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POLITICAL.
GEN’L COLQUITT AND THE “SOUTHERN
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.”
The following “Circular” is published as a
matter of justice to Gen. Colquitt, against
whom frequent unwarranted insinuations
have been made, in regard to his connection
with the “Southern Life.” A careful read
ing will, we think and hope, satisfy any rea
sonable mind that Gen. Colquitt is no more
responsible for the failure of this company
and the consequent calamity to its policy
holders than the “man in the moon.”
TO THE POLICY HOLDERS ATLANTA DE
partment Southern Life Insurance
Company.
The statement in reference to the present
condition of the Southern Life Insurance
Company promised you in our brief card, is
given below. It was delayed by the absence
of Gen. Gordon in Memphis, and the neces
sity of obtaining from him all the facts in
reference to the Company’s affairs.
It is not necessary, we hope, to say much
of either the general conduct or condition of
this Department. It is already known to
you, that whatever troubles environ it, result
from the complications at the Home office in
Memphis. These complications are explain
ed below, and you will perceive, do not re
flect even upon the management of that depart
ment ; on the contrary, the Directors at Mem
phis, is assuming the living business of the
“Carolina Life,” acted under the guidance
of Insurance experts as to the financial ad
vantage of the transaction, and under the ad
vice of the ablest attorneys as to its legal se
curity.
The facts, with reference to that transac
tion, arc these : The Southern Life did not
purchase the “Carolina Life,” nor assume
one dollar of its past losses or debts. Nor
did the “Carolina” go out of existence. The
Southern Life agreed by its contract, with
the advice of attorneys, simply to take the
policies then livingofthe “Carolina”, receive
the premiums and issue its own policies, up
on the “Carolina’s” turning over to the
Southern, assets to make these policies se
cure. This contract was drawn by able law
yers. and was intended to protect the South
ern from all liabilities for any previous debts
or losses incurred ly the Carolina. If, there
fore, the Directors at Memphis erred in ma
king this contract, which has brought the
trouble upon the Company, it was an error
which would have been made under such cir
cumstances and with such advice, l>3 r any
body of intelligent business men % The step
which now proves so disastrous, was taken
for the purpose of increasing the business of
the Company without a relative increase of
expenses. It is as unjust, therefore, to cen
sure the Memphis Directory as it would be to
condemn the Directors of a Railroad, who
under the wisest counsels, and in order to
benefit those interested, should agree to take
the business of another Company, which af
terwards proved disastrous. In the light of
present facts, the Memphis Directory made
a mistake, but with the lights before them
at the time, and by the judgment of the ablest
counsel they could command, they acted, we
think, as other business men would have act
ed. Your sense of justice will induce you to
admit that these gentlemen could not have
anticipated liability from the Carolina’s loss
es under a contract thus drawn. After this
contract was signed, the creditors ofthe Car
olina brought suit, and proceeded by bill to
enjoin the Southern against the use of as
sets, and thereby occasioned this great dis
aster, although these creditors never held the
policies of the Southern, nor paid to it any
premiums.
The Directors at Memphis, seeing the se
rious complications thus brought upon the
“Southern,” and in order to save the assets
from utter sacrifice filed their own petition in
Bankruptcy, and have checked further pro
ceedings until some programme can be
agreed upon. Every effort is being made to
rescue the Company from these complications.
If this could be done, your Policy would be
secure. If not, and the assets are forced to
sale in the financial distress of the country,
we need not tell you that the sacrifice will be
very great.
Wc have felt that it was due the Directory
at Memphis to say this much, Of course,
this Department, which is but a branch office,
is involved with the Company.
Had it been possible, under the Charter,
to separate from the Company, this Depart
ment would not have suffered from these
complications; and wc believe that the facts
herewith submitted will abundantly vindicate
the care and economy with which the Depart
ment has been managed, and demonstrate
the great success claimed for it. At the time
this unexpected calamity overtook us we
were receiving premiums from 480 policy
holders in Georgia.
There are insured in the entire Company
in both Departments, including all the States
from Maryland to Texas, about 4000 lives.
M e have paid at this office to the widows and
orphans of the deceased policy holders in
this Department, about $500,000, and have
returned to our patrons more than $200,000
in dividends.
