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AGRICULTURAL ‘Let idle Ambition her bauble pursue, While Wisdom looks down with disdain, The homejof the Farmer bus charms ever new, Wi .ere health, peace and competence reign. Table ol Woislils anti Jlons i res. Bushels. IM. Bush rlt. Lbs. Wheat, 60 Buckwheat, 152 Shelled corn 56 Dried peaches, 38 Corn in’the ear 70 Dried apples, 24 Peas, 60 I Onions, 57 Rye, 56 I Salt, 50 Oats, 32 1 Stone coal, 80 Bariev. 47 I 'fait, Irish Potatoes. 00 I Wheat bran, 20 Sweet Potatoes, 55 | Turnips, 55 White Beans, 6u I Plasterin'! liair, 8 Castor Beans, 45 | ITnslaeked lime, 80 Olover Seed, 00 I Corn Meal, 48 Timothy Seed, 45 I Fine Salt, 55 Flax Seed. 50 I Dround peas, 25 Hemp Seed 45 | Cotton Seed, 32 Blue Brass seed. 14 j One Reason why Farmers are so Foot*. It is believed that seven-tenths of the planters and farmers of this country, North and South alike, are staggering to their fall under a load of debt and mortgage. What is the matter? Asa class, farm ers are not lazy. They are seldom idle. They work as hard as any body ought to work. They make, taking one year with another, what may he considered, under prevail ing standard of agriculture, fair crops, and they get, as a rule,good prices for the surplus products they put into the market: still they don't get rich—in fact, arc getting poorer and poorer every year.— Why is it so ? To say nothing now of a faulty system of Cropping—all cotton, all wheat, or all something else: or of credit, liens and inter est, the reason which we had in mind with which to point this par agraph is, that it costs too rnuen to make our crops. We grow poor, not so much because our incomes are so small, as because outgoes are so large There is no strict meth od in our operations and no close economy of means. The expense of making a crop has not been re duced to a minimum. Wo fence in too large a field and travel over too many acres to produce ten hales of cotton or a hundred bushels of corn. We pay out too much for labor and for fertilizers for the re sults produced. The remedy must besought in sounder methods,labor saving implements and better train ed labor and less of it.—[Rural Carolinian Hoav (o Improve Seed Corn. [From Son. Cultivator.] Mr. Editor, — I notice in a late number, you recommend a corres pondent to improve his seed corn, by taking the top ear from stalks that produce two cars. If your ad vice is followed, considerable im provement will be made; but rea son and philosophy point out the bottom ear as being more likely to improve the seed, and I know, from actual experience of many years that it is best to take the bottom ear I have made a great many experiments in improving seed corn, and my rule is to take the part that is not usually devel oped, and the result proved quite satisfactory and very interesting. The changes that can be effected by judicious selection are truly sur prising. Every farmer ought to ertw£e in the business of improv ing seed of all kinds cultivated by him. It is profitable and highly interesting. Southern farmers ought to expe riment a great deal more than they do. The proper distance for corn ought to be settled at once. This alone would save the South thou sand of dollars, annually, in labor. The proper mode of cultivation should be settled this season by ev ery farmer. This would save to the South tens of thousands annu ally. Corn can be produced far more cheaply than is supposed. A great loss is incurred by planting more rows and hills than necessa ry ; and a much greater loss is in curred by trying to keep the ground pulverized to a great depth after the corn is planted, which is, in many instances, worse than useless. M H. ZELLNER. Ashville, Ala , 1875. We agree fully with our corres pondent that seed corn should be taken from the bottom ear, and so intended to state in the article to which he alludes. It was an over sight which wc are glad he has brought to our notice.—[Ed. Cult Priming mid Training Toma to Plants. Wo have tried almost every known plan for growing the toma to, and we are convinced that while considerable pruning is advantage ous, that the best training for our climate is as near no training at all as is consistent with keeping the fruit from the ground. This must he done to prevent rotting.