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VOLUME XLIV.]
THE
9nion & |Ucarfcer,
18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
BY
Boughton, Barnes & Moore,
At $3 in Advance, ar $3 at end ef the year
S. N. BOUGHTON, BdHer.
THE “FEDERAL UNION" end the “SOUTH
ERN RECORDER ” were consolidated Auguat 1st,
1872, the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and
the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volome.
ADVERTISING.
T*i**iEXT.~One Doller per «<iuare of ten tine* for bit taser-
ti»n, and «ev«!UtT-five rent, for each aubaequent eaatisuaiusa.
Liberal diaoonut on these rates will be allowed on adarttue-
Ikents runnmj three months, or longer.
Tributes ol Respect, Resolutions by Soeietiea, Obituaries ex-
octtdint six lino#, Nominations for office and CoiumunicatiOR*
for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff 1 * Sal. s, per levy of ten lines, or less ,2 So
Mortgage fi fa salc5, per square,....
Citations f«»r Letter# of Administration,
•4 4 4 4* Guardianship,
Application for Dicmiaaiun from Administration,
“ *• Leave to ■<
for Hoiueateads,
to Debtor# and Creditor#,...
.Sale# 0! Laud, iiC., per square
perishable property, 10 day#
Eat ray Notice#. 3*» day#
ol Mortgage, pe
time .
5 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 Oti
5 00
2 00
3 00
5 00
1 75
3 00
1 00
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
^•ie# ol Land, Air , by Administrator#, Executor* or G
diau#, are required by law to be held on the tirat Tuesday In the
month, between the notiraof 10 Lithe forenoon and 3 in the af-
teruoon, at the Court liou#** rathe county in which the property
id situated. Notice of these hale# mu*t be given in a public
gazette 3*1 day# previous to the day of axle.
Notiee# for tue sale of per#ona! property must be given is
like manner 10 day# previous to wale day.
Notice to Lire debtor# ai d creditor# of aa estate muit be pub
lished 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court ot Ordinary
f.jr leave to #ell Laud, Lr., must be published for one month.
Citation# for letter# of Administration, Guardianship, Jtc.,
mua t be published 30 day#- for di#ini*#iou from Administration
uluuthly throe mouth#—for di#u:i##ion from Guardianship 40
d Tule# for foreclosure of Mortgage must bepublisned monthly
for four months—for establishing lost papers for the full snece 01
three mouths—for compelling title# from Executors or Admin-
istrator#, where bond ha# been given by the deceased, the Mil
BALDWIN COUNTY.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 24, 1874.
N U M B E R 48.
Beef Contract.
••orris State Lunatic Asylum,
N««r Milledgeville, Ga^XTjonOwi 0 ’ j
BBtil Zm-r*' be ,eceiv ‘* i »*• » b » office
7 Cf JU,,U Bexl at o’clock, 31., tu
furuwh tbu Institution with from 350 u 43. ik.
to oominenoe on thefii.t d«v of Jnlv lS*? . i ^
^id‘for 8 tk day ° f Jaun t7' ! ^ 5 ‘The^y
«ad all bids. Bids should be
security _.
reserved to reiect an
marked to “furnish
dersigued.
y
beef” and addressed to the
Tobacco! Tobacco! Tobacco!
250FmPrxI2 BA £ co *ob8ale*chEai
j. ,*oR CASH. Farmer, and merchants wii
ao well to can and examine my stork before purchas
e*ewbere. I also keep on hand a fall stock ot
family groceries
AND
VA&an&'s ivmiBs.
AH of which will be mid cheap for rash.
Irt Door North of Miller’. Jewelry Store.
SVAVI
27 ly
Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 28, 1874.
CRESCENT SPECTACLES.
Improve your sight.
46 2t]
ERASMUS D. BROWN,
Steward State Lunatic Asylum.
Baldwin Sheriff's Sales.
W n £ k® 801 '. 1 a ‘ tbe lo *»l place for holding Shcr-
n Ji l “ ® aM ' vl ” County, before Masonic
,u . Milledgeville, ou the hirst Tuesday in JULY
next, within the lawful hours of sale. th(T lollowiug
party to-wit: “
vro hundred and fifty acres of laud more or li
adjoining lands of Joseph 11 Tucker, Mary Crou „
James Osborne and others. Sold as the property of
Mrs Harnett Rowley to satisfy oue Superior Court
fi fa m favor of Tinsley A Nichols. Property pointed
out bjr defendant and notice given in person.
t - , O. ARNOLD, Deputy Sheriff.
June l*t, 1874. H J 46 t4) .
•«p«
r thr
until..
Publication# will always be continued according to these,
fbf !rga! requirement#, uul-## otherwise ordered.
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIS OFFICE.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
A LL PERSONS INDEBTED to the eetate of
■a*. Jesse IIortoD, late of said county deceased, are
requested to make payment, and those having de
mands against said estate are requested to present
them to me, in terms ol the law
DANIEL CARAKKR, »
„ DANIEL HORTON, \
May 18th, 1874. ’
Ex’rs.
43 Ct.
w. J. o o
BUGGY AND
WAGON SllOP,
A 1
Corner of Hancock Wilkiusou
streets, 1st door west of
Brooks Sc Ellison's Store.'
LL work left iu my charge will be done promptly
aiul of good matei ial.
I have employed Mr. M. A. Collitls, who has maay
years experience and is well known in this and the
surrounding comities. Auv bargain or trade ha may
uiske will be satisfactory with me.
All kinds of country produce will be taken for work
if desired. Give me a call, I will satisfy in work and
pi ice. Terms cash. W J. cox.
Milledgeville, Ga., March 16, 1874. 34 ly.
Look,! Look!
GEORGIA, Baldwin fowity.
