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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
By S. H. SMITH & CO.]
Professional ami linsincss *
I——- —moBJiS w. MiLxn:
WOFFORD & MILNER,
at law,
(VItTURSYILLE, GA.
. p ~p stairs, Bank Block.
/ J * * 1 SJ-5-ts.
/■i G. TL'MLUii
(j. *
ATTORNEY AT LA W ,
CARTERSVILLE, OA.
Oflicc OW the Bank.
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ATTOII Ni; Y A T LA W ,
• CABtETtJfVILLE, GA,
l \V ill ]>r;u lice in the counties comprising tbe
v hcrokea Circuit, office over l.iehiuan’»store.
| > W. MU Kill GY,
A T*T OItNEY A T LA W ,
CARTERSViLI.E, 6.\.
Will practice In the courts oCtlic Cherokee
( in-nit. Particular attention given to Ike col>
< <•lii.il oiviaiiil-. OJll.e with Col. Alula John*
Oct. 1.
i’. wo/t<>ia>,
ATTOIt NK Y A T LAA\ .
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE in Court-House- jan 20
»f7 POCTTE,
A TTO It NE Y A T LA\V ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA
( With (Li- Wiirrrn Akin,)
W 1,1 practice in Ine courts of Bartow, Court.
Polk 1 lovil, Gordon, Murray, IN liitlleld an.l iwl
Joining counties. 30.
nrARREN A KIN,
ATTORKEY A T LAW
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts of the State.
11 li. McUANIEL,
J.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’»- >
, O. TRAMMELL.
ATTO RN E Y A T LA W ,
CARTF.USVILL.3, GA
OFFICE W. Main St., next door to Standard
.V Express Office. Felt. 15,lfH3~wly.
rjjl II OM A S W . I) oI)I* ,
ATTO R N E Y AT LA\V ,
OAUTERSVILLK, GEORGIA.
(vFFICE over the Bank.
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CIN. wTt. WOFFRD. J No. 11. WIRES.
Woflorcl dbs VirilAlo,
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW,
ANI)
Real list n ft* Agents,
Carters! illc, On.
: I'KCT A L ATTENTION pivdn lo the pur
r.lia- e and sale of Beal Estate. -28-Orni.
Dental Card.
f |IHK undersigned, a practical dentist of 18
I year, experience, hav iug purchesed Prop
erty and located pci matieiitly in the city of
< artersy hie,tvtll rniittrme tho practice In rooms
opposite tlio-e ol Wofford ,V Mil in the new
building adjoining the Bank. With experience
and application to mv profession, charges al
ways reasonable and just, 1 hope to merit the
patronage of a generous public.
oilire hours, from November Ist proximo, 8 to
P 2 A. M., Sto 5 I’. M. Sabbaths excepted. Culls
answered at residence, opposito Baptist ehnrt-h.
It. A. SEALE,
10-1; if Surgeon Dentist.
DR. J. A. JACKSON,
PRACTICING PHISUIAX AND SIRGEON.
/ \FFIOEtn W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next
\/ door to Stokcly & Williams’. oet‘27
DU. C'HAS. D’ALVIGNy,
, ,3if-
Jp"
i> e rs T t is t ,
Cartersvilks Gjt.
SPECIAL ATTF.NTK'iX’given to children's
teeth.
8-15— '
W. R. MounlfasUo,
Tonvplgt and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CAKTEUSVXLLK, GEORGIA.
\>ilice in trout of A. A. skinner & Co’s Stove.
THE AMERICAN HOTEL,
ATLANTA. OEOItOIA,
Having l>een thoroughly- repaired aiul refur
iu*UeiL nit now, is now open Vo
B O A R. 33 33 XL
AND
TUAWSiENS COMPANY,
JOHN C. M.YKTIX, l’roprietof.
.1. A\ . DYlitt,
'OUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL
PAINTER,
• TILT. <lo CHAINING in Oak, Walnut,
fV Itir.t-.’-eye Maple, satin Wood, Malioga
:m ii: • ■ '■ ■!.
'Also, 1 >1 IT \ fION of the different marLlos.
Sienna, I ' • i. and Gold, St., Ain’s, Vev.l An
iline, r.gvi i .a Green, Uotigc Hoi.,ltalian.)as
„'r, Dove, i.l'k ltardilla, Derbyshire Spin 1 , and
iranites.
Returns his thanks to the eitizcnsof Carters
ille and vicinity, for past favors, and holies
.hat by a srriet attention to his profession to
merit a continuance of their patronage.
IVI .v. -1 y.
w. u. lion;, jno. v. leigh, mii. ucctrux
HOPE, LEIGH & CO., J
Sucre* sorsjp Tamell, Leigh & Cos., |
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
FOOT OF MARKET STItF.ET,
t HATT*UrOOG.3, TEJt'A\
Prompt attention tu. Orders and Cush -Ad
vances oa Consignments.
Refer to Messrs. Satterfield, Pyrou & Cos., Cos.,
AV, AV. AVhite, .T. C. AVofford.
Special reference to Hanks of Cliattauooga. ,
«20-6 m/■ |-|*|||%
HOL L Y
STEAM FLOURING MILLS,
Cartersville, Ga.,
| hoen enlarged and improved with
increased p rinding capacity, will now com
mence grinding for the Pt'lll.lc for - the nsiiiaV
ton. A good yield guaranteed and satisfaction
given. Farmers, brin tin your grain, and we
Avill grind it promptly.
The AliU will rnn every day In the week,
EXCEPT HONDA A'.
FLOUR and MEAL On hand and for sale
as heretofore.
Highest price paid for WHEAT and COHN.
i. C. MANSFIELD & CO.
July 19,19T*
I A'lus pDrivullc i Modi like * warranted not to
! contain a single particle of MfKcntv, or any
i trtjitrious miner at oob»tanee, but is
PURELY VEGETABLE.
For FDB’l’l 1 l.Alka it Jins proved H- great
value in all di»en*** of the Myck. Bowulh and
KI dm;V s. Thousand* oi the good and great in
all parts of the country vouch for its wonderful
and peculiar power in purifying the Blood,
stimiilatiag tin; torpid Liver amt bowel-, amt
imparting new life and vigor to the u lioit sys
tem. Simmons’ Liver Regulator i- acknowl
edged to have no cquul m a
LIVER MEDICINE.
It contains four medical elements, never l>e
fore uoiicd in the -tme happy proportion in
an\ i.il, i j,m n:uion; viz. : a gentle Cathartic,
a wonderful Tonic, an unexceptionable Alter
ative, and a certain I • o-reetive of at 1 impurities
of the body, such signal success lias attended
it- nave tmgmrmsil u* tit«
GREAT UNFAILING SPECI
FIC
for User Complaint and tho painful offspring
thereof, to wit: Dyspepgln, Lon-tipation, Jaun
dice, LiUions attacks, .■side Headache. Colic,
Depression of >piril , .-sour Stomach, Heart
Burn, it e,, A c.
