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Clie Hamilton Visitor by and. w. and. boully. FRIDAY JULY 11, 1873. Death by Lightning. —Tne Staun tinr (Y'a.) Vindicator says; A fearful Attlb by lightning occurred during tbc stofin Monday afternoon, on the firm of Mr. Joseph A. Merrikin, about a m'le from Staunton. Mrs. Merrikin, with two or three servants, was having cherries gathered when the storm came np. She ordered the colored lioy, about ten years of age, w ho was in the tree, to come down. He start -d, saying: ** Well, my bucket is full,” when the flash came. The boy was instantly killed in the position he stood, his face <;n one side being charred to a crisp, and the arm on which he held the basket tom open to tlie bone. His clothing was almost entirely burned oil! A hog under the tree was killed. Mrs. Merrikin was stunned, and the flame seemed to those standing by to run over her clothing and circle around n ring she wore on her finger. Mr. Merrikin, who was some distance oil, saw the smoke from the hoy’s cloth ing ascending the tree, and when lie arrived, found the little fellow’s body hanging naked in the tree, in exactly the position in which lie had been killed, with one arm hooked over a limb, and the bucket hangingfrom the other, with the cherries still in it. It is a remarkable fact that Mr. M. heard no noise at all, and only saw the flame, while to tlnise around and Jtcre in Staunton the crash was terrific. tUSr The Bonham (Texas) Enter |rrHc savs j On Sunday laHl n couple that had eloped from one of the schools in Paris came to n prcnclier on lied river, in this county, duly ♦ quipped with u license, and desired him to runrry them. Seeing that the young holy could not be above thir teen years of age, and the young gen tleman not more than seventeen, the minister objected to the knot ronnn hial. The hopeful pair, not to he disconcerted in this (their third) at tempt to commit matrimony, pro posed to cross over the river and jnnrry on the other side, after the Indian fashion, hut, ns there was no boat to bo had, this proposition was about to come to naught, when a novel idea struck the party. A large cotton-wood log was rolled down the hank and into the water, being moored to the bank by a long lope, and on this log tho resolute pair took shipping, and after they had drifted fur enough out into the stream to l>e considered outside of Texas, tho parson mounted a largo stump in tho • dge of the water and said the cere mony’. Always marvelous stories will be told to support inuiossibtc theo ries. At Ironton, Ohio, a young per son was drowned. Search was going on for tiro body, w hen an oKI woman appeared and asked that an unwashed shirt of the boy should he thrown into the river, dedaring that it would disappear directly over tho place where the body was. Need we say that it was thrown that it did disappear, and tho body was brought up just in that spot with a grappling hook? Here is a talo tohl by “ trust worthy witnesses” of which we feel ionud to say that wo do not believe owe word. Hermetically Skalkd Goons.—A recent decision of Judge Clifford, of Maine, gives the exclusive privilege to J. Winslow Jones and the Port land (Maine) Packing Company to pat up green eorn in hermetically healed cans. An association has I>ecn formed of packers and dealers of hermetically sealed goods to defend their rights against the alleged mo nopoly. With that view the Oyster and Fi-ttit Packer’ll Association of Baltimore, it is [staler!, were to hold a meeting on the 7th of July to con sider the ease of the Jones patent, and to take such steps may be dccme4 necessary in the premises. IW" The Hutton Advertiser ia in formed that the manufacturers of nails in New England have unani mously agreed to atop their works during the greater part of the months of July and August. The reason alleged is that heavy stocks of nails have accumulated, and the market price lias thereby been crowded down below the manufacturing cost. A similar action on the part of the Pittsburg manufacturers, was re ported a few weeks ago. 83f“The Fredericksburg (Va.) Herald has the following three-cor nered argument: “Grant supports Kellogg. Mosby supports Grant, and in view of this one, among a thous