and white,
Many shadows were dimly thrown;
But among them all
Not’ the shadow tall
For whose coming I waited lone.
So I listened long
To the cricket’s song,
. To the bird in her quiet nest;
So I watched the shade
On the walk that played
For the shadow I loved ihe best.
Watched—till a cloud,
I.ike a convict’9 shroud
Was drawn o’er the pale moon’s face ;
Till the shadows dun
Blended all in one
On the wide walk’s open space.
Till the army dumb
Of the stars hod come
To encamp on the far off blue;
Where they seemed to say,
In their silent way,
Here at last is something true.
As I wrestled stout
With unspoken doubt,
Did a star from its orbit shoot,
And in blackless die
„ With my uttered crjr,
That had shivered the darkest mute ?
Not a star? Ah, no ;
Flitting bright and low
Through the shrub-alleys cool and damp,
See, it lights the dark
With its starry spark—
’Tis the shine of the fire-fly’s lamp.
Then a whispered name
With’a footfall came ;
So my faith strongly steadfast grew.
Now, whate’er befall,
I shall trust through all—
Shall remember the stars are true ; .
That the fault is mine
To mistake the shine
Of an earth-light, though growing bright,
For the steady glow
That is true, I know,
If I look as I should aright.
JLAXJOHOGRAIVIS.
“Spirit of the Press”—A glass of ci
der.
The hardships of the ocean—lron
clads.
Music by Handel—That of the organ
grinder.
Oldest Western settler—The evening
sun.
Of what trade are bees ? Comb mak
era.
Strange bed-clothes—Three sheets in
the wind.
Shadespeare has a blacksmith’s shop
in Buffington.
What part of a fish is like the end of
book? The finis.
To keep dry—Eat a herring or a mack
erel.
To dispel the gloom of misfortune—
Make light of your troubles.
The Bulls of Wall street have been
thoroughly cowed.
A fowl’s neck is like a oell when it is
wrung for dinner.
Wizardian Cdiigostromantheum, is
the name of a show out West.
Where to find a cow’s pedigree—ln a
cattle-log.
One is not apt to see a point of a joke
of which he is the butt.
A fanner asks if folding-doors in hog
pens will be in fashion this season.
What did Io die of ? lodide of potas
sium.
A man’s brewery is like the well of the
Israelites, because he brews think there.
Milwaukee ships more grain than Chi
cago, and Chicago feels cross-grained at
it.
What is that which the rich man
wants, the poor man has, the miser
spends, and the spendthrift saves? Noth
ing.
A bashful girl—The one who blushed
on being asked, if she had been courting
sleep.
“Uncle John, how is my cousin Samu
el?”
“O, he’s berryed,” replied uncle John,
coolly.
“What do you mean ?”
“Killed hunself eating strawberry
short cake.”
That “little birds in theirnests agree”
is no credit to the little birds, because it
would never do for them to fall out, you
know.
“Is this carpet really Brussels?” ask
ed an unsophisticated lady of a young
clerk.
“Yes, madam, it was made by old
Brussels himself.”
Which was the most industrious au
thor, Dickens, Bulwer or Warren ?
Dickens wrote “All the Year Round.”
Bulwer, “Night and Morning.”
Warren, “Now and Then still he
wrote “Ten Thousand a Year.”
“Does your arm pain you ?” asked a
lady of a gentleman, who at a party, had
thrown his arm across the back of her
chair, so that it touched her shoul
der.
“No, it does not pain me, but why do
you ask ?”
“O, I noticed that it was out of place,
that’s all.”
The gentleman withdrew his arm, im
mediately.
AGRICULTURAL
MANURE AND TILLAGE.
Tillage is a good thing. Manure is a
good thing. But tillage and manure to
g ther are far better than either alone.
So I said to myself yesterday as I walk
ed across my com field. This spring I
spread a little well-rotted manure on the
poorer parts of the field and ploughed it
in. I have cultivated the corn very tho
roughly—almost excessively. The land
was for from c.ean, and I was determined
that not a weed should grow that I could
reach with a cultivator. We harrowed
the field four times with a Thomas har
row after the com was planted and be
fore it was large enough to cultivate.
Since, the cultivator has been through it
seven or eight times, and I shall go thro’
it once more in August. This is a pretty
good tillage, and the com, on the whole,
looks quite well for this season; but
wherever the manure was applied the ef
feet was quite decided. I do not think
I ever saw so little manure do so much
good. We did not put on over five tons
to the acre. True, it was good manure',
made from sheep, cows and pigs fed
largely on bran, and was pretty well rot
ted; but still I think the tillage has help
ed the manure. I am sure the manure
has helped the good tillage.
