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VOL. IV.—NO. 11
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HAMILTON, CA.
J. M. M O BLE Y,
attorney at law,
HAMILTON, GA.
Will continue to yvnu-tire law in all the
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Til Off. S. MITCHELL, M. D.,
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HAMILTON GEORGIA
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By J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM.
WEST POINT, <' '
~ ALOISZO A. HOZIEkT
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iRETGIILN AM) TIIE KINO.
Hie King paid a visit t > the village school,
And after each child lnd rear!,
fe called to Ids He a blue eyed maid,
And uno her smilingly said :
'Little one, you gave us your poem so well,
That you must be unusually bright;
me look in my face, and answer me uow,
And then wo shall s:u it I’m right.”
i'o what kingdom my child, does this or
ange belong ? ”
or a moment silt, lowered her head,
Hut bravely she lifted her eye-1-. his face,
To the vegetable kingdom, she said.
” And this ? ” (as he heal up a :olden coin
Vltich shone in the li.lit of the sun)
lo tli" mineral kiigil in,” she promptly j
replied,
While he Burgomaster wlißpered, “well
done 1 ”
Right, right, little maid, now, only one
more;
Ponder wed, and an-wer not wrong :
> which, of a ) the great kingdoms,
Do I, your soveiign, belong?”
> iue-open and solemn were Gretchens blue
eyes,
As she look and in the King’s smi ing face;
It'd she | \v/.7. ed her wit in vain, P rshe found
No answer, not even a trace.
tint suddenly her fice lhhtsup with a smile,
An 6be thinks of her evening prayer ;
For the name of the King with a blessing be
sought
She lemempers is ever found there.
1 riumph and victory shine forth from her
eyes,
As she bravely returns to the se'ge,
And says with an air win, h admits of no
doubr,
“To the Kingdom of Heaven, my Liege ”
I hen the King cau lit the little one close in
his arm ,
And he placed her upon his knee,
While be rev’ivntly thought, of such it was
said,
“ Suffer them to come unto me.”
And lie pressed FT lips to the golden head,
While Ills heart ascen led in prayer,
That God would make him e’en like this
child,
To the Kingdom of heaven an heir.
D
STARTLING PHENOMENON.
A SHOWER Or QUIVERING FRESH FALT.S
FROM A CLEAR SKY, NEA.It
JIT, STERLING —XIIS
PEOPLE AWE
STRUCK.
From t’uo Courier Jour:.;.l.]
Mount Sterling, March 8. One
of the must singular and woixterfai
p- euornena that hi.vr ev-.r occurred
in the modern woii.l, took place in
Bath county, on JMtidlick creek,
about seventeen miles east, of this
place and a short distance from Gill’s
Sulphur S; rings, and near the house
of M. Crouch, - bout 2 o’clock on the
afternoon of Friday l;i-n, March 3.
A SHOWER 1 F I’Li t:II
tel! from a clear sky, covering- a space
of one acre u id -and two acres long,
with little strips of Ush fi-oiri one
inch 10 two inches wide ns and from an
inch to three fourths of an inch in
diicknesN Ft- m Friday till 'ol,day
evening the flesh slid remained on
the ground, and hogs and chic : ens
picked it np end ate it. Hundreds
of people visited iln* locality from
Friday til! yesterday and were still
going. Your correspondent talked
with several lvii bio gentleman who
had seen a number-of persons who
had seen the
STRANGE SIGHT,
arid hundreds of persons arc willing
to make affidavit to the above tacts.
The county for miles is filled wi h re
port* of the wonder. 'Uhe p<>ple of
ihe neighborhood approached the
flesh with a supe'stitioiis dread, the
majority refusing to lunch it. Mr
II Gill, of Mqdliek Springs, secured
a number of piec -s for examination
nil chemical ana’yMs, and if po-ible
your correspondent will secure a
specimen and send to Prof. J. Law
rence Smith. I will endeavor to get
all tlie facts and details and write you
again.
O
THE SIIOWZR OF FLESH.
Louisville, Ma cli 11.— In regard
to the show er o' fle-h in Bath courry,
Prof. J. Laurence Smith, the scion ist,
says in his analysis of the specimen*
examined: “In my mind, this mat
ter gives indication of being the
dried spawn of Batrachian reptiles,
doubtless that of the frog. They
have been transported troin ponds
nnd swampv grounds hy cnrrenis of
wind, and have ultimately fallen on
the spot where they were found.
