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CASH-IN ADVANCE.
IK BYHONE DA¥S.
The men *** on the old hecch-tree.
The cold w» in ‘he eOft epring sky;
A .”w tearlet, like a .tor
Uteamed in the purple eiolet’e eye.
Pink wen the hawthorn*, with the *n»lj
uf bloasona time aim roseate morn •
The bhekwoed i.ipedon el.an^yny,
The bulflnch wa eioacd *« tUc Ifrorn.
UeJ orchanN upanpled nl! the meml*,
oil myriad noU«iing >cU»w l*elb
Of fragrant eoraltps *pccknl-»nd strmvd,
»»Uh kucls of gui<i the* greening, della.
Oh I fur the ruac-hucU halcyon lime
Of tcmlcrdm»ni«-^ofHfe* , !» *;»rlf»s,
When hul loUrouml brvalhe U joy,
Ami youth Is va.v*al, L : »vt* Is fcTn^ '
That dear oM t*pcrh ! I see it yet,
And shall whilst memory holds her throue ;
’Taa- there I ela*|H*d my pure white dove,
Xiitl fiuutl heart vras all my own.
A haven for Uoft?i- eareas ;
There v |wm a iiuestlon sweet I asked,
And there my my Kellie whNpored, “Yes!* 1
Ah me! thehruwivla on ih * beach,
The t»ak U red, he elm is dim ;
The ha/els yellow all apart*,
the reign of autumn halo In gnu.
And down life’s hill, clasped hand in hand,
And heart to heart, us in our youth,
We go together—Nell and l—
One life, olio love, one soul, one truth !
Wrinkled our chocks, our hairs are white,
And iioou must come our closing scene ;
Hut thanksto Him whose self is I*ove,
Our hearts are ever, ever green.
Ay, green as when ’nenth the old bcacli,
On that red-letter days of life.
Our young hearts full, our young hearts joined,
.She Ibuud a husband 1 a wife.
NO. 4G.
i.Aiimi:uisMs.
To make a tall man short—Try to
liorrow five dollas ot him.
A circuit court—The longest
home from the singing-school.
way
How Tun Caulk Talks.—Through
the kindness of the Superintendent, Mr.
Wccdon, I was permitted to witness
the mode of transmitting and receiving
messages through the cable, and initiated
into the secret. An Operator sits at a ta
ble in the room darkened by curtain*-.
On his left hand stands a little instru
ment named the “reflecting galvanome
ter,'’ the invention of Sir William Thomp
son, without which Atlantic telegraphy
would be a slow progress, not exceeding
two or three words per.minute, instead
of eighteen or twenty, the present rate.
This delicate instrument consists of a ti
ny magnet and a small mirror swinging
on a silk thread, the two together weigh
ing but a few grains. The electric cur
rent, passing along t he wire from Yalen
eia, deflects the magnet to nnd fro. The
mirror reflects a spot of light on to a
scale in a box placed at the operator's
right hand, where, by its oscillation the
spot of light indicates the slight move
ments ot the magnet, which are too slight
to l»e directly seen.
The little swinging magnet follows ev
ery change in the received current; and
every change, great or small, produces a
corresponding oscillation of the spot of
light on the scales. A code of signal is
arranged by which the movements oft lie
spot of light are made to indicate the let
ters of the alphabet. When receiving a
message from Valencia, the operator
watches the movement of the little slight
speck, which keeps dancing about over
the scale on his right. To his practiced
eye each inovumeut of the spot of light
represents a letter ot the alpahet, and its
seemingly fantastic motions are spelling
out the intelligence which the pulsings
of the electric current arc transmitting
between the two hemispheres, it is tru
ly marvellous to note how rapidly the ex
perienced operator disentangled the ir
regular oscillations of the little speck of
light into the letters and words which
they represent.
ATHENS,'GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15,1$73.
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IV.VWAJSSETT DISASTER
! Georgia State Fair.
An Ohio reporter, desperate for an
item, has given the world the avoirdu
pois of the Grand Jury.
Why is a young man like the national
currency ? Because he is a legal tender,
and somewhat green.
A young man from Macon says there is
no cholera there, hut plenty of mothers-
in-law, which is just n9bad.
A western woman advertising for he
runaway husband, says : “David has a
scar on his nose where I scratched it.”
A sprightly girl in Fort Edward, who
engaged hcrselt to a young man “in fun,”
'hinted on learning that he had publish-1
ed the fact in a local paper.
An obituary notice in a New England
paper concludes with the information
that the deceased “leaves two infant
(laughters, both girls.
Why arc prin'er’s bills, these times, like
faith ? Because they are the substance
of tilings hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen.
The most unpopular man in Virginia is
one who has made the accidental discov
ery that kerosene is as .afficacmus ns
whiskey to cure rattle snake bites.
“Mamma, do yon know what the larg
est specimens of ants arc';” You shake
your head “Well, I’ll tell you. They're
L Fants.”
Now put your bait on the treacherous
hook, nnd cast it in the shady brook, lor
when the suntish see it squirm, lie’ll sure
ly go for that angle worm.
The editor of the Kankakee Gazette
thinks fishing asa general rule, don't pay.
“We stood it all day in the river last
week,” he he says, “hut caught nothing
—until we got home.”
A rough who was stabbed was report
ed by the surgeon to he “doing well."
A waggish reporter added : “This is
0.1110^0X111 lrio.'ikilEiiv ,-T' rr^r-r^yTi pj“ v *?rii .
