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A PULL SUPPLY OF "V
ttuUGS. MEDICINES, &C.,
V * ..., a mv stock in that line complete,
mery Toilet Articles, &c.,
K£ best assortment of TOILET
Ms ss. Also , ii°„mrket Also a Inr ire lot of Hair,
Bw»‘S t S»h?nd ®lnPer Nail BRUSHES Puff
Blotlies. root' » c j n({ cige necessary to completes
Boxes, »<> c |* A ld Guitar Strings.
Hoilet, Al ° , full supply of all the Standard
H I kce L° uvnICINES of the day, besides FINE
B AT ,?aM for Medicinal purposes.
Oils, Varnishes, to.
M . .ttention to my Stock of WHITE
■ callP» rtl ?“,her PAINTS, which I can supply in
B* AD ’, and n?trom 1 to 100 Pounds.
■Quantities p 1 nII 9 em braccs Raw and Double
■My 8»«* 0 L Lard, Sperm, Machine, Train,
Boiled and other Oils. All styles of
1 have nlso on hand a ot of
B aTNT confectioneries,
I** 's® “'iS-tw™”’?.,l "is
K-sssmt
B ort b side Square, Covington.—*«f
manufacture
■Superior Cotton Yarn
I jfo 6to 12. A Doz, No. 400 to 700.
l( A T T it E S S E S’
W All sizes and qualities to suit orders.
l a a t t i H. «f *
H Os Waste or Good Cotton
I.V 0 O L C A R D I N C.
H xh« quality of the Roils^unsurpasied.
■} LOU It and MEAL.
It sl'IE GRIST MILL cannot b surpassed in
| 1 the quality,'nor the quantit of MEAL or
|f OUR turned. A supply of leal or Flour
|„nstint,ly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
■id tsste and price.
■ .’ancy, Double Extra, Extra Family, Fam-ly
■superfine, snd Fine. Graham Flour and Grit
|to order. SHORTS and 11K AN, for Stock Feed
Kl.nkept. The patronage of the public is re
■ spectfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
I A splendid stock of
■ Dry Coods and Cr’oceries
lee hand and for sale Cheap for Cash or bartef
110 ail kinds of Country Produce.
•; F, STEADMAN, Prop'r.
STgAUifAX, Newton Go., Ga., Feblß 19,
WARREN, L A N E & C «.,
COTTON? FACTORS,
WAH2I XT OUSE
—AH© —
Commission Merchants,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
1 STILL continue to give their best attention
1 1 to the STORAGE an 1 SALE OF COTTON
an ! other Produce.
Strict compliance with instructions, and
pi mpt returns can be relied upon.
« W A H -9 St
K ttlewells “A. A.” Manipulated,
“ “A”
A moniated Alkaline Phosphate,
Ammoniated Super Phospliate,
Cotton Compound.
The above are prepared by M-ssrs. G. OBER
A 'ONS, Baltimore, whose capacity and integ
rity have been fully established, and the expe
ri. uce of the past three years of hundreds of
the best Planters of Georgia and So. Ca., have
I rived beyond a doubt that they are th©
Si tndard Fertilizers cf the day.
We also offer the best grade of
PURE PERUVIAN GUANO,
“ DISSOLVED [BONES,
“ land plaster.
Messrs. BOWKER, HARRIS & CO..
Ale our duly authorized Agents at COVING
J' 'N, Ga., and will give prompt attention to
furnishing Supplies, Shipment of Cotton, and
* * 8 °f our Guanos at that point.
43tf WARREN, LANE & CO.
1 \R. TUTT’S SARSAPARILLA AND QUEENS
J ' DELIGHT, The great Blood Purifier.
I YR. TUTT’S EXPECTORANT. A certain cusc
-I f for Coughs, Colds, &c.
) YR. TUTT’S IMPROVED HAIR DYE. The
1 " best Dye in use. _ „
) \R. TUTT’S VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS,
’ ’ For Liver Complaint, Dispepsia, &c.
