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Newspaper Page TextAIV ADDRESS TO fHE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY A'litwv</ at Opelika and Seale, Ale,, I y A. B. CALHOUN. [Published by request ol the Pa tree » of Hus bandry.] Patrons of Husbandry, Ladies and Ue-ntletnen.— Ah a i editor 1 have often felt it to be my duty to write on agricultural matters, and I have frequently been amused by the laughable comments of Home old farmer, who, ignoring my ad vice, wished to know “What I knew about farming,’'as if he desired to contrast me in this respect with Horace Greeley. Now, if I wrote about fashions and the proper way to dress, I must acknowledge I would be wofully in Hie dark —for a man who is clean is to me always well dressed ; and if I wrote about the care of infants, I would do it very blindly, for 1 must ac knowledge to a oomple e ignorance ot even the first principles of nursing, i'hero are certain things that occupy much of our thoughts and take much of our mouey about which the very brightest of ns know out little, and there are certain other things about which we know a great deal, but. about which we think but little 'origi nally, preferring to follow in the patns which a hundred generations have beaten out for us. One of these things is fanning. I have always thought that a sense of farming was an innate idea, for from the days of Adam to the present, 1 question if tuere ever lived a m m of cul ture and intelligence—no matter what his calling might be—who did not think in his inmost soul that Heaven gave him pe culiar qualifications for running a farm to advantage, and that, above all things, he was eminently qualified to give farmers advice. One thing is certain—the major ity of mankind wear more vegetable than they do animal cloth, and they eat more vegetable thru they do animal iodd ; and, as our principal aim is food and clothing, I take it, it is natural that the majority of mankind should have more knowledge about the culture and products of the soil than any other. Now, the majority oi mankind are born in the country, and in moments of gratitude to the Great Father, 1 tuauk Him I am one of that number. From my earliest memory to the present, 1 have been deeply interested in the subject of agriculture; not that 1 ever purposed, or that my educa tors ever intended, I should follow it for a living, but having traveled ever much of th j world, and my childhood's training and sut sequent education huvmg given me a knowledge of practical ana theoretical agriculture, I have tried to add to ibat store oi knowledge by my own experience, and I propose in what i say to give you my conclusions very can didly. lhe majority of merchants ano lawyers, who loos forward to retiring in their old age to a farm for ease when they are unfit for hard and useful toil in then own vocations, imagine they can run a farm instinctively and live an easy poeti cal kind of life. Even old sailors, tired of the ocean, dream about spending then declining days on a fuim, when the truth is there is no calling that requires more labor oi mind and body than mat of suc cessful agriculture. Now I desire here, solemnly to protest that I never intend retiring to a farm wuen I get tired oi newspaper work, for, to tell the truth, 1 have no sympathy with men who retiie from the woik of their lives, and I hope so loug as God gives me strength to wear the at mor of my cabiug, and to fight m it the battle or life to the death. No man is happy who does not work, and his happiness depend, onnis familiarity witu, ana success in his calling, and the world over, men and nations are successful who work patiently and intelligently. You will say at once to this, and you miy frown at my presumption, “Then the tiuutheru States and me southern peo ple aie neither patient cor intelligent, for they are certainly not growing richer!” 