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The undersigfed have this hay
entered into a partnership f'orthe practice
of law in the town of Elberton under the name
and at)le of SHANNON & WORLEY.
Will practice wherever emyloyed. and prom
ise prompt attention to all business entrusted to
them.
Thankful for the patronage bestowed upon
them in the past, they ask a continuance of the
same.
JOHN P. SHANNON.
Jan’y 8, 1876-tf JOSEPH N. WORLEY.
J. S. HARKETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
JOHN T. OSHOUS,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ELBEKTON, da.
WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS
and Supreme Court. Prompt attention
to the collection of claims. nev'l7 ly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATLANTA, GA,
PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES Clß
cuit and District Courts at Atlanta, and
Supreme and Superior Courts of the State.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST
Has located for a short time at
DR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY,
ELBERTON. GA.
WHERE ho is prepaled to execute every class
of work in his line to the satisfac
tion of all who bestow their patronage. Confi
dent of his ability to please, he cordially iuvites '
a test of his skill, with the guarantee that if he
does net pass a critical inspection it need not be
taken. mch24.tf.
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
ELBERTON, GA.,
~IT7 ILL attend to the business of effecting
VV sales and purchases of
REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Applications should be made to T. J
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ES & BUGGiES,
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(Jarria(;eMlanufact’r
ELBERTOS, GEORGIA.
WITH GOOD WORKMEN!
LOWEST PRICES!
CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
He hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete
any other manufactory.
Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O
REPAIRING ANDBLACKSMITIIING.
Work done in this line in the very best style.
Tlie Best Harness
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Fashionable Tailor,
Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
Call and See Him.
THE ELBERTON
DRUG STORE
fl, C. EDMUNDS, Proprietor.
Has always on hand a full line of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
Makes a specialty of
STATIONERY and
PERFUMERY
Anew assortment of
WHITING PAPER & ENVELOPES
Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup
ply ot LEGAL CAP.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
of all varieties, constantly on hand.
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ELBERTON, GA.
"Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK
anywhere in Elbert county [jel6 6m
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THE GAZETTE.
JSTew Series.
FARMING RUN MID.
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper.
BY MARK TWAIN.
I did not take temporary editorship
of an agricultural paper without misgiv
ings Neither would a landsman take
charge of a ship without misgivings.—•
But I was in circumstances that made
the salary an object. The regular edit
or of the paper was going off for a holi
day, and I accepted the terms he offered,
and took his place.
The sensation of being at work again
was luxurious, and I wrought all the
work with unflagging pleasure. We
went to press, and I waited a day with
some solicitude to see whether my ef
fort was going to attract an}" notice. As
I left the office, toward sundown a group
of men and boys at the foot of the stairs
dispersed with one impulse, and gave
me passage-way, and I heard one or two
of them say : “That's him!” I was nat
urally pleased by this incident. The
next morning I found a similar group
at the foot of the stairs and scattering
couples of individuals standing here
and there in the street and over the
way, watching me with interest. The
group separated and fell back as I ap
proached, and I heard a man sa.y, “Look
at his eye!” I pretended not to observe
the notice I was attracting, but secret
ly I was pleased with it, and was pur
posing to write an account of it to my
aunt. I went up the short flight of
stairs, and heard cheery voices and a
ringingjjlaugh as I drew near the door,
which l opened and caught a glimpse of
two young rural looking men, whose fa
ces blanched and lengthened when they
saw me, and then they both ploughed
through the window with a crash. I
was surprised.
In about an hour an old gentleman,
with a flowing beard and a fine but
rather austere face entered, and sat
down at my invitation. He “seemed to i
have something on his mind. Ho took j
off his hat and set it on the floor, and
got out of it a red silk handkerchief and
a copy of our paper.
He put the paper on his lap, and
while he polished his spectacles with his
ho raid. “Are you the new
editor 1"
I said I was.
“Have you ever edited an agricultural
paper before ?”
“No,'’ I answered, “this is my first at
tempt.”
“Very likely. Have you ever had
any experience in agriculture practi
cally ?”
“No, I believe I have not.”
