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MITCHELL, M. Eeiident Physician and Surgeon, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given to Operative Sur gery and treatment of Chronic Discuses. Terms Cash. "S7V- in. TIGTSTEIIFL, DENTIST, i COLUMBUS, - • * GEORGIA. Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ban dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. R r R. Respecfully offers his services to the peo ple of Harris county. ju2oly XL A. Russell, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given to collections. CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE , By J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM, WEST POINT. GA HENRY C. CAMERON, Attorney at Law, HAMILTON , GA DR. J. W. CAMERON, HAMILTON ; GA. Special attention to Hidwifery. Charges moderate. Sines Dossier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WAVERLY HALL, GEORGIA Special attention will be given to all busi ness placed in my hands. W. JT. FOGIiE, Dentist, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Office in the building of the Georgia Home Insurance Company. feb2l-ly RANKIN HOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. Frank Golden, Clerk. RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE, janio J. W- RYAN, Pitor’H. TBE HA V WEEKLY VISITOR. 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 fi: and, o o <* and no w Cf wj tr ti di tl] of sd th m jm sk so 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-