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JOB-Y W. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MII.NKK
WOFFORD & MILNER,
ATTOKXEfY AT LAW,
CAR'TISIWV ILLE, GA.
OV’fh E Lp «aiW, Uutit Block.
J i C. TIM 1.1 N,
attorney 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 Llobmaa’s store.
I| W. MURPHEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practico In the courts of the Cherokee.
Circuit. Particular attention given to the col
oction of claims. Office with Col. Abda John
»oa. . * Oct. 1,
P. WOFFORD,
attorney at law.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE in Court-House. l au 28
yi M. FOUTE,
attorney at la w ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
( With Col. Warren Attn,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Uordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad
Joining counties. March 30.
P B. McDANIEL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’72
YV # D. TRAMMELL.
attorney at law,
CAKTEUSVILL i, GA
OFFIOF W, Slain St., next door to Standard
4 Fx press Ollioe. Feb. 15, 1872-^-wly.
C. H. BATES.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oftlce oyer store ol Ford A 11 riant.
Feb! <5-
DR. W. A. TROTTER
OFFERS his PROFESSSONAL SERVICES
to the citizens of Cartersvillc.
Office with Dr. Baker.
Cartel'sville, Ga., Jan. 7,1873.
Medical IMotice.
Dll. W. HARDY, having removed to this
city, proposes
PRACTICING MEDICINE,
in all its branches, and is also prepared for
OPERATIVE SURGERY.
DR. J. A. JACKSON,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next
door to Stokely & Williams’. oct27
W. It. Mount?turtle.
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CABTBESVILLK,.. GSOBGIA.
Ofioe is trent of A. A. Skinner A Go’s Storo.
GKX. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. H. WIKLE
Wofford, efts Willie,
ATTORNEYS-AT - LAW,
AND
Real. Instate Agents,
Cartersvillc, Ga.
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur
* chase and sale of Real Estate. -88-6ul
DENTISTRY.
•PMBSt* jgQSSfc
THE undersigned respectfully informs the
citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that he
has resumed the practice of Dentistry, and by
dose attention to business *nd faithful work
ha hopes to receive-a liberal share of success.
Office over Erwin, Stokely & Cos.
Jan 30-6ra. F. M. JOHNSON.
Dental Car’d..
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 A Milner, in the new
building adjoining the Bank. With experience
and application to my profession, charges al
ways reasonable aua just, I hope to merit the
patronage of a generous public.
Office hours, from November Ist proximo. 8 to
14 A. M., 2t05 P. ■. Sabbaths excepted. Calls
answered at residence, opposite Baptist church.
R. A. SE ALE,
10-\7 —ts Surgeon Dentist
. DR. C'llAS. IVALVIGW,
I>ENT I S T ,
Cartersville, Ga.
- SPECIAL ATTENTION given to children’s
E3 teeth.
8-15-
head house,
p °fflting Passenger Depot,
CHATTANOOGA.
JOHN T. READ, Proprietor.
Jan IG-’72.
STERLING
SILVER-WARE.
ISII A IM* & lI.OYD
No. 33 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA.
Specialty,
Sterling Silver-Ware.
Special attention is requested to the many
new and elegant pieces manufactured express
ly to our order the past year, audquite recently
completed.
* Aft unusually aUr-icliv'O Os -Ortment ofnWe!-
if- in FSacfSiiwr, clrteil for 4A'. fegrkud
frr>lid»y of a medium and ex'pefXiv
character.
The House we represent manufacture on un
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 UN APPRO ACHED by any
cempctltion. 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 HOUBE USE ONLY
925
BRITISH STERLING, -
1000
au4—tf
It Leads to Happiness!
A Boon to the Whole Race of Woman!
DR. J. BRADFIELD’S
FEMALE REGULATOR!
It will bring on the Menses; relieve all pain
at the monthly “Period;’* cure Rheumatism
and Neuralgia of Rack and Uterus; Leucor
rhenaor “Whites,” and partial Prolapsus Uteri;
check excessive flow, and correct allirregular-
Ities peculiar to ladies.
It will remove all irritation of Kidneys and
Bladder; relieve Costiveness; purify tire Blood:
give tone and strength to the whole system;
clear the skin, imparting a rosy hue to the
check, and cheerfulness to the mind.