and similar fact s, it is not a pleasing thing to hear Colonel Mosby ad vis iJ#* us to support Gram.” [Written for the Vuutob.] Facts, Figures, Fertilizers, and Food fur Jtody ami Mind. Prejmrcd by mi Old Farmer, upon Jit in y VmjH. b;:fo::k the war, and since. Before the i> ar it was an accepted truth that firmvrs who practiced bor rowing ni Hey at 16 per cent, would ultimately and soon go to the wall. Since the war we farmers have paid in credit prices, over and above the profits included in the cash price of provisions and supplies generally, from 40 to 80 per cent.., in spite of all the croakings, evil prophecies, squibs, witticisms and flings of disappointed future men, dark sided seers, editors, locils and correspondents. I may give my opinion of how it has been done (if I may be able to have an Opinion at ail), on some other rainy day. The truth is—as Dr. Bruce says, “its a God’s truth”— there arc some things going on and developing results that are, I confess, unaccountable. But not now. When someone asked someone why Gen. Cuss was so popular with every administration, or why Loch ratie first or sormliow got upon the strong side, the reply was: *• I don’t know, unless it be that * the ox know etli his owner and the ass his mas ter’s crib.’" Ami someone may ask why so much special interest is exhibited by those newspapers that have local ed itors, whose unployment it is to hunt up and down and around the corners for news, and pitch into the farmers from week to week—even from day to day—and lecture them on their business, and fling out their little pen-witticisms, and never have a word to say about merchants, bankers, gu ano men, hotel keepers and manufac turers, only to praise and extol. I reply, I don’t know, unless 11 the ox knowetli his owner and the ass his master’s crib.” What difference ought it to make with the lowing kind or the braying sort whether the crib be in town or country ? I sup pose there can he hut one reason with the latter, ami that is, the country crib oorn is less liable to produce belly-ache. But why the former should complain I am at a loss to know, for 1 don’t know that he is ever afflicted that way. Hut I snpposo, seriously, there would bo more corn if it was cheaper, and cheaper because the more of it, because of raising more of it (and meat consequential), and those who have to buy it all would fare better, especially if we could reduce the number of consumers by reducing the number of editors amt locals, and consequently, the number of papers; which, too, would havo the effect of cheapening papers, by larger subscrip tions and patronage—ax the paper expense is comparatively small—and thus give us better papers—larger, cheiqier, fuller—to farmers and all, and we would have more corn, more meat, mid more news. Why don't some of the merchants quit tho business and go to the plow, ns they say they make a hare living? It might have tho effect of multiply ing producers and lessening consum ers, and their former business go over to tkoso that remained, and these last, by larger sales and smaller prof its, sell cheaper lo producers, and those last sell cheaper to them. We might run tho list outside of iheso even useful occupations, when not overcrowded, into many that do uothing but work mischief. But ev ery man to his business, and let alone in his business. )f it it i legal ami legally conducted, as a legalist I have no right to attack; as a moralist, and holding moral relations, I may, but gently, or reprovingly, or persuasive ly. But, above all, spare my ridicule, my jest, my w it, and my intcrurhinbU direction of another man’s business. The interest assumed, anti so nn noyiugly cast at us from weak to week, is founded in selfishness. W* can’t make all the corn you want ns to make, when cotton is from 15 to 25 cents, as it has been for years. Facts are better than bare theories, though there bo no fact without a theory. When we made corn, wo made cot to* so much as not to get more than oor $ cents. Indeed, I have sold cotton at 2 j cents. In the winter of 1860-1, cotton sold for 10 cents, nnd corn at #l.sß here. Rail ! roads, by that time, had liakd the j land of eorn with the land of cotton, j and the trade began. The North west