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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS!
By SMITH, WIKLE & CO.]
For the atamlanl * Express-.J
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TnitkU4 from tb* Frtiiek kv liu L C. Mori.
(OOWTIXUED FROM OUR LAST.)
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Everywhere upon her road our he
roine met images of fright and desola
tion.
It was in the Iwginning of August;
not a breath of wind freshened the
heated air, not a drop of water had
fallen in two months. The heat was
intense and overwhelming ; the horse
that drew the cart seemed exhausted.
Clara arrived at last at un inn a short
distance from the quarter of St. Giles.
This inn was well located, isolated,
having no communication with the
neighboring buildings, and conse
quently as healthy as one could desire
at this time. Clara btopped here to
allow the horse to rest and also to
make inquiries.
She tremblingly asked the landlord
for news of her father.
Alas! her worse fears were too well
founded. Mr. Falkland hod been at
tacked by tho pestilence : his unwor
thy daughter-in-law had abandoned
him, toed profiting by the feebleness
which chained him to his conch she
got possession of the money, silver
plate, valuable furniture, and of all the
linen in tho house, had piled them up
on several wagons under pretext that,
like so many others, the family were
preparing to leave London, und had
departed. Only an honest servant
who had been a short time iq the ser
vice of Mr. Falkland remained near
him ; the others had fled from the
house tho moment they had seen the
mark of the plague. «
Tho wicked daughter-in-law had
made the neighbors believe that she
was going to consult a physician as to
whether it was possible to move her
father. Thus she had found no obsta
cle to the pillage of the house ; on
the contrary, they had aided her in
carrying out everything.
At this terrible news what was the
grief or Clara, and how she congratu
lated herself on having obeyed the
voice of her conscience and come in
time to take care of her father so un
worthily deserted and betrayed!
She bought from the inn-keeper all
the liueu that he could spare ; a com
plete suit for herself, several pairs of
sheets and blankets. But a mortal
dread seized her when the man, see
ing her put up these things in packa
ges said, “ Miss, what will you do with
those ? Do you think you will be per
mitted to see your father ? They will
not allow it ; all communication with
tho unfortnuates attacked by the
plague is forbidden.
Numerous watchmen arc vigilant in
preventing this by rigorous but ueces-1
sary measure.’’
In spite of this opinion, Clara,
though harrassed with fear, placed all
her packages upon the cart. Then
she mounted it with the aid of the
good inn-keeper, who offered up the
most fervent prayers in her behalf.
When bhe arrived at the parish of
St. Giles, she did not recognize the
quarter with which she had been fa
miliar two short years before. All the
houses were closed ; upon the greater
number of the doors was painted a red
cross with the inscription : “ Lord,
have pity on us. ’ The streets were de
serted, and the grass grew upon the
pavements. Occasionally, countenan-!
ees bearing the impress of death ap
peared at the windows, and their pale
lips murmured only the words: “Pray
for us.’’ Men, bearing in their hands
red wands to show that it was dan
gerous to approach them, slowly walk
ed the streets crying in dismal tones
—“Bring out your dead.” In their;
path followed the carts, upon which j
they hurriedly piled the unfortunate j
victims of the pestilence and hastened 1
their bodies to the grave with uo re-1
ligious ceremony to bear a sad couso- j
lation to those who regretod their losa j
Clara trembled with affright when
she saw the first of these funeral j
carts.
“ Alas!’’ thought she, “ whut cer-!
taiuty have I that this cart so full of 1
dead does not contain,” —She dared !
not utter the object of her dread.
Such au idea was heartrending, and j
slio besought her driver to redouble
his speed. He willingly consented;!
glad to hasten his arrival that he
might depart the more quickly from
the gloomy place.
Tho church clock of St. Giles struck
the hour of nine when Clara reached
the street in which wus situated the
mansion of her father. This house
opening towards the street formed the
corner us n small alley. Clara, not
wishing to draw observation, directed
her driver to stop in this alley, and
she alighted trembling at the door of
the house. She saw upon it the
mournful sigu of the red cross; near
it was btutioued a watchman charged
with tho duty of preventing any one
from going out or coming iu.
Clara knew not how she should pre
vail upon tho man to violate this or
der which he was bouud to execute
under the severest penalties. She re
solved, however, to address him; she
would learn, at least, whether her
father still lived, and who could tell
whether she might not inspire some
pity in the breast of the man for a
daughter who was flying to the succor !
of her father. She dareU not oil or j
him money, for she thought he might j
boon 4 of the wretches of whom she
had heard „o much, and might mur
der her l jc the sake of her gold.
There was a dark lantern in tho
cart. Clara sought it, and took it iu
her hand. She was iu deep black,
and wore upon her head a long whit©
veil like that of a novice! She had ta
ken this precaution that her father
might not recoguize her immediately,
fearing with reason that the sudden
sight of her would awaken a danger
ous emotion. She hoped also, that,
seeing this costume, lie would take
her for one -of these Sisters of Charity
whose more than human kindness sig
nalized itself in this dread season as
iu so many others.
The rhu'kaess, the unexpected oppo
sition, the pallor of her cheeks, the
white veil, the lantern that she bore
in her hand, made the watchman
trembL; he believed that he saw a
visitant from another world, und made
the sigu of the cross. Clara saw by
this that ho was a Catholic, and con
ceived a hope that he would be more
disposed to render her a service when
he knew that she was of tho same re
ligion.
tSiie stood then at the door of the
paternal mansion, face to face with
the man who looked at her with an
amazed and frightened air ; only one
word from this man would end thQ
horrible suspense which tortued her,
But this word, —she dreaded to call it
forth —and her voice died away.
“Do you wish anything? ’’ asked
the watchman at length whose terror
was dissipated, and who by the light
of the lantern, read upon her counte
nance the anxiety to which she wus a
i P«y.
i At last in a feeble voice she pre
[ counted one word; “Mr. Falkland.”
“ Yes,” said the watchman, “this is
his dwelling.’’
“ Does he t till liv e ?”
“I do not know. I believe so, I
i hope so.’’
“ God be praised,” cried Clara, sob
bing.
The watchman seemed touched
I with compassion, and his voice was
softened when he added: “ But I must
. not deceive you, there is not much
hope. The servant who was with Lim
must be dead, for I have neither seen
nor heard him for several hours. The
doctor who attended Mr. Falkland,
and who has just fallen a prey to the
pestilence, did not think Mr. Falkland
could recover.”
Despite all this sad news, Clara
gathered up her strength to bear tL-e
burden bravely.
“I entreat you,” she cried, “allow
me to enter. I have come nearly a
hundred leagues to see my father. I
come to care for him, to save him.”
“His daughter?”cried tho watch
man. “Ah! if I could permit you!
But no, I cannot, I dare not. No, this
is forbidden. It is impossible.’’
“ Take pity on me, replied Clara, j
“do not refuse me, I beseech you ;!
open this door, and do not hinder a
daughter from seeing her father.
Perhaps I can save him; I pray you
in the name of this cross,’’ she added,
showing the relic her auut had hung
from her neck, “iu tho name of this
sacred symbol of our common faith
(for I see that you are a Catholic like
myself;) in the name of your mother,
if, happier thau I, you yet possess
one.’’
“ Oh, yes,’’ said the watchman, the
tears in his eyes, “ I have still a moth
er, my dear mother ; and if she were
in danger I would give my life to save j
hers. No, I cannot refuse you.’’ And,
being assured that at this time uo one
was in the street, he added-—" Go in, j
and may the blessing of heaven ac
company you.”
