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PROFESSIONAL CARDS, li. 11. JOIVES, ATTOKNEY AT LAW, SiBEHTOK, Gii. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly E. J. C.P4RTKELL, AT T O 11 N E Y A T J.j AW, AT I, A XT.), OA, PRACTICES IN - THE EXITED STATES (Tri ant and District Co.irts at Atlanta, and Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. SHANNON & WORLEY, ATT OItN E Y S A T LAW, EEIIEUTOIV, ftA. W r Ilifi PRACTICE IN' I'll E CO CRTS OF the Northern* Circuit and Franklin county £*2s"'Special attention given to collections. J. S. S3.4RSETT, ATTc> It NE Y A T X> AW, a Limit 1 ihv, ht;l .50SIS , ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBE Hi ON, GA. W ILL PRACTICE IX stiPETaOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the Collection of claims. nevlldy tILIIERTGiV BI.'SIX ICSN < AItDS. TrjTlioWMA>r& CO., EEAL ESTATE AGENTS ELBERTOI GA. WILL attend to the business of effecting sales arid purchases of REAL ESTATE as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. Applications should be made to T. J. BOWMAN. Scpls-tf Um CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. j. F. AULD UFACT’fi ES,SI E nTO HT, Cl3o It fi .1.4.'‘ VviTII GOOD WORKMEN! LOWKST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, !;r Hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggifes, warranted-, - 3X5 to $l6O R "PAIRING AND BLACKSMITHIXO. lidc done in this line in t very best style. The Best Karnoss TERMS CASH. 1 •• ' °... 1 v j. m> BA n FIELD, - A fl/ 1 ju | 1 TH E It EA Tj LIV IT Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold's Store, ELBGRt’ON, GEORGIA. NTCall and See Him. TH E EI,BE lIT O N IRUG STOKE H. 0, EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on hand a fall line of urc Drugs and Patent Medicines MukO e.' srwciultv of STATIONERY * SB PERFUMERY Anew nssoitment ot 'BITING PATER & ENVELOPES . lain and fancy- just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. O IGA Its AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. F. A. F. SOBLETT, mmmKL mason, ELBERTON, GA. Will cg"tract for Work in STONE and BRICK anywhere in Elbert and Hart counties. [jelG-tim W. 0. PRESLEY, HAM EM SIAKII. ELBRRTON, GA. Will make first class linrncss to order; war ranted, and at prices to suit tlie timfs. Will be glad to show specimens of his work to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is j wished. f (Repairing Done Promptly. F. W. JACOBS, iOUSE i SIGN PASTER Glazier and Grainer, EL-BARTON, GA. i Sclicitcd. SniisfttcUod Guaranteed BASE’S PA' OE DINING DOOMS, ATS INTA, GEORGIA. The .CL oipioa Dining Saloon of the South EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO CALL THE GAZETTE. dSTew Series. From the Wheeling Intelligencer.] ANTI-SL ANY SOCIETY. The “Reform Club” is, the title of a new organization in the West End, or ganized by young ladies, for the purpose of discouraging the use of slang phrases in conversation. At a recent meeting; while a member was addressing the so ciety, she inadvertently made use of the expression “awful nice.” and was called to order by a sister member for trans gressing the rules. “In what way have I transgressed?’’, asked the speaker, blushing deeply. “You said it would be ‘awful’ nice to admit young gentlemen to our delibera tions,” replied the other. “Well, wouldn’t it be?” returned the speaker, “yon know you said yourself, no longer ago than yesterday, that—” “Yes, I know; but you said ‘awful nice.’ That’s slang.” “Well,” said the speaker, tartly, “if you are going to be ao awful nice about it, perhaps it is ; but I wouldn’t say any thing if I were you. Didn’t you tell Sallie Spriggms, this morning, to pull down her basque f ” “No, I didn’t,” retorted the other, her face growing crimson ; “and Sallie Sprig gins will say I didn’t. She won’t go back on me.” “This is a nice racket you are giving us,” cried the President, after rapping both speakers to order. Let us ask, what is the object of*this society?” “To discourage slang,” cried a dozen voices. “Iverect,” said the President, “go on with the funeral.” A member rose to explain that she had been fined at the last meeting for saying, “aivfnl nice” herself, but she hadn’t the “stamps” to pay it now—would settle, however, ‘in the sweet by and by.’ ” “That’ll be all right,” said the Presi dent; “pay when you have the ducats.” Another member asked if a young lady could say “old splendid” without subjecting herself to. a line. “You bet she can’t,” said the Presi dent ; who was the original founder of the society, and therefore appealed to when any nice question was to be de cided. r “Then,” said the speaker, “I move that Miranda Pew come down with the dust, for I heard her say that her beau was ‘just old splendid.’ ” Miranda’s face was in a blaze as-che cried : “Well, if my beau was such an old hairpin as your fellow is I wouldn’t say it.” “Shoot the chinning,” Cried the Presi dent, “will you never tumble?'’ But the confusion was too great to be allayed. Miranda's blood was up; some -sided with her and others against her, and avoid the Babel that followed could be heard such excl motions as “dry up,” “nice blackberry you are,” “wipe off your chin,” “hire a hall,” etc., when a motion to adjourn was carried “by a large ma jority.” HOY/ IS THIS TOE HIGH 7 ; People just now can talk of but little besides the heat. The thermometers ‘divide public interest with the stock lists. Some very learned meteorologic al conversations result. This morning a Chronicle reporter heard this one be tween a depressed young man rind a rough-looking old fellow: ‘Tm told,” said the youth, “that it’s harder to bear heat in high latitudes than low ones, because the atmosphere is light and dry. Water boils at a much lower temperature here than m Frisco. How high's Virginia ?” “Dur.no ; yer’s a map.” The map is scanned, ah cl the gentle man ascertains that B street is just 6205 feet above the sea level. “Bo yon see that wafer boils here at! twelve degrees lest than tit the Bay.! Every 550 feet you rise counts one de gree.” “Yes,” began the rough looking man, “I’ve often .noticed that 'ere circum stance. When I was in Chili in 'SS me an' two more chaps went prospectin' in the Ancles. Well. sir. p’raps yon - won’t believe it, but one night when we’d dim up two-thirds N of Mount Aconcaqua, which are the highest pile o’ dirt in the world, the air got so darned light that there wasn’t pressure enough to keep us on our feet hardly, and curse me if our hair did’fc rise straight up, and no amount 6f combin’ and weltin’ could get it j down. All we bad with us in way of j grub was some jerked beef, which’’was j Sd hard and dry that you might as well j Chaw- into a pine knot as to go fo: it j without boiling. I.was cook that night. \ When I put the pot on the fire it wasn't Ia minute before it began to boil and j bubble, an’ I chucked in’a’ few pounds of ! beef. I let her boil for about half an hour, and then I poured the water off. • As true as I am standrn’ here that thar j meat was just as hard as when it went i into the pot, and it wasn’t wanner than 1 fresh rhifk. You see the air was so thin : there wasn’t no pressure onto the water, and though it ’ml boil, there wasn’t no heat to it- I’ve often washed my face in boilin’ water on the Andes. I cop pered the game after a bit though. Nest trip I went on I took a force pump ; along, an’ there one of us utl sit an ; pump the air into the pot on to the wa ! ter’ an’ we could get all the pressure we 1 wanted, do you see?” [Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. About the only thing a man can borrow'in these enspiolms days with out giving security m ELBERTOI GEORGIA* AJTGUST**, 18*76. WANTED A EASM, A Detroit real estate agent was waited on yesterday by a tail man with a weed on Lis hat, who said he had the cash to pay for a farm, provided he could get one to suit. The agent smiled him to a seat, and brought out his register cf de scriptions. He had several Firms reg istered on his books, and ho had no dqhbfc that he could suit the would be piirehnser. The stranger remarked What I want is a farm of about three hundred acres. I’ve got it, replied the dealer. I'd like about six big bibs oil it. Here she is, with exactly six hills on And I'd like- aiSikd'iieiir the center.; Here you .fire. Hero's a farm with a hikeVxaFth-i’r. the center.' And I want a big natural cavern .in one of the hills. Here you are. There’s a cavern on this farm that can't be beat in this sec tion. The stranger drew a long breath and went on. I want a. farm of three hundred acres, but one hundred acres must be marsh land: Hero she is, was the* reply. Just three htiridred acres on the farm, and just one hundred acres marsh land. 1 must have a waterfall iwent-siz feet high on the farm, continued the stran ger. Hero you are. This farm has got a natural waterfall of twenty-live feet, eleven inches. I don’t suppose an inch more or an inch less amounts to much. Well, no, but I wan t a w indmill on the hills. That was put up last year, was the reply. Jt was some tune before the stranger thought of anything else, but finally said : There must be a Baptist church right Across the road from the house. One built there a year ago last sum mer, sir. It must be a brick church. So it is. Has it an organ, It has. Then I can’t buy the farm of you. said tiie stranger, raising to go. If there is anything I hate, it is a church organ and you see