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VARIETIES. , . ===== Crop ICopoil. Tho report of the Georgia State Commissioner of Agriculture t<>r Soptombcr, sliows tlie corn crops to be 34 per cents, better than last year, cotton 15 better, sugar cane 33, ground peas 4, and siveet pota toes 11. The turnip crop is almost a failure, on account of drought. Very litte small grain has been sown on account of drought, hut it is not too late to sow yet in this cli mate. Cotton picking is much farther advanced ,tlmn last year, it estimated that tho bulk of the crop will be gathered by the first of November. So far it is nearly all gathered in universally good condition, llogs have been unusu ally exempt from cholera this year and those for slaughter this fall are seven per cent, greater in number and better in quality. The stock of hogs generally is improving. All forage crops were saved in extra ordinarily fine condition, and near ly a supply has been made. Ihe season has been remarkably favor able for gathering matured crops, hut very unfavorable lor crops not matured and for sowing small grain. An observatory is to be built at the foot of the Niagara Falls, on the American side, to enable visitors to view the cataract without dressing in water proof suits. The proposed building will be one hundred feet long by twenty-four feet wide. It will be constructed principally of Stone and iron, and will extend lrom near the foot of the inclined railway to a point near the entrance of the ‘•Shadow of the Rock.” The build ing will be erected on a massive foun dation of masonry. The walls will be seven feet thick. The roof will be principally of iron and will be arch ed. A hall six feet wide will run through the length of the building. On either side will be dressing rooms, ten double and eighteen single. At tho end of the building next to the fall t sere will be a parlor observatory. The entire end of the building facing the fall will be of heavy glass, afford ing to those within a grand view of the fall, while being perfectly protect ed from tbe spray. Two years ago a millionaire named Johnson, while riding by in an Indi ana railway train, fell in love w.th a pretty girl sitting on a fence, and subscbuently married her. Now, ex press train passengers say that all the fences along the Indiana railroads are daily lined with handsome girls, as thick as crows in cornfields. The Duchy of Saxe Gotha has ta ken the lead in allowing cremation, and the town of Gotha has granted a site for the purpose. The German society for the introduction of crema tion has paid a sum of 15,000 marks to the town of Gotha to cover the necessary expenses for erecting a cre mation apparatus. Strict regulations have been published by the police, ordering the examinanation by com petent medical officers of all bodies to bclburned, so as to prevent crerna- all cases where the causes of deailThave not been properly ascer tained. Bodies sent from abroad are snbjeet’To the same or even more stringent rules. At first, no corpse is to be burned unless the deceased has expressed a wish to that effect, relatives have approved of Sty ' —A school boj has written a : composition on the horse, in which it is an animal having four legs, “one at each corner.” Free speech, free press, free white men, tree foreigners, free religion and free States are cardi nal tenets of the Democracy. The new tunnnel being built under the Thames is intended chiefly for the use of about eight thousand workmen who have to cross at that point, and who are often detained by log that stops the boats. It will bn an iron tube nine feet in di ameter, lighted with gas, thoroughly ventilated, and only l'er pedestrians. ( Miscellaneous Advertisements. SOUARE.GRANI) Pianos Retailed at Y/holesalc Prices ftfOO for #2O. £(050 for $375. #7OO for #3OO. #'HOO for #350 THE “Mendelssohn 1 ’ I’inno (loinpuny IIAVE STIUTK II V HD I*A IV PRIC ES Only One Price for Cash, and a LOW ONE NO DEVIATION! We give no discounts. We pay no commissions, which double ihe prices of all Pianos. Wo look to the PEOPLE, who want a first-class Piano at a fair prefit over cost of msnusacture. We appoint the peo ple our agents, and give them our Pianos as low as any agent can buy equally good Pianos of any other mamifanturtr, giv