“Some instinct told me so,” said the
old gentleman, putting on his spectacles
and looking over them at me with asper
ity, while he folded his paper into a con
venieut shape. I wish to read what
must have made me have that instinct
It was this editorial. Listen, and see if
you wrote it:
“Turnips should never be pulled, it
injures them. It is much better to
send a boy up and let him shake the
tree.”
“Now, what do you think of that?
—for 1 really suppose you wrote it?”
“Think of it? Why, I think it is
sense. I have no doubt that every year
millions and millions bushels of turnips
are spoiled in this township alone by
being pulled in a half ripe condition,
when, if they had sent a boy up to shake
the tree —”
“Shake your grandmother ! Turnips
don’t grow on trees !”
“Ob, they don’t, don’t they? Well,
who said they did ? The language was
intended to be figurative, wholly figura
tive. Anybody that knows anything will
know that 1 meant that the boy should
shake the vine.”
Then this old person got up and tore
his paper all into small shreds, and
stamped on them, and broke several
things with Lis cane and said I did not
know as much as a cow, and then went
out and banged the door after him ;
and in short acted in such a way that I
fancied he was displeased about some
thing. But not knowing what the
trouble was, I could not be of any help
to him.
' Pretty soon after this a long cadaver
ous creature, with lanky locks hanging
clown to his shoulders, and a week's
stubble bristling from the hills and val
leys of his face, darted within the door,
and halted, motionless, with finger on
lip, and head and body bent in listening
attitude. No sound was heard. Still
he listened. No sound. Then he turn
ed the key in the door, and came elabo
rately tiptoeing toward me until he was
within long reaching distance of me,
when he stopped, and after scanning my
face with intense interest for awhile,
drew a folded copy of our paper from
his bosom, and said :
“ There, you wrote that. Read it to
me—quick. Relieve me. I suffer.”
I read as follows, and as the sentences
fell from my lips I could see the relief
come. I could see the drawn muscles
relax, and the anxiety go out of the face,
and rest and peace steal over the fea-.
tures like the merciful moonlight over a
desolate landscape:
“The guano is a fine bird, but great
care is necessary in rearing it. It should
not be imported earlier than June or
later than September. In the winter it
should be kept in a warm place, where
it can hatch out its young.
“It is evident that we are to have a
backward season for grain. Therefore
it will be well for the farmer to begin
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELBERTOX, GEORGIA, JAA’Y 26. 187^
setting out his cornstalks and planting
his buckwheat cakes in July instead of
August
“Concerning the pumpkin.—This ber
ry is a favorite with the natives of the
interior of New England, who prefer it
to the gooseberry for making fruit cake,
and who likewise give it the preference
over the raspberry for feeding cows, as
being more filling and fully as satisfy
ing. The pumpkin is the only esculent
of the orange family that will thrive in
the North except the gourd and one or
two varieties of the squash. But the
custom of planting in the front yard
with the shrubbery is fast going out of
vogue, for it is now generally conceded
that the pumpkin as a shade tree is a
failure.
“Now, as the warm weather approach
es. and ganders begin to spawn—”
The excited listener sprang toward
me to shake hands, and said—
“There, there—that will do. I know
lam all right now, because you have
read it just as I did, word for word.—
But stranger, when I first read it this
mornfng, I said to myself, I never, never
believed before, notwithstanding my
friends kept me under watch so strict,
but now I believe lam crazy; and with
that 1 fetched a howl that you might
have heard two miles, and started out
to kill somebody—because, you know, I
knew it would come to that sooner or
later, and so I might as well begin. I
had read one of them paragraphs over
again, so as to be certain, and then I
burned my house down and started. 1
have crippled several people, and have
got one fellow up a tree, where I can
get him if I want him. But I thought
I would call in here as I passed along
and makathe thing perfectly certain ;
and now it is certain, and I tell you it is
lucky for the chap that is in the tree.
I should ave killed him sure, as I went
back. Goodbye, sir, goodbye; you
have taken a great load off my mind.—
My reason has stood the strain of your
agricultural articles, an I I know that
nothing can ever unseat it now. Good
bye, sir - ”
I felt a little uncomfortable about the
cripplings and arsons this person had
been entertaining himself with, for I
could not help feeling remotely accesso
ry to them. But thes.e thoughts we*-,.
mmshea, lOrtbe
walked in ! [I thought to myseiq ]
if you had gone to Egypt, as I recom i
mended you to, I might haveßind
chance to get my hand in, but you woul&r
not do it, and here you are. I sort of
expected you ]
The editor was looking sad and per
plexed and dejected.