FIFTW PASSENGERS LOST—*rrUTPkrj?t‘ ' >■]
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EXTRACTS rr.OM MAYOR HUFFS
' DRESS.
Mayor’s Office, j
Macon, June 1, 1S73. . j
Jo the People of Upper and Lower
Georgia:
As you are aware, the Ghfcrgia State
Agricultural Society will hold its au- ‘
nual Fair at this place, commencing
on the 27th day of October.
Every true Georgian is justly proud
of his native State—rich iu minerals as
it is varied in soil—wealthy, indeed, in
all that should constitute a people pros
perous and happy. We have here that
diversity of production and peculiar
adaptation of the various sections to
the ditlereut industrial pursuits which
combine to make up the natural ele
ments sutlicieut tor an Empire. In
agriculture, as in everything else, har
monious concert of action strengthens
and supports each section of the State.
Lower Georgia has her peculiar inter
est to fester and protect, and her great
strength to boost of. The same may
be said of upper ami middle Georgia.
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the first time in his life lie has been do- j 'T* ie ci, y of Macon occupies a grand
ing well.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that Miss Susan II. Anthony is “very
good looking for n woman.” She ought
to be, lor she is not very good looking
1 ir a ma".
Sen Incident at the Giieexbiuek
White Si'i.phur Srinxus.—A number
of ladies were standing round the piano
in the uuin parlor afterdinner this after
noon, singing from a volume of sacred
music. Suddenly another lady entered
the room with two telegrams one for hor
se!!'. the other for her sister at the piano.
As the lady left the piano to receive her
telegram, her voice wad still raised in
tuneful praise, and she smiled as she
opened the message. Suddenly nu ashy
paleness overspread the countenances of
•Mi'll, they grasped one another for sups
|»hrt iiml left the room, bathed in tears,
t heir mother hud died suddenly in Bal
timore, and this was the first intelligence
the ladies re-reived ! Need I say the par
ty ot singers was broken up, that gloom
usurped the abiding place of joy, where
nut one short moment since happiness
and laughter reigned supreme.
1 think death messages should never
lie delivered to those to whom they an
addressed, until they have been prepa cd
by the.ir friends. It goes to the heart
like the disconnected flash of electricity
that beares the fatal tidings, and ofteu-
tentimes leaves the recipient stunned and
lifeless. It is not all ot joy at the springs.
The pale Reaper attends on the scenes of
gayety with rode and never wcmlcoe
touch.
An English technical periodical points
out an easy way of testing whether water
is good and fit for general use. It says:
Good water should he free from color,
unpleasant ordor and taste, and should
quickly afford a lather with a small poi-
tion of soap. If half a pint of the water
lw placed in a perfectly clean, colorless
glass-stoppered bottle, a few grains ot
the best white lump sugar added, and
the bottle freely exposed to the daylight
'n the window of n warm room, the liq
wa should not become turbid, even after
**posure lor a week or ten days. If the
** Wcr becomes turbid, it open to the
P*vc suspicion of sc wage contamination ;
r 1 . 1 ‘Gt remains clear, it is almost ccr-
- * ; ife. We owe to Heiscli this sim-
- e ' v *'*»able, hut hitherto strangely neg-
central ] osition geographically, anil her
citizens have provided within her limits
fair grounds and equipments equal, if
not superior, to any in the United
States, for the accommodation of vis
itors and for the exhibition of any and
every article which may he brought
here for show. The Executive Com
mittee and members of the State Ag
ricultural Society have evinced a de
termination to make (iiis next the great
Fair of the State. The handsome and
liberal premium list now being circu
lated throughout the State speaks for
itself. An examination of its pages
will convince every one tirat the
ciety means business. But the “coun
ty displays” are looked forward to as
the prominent and great^ leading fu
tures of the Fair, anil will doubtless 1
present a grand panoramic view of
each county and section such as lias
never before been witnessed !>v the peo
ple of Georgia. The purposes of this
appeal are, therefore, to invite and
urge every county in the State, if pos
sible, to lw represented in some way,
so that we may have no blanks in the
picture. To do this is a plain, patri
otic duty ; a duty which, if zealously
performed, will conduce to the pros
perity and success of every countv in
A sentimental editor says. It is con- the "State, without anv regard what-
solmg to know that one eye watches cvel ?. ls ' tc) , Jts the $1000 prenti-
fondlv lor our coming, and looks bright- 1 ,, , , r ,R
cr when we come.” A contemporary is 11111 O^red. I 11 ^ 111111 . \ v:!1 ' »
grieved to learn that bis “brother of the | bourse, goto the county which shall
quill lias a wife \vith only one eye.”
A man out West, after hearing the
I)eclnrn*ion of Independence read, on the
4th of July, moved that the speech be
published, as it was one ol the best lie
had ever “heern” in his life.
A fond mother residing in the south
ern part ot the town advised her daugh
ter to oil her hair, and fainted outright
when the candid damsel replied : Oil
no, no ; it spoils the gentlemen's vests.”
“Jury,’' said a western judge, “you
kin go out an" find a verdict; if yon can’t
find one of your own git the one the last
jury used.” The jury returned a verdict
of suicide in the ninth degree.
Scientists are claiming that instead of
being cold, the moon is in reality red-
hot ; so much so that no living thing
known to our world could exist there.
This spoils the "green ch -esc" theory.