We may be permitted to refer with par
donable pride to the economy and care in the
management of this Department; and we
submit with confidence the following facts, to
your candid judgment and to your sense of
justice. We believe it is notorious among
insurance agents, that the commissions paid
to this Company’s Agents are very low T ANARUS, if
not lower than those paid by any Company
doing business in the South. Our Agents
have been offered repeatedly much higher
Commissions by Northern Companies—in
some instances almost double.
In this connection let us make known to
you that the undersigned were not paid sala
ries, high or low, as some designing persons
would Induce you to believe. We wore paid
commissions only, upon the business brought
to the Company, and those commissions paid
to us were less by 50 per cent, than many
Northern Companies pay their Agents. Out
of these commissions, less we say than were
paid others, we employed our Agents. We
make no apologies for thus making known
to you the particulars of our personal rela
tions to the Company, because we recognize
your right to be informed upon all matters
touching our management.
Some of you inquire whether the money
paid by you lo the Company cannot be return
ed. If the Company had no entanglements,
it would still be impossible to do that. The
Company has carried the risk upon your lives
since the date of your Policies. It is not cor
rect therefore, to say that you have lost the
money paid in. Your life has been insured,
and the premiums are paid mainly to cover
hazard. You will perceive, that it would be
almost as reasonable to ask the Fire Insur
ahee Company to return your premiums, be
cause at the cud of the year you find that
your house has not burned. While you have
not died, many others have, and these death
losses were paid from the aggregated premi
ums received, In some cases, the amounts
paid on death claims have far exceeded the
amounts received in premiums; as for in
stance, from the County of Troup, we have
received in cash premiums about seventeen
thousand dollars, (17,000) dollars, and we
have returned to that county, in payment of
death claims, twenty-one thousand (21,000)
dollars. While of course these instances are
not common, they will show you how impos
sible it is for a Company to pay all death
claims and yet return the money received in
premiums for this very purpose. No Compa
ny in the world could comply with such a re
quest.
You may be assured that wc shall leave
nothing undone which we can do to relieve
you from the effects of this disaster, which
was as startling to us as to you, and far more
calamitous. If the Company can be rescued,
the relief will be complete—sufficient to pro
tect your polic}', or to re-insure you, or pay a
surrender value. Of the success, however, of
efforts to save the Company, we arc unable to
give you any positive assurance.
Of course, in the present status of its affairs
the Company can receive no premiums. A
complete record, however, is kept of all poli
cies, and you will be promptly notified of any
change in the present situation.
In conclusion, we will say that, with this
statement, and with a conscious discharge of
duty, we confidently repose on the lair and
intelligent judgment of men everywhere.
JOHN 15. GORDON,
A. 11. COLQUITT.
Atlanta, Feb. 18, 1876.
The Hamburg Emute.
NOT A POLITICAL WAR —DESIGNING SCALAWAGS
TIIE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT.
The cause of the difficulty is not, as some
people suppose, entirely a political one. It
is a conflict of races, agged on by the scala
wag and carpet-bag element, similar in some
respects to that now going on in the West,
and of which we have just had such a signal
and melancholy instance in the massacre and
death of Gen. Custer and his comrades. The
time will come when the red man will become
extinct upon the American continent, and it
may be the same with the black man ; but
owing to his more peaceable disposition and
nature he will last longer, but the end will
come. His inclination to fall back to bis
primativc barbarism will bring it about. —
With bis lack of invention and conservatism,
he must fall back and in time fade entirely
out. The Caucasian race, whose nature it is
to aggrandize, build forts, houses and strong
places, must finally increase and conquer.—
For humanity’s sake it is best that we do
nothing to hurry up the irrepressible conflict,
but try to live together in peace. It should
be considered and placed to his credit that it
is no fault of the negro that he is now in his
present position. If left to his own choice
he would not be here. Ills every instinct
leads him to prefer a more tropical clime,
where he could live without work. The taste
and disposition of the negro is less sanguinary
than that of the Indian. He accommodates
himself more easily to circumstances ; were
it otherwise lie would be less enduring, and
consequently not in his present half-civilized,
semi-barbarous position in this enlightened,
progressive age. llis ambition is small and
his wants few ; and as for necessities, lie does
not know what the term means. And we
venture to say if the white race were to sud
denly remove from South Carolina and leave
the negro element entirety to itself, in ten
years there would be few vestiges of civiliza
tion left in the State. Railroads would go
out of use first; bridges fall out of repair
next; roads merge into pathways, and houses
be torn down to make cabins of. And very
soon, supposing there was a market, the same
old story of African selling African would be
played over again. This is a dark and un
pleasant picture, but nevertheless a true one ;
3 T et, between the sketch and finished work
there is a terrible liyatus or cataclysm which
none but the Great Artist who shapes the
destinies of human affairs can fill up.
