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M ILLEBGE VILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 22, 1874
number sr,
VOLUME XLIV.]
THE
il ii i o \x & E1t o r b t r
13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IX MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
BY
Boughtox, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year
s. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
XIIK “FEDERAL UNION ” ami the “SOUTH
Xi;X RECORDER’’ were consolidated August 1st
l$r~\ the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume aud
the Recorder in it’s Fifty-Third Volume,
Trassiesi
ion. and sevc
Liberal tlis<
in’uts ruunir
Tributes ol
•ecdiuj six 1
ADVERTISING.
Out* Dollar p«*r syuure of ten lines for first iuser-
uty-live cents for each subsequent continuance,
ount oi) these rates will be allowed on advertise*
n three months, or longer.
llcspct t, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries ex-
iues, Nominations for office and Commuuications
benefit, charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
levy of ten ]u
*• Leave to i
for Homestead!
» Debtors aud Cm
. per square,.
i-t ration
lartliausUip,
iroin Administration,.... r.
Guardianship,
i*ll Laud,
10 days, per squu
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
5 00
2 00
3 00
5 00
1 75
3 00
1 00
LEG AI
SJeiof L
•d by law 1
ADVERTISEMENTS.
v Administrators
Ic .1.■* fur to,
editors or Guar
>t Tuesday tu th«
, n tli.* Jnuirs i>i i«> mine u»rej\oon and 3 in the af-
Court House in the county in which the property
Notice of these sales must Ik* given in a publl<
vs previous to the day of sale.
r the sale **!' personal property must be given ii
10 days previous to sale day.
d creditors ot uu estate must be pub-
will be made to the Court of Ordinary
.. must be published for one month.
lett»*rs ol Administration, Guardianship, 4lc.,
, -.1 »lays- for dismission trom Administration
months---f*-r dismission from Guardianship 40
•closure <>f Mortgage must bepnbliened monthly
-for establishing lost papers tor the full space oi
or compelling titles from Executors or Admin-
1 m>nd has been given by the deceased, the full
noutha.
will always be
• to the debtors
• that applicant
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
promptly and neatly executed
at this office.
B A L1) W IN COUNTY.
TAX NOTICE.
hHviiu-onuty tor the year fs74,at C. B.Munday's
(recordly occupied by S. Evans & Co.) iu Mil-
Tobacco I Tobacco ! Tobacco!
250vOR E CA8H BA V C ° l ' OK 1 SALE CHEAP
do Veil tnY.it .Ti 8H - . I ‘ arrnere an,i merchants wil
“I* 1 f"r ne 8,ock before P»rcbaa
u elsewhere. I also keep on hand a full stock ot
FAMILY GROCERIES
AND
FARMER'S SUPPLIES.
All of which will be sold cheap for cash
1st Door North of Miller’s Jewelry Store.
Milledgeville, Ga*j^I
SEYMOUR/rlNSLEYA CO^,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
MAOOX, GA.
Are prepared to fill all orders for
Groceries and Provisions
At Lowest Going Rates!
ty SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
SBTMOUR, TXZrSLBVACO.
March II, 1874 . 33 3m
Arriving Daily !
I AM SELLING my immense stock of DRY
GOODS, SHOES, HATS, and NOTIONS lower
THAN EVER OFFERED IN THIS MARKET BEFORE.
A FIXE SELECTION OF
SPRING DRESS GOODS
semjxg at A SACRIFICE!
Call au.i examine my stock before buying.
FORMERLY" FRANKLAND’S SHOE STORE
A. F. SKIWEK.
Milledgeville, Ga., March 10, 1871. 33 tf
CRESCENT SPECTACLES.
Improve your sight.
I »*...**. ]
THE CRESCENT SPECTACLES now offered to
* the Public are guaranteed superior to ail olhers
in the market. For clearness and distinctness of visiou
they are uurivaled, the total absence of prismatic
colors and refractory rays alwnys found iu Pebbles
renders them especially desirable. Being ground with
great care, they are free Irom all imperfections and im-
•mritiee. They are mounted in Gold. Silver, Shell
[lubber and Steel frames and will last many years
without change.
For sale only by our Agents. JAMES SUPPLE,
Jeweler and Optician, is Sole Agent for Mil
ledgeville, Ga.
HTNone genuine without the trade-mark stamped
ou every pair.
Manufactured by
Fellows, Holmes A Clapp,
New York
IJiok for Trade Mark.
March 10th, 1874.
No peddlers Employed.
33 ly.
1st of April, 1874,
ledge vine ou
Wednesday,
Where 1 will be in attendance every day until 1st of
June next, when the books will be closed. -
Farmers are required to produce a list of freedmen
on their places who are subject to poll tax, and also
return what properly they own.
J. HUNTER McCOMB,
R. T. R. Baldwin County.
March 26, 1874. 36 2m
Pastponed BalJuin Sheriff's Sale.
117ILL besold on the first Tuesday iu MAY' next,
between the legal houis of sale, before the
Masonic Hall, in the city of Milledgeville, two hundred
acres of land, more or less, in Baldwin county, adjoin
ing landsof the estate of William A. Robson, deceased,
T. J Crowley and others, being the same tract of
land conveyed to defendant (J. A. P. Robson,) by
Thomas Brookins, Administra'or of Benjamin Brook
ins, deceased; also a tract of land, as property of de
fendant, in said county, containing two Imudred and
fiftv five acres,known as the J. It. Lawrence planta
tion. adinii.mg landsof Rogeis, J. II. Lawrence, estate
of William Fields, Giboore and others; also one iron
grey horse mule, two bay ra-i:e mules, one sorrel horse
and one buggv, and one set buggy harness, all iu pos-
Sessinn of defendant J A. P. Robson. The first tract
ot land above described was levied on by'Obadiah
Arnold. Sheriff of said county, on the 2nd of Novem
ber, I s " 1.and the second desciibed tract, levied on
hv hint November i S, 1871, and defendant duly noti
fied of both levies, and personal property above de-
scribed levied on by the said Arnold, ou November
1.7 1S7L-the property was all levied on to satisfy an
execution in favor of .Mrs. P. A. Lindrurr.. Assignee
vs. J A. P. Robson, and duly adxeitised for sale at
that time, but llie sale was postponed on account of
iegal proceedings undertaken at the instance of De
fendant in ti fa and the same having resulted in favor
of Mrs. Limb am, the property is again advertised for
Mien.above set lortli
OBADIAH ARNOLD, Deputy Sheriff.
