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John w. vfopfohd. thomas w. milnfk
WOFFORD 6c MILNER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CAUTEItSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE up stair., Bank Block.
9-5-tf L
O. TIMLIN,
A T TORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office over the Bank.
JOHN L. MOON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the counties comprising the
Cherokee Circuit, Office over Liebmau’s store.
W. MURPIIEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice In the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit, i’arl icular attention given to the col
ection of claims. Offico with Col. Abda John
son. Oct. 1.
P. WOFFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE in Court-House. jan 26
T M. FOUTE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
( With Col. Warren A kin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitlicld and ad
joining counties. March 30.
jl li. McDANIEL,
ATTORNEY A T LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office with John W. Wofford. jan '72
w „ I). TRAMMELL.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERS VILL I, GA
OFFICE W. Main St., next door to Standard
& Express Office. Feb. 15,1872 —wly.
DR. J. A. JACKSON,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SI'RCEM,
OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next
door to Stokely & Williams’. oct‘27
W. It. WoiiulcasUe,
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CARTEKBVILLE, GEORGIA.
Office in tront of A. A. Skinner & Co’s Store.
GEN. IV. T. WOFFRD. JNO. H. WIKLE
Wofford efc» Wilxlo,
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW,
. AND
Real Estate Agents,
Cartersville, Ga.
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to tho pur
chase and sale of Real Estate. -28-6 m.
DENTISTRY.
jffSEigj&t
THE undersigned respectfully informs the
citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that he
has resumed the practice of Dentistry, and by
close attention to business and faithful work
ha hopes to receive a liberal share of success.
Office over Erwin, Stokely & Cos.
Jan 30-Bm. F. M. JOHNSON.
Dental Card.
THE undersigned, a practical dentist of 18
years experience, having purchesed prop
erty and located permanently in the city of
Cartersville. will continue the practice in rooms
opposite those of Wofford & Milner, in the new
building adjoining the Bank. With experience
and application to my profession, charges al
ways reasonable aud just, I hope to merit the
patronage of a generous public.
Office hours, from November Ist proximo. 8 to
18 a. M., 2tosP. M. Sabbaths excepted. Calls
answered at residence, opposite Baptist church.
R. A. SEALE,
10-17—ts Surgeon Dentist.
DR. CHAS. D’ALVIGNY,
DENTIST,
Cartersville, Ga.
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to children’s
teeth.
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tured. Send for the Pamphlet of Certificates
and Analysis, by Professors Means, Piggott
and Stewart, to BOWEN & MERCER,
65 South Gay St.,
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DR. W. A. TROTTER
OFFERS his PROFESSSONAL SERVICES
to the citizens of Cartersville-
Office with Dr. Baker.
Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 7,1873.
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AT THE
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Opposite Passenger Hotel, ATLANTA.
Jack Smith - - Manager.
Formerly of Munroe, Georgia.
H. Bentley - - Clerk.
STERLING
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SHARP & FLOYD
No. 33 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA.
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Special attention Is requested to the many
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ly to our order the past year, and quite recently
completed.
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anl—tf
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DR. J. BRADFIELD S
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It will bring on the Menses; relieve all pain
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ities peculiar to ladies.
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Ladies can cure themselves of all the above
diseases without revealing their complaints to
any person, which is always mortifying to their
pride and modesty.
It is recommended by the best physicians and
the clergy.
LaGkange, Ga., March 23,1870.
BRADFIELD & CO., Atlanta, Ga, —Dear
Sirs: 1 take pleasure in staling that 1 have used
for the last twenty years, the medicine you are
now putting up, known as Dr. J. Bradtield’s
FEMALE REGULATOR, and consider it the
best combination ever gotten together for the
diseases tor which it is recommended. I have
been familiar with the prescription both as a
practitioner of medicine and in domestic prac
tice, and can honestly *ay that I consider it a
boon to suffering females, and can but hope
that every lady in our whole land, who may be
suffering in any way peculiar to their sex, may
be able to procure a bottle, that their sufferings
may not only be relieved, but that they may be
restored to health and strength. With my
kindest regards, I am respectfully,
W. B. FERRELL, M. I).
Near Marietta, Ga., March 21,1870.
