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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS PUBLISHED WEEKLY. VOL. 14. AMONG THE MINERS. BATCHES OF CALIFORNIA PIONEES LIFE. rmur itougiiton, the SCHOOL MASTER OP RUSSIAN BAR—HOW HE MADE A FRIEND OF SAM SEYMOUR AND WON GYPSY LANE. BY BRET IIARTE. “When is he expected?” “They said he was coming in to night’s stage.” “He taught in Frisco, didn’t he?” “Y<-, I guess he was in the depart ment.” The Doctor’s wife was authority on all matters in Russian Bar, and on this last sensation—the coming of a schoolmaster—she freely enlightened her neighbor, Mrs. Blunt, a plump widow, whose miner husband had died r few months before. There was not much gosip about in that quiet village. The arrival and the departure of the stage brought the j people to their doors three times a week, and if a stranger was noticed, envoys were immediately dispatched to the hotel to learn his name and badness, and the probable length of his stay. But now Russian Bar was to have a schoolmaster, and the folks wondered much if he would have! any trouble with Sam Seymour, the! butcher’s hoy, or Ike Walker, an un ruly spirit, who had knocked down and pummeled the last preceptor,! who undertook to teach him school discipline. The trustees were pow erless in these matters, and declared that if a schoolmaster was not able to “get aw tv” with the boys in a square, stand-up light, he might as well pick up his traps and leave Russian liar. On the very evening of the expect ed arrival, Seymour and Walker, the leading spirits of the mutinous school-hoys, met at a pool, from which both were endeavoring to catch si few speckled trout for sup-1 per. “Have you heard what the new! chap is like, Sam?” said Ike, as he impaled a wriggling worm on his j hook. “No; have you ?” “Father told Jake, the barkeeper, that he was very young.” “And small?” “Yes.” “Guess he won’t stay long in town, Ike.” “I guess not, Sam. School ain’t good for us, such fine weather as | this.” The worthies sat and fished in si lence for some time, and then Ike produced a bunch of cigarettes and passed them to his friend. At last, finding the fish would not bite, they shouldered their poles and straggled up towards the village, pausing for a moment to stone a Chinaman’s roos ter which had strayed too far from the protecting wash-house. THE SCHOOLMASTER. Philip Houghton was u schoolmas ter from necessity, not taste. Like many who have been educated as gentlemen in one sense of the word, that is, without the acquaintance with any special pursuit that might be turned to good account in the struggle for bread, he found himself adrift in California, with nothing to fall back on. Seeing an advertise ment in a city paper for a competent teacher to take charge of the school at Russian Bar, he answered it'and was accepted at a venture. Putting his few moveables together, a pair of old foils and a set of well-worn box ing gloves, for Houghton was an ac complished boxer and fencer, he bought his ticket for Russian Bar. He found the stage driver a com municative, pleasant fellow, who, at his request, described the character istics of his future home. Indeed, his descriptions of the class of boys of whom Houghton was to take charge, was not very encouraging. “You’ll find them a hard lot,” said he, “and they’re ail on the muscle, too.” “What is about the weight of my eldest?” asked Houghton, good hu moredly. “You see, if I have got to exercise something more than moral suasion, I want to get posted on the physique of my men.” “Well, Sam Seymour is about the strongest.” “And what is about the size of the redoubtable ike?” “ Well, I guess he tops you by half a head.” “Oh, 1 expect we’ll get along well enough together,” said Houghton; “and t suppose this is the first glimpse of Russian Bar,” he added, as a turn in the road brought them in view of that picturesque village. The stage bowled along the smooth road, and passed the great white-oak, under whose friendly branches the teamsters were accustomed to make their noon-time halt. “I’ll set you down at the hotel,” said the driver. “There’s Perkins, the proprietor; that fat man smoking on the stoop.” Houghton confessed to himself that the prospect before him was not of a very comforting nature, though he liked a little danger, for excitement; but a game of fisticuffs with a dirty, mutinous boy had neither glory nor honor for the man who had been one of the hardest hitters in his col lege. The folks were all at their doors when the stage clattered up the sin gle street, and the slender, good look ing young man by the driver was measured and canvassed before that worthy had passed the mail to the Doctor, who, with his medical avoca tions, also found time to run the post oifiee. The Doctor’s wife was at her win dow, and after a long survey of the schoolmaster hastened to communi cate her opinions to Mrs. Blount. Meanwhile Houghton washed oil' the red dust of the road, and took a seat at the supper-table. The driver had introduced him to about a dozen of the leading citizens during the few minutes that intervened between their arrival and the evening meal. “llow do you like our