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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.