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DIRECTORY-
STATE GOVERNMENT.
James M. Smith, Governor.
If. C. Barnet, Secretary of State.
J. W. Goldsmith, Comptroller General.
John Jones, Treasurer.
Joel Branham, Librarian.
John T. Brown, Principal Keeper of the
Penitentiary.
Gustavus J. Orr, State School .Cotnmis
•ioner.
J. N. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul
ture. •
Thomas D. Little, State Geologist
JUDICIAL.
BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT.
Neel B. Knight, Judge.
C. D. Phillips, Solicitor General.
lime of Holding Court.
Cherokee —Fourth Monday in Febru
ary, and first Monday in August.
Cobb—Second Monday in March and
November.
Dawson —Third Monday in April and
second Monday in September.
Fannin —Third Monday in May and Oc
tober, .
MTnMlvr-Fir«t MgMlay in April and
fourth Monday in AHMp.
Gilmer —Second Monday in May and
October.
Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and
irst 'Monday in September. ‘
Milton—Fourth Monday in March and
third Monday in August.
Pickens—Fourth Monday in April and
•entember.j
Towns—Monday after fourth Monday in
May and October.
Union—Fourth Monday in May and Oc
tober.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court
•rat Monday in each month.
J. W. Hudson, Cltrk Superior Court.
M. P. Morria, Sheriff.
E. G. Gnmling, Deputy Sheriff.
Jahn G. Evans, Treasurer.
Wra. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver.
Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector.
Wni. W. ILiwkina, Surveyor.
Wua. Rampley, Coroner.
JUSTICE COURT—CANTON DIB.
Joseph E. Hutson. J. P.
K. F Daniel. N. P.
H. G. Daniel, L. C
TOWN GOVERNMENT.
W. A. Teaseley, Mayor.
J. W. Hudson, Recorder.
James 11. Kilby, Jabez Galt, J. M. Har
din, J. M. McAfee, Theodore Turk, Aider
men.
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Jannee O. Dowda, President.
James W. Hudeon, County School Com
missioner.
Prof. James U. Vincent, Examiner.
Joseph M. McAfee, Allen Keith, Joseph
J. Maddox, John R. Moore.
Meetings quarterly, in the court-houae.
OKROKEE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIA
TION.
Jam** O. Dowda. President.
M. B. Tuggle, Vice-President.
C. M. McClure, Secretary.
J. W. Attaway, Treasurer.
John D. Attaway, Censor Morum.
Prof. James U. Vincent, Association Cor
reenondent
Regular meetings every second Saturday
In each mouth, at 10 a. in.
RELIGIOUS.
Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of
wvice fourth Bunday in each month.
Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor.
M K, Church, time of service, preachers
in charge.
Rev. R II Johnson, first Sunday.
Rev. B. E Irfxlbetter, second.
Rev. J. M. Hardin, third.
masonic;
Camion I <>mk No 77, meet* first and
third Monday nights tn each mouth.
J enep h M. McAfee, W. M.
B. E. Ledbetter, Secretary.
Sixaa Lodge, No. 882, meets first and
third Saturdays, 2 p. in.
C. a Steele. W. M
O. W. Putman, Secretary.
GOOD TEMPLARS.
Canto* Lodge, No. 119, meets every
Saturday, 8 n.
Jabra Galt, W. C. T.
W. H. Cuppage, Secretary.
GRANGE.
Canton Grange Na 225, pan ton Ga.
Jabs* Galt, .Master.
Joseph M. McAfee, Secretary.
@|je (Dcovijiiut
A PARTING.
“Good by, then 1” And he turned away.
No other word between them spoken ;
You hardly could have guessed that day
How close a bond was broken.
The faint slight tremor of the hand
That clasped her own in that brief parting
Only her heart could understand,
Who saw the tear-drops starting—
Who felt a sudden surge of doubt
Come rushing back unbidden o’er her,
As with words her life without
His presence loomed before her.
The others saw, the others heard,
A calm, cool man, a gracious woman,
A quiet, brief farewell, unstirred
By aught at all uncommon.
She knew a solemn die was cast,
She knew that two paths now must sever,
That one familiar step had passed
Out of Hie forever.
To all the rest it merely meant
A trivial parting, lightly spoken;
She read the bitter mute intent,
She knew—a heart was broken !
[Appletons’ Journal.
