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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. VOL. 143 THE . , Standard & Btti m. blishod every THURSDAY MQSlftltGi 8. H. SMITH A 00. suß.scßiPTiox I #n'r« m& - $2 per annum, in advance. Professional and Business Cards JOHN W. WOFFOKD. THOMAS W. MILNER WOFFORD & MILNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAKTI2RSVILLE, GA. OYFiCF tip stairs, Bank Block. lfrf]f r T ' ll - 11 (. TUMLfN, A T*T bRN E Y A T LAW, CAItTEIIBViI»LE, GA. Office over the Bank. JOHN L. MOON, AT fWi AT LAW, OAKTERSVILLE, GA. Will practice in the counties'comprising the (JUerokcc Circuit; Office over Liebman’.s store. || w. MUjRPHEY, attorney at law, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention given tothecol ci-tion of claims. Oilice with Col. Alula John on. Oet.l. A. wwl ' OKn ’ attorney at law. CAKTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-House. jnn 26 M. FOUXK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb. Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitlield and ad Joining counties. March 30. g a. McDaniel, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Ollice with John W. Wofford. jan ’72 W. I>. TRAMMELL. A TTOR NE Y AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA OFFICF W. Main St., next door to Standard & Express Office. Feb. 15,1872 —wly. r|l HO« A S TV . DODD, AT T O lIN E Y AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Os lira over U» Bank. JanlßlCT3 . DR. J. A. JACKSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next door to Stokely & Williams’. oct27 w. 11. Mountcastle, ,Jewelaf and Watch and Clock Repairer, *■ CAUTEBSVILLE GEORGIA. Office in lront of A. A. Skinner & Co’s Store. (JEN. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. 11. WIKLE Wofford cfc Wiltlo, ATTORNEYS - AT - LA W, AND Real Estate Agents, Cartersville, Ga. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur chase and sale of Real Estate. -28-6 m. DENTiSTRY. fnUB undersigned respectfully informs the I. citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that he lius resumed the practice of Dentistry, and by close attention to business and faithful work ha Mopes to receive a liberal share of success. Office over Erwin, Stokoly & Cos. Jan 30-6 m. F. M. JOHNSON. Dental Card. milE undersignod, a practical dentist of 18 I years experience, having pnrehesed prop erty 'and located permanently in the city of Cartersville, will continue the practice in rooms opposite those of Wofford & Milner, in the new budding adjoiningthe Bank. With experience a lid application to my profession, charges al w: ys reasonable auu just, 1 hope to merit the patronage-of a generous public. Office hours, from November Ist proximo. 8 to 12 a. m., 2tosp. m. Sabbaths excepted. Calls answered at residence, opposite Baptist church. R. A. SEALE, UI-17—tf Surgeon Dentist. — 1 I DU. CHAS. IV A LYI GAY, 13 E IV T I S T , Cartersville, Ga. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to children’s toetri. 8-15- TO PLANTERS. Bowen A MERCER'S Superphosphate, S3B PER TON. Warranted equal to any Phosphate manufac tured. Send for the Pamphlet of Certificates and Analysis, by Professors Means, Pigtfott and Stewart, to BOWEN & MERCER, 65 South Gay St., 12-12—wlm. Baltimore, Md. DR. W. A. TROTTER Offers his frofesssonal services to the citizens of Cartersville. Office with Dr. Baker. Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 7,1873. UME! LIRE S LDIE! PERSONS WISHING THE BEST LIME can always llud cm ffaud, at the Store of Me non aid & Brandon, an ample supply ot Alla haster Lime from the Works of 3 -5-ly LEAK & IIOLUNSIIEAD. &U ,• ibis unrivalled Medfjixc s warranted not to j contain a .angle riai ttoln of Mercury, or any injuriow* mineral sulMt.tnee, but is PURELY VEGETABLE. lor FORTY YEARS it has proved its great vntaioaa all <li>eaaes of ttie Mona, H ovtu and ■ Kidneys. Thojisands of the good and great in i all parts of tint, country vouch for its wonderful and pocniiai' | tower iu purifying the Blood, stimulating the torpid Liver and bowels, and imparting new life and vigor to the whole sys tem. Simmons’Liver Regulator iis acknowl edged to hawe no equal ns u LIVER MEDICINE. it contains four medical elements, never bc lorc united in the same happv proportion in any other preparation, vi* : njmntie CaiUatUc, a woudcmil lou ic, an uDmeptumalik Alter ative, and-a certain Com<tiv«of all i»puriMe» ?f thi body. Such signal euoenes bas attend*! its use that it is now regarded as tbe GREAT UNFAILING SPECI FIC for Liver Complaint and the painful offspring thereof, to wit: Dyspepsia, Constipation, Jaun dice, Lilhous attacks, sick Headache. Colic, Depression of Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn, ,<fec., &e. Regulate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. Simmons’ Liver Regulator . i» manufactured only by J. H. ZEILIN ft Cos., MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA, l' l- package; sent by mail.postagepaid |L2o. Prepared ready for use in bottles, #1.50. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. I©- Bewareof all Counterfeits and Imitations STERLING SILVER-WARE. SHARP & FLOYD No. 33 Wliiteluill Street, ATLANTA. Specialty, Sterling Silver-Ware. Special attention is requested to tire many new and elegant pieces manufactured express ly to our order the past year, and quite recently completed. An unusually attractive assortment of uovel ics in Fancy Silver, cased for Wedding and mill.; r character. The House we represent manufacture on an unparalleled scale, employing on Sterling Sil ver-Ware alone over One Hundred 'skilled hands, the most accomplished talent in Design ing, and the best Labor-saving Machinary, en abling them to produce works of the highest character, at prices UNAPPROACHED by any competition. Our stock at present is the lar gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia An examination of our stock and prices will guarantee our sales. OUR HOUSE USE ONLY 925 BRITISH STERLING, 1000 an4—tf Win. Gouldmith, Manufacturer and dealer in 4 HE) METALIC BURIAL CASES & CASKETS Also kc«i>B on hand WOOD COFFINS of every description. All orders by night or day promptly attended to. . aug. 22 NOTICE TO FARMERS! y OUR attention is rsspectfully invited to th Agricultural Warehouse OF ANDERSON & WELLS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds, FARM WAGONS, PITTS’ TH RESHERJA Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or without down aud mounted horse powers. SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS. Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, wijh or witgfut down and mounted horse powers. Bali’s Reaper and Mower, Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower PLOWS—ONE AND TWO-HORSE BUGGY PLOWS. Also General Agents for “ Pendleton’s Guano Compound,” Cash, 167 per ton of 2,000 lbs.; Credit Ist Nov., $75 per ton 2,000 lbs. “Farmer’s Choice,” Manufactured from Night Soil, at Nashville, Tenu.—Cash $45 per ton; credit Ist Nov., SSO; And all other kinds of implements and ma chinery, which we sell as low as any house in the South. Call and see us, or send for Price List. ANDERSON «t WELLS. 52 Theo. GOULDSMITH, Agent for GEORGIA MARftIE WORKS. Cartersville, Georgia. feb. 8 SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY, EDITORS .AND PROPRIETORS. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1873. JC MONET MODE. IStiy youi* (jootl* OH EAP. While you can. The* iiiitl( k i*«igiie«l has on hand and is constantly re ceiving New and Beautiful GOODS, of every description just from the Kastern Markets, which will he sold at the LOWEST FIGURED FOR Cash • I offer superior indiice meuts us regards Style, C^xxcility, and Prices. An examination of my Stock will convince you that you can buy your (*oods cheaper of 111 c than elsewhere Handsome Styles of DRESS GOODS! SHAWLS, Striped and Reversible, of the latest Fashions. PRINTS, Os every Style and Shade Notions; fcr CLOTHING, MENS WEAR. BOOTS, Caps, mmi GROCERIES, My. assortment ofLadiei’ misses au<l’eliil<lren*s BOOTS, SHOES & GAITERS, Cannot be excelled lit ei ther style quality ,[or cheap ness. Mens’ Hoots and Shoes at all Prices, Hats Lower than the Lowest. I would call special at tention to my system oft*do ing business. Ist., I sell strictly for CASH. Having no accounts I lose no debts, and do not have to add on an extra profit of 15 to 25 per cent to make up for time custoMcro. 2d., I have but one price on each article, so that a child an buy Gocds as lotv as a man, and a poor judge as cheap as the best judge of Goods in the country. Huy your C*oods|at the MISSTH and save money. Ho trou ble to show Goods. A. P. NEAL. Fur the Standard and Express. O&LY WAITING:* Iu passing through the town and country, we often meet some very old people, whose time worn expressions suggest the following lines: Only waiting till the shadows Are a little longer grown; Only waiting till the glimmer CM the day’s last beam is flown; Till tbe nigbt of earth has faded heart once full of day; Till the «tars of U»a«Mr«i«t**aM*g Through the t wittgltt *oft end gr»v. Only waiting till the reapers The last sheaf have gathered home, For thesflfnimer time has faded, * And the autumn winds have come. Quickly, reapers, gather qnicklv, The last ripe hours of my heart, For the bloom of life is withered, AnM hasten torlep art. Only waiting till