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018 DARLING.
Bounding like football.
Kicking at tho door;
Falling from the table-top,
Sprawling on the floor;
Smashing cups and saucers,
Splitting dolly’s head;
Putting little pussy cat
Into baby’s bed.
Building shops and houses,
Spoiling father's hat,
Hiding mother’s precious keys
Underneath the mat;
Jumping on the fender,
Posing at the Are,
Dancing on his little legs—
Legs that never tire—
Making mother's heart leap
Fifty times a day;
Aping everything we do,
Every word we say.
Shouting, laughing, tumbling,
Boaring with a will,
Anywhere and everywhere,
Never, never stilt
Present—bringing sunshine;
Absent—leaving night;
That’s our precious darling,
That’s our heart's delight.
A COLUMN OF STRAGGLERS.
A clergyman lately stopped’his prayer to
lead an unruly man out of church by the ear,
and then went on: “As I was saying, o, Lord !’>
An amateur larmer wonders “why, on all this
fair earth, the ground Is spread bottom Bide up
so that it must bo turned over with a plough Del
fore crops can be raised.”
Wanted—A boy who can spear cockroaches
We want him, and we must have him. None
but experts, however, need apply, as our cock
roaches are sly, devilish sly.
Agassiz says that any full grown man can
live for ten days'by chewing at a pair of boots,
and yet there are men who will growl if they
don’t have mince pie every meal.
Oler you makes yourself from yonr seat a
loedle üb, ever dime leave your blug-liat on dot
seat. Somedimes dot mans sot down on dot
' hat, den you don’t got cm stole no more.
A gentleman with three marriageable daugh
ters has posted the lid lowing notice over nis
bell-pull: “Wood, $6 a cord; coal, 30c. a bushel;
gas, dear and bad. Parties staying alter 9
o’clock will please settle quarterly.”
A citizen went home a lew days since at a late
hour, and gently tapped on the door, “Who is
it?” Inquired his better half. To which very
proper inquiry the heartlffis man replied by
a ? k Who do y°“ ex l’ect at this hour of the
nightr
A judge charged a jury as follows: “Gentle
men ot the jury you must find that the defen
dant Is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. A
reasonable doubt is such a doubt as will con
vince a reasonable man that the defendant is
not guilty.”
It is a pleasant feeling, when you imagine
that you arejunuslng several of your lemalc
acquaintances, to discover that they are titter
ing at a handkerchief which has Inserted itself
between you and the chair, and Is peeping
roguishly out. 1 r °
When tho wife of your bosom Is in a bad hu
mor, it isn’t always sale to say, “What’s up, old
gal ?” A gentleman did this last week. She
lurned on him with, “Who do you call old gal,
you miserable old red-headed, tallow-faced,
idiotic mud turtle ?”
“There were giants In those days; and as
Moses lifted the tiery serpent out of the wilder
ness, so have 1 lifted this damn-fool nigger out
oi *4 00”—is the latest receipt given by a Yank
to a colored brother who bought them same old
lbrty acres and a mule.
“If I am not at home from tho parly to-nlglit
at 10 o’clock,” said a husband to his wife, “do
not wait lor me.” “That I won’t,” replied the
lady, siguiticantly, “I’ll come lor you!” The
old man got in at 8:30, saying society had no
charms for him since ho was married.
A hoy of tender years and heart, has drowned
seventeen kittens, and tied pans to the tails of
nine .logs, brushed his father’s new silk hat
against tho grain, and blown up a pet canary
with a tire-cracker In the last month, and still
his l'ond mother intends him tor the pulpit.
Doctor—“l am pleased to say, Mrs. Fitz
brow no, that 1 BJiail bo able to vaccinato your
baby from a very healthy child of your neigh
bor, Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Fitzbrowno.—“O, doar,
doctor, I could not permit that. ,Wo do not
care to bo mixed up with the Jonoses in any
way.”
There Is somo talk of having a geological sur
vey of Rhode Island, hut tho work may be de
layed on account of Its expensivenoss. The
prolessor who is expocted to make it says that If
he is expected to go over the State it will take
him at least two days, and he won’t do it for less
than $9 60.
The epitaphs of liakotah papers arc most
pathetic. Jim Barrett has been shoveling
snow, from which ho caught a bad cold, which
turned Into lever. The fever settled Jim’s mun
dane allairs, and a local paper says most alfoct
ingly> In his obituary, “Ho won’t have to shov
el snow In tho country ho has gono to.”
“Do you go to school now, Uharllo?” “Yos,
Sir; I had a tight to-day, too.” “You had?
which whipped ?” “O, 1 got whipped,” he re
plied, with great frankness. “Was tho otlior
boy bigger than you?” “No. ho was littlor.”
“Well, how came you to letalittler boy whip
yow ?” “O! you see he was madder nor I was.”
An old German, while traveling from Indian
apolis to Lalayotte, had his nose frozon. While
they were thawing it out for him at the hotel,
he sat by tho stove and put his hands up to his
head and thought very solemnly for a while,
and said: “I don’t understand this ting. 1 has
carry dat noso fordy-sevon year, and ho never
froozed liissell peloro.”
A fruit dealer caught an urchin stealing nuts
the otlior day, and proceeded to administer con
dign punishment. The boy begged to bo re
leased, because lie had recently been vaccina
ted fresh from tho cow. “What has that to do
with it ? shouted the Infuriated fruit dealer.
“She was a hooking cow, and it got into my
blood,” was tho whimpering cry.
Kate Stanton, In her locturo on “The Loves
of Great Men,” asserts that planets revolve
around the sun by the intiuonco of love like a
child revolves about its parent. When the
writer was a boy lie used to revolve around his
parent a good deal, ami may liavo been Incited
thereto by love, but to an unprejudiced obser
ver it looked powerfully like a trunk strap.
I notieod a man at the bar said “Ho I” when
ho drank his sherry. Then another man said
“Ho!” They said it was according to Scrip
ture—“Ho! every man that thirstest.” Another
man, as ho took up Ids glass said, “Here we
go.” An Englishman said, “Why, blast those
Yankee fellows; they say ‘Ere we go,’ and all
time, begad, they keep standin’ iu tho same
place.”
Little Ida li— is live years old. Hor mother
gave her a doll tho other day. Ida cherished
hor doll with all a mother’s care. The other
day she was nursing it on her knees; she start
ed suddenly, the doll fell, and the head was
broken ell. Ida was overcome with grief at
this misfortune, and looked aghast at the poor
headless doll: then raising her eyes, she said,
with a sigh of resignation, “Another little ivngo 1
In heaven.”
“What do you call that?” indignantly asked
aoustomer at a cheap restaurant, pointing at
an object Hint he had discovered iu his plate of
hash. “Wristband with sleeve button attach
ed, sir,” said tho waiter briskly. “Well, do
you consider that a proper thing fora man to
Ibid in Ills hash ?’’ asked the customer in wrath.
“Good heavens, sir 1” cried the waiter, “would
you expect to tind a ten dollar umbrella in a
fifteen cent plate of hash?”
An exchange says that a clergyman in a
neighboring village recently, in discoursing to
his hearers upon t he subject of Jonah and tho
whale, portrayed in bold imagery tho whole
scone. Ho said: “I seem to see Jonah passing
along Hie road to Nineveh; I seem to see him
entering ttie ticket-ottico, buy Ills ticket and pay
for it; 1 seem to see him walk upon the vessel;
I seem to see them lift their anchor and the
stately ship move grandly out upon the broad
Atlantic!”
Widow Jones’ husband died far away from
home, and it took so long lor His remains to
reach her that Hie relict had quite recovered
from her grief, and was giving a large lunch
party when the body Anally arrived. A wagon
drove up to the door, a largo box was handed
out. Curiosity ran high among tho ladies at
the window, and with ono accord they exclaim
ed, “Why, Mrs. Jones, what can that tie?”
Up went Mrs. Jones’eye-glasses, and, alter a
glance, she cooly said, “Well, It must bo Old
J ones come home. Charley, run down and opon
the door for your father.”
“When I was a boy,’’ said an old man, “we
had a schoolmaster who had an odd way oi
catching boys. Ono day ho called to us: ‘Boys,
1 must liavo closo attention to your books.
