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GEORGIA— Harris County.
S. A. Hunt, Executor of W. W. Hunt, de
ceased, makes application for an order to sell
the real estatS belonging to said deceased.
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if any they have, by the first
Monday in February next, why said applica
tion should not be granted.
Given under my band officially, Dec. Bth,
1873.
decl2-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord'y.
Hard Times Made Easy
All parties indebted to us for provisions at
“ time prices, ” are hereby notified that we
will receive Low Middling Cotton at fifteen
cents per pound in pa> ment of such accounts
and notes, until the 16ih day of this month.
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nreviously made. We do not wish to oppress
any, but must collect, that we may pay our
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West Point, Ga., Dec. 1,1873 —2 t
GEOUGIA— Harris County.
Whereas the minor children of Monroe
Davenport, deceased, are entitled to a consid
erable estate from the estate of John Daven
port, deceased, late of said county, and have
no guardian.
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if anv they have, by the first
Monday in January next, why the Clerk of
the Superior Court, or some other fit and
proper person, should not be appointed guar
dian of said minors. Given under my hand
officially, Dec. 1, 1873.
deco-td J, F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y.
LUMBER.
All persons wishing to buy lumber, con be
furnished at my mill at $1 25, or I will de
liver it in Hamilton, at short notice, at $1.75.
decs-lm WM. C. COTTON.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Agreeably to an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Harris county. Ga., will be sold
before the Court-house door in Hamilton, be
tween the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in January next, 126 acres, more or
less, of lot of land No. 16, in 19th district of
originally Muscogee, now Harris county it
being the east and north portions of said lot.
Also 7 acres of northeast corner of lot No. 15
in said district and county, as the property of
Elisha Mullins, late of said county, deceased.
Terms on day of sale.
decs-td° ELIJAH MULLINS, Adm'r.
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HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19,1873.
A WOLF HUNTV
BX SANDY HIGGINS.
Among the recollections of my
young days, a wolf hunt that I once
engaged in may not be uninteresting,
as it gave me a chance to show the
fool that was in me, in the most strik
ing colors. I am firmly of the opin
ion that there hadn’t been a wolf
within fifteen miles of the place in a
dozen years, at the time of the occur
rence, but that made no difference.
Sheep had been killed, and of course
nobody owned a sheep-killing dog,
and tracks bad been seen which every
body said were wolf tracks, and
wasn’t that sufficient ? Nothing
more was needed, but to see the
wolf, and a man was on hand ready
to swear that he had seen the animal
with his own eyes. True, the man
had never been known to tell the
truth, under any combinations of
circumstances, but his word was gos
pel, now, because everybody wanted
to believe him.
I was on a visit to an old friend
np in the mountains—went home
with one of his girls, if you must
know the truth about it!—when I
heard of the proposed hunt, and was
invited to join it. I would have de
nied the promises of all my previous
experience, if I had failed to go into
anything that promised a chance to
make a spectacle of myself, and I
couldn’t afford to go back on my
record, so I up and told them they
could have the benefits of my expe
rience in wolf hunting, if I only had
a gun. My friend readily agreed to
furnish me with one, and next morn
ing he brought it out for my inspec
tion. The thing looked like two or
ihree sections of stove pipe, and I
couldn’t help inquiring if he intended
to drive the animals into it, and blow
them up afterwards; hut he said it
never failed to bring down game
when it was properly loaded, and he
was right! When he had put in a
handful of powder and two dozen
buckshot, he considered it in proper
trim, though I thought it would have
been better to have an ammunition
wagon along, as the gun was a load,
without so much lead. However, it
was the only piece of artillery to be
bad, and I was bound to be in the
hunt, if I had to go in a wagon.
When the hunters and dogs had
assembled, a stranger might have
thought another ark had just landed
and discharged its freight. Dogs of
of all sizes and styles, from a rat ter
rier to a full grown bull dog, were
yelling and growling around, occa
sionally getting up a free fight, by
way of practice, making the fur fly,
while men were swearing and slash
ing around, and horses were adding
their gentle voices to the general
discord.
When we did get started, no man
on earth could have told where we
were going, or what after, for the
woods were full of dogs and hunters,
each trying to go his own way, and
nobody really knowing which was the
proper direction. Finally, one old
fellow, who professed to have served
ah apprenticeship at wolf killing,
took off the crowd by twos, giving
each couple a “stand,” and telling
them to remain there till they saw
“ wolf signs,” or night came on.