The door opened, not without diffi
culty, something placed behind it
seeming to oppose; and Clara was
struck with horror when she saw on
entering the body of the poor servant,
who had perished in this place. She
suppressed her emotion, and whilst
the watchman called help to raise the
body, the drivers of a funeral cart ap
pearing iu the distance, she hustened
towaids the chamber of her father.
Arriving at the door*, she stopped a
moment; no noise was heard. She
opened it softly and entered.
TO UK CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
BULLOCK.
The carreer of Bullock is a fine in
stance of extraordinary alternations of
human vicissitudes.
Bubbled to the surface amid the
convulsions of political disorder and
social turmoil, he rode for awhile on a
despotic pre-eminence as a stranger
executive of the proud State of Geor
gia. The absolute supremacy of his
power and his cool disdain of tram
mels for three years constitute a pic
ture of bold, evil rule not ofteu seen,
and admirable iu its malicious aud ty
rannical consistency. The man made
and unmade Legislatures, toyed with
tho State’s sacred sovereignty like a
worthless bauble, swayed the judicia
ry, and scattered the people’s money
with the lavish liberality of a prince,
and the reckless caprice of a muniliceut
madman.
He preserved his gorgeous deport
ment amid it all, arrayed like a mon
arch, imposing in presence, smiling
and affable, the princely imperturpable
and benignant patron of thieves and
adventurers.
His abdication came like a lightning
stroke in the very zenith of his power.
Never did he appear braver and more
assured than in the very preliminaries
of his hegira, aud ho accompanied his
release of the State from bis foul grip
with a characteristic ebulitiou of gran
diloquence and hypocritical assumacy
of virtue.
He has braved it out well. Never
mau so heroically appeared virtuous
who lacked it, never Pharisee made a
sublimer display of brazeu effrontery
as a persecuted and incorruptible in
nocent than this self-same superb Rad
ical bawd.
Down the metallic deity fell with a
long descent and a dull thud. Gov
ernors have played the game of justice
over tho bigbcockolorum fugitive, and
to-day sees him a miserable skulker
from the offended law; and an outcast
from home, friends, society and gov
ernment.
What next? —Atlanta Condilution.
The Princess of Holstieu-Hoer, who
is au American woman, has sued the
relatives of her deceased husband for
$20,000,000.
Almost all the bars in England are
presided over by women, and their
names appear over the street doors as
‘ licensed to keep and retail ” alcoholic
potations.
An industrious lady of Garner,
Minn., was seen day after day of last
week standing upon the topmost
round of a tall ladder with paint
brush iu hand, slapping the white
paint upon the walls of a two-story
building just as naturally as could one
of the lords of creation in breeches.
A laborer in Milwaukee was recent
ly plunged into the deepest affliction
by tho death of his wife. On array
ing her for tho grave he was greatly
consoled, however, by discovering that
suspicious looking lumps on her legs
proved to be packages containing sev
eral kuukred dollars in currency con
cealed iu her stockings.
No party, Church, or movement in
the world can be strong, and great,
and progressive, which is not also
broad,- generous and magnanimous.
The conquering promise must be the
spirit, and not the letter; truth, aud
not policy; breadth, aud not narrow
uess.
A mau was walking through the
deep snow when he heard the voice of
j his oldest son saying: “ I’ll step iu
father’s tracks.’’ He was trying to do
; it, and two younger brothers were at
| the same thiug. The father went to
| the house of prayer to seek God that
evening, thinking, “ If I lead my sons
thus, I’ll make tracks for heaven.”
Ihe class of men that disturb and
; disorder and distress the world are not
i those born aud nurtured amid the hal
lowed influences of Christian homes;
but rather those whose early lives have
been a scene of trouble aud vexation,
who have started wrong in the pilgrim
age, and whose course is one of disas
ter to themselves aud trouble to those
i arouud them.
H. I. Kimball is running a needle
factory iu Switzerland.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY JIORNING, AUGUST 15, 1872.
SMITH AND JONES.
O e winter there came to Trenton,
New Jersey, two men named Smith
aud Jones, both of whom had designs
upon the Legislature. Jones had a
bad wife, and was in love with anoth
er pretty woman, who, by-the-by, was
! a widow, with sparkling black eyes.
Smith had a good wife, plump as a
robin, good as an angel, and the moth
er of ten children. Smith did not
want to get divorced, but sought to
get a charter for a turnpike from Pig’s
Run to Terrapin Hollow. So, with
these different objects, they came to
Trenton, and addressed the assembled
wisdom there with the usual argu
| ments :
Ist. Oyster suppers, with a lich
background of steak and venison.
2d. Liquors in abundance, from the
tunning “ Jersey lightning” to the
I bubbliug champagne.
To speak iu plain prose, Jones gave
a champagne supper, and Smith fol
lowed with a champagne breakfast.
Under the mollifying influence of
these tempting repasts, the wise law
makers passed botn the divorce and
turnpike bills, and Jones and Smith —
with a copy of each bill in parchment
iu their pockets—went rejoicing to
their homes.
“ My love,” said Smith, when he was
once more comfortably ensconed be
fore his own domestic hearthstone, and
speaking to his wife, who was minis
tering to the necessities of the young
est off spring, “ I am one cf the Direc
tors of the Pig’s Run and Terrapin
Hollow Turnpike, and will be Presi
dent, my dear. It will quite set us up
iu life. We will send our children to
boarding school, and live in style off
the tolls. Here’s the charter, ducky.”
“ Let me see it, pet,” said the wife,
who was the best of wives, with
plumpness and good nature beaming
all over her face. She nestled on
Smith’s shoulder, and threw her arm
lovingly about his neck, as she helped
him examine the parehmeut.
Suddenly Smith’s visage grew long.
His wife’s looked blank. Smith was
not generally profane, but now he rip
ped out a fearful oath.
“ Blast it, wife!” he shouted, furi
ously, those scoundrels at Trenton
have divorced us!”
It was too true. The parchment he
held was a bill of divorce, in which the
names of Smith and his wife appeared
in frightful big letters. Mrs. Smith
wiped her eyes wi ll the corner of her
apron, as she exclaimed :
“ Oh, dear, here's a turnpike! Mr.
Smith, with the whole ten of our chil
li ien staring me in the face, I ain’t
your wife.’’
Here the voice of the poor woman
became choked with sobs, and her ut
terances were too indistinct to be re
corded. As for Smith, he cursed away
at such a rate as would have convinc
ed any spectator of the propriety of
sending him a missionary. Although
the night was dark, and the denizens
of the village had retired to their beds,
Smith bid his wife put on her boon ',
and arm-in-arm they proceeded t > me
house of the clergyman of their
church.
“ Goodness, bless me!” exclaimed
the mild, good man, as he saw them
enter, Smith looking like the last June
shad, and Smith’s wife’s face all
streaked with tears, “ what is the mat
ter ?’’
“ The matter is, I want you to mar
ry us right off,” replied Smith.
“ Marry you !’’ exclaimed the aston
ished clergyman, with expanded fin
gers aud wondering eyes ; “ are you
drunk or crazy ?”
“ Neithei 7 . The fact is, Brother
Goodwin, some scoundrels at Trenton
have, unknown to us, dhorced me
from my wife, and she is the mother
of all my children.’’
“ Well, the minister, seeing the con
dition of things married them over
again, and would not take any fee.
The fact is, he was anxious to be alone
so that he could give vent to a sup
pressed laugh that was shaking him
all over.
Smith and his wife went home and
kissed every one of their ten children
and the little Smiths never knew that
their father and mother had been
made strangers to each other by legis
lative enactment.