Tho first ono of you that sees another boy idle,
1 want you to inform me, and I will attend to
his case.’ ‘Ah !' thought 1 to mysolf,‘there’s
Joe Simmons that I don't like. I : ll watch him
and if 1 seo him look off Ills book I’ll tell.’ It
was not long before I saw Joe look off his book,
and immediately 1 informed tho master. ‘ln
deed !' said he; ‘and how did you know ho was
Idle?’ ‘I saw him,'said I. ‘You did ! and were
your eyes on yonr hook when you saw him?’ 1
was caught, and I never watched for idlo boys
again.”
Two Shingle Hill men have been devoting
themselves to one girl, lietween the two she
hardly know which io choose, and fortune grew
dU*y skipping from one banner to the other.
Friday night No. 1 appeared in a bran new
pair ol pants that had the most gorgeous plaid
ever seen. The young lady caved at onee,
threw herself on his breast, and faintly an mu
tated: “O, ain't they bully !" This, of course
solved the difficulty as to the maiden's choice,
and there was evidently nothing more to do
but to "tlx the day'. 1 ' Hut alas for human cal
culation l Sunday night No. 2 appeared on t lie
scene with a shirt that opened behind. They
are to bo married next Thursday. No. 1 lias
retired to the solitude or a tan-bark mill in
New York State.
Important to Warehousemen. —The
Supreme Court of Alabama, on Tuesday,
made the following decision, rendered by
Justice Saffold, in the case of Smith A
Saffold vs. Ledyard, Goldtliwaite &, Cos.,
appealed from Mobile Circuit Court:
Letters from a commission house to a
cotton buyer as follows : “ Should you
feel inclined to try this market, either in
the way of speculation or with a portion
of your crop, it will afford ns pleasure to
serve you, and your drafts will meet with
due honor at our hands,” and' “If you
can ship any more you can draw at sight;
your own cotton we are holding,” are let
ters of credit to the persons addressed.
2d. And if made known to a banker
who discounts, on the faith of them, the
drafts drawn by the buyer on the writer,
the promise inures to him. It is not ne
cessary that he should have actual sight
of the letters.
3d. He may sue in his own name for a
breach of the promise if the house refuses
to accept the bills.
4th. If the house dissolves by the with
drawal of one member, and the remaining
members resolve themselves into anew
partnership—continuing the letters, but
receiving the shipments and paying the
drafts as before—the new house ratifies
and confirms the letters, and is responsible
for drafts drawn on it, as the first house
was. Reversed and remanded.
Immigration to Texas. — A man and
wife with twenty-four children, ranging
in age from forty years down to youth,
were in Knoxville, East Tennessee, Fri
day, and left at noon, en route for Texas.
The homestead of the late H. P. Smith,
in Macon, was purchased at auction sale
Tuesday by Prof. J. E. Willett, of Mercer
University, for $5,000.
A KISS INJTHE DARK.
BY HOWARD GLjTNDON.
“Will yon be at home to-night, Annie?”
The person who asked this question, a tall
muscular, good-looking young farmer, was
leaning upon Squire Moore's front gate talk
ing to the Squire’s pretty daughter, who
stood inside of it. Ag the simple words pass
ed his lips he reddened suddenly to the very
roots of his fair hair, as if he had just been
guilty of some great impropriety.
He was bashful - extremely bashful was
David Winthrop—at least, in the presence
of young ladies, most of all in the presence
ol the girl he loved. No young man in all
Wilkes county owned a better kept farm, or
talked with more coufidence among his cro
nies of stock and crops and such like. But
the sight of a pretty foot or face coming his
way affected him queerly. On such occa
sions he never knew what to do with his
hands and eyes, and seemed always to feel
like screwing himself into the nearest mouse
hole until the danger—that is to say, the
young lady—was past.
This state of things being considered, no
one ever understood how he contrived to
muster up courage enough to enlighten An
nie Moor on the subject ofhis preference for
herself. The matter probably remains to
this day as muiki a mystery to him as it is
to others.
Miss Annie, however, had a fair share of
tact and womanly cleverness stowed safely
away somewhere in the recesses of her pret
ty little head, although it was carried jaun
tily upon the inexperienced and rounded
shoulders of fresh eighteen.
She did not need to be reminded that David
was worth, in a worldly way, much more
than any of her other suitors, and that he
was good looking, good hearted and intelli
gent enough to satisfy any but an over fas
tidious person of her class. He was unex
ceptionable, in short, barring his unconquer
able and excessive bashfulness, which indeed,
was a never failing source of merriment to
the young people of their little circle.
And so when David, in his awkward, blun
dering, half-frightened manner, began shyly
to exhibit his preference for her in various
little ways, such as waiting on her to and
from singing-school, constituting himself
her escort. When she went Sundays on
horseback to the lonely little church in the
woods, singling her out as the recipient of
whatever attentions he could find the nerve
to pay, at the frequent quilting parties in the
neighborhood, Annie did not frighten him
out of his budding passion by any show, ei
ther by surprise or marked preference, but
took it all in the easiest, pleasantest, most
unconscious manner possible. The girls
tittered and nudged each other’s elbows, and
the young men cracked furtive jokes at the
expense ol her timid suitor, but she stood up
for him like a real kind-hearted, independent
Southern lass, as she was, anil tried to en
courage him out of his shyness as far as she
consistently could.
She never seemed to notice any of his
unfortunate blunders, and very likely helped
him along considerably when his feelings
reached the culminating point, one moon
lighted Autumn evening, as they were walk
ing together from a corn husking.
That had been just one week ago. Annie
had said “yes,” and had agreed to take the
responsibility of bringing father and mother
“around” on the subject. David had not
been to the house since. Probably he felt
very much like a dog who fears to venture
upon the premises of a person whose sheep
fold he had just plundered. Thus it happen
ed that as yet the power that were knew
nothing of ftie momentous secret which they
kept between themselves, fearing to divulge.
And now Annie, who wished to put off the
ordeal of avowal as long as possible—at any
rate to gain time for one more confidential
talk with David on the subject—said hasti
ly, in reply to that stammered query of
his with which we have perfaced this nar
ration : “Mother is going over to Aunt
Ruth’s with father to spend the evening, and
she wants me to go, too, but I guess I won’t.
I’ve been working on father’s new shirts all
(lay, besides doing the dairy work yesterday,
and I’m about tired out.” then she added,
before he could reply : “Don’t come until 8
o’clock, I shall be about through putting
things to right by that time.”
Os course David was not too obtuse to
understand that he was specially favored by
this arrangement, and he so far forgot his
bashfulness as to petition awkwardly for a
parting kiss, which was at once refused in
the most inexorable manner possible.
“No, you shan’t! There, now! Do take
yourself off, will you ? D’ye think 1 didn’t
see you fidgetting around Em. Smith at Dea
con Anderson’s sociable last night? I’ve
not forgotten that, sir 1”
‘ Oh, now, Annie! Just one!"
But further appeal was broken off by a
tantalizing little laugh, and when, rendered
desperate by this, he tried to revenge him
self, at the very moment when he thought
he was secure of the coveted bliss and stoop
ed his head triumphantly over his strug
gling prisoner, the rosy laughing face, van
ished suddenly from under hjFSrm siul was
off and away up the garden path leading to
the house almost before he could realize
what had happened.
For one moment David, who stood gazing
ruefully after her, thought of pursuit and a
recapture. But before he had time to put
his plan into execution his tormentress, alter
stopping to give one mocking farewell wave
of her hand from the front porch, vanished
inside of the hall door. So there was noth
ing to lie done but to turn reluctantly from
the gate and take the road homeward.
If you could have looked into the family
sitting room at squire Moor’s shortly before
8 o'clock on that same evening you would
have had a cheery picture beiore you. The
after supper clearing away was over, for the
sitting-room was also the room where the
daily meals of the family w ere eaten. The
leaves of the old-fashioned dinner table had
been let down, and the table itself, covered
with a bright oiled cloth, set back against
the wall, l'he crumbs had been carefully
brushed with a turkey wing from the neat
home-made carpet, and Annie’s workstand
was drawn up in front of the ample and
blazing fire of hickory logs which crackled
cheerily in the old-fashioned fire-place.