It was luck to be mated to a
pious, waspmatured old fellow, who
might as well be called Uncle Josh,
as anything else, and who knew just
about as much of the business he was
going on as ho did about the Garden
of Eden, and who couldn’W bear to
hear anything that wasn’t laid down
in the Bible. We were placed near
the head of a long hollow, and were
told that the wolves would be dead
sure to run out there, and I was cau
tioned to make a dead shot, for if I
crippled one he’d be sure to eat me
up, which I believed with all my
heart, as it was expected I should.
No sooner had we taken our posi
tion than uncle Josh pulled out a
Testament, on which he bent his
whole attention, while I was left
to amuse myself as best I could. At
length I remarked:
• “ I wish we had a deck of cards.”
“ What in the name of the great
dragon do you wish that for ? ” quer
ied Uncle Josh, looking at me over
bis spectacles, with as much interest
as if I had just fell from a comet.
“ Oh, hang it! I replied, “ I forgot
you didn’t know how to play.”
“ Who told you I didn’t know how
to play ?” he asked.
“ Nobody didn’t tell me,” said I;
“but I supposed yon didn’t by your
taking that book, with you.”
“ You’re mistaken, Sandy,” said
he, putting the book into his pocket.
“The fact is, you see, it won’t do
for anybody to know it, but I’ve got
some aloug with me now, and if you
will promise never to tell it, we’ll
have a little game.”
Of course I gave the promise, for
I was so surprised that I would have
promised anything required, and my
astonishment was not a little increased
when he pulled out a flask of red-eye
and told me to take a horn.
“You’re a trump, old boss,” said
I, after taking a good pull.
“We’ll see about the trumps, by
and by, Sandy,” repfied he, as ho
took a suck at the bottle, which
threatened to cave in the bottom,
after which he produced a pack of
cards which looked as though they
might have seen a good deal of hard
service, and proceeded to shuffle
them in a mauner that satisfied me
he’d studied something besides the
Bible in his life.
“We’ll play a few games of poker,
just for sport,” said he, “for I’m
not in the habit of betting, and I
wouldn’t like to win anything from
you, no how.”
“ All right,” said I, secretly think
ing how I would skin him, if he would
bet a little! I soon found out, how
ever, that there was nothing green
about him, for he managed to get a
good hand every deal, and I was not
long in cetning to the conclusion that
he’d taken many a text from that vol
ume, when the outside world knew
nothing about it. 1 was somo at the
game myself, but I let him beat me,
till he became pretty strongly inter
ested, and then I said:
“ Oh, blame it! I never could play
for nothing. Let’s bet a little.”
“ Well, Sandy,” replied he, “ I
don’t care if we do make a little bet,
just to keep the game; but let’s try
some more whisky, first,”
We took a good drink, and eom-
menced again, with a small bet, and
he won it, as he did two or three
more. Then 1 got a chance to deal,
and after fixing the cards to my
notion, I dealt him out three kings
and two queens. When lie took up
his cards I saw he was powerfully
pleased, but I looked as solemn as
an owl. Then he commenced bet
ting, while I .rather held back, and
didn’t seem very anxious to bet on
my hand. This made hint keener,
and it wasn’t long till he had all his
money up, and then I called him.
I’d give a right smart interest in my
chance for a fortune for some machine
that would have taken that man’s
countenance when he saw my cards 1
The long grin that was on his face
turned to an expression as if he had
a good notion to cry, but was too
mad ; and after gazing at me a min
ute, he blurted out:
“That warn’t done fair, Sandy, an’
you know it! ”
“Keep cool, Uncle Josh,’’ said I;
“ It was all luck, you know.’’
“ You oughtn’t to treat an old
man that w T ay,” said he, jamming the
cards in his pocket, and taking an
other pull at the bottle. He was
good mad, and we might have got
up a right smart shindy out there in
the woods, but just then we heard the
dogs coming in full roar.
“Thar comes the wolf!’’ said he,
forgetting all about his loss. “ Get
your gun ready, Sandy.”
