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Tub Danbury News lias an I'lnbryi
Annaniason its stall', who, with careful
training ami plenty of rope, promises to
contest 1 lie championship of the worhl
with Drummer .hie Mulhatton. His
latest ebullition is to the filed that in
that town recently a mouse fell into a
how) of cream ami in hi- elfnrts to keep
afloat, ehttrne.l the cream into hotter,
upon w Inch he stoo.l
t >f ci mrse w c
man about hi- .c,t 11 bus
to us that if w.
had no material hut a
carelessness or imb Terence, nor yet by
criminal profligacy. Among all the
hoiwi- which heaven grants to man.
health is the greatest, and yet there ale
thousuml-of pei.pl.- who take no pain-
I 1 pres, rve it. With health, pie may
manage to get along an.l he happy with
little of tl.i- w.irM's good-, ami even
without friend-. Without it all tin 1 gold
and diamonds at.d friends of the world
are as ' utt vanity.
Hope i- an and
-lire and -t. ad.'a-t
-I icket i. . 1< -IT t I
source .'if comfort
all otlmrs fail. It
Ii.-aii 1 y athwart tli
and points the age
lion- hy tlieadditional hein-
t lik'. ■ . 'i iis with her own
win . .1,rough jealousy of her
, precipitated the -caudal. It i-
1 a*s—. and the public contempt
I hike will he increased hy hi- unnec-
iry reojieuing "f tin 1 suit, of wdio-c
ill and vv lc '-(■ ell'c 'l up, di Ihe public
•ill- he mu-1 lia-’e been .inite aware.
madi imu
oil-ne-s ot
imdlici
, anight
a nasi
\ r. >1
n r to the soul, both
It i- the friend that
.an a l.r-dher. I- i- a
”, hicli sustains vv hen
throws its prisms of
c pathway "f youth.
,| veteran to the bright
d the dark
11 fimwjmr " •
the proper *t in
•1 anticipate. Di
what man liut
Of mankind
>>nly deduced
itireadv been
studied lilt. 1
bv ;
land of Hciilah, ju-t In _
border. It i- the stay of tin heart inadver-
sitv. ami tl niy friend that can cheer
amid the dcsolati. n- of grief. When tin
soul has been black, tied hy sin, ami one
hy one the friends of the better past have
di I iurted. hope conies as a bright mini.-rUr-
ing spirit to cheer a ml solace the despa i ring
soul. Keen the thief on the er.-s wa-
ins],ire.l hy its bright beams and wen!
through the gates of death justified. It
is said that hell is the only place where
t here is m. hope, and this thought slum id
invest that gloomy place with all the
phantoms of terror. Thunk ti.nl for
hope'.’ Who canid survive without it.-
su.-taitiing grace, or. surviving, would
not pray for annihilation?
Happiness i- the nhj. ct of all search, the
end of all etl'.rt. the reward of every
-truggle. In the hope of attaining it.
people will do and dare almo.-t anything.
and contemi"',runes,
clearness amounting t,
in which somebody el-
for all persni.ai sli.-rt-e
in all age-, men have
oinphshiiig the task-, how -
a-tiua of their neighbor-
Ki'.ith person sees with
. intuit ion. the particulars
'might be improved, and
lining- of the one making
the examination, the blame is promptly landed
in another direction. In fact, Mark Twain solved
tilt hitherto unsettled question. as to
the "best place t" have a boil," when
he -aid it was to have it on another
fellow. Adam was hut a lew days old before he
lisplayevl lie- vein of selfishness in trying to
niak. his wife a scapegoat for hiso.vn disobedi
ent.'.. The woman doubtless taking the cue
freir. h. ;■ liege’.,,rd. vvn■ equally prompt in at
tempting to transfer the gui't which in so un-
gallant a manner had been laid on her shoulders
by her husband Artemus Ward was said to
have assured his audiences during tile war that
bis bcninding patriotism rose to the sublime
height of a perfect willingness to sacrifice every
one of his wife's relations upon tlve altar of his
comnryl lit vvas but indulging a pleasant bit of
satire upon the readiness of every man to hunt
around tor a ram taught by the horns in a
thicket, whenever an oltering was required of
embark in a speculative farming. It is
easy to induce men to buy on time that
which they would not buy i( it had to lie
paid for on the spot. When cash is
to lie paid, men think once, twice
nid three times before investing:
lint when on time, they don’t think at all
l ut buy on a vague hope that it will come
out all right in tlic wind-up. Sharpers,
well knowing human weakness in this res
pect. bait a sharp hook with n credit bait
and dangle it temptingly before the eyes,
and tlie foolish man is caught, and like the
fish drawn from liis proper element and sent
whirling through the air. The good book
tells us to give to the needy and lend to
hint who would borrow of 11s. but nowhere
enjoins upon us to sell on a credit
to him wlm would buy of us.
