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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R. U. JONES, \ T T O R N E Y A T J,A W, BLBEBTGN, GA. Special attention to the collection of claims. [ly Hi. J. rARYR£LL, ATTORNEY AT EAW, ATLANTA, GA, PRACTICES IX THE UNITED STATES Clß cuit and District Courts at Atlanta, and Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. ECBERTON BUSINESS CARDS. SHANNON & WORLEY, ATT ORN EY S AT LAW, ELBERTOK, GA., Wild; PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Northern Circuit and Franklin county CiST"Special attention given to collections. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT RAW, ELBSRTON, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. Wild, PRACTICE IN' SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevll.ly T. BOWMAN & CO-, REAL ESTATE AGENTS ELUERTOX GA. WILL attend to the business of effecting sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE ny Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. li'-d'-' Applications should ho male to T. J. BOWMAN. Sopls-tf LISHT CAdPJAGES & BOMs. • IdMil -do J. F. A.T7TJD (Ijy ARiIIAO IC AN U FACT’ l! ELREUTOS, GEOROIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST I’RICES! O LOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, He hopes l.y honest and fair dealing lo compete any other manufactory. OnCvl Baggio’s, warranted, - $125 to $l6O i! EPAI RING AN I) RLACKSMITHING. Work 'lone in this line in t Very best style- Tho Rest Rarnoss TERMS CASH. V- 1 V i BARFl£ta if. ■ - - THE HEAL LIVE Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift S Arnold’s Store, BLUER TON, OEOIIGIA. M? (tall anil Sec ITiin. S' I I In KLR'EUTON DRUG STORE n. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always oil hand a full line of ■ ire 33nigs and Patent Medicines Makes a special I v of , ,’ATIOItiERY ,x„ PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and Lucy, just received, including a sup ply ol LEGAL CAP. CIGARS ANI) TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. F. A. F. NOW LETT, p Amui lAioi, ELBERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK any wlicre in Elbert and Hart counties. [jelO-Om wToTlpresleyT^ HAIMIII lira. ELBERTON, GA. Will make first class harness to order, war ranted, and at prices to suit tlie times. Will bo glad lo show specimens of his work to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is wished. Repairing Done Promptly. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE i SIGH PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, . ELBERTON, GA. Order.) Sclit-ited. Satisfaction Guaranteed Tease’s” PALACE DINING ROOMS, *Ta. iNT .4, G EORC JA. TV. 3 C .ampion Dining Saloon of the South EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO CAII. THE. GAZE T T E. New Series. GENERAL A. H. COLQUITT. Wo propose to say a few words in re gard to this most excellent man, in the way of biographical notice, that those who may not have been made familiar with his history may see what high claims liis friends may set up in his be half to the popular regard an 1 confi dence. From his youth General Colquitt has been distinguished for his morality and modest worth. He was the most dutiful and devoted of sons, the truest of brothers and ho never lost a friend. His whole life does not furnish a solitary in stance of guile, and hardly one of resent ment or hostility towards a human being. It is no wondei, then, that when the qualities of heart such as this distin guished man possesses, have been so ably supported by a judgment, prudence and discernment far above the sum of those traits which fall to the lot of most men, that he should have been the favor ite and almost the pet of the public. Colquitt, though not born to fortune, spuing from parentage that placed him under bonds from bis earliest youth to love and honor Georgia. Ho felt this, and so long back in his life that those who remember him as a youth think of him as a model. In his early manhood the people looked upon him with bene diction, and in spite of his modesty and self-abnegation they called him into their service. When quite a young man he re ceived the nomination of his party for the representation of the Second Con gressional district, and he was elected by a most honorable vote. Declining a second term ho was unan mously and by acclamation renominated by tho party convention, but he firmly declined the splendid offering. He glad ly retired to the walks of private life, and with zeal betook himself himself to the unpretending labors of a Georgia planter. His people still insisting upon retaining his services, he was called to a scat in the State Senate, and then he was permitted to decline all public labor which withdrew him from his coveted se clusion and pursuit. It was in that se clusion that the message of his country’s danger reached him. Without ado cr flourish, ho resolved where duty called him he would go. He raised a fine com pany and reported at headquarters at Atlanta very early in ISGI, and was mus tered into service. The service was un limited and unqualified by any selfish stipulations whatever. This quiet, solid virtue was recognised as it ever before bad been, and Colquitt was made Colonel of tho Gth Georgia regiment, and took to Richmond, we be lieve, the very first “during tho war” re giment which