This i~ no isolated ocenrre: <:e of the
kind. I have c me across several i
the course of my reading, Th ■ only
one which I cm affix the date is re
corded by M u-mhonbroeck, as occur
ring in 1 1 land in 1 Sfie.
Straw ben ie* are dj rarity in Ya -
dog fa.
HAMILTON, HARRIS 00., GA„ WEDNESDAY, HARO 22, 1876.
THE STRONG MAN HOUND.
Slid Story of Inebriation.
A True Sketch from Ileal Life.
| For the Journ and.
In the year ISO” it was my fortune
to be sent as a pastor to the town of
G .
This being the first year of my itin
erant career, its labors were entered
upon with considerable trepidation.
Responsibilities, duly appreciated, in
the new fienl before mo, demanded
the closest application of head, heart
a id hands.
As might bo expected, a deeper
ami clearer insight into the natures
and peculiarities of men was granted
mo than was over had before, ami ii
is scarcely necessary to say that this
insight was often startling and alarm
ing. In this new sphere of action
an l enjoyment, objects of pleasing
ami pain in! inlet cst abounded. Many
b'ieuds bailed my arrival with a
warmth of cordiality that was truly
exhilarating, ami hade me tied speed
in the good work which, as an hum
ble ambassador, I was commissioned
to perform.
The following incident, which I
find in my jottings of that memora
ble year, may prove profitable to
many readers as an illustration of the
depravity of human nature, and its
a'urming helplessness when once en
slaved to np; e itc or passion.
Early aft r my arrival at the afore
mentioned place, I formed the ac
quaintance of a Mr. C.—a man of
pleasing address and genial spirit,
lie was no ordinary man. There wa
a wonderful combination of the ele
ments of mind and heart, in his case,
that ought to have made him happv,
and a blessing to the world. Hut he
was a slave, and bowed obsequiously
to every command of that most fear
ful of earthly tyrants, alcohol. His
intoxication was, however, periodical.
At times, when the domination of tho
fell destroyer was suspended, all the
admirable characteristics of the man
stood forth, and the best of men, iu
spite of fits antecedents, would Low
at the shrine of his genius, and would
court his society for the \\ armth of
iiis ing( nitons nature.
To this man I w s v, arnily attached,
Mid our continued association only
served to strengthen the bonds of
our mutual friendship.
A wife and three sens (the eldest
was an imbecile l’l' tn childhood)
composed the home circle. liis wife,
as to her domestic, s cial and moral
qualities, wasu paragon of excellence.
Rarely have I seen such pati -nee and
moral heroism as were evinced by
her under the circumstances that
tried her soul. She pitied rather than
censured the way wardness and shiv
ery of her husband; for when not
under the inlitunce of intoxicating
drink, he was as affectioua'e and kind
as husband ever was, though, when
intoxicated, cru l, and even danger
ous. Many times ho talked to me
of his sol condition, and often
promised to reform, while burning
tears would course tlo.tn his manly
cheek.
One day ho related to me the cir
cumstances of his first aberration.
He said, that about t chi 1 y years an
terior to that time, he hail been a
member of the church, and was happy
in that relation. An enemy injured
him, and to retaliate was his fhsi im
pulse. This he resolved to do, but
not then. Having great veneration
for the sanctity of the church, and a
deep sense of hir. obligation a- a mem
ber of it, he determined to dissolve
his connection with it, and then
avenge himself of his enemy. And
to silence the eludings of his own
conscience, he promised that when
he had accomplished his purpose he
would rejoin the church.
lie nettd accordingly, as to his en
emy, hut concluded to def. r his re
turn to Lis former allegiance to the
church till a more convenient season.
The force of tln resolution he found
to weaken with each revolving day,
until he had concluded to postpone
his return to the church to uu indefi
nite pi : iod.
H oi l not plunge headlong into
he ces.-poo! ol Vice and corruption
at once, but simply turned an eye
and an ear to ti.o seductive charms
of the world. Through these ave
nues to the soul there poured in the
earthly l-av n, until he found him
self too wiling to Le led by the ene"
mies of hi- ~ u.
