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VOLUME XLIV.]
THE
MILL EDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, MARCH IB, 1874.
NUMBER 34.
9 iv i o it & |U c o r b t x,
13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IX MILLEDGKVILLE, GA.,
BY
Houghton, Barnes &, Moore,
$2 iu Advance, or $3 at end of the year
S. N. BOUGKTON, Editor.
Ti!;; “FEDERAL UNION” Bad the “SOUTH
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IS-', the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume nnd
the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
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Liberal discount on tlicse rates will be allowed on advertise-
,-iita running three months, or longer.
Tributes oi Respect, Resolutions by So< i«*tiee, Obituaries ex-
^ , tliu2 six linen. Nominations for office and Communications
.• r individual benefit, charged as transient advertising.
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S .;. 3 of Laud, 4ic., by Administrators, Executors or Guar-
jin.,are required by law to be field outlie first Tuesday in the
uouti,. between the nours of 10 in the forenoon and Sin the af«
,.ru»ou, at the Cour. House in the county iu which the property
. situated. Notice of these sales must la* given iu a publl<
a/ette 30 days previous to the day oi sale.
N *'.« e* h*r tue *ale of personal property must be given ii
k-manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notice to the debtor* ard creditors ol an estate must be pub-
4ft days.
ethat application will bo made to the Court of Ordinary
,r lt*a\e to sell Laud, &:<*., must be published for one month.
i itations for letters ot Administration, Guardianship, ice.,
be
r dism
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for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly
• A.',.., mouths—.or establishing lost papers tor the full space oi
Huee months—f«»r compelling titles from Executors or Aduiin-
lttrator-. where bond has been given by the deceased, the full
s pa. *• Of three months.
publications will always be continued according to these,
• •irlrgal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
promptly and neatly executed
AT THIS OFFICE.
n. v/mv .. f-y -
as soon as they get to a house. .
talk, and sit [round a bit. The idea
,, tin- limit ami Hand. [l!y YVm. II Barnes.
tShat “Bast Bed ”
We do not claim that what is contain
ed in tin ; article in the slightest degree
pertains to Odd Fellowship or its inter
ests. although the Order or some of its
members are indirectly responsible for
tlie result—the sensation; for had it not
been for their sending an invitation to
speak at a certain locality on a freezing
winter night, we should not have been
there, and hence the aforesaid, or the
Lereaftersaid. could not have occurred.
But. barring all this. Odd Fellows are
human beings, individuals, after all, and
it is not always inappropriate to touch
upon matters outside; and if we remem
ber rightly, a joke is often enjoyed by the
membership, although not pertaining
directly to the Order, even if it is told at
head-quarters, and in the solemn (?) pre
cincts of the Grant Secretary’s office.
What has this to do with "that best
bed? Wait and see. You have been
visiting. It's nice to go and be made
much of. Extra china and silver, two
pieces of pie. and all that sort of thing.
Best room, etc. But it is ‘-a [heap" more
pleasant to us just to be considered as
ordinary mortals, take things as they are,
devoid of pains and extra ‘'fixing," and
not be overwhelmed with apologies about
"things not being better, or “as good as
you arc used to." Not being a Croesus;
or even a small millionaire, when at home,
we do not fare unreasonably sumptuous,
:md do not see why, when we go visiting,
the kitchen should* be in an excitement,
or the parlor in a flurry, because we hap
pen to ho in their particular locality.
An old adage says : -the least said, the
soonest mended," and apropos, we would
write: "the least trouble over a visitor,
and the least departure from every-day
life, the better for all concerned." We
go visiting to see people, not for what we
eat, although we scorn not the inner man.
And if we are set up as “company,” or a
kind of graven image® instead of feeling
at home and comfortable, we feel more
like a Choctaw Indian for the first time
put in a full dross suit of broadcloth, who
don’t know what to do with his hands
and—the balance of himself.
But about “that bed?” Certainly, we
are coming to it. One does not go to bed
Have to
ideas above
have not the slightest connection with
the bed in prospective, but suggest
themselves incidentally as we think of
visiting, for it was on a visit that said
bed was inhabited. But not to procrasti
nate.
One of the coldest, snowiest nights of
January, 1874. The day—some of it
had been devoted to a long open air drive
to reach an appointment. Two haul's of
the evening had been given our audience,
and after 10 p. m. several miles, per cut
ter, were done, and we arrived at the lo
cality where the rest of the night was to be
“put in.” An hour or two around a genial
fire had thawed away all reminiscences of
the outside cold. The day’s and night’s
experience in the frosty air were forgot
ten. and once more warmth and free cir
culation were the rule. How comforta
ble it is, with rosy surroundings, to look
complacently back upon fatigue under
gone, and smile at privations experienc
ed. , -
Midnight and after came, visions of
“balmy slumber, “sweet repose (add
poetical quotations to suit) floated over a
brain a trifle drowsy, and we were shown
to the host room, in which stood the
-best bed.” Quickly disrobing, out went
the light, and into bed went we.
Snow shoes, _ ice-cream freezers, and
crystallized frost ! Hail we struck
“Greenland s icy mountains, or Kane s
Arctic Expedition’ A marble slab in
Maine, with the thermometer below zero,
or the station for Red Hook, up the Hud
son, as we did last winter, when the mer
cury went down into its boots? In a
strange hohse, every one gone to bed, in
the dark, and “on ice"—or next thing to
it—linen sheets (they always liave them
on “the best bed’). What was to . be
done? We claim a large amount of vital
force, unusual warmth of blood, and the
power to "heat up” on ordinary occasions.
Cover was gathered close, body tied into
a knot, head covered, a desperate attempt
made to sleep. Wouldn’t <lo. In spite,
of careful endeavor, little creases in the
bedclothes left channels for the warmth
to take egress, the vacuum to be supplied
by a wedge of cold atmosphere that felt
like a flexible icicle might.