Asa superior race, possessed of more in
telligence than any of the others, and pro
fessing the doctrines of Christianity, the white
man can afford to be generous and merciful
toward those whom adverse circumstances
have brought in contact with him. And such
we hope and almost feel assured will be the
case. As for their wicked advisers, the slimy,
crawling scalawag and thieving carpet-bag
ger, who make traffic of the life blood of the
people, no mercy ought to be shown. Even
hemp is too good for them.— Aiken (S. C .)
Courier-Journal.
The Color Question.
“Midas, am you notesin’ de strong hole
what cullur am takin’ on de conjections ob
the publik mind ?”
“ Can’t say dat I ’zactly ’predates what
yon was conferrin’ to, Pete.”
“Midas, you hab 'lowed de interes’ ob yoh
mind to res’ pon de sto’ windows ; hab you
not ?”
“ I has ruminated ’pon de dry goods win
dows, yes, Pete, but what am 3*oll ’proachin’ ?”
“ Well, Midas, I will commence wid the
lowes’ one of dem tings an’ ’luminate de fac’.
You am aware that stockin’s am de lowest of
dry goods, an’ dat’s whar I gits the logic.
You ’member dat de prevyus question was in
favor ob white as de color. By stickin’ pins
in 3*oh mern’ry 3*oll 'rives at de pint when de
public mind am waverin’ on de subjec’, an’
de3* put color in de heel an’ toe ; by reflectin'
on de sto’ windows you finds dat stripes am
de fav’rite by a large majority. You follows
de confleckshuns ob de 3’oung folks ob de
county an’ you finds dat solid colors rules.
Deni’s de sentiments ob de risin’ generations,
an’ de question am, wont de next President
be a cullud puson ?”—Washington Chronicle.
The terms of the Notaries Public all over
the State expired on the 21st. The Govern
or is very busy making out appointments for
the ensuing term of four )*ears. About one
hundred and fifty have been appointed al
read3 T .
A Tiiden Campaign Song.
[Air — Dixie.]
In the land of com and the land of cotton
Radical rogues are ripe and rotten—
Look away ! look away !
All too long have the rascals ruled us,
Cobbled our cash and tricked and fooled us —
Look away ! look away !
CHORUS.
So I mean to vote for Tiiden,
For Uncle Sammy Tiiden !
On Tilden’s side I'll stand with pride,
And work and vote for Tiiden.
Honesty now is what’s the matter;
All the thieves we*ll force to scatter—
Look away ! look away !
Driving the rats from the Treasury buildin’,
Clearing the track for our Sam Tiiden—
Look away ! look away !
Chorus —So I mean to vote for Tiiden, etc.
Whisky rings and revenue robbers,
Salary grabbers and railroad jobbers—
Look away ! look away !
Leeches that stick to the public pockets,
All must <£o up and away like rockets—
Look away ! look away !
Chorus —So I mean to vote for Tiiden, etc. #
North and South are again united,
Equal and free, and no one slighted—
Look away ! look away !
Tuck in your shirt that’s dirty and bloody;
Such a foul fraud can fool nobody—
Look away ! look away !
Chorus —So I mean to vote for Tiiden, etc.
Justice and truth have long been scanted,
Honesty now is the thing that’s wanted—
Look away ! look away !
Look alive, then, and be sure to remember ;
Vote for reform, boys, next November—
Look away ! look away !
Chorus —So I mean to vote for Tiiden, etc.
— St. Louis Times.
The Hamburg Riot.
The riot between the whites and negroes at
Hamburg, South Carolina, opposite Augusta,
Ga., lias given rise to much comment in the
press of the country. The Republican pa
pers, of course, see in it nothing but an out
rage of the whites upon the colored people,
and are attempting to make all the political
capital out of it they can. The Democratic
and independent press, with a very few ex
ceptions, see nothing of political significance
in the affair, but rightly regard it as an un
fortunate occurrence that might take place at
any time in any community. Indeed, such
occurrences are much more common in the
North among the coal mines and work-shops,
and among other classes where the}' have op
posing interests, either real or imaginary,
than in the South. And yet no political sig
nificance ever attaches to them. But let a
little melee be started in the South, and
whether the whites are to blame or not, if a
negro should happen to come out with a
bloody nose, it is heralded throughout the
North through the Radical press as an un
mitigated outrage upon the colored race. It
may be sometimes, and doubtless is often the
ease, that the whites are to blame in these
disturbances—perhaps though wronged and
insulted, they should have had more forbear
ance. In very many instances, both sides
are more or less to blame. In this Hamburg
riot the fault was clearty with the negroes.
