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AGRICULTURAL •Let idle Ambition her bauble pursue, White Wisdom looks down with disdain, The homo of the Fanner has charms ever new, Inhere health, peace and competence reign. What Is Manure I Any thing which, upon being applied to the soil, causes it to pro duce a more abundant ciop, is man ure. Manure is of three kinds— natural, mental and mechanical Natural manure is any thing which, being decomposed, assists the earth to support plant life. It was na ture's original agent in preparing the barren waste, which our earth formerly was, as a fitting abode lor man. The progress of decay and death in the animal and kingdoms is the only mode of crea ting natural manure. The final destiny of all animal and vegetable life is to he transformed to nattual manure. This is the beginning as well as the ending of all earthly things. Mental manure is brains—not the animal composite which we caii our bruins, but the active, creative principle, which is the guiding pow er of man, and which, wlmn applied to the operations of farming, pr • duce the third kind of niHuino, tlie mechanical. Mechanical manure is the result of brains applied t< ric ral affairs Mechanical manures are of more real v alue to the farmer than either or both of the other pro. Mechanical manures consi-o of pious, harrows, cultivators, roll ers, spades, shovels, rakes, etc.. >'id oiunes.” If the farmer hooks on to the mechanical manure*, guides them by a thorough applica tion of the mental manure, and stirs up the natural manure, lie farms understanding!?, he loosens up the soil, the life giving atmos phere enters in, heat and moisture, in contradistinction to cold and wet, pervade the earth, nature as serts her prerogative, seed* find themselves in a congenial element, the growing crop feels the treble impulse, manures, and comes to harvest abundantly. AN these manures are dependent upon one another. It is first ne cessary to cover the. arth with the naturalj th<en die mental compre hends the necessities of the case, and applies itself to good work, and calling in the aid of her oldest son, the mechanical, so manipulates our mother earth that smiles spread over her whole face, finally burst ing into a laugh of golden joy. which rings through all the happy harvest. “And thus may we three tweet again, tyjicne'er we sow our fields to grain." Muuinc. The ■Rciontific .imerictui says Sumac is hugely used in tanning the finer kinds of leather, especial ly in the manufacture of hard grained morocco and similar good*. It is also employed as the base ol many colors in calico and delaine printing. Probably the consump tion of this article throughout the country for all purposes aggregates more than 20.D0G .tew.'.. iOf A' bie.li about two-thirds are imported from Sicily, not heciiise just a good su mac can not lie grown in this coun try, but because until a few years ago our people did not know its value, or in what way to prepare it for the market. The sumacs of Virguita, Maryland am 1 . Tennessee in particular are sa.ij to be the best in the world, an 4 e.voa (their worst articles have been officially pro. nottneed by experts to be better than any imported from Sicily. Al most every farmer has a clump of these bushes. They are called by some “shoemake;’’ by others, ‘Ted ■•hoemake.” Probably many far mers may have tried to kill them by cutting down. If they have, they know how difficult a task it is. it grows like asparagus, all the bet ter for being cut; and when once started upon a lot and cut once a year, it is as easy to cut as fodder. The only trouble is curing it pro perly. This tnustbe done with all the care that is given to tobacco or hops. Exposure, after cutting, to a heavy dew, injures it, anti a rain storm detracts materially from its value. It is cut when in full leaf, and when properly driel is ground, leaves and stalks together. An acre in full bearing will produce not less than three tons, and when fit for market it is worth from *BO to 8100 per ton. The “manfictur ers,” as the curers are called, pay about one cent a pound for it in a green state. A sumac-mill costs about 83,000. Practical Moil Analjsis. WHAT IS AN EXHAUSTION OF SOIL? An exhaustion of soil does not necessarily Unply a complete de privation of its power to feed plants, hut rather a deterioration below that which would produce profita ble crops. Exhaustion depends, then, on the abstraction of certain material* from the soil by success ive crops ; and, if'this course bo in definitely carried on. the soil, con tinuing to lose so largely of its nu- 1 tritivc properties, finally becomes incapable >! producing fair