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From the Franklin Newß.
BUILDING A CHIMNEY.
SY BANDY HIGGINS.
I have reluctantly come to the con
clusion that a good stone-mason is
one of the institutions of nature that
must be born, and not manufactured
by the hand of art. At least, I am
of the opinion that no amount of ob
servation will enable an ordinary man
to put up a good job of the kind un
less he has the talent in him before
be begins. I once had a family of
cousins—nearly a dozen in number—
who took to the business as naturally
as a Congressman does to swindling,
and who, I verily believe, could have
built a good chimney in the dark.
They went at it almost as soon as
they were able to turn over a brick
bat, with the same unerring instinct
that leads a young duck to tho near
est mad puddle, apparently without
the trouble of learning. They had
a natural talent for it, don’t you see?
which no amount of observation and
training could supply. This much
by way of preface.
In the course of my eventful and
unprofitable life, it so happened on
one occasion that, in order to keep
up the proper amount of peace in the
family, it became highly necessary to
have anew chimney at home. The
old one leaked and smoked, and
caught fire in out-of-the-way places,
and threatened to fall down and crip
ple a dozen of my children. It be
came, generally and particularly, a
first-class abomination; so the fiat
went forth from the boss of the culi
nary department there must be anew
chimney, or no more cooking. It
was useless to argue the matter:
chimney or starve, was the watch
word, so I resolved myself into a
committee of ways and means, and
set about preparing the material.—
There were no brick to be had, but a
perfect "God’s lavish ’’ of stones lay
around loose, and I proceeded to
haul enough of them, apparently, to
have built tbe great wall of China,
and then set out to capture a stone
mason. There was but one of the
in the vicinity, and when I found
him he was laboring under the disa
bility of a spraiued neck and two or
three broken limbs, caused by the
falling of a scaffold with two or three
cart loads of rock on him, which had
nearly made a first-rate case for the
coroner. His chimney building was
indefinitely postponed, and I went
back home with my finger in my
mouth, and informed my better half
of my luck.
“Then we’ll go without a chim
ney,” said she.
“Not if I properly understand rav
self,” replied I, very positively, “ for
I shall build it myself.”
“ A nice thing you’ll build,” said
she.
“Just so,” I replied. “ You see, I
shall lay it off on philosophical princi
ples, build it in mechanical style, and
finish it in a scientific manner. Then
don’t you observe, I’ll have a chimney
that will be the admiration of un
born generations! ”
She still looked slightly incredu
lous, bnt knowing that if yon
“ Convince a fool against bis win.
He’ll hold the same opinion still,”
she wisely forbore to waste any more
breath on me, knowing that I would
go my own way anyhow, and that
she had just as well let me “ wind
ahead with my ducks,” and await the
result with becoming patience.
I had gotten the idea firmly plants
ed in my fool head that I could build
a chimney as well as anybody, and a
pair of steers would have failed to
pull it oat of me. Nothing but an
actual trial would satisfy me. With
this heroic spirit, I provided myself
with a supply of trowels and ham
mers, together with a square and
compass, level, plumb-line, strait-edge
foot-adze, and various other tools
known only to the initiated, and set
out to win name and fame as a mud
slinger.
I was fully half a day laying off
the foundation to suit all the require
ments of the' case, and then wasn’t
more than half satisfied with the job,
bnt I knew if I spent all my time at
the ground-work, I’d be a long time
the nozzle of the thing,
so I wisely decided to let the foun
dation alone till I’d finished, and
then fix to suit myself.
Picking np a hammer in one hand
and a trowel in the other, I walked
around three or four times to see
where the superstructure should be
gin, and set to work. About the
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about till I was giddy, without mak
ing a fit, and mashing a finger occa
sionally, I found that I had forgot
thfe mortar! Here was the cause of
all my troubles, and catching up the
trowel I drove it into the mud, and
then found that I hadn’t sense enough
to use a trowel. "When I tried to
throw the mud as I had seen the ma
sons do, I filled my bosom at the first
dash; then got some in my mouth,
and in my eyes, and finished off by
plastering the right side of my head
with a generous shovelful. Disgusted
at my awkardness, I stopped chim
ney building, and seating myself by
the mortar box, went into the trowel
practice at random.