MESSRS. WM. ROOT & SON.—Dear Sirs:
Some months ago 1 bought a bottle of BRAD
FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR from you,
and have used it in my family with the utmost
satisfaction, and have'recommended it to three
other families, and they have found it just
what it is recommended. The females who
have used your REGULATOR are in perfect
health, and are able to attend to their house
hold duties, and we cordially recommend it to
the public. 'Tours respectfully,
Rev. 11. B. JOHNSON.
Wc could add a thousand other certificates;
but we consider the above amply sufficient
proof of its virtue. All we ask is a trial.
For full particulars, history of diseases, and
certificates of its wonderful cures, the reader is
referred to the wrapper around the bottle.
Manufactured and sold by
BRADFIELD & CG„
Price $l5O. ATLANTA, GA.
Sold by all Druggists,
1-30-ly.
Wm. Gouldmith,
Manufacturer and dealer in
Wm. Gouldmith,
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aug. 22
NOTICE TO FARMERS!
yyOUR attention is respectfully invited to th
Agricultural Warehouse
OF
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
DEALERS IN
Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds,
FARM WAGONS,
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Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or without
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Bali's Reaper and Mower,
Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower
PLOWS—ONE AND TWO-HORSE
BUGGY PLOWS.
1 Also General Agents for
“ Pendleton's Guano Compound,”
Cash, $67 per ton of 2,000 lbs.; Credit Ist Nov.,
$75 per ton 2,000 lbs.
“ Farmer’s Choice,”
Manufactured from Night Soil, at Nashville,
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And all other kinds of implements and ma
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the South. Call and see us, or send for Price
List. ANDERSON & WELLS.
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Theo. GOULDSMITH,
Agent for
GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS.
Cartersville, Georgia,
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SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20.1873.
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IS
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C H EA P .
While you can.
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hand and is constantly re
ceiving
New and Reautiful
GOODS,
of every description just
from the Eastern Markets,
which will be sold at the
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Casl m_l
I otter superior induce
ments as^regards
Style,
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and
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Cannot be excelled in ei
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tention to my system of do
ing business. Ist., 1 sell
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n j 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
losses and time customers.
2d., I have but One price on
each article, so that a child
an buy Goods as low as a
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mmsTOBY.
(From “ The Rector of Roxburgh,” by
William Hick ling. E. P. Dutton and
Cos., Publishers.)
From the Hearth and Home. I
“Its no use of keepin’ a peckin’ all
the time at your neighbors religion. !
It isn’t liberal. Still truth’s truth.— j
But you know the old sayin’ that 1
wdiat’s one man’s meat’s another’s;
pizen. Well, I couldn’t stand the de
crees ’ and when Elder Shamway,
down at the Corners, preached them
at me—for mind he always preached
at you—l got riled up. If Elder
Shurnway, I said to myself, was right,
what sort of bein’ was He that made
| the world ? Father tried to cool me
down, and said, ’Zekiel, you’ll under
stand it better by-and-by; but I said
i want to understand it now ; and fa
ther couldn’t explain, no more than
the minister himself. And so, under
that kind of preaching I begun to
grow a little hard. It made father
look solemn, but I couldn’t help it.
It warn’t his fault. Now, just about
that time, one of the Lyceum folks
from Boston come to the Corners to
lecture, and I drove down to hear
him, as they said he was smart. He
made the folks look a little scary
with his ‘ views .’ He said that the
first man was an ape; that is, we was
developed from apes, and he put on a
sort of humble look, and thought we’d
better not be ashamed of our geneal
ogy. It was scientific. But he didn’t
tell us what the apes come from;
maybe it wamH scientific to follow it
up, and ask what them was that come
before the apes, and what was before
them, and so on. ’Spect he was
afraid that he’d git round to the
Scripture statement, that man was
first made of a little dirt. But then,
according to him, the Bible was
wrong, miracles was impossible be
cause, well, because they was impos
sible! and he didn’t believe there
was any God after all. I didn’t see
the weak points then, and was taken
up with his ideas, as I thought it
helped me to git red of the decrees,
which I couldn’t stand. It settled
my mind ; though I didn’t see, at the
time, I was getting to feel hard and
unnatural. Well, as I said, I was
quite taken up for a time with the
‘views ; ’ but by-and-by it didn’t
seem such a fine tiling after all that
corn should be left to grow alone
without any Creator. As for the
juices he told about, what do they
know? Poor things to depend on,
but 1 had got red of the decrees! and
so I didn’t care much in the end ;
and when the great sugar-maple that
father was choping’ fell over and kill
ed him, I thought more ofthe ‘ views’
than ever. Es there was a Supreme
Power, such as Elder Sliumway told
about, why didn’t he do things differ
ent, and leave a man to his family in
a pinch, just when he was wanted?”