— ii —ii —i
On Another Tramp.
PICKENS COUNTY AND ITS SCENERY —THE
GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS —HOSPITA-
BLE PEOPLE —CONDITION OF THE
COUNTBY —THE GEOKGIAN’s
CUTLOOK.
Special Correspondence of The Georgian.
Your correspondent has taken another
“tramp,” but this time was mounted on a
good four-legged horse, and hopes at some
future day to rise yet higher, and to chron
icle his expeditions in gradual ascent from
horse to team, from team to railroad coach,
thence on steamboat, and so on up.
First he visited the famous old Indian
ball-ground locality, where he was enter
tained in good style by his excellent friends.
Messrs. Fleming and Waldrup, the enter
prising young merchants of that popular
country stand. He at once discovered that
The Georgian had found its way there,
and had taken hold upon the hearts of the
people. Ball Ground, so named by the
Indians, is contiguous to a fertile country,
and its citizens are diligently inquiring for
a good school teacher. It is situated on
the hack line from Cartersville to Dahlon
ega, and gets a semi-weekly mail. Thence
he traveled the old Jasper road to Mr.
Stephen Tate’s, halting there over night.
At daylight, after a hearty breakfast, he
was shown around the historic premises of
his hospitable host. The building is one of
the oldest in Pickens county, and the bed
chamber was a spacious room in which
the first court was held at any point west
of the Chattahoochee river. The wash
stand, the door-steps, and part of the foun
dations of the building, are of marble, part
flesh color, and part blue variegated, pro
cured from Pickens county quarries, some
of the oldest slabs having been taken out
by the Indians, who once inhabited the
large, quaint-looking building now occu
pied by educated whites. Mr. Tate has
been conspicuous in connection with the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad.
Having heard much of the Georgia mar
ble works owned by the Tate brothers,
your correspondent resolved upon paying
the quarries a visit, and ft was his good
fortune, afhr bidding adieu to his host, to
meet at Mr. Tate’s house the gentleman
who has charge of the works, and who es
corted him to bio house near the works.
This was Mr. Cox, who then became your
correspondent’s host, and whom he found
fully equal to his self-imposed duties.
Before reaching the quarries we passed
and halted a few minutes at Tate’s flnur
and grist mills, where your correspondent
made some friends for The Georgian.
The Georgia Marble works arc on Long
Swamp creek, about two miles distant
from Jasper court-house. For some five
years previous to 1872-’73 they were very
extensively operated by a Mr. Richardson,
of Louisville, Ky., who then returned the
lease to the proprietors, owine, it is sup-1
posed, to the great outlay incident to haul- i
ing so great a distance to the railroad.,
There is a very fine water power on the j
creek, just at the quarry, which was util-1
ized for sawing and working the many
huge blocks ot marble that have been
taken from the quarries. A large thirty-:
eight-inch turbine water-wheel is now there
and m good working order.
On the road to the works from the mill,.
the path was rough and tortuous, carrying
us over abrupt hills, in view of wild, pre
cipitous ravines, and through formations
shifting from talcese quartz, through shales ]
of the Azoic age, to schists, talcose alate,
bard bine slate, and tnatbte of three dis
tinct qualities.—the finest marble lying at
or near the mountain base and the coarser
qualities above, —with hard bluish slate on
the summit. The formation is remarkable
and the marble deposit immense, being to
all appearances inexhaustible. A cove
along the creek, of surpassing fertility, is ,
overlooked on either side by lofty hilte, |
which give to all a weird but strikingly
inviting scans. Immense stalactites drop '
from various layer* of the beautifal marble,
which are richly crystallized and colored •
by iron oxides. Some of these are six feet;
long, and as large as a man’s body. A cave,;
as yet unexplored, has its entrance cear the
Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty.
CANTOX, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1876.
level of the creek. No one can realize the
grandeur of the imposing sight presented
from the quarry’s base by that lofty wail of
pure alabaster white, unless he has wit
nessed it.
From the quarry yc.ur correspondent
rode to the residence of that most excellent
and dignified gentleman, Mr. W.H. Sim
mons, Ordinary of the county of Pickens.