How may we avoid further disasters and
remedy tlie evils of our poverty? By re
stricting operations to where we can stand
mi our own bottom—h,v ri moving tlie false
bottom of credit and chance, on which we
now stand, and replacing a sound bottom
of bread and meat and milk and butter.
Take the poor, sterile, unproductive lands
out of the hands of the negro, and turn
them over to the hogs and cows and volts
and sheep. Let the big corn crib, well
lillcd, he the pivotal point in all your farm
ing operations, l’ut the plow into such
land only as will lie sure to give a generous
yield. As to what is tlie most economical
way to make so much of your land as you
do cultivate generously productive what
you will put on it. and how much, and
when, is. while vastly important, a sepa
rate question.
Hut this 1 will say here, if you needs
must buy fertilizers, don't buy recklessly
and at random just because you can buy on
a credit, and when bought, don't put into
tlie hands of careless negroes to in sparse
ly scattered on old. poor land, hoping to
ret fat crops from such a scanty feeding.
If all collecting law- ail liens, all waive-s.
all mortgages could he abolished for two
wars our farmers would l.arn a practical
lesson which would be of immense In nedt
casually lost while away on a pleasure trip
last week. Address box O.
[ Rev. Mr. Culpepper is assisting Mr. Mc
Gregor in conducting a revival here at the
! Methodist church. He preached an excel
lent sermon on personal prayer last night
that highly entertained and instructed his
congregation—it was so different from tlie
ordinary line of sermons, it was light and
trivial, then grave and severe; it was fan
ciful, then profound; it was jocular, there
by causing a quiet ripple of laughter;
then turned into the grave consider
ation of the eternal hereafter, causing a
silence that could be felt. He will con
tinue the discussion of the same text to
day, and the merchants have agreed to
close their stores and come out to hear the
young evangelist. Hamilton offers a fine
field for evangelical labor. For there be
here material which by proper mechanism
can be turned from an ugly unshapely
mass here into a pillar of beauty and use
fulness for for the kingdom above.
We note with pleasure the great en
thusiasm with which the nomination of
Mr. Grimes tor congress was received in
your city. The people here feel a great
interest in Mr. Grimes' welfare and rejoice
.11 common with his friends in Muscogee.
And may ills course be ever onward and
upward and true to the line.
Harris county possesses within her
bounds a great many curiosities ol' a
natural character, to say nothing of her
human curiosities. Situate.1 six miles west
of Hamilton, on the Pine mountain, is the
Blue Springs, the water is a deep blue
color, or rather looks that way while in
the spring, yet the water when taken out
i- clear as crystal, it has an innumerable
number of small tish ever swimming back
and forth, and can be seen at almost any
depth. Tile aperture through which tlie
water pours is slightly oblique, thereby
rendering impossible' to fathom it. The
most opportune time to view this natural
e'liriex-iiy is about 10 o'clock a. 111. Then
:ke rays of the .-tin penetrate the aperture
to a great depth. Then you can see huge
legs and stone several hundred feet
he :v. nth the surface-. It is said by the early
.-.-ttie-rs i:: the' neighborhood that in early
’. ."..e-s fi-h of the sucker and trout species
■ e re reied by this spring in great iiliun-
e'.ar.ee: .'he- surface of the spring is about
7-. n feet in eliametcr. The flow of water
fr :u this spring is very bold, being suffl-
e'ie'r.t to teirna saw mill which is located
■ -t two hundred yards below; also a
-rr:-i mill some distance below tlie saw
mill. It Is well worth a trip to see it.