\ Danbury gentleman of sixty years
writes his letters with a lead-pencil, and
then carefully applies a- blotter before
doing them up. lie says nobody, unless
he has used sand, can understand how
handy blotters are.
For handsomest set of Monchoir-
case, glove box and pin cushion,
^ made by a lady of Georgia
h or best half dozen pairs of cotton
socks, knit- by a lady over fifty
years of ege, (iu gold) 25
For best half dozen pairs of cotton
socks, knit by a girl under ten
^ years of age, '(in gold) 25
For the finest and iargest display
of female handicraft, embracing
needlework, embroidery, knit
ting, crocheting, raised work,
etc., by one lady 100
For the best combination horse... 100
For the best saddle horse 100
For the host style harness horse... 100
'or the finest and best matched
double team 100
For the best gelding 250
For tiie best six-mule team 250
For the best single mule 100
For the best milch cow 100
Fortlie best bull 100
For the best ox team 100
For the best sqw with pigs 50
For the largest and finest collec
tion of domestic fowls
Eor the best bushel of corn
For the best bushel of peas 25
For the best bushel of wheat 25
For the best bushel of sweet pota
toes 25
For the best bushel of Irish pota
toes 25
For the best fifty stalks of sugar
cane 50
For the best result on one acre iu
any forage crop 150
For the largest yield of corn on
one acre 100
For the largest yield of wheat on
one acre ... 50
For the largest yield of oats on
one acre 50
For the largest yield of rye on one
acre 50
For the best result on one acre, in
Washington, August 9.—the Wa-
waj-sett horror is fully confirmed.
Most of he passengers perished. She
left W as lingfon on the regular passen
ger trip for Cone river. Slje whs
burned < fT Chaterton landing, where
there is i o wharf, the passengers and
freight for that point being discharged
by small Viats. One boat had been
lowered w|cn the flames burst. The
vessel Was;two hundred yards front
shore. Nothing remains hut a broken
shaft ancfjnokcstaek. The passengers
reg'i^neWttUii loft WfajtkuUOftJLO.
SPEECH... # .«
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iroo V* ,anh t* ■.
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■ li'ntid'j r.iwa t-Ttwd-- d 4 ». Jimw vritd
v il/ f bn * .
Tire iftSfcgTef? herlimi, 1 sfeppbd -fbr-
wartl j$|Rot'jt\«*«rard3, hfer eyes glaring
RppatWfe ivUb,iIi«sjr .demonstrations of
rage and hate-7-very diffcicut to tha
male beast, which springs silently, seem
ing to husband‘all his breath'for thc ;
coming struggle. Site stopped crouching
low upon the-ground and planting hen
.. . feet firmly to get a firm footiug from
of Wlmlcs married Lucretia Bogia whence the spring upon tne was to have
and de Radicals run oil' wid all de Sun- been made. I watched for.my pppq'rtu-
FeUotc-Citizen*, and Ladies in Paflic-
lar ? tpeart Wfo' yotAisfdv&liijgfr^h
from de presence of iny’WSSner-woinafn,
and* de Minute of my faintly, to eluci
date de subject of,all de funbicaliUe^,-
comicalities and originalities. ,; i
Wbur’s do good time aiming V.xjm it
here ? am it dar ? , f.
My sweet geraniums, when de Prince
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the number of one hundredTand "ten,
but she received and discharged pas
sengers at various landings, of whom
there is no record.
The crew consisted of twelve. The
loss is probably fifty passengers and
two of the crew. The cause of the fire
is unknown. As soon as the flatnes
were discovered she was headed for the
shore, but struck on the bar on the
Virginia side. Many ladies and chil
dren were aboard visititing friends so
journing at places of resort down the
river, also, many colored people. Ten
bodies readied the wharf, five of which
are unknown. All accounts applaud
the gallantry of the captain and crew.
Captain John R. Woods, comman
der of the Wawnssett, is burned around
the neck and ears slightly. His ac
count ii substantially as follows:
The fire broke out at twenty-five
minutes past twelve o’clock, between
Thornsgut and Chaterton. I was in
the pilot house at the time, when a fire
man came and told me that the boat
was on fire below. I immediately
came out, and found that the flames
reached quite to the hurricane deck and
the walking beam. I then saw that it
was impossible to get to the life boats,
which were on the after quarters on
erch side, to lower them, though they
were full of passengers. I threw water
on. the wheel ropes so as to keep her
steerage all right and passed buckets of
water from below to the hurricane deck
for the purpose, as I became satisfied
there was no hope of saving the vessel
and that the only chance to save the
passengers was to keep her going, she
heading for the beach. The boat
reached the beadi in about twelve or
thirteen minutes after the alarm was
iven. In less than fivo minutes after
the alarm was given the fire was in the
tear of the pilot house. The engine
refused to work about one-half r. min
ute before she struck the shore and the
lay school stamps, what did Oliver
Cromwell say ? Why, as he stood
drinking a glass of hay rum wid Barn-
urn’s bearded wotqnu, lie said to him-
self x— fj, .1^4.-
dat’s WHAT A MAN SAID.
Secondly, iu de third place iu de
time of de wet weather, when it rained
thirty-seven days and twenty-four
nights in de long dry month ot Angus,
when Noah took into de Ark, out or
do wet, de elephant, de little pig, de
cock-roaches and all de other birds—
now do you spose dat if lie had given
de contract to build de. Ark to Gov
ernor II dat it it would have been
finished? Of course it wouldn’t. It
would take every cent de old man had
to pay de commission and de taxes,
because
hat’s wiiat a man said.
