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VOL. XX.
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F )RSYTH. TUESDAY, XuV. 0. I’Go.
Breeding Flh on the Plantation.
Ia May, 1872,1 put four trout, about six inch
es long, and teu blue bream, somewhat smaller
than a man’s hand, in a natural pond on my
plantation. Afterwards about a dozen sand
perch and silver fish were added to the stock,
und no further attention given it.
The pond was of the kind so frequently met
with in the middle country —a shallow basin,
dependent upon rain for its supply of water,
and having no outlet into a running stream.
In winter it covers some thirty acres, and is
four or five feet in the centre; in summer it
covers an area of two-thirds less, and is usually
two or three feet deep in the centre. In the
winter it is a clem sheet of water; in the sum
mer there is considerable growth of water gras
sts, with clear areas.
This summer the pond is full of fish, and
there have been taken from it trout fourteen
and sixteen inc hes long, and bream as large as
they usually glow. The fish are fat and well
Have >red. —liar al C'arolinia n.
\\ licit! ullurc
From the State Experimental Farm, West
Grove, Pennsylvania, the guperintondant, John
l Carter, furnishes the Journal of the F arm with
some very interesting experiments on the cul
ture of the wheat crop.
We gather from this, the fact that to broad
cast the wheat and harrow in, produced more
than that which was drilled. That two bush
els wheat per acre drilled made more than U
bushels per acre, drilled. 1 hut two bushels
broadcast and plowed in shallow, made 21 bush
els, when two bushels burrowed in made 23
bushels per acre, lie remarks that “for the last
six years the experiments on this farm have
been in favor of broadcast seeding of wheat.”
We find, also, that in his experiments with
thirteen different kinds of manures, (stable in
ctofjed,) that the "Bone Phosphate” gave the
largest yield bv several bushels per acre —cost
being the same.
I’hese facts are valuable to the planters, as
the time is not distant when the wheat crop
must be sown, and we would earnestly urge
Upon the planters in Middle and Upper Geor
gin, (where this grain can be made, perhaps,
better than in any portion of our whole country,)
to sow down every acre they can possibly
devote to this valuable crop.— Oa. Grange
Llvlnu Here und There
Valuable statistics in regard to the compara
tive cost of living in America and Europe are
given in the late “Massachusetts Labor Re
port One dollar will buy twenty pounds of
.flour in Boston, one or two pounds more in
*ome European seaports, but the same are con
siderably loss in the majority of the places com
pared. In Boston one dqllar will buy 5.56 of
fresh beef, roast piece; in no place in England
■will it buy as much by a pound or more, and on
the Continent still less, Copenhagen being the
Ol flv plaee where it will buy more. Butter in
Europe averages a pound more to the dollar
than here, cheese less by more than that except
in :t few spots. As for potatoes, they are cheap
er here than in England, and dearer than in
Ireland and Germany. Seven or eight pounds
of pork for a dollar are sold here, and not
much more Ilian half as much can be obtained
for that sum in Europe or England, and no
where as much. In lice, milk or eggs, tliej
hax *. the advantage of ue. Tea costs less here
than iri England, but more than on the conti
nent. VTith coflee i about the same, though
the difference is little. In sugar the British are
a little better off, continentals a great deal
jjforse. Coal is cheaper here than in Germany,
and dearer than in England. Merrimac or
common prints are cheaper here than in Eng
land or Germany. Boots are about the same
here as there, generally speaking. There arc
'but two or three places in England or the con
tinent where brown sheetings are cheaper than
here, while in brown shirtings the foreigner.-
are better off. Rent for four-roomed tenement
isfr.cn two to four tint 's cheaper in Great
Britain and the continent than in Boston; in
Austrialia fifteen times cheaper. Board also i
from once and a half to twice as cheap in Eu
rope and Great Britain as in Boston*
Ut‘ l)isalr<>ti<t Aform* In Great
Britain.