Vnarched from Georgia, or the South, in fact. That regiment, with its patient, brave, and conscientious lead er, whether as Colonel, or Brigadier or Major General, in more than thirty bat tles, passed through all the transmigra tions of trial and blood. The hero of Manassas loved Colonel Colquitt and trusted him, and no respon sibilities, in Beauregard’s judgment, were too heavy to be laid by him on Col quitt’s shoulders. Who has not heard of tho battle of Olustree, which saved our entire wire grass region from devas tation ? Colquitt was as veritably the hero of that light as Bragg was of tho ba' tic of Chickamauga. Four years’ absence from home, spent in the pitiless storm of “iron hail,” and the results of tho war scattered to tho winds one of the finest private fortunes in Georgia. But poor as 18G7 found Colquitt, he was rich enough to como with ready and buoyant tread and lay upon the shattered altar of his State his offering—when all was gloom—when stout hearts gayp up and the groan was uttered, “What is the use of further ef fort t” this lion hearted man was up and ready. He counseled action—he advised that no supine acquiescence in reeon struction outrage and ignominy should finish our ruin, and when empty purses were appealed to in vain for the means of a last struggle for our little all, Col quitt aud Toombs, all honor to their names, came forward and made about all the cash contribution that could be got to make a fight on. It is now history, and glorious history, what good results for us followed tho advice and favors of General Colquitt and the noble band of true men who thought as he did and struggled with him. After we gained for the State its new lease of life, the review and our sur roundings were almost as discouraging as the signs of destruction which bloody and cruel war had* scattered all around. Our industry seemed to be crushed, and all future hope for our agricultural re cuperation seemed folly. Bat General Colquitt here again appears as the true and watchful friend of the interests of the State—and we can safely claim for him a zeal and intelligence in his labors in behalf of our greatest interest —the agriculture of Georgia—second to none. " This we know is high praise, for where can we find moro energetic and devoted service than has been rendered by the friends of our planting and farming in dustry. For six years or more Gen. Col quitt has been President of the State Agricultural Society, and has given his most caraest efforts to build up and extend the usefulness of that most valu able and honorable organization. Be sides his labors for tho society, ho has been ono of the leading spirits in tho great measure of direct trade between Georgia and the foreign markets. The solid practical sense of Gen. Colquitt made him long since deduce from our situation the vital fact that her agri eulutural enterprise was hampered and ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBEETOI, GEORGIA, JULY 12,1876. weighed down by restrictions and useless burdens which must b e removed. Though ho well knew that millions *of hostile capital could be used, and would be to thwart the partriotic endeavor to take crushing loads from our backs, this fact did not daunt him, and as President of the Board for the Forma tion of Direct Trade, Gen. Colqnitt lias given proof of the highest statesmanship as well as the loftiest patriotic purpose. We find this enlightened [patriot al ways earnest and always making a cen tral and important figure whenever and wherever the best interest of his beloved State aie concerned. This is the char acter of public men the State and the South most needs. We want and must REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. BUTHEKFORD B. HAYES, of Oliio. WILLIAM A. WHEELER, of Now York. have in influential office men who have tho practical sense to evoko from un utilized resources the magnificent re wards which may follow upon energy and intelligent effort. Let us place the proper estimate upon our public men. Splendid oratory and ingenious dis quisitions upon abstractions may do for piping times of plenty and prosperi ty, but now we want men who see and feel tho poverty of the State, and who can take Jin teres t in tho best measures for our restoration to old time affluence. In Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt wo have the finest ccamplc of such zeal and such intelligence. In his private honor the State may lyok fqj iinfr ioet. that her interests will bo protected, and in Lis zeal and well directed labors in behalf of Georgia's truest! interest, we will find the efficient and enlightened promoter of an extended prosperity. [Atlanta Commonwealth. A SNARL AGAINST COLQUITT. We do not know that it would be a sacrifice for Judge Johnson to accept tho office of Governor, and it is for that very reason we insist upon his taking it. Sacrifice is the religion of patriotism. All earnest patriots are willing to make it, and we want none but patriots at the head of our administration. How dif ferent it is with Colquitt. He claims the office as a reward* and his friends claim it for him as a pension. They say that unless ho gets it ho is ruined, and will have no other means of subsistence. Far be it from us to let such a gallant gentleman starve, but it would bo better for the State to appropriate $5,000 a year for his support