ing the Potv !e, in a reduced pure, what j is usually expended in commissions, rent, freight, traveling aud incidental ex penses. The ‘MENDELSSOHN” PIANO CO. can sell vou a 7} octave, rosewood case Piano, 0 feet 10 inches long, with front round corners, carved legs, serpen tine and plinth mouldings, with all im provements, including Full Iron Frame, Over Strung linns, Agraflc Treble, nntl French Grand Action which only accompany the best Pianos of the most celebrated makers, at the very low price of 6250, §275 or §3oo,ac cording to style of case, or with four round corner* and full agraffe for $350, and guarantee them in every respect equal to any Piano made of similar style, or no sale. The “MENDELSOHN” Piano is manufactured from the very best ma terials, and by tho most skilled and fin ished workmen. The manufacture is conducted by one of tbe most experi enced Piano manufacturers in tbe coun try. This is no new enterprise, turning out a poor and cheap piano, made lrom green wood, and by greener mechan ics. Our Piano is unsurpassed by any in the market for its rich and powerful tones, and its adaptation to the human voice in sympathetic, mellow and singing qualities. It speaks for itself. We are willing to place it beside any other make of Piano on its merits, either in beauty of ease, or excellence of tone, and “at half tbe money” of equally good instruments. “Tbe best is tbe cheapest”— When it costs the least money. All l’iano3 fully warranted for five years. Send for our Illustrated and Descrip tive Circular. Tlie k ‘3^ell<lelssoll^l ,, Piano Cos.. Office of Manufactory. 50 BROADW V Y, jne,2-ly New York. "IVe Jir’s Unabridged Dictionary 10,000 Words and Meanings not in other Dictionaries. 8000 Engravings; 1840 Pages Quarto. Price sl2. Webster now is glorious—it leaves noth ing to be desired.— Pres liaymond, Vassar College. Every scholar knows (he value of 1 lie work— W. 11. Prescott , the Historian. Believe it to be the most perfect dictions ry of the language -I)r. J. Q. Holland Superior in most, respects to any other known to me— George P Marsh. rphe standard authority for printing in tsli- JL oSiee— A II Clcpp , Government Priuteri ITVvcels all others in giving and defining sci li enlifie terms — Paesident Hitchcock. I) emarkable compendium of human knowl _l\) edge— W S Clark, Prcs't Agricultural College. “The best practical English Dictionn ry extant,’’ —[London Quarterly Review October, 1878.] A NEW FEATURE.—To the 300 . illustrations heretofore in Webster's Uu abridged we have recently added four pages of Colored Illustrations, engraved expressly for the work at large expense. 4LSO WEBSTER’S NATIONAL Pictorial DICTIONaRI 3040 Pages Octavo. GOO Engravings. Price $5. jß®“'The National Standard. Proof : 20 to 1 The sale of Webster's Dictionaries throughout the country in 1873 were 20 times as large as the sales of any other Dictionaries lu proof we will send to any person, on application, the state ments of more than 100 booksellers from every section of the country Published by G Si. C MERRIAM, Springfield, Mass /Sold by all Booksellers “BJSJSST” flSlack ms*. A COMBINED P()LTBHBLACKI\G A ill) LE A THE It PHESK ItV ATI VE. Experts and professional Bootblacks in New York, and all other largecities vhoro this Black ing has been introduced, acknowledge its supe riority over all imported or domestic Blackings in use, as an Elegant Polish and Conservcr of Leather. NOTICE- Dixby’s “Best” Blacking has a Red and Blue Label. Do not bo deceived by accepting our “Standard” Blacking in place of “Best.” Tlie Standard has the label stamped into the tin cover This brand is made to compete with other Amer ican and French Blackings, but is inferior to our “Best.” Bixby’s “Best” Blacking will save its entire cost in the wear of your boots and shoes. HOUSEKEEPERS Try Bixby’s French Laundry Blue IN SIFTINg BOXES. The most convenient audeconoinical package, and the only combined Bleaching and Blueing Powder in use. S- M-13IXBY & CO, JUanuiactunng Chemists, , 2-2 m Kojj, J 73 & 170 Washington 3t, New York Newspaper Advertisement TELiIRAPK I Biff FOR 1876. lleiliiecion! () N and after Int January, 1870, our | jViunnioth W’eek y, Tho Great Family Paper of Georgia, containing 04 col uinna, and tho largest in itie South, will