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POETICAL.
ZOV
LITE’S LEAVES.
The following beautiful poem is pub
lished by request. We take great pleas
ure in publishing an article in which
so much good taste is manifested. We
mean both in the poem and the selection.
It is of rare merit.
The day with its sandals dipped in dew,
Has passed through the evenirg’s go’.den
gates,
And a single star in the cloudless blue
For the rising mcon in silence waits ;
While the winds that sigh to the languid hours
A lullaby breathe o’er the folded flowers.
The lilies nod to the sound of the stream
That winds along with-lulling flow,
And either awake, or half a dream,
1 pass through the realms of long ago ;
While faces peer with many a smile
From the bower of memory’s magical tale.
There are joys and sunshine, sorrow and tears
That check the path of life’s April hours,
And a longing wish for the coming years,
That hope ever wreaths with the fairest flow
ers ;
There are friendships guileless—love as bright
And pure as the stats in the halls of night.
There are ashen memories, bitterjmin,
And buried hopes and a broken vow,
And an aching heart by the reckless main,
And the sea-breeze fanning the pallid brow ;
And a wanderer on the shell-lined shore
Listening for voices that speak do more.
There are passions strong and ambitions wild,
And the lieice desire to stand in the van
Of the battle of life—and the heart of the child
Is crushed in the breast of the struggling
man ; *
But short are the regrets and lew are the tears,
That fall at the tomb of the banished years.
There is a quiet and peace and domestic love,
And joys arising from faith and truth,
And a truth unquestioning, far above
The passionate dreamingsof ardent youth ;
And kissed oi children on lips and cheek,
And the parent’s bliss which no tongue can
speak.
There are loved ones lost! There are lilfle
graves
In the distant dell, ’ncath protecting trees,
Where the streamlet winds, and the violet
waves,
And the grasses sway to the sighing breeze ;
And we mourn for the pressure of tender lips,
And the light of eyes darkened in death’s
eclipse.
And thus, as the glow of daylight dies.
And the night’s first look to the earth is
cast,
I gaze, ’neath those beautiful summer skies,
At pictures that hang in the hall of the
past:
Oh, Sorrow and Joy, chant a mingled lay
When to Memory’s wildwood we wander away.
JLAUGrHOGrKAMS.
Sensible—Taking the Gazettt.
The best thing out—Out of debt.
The worst thing out—Out of temper.
Deadly weapons—Gin-slings.
Paper for the roughs—Sand-paper.
On the trail—Luxuriant whiskers.
A sweet country—The land of cakes.
Drawing paper—The dentist’s bill.
Head gardeners—Artificial florists.
Woman’s kingdom—A milliner’s shop.
A mental morsel—A bit of one’s mind.
Ruled paper—The French press.
A melancholy walk—Going down hill.
A taking paper—A Sheriffs warrant.
A clique worth following—Cliquot.
A fruitful sport—Playing old goose
berry.
A prickly pair—A hedgehog and a
porcupine.
Coming to grief—Meeting trouble half
way.
May a military man be expected to
keep civil?
A welcome robber—The man who
takes your part.
Early training—Leaving town by the
morning express.
What is the first thing a lady does
when she falls in the water ? Gets wet.
Motto for sewing-machines—As you
sew, so shall you rip.
When is a thief like a seamstress ?
When ho cuts and runs.
When a lover dotes on his darling, a
refusal__acts as an antidote.
The lady whose “piece of mind” was
broken has had it repaired.
Why are clouds like coachmen ? Be
cause they hold the rains.
To escape trouble from noisy children
send them to your neighbors visiting.
Where did Noah preserve the bees
during the flood ? In the arkhives.
“I’ll be around this way in a minute,”
as the second hana said to the pendu
lum.
“Very good, but rather too pointed,”
as the codfish said when he swallowed
the bait.
If Heaven helps those who help them
selves. How well rogues must get
along?
Railways are aristocrats. They teach
every man to know his station, and to
stop there.
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard!”—yet
there are many idle poor who prefer to
go to their uncle.