SUPERIOR COURT, >
February Adjourned Term, 1874. J
Present and presiding Hon. E. H. Pottle, Judge of the
Northern Circuit.
MATTIE BUCE i Libel tor Divorce.
JOHN BUCK, j Rnle to Perfect Service.
I T appearing to the Court, by the rtl urn of the Sheriff
that the Defendant does not reside in the county ol
Baldwin, *nd it further appearing that he does not re
side in this State, it is, on irioii.iu of counsel, Ordered
that said Defendant appear sud answer at the next
term of this Court, else the case be considered in de
fault and th. Plain tiff allowed to proceed.
And it is further ordered that this Rule be published
in the ‘-Union Sc Recorder” for forty days previous
to the next teim of this Court, by the Clerk
SANFORD Sc FURMAN, Pl'ffs Att’v.
A true extract from the Minutes.
. , c ,o, Walter Paine, cierk.
April 6, 1871. 38 |0d*
rilHE CRESCENT SPECTACLES now offered to
• .t** 1 * 1>ablic are guaranteed superior to all others
tLvlre ar ^^ Cl re rn t a8 *“ a duitinctuea. of vision
colors ,nrl r f a b ® tob ti absence nf prismatic
color, and refractory rays always fonnd in Pebbles
CTeat y d ® 8irabl<> - -Being ground with
“re free Irom all imperfections and
K2S“*- xh ®T ar « mounted in Gold, Silver, Si
without change 60 " i;1 > '
j e ^° e r i “ laBC ! y °. 0 T Agents. JAMES SUPPLE,
liSlle.G, 0pUC ' a,,> 18 8016 » !il -
on'^ery > p«u ,enn ' D * W ‘ thont the ‘Re mark stamped
Manufactured by
Fellows, Holmes A Clapp,
New York
MmclX^, 11 ^' K °P edJl£ra
From the Virginia Enterprise.
SENATOR JONES’S FIGHTER.
An Incident of a Senatorial Contest
In Nevada.
—o—
TToie the lion. J. P. Jones Tested the
Points of the Redoubtable Tarantula
of Calaveras, the TF«r Horse of the
Hills.
33 ly.
TOBACCO
M. J.
C • mmiiti.u
HBW
WAREHOUSE!
BAER & CO.,
Merchants & Dealers
y*S.» ia S'Y Tab I aofo ‘ Monh Carolina Leaf and
Smoking robacoo, Imported and Domestic Cigars, and
Pipes. Prices guaranteed. »I Cherry St , Macon.
Ga.
pd m’chSl 36 3ni
W. T. GUAY,
Carringc, House, Sign asd Oraaaarata
PAINTER-
Marbling. Frosting, Graining, dtc. Taper Hanging,
Varnishing, Furniture. Also, Cairiage Trimming.
All orders prompt ly executed and satisfaction given,
ty Call at Gardner's Old Stand.
Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 13, 1874 . 30 ly
SANFORD & FURMAN,
ATTORNEYS AT DAW,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
Office at the Stat-e House.
April ti, 1874. 37 ly
WASHINGTON HALL.
TOBACCO at WHOLESALE.
Lowest Market Rates Guaranteed.
PWFFJf? 5 W JWIMffi
Cheap for Cash.
J. P. SWEANY.
AfliTledge ville,Ga., March 31, 1874.
36 ly
PLANTERS’ SUPPLIES
And a General Assortment of
TIP) FT PFPfWF?
ALWAYS ON HAND
T. TP. BARFIELD’S
Opposite Passenger Depot,
MACON GA.
March 31,1871 P^3C 3m
LANIER HOUSE.
B. DIB, Proprietor.
tfulberry Street, - Macon, Georgia.
The above named Hotel lias been recently refur
nished and fitted up for the accommodation of tran
mentas well as permanent Boarders. Persons will
fiad it to their interest to stop at this Hoaee, as its
central location makes it a very desirable place for
merchants and families coming to thocity for
„r lor a sojourn ol pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM
PLE ROOM has been fitted up for the special use of
commercial travelers. . .
The table always supplied with all the loxur.ee of
the season, from first markets, and can be surpassed
by none in the South-
Omnibus to convey pa.-sergers to and from the
Hotel and all trains, free of charge.
B. DUB, Proprietor.
April 18. 1872. fa"
AT WILSON’S,
Washington Hall!
Headquarters for the justly celebrated
manures, WHANN’S RAW BONE and
BAHAMA Guanos—unsurpassed by any
Fertilizers ever offered to the public.
I also keep a full supply of Groceries
and Provisions, which I sell cheap. FINE
TOBACCO a specialty.
C. G. WILSON.
March 3d, 1871. 32 310
BINXN GS&’S
OLD LONDON DOCK GIN.
Especially desigued for the use of the iled>eal Pro
fctttoH and the Family, poetossing Ihoee mtrtune
medicinal properties which belong to an Old andPur.
Gin. IoditipeuKable to Fontlii Good for lklfliiGJt
Complaints. A delicions tonic. Put up io camR ooa-
Uiniog one dozen bottles each, and sold by nil urog-
rists and (jrocers, 6lc. A. M. Bhunger ol Co., ■
fished 1778, No. 15 Bearer at-, N. Y. »P lj 7< l 1
Cottage Color Paints
#1.00 to #c#0 ycr
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
SUPERIOR COURT, (
February Adjuoroed Term, 1874. \
Present and presiding lion. K H. Pol He, Judge ot the
Northern Circuit.
EMMA GILMER t Libel for Divorce.
GEORGE r! GILMER. > Kule to PerJact Service.
I T appearing to the Court by the return of the Sher
iff that the Defendant dues uot reside in the county
of Baldwin, and it further appearing that ho does not
reside In this State, it is, on motion of counsel. Order
ed that mid Defendant appear and answer at the next
term ot this Court, else the case be considered in de
fault and the Plaintiff allowed to proceed.