than to make him Governor simply to provide Inin a|home and bread and meat for his family. [Rome Courier. THE AEEIOAN COAST. The surf on tho African coast, says a letter writer, is ever a wonder and a danger. There is no coast in any part of the world, which possesses less ports or harbors for refuge. You may ti’avel a thousand miles, almost, without finding a cove or harbor where a ship could an chor quietly without being rocked by the surf waves. Try along tho whole of the grain, tho ivoi’y, the gold and the slave coasts, and there is not ono port. But, fortunately for ships trading to these places, there is seldom a hurricane or a gale blowing, so that they are able to anchor about a mile from the shore. There is never any dead calm, though the sea in the morning is stirred up into wavelets by-the breeze from oceanward. During the night it is moved by tho land breeze, so that ships anchoring uneasily, they are never at rest. Unceasingly the long lines of waves are to be traced roll ing onward toward tho shore, gathering strength as they advance nearer, until, receiving the ebbing waters flowing f omg the beach from preceding seas, there is a simultaneous coiling and roll ing, and at once the long line of waters is precipitated with a furious roar oti the land. Where the water meets a rock a tall tower of spray and foam is suddenly reared, the wave line is broken, and is in mad confusion. Where the beach is , smooth and of sand, you may trace a straight, unbroken line of foam, nearly a mile long. A hater of tobacco asked an old negro woman, the fumes of whose pipe were annoying to him, if she tlirought sh owas a Christian. “Yes, brudder, I ’spects I is.” “Do you believe in the Bible?’ “Yes, brudder,” “Do you know that there is a passage in the Scriptures which says that nothing unclean shall enter tho kingdom of Heaven ?” “Yes I’ve heard of it.” Well,. Chloe, you smoke and there is nothing so unclean as the breath of a smoker. What doyoa say to that ?” “Why, I ’spects to leave my breff be bind when I go dar.” THE WONDERS OF MACHINERY HALL. Machinery hall is 1,3G0 feet long and 360 feet wide ; it covers about fourteen acres, and cost $542,300. On entering the edifice at the western end the sight is picturesque and impres sive. Almost every sort of machine in existence, from a locomotive to a paper folder, is in active operation. The per sons employed to work them are now fairly started in their tasks, and the prospect of six months in the building seems to make them feel at homo. Tho central object of interest is tho magnifi cent engine, which furnishes the motive power for all the machinery that is not self propelling. It consists of an im mouse fly wheel, thirty feet in diameter, two feet in thickness, and fifty tons in weight, caused to revolve at the rate of. thirty six revolutions a minute by tho piston rods of two cylinders ; and so si lently does it perform its work that even when close beside it you can hear tho lowest tones of your companion’s voice. Below it is the main shaft, which by gear wheels six feet in diameter connects witli eight lines of shafting, each 365 feet long, running lengthwise under the roof, ; and communicating their motion by leather belts to tho various machinery on floor. This machinery is of the most ingeni -sflUiew rnLsiuioiis d*ci'iptioft, ivad consists of apparatus used in mining, Weaving, felting and paper making; in sewing and the manufacture of clothing and ornamental objects; in typo setting, printing, stamping, embossing, book making and paper working; in produc ing and transmitting power; in pumping, hoisting and lifting by hydraulic and pneumatic forco * in manufacturing loco motives and railway rolling stock; in preparing agricultural implements ; and in aerial, pneumatic and water transpor tation. While sauntering along the aisles ono can witness the process of rock drilling, of well and shaft boring, of coal cutting, of electroplating, of planing, sawing, veneering, grooving, mortising, tonguing, cutting, moulding, stamping and carving ; of drilling, slot ting, turning, punching and coining ; of dressing, Shaping, and polishing ; of rolling iron, grinding glass, casting met als, and riveting, nailing, bolting and tacking thenVby steam; ©[manufacturing silk, cotton, woolen and linen goods, rope and twine, paper and felting, india rubber goods, mixed fabrics and wire cloth ; of preparing and working leather, making clocks, watches, and pipes for smoking; of printing, embossing and lithographing, type casting and stereo typing, bookbinding and paper folding ; of generating power by boilers, water wheels, hydraulic rams, stearr, air, gas and electro magnetic engines, and of transmitting it by shafting, belting, ca bles, gearing and screw propellers ; of lifting and moving liquids and solids, and moving and compressing air or gas; of extinguishing fire and escaping from it; of manufacturing soda water, bot tling it, and corking tho bottles; of div ing for the recovery of sunken treasures; of manufacturing locomotives, carriages, brakes, buffers, couplings and snow plows, wheels, tires, axles, and springs, switches, turntables and water cranes, street railways and horse cars ; of grind ing grist, refining sugar, making candy, preparing tobacco, oil, spices and fancy goods, and brewing beer and distilling liquors ; of building