A bountifully piled tray of red-cheeked
apples and a plateful of cracked walnuts
were on it, in close proximity to Annie’s co
quetish work-basket, made of pine cones by
her own deft little hand, and daintily lined
with blue silk.
On one side of the fireplace sat Mrs. Moor,
fat, fair, more than forty, and at peace with
all the world. She sat swaying backwards
and forwards at intervals in her low rock
ingchair, knitting as she rocked and refresh
ing herself now and then with a mouthful
from a half-eaten apple w hich lay within
easy reach.just upon the corner of the table;
or touching, in a caressing manner with the
tip other loot,a sleek,lazy looking gray cat.
that lay purring and blinking on the hearth
rug before her.
Annie sat on the other side of the table
deftly drawing her needle in and out of a
long piece of white cambric, and with her
head as busy as her hands with trying to con
trive some clever way of incidentally men
tioning the visit, which she was now' mo
mentarily expecting, to her mother, with
out exciting the suspicion of its being a pre
arranged affair. She would have given a
good deal to have been able to say in an oil
hand mantlet that she wouldn’t wonder if
Mr. Winthrop were to drop in, as he was in
the habit of callingoccasionally on Saturday
evenings at about this time. But she re
collected with a twinge of conscience how
hard she had tried to persuade the old lady
to accompany her husband on the promised
visit to aunt Uuth's in spite of her forewarn
ings of a coming spell of “neuralgy,” which
had intimidated her from venturing out in
to the damp night air; and also how- she
had plead headache as an excuse for not go
ing herself. She knew that her mother was
quite sharp enough to draw her own infer
ences from these two facts, and the addition
al one of her being dressed with more than
usual care to spend an evening at home.
“l'shall not dare to tell her now,” shesaid
to herself. “She'd be sure to think that 1
wanted to get her out of the way, so that 1
might have David all to myself.” So like a
wise little puss, she was silent.
I ll venture my word on it, you would
not have wondered at our bashful young
farmer’s desperate enthralment if you could
have seen Annie Moor as she sat sewing by
the fire that frosty night in November. She
had, just before supper, indulged in what a
Southern girl would call “a fixing up.” A
neat-fitting dark chintz dress, looking as
fresh as when it had first come out of the
village store, a dainty white linen color and
culls and a coquettish frilled apron of white
muslin, and a blue neck ribbon tied in a
cunning bow, were the items of Annie’s
toilette. But she looked as sweet and pret
ty as if hours had been spent in donning sat
in, lace and jewels. Her rich wavy, gold
brown hair was carried in shining tolds
away from her warm red cheek and caught
up in the meshes ol a silken net at the
back.
Eight o’clock and past! Worthy Mrs.
Moor was dozing over her knitting. Her
shadow on the opposite wall bobbed about
in grotesque mimicry as she nodded to and
fro—now crushing the voluminous white
satin bows on her spruce cap against the
back of her chair —now almost falling for
ward, while her fat hands at length dropped
listlessly in her lap, and her ball of yarn
rolled down upon the hearth. Pussy espy
ing it, was soon busy in unwinding and
converting it into all soits Gordian knots.
All at once came a double rap at the door
—an audacious double rap-which said “let
me in!” so loudly and impatiently, and in
such a self assured manner, that Annie, ren
dered nervous by suspense, started up with a
little scream and set her loot on Madame
Puss’ tail, who in turn gave vent still more
louder to her amazement and displeasure.
All these three combined or rather rapid,
successive noises, aroused Mrs. Moor, and
she started widly iuto an erect posture, rub
bing her eyes, setting her cap border, and
exclaiming: “Bless my soul, Annie! What
was all that ? Somebody at the door ?
What time is it anyhow, and who can it be ?
So late as this, too !”
“It is not very late, mother. Only a little
after eight. I’ll go and see who it is,” said
Annie, demurely, at the same time taking
the one candle from the table.
“No! Here, Annie,you windup my ball
and brush up the hearth while 1 go to the
door. Drat that cat!”
For the old lady’s feet were all this while
struggling in the perplexing meshes of the
unravelled yarn.
In her hurry Mrs. Moor forgot to take the
candle with her; and as she stepped out into
the small, unlighted front entry, she unwit
tingly closed Dehind her the door of the room
she had just left. Almost at the same mo
ment she put her hand on the handle of the
outer door, and opening it, she suddenly
found herself in the ardent embrace of a pair
of stout arms. A whiskered face was brought
into close proximity with her own, and be
fore she could fully realize her position, she
received a prolonged kiss—a hearty smack,
given with a significant gusto which indica
ted that the unknown was taking revenge
for some past slight—paying off some old
score; for it said, as plainly as words could
have done, “There, take that!” And all
this fell upon her unoffending, virtuous ma
tron lips!
“Oh! Murder! Murder! “Taint Joshua
neither!”
For she had by this tiipe divested herself
of the impression that it was her usually
sober spouse returned home in a strangely
exalted condition, thus to indulge in such
unwonted demonstrations of conjugal affec
tion.
“Gil out! Git out I say! Murder! Fire!
Theives ! Annie ! Annte ! do come here!
Here is a man kissing me like mad!”
But the intruder had by this time discov
ered his mistake ; and it did not need the
indignant pummelling and pounding of the
old lady’s respectable fists to make him re
linquish his hold and race off as if pursued
by some revenging spirit.
Annie nearly choked with smothered
laughter, in spite of her trepidation, now
came to the rescue.
“Oh, I never was so took aback in all my
born days! The mean scamp ! Who could
it have been ? Annie, have you an idea ?”
But that dutiful daughter was to all ap
pearance as innocent and ignorant as an in
fantile dove. She tried to soothe the indig
nant matron by representing that it might
have been(!) one of the neighbors, who under
the influence of a wee drop too much, had
mistaken the house and—the housewife!
She searched the entry for the missing spec
tacles, arranged the rumpled cap ribbons,
wound up the tangled yarn, stirred the fire
all in the most amiable manner possible—
and at last had the satisfaction of seeing her
mother subside into her rocking chair and
her usual tranquility of spirit.
But Mrs. Moor was fully awake now.
She had got anew idea into her head ;
and instead of setting herself for another nap,
she pursued her train of thought and her
knitting, both together, with wonderful ra
pidity. At length, stopping and looking
keenly at Annie over her spectacles, she
said :
“It may be a queer notion of mine, Annie,
but I’ve a fancy that man was David Win
throp.”
Oh! but if Annie’s face didn’t catch fire
then! You might have lit any number of
candles by it.
These suspicious symptoms did not es
cape the eye of the skillful inquisitive, who
calmly contined : “Pears so to me ; cause
them big whiskers put me in mind of his’n ;
and then the awkward way he gripped me
with his big paws 1”
No answer. But Annie was wonderfully
busy. She bent over her work and drew
herneedle through so quickly,that the thread
snapped, and then she didn’t have time to
talk, she was so taken up with trying to
coax the thread through the eye again !
Inflexible Mrs. Moor went on : “I don’t
believe that kiss was intended for me alter
all. Do you Annie ? Well, of course we
know it wasn’t. But then Ido wonder who
it was intended for? And I wonder if you
don’t know something more about it than
you seem fit to tell !”
‘‘Me, mother ?”
“Yes,” me mother,” you was mighty anx
ious to get me an’ pap off to aunt Ruth’s
to-night; but I noticed you was slicked up
extraordinary for all you weren’t going.”
Here Annie lost her needle, and went
down on the floor to find it.
“Now, Annie,” her mother went on,
“I’m gittin’ old, I know that, but I haven’t
quite lost my eyesight yet, nor my hearin'
neither. I’ve surmised a little somethin’
about these goin’s on between you an’
David afore now. What a.” you playin’
possum fur? Out with it’ I say. T’aint
fair to be tryin’to come it over your old
mother.”
Thus adjured, our small feminine Mach
iaval made a clear breast of it, much reliev
• 1 to find that mother “hadn’t nothin' agin’
him,” and “would give lather a talkin' to
about it an" bring him around .”