These valuable Preparations are for sale in
• ovington, by Dr. J. E. H. WARE
j i Conyers, by DR. J. A. STEWART
J i Jonesboro, by GEORGE MANSFIELD
3 Q Thomson by A. HILL
Cos all Whom it May Concern.
(Have the NOTES and ACCOUNTS of
COOK & ANDERSON and H. ANDERSON,
Jt CO., in my hands for collection. All inter
ested, will please call on me, as 1 am instructed
to make a liberal settlement. Come up gentle
men, and pay what you can. If you can t pay,
I will give you a receipt in full. Now is the
time to relieve the burden off your mind.
A. C. McCALLA,
Attorney at Law,
Office for the present over C. 11. Sanders & Bro’s
Store, Covington, Ga. —6w47
lIIAVE JUST OPENED a Fine lot of Jewelry,
including ail the late styles of Ladies’ Fine
Hold Breast Pins and Ear Rings, also Shell, Jet,
Cornelian, and Pearl Breastpins, and Bracelets,
Gent’s shell, Jet, Hair, Steel, and Leather,
Watch Chains, Finger Rings, &c. Also, anew
ot of Watches and Clocks, and a full supply of
-pcctaoleo, Cases, Sin. I respectfully invite *>
pall from the ladies, and all in want of anv'hing
ln byline. J. M. LEVY.
WM. 60LLM AN, Dealer in Watches, Clocks
Fine Jewelry, Gold Pens, Spectacles, &e.
. “Rehall street, second door above M. Lynch’s
toe book store, Atlanta, Ga. Repairing done
0 B°od style and warrrauted.—s. 4.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
J. C. M ORRIS,
Attorney at Law,
CONYERS, GA.
J. W. MURRELL,
13 313 N T I S TANARUS,
Okkick—Up'Stairs in Mcri.ell’s Bi-.ick Stork,
Covington, Oeoogia,
f* ein K prepared with the latest im-
in Dental Material,
Guarantees Satiskaction in each
branch of Operative and Mechanical l)entis<ry.
wr If desired will visit Patients at their
homes in this and adjoining Counties,
All orders left at the Covington Hotel, or at
the residence of Mr. G. W, H. Murrell, Oxford,
Ga., will receive immediate attention.—ly37.
H. T. HEN It Y,
DENTIST,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
HAS REDUCED IIIS PRICES, so
that all who have been so unfortu-
L * nate as to lose their natural Teeth
can have their places supplied by Art, at vsry
small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
and work faithfully executed, Office north side
of Square.—l 22tf
JOHN S. CAIIKOLL,
dentist
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
. Teeth Filled, or New ones Inserted,in
ffiHl ffo the best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Office Rear of R. King's Store. —1 ltf
W. B. RI V F. RS ,
'dentist,
(Office near the Depot.)
CONTINUES the practice of his profession upon
Terms that cannot fail to gives atisfaction to all
who employ him. , ™ ts
Covington, June 25th 1869.
JO~S E ptl "yTtT nsley,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Is fully prepared to Repair W atebes, Clo' k
and Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice,
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House. —stf
PHOT 0 ii R A P II S !
HAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supply
I of Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe
cute work in my line in a rupeiior manner.
Call soon if you would have e superior 1 ic
ture Rt my old stand, rear of Post Office build
S„g _ r 'otf J. W. ( RAM FORD, Artist.
I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton. and adjoining
counties, tliat 1 have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
On north side public square in COVINGTON
where lam prepared to make ' o order, Harness
Saddles, Ac , or Repair the same at short notice,^
...» ta ib.M .01. , ROWK
FISK'S MiTALUC BUSIAL CASIS
AND CASKF.TS,
"or sale by THOMPSON & HUTCHINS,
1y 29 Covnigton On.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL,
Augusta, Georgia.
This well known first class H. tel is now re
opened for the accommodation of ihe traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have occasion to visit Augusta, will be made
comfortable. As this Hotel is now comp ete in
every Department, the Proprietor hopes, that by
strict and personal attention, to merit a share of
public GOLDSTEIN, Pro’p.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors..