the angets Open wide the mystic gate, At whose feet I long have lingered, Weary, poor and dviolate. Even notv, I hear theft fodtsthfr, And their voices far away— It they call me, 1 am willing, Only waiting to obey. Only waiting till tbe shadows Are a little longer grown; Only waiting till the glimmer Os the day’s last beam is flowj; Then from out the gathering darlne-s, Holy, deathless stars shall rise, By whose light my soul shall gladly Tread its path-way to the skies. Canton, Jan. 1873. May. [From the Macon Telegraph & Messenger. MUSIC IN CAMP. Two armies covered Hill and plain, Where Rappahannockls waters, Ran deeply crimsoned with the stain. Os battle’s recent slaughters. The summer clouds lay pitched like tents In meads of heavchly azure; And each dread gun of the elements Slept in its hid embrasure. The breeze so soltly blew it made No forest leaf to quiver, And the smoke of the random cannonade Rolled slowly from the river. And now where circling hills looked down With cannon grimly planted, O’er listless camp and silent town The golden sunset slanted; When on the fervid air there came A strain now rich now tender, The music seemed itself aflame With day’s departing splendor. A Federal baud, which eve and morn Played measures brave and nimble, Had just struck up with flute and horn And lively clash of cymbal. Down flocked the soldiers to the hanks Till margined by its pebbles. One wooded shore was blue with “Yanks,” And one was gray with “Rebels.” ‘7IU I hiVi YCirA*4A’s Made stream and forest, hill and strand, Reverberate with “Dixie.” The conscious stream, with burnished glow, Went proudly o’er its pebbles, But thrilled throughout its deepest flow With yelling of the Rebels. Again a pause, and then again The trumpet pealed sonorous, And Y'ankce Doodle was the strain To which the shore gave chorus. The laughing ripple shoreward flew To kiss the shining pebbles— Loud shrieked the crowding Boys in Blue Defiance to the Rebels. And yet once more the bugle sang Above the stormy riot; No shout upon the evening rang— There reigned a holy quiet. The sad, lone stream its noiseless tread Spread o’er the glistening pebbles; All silent now the l r ankees stood, All silent stood the Rebels: For each responsive soul had heard That plaintive note’s appealing, So deeply “Honic,’ Sweet Home” ban stirred The hidden founts of feeling. Os blue or gray, the soldier sees, As by the wand of fairy, The cottage ’neath the live-oak trees, The cottage by the prairie. Or cold or warm his native skies Bend in their beauty o’er him; Sending the tear-mist in his eyes— The dear ones stand before him. As fades the iris after rain In April’s tearful weather, The vision vanished as the strain And daylight died together. But memory, waked by music’s art Expressed in simplest numbers, Subdued the sternest Y'ankec’s heart, Made light the Rebel’s slumbers. And fair the form of Music shines, That bright celestial creature, Who still ’mid war’s embattled lines Gave this one touch of nature. John R. Thompson. GALLANTRY What is gallantry but a tribute from the stronger to the weaker ? What right has a fresh-faced, ruddy girl, abounding in strength, to plant herself in front of a weary man In that way that plainly indicates her expectation that he will yield his seat? What right has she to take if, indeed ? Why should she not rise and give a seat to an old man, in stead of accepting his ? Now, we submit that the fault is partly with ill-bred women. They take seats as if they belonged to them. We almost always surrender to a standing lady, however weary our legs may be, and not one in six has courtesy enough to say, “Thank you.” Avery weary and very plain woman with none of the varnish of society, no knowledge of the propri eties and improprieties, stood in front of us the other day. We of fered her the seat, and she hesitated. “I hate to take your seat,” she said. She was a lady. The very women who complain of a lack of gallantry, never give plaee themselves to older and weaker peo ple. The sight of a young lady giv ing a seat to a feeble old man would work wonders of gallantry among men. “See that tired man!” ex claimed a lady alongside-of us the other evening, and squeezing her silks she made room for a weary and earth-soiled Irish laborer. There was gallantry! Some men get up for pretty faces and fine clothes, but we know a man who gives his seat to a weary wash erwoman with a basket of clothes, and that whether she be Irish or Af , rican. And when we see this we say, Behold a gentleman indeed! The true-heartea coutesy of such a man is worth more than all that hand-kiss ing and bowing of a hundred knee buckled courtiers! ; ch aracteristic sayings of AMERICANS, Franklin said many things that have passed into maxims, but noth ing that is better known and remem i bered than. “He paid dear, very dear, j for his whistle.