Strenuous exertion had got up to a
lukewarm, sort of parboiled condition,
the 6ide upon which we rested, but the
other one, although “above in position,
was fearfully “below iu temperature. A
“turn-over” or a freeze was inevitable.
This required delicacy of engineering and
nice calculation, for only a certain’ out
line of the bed had been got into even
the semblance of comfort, and beyond
that line was icebergian. It was done
with a precision of aim that would have
won the prize at target-shooting.
Finding sleep impossible, determined
to pass the night experimenting. First,
as to how long it would take, if we had
our hand outside, to freeze the fingers
together; second, if head were efposed,
whether the icicles which formed on the
mustache would be longer than those on
the whiskers; third, if words were spoken
loud, how far they would get before they
turned to ice nnd fell on the floor; fourth,
m ruminating what eliance for being alive
m the morning there would be for a thin
SV 1 ?* bloo< A w as at all watery. The
E 1 * °i fth r C ex Periments we do not
dare to disdose, lest exaggeration and
Munehausemsm be ascribed to us ; but no
one ever hailed the dawning of day with
more delight than the writer, and we
looked anxiously at our clothes on a cliair
to see whether we would have to use a
hatchet or other formidable implement to
oreak them up” ere we could get them
on. But they had stood it well—espe-
xally tliepants, that had elongated them
selves into a careless, easy position, as if
willing to walk at the first invitation.
Ihe vest had swelled with indignation at
its unusual treatment, we aeknowledge.it
was cool. The coat stretched its aims
appealing for relief. The boots alone
seemed unconcerned, as if they had a soul
above weather or thermometers. We got
into all of them at as early a date as ik>s-
sible, rushed to the stove, and rejoiced,
but hereafter deliver ns from linen sheets
and “that best bed.”
N. B. It may be proper to remark we
we were another night in the same quar
ters, but our acquired experience, touch
ingly related, seciued a change. We
were put between blankets; and a hickory
stick, three inches thick and three feet
that had been baked on the stove
for hours, was wrapped in flannel, and
slept with us, or we with it. We made
up for lost time, but never shall we for
get that first night s endeavor to get the
advantage of that l>#d, and how lamenta
bly we failed.
ton, in Rabun county, and to grant cor
porate powers to the same.
126. To change the times of holding
the Superior Courts of the county of Fay-
ette.
: She Zfcut. Department of Agriculture.
List of Acts,
Passed by the Legislature of Georgia
in the Session of 1874, and At-
PROVED BY THE GOVERNOR.
89. To levy a tax for the support of the
go\eminent for the year IS. and to pro
vide for the collection of ihe same, and
for other purposes therein mentioned.
90. To change the charter of the Mer
chants’ and Planters’ Bank at Washing
ton.
91. To amend an act entitled an act to
create a board of commissioners of roads
and revenue for the counties of Floyd.
Berrien, Schley, Effingham. Sumter and
Greene, approved December 13, 1871,
far as said act relates to the county of
Greene, and to vest the countv business
of the county of Greene in the Ordinary.
92. To prevent the sale of intoxicatin'
liquors near the State Lunatic Asylum.
93. To change the line between the
counties of Ware and Pierce.
94. To change the lines between the
counties of Cobb and Douglas, and for
other purposes.
95. To prevent the destruction of in-
seetiverous birds, and to make penal the
killing, trapping or other destruction of
game in the counties of Richmond, Dough
erty and Randolph during certain seasons
of the yeai% and to prohibit the destruc
tion of fish by poison.
96. To render certain property liable to
levy and sale now exempt by law.
97. To amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the town ©f Buford, in Gwin
nett county, and for other purposes, ap
proved August 24, 1872.
98. To amend section 1396 of the Code.
99. To amend an act entitled mi act to
incorporate the Atlanta Savings Bank of
Georgia, and the Gainesville Savings
Bank.
100. To authorize owners of lands up
on the different rivers and large creeks in
the comity of Gordon to keep up and
maintain gates where public highways or
private ways legally established pass
through their lands over said streams to
save expense of unnecessary fenc ing.
101. Toprohibit hunting upon the lands
of another in the counties of Quitman and
Camden, and for other purposes.
102. To prevent the sale of ardent spu
ds within one mile of Yamell’s Station,
in Whitfield county.
103. To repeal an act entitled an act to
organize a criminal court in the counties
of Marion, Talbot, Stewart, and Chatta
hoochee, so far as the same relates to Ma
rion county.
104. To amend so much of an act as re
lates to Taylor comity, approved August
25, 1872, entitled an act to proride for
organizing a public school system for cer
tain counties thex-ein named, and for other
purposes.
105. To confer additional powers upon
the commissioners of the town of Dora-
rille in the county of DeKalb, so far as to
give to said commissioners the power to
regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors
within the corporate limits of said town.
106. To regulate the manner of giving
in land taxation and the sale and exemp
tion thereof and for other purposes.
107. To amend the tax laws of this
State so far as the same relates to railroad
companies and to defend the liabilities of
such companies to taxation and to repeal
so much of the charters of such compa
nies respectively as may conflict with the
provisions of this act.
108. To change tlie line between tlie
counties of Marion and Schley.
109. To exempt the counties of Glynn
and Thomas from the provisions contain
ed in section 3936 of the revised Code of
Georgia.
110. To prescribe and enact separate
and distinct stock law- for certain territo
ry therein specified, the said territory be
ing partly in Milton and partly in For
syth county in the State.
111. To change the time of holding the
Superior Courts of Stewart connty.
112. To amend the act incorporating
the Savannah and Thunderbolt Railroad
Company and for other- purposes.
113. To change the line between the
counties of Lumpkin and Dawson, and
for other purposes.
114. For the relief of John F. Hollie
and the heirs at law of Jacob A. Clements
both of Marion county.
115. To fix, define and make uniform
the fees of the Ordinaries throughout the
State for filing, approving and recording
homesteads allowed by section 2041 of
the new Code of Georgia, and io amend
the same.