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
A M E * I C Alt HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro ictors.
Having released and renovated le above
Hotel we are prepared to entertain uests in a
most ’satisfactory manner. Charg i fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot rec of charge
Largest Stock since the War.
ANDERSON & HUNTER
A RE NOW RECEIVING AND OPENING
the Largest and Best Selected Stock of
Fall and Winter Coods,
Gonsistine of every description of Ladies’ Dress
Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Ac.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Clothing,
Cassimers, Kentucky Jeans, &c. A large lot of
HATS, AND CAFS. BOOTS AND SHOES,
and everything else that that this community
may wish, but which we will not attempt to
enumerate. Our stoofc of
Groceries, and Plantation Supplies
Generally, embrace everything that is usually
jound in completely stocked establishments,
AGGING & ROPE, ARROW TIES, Ac., Ac.,
Hardware, Wood and Willow Ware, Glass M are,
Creokery, and FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
Also Agents for all the
STANDARD FERTILIZERS.
We invite everybody in want of any kind of
Gauds, to call and inspect our Stack, for we
have got what you want, and wi 1 sell them at
LO v CASH PRICES. Wc mean what we say.
sept 24—45tf ANDERSON & HUNTER
Newton County Script Wanted.
ANY’ person having any of the above named
Script to dispose of, will consult their own
interest by calling on
o 4tf BOWKER Ji HARRIS.
COVINGTON GA., OCT, 29, 1869.
A Bttrgain.
lie asked mo for the choicest gift
’Twns in my power to give ;
I could not say tny lover nay,
And so I bade him livo
YY’ithin my heart.
O, loving heart!
Thy faith was strayed :
On bended knee, he promised me
A price—he lias not paid !
lie pledged his honor, and his truth,
To love till death should part;
With love he bought the heart he sought,
And thus obtained my heart.
O, happy time!
O, happy clime,
Through whicti we idly strayed I
What joy was ours, as through tho flowers
A fragrant path we made !
Bnt soon we reached the outer edge
Os this our Eden land ;
Where love had reigned, and haply feigned
To do the King’s command,
O, loving heart!
O, trustful heart!
llow was thy trust betrayed !
With love he bought the heart he sought,
But has the price been paid ?
If I should live a thousand years,
I ne’er again should know
The same regret, or could forget
Those days of long ago.
YVhen first my heart,
This foolish heart!
Its choicest wealth displayed ;
With love ’twas sought, with love ’twas bought,
But has the price been paid?
The careless tone —the unkind word—
The changed and chilling mood,
Are these the things affectiou brings,
To prove its promise good?
O, foolish heart!
Be loth to part
With lovo, though love entice ;
So sharp a trade with hearts is made,
That few will pay their price!
How Some of our Mt reliants Have Risen.
A few years ago a largo drug firm in this
city advertised for a boy. Next day the store,
was thronged with applicants, among them a
queer looking little fellow accompanied by a
woman, who proved to be his aunt, in lieu of
faithless parents, by whom he had been nbans
doned. Looking at this little waif, the mer
chant in the storo pioniptly said : “ Can’t take
him; places all full; besides he is too small.”
“ I know he is small,” said the woman, “ but
he is willing and faithful.” There was a twin
kle in the boy's eye which made the merchant
think again. A partner in the firm volunteer
ed to remark that “ he did not see what tl ey
wanted of sue!) a boy—he wasn’t bigger than
a pint of cider.” Bnt after consultation the
boy was set to work. A few days later a call
was made on the boys in the store for someone
to stay all night. The prompt response of the
little fellow contrasted well with the reluctance
of others. In tho middle of the night the mer
chant h oked in to see if all was right in the
store, and presently discovered his youthful
protege busy scissoring labels. “ What are
\ou doing ? said he ; I did not tell you to work
nights.” ** I know you did not tell me so, but
I thought 1 might as well be doing something.”
In the morning the cashier got orders to
“ double that boy’s wages, for he is willing.”