When I thought myself a profi
cient at the art, I resumed operations
by dropping a fifteen-pound stone on
my foot, which caused me to execute
a South-sea jig, aggravated by the
fact that I couldn’t get it to my
mouth.
“ It does seem to me that I’ve pick
ed out the hardest and heaviest
stones in the woods,” thought I, as I
balanced myself on one foot, and al
most swore a little, as anybody else
would have done. But I had set in
to build a chimney, and was bound to
finish the job, or myself. Never
shonld it be said that smashing a
few toes or fingers could stop me
from finishing a job I had undertaken.
I confidently assured my wife that I
would have the thing in a cooking
position in a day or two, but when a
week had elapsed and I had just
reached the arch, I began to feel dis
couraged. Although the work pro
gressed so slowly, the stones disap
peared with alarming rapidity, and I
found myself wondering if other ma
sons packed rock as hard as I did.
The amount of mud consumed was
simply astonishing. Whether it evap
orated, or soaked into the stones,
was a question I couldn’t settle, but
it certainly went somewhere.
Another week dragged its slow
length along, and found me to the
funnel, while the end of the third
found the job barely completed. It
is useless to go over the experience
of those three weeks. My fingers
were almost worn to the bone; my
back ached; all my feet were more
or less wounded; and, altogether, my
enthusiasm had worked itself off, and
when I was done I had no inten
tion of taking any more jobs of the
kind.
Notwithstanding all the drawbacks,
however, I knocked down the scaf
folding, and, calling my family, pre
pared myself to listen to their enthu
siastic remarks over my handiwork.
But they didn’t enthuse worth a con
tinental, and, to tell the truth, it
didn’t present each an attractive ap
pearance as I had anticipated. In
fact, it resembled, more than any
thing else, a huge alligator standing
on his head—being a wilderness of
bumps and ungainly protuberances.
“Never mind,” said I, “it isn’t
altogether as handsome as some ob
jects I’ve gazed on, but wait till yon
see its performances—then you’ll be
filled with wonder.”
Then we went into the boose, and
I told my wife to get .some strong
ropes to tie the children and fnrni
lure.
“ What’s that for 1 ” she inquired.
“To keep them from going np the
fine, of course,” I replied. “You
see, it’s built on strict scientific prin
ciples, and when I kindle a fire, it
will create a draught that will draw
everything upward.”
She said she thought she would
risk the children and furniture, so I
piled in some pine, crammed in some
paper, touched fire and prepared to
run. In a minute or two I found my
precautions for getting out of the
HS CO., GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 15,1873.
jy were highly necessary, but for a
■y different reason from what I had
igined. No sooner did the fire
j to burning than a volume ||f
oke rolled out into the house, re
ading me of a low-country locomo
-i and completely filling the house|
h a dense cloud. We retreated
dismay, and I gazed rnefully at
young vol ano that I had raised
pn my wife said:
1 That’s just what I expected would
the end of all your science and
iosophy.”
1 wish to God I had a blister
iter a||>ig as a bed quilt 1 ” said I
and cover the funnel with it and see
. would draw then P”
Better tear it down before *>ome
|y secs it,” said she, unfeelingly.'
It will do to cook by,” I replied.
You are perfectly welcome to try
she retorted.
‘ What in thunder is the matter
with it ? ” I inquired, of course not
expecting to be enlightened.
“ You’ve built it wrong end down!”
said she. I looked at her with an
idiotic grin on my countenance, and
she continued: “ Hadn’t you better
get a fender to keep the children
from being drawn up ? ”
I .was in the last stage of disgust,
already, and that remark finished
me. I hunted up a retired place and
reflected on the uncertainty of hu
man calculations, and the toils and
vexations of all our best efforts.—
But I was most effectually cured of
my ambition in that line. I reflected
that the next job might be worse,
and decided to quit the business
while times were good. To every
man a talent is given, and my talent
for chimney building was buried with
my first job.
The Chop Piiospect. —Oue of the
editors of the Macon Telegraph &
Messenger, writes this paper from
Savannah:
From Mr. Sloan, a prominent mer
chant on the bay, the writer bad the
privilege of glanciDg at a huge pile
of letters received from all portions
of Georgia, Florida and Alabama,
in response to a circular of his asking
for reliable information concerning
the condition of the growing crop.