Special telegrams to the New York Herald,
f-Ojit London, inform us of of the visitation of
EngiaN aUil Scotland b y terrible storms of
wind an 1 ra ,n * have caused enormous
damage, with los? of life ’ b - v i,lUnilations in
England, and equally dUtressiß and fatal
shipwrecks on the coast of between
Pittenweetn and Peterhead. The 01
rather cyclone, which has caused this tk ** I
tion was similar in every respect to that whin.
visited the Texas coast last month, but its
curve of progress did not bring it as far to the
west as our Atlantic coast. The apex of tin
curve or westerly point of turning was located
to the southwest of Bermuda, in the open
ocean and the meteor swept over that island
in its northeasterly course. Several vessels ar
riving at American ports during the past ten
days report violent hurricanes in the mid-At
lantic, so that no doubt whatever can exist as
to the character of the storm in Great Britain.
The country inundated by the heavy rains is
iu the northeastern counties, particularly that
of Lincolnshire. The river sources are in the
hilly districts of South Yorkshire and Notting
ham, aud from this region, favorable for the
6udden accumulation of the waters, the floods
descend ’.mi overtop all barriers in the low
level plains to the eastward, converting them
into vast lakes of boiling, surging, wreck-laden
waters. Such scenes as we briefly describe are
well illustrated in the account of then fen
floods iu " The Mill on the Floss,” the scene
being laid in the same region that is now de
vastated. The wrecks on the east coast of
Scotland show that the cyclone passed diago
nally, as it were, through England, with a very
slow progressive motion. The poor fishermen
who earn a livlihood by the herring fisheries
are, in all probability, the heaviest sufferers.
The Herald has repeateuly insisted on the ne
cessity of establishing a perfect system of in
ternational storm signals, especially between
countries that are exposed to these cyclonic
visitations. The interests of commerce, not to
say humanity, imperatively demand the estab
lishment of such without delay.
THE MONROE Jfit ADVERTISER.
The aoulliern Military Hero.
A statue has been erected at Richmond, Ya.,
m honor of the great popular hero of the
Southern Confederacy, General “Stonewall’'
Jackson, if we may call him by the name by
which he is now generally known and will be
known through all future ages. Jackson was
a remarkable man—one of the most remarka
ble that was thrown to the surface by our late
civil war. He bore in some of the most essen
tial attributes of His character a marked re
semblance to Oliver Cromwell, the great Pro
tector of Great Britain. He united the same
ability as a General with a peculiar religious
ferver which amounted to fanaticism. He
was great in battle. He was great in prayer.
He was devoted to the Southern Confederacy,
but he was more devoted to religion. Like
Cromwell, before he engaged in a contest he
took counsel of the Holy Spirit. He, to use a
religious phrase, wrestled with God in the pri
vacy of his closet. Like Cromwell, he was a
predestinarian, and he often mistook the
promptings of his own wishes for inspiration
from on high. But tins gave him prodigious
power. He who earnestly believes that he is
contending in the cause of God is armed with
tenfold ability*. Cromwell was the leader of
the far-famed “Ironsides." Jackson had as a
sobriquet led the “Stonewall ” Brigade, which
is hut another name for “Ironsides.” “Stone
wall" Jackson was a military genius of the
highest order. There are few campaigns in
military annals that will compare in ability
with those of Jackson in the Valley of Virgin
ia against Generals Fremont and Shields, and
the brilliant aid which he afforded to General
Lee, near Richmond, in the McClellan cam
paign of 1862. What promptitude, vigor and
valor he displayed at Chancellorsville, where
the Union army met such a dreadful defeat,
and when but for his death in the hour of vic
tory a terrible disaster would have been con
verted into a total rout, like that of Napoleon
at Leipsjc in 1813. Jackson seemed to chain
victory to his standard. He never make a mis
take. lie was equally great in the onset oi
battle and masterly in a retreat from it. He
inspired the unbounded confidence of liis