1 do not say this, but I will repeal your con clusion, “the Southern farmers are not growing richer;” tney are yearly growing poorer, aul it behooves us as sensible men to look the cau»e squarely in the face and say why it is so. Just, here, a hundred men will be ready to say the real cause of our trouble is lhe lute war, which, alter having destroyed the flower of our youth, ruined much of our proper ty and completely changed the old system of labor to which we and our fathers were educated. I grant you this is true ; but, my friends, the war only hastened the ruin towards which the South was speed ing, for her old system of agriculture tended to impovensu the land, and was only limited in time by the number of in closed acres, and her system of labor was a greater curse to the whites than it was to the blacks, for it tended to degrade what God had crowued with the sweaty diadem of glory, that is the dignity of la bor. I abhor partisan politics, for they are the tools of office hunters, who live by antagonising the people. I have no particle of inspect for the haters of sec tions, for in this laud we speak the same language, and somehow I never have seen much difference in individual pluck, though I will concede that never in the history of the woild did men work harder, or with a more sublime faith, than did the private soldiers of the late Confederacy for the success of their laud. 'Without pay, ragged and starving, the lines of their march were more extended than those of Alexander, and the fields of their daring were more glorious than those that laid the world at the feet of imperial .Rome. Knowing this, I have often said to myself, “If the Southern soldiers worked one tenth as hard for themselves as they did for the Cocfederacy, the sun in bis twen ty-four bouts course would not shine on a laud more, glorious or successful. To say the brave survivors of the war did not work on their return home would be a slander, for the best soldiers are to day our most industrious and law-abiding eitizens, and it would be equally unjust t* say ear planters, as a rule, are lacking ENQUlßEß—Supplement. in energy, for it is notorious that they d more work for less compensation th * any agriculturists in the world, and pei haps in food and mode of living the have as few of the comforts as any clue i- of farmers, and knowing this we shoul diligently seek the cause of their year! increasing poverty, and the blight thu seems to hung over ths cotton States pai ticularly. Since the war the cotton oro 1 has not decreased, while the expense c 1 hired labor seems to have been comper 1 sated for by the higher price which col ton has commanded. Never in any eigh 1 years of cotton culture in the South ha 9 more money been paid to the producer of cotton than in the time named, am never-in the history of this country hav " values in realty declined more rapidly o 1 mortgages and liens been so resorted t< ’ by our planters to hold their beads ove ’ water. In eight years the effects of th, war should have disappeared to a grea extent, and our increase in wealth bav< been manifest over sixty-five ; but sad t< : ell the country has been steadily growing poorer, and farming degenerating from < noble profession into a game of chance. From the evei glades of Florida to th< Northern limit of the cotton belt, am from the Sea Islands to the prairies oi Western Texas there is not an acre when cotton is raised that is not peculiarly fi ted for the growth of corn, roots am fruit above any like area I know of. 1. should be the land of milk and honey By its rivers grow the fig, grape, peach, orange and pomegranite ; and on us bill.