Newspaper Page Text
JACKSON CO. PUB. COM’Y, )
Proprietors. i
VOLUME Y.
1I I I
PUBLISHED KVKRT FRIDAY.
ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher,
JEFFERSON , JACKSON COGA.
)f riCK, N. K. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
One copy 12 months $1.50
“ “ 6 “ 1.00
“ “ 3 “ 50
jeJTFor every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex
tra wpy of the paper will be given.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less)
for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents
for each subsequent insertion.
yiT A square is a space of one inch, measured
up mid down the column.
gay All Advertisements sent without specifica
tion of the number of insertions marked thereon,
will he published TILL FORBID, and charged
accordingly.
or Professional Cards, of six lines
er lens, Seven Dollars per annum; and where
they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars.
£epf Jhbcrtisements.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sales.
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Octo
ber next, before the Court House door in the
town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
A tract of land in said county, containing sixty
tight and three-quarter acres, more or less, ad
dining lands of Watt McLester, colored, Wyatt
Hailey, C. H. Turner aud others, known as the
James Pharr place. About twenty-five acres of
said land in cultivation, balance in forest. Two
good tenant houses on the place. Levied on as
the property of J. C. Few, col’d, and Mary Carith
ers, col’d, to satisfy a fi. fa. for the purchase mo
ney of said land, issued from the Superior Court
of said county in favor of N. G. Trout vs. J. C.
Few, col’d, and Mary Carithers, col’d, as princi
pals, and Washington Carithers as security.
Property pointed out by plaintiff in fi. fa. Deed
tiled in the Clerk’s office as the law directs. No
tice given to Mary Carithers, col’d, and Reese
Few, col’d, tenants in possession, and also to the
I maker and the holder of the bond for titles.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
1 a tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being
1 in the 257th District, G. M., on the waters of lit
-3 tie Curry’s creek, adjoining lands of Jno. M. Wil-
I lute, A. T. Bennett and others, the same being
k the place whereon S. G. Harnett now resides, con
| uinmg three hundred and forty-two acres, more
I or less. Levied on by virtue of and to satisfy a fi.
I fa. issued from Clarke Superior Court in favor of
1 James K. Randolph, Executor of Joshua 11. Ran-
I dolph, deceased, vs. John C. Lumpkin, principal.
I G. M. Duke and S. G. Harnett, securities. On
1 said land there is a tolerably good dwelling house
; and necessary out-buildings, and a good orchard ;
I about forty or fifty acres of said land in a high
J state of cultivation, the remainder in old field and
I forest land. Property pointed out by G. S. Duke,
Administrator of G. M. Duke, deceased, co-de
fendant. Said fi. fa. controlled by said G. S. Duke,
Administrator aforesaid. Written notice given
S. G. Barnett, party now in possession, according
I to law.
aug 29 T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’fF.
( GiOKGl.i, JnckMon C’oulj.
Whereas, Nathaniel Rooks, Administrator of
Junes Davis, late of said county, deceased, ap
plies for leave to sell the dower land reverted to
i<l estate by the death of the widow of said de
fused—
This is to cite all concerted, kindred and cred
itor*, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
*stb, 1879. H. W. HELL, Ord’y.
IjMOHGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, C. W. Ilood, Executor of Zilman S.
Hood, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land
belonging to said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in October, 1879. at the regular term
°f the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said
wave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th, 1879. H. W. HELL, Ord’y.
| jtiOKCilA, Jack Non Count}'.
Whereas, Z. T. Suddeth, Administrator of S.
1 owan, late of said county, deceased, represents
[° the Court, by his petition duly tiled, that he
” ,vs fully administered the estate of said deceased,
*nd is entitled to a discharge—
this is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
’tors, to show camse, if any they can, on the first
Monday in December, 1879, at the regular term of
t! l e t’ourt of Ordinary of said county, why Letters
91 Dismission should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Q-KOUtilA, Jackson County.
Whereas, N. B. Cash, Administrator of Green
- anee, col’d, late of said county, dec’d, applies
lor leave to sell the land belonging to the estate
said deceased—
-1 Lis is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
it's, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
term of tho Court of Ordinary of said county,
, j!1 the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
ea ye should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
“ t1 U879. H. \V. BELL, Ord’y*
( |KORGIA, Jackson County.
hereas, Mrs. Malitta Saul, Administratrix on
Ule estate of G. W. Saul, late of said county, dc
ased, applies for leave to sell a portion of the
•anu belonging to said estate—
l‘iis is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
irs. to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
‘ar ly rin of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
yu the first Monday in October, 1579, why said
,ca y.° should not be granted the applicant.
men under my official signature, this August
“ Jtl G 1879. H. W. BELL, Crd’y.