* 1 Washington made but few epi gramatic speeches. Here is one: “To he prepared tor war is the most ef fectual meat**of preserving peace.” s Did you ever hear of old John Hiekiuson 7 Well, he wrote of Amef jo*ll* In 1768. “By uniting weiStftmL by dividing we fall.” | Patrick Henry, m every school boy knows, trave us. “Give me liberty or give me de*th,” and, “if this is trea son, make the most of it,” Thomas Paine had many quotable seteences: “Rose like a ! rocket, fbll like a Sttrk“Times that try men’s soote;’* “One step from the sublime to the ridiculous,” etc. Jelferson’s writings are so besprin- I kled that it is difficult to select. In (despair, we jump aL “Few die and aone resigu,” oertaLnbf as applicable j now to office-KolaererHs lit Jefferson’s j time. Henry Lee gave Washington his immortal title: “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of His countrymen.” Charles Cotesworlh Pinckney de-1 dared in £a,vor of “Millions for de-! fence, but‘not one cent for tribute.’’ “Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we 1 must,” from Josiah Quincy, 1841. John Adams did not say, “Live or i die, survive s or perish, lam for the Constitution,” but Daniel. Webster said it.for him. The revolutionary age alone would give us our article, had we time to gather our. pearls. Coming down, we pass greater but not more famous men. Davy Crockett, the illustrious au thor of “Be sure you are right, and then go ahead.” Andrew Jackson gave us, “The Un ion it must be preserved.” Benton almost lost his original identity in “Old Bullion,” from his ‘hard money’ doctrines. General Throop, of New York, was called “Small Light Throop” for years, from a phrase in a thanksgiv ing proclamation. Scott’s “hasty plate of soup” lasted his lifetime. Taylor’s battle order, “A little more grape, Capt. Bragg,” will be quoted alter he is forgotten by “all the world and the rest of mankind.” Seward is known for the “irrepres sible conflict,” wherever the English language is spoken. Marey’s patched breeches are as well remembered as his State papers. Rufus Choate gave us “glittering generalities.” Tom Corwin, “Wellcome with bloody hands to hospitable graves,” gave him more unenviable criticism than any other saying in his life. Colhoun trave us “State rights” as tection of the liberties of the people. Douglas applied ‘squatter sover eignty,’ though it is probable that Cass invented it, and Calhoun named it. Stringfellow was the original “Bor der Ruffian.” War times gave us no end of epi grammatic utterances. Those of Lin coln alone fill a volumn—chiefest of these. “With charity to all, malice toward none.” A CITY BOY’S LETTER FROM THE COUNTRY. Dear Jimmy: Ask your mother to bring you up here right off. It’s gay. There’s fishing here and lots of worms to catch ’em with. You stick the hook in them and they wriggle bully. Fishin’s funnier when yo'ffl don’t catch the hook in the seat of your pantaloons, so that you can’t sit down and can’t fish all the way home. I did that the other day.— Mr. Jenkyns, Cousin Laura’s beau, asked me if I was a sole or a heel. Suppose he thot he was going to be funny, but I didn’t see it. Bimeby, I saw him cut a piece out of Cousin Laura’s hair, where her hook caught, and kiss it, like a great baby, and put it in his pocket. So I told on ’em at tea, and everybody last. They have cows and I go to see them milked. They don’t pump it out with their tails, like you and I thought they did, but they squeeze it out of a bag that comes on purpose I suppose. I milked the other night. It was very hard to squeeze, and it would not go into the pail. Some went into my eyes, and the rest went up my sleeve. I don’t like milking. I don’t like turkey cocks neither. They ruffle themselves up and run at you. They' are a pheroeious bird, and disagreeable to live with. Chick ens are nicer. We eat ’em. They put them under a “barril ” at night and Bill and I kill them in the morn ing. We have bully fun wringing their necks. You’d better come here right off and bring a shot-gun, for there are bears here —anyhow we saw a fox—and candy, because we can’t get any here, and a pop-gun. and some bows and arrows and things. Perhaps we can shoot a deer. I think Mr. Jenkyns is a blamed fool. He made me believe he found a deer’s track the other day, and when I looked at it, it was only the mark of Cousin Laura’s boot. I don’t see what makes him so happy about girls. We won’t will we ? I’d be ashamed. lam going to rkle old Sam to-morrow. He’s a horse. You ride him bar-back, and it’s very