Begitlate the Liver and prevent
CHILLS AND FEVER.
Simmons’ Liver Regulator
J. H. ZEILIN & Cos.,
MACON, GA., AMD PHILADELPHIA,
Price sl. pr package; sent by mail, postage fluid
$1.2.". Prepared ready for use in bottles, $1.50.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
4©"‘ Beware of all Counterfeits and Imitations
Gilbert & Baxter,
HARDWARE & IRON STORE,
Agent- fer sale of Fertilizers. Agricultural
and Mill Machinery, Engines, Grist, Saw and
Sorghum Mills, Reapers and Mowers, Thresh
ers and Sepmnters, Horse Powers, etc. For
goods on Commission, at Manufacturers’ terms
and prices. For our own goods. Terms Cash.
march SH-lv
STERLING
SILVER-WARE.
SIIAIM > & FLOYI >
No. I».i Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA.
Specialty,
Sterling l Silver-Ware.
Special attention Is requested to the many
new and elegant pieces manufactured express
ly to mir order the past year, and quite recently
completed.
An unusually attraclive a-.-ortmeutofnovel
ies in Fancy ,-diver, cased for Wedding and
Holiday present., of a medium and expensiv
character.
The House wc represent manufacture on an
unparalleled scale, employing on sterling sil .
ver-Warc alone over One Hundred skilled
hands, the mo lt accomplished talent in Design
ing, and the best Labor-saving Mach inary, en
abling them lo produce works of the highest
character, at price I’N’A ITI’O.YCHKD by any
competition. Our stock at present is the lar
gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia
Au examination of our stock and prices will
guarantee our sales.
OUR HOUSS USE ONLY
925
Dillilyll STERLING,
11)00
siul—tf
SoietMDi to lie ConsideretL
Cum petition is suM'tO liotlio life orinisinass
but■ there i* another element cqally ns essen
tial, which in promptne-.*. The former, at
present, is flourishing, but tho latter is rather
a low ol,]». All who are in favor of this latter
ter element being revived—wc mean those who
are entitled to exercise tlie right—will mani
fest it by coming forward and paying up their
notes and accounts due the undersigned.
The truth of the business is, we neeiT onr
money, and hope all tlicso indebted to us will
call and settle up without further notice.
11 -7- tr. x. t; r lreatu x sox.
NOTICE^ ~
Those indebted to me up to November Ist are
requested to settle immediately. Relieve me
M«o>we ! I NEED MONEY !
11-7-ts. J. T. OWEN.
PUNTERS'& MINERS’ BANK
CARTERSVILIiE, GEORGIA,
ORGANIZED JUNE, 1872.
DIRECTORS:
LEWIS TI MLIN, J. J. HOWARD,
M. G. DOBBINS. JAS. \V. BALL,
B. J. WILSON.
M. Ct. DOBBINS President,
D. W. K, PEACOCK, Cashier.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. SIOO,OOO.
in 9 £50,000
mins Bank will do a regular discount and
1. exchange business; will receive deposits
ot money lroui Courts, Tublie Institutions,-Ad
ministrators, Guardians and private individu
als of all professions, payable at rail or on time
certificates of Deposit, and allow such interest
as may be agreed upon. Collections a specialty
CARTERSVILLE
IVIALE HIGH SCHOOL.
The Exercises of this Institution will com
mence August sth, to continue four months.
For. particulars apply to
0-ffi-lin. It. .JOHNSTON, I'niN'Cii'ii..
SHEPARD, BALDWIN & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
LIQUORS and TOBACCOS,
N 11 Decatur Street,
Opposite Kimball House,
ATLANTA, CEORCIA.
sept 2il, 1873-wly
BOARDING.
WI7J: HAVE seemed the elegant Brick
1 t Mansion of Col. .lame- M. ( ailioun on
tho eonirr of Alalwmaand Washington streets,
to entertain Boarder*, and would lie thankful
for such patronage as we may merit.
Mila. N. J. CO EE,
MltS. M. E. HAV.
29-1 . Atlanta, Ga.
COTTON CROP OF 1812.
~g J, HOWARD tenders the use of his
J •
NEW COTTO GIN
rtm bv WATER POWER, to the public and
li is,file nils, and will GIN COTTON at tbe cus
tomary rates of tlie country. Will furnish
Bagging and Ties at Csirteisrilie prices to all
customers, lie will run day and night if nee
cssary, and will pack on the celebrated Brook*’
Press”. The Gin is located between theCassville
Road ami the road leading to Mr. Baxter’s,
one anil one-quarter biiles from town. Good
roads leading from both public roads to tho
Gin. Give this neiv, celebrated Water Gin a
trial. J. J. HOWARD.
r. S.—Foil Salk.—One good second-hand
Griswold Gin and all the running gear in
complete order; also an Utley Press will be
sold on h credit until Ist .January, l«7ti.
B-W-lm, J, J. HOWARD.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER W, 187*.
THE t.KOBLIi LELISLiTttE
IIESATOBS.
First District—R E Lester.
Second District—ll W Mattox,
j Third District—J C Nicho!*.
Fourth District—J M Arnow.
Fifth District—M Kirkland.
Sixth District—John D Knigbt.
Seventh District—W L Clarke.
Eighth District—D F Brinberry, RaJ.
Ninth District —Reuben Jones.
Tenth District—VV A Harris.
Eleventh District—L C lIoyL
Twelfth District- J E Garter.
Thirteenth District—R G Black.
Fourteenth District—C C Kibbee.
Fifteenth District—D VV Cameron.
Sixteenth District—J i Roberson.
Seventeenth District—J S Cone.
Eighteenth District—J G Cain.
Nineteenth District—Columbus Heard’
Twentieth District—John A Gilmore.
Twenty-first District—J B Deveaux, col.
Twenty-second District —Thos J Sim
mons.
Twenty-third District—l II Anderson,
col-
Twcnty-fonrth District—B II Crawford,
Twciity-fifth District—W P Maddox.
Twenty-sixth District—W W Mathews,
Twenty-seventh District—E Steadman.
Twenty-eighth District—J W Hudson.
Twenty-ninth District—W M Reese.
Thirtieth District.—Robert Hester.
Thirty-first District—VV S Erwin.
Thirty-second District—W II McAfee.
Thirty-third District—M Van Estes.
Thirty-fourth District—Samuel J Winn.
Thirty-fifth District—G Ilillyer.
Thirty-sixth District—George L Peavy.