And it is farther ordered that this Rule be published
in the “Union Sc Recorder” for forty days previous to
the next term of this Court, by the Clerk.
T. W. WHITE, Piff a AU y.
A true extract from the Minutes.
WALTER PAINE, Clerk.
April 6,1874 . 3s 40ds
250,000 Brick for Sale
T HE niadersigneil lias just finished burning a kiln
of 250,000 Brick, of the best "quality, wuich he is
sow offering for sale.
Orders left at the store of T. A. Caraker, or with
me at the Brick Yard will receive prompt attention.
DANIEL UARAKER.
Milledgeville, Ga.. Mar. 4th, 1874. 32 6m
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Ezekiel
Tiice, late of said county, deceased, are request
ed to make payment at once, and all persons having
demands against said estate, will present them to me
in terms ofthe law. L. A- TRICE, Ex’rx.
April 20, 1874. 39 40ds
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary of said County, May Term 1874.
W HEREAS, L, N. Callaway, Administrator ol
John Callaway, late of said coouty deceased,
has filed his petition for letters of dismission, stating
that hshas rally administered John Callaway’s estate.
These are therefore, to rite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause on or before the
first Monday in August, next, why said Administrator
slionld not be discharged from his administration, and
receive letters of dismission, on the first Monday in
August, 1874.
Witness my hand and official signature this May
the 4th, 1874.
41 3m.) DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Gift Enterprise
The only Reliable Gift Distribution in the country
#100,000 00
IN VALUAIIB GIFTS!
To be Distributed in
L. D. SINE’S
44th Semi Annual
GIFT ENTERPRISE
To be Drawn Saturday, July 4th, 1871.
ONE GRAND CAPITAL PRIZE OF
$10,000. IN GOLD !
One Prize $5,000 in Silver I
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, llorscg. See., worth $600 each !
Two Fine-toned Rosewood Pianos, worth $550 each !
Ten Family Sewing Machines, worth $J00 earh!
13## Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Watches (in
all) worth from$20 to$300 each !
Gold Chains, Silver-ware, Jewelry, Ac , &c.
Number ot Gifts 10,000' Tickets limited to 50,000!
Agents Wasted to sell Tickets, to whsni
Lihsrsl Presaiaaii will be paid.
Single Tickets $2; Six Tickets $10;
Twelve Tickets $20; Twenty-Five
$40.
Circulars containing a full list of prizes, n descrip
lion of the manner of drawing, and other inb'rination
la reference to the Distribution, will be sent to any
one ordering them. All letters must be addressed to
Is. D MENU, Box 86,
Main office, > CINCINNATI, O.
1*1 W. Fifth CM |
Jane 2, 1874. 10 ly
WRAPPING PAPER
F#r Sale at the Hews Depets
W. H. ROBERTS, Agt
BANKRUPT-RELIEF.
URE SAFETY for distressed Debtors, and their
i nov '
Vbv
to bi
S ' 1 . ...
exposed families is to be found nowbare but in tfce
tod Stats
bondage 1 The law invites you to be free, and start
life again with hope; at least to save a home forever,
for poor families.
I practice in the Bankrnpt Conrt, specially.
WILLIAM McKIN ~
Milledgeville, March 25, 1874.
cKINLEY,
Attorney.
35 iy
A U S TIN’S
Aluminous Sulphated,
CHALYBEATE SPRINUSS
TEA. AGSNTS WANTED.
TEA AGENTS wanted in town and country to sell
TEA, or get np club orders, for the largest Tea Com
pany In America. Importers’ prices and inducements
to Agents. Send for Circular. Address, ROBERT
WELLS, 43 Vesey St., N. Y. P O. Box 1287.
The Christian L'kiOk, Henry Ward beeclier, Editor, ol
Oct. 29th last, ao: Partiea vriahinji to Ret np clubs, and all who
esn *et orders for TEA, should write him fur a circular."
Th* New York Weerlv Trikvse. of Sept. 3d, says: “AU
‘Granges' should write Koht. Wolla lor circular."
Thb Scythe, of Sept. 20 say* : “Robt. ells is thorough.,
reliable," I March 30, 1874—36 6iu*
Tlie Isaacs House
Ckerrjr Street, - Macoa, Gt#
H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. With
meals at the tables D'Holo— $3.00 per uuy, ot
7c cents to $100 for room, and meals to order. Lower
ratee by the week, and every effort made to give
comfort awl satisfaction to gnests.
E. ISAALH, Proprietor.
C. J. MACLELLAN, Clerk
April21,1874 30 ly
BOOF PAINT,
50e per gob
■ N«I.I#H.
GROUND IN OIL
LIMPID M.ATI M'"*-
FIRE PROOF 155 per gal
PATBNT PKTIOLBL# LIIUW •#*
Works in all Paints as Boiled Lins wed saly 50o per g«l.
MACMMK8Y
K. G. KELLEY’S PATENT SPERM OIL, |L#0
engine oil, tt; .... 75
FILTERED BOCK LUBRICATING OIL, * * 60
Send for card of oolora and circulars.
NEW YORK CITY OIL CO ,
Sole Agents,
. 116 Maiden Lane, New York.
March*!, 1874. ** #■
Best Mixed.
Oolong and
Iiptrlpl
4«ut received and for sale cheap at tha Mam D#*
TEA
SEND TO
LDDDEN & BATES
MUSIC? HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, CEOBGIA.,
For anything and everything in the Musical Line, aa«
yoor order will be promptly ar.d satisfactorily fllted,
both as to price and quality. We deal only in Music
end Mur— 1 Instruments, and can compete with any
boose in the U. 8 J
I
Piaaoe from #▼•
bast makers ia the United
Stmtes.andof every style
aagpnoe. Elegant Pianos
aalvA275—the best ever
seU for the money. T*’ 0
ta.gwd pianos for rele by
smell installiut-*- Save
ORGAVS!