— A low frame work of laths, or lay er of brush on which they can spread their branches horizontally suits their habit of growth, and al lows them to touch the ground here and there and layer themselves,and prolong their term of existence and their hearing season. But what ever mode of training ho adopted, he ground should be heavily mulched, before the trellis, stakes, arbor or brush is put in place. One hint more: If you desire your to mato plants to give you sound, smooth, well ripened fruit, and con tinue long in bearing, plant them on good soil (previously manured for other crops,) but give them no manure at the time of planting.— This advice is not, of course, in~ tended for those who are growing for market, where earliness is the most important point. [Rural Carolinian Profanity. We arc emphatically in the age of profanity, and it seems to us that wc aro on the topmost current. One can not go on the streets any where without ’having his ears of fended with the vilest words, and his reverence shocked by the most profane uso of sacred names. Nor does it come from the old or mid dle-aged alone, for it is a fact, as alarming as true, that the younger portion of the community are most proficient, in degrading language. Boys have an idea it is smart to swear; that it makes them manly; but there never was a greater mis take in the world. Men, even those who swear themseives, are disgusted with profanity ig a voung man, because they know how, of all had habits, this clings the most closely, and increases with years. It is the most insidi ous of habits, growing on so invis ibly that almost before one is aware he becomes an accomplished cur ser. Induration. "To read the English language well, to write with dispatch a neat, legible hand, and be master of tho first four rules in arithmetic, so as to dispose of at once, with accura cy, every question of figures w hich comes up in practice I call this a good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammati cal English, I regard it as an ex cellent education. These are tho tools. You can do much with them, but you are helpless without them. They are the foundation ; and unless -you begin with these, all your flashy attainments, a little geology, and all other ologies and osophies, are ostentatious rubbish. —[Edward Everett. - A Hood old Deacon on Hiss ing. Ed. N. Y. Sun. Sir:— l think I can help Mr. Beecher's explanation, why he di i not return Mrs. Moulton’s ‘‘kiss of inspiration” by relating the story of the good old Methodist de 'Con. It seems tho young people of the Church were in the habit cf play ing games and kissing, but the good old man was much troubled about it, and said, "He was not so much opposed to kissing if they did not kiss with an appetite.” Mr. Beet her must have feared that he would "return it with an appetite,” and thus offend Mrs. Moulton’s delicacy. There appears to have been a great deal of kissing done by this “Plymouth party.”— We have "the paroxysmal,’’ the "noly kiss,” and "kiss of inspira tion,” but, sir, we would like to in quire if any one "kissed with an M. Schenectady, April 12, 1875. —“ Is the candidate for Sheriff here ?” asked a stranger as be look ed into an Illinois bar-room. "Y T es, why ?” asked eighteen men, as they rose. ORIGINAL. For the Herald. ICnnhius and the Hull. Rankins was a man who enjoy ed fun in every shape and form.— One Sunday evening as a party of us were strolling down one of the back streets enjoying the pleasant afternoon, Rankins said: “Boys. I'll tell you what von do. You see that yonder animal ? Well. I’m going to have some fun out of him ; you watch me.” The animal alluded to, was a Bull that was silently cropping grass on the road-side, and seem ingly not disposed to bother any body that didn’t bother him ; hut Rankins didn’t know much about the nature of gentleman-cows ; so he cut him a stick and whittled it to a sharp point at one end, and started towards the Bull. One of us asked him what ho was going to do, hut he said : “Never mind, you just watch me:” arid he shook his head and laughed. I venture! to tell him that he had better let that Bull alone; but he told me to hold on, and he stopped and laughed again with the thought of the fun he was going to have. (Rankins could see fun further ahead than anybody else.) As soon as he got close up be hind the animal, he looked around towards us and winked, and his countenance wore as happy a grin as ever was on a man’s face. He plunged the stick into the side of the Bull