A negro militia company was drilling, and
being drawn up across the street or road, so
obstructed the highway that it was impossi
ble for a couple of gentlemen in a buggy to
pass. When the officers of the company
were asked to open a way for the travelers to
pass, they insolently refused. Was this a
sufficient cause for an attack upon the color
ed militia? Certainty not; and none was
made. But the gentlemen who thought they
had been aggrieved sought the only redress
that could have been obtained legitimately,
to-wit: a trial in the courts, and that, too, be
fore a colored Judge. They bad warrants
taken out charging the officers of the com
pany with obstructing the highway. Under
this warrant they were brought before Justice
Rivers, a colored man, but they refused to
surrender their arms, and treated the Court
and its authority with such contempt that it
was impossible to proceed with the investi
gation. It was this rebellion against tle civil
authorities that started the difficulty which
caused so much blood to be shed, and the
negroes were directly responsible for it.—
Netc nan Herald.
15^They call it the “ fighting trick” in De
troit. A benevolent looking man enters a
drinking saloon, followed soon after b} r a
wiry little fellow who invites No. 1 to take a
drink and a cigar. The liquor is swallowed,
the cigars are lighted, when suddenly No. 2
exclaims : “For thirty long3*cars T have fol
lowed 3*our trail day and night! You broke
up my happy family, villain that you are, but
now come out here and fight me like a man !”
“ I will fight 3*ou to the death !” is the deter
mined repty, and both rush into the back
yard. The agitated barkeeper runs to the
front door, whistles for a policeman, and hur
ries to the back door just in time to see a coat
tail disappearing over the fence. Then he
begins to realize the situation.
“ You needn't take down any more goods,”
she said to a weary-looking clerk, who was
half submerged in his wares. I don’t want
to buy an}\ but my husband’s sister’s niece
is going to New York, and she said she’d buy
me what I needed there if the prices were
enough lower than here to make it worth
while.”
Two bales of cotton received at New Or
leans from Brownsville. Texas, recentl}*, and
announced as the first shipments of the new
crop, appear on investigation to be naught
else than some of the last }*ear’s crop, re
packed and fraudulently shipped as the “first
bales of the Rio Grande crop.”
A Florida man, writing to the Columbus
Enquirer, saj’s he saw 300 bushels of cucum
bers shipped b} r one farmer to New York in
April that brought fifteen dollars per bushel,
making $4,500. He saw an orange tree that
supplied a large family with more flour than
they could consume in a3 r ear, and could men
tion a number of the like results if time and
space would allow.
IdiP Young miss, fond of pets—“Oh, I’m so
glad 3*ou love birds, Mr. Snooks ; what kind
do 3*ou admire?” Young man, who is quite
poetical—“ Well, I think a good turkey, with
oyster stuffing is about as good as any.”
It Does not Pay.
It does not pay to have fifty working men
poor and ragged, in order to have one saloon
keeper dressed in broadcloth and flush of mon
ey. It does not pay to have those fifty work
ing-men live on bone soup and half rations,
in order that one saloon-keeper may flourish
on roast turkey|and champaign. It will not pay
to have the mothers and children of twenty
families dressed in rags, starved into sem
blance of emaciated scarecrows, and living
in hovels in order that the saloon-keeper’s wife
may dress in satin, and her children grow fat
and hearty and live in a bay-window parlor.
It does not pay to have one citiizen in jail
because another citizen sells him liquor. It
does not pay to hang one citizen because an
other citizen sold him liquor. It does not
pay to have ten smart active and intelligent
boys transformed into hoodlums and thieves
to enable one man to lead an easy life by sell
ing them liquor. It does not pay to give one
man for sls a quarter, a license to sell liquor
and then spend $20,000 on the trial of Tip
McGlaughlin for buying that liquor and then
committing murder under its influence. It
does not pay to have one thousand homes
blasted ruined, defiled and turned into hells of
discord and misery in order that one whole
sale liquor dealer may amass a large fortune.