About this time he contract and t' e
habit of taking an occssioiia soc.-l
gl is-*. r lhis rapidly grew upon him,
until, constrictor like, it had wound
it-elt around his moral powers, and
he stood a cap! i\v hound.
Wearly twenty y-air. of such sad
j bondage ho had passed, and still the
I tyrant swayed over his crushed ami
i mangled moral manhood iiis sceptre
of lire.
On otic occasion lie solemnly prom
bed me that he would drink no more
till after a certain period; bill hi
promise was soon forgotten, or his
moral strength was insufficient to
keep it, lie was carried homo bv
s ime friends to the bosun of his f un
ily in a state of beastly intoxication.*
Tn a tit of delirium treni;*.!- lie sought
to inflict deadly wounds and blows
upon the persons of his v,. and chil
dren, who were compu',’ and to seek
refuge under a neighbor') ro .f.
On the day suec'Oilig s, 1. all ,j,
pointment a few tntles a, ay, ami on
the road that passed hfs residence.
I had not proceeded far beyond bis
house on my way to clu' ch, when a
terrific looking rain clou over spread
the heavens, and admonished me to
seek a shelter quickly; 1 reined up
my horse and turned right about, and
went to his house rather fearing con
sequences. lie had ju t. Awoke from
a profound sleep <>t seve-ul hours. ]
knocked at the door for admittance
and to my surprise ho answered the
call, and with his usu I C'rdialily and
urbanity he took mo by the hand and
bade mo be sea ed, blit (.loud over
spread his countenance, which c!o
qtiently bespoke the war within. I
determined not to advert lo the fact
of his drunkenness, f.r 1 (lid not coo
sidcr him in a lit condition to receive
any words of counsel. A few mo
ments, however, only elapsed, when
ho himself rem irked, ‘T suppose sir
that yoa have heard of my recent in
toxication.” I then rep i 1, “yes sir,
with pain I have heard m it,” an 1 1
continued, “you have ruined yourself
and besides being p r.souvly cruel to
you: family, you have eouiiicd upon
them a measure of the disgrace
which you have brought u;ton your
self. True, ’tis If. rd 1. a tu in’f
•fimily should suffer on account of
the deeds of the husband and father,
lint so it is, and so the world in its
coldness will h tve it. I>i I you know,
I continued, that in your drunken,
tiesi you lid attempted to murder
your pood v. ife, ami that, ton set tick
loth, ground your ufilieied son?’'
“I did no'.,’’ iiu replied, bursting into
a hood .<f tears. “I>y the grace ol
God i will never touch another drop
of liquor.’’ Now, said f, “that is it,
if you rely for help noon the grace of
God, you will certainly be able to
withstand all future temptation, but
if you fly upon your own strength,
von will be Mire to fail again.” Said
lie, “I am detorini ed never to drink
again, God being my help t,’’ and
added, “I will fa .e an oath from you
to-day that I will not.’’ We spent
litc day in solemn conversation, with
very little indulgence in anything of
a facetious character. At last jhe
sun was rapidly sinking in the West,
when I atmtionced that the day was
forspent and 1 must bo gone. “Hut
stop,’’ said he, “not till you hsve ad
ministered that oath to me.” I did
nothing and said nothing, however,
to encourage him in this matter, for I
had learned from otlu rs, that lie h id
had several solemn oaths recorded,
ev n in due and soL mu form, but, h id
violated all ot them; bi -ides I could
not see what good could be accom
plished. 1 had no confidence in his
ability then, properly to appreciate
the solemnity of an oath, but still,
he insisted, 1, lectured him awhile on
the solemnity of an oath, told him
that an oath administered by a ser
vant of Go 1 and on the holy Sabbath,
looking lo such moment'.us results,
all being done in the fear of God,
was perhaps Ihe most solemn, and if
pos-ible the ruo-t binding. He said
that h was deeply conscious oflhe-e
facts, telt the weight of their impor
tance and was none the less del. i min
ed on his avowed course. lie
rose to his feet ami walked to the
turner of the room ane took from
the stand the f itni y H ide, t;ie>i be
placed the book in mv hend and said,
‘administer the o-ih.’’