Thirty-seventh District—G W Reddy.
Thirty-eighth District—J A Illance.
Thirty-ninth District—J F Brown.
Fortieth District—H W Gannon.
Forty-first District—J A Jervis.
Forty-second District—John W Wofford.
Forty-third District—L N Trammell.
Forty-Fourth "District—W II Payne,
RKPRKSENTATIVKS.
Appling—Sellers Lee.
Baker—YVm II Hargard.
Baldwin—Wm M Williamson.
Banks—James J Turnbull.
Bartow—Thomas II Baker, Thomas Tum
lin.
Berrien—Wm II Snead.
Bibb—C A Nutting, A 0 Bacon, A M
Locket.
Brooks—J H Hunter.
Bryan—llenry E Smith.
Bullock—Robert DeLoach.
Burke—J A Shewmake, J B Jones, II C
Glisson.
Butts—M V McKibbin.
Calhoun—Thos J Dunn.
Camden—Ray Tompkins.
Campbell—Thos M Latham.
Carroll—Benjamin N Long, Rad.
Catoosa—Nathan Lowe.
Charlton—Geo VV Roberts.
Chatham —T R Mills, Jr, G .V Mercer, A
G McArthur.
Chattahoochee—J M Cook.
Chattooga—Robert W Jones.
Cherokee—W A 'Beasley.
Clark—ll II Carlton, Frank Jackson.
Clay—John B Johnson.
Clayton—LC Hutcherson.
Clinch—Joseph Sirmons.
Cobb—W D Anderson, J D Blackwell, j
Coffee—John Lott.
Columbia—Simmons C Lamkin, Wm Me- j
Lean.
Colquit—John Tucker.
Coweta —A Moses, Auselin Leigh.
Crawford—.l W Ellis.
Dade—
Dawson—Samuel N Fowler, Rad.
Decatur—T A Swearingen, A Nicholson
Rads.
DeKalb—Samuel C Masters.
Dodge—James M Buchan.
Dooley—Hiram Williams.
Dougherty—Win 1! Gilbert, Thomas R
Lyon.
Douglas—F M Duncan.
Early—lt O Dunlap.
Echols—lt W Phillips.
Effirngham—C F Foy
Elbert—J L Heard.
Emanuel—Green B Spence.
Fannin Duggar.
Fayette—lt T Dorsey.
Floyd—John R lowers, Fielding Higlit.
Forsyth—Robert A Eakes.
Franklin—R D Yow.
Fulton—C Howell, W L Calhoun, E F
lEoge.
Gilmer—N L Osborne.
Glasscock—Abraham Brasscll, negro.
Green—i-G II Thompson, Jack Heard, ne- |
groes.
Gordon—R M Young.
Gwinnett—James W Baxter, B A Blake
ly-
Habersham—James H Grant.
Hall—Allen D Candler.
Hancock—George F Pierce, Jr, John I.
Culver.
Harralson—lt 11. Ilutcliorson
Harris—John V/ Murpliey, Flynn liar I
gett.
Hart—Moses A Duncan, Rad.
Heard—M C Summerlin.
Henry—Elijah Morris.
Houston —G M T Fagin, VV A Mathew,
C II Richardson.
Irwin—Jacob Dorminy.
Jackson—Greene R Duke.
Jasper-x Lucius B Newton.
Jefferson—Marcus A Evans, James Staple
ton.
Johnson—Robert J Hightower.
Jones—Charles A Hamilton.
Laurens —JolinT Duncan’
T ce—ll 13 Lipsey, W F Sadler.
Liberty—llendley F Home.
Lincoln—W D Tutt.
Lowndes—Joseph A Ousley.
Lumpkin—M F Wkelcliel.
Macon—Leroy M. Felton, William II Wil
lis.
Madison —John F Kirk.
Marion —Edgar M Butt.
McDuffie—Alfred E Sturgis,
Mclntosh—T G Campbell, Jr, negro.
Meriwether —Jolmß Roper, 11 A L Free
man
Miller—lsaac A Bush.
Milton—A S Bell.
Mitchell—John B Twitty.
Monroe—Wm J Dumas, A II Shi.
Montgomery—John Mcßae.
Morgan—Seaborn lteese, James G Bost
wick.
Murray—l3'F Wofford.
Muscogee—John Peabody, Thos J Watt, j
Newton—A B Simms, W F Davis.
Oglethorpe—J T Hurt, Willis M Willing
ham,
Paulding—Robert Trammell.
Pickens—A P Loveless, Rad.
Pierce—B D Brantley.
Pike—John 11 Jenkins.
Polk—E D Hightower.
Pulaski—T J Bankwell, C II Colding.
Putnam—Wm F Jenkins.
Quitman —llenry M Kaigler.
Rabun--
Randolph—Wm Colman, Charles A Har
ris. .
Richmond—W A Clarke, P Walsh, II C
Foster.
Rockdale--James A Stewart.
Schley*—C B Hudson.
Screven —John C Dell.
Spalding—William M Blanton.
Stewart— Win VV Fitzgerald, John II
Lowe.
Sumter—Allen Fort, James II Black.
Talbot—Roland M Willis, Cliartes B
Leitner.
Taliaferro—Samuel J Flynt.
Taflnall—George M Edwards.
Taylor—Bennet Stewart.
Telfair-T J Smith.
Terrell—W Kaigler.
Thomas—A Fred Atkinson, Jasper Bat
tle, col.
Towns--Judge G Stephens.
Troup —Francis M Longley, John L Hill.
Twiggs—William Griffin, Rad.
Cnion—Marion Williams.
Upson— F F Mathews.
Walker—J C Clements.
Walton—Henry D McDaniel.
Ware---John II Cason.
Warren--C S Dußose, T N Poole.
Washington—l 1 R Taliaferro, W G Mc-
Bride.
Wayne—Daniel llopps.
Webster--.lohn P Beaty.
White—A Merritt.
Wilcox -George P Reid
Wilkes—Thomas A Barksdale, John W
Mattox.
Wilkinson—W C Adams.
Whitfield—Jackson Rogers.
Worth--Dugal MeLellau.
COTTON FACTORIES AT THE
SOUTH.
Aieex, S. C., November, 1872.
Julitor of the N. Y. Journal of Com
merce:
It is astonishiug that the success
of the few cotton factories at the
South since the war has not induced
capitalists from abroad to increase the
number.
From the reports of the President
of the Grnuiteville Mills (five miles
distant from Aiken) for the years
18G8, 1869 and 1870, I collect the fol
lowing figures, and I learn that the
report for tli3 past year was still more
favorable.