The accounts varied somewhat in
different locations, but the average
report was highly flattering. Of
corn, more will be harvested this
season than any within the past ten
years. One gentleman from Mont
gomery county told the writer that
some of their pine lands there, with
the aid of home-made fertilizers,
would yield 40 bushels per acre.
Cotton, too, on the whole, is very
promising, and generally in good
condition. Some complaint is jnade
of the size of the weed, but the fruit
age is excellent. The caterpillar
seems to be increasing in particular
sections, bnt planters are resolved to
try the poisoning remedy, and there
is no panic. Indeed, the worm was
far more prevalent at this period
last year, and every day’s grace adds
greatly to the crop, from the rapidity
with which it is maturing. Already
the bottom bolls and much of the
middle fruit is beyond serions injury
from the insect.
t-if" An English technical period
ical points out an easy way of test
ing whether water is good and fit for
general use. It says: “Good water
should be free from color, unpleasant
odor and taste, and should quickly
afford a lather with a small quantity
of soap. If half a pint of the water
be placed in a perfectly elean, color-,
less, glass-stoppered bottle, a few
grains of the best white lump sugar
added and the bottle freely exposed
to the daylight in the window of a
warm room, the liquid should not
become turbid, even after exposure
for a week or ten days. If the wa
ter becomes tnrbid, it is open to the
grave snspicioa of sewerage contami
nation ; bat if it remain clear, it is al
most certainly safe. We owe to
Heisch this simple, valuable, bat
hitherto strangely neglected, test.”
SOT Boys and girls* if you wish to
astonish any member of the family,or
any coming guest, by some day al
lowing them to discover their initltals
neatly printed on a pear, peach or ap
ple as it hangs on its branch, tbis is
the way to carry out yoor plan : Just
before the fruit ripens ent the desired
letters from a sheet of thin, tough
paper ; then paste them on the side
of the frnit most exposed to the sun,
and when in course of time yon re
move the surface, you will find the
letters distinctly mai ked upon it.
Adnltcration of Fertilizers.
We learn from the New York
Post that the Peruvian government
has begun suits against several guano
firms in that city. The Post says
that all genuine Peruvian guano is
exported by the government, the an
nual sales of its agents in this city, of
late years, amounting to from 23,000
to 35,000 tons. In the complaints on
which the suits are based the defen
dants are charged with selling au in
ferior article in bags which have con
tained genuine guano, and so bran
ded, and with the use of an imitation
of the brand on the genuine bags,
which the Peruvian government
claims as a trade mark. Thesuii
are brought to recover damages for
the alleged frauds, and to enjoin
the defendants from continuing such
practices.
Attention was called to the adul
teration of Peruvian guano, a few
years ago, by the New York State
Agricultural Society, which caused
bags of the article to be purchased
from different firms of this city, and
had them analyzed, Six out ottgten
specimens were found to contain but
from three to six per cent of ammonia,
while pure Chineha Island guano con
tains about fifteen per cent, and Gu
anape from eleven to thirteen.
Inquiries were made to-day at the
offices of the defendants, but, in sev
eral cases, the principal member of
the firm was absent. Robert C.
Reeves said that the bags of guano
were sold by him as tliey lamo into
hiß hands from the jobbers, and were
never opened. He had never en
gaged in any of the practices charged
against him, but though he made no
accusations against any one in partic
ular, it was understood that these
were followed by some of the firms
in the trade.
Mr. Coxe said it was well known
that the jobbers often mixed Peru
vian guano with other matter, but
this was understood by the custo
mers, who paid much less for this
than for the genuine, and considered
the latter too strong to be used when
pure, While the Peruvian Govern
ment sold guano for $67 50 in gold
per ton, by the hundred tons, and
the mixed was sold by dealers for
$75 currency, no one coaid suppose
the two to he identical. He denied
that the Peruvian guano was mixed
with earth or other worthless matter,
saying that either the Chincha Island
was mixed with inferior grade known
as Guanape, or onqggjpl. tho two was
mixed with phosphatio guano from
the Pacific. He thought it likely
that bogs had been nsed or branded
in the way specified, but this did not
result in any deception.