Q.EORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, 0. 11. P. Pettyjohn, Administrator
ffie estate of Temperance Pettyjohn, late of
? 1(a county, deceased, applies for leave to sell the
T,*. belonging to said estate—
this is to cite all persons concerned, kindred
cr ®ditors, to show cause, if any they can, at
l ? regular term of the Court of Ordinary, to be
if* i n an( l f° r sa 'd county on the first Monday in
ctober, 1879, why said leave should not be
s *nted the applicant.
, fiiven under my official signature, this Septem
ber 2d, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
light job -wobb:,
Executed promptly, at this office.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement In Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
WILL be let to the lowest bidder, before the
Ordinary's Office in Jefferson, Ga., on Sat
urday, the lltn day of October next, the contract
for building a Queen Post Truss Bridge across
the Mulberry river at what is known as the White
Bridge location, with fifty or fifty-five feet span,
extending from south-west bank of river, and one
short span. The contractor will be allowed to
use the flooring on the present bridge on the ends
of the new bridge. Timbers to be all heart, and
all work must be done in workman-like manner.
The person bidding off said contract will be re
quired to give bond with good security, condition
al for faithful compliance of contract, in a sum
equal to the amount of bid, immediately after the
letting.
Full and complete specifications can be seen at
my offico. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Also, at the same time and place, and on the
same terms, will be let the contract for taking up
the flooring and banisters on the Hurricane Snoal
Bridge and putting in on the three spans over the
water new heart sleepers, G by 12 inches, five to
each span, and replacing floor and banisters.
sep!2 H. W. HELL. Ord’y.
Q.GORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, J. B. Pendergrass, Administrator of
the estate of N. 11. Pendergrass, late of said coun
ty, deceased, applies for leave to sell the real es
tate belonging to said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
2Gth, 1879. 11. W. HELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, Mrs. Sallie S. Hancock, Administra
trix on the estate of R. J. Hancock, late of said
county, dec’d, applies for leave to sell the real
estate belonging to said estate—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
2Gth, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, Henry Merk, Administrator of Geo.
Merk, late of said county, deceased, applies for
leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of
said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the
first Monday in October, 1879, why said leave
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
2Gth, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
LORGIA. Jackson Coiinty.
Whereas, S. S. Smith and T. S. Shankle. Ad
ministrators of Samuel Smith, Sr., deceased, ap
plies for leave to sell the lands of said deceased
lying in said county—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday
in October, 1879, at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should
not be granted the applicants.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas. Henry Merk and J. G. Dunahoo, Ex
ecutors of Samuel Garrison, late of said county,
deceased, applies for leave to sell a portion of the
lands belonging to said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first
Monday in October, 1879, why said leave should
not be granted the applicants.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th, 1879. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
EOKGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, Thos. D. Scott makes application, in
proper form, for Letters of Administration on the
estate of Columbus Long, col., late of said county,
deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
letters should not be granted.
Given under my official signature, this August
2Gth,lS79. IL W. BELL, Ord’y.
MANHOOD: HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED!
jggjsi. jag* Just published, anew edi-
of I>*. €ul verwelf's
Celebrated Essay on the
radical cure (without medicine) of Spermator
rhoea or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Semi
nal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical In
capacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also,
Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by
self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, &c.
ItesyPrice, in a sealed envelope, only six cents.
The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay,
clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years’ success
ful practice, that the alarming consequences of
self-abuse may be radically cured without the
dangerous use of internal medicine or the applica
tion of the knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at
once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of
which every sufferer, no matter what his condition
may be. may cure himself cheaply, privately and
radically.
ggyThis Lecture should be in the hands of
every youth and every man in the land.
Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad
dress, post-paid, on receipt of six cents or two
postage stamps.
Address the Publishers.
THE CULVER WELL MEDICAL CO.,
41 Ann St., New York ; P. O. Box, 45SG.
August 3d, 1878 —ly
PATENTS.
F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American and
Foreign Patents, Washington, I). C. All busi
ness connected with Patents, whether before the
Patent Office or the Courts, promptly attended to.
No charge made unless a patent is secured. Send
for circular. oct 19—tf
A Valuable Farm to Rent.
I WILL rent my farm, on Curry’s creek, in this
county, for one or five years, to some good,
responsible farmer. Said place contains about
sixty or seventy-five acres of open land ; enough
for a three-horse crop. Terms reasonable. For
further information, apply to Charles W. Shackle
ford, who joins said place, or
’ J T. J. SHACKLEFORD,
aug g • Gainesville, Ga.
WANTED ener
getic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and pro
fitable business. Good men will find this a rare
chance
TO 2v£-A.BE MONEY.
Such will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what bu
siness they have been engaged in. None but those
who mean business apply. Address
FINLEY, HARVEY & CO.,
june 20 Atlanta, Ga.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 26.1879.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
An Anxious Inquirer.
HOW A CHICAGO DRUMMER MET HIB MATCIT
IN A COUNTRY GIRL.
She was a sweet, shy, innocent little village
maiden, and she seemed somewhat flurried
as she stepped into the grocery store where
our city drummer was lounging.
The clerk knew her, and, while he did up
her parcel of tea, he asked her if she wan't
afraid to walk home alone so late at night.
She asked the clerk nervously if it was so
very late. When he assured lief it was but
just 9 o’clock, she took up the parcel and
hurried away.
The city drummer, looking on, thought to
himself, “ It really is too bad for such a pretty
little girl to walk home alone.” So, throwing
away his cigar, he skipped out and overtook
her just as she was turning a dark corner.
“ Wouldn’t you like some company?” he
asked, graciously offering his arm-.
“ But I don’t know you,” she said, hesita
tingly.
“ Don’t you? Why, I’m an old friend of
your father.”
“ Indeed 1” she replied ; but she did not
take his arm.
They chatted pleasantly along, he asking
many questions about her home, etc. lie
learned that her father was an invalid con
fined to his room, aud that her brother was
absent from town.
They soon came to a neat and somewhat
pretentious cottage, and, pausing at the gate,
she timidly asked him to come in.
Charmed with her shyness, and believing
the coast entirely clear, the unsuspicious
drummer accepted the invitation. She showed
him into a tasty little parlor; then she asked
to be excused for a few minutes. As she
passed out of the door a smile hovered
about her lips, but the drummer did not see
it.
Passing down a little hall, she tapped lightly
at another door, which was opened by a
gentleman of a decidedly ministerial aspect.
“ Mr. C.,” she said, “ there’s a gentle
man in the parlor who seems to be a very
anxious inquirer; won’t you go and talk
to him?”
“ Certainly, my dear,” answered her pastor,
who was as prompt to improve an oppor
tunity to attend to his business of saving
souls as men of different callings are to
drive sharp bargains. He hastened to the
parlor, glasses and all, and, grasping the
drummer warmly by the hand, exclaimed
heartly:
“ Glad to see you, my friend, very glad to
see you.”
The drummer stared at the old gentleman
in astonishment, and wondered vainly who
he was and why he was so very glad to see
him.
The minister drew a chair close beside him,
and, laying one hand on his knee, began very
earnestly:
“ Our young friend tells me that you are
an anxious inquirer. lam alwaj’s glad to
talk with any one who is interested in matters
relating to the welfare of the soul.”
The minister paused for a moment, and
the drummer begau to turn hot and cold.
' 4 Have you ever made any profession of
religionf Do you belong to any churohf”
the minister asked, encouragingly.
" N-no,” stammered the drummer, out loud.
“ Confound that girl 1” he muttered under
his breath.
The minister began to see that he was not
getting on, and, noticing the drummer’s dis
turbed manner, remarked:
'* Something troubles you, ray friend. Can
you not confide in me? Perhaps I can re
lieve your doubts and fears.”