The machinery of this mill at the ex
piration of the year consisted of 9,120
spindles and 337 looms, worn out,
and its capital was injudiciously in
creased from $169,000 to $716,500. —
Yet, notwithstanding this great dis
parity between capital and spindles,
the exhibit develops the fact it has re
newed the greater part of its machin
ery, increasing its spindles to 24,000 ,
and its looms 570, and the productive j
capacity from 60,000 to 175,000 yards
per week, besides new houses for op
eratives and other improvements, ana
all this without stopping dividends
or assessing the stockholders. In
1866 the oompany was owing $156,-
000, most of it bearing interest at 12
per cent., while in 1871 the surplus
was $187,000.
In the year ending March 1, 1871,
3,080,123 pounds of cotton was con
sumed at an average cost of 17.13
cents per pound, producing:
Yards.
3,444,076 4-4 sheetiug.
2,722,080 7-8 sheeting.
1,221,419 7-8 driling.
1,567,300 3-4 sheeting
8,954,875 at au average of 8.02
cents per yard.
Total gross profits for the year
Less expenses $45,554 38
Dividends paid 57,320 00
Carried to surplus fund. .$104,561 71
Balance to credit of surplus
fund 82,069 77
Total $17,63148
At a meeting of tho stockholders
in the spring of 1872, the President
proposed to double the capsicity of
the mill the three years, and yet pay
a dividend of ton per cent, per an
num.
Can any Northern factory make u
better exhibit? The cotton mills of
Augusta and Columbus, Georgia, are
doing proportionately well.
The Augusta mills, with a capital
stock of $600,000, had in 1870 $400,-
000 as a surplus fund, and commer
cial (vipit’ll after ptiying quarterly
dr. idciids ui spii cent., or 20 per
. cut. per annum.
It has been practically demonstra
ted that cotton can be spun into yarns
at the South for five cents per pound
cheaper than it can be spun in Old or
New England; consequently a proper
ly conducted mill could make live
cents on each pound of yarn more than
Northern factories, which are and
have been enriching their stockholders
and peopling with teeming thousands
tho rocky hills of the East.
I would call particular attention to
the following extract from a report
made by Colonel J. 15. Palmer, Presi
dent of the Saluda Cotton MilD, in
1869:
I support these positions by the
following statement of actual cost of
manufacturing at the Saluda Mills, as
shown by our books.
It must be recollected that we have
employed, in the manufacture of No.
20 yarns, only 4 000 spindles ( Jenks
ring travelers). Os course, a greater
number of spindles, of the production
of yarns of a lower number, would
ensue a less cost per pound.
Labor —Superintendent, 37
cents; spinning, 76 cents; reel
ing 75 cents $2 44.
Repairs—Labor and materials 22.
Packing, building, &c—Labor
and materials 58.
General expenses-Watck, 13 cents;
hauling, 32 cents; findings, 20
cents; oil, 15 cents; salaries 64
cents;miscellaneous, 56 cents.. 200
Aikl-Loss by waste, 450.1b5. cot
ton, costing S9O, making but
400 lbs. yarn 2 50
Ten per cent, for wear and tear
of machinery, charged to pro
duction, per lb 1 26
Total cost of manufacturing $9 90
Cost of cotton 20 00
Freight and insurance to New
York or Philadelphia 80
Cost per 100 lb. of Southern vara
No. 20, delivered in New York
The very lowest estimates I have
seen of the cost of manufactur
ing at the North places like ex
penses of manufacturing at per
100 lbs $lO 24
Loss by waste-Cotton at 20 cents
in Columbia would be 221 cents
in New York; 450 lbs. would
cost slOl 25, making 400 lbs.
yarn 2 81
Ten per cent, for wear and tear
of machinery 1 26
sl4 31
Add cost of cotton 22 50
Cost of No. 20 yarns made
North $36 81
Showing a difference in favor of
the South of 7 01
Deduct commission, carriage, &c. 2 01
And we have a net profit of 5 cents
per pound to the Southern manufac
turer, provided he sells at the cost of
Northern production.
A manufacturer of cotton yarns
from Manchester, England, after look
ing at our books, told me that we
manufacture cheaper than they did by
about the difference in value of our
currency and gold—that is to say, 4|
cents pei’ pound.
Among the advantages enjoyed by
the South over the North, in manu
facturing cotton, may be enumerated
the following:
1. Here the raw material is pro
duced, and by working it here various
expenses incidental to its transporta
tion could be saved—such as profits
made by those who invest capital,
time and labor iu moving it from
place to place, insurance during trans
portation, loss by samplings aud steal
ages from the bales.
2. Experts claim that in our warm
Southern clime cotton works to bet
ter advantage, some estimating this
advantage as high as ten per cent.
2. Reclamation on false-packed and
damaged cotton is direct and easy.
4. Freights on manufactured goods
are less iu proportion than on bulky
i and hazardous bales of cotton. —
Yarns can be delivered in New York,
from this vicinity for 60 to 80 cents
| per cwt.
5. Abundaut supply of operative
labor at low rates and consequent ex
emption from strikes. Northern su
perintendents of Southern mills ad
mit the superiority of our factory
hands (white) sjad the eaee with
which they are ©ontrolled. The ave
rage wages paid at the Saluda Kills
is $142 82 per annum.
6. The mildness of the climate en
ables the operatives to enjoy a larger
proportion of comforts on a given
amount of wages. Ia cold climates
a larger proportion ol carbonaceous
fooil, nor do the houses for operatives
, require to be so expensive as In colli
er regions. Lumber of the best kinds
cost only sl2 to sls per M. The
short winters require less fuel. Land
ia cheap, and each household can
oave its garden, cows aud pigs.
7. There is a homo demand for
goods—the larger couutry stores keep
supplies of yarn for salt ns regularly
as they do sheetings.
8. By purchasing seed cotton from
the planters and ginning it as the cot
ton is in a better condition 'or work
ing than after it bos been compressed
into bales, and after it has been com
pressed into bales, aud the expense of
packing the cotton, bagging, ties and
handling would be saved, as well as
well as the expense of rauniug it
through the picker. The w&steage
cotton undergoes in different ways
has been estimated at one-tenth of
the bale.
The Langley Mills, ten miles from
Aiken, were exempted by an Act of
the Legislature from taxation for a
term of years, and as there is a dispo
sition to encourage manufactures, a
like immunity would be granted to
other companies.
The remarkable healthfuluess of
this sand hill region is not«d far and
wide. For years Aiken has been, not
only a resort for Northern invalids in
winter, but also a retreat for the citi
zens of the Southern coast regipus in
summer. Situated among the piues
iu tho heart of the “coitou region,”
aud in close proximity to Augusta,
the largest interior cotton market, and
connected by rail with Charleston,
one of tho best Southern sea-ports,
this neighborhood is a favorable point
for the location of factories. The pre
eminent success of the Augusta, Gran
iteville and Langley Mills warrants
the opinion that other mills would
prove successful.