March 26th, 1874.
AU) at the same time and place, one acre of land
with improvements thereon,on North Common of the
city of Milledgeville, whereon Robert Hammond now
lives .oil as The property of Robert Hammond to sat
isfy two ti fas iii favor of N 1». Brooks, Property
pointed out by Plaintiff Levied ou aud returned to me
by John Gentry, Cons'able _
JOHN B. WALL Sheriff.
March 27th, 1874 36 tds,
Important to Farmers & Gardeners.
A LL persons whojwish to raise the LARGEST AND
BEST CABBAGES IN THE WORLD, should
send Twenty-five cents for one package of Imported
^.LSATIAN j^ABBAGE jSEED.
Cabbages of the Finest quality and weighing up
wards of Sixty pounds, may be raised in any part o
the United States from these seed.
Each package containing an ounce, will be sent,
free of postage, to any address, on receipt of the price,
25 cents each, or five packages for One Dollar.
Full directions how and when to plant accompany
each package.
Address
DC. BE. RBYNAL & CO..
86 Amity Street, New Y’ork City.
March 15. 1874. 34 7t
SEND TO
LUDDEN & BATES’
MUSIC HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.,
For anything and everything in the Musical Liue, aud
your order will be promptly and satisfactorily filled,
both as to price and quality. We deal only in Music
and Musical Instruments, and can compete with any
house in the U. S. J
1 44 SCHOOL TEACHERS WANTED to en
X X A gage during the spring and summer in a busi
ness paying $150 per month in their own counties Ad
dress ZEIGLER Se McCUKDY, Philauelpliia, Pa
WORKING CLASSo/ra
MALE. $30 a week, employment at home, day or
eveuing; no capital, in.-t; uc'ious and valuable package
of goods sent fieetiy mail. Address, with six cent
stamp, M. YOUNG & CO ,173 Greenwich St., N. Y
FOB.
COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
AND ALL THROAT DISEASES,
USB
’ i arbolic Tablets
Wells’ <
Put up only in Blue Boxes.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY.
Sold by Druggists.
Millions of Acres
RICH FARMING LANDS
IN NEBRASKA,
NOW FOR SALE VERYCHEAP
Teu Vrai'i Credit, luterml Only (i per Cent.
Descriptive Pamphlets, with Sectional Maps sent fite-
THE PIONTEBII1,
a handsome illustrated Paper, containing llie Home
stead Law, mailed tree to all parts of the world-
Address O.F. DAvIS,
Land Commissioner U.P U.R-,
Omaha, Neb.
CHARMING. - ’
P SYCHOMANCY, or SOUL
How either sex may fascinate and gain the lov<
and afl'eetious of any person they choose instantly —
This simple, mental acquirement all can possess, free
by mail, for 25c, together with a marriage guide,
Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies, Wedding-
Night Shirt, &o. A queer book. Address T. WIL
LIAM dr CO., Pubs. Phil. Pa
EDEOGBAPHV." A new book on the art of
writing by sound ; a complete system of Phonetic
Short Hand, the shortest, most simple, easy and com
prehensive, enabling any one iu a short time to report
trials, speeches, sermons, See. The Loid’s Prayer is
written with 49 strokes of the pen, and 140 words
>er minute. The unemployed should learn this art.—
1*1 ice by mail 5(1 cents. Agents wanted. Address
T. W. EVANS Se Co., 139 S 7th st.Phila. Pa.
The Highest Medical Authorities ot Eu
rope say the strongest tonic, purifier, and Deobstru
ent known to the medical world is
lURUBEBA
It arrests decay of vital forces, exhaustion ot the ner
vous system, restores vigor to the debilitated, cleanses
vitiated blood removes vesicle obstructions and acts
directly ou the Liver and Spleen. Price $1 a bottle.
JOHN Q. KELLOGG, 18 Platt.St., N. Y
PIANOS !
Pianos from five of the
best makers in the United
States, and of every style
and price- Elegaut Pianos
only $275—the beat ever
sold for the money. Two
hundred pianos for sale by
small installments. Save
from $25 to $70 on the
jure base of a piano by
juying directly from us.
250,000
Brick for Sale!
rpuE undersigned has just finished burning a kiln
I of 251) 000 Brick, of 'the best quality, which he is
tow offering for sale.
Orders left at the frtore of T. A. Caraker, or with
nie at the Brick Yard will receive prompt attention.
DANIEL CARAKER.
Milledgeville, Gu.. Mar. 4th, 1874. 32 6m
SHEET MUSIC—MUSIC BOOKS.
Any piece of Sheet Music or Music Book published
the U. S. ssut by mail post paid on receipt of retail
price. Remember this fact and do not send North for
Music. Catalogues free.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
We are now closing out a heavy stock i f Violins,
Guitars. Flutes, Accordeons, Cornets, Drums, Banjos,
Fifes, Flageolets, Clarouelg, and all kinds of Musical
Merchandise at Wholesale Prices to retail buyers.—
These goods areour own importation aud can be bought
for about one half usual prices. Other invoices are on
the way and present lot
MUST J3JE3 SOLD!
LUDDEN & BATES,
Sayan nah, Ga.
March 31, 1874. 3G 3m
Xofice (o Debtors and Creditors.
A LL persons having demands against the estate
a\ ot Hezekiak Rogers late of Baldwin county,
deceased, are requested to present them in terms of
the law, and all persons indebted to said estate are
required to make payment to the undersigned.