- ■he apple, pear, apricot, plum and cherry Corn and oats, potatoes and wheat, waL horticultural products of endless variety, seem to have found in this region thei. proper home. By the slopes of the mountains and in the valleys sheep, cai ie, hogs and horses can be raised prvfita oly and in abundance. While spring am. river, lefre.shmg vains and a genial sun nourish aiike the finest timbers of com merce, and deck the laud from nature’* n >nd with myriads of flowers that loan ine air with their delicious odor, or pleasi tne eye with their ever-changing giories. Here, suieiy, man should attain hi> great est physical excellence ; here, stne.y, tin gauut baud of Want should never be aeeu. but Want has come, and in many of ib< most favored pans of this heaven-blesseu .and lean famine is to-day entering the nouses of the farmers, and asking forth. tribute of death. ’ Is not tins true ? Why. in this land, whe/e tue geueious earn, never refused to respond when appealed <o for bread, there is not enough home made food to-day to supply the local de maud for three mouths ; and in hum cases there is neither mouey nor credit tv procure it, tor there us a limit to liens, and laud only beats one good ciop oi mortgages. Why is this ? A straugei wearing of it would say, “isxcre has been a famine ! lhe erups have failed 1" Oi auoluer might say, “Dread storms have iiiiued the crops, or a pestilence has cm ufi the labor necessary to raise them.” But you, my friend., know both answers •wind be wrong. Food has grown wher ever it was planted. No genera. storm m sweeping pestilence has come to us, ana oveu in our great staple that Providence, so otien te pled’, has continued His g lodudsS, for tne cotton crop of the year just closed will be up to toe average cl years culled good. What, then, is the cause of the poverty of which we have heard so much ? Many men say the cause xs the difference between fourteen and sixteen cents for cotton, and you hear uu every uaud, “We woutd have good Umes it cotton were selling lor sixteen cents. ’ No doubt men who ta>k in this wa/ be lieve what they say ; but sixteen oeats or .wenty cents for cotton this f.. 11, would only nave postponed the impeuaiug dis aster —strengthened for a moment the thread that holds the Damocleau sworu above the impoverished breast of the South. Ye men who, under the impulse of pat riotism, risked your lives for your coun try or luid your loved ones heroic sacri fice on her aiturs, do ye know that it is ye aud not war, or unjust legislation that has crushed aud impoverisUvd lhe laud ye would die to defend! if lheie be a man wnhiu the hearmg of my voice, who owns and works laud, aud tu-auy feeis lhe hand vs poverty upon him, let him follow me aud I will show him the cause of his dis tress, aud it he asks me for the author oi ms calamities, I will point to his heart and say "Ihou art the man.’’ Let him leave this assembly with me, and I will go iu his own vehicle with him; ft will be a battered and uninviting one, it will be drawn by mmes or liorsus so ill geared and poor that you will be astounded to ieuru they are mortgaged like the laud ihiough which they drag a shovel-nosed plow. Go with us as this man leads, over poor.y made roads, by farms, some good, but the majority delapidated, and at last he will bring up before a house, without a particle of ornament or attrac tiveness about it, aud so large that his family fives only in one half of it, aud the balance looks as if it were haunted by the departed spirits of good intentions. A score of hungry curs will greet you as you di mount, wuen hogs would pay a thou sand times as well. Chips, played-out tools, and a few ragged-tailed chickens take the place in the front yard where fi /were should bloom. Fruit trees, there are none, or if any they look like the ghosts of trees that died fruitless long years ago. Where there are so many dogs you will be sure to find a cou, le of shot guns in the house. Aud if ycu meet the good wife who has so hardly tried to de her part, she will alwfiys apologize for the . attire of the children, and her own ap [ pearance. *No wonder women get pale and prematurely old in such places. Bui it is not the husband’s fault. He is t sober, Christian man. He loves bis wife r and little ones, and all his hopes anc 1 dreams look to their happiness. Follov - him on his farm. You will see no fodder j or hay stacks, no corn cribs fi led wifi t golden ears, no pig pens filled with fa j porkers, no meadows embelished witl Ke£L€l and Heuxicl to Your TXTeiglxTjox*. io Ideating sheep or lowing kiue, no stable) in wiih w. 11-fed horses and mules, no