Could the entire crop of cottou be
converted into yarns at the South and
shipped abroad iu that form it would
add $150,000,000 aunually to the
wealth of this portion of the Uuited
States. Foreign mills would adapt
their machinery to working up the
yarns instead of the raw cotton. If
but one quarter of the crop could be
thus converted it would be a great
blessing to this couutry, aud enable
numbers of womeu and children who
are now dependent on others to sup
port themselves.
five-minutes chat with
GIRLS. ,
The preacher will assure you, nays
Dio. Lewis, that love to your God
aud to your fellow-man is all there is
of it. And yet ho goes on preaching
aud exhortiug all his life.
So I assure you that the laws of
health are few and simple, and vet I
have gone on preaching aud exhor
ting for thirty years and shall keep it
up as long as I live.
Girls, the great obstacle in the way
of your health and happiness is what
we have been talking about all our
lives —viz: shivery to custom or fash
ion. To illustrate it for the tkousauth
time, I will relate a fact.
Years ago I sailed from New York
on board the staunch old Cunarder
Africa, bound for Liverpool. Among
our passengers were some newly-mar
ried couples. One of them was from
Philadelphia. The bride waa a deli
cate aud beautiful girl.
My state-room joined theirs. Wo
were scarcely out of the harbor be
fore the lady began to vomit. During
the entire voyage her sufferings were
dreadful. The ship’s physician real
ly became alarmed. A friend happen
ed to cull me Doctor in the presence
of the young husband, when ho ea
gerly inquired.
“Are you a physician?”
“I said yes.”
“Do come and see my wife, and for
mercy’s sake try and save her.”
We did everything in our power,
but the sensitive brain would not be
appeased and the retching aud fain
ting continued until she was carried
out of tho ship at Liverpool, more
dead than alive.
Two mouths after landing I hoard
this beautiful, bright young woman
describing, to a group of admiring
friends, in a Parisian hotel, the spleu>
dors of a sea-voyage.
“Oh, it is magnificent!— the sea in
a «torm —the wild mountain-waves
crested everywhere with foam. OLi,
that sea in a storm is perfectly glori
ous !”
The poor child had hoard fashion
able people make such exclamations,
as she had seen them wear absurd
drss; as she had heard them talk ab
surd nonsense; as she had seen them
walk and wiggle aud giggle in au un
natural and ridiculous manner. She,
like too many girls, had aspirations
for recognition among the fashionable.
So, from her close little state room
lying ilat on her back, retching and
vomiting, fainting and dying, she saw
the magnificent, glorious, foam cap
ped waves.’’
Ah girls, if you could rise above
such weakness, if you could only
think and feel, dressfand walk, speak
and act, for yourselves, what an im
mense gain in all ways! How much
you could help us in a higher life!
Last Sunday a worthy father of a
numerous family was taking one of
his little on*es, & child of eight years,
to church. On the way the little fel
low met a playmate, and stopped to
play marbles. A quarter of au hour
after, his father saw him coming to
him bathed in tears. “What is the
matter,” he asked? “Papa, I have
lost all my marbles.” “Os course ;
God punishes you for not going to
church.” “But, papa, neither did
Joseph go, and ho has won.’’
A country deacon was called in by
a colored family to make a few re
marks at the funeral of their sou, in
the absence of the only clergyman in
tho place. The weeping friends were
seated about tbe room, when he arose'
and said: “It’s pretty bad; but if I
were you I vyoulden’t taka on so. It’s
all for the best. S’pose he’d lived
aud growed up to be a fat, healthy
boy —why he’ never be nothing but a
nigger, anyhow!’’
1 A GOOD STORY, THOUGH NOT
NEW.
One winter ovening a country store
keeper in the Green Mountain State
was about closmc up for the night,
and while standing in the snow out
side putting up the window
saw through the glass a lounging,
worthless fellow within grab a pound
of fresh butter from the shelf aud cou
oeal it iu his but.
The act was no sooner detected
than the revenge wan hit upuo, and
a very few minutes found the Green
Mountain storekeeper at once indulg
ing his appetite for fun to the fullest
extent, and paying off the thief with a
facetious sort of torture, for which he
would hare gained a premium from
the old Inquisition.
I say, Seth, said the storekeeper,
coming in and dosing the door after
him, slapping his hand over his shoul
ders and stamping the snow off’ bis
feet.
Seth had his hand on the door, his
hat on his head, and tbe roil of batter
in his hat, anxious to make his exi t as
soon as possible.
I say, Seth, ait down; £ reckon, now,
on such a cold night as this, a little
something warm would not hurt a fel
low.
Seth felt very uncertain; he had the
butter, and was exceeding anxious
to be off; but the temptation of some
thing warm sadly interfered with his
resolution to go. This hesitation,
however, was soon settled by the right
owner of the butter taking Seth by
the shoulders and planting him in a
seat close to the stove, where he was
in such a manner cornered in by the
boxes and barrels that, while the gro
cer stood before him, there was no
possibility of getting out, and right in
this very place, sure enough, the gro
cer sat down.
Soil), wo will have a little warm
Santa Cruz, said the Green Mountain
grocer; so he opened the stove door
and stuffed iu as many sticks as the
place would admit; without it you
would freeze going home such a night
as this.
Seth already felt the butter settling
down closer to his hair, and ho jumped
up, declaring he must go.
Not till you have something warm,
Seth. Come, I have a story to tell
you, and Soth was again rushed into
his seat by his cunning tormentor.
Oh! it is so hot here, said the thief,
attempting to rise.
Sit down, don’t be iu a hurry, re
torted the grocer, pushing him back
into his chair.
But I have the cows to feed, aud
the wood to split, aud I must be go
ing, suid tho persecuted chap.
But you mustn’t tear yourself away
in this manner. Sit down; let the
cows take care of themselves, and
keep yourself cool; you appear to be a
little fidgety, said tho roguish grocer,
with a wicked leer.
The next thing was tho production
of two smoking glasses of het toddy,
the very sight of which, in Seth’s pres
ent situation, would have made the
hair stand erect upon his head had it
not been well oiled and kept down by
the butter.
Seth, I will give you a toast, now,
aud you can butter it yourself, said
tho grocer, with an air of such con
summate simplicity that poor Seth
believed himself unsuspected. Seth,
here is a Christmas gcojo, well roast
ed, eh ? And Seth, don’t you use hog’s
fat, or common cooking butter to baste
it with; come, take your butter—l
me»o, Seth, your toddy.
poor Seth now began to smoko as
well as melt, and his mouth was lier
nietrically sealed up as though he had
beeu born dumb. Streak after streak
of tbe butter came pouring from un
der bis bat, and his handkerchief was
already soaked with the greasy over
flow. Talking away as if nothing was
the matter,' the fun loving grocer kept
poking wood into the stove, while poor
Seth sat upright with his back against
the counter aud his knees almost
touching the red hot furnace before
him.