116. To amend the charter of the city
of Athens,
117. For the relief of tlie State Lunatic
Asylum.
118. To amend the act to incorporate
the Norcross and Dahlonega Railroad
Company. Approved Feb. 22, 1873.
119. To incorporate tlie Dublin Mills
of Augusta.
120. To create tlie office of State Geol
Agist and to provide for a Geological,
Minerological and Physical survey of the
State of Georgia, etc., etc.
121. To extend the time of holding ihe
Snperior Courts of Campbell county.
122. To change the line between the
counties of Laurens and Johnson.
123. To suppress and prohibit the sale
of intoxicating and spirituous liquors
within three miles and a half of the depot
of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad
in the town of Palmetto, andalsoto amend
an act to prohibit the sale of malt or
spirituous liquors near Bartow Iron Works
and Cherokee Iron,Works.
124. To amend an act entitled on act
to protect planters of this State from im
position in tkenale of fertilizers, approved
Sept. 17,1363, and to affix the fees for in
specting and analyzing fertilizers in the
county of Chatham.
125. To incorporate the town of Cky.
127. To require judgment creditors in
certain cases to have their judgments re
corded in the connty of the defendant’s
residence.
128. To amend the various acts of this
State relating to common schools, so fai
ns these relate to the poll tax collected by
law.
129. To authorize and provide for
the revising of the jury box in Fulton
county.
130. To change the line between the
counties of Irwin and Coffee.
131. To fix the pav of jurors for the
county of Fulton.
132. To amend an act to create a board
of Commissioners of Roads and Revenne
for the counties of Ware and McDuffie,
assented to Aug. 24,1872. so far as relates
to the county of Ware.
133. Establishing a new elmrter for the
city of Atlanta.
134. To incorporate the Oconee Savings
Bank of Athens.
135. To amend section 4814 of the new
Code.
136. To amend an act to proride for
tlie payment of insolvent costs to the
county officers of Sumter connty.
137. To exempt from taxation the An
gusta and Hamburg bridge.
138. To amend section 4637 of tlie
Code.
139. To increase the powers of the
Board of Commissioners of Jackson,
Butts county, and to prevent tlie use of
the jail of said county for confinement and
punishment of offenders, etc.
140. To authorize the County Judge of
Clarke county, in conjunction with
Board of freeholders to be chosen by the
Grand Jury, to issue county bonds to
build a Court House and Jail, and to
provide for the redemption of the same.
141. To change the name of the Talla
poosa Judicial Circuit.
142. To amend an act to regulate the
granting of license to retail liquor in New
ton. Stewart and Jasper counties, ap
proved Feb. 20, 1873. .
143. To define the powers of the Judge
of. the Superior Court of Chatham conn-
tv-, on the hearing of eases carried 1 >y cer
tiorari from the City Court of’Savan
nah.
144. To amend an act entitled an act
to organize a Criminal Court in the conn
ties of Marion, Talbot, Stewart and Chat
tahoocliee. approved February 27, 1873.
145. To change the time of holding the
spring term of Screven Superior Court.
146. To provide for a correct assess
ment of taxable property of this State.
147. To establish a Board of Commis
sioners of roads and revenue for Camp
bell county.
148. To reenact and declareof full force
an act to incorporate a volunteer com pa
ny in Milledgeville and to giant certain
privileges, approved December 31. 1838.
And also an act to grant exemptions of
cavalry corps, for the promotion of caval
ry squadrons, and confer certain privileges
upon the “Baldwin Blues.” Approved
Jan 22, 1852. Anil to extend the provi
sions of both of said acts to the “ Bald
win Blues,” Company B. Oglethorpe In
fantrv, Clinch Rifles, and Irish Volunteers
of Augusta; and Athens Guards.
1-50. Tu authorize-the Ordinary of Chat
tahoocliee county to discharge the duties
of Clerk Superior Court.
151. To amend an act to establish n
county court in the counties of Don "her
ty and Lee, approved August 24, 1872.
152. To amend an act entitled an act
to create a County Court in each connty
of the State except certain counties there
in mentioned, approved January 19. 1872.
so far as relates to Screven county.
153. To cause the enumeration of the
the school population to be taken every
four years, instead of annually.
154. To amend an act approved Decem
ber 20, 1859, entitled an act to amend an
act to provide for registry of voters, Ac.,
in the city of Augusta, approved Feb. 25.
1856.
155. To establish a board of commis
Sioners for public buildings, roads and
bridges in Marion countv.
Wedded Souls.—The married state is
entered too hastily by many—entered
before judgment has fairly ripened.
Contracts of this kind should be made
to last forever. There is a touching lit
tle story in tlie Apocrypha about a young
man and woman who were just married
and ready to start together on their
untried career, and this was their first
cry to heaven, when the wedding guests
had gone, and they were left alone in
their chamber, “Mercifully ordain that
we may glow aged together.’’ If all
young married folks would utter such
a prayer, and strive to render its fulfil
ment possible, would not life be sweeter
for many? Audubon, the great natura
list, married a good sweet woman, and
when she began to find him out, she
found he would wander off a thousand
miles in quest of a bird. She said.
Amen!” and went with him, camped in
the woods, lived in the log lints and
shanties on the frontier, anywhere to be
with him. She entered into his enthu
siasm, shared his labors, auil counted all
things but loss for the excellency of the
glory of being Audubon’s wife. When
the children begin to come to them, he
had to wander off alone; but he could
not go into a valley so deep or a wilder
ness so distant that the light would not
shine on him out of their windows. He
knew exactly where he would find her,
and how She would look; for a while, as
Buskin reminds us, the clouds are never
twice alike, the sunshine is always famil
iar, and it was sunshine he saw when he
looked homeward. She understood what
it meant, “grow aged together." Is
there not a lesson for wives in this?