barn. »r- no orchard, no evidence of thrift, only t ay delapidated gin bouse, and a cottou press ss ihat looks as if it could hold up its aoh- Id ing rheumatic arms no longer. But be !y will point you out the graves of his hopes, at hundreds of acres of half cultivated, r- yooiy fenced cotton land, over which oat >p ter pillars and worms have marched iu tri os mliph, and these acres are mortgaged, and n- the crop that was never made his against 't- it liens that cry out to be satisfied. h' Is this a fancy picture? Do I exagger ate? Can you not point to a hundred rs such farms and farmers? Os course you IC * cun ; and when I ask you as sensible men ' e for the cause, you w ill, one and al), as )f true men answer, “cotton !” Yes, cotton, 10 ie is the tyrant King that has too long sr .ivtd on the life-blood of his subjects, lt who has impoverished them by dazzling ireamsof wealth, and sickened the hearts e of the people by hope long deferred. I ° will not, however, throw the whole blame 8 »n King Cotton. He had, and still has, *’ »Uies nearly as dangerous. One is ex ravagance, the other false pride; and £ still another called inconsistency, which, ° while catering to the spirit of patriotism 11 u the planter’s heart, gives him, on the e >ther band, a perfect contempt for South ern enterprises, Southern manufactories, G indeed, for anything Southern but King Cotton himself, ami, then, this King is ied by a food called fertilizers, which be lemands horn his subjects, and the more •’ they feed him the thinner the old King ,ets, and the thinner he gets the more L infatuated become his subjects, and to ’ ited the King on fertilizers they rob • taemselves of food. 1 Now, 1 might go on indefinitely speak .ng of our p.esent aud past condition, but • meeting, as we hope, for consultation, it would be time foolishly spent, and the J only use in considering the cause of our ■ present poverty aud depression, is to en s ibis us the better to lay successful piauw ■* tor the future, and realizing those plans, "Let the dead past bury its dead.” The argument in favor of all cotton is lhe most insinuating sophistry wo know of. It states its syllogism iu this w»y ; With the same amount of work a man can raise three times as much cottou a money as he can corn. He needs money; therefore he should raise cotton, his sounds very well; but if the cottou :rop were a mathematical certainty, as ‘ jorn is, we might consider it. To illus- i -rate : It is just as if a general with lim ned transportation, on the eve of a cam paign, were to say, “With the same <mouut of transportation 1 can bring io my command more men than provisions. 1 need men, therefore I will use all my ranspuilulioo «■- »h<. i .rout.” The man who made such an ar- | gument would not be a general, but a i loot; for provisions aro just as necessary ! .s men, aud he should transport them iu ; proper proportions, and it is better to nave ten thousand rations too much than fifty men too many. To continue this figure of speech, we would say he was a bad commander who. Having the certain means of keeping his applies near him by a little more labor, should, for the sake of visionary ease, put .hem away two thousand miles from h s .each, where the merest accident would out them off. Yet this is what the plan ters have been doing. They have used all their carrying power for cotton, and they have got so far away from their base of supplies that, instead of finding them in their own camps, they have their corn cribs iu lowa and their smoke houses iu Illinois. 