J. F. ROGERS, ?
R. W. HALL, S A dm re.
33 6t.
TOBACCO
March 9th, 1874.
Lumber, Carpentering, Ac. <fcc.
THE mull■] signed having control of A. I Bulls’Saw
I Mill, about nine miles Irom Milledgeville. are pre-
pared to furnish
GOOD FINE LUMBER OF EVEE1T STYLE AND GRADE
mi SHORT NOTICE. They also saw LATHS and
mnniifaolur e OLD FASHIONED COUNTRY
CHAIRS They can famish Lumber dressed oi un-
dressed—will ship by wagon or railroad. They are
aiso prepared to take contracts lui
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
Give them a call- Their Post-office is Milledgeville.
Ga Their Mill is located three miles Irom Carrs
Station, M. & A. R. 14. . __
SHSV22K5 &■ WORSHAM
t ,s?i 25 Cm
Jan. M, IN *•
M. J. BAER & CO.,
Commission Merchants & Sealers
IN
Virginia Plug Tabacco, North Carolina Leaf and
Smoking Tobacco, Imported and Domestic Cigars, aud
Pipe". Prices guaranteed. 71 Cherry St-, Macon
Ga. pd in’ch31 36 3m
Look! Look!
>i2ti and Ornament*
A757*. 3
Unrringr, Blonsc
PAINTEB
Marbling, Frosting, Graining, See. 1 aper Hanging,
Varnishing, Furniture. .Also, Cnrringe Trimming.
All orders promptly executed and satisfaction given.
GPCalUt Gardner’s Old Stand.
Milledgeville, Ga., Feb 13, 1874. 30 ly
-X7S7". <3". COX’S
BtJGGV AX43
WAGON SHOP,
Corner of Hancock & Wilkinson
streets, I st door we*t of
Brooks & Ellison’s Store.
\ LL work left in my charge will be done promptly
aud of good material.
I have employed Mr. M. A. Collins, who has many
years experience and is well known in this and the
eurrouudiug counties. Any bargain or trade he may
make will be satisfactory with me.
All kinds of country produce will be taken for work
it desired. Give me a call, I will satisfy in work and
pi ice. Terms cash. ” !P« *■
Milledgeville, Ga., March Id, 187*1. JI Iy«
BANKRUPT-RELIEF.
S URE SAFETY for distressed Debtors, and tbeir
exposed families is to be found nowhere but in the
United Slates Bankrupt Court. Why live in hopeless
bondage ? The law invites you to be free, and start
life again with hope; at least to save a home forever
f° r your families.
1 practice iu the Bankrupt Coutt, specially.
WILLIAM McKINLEY,
Attorney.
Milledgeville, March 25,1874. 35 ly
ORGANS !
Mason Se Hamlin Organs
for Churches, Schools and
Parlor. Fifty styles, from
$55 to $700 each. Sold
at Factory prices for ca-h
or on monthly payments.
Churches, Schools aud
Teachers liberally dealt
with. A full line of latest
styles aiways on hand —
Write for prices aud terms
Ageula! If you waul lo .flake .Honey, Sell
The bipgrst thing yet. Humor, wit, pathos, lip*
Fun and Laughtp r. :{.»« eoinic cuts. The peo
ple yearn for it. It irrft >t /i in dull times ! Show it to
a man and he surrenders. It is sure every time Don't
bother with heavy books that nobody wants. Humor
is tlie thing that takes Agents wanted everywhere
Send for circulars and extra terms to To day Pub. Co.
Phila. N. Y.. Boston or Chicago.
"warehouse
PLANTERS’ SUPPLIES
And a General Assortment of
ALWAYS ON HAND
AT
j-. f. baufieud’s
March 31,1874.
Opposite Passenger Depot,
coxr, GA.
pd36 3m
HOME LIFE
I IT SHE BIBLE.
By the author of “Night Scene* in the Bible.’’ and
“ Our Father'* House.’’ of whieli nearly 21)0,(UK) have
been. “Home Life’’ is commended by ministers oi
all churches as “ the author's best book, ’ “full of pre
cions thoughts,”j“Trutbs precious as gems,” “a choice
book for every family,” Sec. Steel engravings, rose
tinted paper, rich binding, and for rapid sale unequa
led. AGBNTS, Men, Ladie*,
era aud Clergyawa, wanted in every county ; $75
to $U ; 0 per month. Seud for circular.
ZEIGLER & McCIJBDY,
SIS Arch Ml., Philadelphia, Pa.
A copy of this work can be seen
at the News Depot.
SANFORD dc FURMAN,
aroknsys at law,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
Office at the State House.
April 6 f 1874.
37 ly
was:
GTON BALL.
:o:-
DR.PIERCE S
satss
cores all Humors from the worst Scrofula to
• common Blotch or Pimple. From two to
■lz bottles are warranted to core Shit Rheum
or Tetter, Pimples on Face. Bolls, Car.
bnncles, Erjreipelas and Eilwer Com*
plaint. Six to twelve bottles, warranted to cure
Die worst Scrofulous swellings and Sores
Pains In Bones and Sore Throat caused
by Poison In Blood or mercurial treatment.
By It* wonderful Pectoral properties it will
cure the most Revere recent or the worst lingering
Cough in half the time required bv any other
medicine and Is perfectly safe, loosening cough,
soothing irritation, and relieving soreness. Sold
by all Druggists. R. V. PIERCE, MjJ^
fljerld’spiepeueary, Buffialq^.JL/
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh I
Remedy cures by its)
fmlld, soothing and heal-'
ling properties, to which!
I the disease yields, when |
J Bemedy is used warm
BHh~£r and system put in per
Ifeetorder by the wonderful alterative |
■power of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Mod-1
Ileal Discovery, taken earnestly, to I
I correct blood and system, which are al-l
I ways at fault, also to act specifically upon I
I diseased glands and lining membrane of I
loose and communicating chambers. Ca-|
Itarrh Remedy should be applied warm!
| with Dr. Pierce’s Nasal Douche, I
I the only instrument with which fluid med-
| So successful 1
■tint prop T
| ward for a esse of “Cold in Head” orl
| Catarrh he can not cure. Tho two medi-1
Iclnes with instrument til,by all druggists. I
TUB OLD 31 Aft AT THE FAIB.