What we want is good and
good tillage. And when Iso strenuous
ly and so frequently urge farmers to cul
tivate the soil more thoroughly, I have
precisely this result in my mind. I never
teamed of depending ultimately on till
age alone. I use it merely as a stepping
stone to something better. If I have
given any other impression" jt must be
because I do not write and talk plainly
and definitely. But it is also just possi
ble that some people are careless readers
and uncandid critics.
I have urged again and again the great
importance and many advantages of good
tillage. I have not a word to take back.
I am sure good tillage alone would add
millions of dollars annually to the profits
of our agi iculture Can any sane mar
doubt it? But I never supposed that
any farmer who had energy enough to
cultivate his land thoroughly would be
willing to stop there. Asa rule, the men
who have the cleanest farms make the
most manure. I know a farmer who feeds
a good many sheep every winter, and
makes a large quantity of manure. He
has succeded in bringing his land to a
high degree of productiveness. But it
is very foul. The weeds rob him of half
his profits. This farmer makes all the
manure he can, but does not cultivate his
land thoroughly. Now, the point I want
to make is this: A man may make a goed
deal of manure and not cultivate his
land; but did you ever see a man who
took special pains to kill all the weeds
on his farm and get his land mellow and
in the best mechanical condition, who did
not aim to make and use all the manuie
he could? And so, when I recommend
good tillage, I take it for granted that
the extra crops so produced will, to a
great extent at least, be used for feeding
stock and making manure.
There is a sense, of course, in which
tillage is an exhausting process. It de
velops the plant-food lying dormant in
the soil. If you develop this plant-food
and convert into com or clover, and then
sell the crops, you impoverish the farm
more than if you did not cultivate the
land so thoroughly. But, nn the other
hand, if the com and clover are fed out
on the farm, and the manure saved and
applied, the good tillage will make the
farm richer in available plant-food. This
process will soon enable a far mer to dou
ble his crops and quadruple his profits.
[J. Harris* in American Agriculturist.
BILL AEP ON THE PANIC.
Mr. Nevin, sur—Now is the time for
foaks to show what metal they are made
of. Now is the time for foaks to hold up
their beds and have confidence. If evry
body who has got a surplus will lend it
to them who hasent—one of whom I am
which—things will get equalized and
regulated in no time. There is a plenty
of money and plenty of truck for evry
body if it was divided out right. Ive al
ways managed to get my sheer, though
at times it’s required more strategy to
keep the little Arps in vitels and cloaths
thanßonypart displayed in his retreat
from Moscow. I tell you what's a sol
emn fakt, a whole passel of children of
HENRY FRANKLIN,
WHOLESALE GROCER
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,.
No. 2 Warren Block, AUGUSTA GEORGIA.
all sizes, from a saddle tack up, will
sharpen a poor man’s wits quicker than
anything in the world—espeshally if the
old hen keeps up a
the rear. “ Keep a movin, old man,”
says she, “keep a movin, and never say
die. Bull Run’s shoes are out at the toes,
Chickahominy hasent got a whole coat to
his back, and you know he’s beginnin to
notice the girls a little, and wants to go
decent; Shenandoah must have have a
new meriner dress for the winter, and
the baby is obleeged to have a pair of
little blankets for his crib. Five or six
of the others want shoes and stockens
just as soon as you are able to get ’em.
The shugar is out, and the coffee is low,
and last week’s washin ain’t paid for, and
you must send a man to fix that leak in
the roof to-morrow.”
.... A chestnut burr has got a sweet
nut hid away in the middle of it. There’s
a heap of good things with burrs over
em, and he s a sensible man who knows
how to get the goodies out without stick
in his fingers. I’m not a going to go
crazy about a panik or lost money, or
busted banks or any otber transitory ser
cumstance. A little meal and a few po
tatoes will do my family till times git
better, and I know a dozen clever farm
ers who will trust me for that. Farewell,
rirkus—farewell, clown! There 11 be a
Dig' gap in pour aujience this time, shore.
Me and the boys can make up * respekt
ble ring and play hoss at home if we
want to, and Mrs. Arp and the girls can
set around and holler whoopee. At any
rate, we are bound to do the very best
we can.
The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes
by the English Government proved
the superiority of Alum Filling. No
other Safes filled with
Alum and Plaster-of-Paris.