A party hearing of a dog after Land
seer, wanted to know what he was after
him for.
AGRICULTURAL
RAISING ONION SETS.
Mr. Wm. C. Pelham, of Mavsville, Ivy.,
has made public, through the American
Agriculturists anew method of raising
onion sets. It is essentially this:
He selects a level and dry piece of
land. His ground is rich alluvial loam,
but the clmracter of the soil is of no
special importance. Beds are formed
two feet wide, with a path of one foot
between. The beds are excavated to the
depth of two inches —or, in other words,
the path or alley between is two inches
higher than the beds; the bottom of the
beds is nicely smoothed with the back
of a spade, so as to present a level ap
pearance whereupon to sow the seed.
The seed are sown so that fifteen to
twenty will cover a square inch. If the
surface of the beds was sprinkled with
plaster or white sand, the seeds, which
are black, could be sown more evenly.
After sowing, the seeds are covered with
two inches of pure, clean sand, which
brings out the beds and paths to the
same level. The whole is then rolled
with a light roller or patted down with
a spade. The advantages of this plan
are, that there being no see 7s of weeds
in the sand the labor of weeding is en
tirely saved, and the sets when manured
are far more easily harvested from the
clean, soft sand than from the hard-baked
surface which most soils present after a
season’s rains and sun on a surface that
cannot be stirred.
TO HAVE APPLE S EVER if TEAR.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune tells three ways of having ap
ples every year: 1. Take scions from a
tree in 1873, and put them in a good
thrifty tree, and do the same in 1874,
and you will get fruit in alternate years.
2. If you cut off the thrifty trees the
growth of 1873 in the last of June, leav
ing three or four buds that would come
on in 1874, you would force out the next
year’s buds and gain one year. 3. If
you remove all the blossoms on one-half
of your trees in the bearing year you
will have fruit on that half the odd year.
These things I have done successful
ly. I have now in bearing the Victory
apple of the odd year produced in this
way; next year the scions of the last
year will bear in the regular year.
ASHES JOE FEUIT TEEES.
The editor of the Horticulturist says:
We have known quite a number of
instances—indeed, so often as to make
it quite a rule—that old orchards, appa
rently dying out, have been brought
back to fruitfulness by the soil. Potash
is the most important element in the suc
cessful growth of all kinds of fruit trees.
An old gentleman told a club, not long
ago, that he had known a man to pre
serve an orchard of apple trees in a flour
ishing and productive condition, origin
ally placed on very poor ground, by
sprinkling every year around each tree,
to the circumference of the extent of its
branches, half a bushel of ashes. We
consider this a very important item.
DIDN’T WOEK AFTEE SUPPEE.
An old miser owning a farm, found it
impossible to do his work without as
sistance, and accordingly offered any
man food for performing the requisite
labor. A half-starved man, hearing of
the terms, accepted them. Before going
into the field in the morning, he was in
vited to breakfast; after finishing the
morning meal, old flint thought it would
be saving of time if they should place
the dinner upon the table after break
fast. This was readily agreed to by the
unsatisfied stranger, and the dinner was
soon dispatched.
“ Suppose now,” said the frugal farmer,
“we take supper, it will save time and
trouble, you know.”
“Just as you like,” said the eager eat
er, and at it they went.
“Now we will go to work,” said the
delighted employer.
“ Thank you,” said the laborer, “I nev
er work after supper.”
A school-boy being requested to write
a composition upon the subject of pins,
produced the following: *
“Pins are very useful. They have
saved the lives of a great many men, wo
men, and children—in fact, whole fami
lies.”
“How so!” asked the puzzled teacher.
“Why, by not swallowing them,” was
the reply.
This matches the story of the other
boy, who defined salt as “the stuff that
makes potatoes taste bad when you don’t
put on any.”
A young Irishman, who had married
when about nineteen years of age, com
plaining of the difficulties to which his
early marriage subjected him, said he
would never marry so young again if he
lived to be as old as Methuselah.