It is as sure a cure in all the above diseases
as Quinine is in Uliills and Fever.
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.
- LaGkaxok, Ga., March 23,1870.
BIIADFIELD & • CO., Atlanta, Ga, —Dear
Sirs: 1 take pleasure in staling that 1 have used
for the last twenty years, the medioine you are
now putting up, known as l)r. J. llradlield’s
FEMALE REGULATOR,'and consider it the
best combination ever gotten together for the
diseases for which it is recommended. 1 have
been familiar with the prescription both as a
practitioner of medicine and in domestic prac
tice, and can honestly lay that l consider it a
boon to sufferihg 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, t hat 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. 1). ,
' Near Marietta. Ga., March 2L 1870.
MESSRS. WM. ROOT A SON.—Dear Sirs:
Some months ago I 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 yoyr REGULATOR arc in perfect
health, and arc able to attend to their house
hold duties, and we cordially recommend it to
the public. Yours respectfully,
Rkv. H. B. JOHNSON.
Wc could add a thousand other certificates;
but we consider the above amply sufficient
proof of its virtue. All wc 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„
PricO $1 50. ATLANTA, GA.
Sold by all Druggists,
1-30-ly.
Wm i Gouldmith,
Manufacturer and doaler in
m
METALIC BURIAL CASES & CASKETS
Also keeps 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 respectfully invited to th
Agricultural Warehouse
OP
ANDERSON & WELLS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA;
DEALERS IN
Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds,
FARM WAGONS,
PITTS’ TH RESHERS.
Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or without
down and mounted horse powers.
SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS.
Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or witgout
down and mounted horse powers.
Bali’s Reaper and Mower,
Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower
PLOWS-ONE AND TWO-HORSE
BUGGY PLOWS.
Also General A gents 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,
Tcnn.—Cash $45 per ton; creditlst Nov., SSO;
And all other kinds of implements and ma
chinery, which we sell as low as any house in
the South. Call aud see us, or send for Price
List. ANDERSON & WELLS.
52
Theo. GOULDSMITH,
Agent for
GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS.
Cartersville, Georgia.
SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY, EDITOHS AND PROPRIETORS.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27,1873.
IS
MOREY MADE.
HLij your (goods
C H EA P .
While you can.
The uu«ler*igued has on
hand and is constantly re
ceiving
New and Beautiful
GOODS,
of every description just
from the Eastern Markets,
which will be sold at the
LOWEST FIOERES FOB
GDsisl&S
I otter superior Induce
ments as^regards
Style,
Quality,
and
Prices.
An examination of my
Stock will convince you
that you can buy your
Ooods cheaper of me than
elsewhere
Handsome Styles of
DRESS GOODS!
SHAWLS,
Striped and Reversible, of
the Tallest Fashions.
PRINTS,
Os every Style and Shad^
WHITE GOODS,
]>Jotions;
CLOTHING,
MENS WEAR.
BOOTS,
H i P 3
Caps,
Mini,
GROCERIES,
My assortment of Dulles’
misses aud'childrcn’s
BOOTS, SHOES & GAITERS,
Cannot be excelled in ei
ther style quality'or cheap
ness.
Mens 9 Boots and Shoes at
all Prices, Hats Lower
than the Lowest.
I would call special at
tention to my system of do
ing business. Ist., 1 sell
strictly for CASH. Having
no accounts 1 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
man, and a poor judge as
cheap as the best judge of
Goods in the country.
Buy your Goods at the
IGIKTORE
and save money. No trou
ble to show Goods.
A. P. NEAL.
POETICAL
[Written for the Standard A Express.
HO W LONG, OH LORDt
BY MRS. M. J. MILLER, FORMERLY OF GEORGIA.
llow long, oh Lord, must be my spirit’* stay,
In this frail, trembling tenement of clay,
So near to pieces ?
Oh! how much longer have Ito remain—
On earth—to feel the weariness and pain,
That never ceases ?
Once, I r.emember—so long ago it seem*
Almost as though ’twas only In my dream*—
That I could walk;
Then, I was healthy, happy, strong and young,
No weakness then, forbid lay jo/oui toffigue,
To sing or talk.