Meauwhile, and on the self-same
night, Jones returned to his native
town, and sought the fine pair of
black eyes which he hoped shortly to
call his own. The pretty widow sat
on a sofa, a white handkerchief tied
carelessly about her round, white
throat, and her black hair in silky
waves against her rosy cheek.
“ Divorce is the word !’’ cried Jones,
playfully patting the double chin.
“ The fact is, Eliza, I am rid of that
woman, and you aud I will be mar
ried to-night. I know how to manage
those fellows at Trenton. A cham
pagne supper (or was it a breakfast ?)
did our business with them. Put on
your bonnet, and let us go to the
preacher’s at once, dearest.’’
The widow (who was among wid
ows as peaches are among apples) put
ou her bonnet and took Jones’ arm,
and—
“ Just look how 7 handsome it is put
on the parchment,” cried Jones, pull
ing the document out before her,
‘‘ here’s the law which says that Jack
Jones and Ann Caroline Jones are
two ? Look at it!”
Putting her plump, gloved hand on
his shoulder, she did look at it.
“Oh, dear!’’ she exclaimed, with
her rosebud lips, and sank back, half
fainting, on the sofa.
“ Oh, blazes!” cried Jones, rumpling
the parchment in his hand ; “ here’s
lots of champage and happiness gone
to ruin.’’
It w 7 as a hard case. Instead of be
ing divorced, and at liberty to marry
the widow, Jacob Jones was simply,
by the Legislature of New Jersey, in
corporated into a Turnpike Company
with the liberty of constructing a turn
pike from Burlington to Bristol.
When you reflect that Burlington and
Bristol are located about a mile apart
ou opposite sides of the Delaware riv
er you will perceive the extreme hope
lessness of Jones’ case.
“It is all the fault of that turnpike
man who gave them the suppper—or,
wus it the breakfast ?” cried Jones in
his agony. “If they had only char
tered me to lay a turnpike from Pig’s
Run to Terrapin Hollow, I might have
borne it, but the very idea of laying a
turnpike across the. Delaware river,
from Burlington to Bristol is au infer
nal absurdity.” So it was.
Aud ain’t you divorced?” said Eli
za, a tear rolling down each cheek.
“No!” thundered Jones, crushing
his hat between his knees ; and what
is worse, the Legislature have adjourn
ed and gone home druuk, and won’t
be back to Trenton until next year.’’
It was sad. The mistake had oc
curred ou the last day of the session,
when the Legislature aud transcribing
clerks were laboring under the effects
of a champagne breakfast. Smith’s
name had been put where Jones’ ought
to have beeD, and “ wisey-wersey,” as
the Latin poet hath it.
GIRLS-BY A BOY.
Girls are the most unaccoontablest
things in the world—except woman.
Like the wicked flea, when you have
them they ain’t there. I can cipher
clean over to improper fractions, and
the teacher says I do it first-rate; but
I can’t cipher out a girl, proper or
improper, and you can’t either. The
only rule in arithmetic that hits their
case is the double rule of two. They
are full of old Nick as tueir skins can
hold, and they would die if they
couldn’t torment somebody. When
they try to be mean they are as mean
as a pustey, thougu they ain’t as mean
as they let od, except sometimes, and
then they are a great deal meaner. The
only way to get along w 7 ith a girl
w 7 heo she comes at you with her
nonsense, is to give her tit for tat,
and that will flummux her, and when
you get a girl flummuxed she is as
nice as anew pin. A girl can sow
more wild oats in a day than a boy
sows in a year, but girls get their wild
oats sowed aftur a while, which boys
never do, and then they settle down as
calm and placid as a mud puddle.
But I like girls first rate, and I guess
the boys all do. I don’t care how
many tricks they play on me —aud
they don't care either. The
hoitytoitiest girls :n the world can’t
always boil over like a glass of
soda. By and by they will get into
the traces with somebody they like,
and pull as steady as any old stage
horse. That is the beauty of them. So
let them wave, I say; they will pay for
it some day, sewing on buttons and
trying to make a decent man of the
feller they have spliced on to, and ten
chances to one if they don’t get
the worst of it.
HOW A PRINTER GOT HIS
PAY.
A circus company in lowa owed an
editor a bill for advertising and refus
ed to pay it. Thereupon the editor
called upon the sheriff - , who attached
the Bengali tiger, and brought him
around to the newspaper office in his
cage. He was placed iu the compos
ing room, and during the first two
days he not only consumed fifteen dol
lars’ worth of beef, but he scratched six
dollars’ worth of trowsers from the leg
of a local reporter who endeavored to
stir him up with a broom-handle to
make him roar. Ou the third day
the tiger broke loose, and the entire
force of printers descended the stair
case with judicious suddenness. The
editor was alarmed to find his exit
through the composing room cut off,
and that the latch upon the sanctum
door was broken. So he climbed out
of a window and sought safety upon
the roof. The paper was not issued
for a week, and even after the tiger
was shot the editor had to slide down
the water spout, because he was afraid
to descend by tho route by which he
came.
MAIDENLY SYMP iY)MS OF
CELIBACY.
Wheu a woman begius to lx-ml love
stories abed—that’s a symptom.
When a woman gives a sigh on
hearing of a wedding—that’s a symp
tom.
When a woman begins to say she’s
refused many an offer—that’s a symp
tom.
When a woman begins to talk about
rheumatism iu her knees and elbows—
that’s a symptom.
When a woman begins to say what
a dreadful set of creatures men are,
aud that she wouldn’t be bothered
with one for the world—that’s a symp
tom.
Wheu a woman begins to have a lit
tle dog trotting after her—that’s a
symptom.
Y/hen a woman begins to have a
cat at her elbow at meal time, and
gives it sweetened milk—that’s a symp
tom.
When a woman begius to be
ashamed to take off her bonnet in a
gentleman’s company, because she has
no cap on—that’s a symptom.
When a woman begins to say that a
servant has no right to have a sweet
heart—that’s a symptom.
When a woman begius to go to bed
with her stockings and a flannel night
cap on—that’s a symptom.
Wheu a woman begius to put her
fingers before her mouth wheu talking
to any one, for fear they should see
she’s losing her teeth—that’s a symp
tom.
A despondent husband was telling
his woes, and the dark prospects
before him, to his better half the
other day, when she, to encourage
him, advised him to take heart aud
never despair, “ For,” said she, “ I’ll
never desert you if we are compelled
to live on bread and water.” “ I’ll
tell you what I’ll do then, my dear,”
replied the hard-hearted sinner, “ if
you’ll get the bread. I’ll furnish
the water.
Chapin says: I love to hear the
rumbling of the steam power press,
better than the rattle and roaring of
artillery. It is silently attacking and
vanquishing the Halakoffs of vice and
Redans of evil; and its parallels and
approaches cannot be resisted. I like
the click of type in the composing
stick, better than the click of the
musket in the hands of the soldier. It
bears a leaden messenger of deadlier
power, of sublimer force, and of surer
aim, which will hit its mark, though it
is a thousand years!
HOW TO CURE JUMPING
CATTTLE.
Captain J. C. McCord,of this county,
has tested the following method to
prevent cattle from jumping fences, on
one of the worst jumping cows he
ever saw, and found it completely
successful: Take a pair of scissors
and cut close the eyelashes on the
upper lid of the eyes. Nothing more
and uotning less than simply that The
effect seems to be to make all obstacles
appear, to the animel, to be much
higher than they really are. This
does uo injury and is more effectual
than clogs or brakes.
FARMER’S CLUBS.