“But, Annie,” said Mrs. Moore, dryly, in
conclusion, “I want you to tell David I’d
rather he’d not make such a mistake as that
again. I dont like the feel of his big whis
kers about my face, and moreover, I don’t
approve of promiskus klssin I”
David never heard the last of that kiss in
thedark ! Old Squire Moore,of course, heard
of it, and used to take great delight slyly
alluding to the circumstance when all the
parties concerned happened to be present,
lie would shake his burly sides with laugh
ter at David’s evident discomfiture and his
wife’s tart replies, while Annie would side
with her father and poke sly fun at her
sweetheart, and then both of them would
laugh again at the other two until the tears
ran down their cheeks.
“Never mind, David,” Mrs. Moore would
say consolingly to the abashed lover, “let
them laugh. He'd have been only too glad
to have been in your place some thirty
years ago. He had hard work to get a kiss
irotn me then. 1 hope the occurrence will
be a lesson to you an’Annie agin the un
policy of under hand doins’ofall sorts,seein’
as how they are liable to end, in
such cases, in kissin’ the wrong one in the
dark,”
From the Montgomery Advertiser, 2d.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
SATURDAY.
SENATE.
Following bill passed:
To define and regulate property’ exempt
from sale under legal process or adminis
tration.
Following were referred:
To amend section 35 of the Revenue
Law.
To amend an act to encourage the in
vestment of money in this State by Life
Insurance Companies of other States.
To secure Justices of the Peace and
Notaries Public, in their foes in certain
cases.
A bill to require that persons convicted
of felony and sentenced to hard labor,
shall perform such work as is required of
convicts in the penitentiary.
Mr. Derreen—A bill to amend section
3553 of the Code. (In reference to con
cealed weapons.)
Governor transmitted a claim of law
yers for the State who had been engaged
in the A. & C. R. R. case.
HOUSE.
The following ivere passed;
Senate bill to amend sections 2 and (i
of the act to incorporate the town of
Dadeville, in Tallapoosa county.
The following were referred:
To authorize the purchase of a portrait
of the Hon. Wm. R. King. Referred to a
special committee of six, to be composed
of equal number of each political party.
To define the commissions on sales by
Registers in Chancery. Allows Chancel
lors to fix the rate, but restricts them
within the commissions allowed sheriffs.
Committee reported favorably, with
certain amendments, to the bill to estab
lish anew charter for the city of Opelika.
Report adopted.
To amend the act amending section 12,
subdivision 3 of the Revenue Laws of the
State. Taxes home insurance companies
1 per cent, on gross premiums less the ex
penditures and reserve fund, &c.
To amend section 2834 of the Revised
Code. Subjects all property, except nec
essary household and kitchen furniture,
and the wearing apparel of the defendant
to sale under the process for the satisfac
tion of fines, forfeitures, penalties and
costs.
To exempt the property of all widows
in this State from taxation to the amount
and value of SIO,OOO. Ways and Means.
To require Railroad Companies, owning
or operating roads in this State to enclose
their respective tracks with a good and
substantial fence, or to pay for all stock I
or cattle killed or injured by their trains j
and locomotives.
To amend the act amending section 1G I
of the Revenue Laws of the State. Re
quires Tax Assessors on the first day of
January’ and close by the first day of July
in each year, and to make the returns
required by section 37 of the Revenue
Laws, on or before the first Monday in
July, annually.
For the protection of witnesses in cer
tain cases.
To provide for the exercise of Equity
jurisdiction by the Circuits Courts of this
State in causes provided for by the sth
section of the Gth article of the Constitu
tion of the State.
A MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor covering the following communica
tion from J. H. Speed, Superintendent of
Public Instruction :
State of Alabama, )
Department of Education. -
Montgomery, March 1, 1873. )
To His Excellency , David P, Lems, Gov
ernor of Alabama :
Sir —l have the honor to submit here
with the following statement of the pres
ent educational indebtedness of the State
on account of its free public schools, and
respectfully request that the Legislature
provide for the payment of the same:
Undrawn balance due past
year $ 212,007 23
Outstanding school warrants 275,000 00
Amount due for present
scholastic year 524,452 40
Total $1,012,110 03
I would further suggest that the Legis
lature so amend the revenue laws as to
provide for assessilg and collecting and
paying into the Treasury the taxes, as to
have the free public school funds kept
separate and inviolate, except for free
public schools. Very respectfully,
J. H. Speed,
Supt. Pub. lust.
Penitentiary farm bill was discussed to
adjournment.
MONDAY.
SENATE.
Mr. Little, of Sumter, was sworn in
and took his seat as Senator.
A joint resolution was adopted to pro
vide for the appointment of an agent for
the collection of moneys due from the
United States to the State of Alabama on
account of lands in this State disposed of
by military warrants and land scrip issued
for military services_in the wars of the
United States.
A joint resolution was adopted that the
Legislature adjourn sine die the 17th
inst.
Following were introduced, and referr
ed, by Mr. Parks:
To amend the lsth subdivision of sec
tion 3 of the revenue laws of Alabama.
To pay for the advertisement of land
sold by the Tax Collector of Pike county,
and purchased by the State.
To authorize Emeline A. Brunson, to
sell certain lands therein named without
an order of Court.
To regulate proceedings in the Probate
Court in cases where the estate of a de
ceased person is interested, and such es
tate has no executor or administrator, or
he is interested adversely thereto.
Bill for the encouragement and promo
tion of manufacturing and the industrial
and mechanical arts iu the State was dis
cussed to adjournment.
HOUSE.
Civil Rights bill was postponed.
A resolution to adjourn sine die was,
after debate, referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.
Bill to repeal section 1374 of article 1
of the Revised Code so far asthe said section
lates to the counties of DeKalb, Coving
ton, Russell, Randolph, Dallas and Madi
son, was passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the city of
Opelika, with amendments, was passed.
Cotton Mills—Their Profits.
We take the the following from tho Sa
vannah Advertiser:
Mr. D. Keith, of Columbus, Ga., con
sulting engineer for planning and erecting
cotton mills, favors us with the following
batch of useful information:
I have just read in one of our dailies an
article taken from your paper, entiled
“Small Cotton Mills.” Your advice to the
South, as set forth iu that article, is good
and timely, and the sooner our people
move on it the better. It is true, as you
say, an impression prevails that cotton
mills in our section are dangerous affairs
to tamper with. This, of course, is a
false impression, and one that should be
removed as speedily as possible.. And
now, with your permission, I shall endea
vor to contribute my mite toward that
removal by holding up to public gaze .a
few figures, (made on small cotton mills)
that I know to be correct.
A cotton mill of 300 or even 500 spin
dles is rather small; a mill of al,ooo spin
dles is better, and a 2,000 spindle mill is
still better. All cotton mills need a man
to look after them who has had experi
ence. Very small mills cannot afford to
pay the market price for competent men.
Mills of 1,000 spindles are quite as small
as we should have, except in certain cases,
such, for instance, where a man has a
small water power that will drive six,
seven, or eight hundred spindles.
All spinning mills send most of their
product abroad to market, while weaving
mills find a more ready market at home,
as their goods are generally of that class
which our people use freely. In conver
ting our lint into yarns we increase the
value of it materially, especially if made
into fine numbers. No. 20 is now quoted
in the Philadelphia market at 30c. per
pound, which is about two prices of cot
ton. There can be no question as to the
profit at those prices.
The manufacture of No. 14 yarns into
sheetings and shirtings is a plain, simple
business, and tho demand for such goods
justifies the establishment of mills for pro
duction until the demand is satisfied. To
illustrate the result of operations of a
weaving mill of this kind, we will suppose
a mill of 100 looms and 4,000 spindles
qualified to make standard sheetings;
such a mill requires about 100 operatives,
mostly women, and 100 looms will turn
off 50 yards per day each—soxloo—s,ooo
yards, or 30,000 yards per week. Such
goods are now worth in market, at whole
sale, 13 cents per yard; 13x30,000 —$3,-
900. To make the 30,000 yards requires
11,250 pounds of cotton, now worth in
market 19 cents per pound; 19x11,350 —
$2,137 50. Deduct this from $3,900 and
it leaves $1,702 50 as increased value of
material in one week’s work. The aver
age running time of a cotton mill per an
num is 50 weeks; 50x51,7G2 50—588,125
as increased value of material consumed
by the mill in one year.