11 the case of the Southern planter were hopeless, it would be useless to talk or discuss the cause of his poverty ; but, seeing plainly a remedy, I, as their friend, feel it to be my duty to cheer them in their new departure, on the road of com mon senne, with the goal of success iu . sight; and this, in my opinion, is what should be done. i First, There should be a thorough or i ganization of the farmers for mutual pro i teo ion, improvement, and consultation, i and this end the Granges of the Patrons i of Husbandry will realize. This organi -1 zarion is as leg tituate as a board of trades 1 or chamber of commerce, and much more • essential, in that it protects the interests '• of a greater number of people. Its se t creey prevents imposition, its meetings i crea'e sociability and woik a valuable > interchange of thought, while its advice, ‘ if followed, must result in the elevation 3 of the farmer, and the formation of a i brotherhood limited by no State line, and > so generous in its formation and pure in I its purposes that woman graces its meet l ings with her presence, and cheers it with ( her joyous co-operation. 3 Second, There should be a determined I resolve iu the breast of every planter to , sell more than he buys, and where be - buys to keep the mouey in his own see -3 tion by purchasing, as far as possible, 3 articles of home manufacture. Certain ) groceries, and luxurious articles of dress, l cannot be raised or manufactured here ; 1 but I remember during the war Southern . girls felt a pride in their home-made t dresses and palm-leaf hats—and this to i make the South independent. Why can’t a they evince the same self-denial and econ e omy to make the South pro perons ? They b were certainly as sweet and kissable then g in their plain attire, find much better s qualified to be good men’s wives than they t are now in dresses which their fathers e cannot afford, and the profits on which o go to enrich New York. e Third, There should be a better system i- of agriculture than that which now pre e vails. I know you w*ill argue that the old it farmer, who has grown up with handu fa a miliar with the plow should know more e about farming and its necessities than the d young man who in hi« life never turned a w furrow. This I would confront by a sim >r Uar argument, and ask if the laborer who h digs a cut or works on a railroad bridge it should know more about railroading* than h the trained engineer who could control COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 1874. )8 the whole work from his office. I say, j, without fear of sensible contradiction, a that there aro not five hundred decent IS plows in the State of Alabama, and that out of these not one half of them plow e as deep as they should. Our farmers ~ have been tickling the laud with lit'le i shovel-nosed plows, for nearly a hundred i. years, and now they wonder why God i- d es not make the land smile with a har d v<st as He did in the diys gone past, when the fact of it is the land is too old, dry and shriveled to be tickled as it used .. to be in its virgin days. Now I believe q there is a subsoil yet untouched, and there u are thousands of rich farms covered by Q the pLyed-out surface soil, that for one s generation has been sjck and exhausted, and now it is nearly dead, and guano and ' patent fertilizers are not going to revive it, not even if you transport to the South ’ all the Cbincha Is>nds. The best fertili s zers in lhe world, mu those found to work [ best in Europe, where such things are a j study, are green manures, clover, peas, buckwheat, or any other thick-growing . nutritious vegetable that can be rolled i and plowed under deep. Two years of such cultivation would rejuvinate the land, i particularly if after being plowed in well , it were allowed to lie fallow for six . months each time before planting More , cure should Le tuken m the saving of farm > manures, aud every stable should be cou , s ructed so that the drainings would flow > to a compost heap. The laud is very much like the mute that plows it, it will ; produce in proportion to its care aud food i and it should be fed regularly and intelli , gently. You might as wtdl expect a mule to grow fat by rubbing corn on his back as land to be rich by scattering on its sur face guauo, or any other fertilizer. The food of the laud must be plowed in deep where the soil cau digest it. Fourth, You must make farming hon orable, and the only way this cau be done is to show a love and respect for this, the noblest of callings, aud the Lest way t<- show