\Ve know of no agency next to the
Agricultural newspapers, likely to
prove more beneficial to the farmer
than connection with a good live
Farmer’s Club. There are many such
in this country, and their number is
daily increasing. They should be
warmly incouraged, for they are
schools for old and young, aud where,
as is now so frequently the case, their
proceedings are reported in the week
ly papers, they become of great pub
lic value. Every township should
have such a club.
The greatest curiosity in the world
—a woman’s.
Agricultural Department.
FRUITS AND BERRIES 7s
PROMOTERS OF HEALTH
* Fruits and berries at this geascoi of
the year are not only precious luxuries
but great promoters of health. They
act upou the liver, promoting that
secretion naturally which many are in
the habit of obtaining only by the
, means of artificial medicines. They
thus avert many a disease resulting
from a torpid condition of the
liver. Another way in which they
act b neficially is iu the mechanical
effect their little seeds produce in
passing through the bowels, very much
the same as an irritated eye-ball when
any hard substance touches that
delicate organ, and this water, by
dissolving the hardened contents of
constipated bowels, keeps them in a
healthier state than any pill or
purgative invented by the apothecary.
There can be no doubt that in the
summer and fall seasons people who
live mainly on fruits and berries aud
coarse bread, can almost insure
exemption from sickness, while those
who eat heartily of solid meats and
vegetables two or three times a day
are liable to all the diseases that Hash
is heir to.
With us the use of the apple as an
article of food is far underrated.
Besides containing a large amount of
sugar, mucilage and other nutritive
matter, apples contain vegetable acids,
aromatic qualities &c.,which act power
fully in the capacity of refrigerants,
tonics and anticgptics, and when
freely used at the season of mellow
ripeness they prevent debility, in
digestion, and avert, without doubt,
many of the ills which flesh is heir
j to. The operators of Cornwall,
! England, consider ripe apples nearly
►as nourishing as bread, and far more
Iso thau potatoes. In the year
11801 —which was a year of much
; scarcity—apples, instead of being
I converted into cider, were sold to the
poor, and the laborers asserted that
; they could stand their work on baked
1 apples without meat; whereas a
I potato diet required either meat or
some other substantial nutriment. The
French and Germans use apples
extensively; so do the inhabitants of
all the European nations. The laborers
depend upon them as an article of
food, and frequently make a dinner of
sliced apples and bread. There is uo
fruit cooked in as many different ways
in our own country as apples, nor is
there any fruit whose value as au
article of nutriment is as great aud so
little appreciated.
NO FEMALE FARM LABORERS.
Start a story about a brawny woman
running a farm—building the fences,
plowing tho fields, driving the reaper,
picking up the stones and all that—as
some fellow did concerning a female
land owner, near Canandaigua Lake
last year—and it goes the rounds of
the whole American press, half the
editors applauding the Amazon for her
independence, industry and thrift.
Hardly one stops to ask if it is
womanly or proper, or civilized even.
One would almost conclude that
mankind would prefer to have the
female portion of the population do
all the hewing of wood and drawing
of water. But it should be remembered
that such performances on the part
of the females are only croppings out
ot' the barbarism that only a portion
of the world has even yet emerged
from. England has plenty of it left in
the agricultural districts, and it is not
unknown in the manufacturing
counties. A late writer in the London
Telegraph describes a trip into
Staffordshire, where the women work
at the blacksmith’s forge as long aud
hard as the men. He says it is not
uncommon to find a mother and three
lusty daughters, fully of marriageable
age, stripped to their stays, and, with
a kerchief over their shoulders,
wielding the hammers and tugging
at the bellows, making twelve hundred
nails for twelve pence, aud working
from eight in the morning to ten at
night. At Lye Waste, whole streets
are made up of these smithies, in
which these women and their children
toil, year in and year out, beside their
husbands and brothers. They have
about as much refinement and
intelligence as a “Digger” Indian. Let
our women take to the plow and hoe,
aud we should soon have districts iu
which they will rival these muscular
females of the Staffordshire smithies !
We are disgusted with all this talk
about women farmers. Let our girls
take all the prizes at our universities:
drive all the men from the rostrum;
run our banking and brokerage; keep
our shops; become governors and
presidents, vote and be happy
according to their capabilities; but
deliver us from female blacksmiths
aud farm laborers. If man is not
fitted for this work, we know not what
his particular sphere can be.— Prairie
Farmer.
CURE FOR MEINGITIS.
The Freeport (Illinois) Bulletin
publishes the following letter from a
gentleman in Michigan to a friend iu
Freeport:
I only write to tell you what will
save every case of “ cerebro spinal
meningitis.” It is the same epidemic
that raged in this State iu the winters
1846 and 1848, which broke up our
Legislature, and which carried to the
grave every one it touched until the
old-fashioned hemlock sweats were
adopted, after which every case was
saved. Our people sent about twenty
five miles and procured hemlock
boughs, and they sent for it from all
parts of the State. There was a
company here that was called the
“ Hook and Ladder company,’’ that
for weeks did nothing night and day
but go from house to house giving
hemlock sweats, and it saved every
case. Thorough sweating might, but
there is no mistake about hemlock
sweats being a specific.
PREMIUM LIST,
Rules and Regulations of the
CENTRAL CHEROKEE GEORGIA
AG CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
TO BE HELD IN CARTERSVILLE
OCTOBER Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th.
RULES * REGULATION'S.
Ist. The exhibition will be open to the
public on the First Tuesday in October,
und continue four consecutive days.
2d. The gates will be opened each day at
9 o’clock, A. M., and at that time every of
ficer is required to be at his post.
3d. The exhibition will on each day com
mence at 10 o’clock, and will continue un
til the programme of the day is through.
4th. The entrance fee on all articles con
tending for premiums of Five over Dollars,
and under, will be 50 cents ; and all articles
contending for premiums of Five Dollars
will pay an entrance fee of ten per cent, on
the premium, except as provided in the
Prmium List. Wo exhibitor’s ticket will
be issued. All exhibitors are required to
pay entrance fees as other persons.
ENTRANCE FEES:
sth. Season Tickets, $1 50
Half d0.,..; 75
Single Entrance d0.,. 50
Half do. 25
Single do. for Carriage,...... 1 00
do. do. Buggy,. 50
do- do. Wagon, 50
do- do. Saddle Horse, 25
Family Life Tickets, 2500
No return checks to be given at gate.
Tickets wili be sold at some place in Car
j tersviile, Ga., and at the Secretary’s Office,
j No money will be received by gate keepers.
Every person must procure tickets before
attempting to enter.
6th. Judges are requested to report
themselves to the Secretary at his office, on
the grounds, at 9 o’clock, A. M., on the day
on which they are to act. Those who fail
to act will be superceded by the appoint
ment of others.
7th. No stock will be permitted to enter
the enclosure except under perfect control
of the groom.
Bth. No premium shall be awarded to
any animal or article without competition,
unless the Judges shall regard it worthy.
9th. No spirituous liquor shall be sold on
the grounds.
10th. No intoxicated person shall be per
mitted to exhibit an animal, contend for a
premium, or remain on the premises.
11th. Every animal or article introduced ,
on the grounds for exhibition shall be un- ;
der the control of the officers.
12th. No one shall act as Judge if related
to the person competing for a premium.
13th. Owners of animals under age must !
place in the hands of the groom a card ]
stating the age.
,14th. Animals entered as thoreughbred
must be furnished with a well authenticated \
pedigree, which will be referred to a com
mittee appointed to inspect and report the
same.
15th. The best animal or article to be in
dicated by a blue ribbon, and the second
best by a red ribbon, to be affixed on the
morning of the last day.