town, Mr. Houghton ?” asked the landlord, gen erously, as he helped his new guest to a cut of steak. “Well, it seems a pretty place.” “When you get acquainted you’ll find yourself pleasantly situated; but you’ll have a hard time with the boys.” , “do they all tell me. Anyhow, I mu not unprepared.” said Houghton, cheerfully. After supper the landlord remark ed “confidentially to the Doctor” that ine young man had grit in him, and he thought he’d be able to “make the riffle” with the boys. THE FIRST DAY. When Houghton arose next morn ing and opened his window to the tredi breeze, odorous with the per fume of the climbing honey-suckles, lie fc*t that, after all, a residence in a remote village, even with a parcel of rough boys to take of, was preferable to the dusty, unfamiliar streets of San Francisco. He smiled as he un packed his foils and boxing-gloves, a little sadly, too, for they were linked with many pleasing associations of his undergraduate days. “Well,” he soliloquized, as he straightened his arm and looked at the finely developed muscles, “I ought to be able to hold my own in a stand up fight with these troublesome pupils of mine. This is my day of trial, however, and before noon we shall probably have had our buttle out.” The school house, a raw, unfinish ed looking frame building, stood bard by t lit* river at about half a mile from the town. When Houghton opened the rickety wooden gate that led into the school lot, he found a group of some twenty boys already assembled. Among them was Sam Seymour and Ike Walker. The lat ter’s sister, a pretty girl of sixteen, was leaning against the fence with half a dozen of her friends, for the Russian Bar school house was arrang ed for the accommodation of both sexes. Houghton handed the key to the nearest boy, and asked him to open the door. With a look at the others, and a half grin on his face, he obey ed. “Now, boys, muster in,” said Houghton, cheerfully, to the boys. They all passed in—Seymour and Walker last. The latter took a good look at the schoolmaster as he went by. When they were seated, Hough ton stood at his desk and laid a heavy ruler on the books before him. “Now, boys,” lie said, “1 hope we .■dial! get along pleasantly together. You treat me fairly and you shall have no reason to complain, 1 prom ise you. Silence and obedience is what I require, and a strict attention to the inatter of our instruction.” Giving them a portion of the gram mar to prepare for recitation, he walked quietly up and down the room, occasionally standing at the windows, but appearing to keep no surveillance on the boys. Suddenly the crack of a match was heard, fol lowed by a general titter. Houghton turned quietly from the window, and saw the blue smoke from a cigarette arising from where Seymour sat. “What is your name, boy?” ho asked in a stern tone. “My name is Seymour,” replied the mutineer, insolently. “Are you smokiug?” “I guess so.” “Leave the room.” “1 guess not.” There was a dead silence in the schoolroom now, and Houghton felt that the hour of trial was at hand. “Seymour,” he said again very quietly. “What?” “Come here.” Seymour, putting his hands in his pocket, sauntered from his desk, stood within a yard of the school-master, and looked sneeringly. “Leave the room,” said Houghton again in his face. A lower voice— “ No.” The lithe arm straightened like a flash of lightning, and the rebel measured his length on the floor, while the blood gushed from his nos trils. In a moment he sprang to his feet and rushed furiously to the schoolmaster, but went down again like a reed before the well aimed blow. Thft second time ho fell, Houghton stooped down and lifting him up as if he had been a cdiild, fairly Hung him outside the door. Seymour, confused and amazed, stag gered down to the brook to wash his face and reflect on the wonderful force of that slight arm. And Houghton, turning to the school, without a word of comment on the scene, commenced the recitations. Walker was mum. Seymour’s fate had appalled him, and in fact the entire mutinous spirit of Russian Bar was in a fair way of be ing subdued. When the trustees heard of the af fair, they unanimously commended the schoolmaster’s pluck. “1 tell you what, boys,” said Per kins to the crowd who were earnestly engaged at a game of old sledge in his bar-room, “that Houghton knows a thing or two about managing boys. He’d fix ’em off or my name’s not Perkins.” Anew PURSUIT. Houghton was hospitably treated by the folks of Russian Bar. They felt him to be a man of refinement, brought down in the world, but showing no offensive superiority in his intercourse with them. The Doc tor’s wife pronounced him to be the best New Yorker she had ever met, and the gossips insinuated that Mrs. Blunt, the widow, was setting her cap for him. Gypsy Bane, the doughter of a leading man in Russian Bar, and made wealthy by a saw-mill, which all day long groaned and screamed some distance down the river, did not express her opinion as to Hough ton’s merits, but in the summer even ings, when vhe schoolmaster, rod in hand, wandered along the stream, and threw his line across the mill dam, Gypsy was seldom far away. I Lane, a