crops E\ c*ii bough pi int- food be still con tinued in t lie soil, yet it can be pre sent in ciimhinutinHS from which ilie plant ts unable to derive any matci in I benefit. For instance, w e mas have i soil in which a large .mount of potasl and phosphoric acid .'two iodi-peosahle components of pi mis.) exist to the extent of ptrhaps, many thousand pounds of each to i lie acre , but if these in gredients lie locked tip in some mineral combination that is being acted upon hv ihe natural solvents of the soil, too slowly for the plants to derive any immediate nutrit.on, such a soil is then incapable of sup porting healthy crops. On the oth er hand, we may have :> soil con taining hut nnc-hnnoreth part as much popish and phosphoric acid as the one just mentioned, which would be called ‘‘pretty good ’ land, from the sole cause that these in gredients exist in m tch a condition ns to become available its fast as tiie growing plant may requite them. HOW FOILS An F. MADE Inasmuch as plants derive all el their ash elements or incombusti ble matter, from the soil, let us consider for a *ew moments its ori gin and formation. Ad soils are produced by the disintegration of rocks under the never ceasing in fluence of ..pitys-icn'l and .chemical action. The expansive force of freezing water is capable of tearing asunder the rocks themselves. Wa ter trickling into the crcj'i,ces and pores of rocky masses and freezing there, they are fractured and ulti mately crumble ta dust. Other natural forces complete the trans formation on the spot, or at some locality, whither the resultant de tritus is borne by running water or moving ice. Water acts aj so-chem ically upon rucks iiO dissolving and combining with some of th sir con stiUMWts. Apatite, a mineral phos phine. vielnhwig on nn average about eighty per cent, phosphite ot lime is slowly decomposed on contact with water. This is due to its fre quent contents ot chloride of cal citim, substance ready soluble in water, which is slowly dts-mlveii atid separated I tom the iusolui.de phosphate of lime The atmo spheric carbonic acid aids the de composition of rocks greatly. Car bon-re acid, Uc,i,ug absorbed in large i|Uanities by water, is capable of dissolving many mineral com pounds, and on passing over them it carakes .off, in solution, a portion of their ingredients Oxygen, which exists S“ abundantly hi the atmosphere, also in Die soil, is an active liberator of many sukstanco contained in rocks, and thereby hastens their disintegration. By slow decay ,uf all organic sub stances, the soil comes into posses sion of a .certain amount of liumus; tlws is. also, capable of acting chemically upon mineral com pounds, and rendering them fit for the nourishment of plants. The analysis of a virgin soil shows that it contains the identical elements found in the rocks, perhaps not in the same proportion, since aqueous solution and the effects of organic life may have left their uiipj-.uss on its composition. [Dy. J) Warner, in Rural Carolinian. * GKO IE(>11 —( 'ohm ty. .lurnes M. Mapp, Guardian of Ida Stephens, formerly Ida Johnson, applies for I.etters of Dismission, and such Letters will he granted on the first Monday in April, 1*7.5, unless valid objections are filed. <Jiven under my hand and official signa ture, tois 16th dav of December, 1874 JOEL F.’ THORNTON. Ord y. Dec. 24, 1874-3ms* THE FAVORITE HOME REMEDY. This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mercury, or any injurious mineral substance, but is PURE VEGETABLE. Containing those Southern Roots and Herbs which an all-wise Providence lias placed in countries where Liver Diseases most pre vail. It will cure all Diseases caused by derangement of the Liver and Bowelt. Simmons’ Liver Regulator Or Medieine, is eminently a Family medi cine; and by being kept ready for immedi ate resort will save many an hour of suffer ing and many a dollar in time and Doctors’ bills. After over Forty Years’ trial.it is still receiving the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues from persons of the-highest character and responsibility. Eminent phy sicians commend it as the most EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR DYSPEPSIA OR INDI fIESTLON. Armed with this Antidote, all climates and changes of water and food may he faced without fenr. Asa Remedy ir. Ma larious Fevers. Bowel Complaints. Rest lessness, Jaundice, Nausea, IT HAS NO EQUAL, tt is the Cheapest, Purest and Rest Family Medicine in the World! Is manufactured only by J II ZETLIIY A Cos , '’aeon, On., and Philadelphia, Pa Price, $1 00. Sold by all Druggists. Feb. 5,1874 —1 y . Wonderful Medicine! THE FAMOUS Globe Flower Syrup! fures, s