Co\d night this, said the groce I ’.
Why, Seth, you seem to perspire as if
you wore warm. Why don’t you take
off your hat? Heie, let ine put your
hat away.
No, exclaimed poor Seth, at last.—
No, I must go; let me out, 1 aiut well,
let me go?
A greasy cataract was pouring down
tbe poor man’s face and neck, and
soaking into his clothes, aud trickling
down bis body into his boots, so that
be was litteily in a perfect bath of oil.
Well, good night, Seth said the hu
morous Vermonter. if you will go; and
added, as he darted out at the door—
I say, Seth, I reckon the fun I have
had out of you is worth niuopenco, so
I skant charge you for that pound of
butter- in your hut.
“What are you about, my dear?’
said a grandmother to a little boy, who
was idling about the room, and cast
ing fur five glances at a gentleman
who was paying a visit. “I’m trying
to steal papa’s hat out of the room
without letting the gentleman see it,
for papa wants him to think ho’s out.’
Tux Roll Call « Hl.ivlN.-Ad inci
dent is related by a Chaplain who
was in the army during a hard fought
battle. The hospital tent had been
filled np fast, the wounded men had
beeu brought to the rear. Among
their number was a young man who
had been mortally wounded, and not
able to speak. It was near midnight,
and many a loved one from their
homes lay sleeping upon the buttle
field that knows no waking until
Jeeus shall cull them.
The surgeons had baen on their
ronnds of duty, aud for a moment all
was quiet. Suddenly this young man,
before speechless, calls in a clear, dis
tinct voice:
“Here!”
The surgeou hastened to his side
and a*ked what he wished.
“Nothing,” he said; “they were cal
ling the roll iu Heaven, and I answer
ed to my name.”
He turned his head aud was gone
—gone to joiu tho great army whose
uniforih is washed white in the blood
of the Lamb.
Reader, iu the great roll-call of
Eternity, when your name shall be
called can you answor “Hare!” Are
you one of the soldiers of Christ, Cap
tain of our Salvation?”
A. Boston gentleman who could not
waltz, offered a young lady SIOO if
shs would let him hug her as much as
tho man who had just waltzed with
her. It was a good offer, and show
ed that money was no object to him,
but they put him out of the house so
bard that his eyes were quite black.
An Irish schoolmaster set the fol
lowing “copy” for one of his pupils:
“Idleness clothes a man with uaked
ueee.’’*
POETBY.
JEXNY.
On a sKBDjr hummer morning
Karly u the dew «M dry,
I'p the hill I went a berrying,
Anti I’ll tell the reason why:
farmer Uttu hml • daughter,
And it happened that I knew
On each sunny summer morning
She went out a berrying too.
Leeely work was picking berries.
So I joined her on the MU;
"Jenny, dear," said I, "your basket's
Quite too large for one to fill."
So we went about to ill it;
Jenny talking—l was still
leading where the hill was steepest,
ricking berries up the hill.
"I'his is up-hill work," said Jenny,
"Se is life," said I, "but we
Climbed the hill so well together.
I'm thinking you and we
Would de well to try a life-climb—
What say you!" end came aad meet
Colo? redder than the berries.
As she garu a sweet consent.
GONE!
Over the west, to crimson turning,
The sun, like n ruby sat in gold,
“ —lt- nT fit arm kerning.
fastens its mantle fold on fold.
The sea like o maiden's faee is flawing,
The sweet south wind is merrily blowing—
Still I am sad, for summer is going—
bummer is going—summer is gone!
Sever a leaf on a treo is faded,
Never a blade of grass is sere,
Gayer and brighter the lowers ere shaded,
fairer and fairer grows the year;
Only— who knows what my fancy is show
ing.
Only the roses no longer arc growing—
Only I feel that the summer is going
bummer is going—summer is goual
Brighter and brighter the skies ere shin
ing,
Deeper and deeper the freeh air thrilla,
Largor and fuller the vines are twining.
Clearer than ever the distaat hills;
The lull tides sweep in their ebblug and
flowing,
Nothing it lost that is worth the knowing,
Only I feel that the summer is going—
Summer is golug—summer is gone!
What do I mourns Whokuows? Vor sure
ly
Never was world more fair than new,
from the harvest moon as it rides so purely
To the red ripe apple upon the bough.
What do I mourn? Alas, no knowing: ,
Nothing is lost that is worth the showing.
Only I feel that summer is going—
Summer is going—summer is gone!
THE CRADLE SONG OF THE
POOR.
Winter approaches, and the liclpless, the in
firm, the poverty-stricken ure seen on every
hand. Those blessed with abundance should
not forget the unfortunate. Thera is no such
uuinixed happiness as that derived from the
consciousness or good deeds giving happiness
to others. Os all men that walk the streets, the
pinched laces of the selfish, however blest by
fortune, betray least of that sunshine ever
beaming from the eyes of tbe generous and
good. Read tho simple story that poverty tells
—"The Uradle Song of the Boor.”
liushi I cannot bear to hear thee
Stretch thy hands in vain,
I have got no bread to give thee,
Nothing, child, to ease thy pain.
When God sent thee first (to bless ine.
Proud and thankful, too, was I;
Now, my darling, I, thy mother,
Almost long to soe thee die.
Sleep, my darling, thou art weary;
God is good, but life is dreary.
I have watched thy beauty fading,
Aud thy atreugtU sink day by day;
Soon, I know will want and fever,
Take thy little life away.
Famine makes thy father reckless,
Hope has left both him and me;
We could suffer all, my baby,
Had we but a crust for thee.
Sleep, my darling, thou art weary; j
God is good, but life is dreary. I
Better thou shouldst perish early,
Starve so soon, my darling one,
Than live to want, to sin, to struggle
Vainly, still, as I have done.
Better that thy angel spirit
With my joy, my peace were flown.
Than thy heart grow cold uud careless.
Reckless, hopeless, like my own.
Sleep, my darling, thou art weary;
God is good, but life is dreary.
I am wasted, dear, with hunger,
Ami my brain is all oppressed,
I have scarcely strength to press thee,
Wan aud feeble to my breast.
Patience, baby, God will liclp us.
Death will come to thee and me,
He will take us to His Heaven,
Whero no want or pain can be.
Sleep, my darling, thou art weary;
God is good, but life is dreary.
Such the plaint that late and early.