The labor of one hundred operatives,
with requisite machinery, have produced
this result. Let us now see what it amounts
to per hand—sßß,l2s 00 divided by 100—
SBBI 25 to each, which will purchase teu
bales of cotton, weighing 403 pounds each,
at 19 cents per pound. Thus we see that
the 100 operatives, with the necessary ma
chinery, have produced an equivalent of
ten bales per hand. Ten years operations
of the mill is equivalent to the production
of an extra thousand bales of cotton, and
one hundred persons have had already
employment at remunerative pay.
Now we come to a very important point
in the matter, viz: the capital required
for such an enterprise and the profit ac
cruing therefrom. We have placed to
the credit of the mill for the year's opera
tion, over and above the pi’ice of cotton,
$88,125. The capital required for such
an establishment we will set at $150,000
A dividend of 20 per cent, would make
$30,000. Expenses of officers, opera
tives, fuel, oil, taxes,„insurance, etc.,
52,500. Amount carried to reserved fund
$5,025 —$88,125.
The position taken by this correspond
ent in regard to the inability- of small
mills to employ competeut men is doubt
less correct, as it refers to the present
time and the existing condition of affairs;
but once we get into the way of making
small mills all over the country, compe
tent men for their management would
multiply in proportion, and we should
soon find it as easy a matter to engage
skilful cotton workers as it now is to en
gage men qualified to run first-class flour
ing mills.
The following is the estimated cost of
working five thousand acres of a turpen
tine plantation in Georgia:
Cutting 240.000 boxes at lc per box $2,400
40 hands for one year at S2OO each, 8,000
Feeding 40 hands at SOO 2,400
Still, for distilling turpentine into
spirit 2,000
Mules, wagons and tools 1,400
Barrels for spirits of turpentine 2,500
Product of 5,000 acres, 8,000 barrels of
crude turpentine ; 1,333 barrels of 40 gal
lons each of spirits of tuqieutiue, and 5,-
530 barrels of rosin.
On Saturday morning early Miss Alice
Palin died quite suddenly at her mother's
residence in Savannah. She retired in
apparent good health.
JNO F. FLOURNOY, 11. 11. EFFING,
C. C. McG’EHEE. JOS HANSERD.
FLOURNOY, McGEHEE & CO.
ALSTON WAREHOUSE,
Columbus, Ga,
o
Having taken charge of the above-named Warehouse,
we are now fully prepared to transact a General Storage
and Commission Business, and will advance liberally on
Cotton in store.
CF'Col. C. B. TALIAFERRO (of the late firm of Gray & Taliaferro) remains
with us, and will be found at all times ready to serve his friends.
n3d&w Flournoy, McGehee & Cos.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
Jno. S, Re. so & Cos., General Agents, Baltimore.
lot
W.H. YOUNG, Sole Agent for COLUMBUS.
lot
IMo Old Stock on Hand !
ALL PURE. FRESH AND GENUINE!
Cash Price, $56 per Ton, of 2,000 lbs.
Also, for Sale on Time, fox* or
Currency.
to!
The use of this GUANO for the past Seven Years has established itscharacter
for excellence and reliability. I need only assure consumers that the GUANO
brought into market this season is precisely the same in composition and qual
ity as that heretofore sold.
The large fixed Capital invested by this Company in this business furnishes
the best guarantee of continued excellence. The Company has a greater in
terest in maintaining its standard of quality than any number of consumers can
have.
This well-known GUANO is for sale by my agents at Butler, Geneva, Talbot
ton, Box Spring, Jones’ Crossing, Dozierville, Upatoie, Waverly Hall, Cataula,
Hamilton and Florence, Ga., and Union Springs, Troy, Opelika, Not3su!ga,
LaFayette and Dadeville, Ala.
W H H. YOUNG,
Agent Pacific Guano Company.
Depot removed from City Warehouse to the store No.
12 Broad st., corner Broad and Bryan, Columbus, Ga.
fell e»d&.w2m
FOB GENTIiEMEN:
A NEW LOT OF
Beautiful Spring Cassimeres.
FOR LADIES:
MA.G-IC G-ARTBRS
A Very Desirable Novelty in Elastics,
PEACOCK & SWIFT,
117 Broad Sti’eet.
mr2 d&weod
.$1,012,119 03
NEW BOOT AND SHOE STORE I
ROBERT 0. POPE,
VO Broad street,
First Door Below Pf.ase’s Book Store and nearly opposite John King’s Bank
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
I WOULD respectfully announce to my friends and the pt
public that lam now receiving and opening a stock of A ■
BOOTS and SHOES entirely new and fresh , consisting of * Igjijijl JT
all the grades and styles suitable for either light or heavy
I have had ail my stock made to order, EXPRESSLY FOR
MY OWN TRADE, by the best manufacturers, and will
warrant every pair to give satisfaction and be as represented.
To small Dealers and Country Merchants 1 can offer good inducements.
X have secured the services oi'Mr. GOODE H. FLEMING. He will be glad to see and wa i
upon his friends and old customers.
REPAIRING done with neatness and dispatch. *5" TEEMS CASH.
Columbus, Sept. Btli, 1872. . [deod-w
" J. & J. KAUFMAN,
B'l and MS Bribed Nf
Columtous, Oeorgia
0c26 eod&w
Muscogee Sheriff’s Sale.
TTTILL lie solil on the First Tuesday in
V V April next, the following property, to
wit; Paris of Hots Nos. 93, 95 and 00, in the
Coweta Reserve, east of Columbus, containing
one hundred and fifty acres land, more or less,
bounded north by the road leading irom Ran
dall creek and mills, east by lands of Col. Os
born, south and west by lands of E. Sims Bans s,
being the same place occupied by Everliard
Abercrombie, as the property of Everliard and
Pauline Abercrombie, to satisfy a mortgage ti
fa. issued from the Superior Court of Muscogee
county in favor of J. Berrien Oliver, use, &.C.
Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.
ja3l 8w H. <5. IVEY, Sheriff.
State of Georgia, Muscogee County.
fTIHOMAS P. RANDLE, guardian of Wil-
L liam L. Jeter, having applied to the Court
of Ordinary of said county for a discharge from
His guardianship of t lie said William L. Jeter;
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned
to show cause, by filing objections in my office
on or before the first Monday in April next,
why the said Thomas P. Randle should not be
dismissed from his said guardianship and re
ceive the usual letters of dismission.
Given under my official signature.
juM td F. i\i. BROOKS, Ordinary.
Georgia, Muscogee County.
rpHEOFHIUJS S. STEWART, having
X made application to me for letters of ad
ministration on the estate of Charles D. Stew
art, late of said county, deceased.
All persons concerned are hereby notified to
show cause (if any they have) why letters of
administration should not be granted said ap
plicant on said estate, at the next April term of
the Court of Ordinary, to be belli in and for
said county.
(riven under my Itand and official signature,
this 22d day of February, 1873.
mr4 F. M. BR< ICKS, Ordinary.
Georgia, Muscogee County.
11l G. RAIFORI) having made application
Ij, to me for letters of administration on the
estate ol Lewis Milton, late of said county, de
ceased,
All persons concerned a e hereby notified to
show cause (if any they ltavo) why letters of
administration should not be granted said ap
plicant on said estate, at the next term of the
Court o! Ordinary, to be held in and for said
county.
Oiven under my hand and official signature,
this 22d day of February, 1873.
mr4 F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary.
Georgia, Muscogee County.
MRS. CATHARINE McARDLE having
applied to me lor letters ol administra
tion, de bonis non, on the estate of Thomas
Brassel, late of said county, deceased.
All persons concerned are hereby notified to
show cause (if any they have) at the next April
term ol the Court of Ordinary, to be held in and
for said county, why letters snould not be gran
ted said applicant.
Given under my hand and official sijr iature.
this 22d day ol February, 1K73.
mr4 * F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary.