bluff, hearty old fellow, fre quently asked Houghton, to spend the evenings with him; and told his . adventures in early California to a patient listener, while Gypsy duti | fully mended her father’s socks on the ! verandah. Mrs. Lane, when Gypsy was but a j baby, was laid to rest in Lone Moun tain, long before Lane ever thought !of settling at Russian Bar. Seymour j and Walker were the best and most industrious pupils the young master I had, and were happy when accom panying him on his fishing excur i sions. In fact all agreed in declar ing that the educational department S m the village was a thriving success. One pleasant evening in June Gvp isy Lane, twirling her straw hat ! thoughtfully, picked her way across i the broad fields that lay betwixt her house and the mill. The stream was a winding one, and as she placed her tiny foot on the first stepping ! stone, she saw a straw hat on the glass which she knew well. How is Miss Lane this evening?” said Houghton, lazily, from beneath | a manzinita bush, where he had been ‘ enjoying a book and a pipe. SAMUEL 11. SMITH & COMPANY. EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. CARTEHSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL *4, 1873. “Well, thank you. Ilow is Mr. Houghton ?” replied Gypsy, slyly. “Warm, but not uncomfortable. Are you going to the mill ?” “Yes, I have a letter that has just come for father?” “May I accompany you?” “Certainly, if you choose,” Houghton put on his hat and help-* ed Gypsy across the brook. “I had a letter from New Y'ork a few days ago,” said he after they had left the first bend of the river behind. “A pleasant one.” “Well, although in one sense it brought good news; still 1 hardly call it a pleasant letter. I am going to leave Russian Bar,” said Hough ton abruptly. “Indeed, how soon ?” “I don’t know yet; possible in a week.” The hat was swayed from side to side with increased energy. “D > you care much, Miss Lane?” This question was asked with an earnest look into hazle eyes that were kept steadily bent on the brown grass beneath their feet. “Yes, of course we shall be sorry t > loose you,” returned Gypsy, eva sively. “If I come back in a few months with something lor my future wife, shall I see this ring on her finger ?” whispered Houghton, capturing the little hand that held the hat, and slipped a pearl ring on the delicate finger. Gypsy said nothing ; but her eyes turned ior a moment on the school master’s earnest face and in the next her soft cheek was resting on his shoulder. Russian Bar, to a man, turned out to wish Phillip Houghton God speed ou the morning he tooK his place by the driver, who one year beiore had set him down at Perkins Hotel. They knew he was on his way to New York, and that lie had been left some money, and the gossips more than suspected that there was something between Gypsy Lane and their favor ite. At ad events her eyes were red lor a week after his departure. W inter had come; the river was swollen and rapid, and many a lofty tree from the pine forest had found its way to the hearths at Russian Bar. Onejdelieious morning, crisp and cold, after a night’s rain, the stage passed by the large white oak, and splashed with mud, halted before Perkins’ Hotel. It had been all night on the way, for the roads were heavy. The worthy proprietor of that ex cellent house was in the act of toss ing his first cock-tail, when a heavy hand was laid on Ins shoulder, and Phillip Houghton shouted—“ Per kins old boy, how are you !” The landlord returned the shake hand dived behind the bar and had a second cock-tail mixed in a mo ment. “And now,” said he, as he pledg ed the ex-schoolmaster, “when will the wedding take place.” Six weeks afterwards the old mill was hung with evergreen wreaths, and a grand festival was held at Russian Bar. Gypsy Lane was a lovely bride, and when Houghton took charge of the mill and invested all his New York money in the vil lage, and was admitted to practice in the courts—everything seemed to take a fresh start. Through all, his warmest and most devoted friend was Sum Seymour, once the ter ror of Russian Bar school-masters, and the holder of that important po sition. OR DI NATION EXTRAORDINA RY. John Lcland, one of the most pop ular preachers of his day, in Virginia, and one of the most eccentric and singularly pious of men, was at first ordained a minister by the choice ot the church, without the imposition of the hands of the Presbytery. He con tinued for some years afterward to preach and baptize on the authority of his simple appointment much to the disturbance of the peace of the as sociation to which he belonged. In fact, on account of his departure from the usages of the churches in Virgin ia, he was not for a while in good fel lowship with any. Right or wrong he openly professed to believe that the imposition of hands by the Apos tles, in ancient times, was only to confer miraculous gifts ; and that con sequently, such a ceremony in the church now, was in itself, worthless 1 because wholly unauthorized. His brethren urged him most earnestly for the sake of peace, to submit to ordination by the hands of the minis try ; and finally, to gratify