I’m very dusty and tired wife ! I've just come home
from the lair;
So give me my pipe and tobacco, and I’ll smoke in mj
easy chair;
It's a tiresome work a play in’ for feeble old men like
me;
It'* a tiresome work a seeiu’ where every one wishes
to see.
Oar fairs are a lunniu’ down; they are not like the lair,
of old,
Where you took the prize for bread, and butter a:
yellow as gold;
There were hundreds of useful tilings, that were well
worth seeiu'then,
Now, dozens of racin’ horses, and hundreds of bettin
men.
What all tlii* sportiu’ will lead to is more thau I now
can tel!;
But,somehow, it seems to inelike the downward road
to h— well.
I may be a little hareh, but I'm sj eakiug the simple
truth,
For bettin’, racing aud driukin', are the foe* of our no
ble yonth
Wejshall come to a nation of gamblers, if matters keep
on this way ;
Why, what do you think? a youngster accused me ot
bettin’ to-day :
When I laid my band on the head—that hasn't seen
ten years yet —
And called him a fine little fellow—lie answered me
back,“Y'ou bet!”
“Tut! tut! little man,” said I, “that thing I have
never done;
Come stand by grandpa's kree ! let me reason with
you, my son.”
He straightened up in his clothes aud said, with a
look so queer,
“I didn’t come here for ‘prencliin;’ old man walk off
on your car !’’
that wheu you aud 1
bridle upon
em—put
We never heard talk lire
were young;
My father and mother—bless
my tongue,
I’m old, and I’m gettiu’ blind, but a difference I eau
see
'Twixt the boys of eighteen hundred aud eighteen sev
enty-three.
How is it about the girls ? They, too, from the patli
have strayed;
I didn't see ooe a ehowiu' the butter her hands had
made ;
They stood in their pony-phaetons, with a woman's
ease and grace:
And shouted as loM as any when a favorite won a
TCLEAR GRIT.
Actiaa* «f a Bwy which Gave Falare Pram
stated. Tlie age of this is a matter of
pure conjecture, since the vicissitudes of
the city’s history—frequent destruction .< n,r no a.
and rebuilding—would have tlie same j From the Springfield Republican.]
practical effect, or near ly so, as a long in , About thirty years ago, said Judge P.
terval of time. We have anywhere from I stepped into a book store in Cincinnati,
2,000 to 5,000 years before Christ—tak in search of some books that I wanted,
ing Egyptian, Phoenician on Pelasgic re While there, a little ragged boy, not over
mains as guides—as the date of the foun- 12 years of age. came in aud inquired for
dation of the first Troy-
Filled with his Homeric enthusiasm.
Schliemann gives us, in the present work
only fragmentary and imperfect accounts
of the characteristics of the earliest ruins.
The most remarkable feature, perhaps,- is
the superiority of the terra-cotta articles,
which indicate a greater degree of taste
and skill than those in the subsequent
strata.
From the beginning down to the Greek
period the evidences of a gradually de
clining civilization are so clear, in the
discoverer’s opinion, that they must be
accepted. The early vases are of a slnn
ing black, red or brown color, with oma
mental patterns, first cut into the potieiy
and then filled with a white substance.
Only one piece of painted terra-cotta was
found. The inhabitants of the city were
certainly Aryans. This fact is illustrated
in their manner of building,, and also in
the frequency of the earliest Aryan reli
gious symbols upon the terra-cotta disks.
in the Basement of the Capitol Building.
J. n. ALLEN, A- B., Principal.
MRS. MARY McADOO, Instructor in Drawing,
Painting and Penmanship.
MISS CARRIE FAIR, Teacher of the Primary
Department.
T HE Principal and his assistants are prepared to
instruct the young of both sexes in the most
thorough ami approved manner. Terms moderate aud
made known on application to the Principal.
Occasional Lectures on Popularized Science wi!
be given to the whole school by W. G. McAdoo A.B ,
aplb 37 I m
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
SUPERIOR COURT, )
February Adjourned Term, 1874 . 5
Present and presiding Hon. E. II. Pottle, Judge of the
Northern Circuit.
MATTIE BUCK ) Libel for Divorce-
john v buce, > Kule ,0 Perfect Service '
I T appearing to the Court by the return of the Sheriff
that the Defendant does not reside in the county ot
Baldwin, and it further appearing that he does not re
side in this Stato, it is, on motion of counsel, Ordered
that said Defendant appear and answer at the next
term of this Cburt, else the case be considered in de
fault and the Plaintiff allowed to proceed
And it is farther ordered that this Rule be published
ia the ‘ Union Se Recorder” for forty days previous
to the next term of this Court, by tbe Clerk.
SANFORD Se FURMAN, Pl’ffs Att’y.
A true extract from the Minutes.
WALTER PAINE, Clerk.
April 6, 1874. 38 40ds
(
& E. McREYNOLDS,
UHNT
TOBACCO at WHOLESALE.
Lowest Market Balts IniisM
fflswm w rmww
Cheap for Cash.
J. P. SWEANY.
Milledgeville, Ga., March 31,1874.
TIST
PM' be found at his office over Caraker 1 * Store
N 1 . at all times, where he will take great pleasure u
waiting upon all who may favor him with their kind
j^ou&ge, aQ( j w m guarantee satisfaction in *11 opera-
dwue 25,1873. «■
36 tf
TAX ON COTTON,
ILL wbodeure to collect the tax paid on cotton in
A 1865,1866 and 1867, will please meet me in Irwmton
ud Cliatoo Court week*. If you have not got the
3>4t* jfwt MoKinuis A Hiltod.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
SUPERIOR COURT,
February Adjourned Term, 1874.