Moron St Hamlin Organs
for Churches, Schools and
Parlor. Fifty styles, from
$55 to $700 each. 8dkl
at Factory prices foreash
or ou monthly pays
Churches, bchools
Teachers liberally dealt
A full line of Utesi
025 to $50 on the I with. A full line of Utsst
n.— of a piano by I style* always on hood -*
ptfn na. I Write for pricw and tertna
8IBET MUSIC—MUSIC BOOKS.
"is: svgsa
A LL persons wbo wish to spend the Summer in the
oool bracing air of the mountains ot Rest Tennes
see, would do well to visit these springs, where the
Southern people will find a hearty welcome. They are
situated 5 miles north of Johnson’s Depot, E. T. Va.
and Ga. R. R., is a beautiful grove on a bluff 150 feet
high, overlooking the crystal waters of Watauga River.
As a resort tor fishing and sporting, it is unsurpassed,
pleasure boats, Ten Pin Alley, and a variety of amuse
ments free to guests. Every effort will be made by
tbe Proprietors to famish their visitors such luxuries
as can be excelled by none. Medicinal qualities of the
water areas good as any in the State, as will be seen
from the analysis by Alpbens Dove. M. D.:
ONE GALLON OF WATER CONTAINS
Carbonic Acid solid contents 1 05
Sulphate of Magnesia 11.20 gr
“ “ Lime ...—4 80 gr
“ “ Soda...... 2.40 gr
“ “ Iron..... 6.40 gr
Carbonate Iron 12.80 gr
“ of Lime.............. ......3 30 gr
Oxide orTron IIJ0 gr
Allumina. .2410 gr
Chloride of Sodium 80 gr
Iodidine a trace.
Loss ..4.00 gr
Daily hack will run to and from Johnson's Depot.—
Rates of board per dey #1.50, per week $0.00, per
month $30. Open to guest* June 1st, 1874 For fur
ther information, and to engage board for the season,
address F. H. AUSTIN 6l BROS.,
Johnson City, E. Tenn.
Hay 5.1874 . 44 3m
NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP.
THE under
signed has put
up a Black
smith Shop on
the corner of
Hancock and Wilkinson
streets, opposite the oid
Court House Square,
where he is prepared to
de ALL KIND OF
WORK IN IRON in
the best manner,
fip^i attention given to farm and plantation work.
Patronage solicited. ^
Milledgeville, Jane 2. 1874.
tRontniLL.
45 tf
ESTR1TED OR STOLES.
F ROM MY PLANTATION near i iston ie^
in Uanoock ooaoty, on the 30th of 5lay*HA
i—« dark mease colored mare mule^^JQ^
(seme weakieoHa bay) about four years aid,
of medium she and has tbe brand S on the Jeff side
of the seek. AU persons ere requested to stop said
ii^l, MMmi md Mt Spurts. I will reward liber
ally besides bring very much
Jane 10th, 1874.
A.
Eric. Catalogues free.
gfICIAL 1JW0UJICBMENT
We are new dosing cut a heavy riock cf VW‘ M ’
MerekaaSSeat Wholesale Prices to retail buyers.—
pW " , " tk>t — JB» BOZhDl
LTJDDEN & BATES,
Savannah, Ga
March 31,1874. T *
H.REID,
A Mfduurical 0ntM,
tor
tha way
Prices reasonable and oil work guar
anteed.
MOMgevMe, Jane 9,1874.
46 1m
• BRICK MB LIME,
A T Wholesale and Retail, Cheap for Cash. Call
at tfce Store of
T. A. CARAKER.
Milledgeville, Ga., May 5th, 1874.41 tf.
u—s «t the News Depot
of light Groceries ooostaatly on
Just previous to the Senatorial con
test which resulted in his election, Hon
J. P. Jones had the following funny ad
venture in this city with a man who came
to him to hire himself out as a “fighter:
Mr. Jones and several friends were in
(me of our first-class saloons sipping then-
wine, smoking, and chatting, when
rather strange looking customer entered
the place, and sauntering up to the group,
began the operation of “eyeing over” the
gentlemen composing it.
Ho was a man of middle age and me*-
dium height, with arms disproportion
ately long, great, spreading hands and
knotty fingers. His angular, ungainly
form was poorly and scantily clad, and
he was topped out with a curious little
bullet head, set upon a very short allow
ance of neck. From the sides of his lit
tie, round head stood leaning out two
great, pulpy ears, and all that appeared
on his face in the way of beard was a jet
black stubbed moustache. This seemed
to have been planted a hair at a time with
a pegging awl and hammer, the latter
coming down on the defenceless nose as
each bristle was inserted, and so intimi
dating that organ that it had ever since
remained crouched out of sight behind
the hairy stockade. A large livid scar
described a semi-circle round one of his
projecting cheek bones, and passing down
entered the comer of his mouth, giving
to the feature an ugly upward hitch on
that side. Wabbling his little, glittering
gray eyes over the party before him until
said orbs rested upon the rotund form
and rosy face of Mr. Jones, he pulled off
the hirsute ten-pin bail, which he would
have called his head, a scrap of hat, and
making an awkward bow, said:
“J. P. Jones, I believe ?”
“That is my name, sir,” said Jones.
“Correct," sententiously observed the
strange visitor.
“Do you want to see me ?” said Jones.
“About three minutes, and in private,
if you please.”
Mr. Jones Jed the way to a large pri
vate room in the rear of the saloon.
“Mr. Jones, sir, you don’t known me,”
said the fellow, “but when yon lived in
old Tuolumne I was also in that part of
Califomey—in the adjinin’ county; Mr.