with all of his might, and fairly yelled with laughter; he thought this was the place for the fun to come in, “hut mark the se quel ” That Bull beeame lively. His tail flew up. He turned round two or three times. He leaped clear up off of the earth, and made inquiries after Rankins. He found that individual enjoying himself, but he didn’t leave him in that fix. He picked him up on his horns, shook him around awhile, and sent him aloft. Rankins was a rising man—he rose about fifteen feet in two seconds, and lit astraddle the Bull, whicn frightened the animal for the first time, and being fairly into business now, he tore off down the fence, with his tail as straight as a ramrod, and Rankins sticking to his back. Rankins’ part of the fun might have come in here, but every corner of the fence they pass ed, left a piece of fence rail in bis leg. Finally bis leg came in con tact with the end of a sharp rail, which tore off a piece of hide abort as big as the bottom of a skillet, and at the same time tore him loose from the Bull. He picked himself up from the corner of the fence, routed, demoralized and somewhat scattered, and 'started for home. One of the party ventured to tell him that, his experiment was a suc cess, but one glance of Rankins’ red eye silenced all comment He hasn’t gone about much since, and when he does go out, ho totes a pistol and looks fierce. I wouldn't say “Bull” to him for forty bonan zas ; and in my opinion, the man that looks at him and laughs, is going to get into trouble Z. Punctuation. There is a great carelessness, if not ignorance, in the matter of punctuation, whereby much misun derstanding arises. Many persons even emulate the ancient writers in leaving out all marks or divisions of any kind, like the barbel who wrote over his door, "What do you think 1 shave you for nothing and give you a drink,” which was in terpreted by some to imply an easy shave and a morning tipple to be got for the asking. Such, howev er, was not the meaning of our worthy tonsor, who, on being ar raigned before the magistrate for what seemed a clear case sf decep tion, exclaimed, — "What! do you think I shave you lor nothing and give you a drink ?” Points were first used by Aristo phanes, u grammarian of Alexan dria, 200 years B. C., but wet not generally used until the modern system was introduced at the be ginning of tho sixteenth century by a learned printer of Venice, named Manutius. Punctuation not only serves to make au author's meaning plain, but often saves it from being entirely misconceived. And thore are many cases where a change of points completely alters the sentiment. The fellowing an ecdote of an English statesman, who once took advantage of this fact to free himself from an embar rassing position, is an amusing il lustration : Having charged an officer of the government with dishonesty, he was required by Parliament, under a heavy penalty, publicly to re tract the accusation in the House of Commons. At the appointed time he appeared with a written recantation, which he read aloud as follows,—“I said ho was dishonest, it is true; and I am sorry for it.” This was satisfactory But what was the surprise of Parliament the foil owing day to see the retraction printed in the papers thus; “I said he was dishonest ; it is true, and lam sorry for it.” By a sim ple transposition of the comma and semicolon, the ingenious slanderer represented himself to the country, not only as having made no recan tation, but even as having reitera ted the charge in the very face of Parliament. —■- An Indian ISury iug-<round. A correspondent of the Columbia (Ky.) Spectator tells the following story: Hr. R. H. Perryman, of Cassey’s Creek, has made a discovery that is truly wonderful. On a perpendicular cliff not far from his house, about twenty-fr'e feet from the bottom, is a shelving rock about one hundred yards long, sheltered from the rain and stormy blasts by an overhanging rock, which was once used by the Indians a a grave-yard. Hundreds of well pre served bodies were lyiug there side by side, with a thiu rock slab between them. Each body lias a stone vault, covered over by a thin rock,aud th< whole row is covered with dirt brought from a distance. It was a very cmd day when the doctor made this discov ery. and he opened only three of these vaults, but m each ol these he found a well preserved corpse—the hair and everything couiplete, but they melted to dust as soon as the ai^struck them. The boues remained intact, and cue skeleton was of enormous size, some seven or tight feet long. In these vaults were willow baskets ornamented with .