troops. He had the general respect, mixed
with fear, of His opponents. From his death
the fortunes of the Southern Confederacy com
menced steadily to decline, and its star soon
sank below the political horizon. Had “Stone
wall” Jackson been a Northern man he would
have been what is known as a Puritan, and
would have led the advance of the New Eng
land forces. He was, in fact, an old Scotch
Covenanter of the seventeenth century thrown
into the nineteenth. He appeared on the sur
face to be a slow, and rather dull man, of med
iocre attainments, but when an emergency oc
curred lie rose with it. The sunlight of genius
illuminated his features, and he acted like one
inspired. The greatness of the God of Battles
immediately became a part of his nature. He
united in an eitraordinar} degree the impetu
osity and ardor, when they were required, with
the cool t-nd wary caution which characterized
his Scotch ancestry. “Stonewall” Jackson we
have never heard spoken of but kindly by tlie
soldiers of the Union armj r . Nowhere was he
Uglier appreciated than in the great Northern
press. He was not one of those who had any
thing to do with bringing on the struggle. He
diil not “tire the Southern heart” or advise a
deadly conflict. He was no politician ; hut it
is said that previous to the actual outbreak of
the war he was for the Union. It was his
education of superior fealty to his native State
that drove him into the Southern army, and
gave the Confederacy its ablest military lead
er. The asperities of the war are passing away
in the dim distance of the past. Its passions
are subsiding. We arc rapidly approaching
the point when all of us, both North and
South, can honor and respect a great name, no
matter on which side it came to distinction
The Northern heroes were Americans, so w*ere
the Southern heroes, and both were equally
honest, although the latter mistaken.
A Vftst Estate in Kansas.
Among the prominent visitors at the fair is
Mr. Grant, of Victoria Colony, Kansas, the
owner of the largest farm in the world, with
the exception, pertaps, of that of the Duke of
Southerland, whose broad acres consists large
ly in hill and heather. Mr. Grant’s domain
covers 570,000 acres iu the heart of Kansas,22s
miles west of Kansas Oitv the center of tip
tract. HU effort is to establish a model farm,
for which great credit is due him, as well as
his successful efforts in introducing imported
-took, an 1 the results of crossing imported
with native stock, and also the best methods
of sheltering and feeding cattle in winter. Mr.
Grant is going back to Europe in about five
weeks to arrange for the bringing out cf more
people, and a large portion of high-bred stock,
which he will exhibit at the Centennial, with
the intention of ultimately shipping it to Vic
toria. Mr. Grant states that one herd of 81
short horns of the Booth strain sold five weeks
- nt ifre sale of the late Mr. Torr’s property
a gyerage price from young to
in Lnghm were m the same family
old of S3OOO. -<, and many of ;h e an
tbat he has at Victo.
'£*•
unals were bought for Am,. ~
Air Grant s colony has been la. ' „
this season by immigrants, and anotln. 4
lish company has just bought 40,''00 acres a..
joining Victoria colony. One of the New York
Gunthers has started with 5000. and Mr. Dick
inson, of Louis, lias bought two square
miles, and is out there now makingarragements
for putting up a house. Air. Grant says that
he is more than satisfied with the prodnee of
his crops this season. The rains have been
abundant, but last year the grasshoppers swept
everything. One field of 80 acres of Hunga
rian grass on his farm has produced ??<> tons
of fodder and 5,114 bushels of seed, giving a
profit of more than 500 per cent, on the cost
of putting in the seed. He put in 300 acres of
alfalfa, a kind of fodder much used in Califor
nia. The land will grow three crops of this
grass in a year, at the rate of six tons to the
acre, but it affects a deep, dry soil. Air Grant
has increased his flock of sheep to lti,ooo, and
has 1000 cows. In less than five years he ex
pects to increase his sheep to 100.000. His
wool alone this season brought $11,700 in Bos
ton at S3 cents pe.r pound. Sheep farming is
evidently destined to lie a profitable business
in Kansas.— St. L/rois lie publican.