be sent to subscribers at $2 a Year, and postage. This is but a small ad vance on cost of blank paper. Weekly for six months, §1 and postage is 20 cents a year. The Semi Weekly Will he seduced to THREE DOLLARS a vear and postage —20 cenls. For six months §1.50 and postage. Daily Edition Ten Dollais a \ ear and postage. Five Dollars for six months" Two Dollars aud Fifty Cents for three months. The stiring events of the Great Cen tennial Year of American History, which include tile Presidential stiug gle, vi 11 render 1870 one of the most memoialde in our annals. Everybody in this region will need the Telegraph, and we have put down the price to ac conimo ale their necessities aud pecu niary status. CLISBY,.TONES & REESE. Jan2B-tf. IT PA Y S FAYS? f IT pays every manufacturer, mechanic, in ventor, farmer or professional limn, to keep informed on all the improvements and discoveries of the age. It pays the head of every family to introduce into liis household a newspaper that is in structive, one that fosters a taste for investi gation, and promotes thought and encourages discussion among the members THE SCIENTIFIC AMGAN which has been pnblisneu weekly tor thelnst thirty years, does this to an extent beyond that of any other publication, in fact it is the only weekly paper published in the Uni ted States devoted to manufactures, mechan ics, inventions and new discoveries in the Arts and Sciences. Every number is profusely illustrated and its contents embrace the latest and most in teresting information pertaining to the Indus trial, Mechanical and Scientific progress of the world; descriptions, with beautiful en gravings, of new' inventions, new implements, new processes, and improved industries of all kinds; useful notes, recipes, suggestions and advice, by practical writers, for workmen and employers, in nil the various ai ts, form ing a complete repertory of new inventions and discoveries' containing a weekly record not only of the progress ot the industrial arts in our own country, hut also of ah new dis coveries and inventions in every branch of engineering, mechanics aud science abroad. The Scientific american has been the foremost of all industrial publications for the past thirty years. It is the oldest, largest cheapest and the best weekly illustrated paper devoted to engineering, mechanics, chemistry new inventions, science and industrial pro gress. published to the world. The practical receipts are worth ten times the subscription price And for the house and shop will save many times the cost of subscription. Merchants, farmers, mechanics, engineers, inventors, mahufacturers, chemists, lovers of science, and people of all professions, will find the Scientific American useful to them It should have a place in every family library study, office aud counting room, in every reading room, college and school. A now vnlume commences January Ist, 1876. A ynar’s numbers contain 832 pages and several hundred engravings. Thousands of volumes are preserved for binding and refer ence. Terms, $3 20 a yea rby mail, including postage, Discount to clubs. Special circu lars giving club rates sent free. Single cop. ies mailed on the receipt of 10 cents May be had of all news dealers. P AT['y TC 1,1 connection w;th the Scientific In I Lu 1 v | American, Messrs. Munn k Cos. are Solicitors of American and Foreign Patents, and have the largest establishment in tho world. More than fifty thousand applications have been made for patents through llier agency. Patents are obta’utd on the best terms, Models of New Inventions and Sketches oxamiuod and advice free. A special notice is made in the SPIEATIFIC A.VEIUCAN of all Inventions Patented through this Agency, with name and residence of tee Patentee. Patents are often sold iu part, or whole, to persons attracted to the invention by such notice. Send for Pamphlet, containing full directions for obtaining Patents. A bound volume containing the Patent- Laws, Census of the U. S., and 142 Engravings of mechanical movements, /'rice th> cents. Address for the Paper, or concerning Patents MITXN ft CO. 37 Park Bow, New York. Brandi Of fice, Cor. I’ ft 7th bts., IPashington, P. C. Tin? Gutlibert Messeng u Offers great inducements to tuiver sers desiring the trade ol Randolph ami ad joining