He there spent a most pleasant and re
freshing night. At Jasper he was fa
vored by many friends who are partial to
The Georgian. Major Simmons favored
us with numerous interesting statistics con
cerning Pickens county, the old Federal
road cut out by General Andrew Jackson,
etc., and with the following altitudes of
mountains ascertained by the recent United
States survey of this region, which will in
terest your readers: Grassy knob, the
highest peak in Pickens county, is 3,290
feet above sea level; Pine Log mountain,
the highest peak in Bartow county, 2,383
fret above sea level; Kennesaw mountain,
highest peak in Cobb county, 1,809 feet
above sea level. Mr. Boutelle, United
States surveyor, ascertained these facts.
What most pleased your correspondent
was the comfortable condition, generally
speaking, of the people. Money, it is very
true, is excessively scarce, and times are
tight, but almost every one on the route
seemed to have corn-cribs well filled, and
in some instances very bountiful supplies
of pork, poultry, and flour. The spirit of
the citizens at every point is enthusiastic
on the subject of railroads, cheap transpor
tation, river navigation, good papers and
good schools. At the remote mail station
called Ludville there is a handsome new
academy, and a large school promised—
which sets our Canton academy sadly in
the background. It is to be hoped that
this state of things will not last.
Altogether, your correspondent thinks
the future of our northeast Georgia mount
ains is a bright one, if the people only keep
awake and stirring, and we bespeak for
The Georgian a prosperity that will in
crease with its yeais, and with the energy
exercised and made fruitful by its managers.
More anon. Virgil.
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Contributed to The Georgian.
“Owe No Man Anything,”
Is an injunction from a higher code than
the Georgia law, yet I see in The Geor
gian some one suggests that the Legisla
ture reduce the homestead to fifteen hun
dred dollars, which I think a very liberal
allowance to those who don’t want to pay
what they owe; and, in my judgment, the
homestead, in the majority of cases, don’t
mean anything else. I will proceed to
state my views.
I don’t see how it is that a man has any
thing to homestead when it does not be
long to him. If he goes to bis neighlior,
or merchant, and gets goods or supplies,
promising to pay for them, of course the
credit is given upon the faith of his sup
posed honest character, and his property is
the security. Otherwise, if he has noth
ing, he can not get the credit. Then, if be
has pledged his property and his honor for
the payment of his debts, it belongs to hi«
creditors, and he has nothing to homestead
until his debts are paid.
One says he can not afford to lie broken
up and see his family «uff« r, and he lakes
the homestead to protect his family. A
very poor protection that brings dishonor.
Let him and his family go to work and live
within their income, pay their debts, pre
serve th*ir character and self-respect, and
re«pect other people’s rights; then there
will be no occasion to homestead rights
that do not belong to them.
Another says he took the hornet tead to
keep from paying unjust debts. It is very
strange that so many v*ju»t debts should
be made and paid off in full so soon after a
twenty-five-hundred-dollar homestead is
inaugurated ; and, stranger still, that all
manner of debts, when pressed upon the
homesteaded for collection, turns out to be
unjust If he owes at all, it is just; if be
does not owe, the claim is a swindle, and
not a debt. If he pays what he justly |
owes, he will be held in such high esteem
that all good people will protect him
against swindles, and be will have no occa
sion to homestead. His deed gives him a i
right to claim and to hold against all com-1
ers and for all time. If be is industrious
and prudent he don’t want any other
homestead. If he is thriftless and spends ;
his property, he has no right to swindle
other people by homesteading what he has
already spent.
For the farther protection of those who
do not want to pay their debts, we have a
law that authorizes the lesser and meaner
sort to render a schedule of their effects,
and bid defiance to thoto whose meat and
bread they have ea*.en up. It is simply :
offering a premium to low-bred people to j
become vagabonds, without self-respect :
What do the law-makers want with such a
set ’ There is certainly ns religion in that
way of paying f<»r their bread. It shows :
a great want of courage and moral cbarac- ‘
ter, and the act, although claimed to be •
legal, sinks them so low that they are a
disgrace to themselves and a canker to i
their friends—lost, beyond redemption; *
lost to society, and lost to the world. But
the way to hell is easy.
When the Legislature has the wisdom to
place the rich man, the poor man, and the
fool upon a common level, and, instead nf
protecting profligacy and vice by laws that
are unjust and demoralizing in themselves,
will pass laws that require all men to
discharge their obligations if it takes their
bottom dollar, it will leave people some
self-respect. It is fair, it is right; and
when we learn that it is “root, hog, or die,”
hundreds who are now leaning upon the
personalty and schedule will lean upon the
plow-handles, and become useful and good
citizens. Then industry will have its re
ward, society will begin to improve, and,
when the laws lire just, plain, and honor
able, all good men will respect, honor, and
obey them.