-hells ami various trinket-, show ing the handiwork of (he departed 1 hese trinkets all crumbled on coming in contact with air. This place, the doctor says, has been observed before, but there- being nothing visible but dirt, has attracted no attention. The place is almost inaccessible to man, and how these bodies and these stones were got there will ever remain a mystery. Laws Delating (<> Aettspnpei- Subscript ions aml Ar rearages. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, tiie publishers may continue to send them until all arrear ages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the office to which they are directed, they are held respon sible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without notifying publishers, and the papers are sent to former direction, they are held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided that “refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud.” 6. Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it,whether he has or dered it or not, is held in law to he a subscriber. 7. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue taking it; other wise the publisher is authorized to send it on, and the subscriber will be respon sible until an express notice, with pay ment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. KTOTICB. r | , 11!7 bfmir Mountain Cornet I Eirass Kami, are now ready to furnish music suitable to all occasions, on reasonable terms. Address all orders to BEN J. F. GREEXE, Jr., Sec’y Stone Mountain Cornet Brass Band. Stone Mountain, Ga. April 1, IS7s—tf Take Notice! GKOIEf.I V llorgau County. N’OTICE is hereby given, that Captain J. M. BURNS is no longer my Agent for any purpose whatever. Mary W. Anderson, Mnreh 23rd. IS7s—4t CAROLIM FERTILIZER. Standard jj THIS FIRST-CLASS FERTILIZER HAS BEEN used for years ’iih the most satisfactory results. It is Compounded with great, care, of the purest materials, under the supervision of a First-Class, practical Chemist, and Standard guaranteed. TEIHIS— . SSO OO Tilin' —Nov. Ist .... 60 OO Or, Middling Cotton at 15 cents per pound. EStItiSSiTT & CASW ELL. Augusta. Ga. NORTON A \\ EAVCIt, LOCAL AUKNTS, Greenesboro’, Ga. January 28, 1875—3 ms The Celebrated AiffIONIATED BONE. rp L HIS unrivaled Fertilizer stands at the head of the list of Commercial Manures. It is prepared with great care, of best material by competent chemists, aud guaranteed to come fully up to the established standard of first-class Fertilizers. The celebrated planter, I>AVIL) DICKSON, of Oxford, Ga., says of it: “The EU KEKA is the best commercial manure I have ever used.” . o-A-siiei r*nicE: IVr Toil, 2,000 ! ouiitls, SSO OO TIME PJRICEs P<*r Ton, 2,000 Pounds, S6O OO With Cottou option. NORTON & WEAVER, AGENTS. Greenesboro', Ga. January, 28th—3m. BA EGAINS"! BARGAINS!! I AM Selling STOVES Cheaper than ever, and warrant them to give satisfaction. I am prepared to fill all Orders for r riw at low rates. Also all kinds of Job Work in Tin and Sheet Iron done at short notice, heather and country Hollow ware, cheap. Country Produce, Hides, Tallow, Bees wax, etc., taken in exchange for goods. w g m asiiam Greenesborottgli, Ga., Feb. If, 1875—3tns II ® tl Sift HB_€l G U A N 0- T I IIIS excellent Fertilizer is a pure Standard article, unsurpassed by any Commer cial Manure on the market. It is F’otnpounded of the very best material, under the immediate Superintendance of our own Chemist, and every sack subjected to a scrutinizing analysis by the State Inspector of Fertilizers, before being offered for sale. It has been extensively used, and invariably given entire satisfaction. Being rich in plant food, it is adapted to Cotton, Corn and small grain. TIMS MS- I asi SSO OO Time—l*ajllc \ov. Ist . . ? . OO OO R IV. L IMSIiV &Cos , Manufacturer*, UALTmOISE, Utl. Norton & Weaver, Jan. 28, 1875—‘Iras Local Agents, Greenesborough, Ga. Important to Planters ! STAMRII FERTILIZERS! W I * E call the especial attention of the planting public, to the following Standard high grade Fertilizers: SARDY S SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO. SARDY’S PHOSPHO-PERUVIAN GUANO. RUSSELL COE S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME, And