F<#irteenth chapter, eighty-ninth sec
tion, mahogony drawers—my night
blushing seriousness:
Let us take a trout seat in de lobby
aud look down amid de halls of Con
gress, and dar we will find cbery ting
a failure, from de l’ising ob do moon
even to de going down of de cotton
market. De stars dat didn’t fell wus
a failure; de buro is a failure, because
whar is de nigger dat eber got one?
One eyed chapter, clause twenty-
fourth, special act of the Rump Con
gress; my beloved holly hawks, what
does de jniit say 011 de subject of a—
of-—so forth, and all dat sort of tings.
Why I10 says: Dar was an old woman,
and what do you think, She lived up
on nothing but vittle and drink,
In de seventeenth il c*, te tion de
forty thieves : my Peruvian sunflowers
—give your divided years my attention
—when n man enters de holy bonds
of padlock, when he leads his gal to de
halter, does he ever think how rad’ll he
his fate before he is bridle wise ? Now
when his queen of spades consumes de
reigtts of Government, spose he should
be a little sulky, or de bridle couqh a
little buirg, den wlmr’.s he gwine to get
yards between her forepaws and jny feet. —
A sudden flash of additional fury
gleamed from her largo eyes, her head
was slightly raised. That was my
time— now or never. In an instant I
sighted and pulled, tiiere was no spring.
A Colorado spring has such extraordi
nary virtues that the thinnest woman,
after drinkihg its water for a few months,
have no further occasion for padding of I
any sort. It is known as the anti-cotton
bustle spring.
The gentleman who asserted that his
friend never opened his mouth without
putting his foot in it, being called upon
to apologize, said he was yery sorry : hut
when he made the assertion he did not
sec the size of his friend's foot.
grounds, by any dry goods
chantA?, 100
For the best display made by any
^ grocery merchant 100
For the- largest anil best display of
green-house plants, by one per
son or firm 100
For the best drilled volunteer mil
itary company 750
For the best brass band, not less
than ten performers 250
(and $50 extra per day for their music.)
For the best Georgia made plow
stock 25
For the best Georgia tmule wagon,
(two horse j 50
For the best Georgia made cart... 25
These are among the many prem-
lre iuins offered by the city of Macon, and
three other handsome premiums to be J t j 1( . jitate Agricultural Soeietv, nggre-
distrihuted among other counties, as j t i„ g i„ n ll more than $15,000. C But
follows : j it is not to the value of the premiums
A premium of $500 to the county j that we look for rewards. The exhi-
making thtfcsecoml best di.-play. bition promises nobler results than
A premium of $800 to the county I Tliere wl11 il f?™* liionl1 '»
TfitHiig'JY
s of Advertising#
-*t,
One Dollar per Sqihtro (of one inch) for the fir*t
insertion, and Seventy-fire Cents per Square for
each adtUUW&UUMMa QKA MtCTUIX
US' raacral Notices anti Obituaries charged for
IMT Transient AdvertisemenUcasU. Othor UUIs
HtAO
®Jf" Liberal contracts made for any [Kirlottover
l>e grown for TTic7n‘ r '*BTl"'nruT fed to
‘‘•cm. will
aid them to dtsposa —of n very large
amount of time,
and iir.iniuy*<a$q*,4gch a plan will be
more ecotiomi«d; ,m
lumia than to abpenu ona
grass phit wh’eitrttcycfi it s
selves NobiuetF fi&s’
covered or produced pa-is(H->ing *aniri6h2
reason it wilt ber hf no U'sfr'to'sofi
seed in a hen yard while tldK’fitWls
1Ut ii e #• • Aii # . J ha\^ apveps to it; If thpy do not scratch
Her footing gamed, she began to.vgrjg«i) the seea out, they will eat,off the ten#,
gle herself as a cat does just .before she shoots the moment thev“ «noear
springs upon the helpless mouse. I knew
per shoots the inpinent utey appear,
and no riiatter how great a'range they
No movement told what had been
done.
Charlie looked anxiously, quivering
with his intense anxiety, thought I had
missed, and that she was still about to
make a fatal bound upon me. I heard
im say mournfully “My God 1 he has
missed. No wonder; to stand as le
does would shake the nerves of any on*.
God help him, and .-till mv trembling
hands that I may tire we ll”
“Don’t waste powder, Charlie; she
will never want another shot,” said I.
“Great God! Is that possible?” cried
poor Hastings, and ho fell down as if
shot.
In the revulsion of feeling lie had
fainted. I could not turn toward him,
for the lion was advancing. With my
eyes fixed upon the infuriated brute, I
called to the servant, “Throw water
upon your master's face, ’ and s >.xl 1 k. s
tree awaiting my next turn. As I
was hiding my time, grimly as gritu
death himself, I noticed that the lioness
remained motionless .rigid, like a stone
sculpture, she had not varied her posi
tion one hair’s breath. I could just see
one slight thrill—a shiver; nothing
more.