I tumbled to my feet and seized
niv gun, while a right smart chill
shook my bones, and quickly made
ready for battle. The uproar kept
getting louder, aud I kept shaking
harder, and in a few minutes I saw
an animal resembling a large dog
break through the bushes, about fif
teen yards ahead of a long string of
dogs, each one of them making as
much fuss as possible, aud running as
if the wolves were after them, in
stead of the other way. As they
passed about seventy-five yards from
me, I trained my piece in the direc
tion of the foremost animal, shut
both eyes, said a short prayer, and
pulled the trigger. Tho sound that
followed might have been taken for
a second edition of the battle of
Watorloo, but I didn’t pay much at
tention to it, for I was turning sum
mersets, kicking up my hoels, knock
ing my bead against all the trees and
rocks in the neighborhood, and oth
erwise cutting a variety of antics not
laid down in the books. I felt like
I’d been kicked by a whole herd of
mules, or knocked feet first through
a stone fence, or thrown from a bal
loon, or something o'l the sort. It re
quired several seconds for me to find
out which way was up, and then I
didn’t know how to go about getting
there, so I just lay up against a tree
and went to swearing.
“ Don’t you swear, Sandy!” said
Uncle Josh, looking up as though he
didn’t want to laugh a bit,’ hut I
knew better.
“ Swear the deuce!’’ said I; “you’d
swear if your neck was twisted out
of place, and your shoulder broke,
and your nose turned heels upwards,
and your face skinned all to smack,
and the hack of your head caved in
generally,
“Swear not at all!” said he, sol
emnly.
“ I’m not swearing at all!” said I,
furiously; “ I’m only cussing this
dinguation cannon ! I wish to God it
had kicked the man into fits that
made it—blast him!”
“Never mind,’’ said he; “you’ve
killed the wolf, so get up and let’s go
and see about it.”
“ Hang the wolf, and the gun, and
the dogs, and everybody else J” said
las I slowly scrambled up, quick
lest I should fall to pieces. Howev
er, I found there was no bones broke,
and the fact that I had killed a wolf
put me in better humor. We hur
ried forward to where the dogs were
barking and yelping around the dead
animal, and there found Bob Moore’s
favorite dog with enough buckshot in
him to sink a flat-boat.
“Here’s the misehief—a right
smart chance of it!” .said I, after
awhile. “ I thought the confounded
gun would do something it had no
business, when I started with it.”
“ That’ll be worse than Being kick
ed by a musket, when Bob finds it
out,” remarked Uncle Josh.
“Ile’d better not,” said I, “ I’in in
no humor for foolishness pow, and if
he cuts up about this infernal dog I’ll
break hiß long neck.”
By this time the hunters, who had
heard the explosion, oommonced
gathering, and among them Bob
Moore. When he saw his dead dog
he opened:
“ Who in the creation killed my
dog?’’ he asked.
“Noboby,” said I. “That old
musket went off half cocked and took
your dog on the wing.”
“ That musket never went off half
cocked since it was a pistol,” said
Bob, “and anybody with half sense
knows it.”
“ You’ve no business with a dog so
much like a wolf,” 1 said. “You
might know somebody would kill
him.”
“ He’s no more like a wolf than
you are!” he retorted, “and had a
heap more sense I’ve a good notion
to pick him up and wear you out
with him, by gravy!”
“ See here,’’ said I, getting wrathy.
“If you don’t want to follow your
old dog, you’d better dry up. lie’s
caused me enough trouble, already,
and if you bother me much I’ll make
a spectacle of you that’ll bo wonder
ful to look at.”
Here Uncle Josh interfered, and
explained how both were mistaken,
and got Bub somewhat pacified,
which w'as a good thing for one or
both of us. The hunt was broke up,
for every man was afraid he’d lose a
dog if the thing kept on, and as for
myself, I was very well satisfied with
what I’d had. It was my first and
last wolf hunt. ,
A Well Posted “Granger.”—
The Athens Georgian tells tho fol
lowing story:
A Granger, who is ono of our best
farmers, a highly intelligent and re
sped able citizen, holding office in
the Grange, saw an article in an agri
cultural paper saying, “to prevent
goats from jumping, cut oil their
lower eye-lashes, and they will never
jump.” The gentleman, who owned
a large herd of troublesome jumping
goats, called in his neighbors to wit
ness the modus operandi by which
he cured his goats of this bad habit.