But oh! those brighter days passed quickly by,
The gloomy clouds ere long obscured the *ky,
So fair to see;
Since then, each year has added to my free,
New marks of pain, and left the blighting trace
Os agony.
I’ve felt thy chastening hand, oh God! foryear*,
And drank from sorrow's cup, in pain and tear*,
Through will of thine;
Down to the very dregs that cup I’ve drained,
The draught was bitter, yet by it I’ve gained,
Thy love divine.
Why is it that ray stay on earth’s extended f
Have Ia mission here that is not ended,
Oh! gracious one ?
Show me the work, and give me strength to do
it,
Though hard the task, I’ll cheerfully pereue it—
“ Thy will be done.”
And when my work is done, shall I inherit,
The prize that is awarded to the spirit,
For service given ?
When death shall lay my feeble frame to feet,
Let me, oht Father, be among the blest,
With thee in Heaven.
How long ere I 6hall join in songs of glory—
And heur from angel lips, agaiu the story,
How Jc6us gave
His precious body to be crucified,
By 6inful men, for whom He came, and died
Their souls to save.
Oh, blessed Lord! Thy blood was shed for all,
Who willJbelieve that Thou wilt hear their call,
In their distress;
I come to thee, dear Saviour, now to plead,
For grace sufficient—for each time of need—
Thy name to bless.
Thy love, and grace has giv’n my heart the pow
er,
To bless thy uame—in agony’s worst hour,
And smile at pain;
And bear without a murmur thy behest.
To clasp the cross still closer to my breast,
The crown to gain.
And now, oh Gad, when will my spirit soar
Above! To wear the crown forevermore,
Around Thy throne?
How long ere this tried soul shall reach the por
tal,
Where she may, claim the life for her immortal*
Os heaven’s own ?
Beaumont, Texas.
THEBE IS NO DEA TH.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in Heaven’s jeweled crown
They shine for evermore.
There is no death! The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer showers
So golden grain or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
To feed the hungry mass they bear;
The forest leaves driuk daily life
From out the viewless air.
There is no death! The leaves may fall,
The leaves may fade and pass away;
They only wait, through wintry hours,
The coming of the May.
There is no death 1 An angel form
Walks o’er the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them “dead.”
He leaves our hearts all desolate,
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers;
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones
Made glad these scenes of sin and strife,
Sings now an everlasting song .
Amid the tree of life.
And where he sees a smile too bright,
Or heart too pure for taint and vice,
He bears it to that world of light,
To dwell in Paradise.
Bom into that undying life,
They leave us but to come again;
With joy we welcome them—the same,
Except in sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless Universe
Is life— THERE IS NO DEAD.
SONG OF THE DECANTER.
There was an old decan
ter and its mouth was
gaping wide; the
rosy wine had
ebbed away,
and left
its crys
tal side;
and the wind
went humming,
humming—
up and
down the
sides it flew,
and through the
reed-like,
hollow neck
the -wildest notes It
blew. I placed it in the .*
window, where the blast was
blowing free, and fancied that its
pate mouth Bang the queerest strains
to me,. “They tell me—puny con
queror!—the Plague has slain his ttn,
and War bis hundred thousand of the
very best of men; but I” ’twas thus
the bottle spoke “but I have conquered
more than all your famous conquerors,
so feared and famed of yore. Then
come, ye. youth and maidens, come
drink, from out my cup, the bever
ogo that dulls the brain and bums
the spirit up; that puts to shame
the conquerors that slay their
scores below;/or this has delug'd
millions with the lava tide of
woe. Though in the path of
. battler darkest waves of
blood fridy rolls yet while
‘ I killed the body, I
' '■ -have damned the very
soul. The. cholera,
the sword, such ru
in never wrought,
as I, in mirth or
malice, on the
innocent have
brought. And still I breathe
upon them, and they shrink before
my breath; and year by year toy thou
sands tread the dismal road to Dmu.”
• - [Frem thaCourier-Journal.
A MoPT REMARKABLE BOG
f FIGHT.
Tliere in at the present writing a
member of the House whose father
was as renowned in his day and way
as the far-famed Davy Crockett, of
pleasant fnemory. \\V will call him
“Uucle ] John.” Unde John lived and
moved <n these parts forty years ago.