The fearful looking eyes were fixed
upon us, seeming to be starting from
their sockets. 1 knew she could not
he dead—only “speechless,” its my
Irish servant would have said, if he
had been there; but I could not watch
her—another claimed nty attentiim.-
All this takes long to tell, but it was
briefly enacted. On came the lover,
burning for revenge, bent upon having
his cup of coffee in de ntoruin? Why it to satisfy. Wo are one to one now
For this reason no amateur need as
pect to raise grass or vegetables ■ to
maturity in an enclosure where fowls 7
are kept. ■' ' • 1 1 ' J -*h
> —~T" "to cswlt
A nOKHEKFUL flA^
furnish the “ largest and finest
play.” But, as will bo'seen hy refer
ence to the premium list, there
A minister took for his text, “The flesh,
the world and the devil.” He'informcd h : s
astonished audience that he would dwell
briefly in the flesh
world, and linsti
the devil,
tence tli
esh^MS
making the third best display ; and
A premium yf $209 to the county
making the fourth best display.
There are now three prominent
counties in the State which are known
u „,. f° l ,e bending and concentrating all
ss rapidly over the I their vast powers and resources upon
list as he could to | this great contest—one in Upper Geor
gia, one in Middle Georgia, and one in
Southwestern Georgia, Other coun-
list for competition at the next meet
ing of the Society, to be held in Atheus
next month.
But while the foregoing county prizes
are intended to represent the leading
features of the premium list, they are
by no means the most attractive. The
city ot Macon has united with the So-
keted
'tat.
stiM^ (Mo.) Democrat is rc-
8 »1 C !or the following:
death k”*,. 61 ? of Mr. Buckner’s
few duvJ ft 2 BhlU ,l ng ’ nc,ir Breen ridge, a
his ‘imLi”"' lu ' v - ^ Ir - Smith preached
and thr..« |’ tniK ' n “'i the day following,
t| le ‘ i 11 ’ 4 thereafter was killed hy
cred sir 1 ' u ^ t, . L ‘ ‘“id. This was consid-
conn >i ?® e .’ ,llt ‘h*’ most singular thing
ll ‘^ deaths remains to
ner at »t, 1 ]W lot hea worn by M. Buck-
•„r,o„ ,, c J 11 * pf.his death were hung
and fr ''‘flow hush in the yard,
i 4 n „ , 1 1 1 * 1 ,l °ur the hush wilted, and
ch lead, though one week has elaps-
more they don’t go away.” A yomq
man at our elbow, who ought to know,
says “they are like girls, the more you
squeeze them, the more they want to he
equoze"
Two men, disputing about the pronun
ciation of the word “either”—one saving
it was ee-thcr, the. ether i-ther—agreed
to refer the mutter to the first person j ciety in the effort to present n list oi
they met, who happened to-be an Irish- rewards that will not only please but
man, who confounded both by declaring I actually recompense the exhibitor for
“it’s nayther, for it s aytlier.” I sorae labor and expense. And among
An Irish damsel having lost an timbrel., others which may be referred to with
la advertized its return in this style .• “Ii pride and satisfaction, arc the lollow-
thc gentleman who keeps a shoe store ing :
with a red head, will return the umbrella I t- _ , c , , c -o
of a young lady with the ivey handle, he ^’, or ^° st acre °f 1 clover hay * $ oO
will bear of something to her ndvan *0* Ust acre of lucerne lmy t»0
ta „ c » I For best aero of native grass 50
. . For best acre of pea-vine hay
At the baby show in San k ranciseo a j,-> or best acre of corn forage
dark-eyed baby,” the “loudest bawler," I 1 acre
etc. It is a wonder that they did not For best aud largest display of
award a premium to the child with the garden vegetables
wlioopingest cough.
That was a remarkable feat on the part
of the hen that in consequence of bcim
near sighted ate saw dust for corn meal,
and then luid a nest full of bureau knobs,
, „„„ boat run a length before she come to a
’h.-play made on the ' ] SR of SePTrara the^bSw. I ^
tnained on the hurricane deck till the
flames had burned the window curtain
in my room, and the saloon windows
below were shooting forth fiery darts.
I then came down on the forward deck
and did what I could to save the pas
sengers. A great many were afraid to
jump overboard, I assured them they
were safe in jumping, as the water from
the how was not over their heads.
Upon thia assurance one or two made a
leap, andTbany others seeing that the
wateff*wt& i&hallow followed their exam
ple and were saved.
It was with difficulty that I checked
them from jumping over in large bodies
aud drowning each other during the
excitement. I am satisfied that nearly
all lit^js lost were lost iu the stern of
the bqpt, the flames moving that way
and forciug the passengers tojump or
lie htMted. Just before I left the boat
I hc^B^Jady—Mrs. Taylor, of Alex-
amlriii, crying for help from the rear
«.f tKMSBjjl. I saw her hanging to the
midcnKflmie, and sent a boat ta her
rescue and Saved her. I ntn satisfied
that the excitement caused undue loss
of life'and that every passenger was
saved who jumped overboard forward.
A gritt many lives were lost on the
life bpatl’by being ovefcrovftlcd. Be
fore fho boat stopped, one of them
was crowded with colored passengers,
and wh n she was cut loose the stern
bulged out aud swamped the craft.
About a dozen small children were
aboard ; I think five or six were lost.
Tlte fire caught in the hold, but it is
’ impossible to tell just where. The
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fluence growing out of it. The politi-.
etti economist will here find food for
his thoughts. The artison will scan,
with eagle eye, the work of his peers.