A Georgia sheriff delayed an execution fif
teen minutes to let the crowd see which dog
whipped, and it is evident that humanity vet
holds a leader place in the American heart'
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER P, is 7s.
Original sPAdni.
To I.izzie.
“ a!1 itie 'avs of ii>3 appoint. and tiuiv I wai
till my cuaage conus.”—Ji b
Let me not with eager longing,
Be in haste to reach my home,
But with weak submission tarty*
Till the w elcome day shall come.
Until then, and while I tarry
In this wilderness of woe,
God, my Father, keep me nesr thee,
Hold me, do not let me go.
Thou hast all my time appointed,
And allotted every* task,
For the strength to do each duty
Grace and faith, I humbly ask,
Jesus, in thy arms unfolded,
All thy love I fain would know,
By thy mighty power protect me,
Hold me, do let me go.
If I take the heavy crosses
Which he bids me carry* now.
Soon a crown of radiant glory
He will place upon my bjow,
Though the waves now roll around me,
Though the storms and tempests blow,
Holy Spirit hover over me,
Hold me, do not let me go.
Swift the welcome day approaches
Wh.ch my pilgrimage shall end,
When with visions all unclouded
I shall see my God and Friend;
Ripened for the biiss of Heaven,
Gladly leaving all below,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Loose me then and let me go.
1 lie Slow Times.
We do not look for a sudden revival of bus
iness any longer. If our diagnosis of the ease
is correct, there can be no sudden ure. We
of this generation will hardly live to see the
country genuinely prosperous. Great masses
of property are to be abandoned. The capital
stock of multitudes of corporations will be sunk,
and their property will pass into the hands ol
bondholders and creditors, at such a price that
they may possibly be made remuneratively use
ful. Hundreds of millions of invested funds
will practically ceast to exist. The things in
which these funds have been invested cannot
be used, and they might just as well have been
thrown into the fire. Thus the means of liv
ing have been enormously reduced among cap
italists, and more men need work to do than
used to need it. With this fact on one side, we
find set over against it the other fact, that, of
the multitude who had adjusted their indus
try to the conditions of w ar, only a part are
needed under the conditions of peace. Tens,
twenties, fifties are to be counted out of the
mills, the factories, the shops, and sent either
into idleness or into some other field of indus
try. In other words our national industry is
to be re-adjusted.
The cities and centres which have grown so
rapidly will naturally cease to grow. The
larger cities will grow perhaps, as London
grows, by their attraction for men of wealth,
but the men of enterprise will not crowd into
places where there is no work or reward for
them. The boys will stand by their father’s
farms better than they have done, and hun
dreds of thousands of men and women who
have left the farm and the farm-house must
return to them. It is pleasant to reflect that a
living can be won from the ground, and that
agriculture holds a certain cure for all our
troubles. Mr. Greeley’s old advice, “Go west
yourg man,” was based upon a philosophy
whose soundness the people of this time can
not question. The tendency in his time w*as
to overdo business, and that tendency went on
to the distressing results of which all of us are
the witnesses and the victims.
It is pitiful tp see men and women lie idle.
It is pitiful to see them in great masses thrown
out of employment. We wish they could be
made to understand how hopeless the situation
is for at least half of them—how necessary it
is that they should seek employment in agri
cultural pursuits, in lives of industry adapted
to the present circumstances of the country —
in anything and in any place except that which
is proved to be insufficient for their needs. —
This change must come and the quicker it
comes the better for the country. Let us leave
nothing to the political doctors. They cannot
help us with any of their schemes, except by
giving us an honest financial system. Even
this cannot work the miracle of making peo
ple consume more thau they want, and of sup
plying work where it is not needed. The
American people are not lacking in shrewdness
patience, adaptiveness, and industry, and the
good time will come, though it is likely to be
iong delayed. —Scribner for October.
“Heal l by self.’