We were standing iri the center of
the root), he pieced ids hand on the
Bible anil knell before me. I admin
istered an oa b extempore, and lie
pressed the Hoik to his lips, then in
broken accents exeiaime 1, “now pray
for me.” and v.c ki. It op'flier. A;!
that wa'< a s )'t ;::u hour—tl,< mother
and so::- s bbi'.g as if their h -s: ‘ -
would brief, and cubing upon God
o aid he father to keep inviohre
dial, last solemn oath. Wo arose
from our knees anh after invoking
die blessing of heaven upon the
mournful group T returned home.
Days, weeks and mouths sped on
and h i was true to his oath until
the end of the year. In the Provi
dence of God, 1 was called to anoth
er field of labor, and my connection
with this man ceased; but I learned
afterward that he did not long re
'poet his fiohunn oath, an I was drink
nig as in other days. Now I haw
no doubt as to that mans sineeritv’
and had he relied upon God for
strength, instead of his own puny
arm, lie would h ive been kept from
tho tempters power. Young man;
middle aged; remember flus, and
•hun the path of the distroyer;’ touch
not the wme cup for it may be toyuu
the filiation of an imperious habit or
the first link in the chain that shall
hind you forever in tho gloomy re
gions of the damned. G. IS. ,f.
Hamilton, Ga., .March 20th.
It Got Monotonous.
Six or seven days ago an old man
entered the store of a Detroit hard
ware man, who alscfdeals in seed-,
and, inquiring for the proprietor soon
-lood face to face with him.
“Want to see me?” ashed the deal
er.
“Yes, sir, I do! Seven years ago
dfis coming spring I bought a p iper
if seeds from you !’’
“I presume so.’’
“I’ll swear to it, sir! Seven years
ago, sir, and not one of those seeds
e two up!"
“Wi ll that’s funny,’’ laughed the
Ictl'T.
“You may think i' was,’’ sai l the
fid man, “but. I’ll make it cost you
ten thousand dollars! When you
sold me those seeds, sir, you did not
miow that you were dealing with a
ion!’’
“Well you stop your blowing and
get out of here !”
“Give me a package of cabbage
cods sir
“I won’t I’’
The old man went away, but in an
hour came back and said iu a loud
voice:
“Sever years ago ibis coming
spring I bought a package of seeds
at this store. Not one of those seeds
arose lrvm the silo 1”
He was ordered out, and ho went,
out. lie was there next morning as
soon as the proprietor was, and lie
said;
“Seven years ago this coming
spring you sold me a package of seeds.
Not one single sued matured to man
hood !’’
lie was put out that time, but he
returned in the afternoon, when tho
store was l'uil of customers, and ex
claimed :
“Seven years ago thia coming
spring T was swindled by that man
there! He sold me a package of gar
den seeds, not one of which ever
thruv!’’
When he went out something hit
him three or four times in the back.
He went down tho street for awhile,
and 1 lien returned and stood in front
of the store and said lo tho people
who passed :
“Seven years ago this coming
spring this store here sold mo garden
seeds that never sprojued I’’
lie repeated the words over and
over .i.t,l the crowd began to gather,
when ho wu called in and given a
dozen papers of seed and told lo for
give find forgot.
“Bix papers of onion seed to pay
for the choking!” he said as he but
toned his overcoat.
They were given him, and when
slowed a way he remarked, “six pa
pers of cucumber seeds to pay for
lour kici-.s!’’
Aker some argument these wore
iiaudtd him, and as lie backed out of
doors he said:
“It’s ad tight! Y ui’vo acted like a
min about it, a .'l if you want any
vcgetab.c.s next fail i’ll make a dis
count to you 1”
Cut on id - aid S.-utiiel: “ l'mies a; .
very hal’d iu Georgia,” “Money is ex
c-edmgiy light.’’ “Everybody is
fuming ihe evil effect of the teurlu!
stringency.’* And yet Ji iw.u 800 h
played Hi the Statu four loch nights
and received twcti y-.-cx thousand
dollars and a ehaiuiid ring. Too
poor to give to choreaes, too poor to
iv : to tin; poor, t >-> p >or to do a y
iLitig but i! ami le -Rid pay th m -:i .
to Edwin Booth! Boor t.. et.-giu.
GURU UN ATI) ilAii.
What Gin IVtKsofUio N'nte Said
on Gio Subject Lti.it Week.
