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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE BOSS OF CRUSHERS
THE FARMERS' KEY TO SUCCESS!
armerß y il “ just wbat they have been looking for ever since tbe war.
By which farmers can make their own fertil
izers, grind steamed hone, plxwpliate and land
piaster, rock, marl, cotton seed, dr}- stable ma
nure, corn and cob for stock food, or
Anything That is Orindablc.
S . -If will make good corn meal when you can’t
do any better. By its use tbe farmer wil grow
richer, instead of poorer all the time.
IJ"'ftes^i1 J"'ftes^ii 3 * ffffr SENI> FOR CIRCULARS.
iS Giving full particulars; also state if you would
Ftß wSSaKafin WlMpfe; like circulars of the DeLoach WaterWheel*,
etc. We sell PcrtaUe Mills as
MAKE GOOD MEAL.
Address:
A. A. DeLOACH dts BRO.
ATLANTA, OA
PUKMIiwHBS
at
FACTORY PRICES FOR NINETY DAYS |
'NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY FOR ALL WHO WANT FURNITURE AT THE
OLD ESTABLISHED nOUSE OF
X 3 BEOTHEES,
The largest Furniture Emporium in the State. Guaranteed to give Satisfacton to all Parch**
sera or return the Goods. We take great pleasure in showing our goods. COME
COME ALL. and satisfy yourselves that we soH goods cheaper
--THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE STATE.—*
JPHtA.I"!? brothers, - -A.ia.grujsta, Q-a,.
FORTHENEXT6ODAYST
AT GOODYEAR’S
crniffl KIPOSITOIT!
WILL BE SOLD THE LARGEST AND MOST
BSSiKABLB AESSSTMiHT
■OF OPEN AND TOP BUGGIES ever brought to this market at lower prices than ever
before offered. These goods are First Class, witli steel axles and tires, thoroughly paint
ed, full leather trimmed, and warranted for twelve months. Just received another
shipment of those fine
FAMILY CARRIAGES, PMlWdllffi
OPEN and TOP BUGGIES, made upon special orders, by the best Manufacturers
North and East. Nothing being used in the construction of these vehicles but the best
materials, and in Quality, Style and Finish are uneaqualled by any others now in the
- market. In stock a full line of
mi jainegj of |ll |raies!
Which I will offer at LOWER PRICES than have ever before been known In the
’history of the business. MILBURN, STUDEBAKEK and STANDARD PLANTATION
WAGONS, all sizes. Oak and Hemlock Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Shoe Findings,
Carnageand Wagon Materials, Harness Leather, Belt Lacing of superior quality, Rnbbei
and Leather Belting. Also, a Full Line of
HARPWAJRB ,
Guns, Shells, Powder, Shot, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Plow Points for all makes,
Nails, Axes, Hoes, Picks and Mattocks. Pitch Fonts, Shovels, Spades, Steelyards aud
. Scale Beams, Grind Stones, Bakes, Padlocks, Carpenter Tools, Files, Hinges, Window
Bash, Doors and Blinds, Farm and Church Bens, which lam offering at LOWEST CASH
PRICES.
A. R. GOODYEAR, Agent,
(Successor to R. H. MAY & CO.)
At the Old Stand, Opposite Georgia ailroad Bank, 704 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA
THEO. MARKWALTER
Steam Marble and Granite Works .
Broad St., near Lower Market, Augusta, Ga.
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES,
AND MARBLE WOKE GENERALLY, made to order. A large se
lection always on hand ready for delivery. Iron fencing for graveyard
lots for sale.
JOB PRINTING
Of Every Description Neatly
Executed at this Office.
ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
GIVE US A TRIAL!
BASE BALLS AND BATS,
GLOVES, MASKS, BELTS, CAPS, SBMAJffI, BASES, WffiM
And all otber Base Ball Supplies
umj vrlflffif WHITE FOE PRICE LISTS.
\cM f j Stationary ail Job rnHin
J. M. RICHARDS,
829 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA. GA.