The thrifty fanner ; the enterprising
merchant; the fowl fancier, and the
stock importer; the horticulturist—
all will be entertained, phased and in
structed. Here we will leant the sources
and demand in our own
c we will learn where, in
our own State, each and every article
is produced, raised or manufactured.
Our people will here be taught where,,
in their own country, they may follow
that pursuit best suited to their inter
den he will have to wagon de best way
he can, because when de woman gets
to wearing de feminine Render of the
masculine goose,"dey lire 'soon^To" put
dc blind bridle on de man and have dar
own way.
Spargrass de forty-third, sextiou
sick, lobster clause: my infatuated cin
namon drops, when Abraham Colum-
uinbs brought dis world ober here, de
new world dat he has just got up and
C atented, when he came sailing up de
eautiful river, what was the fust ques
tion he axed? Why, my incipient
dahlies, as he stood taking a drink of
larger beer wifh President Grant, de
ooct and horse tamer, he asked Mttl-
ius what he got for the last nigger he
sold.
My disgusted hearers, let us look at
de tax bill: dar’s gwine to be a tax
E iut upon everything, and more too.
free dollars an inch on de gal’s hoops;
ten cents on R—<—d’s melish, and dats
about as much as dey are worth. My
brudder ignorant muses, in de course of
mi man events, it become useless to
protract dis subject any furdet, and
now I lay me down to sleep on a lad- ; ,
der.
of supply an
State. Here
1 . . . , . . , , boat was verv drv, almost like tinder,
cst and taste, without being forced to uo u -! ■ .1
](•«♦“ 1 Romc ' K, Jy seo this and
llJ ast one preacher better ?
go at
Kllnsi '* s . has been seeing a
“Theskvu ,C s , ky ’ T, » Monitor says:
tirelv nn^vl" C uar an< * the son rose en-
the sVw?hr d ’ When the
horizon the fo'mnV htt }f wa y above th e
Parenf- Lrf a hu S c w^pent, ap-
<rccbcI*aoGt feCt form * waa P lai »ly seen
momenta” 'vh 4 y , lri l* lc for aome
has the declarea he
^ reliab1e wit-
““he affidavit
wil ! I * oon h® time for a
For largest yield of upland cotton,
acre 200
For best crop lot upland short sta
ple cotton, not less than five
,, . . . , . . bales 500
sat on ’em, and in due time hatched out _ , . . , , ,
a complete set ot parlor furniture. Wo I For best one bale upland short
shall ordor a few of the breed instantcr, staple cotton 100
then go into the furniture business. (and 25 cents per pound for the bale.)
,, For best bale upland long staple
A wretched little boy ten years old. 1Q0
-a Kr p.„„d for.h.bdi)
cently, was asked where his father was. h the best oil painting, by a
“Dead.” “Where’s your mother?” “Run -Georgia lady 100
away.” His interlocutor expressed sym- For the best display of paintings,
pathv, and observed that he must feel drawings, etc., by the pupils of
lonesome. “Not a bit of it; there's-go-j one school or college .'... 100
ing to be the biggest circus here next I j? or t b e best made silk dress, do
hunt homes among strangers, as is now
too often the ease. Exhibitors from
Upper Georgia will find a market for
the ready sale of much, if not all, of
their perishable articles at full, remun
erative prices. In uddition to all this,
much general good must necessarily
grow out of these annual reunions of
so many of the thinking and working
men and women of the country. The
spirit of State pride is fanned into new
life by these meetings, and we forget,
as it were, our individual misfortunes
in rejoicing over our mutual successes.
Let u.s then unite in one mighty ef
fort to throw together, in one common
display, the grand and aggregate speci
men resources of our proud old cont-
mouwealth. Let it be such an exposi
tion of our pride aud our strength;
such an evidence of our skill and taste,
■our genius and our energy, and espe
cially of our love for ag riculture and
our homes, as challenge, in kindness,
the competition of the South, while it
excites the envy and admiration of the
world.
W. A . Huff.
Mayor of the city of Macon.
The regatta, the contest, in drill, of
volunteer military companies, and the
races, will be of unusual interest. The
city of Macon has been exceedingly
liberal in her “special premiums” and
we predict a most interesting Fair in
October."
and the flames, when they struck the
oiled machinery, spread like a torch
The cohro was of a miscellaneous na-
.ture and contained nothing inflamma
ble except two barrels of whisky, that
were iti the forward hold and were
among the last things burned. The
boat \\ as entirely lost. The passen
ger lisdhnd ‘-manifest of the vesseT were
hist also, it being impassible for tbe
clerk to reach the office to obtain it.
At the time of the accident but few
of the passengers’were asleep and none
in the staterooms. Some were lying
downfcfc sofas. The Georgianna came
along on her way from Baltimore, atul
brought up a few of the passengers.
Many went down through the coun
try, »nd others arc awaiting other
boat3’to come home. All were well
taken care of. The steamer’s value I
estimate at $40,000.
FP
LATER.
Law in Nebraska.—A colored
man at Omaha applied, on the Fourth
of July, to Judge Townsend, -of the
Probate Court, for a license to marry a
white woman. Upon this application
the learned Judge endorsed the follow
ing decision :
This license is refused. Things are
badly mixed. Judge Hunt, of the
United States Supreme Court, holds
that any State iu the Uiuou may reg
ulate the right of suffrage by the color
of the hair, or any other whim, so that
always the right to make laws for ele
gant and cultivated but disfranchised
white woman he secured for the male
negro. While, on the other hand, tho
Supreme Court of the State of Ne
braska has decided that negroes cannot
be excluded from juries any more .than
red-headed people, or people five feet
high. And, in accordance with this
decision, the recent Legislature of
Nebraska were asked to repeal the law
forbidding the constimation of happi
ness between male negroes aud elegant
white women, and between a white
man and a lady of dark complexion;
hut the God and Equity Legislature
killed the bill.