Did we listen, we might hear
Close beside us—but tlia thunder
Os .a city dulls our car.
Evesy heart, like Gods bright ungel,
bid one such sorrow cease;
Godfhas glory when iiis children
Bring his poor ones joy aud peace;
Listen, nearer, while she slug*,
Souudsthe flattering of wings.
MODERN DICTIONARY.
Water—A clear fluid ooce used at a
drink.
Honesty—Au excellent juke.
Tongue—A little honso tlnst is con
tinually running away.
My Dear—Au expression used by
man aud wife at the commtuooiuefit
of a quarrel
Bargain—A ludicrous transaction,
in wliicli each party thiuks be cheated
tbe other.
Doctor—A man who kills you to
day to save you from dying to-mor
row.
Wealth —The most respectable qual
ity of men.
Esquire—Every body, yet nobody,
equal to a Colonel.
Jury—Twelve prisoners in a box to
try one or more at the bar.
Sbite’s Evidence—A wretch wko is
pardoned f>r being baser than his
comrades.
Modesty—A beautiful liiUa Jtlowsr
that flourishes in secret places.
Lawyer—A learned gentleman who
rescues your estate from your snsmy
aud keeps it for himself.
Tbs Grave—An ugly hole iu the
ground which lovers and poets wish
they wets iu, but taka unoosoaou
measures to keep out of. ,
Money—The god of the couutry.
An old Dutch taveru keeper, who
bed his third wife, thus expressed his
views of matrimony: “VeU, >ou see,
de first time I married for love—dst
was goot; deu I marries for beauty —
dat was goot, too, about os goot as ds
first; but dis time I marries for mon
ey, and dat ia better as both.”
“Well farmer, you told us you pises
was a good place for hunting; now ws
have tramped it for three hours, aud
found uo game.’’ “Just so,” said the
farmer, “as a general thiug, tho leas
game there is, the more hunting yon
have.”
A woman in Rutherfordton, N. C.,
has been fined by the Mayor of that
ilk for the dreadful offence of nailing
the marshal “Old pewter battous.”
Where ia our boasted freedom ?
RECREANT MINISTERS.
W« clip the following from a West
ern secular paper:
The charcbea of all denominations
have been sadly grieved in the last
jemr or two by the fall into grievous
sins of one or more of their popular
ministers. So far as we remember ao
church of any size has been exempt
in this particular, or has aught to
boost over their brethren of other
churches. Many shallow reasonen
have jumped to the conclusion that
religion wiU be almost extinguished in
our land, aud all confidence in the |
clergy be destroyed by these sad oc
currences. According to the last
of the United States there were :
orty -eight thousand six hnndred and
eighty ministers of all sorts—Protest
ant. Jewia and Rotnish in our coun
try. Now, if they had fallen in the
same proportion os the twelve apos
tles under our Lord’s immediate su
pervision, there woeld have been no
less than aight thousand and thirteen
of them who had fallen in the past
three years, and yet one hundred, if
not a less number, would include all
who have fallen within that time.
Whenever one folia now, his fall in all
its aggravations, and often far beyond
its real enormity, is proclaimed by ev
ery newspaper and telegraph line in
the whole country. It was not so
twsnty-five or thirty years ago. “ But,”
said a young coxcomb tbe other day
in our hearing with a curl upon his lip,
“ the preachers are getting to be the
worst men in the land.” “Not so
fast,” said we, “ young friend. Take
forty-eight thousand doctors, og law
yers, and apply the same strict test of
moral conduct to them that you do to
the ministers, every time one gets
drunk, or is otherwise guilty of im
moral conduct, put his name in the
newspapers, and telegraph him all
over the world, and you would not
have room enough in the newspapers,
were they ten times as large as they
are, for oae in ten of tbe teles of scan
dal that would fill them.”
We say, after a long and intimate
acquaintance with hundreds, yea, we
might say, with thousands of ministers
of all sects iu our land, ws have found
the great mass of them neither im
pure uor intemperate.
From the New York Hernltl.
A PLUCKY WOMAN.
A Rrutal Negro Breaks into a Lady’s
Sleeping Apartment—The Woman
Instantly Shoots Him.
A diabolical attempt was but a few
nights ago made upon the family of
one of the civilian employees of tho
government at Fort Davis, Texas.—
A feeling of dread apprehension and
in security has for some time prevail
ed among the officers and their fami
lies, except a few who pooh-poohed
and said that it was all imagination.
About two o’clock one morning,
Mrs. F. A. Kand&ll, whose husband is
teuipui 'irily absent on duty, was awa
ken . and by a noise ss of someone break
ing hi iuu sash of a window opening
from net sleeping apartment upon the
porch iu the rear. She promptly a
woko her companion, a young lady,
and daughter of one of tlie officers of
the garrison, and asked in a loud voice,
“Who’s there?" Receiving no reply,
the plucky little lady took her revolv
er and listened.
Bits of broken glass continued fall
ing on the floor, convincing her that
the fiend was persisting in his efforts
to enter the room; and theu, with the
consciousness that on her depended
the safety of herself and companion
from a fate worse than death, and
doubtless their lives and those of her
three little childreu, she called several
times, “Who’s there?" and receiving
uo reply, she stepped lo the window,
and aiming over the bed occupied by
her little ones, at a head just being
thrust through the broken sash, fired.
She heard, instantly after, the fall of a
heavy body on the porch and a stifled
groan.
An examination proved him to be
Corporal Taliaferro, a bidqpus negro
belonging to Company I, Ninth Unit
ed States cuvalry, one of the compan
ies composing this garrison.
The bulle t penetrated the skull and
must have killed him instantly.
E. G. S.
Recently a colored citizen of Thom
son, attempted to descend a ladder
with • revolver in his coat-tail pocket.
Alluding to the wound which was dis
covered by the physician, the Journal
says it has been skillfully probed with
a broomstick, but the bullet hasn’t
yet come down. At last accounts he
was able to walk, very bench legged,
and sits down the other way.—Red
Top.
The old woman who walks five miles
to church every Sunday and takes
care ot a ltu ge household, milks the
cows and makes butter and cheese,
bus been heard from. She dwells at
present iu Lewiston, Me. Her name
is Hobson, and her age is eighty-eight.
The matter of walking to ehurch is
said U> be Hobson’s choice.
The approaching Legislature in
Georgia wil! have the pleasuro of
electing a successor in the Senate of
the Uuited States to Hon. Joshua Hill.
As Mr. HiU has announced that the
“interest of his family” compels him
to support General Grant of course
General Grant will prove a most un
gruteful fellow if he foils to support
Mr. Hill’s family wheu the State of
Georgia retiree from the business.
THE SECRET.