Present and presiding Hon. E H. Pottle, Judge of the
Northern Circuit.
EMMA GILMER ) Libel for Divorce.
. n OU11VB l Rule to Perfect Service.
GEORGE B. GILMER. J
r T appearing to the Court by the return of the Sher
iff that the Defendant does not reside in the county
of Baldwin, and it further appearing that he does not
reside in this State, it is, on motion of counsel, Order
ed that said Defendant appear and answer at the next
term ot this Court, else the case be considered in de-
fantt and the Plaintiff allowed to proceed.
And it ia farther ordered that this Role be published
iu the “Union Se Beoorder” for forty days previous to
the next term of this Court bytte Clerk.
• T. W. WHITE, Plffs Att’y.
A true extract from the Minutes.
WALTER PAINE, Clerk.
April 6,1874. 38 40d»
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Office of Ordinary in and for- said County.
TTB7HEKEA&, Greene Medlin has applied for ex-
TV empties of personalty, aud setting apart and
valuation of homestead, and 1 will pass upon the same
at 11 o'clock, *. «., on tbe 25th day of April, 1874,
instant, at my office. '.
Witness my hand and official signature tins April
the 13th, 1874.
DANIELB,SANFORD, Ofdiuiy.
AU eyes were watching the track: the race was every
man's theme ;
And I said to myself, “Is this a fail, or i- it ouly a
dream l ’
1 saw ’bout a dozeu bojs lookin’ round at the sheep
and swine,
And the frosts of seventy Winters lmd silvered tlieir
heads like mine.
Why ou earth don’t they change the name when the
wrong name it lias got !
No loDger call it a lair, but an agricultural trot;
Then men won't be takin 1 things tor sensible tolks lo
see,
With nobody there to see ’em but crippled old men
like me.
There, take my pipe aud tobacco! I’ll sleep iu my
easy chair;
It’s tiresome woik a talkin’ about a degenerate fair ;
You needn’t disturb me, wife, tiil the hells of the even
ing chime,
For I may go back in my dreams to the fairs of olden
time.
f)C'HL.IKJIAftft'l<l D18COVEKIEM.
Tlie Ruins of Troy—The Remains of
Four Cities.
[Bayard Taylor iu the New Y'ork Tribune.]
Schliemann’s wonderful success in li>73
was due, in a great measure, to the con
clusions which he had reached during the
excavations of 1872. He continued the
classification of the ruins and the relics
they contained, and soon found that they
might be divided into four distinct strata,
each of which represented a long historic
period. Further comparisons convinced
him that the third of these strata, counts
ing from the top, was the only one which
met the requirements of Homer and
Greek tradition; consequently here was
Troy. But under Troy there xvas an ear
lier layer of ruin, varying from thirteen to
twenty feet in depth, before the primitive
soil was reached. The discovery is hard
ly less interesting than that of the posi
tion of Troy. It carries the antiquity of
the city back into that immense shadowy
past of the human race, which stretches
like a mysterious twilight land behind
oldest history. The geographical
position of Ilium explains its importance
in those far-off ages. The gorges of Ida
protect it in the rear? seated at the jime
tion of the Hellespont with the dEgean,
it made a station between Colchis, at the
eastern extremity of the Euxine, and all
the Grecian, Egyptian and Phoenician
coasts, the rich plain, around it furnished
abundant supplies, which could be readi
ly exchanged for foreign merchandise, and
as its people became rich and impregna
ble within their citadel town, the oth el
and ruder tribes iu their neighborhood
would yield to their power. It is cer
tainly older by a great many centuries
than Athens, and its immemorial impor
tance was no doubt the first cause of the
jealousy of the sensitive Greeks.
The topmost historical stratum, which
is only six and one-half feet in depth,
seems to begin about the year 700, B. C.,
when a Grecian settlement Avas estab
lished there under the Lydian dynasty.
From that period, coins and inscriptions
indicate the subsequent centuries until
about the fourth century of our era.
There are no later coins or medals than
of Constans II, whose reign ceased in
361, A. D. Schliemann is of the opin
ion that the city was destroyed at that
time or soon afterward, but gives no con
jecture of the manner of its fall. It seems
to me that the raids of the Goth, then
settled on the northern shores of the
Black Sea, where they built fleets, even
sailing through the Bosphorus in proud
defiance of Constantinople, to ravage the
coasts of Greece and Asia Minor, give us
an easy explanation. The Greek Ilium,
which covered the whole of the lower
plateau of Hissarlik, must liave contain
ed 100,000 inhabitants. It was a rich,
and at that time doubtless a luxurious
city, clearly visible from the waters of
the Hellespont, speedily reached and
incapable of resisting such stalwart in--
vaders.
We have thus an age of 1,050years for the
first 6£ feet of rubbish. At this depth the
Greek masonry suddenly ceases, and a
stratum 17 feet in thickness intervenes
between it and the massive buildings of
the Trojan era. The relics here found
are of a perplexing character, and will
give plenty of work to the archaeologists.
The walls are built of earth and small
stones, but the abundance of wood ashes
shows that the city—or tlie successive
cities—was chiefly built of wood. If the
chronology of the Trojan age can be ap
proximately established, it will, of course,
give us the duration of this intermediate
belt of ruin; at present it is scarcely pos
sible even to guess.
The ruins of Troy form a stratum aver-
a<ring 10 feet in thickness, the depth
(from the surface) reaching from 23 1-2 to
33 1 2 feet. Since the foundation of the
city is conjectured to have taken place
about 1,400 years B. C., and its fall and
destruction by fire to have occurred 1,100
B. C-, this would give three centimes for
the formation of ten feet of ruin—which
is quite sufficient if we imagine a small
but crowded city, with houses of rnoz-e
Gian one story and much wood work, of
which the ruins gave amply evidence.