Georgia, Muscogee County.
G( EORGrE H. NEAL having applied for
r letters of guardianship for the person and
property of John B. Lindsay, minor of John
Lindsay, late of said county, deceased,
All persons concerned are hereby notified to
show cause (ii any they have) why letters of
guardianship should not be granted said ap
plicant at the next April Term of the Court of
Ordinary, to be held in and for said county.
tiiven uuder my hand ami official signature,
tills 22d day of Feburary, 1873.
FRANCIS M. BROOKS,
mr4 Ordinary.
Muscogee Sheriff Sale.
"ITTILL be sold at Ellis is. Harrison's auction
VV room, on Broad street, in Columbus, (la.,
on the first Tuesday in March next, within the
legal hours of sale, the lollowing described pro
perty, to-wit:
Certain lots of land, numbers 521 and 522, in
the city of Columbus, in said comity, according
to the plan of said city, containing one acre,
more or less, with all the improvements there
on, as the property of William W. Flewelien,
to satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of Janette
Bethune' vs. Wm. W. Flewelien. Property
pointed out in said fi fa.
J. M. BIVINS, Deputy Sheriff.
The above gale lias been postponed until the
first Tuesday in April next,
mra H. Cx. IVEY T ANARUS, Sheriff.
Georgia, Muscogee County.
rpHEOPHILUS S. FONTAINE and GEO.
JL H. FONTAINE, executors of Benjamin
B. Fontaine, late of said county, deceased,
liaviug applied for leave to sell a part of the
real estate tielonging to iaid deceased.
All persons concerned are hereby notified to
show cause (it any they have) why leave to sell
said real estate should not be granted at the
next April term ot the Court of Ordinal y to be
held in and for said county.
Given under my hand and otlicial signature,
this 22d day of February, 1873.
mi 4 F. ftl. BROOKS, Ordinary.
Georgia, Muscogee County.
WHEREAS, W. R. GliErN, guardian of
.lames A. Calhoun, having applied for
letters of dismission from said gua rdiansliip.
All persons concerned are hereby notified to
show cause (if any they have) at the next May
term of the Court of Ordinary for said county,
why letters of dismission from said guardian
ship should not be granted to said applicant.
Given under my hand and official iguaturo,
this March 4th, 1873.
mr42m F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary.
Muscogee Sheriff Sale.
WILE be sold on the first Tuesday in
March next, in front of the Auction
House of Ellis & Harrison, in the City of Co
lumbus, in said county, between the legal nours
of sale, the following property, to-wit :
Also, the northwest quarter of lot of land No.
twelve (12) in the 9th lb strict of said county,
levied on as the properly of Bryant Cooley, to
satisfy a fi fa. issued from the Superior Court
of said county iu favor of Charles J. Jenkins,
Governor, &c., vs. said Bryant Cooley. Prop
erty pointed out byplainiitr’s attorney.
ja3o H. G. IVEY, Sheriff,
l’lie above sale has been postponed until the
first Tuesday in April next.
mrs H. O. IVEY, Sheriff.
Muscogee Sheriff Sales.
lITILIj bo sold in front of Ellis ft Harri-
V V son’s Auction House, in the City of Co
lumbus, in said c unty, between I lie legal hours
of sale, on the First Tuesday iu April next,
the following described lands, lying, being and
situate in the eighth oistricl of said county,
containing two hundred and twenty-six acres,
more or les—one hundred and sixty-five acres,
more or less, commencing at the Chattahoo
chee River where the original land line starts
from said liver, between the land of.l. K.
Clapp and H. it. McCoy, running east witli
said line until it reaches the corner of said
fractional lot, thence running north with the
said line, dividing the land of Jnlin A. Jones,
deceased, and the said McCoy, until the same
reaches the corner ot the said John A. Jones’
land, thence taking an easterly direction to
the Chattahoochee River along a line of fence
dividing said land from the land of Henry L.
Penning. Also, sixty acres lying east of the
public road, ou lot number ninety-four (94).
Also, one acre on lot number ninety-four (94).
on the north line, west of the said' road, the
road being the line. Levied on as the property
ot John J. Wynne, to satisfy a ii fa is.-ued from
the Superior Court of said county in lavor ol
Seleta A. McCoy against said John J. Wynne.
Property pointed out by plaintiffs attorneys
mr4 ii. G. IVEY, Nherifi
Chattahoochee Sheriff Sales.
\\J ILK be sold on the first Tuesday in May
V V next, at the Court House door in the town
ol'Cusseta, in said county, between the usual
hours of sale, a two-thirds undivided interest in
the following lots of lands, lying and being in
the 7th District of originally Muscogee, now
Chattahoochee, county, to-wi.,: Lots uuuibcr.-
120, 143, 144, 150, 151, 172, 173, 178, 179, >49, 195,
and tiie east half of lot 142, containing in all
twenty-two hundred and seventy-nine (2279)
acres, more or less. Levied on as the property
of Win. A. Little and Leonard Little, to satisfy
a mortgage fi fa. issued from the Superior
Court of said county in favor of John D. Lang
horn against said William A. and Leonard
Little.' Property pointed out by plaintitis’at
torney.
This March 1, 1873.
mr4 JNO. M. SAPP, Sheriff.
SEALE HOTEL.
I HAVE opened a HOTEL at SEALE.
ALA., the county seat of Russell, and am
well prepared to entertain guests, promising to
lurnish every attention for their comfort. The
table will be supplied with the best the coun
try affords. Prices reasonable.
fe!B wlm* J. R. CAWLEY.
Notice to tiie Public.
Seven years ago we adopted the plan of sending our “Farmer Cooking Stoves through
the country with wagons, by our traveling salesmen, in order to supply a want long
felt in the South, and that each family might have an opportunity of seeing if not pur
chasing one of these indispensable household articles. The abundant success of our
enterprise throughout the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, and
the universal favor with which our Stoves are received everywhere, convinces us that
in order to supply the continued growing demand, we must largely increase our forces
at the Foundry, hence we have increased our daily manufacture of this one pattern to
thirty, and will still further increase it to fifty if our trade continues to demand it.
Our salesmen, who will visit you, are authorized to give same terms as though you
made the purchase direct from ourselves at the Foundry. We have but one price,
which is cast on the Stove, and from that we never deviate. This Stove has no compli
cated arrangements, such as dampers and inside flue plates, as in all other stoves, but is
so simply constructed that any one may use it successfully. It is very heavy, and made
only of the best qualities of new iron so mixed as to secure a tough, strong plate. Cook
ing Stoves, from the important relations they bear to the every day requirements, and
upon which, in so great a degree, depends the convenience, comfort and happiness of
every family, may truly be considered the most wonderful of all mechanical construc
tions for domestic use. No worthier object has ever engaged the attention and genius of
man, and in no department of invention have more rapid advances been made than in
the improvement of this indispensable household article. As we trace their history
from the first rude construction, we see them gradually assuming forms of beauty, cor
rect principles being developed and applied until in the perfectness of the structure to
which your attention is invited, there seems little room for improvement. To those
persons in the Stove trade who think their business will be ruined by us, and who
therefore oppose and misrepresent us and our goods at all places, we desire to assure
them that instead of being an injury to them, we are doing them a benefit, by building
up a business which has heretofore been neglected, and by introducing an article of
household utility, must ultimately bring them into general use in every family.
Respectfully yours,
CULVER BROTHERS.
Read what the People say abou
[From the Newnan (Ga.) Herald, May 10.]
Newnan, Ga., April 30, 1872.