I see I am getting politics, morality, and
religion all mixed up. I had better stop,
for I am An Old Fogy.
A North CaroHnlan’s View of Onr Rail
road Prospects.
Captain A. A. Campbell, of Tomotla, N.
C.,whom our people met and heard in
Canton last September, has written the fol
lowing letter regarding the North Georgia
railroad. It bears date December 16, and
appeared it the Murphy (N. C.) Herald:
For over three months I have devoted
my entire time and attention in the interest
of the Marietta and North Georgia railroad,
and, as I premised at Murphy on the 3d of
September to find out all about the status
and plausibility of* the enterprise and re
port to the citizens of Cherokee and ad
joining counties, I now propose, in as brief
manner as possible, to report the status of
the road and the probabilities of its com
pletion to Murphy.
There are now over one hundred con
victs at work in the vicinity of Marietta,,
repairing the grading and getting out cross
ties, so as to put the road in shape for the
iron on all that has been graded, a distance
of twenty-three and a half miles. There
are also subscription lists out, all along the
line from Canton to the North Carolina
!ine*lo raise seftenty thousand dollars with
whltfa Co supprtM the hands while grading
the road frortF Canton to the State line.
So soon as that amount is subscribed, the
hands will commence work north of Can
ton, perhaps in three divisions on the whole
line to North Carolina. The Legislature of
Georgia meets in January, and it is expect
ed that aid will be granted to the amount
of one hundred thousand dollars. If so, a
contract can lie made on that amount for
enough iron to track the road to Murphy
on very tavorable terms.
From all that I have learned of this en
terprise and the country through which
this road is to pass, I am satisfied that all
that is needed to build the road on tire
present plan of operations is confided in
the ability of the citizens along the line to
support the hands while grading the road.
And why should they doubt their ability.
Kcho answers, Why ? when it passes
through one of the best grain-growing
sections in the great State of Georgia, with
an abundant crop on hand. Why should
the Legislature of Georgia refiise to grant
the aid aski-d lor, when this road is to be
one of the best to supfiiy her citizens with
al’ the needed articles wanted lor daily con
sumption from Marietta to Murphy. Ev
ery mineral that is in great demand can be
found in abundance, except stone coal;
every product of the toil can be raised in
abundance tha* is needed for man or beast,
and I have great hope and confidence that
the enterprise will lie kept up, and erelong
we will have a railroad.
I see in the second volume, page 716, of
the Proceedings of the Benate in 1872, that
there were shipped frora Chattanooga and
Dalton, by the car load, bacon, rye, barley,
corn, flour, hay, bogs, cattle, sheep, oats,
potatoes, apple*, onions, wheat, whisky,
horses, and mules, to the enormous value
of $25,914,281, and also of miscellaneous
products, less than car loads, such as poul
try, game, tobacco, Imtter, eggs, ham,
cheese, manufac’ured articles, merchan
dise. brandies, wine*, teas, ete , estimated
to lie worth at least sll 360,000, making a
total amount on these ijtides—aside from
coal, cotton, famiture, lime, iron and all
machinery, salt, sUte, nnd other miscella
neous article*—of the enormous sum of
$87374,281
Now. please think for a moment, and
see how the great Empire state of Georgia
is being drained and impoverished from ,
year to year by not having a railroad run- ■
ning through the best and richest portion .
of her State, abounding hi everything that
would add wealth and Happiness to her
citizens. It is reasonable to suppose that
at least two third* of the enormous amount
is consumed by Georgia, Mid* from what
comes in by other roads and means of trans
portatkm. Why should w* doubt that the
citizen* along the line of the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad and the Legislature
will do their duty in regard to this great
enterprise. Let us do our whole duty in
the matter, and if there should be any fail
ure, let it be on Georgia and her citizens,
and not on us.
General Intelligence.
Os the new members of Congress only 69
were college bred.
The Sutro (Nevada) tunnel has penetrated
a distance of 11,425 feet.
Os the seventeen new Senators in Con
gress all but six are lawyers.