The marks of intense heat are everywhere
manifest. When the Scan Gate was first
uncovered, the pavement was uniformly
perfect; bat at tbe end of two or three
months the stone blocks along the upper
part of the streets, which had been expos
ed to the flame, crumbled almost entire
ly away, to a distance of ten feet from the
Gate. The other blocks protected by
their situation, remain solid, and promise
to stand for centuries,
Finally, under Troy, there is a fourth
stratum of ruin, varying from thirteen to
twenty feet iu depth, as I have already
The Bamboo Plant.
The bamboo plant is cultivated almost
everywhere; it is remarkable for its shade
and beauty. There are about sixty va
rieties, different in sizes, according to its
genus; ranging from that of a switch to a
big pole, measuring from four to five
inches in diameter. It is reared from
shoots and suckers, and after the root
once clings to the ground, it thrives and
spreads without further care or labor. Of
these sixty varieties, each thrives best in
a certain locality. And throughout the
whole empire of China the bamboo groves
not only embellish the gardens of the
poor, but the v<ist parks of the princes
and wealthy. The use to which this
stately grass is put is truly wonderful.
The tender shoots are cultivated for food
like the asparagus; the roots arc carved
into fantastic images of men, birds and
monkeys. The tapering culms are used
for all purposes that poles can be applied
to, in carrying, supporting, propelling,
and measuring; by the porter, the carpen
ter, and the boatman; for the joists of
houses and the ribs of sails; the shafts of
spears and the wattles of Infi’dles; the
tubes of aqueducts, and the handles and
ribs of umbrellas and fans. The leaves
are seived upon cords to make rain cloaks
for farmers and boatmen, for sails to
boats as well as junks, swept into heaps
to form manure, and matted into thatches
to cover houses. The bamboo wood is cut
into splints and slivers of various sizes to
make into baskets and trays of every
form and fancy, twisted into cables, plait
ed into awnings, and woven into mats for
the bed and floor, for the sceneries of the
theatre, for the roofs of boats, and the
casing of goods. The shavings are picked
into oakum to be stuffed into mattresses.
Tlie bamboo furnishes the bed for sleej>-
ing, and the couch for reclining, the chair
for sitting, the chop-sticks for eating, the
pipe for smoking, the flute for entertain
ing; a curtain to hang before the door,
and a broom to sweep around it. The
ferule to govern the scholar, the book
he studies and the the paper lie writes,
all originated from this wonderful grass.
The tapering barrels of the organ, and the
dreadful instrument of the lictor—one to
strike harmony and the other to strike
dread; the rule to measure lengths, the
cup to gauge quantities, and the bucket
to draw water; the bellows to blow the
fire, and the battle to retain the match;
the bird-cage and crab-net, the fish-pole,
the water-wheel and eave-duct, wheel bar
row and cart, and a host of other things
wo have no room to crowd, are the utili
ties to which this magnificent grass is
converted. I therefore highly recommend
this most useful of grasses to your con
sideration.—From Address of Chan
Laisum, Chinese Commissioner of Educa
tion, at Springfield.
The Immediate Recognition of Cuba-
Washington, April 13.—The official or
gan contains an elaborate editorial, de
claring the present time opportune, and
gives reasons for an immediate recogni
tion of the Cuban Republic. The article
contains citations from international law
witters, showing that there is no just
cause of offence to Spain if recognition is
accorded and commercial treaties entered
into with the Republic prior to recogni
tion by Spain. It declares our commer
cial interests are greatly suffering on ac
count of the war in Cuba—the balance of
trade is against us to the amount of forty
to fifty millions—that complications here
tofore existing on longer exist—that Eng
land intrigues in the control of Cuban
affairs and trade—that recognition would
open new markets tor the Western grain
growers, provision dealers and the ma
chinists and manufacturers of the East
ern and Middle States, and furnish occu
pation to thousands of Southern people
and tend to restore the prosperity and
good feeling of the Southern States to
wards the Government.
The article is supposed to express
President Grant's views and foreshadow
action by the Government.
HE WANTED TO MARRY.
A Tough Story, but a Good One.
A London letter to the Herald, says:
“Here is a good story which has not
yet found its way into print, but for the
truth of which I can vouch. Lord George
Gordon, a young man of four and twen
ty, Avisliing to marry a certain young
lady, went quite recently to ask the per
mission of his father, the Duke af Argyle.
The Duke, a pompous little man, replied
in effect, “My son, since our house has
been honored by being united with the
royal family I have thought it right to
delegate a decision on all such matters to
your elder brother, the Marquis of Lome.
Go, therefore, and consult him. ’ The
Marquis of Lome, on being applied to,
said, ‘My dear brother, in a case of im
portance like this I should tliink it right
to ask the decision of the Queen tbe head
of the royal family, into wliich, I have
married.' The Queen, on the matter being
laid before her, declared that since her
terrible bereavement she had been in the
habit of taking no steps without, consul
ting the Duke of Saxe-Cobnrg, the broth
er of her deceased husband. To the
Duke, then, the case was referred and
from him a letter was received frilling his
dear sister-in-law that recent political
events had induced him to do nothing,
even as to the giving advice, without the
express concurrence of the Emperor Wil
liam before whom he had laid the matter.
The Empror William wrote a long letter,
declaring that though he was surrounded
by counselors, there was one only who
had on all occasions proved himself cor
rect, loyal and faithful, and without'
whose advice he (the Emperor) would
have no decision. Therefore, he had
referred the matter to his faithful Minis
ter, Prince Bismarck.
“And it is narrated that when Prince
Bismarck was made acquainted with the
subject he roared out, ‘Gott in Himmel,
what a fuss about nothing! Let the boy
marry whom he pleases, so long as she is
young Had pretty.’*
a geography.
“Plenty of them,’’ was the salesman
reply.
"How much do they cost?”
"One dollar, my lad.”
“I did not know they were so much.
He turned to go out, and even opened
the door, but closed it again and came
back.
“I have got sixty-one cents,” said he:
“could you let me have a geography, and
wait a little while for the rest of the
maney?”