for. yourself that I .wan’d be in a slate of confhrual mForyT The farm suits'me first rate but 1 can't go that organ. • Just what estimate those two men placed upon e; eh other's veracity as they separated may never be made known. AN OLD TRADITION OP MAHOMET. There is an old tradition of Mahomet that he was once standing beneath a palm tree and teaching his followers, saying : “Ile.who clothes the naked shall be clothed by God with tho green robes of Paradise-' If a good man gives with his right hand and conceals it from his left he overcomes all things.” "While he said these words, a man drew near and cried: “Oh, Pro;Lot, my mother, Bad, is dead; what is. the best alms lean give away for her sonl ? ’ Malic met bethought him of the pant ing heats of the desert, and said, “Dig a Well for her, and give water to the thirsty.” The man dug n well, and said. “This is for my mother ” Ido not know whether Mr. John met with this old story, but he has just performed a kind gentle action which has reminded me of it. A little way from Croydon, near London, there has been a dirty, marshy little pond, which is now an ex quisitely clear spring of running water. Mr. Buskin has expended five hundred pounds in making this, spring, which is not far from the home of 3ns childhood, and surrounding it with trees and flow ers, named it, after lii3 mother, Marga ret's Weil. On the neat tablet over it, are inscribed the following words: “In obedience to the Giver of Fife, of brooks and fruits that feed it, of the peace that ends it, may this well be kept sacred for the soj vice of men, flocks and flowers, and by kindness bo called Margaret’s Well.” —Con way's let ter. AN .ACT TO PREVENT UNLAWFUL TRAF- : TIC IN FARM; FRODUOTS, IN Tins STATE, AND TO PRESCRIBE -A PENALTY j FOR THE SAME. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General j Assembly of the State of Georgia, That whenever ady person shall buy any corn,'or cotton 'in' the seed, from per sons residing on the land of another, as tenant or laborer or such other person, or from the age nt of such tenant or laborer, when said tenant or laborer had no right to sell, after notice of such disability fo sell by such tenant or laborer ha? beeu giving.in writing by the landlord, or em ployer.’to such buyer, and the notice is in fact the truth, then the person so buy ing, after such notice, shall begniliy of a misdemeanor, and on indiemenfc, or a presentment and conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section -lb 10 6f the Code of 1873. Sec. 2. Repeals co flic ting laws. Ho waltzed out of a Liberty street front door yesterday, followed by a wasW*>ard and two bars of Babbitt’s soap ; and as he straighened himself and walked firmly street, ho re marked: “A man must draw the line ! someuh re, or he can’t be boss of t’n-3 house ; and I’ll be hanged if I’ll pump mwe than one barrel of water for no washing, and there ain't no woman can make me do it, unless she locks mo in.” MRQ-.YOUE.-OWN BUSINESS. . f C ( J a Whemyoa* first begin life make two resolutions, and stick to j hem; First, to mincTypur own busincwF; second, ,to let ! the busfpass-of' ofc.:er people alone, j The -fi.]€9ple who are always meddling j with .tljtfs&ffairs of others are .a, nuisance, and cfpt to be. legally - abated like any other liuieafide. r:\tber live near a' soap fat b oiling totaldish men tor petroleum re ■ finery fchjm near one of thorn-. If yoat belong to that class of nuis ances you, for your life is an un easy and Unsatisfactory one. You can ueverjKhwppy, it is utr. Gy im- you can ever find out every t!p%-that is going on in your vi cinity.* ' What fs,it to' you if your neighbor does brriig. home a brown paper package and a covered_ basket ! You will live just as jkmg' if- you never know what they coafaincd. It is none of your business Sappl&o Tlrs. B. has anew bonnet, how do#; that concern you ? Your life, liberty and sacred honor arc in no way injured®" djm fact. Suppose she did pay sl|jpfor it. The money did not come cjfit of your pock t,, and comic,’ is. none of your business. Whai||i' the minister does call on Ann Eliza Sl&ih’twic'e'a week? Why ex y o u|.biy;u’ over it? What if he is courting-her ! Let him court away. Suppose she has an awful temper and powderwlier face, as you say she does, lic-r temper will not trouble you. Don’Sbn forever poking your nose into ever‘body's business. If one young lady “cd;s cut ’ another young lady it is nothing huy-u. ! I : : : . ; I to you ir-rany of your-folks. Wind; If the;, do have three pairs of stocking;. apfSce over at Squire Hill's. Havcn'fphey-r; right to ? As long: as you dorAdo-the washing it heo 1 not tri atTdl. If Hill’s shirts are three inf-iSes longer than common, don't excite F<%rseli: about it. If you hadn’t been wishing the clothesline you never would lievo known anything about if, and “vvpfte ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to kewriae.” * i—- —; * <3S> . r — _ A SPECIMEN - FAMILY. .