Georgia home jv' nmNAL: gref.nesboro. kriday. august 13. isß6.--eight pages.
MEXICAN FARMING.
'UARE MILE:
ONE FA tM 800 8Q T
IN EX.TEN
the Acr
Seventy Bushels of Corn to >rlmi
and Two Crops a Year—l , g
tive Plowing and Threshiv ”
—l:ie Waler Question.
Fannie B. Warde, writing from ilex
ico to the Plain Dealer, says:
Much his h’ca said about Mexican
hacienda', but probably few people real
ize th : vast ext.nt and unlimited possi
bilities of some of them. In this won
derful country there are estates into each
of whi h many an Old World principality
m'ght be crowded, and which a King
might be proud to own as his domain.
An example of this is the famous Solado
Hacienda, which covers more than eight
hundred squire miles It lies partly ia
the States of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon,
Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi, on th;
great highway to the capital and the line
of the new Mexican Central Railway,
having an average elevation of over 4,000
feet. Chains of mountain; traverse it
how rich in mineral wealth nobody
knows—while flourishing farms, miuing
settlements, manufacturing centers and
even incorporated villages arc found
within its limits. Just think of it!
Nearly 2,000,000 acres of this fruitful
soil, which bears everything grown in
both temperate and tropic zones, produc
ing at least two crops of corn a year and a
perpetual acd almost spontaneous crop of
many other things, is a neat little prop
perty, “by no means to be dispiged,” as
the immortal Sairy would say.
As to the real productiveness of this
soil it is difficult to get information in re
liable figures. Inquire of a Mexican how
much his field or orchard yields and the
invariable answer—accompanied by an
inimitable shrug of the shoulders—is
“quien sabe (who knows)?” or “asi Dios
vuirere”—as God wills! I have ascer
tained that with Mexican cultivation—
which means merely tickling the surface
of the soil and turning on water now and
then—from thirty to forty-five bushels of
coin to the acre is considered a satisfac
tory return. The few who have tried
improved methods of cultivation affirm
that seventy-five bushels of corn twice a
year per acre may easily be produced,
planting the first crop in February and
the second in July or August. In this
country the standard price of corn is
two cents per pound. Probably the
finest soil in the republic is found on
those fertile plains lying between Leon
and Sau Juan del Rio, where one fanega
(about three bushels) of seed will yield
on an nuderatr average not less than
forty-lice fanegas of corn. In several of
the Alexican States—notably Guerrero,
Jalisco, Oaxaca and Tobasco—three
crops of corn are regularly produced in
a single year, called respectively riego,
temporal and tonalmile. Wheat grows
to good advantage in all but five of the
Mexican States, and two crops in twelve
months is the rule. It does exceptionally
well at as high an elevation as the capital
(8,500 feet), an altitude which in most of
the United States would be in a region
of perpetual winter.
Within the last five years many plows
and other agricultural implements have
been brought to Mexico; but upon the
vast majority of farms nothing to this
day has ever been employed for turning
up the soil but great forked sticks, or
clumsy, three-cornered wooden con
cerns—precisely like those used in Egypt
a thousand years ago, Jf pictures of the
latter are correct. The process of thresh
ing, also, is almost universally conducted
in the primitive fashion of King David's
day (according to the Bible description),
or by the more simple method of
throwing the grain into an inclosure
and driving a flock of sheep to and fro
upon it.
In this tropical country—which has but
two seasons, the wet and dry—the rains
of heaven are not to bo depended upon
for much actual service. To be sure, they
fall according to promise, “alike upon the
just and the unjust,” but do not fall at
all during half the year, and then deluge
the fields with floods that generally do
far more harm than good. Therefore
irrigation—which at best is troublesome
and expensive—is absolutely essential
everywhere in Mexico; and the canals
and ditches are as necssiry for carrying
off surplus rains at certain seasons as for
supplying water at others.