“I noticed,” said Franklin, “a me
chanic among a number of others, at
work on a house being erected but a
little way horn my office, who always
appeared to he iu a merry humor,
wko had a kind word aud cheerful
•mile for every one he met. Let the
day be ever so cold, gloomy or sun
less, a happy smile danced like a sun
beam on his cheerful countenance.—*
Meeting him one morning, I asked
him to tell me the secret of his con
stant flow of spirits.”
“No secret, doctor,’’ he replied; “I
have got one of tbe best wives, and
when I go to work she has always a
kind word of encouragement for me;
aud when I go home she meets me
with a smile and a kiss, and then tea
is sure to be ready; and she has done
so rnauy little thiugs tbrough the day
to please me, that I cannot find it in
my heart to speak au unkind word to
any body.”
What influence, then, has woman
over the heart of man, to soften it and
make it the foundation of cheerful and
pure emotions. Speak gently, then;
greetings after the toils of the day ore
over cost nothing, and go far toward
making home happy and peaceful.
Mrs. O’Leary wonders “if them
Bosting spalpeens will be after
•chweariug that it was her poor baste
of a cow that burned their city.* *
VOL.IB-SO.SS.
MECHANICS.
Wbo built ail our cities, our Tilla
ges, every hamlet sou cottaga in the
land ? Mechanics.
Who built every ship, steamer, ves
sel and water craft that floats on
every ocean, and plows the surface of
I every river ? Mechanics.
Who printed every Bible, hymn -
' book and newspaper, printed and
bound every printed volume on the*
globe ? Mechanics
Who constructs all the workshops
on the earth, and who runs them t
Mechanics.
Who makes every instrument of
music from the organ down to the
jews-harp ? Mechanics.
Who makes all the agricultural im
plements /or cultivating the soil, all
nautical iuatr aments for navigation
of the ocean ? Mechanics.
Who constructs ell oar railroads,
their locomotives and cars, the Pull
man ears, and all the telegraph lines V
Mechanics.
Who makes all the magnificent fur
niture that ornament the mansions of
the rich—carpets, mantle ornament*
silver and china table aarviee ? Me
chanics.
Who makes all the jewelry that
adorn the persona of the ladies f Me
chanics.
What would the civilized world be
without mechanics ? A waste, howl
ing wilderness, and man a barbarian.
We never think of this brave cUe4
of men, and their great work, with
out a sense of profound gratitude per
vading our whole nature. We honor
and revere them for thsir gre.l
achievements. We oannot espeut
every fool to do so, however.
MODERN COURTSHIP.
One quiet day iu leafy June, when
bees and birds were all in tuue, two
lovers walked beneath the moon.
The night was fair, so was the tuaid,
they walked and talked beneath the
shade, with none to ham or maks
afraid.
Her namo was Sal aud his was
Jim, and she was fat aud he was slim;
he took to her and she to him. Says
Jim to Sul : “By all the snakes that
squirm among the brush aud brakes,
I love you better’u buckwheat oakes."
Said she to Jim, since you’ve begun it,
and been aud goue and done it, “ I
love you next to u new bonnet." Says
Jim to Sol: “My heart you’ve busted,
but I have always gals mistrusted.”
Says Sal to Jim: “I will be true, if
you love me like I lovo you, no knife
can cut our lovo iu two.” Suys Jun
to Sal: “Through thick and thiu, for
your true lover, couut me in, I’ll court
no other gal ugiu.”
Jim leuued to Sal, Sul leaned to
Jim, his nose just touched beueath her
chin, four lips met—went—ahem—
ahem! And then—apd then—and
then. Oh, gals! beware of man and
June, and uuderueuth the silvery
moon, when frogs and junebuge are
in tune, lest you get your uome m the
paper soon.
Occasionally, when the train arrives
at Middleton, Ct., a nice young mau
jumps oil' and kisses the best looking
girl at the depot, supposing her to be
his sister. He apologizes so nioely
that the gil ls are getting so that they
look for him regularly.
ANCIENT “UNCLE NED.”
An old colored man* familiarly
known as “Uncle Ned," living at the
eastern terminus of Tatusll street,
died on Saturday night at the advanc
ed age of 112 years. He was partic
ularly noted for his inordinate love of
tobacco, and was constantly ohewiug.
His death should be a warning to
those who use the weed.
CAN THIS BE TRUE ?—THE COT
TON TAX IN CONGRESS.
Referring to the fact that during
this short JGongresa of only tl#ea
months duration, several large lobby
schemes will be pushed, among others
the World thus speaks of the propos
ed refunding of the cotton tax:
Another subject which will be press
ed upon Congress this winter by a
powerful lobby, is the refunding of
the cotton tax. We earnestly fought
that tax when it was imposed, for
reasons which we still believe sound.
But the pretence of repaying it cov
ers one of the most gigantic and most
corrupt jobs even of this degenerate
time. If Congress could restore the
money to those from whom it was
really taken, it might be very well;
but that is as impracticable as it
would be to take the water from the
bed of the Mississippi, and reconvey
it by artificial means to the thousand
millions of acres of oozing soil which
feed the first sources of the river.—
The tax came out of the wages of the
{ilantation hands; it came out of the
essees or owners of cotton lands; it
came out of the great mass of the
cotton-growing community. If it
were granted back, the lion’s share
would go to the colossal ring of lob
byists and cotton dealers who are
pushing this scheme, and the rest to
various eotton factors scattered
through the South. The amount of
the tax is seventy millions of dollars,
and we have learnt, from an authen
tic source, that there is a settled bar
gain that the cotton ring shall have
one-half of it, or thirty-five millions,
if they succeed in carrying the job
through Congress.
We publish this statement for the
purpose of provoking a reply from
those interested and who know all
about it. If the allegations are false
they should be promptly and author
itatively denied and refuted. Our
columns shall be open for that pur
pose.
PAYMENT OP COST OF ADVER
TISEMENTS IN ADVANCE.
We beg leave to coll the attention
of our county officers and others in
terested, to the following act paased
by the last Legislature, entitled an
act to require the payment of cost in
certain cases:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly, That from and af
ter the passage of this act, no sheriff
or deputy sheriff in this State shall
be required to advertise the property
of anv defendant in fi. fa. for sale un
til the cost of such advertisement
shall have been first paid by the
plaintiff in fi. fa., his agent or attor
ney; provided, that when any such
party plaintiff, or his agent or attor
ney for him, shall make and file an
affidavit in writing, that owing to hht
poverty he is unable to pay such coat,
then it shall be the duty of said sher
iff or his deputy to proceed as now
required by law.
Section 2 repeals conflicting laws.
Approved August 24,1872.
Sheriff sales must be paid for in ad
vance or no insertion. — Stan. A Ex.