could make the corn cheaper than we could, and they couldn't make cotton, so we started out to make more cotton and less corn, and, of comae, meat, and they became the corn and meat makers, and we the cotton makers; and ever since the little interruption, cotton has been from 15 to 30 cents, and corn from Ooc. to #1.25, We pay a little over half for corn, get from a half as much more for cot ton to double, and, awhile, thribble, mil perhaps could get corn for a good deal less, but for the ponderous paws, jaws and maws of railroad greed. Is there anything wrong in this? If there is, can’t I see it as well as the cross-legged censors who sit un der awnings, and, among mongrel heaps, snuff coming ruin in every passing breeze ? You are all right, gentlemen, on the argument, for aught we know or care. But an occasional conrtesy, or tit-hit fling, is more relishable than the same old bine-legged rooster to serve at every silting. I hold it mostly probable that that course is best which, after each indi vidual self-interesting inquisition, is adopted by the mass. ‘‘Times change, and wc change with them.” Kings’ sons used to ride on asses; but Sol omon had seen, or saw prophetically, princes walking and servants riding. Under the change lately taken place, it takes two to carry on farming where one could do so before. It is simply a partnership between farmer and merchant. If the merchant and farmer agree on terms satisfactory to them, tVhosebusiness is it but theirs? If the farmer pays, though it takes all he makes, or if the merchant loses all he expected to make, these are but the ventures and incidental re sults of all trades ami contracts. If the farmer fails, or homesteads, and makes the merchant lose both the capital and profit of the goods sold, and the merchant consoles himself by its being balanced by only two or three other better customers, who have paid up with a profit of 50 to 75 per cent to the merchant, don’t you see the merchant don’t lose be low the point of support? And if two or three farmers pay up, and the fourth one gets all he makes at home, and all he got from the merchant to boot, when you balance accounts all around among the general partner ship, its all a self sacrificing, self-sup porting concern, and as well founded in morality as any mutual life insur ance company. The merchant [tuts on one a per contage large enough to cover the loss of two, or even three others; anil consequently, he can afford to lose 50 per cent on two, if he can get the third one to pay up; that is, if the two don’t dip too deep into the prin cipal, or capital; ami that is prevented by a very little trick of a few cents on their cotton over the market. In deed, I bought some cotton last fail at least five cents over the market, and the merchant for whom I bought it-was provoked with the fellow be cause ho wouldn’t let me have any •more of it; and it was the poorest cotton 1 ever saw. Besides, what would become of all the lawyers, clerks, sheriffs, bailiffs and justices of the peace, if you could not get up papers for a suit ?—tho clerk to issue nml sheriff to serve, and high over nil, the judge severe, a miniature king on a w ooden bench, and leas royalty real and gold and ivory pure, lord of aft he surveys, down to the wayside justice, with equal wisdom and wooden authority dispensing tho law within his sphere. Look at the consequential damages to lawyers alone. I venture that the lawyer* have gotten two-thirds of all involved in all civil suits since the war; and yet the most of then* I have talked with, even of highest grade, say they barely make a support I My opinion is, it takes more to support some people than others. Nor is tliie all. If it were not for all these trades, contracts, supplies, liens, breaks and runaways, we would have comparatively little use for that large, respectable cfciss called legisla tors, who meet, as they do now, three times in a little over a year’s time, on a forty days’ assembly, or more, I each time, at a cost to us, or benefit to themselves, of $3,000 a day, or $4 20,000 each session, or for three, the aum of $300,000, to fix up a few hen laws, garnishment laws, attach ment, interest ami relief laws,and for each and every one of these