That perplexing water question, which
in Utah, for example, the Mormons have
regulated to the nicety of clockwork, is
here among the mysteries that “no fellow
can find out.” If you ask a farmer about
h : s irrigating privileges he will tell you
that he has “nine days’water,” “thirteen
days’ water,” or “twenty days’ water’’ as
the case may be—meaning that he has a
right to turn water on his land once in
every nine, thirteen or twenty days—a
privilege which, you may be sure, has
cost him a good round sum. In thickly
populated sections the greatest difficulty
now seems to be that all the available
water has already been tranferred from
the rivers to the irrigating ditches. It is
but reasonable logicTto conclude that if
Mexican land is valuable only when irri
gated, and if most of the available water
is now in use on already cultivated area,
the country must look to some improved
method for lessening its enormous
stretches of waste land and barren des
erts; and—as the natives have not ad
vanced agriculturally a single step in the
course of three centuries—it clearly rests
with their more enterprising cousins, the
Yankees, to come down here and devise
the methods. It has been proved again
and again that all these desert sands and
arid reaches of cactus and chappcral
may be made to “blossom as the rose” by
merely turning water upon them at regu
lar inti rvals: and government lands are
everywhere for sale at the rate of from
30 cents to 3 cents for an American rcre.
When the Spaniards first reached the
Valley of Mexico (330 years ago) they
were astonished to find in u>e all over the
A’.tec cm die—and appa eatiy no new
tiling to thoso semi-barbarians—a system
of irrigation superior to that which the
Moors hid ju-t succeeded in establishing
on the lb rian peninsula. To this day
the fame system is practiced everywhere
in Mexico, and hundreds of the nccquias
or irrigating ditches of the ancient Aztees
are yet in use, i.o improvements having
ever been attempted. In the vicinity of
lakes and lifers, perhaps the old way
could scarcely be improved upon; but in
sections where neither are found, or
where the shallow streams are dry during
a portion of the year, something else is
needed. Artesian wells have not been
tried to any extent for purposes of irriga
tion; but that water is everywhert abun
dant, though sometimes far below the
surface, is shown by the numerous deep
wells of the purest and dearest water
whb h are found all over Mexico.
An elaborate table, just compiled for
lUgiUr, shows that lat tear
there were built 1 1 the uetious of the
worUI dVi of over 100 tout et b,
i Q 4 q( i|))ip§ tv#!f o built In lb**
UaiUd Kiiigdutfl %it 4 iutf eigU in tin
rnlftnlTM 9 9
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
— —
rtofrtp"*.
Lettuce Sju.aD.—Thro; large heads 1
of lettuce, wash, tqaccre dry, and chop I
cot too fine; add one cup of vinegar, salt
and pepper, four large tab'.espoofuls of
sugar in the vinegar, and pour over the
lettuce; add one-half cup sweet or sour
cream aud two hard- boiled eggs chopped |
tine. _ j
Mashed Potatoes.—Boil in water
- enough to keep from burning; when soft
pour off the water, set back on the stove
minute; then take off and mash well:
\ add-nearlv a pint of milk,or enough
tomi. k ° tlieia crca!n J T - Go not be afraid
of ain ' rtjo much mi *k; a little cream
win .rid ff reatl y- I seldom urc any but
slices an inc. thlc ‘> s i >rlu ;!td Wlt;1 flojr
and fried. •
Jelly Rota. — Tnreec Sgs one cup of
prepared flour an 1 J O ,°J powdered,
sugar, one tablespoon. * . butter, jelly j
or jam; rub tbe butte* ln to the sugar,
add the beaten eggs and > our - n nd pour ,
into a brua 1 baking pan. 0 V0 ”, fpvistd.
Bake rapidly, and whib till warm r
spread with” jelly, jam or marmalade.