them, he consented that they might call a Presbytery for the purpose. Know ing all the questions which they would ask on his examination, and resolved in his own mind on the ans wers which he would give, he felt confident that they would not ordain him. The Presbytery, consisting of three staunch Calvinists, was called. The day appointed for the ordination arrived and with it came a multitude of people to witness the ceremony. The work was divided amongst the several Presbyters. One was to ask the usual questions concerning his faith and call; another was to offer up an ordination prayer; and another was to deliver the charge to the pastor i and the church. Leland took his seat long before they appeared, and resting his arms on his knees, and burying l his face in his hands, awaited their : anovoraents. The Presbyter appoint ; ed to conduct the examination, at length began: “Brother Leland, it becomes my duty, according to previous arrange ment, to ask you a few questions upon the subject of your faith, and in reference to your call to the min istry.” “Well brother,” said Leland, slow ly raising his head, “I will tell you all 1 know,” and down went his head into his hands again. Presbyter. “Brother Leland, do you not believe that God chose his people in Christ before the founda tion of the world ?” Iceland (looking up). “I know not, brother what God was doing before ! he began to make this world.” Presbyter. “Brother Leland, but ; do you not believe that God had a people from before the foundation I of the world ?” Leland. “If he had, brother they were not our kind of folks. Our people were made out of dust, you know, and before the foundation of the world there was no dust to make them out of.” Presbyter. “You believe, brother Leland, that all men are totally de praved?” Leland. “No, brother; if they were, they could not wax worse and worse, as some of them do. The dev il was no worse than totally deprav ed.” Presbyter. “Well, there are other questions that will embrace all these in substance. I will ask whether .you do not believe that sinners are justified by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them ?” island. “Yes, brother, provided they will do right themselves; but 1 know of no righteousness that will justify a man that won’t do right him self.” Presbytery. “Brother Leland, I will ask you one more question: Do you not believe that all the saints will persevere through grace to glo ry, and get home to heaven at last?” Leland. “1 can toll you more about that, my brother, when I get there myself. Some men seem to make a very bad start of it here.” The Presbyter, seeing that the au dience was great ly amused, proposed to his colleagues that they should re tire for a few moments, and consult together. After returning, they re marked to the congregation, that brother Leland had not answered the questions as satisfactorily as they could wish, but they all knew that he had many eccentricities, for which they should make every allowance; that they had concluded accordingly to ask him a few questions touching his call to the ministry. Presbyter. “Brother Leland, you believe that God has called you to preach the Gosple?” Leland. “I never heard him, brother.” Presbyter. “We do not suppose, brother Leland, that you ever heard an audible voice ; but you know what we mean.” Leland. “But wouldn’t it he a queer call, brother, if there were no voice and nothing said ?” Prssbyte'r. (evidently confused). “Well, well, brother Leland. you be lieve, at least, that it is your duty to to preach the Gosple to every crea ture?” Leland. “Ah! no, my brother, I do not believe^t to be my duty to preach to the Dutch, for instance, for I can’t do it. When the Lord sent the Apostles to preach to every na tion, he taught them to talk to all sorts of people; but lie has rever learned me to talk Dutch yet.” Presbyter. “But, brother Leland, you feel a great desire for the salva tion of sinners, do you not?” Leland. “Sometimes I thiuk T do; and then again I don’t care if the dev il gets the whole of them.” Upon this the Presbytery retired again, and reported as before, much to the surprise of Leland, who was now constrained to submit to ordina tion. After they had ordained him in due form, he said : “Well, breth ren, when Peter put his hands on people, and took them off, they had more sense than they had before ; but you have all had your hands on my head, and, before God, 1 am as big a tool now as I was before you put them ou.” Interesting Rail Road Decis- I roNs.—lii the Supreme Court of the 1 United States, Monday last, in a case from Wisconsin, the Court gave it as its opinion that rail roads are public highways, no matter whether they are built and operated by the State or by private corporations ; and that the building of rail roads is therefore a matter of public concern, to aid which it is just as constitutional to levy tax es as for the building of a wagon road or any other public work, and the collection of these taxes cannot be resisted by authority of article V. of amendments of the Constitution of the Lnited States, which provides that private property shall not be ta ken for public use without just com pensation. Another decision of the same tribu nal, the same day, was that common carriers cannot be required to know the contents, of packages not partic ularly described by the shippers. This suit was against an express com pany in whose charge there had been a box of nitro-glycerine, when it ex ploded and ruined a building. Os course the express company had no damages to pay. Dined with the President.