-Mk£i. Datix|ti celebrated —you hot your mo did*-! As Y-Fj c vkd rr of how the celebrated, take, for instance, the Mi merlin family. Early in the morning the old gent fell from a eccond siory window while putting out a flag, broke three flower-pots and a rib, und lemonade, doctors, brandy, sky rockets andvtho Declaration of Independence were all tangled up around his house all day. Then his wife fell down the back stairs while hurrying to cant on Johnny not to shoot crackers in the oven. She didn’t break any bones, but she couldn’t, hollar for liberty half as much as she wanted to. The boy John held one fire cracker in his mouth while he shot off another on a.hitching post. Owing to some misunderstanding, the two wen toff together, and then John went off. He didn’t say much with his mouth during the rest of the day. A younger son fooled around with some loose powder in the morning, went out to cool hi: blisters in the afternoon, and was brought homo to supper with a hole in his leg. Mr. HaiAerlin’s grownup daughter didn't meet with any accident-of any account. Someone hit her in the year with a torpedo, and a strange boy fired a shot gun so close to her other ear that when any one now addresses her, she puts her hand up and reum- ks : “Hey? What ju say? Speak a little louder, if you pleaso.” It won’t boa month! efove the Hamer lin family will be as good as new, and, as he yesterday remarked : “Why, its's worth SIO,OOO to leave a patriotic record to posterity.” : - ■- * - - AN ABSENT-MIN DIN) BENEDICT. . An exchange prints the fodowing : A prominent business man, whose name we will call Yates for short, had lived an c’d bachelor, bn) jin ally yield to the charms of a young lady about twenty years of age, and submitted his neck to the mat rimonial halter. In tho days of his bachelorhood, the hero of our sketch li: and occupied f. room over a business house, but after his marriage he stopped at the hotel. When be had been married about two weeks, one evening his bride awaited his coming until a late hour in the night. Finally, filled with horrible misgivings, and the dread of foul play, she sent friends in search of the missing one. All cearck proved unavailing, and the friends, nearly distracted with doubts and and dread, were about to give up, when someone suggested, just for the assur ance of the- thing, that his bachelor quarters be searched After raising quite a racket about the door a noise was heard inside, and finally the missing man made liis appearance. The fact was the man had gone to his old quar ters in a state of absentmindedness, and had retired and gone to sleep, without discovering his mistake. The latest story of a 1 rave though childlike [[form, faithful at. tho post of i duty, comes from Olyo. Ho was tl e son' of a village editor, and having 1 discovered a broken rail just outside of the town, sat /or five hours on a I fence near by waiting for the train, 1 so that he might be fii*t to, carry the particulars of tho accident to his fa -ther. Such devotion to tho paternal in terests is very aiiegfing. Vol. V.-aNTo. 14. MISSISSIPPI ARITHMETIC. List winter a negro in my employ. sayskTcorrespondedt in Mississippi, con .eluded to go to Mississippi and went One day this winter I saw the .me no gt _> approaching my house, the follow ing colloquy look place: ‘•Well-’'""Hilliard?” “Howdy, boss ?” “So' you have got back have you ?” “Yes, sir.” “How do you like Mississippi ?” and Well, boss. nint the land rich ?” Why its rich enough to sprout niggers.” • “Then what’s the matter? Didn't you get enough to ea't?” “0 yes, boss, 1 toll you I didn’t like the Mississippi arithmetic, for the very day I got to Aberdeen, a white man hired me for half Um. cotton and one third the corn 1 could make. I was to pay him for what ho furnished me. Mo and Abner and John, my two boys, got plenty to eat; and -thought wo was doing bully—for we made 15 bales of cotton and 500 bushels of corn, and other truck according. When we got the,crop ail githeret, Mr. Williams, the man- we worked with, call mo up and said: Well Hilliard, 1 have let you have 200 pounds of moat. I ivill charge you 23 cents a pound for that. I let you have so much meal. I charge you two dollars a bush* 1 for that. I let } >u have so many plugs of tobacco. I will charge you forty cents a plug for that, and so on. “And bless the Lord, that white man sot down w.d pulled out his bock and pencil and commenced making figgers. 