Jones, I’m the ‘Taranterier of Calaveras;
I’m a war lioss from the hills and a fight
er from h—1!”
“I don’t dispute your word, sir.” said
“J. P.” “but how does your being a ‘war
horse of the hills’ concern me?”
“I m here to tell you. Here, now, you
are goin’ into this here contest, and it’s
liable to be a very lively one About
election day it’ll be all-fired hot. Now
what you 11 need will be a good fighter; a
feller to stand up, knock down, and drag
out for you; a man what can go to the
polls and knock down right an' left—
wade through everything!”
Mr. Jones said he had not thought it
would be necessary to have such a man
at the polls on election day.
“Oh, but it will!” cried the man of mus
cle. “You see, you don’t know about
them things. I’ll manage it all for you.”
“So you want me to hire you as my
fighter ?"
“Jest so!”
“What would be your price from now
till after the election ?” You see as I’ve
never yet had occasion to hire a fighter,
I don't know much about the value of
such service. ”
“Well, I couldn't undertake the job
short of $1,000; there’ll be lots of work
to do.”
“Ain’t that pretty high f"
“Of course it’s a considerable sum, but
thar'B a terrible rough set over here.
These Washoe fellows are more on the
cut and shoot than is healthy. You see
$1,000 is no money at all when you cal
ker late the risk. I'm liable to be chopped
all to pieces, riddled with bullets, and
either killed out and out or crippled
for life. You see $1,000 is no money at
all.”
“Well, come to look at it in that light,
I don't know but your price is reasona
ble enough."
“Cheap! of course it is. I rather like
your style, or I wouldn’t undertake the
job at that figger. Come—is it a bar-i
gain? Am I your man at the figger
named ?"
“Well, not so fast. If I am to have a
fighter I want the best that is to be had.
I don't want a fellow that will be kicked
and cuffed about town by every bummer.
I am able to pay for a first-class fighter,
and I won’t have anything else.”
'Ain’t I a fighter ?” rolling his eyes
fiercely and thrusting first his right hand
and then his left straight out from the
shoulder, ducking his head comically
about, and poising himself on one foot,
‘will anybody kick and cuff me—me, the
war hoss of the hills, the Taranterier of
Calaveras ? Not much."
“Have you ever whipped anybody ?”
“Ever whipped anybody? Me—have I
ever whipped anybody ? You make me
laugh. Next you will be asking if I was
ever whipped? Show me your man—
show me your men—for I ain t par ticular
about ’em coming one at a time. Bring
'em on, and I’ll whip all that can stand in
thi« room in one minute by the clock!”
“Well,” said “J. P-,’ “I think you’ll do;
but as I said before, I want the best man
in the country. My fighter must be a
regular fighting-stnker. Now I have an
other man in my eye He is something
of a fighter; has a graveyard of his own
of considerable size. It lies between the
pair of you. The best man is the man
for my money.”
“D—n your man! Bring him on. D—n
me, I’ll devQur him ! Show him to the
Taranteler!’’
“Remain here two minutes and I’ll bring
him in.”
Now. before coming into the room with
the fellow, Mr. Jones had observed James
N. Cartter commonly known on the
Pacific coast as Big Jim Carter—saun
tering about the saloon. As is well known
to everybody in this city, and pretty gen
erally throughout the towns and cities
of Nevada and California, Jim Carter is a
powerfully bunt man, standing over six
feet six inches in his stockings, a man
who is “on the shoulder,” and is at home
with either knife or pistol, as more than
mu» grave can testify. Calling to Cart
ter, Mr. Jones briefly made known the
situation and invited him in to interview
the ‘war hoss of the hills.”
This was as good a thing as Cartter
wanted, and into the room they went.
“Here,” said Jones, as they entered the
room, “is the other man- Nobody will
disturb yon bare, and after Ml is over
the best man is the man for my coin.”
Jim waltsed into the room with his
hat standing on two hairs and a wicked
am lie playing upon his features. Said he:
“Is tha# the blessed infant that has
come to eat me up ? Is this the Calave
ras skunk that come over here to set
himself up as ‘chief?’ Move back the
chairs.”
With this Cartter began to wriggle
from sideto side in the effort to “shuck”
himself of the long -tailed black coat he
always wore, and in so doing he display
ed on one side that fimous old white-
handled, sixteen-inch bowie knife, his
constant companion, and on the other the
butt of a navy revolver.
“So this is the lop-eared cur of Calave
ras who comes here to set up as a fighter?
Move the chairs to the wall!” cried Cart
ter, still wriggling at his coat.
“Mr. Jones,” cried the mighty devour*
er of men, “Mr. Jones, this man is a
friend of yours. I can’t fight any friend
of yours. With any friend of yours I
am a lamb; I could not harm a hair of his
head!”
No friend at all. He is a fighter like
yourself. Besides, what has friendship
got to do with a transaction involving
$1,000 ? I want the best man I can find.
If you whip this fellow I will hire you
as my fighter. That's all there is about
it"
“That’s fair and business-like, you
skunk!” cried Cartter. -‘Peel yourself
and waltz out here!”
“Mr. Jones,” said the -‘war hoss of the
hills,” in a mild, conciliatory tone. “I am
satisfied that this man is a friend of
yours. You might insult me and banter
me and tear me all to pieces, but against
a friend of yours I'd never lift a hand.
Now, your friend is cf the right stripe; I
like his looks. Thar’s no use of two good
men a fightin’ for nothing, so I'll tell you
what you’d best do. You give him $500
and me $500, an’ we ll work together.
The two of us could chaw up the town—
we’d be a terror to it."
“No," said Jones, “you won t do. You
ain’t game, you—”
‘He’s a dunghill, chipped in Cartter.