hard to stick on, he feels so squirmy. Give my love to all the boys, and tell them I'm having a bully time, and hate old Jenkyns. No more at present from Yours truly. Robbie. Nowhere is well-bred courtesy, or the lack of it, more observable than in traveling. On the steamboat and in the cars the quiet observer easily detects those who have been educa ted under refined influences, or those who, without special cultivation, are possessed of native politeness. It is not education alone, nor wealth, nor high social position, nor costly trap- Sings, that makes one a pleasant j raveling companion. There must exist a kindness of feeling towards strangers, a general recognition of equal rights in the comfort and con veniences provided for the public, and a quickened discernment for the needs of others. Summer journeying in crowded boats and cars is a test of both patience and politeness. Thrice happy they who pass Jlobly through it, for their own sakes, for the com fort of companions, and for the repu tation of poor human nature in gen eral. FASHIONABLE WOMEN. There is a passage in Lord Jeffrey’s : review of Mias Edgeworths’ “Tales of a Fashionable Lire,” in which the great critic describes with admirable force the miseries of the fashionable. This wretched hunt after a reputa tion for fashion, with its constant heart-burnings ami defeats, is, lie considers, more productive of real misery than the serious calamities of life. This may scam a strong asser tion, I>© adds, hut is his deliberate tinvletion, and hisaUtemeotson this head ftTe strengthened by the opin ions of one fully as competent to form j mteono)tislons —Bl r Hohry Holland. In his recent autobiographical sketch that celebrated person states that he has koo»wn people to be made abso lutely ill by their mere anxiety and disappointment in regard to tickets of admission for Almack’s halls in Loudon. Speaking of fashionable women, the London Lancet has late ly had some very sound reqiarks iu the same strdin. “Fashiort,” it says, “kills morethau toil or sorrow. Obedience 4q fashion is a greater transgression of the laws of woman’s nature, a greater Injury to her physical and mental constitu tion than the hardships of poverty arid neglect. The slave-woman at , her task still lives and grows old, and sees two or three generations of her mistress pass away. The washerwo man, with scarcely a ray of hope to cheer her in her toils, will live to see j her fashionable sisters all extinct. The kitchen-maid is hearty and strong, when her lady has' to be nursed like a sick baby. It is a sad truth that fashion-pampered women are worthless for all good ends of life: they have little force of character and quite as little physical energy. They live for no great ends. They are dolls, formed in the hands of miliners and servants, to be tfed to order. If they have children, servants and nurse do all save conceive and give them birth ; and -when reared what are they? What do they amount to but weak scions of the old stock? Who ever heard of a fashionable wo man’s child exhibiting any virtue and power of mind for which it be came eminent? Read the biogra phies of our great men and women. None of them had a fashionable mother.” WORK. “Work well done is twice done.” Never mix up things; do one thing at a time; begin one thing and finish one thing—make clean work as you go. Have order, system, regularity; a place for everything and every thing in its place. Whatever you do, do it well. A job slighted, because it is apparetly un important, leads to habitual neglect, so that mau degenerates, insensibly, into a bad workman. Training the hand and eyes to do good workman is, in most cases, a good citizen. No one need hope to rise above his present situation, who suffers small things to pass unim proved, or who neglects, metaphori cally speaking, to pick up a cent be cause it is not a dollar. A rival of a certain great lawyer sought to humil iate him publicly" by saying, “ You blacked my father’s boots once. “ Yes, ” replied the lawyer, unabash ed., “and 1 did it well.” Everything in nature and grace is active, lull of life and motion, on the wing. The sun, the moon, the spark ling heavens, the floods, the rippling brooks and flowing founts; the birds warble on every tree in ecstacy of joy ; the tiny flower, hidden from all eyes, sends forth its fragrance of full happiness; and the mountain stream dashes along with ‘a sparkle and murmur of pure delight. The object of their creation isaccomplisn ed, and their life gushes forth in har monic work. Oh, plant! oh stream ! worthy of admiration to the wretch ed idler! Idleness is the bane, the moth, the gangrene, the curse of lift. “Dream not, but work ! Be