They assembled at his house, anxious
to see what they believed to be an
impossibility. The goats were called
up, the shears sharpened, and one
caught —when, to the surprise of all,
the goat bail no under eyo-lashes.
Several were caught Afl examined,
but “ nary eye-lash ” could be found.
Not one of the assembled party knew
that a goat had no lashes on the lower
lid, or if they did, they determined
to say nothing, but enjoy the joke on
their friend and neighbor.
The Southern States have 2,478
Granges of the 6,580 in the United
States. The total membership is
some six huudred thousand.
Burglars are busy in Maine,
and the watch has been doubled to
prevent them from breaking into the
Ali'red-jail.
A Narrow Escape for Mr. Cab-
Blor.
A Mr, Cabbler, of Memphis, had
an escape recently (hat would make
a fitting parallel to the “Dream Wo
man” of Wilkie Collins. Mr. Cab
bler was awakened from his sleep by
the prossure of somo one’s hand on
his left breast from which the unseen
fingers were pulling off the bed-cloth
ing. Thinking it was his bed-fellow,
Mr. Armstrong, he gently seized the
hand, whereupon its owner made a
desperate effort to disengage himself,
and inflicted two sovere stabs in Mr.
Gabbler’s right side. The form of a
man was now seen to rush toward
the door, and running down the
stairway, glided out into the darkness.
By this time Mr. Cabbler was bleed
ing profusely. Two gentlemen who
had been aroused by the noise of the
struggle, hastened to turn on the
gas and have a physician summoned
to the aid of the wounded man, the
extent of whose injuries oould not at
that time ho accuarately ascertained.
Upon examination, Spanish stiletto
was found sticking in the bedcloth
ing, where it had been entangled by
the murderous fiend in his haste to
got away. The point of the deadly
instrument was red with the warm
blood of his intended victim, whose
life was accidently saved by the thick
bed-clothing. It is not pleasant cer
tainly to awaken suddenly and find
an uuseou assassin’s baud feeling for
one’s heart. Mr. Cabbler was shot
by somo one unknown once before.
He is said to he an honest, industri
ous man, with hosts of friends, and
the persistency with which his life is
sought is unaccountable.. lie is not
fatally injured. *
The Oldest City.
Damascus is the oldest city in thfi
world. Tyre and Sidon have crum
bled on the shoro, Baalbeo is a ruin,
Palmyra is buried in a desert; Nine
vah abd Babylon have disappeared
from the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Damascus remains what it was be
fore the days of Abraham—a centre
of trade and travel—an island of ver
dure in the desert; a presidential cap
ital, with martial and sacred associa
tions extending through thirty centu
ries. It was near Damascus that
Saul of Tarsus saw the light above
the brightness of the sun ; the street,
which is called Strait, in which it is
said he prayed, still runs through the
city. The caravan comes and goes
as it did a thousand years ago; there
is still the sheik, the ass and the wa
ter wheel; the merchants of the Eu
phrates and the Mediterranean still
occupy these with the multitude of
their wares. The city which Mo
hatned surveyed from a neighboring
height and was afraid to enter, ns it
was given to man to have but one
paradise, and for his part ho was re
solved not tp have it in this world,
is to day what Sulivan called the eye
of the East, as it was in the time of
Isaiah, the head of Syria. It is still
a city of flowers; the streams of Leb
anon and the silk of gold still mur
mur and sparkle in the wilderness of
the Syrian gardens.
Old-time Axioms.
The following is from an old scrap
book. We reproduce them to show
the present generation what quaint
ideas were pioinulgnted by the teach
ers of our fathers and mothers of the
olden t ime: “An independent man is
one who blacks his own boots, who
can live without tobacco and whisky,
earns at least a penny more than he
spends, and who can, upon a pinch,
shave himself with brown soap and
cold water without a mirror. A great
man is one who can learn his children
to obey him when out of sight. A
hospitable man is never ashamed of
his dinner when a friend unexpected
ly drops in to dino with him. A
good wife exhibits her love for her
hnsband by seeking to promote his
welfare, and by administering to his
comforts. A sensible wife looks for
hor enjoyment at home—a killy one
abroad. A wise girl would win a
lover by practicing those virtues
which secure admiration wlion per
sonal charms Lave fadod. A sim
ple girl endeavors to recommeud her
self by the exhibition of frivolous ac
complishments, and by a mawkish
sediment which has as little to do
with a true heart as has the gaudy
dress she wears. A good girl
respects herself, and is thus sure to
be respected.by oSbers.