I—l think I’d better go,” the drummer
said, rising and vainly trying to guess which
door he came in at.
“ Let us have a season of prayer together.”
said the minister; and, suiting the action
to the word, he kneeled down by his chair.
Not having decided which door he came in at,
aud not daring to risk meeting that “ con
founded girl” by opening any other, the drum
mer had nothing better to do than to submit
to the novel experience of hearing himself
prayed for.
As soon as the prayer was ended, he again
essayed to go, but Mr. C. bethought himself
of the “ girl,” and, stepping to the dining
room door, called :
‘‘Wife, has Lettie gone?”
“Oh 1 yes ; she did not stay. Willie went
with her, and he’s been gone long enough to
get back.”
At last the minister showed the discomfited
drummer the door, shook him warmly by the
hand, hoped to meet him in heaven, and let
him out into the free air once more.
As he passed out of the gate, he heard a
subdued giggle, saw two figures dimly out
lined against the sky, and a boy’s voice re
marked :
“ I wonder if pa converted him!”
The “ anxious inquirer” isn’t anxious to
inquiro after innocent young maidens of that
town any more.
A Chunk of Gold.
AN AMERICAN’S EXPERIENCE IN AUSTRALIA.
One day while I was at work in the drift
one of our party who was bailing in the shaft
said :
“There’s something big happened up
above, Tom; I hear a great buzzing and
shouting.’’
“Perhaps it’s a fight,” I suggested, as I
struck my pick in the soil and unearthed a
nugget as big as a walnut.
“Perhaps it’s a find,” suggested my mate.
“Titere’s a find here,” I said, as I crawled
out of the drift and exhibited the nugget I
had just taken out. Then I heard the clam
or, also; it was like the murmur of distant
waves. We shook the rope, and, receiving
no answer to our signal, concluded that
something important had happened, as our
mates above had evidently left the windlass.
A moment later a shadow appeared above,
and Bill’s voice was heard shouting :
“Come up, boys, and ses the big find.”
•' Where is it f” I asked, on reaching the
surface; but I scarcely needed to ask, for it
must be where the crowd was collected, some
fifty yards distant from our claim. The
crowd was large and every moment increas
ing. but, being brawny and broad-shouldered,
I pushed ray way through it, and was almost
overwhelmed with astonishment at the sight
that greeted my vision; it wasn’t a nugget,
it was a bowlder. No wonder the miners
were excited. The spectacle was enough to
excite the most phlegmatic individual that
evef breathed.
It was a solid mass of gold as large or
larger than a leg of mutton, and not unlike
one in shape. This was the mass which has
since been widely known as the Welcome
nugget. A fae simile of it may now be seen
in the mineral department of the Boston
Museum of Natural History, where the weight
is given at 2,165 ounces, and the value at
$41,822.70; the further information is im
parted that the nugget is the largest piece of
gold ever found. This is an error. A larger
nugget was found at Bendigo lead on Feb. 9,
1869 ; it weighed 189 pounds 1 ounce Troy,
or 2,269 ounces.
1 had been mentally congratulating myself
on the discovery of a nugget as large as a
walnut, but the sight of all this mass of gold
took all the conceit out of me. Nevertheless,
I was glad the nugget had been found, for
the claim from which it was taken was right
in the direction in which we were working,
and our claim was daily growing richer in
ore. #
The Welcome nuggot, as large as it was,
did not enrich its finders, for there were
twelve shareholders in it, and it brought thorn
less than XI,OOO apiece; it would have been
a lucky find for a couple of mates. The man
who dug it out fainted dead away before he
unearthed it. When hia pick first struck it,
he reached out his hand to pick up the lump ;
the light from the candle shone upon it and
revealed its nature. To his surprise it did
not yield to his touch. Then he began to
feel around it with his hands, and it grew in
size under his exploring digits. He gave it
a wrech, but it did not budge. Seizing his
pick, he began to dig around it, and as its
proportions grew under his eye the spectacle
overcame him, and he fainted for joy.
A Beautiful Picture.