1 heard him say : “Ought's or ought and nin As or nine, and all the .corn and cotton's mine: “That's tho reason boss,-I d'd-.i't l : k - Mississippi aritbem'otio,- and that’s elm reason I came back to old Alabam.” j ♦ sJO * A REBUKE. The following is related of the late Walter T. Colquitt, one of Georgia's greatest.men in* his day! He was a strong Methodist, fervent in prayer and zealous in the class meeting, but ho would frolic with tho children. On one occasion he was found by his : prr siding elder'playing marbles with his boys. •Ho was a proficient:-in the game, Mid the boys iili delighted to' get him .. is 1k..:, .id. p; esiding- rider was one of the straight faced, long-faced kind,who “crucified the fio-h,” in every possible way, and who believed that p'ayihg marbles was a great sin. Tho elder, whose name we believed was Hodges, rebuked Mr. Colquitt for his course, but tho great lawyer kept on with 'his game. Finally Mr. Hodges said, “Brother Colquitt, I fear that I shall have tc bear witness against you at tho great court of high Heaven,” and turned to go off, when Colquitt said, ‘ hold, on a moment, parson, just step into ray law office, and 1 will take down youi- interrogatories in the case, for fear you might r.ct be at the court. ’ ♦ DYSPEPSIA. A correspondent of a Boston paper offers a remedy for a very distressing complaint as sot forth below. It is giv en for what it is worth : Will you please insert for the benefit of those who suffer from dyspepsia or indigestion that four tabls spoonsful of limo water, mixed with a glass of cow’s milk, will cure tho worst form of the above distressing disease in a few days. I know by experience, be ing a sufferer for threo years. The first dose acted like magic, and I have felt like a new-born man ever since. Vance on Billy Smith. “They tell me,” said Vance, “that Smith charged last night that I ran away from Raleigh on a barbacked mule. Wei), I confess I did leave, but I left on a horse and retired in good order. Smith was in Johnston and had lost his horn, and couldn’t got liis dogs up, and what was I to do but run for it ? There was no one to signal the one ny sap pi oich." [Roars of laughter.]- “Shall I hit him again, or lot him alone?” “Give it to him,” yelled the crowd. “No, I can’t do it, gentleman. Bill Smith was my light hand man during the was. He was the fiercest officer after conscripts and deserters I had, and helped me weed out the red strings. No, I can’t do it. T feel like the Irishman when he killed his pet pig and held it up by the tail while his son held the axe to knock it in the head, “Kill ’im ai.-.y, b’jarlts, ho feels nigh to me.” . ' * [Raleigh News “Have you children ? ’ demanded a house renter. “Yes,” replied the other, solemnly, “six—all in tho cemetery.” “Better there than here,” said the land lord, consolingly, and proceeded to ex ecute the desired lease. In duo time the children returned from the cemetery, whither th -y had been sent to have a nice play, but it was tco late to annul t; o contract. An exchange wants ladies to take off their hats in church, but as long as half the ladies go to church, for- the purpose of displaying their hats, it is hardly pos sible that the suggestion will be adopted —unless a idass case is placed alongside of the pnlpfe for their accommodation, and the name of the owner is prominent ly affixed to each hat. < All efforts to make hay by gaslight have failed ; hut it was discovered that wild cats can be sown under its cheerful rays. AGItICULTUIUL. GARNERED IOR THE GAZETTE. By D. A. M. Cross Breeding of Grain.— lff this ago., of enterprise and thought, when science s c is ring so"much light upon the opera tions of men, and when the study of tho best and mest profitable modoi of per forming the work of the world is becom ing more essentially necessary to tho production of successful results, tho farmer is especially called upon to be stow industrious thought as well as laborious labor upon the work which ho is daily called upon to perform. It is not enough that he should know that seeds cast upon tiie earth will germinate, grow, ripen, and produce fruit, but that his hand, which?guides, 'aids, and stimu lates this natural process, should itself be guided by the knowledge of the na tnre of tho seed itself, how it gei minutes, how it grows, how it ripens, and how and why it produces fruit. This knowl edge will enable him to givo a right di rection to the effort and labor which ho bestows upon it, in order to obtain tho most profitable results. The thought and conviction that frequent plowing j and stirring of tho soil is important to I its fertility, because the earth itself is a set of mouths and lungs which feed upon tho natural elements of the air, and imbibe its