The People’s Common Sense Medical Advi
ser, a book of about 900 pages, illustrated with
over 250 engravings and colored plates, and
sold at the exceedingly low price of $1.50, tells
you how to cure Catarrh, “Liver Complaint,”
Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, Sick, Billious, and
other Headaches, Scrofula, Bronchial, Throat,
ami Lung Diseases; all diseases peculiar to wo
men, and ui°st other chronic as well as acute
disorders. It contains important imformation
~ tw young and old, male and female, single
fo* 'ted, nowhere else to be found. Men
and mai. "vrled and single, *re tempted to
and women, u. ' thousands of ques
ask their family pm are deterred from
lions on delicate topics, • _ cwdestr. This
doing so on account of then
work answers just such question-* '-gold
plainly as to leave no one in doubt. *- *
by Agents, or sent by mail (post P aul ) <m re ‘
ceipt of price. Address the author. R. • I icrce.
Al. D., World’s Dispensary, Buflalo, N. * ■
From the Lafayette Daily Courier
A Valuable Work. >
Dr R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, distinguished in
surgery, and the general practice in the pro
fession he honors, has made a valuable contri
bution to the medical literature of the day, in
a comprehensive work entitled “The People s
Common Sense Medical Adviser. A\ hile sci
entific through* >ut, it is singularly free from
technical and stilted terms. It comes right
down to the ct -mmon sense of every-day life.
Dr. Pierce is a noble specimen of American
manhood. He has sprung from the people;
and, with many sympathies in common with
the masses, has sought to render them a sub
stantial service in this the great work of lri
“In G-od we Trust.”
NE \V ADV ERTISEM EX TS.
Attention Planters!
I HAVE PURCHASED THE LARGE
FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE
'? iir, S" lmm,,ing *
2S Cents Per Bale.
lam well prepared to store cotton, or sell io the best ’advantage. I give my friends a
cordial invitation to come and see me.
JEFF. DUMAS.
The undersigned Directors or Committee, having assumed the management and control
of the former interest of W. L. Lampkin in this well known Warehouse, and having asso
ciated with us Hon. R. P. TRIPPE, w'ould inform the Planters and Public generally, of Mon
roe and adjoining counties, that we will be fully prepared on ami after !*epl. Tut to
Weigh and Store Cotton,
And conduct a General
WAREHOUSE BUSINESS,
The services of S. D. MOBLEY have been secured who will attend to the weighing and stor
age depaitment and all other business connected with the warehouse. We intend that no effort
on our part shall be spared to extend any facilities and accommodations in our power; and bv
our promptness and close attention to business, we hope to receive a liberal share of the null
lie patronage. r
w. TANARUS, MAYNARD, E. 11. WALKER,
PETER McMICKLE, JNO A. DANIELLY,
E. M. MOORE, W. J. DUMAS,
THOS. G. SCOTT.
ATTENTION Planters of MONROEM
LAWTON & WILLINGHAM.
IVAiidlullsE Ai\l) IWiSKIOft
FOURTH STREET, JUACOX,
Tender their services to the planters of Monroe and adjoining counties in the handling of
Cotton for the coming season. We have assisted our planting friends in the past, and expect
to continue to do so. " Our charges are as low* as other leading warehouses of the city who
have made advances. Bring us your cotton and we will do our best to please you.
LAWCOiSr Sr WILLINGHAM.
sep7-3m
~~ W . A. HUFF,
WHOLESALE
PRODUCE MERCHANT,
MACON". G Al.
BACOH, €OBT,
FIiOUK, HE Ali,
MAT, *ATN,
UAttttlKtt, TIEN,
NASS A It, COFFEe
NT It lift*, Sj ASS It,
NAIiT, ItS STL
Tobacco,. Lime, Etc., Etc.
or any of the above articles can be bought on one to four no tirnc by t filing ub
W. A. HUFF,
suglO 2m
SOLOMON & MOUNT
HA VC M ADC AN
immumE reduction
IN THE PRiCE OF EVERYTHING IN THE
DRY GOODS LINE.