How eagerly his little bright eyes look
ed for an answer! and how he seemed to
shrink within his ragged clothes when the
man. net very kindly, told him he could
not! The disappointed little fellow look
ed up to me. with a very poor attempt at
a smile, and left the store. I followed
him, aud overtook him.
“And vhat now?” I asked.
“Try another place, sir’.”
“Shall I go, too, and see how you sue
eeed?”
“Oli, yes, if you like," said he in sur
prise.
Four different stores I entered with
him, and each time he was refused.
“Will you try again?” I asked.
"Yes, sir, I shall try them all, or I
should not know whether I could get
one.”
We entered the fifth store, and the lit
tle felloiv yralked up manfully, and told
the gentleman just what he wanted, and
how much money he had
“You want the book very much?” said
the propffietor.
“Yes, sir. very much.
“Why do you want it so very, very
much?”
“To study, sir, I can t go to school, but
I study when I can at home. All the boys
have got one, and they will get ahead of
me. Besides, my father ivas a sailor, and
I want to learn of the places where he
used to go.”
“Do£s he go to these places now?” ask
ed the proprietor.
^,"He is dead,” said the boy, softly.
Then he added, after a ivhile. “I'm going-
to be a sailor, too.”
“Are you, though?” asked the gentle
man, raising his eyebrows curiously.
“Yes, sir, if I live.”
“Well, my lad, I will tell you what 1
will do; I will let you have a new geog
raphy. and you may pay the remainder of
the money when you can, or I will let you
have one that is not new for fifty cents."
“Are the leaves all in it, and just like
the others, only not new?”
‘•Yes, just like the new ones.”
"It ivill do just as well, then, and I
shall have eleven cents left toward buy
ing some other book. I am glad they did
not let me have one at any of the other
places.”
The bookseller looked up inquiringly,
and I told him what I had seen of the lifr
tie fellow. He was much pleased, and
when he brought the book along, I saw a
nice, new pencil and some clean, white
paper in it.
•A present my lad, for your persever
ance. Always have courage like that,
and you will make your mark,” said the
bookseller.
“Thank you, sir, you are so v.erygood.”
“What is your name?”
‘ William Haverley,»sir.”
“Do you want any more books?” I now-
asked him.
“More than I can ever get,” he replied
•lancing at the books that filled the
shelves.
I gave him a bank note. “It will buy
some for you,” I said.
Tears of joy came into his eyes.
“Can I buy what I want with it?”
“Yes, my lad, anything.”
“Then I will buy a book for mother,”
said he. “I thank you very much, and
some day I hope I can pay you back.”
He wanted my name, and I gave it to
him. Then I left him standing by the
counter so happy that I almost envied
him. and many yesrs passed before I saw
him again.
Last year I went to Europe on one of
the finest vesssels that ever ploughed the
waters of the Atlantic. We had very
beautiful w eather until very pear the end
of the voyage; then came a most terrible
storm that would have sunk all on board
had it not been for the captain. Every
spar was laid low, the rudder was almost
useless, and a great leak had shown itself,
threatening to fill the ship. The crew
were all strong, willing men, and the
mates ivere practical seamen of the first-
class; but after pumping for one whole
night, and the jvater still gaining upon
them, they gave up in despair, and pre
pared to take the boats, though they
might haver known no small boat could
ride such a sea. The captain, who had
been below with his charts, now came up;
lie saw^iow matters stood, and, with a
voice that I heard distinctly above the
roar of the tempest, ordered every man
to his post.
It was surprising to see those men bow
before the strong will of their captain,
and hurry back to the pumps. The cap
tain then stalled below to examine the
leak. As he passed me I asked him if
there ivas any hope. He looked at me,
and then at ■ the other passengers, who
had crow ded up to hear the reply, and said
rebukingly:
Yes, sir, there is hope as long as one
inch of this deck remains above water;
when I see none of it, then I shall abandon
tho vessel, and not before, nor one of my
crew - , sir. Everything shall be done to
save it, and if we fail it will not be from
inaction. Bear a hand, every one of you,
at the pump.
Thrice during the day did we despair;
but tlie captain's dauntless courage, per
severance, and powerful will mastered
every man on board, and we went to work
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
again.
I will land you safely at the dock in
Liverpool,” said, he “if you will be men.”
And he did land us safely; but the ves
sel sunk moored to the dock. The cap
tain stood on the deck of the sinking ves
sel, receiving the thanks and the bless
ings of the passengers as they passed
down the gang plank. I was the last to
leave. As I passed he grasped my hand
and said:
“Judge P., do you recognize me?”
I told him that I was not aware that I
ever saw him until I stepped aboard his
ship.
“Do you remember the boy iu Cincin-.
liati?”
“Very well sir; William Haverly.”
“I am he,” said he. “God bless you!”
“And God bless noble Capt. Haverley!”
i «
The America* Traasplaaier.
We call attention to tbe advertisement of Mr. W-
H. Roberts, agent in Milledgeville for tbe sale of tbe
American Transplanter. It ia said that with this im
plement farmers can transplant all binds of plants,
including corn and cotton, easily and rapidly, in dry
weather, and so perfectly that they willjiot atop grow
ing. If this is trne, and we believe it ia, this will
prove a most valuable invention for farmers. Call at
the News Depot of W. H. Roberta and examine it.
The Bsntiag of Ihc “Penrrninlcer” ew
Hoor«l the ‘‘Princeton.’’
Fiomtlie Washington Slur.
On the 28th of February, 1844. a large
party of ladies and gentlemen, i: lcluding
the President and members of his Cabinet,
with tlieir families, were invited by Com
modore Stockton to spend the day on
board the steam frigate Princetc l, lying
off Alexandria. The day w as fi orable,
and the company large and 1 ilii.Jit,
not less, probably, than four hui: axd. of
whom two hundred were laches A ' ter
the arrival of tbe guests the P 1 ur. ton
got under way and proceeded dc vn tbe
river to a short distance belo v Fort
Washington. During the passag i down
one of the large guns (carrying a liall of
225 lbs.) was fired several times. V two
o'clock p. m. the ladies were invited o a
sumptuous repast in tlie cabin The
gentlemen succeeded them at the tcble,
and some of them had left it. The ship
was on her return to her anchorage', and
was opposite the fort, when Colonel
Stockton consented to fire another shot
from the same gun, around and rear
which many persons had gathered,
though not in as large numbers as on
similar discharges in the morning, most
of the ladies being between decks and
out of the reach of harm.