loti r curiosity very near Blue Springs
> i:... is commonly termed the double
1 :ni. This freak of nature is t\\ o separate
and distinct pines growing out of the
ground about six feet apart,
out a foot in diameter each,
owing up they cross each other at
of twenty feet, then
gain meet about thirty
my one-aw a single tree branch
form two toils. The two trees
Inis many good things, and among
Rest attractions is pure air and
luge. 111 the meantime
government, through it- secretary of
state at Washington and its anil,a—ad.,r
and iiiini-i.-r plenipotentiary at tli ■ Citv
of Mexico, ha-been ex.'hanging eourti-
sies and dignified diplomatic note
the subject with the Mexican govern
ment. lint nothing move- the pom
pous alcalde of the "lio-hoi'.-e Mexican
village where the international outrage
was and i- perpetrated. Thi- ten-eent
tyrant -naps hi- lingers at tlie absurd di
plomacy while the poor prisoner lot- in
jail, almost in view of the inhabitants of
a Texan town and of a garrison of Cnited
Mates soldiers. If justice is d.-laved in
this la.-lii.in it might save much future
tr. ml fie of the same sort should an armed
force lot sent across the riv. r tnlu-cak
tlie jail, release the pri-oiier- and w ring
tin* neck of the pitabie de-pot who ha-
lliade the tr.illl.le.
lice Ilm,litre*”-.Sum.
[>a.. .July ‘21. A good rain
lay evening, destroying the
good many weather croak
ers, who had predicted a lengthy drought.
I The general outlook at present for a good
1 cotton crop in Harris is quite promi.sini
1 - • f
ti.
left
in
II h \ Id'll. 1101*1. IIU'flMss,
In these days of dash, claptrap
tomfoolery, it is eu-toinarv to run
trios in order to attract attention,
conformity to tins fashion we select II.
iJ. 11. a- a basis for some thoughts that 1
may not I,.- without interest to some of
our readers. Health, h,,pc and happi- I
ness are themes in which the race uf
men should feel a vital interest. Health
is the great desideratum, and w ithout it
other blessings are of little value. With- 1
out health, hope loses its bright tinge I
and happiness is an unattainable g,., „!.
it is said that we never appreciate fully
life's blessings until they have flown,
nor understand tlie priceless value
of health until it is lost, Lu.-kv
are those to whom it is trails’-| failure
initted in its true beauty
freshness, and it should he the’highest I gave'oM.eing
aim of all to preserve it unimpaired | twelv
niieai language which he nallv
I hit it d, a - not w arrant the e, m-
structi',11 which t lie (.'on-tituti,'ii ,-ee- lit
to place upon it. The editor of the t'.ui-
-1 it',tinn ought to have known bv the
context that Dr. Iiawthorne. 1 i. 1 not refer
i" \11.111'ian- in g'-a.-ral, whom liu-ine--
aud riivutu-taiues called to reside in
"ther pine. -. Such a construction wrong-
Hr. 1 lawthorne. a- well a- some good
I pie who have left Atlanta, and it is
with it" little surprise that we-eethe
language -o construed by the doctor's
h"ine paper. Ho referred to the
disreputable characters who flour
ish and congregate about
gerics." and who had
lanta because of the sue, e--
tioli ill that city, lutin' dm
I'its speech he referred to
her citizens in term- of the 1
!"\'e and admiration. It i- apparent bv
the language itself that l>r. Hawthorne
did not even refer t" wlii-ky dealers a- a
class. We I'oli-tme it. an 1 we believe
properly, that lie meant "tiiy that elas-
of ini'll w!io hang ammn'l low 'live- and
who are not allowed even to darken tlie
d'",rs of well-kept saloon-, it i- t>• true
that in portions of Dr. Hawthorne's
speech the language was too extreme,
and the Kn'|1'ii:i-;!;-S|'n has already taken
occasion to advise tlie gentlemen oil both
sides of this w liisky question to let their
discussion he more temperate and hs-
' abusive.