A western woman complains that since
her husband joined the Patrons of Hus
bandry he has sown nothing but wild
oats.
H. C. SCHMIDT,
DRAPER&TAILOR
ELBEETON - , GA.
over the Store of J. H. Jones & Cos.
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.
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.
MAR¥IN & GOi,
265 Broadway, N. Y., '
721 Chestnut St., Phila.
7/i Oldest Furniture House in the State
PLATT - BROS.
219 & 214 Broad St.
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Keep always on hand the latest styles of
FURNITURE
Os every variety manvfactured. from the lowest
to the highest grades
CHAMBER, PARLOR, 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 arid 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
BACON * KARR’S
PIANOS.
FIRST-CLASS INVESTMENTS.
New Scales,
ISTew Styles,
ISTew [Prices,
V erv Low.
WAREROOM
255 Greene st., near Eighth
UNTIE-W YOIFtLC.
University Place Cars pass the
Door.
REMOVAL OF HARNESS SHOP.
P. J. SHANNON
ANNNOUCES that he has removed his work
shop to the house known as Vail’s store,
where he is prepared to execute all work entrus
ted to him.
SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING
c on
OUR BUYER (MR. KEAN) 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 HARD TO SURPASS.
61® ffflffifaE® STBSM
coming in rapidly, and we cordially invite all to visit us daily, as there will be something
XEW, ATTRACTIVE AND NOVEL
Every day, and it affords us pleasure to display them, whether you buy or not.
We will sell to t'OI'XTRY MERCHANTS at lcw York quo a
fions for CASH.
For apnroved City Acceptance we w ill sell on a credit to Ist October next, adding I.J per
cent interest per month.
Apply with perfect confidence in our willingness and ability to
serve you as well as any house South, and you will not be disap
pointed. Very Respectfully,
KEAN & CASSELS.
We call upon our customers to help us. If you
can’t pay us all, pay us some. We know the condition
of the country, but please do not make that the reason
for not helping us. We are compelled to meet our ac
ceptances at maturity or lose our credit, which is a
great deal to us. Please do not leave us out when you
get your cotton ready for market. We will recollect
our friends for favors these hard times.
We will give all our customers AUGUSTA PRI
CES EOIi COTTON the day delivered up to the 25tli
day of December. We know it is hard on us all, and
we are willing to bear our part in the case.
Please come forward and settle immediately, and
save in the settlement from $5 to $8 a bale on your cot
ton. J. H. JONES & CO.
DOZIER, WALTON & GO.
‘A4I BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
S. D. BLACKWELL 1 SON
ARE NOW RECEIVING
A LARGE aND WELL SELECTED STOCK
OF
mm & wmem &mm
CONSISTING OF EVERY VARIETY OF
Staple & Fancy Dry 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 of
BOOTS. SHOPS, HAITS AJSnD TBTJNKS
Which we will sell at Marvelously Low Prices.
Our stock is the largest that has ever been offered in this market, and to the WHOLE
SALE lilAI'E we are determined that no house North shall undersell us.
o cn
OUR RETAIL, DEPARTMENT
Is supplied with a full line of the BEST PHILADELPHIA and BALTIMORE GOODS made to
our own order and warranted to satisfaction. Prices
In this department are always as Low as the Lowest.
GALLAHER & MULHERIN,
ocl-3m 299 llro and st., AUGUSTA, GA.
lIICE I ™ 1 AGENTS
JTHE SUN.
WEEKLY, SEMI-WEEKLY, AND PATTY
J W EEKLY SUN is too widely known to
q tire any extended recommendation • but the
torfwt ni Ch K, a l° g . iveu thousand snb
h . w uck w, ff, we hope, give it many
thousands more, are briefly ns follows: *
Lhn a -u r ; l,e , no vs Pper. Ail tho news of
the day will be found in it, condensed when
at fui ‘ !**> when of ii
and always presented in a clear iutelliirible
tnd interesting manner. ’ !utellllUk '
It is a first rate family paper, full of enter
taining and instructive reading’of every kind
but containing nothing that can offend the most
delicate and scrupulous taste.