MARVIN & GO.,
265 Broadway, N. Y.,
721 Chestnut St., Phila.
THE GREAT REMEDY FOR
CONSUMPTION
which can be cured by a
timely resort to this stand
ard preparation, as has been
proved by the hundreds of
testimonials received by the
proprietors. It is acknowl
edged by many prominent
physicians to be the most
reliable preparation ever in
troduced for the relief and
cure of all Lung complaints,
and is offered to the public,
sanctioned by the experience
of over forty years. When
resorted to in season it sel
dom fails to effect a speedy
cure in the most severe
cases of Coughs, Bronchitis,
Croup, Whooping Cough,
Influenza, Asthma, Colds,
Sore Throat, Pains or Sore
ness in the Chest and Side,
Liver Complaint, Bleeding
at the Lungs, &c. Wistar’s
Balsam does not dry up a
Cough, and leave the cause
behind, as is the case with
most preparations, but it
loosens and cleanses the
lungs, and allays irritation,
thus removing the cause of
the complaint.
prepared by
SETH W. FOWLE & SONS, Boston, Mass.,
And sold by Druggists and Dealers generally.
To Arrive ! New Goods!
ATTRACTIVE AND NOVEL!
. ...
J. H. JONES & CO.
ANNOUNCE THAT THEY ARE IN RECEIPT OF THEIR NEW FALL
STOCK, EMBRACING
mb hen oi mum and Bourne
DRY BOOBS’?
FANCY GOODS, CLOTHING,
Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Hardware, Groceries* &c.
and we guarantee to Nell goods as low as they can be purchased
In Augusta, Atlanta or any otber market. We earnestly Solicit a
call from you. when )ou visit our town, Tor we feel confldei. t. that
to style, quality, and prices, our selection will be hard to surpass
t— mm Hiiii’i mum 1 wmm - -tout., ■ mn n—■■iieh in —nr ■—mm n wit mmimi—wr. .
SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING
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OUR BUYER (MR. KEAX) IS NOW IN NEW YORK, CULLING GEMS FROM ALL THE
LARGE IMPORTING HOUSES.
in the United States, and feels confident that for
Style, Quality & Cheapness
HIS SELECTIONS WILL BE HARO TO SURPASS.
&mm stock
T s coming in rapidly, and we cordially invite all to visit us daily, as there will be something
NEW, ATTRACTIVE AND NOVEL
Every day, and it affords us pleasnre to display them, whether you buy or not.
We will sell to COUNTRY MERCII4NTS at New York quo a
tions Tor CASfI.
For aporoved City Acceptance we will sell on a credit to Ist October next, adding lj per
cent interest per month.
Apply with perfect, confidence in our willingness and ability to
serve you as wall as an y house South, and yon will not be disajf
pointed. Very Respectfully,
KEAN & CASSELS.
DOZIER & WALTON
V 441 BROAD STIiEET, AUGUSTA, GA.
ARE NOW RECEIVING
A LARGE aND WELL SELECTED STOCK
OF
121 E & WINTER HOODS
CONSISTING OF EVERY VARIETY OF
Staple & Fancy Dil Goods
A LARGE LOT OF CLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS!
LARGE ASSORTMENT OF BOOTS & SHOES!
A FINE LOT OF LADIES’ HATS!
HARDWARE, GROCERIES. &c., & c .,
Which they pledge themselves to sell as
Cheap as the Cheapest.
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS
FOR FALL & WINTER TRADE.
We are now receiving from FIRST HANDS our Fall and Winter stock (ff
BOOTS. BHOES, HATS AND TRUNKS
Which we will sell at Marvelously Low Prices.
Our stock is the largest that has ever been offered in this market, nnd to the WHOLE
SALE liAl'E we are determined that no house North shall undersell ug.
zan
OUR RETAIL. DEPARTMENT
Is supplied with a full line of the BE3T PHILADELPHIA and BALTIMORE GOODS made to
our own order and warranted to site satisfaction. Prices
in tills department sre always as Low as the Lowest.
GALLAHER & MULHERIN,
ocl-3m 399 Bod st., AUGUSTA, GA.
inn ii tons
SALE.
In Store and to Arrive.
1 00 Hhds. Bacon SHOULDERS
hJ Hnds.Bacon SIDES.
iOo Hhds. Reboiled MOLASSES
20 Hhds. Cuba MOLASSES
20 puncheons Demarara MOLASSES
200 Barrels Reboiled MOLASSES
00 Barr Is New Orleans MOLASSES
40 Hhds. New Orleans SUGARS.
35 Hhds. Demarara SUGARS
150 Barrels Refined SUGARa
50 Tierces RICE &
150 Tierces Choice Leaf LARD
150 Kegs Choice Leaf LARD
150 Boxes Pale SOAP
150 boxes Adamantine CAH
-100 Bags Rio, Java and Laguyra COFFEE.