“ Yes,” put in Mr. Flint, “there
are many things that we Can’t under
stand here,”
“Jes so,” said Ezekiel, “but I wan
ted to understand everything at once,
without waiting to put this and that
together; and so, after the funeral, I
begun to grow more hard, and didn’t
care to go to the Corners at all. So
one Sunday mother was a-settin’ in
her chair, with the big Bible open,
reading. She seemed to read it mor’n
ever now that father was gone; and
after she read she would set still and
kinder look up in the air, in a strange
sort of way, and then shut her eyes.
She didn’t seem to see me at all, and
appeared taken up with some unnat
ural idee. It made me feel queer.
Once I went, when she laid down the
Bible, and I see that it was open at
the last chapter but one, and when I
read it I felt just a leetle cold; for, if
the ‘views’ was true, the things told
there was nothing to me. But I was
a-sayin’ that on that Sunday mother
set with the Bible, and after she had
read a long while she said, ’’Zekel, I
should like to go down to the Corners
to meeting.’ As I set there, I was a
reading the Agriculturalist , and, with
out lookin’ up, I said, ‘Oh! it’s no
use goin’ to meeting, anyhow; I don’t
b’lieve in God.’ Then 1 went on a
readin’; but in a minnit I looked up
and see that I’d made a mistake. I
shell never forgit that look. She
said nothing, but held on tight to the
Bible, her lips all pale and close to
gether, and her eyes full of tears. I’d
cut her soul eenmost in two; and now
I couldn’t stand it myself. There
was a great chunk a-coming in my
throat, and so I,went straight out and
set down behind the barn. Then I
got a-thinkin’ in earnest, and afore
you’d b’lieve it I come to consider
that the ‘views’ warn’t of much ac
count any way. I see what they’d
done already, and caleulaten what
they was likely to do, settin’ a man
against his own mother. So I made
up n.y mind, and without making
any noise I went into the barn and
harnessed Whitefoot, and drove
round to the door just a little still,
and stopped and said, ‘/Y/t ready. ’
Mother see me, and looked up awful
surprised, and the tears come agin,
though this time they was tears of
joy. In fact, I felt better myself, hut
we didn’t say much all the way
down, though I knowed she was
pleased, only as we come up to the
meeting-house at a through-going
pace, she said, ’Zekiel,a’n’t we going
a little fast for Sunday?’ ‘You see,’
said the speaker, ‘that I didn’t cal
culate to take anybody’s dust.’
“ Well, I’ve digressed, out it’s all
a part of it. I was a-saying that
mother and I went to the Corners.—
Elder Shumway preached, and didn’t
make me feel quite so uncomfortable
as I expected; and after meeting we
drove home. I see plainly mother
felt better; still, I didn’t make much
headway, & felt a good deal unnatural.
The ‘views, might be true after all.
In fact, I’d something to learn yet,
about decrees, and it come. You re
member the great freshit we had on
the Pawtunxet River ?“
“ It was when I was out West.“
“ Well, that was the greatest risin’
I ever knowed. It was in the spring,
and one day it grew warm and began
to rain and the snow melted. In four
hours there was a flood. I got up in
the night to see what was going on,
and look after the cattle; but when I
opened the door I stepped splash in
to the water. The river had got up
to the house. So I waited until ft
was light, and then, kinder like No
ah, I put my head out of the winder
to see how things was gitting on.