Wyoming seems to have tired of woman
suffrage, and the prospects are that the bill
will be repealed before long.
It is stated that the $10,000,000 bridge
over the Mississippi at St. Louis will not
pay interest on cost during this generation.
Strange as it may appear, the Mississippi
legislature will contain a genuine black
Democrat. His name is Vaughan, and be
is from Panola county.
In the Forty fourth Congress there are
eight who served in th* Confederate con
gress, and forty-ona who served on the Con
federate side during the war.
The Emperor of Brazil will probably
leave for the United States in April, He
will visit the Centennial, and travel exten
sively through the country.
In New South Wales telegraph messages
are sent 4,000 miles for fifty cents, and in
Victoria the government made $200,00'0 on
the telegraphic service last year. The lat
ter has 5,000 mile* of wire.
Some Norwegians have discovered a large
lake, about fifteen miles from Beaver Pass,
in which the fish are so thick that a man
could walk across the Ixke on their backs ;
at least the discoverers say so.
Wine is perhaps cheapest in the most
temperate country in the world—the rural
part of Tuscany; and drunkenness is less in
Munich, where beer runs like water, than
in London, where it costs, of the same qual
ity, three times the sum.
There is considerable talk iin Mississippi
of amending the Constitution, so that no
citizen can vote unless he can read and
write, and the Democratic press is calling
upon the Legislature to prepare such an
amendment for submission to the people.
In the Russian regular army there are
25,000 officers, comprising 704 generals, 4,-
806 staff officers, and 20,763 “superior” offi
cers. The number of privates and subal
terns, including musicians in active service,
779,437; The horses in the military service
number 71,472.
Os the 5,000,000 Jews estimated to be on
the face of the globe, 120,000 are assigned to
America, 46,000 to France, 30fr to Ireland,
25 to Norway. One out of every seven in
habitants of Poland, and one out of every
twenty-five of Hamburg, Rouinania and
Austria, are Hebrews.
The printing of the war records now go
ing on in Washington is a work of great
magnitude. A building forty by eighty feet
i* required to hold these records alone.
There are three hundred and fifty cords of
records in this one building. The Confed
erate records are about one-sixth the bulk
of the Union records.
It is over six years since the terrible dis
aster at the Avondale coal mines in Penn
sylvania, which resulted in the death of one
hundred and ten men by suffocation. Th*
sum of $155,146 41 was subscribed through
out the country as a relief fond for the fam
ilies of the victims, and this sum was in
creased to $174,222 by interest. The fund
has just been exhausted.
The lion. George H. Pendleton, traveling
in the South with his family, visited Colum
bia, South Carolina, a few days ago, and
each branch of the legislature appointed a
committee to wait on him and invite him
to visit its chamber. The speaker of the
house, the president ot the senate, the chair
man of each committee, the men who made
the motion in each branch, and one hundred
and twenty-five member* of the legislature
offering him the courtesy were negroes.
A representative of the Internal Revenue
office h»s been sent to Beaufort, South
Carolina, recently, tor the purpose of at
tending to the interests of the government
in the sale of valuable Sea Island cotton
lands in that vicinity, which have been or
dered in consequence ot the non-payment
of direct taxes. It is probable that it the
lands in question will not bring a proper
price, the internal revenue agent will bid
them in for the government.
J. J. Valentine, general superintendent of
Wells, Fargo & Co., publishes the annual
statement of the production of precious
metals in the States and Territories west of
the Missouri river, including British Colum
bia and the western coast of Mexico, dur
ing 1875, which shows an aggregate yield
of $90,880,037, being an exces* of $6,487,-
982 over 1874, which was the greatest pre
vious annual yield in the history of the
coast. The yield in Nevada, Colorado,
Mexico, Oregon, British Columbia, Montana
and Arizona increased, while in Columbia,
Idaho, Utah and Washington Territories it
decreased. The increase is actual except
for Mexico, Oregon and Arizona, where it
is apparent rather than real, as compared
with other years, the regular product being
accounted for and that reported hitherto
emitted. The decrease in California it in
the main occasioned by a stinted water
supply ior placer and hydraulic mining. 1
VOLUME L-NUMBER 23.
The present prospect indicates an aggregate
yield of $90,000,000 in 1876, of which Neva
da will doubtless produce $50,000,00).