The man who stands upon his own soil,
who feels that by the laws of the land in which
he lives—by the laws of civilized nations—
he ie the rightful and exclusive owner of the
land which he tills, is by the constitution of
our nature under a wholesome influence not
easily imbibed from any other source. He
feels—other things Wsiag equal—more strong
ly than another, the character of a man as
lord of the inanimate world. Of this great
and wonderful sphere which, fashioned by
the hand of God and upheld by his power, is
rolling through the heavens, a part is his—
his from the central sky. It is the space in
which the generation before moved in its
round of duties, and he feels himself con
nected by a visible link with those who follow
him and to whom ho is to transmit a home.
Perhaps his farm has comedown to him from
his fathers. They have gone to their last
home ! But he can trace their footsteps over
the scenes of his daily labors. The roof that
shelters him was raised by those to whom he
owes his being. Some interesting domestic
tradition is connected with every inclosure.
The favorite fruit tree was planted by his
father’s hand. lie sported in childhood
beside the brook which still winds through
the meadow. The path to the village school
of earlier days lies through the field. He
still hears from his window the voice of the
Sabbath bell which called Ins father to the
house of God, and near at hand is the spot
where his parents lay down to rest, and where,
when his time has come, he shall be laid by
his children. These are the feelings of the
owners of the soil. Words cannot paint them
—gold cannot buy them. They flow out of
the deepest fountains of the heart; they are
the life-springs of a fresh, healthy and gen
erous national character.
The “Stricken South” Statue.
The statue of the “Stricken South” is from
the studio of Howard Kretschmar, a young
sculptor of St. Louis, who returned from
Rome last year. The statue is a very re
markablo piece of work, both in its composi
tion and execution. The design is a figure
of a woman, around whom a serpent has
coiled; she stands with her head thrown
back, and her right arm clasped above it, as
if she turned away in an agony of horror
from the terrible tragedy of death that is
inevitable, while her left hand grasps the
head of the serpent, not with the feeling that
she can crush it or avert her fearful doom,
but only that she can stay its progress for a
moment. She is turning her face away in
faint terror at the horrors of the fate awaiting
her.
The artist has caught the marvelous ex
pression of a pause between two breaths—of
an instant that comprehends the tragedy and
agony of a lifetime. It is a repose of despair.
There is an utter hopelessness depicted on
the face. She feels that all ia ovar except
the lest parting pang, end in na agony she
awaite it. There ie no feeling of weakness,
but of a strength that has struggled to the
last, and then yields only in dumb anguish.
The most touching pathos lies in that of a
spectacle of strength that has endured to the
uttermost, that has wrestled with despair in
the yQvy Valley of the Shadow of Death, and
at last, when life has dono its worst, fate
overcomes, waits st.ll and dumb in an utter
hopelessness. This is the story, told on the
expression of the face of the “Stricken
South,*’ aud it thrills the heart to study it.
Every impulse of yearning tenderness is
stirred to save her at any cost, however fear
ful, from the tragedy of her fate.
The figure is a little taller than the strict
anatomical proportion would measure, for
she had drawn herself up to her utmost
height in her terror stricken efforts to escape
from her loathsome doom.
The statue tells its own story. It is so
unnaturally sad that there is nothing of tiie
sensationally dramatic about it, and the rare
genius of the artist who wrought with such
patient and loving fidelity to his inspiration
and sympathy for suffering humanity, never
found a worthier expression than in the
statue of the “Stricken South.” —Cincinnati
Commercial.
■ ♦
Escaped the Rope.
THE THRILLING APPEAL WHICH SAVED A LIFE.
One hot day in July, 1860, a herdsman
was moving his cattle to anew ranche further
north, near Helena, Texas, and passing down
the banks of a stream, his herd become mixed
with other cattle that were grazing in the val
ley, and some of them failed to be separated.
The next day about noon a band of about a
dozen mounted Texan rangers overtook the
herdsman and demanded their cattle, which
they said were stolen.
It was before the days of law and court
houses in Texas, and one had better kill five
men than to steal a mule worth $5, and the
herdsman knew it. He tried to explain, but
they told him to cut it short. He offered to
turn over all the cattle not his own, but they
laughed at this proposition, and hinted that
they usually confiscated the whole herd, and
left the thief hanging on a tree as a warning
to all others in like cases.
The poor fellow was completely overcome.