itffcy Ylagic, HOLDS, COUGHS. BRONCHITIS, HOARSENESS. OBSTINATE LUNG AFFECTIONS, ASTHMA CROUP. CIEEDINB OF THE LUNGS. PLEURISY, DIFFICULTY OF BREATHING, LOSS OF VOICE, AND WILL CURE CONSUMPTION, As 50,000 grave-robbed witnesses testify. No opium Nothing poisonous. Delicious to lake The earthly Savior to all afflicted with affections of the Throat and Lungs. Bequeaths to posterity one of the greatest blessings, sound lungs and immunity from consumption. Over ono hundred thousand bottles have been used, and not a single failure known. Thousands of testimonials of won derful cures, such as ihe flolowing, can be seen at ttic office of the Proprietors, No. 60 Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga., or will be sent, on application, to any who doubt. For sale by all druggists. DR. J. S. PEMBERTON & CO., Proprietors, Atlanta, Ga. READ! READ!! foiksiiiEijrfion Lured ? Ofmsuk, O. Sackett, Drugs & Medicines. Ne\v Alh.vny, I.m>., April 10, 1874. Dr. ./. ./. Dauber ton, Atlanta , On.: —Sin —I have received your circulars, and in consequence of the distribution, I have sold about six dozen Globe Flower Syrup in the las', two weeks. The Gtube Flow,ar Syrup is gaining great celebrity.l recommended it; in two cases of consumption. One case was bed fast ; had not laid on but one side for two years bemorrages almost every day ; much emaciated, and expected to die. He has taken six bottles of Globe Flower Syr ud; his troubles nre all gone, except pros tration, which is rapidly improving. He will certainty get well. The other case is similar, with same good results. I can send you many testimonials if you want them. Yours .truly, etc., O. SACKETT. EXECUTIVE DEPART M ENT. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 26, 3874. Dr J. S. Pemberton: Dear Sir —l have used your Globe Flower Cough Sprup rny-i self, ami in my family, with benefits so marked as to leave unquestioned the merits of a .remedy, which, in mv experience, hasi proved one that excels everything for colds, ■ coughs and obstinate lung affections. I shall always use it with perfect confidence, and recommend it to the public as a reme dy which will afford that satisfaction expe rienced by me and mine. • Very respectfully vours, JAMES M. SMITH. Governor State of Georgia May 14 ’74—ly. WANTED! Hides and Tan bark, IN EXCHANGE FOR LE A-TJrIIEIR, -AUNTID M Ea€*€ ih f-is. In this exchange,we allow 15 cts per lb. for hides, and $6,00 peg cord for bark, and put our Leather ami Shoes at cash prices. We shall keep o t hand a choice vayjety of hut-oak-innned sole, harness, upper. k.ip and calfskin leather, also, a stock of hand-', made and home-made shoes for men, women and hoys. If encouraged by our friends and the community, we intend to furnish the best and cheapest articles in our line. We trust that a home enterprise like this will not be permilted to die out for the want of patronage, as has been too often the ease in the South. Wc will pay 13 cts. for hides and $5 for bark, cash, at the vard DROWN & MONCRIEF. ■Nov.26’74—tf. MrtITIPtE!! KhpvSTI'.APS. at S4 00. Bedsteads, at 4 75, Bedsteads, at 5 00. Beds'euds, at 6 75. Bedsteads, at 7 00. Jas* arrived, HIOIITOWERS & Cos. Nov. 26. 1874—tf Job Work soli cited. SOMETHING NEW. mm. BP,OOO yards Prints, just in 1,000 do plain and striped Poplins, 500 yards black and white Alpacas, 1,000 yards Percales and color ed Lawns, 1,000 yards white Lawns and Piques, 3,000 yards Swiss, Jackonet Nansook .and Mull Mus lins, White and Colored Tarltons. 3,000 yards bleached Home spun, from 8 to 17cts. 1,000 yards Sea-Island Home spun, from 10 to 16cts 1,000 yards, each. Sheeting and Shirting. 1,000 yards Ticking. 2,000 yards checked HomespuD 1,000 yards Linen Drill. 1,00(1 yards Cottonades, 40 pieces fancy Cassimeres, 1,000 yards Oashmorets ,nd black Cassimere. A VARIETY OF Mens, Youths and Boys Cloth ing from 81 50 for a suit to any price you may ask. LlafsTor the old and young men, and we have not forgotten the Youths and Boys. Something nice in for Ladies, Misses and Children.— Also a full line of Mens. l r outbs and Boys SHOES. Our prices will please. ft LOVES, very low. Collarets, Lace and Linen Col lars. Jaconet Edging and Inserting. Cotton Trimmings, full line. Wood, Tin, \nd Hardware* low for cash Our Table and Pocket Cutlery we offer low*. Call and examine our Queens and Glassware. Full assortment of Hardware. In abundance. SUGAR, GIIELN COFFEE, ROASTED COFFEE, RICE, PEPPER, SPICE GINGER, NUTMEGS, CLOVE-S, FLOUR, Corn \1 eal CORN. Bacon Syrup. Cuba Molasses (fine.) Re hoiled Molasses, Liverpool Salt, Lard in buckets nil tierces, Goshen Butter (nice and fresh.) We return our thanks to the peo ple of Greene and adjoining conn ties for their past favors, while in future, by strict attention to business, and offering our Goods LOW for CASH only, we hope that you will again favor us with a call. BARNHART KIMBROUGH. Itrond St.. GreenesbMro*, Ga. April 23, 1874 PACIFIC GUAM COMPMY, CAPITAL - - $1,000,000* wt IF/ IP) =fi? w JTit!