your respect is to work yourself We have too many bosses, aud the bes. bossed farms South ate those that pay the least to their owners. Your hands wil. work better if you work yourself, for it will raise their labor to the dignity of tbt masler, aud they will not grumble when they see their employer so willing to work himself. But you must show your res pect for agriculture in another way; teacl ‘ your children to be proud of their father's i calling, and to show their pride by fol lowing it. Instil into the minds of you> boys that it is better, more manly and useful to stand with bioazed face behind a plow than to stand with white hands be hind a dry goods counter. Show them tha! i it is more honorable to be a good farmer i than a bad lawyer, and that an indifferent I yonng doctor bears comjia»4w»»» • j 4‘or-na r-iU'.’.,—of the soil. Let I your girls marry farmers and thus raise ■ up tha true aristocracy of the South, which must ever be distinguishsd as an agricultural region. Da this and ten years will not have passed before farmers’ sons, now starving or tvai ing for soft places at beggarly salaries in the cities, will return to their homes to work. Fifth, Make your homes attractive. Beautify them with fruit and flowers ; raise as great a variety of fruit and vege tables as you can to give variety to your tables and health to your bodies. En courage your children to read, and let them have seasons of rational enjoyment. Make home the most desirable place in the world by its being the most comforta ble, and your sons and daughters will not sigh for the city. It may not become me, as a newspaper publisher, to say en courage your children to read, and read yourself, not only by procuring the best papers, but also by securing an abndant supply of good literature. Sixth. Get out of debt as quickly as possible, for the man in debt is the slave of his creditor, and an honest man loses his independence in the presence of a man whom he owes, and once out of debt resolve, with God’s kelp, that you will never purchase another article that you cannot pay for, and you will soon see the effect of this resolution, if yon carry it out. Now I might go on categorically and ndd six*b, seventh, eighth, and so on in difinitely, bnt I would only repeat what vou all know just as well as I do ; and I have no doubt there are men within the hearing of my voice who will coincide with mo, and express to their friends the opinion that my head is level: and some ••f these men imagining that they have level heads themselves, and just as shrewd ns the shrewdest Yankee, will say to them selves, “Well, all niv neighbors are in for ‘hog and hominy’ and I will make by cul tivating every acre in cotton,” and the poor fools rise in their own conceit, but they are simply, by their cunning, paving the pathway to ruin. Mv faith in the future of the Routh I have tried to show by casting mv lot with her. I see in the no distant future th« Sonth f'eed from the thraldom of New York and her planters free t from the slavery of debt and the bonds of ignorant culture. I see a South ern port obtaining the money our section now giv«s to the great metropolis, and foreign ships whitening Southern ports with their sails, as they come to bear us the produce of their lands, or the la bors of their shops, and take hack in ex change that fabric, for whi h the civilized world opens its purse—cotton. Bnt the dav is nearing, if we be bnt trm to our selves, when, instead of shipping to for eign or Northern ports the raw material, we can send them with profit to nurse l ves the manufactured article. I can see the ’ time, though I may have passed away, 1 and you and your decendants, when this ' State and the cotton States es the Sonth, ‘ will be the recognized home of every kind ’ of manufacture; and when, instead of * cotton being King, cotton will be our * subject and the whole world our tributa -1 rie-i, for the world needs nothing that, ’> with intelligent labor, we bannot produce. '> The day of dreamery the day of dema f gogueH and politicians, is