five times as many of a local, special or private character, and run the government on the schedule of $2,500,000 a year, on a sworn valuation of $235,000, when the same machine used to be rnn at 7 cents on the #IOO, or 1-14 of 1 percent—now 4-10 or 5-10, or 40 or 50 cents on the #IOO, or up ward of seven times as much as when we were worth nearly three times as much as now. livery crowd I have approached lately seemed to be possessed with forebodings c 4 the woes and tribula tions closeM hoed—demoralizing and discouraging t*-t hope that depends for its strength on the prospect ahead and its vitalizing; influence oa the ef forts of tho man. A little dose of the poison may counteract ami soften the fall, by suggesting caution; but to throw it broadcast find drefteh down by the wholesale is to discour age, make torpid, and die at once. If, when we were worth 300 per cent, or three dollars to one of what we are now, and paid only 1-7 of what we pay now in the way of taxation, or 2100 per cent between our ability and taxes now and our ability and taxes then, and have for nearly eight years been paying from 50 to 75 per cent on guanos, dirt, meat and corn, and corn at a little over half price, now that cotton is 17 or 18 cents, to what it was when cotton was only 10 cents, all creation can’t break ns. That was a cowardly Legislature, that last one, that dodged the 6 per cent, and hung out 4-10 of 1 per cent to the people, and the balance gave their note (bond) for to the capital ists, on inviting terms, to be paid by our children by taxes, principal, in terest and all, and the capitalists to be exempt from taxation; and all be cause Gov. Brown told them it might be pretty hot times for awhile if they put it squarely 1 per cent. Never cross a bridge till you get to it. Most of our evils are ahead, as well as our joys. These evil birds that croak, didn’t mean to say that we were broke now, but that in a short time we would all go to the—* bottom. You should not have gone off half cocked, and shot the biggest part of the load into our children’s quarters. Onr children are not chargeable with this burden. Better to take from us, ami if any be left for us to leave to them, it were better to leave it in fee simple and free from incumbrances. I see CoUunbns proposes to stand 2 per cent on her own hook. Is it possible the man in Columbus makes five times as much as the man in the country? If wc pay | per cent, he pays that too, and 2 per cent besides. 'Tis true, New Orleans is well nigh bnrsted on 5| per cent, but that was only a little too hasty a ventnre. Columbus intends to get there too, after awhile. But she intends to go it by degrees —say 2 per cent for two or three years—and if the eatnel don’t give way, nor fall down, nor rebel, and seems to bear it welt, they will put it 3, and rim that awhile, to test the beast’s endurance; and if it bears np well, then 4 per cent, then 5, and so on, as Brown hints to the Legisla ture; and by taking it along by de grees, 10 per cent can be better borne in fifteen years than 5A in five years. The latter would break the beast right down. I heard old man Westwood tell a man who was ailing with dyspepsia, to take a young bull calf anil shoul der it every morning, till it weighed 700 lbs. “•Why,”said the man, “I’d never be able to lift 700 lbs.! The old man thought it might he possible for a man, by use and prac tice, to raise one day what lie raised tho day before, the almost or quite inappreciable growth included, if it were a bull calf. File it on my friends, and don’t be afraid. We are in a dyspeptic state. That same old “Uncle” Johnny said, if he objected to the bull calf remedy, he had another, said to he equally efficacious; and that was, to take a piece of assafectida, bore a hole in an ax handle, insert the assafect ida, ping it up hard, and take the ax and go forth, and cut till his system had absorbed from the handle all the as safnetlda. If we can stand a difference of 2100 per cent, and still live, and have a de gree of hope—enough, at least, to keep us from cutting our throats hr sheer desperation, after eight years lifting the bull calf, till he has grown to be a bull of 100 lbs., and still only dyspeptic, and no more, then make