RUSTICUS RACKET
ks green and vigorous, and is
some great
i t Hi.
Hillin'-
Multi-
of prohibi-
tor’s t'. .In 111 -
At lanta and
wst glowing
The plant h
i generally well fruited. Cult
disaster overtakes it, we will roll up tlie
number of bales from this section. But
we cannot say so much for the corn crop.
While the upland corn is as good as could
— be asked, the acreage is small, as the bulk
For a theme on this ocea-ion, I will ju-t i ( lat ' f' oi 'u in this section is planted on
curve a slice out of that new-v and juiev bottom land, and the bottom corn is almost
article liy your Fortson correspondent. He an entire tailure. Nuneoi ourbest and most
savs “tin t»irintT> went in clcI> T to inakt* a successiul farmers will fie forced to l>uy a
crop t hat they could not rat, and sold that P or ^ on of their corn another year,
t-rop for lev- money than it cost them to '' c I'pnver.-nig a tew days ago with
produce it. and then w. lit in debt again for sonu ‘ °V HIV lt ‘ a \* in K merchants in Hamil-
111 ore supplies to make more cotton to sus- a,u ascertained that the farmers, as a
tain their credit and keep up appearances ftde. \nere beginning to appreciate Proper
a little while longt r." economy in running their farms, and that
v ... ti , lt ~ ...... n, v tt *1 the present crop has been made at about
out'i 1/ M ■ the "wholeJArc .'o' 30 l RT ce “t. lt!SS ,ha " i- s usuiillv consumed.
.m.ii-v- n.' vertv h u.'i , We are glad to state that the old plan of a
count 1 \ . j \ k. i g-> in debt, to mortgage on a few cows giving a tenant'
make a crop that wc can t eat, hut must a i,„ 0 st unlimited credit with the mer-'
sell.aiH n-k li e sea-on-ni the making pi chan, ha.-, and crtainly ought to have
it and < haml ifi. piin tin se.hug ot it passed away. That system of conducting !
l- speculation, tank. rash, w retyjeu, in- tlie merehantile business, has cun-
saae specu.a ton. It is gambling. lake tributed as much as anvthing ;
othev kinds ot gambling and speeulau.m to the p,vsent embarrassed condition '
tb.-ie seems to be in i, liKoxieation. in- the country. To it can lie traced almost
latuntum ami halluematioii. a \ague hope evi . r y failure, not only of the tenant but
that things will somehow take a good ■ the far ,er. and finally the merchant,
turn, that leads the deluded victim on and When the tenant felt that he was not de- j
on and 0,1 • until fie is clean past pendent union tlie landlord for his provsi-
g-'iing. Deeply in debt, credit gone, ion. and the landlord knew that he was 1
nimselt humiliated, hi- home morl- aot responsible l- r the sliorteoming of his ■
' b,s mules hurdled in t.ie tenant, the one luvame indolent, the other
micidle (^. Hiuad >tieet^ wiU placards negligent. So that when pay day came
about their necks. *‘r«»r lamily m tlie landlord seized what lit tic‘produce was
di-tiv-.-. Wi et . lu a man. He now com- made for rent, while t lie merchant pounced
inline-w lth himseit altc-y this fashion: "1 down upon a few old cows which entailed
liayi been . nergetie alia nalustrious and, u; en him the further expense of law* '•’■s’
aslthougut. enterprising; have been tea- tv'es and court cost, while still further 1
-, malily economical, and \ et tlie active en- down t be scale stands t he poor tenant from !