Messbs. Cdlvee Brothers:
We can cheerfully testify to the superior
excellence of your “Farmer” Cooking
Stove, and recommend it to the attention
of all housekeepers. Its baking qualities
a're unequalled, and for economy in wood
it cannot be surpassed. Each one of ns
are using one, and think it the best and
most durable Stove ever sold in Georgia:
Thos R Powell Wiley Howard
Eraspus Glass Hiram Hays
E C North J F Marchman
J M Vinyard W C Sewell
S F Carlton F Phillips
G P Smith <1 P Rees,
W J Gay Pierce Tomlin
L E Tidwell C B Brown
Allen Bonner L Hollingsworth
P S Meriwether Z P Allman
E L Birdsou Mrs E Hubbard
W C Davis E W Beavers
—Bearfield E C Carter
Wm Robinson Davis Lovelady
J B Newton Harris Sanders
James Carroll Isaac Gay
Joel Shannon Benj Wortham
E M Woodley J N Wood
Mrs M Hyde T J Phillips
James Moor L Mullins
W A Floyd W T Stallings
J Campbell N Stinehcomb
B F Attaway J T Travis
H M Head J A Beavers
Jordan Holland Airs Ann Sims
J II Grayham C G Harris
Joseph Young Mrs M Phillips
W 0 Lucy Jas Upchurch
T P Clark Thos Bullard
Lucian Tomlin J E Henly
0 Willingham Perry Chandler
N B Reed S H Neal
S J Stovall Joshua Moore
Wm Vines J J Johnson
J H Holland A It Britt
John York James Travis
S II Bowen M L Miles
W F Wood F Powledge
D W Dial B A Pierce
State of Geoeoia, Coweta County.
I, J. H. Cooke, Ordinary of the county
and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that
I know all of the above people to be re
sponsible and good citizens. Implicit
confidence can be placed in their state
ment in regard to Culver Brothers’ Far
mer Cooking Stove. J. 11. Cooke,
Ordinary Coweta Cos.
Smith band, Ky., March 20,1872.
Messbs. Culver Brothers:
Your Farmer Cooking Stoves, one of
which we each purchased in 1807, of your
Agents, are now, after being in constant
use for over five years, as good in every
respect as new. We cheerfully commend
them to those who may be seeking the
best, and hope yon may meet with a most
abundant success in disposing of them
far and near:
D G Hurley W B Pressnell
M A Wilson Thos II Luck
E C Clement Wm Miller
John Dupriest M Robertson
J F Robertson Harvey Grastey
L Ross F M Fletcher
A Martin John Dodd
D S Crider S N Davis
A C Brown N H Pergins
Reuben Lindsey W A Lee
John Hobson Wm Champion
James Glascoe N D Hampton
Poke Mayloy E G Leeper
Win Jones I T Handlin
Z Ray H Landram
State or Kentucky, Livingston County.
As Clerk of the County Court for the
county and State aforesaid, certify that
I am personally acquainted with the citi
zens the signatures appear above, and
that they are creditable, reliable persons.
Witness my hand this 23d day of March,
1572. ‘ J. L. Vick, Clerk.
Marietta, Cobb Cos. Ga., May 2(1,’72.
Messrs. Culver Brothers:
We take great pleasure in recommend
ing your “Farmer” Cooking Stove to all
who are in want of a good article:
Sary Powers W J Richards
H Grisham Humphrey Reid
Dr Stith Rev N A Pratt
G W Arnold D S Barham
Jos Jenkins E Stonp
A H Boswell J M Groover
J B Kendrick H Bailey
M Red H M Tippins
John Hix J N Johnson
G W York Mrs Rainewater
Samuel Powers Tilman Smith
Win McMullen Win Dewberry
Isaac McMullen T II Moore
D Drummond A B Brumby
M A Pooter Nath Robinson
Sarah Stewart
State oe Georgia, Cobb county.
I, C. J. Shepard, Ordinary in and for ;
said county, do hereby certify that I am
personally acquainted with Humphrey
Reid, Win. McMullen, H. Grisham, anil
several others whose names appear to the
above recommendation and that they are
citizens of this county and are men of |
unblemished character and can be relied i
on for truth and veracity.
C. J. Shepard, Ordinary.
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Dallas, Paulding Cos., Ga., May 20, ’72.
JHemtrs. Culver Brother*:
Having obtained and bad in use in our
families for some time your new “Farm
ers” Cooking Stove, we cheerfully bear
LATEST NEWS!
■Sr iM am
l HAVE IN STORE, AND AM CON
STANTLY RECEIVING,
Bacon Sides, Shoulders and Hams;
Corn--Best Tennessee White;
Flour, of all Grades;
Molasses and Syrups;
Sugars, Coffees, Teas;
Liquors, Salt, Shoes;
And a full stock of GROCERIES of all kinds,
at lowest Cash Prices, at Wholesale
and Retail.
J. H. HAMILTON,
Corner Franklin and Warren streets.
les wtt
W. A. Farley 7
A. ttornoy-at -Is aw,
CTJSSETA, Chattahoochee Cos., Ga.
eySpecial attention given to collections.
Blank Distress Warrants for sale at the
Son office.
: our “ Farmer” Cooking Stove
testimony to its many good qualities—
economy in fuel, rapidity and uniformity
in baking and cooking, and its mauy con
veniences making it in our opinion the
best Stove in use.
T M Brooks W C Mathews
W M Woodall Juo Matthews,
J Leverett J C Harris
L L Brown, J M Morgan
J W Woodall I Osborn
N T Bullock G W Morgan
Caleb Clark S L Robinson
State of Georgia, Paulding county.
I, Megis Hunt, Clerk of the Superior
Court, in and for said county, do hereby
certify that I am personally acquainted
with J. C. Harris, T. M. Brooks, Wm. M.
Woodall and others whose names are
signed to the foregoing, and that they can
be relied on for truth and veracity.
Meigs Hunt, Clerk S. C.
Carrollton, Carroll Cos., Ga., Alay, 1872.
Messrs. Culver Brothers:
After haviug used your “Farmer” Cook
ing Stove a sufficient length of time to
test its qualities, we feel warranted in
recommending it to our neighbors and
friends.
M A Hawkins James Upshaw
J B Nally E L Burdsong
J P Edge P A C Alley
J B Williamson J B Duncan
Jno Dyer E H Linely
R Alassingill W T Willogliby
T A Gorgan A Hilderbran
J T Bedingfield G W AlcCarty
P R Garrett J \V Carroll
I, J. W. Carroll, an acting Justice of
the Peace, iu and for the county of Car
roll, do hereby certify that I uiu personal
ly acquainted with J. T. Edge, J. B. Wil
liams, and others whose signatures appear
to the foregoing, and know them to be
truthful, reliable gentlemen.
J. W. Carroll, J. P. 112th District., G. M.
From the Abbeville (S. O.) Fross and Banner,
Bee. 25, 1872.
Abbeville, S. C., Dec. 10, 1872.
Messrs. Culver Brothers:
Wo cheerfully grant you permission to
use our names as you see proper iu com
mendation of your Farmer Cooking Stove,
for we regaid it as being altogether the
best cooking stove in use. It is all that is
desirable in a stove, for it is simple iu
construction, has no dampers or tines to
burn out, and bakes quick and beautiful
ly. We bespeak for you a liberal patron
age from our neighbors and friends, be
lieving as we do, that none who purchase
one of these stoves will ever regret it but
will consider it a prize these days, when
good cooks are so hard to get. We think
your enterprise merits success, and hope
you will attain it.
J W Jordan AY Wickiffe
B P Neel J M Pruitt
James Barnes A J Chinkscales
John Hagan Jas Thompson
S E Bell J D Alewiue
W E Bowie R Taj lor
D P Hanneh At L Ashley
G W Nicholas John Jones
S O Young W AlcCain
P Tucker W Watkins
J B Pruitt Henry Bowie
A Hall Jno Vance
T V Pruitt AI C Rivers
C Jones S B Cook
J C Hall J Jordan
J Criswell AI Freeman
A J AVeed V Sharp
T O Hill W A Hall
G AV Bowen Burt Riley
A Every Wm Book
H Riley J T Cheatham
S AV Brooks A AI Price
J t> Neel J U Britt
S Talflert.
State of South Carolina, Abbeville Dis
trict.
I, L. D. Bowie, Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas and General Sessions, for
said county and State aforesaid, dohereby
certify that I am personally acquainted
with the above signers, and take pleasure
in saying that they are men of credit and
undoubted veracity. I will also state that
Messrs. Culver Brothers have sold a large
number of their stoves iu this county, and
all give satisfaction, so far as I know.
Given under my hand and seal of office,
this 21st day of December, 1872.
L. D. Bowie.
[From the Washington (Ga.) Gazette, Septem
ber 13, 1872.