Roll it up, pin a ban 1 of soft cloth about 1
it to keep it in shape, and do not move j
this until the cake is cold and firm. \<■
SuccoTAsn. —Empty a can of corn and
one of string beans several hours before
x-ou wish to use them, draining off tho
liquor from both. Put together into a
saucepan half an hour lx fore dinner,
and barely cover with milk and water in
equal parts, boiling hot aud slightly
salted. Cook gently twenty minutes,
and stir in a tablespooulul of butter
rolled in one of flour. Season with pep
per and salt, stew ten minutes more and
dish, l'ou may substitute Lima for string
beans if you like.
Canned Peaches. —Be sure to secure
fine ripe fruit. Pare and cut in halves,
removing the stones or pits. Place them
in water as they are pared or they will at
once become discolored from the action
of the air. Fill the jars with the peaches,
closely packed; add hot syrup till within
two inches of the top. Put the jars in a
boiler of hot water, the latter coming
nearly to the neck of the jars. Cook for
ten minutes. Take from the boiler, un
cover, and leave them for live minutes.
Then add hot syrup to fill the jars full,
and seal up. They can also be preserved
whole, when they should not be cut at
all, but cooked twice as long as when
halved.
Lemon Rice. —Boil half a teacupful of
jico in a pint of milk, with sugar to
taste, until it is soft, then put it in a
basin or earthenware blanc-mange mold
and leave it till cold; peel a lemon very
thickly, cut the peel into shreds about
half an inch, put into a little water, boil
them up and throw the water away;
then pour about one teacupful of fresh
water upon them, squeeze and strain the
juice of the lemon, add to it two ounces
of white sugar and then pour on the
water and shreds of peel; let it stew
gently on the fire for half an hour. When
cold it will be a syrup. Having turned
the jellied rice into a glass dish, pour the
syrup gradually over the rice, takingcare
the little shreds of peel are equally dis
tributed over the whole.
Household Hints.
IVet mildewed fabrics with lemon
juice and lay them in the sun.
A bag of charcoal suspended in a cis
tern will purify the water.
The inside of a coffee or tea pot, which
hat become discolored, may be made
bright as new by filling with soapsuds
and boiling it forty-five minutes.
A good mucilage is made of two parts
of gum tragacanth and one part of gum
arahic. Cover with cold water until dis
solved and thin to the proper consistency
with water. It is well to have the gums
beaten fine.
To mend china: Into a solution of
gum-arabic stir plaster-of-Paris until the
mixture assumes the consistency of cream.
Apply with a brush to the broken edges
of china and join together. In three days
the article cannot be broken in the same
place. The whiteness of the cement adds
to its value.
Stains may be removed even from the
most delicately colored kid gloves, with
out injury, by suspending them for a
day in an atmosphe eof ammonia. Pro
vide a tall glass cylinder, in the bottom
of which place strong aqua ammonia. Be
careful to remove from the sides of the
jar any ammonia that may have spattered
upon them. Suspend the gloves to the
stopper in the jar. They must not come
in contact with the liquid.
A Japanese Race Course.
We are just in time to see Ilis Majesty
the Mikado arrive, sitting dressed in a
dark uniform in his well turned-out lan
dau, and surrounded by an escort of lan
cers, who look smart enough in their
green and red uniforms. His Majesty
ascends to the royal box, to the some
what dismal strains of the Japanese na
tional air. Close behind him arrives the
one and only four-in-hand in Japan,
owned by an eccentric American. The
dark-painted drag and well matched
team of dark ponies look smart enough;
but progression through the streets” of
Tokio is slow, a groom having to run at
the head of each pony, and outside Tokio
there is but little road fit for such a turn
out. And now five ponies emerge from
the paddock for the first race. Few of
the Japanese ponies exceed 14 1-2 hands,
but many of them are neat, well-built
animab, inclined to be weak behind, but
with a fair enough turn of speed. They
are nearly all riden by Japanese jocks,
who are very light and fair horsemen,but
inclined to get excited and lose their
heads, and flog their mounts long after
the race is over.