17tfi. No animal sliallbe entered in other
name than that of its owner.
18th. No disorderly conduct will be al
lowed on the grounds. A police force will
be in at tendance sufficient to pi event the
same, and to see that the rules are observed.
19th. This Association will take all prop
er and necessary care to prevent accidents,
but will not be responsible for losses or
damages, nor unnecessary expense not
specified.
20th. No racing will be tolerated on the
trotting tracks, nor any kind of betting, or
gambling in any shape or manner what
ever; nor any immorality tolerated
on the grounds of this Association.
21st. In addition to awarding premiums,
the exhibition will be enlivened each nay,
at suitable intervals in the forenoon and
afternoon, with equestrian contests by la
dies and gentlemen, and with music from
the baud.
GEjVEKAL REG ULATIOA'S.
Rules for Exhibitors.
Ist. The Secretary’s office will be opened
at Cartcrsviile, on the 15th September, for
the purpose of receiving entries. Persons
intending to become exhibitors at the ap
proaching Fair, are requested to notify the
Secretary ten days before the opening of
the Fair , which will greatly facilitate bus
iness, and prevent confusion.
2d. No article or animal entered for a
premium can be removed from the Grounds
before the close of the exhibition. No pre
mium will be paid on animals or articles re
moved in violation of this rule. All arti
cles and animals entered for exhibition must
have cards (issued by the Secretary, with
numbers thereon corresponding with the
numbers in his books), attached. These
cards must be obtained, aud entrance fee
paid, before stalls will be assigned them.
3d. All persons who intend to offer ani
mals or articles foi sale, shall notify the
Secretary of such intention at the time of
entry.
4th. No entries received after the first day
of the Fair-
Instructions to the Judges.
The animals to which premiums shall be
awarded, shall be led up for exhibition at
the delivery of the premium, and so with
other articles, as may be convenient; and
after or before the delivery of the premi
ums, each animal which shall have taken a
premium shall be designated as provided in
Section 16, and led into the ring and around
it for exhibition of its superiority and high
quality to the assembled crowd.
N. B. No person whatever will be al
lowed to interfere with the Judges during
their adjudication ; and any person, who by
letter or otherwise attempts an interference
or bias, from misrepresentation with the
Judges, will forfeit his or her claim to pre
mium.
The Superintendents will give particular
direction to all articles in their respective
departments, and see that all are arranged
as near as may be in numerical order, to
lessen and facilitate the labors of the Judges
in their examinations.
In all cases Judges and Superintendents
will enforce a strict observance of these
regulations.
Forage for Stock.
There will be a forage-master on the
ground, who will furnish grain and forage
at market-price to the owners of stock.
Stalls will not be furnished upon the
grounds of the Association for unruly or
dangerous animals, nor for stock not on ex
hibition.
Annual Address.
An Address before the Association will
be delivered at the public stand, on Thurs
day.
Award of Premiums.
The Fremiums will be awarded from the
Executive Stand, at. ten o’clock on Friday
morning, 4th October.
Sale of Stock and Other Arti
cles.
Notice will be given on the day previous
of all Auction Sales of Live Stock and oth
er articles, but the animals and articles
sold cannot be removed from tho ground
until the close of the Exhibition, without
the special order of the Executive Commit
tee. FRANCIS FONTAINE,
Secretary.
Cartersville, Ga.
PREMIUM LIST.
First nay.
1 Best 6 yds home-made Jeans, pr’m, $3 00
2 Best 6 yds home-made Linscy, 3 00
3 Best 6 yds home-made Flannel, pr’m, 300
4 Best pair all wool home-made blank
ets, premium, 3 00
5 Best pair cotton-work home-made
Blankets, premium, 3 00
6 Best 6 yds home-made Carpeting, pr. 3 00
7 Best 10 yds Factory Carpeting, Diploma
8. Best piece home-made Rag Carpet
ing, premium, 3 00
9 Best llearth-Rug, home made, pr’m, 300
10 Best pair woolen Hose, home-made,
premium, 1 00
11 Best pair cotton Hose, home-made,
premium, 100
12 Best pair woolen half-Hose, home- 1 00
made, premium, 100
13 Best pair cotton half Hose, home
made, premium, 100
14 Best patchwork Bed Quilt, pr’m, 300
15 Second best do., premium, 2 00
10 Best woolen Comfort, ‘ home-made,
premium, 3 00
17 Best cotton Comfort, home-made,
premium, 3 00
18 Best double-wove white Counter
pane, home-made, premium, 500
19 Best patchwork Cradle Quilt, pr., 200
20 Second best do., premium, 1 00
21 Best all wool, or cotton and wool,
Coverlet, home-made, premium, 5 00
22 Best Mattress, home-made, pr’m, 500
23 Best half dozen wool Hats, home
made, premium, 3 00
24 Best specimen Cotton Embroidery,
home-made, premium, 2 00
23 Best specimen Silk do., premium, 200
26 Best Specimen’Wool do,, premium, 200
27 Best specimen Millinery, home
-28 made, premium, 300
Best F’ly Brush, premium, 2 00
29 Best Suit of Clothe*—coat, pants
and vest—made by a lady, pr’m, 500
30 Second best Suit, do., premium, 3 00
31 Best specimen of any Ornamental
Needle, Crochet, Carved or Fancy
Work, exhibiting cultivation and
taste, by a Miss under 12 years of
age, premium, 2 00
32 Jlest specimen Needle, Shell and
Carved Work, by a lady, 3 00
33 Best bale 8 oz Osanburgs, Diploma.
34 do Yarn, all Nos. do
35 do Shirting, do
36 do Sheeting, do
37 do Kersey, do
38 do Stripes and Plaids,
or either, do
; 39 do Plains, do
40 do Ticking, do
41 Best coil Rope, cotton, do
42 do hemp, do
; 43 Best assortment of Woolen Goods,
comprising cassimers, plains, sati
nets, linseys, kerseys, flannel, &c.,
i exhibited by manufacturer or ag't do
44 Best sample Cotton Blankets, Diploma.
45 do Woolen do do
46 do washed wool, 20 lbs,
premium, $3 00
[Note. —All articles in this Department
, of Southern Domestic Manufacture, and in
; needle, shell and fancy work, not provided
i for in this list will receive special attention,
: and have premiums awarded.
SECTION 2—ART GALLERY—(OPEN TO TUE
world.)
1 Best Historical Painting in Oil,
connected with the history of
Cherokee, Ga., $5 00
2 Best specimen of Animal Paint
ing in oil, 6 00
3 Best specimen Cherokee Ga. Land
scape Painting in oil, 5 00
4 Best specimen Fruit Painting, Diploma.
5 do Pencil Drawing, do
6 Best display of House and
Sign Painting, Diploma.
7 Best display Photograph and
Ambrotype Pictures, Diploma.
8 Best specimen of Job Printing do
Note. —No premiums will be awarded in
this department unless the jpecimeus exhib
ited are considered meritorious by compe
tent judges.
section 3— musical instruments —(open to
tiie would.)
1 Best Piano, Diploma
2 do Melodeon, do
3 do Violin, do
4 do Flute, do
5 do Harp, do
6 do Set Brass Baud Instruments do
SECTION 4—POULTRY.
