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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. VOL. 14. THE Standard & Express I* published every THURSDAY MORNING BY s. H. SMITH & CO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2 per annum, in advance. f I -T ■' '• . ' Professional and Business Cards 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. NO. 0.