—A Washington correspondent of the At lanta Herald writes that General La- Fay ette McLaws, of Augusta, was in that city a few days since and dined with the President and family, and that the President treated General McLaws “with marked courtesy and friendship.” It would seem that Gen. McLaws, on this occasion, like Hon. B. H. Hill on a certain other memorable occa sion, “dined on hope and purpose,” for it is now rumored in Atlanta, as we learn from the Constitution, that General McLaws has been appointed by the President United States Mar shal for Georgia. If the General makes as good a United States Mar shal as he did Confederate comman der, our people will have no cause to complain of the President’s selection. What does General Grant mean by these rebel appointments ? Has trea son indeed ceased to be infamous?— Savannah News. The Griffin News has interviewed the member of Congress from this district to this effect, in part. He says: Mr. Freeman is still of the opin ion that General Grant has no malice towards the South, and that his ad ministration will be mild but firm. He receives the Confederate officers who visit him with great courtesy and Consideration, and their meetings are very cordial. The President is worried out of his sense by the ever lasting teasing of politicians, and the thousands of seedy cusses, each of whom secured his election, and now wants a fat office to pay for it. New York has now 40,000 people squeezed in a square mile, of which she has only twenty-two. London, crowded as it is, has but 29,000 in a square mile; and Pekin, counting her populations by myriads, can boast of fifty-six square miles, in which to pack it. Let your religion be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A j light-house heats no drum, it beats no gong; and far over the water its friendly light is seen by the mari ner. The Methodist Episcopal Church South including ministers, has a to tal membership of 624,159, being an increase for the past year of 32,975. Including the China mission, there are thirty-six annual conferences, all of which, except three, show an in crease. Fan, MM ail Garden. I We select the following practical! information from the Report of the Agricultural Department, at Wash ington, for the month of March : I<ECUPEKATIVE PLANTING. Experiments in clovering have been quiet unsuccessful lately on account of the extreme drouth. Commercial fertilizers have greatly disappointed expectations, but lime has produced very favorable results. In North Car olina some isolated efforts are made by intelligent men to improve tiieir lands, but generally the idea is enter tained by few. As an excuse for in action it is alleged in some quarters that crops are seldom housed till af ter Cl)riturns, and that the weather after that periord is too cold fur out <t -or labor. Tills from the latitude of North Carolina will sound oddly to Northern and Western farmers, who bid time for extensive and im portant farm labors during each win ter. In South Carolina the phos-j [(bates, of which large deposits have | been found in that State, are exten-j sively applied, but not always with ; intelligent reference to their specific! effects. These applications are most-1 ly made for the immediate resuits, j and not for permanent improvement,: which appears to be but little regard- j ed. Georgia makes an extensive use of commercial fertilizers upon cotton, j Gvvinne.t county consumed about 2- 000 tons during 1872. In Franklin county they have been applied at rates varying from 300 to 1,000 pounds per acre. In a few counties, such us Gordon, clover is raised in increasing quantities, and, in some cases, nas been plowed und r in full growth. Os lauds within ten miles of the run road in this county, about 25percent, j are in ciover. The difficulties of re- j ('operative farming are taus slated by j a correspondent in Talbot county: Nothing is regarded by farmers so profitable as cotton. The lands gen erally produce such small crops ofi corn that it will not pay tiie expense of the laborers we are obliged to em ploy, owing to tiie fact of their hav ing but little regard for loss of time, even when they are interested in the crop; moreover, an acre of land that will produce eigiit bushels of corn will produce one hundred and twen ty-five pounds of lint cotton, which of course is much more profitable. VALUE OF LANDS IN GEORGIA. Harj,—Good farms since 1865 have, ! in many instances, doubled their val- j ue. Poor lands, thousands of acres j of which are turned out, have not in creased in value since that time. Marion—ln 1860 farm lands were worth from TO to S2O per acre, at present from $7 to 815. Forsyth—Worth 60 percent, more than in 1860, and 25 per cent, more than four years ago, and