bold, be brave! Let not a coward spirit grave, Escape lYom tasks allotted ; Thankful for toil and danger be ; Duty’s call will make thee flee The vicious—the besotted. A SLEEPING CAR OFF TIIE TRACK—A MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH. The Western & Atlantic Railroad is having more than an ordinary share of accidents here lately. On Wednesday night last, as passenger train No. 2 neared Stegall’s Station, the sleeping Coach run off the track, turning over, and bruising the sleep ing car conductor, Mr. Clark Howell. The coach, also, caught on fire and the occupants, amid smoke and con fusion, had great difficulty to make their escape. The car being turned over and everything upset, some of the passengers were forced to climb out the windows. After considera ble delay the train proceeded. Also, on passenger train No. 4,' near Dalton, an unknown gentleman left his berth i.. die sleeping ear, and went into au adjoining ear, it is sup posed, to smoke, anu being absent some time, inquiries were made as to his whereabouts by the sleeping ear conductor, aud search was made and the missing man was found dangling between the cars crushed to death.— Letters were found on his person in dicating that he was a Western man. Marietta Journal. Death of Col. W. E. Adams, of Putnam — The Eaton ton Press and Messenger reports the death, on Sun day night, of this venerable and much esteemed citizen of Putnam county. The servant who went in to make a fire found the Colonel dead, sitting in an armed chair. Ho was in an easy position, and died appar ently without pain—perhaps while he was asleep—as it was a habit for him to take a short nap in Uis chair before retiring for the night. His cane was hung at its usual place, and his bible and spectacles were laid up on his little table, as though ho had just finished reading a chapter. Col. Adams goes down to his grave with his gray hairs honored, and in peaoe wiih his fellow men. He was smarts ly advanced in his 88th year, and was for 70 years a consistent and zealous member of the Methodist Church. ALABAMA LEGISLATURE. Montgomery, Jan. 28.—Judge Busteed to-day appointed W. Lu La nier Receiver of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, and a bill was filed by Aimee and others to have the assests administered according, to priority of claims* From the Atlanta Herald. SOME SAUCE FOR THE PREACHERS. MISS ADDIE L. UAL LOU ON THE W*R I PATH—SHE BEXDETH A CHALLENGE At a meeting of the first association of Spiritualists of Atlanta on Sunday evening last, the following resolu tions were unanimously twlopted: Resolved, That as the Rev. T. M. llteritand Rev. Dr. VV. P. Harrison, have repeatedly lectured against .Spir itualism, that we consider it a reli gious duty they owe us and their re spective congregations, to meet Miss Addle L. Ballou in discussion on this subject iu public, and shall take a re fusal from them to do so on whatso ever grourids imaginable, as an ac knowledgment of their inability tq defend their position, being conscious of defeat. Wm. Coleman, J. M. Ellis, F. F. Taber, M. D., ► Committee. To the Rev. Dr. W. P. Harrison and ' Rev. T. M. Harris in particular, or other acting Pastors of the respec tive Churches of Atlanta to whom this may apply: Sirs— lnasmuch as you have felt it your duty, or pleasure to indcaver, from pulpit and press, on several oc casions, to dissuade the public mind 1 of the reliability and truthfulness of modern spiritualism, as alleged by its ; adherents, by charging it the infamous and demoralising authorship of de „mons of low order, instead of the spirits of our fkmiliar de&d, I would, therhfore, in behalf of what we con ceive to be truth, and iu the name of justice, which should ever give to the accused their right to vindications, extend to you this CHALLENGE! To meet in public debate to discuss the merits and demerits of the ques tion at issue, as herein expressed and embodied in the resolution, which I will negative, as it now stands, or change to one better suiting the cler ical side of the question, which they shall teirly put and be willing to af firm. And shall expect you as Cler gymen loving j ustice,. as gentlemen of honor and worthy of the people’s confidence and esteem, anti possess ed of customary gallantry or ordina ry chivalry, willing to accept, at the instanoe of a lady who is confident in her ability to sustain herself iu de bate. Any refusal to comply on grounds of inequality of position or sex will be considered as an un worthy argument, and may be con strued into a lack of faiiii in your own position, or a want of gentle manly candor, or the acknowledged apprehension of defeat. Resolved, That so-called modern spiritualism is the work of diaboli cal influences; is contradictory to the teachings of the Bible, and is dernor- Addie L. Ballous BILL ARP’H CREED. Bill Arp, in the Rome Commercial, thus announces his creed: I believe in George Washington and his hatchet, and Isaac Newton and his apple tree. I believe in Bonaparte and Shakespeare, and Andy Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. I believe in Santa Claus and Pocahontas and John Smith, and Ben Franklin, Jef ferson and Dixie, and the 4th of Ju ly, 1776. I believe that an old man once found a rude boy up one of his apple trees a stealing apples.