Only a few weeks elapsed before a show of
wild beasts passed through the streets, and very
naturally all hands in the store rushed out to
witness the spectacle, A thief saw his oppor
tunity, and entered at the rear door to seize
something, but in a twinkling found himse f
firmly clutched by the diminutive clerk afore
said, and after a struggle was captured. Not
only was robbery prevented, but valuable arti
cles taken from other stores were recovered.—
YYhen asked by the merchant why he stayed
behind to watch when all others quit their
work, the reply was, “You told me never to
leave the store whan others were absent,and I
thought I’d stay.” Orders were immediately
given once more : ‘‘Double that boy s wages ;
he is willing and faithful.” To-day that boy
is getting a salary of $2,500, and next January
will become a member of the firm.—[Republic.
He’s Lucky.
How often is the above expression made use
of by individuals when speaking of the good
results which have followed the undertakings
of some of their friends who has been engaged
in some of the operations which are followed
in order to gain a livelihood or competence !
With very many everything is attributed to
luck, and these individuals as a class, may
generally be found at tho foot of fortune’s
ladder, with their hands in their pockets, wait
ing for something to “turn up ' instead of
stripping up thsir sleeves and “pitching in,”
thereby doing something for their own benefit.
People who so persistently believe in luok, are
generally first class gamblers. You can find
admirable specimens on the sidewalko and
corners about town, and as for croaking, they
cannot possibly be beat. “Luck was always
agin ’em,” so they say, and it always will be,
until they change their tactics. They expect
too much altogether of luck—that it not only
will provide the necessaries and luxuries of
life, but serve them up at table, and put them
in their mouths. We will not attempt to deny
that sometimes fortunate combinations of cir
cumstances operate favorably in behalf of in
dividuals, and do much (“wards developing
success. But these combinations in themselves,
would be nothing unless improved, and the
benefits wrapped up or connected therewith,
wrung from their grasp and properly appro
priated.
A “Corn” Panic out West.
There is excitement und “downward ten
dency” in the grain market at Chicago. The
Monday evening papers of that city furnish
the following particulars. Tho Chicago Jour
nal says:
Grain comes in more rapidly than wanted for
shipment, under our recent pecuniary derange
ments, and there have been but few hero who
could command money enough to buy to
hold. Our weakness has reacted on New
York and sent that market down, while Liver
pool has caught tho same infection. Wall
street gambling was the primary cause, hut
the proximate cause arose in Chicago. There
was a good deal of short trading to-day, many
being anxious to sell and others equally will
ing to buy, but with a decided preference for
the buyer’s option.
YVith reference to the condition of the bunks,
under this unfavorable eondition of things,
the writer says :
The strain on the banks in this city, pro
duced [jy the large amount of grain which has
accumulated here, has been heavy. The panic
in New York deprived the grain and flour
dealers of New Yoik city and State of the fa
cilities fur doing business, because they could
not get accommodations to pay sight bills
drawn on them to pay for grain shipped from
here. There has been any quantity of orders
here to buy grain to be paid for by bills drawn
at thirty days, and it is useless for the banks of
this city, without an increase of capital, to
attempt to furnish funds for the whole of the
transactions in grain from the hands of the
producer to the consumer in the Eastern and
foreign markets.
At Cincinnati the Enquirer speaking of
wheat, says:
Advices from other points have been of an
unfavorable character, and the orders have
generally been withdrawn. The city millers
are, in most cases, limiting their purchases to
immediate wants, ns they have not much con
fidence in prices, and the present rates for flour
afford them no profit. The receipts of wheat
have not been large, and the supply has e:*>
ceeded the demand, and there being more dis
position to sell concessions were in some cases
granted.
Corn—Prices are lower, Thedistillors have
been buying pretty freely at interior points,
and are not in the market to any extent at
present* and the demand from the local deal
ers is not equal to the receipts.