Well, I eenamost thought that the
world was drowned again. Still,
there was things to be seen to, and so
I and Sam (that was my little broth
er) went out and waded to the ridge—
you know the place—and then walk
ed on to the pastures and found they
was five feet deep with water. The
river was up full sixteen feet. Just
then Josiah Pratt come along, and
said that the Pawtunxet mill had to
go. The water was up iu the second
| story, and it couldn’t stand it long,
j John Newman, the watchman, was
! on top and couldn’t get off. We fol
j lowed down along the ridge, toward
; the mill, but couldn’t get very near,
j The sight was awful. The river run
like suthin’ mad, and full of trees
j and lumber, haycocks from the med
ders, and whole houses and barns
sailing along. It looked as if Paw
tunxet village was a-going to sea. —
And there was the long brick mill,
only half out of water, and the river
rushing against it, while John New
man was on the roof, lioldin’ on to
the chimbly. John was an awful
wicked feller, .and was one of them
that stomped when the Boston man
at the Corners said there wasn’t no
Creator. I don’t know' what John
thought note, for, though he hollered,
we couldn’t hear what he said, the
river made such a noise. I could see
that he looked terrible, but we wasn’t
able to do anything, and had to stand
waiting, expecting every minnit the
mill would go. At last we see it was
settlin’, and John Newman was ding
in’ on to the chimbly tighter than
ever. Now' we held our breath. But
it didn’t go then. At last it began to
kinder teeter and teeter, and before
we hardly knowed it, the mill spread
out at both ends and went down.
We expected it would make a great
splash, but it didn’t. It took its fall
in a pashunt sort of way; and when
John Newman and the chimbly went
under, the river biled just a little and
then rushed on, as the Scripter says,
seeking something to devour. That
mill warn’t no account at all.
“Josiah now said that we had bet
ter go home, and so we started,
mournfully like, with the rest of the
folks, as it was clear that we couldn’t
be of any use. We went on slow till
we had got a third of the way to the
house, when I, on a sudden, said,
Where is Sam? Josiah didn’t re
member whether he started with us
or not, but I thought he must hev,
and so we went on. But as Sam
didn’t come in sight I grew uneasy,
and stopped to wait for him, but he
didn’t come. Then I guessed he left
us before the mill went down, and
went higher up tne river; so I walk
ed back with a sort of leelin’ that
there was somethin’ wrong, but I
couldn’t find Sam. Then we went
where we stood at first, and looked
at the rushin’ river. Suddenly 1 see
a sight that made me feel a sort o’
palsied. It was nothin’ less than
Sam a-comin’ down past where the
mill was, on top of a hay-cock. I
knew in a flash how it was. He’d
gone up along to get a nearer sight
of the mill from a hummock, and the
river cut through behind and under
minded the whole thing, when he
crawled top of the hay. Now he was
a-goin’ like mad, and we couldn’t
help him any more’n we could John
Nt-wraan. It was /Sairn’e turn now. —
He knewed we could’t hear him, and
he didn’t holler, but set still on top.
I could almost see his eyes when he
went by, lookin’ like one dead alrea
dy. An’ so he went like a shot over
the mill-dam, where the water run
almost level; and when we got up to
the top of the hummock so as to see
further, Sam was out of sight. I was
staggered now; I thought the ‘views’
ivas right and that things run loose.
Josiah was dreadful mournful, and
said at last that we had better go back
to the house; and so, with a sort of
sick felin’, I went. Where’s Sam?
says mother. But our faces, all white,
she said afterwards, told the story.
At last Josiah had to say just how it
was, for I couldn’t, and you never
see anything like the effect. When
father was brought home dying, mo
ther was calm, and looked up as if
she see angels coinin’ to strengthen
Her. But this time the angels didn’t
oome. There warn’t no strength note.
Sam was the youngest (a sort of Ben
jamin, you know), a bright boy, and
just the stuff for a minister, with fa
ther’s eyes and make; and so mother
set right down and covered her face.