My advice is, cross over into Iowa,
where a negro can marry the Gover
nor’s daughter, if she is willing, as she
ought to be.
1 cured not l'orhim, no, for all he could
do; it be a poor useless creature of
man who is not equal to a lion single
hanfietl. ' ' - * '**“ "
To think with him was to act, and
his thoughts seemed to be paralleled
with my own, only reserved. He
clearly thought it must be a poor lion
who could not settle a man; that did
not trouble him, but could not under
stand his lady’s quietude, it being new to
him. He looked at me, that look
plainly said : “You have done this—
had you a million lives, all would not
be worth her dear one, but I would
have them all.” So I read his thoughts.
The roar he gave was terrible ; it
helped to briugpoor Charlie’s wander
ing senses back again, and with all his
apprehensions on my account. Poor
fellow, he trembled from head to foot
violently more for me than for himself.
I could not turn my head, but I heard
him shaking. To reassure him I used
a silly boast: “I shall double tlwt fel
low up aud put him in my pocket
in two minutes, take out your watch
and mark the time.”
Hearing me speak in this careless
style gggpicd to give him hope, but the
lion moved. He made one hounding
step toward me, then he was checked
by a low groan from the stricken one,
and stood as if transfixed to earth, ut
tering or which seemed those of tender
encouragement. Lions are always
good husbands; as lovers they are de
voted, as fathers they are careful and
tender.
Tbh smitten lady was silent, and he
came on again, to be checked again
by another deep moan—more deep in
anguish than in sound. All eager for
vengeance as he was, he could not suf
fer a moan to pass from her unheeded.
Once more he turned his head to look
his last look the object of his love,
though ha knew not that it was to te
his last. The last fond look the lion
gave cost him his life, saved mine, and
probably that of Charlie, the servant
would have fled.
month yer set eyes on!”
The Courier-Journal famishes the fol
lowing “answer to correspondents:” ▲
youthful correspondent desires to know
how we would like to sail witfcttofessur
Wise on his balloon voyage^Kurope I
If yon will go, my dear boy#JHd climb
the least of the many piles of twenty-dol-
lar gold pieces that
bite us to nnlfcrtaki
will find that its summit
perpetual snow,
by a lady of Georgia not a dress
maker
For best made home-spun dress,
done by n lady of Georgia not a
dress-maker
50
For best piece of tapestry in worst
ed and floss, by a lady of Geor
gia
... 50
d that its summit is wrapped in complete setofrafeni clothes, by
a lady of Georgia.:
50
An Oregon p&])er states that tbe rage
for the “ie” termination has come to a
disastrous conclusion in one family in
Portland. A farmer named Ake
christened his eldest girl Belle. She
had some cards printed in the “ie”
wdl, after looking at
fashion, and-
( the result* she concluded Belle was
pretty enough for her, and burned are at least eighteen or twenty more
Item. -who have been drowned.
WjAsmxoTON, August 9.—Another
steaider arrived here at 7 o’clock this
evening, bringing up three bodies of
those who perished on tho Wawasset.
They were those ol Miss Bettie Read,
a child of Mr. Jos. Read, and a color
ed child, whose parents reside on Mad
ison street. Twelve bodies washed
asHR , e i 't*day, nine of them being of
colored women, three of children, who
went not iddfc'fied; they were all bur-
iedton the shore, after a full descript
ive list of each body had been made
for future identification. Persons were
engaged in grappling to-day about the
wreck. But one body was fished up
-—that of a colored woman, who could
not be identified. Another steamer
goes down to-morrow^ to resume the
work of grappling for the bodies. 60
fan. twenty-one bodies have been rt«
co^Tred, and it is thought that there
GRASS FOB CHICKENS.
As by far the larger part of the
chickens supplying our markets arc
raised on large farms, where they have
ample liberty for a free range, the
amount of grass consumed by them is
not generally appreciated as much os
it should be. This is one reason why
so many persons fail in the attempt to
succeed with poultry in a state of con
finement. Enclosures are often made
without a thought of the relation which
grass or green food has to success.
Running at large over many acres, and
helping themselves to grass at any
moment, the breeder of ordinary
observation fails to notice that ’ a
very large part of the fowls, daily
food—if not the largest—consists of
green food. He feeds corn and oats,
or scraps, or table refuse, nnd imagines
Alt Englishman traVellirtg Sfiif ihtf-
Mississippi, told some raiher. touglf
stories about some London thie" s;- A-
Cincinnati chap named Case heard these^
narratives with a silent but expressive^
umph, ami then remarked that hh*
thought the Western thieves beat the*
London operators all hollow, nvoz-a
“How so ?” enquired the English
man with surprise. “Have yod lived-
much in the West?” -n Oo A
“Not a great deal. I undertook ta
set up business at Dos Moines Rapids
a while back, hut the rascally people
stole near everything I had, and final-'
Iv a Welsh miner ran away with my
wife.”
“Gracious!” said the Englishman/
and have you never found her?”
“Never.to this day. But that was
not the worst of it.”