They consulted apart a few moments, and
then told him if he had any explanation to
make or business to do, they would allow
him ten minutes to do so, and defend him
self.
lie turned to the rough faces and com
menced, “How many of you have wives?”
Two or three nodded. " How many of you
have children?” They nodded again.
“ Then I know who I'm talking to, and
you’ll hear me.” And he continued: “I
never stole any cattle ; X have lived in these
parts over three years. I came from New
Hampshire ; 1 failed there in the fall of ’#7,
during the panio; I have been earing; I
lived on hard fare ; I have slept oat on the
ground ; X have no home here; my family re
main East, for X go from place to place;
these clothes X wear are rough, and X am a
hard-looking customer; but this is a bard
country ; days seem like months to me, and
months like years; married men, you know
that but for the letters from”—here he pulled
out a handful of well-worn envelopes and let
ters from his wife—"l should get discouraged.
I havo paid part of my debts. Here are the
receipts,” and he uufolded the letters of ac
knowledgment. “I expected to sell out and
go home in November. Here is the Testa
ment my good old mother gave me ; here is
my little girl’s picture.” And he kissed it
tenderly, and continued: “Now, men, if
you have decided to kill me for what I am
innocent of, send these home, aud send as
much as you can from the cattle when I’m
dead. Can’t you send half the value? my
family will need it.”
“ Hold on, now ; stop right thar !” said a
rough rauger. “Now, I sa}', boys,” he con
tinued, “1 say, let him go. Give us your
hand, old boy ; that picture aud them letters
did the business. You can go free ; but you’re
lucky, mind ye.”
“We’ll do more than that,” said a man with
a big heart, in Texan garb and carrying the
customary brace of pistols in bis belt; “let’s
buy his cattle here, and let him go.”
They did ; and when the money was paid
over, and the man al)out to start, he was too
weak to stand. The long strain of hopes
and fears, being away from home under such
trying circumstances, the sudden deliverance
from death, had combined to render him
helpless as a child. lie sunk to the ground
completely overcome. An hour later, how
ever, he left on horseback for the nearest
stage route ; and, as they shook hands and
bade him good-by, they looked the happiest
band of men I ever saw.
Josh Billings on Marriage.
Sum marry bekase thej' think wimmin will
be scarce next year, and live to wonder how
the corp hojds out.
Sum marry to get rid of themselves, and
discover that the game was one that two
could play at, and neither win.
Sum marry for love without a cent in their
pocket, not a friend in the world, nor a drop
of pedigree. This looks desperate, but is
the strength of the game.
Sum marry in haste, and then set down and
think it carefully over.
Sum think it over fust, and then set down
and marry.
No man kan tell jist exactly what we will
fetch up when he touches calico.
No man kan tell jist exactly what calico
has made up her mind tew do. Calico don’t
know herself. Dry goods of all kinds iz the
child of circumstances.
Marriage is safe way tew gamble; if you
win, you win a pile, and if you lose, you
don’t lose any thing.
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO For Six Months.
Letter from Prof. Wm. I. BrevM.
Tim IMPORTANCE AMD TALUS 99 9wm OAV
CROP.
University op Georgia, )
Department op Agriculture,
AtIIENB, Ga., August 50. )
Editors Chronicle <s• Constitutionalist :
The injury done to the corn crop through*
out the greater part of Georgia, by the pro
tracted drouth in June and July, renders it
necessary that our farmers should endeavor
to supply the deficiency by raising a greater
amount of small grain than they have been
in the habit of raising, if they wish to save
themselves from being obliged, next Spring,
to purchaso food for man and beast from the
West.
I would specially recommend them to pre
pare for a large oat crop.
This, by providing a sufficient amount of
food for the work animals in the Spring, will
leave the bulk of whatever corn is left of tho
present crop for bread, and will, I hope, teach
our farmers what I believe is true, namely:
First, That oats are the cheapest forage crop
they can raiso. Second, That they are the
most nutritive, as they contain more of the
flesh and muscle-forming, heat producing and
fattening elements than are contained in tho
corn and fodder, which are tho general feed
given to horses and mules. Third, That they
yield a higher per centage of profit on the use
of fertilizers than corn ; and fourth, that oats,
instead of being, as many erroneously be
lieve, an exhaustive crop, when properly cul
tivated improve the soil. It is the cheapest
forage crop. Oats should be sown in Sep
tember—the time when the laboring force on
plantations is least occupied, and, therefore,
are sown at nominal cost, especially where a
part of that force works lor stated yearly
wages. The sowing the crop in the Spring is
also inexpensive, as two hands in three days
can save and put away four acres of oats.