suspension bridges, transporting cables, sending balloon boats and sailing vessels, and finally of transporting the telegraph cables and railway trains, and of steering and pro pelling ships and steamboats. Indeed, it is not too much to say that an extra ordinary lifetime might be spent in ex amining tho apparatus, the processes and the results presented in Maceinery hall. The vast structure, with the ex ception, perhaps, of some of the persons who are visiting it, does not obtain a single object not interesting or instruc tive. Lapland mothers, are not in the habit of staying at home with their babies. The Laps are a very religious people, and take long jonrr.eys to hear their pastors. As soon as the family arrive at tho little wooden church, and the reindeer are se cured, the father shovels a snug little bod in tho snow, and mother wraps the baby in skins and deposits it therein. Then the father piles the Bnow around it, and the dog is set on guard, while tho par ents go decorously into tho oLurch. Often as many as thirty babies may bo seen laid away in the snow about a church. VOI.V-NO. 11s GEDAES OF LEBANON. Upon the slopes of the snow-mountain of Lebanon stood those gigantic cedar trees—whole forests of them then—now .only olio or two small groups; but awful, travellers tell us, even in their decay. Whence did they come? There are no trees like them for hundreds, I had al most said for thousands, of miles. There are but two other patches of them left now on the ivhole earth—one on the Atlas, ono in tho Himalaya Tho Jews certainly knew of no trees like them, and no trees either of their size. There were tress among them, then, probably two and three hundred feet in height; trees whose tops were as those monster tow- ers ; whoso shafts were like yonder pil lars, and their branches like yonder vaults. No king, however mighty, could have planted them up there upon the lofty mountain-slopes. The Jew, when ho entered beneath tho awful darkness of these cedars; tho cedars with a shad owy sbroud-v-as the Scripture says—the cedars high and lifted up, whose tops were among the thick boughs, and their height exalted abovo all the trees of the field; fair in their greatness; their boughs multiplied, and their branches long—for it is in such words of awo and admiration that tho Bible talks al ways of the cedars—then the Jew said, “Ged has pl'mteiTthoso, and God alone.” And when he thought, not merely of their grandeur and their beauty, but of their uso ; of their fragrant and incorruptible timber, fit to build tho palaces of kings, and the temples of gods; he said —and what could he say better ?—-“These arc trees of God,” wonderful and glorious words of a wonderful and glorious Creator. If ho had not, ho would have had less reason in him, and loss knowl edge of God, than the Hindoos of old, wlio/when they saw the other variety of tho cedar growing, in like grandeur, on the slopes of tho Himalaya, called them the Deodara—which means, in the old Sanskn tongue, neither moro nor less than “the timber of God,” the “lance of God”—and what better could they haVo said ?—[C. Kingsley. THE VALUE OF SUNFLOWEES IN SEV ERAL WAYS. A few stalks of this grand, rank grow ing plant, in tho garden or near tho house, are highly beneficial in many re spects ; they arc great promoters of good health by freely absorbing malari ous gases in the air and purifying it. The seed is splendid food for poultry in tho winter and spring. And, best of all, the seed of sunflowers is tho most heal thy food that can be given to horses in winter and spring; half a pint a day keeps them in health and spirlits, with sleek coats, and moro animated, than any other food. It prevents “heaves” and other diseases. All places, with tho least tendency to malarial dificulties, should have numbers of sunflowers growing about tho residences. Theft they aro great favorites with little birds—yellow birds, blue birds, wrens, and many others —which will leave fruit and berries to perch up and pick sunflower seed. It may not bo generally known that tho seed of the sunflower is tho most infalli ble remedy yet discovered for the speedy cure of founder in horses. The direc tion which we glean from a brief article upon the subject in tho Essex Banner, says : “Immediately on discovering that’your horse is loundered, mix about a pint of tho whole seed in his food, and it will perfect a cure.” A little neglect may breed a great mis chief; for want of a nail tho shoo was lost; for want of a shoo tho horse was lost ; aud for want of a shoo tho rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for w r ant of a little care about a horseshoe nail. A Map of the Moon.