The fish of the United States are nn-
surpased in flavor in the world. Sports
men who, with rod and line have whip,
ped European waters, say there is noth
ing like-them there from the Norway ford
to the Guadalquiver. Africa and Asia axe
both poor in this respect. Even in China
where fish is an abundant article of
food, and is found in great variety, the
flesh is coarse. The salmon of the Scoth
lochs afford the nearest approach to the
succulence and tender delicacy of our
mountain trout and tlie flaky tenderness
of our salmon trout Then there are the
white fish, the bass, the shad, and an in
nuhierable multitude of others. We have
but one rival, and that a prolific but small
one. It is the French sardine when fresh:
This delicious fish, in a few years, will
cease its rivalry, however, if reports are
true from the coast of France. At pres
ent the sardine fisheries employ twenty
thousand men, women, and children on
land to prepare the fish for market. Each
year shows an advance in the price and a
diminution in the catch and in no great
Limp overfishing will have produced its
usual consequence—a failure of the fish.
Another disciple for bishop Cum-
Mins.—On Sunday last Rev. M. T.
McCormick, pastor of the Washington
street Protestant Episcopal church, Pe
tersburg, Va., announced to his congre
gation his withdrawal from the rectorship
of the chnrch. It is statedthat the rever
end gentlemaaf has become a disciple of
the Cummins movement.
Among the acts of the late Legislature
few are of greater interest, or perhaps of
greater importance, to the people of the
Stale, than the one authorizing the Gov
ernor to establish a department of agrieir
lure. The act provides that it shall he
under the control of an officer to be call
ed the Commissioner of Agriculture, who
shall be appointed by tlie Governor and
Senate, four a term of four years. Hsi
office shall be at the capitol of the State,
and liis salary $2,000 a year, that of his
clerk, $1,200. The act appropriates an
additional sum of $10,01X1 to carry out
the purpose for which the department is
instituted.
The duties of the Commissioner are
varied and important. He is
1. To prepare a hand 1 >ook describing
the geological formation, soil and pro
ducts of every connty in the State. The
soils and minerals are to be analized, and
all information upon those subjects is to
be distributed in circular or pamphlet
form through tlie Ordinaries and tlie
Agricultural Associations of the various
counties.
2. To distribute any seeds furnished
by the general government, to import
seeds of value, and to exchange seeds
with other States and with foreign coun
tries.
3. To investigate the habits of destruc
tive insects, and to promptly issue cir
culars containing any useful informa
tion upon the subject .that may he ac
quired.
4. To keep an eye out for any thing that
will promote the interest ef our horticul
tnrists and fruit-growers.
5. To study the diseases of the various
crops of the State, and he is authorized
to employ a chemist and a geologist to
assist him in the diagnosis.
6. To analize every kind of fertilizer
sold in the State, of which a fair sample
must first lie submitted to the Commis
sioner. If any brand be found of no prac
tical value, its sale shall bo prohibited in
the State. To sell such worthless fer
tilizers, or to sell any kind of fertilizer,
without first submitting a sample to the
Commissioner is declared to he a misde
meanor.
To investigate the utility and pro
fits of sheep-raising in Georgia.
8. To give the subject of irrigation
careful attention.
9. Likewise the matter of fencing.
Here is scope enough for the clearest
brain in the Commonwealth. The salary
of the Commissioner is not large, but he
can find the balance of what he deserves in
the glorious opportunity he lias to serve
his fellow men, in tlie gratitude that will
not he withheld from a capable and ener
getic Commissoner who works up to the
limit of his practical and useful duties.
For the act provides that his investiga
tions and findings .shall not he hid under
a bushel but shall be speedily published
and distributed for the information and gui
dance of the planters and farmers of our
broad and prosperous State.—Atlanta
Constitution.
Fruit Garden-
This and the next month are best for
trimming fruit trees. 4Ve cannot repeat
too often that, short trunks and low head
are indispensable in our hot climate for
protection against the sun. Where tree?
are trimmed up high, there is a constant
tendency for sprouts to spring from the
stem nef.r the ground—and the bark it
almost certain to lie killed on the Sontb
Westside of the trunk. We prefer pyram
idal shape for almost every variety of fruit
tree. If young trees have been neglec
ted the past summer, bring them as near
to the pyramids as possible by shorten
ing the branches, leaving the lowest one
longest, the neat above some shorter and
so on to near the top, leaving one stronger
rigorous upright shoot some ten inches
higher, than any other, for a leader. Have
an eye also to thinning out the interior
branches so as to leave the head open.
Cnt off half the last year’s growth of
beaiing peach tuees, to diminish the -fruit
buds and increase the vigor of those left.
Indeed all kinds of fruit will bear this
thinning out of fruit bnds—the size of
the fruit will more than make up for the
diminished number. Search out and des
troy the borer.
Give each tree a top-dressing of ashes
scattered as far from the trunk as the
limbs extend—a peck to half a bushels to
each free. An addition of an equal qnan
tity of lime will be very beneficial to ap
ple trees.
Make a thick wash of lime two parts
and sulphur and soot one each, and ap
ply it freely to the stem and branches—
taking care that an extra supply is given
to the forks of the stem where the larger
limbs grow out—as it is at these points
that disease and insects most readily find
lodgment. We advise this wash for every
free in the orchard.—Southern Cultiva
tor.
BALDWIN COUNTY
Ad'n iv istmtor's So le.
ss
TILL In
soli! in thf city of Milledge-
on the first Tncfiiay in
\rniL nt-e, h-f.ire tlie Court Hour*
..jot between the legal hours of srjr, the
Fian’S'ion belonging to the estate of Jlo-
S West, Ce ea.ii J. ir. Bt.ldw a c: lint,. i.g
•i'.h all Use urioroyrmr'is 1 ' tberron. Sold plantat Ot
...ai-ts of about
£80 Acres Land vrith 2 Swelling
Souses thereon,
And is oro of the most valuable tracts of land in the
comity. It L M'.uatod about til miit-.i from lliliedge
villo on the Milledgeville ansi Macon road.