WE are selling Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes and Groceries at prices far below any
ever offered in this market
Best Calico at 6 ati l 8 ets per yard, Shirting at 7 ets per yard.
Shirting yard wide, 8 1-2 cis Osnaburgs, 10 ets
Columbus Checks, 10 ets HriM) pr Ladies Shoes at $1 0u a l 50
1000 prs good Ladies Cloth Shoes $125 and 52 00 1000 pi s Brogan Shoes $1 25 to $1 75
500 prs Ditching Boot- $2 00 to s:> 50 300 prs fine Calf skin Boots $2 to $3 50
100 suits of clothing $5 00 to $lO 00 §0 fine Cassiniere suits sl2 00 to S2O 00
And Other Goods in l^roportion.
W? have two store?, one in the Morse building next to the Pye Hotel block; and another in
the Head building, formerly occupied by L- Wolfe, we have in both
mini
Of even-thing usually kept in ft
First Class Dry Goods Store.
with a large and choice stock of
Family Groceries & Plantation Supplies.
AB of McU SMS’“now
Sk chv buv to better advantage than ourselves, and in consequence of large sales
i ß6ll - wtesar
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NEW aDVEHTISEMEXTS.
Sometbing- Mew
Wiley L, Smith,
Tl> HIS Pi’IEXDS THAT HK IS OPE.VINti \ NKW Bt'SI.N'PSS IS
SMITH’S Hi; I U)L\(i
N ext door bt !c% L: <D i‘ni, ;lui cut j t ,vj i and Ir “ >.• t j ~, t . .
WiTH A FULL STOCK. OK
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS,
Wood Willow and Tin Ware,
SADDLES, BRIDIES. HARNESS. FARMING IMPLEMENTS, ETC, ETC-
For Cash Only.
INDISTINCT PRINT
J buy my Good* :©i Cfcefa nd am drier niued n. I ju*-h !..•
ol lie prt'.roii&t'?, 1 t-i t*u,i a cnruin. HiviiAtiv*o to coy (**[l,l, e*,i aid 1 rat!i<oe
MAJOR D. (i. PROO/J.sU U with me hi.a t)‘ j-'lad ioce tn.-cOS iiici.t'aTin cnstoineir
W. L SMITH.
M: i 3 cl] OK
Groceries, Provisions.
500 Bushels of EAR CORN, for Sale
Cheap, to arrive, Call and
Leave Your Orders.
16,000 LS9 ' ru ’ L ' i ‘- C "'' K * s /.on „ 4 vabi,ii,
10,000 LBi BAtOX a ill Bll.K ME A ,\-i
CUBA MOLASSES. sit; \ Ii
COFFEK. BAdGIXG
TIES, SALT,
LA R D I '' x,MaKs,,ds ’ •' a,,,!p ° l rAXM . )i’, \ ('(jfp
FRESH CORN MEAL,
And ali othe r Goods usually kept in a
FIRST CLASS GROCERY STOR*E>
AIL FOR SALE AT bOT.’LM FIGURES FOR (JASii. MAeON 81.a.S I>UPUC.tT&
SCptUly 'W. J\.- PYE.
W. A. Ban ks & Sons
FORSYTH, - - - ■ GA.,
Ofler the largest and most desirable Stock of
Dry Goods, Domestics,
White Goods, Jeans,
Laces, Notions, Hosiery,
Boots, Shoes, Etc,
of any house in the place. Special attention is railed to ,nir
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT,
Comprising a full and complete &.-30r1r.,t-Tit <>f
FALL AND WINTER SUITS,
AT
EXCEEDINGLY LOW FI1ICE& %
IIIK
DRESS GOODS DEFAimiE-NT
I
1 en' and will be soKi
As Cheap as the Cheapest.
Reuieuitoer ibeae Faet When PurthHdus Vur •*u|jli*.
! If, A, BANES & SONS
[PUBLISHERS AND
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