The adoption of the constitutional amend- '
meat in New Jersey, which imposes taxa-'
tion on church property, is creating a stir
among the clergymen of all denominations.
An effort is being made to bring them into
a convention to discuss the situation. The
burden presses heavily on all the churches,
and it is hoped that by united action the
legislature may be induced to grant 'some
relief by passings measure which will, at
all events, exempt all church buildings
throughout the state.
The New York Sun states that Cardinal-'
McCloskey secured aid while in Rome, -
Italy, toward the building of the cathedral
in Fifth Avenue in that city. He say* the ‘
structure will be completed before the end,
of 1877. He.gave the order in Italy for an
altar to be placed in the cathedral at a cost
of $250,000. It will be made of the finest
Italian marble, spacious, and of the gothic;
style of architecture and plentifully deco
rated with jewels and mosaics. The work":
is already under way, and will be imported !
before many months.
There was completed, the past year, in >
the United States 1,176 miles of railroad, .
against, 1,731 miles reported for the same ’
period in 1874,3,456 in 1873, 6,559 in 1872,’
The falling off is an indication of a healthy
reaction agaicst the over construction of
previous years. Railroads have been built ’
into wild and unsettled parts of the country,.
where there was no demand for them, notic -
ing for them Io do, and of course their con
struction could result only in loss and dis
aster. A wiser policy promises to be the
rule for the future, or at least for several ’
years, and it will be better for the country. .
A negro boy in Fairfield county, South >
Carolina, was packed up in a bale of cotton ?
last week. The deceased was engaged in
picking cotton at Mr. James Jones’ press.
About half a bale had been trampled dowu,
and the other hands went for mure cotton,
the deceased being ordered in the mean
while to drive out some cattle. On the re
turn of the bands the boy was not to -be •
sees. The balance of the cotton was put in
and trampled but slightly, the bale being
light. The bale was then packed. On re
moving it the negro was found dead in the •
middle of the bale. It is supposed the boy
entered the box and had gone to sleep and
was suffocated.
The United States ships, St. Lawrence -
and Macedonian were sold at. the Norfolk,
Va., navy yard December 31, by Leigh
Bros. & Phelps auctioneers, and purchased
by Northern parties. The St. Lawrence
sold for $17,900, and the Macedonian for
$14,071. These vessels were among the
oldest ships in the navy and have been fa
mous in their day. The Macedonian was
captured from the British in the war of
1812 by Capt. Stephen Decatur, command
ing the United States, and the St. Lawrence
was present in Hampton Roads during the
engagement between the celebrated iron
clad Merrimac and the United States fleet.
Both have been lying at the navy yard, dis
mounted, for a number of years.
A Centennarian Preacher. —Rev..
Henry Boehm, better known as Father
Boehm, the oldest preacher of the Methodist
Church in the country, and probably the
oldest clergyman in the world, died De
cember 29th, at the house of his grand-,
daughter, near Richmond, Staten Island.
On the Bth of last June, the one hundredth
anniversary of his birth was celebrated in
Jersey City by the Newark Conference,
when Father Boehm submitted an outline
of his own life and labor in the Methodist
Church, and addresses were made by other
clergymen. The excitement of the occasion
prostrated him. Although he rallied, he waa
again seized witn illnes on the 12. h of De
cember, while attempting to preach in the
village church at Richmond, Staten Island.-
He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsyl
vania. He joined the Methodist Church in
1797. He served in the ministry in Penn
sylvania, Delaware and Maryland, and was
the traveling companion of Bishop Asbury.
For more than thirty years Father Boehm
has been in the New Jersey Conference,
and as early as 1842 was on the list of su
pernumerary preachers.
The present timber supply for Europ*,
and possibly, in the not very remote future
for the Atlantic States of America, cornea,
and will come, from Russia and Finland.
Large quantities are obtained from Sweden
and Norway, which contains extensive
tracts of forest land ; but the principal re
source must be from the extensive forests
of Russia, from which timber is now im
ported by Great Britain alone to the amount
of several millions of pounds sterling annu
ally. From Russia also ultimately will
come the European supplies of furniture and
wooden ware. The Russian market will be
for many years to come an increasing one
for all sorts of wood-working machinery,
American manufacturers who have th* sa
gacity to cultivate this market, and the en
terprise to be among tbe Qist that enter it,
can scarcely fail to build up a large and
profitable trade in wood-working machin
ery.