— I believe the milkmaid spilt her milk when she tossed her head and said, “Green it shall be.” I believe in Robinson Crusoe and his man Fri day and the island of Juan Fernan dez. I believe in old mother Goose and Cinderilla and John Robinson’s Circns. I believe in Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett and George D. Prentice, and other dead editors, ex cept Sain Bard, late of Chattanooga Herald, deceased. I believe in the big battles of Waierloo and Bull Run, Thermopylea and Leather’s Ford. That last battle was immortalized in verse by Jack Jones when he wrote, “Big fitin John Sanford, he fit amity battle. He fout it at the ford where Leathers stole the cattle,”* I believe that General Grant told the truth when he said they had two million, six hundred and eighty-eight thous and soldiers in the field in the late war. I believe that old Sherman marched through Georgia about one inile behind me and my folks, and that Big John was saved by tying a knot in the steer’s tail. He needn’t deny it, for I saw the knot. Solution of Geographical Story. — During the mouth of March , dress ed in a full suit made of nankin , which was lined with cashmere , and wearing shoes made of morocco , hav ing in the soles cork , and trimmed with large brass buckles, and attended by a negro , I said farewell , to my friends, Charles and Henry , and pick ing my teeth with a bristle (Bristol), i Started to form an alliance with a hirl who had refused an offer of mar riage from a rude fellow, who, being angry with his father, had threaten ed to bag (lad. When I arrived, her mamma (Maumee), being filled with wrath, was swearing (Schwerin) at two noisy guineas and a shanghai, but who, after all, had a superior daughter. When I met her I called her my dearie (Madeira), and gave her an orange and a pound of bologna (Bologna). Tnen she set before us, on a j open dish, a turkey, which was very full of grease (Greece), aud some fish-balls made of cod , with a clear of Jmva coffee and then retired to milk the cows (Cowes). 1 When I spoke to hrtr about being her man, she 9«kl I was silly (Scilly), which was not flattery) so I told her to go to halyfax, put on my panama, and went home, feeling worse than I ever did since the day I was born (Borgne). A Breton peasant, on his way to Paris, stopped at a barlier shop in Rambouillet. While the barber was strapping his razor, the peasant no ticed a dog sitting near his chair, and staring at him fiercely. “What is the matter with that dog ?’ The bar ber answered, with an unconcerned glr, “That dog is always there. You see, vvhen I cut off an ear—well, he eats it,” Thai Chattanooga lady Is weeping and wailing, and gnashing her teeth. She recently claimed the Dody of an unknown dead man as that of her son, and took it from the charge of the city authorities. The sou has since returned alive and well, and the tedf presents a,bill to the city for funeral rapences. SUBSCRIPTION : $2 per annum. SOW PLASTER. Let UQ farmer who wishes to raise a luxuriant crop of clover on his thin soils fail to buy a few barrels of land plaster and sow on it just as it begins to show On the ground, and berore the hot days set in. The beneficial action of piaster on clover is duo chiefly to the capacity or quality which the plaster has of fixing the ammonia brought down from the at mosphere hv the rains, dews, snow's, anil tlius securing a large supply of nitrogeneous food for the growth of j clover. If any farmer doubts that he i will be compensated for his outlav, let hkn buy hut a bushel of plaster and sow one slip across his field, and lie will find the clover so rauk as to look like a raised bed, or a parterre of living green. A Wisconsin farmer states that I* sowed plaster on-a field May At, and obtained three times the grass on this field more than on that where it was not sowed. He used to raise ontv one ton of hay per acre; now raised, by plaster, two or throe tons per acre; always top-dressed it on grass lands. Ile also states that when plaster was sown on clover, the clover all cut and hauled off, and the ground broken