Cards and race horses, and dog-tights
were hA chief delight. Few men
couTif-L&rt him at a game of “old
sledge.” ‘His horses had lightning
In their heels; while his dogs
(bull-dug,s and fighting-dogs were
fashionable in those days—they were
the genuine “dog days”) carried the
sVift arrows of death in their bris-!
But it is seldom given
unto one man to excel in three pur
suits at one time and in all places.
However in respect of cards, horses,
and dogs, Uncle John never met his
match until the fates took him to
Sparta, then, as now a flourishing
little viftage in White county. Even
there hdbeat everything in sight as
far as hit cards and horses were donj
cerned, but his dogs were badly wors
ted. The Spartan inn-keeper had the
king dog of all his tribe—a ferocious
“bull” that “chawed up and spit out
everything that came along. Uncle
John put up fifty dollars in specie on
his own “Tige,” but if Tige had gene
through a Cincinnati sausage-grinder
he could scarcely have looked more
ragged than he did when he came
out. As went the first, so followed
the second, faster and faster, till it
seemed unmerciful disaster had over
taken Uncle John in the dog line at
last. He traveled many weary miles
in search of a dog that could whip
that tavern-keeper’s dog, but all to no
purpose. He was losing his money
fast and worse than all he was losing
his temper and patience. Faith in
the motto “try try again 44 had almost
deserted him. He went out on what
he avowed was his last hunt, and was
nearing Sparta, on his return late one
afternoon, gloomy and dejected, for
he hadn’t found the right animal yet,
when, as good luck would have it,
just as begot within a few miles of
that inn which had been the scene of
so many disgraceful defeats, he met a
countryman driving an ox team with
a greatAicious-looking wolf chained
behind the wagon. lie was not long
ascertaining that the wolf was as wild
and as gavage as a hyena ; that he
had but an hour before been taken
in a trap, and that his owner coilld be
induced to part with him for a valu
able consideration.
“I’ll give you two dollars and a
half in hard money for that critter,”
proposed Uncle John.
“Not enough yet,” said backwoods,
“Well,” said Uncle John, finally,
“if ycu’Jl just help strap him behind
my saddle and’ll take five dollars,
if f
And they traded. “If I don’t
whip that d —d tavern-keeper’s dog
this tinge,” muttered Uncle John to
Mmslffnas he drew toward Sparta,
“he may take my hat for a corn-bas
ket.”
As it was qui-te dark when our hero
reached the inn, he cautiously un
straped the terrible beast, and pitch
ing him into a deserted out house
which, fortunately, stood hard by,
and fastening him in securely, enter
ed the hotel. “I think I’ve found a
dog that can chaw your’n this time
remarked Uncle John to the major
domo, after passing usual salutations.
“You really think you’ve found
him at last, do you ?” chuckled the
master of the king of dogs, and tip
ping a sly wink at the crowd. 44 Well,
what do you say to lettin ’em to
gether in the morning ?”
“All right, said Uncle John. “I’m
bound to be off home mighty airly
in the morning but if you’ll be ready
directly after breakfast, I won’t mind
giving you just one more turn, any
how.”
The rumor soon spread through
the village of Sparta that a great dog
fight was to come off next day by
sunrise, and the whole vicinity was
on the qui vive. Our hero explained
that his dog was so vigrm that he
was compelled, to keep him closly con
fined. ‘Blamed,’ said he, “if I bleeve
he knows his own master yit.” So it
was arranged that his dog was to re
main in the out-house—an old crib
or barn, by the way—and that the
other dog was to be unchained and
turned in with him at a given signal.
By daylight everybody was up and
ready for the fray! The old barn in
which Uncle John’s dog was shut
was so dark at that hour that only
his outlines—just enough to indicate
that he was a shornuff dog”—could
he detected. Bets ran high, the odds
being all in favor of the great victor
in so many hotly-contested fights.
Uncle John staked a round hundred
against a like sum of the inn-keeper’s.
Time was called, the ferocious hull
dog sniffed his antagonist through the
cracks of the old barn, growled defi
ance for a moment, and when un
chained and the window opened, he
lit in at a single bound.