He surveyed the wreck which that old
rioter aud those two young farmers had
made, and then sa'd. “This is a sad
business—a very sad business. There
is the mucilage bottle broken, and six
panes of glass, and a spittoon and two
candlesticks- But that is not the worst.
The reputation of the paper is injured
—and permanently, I fear. True there
never was such a call for the paper be
fore, and it never sold such a large edi
tion or soared to such celebrity; but
does one want to be famous to lunacy,
and prosper upon the infirmities of his
mind? My friend, as lam an honest
man, the street out here is full of peo
ple, and others are roosting on the
fences, waiting to get a glimpse of you,
because they think you are crazy. And
well they might after reading your ed
itorials. They are a disgrace to journ
alisnr. Why, what put it into your
head that you could edit a paper of this
nature? You do not seem to know the
first rudiments of agriculture. You
speak of a furrow and a harrow as being
the same thing; you talk of the moult
ing season for cows, and you recom
mend the domestication of the polecat
on account of its playfulness and its ex
cellence as a ratter ? Your remark that
clams will lie quiet if music be played to
them, was superfluous—entirely super
fluous. Nothing disturbs clams. Clams
always lie quiet. Clams care nothing
whatever about music. Ah, heavens
and earth, friend, if you had made the
acquiring of ignorance the study of your
life, you could not have graduated with
higher honor than yon could to day. I
never saw anything like it. Your obser
vation that the horse chestnut, as an ar
tide of commerce, is steadily gaining in
favor, is simply calculated to destroy
this journal. 1 want you to throw up
your situation and go ! I want no more
holiday—l could not enjoy it if I had it.
Certainly not with you in my chair. I
w’ould always stand in dread of what
you might lie going to recommend next.
It makes me lose all patience every time
I think of your discussing oyster beds
under the head of “Landscape Garden
ing.” I want you to go. Nothing on
earth could persuade me to take anoth
er holiday! Oh ! why didn’t pou tell
me you didn’t know anything about ag
rieulture ?”
“Tell you, you cornstalk, you cabbage,
you son of a cauliflower? It’s the first time
I ever heard such an unfeeling remark.
I tell you I have been in the editorial
business going on fourteen years, and
it is the first time I ever heard of a
man’s having to know anything to edit
a newspaper-. You turnip. ‘ Who write
the dramatic critiques for the second rate
papers? Why, a parcel of promoted
shoemakers and apprentice apotheca
caries, who know just as much about
good acting as I do about good farming
and no more. Who review the books ?
People who never wrote one. Who do
up the heavy leaders on finance ? Par
ties who have had the largest opportu-
nities for knowing nothing about it.
Mho criticise the Indian campaigns ?
Gentlemen who do not know a war
whoop from a wigwam, and who never
bad to run a foot race with a tomahawk,
or plucked arrows out of the several
members of their families to build the
evening camp fire with. Who write the
temperance appeals, and clamor about
the flowing bowl ? Folks who will nev
er draw another sober breath till they do
it in the grave. Who edit the agricul
tural papers, jou—yam? Men, as a
general thing, who fail in the poetry
line, yellow covered novel line, sensa
tion-drama line, city editor line, and
finally fall back on agriculture as a tem
porary reprieve from the poor house.—
You try to tell me anythiug about the
newspaper business ! Sir, I have been
through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I
tell you the less a man knows the bigger
the noise he makes and the higher sala
ry he commands. Heav n knows if I
had but been ignorant instead of culti
vated, and impudent instead of diffident,
I could have made a name for myself in
this cold, selfish world. I take my leave,
sir. Since I have been treated as you
have treated me, lam perfectly willing
to go. But I have done my duty. I
have fulfilled my contract as far as i was
permitted to do it. I said I could make
your paper of intei-est to all classes—
and I have I said I could run your cir
culation up to twenty thousand copies,
and if I had had two more weeks I’d
have done it. And I’d have given you
the best cl iss of readers that ever an
agricultural paper had—not a farmer in
it, nor a solitary individual who could
tell a water melon tree from a peach
vine to save his life. You are the loser
by this rupture, not me, you pie plant.