ergus ut my hie nive be.-ti wasted. 1 am whom was taken even that which lie had. I
nnui.ciuliy ruined and 1 cannot make out But not so now. only the more provident j
the causes ot m, misfortune. j secure credit, while tlie major portion are I
Blind man! Let me tell you that you i supported by the landlord, who feeling his |
have been farming on a speculative basis, responsibility looks after his tenant, sees
You huvi been gambling on the chances; that he cultivates his crops, uses proper
vou have been dealing in future-, and the economy, and the result is a sweet smile of
bonus yi■■ i put up was your credit, and satisfaction covers the once grim visage on ,
now you are bemoaning the disasters of a . settling day.
had speculation. i Hamilton has quite a number of visiting j
. credit; how seductive, how delu- young ladies just low, and we thought
from the merry laughter that frequently
she. It is-o smooth : so nine „ „ ,
Mii C it A It i K> 1 Iii.k i. - attenijit t" 1'ehal >il- ting something for nothing, when you rung out on the streets that tliev were eh- j
flute bin.self )„• aiiutiier trial i- i fiat drive off with the goods and just have the joying themselves very much while in the
1. ■ ' . . ' whole matter booked down. And yet it is little mountain city, but the local "editor" |
Mrs. ( rawliml has continued to nothing hut postponing the evil day and of the Journal gives this view the black-j
and ' strengthen the former impression she piling up trouble attains the d y of reckon- eye by advertising for beaux, and we yield I
, , ‘ , , uing. Hope w hich springs eternal iu the oil. opinion readily, knowing the advant- I
tiiottgii Hie niot.ier "I human lireast. and which, though one of age that "his” position offers to know tl •
liildren, a frivolous and heartless God's best gifts to man, is delusive and true condition of affairs.
woefully deceptive, when one is led bv it We believe that a liberal reward would
to risk honor, home, comfort, time, labor, ' be paid by a gentleman in this town forthe j
iu the whirlpool of credit, upon which to j safe return ot a full suit of hair, which he |
through all the several stages of life. It I wanton. But Di Ike's illicit relation
should not he dissipated by negligence, | w ith her are well established, and ar
THIS WEEK.
and Mo Buncomb!
\W lidw.jnsl liuislit"l lakin^ slock, and Ii ml that uts„„
liavc llioiisamls ol ilollars’woi-lli of Smnmci'Gootls u liicli wt*
will In* compelled lo cany over unless Nicy are sold within
I lie 11exI thirty days.
If c nerd ihe iiioiu-t/. If t/wi und flu- (/unilx non: is your
u/ijiorf unify.
A,Hill) Yards heanliliil Snminer Priiils al 3ie ; sold Iasi
week <il lie.
Yards choice slyles Figured Muslin at 7c: last
week's price l(Jc.
AI mill folio worlli ol'Rcmiiaiils Check Xainsooks. Lawns,
FipiD'ed Lawns, Calicoes and Dress Is, al one-half the
price usually paid. These poods will noi last ^4 hours. So
doll I ex peel lo pel I hem a month /inner.
-ADD While Linen Lawns. Iasi week Hie; lids week Ilk.
Aland 40 pieces Figured Linen Lawns at 12k; last week
500 Pairs Kid Gloves
Our repiilar Dollar (Hove, odd sizes. 2o ends
-•’» Do/.eu Misses' lull I'epular made Hose, all colors. I0r,
wort h 4( h* or noi Itinp.
o.DDO Yards yard-wide Sea Island d ceids.
d.noo Yanis undressed >:ieaehed Colton dee
liir a\ ini' i\niii\i; w mu
JYT YOUR OWN 4PTLIC:
\\esliall positively close mil I Ii is depart nienl. if price is
any inducement.
-* , D Fail's Ladies (ilolli (Jailers, small sizes, at dde (for-
nicr price Si .d(»). jusl as loop as I hey Iasi.
Oiir slock ol While (ioods is si ill unbroken. It must he
cleared.
Imres mol Emhrnid, ries—duel s mol jd/es ,,f then). Mon-
is Die Day lo buy them cheap. We are ’pomp to clean
Diem up. Dili pains all over Ihe house. Come early and
hi'inp your friends.
BLANCHARD, BOOTH k HUFF.