The gun was fired. The explosion
was followed by shrieks of woe, wliich
annoiuiced a dire calamity. Tlie gun had
burst at a point three or four feet from
the breech, and scattered death and
desolation around. Mr. Upshur, of Vir
ginia, Secretary of State; General Gilmer,
of North Carolina, Secretary of Navy;
Commodore Beverly Kennan, a gallant
officer of the navy: Virgil Maxcy, of
Manland, recently returned from the
Hague; Mr. Gardner, of New York, and
colored man attached^to tlie Executive
Mansion, were instantly killed. Nine
seamen were seriously wounded, and
Colonel Benton, Commodore Stockton,
Lieutenant Hunt, of the Princeton, and
W. D. Robinson, of the Georgia, were
stunned by the explosion. Mrs. Gilmer
was on deck at the time of the explosion,
and was brought back to Washington
almost in a state of distraction. Mr.
Gardner was accompanied by liis two
daughters, one of whom afterwards be
came the wife of President Tyler. Mr.
Upshur was accouipained by his daugh- g
ter; Commodore Kennan by several
ladies of his family; but none of them,
with the exception of Mrs. Gilmer, were
apprised of the death of those most dear
to them until their arrival in Washing
ton.
Tlie President was not on deck at tho
time. He was summoned, but one of
tlie ladies having concealed Iris hat, he
as compelled to remain below. Charles
Davis (Jack Downing No. 2). of New
Y'ork, was on board, and wrote to the
New York Express that he was within ten
feet of the gun, which was fired by Stock-
ton himself. He owed his escape to his
having climbed up the shrouds a few feet
with Mrs. Wetherel, of Baltimore. She
was covered with blood—their hats were
blown off—but the only injury he receis
ved was a slight contusion of the upper
Up.
The gun which caused this calamity
was the invention of Commodore Stock-
ton. Mr. Tyler manifested a great inter
est in its success, before the accident,
and made it a frequent subject of conver
sation, so that it came to be a bye-word
among the Senators and Representatives
in Congress. Mr. Vinton, of Ohio, used
to say that the only incident of the melan
choly occasion which called iq> a smile
was the reiteration by John Tyler o. his
full confidence in the gun, in his sp^ ia
message to Congress on the 21H? of
February, when the dead bodies o! his
friends who had been slain by it were
lying under his own roof. Here is the
paragraph; “I will add that in it no n eas-
ure detracts, in my estimation, from the
improvement contemplated in the on-
struction of tho Princeton, or from ho
merits of her brave and distinguished
commander and projector.”
Stockton remained in the navy severa
years after this sad event, but rim Uy
resigned and embarked in politics, : nd
became a Senator of the United Sta es.
He was a gentleman of distinguish ed
appearance, and remarkable for phi’ in-
thropy, energy and enterprise. The
present Senator Stockton is his son.
The Hon. Hamilton Fish was a member
of the House in 1844. So was Alexander
H. Stephens, of Georgia.the sole'survivor
of either House of Congressmen of that
date.
Sheet Mn»ie.
A large and beautiful aseontment of new sheet mono
just received at the News Depot; The ladies are ia*
nitodto call and examine it
The Currency Bill.
The House then passed by a majority
of 38 the Senate bill, as follows: That
the maximum amount of United States
notes is hereby fixed at four hundred
milhon dollars. Section 2. That forty-
six miUions in notes for circulation in ad
dition to such circulation now allowed by
law shall be issued to the National Bank
ing Associations now organized and which
may be organized hereafter, and such in
creased circulation shall be distributed
among the several States as provided in
section one of the act entitled an act to
provide for the redemption of tlie three
per cent, temporary loan certificates and
for an increase of national bank notes, ap
proved July 12th, 1870, andeach National
Banking Association now organized or
hereafter to be organized shall keep md
maintain as a part of its reserve requir*
ed by law one-fourth part of the coin re
ceived by it as interest on the bonds of
the United States deposited as seem ity
for circulating notes or Govemm ent
deposits, and that hereafter only cues
fourth of the reserve now prescribed by
law for National Banking Associate ms
shall consist of balances due to an a so-
ciation available for the redemption of
its circulating notes from associations in
cities of redemption, and upon which bal
ances no interest shall be paid.
The status of the currency bill nor is
this: The House bill has to await tlie ac
tion of the Senate, which may or .nay
not be favorable, or may bo delayed in
definitely; whereas the Senate bill goes
directly to the President for his signa
ture. It is currently reported that it
will not receive liis approval. To sign
or not to sign, that is the question.
The latest snake story comes from
Connecticut. Some workmen building a
mill among the rocks on Westfield river
killed a rattlesnake, and after severing
the head from the trunk and cutting the
rattles off the tail for a keepsake, kicked
the head away into the sand and threw
the trunk into the sun. A booted boy
came along and could not resist tlie temp
tation to worry the dead snake. He trod
on its tail, and the headless trunk of 1 he
reptile turned and struck the boot as i. to
bite. The frightened youth soon hai in
audience around him, and the experim nt
of treading on the snake’s tail was rep t at-
edly tried, with the same result. But an
other startling thing was observed. As
often as the carcass coiled and struck ha
offending boot, so often, and at the self*
same instant, the grim, repulsive head,
lying dissevered in the dust, opened its
jaws, Hie deadly frangs protruding, and
closed them with a snap. There was no
scientist to see, but these simple -mill
builders want to know the philosophy of
this sort of post mortem snake life. The
experiment may be tried until the snshui
run quL