It is not my intention to describe the
racing, most of which would be consid
erel very poor sport anywhere e’se,
though some of the finishes were really
food, one resulting in a dead heat. Suf
ce it to say that a programme of nine
races per and era was successfully carried
to a conclusion in three days. A vast
amount of time is always lost at the
starts, and the last race each day is often
run in the dark, so much so that 1 have
seen a groom run into the middle of the
course at the tinish,holding a big lantern
in his hand,in or lcrthat the judge might
see which animal pa sed his box first.
Wonderful to narrate, the ponies did not
seem to object to this proceeding in the
least.
A curious feature of these meetings is
the day fireworks, w hich are sent up from
the islsnd during the racing. They con
sist of fireworks To smoke, if I may so call
them, and are often extremely pretty.
Rockets are also sent up, which explore
into paper balloons of various fantastic
forms, fish, birds, beasts, men,etc.,which
flout away gracefully in the air, to the
vast delight of the crowd* of Japs who
throng the edges of the course and the
hills around. At ds.li these giro way to
moot brilliant fireworks,the giand stand,
the island and aH the houses round being
gort nousty and tastefully illuminated
with thousand! of JoMtneee 100 terns, -**
Aewdvw P>tU.
JESSE THOMPSON & CO
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MANUFACTURERS CF
Boors, Sa,slx Blinds
MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, LUMBER,
LATHS AND SHINGLES.
DEALERSIN
IQr* Window Glass and Builders’ Hardware.
PLANING MILL AND LUMBER YARD,
BC&le at- nr. Centrl R. R. yard. Augusta, Ga.
CLINGNIAN’*
Tobacco
REMEDIES
''ZbsJSSkiSvU
The Greatest. Rrdirnl Dlneorerr of
the age. Xo family ought to bn
without tueiu.
THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO OINTMENT
THE MOST EFFFrTIVK PKKIMRA
TIO N on the market for Piles. A S! ’HE (IKE
for Itt’liimi Files. Has never fit •!<’<* to give
prompt relief. Will cure Aiyl Uhers. Aheeera,
fistula, Tetter. Salt Rheum IJarLer’s Itch, Ring
worms, Fimples, Sores and Boils. I* ice jt) cl*.
THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO CAKE
NATlTlir’S OWN HrMEI’Y, run*
Wounds Cut* Bruits. Sprains Eryripel.ta. B. ils.
Carbuncles. Bone Welroa. Ulcers h-Tes. 8 re E>es,
Rote Throat Bunions C *ros Neurnlgh Rhei mctiVin,
Orchitw (iout Rheumatic Gout Colds Coughs,
Bnnchiti, Milk Leg Snske and Dug Bites Stings
of Insect*. Ac. In taut allays all local Jrrit'.ticn and
Intlumm ition from whatever cause. Pi ice io ct
THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO PLASTER
Prepared according to the ihom Mucrtil a
principle*, of the P|.IIK?"*T M IIATiVK
r mpounded with the pure-.-t
Tobacco Flour, rnd is Icily recommended for
'Jroiip Weed or Cake of the Brea? t and tor tli.it class
of irritant or inflairni'tiry mnledies Arms and
Pains where from too delicate a state of the system,
the pat ent is unable to tear the stronger application
cf the Tobacco Cake F< r Headache or other Aches
md Pains, it is invaluable. Pi Ire l.j cl*.
Ask yonr dniggist for these remedies, or write to the
CUh'GfylAN TOBACCO CORE CO.
DURHAM. H. C.. U. S. A.
’ HIT ....wa to.
CATARRH
SORE MOUTH
SORE THROAT
In all forms and stages.
PURELY VEGETABLE.
REQUIRES NO INSTRUMENT.
USED and ENDORSED by PROM
INENT PHYSICIANS.
Dr. B. B. Deris, Athens, Ga., says: “I suffered with
Catarrh five rearm. But since using CERTAIN CA
TARRH CURE am entirely free from thedisease.”