The attorneys for the Government,
on the other hand, when questioned
to-day, said that their client was
roused to action in the matter by the
numerous complaints of persons who
said that they had been swindled by
the alleged practices. The Govern
ment is injured to the extent to
which mixed gnano is sold instead of
genuine, by losing the sale of that
amount, and also suffers by the con
sequent damage to the reputation of
the genuine. Customers of the deal
ers had repeatedly been deceived,
while the price of the adulterated ar
ticle has really been but little less
than that of the pure. The Attor
neys say that they have abundant
testimony to sustain all the allega
tions in the complaints.
I3F* The opium crop of Turkey
annually amounts to about 6,000 ca
ses, each case containing 140 pounds.
It is chiefly distributed between
Amerioa, England and China. Tbis
year everything appeared to be fa
vorable for a good yield,, and at least
an average crop was confidently ex
pected till a short time ago, when
advices were received that one-half
of the crop had been destroyed by
the hot winds. It is new reported
that the entire product of this year,
which is now harvesting, wiß proba
bly not amount to more than 2-,000
cases. Opium in bond In New York
city, bas advanced from per pound,
gold, to $0 25, geld, within the last
six weeks. If the unfavorable reports
are fully confirmed, it is believed in
the trade that it will continue to ad
vance enormously, and not improba
bly reach the figure of about five
years ago, when, under similar cir
cumstances, opium was sold for tfcl
per pound in gold.
“ Bob, how is your sweetheart get
ting along ? ” “ l’rctty well, I guess;
she says I needn’t call any more.*’ -
Froin the Tliomston Herald.
Georgia’s Resources.
On Wednesday, July, 30, a large
crowd of people assembled at the
Court House door in Thomaston, to
listen to a speech from Governor
Smith. After the Governor had ex
pressed his pleasure in meeting so
many friends among whom he had
lived so long, he stated that when
the war was over men sought to re
cover their fortunes by other employ
ments than agricultural pursuits—all
the best talent of the country enga
ged in professions, and if there were
a fool in the family, he was put to
farming.
Agriculture required tho very high
est order of talent. Agriculture
was the greatest of all interests; it
was the foundation or source from
which nil other business derived its
support. Let the lawyers be set
aside and a community might do with
out them —set aside the physicians,
and men might got a'ong without
them; but suspend the agricultural
interest for a year, and all would go
to ruin. Common sense directs that
the most important matter must be
attended to at first. If we would be
sncoessfitl, we must look after the
interest that produces all profits.
These views are Hot put to produce
antagonistic feelings; there is room
for all—make the farming interest
prosper, and men engaged in all other
branches of business will also pros
per ; ask any lawyer present, and he
will tell you that he always made
moat when farmers prospered.
The farmers of Georgia are igno
rant of the natural resources of the
country. Georgia abounds in all
kinds of minerals; gold, iron, copper,
and even diamonds exist in the State.
V ast coal beds are situated in the
northern section of the State. We
have the best country on which the
sun shines. The soil of Georgia is
adapted to the growth of every de
scription of production that grows
between the frigid and torrid zones.
The Legislature of Ohio in 1836
appropriated $5,000 to promote the
agricultural interest Of the State, and
you can by going to the State capital
ascertain the quality of the land in
every township in the State. This
system has greatly enhanced the valne
of the lands in Ohio. Lands there
have advanced twenty-five per oent.
in the last eighteen months.
In Georgia there are coal mines
enough to run all the furnaces in
England and America for fifty years.
In the same localities iron ore abounds
in vast quantities. Yet with all these
natural advantages of soil, climate,
ore, and with natural productiveness
equal to that of any country under
the canopy of heaven, men of Geor
gia are Buffering for the necessaries
of life. You may form as many or
ganizations of labor as yon please,
and they will do much good so long
as they are kept tip, but the natural
tendency of tho human heart i to
“ grow weary in well doing.” The
only way to keep up a permanent
interest in agriculture is to establish
an agricultural bureau. If you will
put money into a business, men will
attend to it. If you would have
men to take an interest in their busi
ness, you must make them under
stand their business thoroughly;
The farmers have it in their power
to have things as they wish. I want
men to legislate for the good of fann
ing. I have heard men eay that law
yers were going to have a good har
vest. When a man cannot pay hia
debts, be cannot pay a lawyer, bnt
when the cattle on a thousand hills
are spzead out before the eye—when
granaries and the smoke-houses of
the farmers are filled to-overflowing,
then it is that the lawyer can get bis
fee, the doctor his bill, and the minis
ter his salary. Let the farmer make
his corn, meat* hay, oats, and other
supplies at home, and he will starve
out the middle-men and force them ts
go at other employments. A roan
purchased 10*006 bushels of com in
lowa, this season, for 16 cents per
bushel, and it was afterwards sold
in Montgomery, Ala., for |1 25 per
bushel; now where did the difference
between 1& cents and §1 26 go? It
went to the middle-men. The far
mer must get rid ef the tax that these
middlemen impose npon them. Some
objeot to the Granges because they
hare ladies in them; another objec
tion is,, tliab it is a secret society;
well, there oannot be much secrets
where ladies are. These labor organ
izations, if they are not abused, are
likely to do more for the country
$2 A YEAR.