I can't fight in a room, said the fels
low; “I have n#ver yet had a fight in a
room. I don’t like it. ”
“I guess yon are not stuck
anywhere,” said Cartter.
It is rather close to fight in a room,”
said Jones. Then tnrning to the fellow,
whose eyes were still wandering in the
direction of Carrier's coat tads, he hand
ed him a $20 gold piece, saying. ‘Take
this. I hire you for my open-air fighter.
You are never to fight for me except in
the open air, and where there is a good
chance for you to run.
“Thank you, Mr. Jones,” said the fel
low, pocketing the coin, and making for
the door. “Thank you, and if I ever see
a show to put in a lick for you. I’ll not
forget to do it"
“Providedyou have a chance to run,”
sneered Cartter.
Turning as he was passing out of the
door, the feliow said:
“It’s all very nice, Mr. Jones; but that is
either Big Jim Cartter or the devil, and
you can’t ring him in on me."
Snooks had occasion to call on th<
Rev. Dominie Thomas Campbell while
at Glasgow. “Is the dominie in?” he
inquired of a portly dame who opened the
door. “He’s at home, but he’s no in,”
replied the lady. “He’# in the yard,
soopormtendin' Sauners, tbe carpenter
Ye con see him the noo if your business
is vers precise. ” Snooks assented and
walked through the door pointed out to
him in the yard, where he beheld a car
—A smart city billiardist picked up a
countryman, and induced him to play a
game of billiards—one hundred points.
The city boy took the cue and ran the
game out without a stop. The country
man quietly laid down his cue and star
ted for the door. Said the billiardist,
jHere, come back and pay for this game.”
“What, "amp?” said country. “Why, the
game we just played.’’ “We'” said the
countryman: “we? I haint played no
billiards as I knows of. I guess, mister.
penter briskly planing away to the aii seen as you played the game alone, you’d
of “Maggie Lauder,” and the worth;,
dominie standing by. Unwilling t<-
intrude on their con verse tion, Snooks
stepped, unseen, behind a water cask, and
heard, “Sauners!“ No answer from the
carpenter. “Banners, I say ! can ye no
hear me ?" “Yes, minister, I hear ye.
What’s your wall ?” “Can ye no whistfe
some mair solemn and godly tune while
ve're at work ?” “A weel, minister, if it
be your wull, I’ll e’en do it” Upon
which he changed the air to the “Dead
March in Saul,” greatly to the hindrance
of what was now painful planing. The
dominie looked on for some minutes in
silence, and then said, “Sauners, I bar
anither word to say till ye. Did the
gude wife hire ye by the day’s darg or by
the job?” “The day's darg, was our
agreeing, maister.” “Then, on the whole,
Sauners, I think ye may just as weel
gae back to whistling bonnie ‘Maggie
Lauder.' ’
LARGE YIELD OF CORN.
The Nebraska state board of agriculture
last year offered a premium of $50 for
the best yield of com in that state in 1873,
which was warded to Mr. M. M. Nelson,
of Cass county, upon the following show
after it l ing
The crop was raised on thirty-five acres
of ground, first prairie broken in 1871
and the cost of cultivation was as fol
lows:
Plowing. $1.25 per acre $43.75
Planting, 45c per acre 15.75
Cultivating, per acre, $1.80.... 63.00
Harvesting, $1.25 per acre.... 43.75
Total cost, $4.75peracre... .$166.25
These thirty-five acres yielded three
thousand two hundred and two and one-
half bushels—being ninety-one and one
half bushels per acre. The variety was the
“Mahogany,” and its weight averaged
sixty-three pounds to the bushel.
Tlie above statement was supported by
affidavit as required by the board.
Washington Letter to the Chicago Tribune
The Third Term Talk.
Another View of the Matter—(Irani
Don't Want to /Stay in the White
House.
Major General Crittenden, formerly of
Indiana, is one of the intimate friends of
Grant, and a cautious man. He assures
me that the President not only has no
idea of the sort, but a resolute determiner
tion to ret re altogether at the end of this
term.
Senator Jones said, as well: “Grant
has no idea of running for a third term.
He seems to me, on close examination,
to care more for the approval of the peo
ple for what he has done than to desire a
prolongation of his period of office. He
is very sensitive as to good opinion, and
immeasurably surprised and delighted
with the plaudits which have followed
his veto.”
Clerk McPherson, an astute and ex
perienced political observer, 6aid: “Gen.
Grant will get no third terra of the Re
publican party. He is doing well enough,
but our party will not go into a campaign
with any snch innovation againBt tradi
tional usages. There is nothing in it."
Col. Beard, of Richmond. Va., a close
and concise Republican, said: “The Re
publican party has neither the intention
nor the alternative of nominating Grant
I have talked over the subject through
Congress and the country. We will prob
ably be beaten with any man we take up,
and that increases the necessity of fol
lowing orthordox usages. The President
is not so deeply disliked by the people,
but the Republican politicians never liked
him. He has not even a faction of any
moment for convention uses. It is my
opinion that some wholly different and
wholly new man will be taken np, like
Gen. Dix or Henry B. Anthony. I should
rather bet on Elihu Washburne, as he
has been pulling the strings for some
time with the Grangers, the Germans and
the press. The Democrats might nomi
nate Grant in preference to a straight like
Hendricks, but he could not afford to be
so desperately anxious for three terms as
to reverse Ins career like that. They
might take him np, if they could, to get
the patronage and insure victory; but
they could not control him in the offices,
any more than the Republicans.”
All the indications at the White House
are of leavetaking. The President has
bought property in Washington to build
a residence. He has promised his family
a trip to Europe on the expiration of his
term. He has never responded with
more than a sphinxine countenance to
the many wishful compliments designed
to bring from him an expression of opin
ion. Nor has he any personal object,
other than the salary, to bo derived from
the Presidency. Hia worldly affairs are
in good condition. He does not derive
the pleasure in office, with his means and
long military and civil restraint, which
he could get in retirement. He is an
American, besides, and has no aspiration
to reverse the precedents he has fostered,
and antagoize the position ho took in
his last inaugural, that he believed Re
publican government would uproot every
other kind.