1 est pair game Chickens, pr’m., $3 00
2 est pair of Chickens, any breed,
for table use, premium, 3 00
3 est pair of Turkeys, premium, 300
4 est pair of Geese, premium, 100
5 est pair of Muscovy ducks, pr., 100
6 est pair common ducks, pr’in., 100
7 est lot of Capons, premium, 300
8 *est and largest variety of barn
yard fowls, not less than 16, owned
and exhibited by oue person, 1 00
9 est pair Aylsbury, or other im
proved Ducks, premium, 3 00
10 est- pair Chickens, other than na
tives, 3 00
11 est pair Ducks, other than na
tires, 3 00
12 est lot Poultry, not less than one
half dozen, 5 00
13 est 10 Poultry, natives and mix’d 500
14 est pair Capons, 600
SECTION 5— HOUSEHOLD, FARM AND ORCHARD.
1 est specimen Country Butter, 5
lbs., premium, 3 00
2 est specimen Country Cheese, 5
lbs., premium, 3 00
3 Best display home-made Pickles, pr 3 00
4 Best display home-made canned
Fruit, premium, 5 00
5 best display home-made Preserves,
Jellies, etc., 3 00
0 Greatest yield of honey from one
swarm of bees, with a full ac
count of management, protection
against the moth, etc., the honey
to be on the Fair Ground, and
the quantity duly certified to, pr„ 300
7 est loaf Wheat Bread, prem., 200
8 Best Pound cake, premium, 2 00
9 Best Sponge cake, premium, 2 00
10 Best Fruit cake, do 2 00
11 Best specimen of Biscuit 2 00
12 do of Kolls, 2 00
13 Best loaf corn bread, 1 00
14 Best boiled ham, with skin on,
raised in Bartow county, prem., 3 00
15 Best specimen hard soap, 5 lbs.,
made in the South, 3 00
16 Best specimen soft soap, 5 lbs.,
made in the South, 2 00
]7 Best \ bush, dried peaches peeled 200
18 Best | bush, dried apples peeled, 200
19 Best j bush, dried pears, peeled, 200
20 Best specimen green apples rais
ed in Georgia, 2 00
21 Best specimen green pears, 2 00
22 Best specimen grape wine, 1 gal., 400
23 do blackberry wine, 1 gal. 300
24 do of vinegar, 1 gal., 2 00
25 Best gallon Sorghum, 3 00
26 Best sample sorghum sugar, 3 00
27 Best sack 100 lbs family flour, 5 09
SECTION C CEREALS.
1 Best 50 ears Early Corn, premium, 200
2 do Bread Corn, premium, 500
3 do Yellow Corn, premium, 200
4 Best Bushel White Wheat, premium, 300
5 do Red Wheat, premium, 300
6 do Oats, premium, 3 00
7 do Barley, premium, 3 00
8 do Rye, premium, 3 00
9 do Cornfield Peas, pr’m, 200
10 Best half bushel Ground Peas, pr. 200
11 Best peck White Beans, premium, 100
12 do Timothy Seed, pr’m, 2 00
13 do Clover Seed, Georgia
Raised, premium, 1000
14 do Orchard Grass Seed, pr. 200
SECTION 7 KITCHEN AND GARDEN.
I 1 Best dozen Beets, premium, 1 00
! 2 do Parsnips, premium. 100
! 3 do Carrots, premium, 100
I 4 Best half bushel Turnips, premium, 109
i 5 Best half dozen Cabbage, premium, 100
i 6 Best specimen Celery, premium, 1 00
! 7 Best specimen Tomatoes, premium, 100
j 8 Best peek Onions, premium, 100
i 9 Best gallon Butter Beans, premium, 100
1 10 Best half bushel Irish Potatoes, pr. 1 00
11 Best half bushel Sweet Potatoes, pr. 100
12 Best collection and greatest variety
of Vegetables exhibitid by one in
dividual, not less than ten varieties,
premium, 5 00
SECTION 8— SUNDRIES,
I 1 Best and largest collection of Geor
gia Minerals, premium. 25 00
| 2 Best (bbl.) specimen Lime, Gypsum,
Cement, Pearlash, 2 00
3 Best Bituminous or Anthracite
Coal, Diploma
4 Best Marble Monument, do
5 Best Marble Mantel, do
C Best Marbleized Mantel and Grate, do
7 Best and largest exhibition of Stone
Ware, S2OO
8 Best Specimen Earthen Tile, Diploma
9 Best specimen Fire Brick, do
Second Hay.
SECTION 9 —AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT —
OPEN TO TIIE WOULD.
1 Best combined Thresher and Sepa
rator, Diploma
2 Best Reaping Machine, do
3 Best Mowing Machine, do
4 Best combined Reaper and Mower, do
5 Best Threshing Machine, do
6 Best Corn Sheller, do
7 Best Wheat Fan, do
8 “ Smut Mill, do
9 “ Straw Cutter, do
10 “ Corn Planter, do
11 “ Cotton Planter, do
12 “ W'heat Drill, do
13 “ Guano Distributor, do
14 “ four-horse W’agon for general
use, do
15 “ two-horse Wagon for general
use, do
16 Hay Rake foo general use, do
17 ‘ Clover Seed Gatherer for gen
eral use, do
18 “ two-horse Plow, do
19 “ one-horse Plow, do
20 “ hill-side Plow, do
21 “ subsoil Plow, do
22 “ double shovel Plow, do
23 “ Sulky Plow, do
24 “ cultivator Plow for Corn. do
25 “ cultivator Plow for Cotton. do
26 “ Iron Tooth Harrow, do
27 Best portable cider mill, Diploma.
28 Best Wheelbarrow, premium, $2 00
29 Best Grain Cradle, premium, 2 00
30 Best Grass Scythe with snath, pr, 200
31 Best farm-gate Hinges, premium, 200
32 Best moveable Horse-power, Diplomu
33 Best Cotten Gin, to be tested on
the grounds, Diploma
34 Best Cotton & Hay Press, to be
tested on the grounds, Diploma
35 Best Stocked Plow, premium, $2 00
36 Best aud cheapest plantation
fence, Diploma
37 Best portable plantation Fence, do
38 Best Horse Collar, shuck or bark,
premium. $1 00
39 Best Horse Collar, leather, prem 200
10 Best one-horse Mowing Machine. 500
41 Best Post Augur, Diploma
42 Best Water Drawer, do
43 Best Pump, do
SECTION 10— AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT—
OPEN TO CIIKUCKEE GEORGIA.
1 Best combined Thresher and Sep
arator, premium, $25 00
2 Best Reaping machine 15 00
3 Best Mowing Machine, premium, 10 00
4 Best combim and Reaper and mower 25 00
5 Best Threshing Machine, prem., 10 00
I 6 Best Corn Sheller, premium, 6 00
7 Best Wheat Fan, do. 5 CO
| 8 Best Smut Mill, do 1000
j 9 Best Straw Cutter, do 200
j 10 Best Gern Planter, premium, 5 00
11 Best Cotton Planter, do 500
12 Best AVheat Drill, 20 00
I 13 Best Guano Distributor, prem., 5 00
14 Best 4-horse Wagon for general use, 1000
25 Best 2- do do 6 00 .
16 Best Horse Rake for general use, 500
1< Best Clover Seed Gatherer for
general use, premium, 5 00 I
18 Best 2-horse Plow, prem., 5 00
19 do 1-horse Plow, do 300
20 Best hill-side Plow, prem., 3 00
21 do subsoil riow, do 300
22 do double shoTel plow, prem., 300
23 do Sulky plow, premium. 10 00
24 do Best cultivator Plow for corn, 300
25 do Cultivator Plow for Cotton, 300
Plows to be tested on the Grounds.