passed; and 4 the day of earnest, honest workers has * come, and it is for yon, the farmers, with- H in the hearing of my voice, to decide 0 whether you will live to see it or not. 1 Follow out the course you have been pur -1 suing, and your last hours will be trou bled by visions of mortgages and liens. ’ Pursue the pathway of honesty and com » mon sense, and you will live to see the 1 South prosper; her mines worked; her 3 factories smoking with the incense of in ’ dustry; her fields well tilled; her people *’ eating home-made food and wearing ’ home-made clothes, while their hearts in ’ charity are open to world. ' G. W. BKO WN, DEALER lIC ‘FAMILY GROCERIES. ■ COLUMBUS, GA., Feb. 6th 1873. J HAVE now on baud and am constantly receiv • ing a fresh supply of the following Goods, aud respectfully ask a ca I the public: MEATS. Clear Rib Sides, Should rs, Mild-Cured Bellies, I Breakfast Bjcju, Hams, Fuiton Market Beef, and Dried Beef. FLOUR AND MEAL. Empire Mills “A” and “AA” and St. Louis Ma z-ppa, Pearl Grits, Fresh Meal and Grits, (mill prices.) YEAST POWDERS. Royal, Dooley’s, Rumford's, Durham, and Pres ton X Merrill’s. UANNEO GOODS. Salmon, 1 and 3 lbs.; Tomato *, 2 lbs.; Mackerel. 1 and 2 lb- 1 ; Lobsters, I and 2 lbs.; Oysters, I and 2 lbs.; Reaches, 2 and 3 lbs.; Fresh Peas, 'lbs; ‘ine Apple, z lbs.; Condensed Milk, Swiss and .eagle brands. CRACKERS. M-Kinzie & M Kinzie’s, Albert Biscuit, Pox, Milk, 8., Sod i. Gi eer Snapps, and Cr<am. PICKLES AND SAUCES. Mango s (stuffed) 1 gal . % g >l.. and % gal.; Mixed and Plain P ckles, <h w how, Ghei cins and Walnut (English) Pickles, Horse Radish, Dysters, Sauce, quart- and pint ; Lea & Perrins Genuine W orc *tershire Sauce, Tomato Catsup, tad Royal Celery ra>t. Colman’s (English), Stickney, and/Prepared French Mustard. z SPICES. Nutmeg. Albplce, Mace, Cinnamon, Race Gin ter »n< Pipper. GROUND SPICES. Allspice, Ginger r p.red 'Jove*. EXTRACTS. Lubin’s Extracts of Lemon, Vanilla and Pina • App e. TEAS. Young Hyson, Gunpowder aud Oolong, in W and pound pa kaire*. PRESERVES AND JELLIES in assorted sizes. SOAPS. Colgate &. Co.’s, Crampton A Bro.’s, and Keller's Laundry Soaps, and Colgate .t Co.’s Fiu« Toilet . Soaps. "H— .1,, T SUNDRIES. I No. 1 Extra Mackerel, Irish Potatoes, Onions, I Kerosene Oil, New 0. leans A and Fancy Sugars, Loire Java and Rio Coffee, New Rice, Candl ■«, !~iigar« (our own make), Chewing and Smoking Tobacco. Ootxis delivered free. C, W. BROWN. feb«-lt I COUNTRY MERCHANTS SEND YOUR ORDERS FOR CIGARS TO LOUDENBER & BRO., O oXixxexlo's.xo, Groorgia. i Send for Samples of our Cigars selling for $2.50 and $3,50 per 100 ! Manufactured of Genuine Connecticut Seed Tobacco, And GUARANTEED to be SUPERIOR to any bought NORTH or anywhere else for the same money. Itemember, We will send Samples to Mer chants and Dealers on application. GENUINE HAVANA CIGARS At $55, per Thousand. LOUDENBER <fr BRO., Manufacturers, Randolph Street, One Door West of “Sun Building,” Columbus, Ga. Feb 6 It NOT SURPASSED BY ANY! IF YOU WANT TO BUY STOVES, GRATES, TIN AND HOLLOW WARE, You cannot do BETTER than to go to J. M. BENNETT & CO.’S l Broad 8 COLUMBUS, CA. And as they are Agents for the Southern Stove Works of COLUMBUS, GA., there you will find the great, and good, aau | the XH.O3XT WITCH, which is GUARANTEED to last longerand | SAKE rtbTl’EK, than an\ other STOVE. | They ario sell the VICTOR, GEORGIAN \ and O. K. COOK sTOVJSS, which are also man u tact re i by the SOUTHERN STOVE WORKS. We also make the Manufacture and Whole sale of TIN WARE, a speciality, and we call the attention of mer chants to ou slock in that line. O ill and see our Stock at No. 14,3 Broad Street. J. M. BENNETT & CO. MR. R. MILFORD is with us, Feb 6 It ZBnrlcLl Oases AND At Edmunds’ Furniture Store. Feb 6-lt Thomas Gilber I JOB PRINTER, BOOK-BINDER t AND Blank Book Manufacturer, (Old Bun Office Building,) .. f r ’ RANDOLPH ST.