If this cost is compared with that of making
corn and fodder, it is obvious that for the
same expenditure fully double the quantity
of forage can lie made in oats that can bo
made in corn and fodder. They are the most
nutritive horse feed. Chemical analysis has
demonstrated that in the three classes of sub
stances which enter into stock food, namely,
the albuminoids or muscle-forming and the
carbo-hydrates and oils, or heat and fat pro
ducing, oats (the grain, straw and chaff,) are
richer than corn. In England oats are tho
only grain on which the race horses and those
used in fox hunting—the highest types of
muscular strength and condition—are fed.
They yield a higher per centage of profit
on the use of commercial fertilizers. I have
found by actual experiment that the appli
cation of $7.50 worth of a good ammoniated
super-phosphate per acre to oats will mors
than double the production of the natural
soil, while tho same amount applied to corn,
except in unusually favorable seasons, does
not yield anything like that per centage of
increase. That they improve, not exhaust
the soil. Oats furnish large quantities of
nitrogen in their roots and stubble, and a
considerable amount is also taken up by the
growth of weeds and grass after the crop ia
cut; while corn is undeniably a nitrogen
exhausting crop, because during Mb satire
growth and cultivation la tbs hs4 fefeamsssr
months, ere ry blade of grass aid everyth tag
that produces nitrogen is speedily destroyed,
whereas the oet plant appropriates during
the period of its growth the soluble nitrogen
contained in whatever fertilizer is applied to
it, and the subsequet growth of grass and
weeds in the Summer hold the rest,which can
neither be evaporated nor washed away.
From three and a half acres of land well
broken, enriched by the application of from
150 to 200 pounds of a good ammoniated
super-phosphate, sown in September, with
two to two and a half bushels of genuine rust
proof oats, will yield a sufficient quantity of
food for one horse qr mule. It takes about
the same area of laud to produce a sufficient
quantity of corn and fodder, with favorable
seasons, to support one work animal. If the
relative cost of labor in producing the oats
and corn and fodder be taken into account,
it will be found that tho cost of tho latter is
fully double that of the former.
But to raise oats to reach the end to which
I have indicated, we must not, as is too often
the practice, scratch in without manure, at
any time between November and March, a
bushel or a bushel and a half of any seed wo
can find, on the poorest piece of land on our
farm. We must concede to oats the rank to
which their importance and value entitle
them, and employ the sarao care which wo
give to cotton and corn, if we would derive
the benefits which thej’ are capable of offering.
Very respectfully, Wm. M. Browne,
Professor of Agriculture, &o.
The Sweetness of Home.
lie who has no home has not the sweetest
pleasure of life ; he feels not the thousand
endearments that cluster around that hallow
ed spot of his aching heart, and while away
his leisure moments in the sweetest of life’s
joys. Is misfortune your lot, you will find a
hearty welcome from hearts beating true to
your own. The chosen partner to your toil
has a smile of approbation when others have
deserted, a hand of hope when all others re
fuse, and a heart to feel your sorrows as her
own. Perhaps a smiling cherub with prat
tling glee and joj'ous laugh will drive all sor
row from your care-worn brow, and inclose it
in the wreaths of domostic bliss.
No matter how humble that home may be.
how destitute its stores, or how poorly its in
mates are clad ; if true hearts dwell there, it
is yet a home—a cheerful, prudent wife, obe
dient and affectionate children, will give
their possessors more real joy than bags of
gold and windy honors.
The home of a temperate, industrious,
honest man will be hi§ greatest joy. He
comes to it, “ weary and worn,” but the music
of the merry laugh and the happy voices of
childhood cheer him. A plain but healthful
meal awaits him. Env3\ ambition and strife
have no place there, and with a clear con
science he lays his weary limbs down to rest
in the bosom of his famlv, and under tho
tection of the poor man s friend aud helper.
NUMBER 16.