Ah ! then and there was hurrying
to and fro, and flying fur, and sput
terings of distress, aud cheeks all pale
which out an hour ago blushed with
a quart of rum, or something less.
Men, women and children outside
were running round that crib, trying
to peep in through the cracks "and
crevices. Such a spattering, sput
tering, growling, yelling, gnashing
of teeth and caterwauling has never
been heard in Sparta from that day
to this. The tavern-keeper excitedly
suggested that “forty wolvescouldn’t
keep more fuss than them two dogs.”
Uncle John awaited the issue with
the cairn dignity of one conseious that
he holds four aces in his hand and
the fifth up his sleeve; the only cool
man on the ground. But it didn’t
lafet long. Sooner than it takes to
tell it, a faint whine was heard at the
window, the shutter was thrown
open, and what was left of poor
“Bull” struggled heavily to the sill
and fell in a raw lump to the ground
on the outside. This was the first
and last time he ever turned back on
an ehemy; he made one or two nerv
ous kicks, and all was over. He was
in a shocking plight indeed; minus
one ear, one eye, and the grater part
of his “innards,” he might have pas
sed through a threshing-machine
and fared better. Uncle John hasti
ly snatched the wager from the stake
holder, mounted his horse and rode
off in a sweeping gallop, yelling at
mine host as he bade him adieu that,
“Whenever he had any more fitiu
dogs, to please let him know.”
How long the wolf remained in
that crib as monarch of all he survey
ed, or how long “Bull’s” master was
in finding oat the nature of the dog
that sent his favorite to his last ac
count, is nbt precisely stated, but it is
said that when he became fully con
scious of the facts as they existed his
neighbors heard him swearing for a
distantv of two miles. He took off
his coat, rolled up his sleeves, mount
ed a stump and gave utterance to such
maledictions as were never heard be
fore. His character as a dog-fightist
: gone, his money gone, his dog gone,
and Uncle John gone, (never to re
turn) stirred the deep foundations of
his inmost bib*, it is stated as a fact
that lie never smiled again; and that
all anyone had to do to get up the
biggi.st sort of a rumpus was just to
ask that Spartan if he had any more
dogs that h«M like to bet on.
C. E. M.
MENINGETIS. >
Editors Constitution: Being in dai
ly recipt of letters from this and ad
joining States, requesting a state
ment of my treatment tn the disease
known as “Cerebro-sfinal meniuge
tis;” not having the time to devote
to answering theso communications,
I have thought proper to give a syn
optical statement through the secular
press of this city, thereby enabling
the profession to employ the treat
ment during the present endemic in
in this and other adjoining States,
which I could not be able to commu
nicate through the medical press in
time for the present season. Another
reason is that numerous physicians
take no medical periodical. The fol
lowing treatment should not be un
detaken by anyone but a skillful phy
sician, and to such this communica
tion is addressed.
“to the medical profession.”
The following treatment which has
been employed by me since the win-'
tersof 1862—’63, with uniform suc
cess in all cases where the treatment
is instituted within twenty-four
hours after the developement of the
prominent symptoms:
In the first place discard all ideas
of the disease being an inflammatory
affection of the braid and spinal cord.
Saturate a flannel, folded several
times, with spirits of turpentine, ap
ply this along the whole course of
the spine. Pass over this, after the
ordinary mode of ironing, a common
sad or smoothing iron well heated.
Continue this for ten or fifteen min
utes until you have well stimulated
the spine. In the meantime give a
heroic dose of sulphate of quinine,
which must be repeated every two
or three hours, or oftener if necessa
ry. This to he followed by a heroic
dose of bromide of potassium combin
ed with ordering a dose of solid Ex’t
HyasCyamus. The object of the Bro
mide is to control reflex action, and
the dose should he regulated by the
head and spiral symptoms, as this
disease is dependent upon electro
monic changes in the periphy of the
nerves. The action on this inode of
action of the Quinine and Bromide
will be readily perceived by the phy
sician. Under no circumstances use
a fly blister or opiates in the outset of
this disease, (avoid all cold applica
tion to head and spine.) When con
stipation exist, which is generally the
case, use large doses of calomel, re
peated every three hours, until the
bowels are freely evacuated. The
physician can rely on this treatment
when instituted in time.