The N. Y. Express says ::
The late financial crisis in Wall street which
has demoralized speculation, is now gradually
extending itself to the channels of legiti
mate business. The New York merchants
complain of a steady falling off in trade, when
the fall business ought to be very active. [ln
Baltimore it is very fair.] Advices from dif
ferent sections of the country speak of busi
ness being unsatisfactory, while in some ca es
great depression exists. The hitter is particu
larly applicable to the grain trade at Chicago
and other lake ports. Under the heavy decline
in grain at the West producers are not sending
their grain to market freely at present, and
this is clearly seen in the decreasing earnings
of the Western rail roads whilo the farmer
continues in debt to the Western merchant,
and the Western merchant in turn is unable
to liquidate his indebtedness to the Eastern
merchant. Thus it will be seen that the de
pression in tho grain trade affects injuriously
great railway and mercantile interests of
the country, the ramifications of which are
extensive.
Negro Organization.
The shrewdest of the Southern negroes, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer, have become disgust
ed at the evident determination of the carpet
baggers and scalawags to use the colored vote
for their own individual advancement. This
has long been apparent, and it is scarcely sur
prising that a foimidablo rebellion against it
has at length been organized. A large secret
society of colored voters, bound togethor by an
oath that they will vote for no one for office
except colored men, is in existence in Rich
mond, Va., and its membership is rapidly
increasing. Similar associations will very
soon be, if they are not already, spread all
over the South ; and before long, we shall have
a mournful outcry from the repudiated white
trash about the proscriptions and outrages to
which they have been subjected by the igm *
rant and brutal blacks. In the meanwhile the
respectable white people of the South will find
entertainment and profit in quietly observing
the fight—their interest in which will be some
thing akin to that experienced by the good
wife who once watched a wrestling between
her husband and a bear.
Tn» Iron Clad Oath. —Some needed light
is thrown upon the appointments made by
General Canby, in Virginia, through the in
quiries of a Herald correspondent into the
Mosby-Boyd quarrel, and also upon the great
nbuse to which the “iron clad” oath leads.—
This oath can be taken by any Northern man;
so the plan is for Northern men to take the
oath, sign the papers und sell out. The oath
taker gets a fixed sum, and the man who fills
the office must make his fees pay him, and do
he duties. Thus tho persons who stand on
Canby’s records as occupying certain offices are
not the persons in office, and the object of the
oath is defeated. This was one of the fearful
abuses of administration in France that
brought about the revolution.— [N. Y. Herald.
“An illiterate correspondent, who is given
to sporting, wants to know when tho “Anglo
tSaxon race” so much iulked of. is to come
off.”
It has been indefinitely postponed in tho
South on account of the opposition of the Rad
ical party.
Wanted.
The Democratic party of the United States
is sadly in want.
Its wants are not very numerous, but se
vere.
It wants brainß.
It wants honesty.
It wants pluck.
It wants unity of notion.
In fact, there is no Democratic pnrty in tho
United States, in the hard-pan acceptation of
the term, though there are Democrats enough
to form a most irresistible party, and more.
The Democracy of one State is not tho De
mocracy of another. There is no head to plan,
and without it no power of the people to exc
eute. For ten years tho efforts of leading
Democrats have been to kill off rising men,
every Democrat of ability and influence, lest
they become too popular with the people. If
a Democrat in ono State, by dint of brain,
pluck, and honesty of purpose, raises his head
abovo tlie hedge of thorns he is in, the Demo
crats of other States, instead of helping him
up, whacks him over the heal and yells thro’
gimlet politicians— sit down!
From 1861 till date the Democratic party
has not killed off a Republican, but has stab
bed in the back,'poisoned, ham-strung or crip
pled its own men by the score. The Repub
lican party take thieves, robbers, swindlers and
even fools, and make great men and rulers of
them simply by sticking to their men and
building up by every means in their power,
all the while giving Democrats the very hell,
charging everything known and unknown up
on us as a party. They nominate a thief, all
swear he is honest, they elect him and he di
vides what he steals. They nominate a drunk
ard, all swear he is u temperance man, and
elect him.
They take a candidate from a jail, gutter,
or prison, swear he never was outside of a
Bible class, and elect him.