“Worst 1 What could be worse than'
stealing a man’s wife?” *• U
“Stealing the children I should say, 1 ’.
said the implacable Case. - d l .-un
“Children ?” .
“Yes. A negro woman who hacf
none of her own abducted my youngest
daughter, and sloped and joined the
Lijuns.”
“Did you see her ?”
“See her?” “Yes. Sho hadn’t tetf
rods tho start of me, but plunged into
the lake and swam off like a duck, aud
there was no canoe to follow her with.”
The Englishman leaned back in his
chair and called for another mug of
“alf aud ’alf,” while Case smoked his
c gar.
“I shan’t go any further West, I
think,” at length observed John Bull.'
“1 should not advise any one to go/
said Case, quietly. “My brother once
lived there, But ho had to leave, al-'
though his busiucss was the best in the*
country.”
“What business was he in, pray.”
“Lumbering—had a saw mill.”
“And they stole his lumber ?”
Yes, and saw logs, too.”
“Saw logs?”
“Yes, whohi dozens of black walnut,
logs were spirited away or carried off
single night. True, upon my
honor, sir. He tried every wny to'
prevent it; had men hired to watch-
lis logs, but it was no use. They,
would whip them away as easily as if
there had been nobody there. :Tbey i
would steal them out of tbo cove and*
even out of the railways.”
‘Good gracious.”
‘Just to give you an idea how the/
steal out there,” with a sly wink to the
listening company. “Just to give you*
an idea—did you ever work in a saw
mill?”
“Never.” vj id iv-wuifw! «
“Well, one day my brother bought
an all-fired tine black walnut log—four
feet threS at the butt, and not a knot
in it. He was determined to keep that ,
log anyhow, and hired two eanny
Scotchmen to watch it all night Well,
they took a small demijohn of whisky
with them, snaked the log up tBe bilf
above the mill, built a fire aud then’
sat down to play cards, just to keep' -
them awake, you' see. ’Twas a mon
strous big log—bark two inches thick.’
Well, as I was saying, they played cards
and drank whisky all night, as it be- .
gan to grow light, went astraddle of;
the log. About a minute after daylight 7
George went over to the mill to see how'
they were getting on and the log wfiS'
gone!”
What were the Scotchmen doing?”
Sitting on the bark! The thieves'
had drove an iron wedge into the btitt 1
end, which pointed down the hill, and]
hitched a yoke of oxen to it aud pulled*
it right, leaving the shell and the
Scotchers sitting a straddle of it fkst
asleep!” 1 ’
The Englishman here arose, dropped'
his cigar stump into the spittop; lqok-'
ed nt his watch, and he believed he'
would go on deck and see how far he’d-
be down the river before morning:
Wheat.—The impetus that the
sowing of wheat in drills has received
last autumn, has proved most salutary
during tho recent bad wea.ther; the
crops are vigrous. In the case of thick
sowings the wheat was laid by the first t
heavy rain that fell; mauy believed j that they live on that almost exclusive-
that this was owing to want of silica in J ly, and teaches that such food will also
the stems, and manures professing to j answer when fowls are confined.
' ■-* — —-’ trial undeceives him.
In preparing an enclosure for breed
furnish soluble silica were used, but to
no purpose; thin sowing, in drills,
remedied the mischief. Isidore Pierre
has demonstrated that the wheat which
has a tendency to be laid, is precisely
that which contains most silica, ac
cumulating it in the leaves eight times
greater than in the stems, and the
knots had a four times greater quanti
ty than the intervening portions of the
stems. In fact, when wheat is sown
thickly, the silica/like all plants grown
in tiie shade, unnaturally elongate, and
thus the tissue wantsstrengthor thick
ness.—Exchange.
ing in confinement, no hennery will be
complete, or will be even worth at
tempting,-without a reservation of space
for grass. In case the fowls can be
allowed a part of each day for a range,
say a short time before night, the
matter .is of less importance. Still it
is far better to provide pasturage for
them when it can be. done. Some
thing may be done on the “soiling
plan 7 ’ also, if that is deemed best.
Vegetables, such as cabbages, and oth-
. er green things which they tike, may.
Oats as a Manure.—A Kentucky'
farmer writes: I have seen frequent 1
inquiries how to reclaim old and worn*
lands. A quick and Cheap plan is to*
sow the land in oats as early ak you’
can in the • spring, os so0n aS rijxf
plough under; keep off all' stock and
you will have a tremendous foil growth
of oats. Plow them under iiiOctober,
or, if South, the first of November;
then sow rye, graze in the spring and'
and feed down; when ripe plough an 1
der, and you will see one of the fines!?
*yl?fields you ever saw; or, if ydto'
wish, sow clover on the rye the first
spring; it is very effectual and chfiap.-
I saw the above, tried in Tenne&SCe
when I was a boy; tbe land wak. so
worn that it did not exceed knde-higti
they were ploughed under when 1 ripe,
and again in November. Tbe land waa
planted in corn the next year; and
mode a large yield; it was before tbe
days of clover. 1 I have'tried it repeat
edly since with good success.
. Ears nt . ,
Lots fob Store Houses fob’
Sale.—Six store lgts, with 30 foetf
front, runningJback —r- foet, frohtin|f.
on Clayton street, between corner of
Clayton street and College Avenufe aud
store of Lewis J. Lampkin. For sale
by H. H. Carlton & Co.,
jtfWHWtfilil • *u