26 do Iron Tooth harrow, prem., 300
27 do Portable Cider Mill, do 500
28 do W’heelbarrow, premium, 200
29 do Grain Cradle, do 200
30 do Grass Scythe with snath, pr. 300
31 Best farm-gate Hinges, premium, 200
32 Best moveable Horse-power, 10 00
33 do Cotton Gin, to be tested
on the grounds, jo qq
34 Best Cotton & Hay Press, to be
tested on the grounds, 10 00 I
35 Best Stocked plow, premium, $2 00
36 do and cheapest plantation
fence, 5 00
37 do portable plantation fence 500
38 do Horse Collar, shuck or bark $1 00
39 do Horse Collar, leather, prem., 200
40 do 1-Horse Mowing Machine 10 00
41 do Post Augur, premium, 200
42 do Water Drawer, premium, 500
42 do Pump, premium, 500
SECTION 11— MECHANICAL LEI*A KIM EXT.
1 Best Family Carriage, Southern
made, premium, $5 00
2 do buggy, Southern made, pr 500
3 do Grindstone, complete, prem., 200
4 do display of Tin Ware manu
factured in Cherokee Georgia 300
5 do Cooking Stove, Diploma
6 do Specimen Horse Shoeing, pr. $2 00
7 do side Harness Leather manu
factured in Cherokee, Geo, 2 00
8 do side Sole Leather manufac
tured in Cherokee Geo., 200
9 do side Upper Leather, manufac
tured in Cherokee Georgia 2 00
10 do Calf Skin, manufactured in
Cherokee Georgia, 2 00
11 do set Carriage Harness, manu
factured in Cherokee Geo., 5 00
12 set Buggy Harness, manufao’d
in Cherokee Ga , 5 0q
13 “ set Wagon Harness, do. 300
14 “ Plow for Plantation use, do* 200
15 “ Man’s Saddle manufac'd iu
Cherokee Ga., 600
16 “ Side Saddle, 500
17 “ Riding Bridle, 200
18 ‘* Wagon and Reaping Machine
Harness combined, 3 00
19 “ pair Boots, premium, 300
20 “ pair Lady’s Boots, premium, 200
21 “ pair Gent’s Shoes, premium, 200
22 “ Panel Door, 300
23 “ Window Blinds, 200
24 “ IVindow Sash, 200
25 “ specimen Brooms, J doz., pr’m, 300
26 “ specimen tight Cask, pr’m, 200
27 “ specimen Churn, any style, to
be tested on the grounds, pr’m, 500
28 “ IVashing Maching and Wring
er, (open to the world,) Diploma
29 “ Sewing Machine, do
30 l * Bureau, do
31 *‘ Sofa, do
32 “ Bedstead, do
33 “ set Cottage Chairs, do
34 “ set split-bottom Chairs, do
35 “ Extension Dining Table, do
36 “ Tin or Wire Safe, do
37 “ Kitchen Table, with Shelves
and Drawers, do
38 “ collection of Iron Castings, do
39 “ collection of Wooden Ware, do
40 “ collection Mechanical Tools
by one manufacturer, do
41 “ specimen Bar and Round Iron do
42 “ set Blacksmith’s Tools, do
43 “ Ox Yoke, premium, $2 00
44 Second best Ox Yoke, Diploma
45 Best Sorghum Mill and Fixtures,
for manufacturing Sorghum, Diploma
46 Best Sorghum Mill and Fixtures,
for manufacturing Sugar, Diploma
section 12 —HOGS.
(All premium stock to be owned by «xhibi
itor.)
1 Best Essex, Berkshire, and Chest*r
White Boars, 3 animals, S3O 00
2 Best Essex Boar and Sow, 800
3 “ Berkshire Boar and Sow, 800
4 “ Chester White Boar and Sow, 800
5 “ Hog, mixed or native, 500
SECTION 13 — SHEEP.
1 Best Merino, CotsvAdd, or South
down Buck and Ewes, in pairs, 3000
2 Best Merino Buck, 600
3 “ Cotswold Buck, 600
4 “ Southdown Buck, 600
5 “ Native, any age or breed, 1000
SBCTION 14 FIRE ENGINES.
1 Best Steam Fire Engine, tested
on the ground, Diploma
2 Best Hand Fire Engine, tested on
the ground, Diploma
3 Best Hook and Ladder Equip
ment, Diploma
SECTION 15— SADDLE RINO.
1 Best Saddle Horse, Mare, or Gel
ding, style, form and saddle quali
ties, 4 years old ar.d over, pr’m, 10 OO
2 Second best, premium, 500
SECTION 16— HORSES, GEORGIA RAISED,
1 Best Saddle Horse, 1000
2 Best Buggy Horse, 10 OO
3 Best pair Harness Horses, 20 OO
4 Best 2 and 3 year old Colts, 10 OO
5 Best Colt, 1000
6 Best Suckling, Colt, 500
7 Best Mare, 1000
8 Best Stallion, 1500
SECTION 17— FOR TUB LADIES.
1 Best Horseback Rider, pr’m, IO OO
1 Rest Driver, (Buggy, 1 pr’m, IO OO
Third Day.
SECTION 18— JACKS AND MCLIS.
1 Best Jack, premium, $lO 00
2 do Jennet, do 10 00
3 do Jack 6 years old or over, pr. 10 00
4 do do under 6 years old, prem. 500
5 do do Colt, premium, 300
6 do aged Jeunet, premium, 500
7 do Jennet 3 years old and under, 300
8 do Colt, premium,, 200
MULES.
1 Best Mule, to be tried on the field in
harness, single and double and
in plough, premium, S2O 00
2 Best mule, Colt Geo. raised, prem 500
3 do do 1,2& 3 years each 500
4 do Mule 6 years old and over pr. 500
5 do Mule 3to 6 years prem., over 500
6 do Mule 2 years old and under 3 300
7 do Mule Colt, premium, 200
8 do pair aged Mules, premium, 10 00
9 do pair Mules 3 years and uuder 500
SECTION 19 HARNESS GELDING KINO.
[Made-up teams prohibited; must be two
or more entries.]
1 Best aged Harness Gelding,
Mare, or Stallion, 6
years or over, (in harness,) 10 00
2 Second best, premium, 5 OO
3 Best Harness Gelding, Mare or
Stallion, 3to 6 years old, prem. 10 OO
Second best, premium, 5 00
5 Best Harness Gelding, Mare or
Stallion, under 3 years, prem,, 5 OO
6 Second best, premium, 3 OO
7 Best pair Harness animals, re
gardless of sex, premium, 10 OO
8 Second best, premium, 5 OO
SECTION 20— SCREED RING, (TIME )
[Made up rings prohibited.]
1 Fastest single foot racking or
pacing Stallion, Mare or Geld
ing, twice around the track, in
or out of harness, two or more
entries, premium, $25 OO
2 Second best, two or more en
tries, premium, 10 OO
3 Fastest Trotting Stallion, Mare
or Gelding, twice around the
track, in or out of harness, two
or more entries, premium, 25 OO
4 Second best, two or more entries, 10 OO
5 Fastest trotting Double Team in
harness, twice around the track,
two or more entries, 10 OO
6 Second best, two or more en'ries 500
7 Fastest Racking or Pacing Double
Team, twice around the track in
harness, two or more entries, 10 OO
8 Second beat do., premium, 5 OO
9 For fastest two year old Colt,
twice around the track, uuder
the saddle, two or more entries,
VOL. 13-NO. •
(or in the event of only one ««.
irj then against time, which
will be made known on day of
race,) premium. 25 UQ
SKCTIOS 21— BLOOD *l*o'
[Georgia raised, and pedigree i,<> be exhih*
: ited.]