J. J. Knot, M. D.
A Manuel on the Cultiva
tion of the Grasses and Forage
Plants of the South—By C. W.
Howard.— This is the title of an
unasuming little treatise on grass
culture in the South; written by our
distinguished countryman Rev. C. W.
Howard; and embodies in its pages
the experience and philosophical
thoughts of that distinguished gen
tlemen. It is a work that addresses
itself to the wants of every farmer,
and should be in every farm-house.
The culture of grasses and raising
of stock , is assuming increasing pro
portion every year, and all experi
ence demonstrates that it is a branch
of farming industry that will hand
somely pay.
A manuel, such as the one before
us, will be of great benefit to those
deversifying their crops, and we
cordially commend it to their notice.
It can be procured by addressing
C. W. Howard, Kingston, Georgia
for the trifling sum of 25 cents. No
better investment could be made.
The manuel is well printed, and- is
from the publishing house of Boyle A
Chapman, Memphis, Tenn.
How They Look.— Mrs. Ballou,
lecturing on spiritualism in Colum
bus, answered several questions put
by her audience—among them the
following, as reported by the Enqui
rer:
“You profess to have seen spirits,
what is their appearance, and do
children always remain in the infan
tile condition ?”
Spirits appear generally in the
form as when last seen on earth, and
though bright and transparent are
easily recognizable. The infant
grows in statue as when in flesh,
though not altogether so rapidly.
If it should wish to manifest itself
to its mother, it would appear as she
last saw it. In the matter of teach
ing, they do not soon become suffi
ciently developed to instruct their
superior's on the earth.
A Terrible Accident. —Mr. E.
M. Parramore, an aged citizen of
Quitman, was seriouily injured on
last Friday by being thrown from a
wagon—the horses having taken
fright and ran away. From the
character of the injuries received, it
is presumed that Mr. Parramore was
dragged some distance—his head,
particularly, being terribly mangled.
He lies in a critical condition at his
residence, near the academy. Since
the foregoing was placed‘in tvpe,
death relieved the sufferer. Mr. Par
ramore died at about one o’clock
Wednesday morning.
Love’s Labor Not Lost.— The
bill which passed Congress and was
sent to the President on the 16th ult.
to pay Mary Love, of Tennessee, $2,
000 for services in carrying dispatch
es from Gen. Grant to Gen. Burnside
at Knoxville, Tenn., through the
Confederate lines, not having been
returned by the President within the
time prescribed by the constitution,
it has become a law.
A Buffalo paper announces that by
the recent burning of an ice-house
there, 20,000 tons of ice were “reduc
ed to ashes.”
A Danbury sport wears a ten cent
Silver piece on his shirt bosom, and
cabs it a dime and pin, which it cer
tainly is.
WHAT “THEY” SAY GOBSIP.
What grows bigger the more you
contract it? Deht.
Hotel keepers are people we have
to “put up with. 44
The miuing toast iu Yorkshire is,
may all our labors be In vela.
Spain a ltepublie! Such seems al
most, and possibly is quite aneetab
lished fact.
Blakely, of the Griffin Star, fell off
his back steps, and wants to know
what is the use of living anyway.
Ihe bowels of the earth have been
moved in Minnesota by the discovery
of a mine of “Epsom salts” there.
Candy Pulling.
This old-fushiou pastime Is coming
in vogue again in these parts.
Anew paper in Texas staris out
with announcmenfc that “in religion
we are conservative, and we intend
to adhere to the cash system.”
Miss Sophia Barney took a premi
um at the 3lontgomery (Ala.) fair
as “the young woman who would
make the beet wife for a poor man.”
. “Did any body ever see such wet
weather afore in all the born days of
his life?” asked one countryman of
another. “Noah, ’’ was the reply.
In Norfolk an old record has just
been published, showing that in 1740
the preachers of Virginia were paid
in tobacco.
“My yoke is easy, and my burden
is light,” as a youth said, when hie
girl was sitting on his lap with her
arms around his neck.
Mrs. Manooverer says she possesses
great resources in her dear daughters,
only she has not yet been able to hus
band them.
“Yambo, what is dar dat nebber
was, nebber can be, nebber will be?”