But after a while she dropped her
hands slowly and said: ’Zekel, don’t
you think you could find—?’ That
was all she could say, but I knowed
what she meant, and started for the
river, w’hile Josiah went to tell the
neighbors that Sam was drowned.—
The storm was over now, the water
had gone down, and the sun was shi
nin’, but somehow I couldn’t see. My
eyes was like Jeremiah’s, but my
heart warn’t. In fact, I was despe
rate. I knew ’twarn’t no use to hunt
for the body, but I went because mo
ther wanted me to. So I walked and
walked along the river, and see noth
in’. If found at all, it would be a
long way off. Still I kept on most
three miles in the edge of the tvoods
and fields, and come to the High Falls
where the river tumbles straight
down thirty feet. Bight above the
falls was a rocky island which was
all under water now, but the top of a
great apple-tree in the middle was
above it, and when I got where I
could hear the bellerin’ of the falls, I
thought I see somethin’ in the branch
es. Still, I don’t know why I kept
on; but as I come near, it looked like
hay. Then I run and come opposite
the tree, and, would you believe it?
there was the lmy-cock plastered in
ter the top of the tree, and Sam top
of that, as comfortable as Moses in
the bulrushes. Afore that it seemed
as if there wasn't any Creator rulin’
things, but now I hinder believed there
was. Still, I felt short of breath. I
thought I was a-goin’ to be a ghost.
The feelin’s all stopped pumpin' up
inter my eyes. At last I cried, Is
that you, Sam ? And Sam says, Jest
so. Sam, I said, how are you ? Then
the little critter hollered out, All
right! After a heap of danger, we
got a boat and got him ashore, and
started for home. Sam was too tired
to talk, you can guess, and I only said,
How did you feel when you went
over the dam? As though it was
lightenin’, said Sam. But I kept up
a-thinkin’, and said to myself, them
decrees might be right after all, only
Elder Shumway put the wrong end
of the wedge first. Clearly that ap
ple-tree saved Sam; and how come it
there? It warn’t even planted, but
was one of them wild things that
trowed of itself. If that seed hadn’t
ropped in that particular spot , years
and years ago, I wouldn’t a found
Sam safe in the top of that tree.—
Maybe there are decrees; for what
sort of a Creator would he be that
hadn't made up his mind? Half-way
home we met Sy Blanchard, and told
him what had took place; and when
he see I warn’t in for a joke, he took
hold of Sam’s close and see that they
was dry, and said (after he drew a
long breath), Sho, ’Zekiel, mericles
"an be done. Well, at last we got
back to the house; and while I was
! tbinkin’ how to break it to mother,
Sam run ahead, and so I had to folier.
The house was full of folks, but mo
ther heard our steps, and next she
see Sain! I thought at first she woud
'have dropped, but she didn’t. At
last she stepped forrard and caught
him in her arms; then she went
down on her knees and looked up
rapturous like, all the while boldin’
! tight on to Sam. Well, it's no use to
. try to describe that. We read In
j Scripture of women who received
; tlieir dead again, but here it was; ns
for the Prodigal Son, why, he warn’t
nowhere.”
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dered whether the present prosperous
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question, more successful than papers
similarly located in neighboring
States. No one who can see the pa
pers of Georgia requires to be told of
their prosperity. They proclaim it
more than all the books that could be
written, or the agents who could be
appointed to herald the advantages
of that State to the intelligent capi
talist or industrious laborer who may
be seeking a home.”
SOUTHERN DEBTS TO NORTH
ERN MERCHANTS.
It will be remembered that in the
early days of the Southern Confede
racy, a law was passed confiscating
the debts due by Southern men to
Northern creditors. Some of the
proceeds of this confiscation fund
were deposited in the New Orleans
banks to the order of the Confederate
government when General Butler
made his entry into that city. Gen.
Butler seized these sums, with other
contraband of war, and the whole
amount was conveyed into the Unit
ed States Treasury. Various parties
in the North to whom money was
due procured the testimony to estab
lish their right to it, but there is no
authority by which it can be taken
from the treasury. A bill has been
prepared and is now on the Senate
calendar authorizing these parties to
enter suit in the Court of Claims for
their money, and the parties inter
ested are urging its favorable consid
eration.
AN IMPORTANT LAW.
In the Code of Georgia, section 4428
reads as follows:
If any person by himself or agent,
shall be guilty of employing the ser
vent of another during the term
w T hich he, she or they may be em
ployed knowing that such servant
w r as so employed, and that his terms
of services was not expired; or if any
person or persons shall entice, or per
suade, or decoy any servant to leave
his employer, either by offering high
er wages or in any way w hatever,
during the term of service, know
ing that the said servant was so em
ployed, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction,
shall pay a fine not to exceed S2OO, or
be imprisoned in the common jail of
the county not exceeding three
months, or both, at the discretion of
the court.