[•’ ippxi from t'ie Constitution.)
(.'union Times—Some think the
ale speaker of the house of rcpro.sen
la'.ivcs will b-a li.irilnii.tn lo boat
to* governor.
Valdosta Times.—There are four
hundred ean lidait's for governor in
Georgia ami every ruin think) the
race is between himself anil Governor
Smith.
Home Commercial.—The Catoosa
Courier says there is an ominous si
lence in Cherokee Georgia about the
candidacy of Colquitt, Ilardemau,
Gmtivll, el id, which means that it
Gov. (Smith is no!, renominated, north
Georgia will present a candidate for
the pusi ion.
Darien Gazette.—A correspondent
of the New fork Herald publishes
a pack of lies in that paper of a re
e.ent dale, about Gov- feimlU and hi.->
administration. There seems to he
a terrible struggle to beat Smith
Right hero we will state that persons
coming liotti Atlanta tel! us that
ciwilh is getting stronger every day.
Columbus Tim us. —lion.’Martin J.
Crawford authorize* ns to say that
while he appreciates the purdallty oi
the uuktiowu friend who, through tin
Uara-rsvide Express, proposes Ins
nomination fur the office of governor,
tie wishes it lo be undo;stood that he
is not m the list of candidates and has
no aspiration lur tho position,
CiaiAiuow’N itucono.— Nearly all
the pagers in the state, both great
wild small, are sugg : ting ddlcroni
names lor governor. There has
probably' been one Hundred names
suggested, ttud cacti el them t/ut man.
A i we get a good man, one who lots
die uui.uy and die manliness lo exe
cute the niws properly, wo shall be
commit.
Kllijay CoUujßß. We advocate
the claims lo llm guOern.ttorial chair
General L. J. Gartrell. Wo think
him a true born 1 o ilem.m ar heart —
100 high to stoop to ignoble doo-U—
--100 true to the country’s'interest to
peddle out the tenure oi ofli-.o lot
greed or gain. Wo hope ho Will lie
proinincutly brought before the peo
ple at large. Old Towns will roll
him up a large majority’ at the polls.
Gainesville Eagle: Oar mind like
that of a great many of tho correspon
dent;:', is not fully made tip on tho
gubci-na oriul question, but before
Gov. Smith is called on to answer to
anything, and before judgment is tak
en against him pro confesao, we
want to woo the charges against hint
stated by somebody willing to shoul
der the odium of having circulated a
falsehood, if ho cannot prove what
he alleges. “That’s business,” and
we desire to sec this question dispos
ed of in a business way.
Augusta (Vinstitutionali it.—\\ 0 re
produce this morning the correspon
dence of tho New York Horahl, from
Atlanta, a ‘ailing Gov. Smith. It
was intended lo mortally wound our
state executive, hut has fallen hurt
less at his feet. The fangs of tho lit
erary adder have been ’drawn by the
press of Georgia, and publication at
this time, far from injuring Gov.
Smith, it will help his cause. We have
never known, iu our experience as a
journalist, a document, so charged
with venom to bo so harmless, and
the author of it, in i ttcinpiiig to
prove the governor a fool, has writ
ten himself down a Dogberry of the
first degree.
Gainesville E tglc: The butt'-rflics,
blue birds and martins are begining
to 11>; fruit tre< s are in full bloom;
vegetation is begining to “put up;”
cud everything indicates that winter
H past and that, sp ing is upon us.
Atlanta C (tuicr: r-inc-c the war,
the Republican administrator* h ve
spent or wasted enough in m ney in
Mis'.-.ining u-'hone.'t natrupes 111 the
Southern IS ales and enriching tings
of'stock-jobbers everywhere else, to
have paid for all the emancipated
Haves without warding a drop of
bio and.
Slate Line ihe : M tny Vnrers
hare abandoned their contl' cl and
exchanged this healthy region for the
MirsDippi and Texas graveyards.
None (rout our i nm' dialo vicinity
Give gone. We hear of numbers ro
u [,i:: ' akeidy. Our opinion is i!
.hey aid g-i and stay, the change
iv.ll till!..lately wolk lo oar L.n.li..
;• : iOO it VPA i>
-’.W ft juAju.*,.