Adios.”
I then left.
HOW TO JUDGE A TOWN.
The Jefferson City (M 0.,) Journal
tells this:
About a week ago, a gentleman from
Tennessee, representing a capital of
$20,000, in search of a location in which
t* engage in business, give us a call,
ayd after stating his mission, “West”
Li ked to look at our paper. We h mded_
J>m the morning Journals ,JYtroUr sur
-11 ,1 ‘V J **^ T notstop to read our newsy
; efforts ft. ; s our attractive editorial
CiJ tees are-ielhij | n advertisements
,fflPV9pJ4*.cautifrt going over tlieir space
a foil, said he, looking up from the
r, “Is that all? Is tlnd the busi
of this town ?”
*h, no,” said we, “there is the Tri
bune with a few advertisements that do
not appear in the Journal.”
He then counted two additional local
advertisements in the Tribune, and
looking up, with the remark :
“And this is all, is it? Why you
have not got near as much of a town
here as I thought you had.”
“And then we explained to him that
we have a great many business men who
do not advertise. “They are not busi
ness man to hurt,” was his answer.
We could not contradict him, and we
were powerless to vindicate the “claims
of the city.”
He left us, saying if he had time he
wofeld look around, but thought this no
place for him.
This is one instance, and a fact.
We know some towns with from sixty
to one hundred business houses of one
sort or other, which, judged by the above
just rule, would make a very poor show
ing before strangers. Intelligent men fre
quently come into our office to examine
newspapers from different towns to see
whether it would be desirable to locate
there. They invariably decide against
such as make a small show in adver
tising.
The Bravest Girl of the Centxry.—
Miss Annie Petxold, the young lady
who was committed to my charge in
Bremen, says Adolph Hermann, in his
narrative of the loss of the Deutschland,
courageously climbed in the rigging,
witff my assistance, first climbing
through the rafters and on the skylight.
She did not lose heart during the whole
ofctGat awful night, although subjected
to perils under which ordinary women
would have given up all hope. While I
held her by the waist, the paymaster,
wlio was above us; lost his footing, and
falling against Miss Petzold, rebounded
from her shoulder, into the dark water
an l was seen no more, although a gal
lant effort was made to arrest his fall by
one of the stewards. During our ascent
through the rafters Miss Petzold was
nearly choked. She cheerily held to the
rigging and myself, never yielding to
the despair which paralyzed the efforts
and caused the death of so many other
unfortunate ladies. While aloft an un
known person handed me a flask of
whisky; not being able to draw the crok
with my teeth, I broke the neeck against
a spar, and having revived Miss Petzold
with a draught, I took one myself, and
passed the bottle to the nearest man—
Dr. Petzold, of Fifty third street, New
York, is to be congratulated upon his
daughter. In my opinion she is the
bravest girl of the century. Many of
the other women stayed in the saloon
and were drowned by a sudden deluge
of waves.
The western papers recommend that
Bishop Haven’s name be used to fright
en refractory Republican children. Try
it on Morton.
A negro girl was burned to death
near Senoia a short time ago.
Vol. IYE-INTo. 39.
CURRENT ITEMS.
If you wish to find the length of any
day, multiply the hour of sunset by two;
to find the length of the night multiply
the hour of sunrise by two.
Fifty Otoe Indians on the way to
buffalo hunting grounds, are reported to
have been killed by a band of Sioux
Col. Alston, who was present when
Mr. Kill delivered his speech in Con
gress, says it is the grandest effort made
in Congress since 1860.
At New Orleans, James Merriman,
colored, aged 69, shot and instantly
killed James Murphy. Both Carpenters
working together. Merriman surren
dered himself.
Cortina has been released from im
prisonment, and his partisans says he
will soon be back at Matamoras to
recommence his bloody and predatory
warfare upon the American side of the
Rio Grande.
The debt of New Orleans is twenty
one millions of. dollars, and the city is
trying to make a compromise with its
creditors on the basis of sixty cents on
the dollar.
The Missomi Republican, the leading
Democratic orgrn of the West, says the
Democrats in the present House have
already introduced bills which, if passed,
would take seventy millions of dollars
out of the Treasury.