No one, in its violation is permit
ted to plead ignorance of its provis
ions.
A New Haven revivalist the other
night painted the future state of the
wicked in gloomy colors, and saying
that his father died a very wicked
man and had gone to hell, was pro
ceeding when a young man rose to
go out. The preacher at once an
nounced that there was a young man
going straight to the same burning
region, when the seceder stopped and
coolly asked: “Well, elder, don’t you
want to send some w r ord to your fa
ther?”
The abolition of slavery in Cuba is
the all-abs'o: bing topic at the North.
The Cuban patriots propose to free
the negroes on the Island if success
ful. The best way to terminate the
matter is to raise 100,000 volunteers
from the freedmen of the South, and
land them in Cuba, duly armed, and
let them go for the Spaniards.— Ex.
A most melancholy affair has just
occurred at Richmond, Va. Two
“highly respectable” young ladies
have been sent to jail for seven days
for the offence of stealing from a hair
dresser’s shop “a quantity of human
hair” —ten dollars’ worth, in fact.—
The frightful arrangements for the
human head at present so much in
fashion are answerable for the temp
tation to which these two highly re
spectably virgins succumb. It is a
dreadful state of things when ladies
are thus driven to crime to obtain
the means of making themselves hid
eous.
Some important movement of troops
will soon be ordered by the War De
partment, the effect of which will be
to take from the States of Kentucky,
North and South Carolina, Alabama,
and Tennessee the greater poriion of
the United States military forces
stationed in those States, and locate
them at other points where the inter
est of the Government may require
their presence.
Billings produces long columns of
figures, with verbal explanations, to
prove that mosquitoes are of poor
but industrious parents, but have in
their veins some of the best blood in
the country.
A recent writer believes there are
only three things needed to bring out
the millenium. First, a motive pow
er to do all the work of steam, but re
quire no fuel; second, a?rial naviga
tion, by which geographical and po
litical boundaries will be obliterated,
and the whole world become one na
tiou ; and third, chemical food, to bo
j made in the laboratory without ei
ther animal or vegetable substances,
j and produced so cheaply that want
will he unheard of.
Mr E. B. Pressley, of Cartersville,
will take charge of the Euharlee Ho
tel, at this place, the first of next
week. —Rockmart Reporter.
Mr. Sprague says the road from
New' Orleans to Shreveport will be
completed within a year, notwith
standing the Louisiana troubles.
Mr. Walsh, of Richmond, introdu
ced one to encourage the publication
of newspapers in this State by ex
empting the material used therein
from taxation.
Mr. Johnson, of Clay, introduced a
bill to prohibit the running of steam
boats or any kind of railroad trains
on the Sabbath day.
The oldest man in the world has at
length been discovered. His name
is Joe Martino Continho, a resident
of Cape Frio, in the province of Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, who was born on the
20th of May, 1694 and is therefore
nearly 194 years old! It is said that
he has forty-two children by six
wives, and can count one hundred
and twenty-three grand children,
eighty-six greatgrandchildren, twen
ty-three great great grandchildren,
and twenty of the least.
A lady with an unmusical voice
insisted upon singing at a party. —
“What does she call that?” inquired
a guest. “The Tempest, I think,”
answered another. “Don’t be alarm
ed,” said a sea captain paesent, “That
is no tempest; it is only a squall, and
will soon be over.”
“Lor-a-inassy,” exclaimed the old
lady iu the witness box, “how should
I know anything about a thing I
dunno anything about ?”
A certain little damsel having been
aggravated beyond endurance by her
brother, plumped down on her knees
and cried: “O Lord! bless my broth
er Tom. He lies, he steals, he sw ears;
all boys do; us girls don’t. Amen.
A smart boy in schools of Cadiz, Pa.
having been required to write a com
position on some part of the human
body expanded as follows: “The
throat—A throat is convenient to
have, especially for roosters andmin-,
isters. The former eats corn and crows
with it; the latter preaches through
his, and ties it up.”