— Dr. Schmidt of tho Athens (Greece) Observatory, has recently completed a map of the moon, upon which he has been assiduously laboring for tho last thirty-four’ years. It contains thirty-four craters aud hills, besides three hundred and fifty rills and other objects. Shook’s boy heard him say the other day that there was money in hens, and he proceeded to investigate the old man’s poultry yard. Ho had opened a dozen fine specimens without fiuding any, when (he old man descended on him, and the boy now wonders if there’s balm m Gilead. A OR I Cl? LTUHAL. GAJtNEKED FOR THE GAZETTE. By D. A, M. SALICYLIC) AOID AltD ITS USES. In making wine, fermentation may bo regulated, and.when the proper slage has been reached may be stopped, while many of the after changes and so called “diseases” of wine may be prevented by the use of this substance in such small quantity as to prove neither disagreea ble nor injurious Special experiment seoms to be needed with each kind of wine in order to fix tho exact quantity proper to be used, but it lias been sug gested that in such experiments about to 3| grains of the acid (first dissolved in alcohol or strong spirit) to each gal lon of wine may be tried with a view to make tho latter freo from further change. Vinegar may be similarly treated* with rather larger amounts of salicylic! acid, to preservo it freo from “mother” or mould. Drinking water may be kept Sweet and good, even in wooden vessels* by a mere trace of tho acid. In pla >cs Ike Nofir Orleans, ifcllore rain water is habitually caught and kept in large wooden cisterns for months, this point becomes decidedly important. Beverages for the sick, such as barley water, lemonade and beef tea or soup, j which often have to stand ready for uso I for hours of days in hot weather, may ! be prevented from spoiling by the like t means ; the same remark applies to veg i etftblo nmdicincs, infusions or barks* herbs, teas, &c. An excellent tootli wash or tootli powder may be made from the acid suitably diluted In liquid or solid form. It has been found that fresh milk, to which but 20 or 25 grains of salicylic acid per gallon had been added, when exposed to the air at 65° F., curdled 36 hours lator than milk under the sarao circumstances to which no addition had been made. This delay of tho “turning" or curdling of milk may not only prove directly useful in preserving it for drink ing at tho table, but may increase the yield of buttef by affording time for a a larger amount of cream to rise before skimming. The addition to butter itself of 10 or 12 grains of the acid for each pound makes it keep much longer fresh even in hot summer weather. Eggs have in liko manner been suc cessfully’prepared for keeping by laying them in water in which the acid in powd er had been suspended. Fresh meat may bo placed in a vessel and covered with water, in which as much of the preservation as possible liftH been dissolved in the cold (only about 1 part in 300) or may bo rubbed with the solid in powder and thc’latter washed off when tho moat is to bo cooked; moat fee? treated has been proved to keep at least a week in hot weather ; tho tasto is not injured, but tho natural red color is in a measure lost, the meat becoming pale or gray in appearance Preserved fruits, jellies, &c., may bo protected from souring and moulding by a little Salicylic acid in each jai*. Starch paste for laundry uso may bo similarly kept without sourness or un pleasant smell j ink may bo preserved clear and freo from mould, and mucilage prevented from spoiling by a very few grains of this useful substanco stirred iuto tho bottle. Other applications will from time to time suggest thomsclves, and numerous experiments may advantageously be made to settle the amount of preserva tive to use in each special case aft’d the best methods of applying it. Ono point should be remembered, that the compounds of salicylic acid with alkalies do not possess tho anti fermenta tive power of the acid itself, and there fore in using the latter contact with alka line substances, soap for instance, should be avoided. University of Virginia, J. W. Mallet, HOG CHOLERA RECIPE 3 I use a preventive ratbor than a cilrc. My remedy for several years past has been coal tar and any kind of soft grease, mixed in equal quantities, and rubbed on the hogs, say once a month, or as of ten as they get lousy, will keep them in good condition outwardly ; inwardly 1 uso copperas, turpentine, salt and ashes, soap suds, &c., thcro is nothing bettor taken inwardly than coal tar. I have not had a case of cholera among my 1 hogs since I have adopted tho uso of coal tar with them —Exchange. Soar Cure for Hog Cholera. —A year ago I bought six hogs from a drove of twenty that were dying with cholera, and found, on driving thorn home, that they were affected ; thoy vomited often. I put them with twenty-live of my own raising, and boiled somo corn in weak lye from ashes, used soft soap in their slop from tho kitchen, and I never lost one, whilo tho last of tho drove 1 loft died. I have ono now which took it a month ago, so bad it would cat nothing; it Boomed blind. I cured it by using one dose of common soap, lftado thin with water, pouring it down with a cup, by holding the hog on its back. [Exchange Compost. —l. For corn 20 bushels each cotton seed, stable manure and woods earth and 10 bushels of ashes. For cotton, 15 bushels each cotton seed, stable manure and woods earth, and 6 bushels ashes. 'Tho above quantifies, fair manuring for one acre in tho hill or drill. In Circassia and Georgia, Persia aft'd India, one of the mother’s earliest cares is to promote the growth of her children s eye-lashes by tipping and removing tho fine gossamer-like points with a pair of scissors when they are asleep. By re peating this every month or six weeks they become in time long, close, finely curved, aftd of a silky gloss. The prac tice never fails to produce the desired effect, Mid it is particularly useful when, owing to inflammation of tho eyes, the lashos have been thinned and stunted