For particulars enquire of tlie undersigned, or ot
Reiij. \V. Harrow, Milledgeville
WALTER PAINE,
Administrator de bonis non with Hie iviii annexed
Moses S. West, dee'd.
Mai cli 4,1S7-L fr ld»-
Guardian’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
B Y virture of an order from tlie Court of Ordinary
for said county, will be sold at tlie nstial iilnce ol
holding Slierifl's Rules in said county, witbin llie legal
hours of sale on the first Tuesday ill A;irtl ne.lt, the
following property to wit t one boose and lot in Mil-
ledtteville, lionndeil by John .Tones’ Warehouse on one
side and Mrs. C. C. Mitchell ontbe oilier and frenting
on Hancock Street, it being the residence now occu
pied by Geo. Kiuglaud. Terms Cash,
E. E. RENPhOE, Guardian
Mareh 2, ISM, 111 tds.
[TobaccoI Tobacco! Tobacco!
BOXES TOBACCO K>U SALE CHEAP
CASH. Farmers and merchants will
do well to caii and examine my stock Letinre pmrhna
ing elsewhere. I also keep on haul e full stock ot
GEORGIA, Baldwin Comity.
Conti of Ordin.-rry fur said Comity, I
. February Term. Ui h S
l \ THERE AS. Eliza Chamber*, Guardian ot Wil
li liam A. Chambers, Nancy E. Chambers tail
Mary Lou Chambers has applied to me for tellers ot
dismission as snrh Guardian.
J bene are therefore to cite and admonish all parties
interested, to show cause on or by the first Monday
in April, IST-L why letters of Disillusion should not be
granted to petitioner Guardian as aforesaid.
Witness inv official signature, February 2d, 1X74.
2'tt.t ’ DANIEL B. SANFORD,* Oidinnry.
FAMILY
GROCERIES
AND
’8 SVTP&ZSI.
All of which will be sold cheap for cash.
1st Door North of Miller's Jewelry Store.
SA&zmBZi xvAirs
Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 28, IS71. 27 ly
CHASE BROS. & WOODWARD,
SEUDMBX,
ROCHESTER X. V.
Will send their elegant catalogue
FREE TO ANY ADDRESS.
They send seed by mail at the lowest price., fre k
and pure with tiie greatest promptness. Send forthnr
Cat aiogui. and test their pi ices and seed*. 251'ua
250,000 tfrick for Sale!
Flowers and Ferns.
Nothing beautifies a room more sensi- i
rj'HK undersigned has just finished burning a kiln
J. of 2.i(),000 Brick, of tlie best quality, winch Tie a’j
now offering for sale*-
Orders !crt at the store of T. A. Cara her, or with;
me nt the Brick Yard wiUmceu'o prompt intention. I
DANIEL CA LA KICK, j
Milledgeville, Ga.. Mar. 4th. 1871. :t2 tim !
BANKRUPT NOTICE.
bly than a few tastefully-arranged flowers i x u>c District Court of the i uited state.-. _or i
or plants. In summer flowers are a! wav;- " Southern District of Georgia : In Bankruptcy-!'
a . . . ii • i * Mil** mattfr oi Johti W hidby, Baukiupt. I hereby £i\
Better fromT C. Warthen.
Editors Herald & Georgian: Pardon
me for again intruding on your columns,
but the importunitities of the very many in
terested in the production of cot ion. and
the extensive system of preparation and
cultivation, I feel, are of sufficient mo
ment to induce the reiteration of my
former letter, published in November
last. I hope this will meet the eyes of
those with whom I am in arrears as a
private correspondent, and will be suffi
ciently lucid, in detail, to satisfy them on
each and every point.
The soil is sandy, with clay sub-soil.
Has lieen in cultivation for 60 or SO years,
I suppose. About half of the acre was
an old dung-hill, the other half very poor
before manuring. The guanoes I used
were Kettlewell’s A. A., or Pliospho
Peruvian, 1400 lb.
Raw pine straw and scrapings from the
woods, 60 ox cart loads.
Green cotton seed, 60 bushels.
Stable manure well rotted, 400 bush
els.
The pine straw, cotton seed and stable
manures, I hauled out in January, and
strewed broadcast over the land. With
a two horse plow I turned under this
manure eight inches deep, and in this
furrow I ran a sixteen inch scooter,
breaking the subsoil from 5 to 7 inches
deeper, the whole being broken from 13
to 15 inches. Immediately following
this scooter plow I put the guano in the
subsoil. In February I repeated the
breaking. Stiring ami breaking the sub
soil, omitting the manuring. In March
plowing and subsoiling, and as before in
an opposite direction, or cross breaking.
In April I harrowed the land twice, to
level the soil and destroy the young
vegetation. Then I checked off my land
3X3 with a small bull tongue plow.
On the 13th of May I planted by hand
6 or 8 seed to the hill, which was level
with the contiguous soil. The seed were
of the “Cluster Cotton” variety. I pur
chased thbrn of David Dickson, Esq.,
Oxford Ga., to whom I must confess I
am indebted for my success, to a certain
extent. The seed I am confident were
half the battle.
The cotton was thinned to one stdk
to the hill, in Jnne, with the exception of
the outside iflWs, in which I left two. It
was then plowed with a 24 inch Dickson
sweep, so shallow as possible, one furrow
at the row, and eight days after I plowed
it the second time with the same plow,
merely scraping the soil, one furrow to
the row, and at right angles with the first
plowing, and just deep enough to destroy
the young vegetation, for rear of skin
ning and bruising the cotton. I never
used a hoe in it, in fact, had no use for
any, as the cotton grew so fast the shade
thereof prevented all vegetation from
growing underneath.
I am asked if fertilizers should be
placed in the subsoil. My little ex
perience and observation convinces me
that they should be mixed with the soil
and subsoil as deep as the land is broken,
and the land broken 15 inches deep.
Whenever there is such a preparation
success will be the result, and it will be
insured against a failure from drought or
ex'cessive rains.