still are low, ranging from $2 to 820 per acre. Brooks —Lands that sold freely in IB6o', at S2O per acre, are upon the market now in large quantities, at low prices, say $3 to $5 per acre. Wilkes —Certainly decreasing in real value, land, under the present system, their becoming entirely worn out and worthless is only a question of time. From tightness in money matters, mostly, lands generally will not command as good prices as two or three years ago; but within a few miles of town or railroad communi cations they are much higher than in 1860. Franklin—Farm lands worth $lO per aefe ; wild lands $1 to $3. Douglas—lncreasing; 20 per cent, higher than in 1860 ; but timber lands 20 per cent, cheaper. Effingham—Not improving in val ue ; worth from $1 to $3 per acre. Cobb—lncreasing; average value equal to that of 1860, or $lO per acre, in some cases land that sold in 1867 and 1868 at $5 per acre, would now sell for S2O. Bartow—lncreasing; notwithstand ing the ravages of the war and conse quent impoverishing of our people, their lands are all 10 per cent, higher than in 1860, and very much higher than 1866. Gwinnett—lncreasing rapidly; one third higher. Carroll—lncreasing on account of new railroads running through the county; 100 per cent, more valuable than in 1860. Pickens—Have decreased in value, uplands at least 100 per cent, com pared with 1860. Know of nothing that will remedy us except a railroad. We have one of the finest counties in the State, abounding in iron ore, mar ble, and inexhaustible, never-failing water power. All we need is to have our resources developed. To Stew Celery.—Cut the stalk into bits an inch long, stew for half an hour in milk and water, half and half, with a little salt; when soft, turn off, and pour over it some boil ing cream ; sesison to taste with salt and pepper, aud serve hot. Potato Pudding.—One pound of mashed potatoes, three-fourths pound o p butter, three-fourths pound of su gar, four eggs, one gill brandy, one gill rose water, one gill cream; work the potatoes and butter well together; beat the sugar and eggs to a froth; mix them well and bake in a fresh oven. Scalloped Oysters.—Scald the oysters in their own liquor; take them out; lay in a deep dish, sprinkling on cracker crumbs, pepper and salt, and small pieces of butter; mix a little butter and flour together, and stir into the liquor; then fill up the dish with it and brown in the oven. m. c. J. To Make a Hen’s Nest (A Fan cy Dish.)—Take half a dozen eggs, make a hole at one end and empty the shells, fill them with blanc mange: when stiff and cold take off the shells; pare lemon rind very thin, boil in water till tender, then cut in thin strips to resemble straw, and preserve in sugar; fill a deep dish half full of jelly or nice cold custard, put the eggs in and lay the straws, nest-like around them. Sauce for the above pudding. —One J cup of butter, one cup of sugar, yolk of one egg; beat togeher and stir in oue cup of boiling water. Letitcome to a boil, and when ready for use, flavor to taste. A nice dessert is ! made by filling coffee-cups loosely with strawberries, and pouring over them Graham flour, mush, or instead, thicken sweet boiling milk to a con sistency which is thin enough to fill the interstices between the berries, and yet thick enough to be firm when cool. Turn out and serve up with cream and sugar. THE Standard & Express Is published every THURSDAY MORNING BY S. H. SMITH & CO. SUBSCRIPTION PRK K: $2 per annum, in advance. ■ For over FORTY YEARS this PURELY VEGETABLE Liver Mi irine has prove I to he the GREAT UNFAILING SPECI FIC for Liver Complaint ami the painful offspring thereo', to wit: ityspepsi t. Constipation, jaun dice, Billions att.i kb, Sick Headache. Colic. Oepre-sio'i of spir.N. -our - i.miuch, Heart burn, CHILL* and iV.V.Ji, c., Ac. liter years of care ul v.\..’cnuient~. to meet . great and urgent rt m uni we now produce iioiu our origin'll Genuine Powder* THE PREPARED, a liquid form of SIMMON'S LI V l-.lt RKGU- L A «<*R, t oi.utining all its valuable and won derful properties, and offer it in ONE DOLLAR BOTTLES. The Powders (»9 before) ..SI.OO tier package. Sent by mail 1.04 “ “ S3” CAUTION. Buy no Powders or Simmon’s Liver Regula tor unless in our engraved wrapper, tvith the Trade Mark, Stamp and Signature unbroken. Noue other is genuine. J. H. ZEILIN & Cos., MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA, SOLD BY ALL DRUCGI3TS. Professional and Business Cards JOIIN w. WOFFORD. THOMAS W. MILNER WOFFORD & MILNER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CARTEHSVILLE, GA. OFFICE up stairs. Bank Block. 9-5-ts. C. TUMLIX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office over the Bank. JOHN L. MOON, ATTORNEY AT LA W , CARTERS VILLE, GA. Will practice itt the counties comprising the Cherokee Circuit, Office over Liebman’s store. I> W. MURPHISY, V. ATTORNEY A T LA W, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention given to the col ection of claims. Oitice with Col. Abda John son. Oct. 1. PT WOFFORD, ATTORNEY A T LA W. CARTERBVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-House. Jan 26 M. FOUTE, A T T O RNEY AT L A W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb. Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad joining counties. March 30. Jg B. Me DAN IFF, AT T ORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Oilice with John W. Wofford. jan ’72 W. I>. TRAMMELL. ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILL.S, GA OFFICE W. Main St., next door to Standard & Express Office. Feb. 15,1872—wly. G. H. BATES. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office OYer store ol Ford & Kriant. Feb. 6- DR. WiAT TROTTER OFFERS his PROFESSSOXAL SERVICES to the citizens of CartersviUe. Office with Dr. Baker. Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 7,1873. 3ledical Notice. Dlt. W, HARDY, having removed to tliis city, proposes PRACTICING ftftEDlCifJE, in all its branches, and is also prepared for OPERATIVE SURGERY. - t DR. J. A. JACKSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next door to Stokely & Williams’. oct27 « W. It. Mouutcastle, Jeweler and Watch and Clock Repairer, C AETERSVILI E, GEORGIA. Office in trout of A. A. Skinner A Co’s Store. GEN. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. H. WIKLE XXT" oflord cto Wilxle, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, AND Real Estate Agents, Cartersvil Ga. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur c haseaacl sale of Beal Estate. -28-6 m READ HOUSE, Fronting Passenger Depot. CHATTANOOGA. JOHN T. READ, Proprietor. Jan |6-’72. Large Profits FROM SMALL INVESTMENTS! THE NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ISSUES THE LARGEST POLICIES For tiro Smallest Amount of Money Os any Safe onipany in the United States. PAYS ALL LOSSES P IO.HPfLY ! Before limn ing in any other Company, call and see JOHN T. OWEN, March 13—Sms Agent. Sewin' Machine Neelies audMacMiie Oil Kept Constantly On Hand, AM lor Sals 57 J. E. SCOFIELD, fitch 13 ts CARTERSVILLE, GA. FOll- SAFE OR RENT, gV COMFORTABLE DWELLING HOUSE, with 7 rooms—good garden attach' a- on Maiu s' rert. joining the re si . of Nelson <; lire a rli Viplv to M. 11. - AVI' Id.. 2 27 V, l,n W, 11. Wit; MO. t». w. W \ I.DIUT Will. !L Vilii LL k CO.. * DB A Llolts IX _j> TATIONI2RY, Smlbisairlrpilißm- ffiF©®ks s TOBACCO, CICARS AND PIPES, CONFECTIONERIES, FANCY GROCERIES, ETC.. Pont Odice Building. Carteraville. tta, Feb. 6 ly. WAFTED—MONEY! I\TE call unou ail paries indented to us for V Groceries, Produce, and F unily Sup plies, to come and settle up for the same. We want money, ami money we must have, peac ably, if we can, forcibly, if we must. Tlvre i no use of talking, for that don’t bring the mon ey, action, action, is what we want. Now just do the fair thing, and call and pay up the little you owe us, and let's stop the agitation of this question. But don’t take this to be a joke, or it may result in cost to debtors and some trou ble to’ ourselves. VVe mean all we say, when we tell our patrons who owe us that they must pay u>, and that without delay. DANIEL. BAYNE & CO. Cartersville, Ga., Melt 6,1873.—ts DAVIS k HENSLEY, WHOLESALE MANUFACTI'KICKS OK SMOKING & CHEWING TOBACCOS, CIGARS, SNUFF, ETC KNOXVILLE, TENN. Mch 20-ts. J. W. LaturoD. J. L. Warren. J. W. LatMm Jr J. W, LftTHROP & CO., COTTON FACTORS. AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 98 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH’ GEORGIA. 11-12 -6m. S. W. HENSLEY, WITH W. J. BETTERTON & BRO., distillers of Cora, Rye awl BonrSoa WHISKEY. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Wines, Brandies, Gins. Cigars and Flaais. MANUFACTURERS OF Eareia. Eyeaiai Star & Grap Bitters. KNOXVILLE, TENN. Mch 20- ts. F. M. RICHARDSON, DEALER IN STOVEs C RATES, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, OFFKRini, TIN WAHB. cteo, Cor. Whitehall and Hunter St’s, , ATLANTA, GORGIA. janlly. ' SUBSCRIPTION : $2 per annum. It Leads to Happiness! A Boon to tie wiole 'Race of Woman! DR. J. BRADFIELD'S FEittALE REGULATOR! It will bring on the M<n*es; relieve all pain at the monthly “Period;" cure UheuMiatism and Neuralgia of Hack and I teru*; Leucor rhttfaor “Whites,” and partial Prolapsus Uteri; check excessive flow, and correct alt irregular ilics peculiar to ladies. It will remove all Irritation of Kidney* and Bladder; relieveCo*tivene-s; purilv tie Blood: give tone and strength to the whole system; clear the skin, imparting a rosy hue to the cheek, and cheerfulness to the mind. It is ns sure a cure in all the above diseases Quinine is in chills and Fever. Ladies can cure themselves ol all the above, diseases without revealing their complaints to an/ person, which is alvvav » mortify ing to their pi ido and modesty. It is recommended by the best physicians and the clergy. LaGrange, fa„ March is, 1870. liU.V DFIEI.D A CO.. Atlanta, tlx,—Dear 'ir>: I take pleasure in stating th .t 1 have used for the last t wen tv wars, i1,., me.. trine mu arc now putting up, known ;.s Or. J. Braiifield’s FEM ALE BEG L L ATOiI, aid consider it the best coinhiu.ili.in ewr guti. n iu,vi | irr ;or the ime.iM s i«r which it is rccouituoade i. 1 have been familiar with the picscrit ti-■ 11 'noth as a practitioner ol medicine and in domestic prac tice, and can honestly ‘tiy that i c<ui»i>:cr it a boon to stilVvring ieinalcs, an l e.m but hope that ever,. lad> in our whole land, who may be suffering in anj waypectili.tr to tlicir sex. iiiay be able to procure a bottle, that their sufferings nia.' no onD tic relieve'*, but that then may be nsto.ed to health and strength. With uiy kindest regards, I am respectfully, \V. 11. FERRELL. to D. Near M VH'KTTA. GA . March 21, IS7O. MESSRS. M AI. It lUl' ,V - »N.