} GA I AM now prepared to execute with nestnes and dispatou orders for PBINTLNG ofev ery description, via: LETTFB HEADS, NOTE HEADS, BILL HEADS, STATEMENTS OF AO’T BUSINESS AND VISITING CARDS, LABELS AND SHIPPING TAGS, HAND BILLS AND CIRCULARS, SOCIETY BY-LAWS, PAMPHLETS &c. LEGAL BLANKS. Railroad Roeeipts, Bills Lading, <fco ir book or loose, Blank Books of all kinds, with or wittfbnt printed heads, made at short notice. Giving my entire pe-aon tl attention to Jot Printing and Binding,! am enabled to fill all or ders promptly at L»W CASH PRICES guaranteeing satisfaction, Orders from abroad receive tame attention at If parties we.e p. esent. A full stock of Geo’gla and Al -bama Legal Blanks always on hand. ieb3—it Rankin House! Only Hotel In the City. PROPRIETOR. FRANK GOLDEN, Clerk. RUBY RESTAURANT AND Billiard. Saloon UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE. Every Delicacy of the Season. CHARGES REASONABLE. J. W. RYAN, Proprietor. Febßlt *SOO Tons HICH GRADES PHOSPHATES, FOR SALE BY I. I. MOSES. Wm. JOHNSON, Gen’l Agt. Feb. 6-lt Ivey «so Co., Have a Large Assortment of FAMILY GROCERIES. FOR SALE CHEAP. Feb 6-lt G. W. BROWN, 172 BBOAD ST BEET, Manufacturer of Fine and Co union Cigars, and dealer in FINE CHEWING AND SMOKING Tobacco. fSTGivn him a ca 1 before buying els© where. feb6—lt. , W. H. ROBARTS & CO., Bole Agent for Filly’s Celebrated WOAKW WMOLBBALE ANI> BBT AILDKALBBB IN Cutlery, Or oxery, Hous© furnish!ng G> >dt and M-mu aoturera of Un, Copper and Bhee Iron Ware, at ICU Broad at. Columbia, O». Feiwt—tf tLOOK HERE! I . V TO SECURE A GOOD BARGAIN! GOTO Thornton & Acee’s, CLOTHIERS t No. 78 Broad Street, Columbue, Ga. WHO aSK NOW BKLLING ■ GOOD CLOTHING At Lower Rates than ever before offered in this Market. CALL AMD SEE THEM ! Their New Samples of Spring and Summer Goods and New Fashion sa Plates have arrived. V- All are invited to coma and gee them. Measures taken, end orders solicited for Men’s. Beys’ and Children’s Clothing. Satisfaction guaranteed. febSlt r, BALTIMORE Clothing House, Q 88 Broad Street, 9 COLUMBUS GEO. We call the attention of the Public to ear >b IMMENSE STOCK OF r- Olotlxixxg- OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE, and which '• wew rrantln rtyie and workmanship al to custom made. i & Prices Lower than the Lowest! - LIBERAL D SOOUNT MADS TO MEM BE.RS OF GRANGES. • HOFFLIN, RICH & CO. febs—lt — ■ - - . - . FIRST ARRIVAL SPRING GOODS ' AT J. KYLE & CO'S 4,000 Yards Standard Prints. 4000 “ Bleached Sheeting & Shirttag, 2000 4-4 Sea Island, Black Alpaccas—all grade*. Shirting Linen, Pillow Case Linen 45 in. Linen Shirting 100 in. J. KYLE & CO. Columbus, Feb. 6—lt TO ARRIVE: A NEW LOT Prints anil BHed Domestics, which will be offered at cost. DELAY IS DANGEROUS! - Previous to stocking up in Spring, a sholoe 10l e White Goods, ’ Check Muslins, Jaconets, Linen Lawns, Table Linens, &0., - Are etl’l offarrd at cost. As the aN>v» will be la steady request in a few we> ks, a very little delay will resu t in enhanced prices. Coats’ and Clark's Spool Cotton, 70 cents per desen. I, CLEARING OUT SALE. In order to dispose of my WORSTED DRESS GOODS, already mark’d at very o* prices, they will be still faither reduced IO per cent, irom PRESENT FIGURES. J. S. JONES, * febfl lt COLUMBUS, GA. CHAMPION FIRE EXTINGUISHER! WM. JOHNSON, W. H. JOHNSTON, Columbus, Ga. Griffin, Ga. IU SOLE AOKKTS FOB FBI STATE OF GEOBCUA and EASTERN ALABAMA FOB TSB SAM OF CHAMPION lIHE EXTINCUISHZBS! The Chatnp'on Self-Acting Engine for cities, towns, and villages i* the most p'werfu! self-acting Engines in the world. The Stoti nary for ware bouses depots, saw mills. Ac., superior to all otto -rs in existence. The Portable, the last, ‘ut n<* least, should be in every dwelling, storebotwe, gks house, and railroad ears. To Railroad Companies wishing to supply then- R ’ selves, we are prepared to offer great indue.mentt. ** Person- wishing any as th < above articles caa be supplied by addressing General Agent, Columbae, ar IL W. Jehnstea, ttiian, Cinngis.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Sun and Columbus weekly enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-187?, February 06, 1874, Image 1