¥ cty 1.1 wo AND €0 n POU \II id II PH OS IMI AT E, FOR Composting with C'otfon Seed. THE SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO is now so well known for its remarkable eflVc's a? an agency for increasing the products of labor, ns not to require especial com mendation from me. Its use, for Ten Years past, hns established it character for le -linble Excellence. The large, Fixed Capital invested by the Company in this trade, affords the surest guarantee of the continued excellence of its Guano. The Guano and Phosphate will be delivered to any boat or depot in lliecity, free of Drayage. CASH PRICE 2 ler Ton, 3.000 Pounds, Soluble Pacific < nano, S4B Per Ton, 3,000 Pounds, Acid Phosphate, 30 TIME PRICE ! * Without Interest, and option of paying i„ Liverpool Middling Colton, delivered at the nearest Railroad Depot, at Fifteen Cents per pound: Per Ton, 3,000 Pounds, Soluble Pacific Guano’ SBB Per Ton, 3,000 Pounds, Acid Phosphate, 43 P@fOrders received and information furnished on application to my Agents at va rious Local Markets. J. o. MATHEWSON. Jan. 21—3 m. Apent Pacific Guano C0..-AUGUSTA, Ga. Norton & Weaver, Agents?' Greencsboro\ Ga. iiols i EXCLUSIVELY. PETER KEEIM, - GEORGIA, lavi TPES the people of XSI?EENFSr.()II.O.UGIJ, nnd the country at large, when tuey Co*ae £o AUGUSTA, to .call at his FIRST-CLASS BOOT AND SHOE HOUSE, Where they can find everything they .require iri the .way of prime Shoes of every de scription ; not from the Cheap Factories,9/ N.cy/ but made to order by the best makers in Baltimore and l'l.iladelpbia. Every article sold, warranted in the strictest sense of the word, and reclamation made when work docs not givefull satisfaction. One Price, and STRICTLY Fair Dealing, the Rule of the House. Ns) “Tmm.mers” employed—the character of the goods he sells, and the extremely low and uniform prb.es at which he sells, is his best retco^umendulion. Come to where you may have a positive cerlainty of being honorably and fairly dealt with. OAK PKICE—AO DRUMMERS EMjPLOYED—FAIR RE lEI AG OR AOAE. PETEK K KEX AN. January 21, l7o—tf Central Hotel Block, AUGUST A, Ga. ~n e&r 9 m PATENT SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME SCJD PHOSPHATE. LANTERS will find the above Commercial Manures of Ihe first quality, and infe rior to none in producing satisfactory results. They are prepared of the best materi al by experienced Chemists, and have invariably given entire satisfaction. The SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME is a complete manure, suitable alike for Cotton and cereals. The ACID PHOSPHATE s rich ih Soluble-Phosphate, and carefully prepared fot composting with Cotton Seed and other vegetable matter. TERMS—Patent Super-Phosphate of time. CASH,: SSH no TlME—Payable Ist November 60 00 ■with option of pacing Middling Cotton sit 15 tents per pound. itCIID PHOSPHATE CASH §33 00 TIME Payable November Ist 38 00 WILLIAMS, LAM STOW A CRANK, AGENTS, ATLANTA, GA Norton A Weaver, January 28, 1875—3 ms Local Agents, GRF.KNESBOROUGH, Ga. file Augusta Hotel, CORNER BROAD Ai?p WASHINGTON STREETS. -r :0:— —r HIS HOTEL has been thoroughly renovated and furnished throughout. It will be reopened on the Ist of OCTOBER for the rece; tion of guests. The Traveling Pullic will find excellent accommodations and a well supplied Table at fair prices. FRED. S. 3IOSHEK, Prop’r. JOS!AH MOSHER, Superinteudeot oet. 8. 1874—6 ms ||| m ill 11 wail J ll lairw Grateful ThwitbUiKls pr Vinugab Bitters the most wondertr-l Invigorant that ever sustained the iug system. No person can take thus Hitters accord:eg to-directions, art! remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital or gans wasted beyond repair. Bilious, Remittent, and In- 7 tennittlMlt Fevers, which are so’ prevalent in the valleys of mir great rivers throughout the United States," especially those of tk Miss'ssippi.' Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberia id, Ari-ia:- ivs, lhtl. Colorado,' Brazos. Utio C?r,U u Pari, \ abamn Mobil, Sfav.ru. b, , .no.. . Jar e*. - many other. , i!, '!.'■■> vest trio utaries, tnrouguout ourenta" --a!■ tr -. during the Bummer aiul Aut. ~n. auh remarkably so dun g seasons of un usual neat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive derange ments of the s otuueh and liver, aav other abdominal viscera. m ‘heir treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these va.ious organs, is essential. There is ne cathartic tor the purpose equal to Dr. J. Waixek’s ViNr.o.'