They make Presidents of half-breeders,
foreign ministers or keepers of assignation
houses, who shoot their best customers, ratify
in churches, call it religious loyalty, and say
amen.
If it be spoons, cotton, niggers, bonds, or
bayonets, they all stick together, tramp like
skunks in a line, camp, stink up the air, lay it
to the Democrats, swear they did not do it,
and pass on, while our people are always ex
cusing them, and fighting those who warn
against their ooming..
The Democratic party is like a mob opera
ting against a well-drilled army.
The head of the body has bonds, but no
brains. lie can neither plan nor execute for
victory. He lives by that robbery tho rank
and filu fights vainly against
It lacks honesty,.and pluck, when it does
not come square out in defense of the people.
But our lenders are cowards. They dare not
avow their principles. They mean one thing
and talk another. They lose two Democrats
to gain one Republican. They plan to foster
enemies more frhaesupport friends.
They want the vote of the tax payers and
the money of bondholders, and set up cockie
pm platforms, meaning nothing ; then talk by
the hour to prove to a Republican that they
mean ono thing, and another hour to a Dem
ocrat to prove they mean another. This is
the style of top and bottom dealing to reach
the cards in the center.
‘We mean equal taxation, but dare not say
so openly.’
‘We mean greenbacks fur bonds, but it won’t
and i to say so just yet.’
*YV T e mean to repudiate the national "[debt,
but, buys, don’t mention it to bondholders, or
they will not vote for u*.’
‘We mean to protect the South when we get
the power, but can’t get the power if we say
so, so we must go slow to catch New Eng
land.’
‘YYe must not denounce Republicans, so
many Democrats are in that party, and if we
offend them, they will not come back.’
‘We won’t adopt certain views and ideas of
brave honest Democrats till they become pop
ular.’
And then kill off the iron who advance and
popularize the ideas to strengthen tho party.
There is a rising Democrat in Ohio.
‘Kill him down !’
There is another in Indiana.
‘Kill him down 1’
There is another in New York.
‘Kill him down 1’
Thore is another in Pennsylvania.
‘Kill him down !’
There is another in New Jersey—anothor in
New England—another in Illinois—another
from somewhere in the Northwest—another
in California—another in one of the Southern
States.
‘Kill them all down 1’ And thus strengthen
the party.
Packer is glad that Pendleton is killed.
Pendleton is glad that Packer is killed.
Hoffman is glad that both are killed.
Ilendricks'is glad that all of them are killed.
Vallandigham wishes more of them were
killed.
And we, in common with other good Demo
crass, are sorry such is the case, and yet do
not care a continental who is killed, if
those who do the killing will not manage in
killing others to kill themselves, and by this
cowardly, brainless, tricky, selfish, illiberal
policy, cripple principle, and emasculate the
Democratic party.
How in the name of God will or can the
people trust our leaders when they will not
trust- each other, and prove by their honesty,
bravery, Democracy, and devotion to princi
ple, that they are more intent on public 'good
than private gain, and tho gratification of per
sonal spites.—N. Y. Democrat.
VOL 4 NO, 50
Beecher’s Farm.
Mark Twuiu gives the following lively ac
count of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s model
farm :
Mr. Beecher's farm consists of thirty-sis
acres, and is carried on on strictly scientific
principles. He never puts in any part of a
crop without consulting his book. He plows
and reaps and digs and sows according to the
best authorities—and the authorities cost more
than tho other implements do. As soon as tho
library is complete, the farm will begin to be
a profitable investment. But book-fanning
lms its drawbacks. Upon one occasion, when
it seemed morally certain that tho hay ought
to be cut, the hay book could not bo found
and before it was found it was too lato, and
the hav was spoiled. Mr. Beecher raises some
of the finest crops of wheat in the country,
but the unfavorable difference between the
cost of producing it, an i its market value after
it is produced, has interfered considerably with
its success as a commercial enterprise. Ilis
special weakness is hogs, however. lie thinks
hogs the best game a farm produces. lie buyo
the original pig for a dollar and a half, and
feeds him forty dollars’ worth of corn, and
then sells him for about nine dollars. This is
the only crop he ever makes any money on.—
lie loses on the corn, but he makes seven
dollars and a half on the hog. He does not
mind this, because he never expects to make
nnything on corn anyway. And any way it
turns out, he has the excitement of raising the
hog any how, whether he gets the worth of
him or not. Ilis strawberries would be a com
fortable success if the robins would eat tur
nips, bnt they won’t, and hence the diffi
culty.