Catching Insects.
A writer in a French horticultural jour
nal relates this suggestive experience:
“After Bunset, I place in the centre of my
orchard an old barrel, the inside of which
I have previously tarred. At the ^bottom
of the band I place a lighted lamp. In
sects of many kinds, attracted by the
light, make for the lamp, and, while cir
c.ffng around it, strike against the sides
of the barrel, where meeting with the tar,
their wings and legs become so clogged
that they fall helpless to the bottom. In
the morning I examine the barrel, and.
frequently take out of it ten or twelve
gallons of cockchafers, which I at once
destroy. A few pence worth of tar em
ployed in this way will, without any fur
ther trouble, be the means of destroying
innumerable numbers of iLose insects,
whose larvae are among the most Jest me ’
tive pests the gardener or fanner has to
contend against.”
Aldrich says of the Cambridge (Mass.)
people: “They are very pleasant, very
mtehectual, very delightful, and they
come to see you and talk like so many
books; but when you approach then so
cially they all climb into their genealogy
ical trees,* as though they were frighten
ed.” - i
If Z Sad ^Leisure.
“If I had leisure I would repair that
weak place in my fence,” said a fanner.
He had none, however, and while drink
ing cider with a neighbor, the cows broke
in and injured a prime piece of corn. He
had leisure, then, to repair his fence, but
it did not bring back his corn.
“If I had leisure,” said a wheelwright,
last winter, ‘T would alter my stove pipe,
for I know it is not safe.” But he did
not find time, and when his Bhop caught
fireVnd burnt down, he found leisure to
build another.
“If I had leisure, ” said a mechanic, “I
should have my work done in season.”
The man thinks his time has been all
occupied, but he was not at work till
after sunrise; he quit work at five o’clock
smoked a cigar after dinner, and spent
two hours on the street, talking nonsense
with an idler.
“HI had liesure,” said a merchant, “I
would pay mote attention to my accounts
and try and collect my hills more prompt
ly.” The chance is, my friend, if you had
leisure you would probably pay less
attention to the matter than you do now.
The thing lacking with hundreds of
farmers who till the soil is, not more
leisure, but more resolution. The spirit
to do—to do now. If the farmer who
sees his fence in a poor condition would
only act at once, how much might be
saved. It would prevent breechy cattle
creating quarrels among neighbors, that
in meny cases terminate in law suits,
which takes nearly all they are both worth
to pay the lawyers.
The fact is, farmer# and mechanics
have more leisure than they are aware of,
for study and the improvement of their
minds. They have the long evenings of
of winter, in which they can post them
selves up on #11 the improvements of the
day, if thejr will take ably conducted
agricultural journals like the Niw En
gland Fabhsb, and read them with care.
The farmer who fail# to atudy the report
cf the market and then get# shaved, has
none but himself to blame.
The Next State Fair.—The Atlanta
Herald, of Friday, has an interesting ar
ticle on this subject, from which we make
up the following summary:
The city has dosed a contract with the
State Agricultural Society, of which the
following are the essential features: The
city pays the premium list offered by the
Society, amounting to ten thousand dol
lars. It gives the Society, besides, eight
thousand dollars. It then agrees to ad
vertise the Fair liberally, and carry all
expenses np to the time of the opening of
tlie Fair. This will probably cost twenty-
five hundred dollars. *It then agrees to
put the grounds in firstdasa order. This
will cost say ten thousand dollars. The
total amount expended by the city will
be near thirty thosand dollars. Of this
amount ten thousand dollars (that ex
pended on the Fair Grounds) may be
considered permanent improvement. In
return for this the city receives all the
gate mono;-, all entry fees, all licenses,
and privilege money, etc.
The Atlanta Constitution, of yesterday,
says Bishop Heavens, of the Northern
Methodist Church, with his daughter,
took supper last Friday night with a ne
gro dentist of that city named Badger.
All 1 lands afterwards took a carriage
drive. It is very sad to think that Bad
ger is already married. Badger informed
the Constitution man that toe party was
small, but “very select."
The ErsUuk ItUate Bodies*
Ciifege.
This institution has achieved a success
which is unparalleled in the history of
Commercial Collages. Stsctiag in Atlanta
Ga., May 9th, 1871, with iour students, it
has already sent oat to Iks bnahnw world
nearly THREE HQHDBEBETGfiENTS
only College in the Booth that ia oenduc-
ted on the AarexL Birsm i Flax. Sod, it
keeps up, to the letter of its advertise
ments; 3d, it is conducted by men who
have had years of experience as practical
account#, business men and teachers. The
total cost for a full course, including
board, washing,tuition, books and station
ery, will not exceed (130. For specimens
of Penmanship aid CaBsg# Joaraalcon
taining full infcrwtiffli ■itdrna#
DETWILEB AND MAGEE.
P. O. Box 338, Atlanta, Ga.
N. B —Parties writing us will please
give the name of paper they Saw our ad.
vastiaomenfciL
Jobs, iw- »«•
better jiay for it alone!” Whereat the
countryman walked out and the smart city
boy cogitated.
“Which of the Fiji Islands are you
from ' asked a visitor of one of Barnum's
cannibals, trie other day. “Tipperary,
bedad," was tlie reply of the ravenous an-
thro pophagiman.
—The president of Guatemala has for
bidden the clergy of that republic to wear
tlie clerical dress except when they are
engaged in the performance of their ec
clesiastical functions, and has closed all
the convents but one, that of St. Cathar
ine. the nuns of the abolished convents,
oue hundred and forty in number, having
tire option of either entering the convent
of St. Catharine or returning to civil
life.