all yorvr taxes into assafectida, give every mni a plug and an ax, and tell hitn to go forth and cut till R is all absolved; and in seven or fourteen 1 years, by economy, as our adminis trators have already and long since promised and pledged, we may be able to absorb it all, r Tis true, there will probably be nothing left but the man and his ax; but if he has recov ered of dyspepsia, that would alone be a great blessing, imder the good Lord’s hlp, towards a future living. Better that way, than to have a little, and can’t enjoy it oh account of dys pepsia. Mr. Editor, the above is intended as a half-serious, ironical allusion to our situation, and rebuke at all inter ference to prevent us from cutting our own throats. As the woman said, when a passer interfered to stop her husband from choking her to death, “ Its none of your business.” tST* A Michigan girl drew a #7,000 farm at a gift concert recently, and now local editors describe her as the “ beautiful being," although she f is lame, has red hair and wo teeth. Matters in General. An old Bavarian soldier diel not long ago at the age of eighty-six, near Munich, from the effects of a bayonet wound received at the bat tle of Brienne, fifty seven years ago. Grape culture and the making of wine Will be largely increased in North Carolina this summer. A man named Higgins was found in the gutter in Cincinnati a few nights since, having on his person $4,000 in English bills and S6O in United States bills. lie was insensi ble when found, ami lnekily escaped the sharpers. It is stated that the Chinese gov ernment will sanction the introduc tion of railroads and telegraphs, and the opening of coal and iron mines. An earthquake occurred in the North of Italy on the 29th, by which 52 persons were killed and many in jured. The laying of the new Atlantic cable has been successfully completed. Frank Walworth has been found guilty of murder in the second degree, aud sentenced to the State prison for life. Two men, two women and a boy went over Niagara falls on the sth. The first bale of Texas cotton of the new crop was brought to Brownsville on the 3d. It was raised on the Rio Grande. Boston and portions of Ohio and Wisconsiu were visited by a terrible storm on the 4th. Trees, chimneys, grain, fences, sheds and telegraph poles were blown down in all direc tions. A pleasure boat on Green Lake, W’is, was capsized and twenty persons drowned. BEST PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE <*\V iV\VW/ SEND FOR ITS RECORD. J. W. BI'KKE S& CO , fiIACQH, GA. Keep ora hand, and- will sell as low as aojr house in the countiy Law, Stboo), Rrligiaas, and Misstllanewis T3 PAPER. O fens, o INK, 321 PENCILS, 3. And all kinds of Stationery. Special care taken to fill country orders. Lawyers’Blanks and all kinds of Legal Blanks always on hand. Send an order and try them. Address j272t° J. W. BURKE & CO., Macon, Ga. J. R. SCO T TANARUS, WHOLESALE GROCER, WAREHSHTSE AN3> Commission Merchant, Scott’s Block, Gilmer Strews, WEST POINT, - GEORGIA. Would call the attention of the farm ing public, to the BROOK’S COTTOK PRESS, awl the following justly celebrated COTTON GINS. WIN-SHIP'S, BROWN'S AND I’RA’ITS, all of whirfc are-guaranteed, and sold on EASY TEEMS. SeSD IX ORDERS BY McOVSt IST, .CiTl'inulare send free. ju2onovl. GOOD SEWS AT LAST! HOW TO SAVE MONEYI STA.RTJLHSTG mSCLOStTRES! Bead Carefully. It will Astonish, Ffoflt, and Gratify You. The intelligent world has believed for a long time Unit a finit-c'ass, reliable, strong dtttfc , I'ght-runnillg Sewing Machine could lie Manufactured and sold for a reasonable price, 1 nis mis been veritiud at last! 