counties. Our Subscription list has greatly increased wtihin the last twelve months. Acknowledging onr Appreciation of former favors, wo most respectfully so licit continued patronage, believing that future transactions will prove beneficial to both parties. Address J. L. Tucker, Prop’r, Cuihbert, Ga. DIIIA Ul WhEKLI TIMES. Colixmtous, Ga. T K WYNNE & J. H MARTIN rBOPJUETOUS AND EDITORS. To secure a still wider circulation in this centennial year—a year of most important events and exciting popular issues—we offer THf WEEKIY TIMEa at the following club rates: For ten or more copies, 51.50 each. To any one sending us five subscribers at regular rates for single copies, a copy of tho Weekly will be thrown in. The Times hat he best and fullest tele graphic dispatches -especially in its reports of Georgia and Alabama news—of any paper in the State. This is no empty boast—we re fer to our columns daily for proof. Our commercial dispatches are now ample and re liable. Price of the Daily Times, $8 per annum, ■t-l for six and $2 for three months. WYNNE & MARTIN. Misecllaiicns Advfirtisoniunt TllllllS Savannah, Ga. THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1878 which include* National, Slate and county Jc- Ilona, and which will undoubtedly he the most active and hotly contested of any since the mo morablo canvass of 1800 is rvw fairly opontd The Nationol Democratic Party will this year make a bold, vigorous, and doubtless .-uueossful struggle for the maintenance and supremacy of those principles which arc vital to the prosperity of the Republic and essential to tho well-being of the people. In addition to tho Presidential election, tho people in Georgia and Florida will elect new State governments. In Florida tho campaign promises to bo unusually vigorous, and there is a probability that for the lirst time sioce the war the people of that Radical-ridden State will elect a Democratic State government. In these campaigns the people of the South are deeply interested; and every intelligent citizen, who has the welfare of his country and his section at heart, should acquaint himself with every detail of the great work of redemption and reform f ha is now going on. To this end he should subscribe to and assist in circul iting the Savannah Morning News, un independent Democratic newspaper,of pronounc ed opinions and fearless in their expression; a paper that is recognized everywhere as the best daily in tho South. Its editorial department is vigorous, thoughtful, and consistent, while its news and local departments are marvels of in dustry and completeness. Its department of Georgia and Florida affairs is not confined to a mere hairen summary of events transpiring in those States, hut is enlivened by comment at once apt, time'y, and racy. The ample resources of the establishment will bo devoted to furnishing the readers of the MORNING NEWS with tho latest intelligence from all parts of the world, through the press dispatches, special tel egrams, and by means of special correspondence; and through (lies agencies the paper wilt be the earliest chronicler of every noteworthy inci dent of the political campaign of 1876. SUBSCRII'TION t Daily, 1 year SIO,OO “ 6 months 5,00 “ 3 months 2,50 Tri-Weekly, 1 year 6.00 “ 6 months .. 3.00 “ 3 months .. 1,50 Weekly, 1 year 2,00 “ 6 months 1,00 “ 3 months ,5 > Specimen copies sent free on receipt of 5 cts. jggp-Money c-uii tie sent by P-.st Office Order, Registered Letter, or Express, at oar risk. J. H ESTJLL, Savannah, Ga.' The (ieorgfci Daily Contra o wealth IS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING (Except Sunday) By the Commonwealth Publishing Company ATLANTA, GEORGIA. And is edited by Col. Cary 4F.Styi.es, late o the Albany News, with efficient assistants. The Commonwealth gives the current Dews of the city, State and elsewhere, market reports, aud vigorous editorials on Muuicipal,Political and General sub jects. The coming cauvass, State and Na tional, will be closely watched and pro perly presented, while the Mechanical and Agricultural interests of the State will not be neglected. It has a large and rapidly increasing airculation. Terms— One month, 75 cents; Two months $1,25: P mi months, s2.o'; One year, $6.00. COMMONWEALTH PUBLISHING CO., Atlanta, Geobgi a Siddall’s ISJstBMSfSC SOAPS The Cheapest Soap that can be used for the following Reasons: Ist.