By an exasperated Michigan edi
tor: "“It is disgusting to see young girls
parade the streets of a modest and un
atsuming little country village with a
usckupbehindwiggledarnphoolitive
ness larger than they are.”
Mrs. and Mi.ss Martin, residing
near Graham’s depot, in Barnwefl
county, were accidentally burned to
death on last Thursday night.
Mr. Sloan who was defeated for Con
gress in the Savanuah district at the
recent election, has given notice that
he will contest the seat of Hon. Mor
gan Rawls, the member elect.
The little son of a very prominent
minister of this city said so his father
“Pa, St. Paul was a Yankee.”
“How do you know that, my son?”
“Why, sir, in the 18th verse of Bth
chapter of Romans, he says: ‘For I
reckon.’ None but Yankees say reck
on.’ ’ — Baltimore A merican.
If St. Paul had a Yankee he
would have said “guess” instead of
reckon.
If you want teeth extracted by one
who knows how, call at the office of
Dr. Seale. .
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The best Laundry Soap,
Carroll’s Ga. made, for sale at A A
Skinner & Co’s.
If you want bargains in Real Es
tate, call on Wofford & Wikle. Rare
chances for investments in city and
farming property offered. 1-2.
Builders’ and Contractors’
Special Notice. —Doors, Sashes,
Blinds, Window and Plate Glass,
Builders’ Furnishing Hardware,
Mouldings, Stair Fixtures, Marble
and Slate Mantlepieces, Encaustic
Floor Tile, Drain Pipe, &c., &c., at
the great Southern Factory of P. P.
Toale, Charleston S. C. Send for his
price list. 1-9-tlst-marc
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John F. Harwell will mend stoves,
sewing machines, guns, pistols, gins,
threshers, horse-powers, &e., onjshort
notice and at moderate prices.
Jourdan, Howard & Harralson, of
Atlanta, are the most successful To
bacco Dealers in the South. They
dispense more of the weed through
the Southern States than any other
like house south of the * Potomac.—
Atlanta is rapidlv becoming the to
bacco mart of the South, and this
house is the great head-centre of the
trade, as auy one will be led to con
clude who witness their immense
shipments.
A number of building lots and im
proved lots for sale by Wofford &
Wikle. 1-2.
Dr. R. A. Seale, Dentist, Carters
ville, Ga., room oposite Wofford &
Milner up stairs in new building ad
joining Bank. West of Depot.
The cheapest and best
SOAP now in use, Carroll’s Georgia
made, for sale at Skinner & Co’s.
TO PREVENT FELONS HEAD
ING.
Take black pepper in the kernel
and pulverize well; then soak the
pepper with spirits of turpentine and
apply to the felon as a poultice. If
this remeny is used when the felon
first makes its appearence it is a cer
tain cure in a few applicaions.
SUBSCRIPTION :
$2 per annum.
Fan, Honseholfl and Garden.
the orchard.
We gather the following practical
and timely hints from the proceed
ings of the late Fruit Growers Con
vention of Pennsylvania:
j Mr. Meehan said he did uot believe
in underdraining or subsoiling or
chards. The feeding- roots of trtss are
near the surface, and if they are fed,
there is no necessity for deep tillage,
lie approved of a system of ridging
the land, by which by successive
ploughings the soil is thrown up two
j or three feet above the natural level,
j and the trees are planted on theridg
i es. This is so economical a process
} compared with underdraining and
subsoiling as to possess great advanta
ges. The idea of making the whoio
orchard “ one big hole” is ridiculous,
expensive and useless.
MANAGEMENT OF ORCHARDS.
The most profitable way of manag
ing a fruit garden and orchard l>eing
under consideration—
Mr. Satterthwaite said he believed
in iowtrained trees, in manuring, in
good drainage, and in keeping the
old bark scraped off the trees.
Mr. Meehan recommended putting
the land into grass after the trees
were planted. This for a farmer
would be generally the course giving
the most immediate returns. On a
plot four years in fruit, he had for
three successive years raised 3 tons of
hay to the acre. On the grass he put
if 15 to the acre of baugh’s Superphos
phate, and no crop of grain or vege
tables would probably have yielded
as much as the hay. ‘if low-branch
ing trees are used, after a while they
will occupy the whole ground, but by
that time they will be in full bearing.