It does not pay to keep 5,000 men in the
penitentiaries and prisons, and hospitals and
1.000 in the lunatic asylum at the expense of
the honest, industrious tax-payers, in order
that a few capitalists may grow richer by the
manufacture of whisky and by swindling the
government out of three fourths of the revenue
tax on the liquor that they make. It does
not pay to permit the existence of a traffic
which only results in crime, poverty, misery
and death and which never did, never does,
never can and never will do any good. It
never pays to do wrong ; your sin will find
you out; whether others find it out or not,
the sin knows where you are and will always
keep you posted of the fact. It does not pay.
—California Rescue.
Go for Him.
He’s a poor, hard working man, trying to
pay' his honest debts and support his family
by honest toil, but “go for him,” because he
cannot pay a few dollars he owes. He is
poor and entitled to no consideration. Keep
him dowu !
Help him ! lie’s a rich man who robbed
a bank, or made an assignment, lives in a
fine mansion and walks the streets leisurely,
enjoying life, while his wife and children are
deprived of none of the luxuries of wealth or
the enjoyments of society. Help him! He’s
smart—an enterprising business man, and
it’s a pity lie’s robbed his creditors. Don’t
say anything to hurt his tender feelings, nor
expect him to soil his delicate fingers by toil.
He compounded with creditors at 25 or 30
per cent., and now lives in luxurious ease, an
honored, respected citizen, and a prominent
man in the church !
Go for him ! lie’s poor—he is trying to
pay cent for cent with interest, and his hands
are hardened by' toil—his wife and children
feel the pinchings of poverty and the tight
ness of the times—he lives in a small house
and fares scantily, but it is as good as he de
serves—he has no business to be poor nor
honest. He’s a fool for not robbing a bank,
or stealing frfcm those who would have trust*
cd him in prosperous days, lie ought to be
poor! Go for him ! Keep him down, pile
upon him such a weight of obloquy' and pe
cuniary' embarrassment that lie will never be
able to rise.
Training Houses to Step.— I never draw
a carriage up to a horse when he is about to
be hitched before it. No matter how awk
ward and blundering he may be, lie is always
taught to step over one thill to the desired
place between the shafts. Before a horse has
been trained to step over one shaft the two
shafts are placed on a small bench, eight or
ten inches high. The animal is led along the
side of the carriage and taught carefully to
step over one shaft with the fore feet, and
then to place his hind feet between the shafts.
If he is awkward at first, exercise patience
with his stupidity', and lead him forward again
and bring him around until you induce him
to understand what is desired of him. A
tractable animal (if his driver knows half as
much as the horse) can easily be taught to
step between the thills and never touch them
with his feet. —Herald Correspondence.
contemporary gives the following as
the meaning of the expression “Grass wid
ow” :
“Grass widow,” or rather “grace widow,”
is the term for one who becomes a widow by
grace or favor, not of necessity, as by death,
and originated in the earlier ages of European
civilization, when divorces were granted but
seldom, and wholly by authority of the Romish
Church. When such decree was granted to
a woman, the Papal rescript stated “viduca
degratia,” which, interpreted, is “widow of
grace.” In French law it would read “veuve
de grace,” which in English gives “widow of
grace,” or “ grace widow,” and slang, “ grass
widow.”
At the Centennial the Philadelphia ladies
cry out, “Isn't it cunning?” New York
ladies, “How superbly lovely!” Boston la
dies, “Ah, how exquawsite !” Louisville la
dies, “Be-uti-ful, fo’ sliuah !” Chicago ladies,
“ Oh, m3' —I wished I owned that!” while the
genuine Yankee girls from the rural districts
exclaim, “Geewhimminy, but ain’t that ’ere
a stunner, neow ?”
Don’t prevaricate, sir,” thundered a
California Judge to a witness just from the
mines. “ Can’t help it, Judge,” answered the
miner. “ Ever since I got a kick from a
mule that knocked my teeth out, I prevari
cate a good deal.”
THERE’S MONEY IN IT.
In these hard times a good return for hon
est labor is very desirable. Any active
young man or young lady can earn a hand
some sum by addressing, for particulars, the
Managers of The Constitution , the great
political and family journal published at the
Capital of the State.
Constitution Publishing Cos.,
Atlanta.
BIL-A-HSTIKIS.
At the Forest News Office,
BARGAINS!