.E Lixti r.a. ab they will speedily remove tie dark colored viscid mutter with which the bowels are loaded, a: the. wmv time stimulating the eoretio s of the liver, and generally re toring ,ho bc.ui.fiy functions of the dilative organs. Fortify the bo iy agaiust disease by purif tug all it.: fluid* with the Bitters. No epide; itc can take hold oi a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Puin in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Cheat, Diz ziness. Sour Eructations of the Sto mach, Bud Taste in the Mouth, Bili ous Attacks, Palpi'ation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in h> region of toe Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the off springs of O • bottle wo' prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King’s Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers, Erv-ipeUs, Swelled Ne*k, Goitr , Sr roful' us In flammations, Mercurial affections. Oi l Sores, Eruptions cf the Skin, S-re- Eves, etc. In th s", a in eil oilier constitutional Dice oes, Da. Wauker's. Vinegar Brrrr.its have ‘shown their great curative pow. rs in the most obstinate and intractable cav es. For Inflammatory or Chron ic Rheumatism. Gout, Biiion*„ Remittent and Intermittent Fevers. Diseases of the Blood, Liver. Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Di eases are caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases. —P-r --sons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such i.s Plumbers, Type-setters, (c. 11- beaters, and Miner.', as they advance in lite, are sulyj-et to paralysis of ti e Bowels. To guard against this, taka Da. Wajjer's Vinegar lirrmae. For Skill Diseases, Eruption*, Tetter, Sult-lUteum, Blotches. Spots, Pimples. Pustnies, i’-oiis. Carbuncles, Riugworms, S-.v 1.1-head. Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discoloration* of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature„ are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bi ters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thou sands, are effectually de troy , and and re moved. No system of med ici ie.no ver mifuges. noanthelminitics vjL free the system from worms like these letters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or sin tie, at the, dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so de cided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever yon find its impurities burst-, ing through the skiu iu Pimples, Erup tions. or Sores ; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish iu the veins ; cleanse it when it is foul ; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the sys tem will follow. It. If. ffIcDOKALD At .0., DniAfiists A Gen.AgtH.. San Francisco, Califor nia, & cor. of Wbasingtou & Cbarltou Sts.,N.T. Sold by all Drum/iete and -Dealer . Uciui-w - , L'i-i—ly It l.rnds to ISsmiin*ws A Boon to the Whole Race of Woman J Ur. <l. Ilimlfield's Female Kegulatu. IT will bring on the menses ; relieve all pain at the monthly “Period;” cure Rheumatism and Neuralgia of Back and Uterus: Lncorrhea or “Whites, ’ and par tial prolapsus Uteri: check excessive flow ing and correct all irregularities peculiar to ladies. It will remove all irritation of Kidneys and Bladder; relieve Costiveness; purify the 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 dig; eases as Quinine is on Chills and Fevers. Ladies can cure themselves of all the above diseases without revealing tlieircom plaints to any person, which is always mortifying to their pride and modesty * It is recommended by the best physi cians and the clergy. Near Marietta, Ga., March 21 ’7O. M essrs. Wm. Root & Son. —Dear Sir.— Some months ago 1 bought a bottle ofc BRADFIELIVS FESIAI.£ REGULATOR: from you, opd have used it in my iajpUj \viih tji,e utmost satisfaction, and have re commended it to three other families, and they have found it just what it is recom mended. The families who have used yous REGULATOR are in perfect health, and. an able to attend to their honshold duties, and we cordially recommend it to the pub; lie. Vours respectfully. Rev. H. A JOHNSON. We could add a thousand other certifi; cates; but we consider the above amply sufficient proof of its virtue. All we ask is a trial. For full particulars, history of diseases, and certificates of its wonderful cures, thf reader is referred to the Wrapper arou4 the bottle. Manufactured and sold by RR IDFIELD & CO.. Price $1 50. Atlanta, Ga., Sold by all Druggists, feb 18 1874-ly work done here.