—One bar will go as far as two of any other. 2nd—Only half the usual rubbing being re quired, there is a saving of more than I he entire cost, of the Soap in labor alone 3d—Tile clothes are made SWEET, OI.EAN arid WIUIE without. Boiling or Scnldme thus oil injury to them is avoided. There is a. saving in find and hard work, nr.d the wa king i-done in about half the usual tune. ft is also guaranteed under a penally of fifty'dollars not to injure the clot lies or hands and as one trial will enable any person to as certain the truth of these statements, it would never pay the proprietor to engage in an ex tensive system of advertising and claim such decided merit, for his Soap unless he knew from positive eqperienoe thal.it would prove to be in every respect what is claimed fur it. This is a superior Soap for Toilet and Shav ing purposes. WARNER, RHODES & CO.. Wholesale Fancy grocers General A{/cnts t june2-5w Pfiiladeliiliia, Pa. ’vmkmim, A safe and sure Cure for Worms. Harmless in its effect on the system, and sure to improve the condition oj the Patient. Sold by dealers in Drugs ar.d Med icines and by T. F. HENRY, CUR RAN & CO., 8 College Place, New York. L E & HE WELCH. WHOLESALE DItUHWIST roy it'.* Aißjjr, oa. 177 G. CENTENNIAL 1876. TRANSPORTATION ARRANGEMENTS OF TH G"l A ; (intic (To 11 1 Liw FOB THE Accommodation of Visitors from all Points South, T lie Railways ami s t" i>i'-1 >ll > CiniqiHlliu* between Augusta, Ga., and Phi adelphia, comprising the Atlantic Coast Line, will during the progress of tho (Ecntnmial dhitilntiau of the Minted Jratcs present for the patronage of the Smith, mutes of transportation ami forms of ticket* upon which to leach Philadelphia, that immeasurably excel all other lines in point of Direct Daily Movement) Comfortable Accommodations Variability of Transit Economy of Expenditure. To enable this to he done, the combined resources of the Railway Linra South uf Norfolk, together with those ol the Baliiinore Steam Packet Company and the Old Dominion Steamship Company will he employed and thr individ ual tourist, the social party of ten, twenty or more, or tho civic or military organization of 100 to 300, can each be cared for in a manner that will satisfy !heir desires. Price Lists, Time Cards and a'l needful information are now in tho hands of our Agents. It will be to the interest ot every indiv'dual aud each oiganization propos* ing to make this trip to communicate with the undo.signed. A Centennial Exhibition Guide Book as authorized by the Commission will be given to tbe purchaser of each Jentennial Ticket. PQPE 9 May 5-4 m General Traveling Agent. Call on or address tho following named agents of the Atlantic Coast. Line: Jonah 11. While, Macon, Gu.; A. L. Heed, Savannah, Ga.; 11. V. Tompkins, Atlanta, Ga.; M.J. Divio , Macon. Go; W. J. Walker, Montgomery, Ala. C ~ grrr—T~ •91MMI EVE 11 CIIO KE S OR BItE AK S THE It OL L* Picks the seed clean, runs light, gins fast, Makes fine lint from poor seed cotton Separates Motes, Small Seed, et3., from the lint* And all else being equal, is guaranteed To be second to no gin iu the United! States, either in speed of ginning (Jr quality of sample. FEEDERS AND CONDENSES,S FURENISHED ON APPLICATION. repairing done at living prices. Call and sec the IXI/ in. operation before purchasing elsewhere, or send for "circular and Sample G'n can be seen at F S Johnson & Sons’ Hardware House. c. S- & G- W. FIWDI/AY Head of Third Street, Mftcon Ua. sep 22—3 ms. Legal Blanks! Legal Blanks! A T THE We have on hand and for sale at the Argus Office, a large number of Lega Blnnks, which we offer at Oue Dollar per Quire, Cash "They consist of the fol lowing named blanks: Garnishment-Affidavit and Bond. Summons Garnish ment Attachment. Sciere Facias. Bill of Indict ment. Directions for taking Interrogatories And Interrogatory Commissions. State Wart-ants. Mortgage Fi, Fa. Executions. At tachment for Contempt. Magistrate’s Summons, Fi Fa and Subpoena, Sup. Court Subpoena. Summons before Grand Jury. Clerk’s Certificate to Juror* “Waiver of Homestead” Notes Cost Executions. Land Deeds. De clarations Bond for Ap pearance. Address A M. C. JUJJSISEEX, Prop r BTJEN AWISTA GA.