I 1 B f st fct*lUon 0 years and over. $25 00
!1° o!*}! 10 " Ito1 t 0 6 ye,r ® o,d > p r - °°
3 do Stallion 2to 4 yeare old, pr. IQ OO
4 do aged Mare,premium, 1000
5 do 4to G years old Mare, prom. lO OO
G do 3 years old Filly, premium, gqQ
i do 2 years old Filly, premium, 600
8 do 1 year old Colt, premium, gqq
9 do suckling Colt, premium, jqq
10 do Stallion 4 years and over, pr 40 OO
11 do StallionS do do 20 00
12 do Stallion 2 do do 1500
13 da Stallion 1 do do lO OO
13 do Mare 4 years and over pro 20 OO
14 do Mare 8 do do 15 00
lo do Mare 3 do do lO OO
15 do Colt 1 year old or over, pre. 10 OO
SUCTION 21— UOKSKsroEALJi WDM
1 Best Stallion, aged, premium, siO OO
2 Second best, premium, 4 OO
3 best Stallion, 4 years old, prem 500
4do Stallion, J years old, prem 500
5 do aged Mare, (brood), prem, 5 OO
6do Marc 4 years old, premium, 500
7do l illy 3 years old, premium, 600
Bdo Filly 2 years old, premium, 500
9 do l’one.y 13$ hands or uuder, pr 5 00
10 best Colt 1 year old, premium, 500
11 best suckliug Colt, premium, 5 00
SECTION 22 —SWEEPSTAKES.
Fastest trotting Stallion, Mare or Gel
ding, twice around the track, fire or
moro entries making a ring, Saddle
or Harness, prize B SSOOO
Ist Horse gets a pr’m worth 25 OO
‘i a nd. “ “ 15 00
ou “ «« 1000
Entrauco fee 20 per cent., open to all ex
cept the successful horse in Speed Ring.
SECTION 24 PLOWING HATCH.
1 Best Plowman, premium, $5 00
To come off during the Fair. Ground* will
bo prepared for the some, and entranee
open to Mules, Horses and Oxen. Judge*
to be governed in their awards by the
depth aud width of the furrow, slice tur»-
ed by the plow of each competitor, and the
general perfection of the work, and the
time employed to complete his work.
SECTION 25— CATTLE, THOUODOH mwp
(Owned by exhibitor.)
1 Best Bull, 20 qq
2 “ Cow, 15 qq
3 “ Heifer, 3 years and under, 10 OO
4 “ Bull, 3 years aud under, 1000
o “ Thoroughbred Bull, any
breed, pedigree exhibited, 4
yrs old and upwards, pr’m, 1500
G Second best, premium, SOQ
7 Best thoroughbred Bull, under 4
years old, premium, 1000
8 Second best, premium, 600
9 Best Cow. 4 yrs and upwards, pr. 1000
10 “ Cow under 4 yrs. pr’m, 500
11 “ Bull Calf, premium, 600
12 “ Heifer Calf, premium, 600
13 best calf 3 years and under, pr. 500
MIXED OB NATIVE.
14 Best bull, 3 yrs and over, 1000
15 “ “ 1 and 2 yrs and over, 1000
16 “ “ 1 year and over, 600
17 “ milch cow, to be milked on
ground, 3 yrs and over, 15 00
18 “ heifer, 2 yrs and over, 600
1 9 “ “ 1 yr. and over, 800
20 “ beef, fattened for market, 1000
21 “ pair Oxen, to be worked
on the ground, 15 OO
22 “ Bull, mixed or native, 3 yrs.
and over, pr’m, 15 00
23 Second best, premium, 600
24 Best bull under 3 years, pr’m, 500
25 “ “ premium, 500
26 “ Cow, 3 years and over. IO OO
27 Second best, sqq
28 best Heifer, under 3 years old, 600
29 “ fatted bullock, 10 QO
30 Second best, 500
31 best fatted Cow, 800
32 second best, 3qq
33 best milch Cow, to be milked on
the grounds, 10 OO
34 second best, sqq
35 best pair of Work Oxen, 1 >OO
36 second best, sqq
SECTION 20—PLANTATION AND E ARM
FIELD CROPS.
lLargest Crop of Cotton produced
this year upon one acre of ground,
with the mode of cullivation, the
amount and kind of manure used,
the period of planting, the num
ber of times plowed and hoed, the
kind of cotton, the land to be
measured and the cotton weighed
in the presence of three disinter
ested and reliable witnesses, with
a certificate from them, (yield not
to be less than 500 lbs. lint * per
acre,) premium, S2O OO
2Largest Crop of Corn grown this
year upon one acre of upland and
bottom each, the period of planting,
the mode of cultivation, kind of
corn, times ploughed and hoed,
amount and kind of manure ap
plied, the land and corn measured
in the presence of three disinterest
ed witnesses, with certificates,
premium, 10 OO
3 Largest Crop of Wheat grown up
on one acre ground, the laudand
wheat to be measured under the
same requisition in all things as
above, premium, 1000
4 Largest Crop of Oats of any kind,
specifications as above, per acre,
premium, JO OO
5 Largest Crop of Barley of any
kind, specificitions as above, per
acre, premium, 5 OO
6 Largest Crop of Rye, any kind,
specifications as above, per acre,
premium, 5 OO
7 Largest Crop of Clover, (with
mode of management,) per sere,
premium, 10 00
Exhibitors of all the above crops must
state in writing to the Secretary all the re
quisitions as laid down for cotton, corn,
as above, when the articles arc te be entered
on his books for exhibition, with the wit
nesses certificate for measurement efland,
pounds and bushels per acre, without whisk
the judges will be required to withhold their
awards; and exhibitors not complying with
these requisitions will not be allowed t*
compete for premiums of the Aesoeietien.
SECTION 27—CROPS BY 8018 UNDER 16
YEARS OF AGE.
1 Largest crop of Com grown by
any boy under 16 years of age,
upon an acre of land, premium, 10 OO
2 Largest crop of Cotton grown by
any boy under 16 years of age,
upon an acre of land, premium, IO OO
The rules of field crops to be complied with.
SECTION 28 —SAMPLE FIELD CROPS THIS
YEAR.
1 best bale of Cotton not less than
450 lbs., premium, $5 OO
2 best bale of Clover Hay, prem , 5 OO
3 do of Timothy Hay, prem 500
4 do of native Grass Hay, pr, 500
5 do of Pea-vine Hay, prem 500
SECTION 29— BURLESQUE TOURNAMENT.
After Premiums are awarded on the
fourth day, the exhibition will be continued
with a Grand burlesque Tournament. En
trance fee $lO, Ist Prize, S3O; 2d Prise,
S2O ; five or more to ride.
GRAND SPEED RING FOR MULES.
OPEN TO ALL MULKS, REGARDIJtSS OP AGR
OR SEX.
A Silver Cup worth $5 00, to be award,
ed to the slowest mule. No one allowed te
ride his own mule.
Note.— As many articles of merit ia the
various departments not especially provided
for in the Premium List may be presented
for Exhibition and premium, it i« attuoune
ed that a Committee on Miscellaaeoue Ar
ticles will be appointed, to examine and re
port upon and recommend premiume, open
all such articles worthy of premiume.
The second best of any article or animal
not otherwise provided for, will receive a
Diploma.
The Knights of Cartersvillc are invited
to make the necessary arrangement* far a
Tournament, to come off during the Exhi
bition.
A copy of thq Premium List will be eaat
to any one desiring it, upon application.
For further particular* or information,
address FRANCIS FONTAINE,
Secretary,
Curteraville, Ga-
Auctioneer will be appointed when the
occasion requires.