S > l - I >> ili N.* v.ij (Vumbuft hvt
i lai l :l| i flection for a member o' L'-g
--lsUturo merely to cstnb'ish a princi
pal As the Hon. Potty would re
mark, “Girnmo n pound uv prim-ipT,
and I’ll give you a whole bod tick full
uv peanut hulls.’' 'i ho , successful
candidate will never take his seat iu
the , resent Legislature unless aaex
>r > s. -si ,11 is called: which God. for
bid 1
i a.button A. and ard ; It is trulva
mystery that r. inuu, who Ini* fifdfn
thousand dnli.ira in clean cash, can
stand and see a widowed niece, with
two children, struggling dry lo keep
the wolf from hat door, and nover
"frer her a penny, and yet sn-b a
nan lives within the county linen of
good old Talbot, lie has a through
ticket to hell and no mistake.
Columbus Enquirur-Btni: Suppose
we just postpone the dead issue ot
the Andersonville prison untill some
satisfactory explanation is furnished
is to what became of the funds in
the Freedman’s Hank. Tho work
bef the committee is simple. An
immense amount of money belonging
to poor, ignorant negroes Ims been
stolen, and the people want to know
who got it. Tho committee have lb*
records of the bank to show where
Tie money went, as the. most of it
undoubtedly remained in Washing
ton, il ought to be easily traced.
Dry your eyes, good Republican
saints, over the sorrows of Anderson
villa, and turn your pious p< oitets in
'ido out.
For the Journal.
What is a Cow Worth!
I find great destitution iu the coun
try round about in the matter of milk
did butter, and a corresponding bur
goring and thirsting tiller them.
My wife, who, like most women
since the war, has occasionally taken
a hand at cooking, has repeatedly
told me that a cow that would givo
iso gallons of milk a day, was worth
tSO a year for but it r, milk and cook
ing j imposes.
To make a cow do that, one mutt
employ a colored girl between Hand
18 years old, who lias no kin in four
or live miles, whom you must teach
how to miik, dress her well and cora-
I'ortubly, make her sleep in your own
house, and only allow an occasional
visit to a prayer-meeting or singing.
Yofflr cow will go dry in three
month* if you employ a woman with
a family, and the milk will not make
butter two months.
A cow milked in five or ten min—
nb t ui'l soon go dry. It will take
a full third of her time for a girl to
milk and attend to two, three, or
more cows. A married womati v ill
attend to them in one-sixth of her
lime, for tho aforesaid three months,
and after that lime there will Le t,o
occasion. Hut a girl a* aforosaid
will continue a year.
Now let us figure a little on the
worth of a uiw, Two gallon* a d*y
will he 730 gallons a year; at 10c. a
gallon, $73 ; and lb*, of butter for
every four gallons, at 26c. a pound,
would be $13.50; or, milk and butter
*118.60. Suppose three cows at the
above rates, or 1355.60.
Suppose you g;v-.i $26 wages for
girl—her wage* and board and cloth
ing at $00; or one third or S3O of her
time and labor given to the cows.
Huy 3,000 Ihs. bran and 100 bn,she’s
of cotton seed—tiie latter at !60. a
bushel and tho former at $1.50 per
hundred—or the need at sls and the
bran at $45; or SOO, to which add
the S3O girl’s hire, 01 S9O; then add
to that, for vessel* and incidental*,
! $lO, or a total aggregate of $100;
which, taken from Llie $365.60, leaves
a nett value of $255.60, or for each (
cow so giving two gallons per day
the year round, $25.10.
The milk 1 vaitte-d at 10c. a gallon
was butiermiik, country price, as well
| as the butter.
We have sold for six months, daily,
front four to eight gallon* 01 butter
milk, at 10c. a gallon, for work, brat,
1 chickens and money. One sto'eu
chicken iu the time, for winch the
; negro worked f.r its wnor a mouth,
and a few pounds of meal were ten
dered ai otto time, but refused.
The figures ab -ve given of' food
expenses ar , l thins, . i’i-i-at tu
bring the twogiiiou- a day from a
good, fair cow, on average pasture
and waste slops, scraps from garden,
etc.
'i be three cows tint gave the milk
.f.r. uid gave it from May, 187-1, tiq
two of Ui.ce mooth s.ltce tVio left
d>v, vi iiiuii y V j il u'm I> ur to ?gX
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