One of Mr. Beecher’s most harrassing diff»
culties in his farming operations comes of the
close resemblance of different sorts of seeds to
each other. Two years ago, his far-sighted
ness warned him that there was going to be
a great scarcity of water melons, and therefore
lie put in a crop of twenty-seven acres of that
fruit. But when they came up they turned
out to be pumpkins, and a dead loss was the
consequence. Sometimes a portion of his
crop goes into the ground the most promising
sweet potatoes, and comes up the infernalest
carrots—though I never heard him express it
just in that way. YVhen he bought his farm
he found one egg in every hen’s nest on tho
place. He said that here was the reason why
so many farmers failed—they scattered their
forces too much—concentration was the idea.
So he gathered those together and put them
ilnder one experienced old han. The hen
roosted over tint contract day and night for
eleven weeks, under tho anxious personal
supervision of Mr. Beecher himself, but
she could not ‘phase’ those egg*. YVliy?
Because they were those infamous porcelain
things which are used by ingenious and fraud
ulent farmers as ‘nest eggs.’ But perhaps Mr.
Beecher’s most disastrous experience was the
time he tried to raise an immense crop of
dried apples. He planted fifteen hundred
dollars’ worth, hut never a one of them sprout
ed. lie has never been able to understand, to
this day, what was the matter with those ap
ples.
Mr. Beecher’s farm is not a triumph. It
would be easier on him if he worked it on
shares with someone: but he cannot find any
body who is willing to stand half the expense,
and not many that are ab'e. Still, persistence
in any cause is bound to succeed. lie was a
very inferior farmer when he first began, but
ajprolonged and unflinching assault upon his
agricultural difficulties has its effect at last,
and he is now fast rising from affluence to
poverty.
A Novel Revenue Seizure.— Eighteen par
rots, one wildcat and one sick monkey were
seized in New Orleans on Saturday by an In-*
spector of the Customs for irregularities of
importation. The live stock is subject to an
•ad valorem duty of twenty per cent, was not
entered on the ship’s manifest, “and that was
the cause of it.” The custom has been to aN
low the crews of vessels to import such livo
stock as parrots and monkeys without requiring
an entry on the manifest, but only requiring
payment of the regular duty. The birds and
animals will be released. All except the wild
cit was conveyed to the warehouse in the
Custom House building, but the draymen did
not care to handle that animal, and left it on
the vessel.
Sunshine and Clouds. —Ah, this beautiful
world ! I know not what to think of it.
Sometimes it is all sunshine and gladness, and
heaven itself lies not far off. and then it sud
denly changes, and is dark and sorrowful, and
clouds shut out the day. In the lives of the
saddest of us, there are bright days like this,
when we feel as if we could take the great
world in our arms. Then come gloomy hours,
when the fire will not burn on our hearths
and all without and within is dismal, cold and
dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret
sorrows, which the world knows not, and oft
times we call a man cold when he is ouly sad.
| Longfellow.
Clover is the cheapest and best manure that
can bo had. Nothing pays better than a field
of good clover plowed under. It enriches the
soil quicker than barnyard manure, and puts
it in better condition. To plow it down well
if it stands thick and high each morning a
roller should be drawn over as much as can
be plowed in a day, and a heavy chain should
be fastened to the point of the plow beam to
drag it into the furrow. In this way it can he
completely cuvereu.
Clover contains all the elements needed to
enrich the soil for all kinds of grain, n>-d in
larger quantities than other manures.