Washington, Ga., Sept. 10, 1872.
Messrs. Culver Brothers:
You have the liberty to use onr names
in any manner you inay see proper in
commendation of your “Farmer” Cook
ing Stoves. Wo have given (hem thor
ough trial, and found them in every re
spect as represented by your Agents:
W W Hill Simon Bailey
Lil ward Waller Mitchell Biuns
J B Wooten Ben Bell
G Bolton H C Edmonds
J H Smith John Ohenault
G Bnrditt J W Hubbard
J F Heard June Grisham
Lee Huff C Arnold
M B Moses H L Aycoek
B Dunaway II Thornton
D Forston G W Pullin
Wm Withite W E Tate
Redding Sims J B Mitchell
T H Strother G Danner
Ordinary’s Office, Wilkes Cos. Ga.
I hereby certify (hat the persons named
in the list hereto appended are good cit
izens, and responsible for what they say.
I add to this that so far as 1 have heard,
Culver Brothers’Farmer Cooking Stoves
give universal satisfaction.
Given under my hand and official signa
ture, this Sept. 2:1, 1872.
George Dyson,
Ordinary Wilkes County.
O- DITSON & CO. oiler tlioso new,
fresh, genial J uvenile Song Books lo the pub
lic, believing they will bear comparison withany
others. ‘Cheerful Voices,’
! fi; 9*TS a I ||J rnost successful
’WiiwLflUl iii.il popular Gomposer,
~ „ , Mr. L. O Emerson, is for
Common Schools, and as
300,000 teachers and pupils
are already familiar with VOICGS*
his previous School Song
Boons, they will need no urging to try this.
And as for our Sab
-155 <s* a* Lr S ! «y bath School Song Book
V 9 EJ <CII f\ll Est& whose glittering title
“ ° aptly describes the
brightness of its contents,
read the following extracts S**ii ..Lj nr .
fromcommendatory letters. BN. MGI CL „
Superintendents say : “ The
more we use it the better we like it.” “The
music lias a freshness and beauty unsurpassed
by any book 1 havo seen.” Choristers say: “A
work ot sterling merit.” “Far excelling Sab
bath School Music ol the many books 1 have
had the pleasure to use,” &e.
Frice ot Cheerful Voices 50 cts.
Price of Sparkling Rubies. .... .35 cts.
Specimen copies mailed, post-paid, for the
above prices.
OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston.
Cli AS. H. DITSON ft. CO.,
mr4 711 Broadway, New York.
EPPING’S BUCHIT
NOTICE— To a 1 purchasers of this excel
lent compound (Extract of Buchu): Send
your orders to L. PIERCE ft CO.. Columbus,
(la., and you will get the genuine, original ex
tract. There is no outside agencies—either
special or general. I am. Individually,
sole proprietor. L. PIERCE.
March 4th, 1873. mr» j
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£ HA If?
33WJ2R
K e:y year in ureases il;e |>o|mi!h: ■
ty of this valuable Hair Prepaiatioi;
which is <lne to merit alone. \V.
can assure our oM patrons that it i-.
kept fully up so its high standard
and it is the only reliable and perlcc:-
ed preparation for restoring LJii.w
on Faded H air to its youthful color,
making it soft, lustrous, and silken.
The scalp, by its use, becomes while
and clean. It removes all eruptions
and dandruff, and, by its tonic pro;,
ci ties, prevents the hair from laliin
out, as it stimulates and nourishes
the hair-glands. By its use, the hair
grows thicker and stronger. In
baldness, it restores the capillary
glands to their normal vigor, and
will create anew growth, except in
extreme old age. It is the most eco
nomical Hair Dressing ever used,
as it requires fewer applications,
and gives the hair a splendid, glossv
appearance. A. A. Hayes, 31.1)..
State Assayerof Massachusetts, says,
“The constituents are pure,and can
fully selected for excellent qua- %
and I consider it the Best Pm* v
ration for its intended purposes
Soli/ by nil Druggists, anil Dealers in Mid ci -
Price One Dollar.
Buckingham’s Dye.
FOR THE WHISKERS.
As our Renevi'Ci in many cm ■
requires too long a time, and
much care, to restore gray or iiide.t
Whiskers, we have prepared 1 5»i -
dye, in one preparation ; which v
quickly and effectually accompli
this result. It is easily applied,
and produces a color which w.
neither rub nor wash oft. Sold L
all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents.
Manufactured bv R. P. HALL, & CO.,
N iiSIXCJA, N.IP.
Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla
illation, based on its
intrinsic virtues, and sustained by its re
markable cures. So mild as to be sate and
beneficial to children, and yet so searching
as to effectually purge out the great cor
ruptions of the blood, such as the scrofulous
and syphilitic contamination. Impurities,
or diseases that have lurked in the system
for j-ears, soon yield to this powerful" anti
dote, and disappear. Hence its wonderful
cures, many of which are publicly known,
of Scrofula, and all scrofulous diseases,
Ulcers, Eruptions, and eruptive dis
orders of the skin, Tumors, Blotches,
Boils, Pimples, Pustules, Sores, St.
Anthony’s Fire, Rose or Erysipe
las, Tetter, Salt Rlieum, Scald
Head, Ringworm, and internal Ul
cerations of the Uterus, Stomach,
ami Liver. It also cures other com
plaints, to which it would not seem especi
ally adapted, such as Dropsy, Dyspep
sia, Fits, Neuralgia, Heart Disease,
Female Weakness, Debility, and
Leueorrhoea, when they are manifesta
tions of the scrofulous poisons.
It is an excellent restorer of health and
strength in the Spring. Bj r renewing the
appetite and vigor of the digestive organs,
it dissipates (lie depression and listless lan
guor of the season. Even where no disorder
appears, people feel better, and live longer,
for cleansing the blood. The system moves
on with renewed vigor and anew lease of
life.
PREPARED BY
Dr. J. C, AYFR & CO., Lowell, Mass.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists.
SOLD BA’ ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
WANTED.
1,000 LADIES,
TO CALL AND SEE THE
ml nil
THE REST EXTANT,
AS IS VERIFIED BY
An Experience of over Twenty Years,
FOR SALE AT THE
Company’s New Office,
handsomely and permanently fitted up in Co
lumbus, on Randolph street, between
the Postotfiee and Broad street.
JJ At tHIMIS
Sold on reasonable terms; full instructions
given.
All itlarhines Warranted.
Prompt Attention given when Reported
out of Working Order.
MACHINE ATTACHMENTS and FIND
INGS of all kinds, such as NEEDLES,
the best of THREAD, OIL,
fte., fte., for sale.
Such is the desire to obtain
THE IIOU E 11I.H IIIHE
that, although now manufacturing
On e Xli« us a »• <1 |> e r Day,
it is unequal to the demand.
We respectfully invite all persons desirous
of purchasing
A First-class JlatTiiiic
on Liberal Terms, to call at our Office and
examine for themselves
<G) Orders from a distance will meet with
prompt attention
AjpCanvassing Agents wanted.
The Howe Machine Cos.,
•I* F. REEVES, tlanagvr.
mrll 4t
1 jjjj^
“Home Shuttle” Sewing Ma
chine.
Only 00.
THIS is a Shuttle Machine , has the Under
heed, and makes the ‘'Lock Stitch, ’’alike on
both sides.
It is a standard, first-class machine, and the
only low-priced “Lock Stitch” Machine in the
United States.
This machine received the diploma at the
“Fair of the two ( larolinasj’in thecityof Char
lotte, N. 0., in 1871 and 1872.
tiw ■ The above Machine is warranted for f'•
years.
A MACHINE FOR NOTHING!
Any person making up a club for five ma
chines, will be presented the sixth one as com
mission.
AGENTS WANTED. Superior induce
ments given. Liberal deductions made to min- -
isters of the Gospel. Send stamp for circulars,
and samples of sewing.
Address Rev. C. H. BERNHEIM,
de2 wly Gen’l Agent, Concord, N. C.
Printer’s ink. —ln 10 lb. eans and 20 1b
kegs, for sale at 25 cents per lb,, at the
Sun Office.