“Iduno Cfesar-Igibs it up.” “Why
chile, a mouse’s nest iri a cat’s ear.”
The man in jail who looked out of
the window of his cell and exclaim
ed, “This is a grate country,“ is now
irenerally admitted to have spoken
within bounds.
We observe from our exchanges,
that they are using corn meal fyr
manure in some parts of Massachu
setts, applying it at the rate of one
ton per acre.
“I have no luck in fishing; I never
could persuade a fish to bite,” said
a young exquisite. ” Try yer powers
on a cross dog,” remarked a rough
bystander, “an’ see if you don’t have
better luck.”
And now the children have it. We
heard a doting mother say to her
tender male off-spring, a few days
ago, “My dear child, do come here
and let me remove the epizooty from
your nasal appendage. 41
A fashionable young lady dropped
one of her false eyebrows in a church
pew, and badly frightened a young
man next to her, who thought it was
his moustache.
Teacher—“ Who was the first
man?” Brown {Head-Boy)—'“Wash
ington ;he was first in w r ar, first in—”
Teacher—“No.no; Adam was the
first man.” Brown—'“Oh !if you’re
talking of foreigners, I s'pose he teas /”
A Working Member.—Gen. P.
M. B. Young is decidedly the best
working member of Congress from
Georgia. The whole State ought to
be proud of him. His own district is
we are sure.— Home Commercial.
A cheerful giver put the following
note in a pair of pantaloons sent to
the Michigan sufferers: “There,
take’em. Last pair I’ve got. Don’t
get burned out again.”
The man who returned his neigh
bor’s borrowed umbrella was seen
a day or two ago, walking in com
pany with a young lady who passed
a looking glass without taking a peep.
It is believed they are engaged.
An Irish housemaid, boasting of
her industrial habits, said, quite in
nocently, that she rose at four in the
morning, made a fire, put on the ket
tle, prepared the breakfast, and made
all the beds “before a single soul was
up in the house.”
In the absence of the chaplain of
the Texas Senate, a few days ago,
the Senators are reported to have
stood devoutly during the Clerk’s
reading of the journal, and to have
responded “Amen” when he had
finished, never doubting but that it
was the same as the customary
morning prayer.
“How do you get along with your
arithmetic?” asked a father of his
little boy, who answered and said:
“I’veciphered through'addition, par
tition, subtraction, distraction, abom
ination, justification, hallucination,
derivation, amputation, creation and
adoption!”
VEG AT ABLE POETRY,
On yon garden bed reclining
Beats a youth his aching head!
Call Iflowers ! Lo, weeds confront me;
Let us hence, he sadly said,
Care rots out the strongest manhood,
Peace my weary soul doth need ,
Be no strife for me hereafter,
Else my heart will go to seed!
SUBSCRIPTION:
$2 per annum*
Jana, Household and Garden^
[Correspondence of the Union A Amyican.
SOMETHING ABOUT PEANUTS.
Some time since I wrote some pa
pers relative to peanuts, which were
published in your columns. I have
since been requested by farmers on
the upper Cumberland to tell them
how to raise peanuts, and whether
they will grow’ on the upper Cumber
land or not, and by your permission
I will do so through your paper, for I
do not know of any with such an ex
tensive circulation in Tennessee.
KIND OF SOIL SUITABLE.
The question is often asked. What
kind or quality of soil is suitaole for
the growing of peanuts? .1 answer:
a soil sufficiently mixed with sand or
small gravel to keep it loose and mel
low'—a rich mellow loam, with clay
foundation.
HOW TO PREPARE THE SOIL.
Break first in February, then about
the 10th of April, roll if clodv, and
plant.
HOW TO PLANT.
Lay off the furrow’s thirty inches a
part, let the furrow’s be small and
shallow’, made with a small bull
tongue plow’, drop red peanuts one in
a place, hull off, eight inches apart;
white peanuts, put two in a place,
hull off, fifteen inches apart, cover
with double shovel plow, throwing a
small ridge on the nuts; or with a
bull-tongue, making two trips in one
row.
HOW TO CULTIVATE.