-Do.i Mrs: Seine months i;u I bought a buttle of BttAD- FlKl.ii’:> FEM ALE ItIvGUL V'i’ttll 1 1 • m you, and have used it in my lamily with the utmost satisfStclion, and have recommended it to three other families, and they have found it j u-t what it is recommended. The females who have used your HE .1 LAl’oii are in perfect health, and are able to attend to their house hold dutie-, and vve coraially recommend it to the public. Yours respecttullv, ItKV. 11. B. JOHNSON. We could add a thousand other certificates; bm we con-] a the 'tow amply .> line.it ,noi>. o its virtue. \ll we ask is a trial. For full parti,' 'aif- hi-torv of disease-, and ocn iii, ati s o its ,\ on iei id cure-, the i eador is re'erred to tiie w rapper irom.d the bottle. Manufactured an Isold be BRADFIELD & CO„ Price *1 fjO. A PL AN fA, liA. Sol 1 by all Druggists. 1-30-1 v. CONSUMPTION, COLDS, COUGHS, &C. iI.OIU - . FLOWWi €<m.g|a syrup, This famous ('Of fill an. Lt'NO REMEDY i> the active pi incipl.-. btaine I In ciietnical process, irom l lie **< • lobe Flower,” known also a- “But ton Hoot,” and in Botany as “Ceptn lantlius < iccidentalis.” This rare and delightful com pound is a certain cure for every form of COIGII, BlMU'lims, HOARSENESS, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Croup. Ac., And will po-itiv -lv cure CONSUMFTION, When taken hi time, as thousands will testify. It cures when all other mean* and remedies fail. It has cured people who are living to day with only one remaining lung. Within the past few years this reined/ has been used in thousands of cases with astonishing and uni form Success. Actual experience has demon strated the fact that it approaches nearer a specific for all Throat and Lung Affections than any medicine ever discovered. It is not only now being used and recommended by the most learned and skilled Physicians, but by the best and most dist inguislicd persons on the American Continent. FLOWER SYRUP contains no opium, no poisonous or other disagreeable properties. Ad infant may take it with per fect safety. Giobe Flower Cough Syrup war ranted to cure and give satisfaction in every case, or the money relunded. B@rlTS CURES ARE NUMBERED BY THOUSANDS. , FAILURES ARE UNKNOWN. For sale by all Druggists every where. Price, One Dol'ar per Bottle. DR. J. S. PEMBERTON & CO. Atlanta, Georgia, Proprietors and Manufacturers. March 27, 1873. ly T. R . GRIMES Desires to inform the residents of Curtersvillc and surrounding district that he lias opened a Tea aiii Hoiso-Fmsliii Store on West Main Street, first door east of Gould - smith’s Furniture Store, a choice selection of NEW GOODS including the follow ing : CARPETS, Matting. Buggy and Door Mats, Oil-Cloths, Hearth Rugs. Hassock-, Tubs, Buckets, sugar Buckets, Rolling Pins, Clothes Pegs, and Wood Ware in variety. BASKETS, of every kind, Combs, Brushes, Fancy Soap and Toilet Articles, Looking Glasses, Trays and Waiters, Castors, Plated Spoons, and a variety of House-Furnishing Goods. Musical Instruments, Stationery and School Slates, Green and Dried Fruits, Nuts, Candies and Crackers, Canned Fruits and Jellies. Laiiiretl’s Vegetable aid Flower Seels. and would call particular attention to a very choice selection of T Jfcil _/!L y just received direct from Europe, in original Chinese packages, and which will be sold un usually low, beginning with a really good ar ticle at 75 cents per pound. Coffee, green and roasted, Sugar, Spices. At. WE the undersigned, have this day entered into a copartnership under the firm name of F. M. WALKER A CO., for the pur pose of man ufacturipg BOOTS AXD SIIOFS. In Col. Harris’ Law Office. We propose to do as good work as can be done anywhere, on reasonable term* and short no tice. F. M. WALKER will act as foreman, and will see that none but the best workmen are employed. Give us a call. ALL WORK WARRANTED. F. M. WALKER, C. W. LANGWORTIIY. 07“ ROGERS & COi, Sueessors to I. C. Mansfield A Cos., MERCHANT MILLERS, And Proprietors of “Holly Mills,” CARTERSVILLE, GA. Boots and Shoes Slaite anil Unpaired by DUFFEY & BRO.. CARTERSVILLE. ' WE announce to the public that we have opened a Shop in thiscitv over Roberts * Tomlin’s Livery Stable, lor the manufacture ot Roots and Shoes in the most substantial man ner, and of the very finest style. We intend to have a First-Class Shop, and do First-Class Uork. line French Calf-Skins, French Kid and Morocco will he the material used bv us. All we ask, to convince the must fastidious, is a trial. All our work warranted. 2-27—ly FULTON “HOUSE, BY F. COER A. Corner of Loyd and W all Street, O pposite the Union Passenger Depot, V.O. Box 492. ATLANTA, G Y. First Class Table and good Rooms, Price M od e*ate. March 20th, 1873. 6m luiuai xn >O. IS.