'I he Wilson Sewing Machine Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, is justly entitled to the honot of being characterized as a public benetactor, for placing upon the market a first-class Sew ing Machine in every respect, at a price within the reach of all, and at the same time finish ing it m artistic elegance, pleasing to the most fastidious and cultivated persons. Agents and canvassers in the interest ot other Machines represent that the Wi'son Machine is ot no account, or say if is too cheap, and will soon wear out. The reas n they so felsclv represent the \V 1 son Machine is because their success depends upon if ; for wherever the Wil son is introduced, no intelligent person will buy any other The cost of labor and material in the Wilson, and all other Machines that are first-class is about the same, and will not Vary one dollar cither way. Therefore, if the Wilson Sewi’n doathc"nme mPany ““ *° ““ tbeir Machim * 855, all other large Companies coulS Ihe W ikon Sewing Machine Company Is Hot so mercenary and grasping as tome. It refu ses to join any rings or combinations for the purpose of putting up or keeping up prices. Concernmg the merits of the Wilson Sewing Machine we offer the Machine itself, and in vite the severest mechanical and expert criticism. It is made from the very best quality of ,f °Tf th , at 1 .?, ll L ble 1 4 .? wcar is thoroughly case-hardened, and the steel tempeicd. It make, the Ixick stitch, alike on both shies, Hems, Fells, Stitches, Tucks finestfof fabrics' etC ” and S * WB wHh e l ual *om the Before buying a Sewing Machine; examine every one in the market. Then carefully ex amtne the Wilson New; Underfeed. 'Try It; test it. Then compare it to the representations UmWfY 'u' 1/ e “ el " I * t!S : “ n ? Yon will Ire perfectly satisfied that the Wilson New Underfeed Sewing Machine is the best hi the world! bighest'plice'to get “ Tbebe6t “ tbe cheapest." It does not mean to pay the Call and examine for yourself, and see that what wo say is no idle talk. Office and salesrooms two doors above J S. Jones’ Dry Goods House, No. 62 Broad street Columbus, Ga. Respectfully, BALDWIN & Ui\ DERWOOD, Agents. apr4-6m J. H. HAMILTON, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN BAGGING, TIES, BACON, SALT, SUGARS, COFFEE, &c., 4c# also, always on Hand a full stock of Plantation & Family Groceries & Provisions. Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe Sts. COJLUMBUS - - • GEORGIA. jAI All purchases delivered FREE of DRAYAGE in the city and suburbs. feb2lly. SPRING GOODS AT TIIHJ vihgiktia storh, 70 BROAD ST., COLUMBUS, GA. • To Wholesale and Retail Buyers, We have in store one of the largest stocks of DRY GOODS in this part of the State attJ desiie to show them to all in want, by wholesale or retail, guaranteeing the lowest |.ric'fs . penal attention is called to our large lines of White Goons, Hosiery Gloves Hak6ke.r- CWm ShkT anrl°S,r S R p”’ We 1 ’" ,x ’ rs ’ M, S*Ef OT n,akeß of 'f.Ks and eleg nt worth ?0e 'lmn vI m ,'. XS XBW *"**<• 3000 .vanl* pretty Japanese Poplins at 20c. an ol tli 30c. 1000 >ards wide Bleached Cottons at 12 l-2c. 3000 yards Bed Ticking at l‘> 1 i cents and upwards. 1000 dozen best Afoul Cotton at 80c. per dozen retaTl. Cotton and Linen Sheeting, Matting, On. Cloths, &e. ... , Parasols, Eass and Kibeoxs Jn great variety.’ Elegant t LOTUS and CAssimißfis of best quality made to older amf fit guaranteed Superior Simrrs, Rocks, Cravats, &c. Als ", a ,?? stock of Shoes, made to order, and warranted not to rip. credit prices! * l A *"’ 't ° Ur m ° tto- Call ,md ht 118 Bave > ou money. It is better than long’ feb2l - i y ©ise©232l£ & <m>®hd© WATT & WALKER, A152 BROAD STREET ; COLUMBl r S t 6EORGIA 1 WHOLESALE ANT) RETAIL DEALERS M groceries, am! PLANTATION AND FAMILY SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS, Have now fa store, and ae constantly receiving, a Large Stocli. of Goods, which) we are offering at the Lowest Prices- We guarantee our goods as represented, and are determined not to be undersold. Give us a trial before purchasing elsewhere, and we are certain you will give u’g your trad Particular attention given to the tilling of orders Mr. A C Prather is still with us, and will be glad to serve Sis old friend*. feb2l-6iw LIfEBY ASD SUE ST.IELE. fep ROBT. THOMPSON, Proprietor. OGLETHORPE STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. etS offere ? *° the l trave,fß g P“ Wic Also Horses and Mules always ow went,"JuXTafre 8 Buggies, £SS2S Novelty! Beauty! Fashion! " THOMAS & PRESCOTT, COLUMBUS, O-A., Arc constantly receiving, Direct from' thew Manufacturers, fresh supplies o# SPUING & SUMMER CLOTHING and - Gents’ Furnißhing Goods. f . f thc I-tet Novelties of the trade, and the most Beautiful and Fashion üb Gwds for Ueutkmeu’s wear. C.. 11 and see them. ap^o-am