than all other things combined—all
the burden# arid ihisfortnnes of lilts
fail more heavily on women than oif
men; for this reason it is proper f.r
them to take an interest in theso or.
ganizations. We would not have the'
ladies turn politicians—that is not
their sphevfe; but we have no fear vt
anything of this klud; their natural
modesty will prevent this. If meii
would take tlieir wives with them'
when they go out, they would nevor
get in trouble.
Keep politicians out of yonr organ
izations, for if-they get,ln, they will'
be worse than the middle-men.' Too*
much legislation is a curse fo the
country. So great an evil has this
become, that the passage of s!hy law
at all is to be dreaded. The farmers
have it in their power to have things
arranged to suit themselves, and if
the men they send to make laws dd
not make such as will protect the
firmer, then drop them, and send
such men os will give the farmer jus
tice. Send tho ablest, purest and
wisest men to make your laws. It is
a melancholy fact that last year duly
1,000 immigrants came to Georgia}
while 20,000 of her citizens left the
State. If we want immigrants to
come to Georgia, we must be able to
show to them what the resources of
the State are—we must let them
know what is in the State.
The Governor appealed to the peo
ple, in conclusion, to use their united
efforts to advanoe the agricultural in
terests of the State.
His speech was one and a half
hours long, and abounded with sound
and weighty arguments throughout
A Cynic’s Dictionary.
Water—A clear fluid, onoe used
as a drink.
Honesty—An excellent joke/
Tongue—A little horse that is taii*
tinually running away.
My Dear—An expression used by
man and wife at the commencement
of a quarrel.
Bargain—A ludicrous transaction,
in which each party thinha he ha#
cheated the other.
Doctor—A man who kills you to
day to keep you from dying to-mor
row.
Wealth —The most respectable!
quality of men.
Esquire—Everybody, yet nobody j
equal to Colonel.
Jury—Twelve prisoners in a bo*/
to try one or more at the bar.
State’s Evidence—A wretch wbtf
is pardoned for being baser than hi#
comrades.
Modesty—A beautiful flows* that
flourishes in secret places.
Lawyer —A learned gentleman/
who rescues your estate from you*
enemy and keeps it himself.
The Grave—An ugly hole in th#
ground, which lovers and poets Wish
they were in, but take uncommon
means so keep out of. m
Money—The good of the country/
in . —*—-
Is Friday an Unlucky Bay?
Friday, long regarded as a day of
ill-omen, baa been an eventful one in*
American history.
Friday, Christopher Columbu*
sailed ea Ms voyage rf discovery.
Friday, ten weeks after, he discov
ered America.
Friday, Henry TH, of
.gave John Cabot his commission l ,,
which led to the discovery of North
America
Friday, St-Augustine,, the oldest;
town in the United' States waw
founded
Friday, the Mayflower, wifh the
Pilgrims,, arrived at Ft-msstes.
Friday* they signed that august
compact, the forerunner of the pres
ent Constitution..
Friday, George Washington was*
born.
Friday* Bunker HRH was seised
and fortified.
Friday*, the surrender of Saratogas
was made*
Friday, fee surrender of Cornwal
lis, at York town, occurred*
Friday* the motion was made in-
Congress that the United Colonies
were and of right ought to< be fires
and independent.
BF A Baptist paper in. Ohio was*
sent for nine years to* s subscriber*
who never paid a oent fn it. The
other day the newspaper was re
turned to the patient and.long-siglhgW'
iag publisher with the affecting pencil!
note on its margin:. “ Goss to-wbes
ter world.” The publisher is a very
pious man, bnt it is reported tha*
his faith is terribly shaken in regard!
to the acouracy of. the information-