It is said thatjthe Governor has com
menced suit against Tre .o cues
and his bondsmen for the recovery of
the deficit in his account, and for the
amount of the bonds improperly paid—
in hall nearly $300,000.
In the case of Eliza Benson vs. the
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Rail
road, the plaintiff was carried beyond
her destination and became permanently
disabled from consequent exposure to
fcbej weather. A verdict -was given for
the plaintiff for $4,250. The road
moved anew trial.
The House Judiciary Committee on
Wednesday considered the bill making
the Presidential term of office gi*
years without re-eligibility, when * cor |
iiderable diversity of obinion was mani
fested. Finally an informal vote was
taken, when the proposition was carried
by six to fi/e
a New York paper says that one of
the most remarkable incidents in the
chronicles of the civil war will be brought
to light for the first time in Scribner’s
for February in “A Piece of Secret His
tory.” This is a letter from General Lee
to President Davis in 1864, which
throws new light upon the character of
the former.
Experiments were made in M lwaukee
on Saturday with Gray’s Harmonic Sys
tem of Multiplex Telegraphy. A loop
was arrauged by way of Iloricon to Por
tage and back, by way of Watertown, a
distance of two hundred miles. Over
this single wire eight messages were
sent and eight received at the same
time.
The Washington Gazette thinks that
if Grant should take it into his head to
commence the ball by the exercise of his
veto power, the Democratic House will
squeeze him and his friends into a very
tight place. They hold the purse
strings and can refuse any appro
priations, suffer who may. “The time
has come, and the Democratic majority
will take a stern stand on the side of tho
people, as against the rings, office
holders, sinecures, and plunderers.
The Chronicle makes amends for the
misrepresentation of Geneva! Gordon’s
views on amnesty. It nutv correctly
represents Genera! G ji don’s position as
follows: “He, senator Gordon, is op
posed to any conditions connected with*
amnesty, but wishes it free and uni
versa! He will not vote for a bill
which exciudes Mr. Davis, as he cannot
consent to be a party to a discrim
ination against the ex-Confederate Presi
dent. If, however, a bill for universal
amnesty cannot be passed without atj
taching to it the proposed oath to sup
port the Constitution, he would vote
for the bill with such an amendment.”
A ROUGH JOKE ON A LOVER.
The Reading Eagle says that recently
a young man from Springfield, Chester
county, Pa., visited that city to buy a
number of Christmas presents for a
young lady to whom he is engaged. A
number of young men knew of the trip
to Reading, and as it was dark when he
neared the house of his intended ' the
party waited for him along the road,
and when he was thinking over the ef
fect the presents would produce he was
suddenly met in the road by four mask
ed men, who caught him and tied him
with a rope, and took the presents from
him. He begged for his life, but they
still continued to tie him band and foot,
and threw him down and made him state
when the wedding was to take place,
and what he had brought, and how long
he had paid attention to the lady. To
all these questions he answered prompt
ly and then would beg them not to kill
him. To close the sport they tied his
hands securely behind his back, turning
his coat inside out first, then tying the
presents on his back, they started him
for the house of his intended, and throat
ed that if he did uot go in they would
assault him again, He went in, but
what the result of the interview was is
not known.
COMPTROLLER GENERAL’S ANNUAL RE
PORT.
This document is the most complete,
exhaustive and host arranged exhibit of
the finances, resources, expenditure*!
and condition of the commonwealth;
that we have seen for ally previous year.
Tables have been prepared at infinite
pains, showing and comparing with the
preceding year the various kinds of
property, and present value and increase
or decrease of the same as might appear;
together with the aggregate of each.
Mr. Goldsmith also gives other statis
tics of great value, which wo propose
briefly to notice, not in regular sequence
or detail, but presenting such salient
features only as are most practical and
interesting to the public.
. The total debt -*of the State not
yet due, is $8,005,500, and the assets
foot up 186 shares Georgia railroad
stock, worth $18,600 ; 10,000 shares of
Atlantic and Gulf road, valued at $l5O,
000, and 16 shares of Oconee bridge
bonds, estimated at $1,280 The valuo
of the Western and Atlantic railroad is
not given, though that property is cer
tainly worth $5,000,000.
Assuming this, then, the State has, at
the lowest calculation, $5,169,880 of tan
gible, marketable assets as a set off to
her debt of $8,005,500. This would
leave only $2,835,620 of actual liabilities.