What word is always pro
nounced wrong? Wrong.
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From th Kantlersvillo Herald.]
How to Produce Five Bales of
Cotton to One Acre of Land.
Editors Herald: According to
praise, and for the benefit of
the farming public, I herewith ap
pend a brief and correct account at
the preparing, manuring, and culti
vation of my acre of cotton, grown
this season:
The soil is sandy, with clay sub
soil. Has been iu cultivation for six
ty or eighty years, I suppose. About
half of tho acre was an old dung bill,
the other half very poor before ma
nuring. The guano I used was Ket
tlewell’s A. A., or Phospho-PeruviaD,
1400 pounds. Raw pine straw, from
the wo ids, sixty ox-cart loads; green
cotton seed, 60 bushels; stable ma
nure, well rotted, 400 bushels.
The pine straw, cotton seed, and
stable manure I hauled oat in Jan
uary, and strewed broadcast over the
land, then turned under with a two
horso plough, breaking eight inches
deep. Then with a sixteen inch
scooter run in the two horse furrow,
breaking from five to seven inohes;
in tho whole thirteen to fifteen inohes
deep. I then followed in the aoooter
furrow with the guano, or subsoil
furrow, so on, till completed. In
February I repeated the breaking iu
the same manner, leaving off manur
ing. In March the same again,
breaking each time cross-wise, or in
opposite direction. In April, I har
rowed the laud twice to level the
soil and destroy the young vegeta
tion. Then I checked off my rows
three feet eaoh way, with a small
bull-tongue plow, and on the 18th
day of May, 1 planted my cotton seed
-in the hill, six or eight seed, dropped
by hand and covered with the foot.
The seed when covered being on a
level. The seed were the “ Cluster
Cotton” variety. I purchased them
from David Dicksoa, Esq., Oxford,
Ga., to whom 1 must confess I am in
debted for my success, to a certain
extent. The seed, I am confident,
were half tbo battle. The cotton was
thinned to one stalk to the hill in
June, with the exception of the out
side rows, in which I left two stalks.
Then I plowed with twenty-four inch
sweep, “Dickson’s,’’ very shallow,
one furrow to the row, and about
eight days afterwards I repeated the
same, running one furrow to the row,
just scraping the earth enough to de
stroy the young weeds and grass.
Did not use a hoe in it, in order to
avoid skinning the cotton; in fact,
had no use for any, aa the cotton
grew so fast the shade thereof pre
vented all vegetation from growing
underneath. Very Respectfully,
T. C. Warthew.
Hog Cholera. —A correspondent
of the Prairie Farmer, who has had
large experience with swine, says the
following are reliable:
Preventive.—One peek wood ashes,
four pounds salt, one pound each of
black antimony, copperas, and sul
phur, quarter of a pound saltpetre.
Pound, mix thoroughly and moisten
enough to prevent waste ; put in a
trough it) a dry place where the hogs
cau at all times eat as much as they
please of it. I have strictly followed
directions, and have had no cholera.'
Remedy.—lt is: Sulphur, two
Sounds; copperas, two mounds; roof
er, two pounds; black antimony,
half pound; saltpetre, half pound;
arsenic, two ounces. The quantity
is sufficient for 100 hogs, and is mix*
ed with slop enough for a few doses
all round—a pint to each hog. Eaoß
time I tried this I had' about fifty
head, and not one died that was able
to walk to the trough and had enough
life to drink.
B3fThe Farmer’s Homo Journal
very appropriately says: “ The day
is coming when a lady will feet more
ashamed fo confess ignorance of
flowers than of music. We are glad
to know that the study of plant-life,
for its own sake, is on the increase,
and that there is an evident desire
evinced by nearly every who
owns a home to beautify its surround
ings.”
Cure for Butts. — A farmer told
us the other day that buttermilk waa
the best remedy for bolts in horses
he had ever tried, and so certain
that it rarely fails to give relief,
Potash and alum are also used by
many who have given attention to
horse diseasef .
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19* The Harris county Granges
are in a flourishing condition,