and sowed to oats, every east of the plaster made in sowing it could be plainly seen in the field of oats. Al so that when plaster was applied to corn, in the hill, the place of every hill could he seen in a crop of wheat which followed. In a drought, dew would be found on the ground where plaster had been sown'while all oth er ground was dry anil hard. COAL AS FUEL. Below we give an extract from an address before the scientific depart ment of Lafayette College, by Prof. Shealer, on this subject: “We magnify the importance of coal in our country; first, because of its value as a fuell, and, second, be cause of the vast supply stored here. The first point no longer needs dem onstration. Since that day in 1812, when the workmen at White A Haz ard’s miii w >rks, at the falls of Schuylkiii, lo;t their furnaces in a rage because they could not make the ‘black stones’ burn, and returned to find that during their absence they had nearly melted down the furnace doors, anthracite coal has stood with out a rival upon earth. Practical as well as analytical tests have failed to find an acceptable substitute. Nei ther wood nor peat, nor oil, nor any other substance contains pure carbon in so condensed and cheap a form, says Prof. Jevous; and Prof. Tyndall adds: ‘I see no prospect of any sub stitute being found for coal as a source of motive power. We have, it is true, our winds, our stream -and tides, world; we can not but make head against a nation which, in addition to these sources of |>o\ver, possesses the power of coal.’ “Prof. Tyndall further says: ‘Eng land must, soon yield to America fn the great competition of the nations The strength of both is in their coal mines, and in England these have al ready reached nearly or quite their maximum of production, while our anthracite is but partially developed, and our bituminous coals are scaredy touched'’ “But though Pennsylvania’s store of anthracite will last for many years, and png after it is drawn upon to supply England, it is useless to deny that there is a limit to the supply, and that, after a time, it will be ex hausted. Then what shall we do? “We shall proceed to open the grand reservoir, the bituminous coal fields, compared to which our anthra cite beds are but as a millpond to the Gulf of Mexico. With a bituminous area of 12,000 square miles in Penn sylvania, and 197,0(0 in the United States, we can supply the world for ages to come.” SAND-PAPER. The American Builder gives the following method of making sand paper of superior quality at almost a nominal cost: The device for making sand-paper is simple, and at hand to any one who has occasion to use the paper. A quantity of ordinary win dow-glass is taken—that having a green color is said to lie best—and pound fine, after which it is poured through one or more selves of differ ent degrees of fineness, to secure the glass for coarse or fine paper. Then any tough paper is covered evenly with glue, having about one-third more water than is generally employ ed for wood work. The glass is sifted upon the paper, allowed a day or two in which to become fixed in the glue, when the refuse glass is shaken oft’ and the paper is fit for use. This sand-paper costs little, and is better than that ordinarily bought, in which sand is frequently mingled with the glass. A REMEDY FOR BMALL-POX. A correspondent of the Stockton (Cal.) Herald gives the following remedy for the small-pox: “I herewith append a recipe which has been used to my knowledge in hundreds of cases. It will prevent or cure small-pox, though the pittings are filling. When Jennerdiscovered cow-pox in England the world of sei , ence hurled an avalanche of fame up on his head, but when the most sci entific school of medicine in the world (that of Paris) published this remedy as a panacea for small-pox, it passed unheeded. It is as unfailing as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fe ver. Here is the recipe as I have used it to cure my children of scarlet fever. When ltarncd physicians said the patient must die, it cured: “Sulphate of zinc, one grain; fox glove, (digitalis) one grain; half a teaspoontul sugar; mix with two ta blesupqusful of water. When thor oughly mixed, add four ounces of I water. Take a spoonful every hour. Either disease will disappear in 12 | hours. For a child, smaller doses, according to their age. If counties would compel their physicians to use j this, there would be no need of pest houses. If you value advice and ex i perience, use this for that terrible dis ease.” They steal horses in a funny way up at "Flint* Michigan. They take out the coveted nag, put a dead horse’s head and feet in the barn, and then set the institution on fi^. m t>.