Again, I am asked, “what good does
the raw pine straw do?’’ In reply I will
state, its use is three fold: 1st. When
turned under and thoroughly dissemin
ated in the soil it makes tlj« soil ii^ht
nndlov-se, so that the roots of the ccuton
may the more readily penetrate their
allotted space. 2d In case of excessive
drought, being a good absorbent, retains
the moisture; and on the other hand,
when too wet genres to drain the land.
3rd. The straw possesses a small amount
of fertilizing qualities. As to whether or
notit will pay to “intensify” preparation
fertilization, cultivation, and expenditure,
I will simply state that my experience
and belief proclaim that it does. This,
however, is my opinion only. My judg
ment may err. The dawn of a new epoch
in farming is upon us. Let our moto be
“Multum in Farvo.”
T. C. Wabthen.
available, and in winter their place may
be agreeably supplied by sprigs of ever
green, dried grasses, or immortelles. A
few creeping plants, or ivy, can be obtain
ed at any time during cold weather, and
a few twigs of these brought into use;
whenever required. Those who keep house-
plants always have the materials at hand
for table decoration, and they should be
used liberally and constantly, varying the
arrangements as often and as widely as
possible. A charming house-ornament is
supplied by a fern case, which may be
constructed quite inexpensively, while
the plants required, being indigenous to
our wl oils and meadows, can be easily
collected; so that the pleasmre of having
a ease well filled with finely-grown plants
can be enjoyed by those who do not wish
to expend largely for this purpose.
Tlie Wild Land bill provides that
where lands have been sold for taxes the
Owners shall have the right of redeeming
the same within twelve months from the
in
In j
tii-iby, Baukiupt. I hereby eive I
notice that 1 have been appointed a—ignee in Bankrupt -;
< y of Juliii Whidby of Jones county in -aid Di-(riet, who i
lias lieen adjudged a Bankrupt on Id- own petition by I
Ibe D.-triel (’omt oi -aid Disiriet.
Murcb iid, 1871. TV.U. M< KIXLEY, Jr ,
dJ 3; As-ignee. I
ir
Adoiinfetrator’s Sale.
viittie of an order of the Court nt Ordinary
> of Baldwin County, will be sold before the
Court House door in tlie city of Milledgeville, ou tlie
Fiitt Tuesday iu April next, the following property,
o-wit:
One house and lol in the city of Milledgeville,
known as the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Washington, I
containing one acre, more or less, being pait of Iota
Nos- 1 anil 2, in square No. 37, lying ou Wayne street,
opposite Mrs. Little's residence. Terms cash.
CHARLES W. SNEAD, Adm'r ,
With the will annezed.
Feb 20th, 1871 31 tds
5 0,0 0 0
For $1,00
THE FIRST GREAT SALT LAKE
Gift Concert, authorized by and under
the immediate supervision of the city au
thorities of Corinne City, for the benefit
.and in aid of the
Public Free School,
The Only Vtr* Mull la flak Terrilary.
Tri.lrni •< Pablk Free Sekaali
l'apt. S. Howe,
J. S. Hrrrisli nt Alex. Tiptotf,
$396^500
■ TO BF.
Distributed to the Ticket Holders
GRAND GIFT~CONCERT,
TO BE HELD AT THE
•Opera Howe, City or Corinne,
March 31st, 1870.
Depository, Bank of Corinne.
500,000 TICKETS.
PRICE $1.00 EACH.
OR SIX FOR FITE DOLLARS.
#226,500 In Gifts!
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary for said County.
March Term, 1874.
W HEREAS, Man-field Hubbard, Guardian of bis
minor children, William, James Allen, Nancy
And Lucy Hubbard lias filed ill this Court a petition
asking for leave to sell one hundred acres ol pine land
belonging to Ms said wards. This is to give notice to
all concerned, to show cause at the April Term 1874,
of said Court, to-wit: ou tlie nth day of April next,
why said leave to sell as aforesaid should not be
ranted as prayed for.
AS FOLLOWS:
Grand Cash Gift
(lav of sale by parincr to the purchaser Given under my hand and official signature March 2d, .
tlie flinnimt, of rmrehsKfl monev mul cost.! . , DANIEL B. SANFORD,
The wheat crop of North Georgia is
•aid to be uniwtnlly promising.
the amount of purchase money and cost,
together with twenty per cent, per annum
thereon. This is an increase of ten per
cent. The Comptroller General is requi
red to credit the county where the wild
land is located of all tax collected by him
and in other counties, and not by the
Ordinary of the same, and the amount.
The subject of “wild land" is a vexed
and troublous one. There is a great
quantity of land of this sort upon
which no tax is paid, and it is said that
tLero are at least four or five owners
for it.
ARGENTIFEROUS SKULL.
In the large cabinet of specimens of
ores, minerals and miscellaneous curiosi
ties at Tinker & Shepard’s in this city, is
to be seen an ancient human skull, which
is a great curiosity. The skull was found
at the Ophir dump during the palmy days
iu the history of that mine, by Judge A.
W. Baldwin, killed some years since by a
terrible railroad accident in California
The Judge picked it up as it rolled down
toward his feet from a car load of ore
dumped by a miner. It is labelled as liav
ing been taken out five hundred feet be
low the surface, but from what portion
of the lead it came can never be certainly
known. Most likely from some drift at
no great depth from the surface. A1
though the facial bones are gone, tlie re
mainder of the skull is entire. It is coat-
ted over with a shell of gray mineral
matter, and where this is peeled oft’ the
substance beneath is quite black and pres
ents the appearance of having been stain
ed by sulphate of silver. The outer shell
appeals to be silver ore. So confident
was Judge Baldwin that this, at least,
was silver, that he offered to bet $100
that it would assay at the rate of $65 per
ton. If there be a skull anywhere on the
Pacific coast belonging to prehistoric man
this mnst be that skull. It is certainly
of a very unnsual and peculiar shape. It
is very short from base to summit and ex
ceedingly broad between the ears. No
one capable of giving an opinion in re
33 Ira.)
Orii'uary.