CAT ISLAND GUANO, Which have been generally used throughout the South with most satisfactory results, and have established a reputation and proved equal to any Fertilizers in use for Cot ton, Corn and Southern products generally. These Fertilizers are offered to the farmers of the country with full confidence in their merits and at reasonable rates. Information furnished on application to our Agents. Send for Circulars and Price Lists. BRANCH & SMITH, General Agents, AUGUSTA, Ga. Horton & Weaver, Local Agents. GREENESBORO . Ga. mar 4,1875 —tf AihlvfiimJlllfliijjh Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Veg etable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountain* of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom with •ut the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of diseass, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Reno vator and luvigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded pos sessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of th* Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of De Walm*’* Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Dia phoretic, Nutritious, Laxative, Diu retic. Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Su dorific. Alterative, and Anti-Bilious. . H. HcUO\AL dr CO., Druggists & Geu.Agts.. San Francisco, CalJfor. nia. & cor. of Whamugtou & Charlton Su.,N. Y SqI(1 by alt Drayyists and Dealer*. October 15, 1874—1 y GUARANTEED. Consumption Cured. To the Editor of the Herald, — Esteemed Friend : Will you please inform your readers that I have a positive Cure for Consumption and all disorders of the Throat and Lungs, and that, by its use in my practice, I have cured hundreds of cases, and will give * 3$ 4]]! for a ease it will not benefit Indeed, so strong is my faith, 1 will send a Sam ple free, to any sufferer addressing me. Please show this letter to any one you may know who is suffering from these dis eases, and ohligp. Faithfully yours. Or. T. F. BURT, 09 William Street, NEW YORK- Feb. 18, 1875—Oms Wonderful Medicine! THE FAMOUS Globe Flower Syrup! Cures, ns it by Ilagie, COLDS, COUGHS BROKCHITIS. HOARSENESS. OBSTINATE LUNG AFFECTIONS, ASTHMA, CROUP, BLEEDING 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 take. 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. )ver one hundred thousand bottles have been used, and not a single failure known. Thousands of testimonials of won derful cures, such as he flolowing. can be seen at the office of the Proprietors, No. (50 Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga., or will be sent, on application, to any who doubt. For sale by all druggists. Dll. J. S. PEMBERTON & CO., Proprietors, Atlanta, G. READ! READ!! Consumption ( ured! Offece, 0. Sackett, Drugs & Medicines, New Albany, Ixd., April 10, 1874. Dr. J. J. Pemberton, Atlanta, Ga.:— Sir —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 Globe Flower 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 hemorrages almost every day ; much emaciated, and expected to die. He has taken six bottles of Globe Flower Syr ud; his troubles are all gone, except pros tration, which is rapidly improving. He will certainly get well. The other case is similar, with same good results. 1 can send you many testimonials if you want them. Yours truly, etc., 0. SACKETT. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Atlanta. Ga., Jan. 26, 1874. Dr. J. S. Pemberton: Dear Sir—l have used your Globe Flower Cough Sprup my self, aad in my family, with benefits so marked as to leave unquestioned the merits of a remedy, which, in my experience, has 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 Tanbark, IN EXCHANGE FOR X-.1E3 ATHER AND M !■ In this exchange we allow 15 cts per lb. for hides, and SO,OO per cord for bark, and put our Leather and Shoes at cash prices. We shall keep o.i band a choice variety of but-oak-ianned sole, harness, upper, kip and calfskin leather, also, a stock of hand made and home-made shoes for men, women and boys. If encouraged by our friends aud the community, we intend to furnish the beet and cheapest articles in our line. We trust that a home enterprise like this will not be permitted to die out for the want of patronage, as has been too often the case in the South. We will pay 13 cts. for hides and $5 for bark, dash, at the yard BROWN & MONCRIEF. Nov. 26’ 71—tf.