Board off the ridges when the nuts
have sprouted, and run a harrow 7 be
tw’een the row’s every week after the
peas come until in August, hoeing
them once or twice to kill the grass
the harrow or cultivator may leave;
at laying by time hill the red with a
one-norse turning plow', the higher
the-ridge you throw to them the
more nuts you make; but the w’hite
lay flat on the ground, you just w’ork
before the spreading vines :is long as
you can, like working before melon
vines; no covering blossoms, such
tender, poorly things were never
made t« be covered and live, and
bloom in beauty.
will it pay the farmers on the up
per Cumberland to raise peanuts? It
will not at present prices pay to raise
them for sale; but it will pay them,
and largely too, to raise peanuts for
their hogs. Say one or two acres,
planted as I have directed, of the
w’hite peanut, will yield from 100 to
150 bushels; this will fatten about ten
hogs, turned on them about the 15th
of October, no sooner. They will not
be matured sooner.
WHERE WILL THEY GROW?
On the rim of the great basin of
Middle Tennessee and low’er down
toward the middle of the* basin, but
not well in its center. They Will
grow’ most anywhere Indian corn will
grow and mature, provided the soil
is rich and a little sandy.
DO W’E ADVISE THEIR CULTIVATION?
We do not, only a few acres for
hogs, say one acre to every ten hogs.
This will pay very largely, no mis
take. Let the peanuts be planted
wiiere you can turn hogs on them;
and turn in on red about the 15th or
20th of September, and on white a
bout the 15 of October.
WILL THEY INJURE SOIL?
Not to turn on hogs and let the
vines remain on the land. Otherwise
they are exhaustive on soil. The u
sual way of planting the white in
Tennessee is 80 by 30, so as to harrow
both ways, but the above plan is beat
—it is the Virginia plan. It costs a
bout 50 cents per bushel in Tennessee
to raise and sack them, counting 500
bushels to the hand. To plant 30 by
30 it requires 1J bushels to the acre;
30 by 15, 3 bushels. For the red it
requires about 2$ bushels to the acre.
Twenty-three pounds make a bushel
in Tennessee; 22 in the Northern
States. They are sacked for market
in burlap sacks, containing about five
bushels. If you want to know any
thing more about them, write to J.
A. Cunningham, care of Buckner A
Cos., Nashville, Tenn.
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
LEMON PIE.
One lemon; grate the rind and
squeeze the juice out; grate a large
potato. One cup of sugar, and one
of w ater. Use a crust top and bot
tom.
LADY CAKE.
One cup butter, two cups sugar, one
cup milk, whites of six eggs, one
quart flour, one teaspoonful soda in
tne milk, two teaspoonfuls cream tar
i tar in the flour; flavor to taste; make
tw’o cakes.
INDIAN PUDDING.
One pint Indian meal, one-half tea
spoonful salt, one-half cup molasses—
then boil water enough to make a
thin batter, add one teaspoonful soda,
one cup raisins or dried apples, one
half cup suet cut in fine pieces. Boil
two hours.
JELLY CAKE WITHOUT EGGS.
One-half cup of butter, one-half cup
of cream, one-half cup of buftermilk,
one-half cup of sw’eet milk, two cups
of sugar, one teaspoon of soda. Spread
thin, and bake on long tins. This a
mount makes five stories, and many
prefer it to cake made w’ith eggs.
GOOD WASHING SOAP.
This is a very excellent and an eco
nomical recipe for those w r ho necessa
rily buy their washing soap:
Take 18 quarts of w r ater, 6 pounds
of clear bar soap, $ pound of Sal Soda,
i pound of Borax, and boil all togeth
er till well dissolved, then add 2
ounces of Ammonia, and pour all in
to a tight vessel, and add clear water
sufficient to make one-half barrel of
soap.
EGGS IN CASE OF TROUBLE.
The white of an egg is said to be a
specific for fish bones sticking in the
throat. It is to be swallowed raw,
and will carry down a bone easily
and certainly. There is another fact
touching eggs, which it will be well
to remember. When, as sometimes
by accident, corrosive sublimate is
swallowed, the w’hite of one or two
eggs taken will neutralize the bbison,
and change the effect to that or a dose
of calomel.
The coldest day, except one, for a
hundred years, was Thursday the
30th of January, according to the
averment of Professor Loomis, of
Yale College, who has kept a record
that extends back for that length of
timfe.
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