325 Boxes Well-cured Bulk C. R SIDES
50 Boxes Well-cured Bulk SHOULDERS
Brooms, Woodware, Spices, Starch, Matches,
Chewing and brooking Tobacco, Twines, Wrap
plug paper, at lowest wholesale prices.
n .., c WALTO *’ eLAIIK & CO.,
Mch2b Augusta, Georgia.
It costs less than S3OO to make any S6OO
Piano sold through agents, all of whom make
100 ptr cent, profit. We have no agents, but
ship direct to families at factory price.
_ We make only one style anti have but one price.
Fwo Hundred ml Ninety Dollars , net cash, with
no discount to dealers or commissions to teach
ers. Our lumber is thoroughly seasoned; our
cases are Double Veneered with Rosewood, have
front rotted corners, serpentine bottom and carv
ed lezs. We use the full iron plate with over
strung bass, French Grand action with top dam
pers, and our k?ys are of the best ivory, with
ivory fronts. Our /‘iano has seven octaves, is 6
feet 9 inches long. 3 feet 4 inches wide, and
weighs, boxed, 955 pounds. Every Piano is fully
warranted for five years.
Send for illustrated circular, in which we re
fer to over 700 Bankers, Merchants, etc., some
of whom you may know, using our Pianos in 44
States and Territories.
U. S. I*l ANO COMPANY.
810 Broadway, N. Y.
sß?* Please state where you saw this notice.
RXECOTORS’ ALE OF LAND.
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF THE COURT
of Ordinary of Elbert County, will be sold
on the first Tuesday in December next, at the
CourMiouse door in said county, between the
lego 1 sale hours, all the lands in said county
belonging to Dillard Herndon at the time ofliii
death that has been reduced into the possession
of the executors of said Dillard Herndon, con
tniniug twenty live hundred and seventy-two
acres, more or less, adjoining lands ol Elbert
V. Rucker, George E. Heard, Janies McLanahan,
Richard 0. Adams, Thomas Black, and others,
which said tract has been cut up into eight
smaller ones, making that many very desirable
plantations, all well timbered and watered, as
follows, to wit:
One tract, known as the mill tract, containing
five hundred and three acres.
The old house tract, containing seven hun
dred and forty-one acres.
The Burden ;ri.ct, containing three hundred
and seven and three quarters of au ncre.
The home tract, containing two hundred and
lifteeu acrea.
The Bro vn b' ttom, containing two hundred
and ninety-four and one-half acres
The Btackvvel. place, containing two hundred
and seventy-three and one-quarter acres.
The Adams place, containing one hundred
and fort', -nine acres.
The Warren place, containing eighty-eight
and one-halt acres.
All by surveys recently made. The old home
place, titc home place, the Burden place, and
mill tract have very good dwellings and out
houses.
For farther particulars and information call
on cither of the undersigned, who will take
great pleasure in exhibiting the several places.
Terms of sale: One half cash in currency;
the other-half by note due the Ist January, 1875,
with interest at 10 per cent., and bonds for title
given until final payment.
DANIEL M. CARLTON,
PETER CLEVELAND,
JAMES W. JONES,
Oct. 21, 1873- Ex’rs of Dillard Herndon,
deceased.
NEW STOCK_AT_LOW FIGURES
J. EBERHART & SON
Have now arriving a superior stock of
GENERL MERCHANDISE
Which they want to sell by Christmas
C H £ A F FO R CAS H.
llie Oldest Furniture House in the State
PLATT” BROS.
212 & 214 Bx*oadL St.
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Keep always on hand the latest styles of
FURNITURE
Os ever}- variety manvfactured, from the lowest
to the highest grades
CHAMBER, PARLuR. DINING-ROOM, AND
LIBRARY COMPLETE SUITS, OR
SINGLE PIECES.
At prices which cannot fail to suit the purchaser
UNDERTAKING,
In all its branches, METALLIC CASES AND
CASKETS, of various styles and make; im
ported Wood Caskets and Cases, of ev
ery known design and finish; Cof
fins and Caskets of our own
make, in mahogany, rose*
wood and walnut
An accomplished under'aker will be in at
tendance at all hours, day and night
AlOTlCEfor leave to Sell Land.—
i\ Application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary of Elbert County, Georgia,
at the first regular term after the expiration of
four weeks from this notice,for leave to sell the
lands belonging to the estate of Moses F. Adame,
late of said county deceased, for the benefit of
heirs and creditors of said deceased.
Sept. 29/73. LOUISA A. ADAMS, Admx.
SSOO Reward
I WILL pay the above reward for the ar
rest of the party who set fire to the
gin-house of J. B. & J. M. Almand last
Monday night, with proof to convict.
J. B ALMAND,