BANKRUPT NOTICE.
In Ihr Dialrict Court of the I nitnl Slain,
For Ihe Southern District of Georgia.
In Die Matter of J. , , „
MILES G. L1NCII, Bankrupt, f In . 1{ »rtniptvy.
I TIEREBY give notice that I have been appointed
A—ignee in Bankruptcy of Miles G. Linch of Bald
win county in said District, who has been on hia own
petition adjudged a Bankrupt by the District Court
of the United States for said District.
WILLIAM McKINLEY, Jr.,
Match 3, 1874. 33 3fc Assignee.
$50,000
“ 25,000
“ 12,000
“ 8,000
“ 6,000
“ 5,000
“ 4,000
“ 3.000
a 2 000
“$1,000 each 6,000
“ 500 each 10,000
“ 100 each 10,000
“ 50 each 10,000
“ 20 each 14,000
10 each 6,000
“ 5 each 6,500
‘ 1 each 50,000
52 9:14 Cash Gifts, amounting to $226,500
Jl'otiee*
ONE CHANCE IN EVERY NINE!
r JAIIE partnership heretofore existing between Sam
JL nel Evans and J. P. Sweany under the firm
name of S. Evans A Co. was dissolved by mutual
consent on January 1st last. All parties indebted to
said firm wi'l please call and settle. Either paity
will sign in liquidation.
J. P: SWF.ANY
Removal to Washington Hall.
T HE undersigned having moved Ilia TOBACCO
FACTORY to Washington Hall takes this meth
od of informing the merchants of Milledgeville and
surro nn< R n f? towns, that he is prepared to furnish
them with the different brands of Chewing Tobacco
at lowest market rates. Orders will receive prompt
attention.
J. P. SWEANY.
GROCERIES! GROCERIES!
GROCERIES!!
Cheap lor Cash!
H AVING in connection with my Tobacco Factory
opened a Family Grocery at Washington Hall,
Hendrix’s old stand, where I will be pleased to meet
my old customers and as many new one- as will
favor me with a call. I will sell for cash and sell low.
Give me a call and prove what I say.
J. P. SWEANY.
Milledgeville, Feb. 10, 187 I. 2!) tf
Lumber, Carpentering, Ac. Ac.
fnE undersigned having control of A. I. Butt-'Saw
* Mill, about nine miles fromMilledgeville. are pre
pared to furnish
GOOD PINE LUMBER OF EVERY STYLE AND GRADE
on SHOUT NOTICE. They also saw LATHS and
manufacture OLl> FASHIONED COUNTRY
CHAIRS. They can furnish Lumber dressed or un
dressed—will ship by wagon or railroad. They are
also prepared to take contracts for
gard to the age of the skull has ever ex- j PUBLIC OR PRIVATE BUILDINGS,
amined it The fact of it being dug out
of the heart of the Comstock lode makes
it an object of more than usual interest
whether or not it may contain silver. Al
though the skull has been in the saloon for
some years, we are not aware that partie-
lar mention has been made of it—Virgin
ia (Nev.) City Enterprise.
Give tliein a call. Their Po«*t-office is Milledgeville,
Ga Thetr Mill U located three miles from Carr’s
.Station, M. aV A> R. R.
SHIVERS A WORSHAM.
Jan. !4. 1874. 2J 6m
SOUTH
WESTERN
KTSli#
RAILROAD.
Oener&l Hnmphr«r* m Seneral
Johnston’s Forth com inf Booh.
General Humphreys, of Mississippi,
himself a gallant soldier of the Confeder
acy, in a communication in a late number
of the Yieksburger, defends General John
stun from the assaults of some anony
mous writer in a New Orleans journal.
The General winds up with this sound
and sensible advice: “Let everybody
read his book, and ponder it well. Let
the next reviewer read his book before he
reviews it, mid then let evCry manly criti
cism be made over proper autographs, to
be filed away with the archives of the
Southern Historical Society. Let the
unenlightened know the truth, and let
history be vindicated.’'
Bustzxd about busted.—Members of
the House Judiciary Committee say there
is no doubt that Jndge Busteed will be
impeached. The trialis nearly concluded,
and from what has already been conclu
sively developed, the expulsion of the
Judge from the position he has abused is
certain. Bnsteed has very considerably
prejudiced his own interests by his inso-.
lent and arrogant behavior, which, as a
distinguished menber of tlie committee
remarked, befitted the commander of a
successful privateer rather than a man on
trial for a grave oftence.
Miss Ada M. Noyes, a well known ac
tress, of Charleston, S. C., died of hydro
phobia, caused by the bite of adog.-
TheHawkinsville Dispatch brags of a
mess ofnew Irish potatoes.
James W llson, of Quitman, bagged
four wild turkeys at one shot on Thursday
morning last *
Job. Krenser, of Baltimore, aged 35,
senior proprietor of tlie German Catholic
people’s Weekly Gazette, published there,
is dead-- .
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Macon. Ga.. J in** jfl 1C72.
% and aftvr Sunday n«-*r, Juu«* ltitii, i*a»ert. U ri mid Mai
Train* «u this Road, jvil! U- run a* r,.l!ow •:
uavcu Att a rass:
Leave Mat op
0 :
TK*!\.
C.0II 4. M
4 42 P. M
6 l.»p. M
2.40 P. M
4.40 P. M
Arrive at Knl’anla
Arrive at Clayton ^
Arrive st Albany-'. *.... .#
Arrive at Fort Ga.nea ## ^
Couii«*<'tinx with the Albany branch train at Smith* HI*, and
with Fort Gaines Branch train at Cutbhert daily.
Leave Clayton 7.20 a. m
Leave Eufaula 5ft a. M
Leave Fort Gaines 8.35 a. m
Leave Albany— lft.4* a. m
Arrive at Macon 25 p. »i
EUFAULA NIGHT ftRCIUHT \ND ACCOMMODATION TRAIN'.