moisture and light and heat, induces him to the performance of the‘work in tho promotion of his own interest. That seeds are characterized by good and bad is a'thought which should always lead to a careful selection, for as like will, throughout all nature, produce like, so will the hopes or fears of tho farmer bo realized by tho character of the seeds he sows or the tree he plants. A small and shriveled grain of wheat, ■ •when sown, produce a weak and unheal thy stock, and a corresponding failuro of product, while a plump, bright grain will exhibit its healthy and vigorous growth and abundant product. It is certainly true that many of the maxims of farmers, upon which they thought- U-M-ly base their action, have no founda tion m sound reasoning. That to change seed from one kind of soil to another will produce a profitable result is a max im of almost universal acceptation, nor does the'farmer stop to reason with him self as to its soundness or fallacy. Hero is the point at which farmers fail to bring into requisition their own pow ' ers of reflection., or even to use the evi dence of their own practical experience. They do not stop to inquire as t'o tho effect of removing seed from a soil and climate .to which it has been naturalized and, adapted, to that to which it is not natural and to which it has not been ac customed ; and they fail to remember that when they go abroad for seed, and pay a higher price for it, it is to obtain a quality better than their own, and com mensurate with- the price they pay for it, and that herein lies its superiority; that !‘-it 'jummntra to nolLing un/iu ILewa. * *— perfect mode of selection. Another maxim which farmers gener ally accept as an axiom is, that by sow ing wheats of different qualities togeth- that they will so hybridize as to pro duce a mixed breed ; while even a little observation would teach them the error of this conclusion, and that each grain produces its own like, and that really no hybridization takes place at all, and that tiro mixture of seed produces the unmit igated evil of mixing wheat which per haps ripen at different periods, or per haps require different treatment when they come to be reduced to Hour. A little study of the nature of plants would scorn to bo necessaiy to a knowl edge of the proper treatment during their growth. ' Of the flowers of plants some are male and some female. In some the staminate and pistillate flowers occupy different parts of the same plants, as in Indian corn. In the larger num ber of plants the male and female or gans mature at the same time in tlio same flower ; and of these some are sub ject to self-fertilization, and others to cross fertilization. Such peas, beans, wheat, and barley have the male and female organs within themselves, and are not subject to cross-fertilization, and therefore it is that wheats do not mix their qualities at a 1 ! by being plant ed together; and as it is objectionable for there reasons, it should never be done. The leaf or flower which protrudes from the glume of wheat is neither an anther, a pistil, nor a stamen, nor neither emits nor receives the fertilizing pollen. Land Plaster for Potatoes —Aston ishing results are obtained from plaster, by dusting the vines with it as soon ■ s they are fairly through the soil ; again immediately after the last plowing and hoeing and at intervals through the whole growing season. The first application may bo light, the second heavier, and after that more bountiful, gay two hundred pounds to the aero. The action of plaster is not easily ex plained, but the results are undoubtedly benelicial, particularly in season of ex treme drought. It renders plants less palatable to insects, and appears to bo fatal to many of the fungi family. The vines retain a bright, lively green color, and the tubers continue swelling until growth is stopped by the frost; besides, potatoes thus grown are so sound and free from disease as to be easily kept for spring market, without loss by rot. Mr. Compton has seen a field, all of the same soil, all prepared alike, and all planted with the same variety, at the same time, on one-half of which, that had received no plaster, the yield was but sixty bush els per acre, and many rotton; while the other half, to which plaster had been ap plied in the manner above described, _ yielded three hundred and sixty bushels per acre, and not an unsound one among them. * Loss of Ammonia, by exposure. —ln a recent experiment lien manure allowed to dry slowly in the air lost in one month five-sixths of its ammonia, indi cating the value of applications of gypsum or other preventives of waste, and tbo difference which is likely to, exist between the fresh and commercial 4 1 article.