It is a first rate story paper. The best tale,
and romances of current literature are carefully
selected and legibly printed in its pages '
It is a first rate agricultural paper. The most
redi and instructive nrtieles on agricultural
topics regularly appear this department
11 is am dependent political paper, belonging
to no party and ..earing no collar. It fights for
principle, and for the election of the best men
to office. It especially devotes its energies to
the exposure of the great corruptions that now
weaken and disgrace our country, and threaten
to undermine republican institutions altogether.
It lias no fear of knaves, and asks no favors fo
their supporters
It reports the fashions for the ladies and the
markets fur the men, especially the cattle mar
ket, to which it pays particular attention
Finally, it is the cneapist paper published.
One dollat a year will secure it for any subscri
ber. It is jot necessary to get up a club in order
to have THE WEEKLY SUN at this rate Any
one who snnds a single dollar will got the paper
for a year 1 *
We have no traveling ageut3.
The Weekly Sun. -Eight pages, fifty-six
columns, only SI a year. No discount from this
rate.
Inn Sfmi -Weekly Sen.— Some size as the
Daily Sun, $2 a year. A discount of 20 per ceut.
to clubs of 10 or over.
1 he Daily Sun■ A large four page newspa
per, of twenty-eight columns. Daily circulation
over
tion price 50 cts. a mouth, or $6 a year. To clubs
of 10 or over, a discount of 20 per cent.
Address, l; THE SUN,” New Yook City.
Pujo COMPANY
It coals less than s‘loo lo make any SCOO
Piano sold through agents, all of whom make
100 per cent, profit. We have no agents, but
ship direct to families at fiutory price.
We make only one sty lean Ibure but one price.
Two Hundred ami Ninety Dollars , net cash, with
no discount to dealers i r commissions lo teach
ers. Our lumber is thoroughly seasoned; our
cases arc Double. Veneered with Rosewood, have
front rouud corners, serpentine bottom and carv
ed legs. We use the full iron plate with over
strung bass, French Grand action with top dam
pers, and our ksys are of flic best ivory, with
ivory fronts. Our /'iano has seven octaves, is
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.
I . S. PIANO COMPANY,
810 Broad why, N. Y.
figN-rieanc stale where you saw this notice.
EXECUTORS’ SAEE.
OTATIi OF GEORGIA, Elbert county,
BY virtue of an order from the Court of Ordi
nary of Elbert county, will be sold on the first
Tuesday in January, 1874, at the Courthouse
door, in said county, between the legal hours o
sale, the following land in said county, to wit f
The old Holton place containing 832 acres more:
or less,adjoining lands of R. N.Ward, Win. Rice,
and others. Terms one half in currency on
the Gth day of January, A. I). 1874
and a note given for the latter half, mad#
payable the 25th of Dec. 1874. bearing 10 per
cent, interest per annum, from the 25th day of
December, Anno Domini 1873. Bonds to
be given for titles when the latter half or part
of the purchase money is paid. Sold as the
property of Joseph Rucker, dee’d. to perfect ti
tles.
E. M RUKCER,
W. M. HASLETT,
Ex’rs of Joseph Rucker, dec’d.
Nov. 15, ’73
Dr. .1. Walker’s California Vin
egar JJitters arc a purely Vegetable)
preparation, made chiefly from the na
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor
nia, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the uso
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked. “ What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of Vinegar Hit
ters?” Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re
covers his health. They arc the great
blood purifier and a life-giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world lias a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle' Purgative as well as a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and Visceral Organs in Bilious
Diseases
The properties of Dr. Walker’s
Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter-Irritant Sudorific, Altera
tive, and Anti-Bilious.
It. ..
Dnippists and Gen. Apts., San Francisco, California,
and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts.. N. Y.
Sold by all nragglsts and Dealers.
Globe Hotel
H. C. EDMUNDS, Proprietor,
Now open for the accommodati rtl of the public,
on rwistuiable ♦•'rms,