A most comforting exhibit.
The total balance in the Treasury,
January Ist, 1876, was $511,785.21.
The whole number of polls in the
State is 209,338 of whom 121,819 aro
white, and 87,569 colored. The school
children £ between six and eighteen
years of age, including confederate sol
diers under thirty years, count 400,891.
For the free education of these, in tho
several counties, $161,304 were ex
pended.
The number of professions in the
State is 2,781, of which Bibb boasts
seventy five.
The total number of acres of improv
ed land is 28,202,795 acres, valued at
$95,421,177. The wild lands sum up
7,068.66 acres, assessed at $2,086,567.
The average value of tho improved is
$3,38£ per acre, and tho wild land ,29£
cents per acre.
Wayne shows the lowest averago of
any county, in tho valuo of improved
land, to-wit: fifty-one cents per acre,
while the lowest assessment of tho unim
proved, is eight miles, as returned by
Ware county.
The aggregate vali e of all the taxable
property of the State amounts to $261,-
755,884 against $273,093,292 for 1874,
showing a decrease of $11,337,408, near
ly half of which, or $6,385,080, resulted
from the exenu>**y u of s'so for household
and ki f nen furniture by the last Legis
inture to each head of a family. The
remainder can readily bo accounted for
by the general shrinkage in values of ev
ery description.
The decrease ia Chatham county is
$350,890, and the increase in Fulton
$26,7. 5.
Under the head of total assets is in
cluded tho value of city and town prop
erty in the State which sums up $57,-
930,353 against $57,218,248 ; showing a
net increase of $712,000. Of all tho
counties, Chatham claims precedence,
having $12,871,090 worth of city proper
ty ; Fulton coming next with $11,486,
294, and Bibb footing up $4,158,760.
In the matter of merchandise, tho
same cities rank thus ; Fulton $2,127,-
429, Chatham $1,856,821, and Bibb
$1,234,102.
In money and solvent debts, aristo
cratic Chatham, ancient, opulent and
well refined upon her lees, takes the
lead, having no less than $5,089,817 in
vested in stocks and securities. Fulton
$2,554,806.
In the value cf tonnage and shipping
capital, Chatham far outstrips!he interi
or, showing $150,000 to $29,500 in Mc-
Intosh, and $27,550 in Fulton.
In cotton manufactories $3,500,000
are employed.
Muscogee is the banner county, hav
ing $1,529,500 invested ; Richmond,
$617,200; Clarke, $385,150; Cobb,
$237,725.
I on works and founderies are in their
infancy, only $670,471 of capital taking
that direction, though no pursuit is
more profitable. Of this amount Fulton
owns $210,500; Muscogee, $167,006,
and Floyd, $112,500.
But $49,279 are invested in mining
operations, and Dade has the honor of
bearing away the palm owning $30,000,
against $5,862 for Lumpkin county, her
nearest competitor.
The total value of those articles is put
down at $0,‘215,552 against $11,012,088
for 1873. The discrepancy being caused
by the exemption clause of SSO to each
family.
The total number of hands employed
in the various departments of labor in
1875 was 121,541 against 116,086 for
the preceding year. Total value of plan
tation and mechanic tools, over $25 to
each family, $1,337,232.
The Comptroller General also gives
minute statement of all the warrants
drawn upon the Treasury for every pur
pose whatever, and makes some very val
uable suggestions to the General As
sembly.
We add a word or two in relation to
th e amount of tax levied by the several
counties in 1875.
In Baldwin, the rate was highest,
amounting to on every SIOO. Next
same Wilkinson with 175, then Lee,
1.45 and Pulaski, 1.25.
The county enjoying the privilege of
paying the lowest tax was Tatnall, where
seventeen and a half cents only was as
sessed on the one hundred dollars. Af
ter her, come no less than nine counties,
viz: Banks, Bullock, Chatooga, Forsyth,
Fulton; Hart, Irwin, Walton, and War
ren where twenty cents was the rate im
posed. This shows what good manage
mentcan accomplish.
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Many a man has ruined his eyesight
sitting around in a bar room looking for
work.
The slaughter of lings up to the 15th
in Cincinnati was 450,050 The same
time last year the number was 472,283.