Mr. Martin planted apple trees 25
to 30 feet apart, with peach trees be
tween them one way, and two row's
of blackberries between the apples
and peaches, and two rows of straw
berries betw'een the blackberries, and
cultivated them all.
Mr. Coffren placed his peach trees
on the sod and threw earth on the
roots; on hi land holes would hold
water. 1i ts planted peaches on the
mountain sit!' l -, where scarce earth
enough can tie had to cover the roots,
and there they do best.
Mr. Iloopes said the diseases of
fruit trees are the results of causes
which have their origin in carle&s
ness or ignorance. Deep planting is
one error. To plant a tree rather
shallower than it formerly stood is
the right w;ay, whilst many plant a
tree as they would a post. Roots are
of two kinds—the young and tender
rootlets, composed entirely of cells,
and which are the feeders of the tree,
always found near the surface getting
air and moisture, their food always
being taken in the form of vapor—
and roots of over one year old, which
servo only as surporters of the trees
and as conductors of its food. Hence
the injury whieli ensuoe when the
delicate rootlets are so deeply buried
in the earth. Raspberries were cited
as a particular illustration of the ad
vantage of shallow planting, and a
trial was recommended of setting tw T o
rows, one deeply planted and the
other with the roots just covered.
Placing fresh or green manure in
contact with the young roots is an
other great error. r l he place to put
manure is on the sui face, where the
elements disintegra c, dissolve and
carry it downwards. Numerous
forms of fungi are gi iterated and re
produced by the application of such
manures directly to the roots, and
they immediately attack the tree.
Mr. Parry had not much faith in
great preparation of soils for fruit
planting, and it is unnecessary. An
elevated position is generally best,
and more naturally drained, drainage
being an essential. A clay subsoil,
overlaid by a sandy loam, is the best
for fruit. If the soil is poor, it must
be enriched; if wet, it must be drain
ed. Commended the ridging system,
which he had seen practiced on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Mr. P. Morris refered to the instance
of the nursery grounds of Win. Reed
ofN. J. which were well drained,
deep ploughed, stiff soil. Th > trees
had the most extraordinary roots he
had ever seen from any nursery. Ile
said there were many cases w'here
the clay subsoil comes within four
inches of the surface, and at such
places subsoiling and draining were
necessities. Sometimes a very yel
low subsoil is converted into a good
manure by the influence of the
air. Cited an instance of a man who
dug a cellar and threw out such stiff
clay that he was afraid to put on his
land or in his barn yard, and which
he threw out on the sides of the pub
lic road, where, the next year, it pro
duced the finest white clover ever
seen in that section.
Mr. Engel objected to subsoiling,
on the ground that soils naturally
compact soon relapsed to that condi
tion after the process, and that loose
ones did not need it. Favored rather
the gradual turning up and mixing
with the surface of the subsoil, put
ting on manure, turning under clover,
buckwheat, &c., and thus ameliora
ting as well as breaking up the under
soil.
AN EW DISCOVERY IN HORTI
CULTURE.
On the authority of a translation
from a French journal, an exchange
announces the discovery that by wa
tering vegetables and fruit trees with
a solution of sulphate of iron, (cop
eras,) the most astonishing results
are obtained. Applied to growing
lieans, they gained 60 per cent, on
their ordinary size, while flavor was
much improved. Fruit trees were
greatly benefited by a watering with
this solution, the pear tree especially
being improved in thriftiness of
growth and productiveness. If our
gardeners and fruit growers desire to
make experiments in this direc
tion, they can be made very cheaply,
as copperas can be purchased at
wholesale at about three cents per
pound.— Rural Southener.
If you want new teeth inserted in
the best manner, Dr. Seale can do it
as well and cheap as any one else.
In fact if you want to enjoy the
comfort of nicely furnished and well
warmed rooms while you are having
your dentist work done, call on Dr.
Beale, you will find him there ready
to do any thing you want done in hsi
line. He is in his office during all
business hours ready to receive and
wait on all who may favor him with
a call. We recommend him to you
as a first class workman and a Chris
tian gentleman.
SO. 8.