NEW GOODS 5 REDUCED PRICES
STANLEY & PINSON,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
Dry Goods, Groceries, Ilats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Hardware, Earthenware, llollow.w are
Ready-Made Clothing,
Ladies’ and Misses Dress Goods, of various stydes ; Medicines, Drugs, Dye-Stuffs p a j nt
Oils, A FULL VARIETY OF NOTIONS to please the little children as well as ’
those of a larger growth. All of which, together with many other things,
Will be sold Cheaper than Ever,
“SS 1 } FOR CASH.
D. SCHEVENELL <fc C0.,~~
Broad street, Athens, G-a.,
]>oalers In
American and Imported Watches
Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware,
-{| BRIDAL PRESENTS, j}-
GUNS, PISTOLS, AMMUNITION, SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
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HAVING BEST AND EXPERIENCED WORKMEN, WE ARE PREPARED
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It will sew from Tissue Paper to Harness Leather.
It is as far in advance of other Sewing Machines in the magnitude of
its superior improvements, as a Steam Car ezcolls in achievements
the old fashioned Stage Coach.
Prices mad© to suit the Times,
Either for Cash or Credit.
PRICED 10 of I agents wanted.
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George Gathright vs. Sallie Gathright—Libel
Divorce. Rule to Perfect Service.
It appearing to the Court that the defendan
does not reside in this county, and it further an
pcaring that she does not reside’in this State, i
is, on motion of counsel, ordered that said defend
ant appear and answer at the next term of tlii
Court, else that the case be considered in default
and the plaintiff allowed to proceed. And it i
further ordered that this Rule be published in the
Forest News once a month for four months pur
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3d, 187 b M. M. PITTMAN, PPff’s Att’y.
Granted . _
GEO. D. RICE, Judge S. C 7
A true extract from the minutes of Jackson Su
perior Court, Febinary Term. 187 G.
march2s T\_lL NIBLACK, Clerk.
Warning to Trespassers.
ALL PERSONS are hereby warned not to
Hunt, El*li or otherwise Trespass upon
the lands of the undersigned. Under Full Penalty
of the Laic. [fi>] S. D. MITCHELL.
Family Bibles.
I CAN sell better bargains in FA MILY BIBLES
than any travelling Bible Agent. Elegani
Quarto Bibles, new type, splendidly illustrated,
at from 83.00 to $5.00. With heavy gilt clasp, com
plete Bible Dictionary, history of the Bible, Con
cordance, &c., and 500 illustrations—sG.so to SB.OO.
Call and examine my stock before you buy. I
guarantee satisfaction. T. A. BURKE.
Bookseller and Stationer, Athens, Ga.
Legal Weight.
The following is the Legal Weight of a
bushel, as fixed by an Act of the General As
sembly, approved February 20th, 1875:
Wheat, f - 60 pounds.
Shelled Corn, - - - 56
Ear Corn, ... 70
Peas, - 60
Rye, - 56
Oats, 32
Barley .... 47
Irish Potatoes, - - 60
Sweet Potatoes, - - 55
White Beans, - • 60
Clover Seed, - - 60
Timothy, - - - 45
Flax, - - - - 56 “
Ilemp, - - -44
Blue Grass, - - - 14
Buck Wheat, - - .52
Unpeeled dried Peaches, - *33
Peeled dried Peaches, - - 38
Dried Apples, - . .24
Onions, - - - 57
Stone Coal, - - .80
Unslaked Lime, - - - 80
I urnips, - - *>a
Com Meal, - - - - 48
Wheat Bran, - - 20
Cotton Seed, - .30
Ground Peas, - - - 2a
Plastering Hair, - -
SEND 50 CENTS FOR A YEAR’S SUBSCRIB'D 0 * 70
THE “TYPOS GUIDE,” A VALUABLE FI I,I
CATION TO ALL INTERESTED IN
ART OF PRINTING.
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ALL THE TYPE ON WHICH THIS I* A PER
ED WAS MADE AT THE RICHMOND
TYPE FOUNDRY.
SEND 25c. to GEO. P. ROWELL & CIL
York, for Pamphlet of 100 pages, c 0
lists of 3,000 newspapers, and estimates
cost of advertising.
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NOTICE.— All persons are hereby v ara ,
to Fish upon the lands of the unu
under full penalty of the law. , T TcTTf£*
May 13th. J- G. JVSW*