Leave Macon * 9.1ft p. M
Arrive at Eufaula i<) t 20 a. m
Arrive at A1 ban 6 45 a M
Arrive at Fort Uaines i j.o2 a. m.
Connects at Snritbville with Albans Train on Monday. Tues
day, Thursday and Friday nights, and at CuthLert ou Tuesday
and Thursday. No train leaves on Saturday nights.
Leave Eufaula....* ,5.]5p. M
Albany 8.4M p. m
l.lftp M
Arriveat Mat on j
COLUMBUS RAT FASSEttCCa TRAIN'.
Leave Maeon 45 M
Arrive at Columbus 11.15 a", m
Leave Columbus j# f
Arrive at Macon 9 55 P
VIRGIL POWERS,
Engineer and Superintendent.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
ON THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND AtJ
GUSTA RAILROADS.
O M AND AFTKR SUNDA\. Jl NE l.lth, 1 SI3. th— Pamw-nci
Train, on the Georgia ami Macon ami Au,inta Kailruad, wit.
tui a- follow,:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Da; Praatnger Train will
Leave Anguit* at a a> a. m.
Leave Atlanta at fi.l.la. iu.
Arrive in Angn.taat 5.3n p. ni.
Arrive in A'taota at 6.4o p. in.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Auxn.ta at 2.17 p. in.
Leave Atlauta at ti.uo p. uj.
Arrive in Augusta at 5.15 a. tn.
Arrive in Atlanta at 11.15 u. ni.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
DAY TUI] Ur.
Leave Angnita at 1.50 p. m.
LeaveCaiaak 4.00p. m.
Arrive tu Macon 8.15 n. ni.
DOWN TRAIN. *
Leave Macon at 6 30a.m.
Arrive at Camak 10.45 a. m
Arrive tn Anfiuta inn 1.10 p. m.
Connect, with the Upaod Down Day Panenger Train, on the
Georgia Railroad at Camak. This Train will not .ton he twees
Aun-Urta and Thomson.
' No chsnge of ear. be^-ean AoguiU and Macon.
PaMengrra from Athena, TVpdungton, Atlanta, or any point on
the Georgia Railroad and Branchy, by taking the Day Pamenger
Train, will make connection at gamaa with trains fer Macon
Pullman'a(Fiht-Claaa) Palace Sleeping Car. oo all Night Pam-
enger Trains on the Georgia Railroad; end Pint flan aiiomiii
Cara on all Night Trains on the Mheon and Angaria Railroad.
S.E. JOHNSTON, fc.pt.
Superiutendeat’. Omce Georgia and Maeon and Augusta'BaD-
road., Augusta, June 5.1173.
19* All kinds of Job work neatly
and promptly execntod v at this ottee.*
The distribution will be in public, and
will be made under tlie same form and
regulations as the San Francisco and
Louisville Library Gift Concerts, under
the supervision of a committee of promi
nent citizens selected by the ticket hold
ers
Reference as to the integrity of this
enterprise and of the management is made
to the following well known citizens:
Sam. L. Tibbals, A. Toponce, J. Malsb,
J. H. Gerrish—Members of City Coun
cil.
Judge T. J. Black, Ass’t. U. S. Asses
sor; Malsh & Greenwald, Proprietors Me
tropolitan Hotel; Eugene Moore, City
Marshal; W. W. Hull, Architect; J. Kehoe,
Constable; J. Kupfer, Jeweler; Capt. S.
Howe, Contractor; O. D. Richmond & Co.,
Commission Merchants; M. E. Campbell,
Proprietor Central Hotel; Singleton A
Creatli, Proprietors Pacific Stables; S.
P. Hitch, Merchant, Sandy, Utah; A. G-
Garrison, Helena, Montana.
We will also announce that each and
every person buying a ticket can at any
and all times examine our books and ail
business transactions connected with the
enterprise; and as the drawing of prizes
will be placed in the hands of honest and
disinterested men, it will insure a fair
and impartial distribution.
Rnpga.iM* A grata WaatrS. Litoral
i'aaainiaa Altwwrri.
SaTMoney shonld be sent by Express
or by Draft on any solvent bank, by
Postoffice Money Order, or registered
Letter, at our risk. For particulars, ad
dress
E. W. MORGAN, Manager,
Lock Box 158, Corinne, Utah.
teiT Tickets for sale m Milledgeville at
the Drug Store of Capt. B. R. Hefty.
Jan. 20,1874. 26 3m.
GifH
Tlie only Reliable Gill Distribution is tbe country
$100,000 00
ii taiiaim strrai
To be Distributed in
L. D. SINE'S
. 43rd Semi-Annual
GIFT ENTERPRISE
To be Drawn Monday, March 30th, 1874. ' f
ONE GRAND CAPITAL PRIZE
$10,000 in Gold!
One Prize $5,000 in Silver!
Five prizes of $1,000 each in Greenbacks!
Five Prizes $500 each in Greenbacks!
Ten Prizes $100 each in Greenbacks!
Two Family Carriages and Matched Horses with
Silver-mounted Harness worth $1,500 each!
Two Buggies, Horses, &e-, wortii $600 each!
Two Fine-toned Rosewood'Pianos, worth($550 euM
Ten Family Sewing Machines, worth $100 each!
ISM Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Watches (in
all) worth from $20 to $300 each!
Gold Chains, Silver-ware, Jewelry, iu , tio.
Number ot OKU 1«,000! Tickets Hiked to 5S,00$1
.Agewta WaaM to sell Tickets, to vrtato
Liberal Prtmiaau wtthrfeM,
Single Tickets $2;. Six Tickets 810£
Twelve Tickets $20; Twenty-Five
$40.
Circulars containing a foil tot of
turn of the manner M
in reference to the
ooe ordering them.
&« 8-
Mainoftoo, j
let W. VMbBOf
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