—He was a quaint old fisherman. One
day, along toward dusk, he was fishing
in a trout stream, and ns ho swung his
fly over the water it was suddenly snap
ped by a large bat. The strange look
ing thing dangled and flapped its wings
at tlie cud of the line. The fisherman's
companion called out: “Say, Sam. got
anything'" “Ye-es,” looking at the bat
on his hook. “W r hat is it’" "I dunno,
unless it’s a cherubim!
—Directions were given by the United
States senate the other day to have a spot
designated in the capitoi grounds for tho
equestrian statue of Gen. Greene, “in
comfoimity with the resolution of the
continental congress, passed in
There was no occasion to hurry about it.
It is not a hundred years yet since tho
resolution was passed, and who cares a
continental what tlie continental congress
resolved, anyhow.
—A curious fact iu regard to immi
gration is that many v. ho come to the
United States and Canada are fr om dis
tricts in the British isles almost as thinly
populated as Dakota or Southern Florida.
About 150 immigrants from Kincardines
hire, Scotland, recently arrived at H;tli
fax, bound for a new settlement. Yet one
may traval the moors of Kincardine for
miles without seeing a house, and the
land is but poorly cultivated.
—A few days ago a hungry party sat
down at the well-spread supper of a
sound steamer, upon which oue of the
dishes contained a trout of moderate size.
A serious-looking individual drew' the
dish toward him, saying apologetically,
“This is fast day with mo.” His next
neighbor, an Irish gentleman, immediate,
inserted his fork into tho fish and trans
ferred it to his own plate, remarking,
“Sir, do you suppose nobody has a sowl
to be saved but yourself.'
—A disgusted German in America
writes to his friends in tho Fatherland:
“When I return, I am going to put up
printed placards in all public places that
those persons arc asses who think to
make money more easily here than at
home. Whoever will work there as he
must here, could live like a ‘god in France,’
while here he only fills his stomach, and
passes liis life like a dumb brute. There
are no amusements here, no intercourse,
and the people will take everything from
yon, even to your last shirt. Your rela
tions will do it too. It is sad, but it is
true, that the Germans are worst of all—
our own countrymen. I fly to you, and
will blot out forever the remembrance of
this overpraised land, where I have led
a dog’s life. Good bye; I return to you
a beggar, but a cured wanderer. ”
A cynical writer says: “Take a com-
>any of boys chasing butterflies; put
ong- tailed coats on the boys, and turn
the butterflies into dollars, and you have
a beautiful panorama of the world. ’
To see how eagerly a human being
will catch at a straw, it is not necessary
to witness a drowning. Tho phenome
non is now manifest chiefly within sa
loons, where one end of the straw is
immersed in a tumbler.
An undertaker in New York advestises,
“Coffins mafic to order—now’s the time
to get up clubs.” Tins is about as ghast
ly in its humor as the undertaker’s sign
board in Bellefonte. l’a., “Coffins made
and repaired ”
A modem satirist says that an indolent
man, who has overspent his income and
lives on tho principal, is like Heine’s
monkey, who was found one day hila
riously seated by the fire and cooking
his own tail in a copper kettle for din
ner.
“XV don’t amount to anything on
oyster cans or barrels of flour. They
have got so they put fifty pound rocks
in abanel of flour and then paint, five
x’s on the head, though the x tra busi
ness could all be done in a minute by the
man who finds the stone.
ABoston target company, composed of
twelve young ladies, went to Dorchester
Heights on an excursion the other day.
The shooting was good, as usual, anti a
gold medal was awarded to Miss Lizzie
Flynn for hitting a young spooney in the
leg bo that he hail to go home to his
mother.
Kate Field, in her letters about Spain,
gives us the following moral reflection as
the result of her study of Spanish human
nature: “It is a great mistake to think
that good people are the most light-heart
ed and contented. They are bothered by
conscience and worried about everlasting
salvation.”
The following verse is said to be the
flight which prompted Tennyson ta call
Joaquin America s greatest poet:
Alone and rad I rat me down
To rood on Roin-suau narrow tee,
BelowGenevu. Mile on nii'e.
And not wilb many a shinirg town,
Tow red Dent du Midi danced tire wave
Beneatli tlie moon Winds went and came,
AodCuuied tbeidar* into a flame.
On Rooreoan a iele, in Rousseniteshade.
Two pink and apicy drinka were made ,
In donieshade, ou elae.-io ground,
Weatirred two cocktail* round and round.
A -very pleasant perfume, and also a
to attest it# superior luagfo. The secret preventive against moths, may be made
of its wonderful soooeas ia, 1st it Is the th® following ingredients ; Take doves,
esrraway seeds, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon,
and tonqnin beans, of each one ounce;
then add as much Florentine orris root
as will equal tlie other ingredients put
together. Grind the whole to a fiuo
powder, put it in silk cotton filled bags,
and place among clothes, etc.
A penny worth of mirth is Vorth a ^ ^ oonrtrietor
pound of sorrow. New York & fortgrAffls dailsas, and j$t
Bacchus has drowned more man thaxlthara #$•##■# trim mm m
LfilMUMrariNaUMft Am#
'*“• U 1 ” ■' ’ 1 ' u - —
A Philadelphia broker, worth at cue
time # quarter of a million of dollars, is
now peddling books for a livelihood Ho
derives his hugest income from a thrill-
r ing brochure entitled “A Programme of
the Philadelphia Centennial.” Persons
whom he importunes to bny a copy
promptly knock him down, and he recov
er# Irom five to ten dollars from each of
them in an action for assault and bate
tary.
A matter-of-fact old gentleman thinks
com it moat be a very small base ball that can
btsaugbtoua fly.