DtjO. RHowe, Athens. Ga.. ears: “CERTAIN C A
TAKRH CURE cured me of a severe ulcerated sore
throat, and I cheerfully enaoree it.”
Miss Lucy J. Cook. Oconee Go.. Ga., writes. Sept.
YTth, lflHB, “One bottle of /our remedy entirely cured
me of Catarrh with which I had suffered greatly for
fire years.”
J. H. Allgood. Athens, Ga., writes Bept.*>, , Bß, i, I had
severe sore throat more than two weeks j. was entire
ly cured by CERTAIN CATARRH CURE in one day”
CAN YOU DOUBT
SUCH TEBTIMONY? WE THINK NOT.
Only a few of our many certificates are glean here.
Others can be obtained from your druggist, or by
3 (TcO., ATHENS, Ga.
FOR SALPI AT
Griffin’s Drug Store
toAA nnn in p , ' ef,eni " p ,(n
V/v/V/Send ua f) ceuts postage
and l.y mail yon will get free a package ol
goods of lirg’o value that will start yon io
wot y that will at once bring you in money
faster than anything elae in America. All ab
■at the $200,000 in presenta with each box.
1 gents wanted < very where, of either aex, ot
11 gea, for all the time, or spare time only,
-to wmk for ns at their own homes. Fortune,
for all workers absolutely assured. Don't de
lav. H. lIau.ETT k Cos.. Portland, llama.
JAMES B. FAKE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GREENESBORO, GEORGIA.
C9*Praclioea In Greene, Morgan, Baldwin,'
Hancock, Tallferro, Oglethorpe, Clarke.
I Oonoee, Richmond, Warren and MoDiifß
| Counties. may 22m1, 1885
PuSINESSyN IVE RSIT Y
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ha-sl : and
D. C. BACON, President. M. F. AMOROUS, GenT Manager.
mm Bn am;
Mil, 1411 &
KILN DRY, DRESSED AND MATCHED
FLOORIN' G
CEILING, SHINGLES AND LATHS.
B®WRITE FOR PRICES. The best and cheapest. Yards
Humphries and E. T. V. & Ga. R. R.
OFFICE *3i© MAJaiETTA. S3T.
ATLANTA: OEORG-IA.
MILBURN WAGON CO.,
39, 41 and 43 Decatur Street, ATLANTA, CA*
Has Komi* of Ibe Most Won
tivrful Lure* on refer;!.
THE LARGEST STOCK OF
Carriages. Phaetons, Buggies, Farm and Spring
WAGONS in the South will be found at their warcrooms. Call and see them befora
buying. The best goods are always the cheapest. It is not necessary to break into a
penitentiary to get to work on our goods.
“mh26 H . L. ATWATER, Manager.
ALFRED BAKER, President. JOSEPH S. BEAN, Cashier.
Augusta Savings Bank!
811 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
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CASH ASSETS $800,000.00 | SURPLUS $50,000.00
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Transacts a general deposit and discount business and allows interest on deposits of
five dollars to two thousand dollars. Accounts of banks, bankers and merchants received
on favorable terms.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO COLLECTIONS.
We always have money on hand to loan, and afford special accommodations to out
customers. We buy and sell Bonds and Stocks, and are always happy to give information.
DIRECTORS:—AIfred Baker, James A. Loflin, William Schweigert,E. R. Schneider,
Edgar ft. Derry, Joseph S. Bean, W. B. Young, Eugene J. O’Connor, Jules Rival, J. H.
Bredenberg. mchSfi
PREMIUM TINWARE.
BUY NO OTHER 1
Look for Stamp.
Don’t buy shoddy machine made Tinware when you can get a first clan* article,
j Our Tinware is for sale by country dealers generally. Smut for pric e-on S . ves and
Everything in Our Line. We keep a magnificent stock and our prices are !<>•*
mhl9 Tv/f ADI iJrtS'y <3c TOITSS, A.t3a.e.e. 3au
D. R. Weight, President J. T. Nrwnsnt, Cashier.
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