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Cjie Hamilton Visitor
BY P W. P. BOULLY.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10,1874
Analysis of Fertilizers.
Tlie Georgia Agricultural Society
publishes the results of an analysis
made by Plrof. White, of the State
Agricultural College, of seventeen
different fertilizers. The Ohincha
Peruvian Guano was found to con
tain 21.63 per cent of sand! We
have only room to give the commer
cial value, as estimated by Prof.
White, together with the selling
price. It will be seen that the profit
on some is very large:
Etiwan Dissolved Bone, $41.87
per ton. Sold in Atlanta at $45 per
ton.
Etiwan Gnano, $41.08. Sold in
Atlanta at SOO.
Soluble Pacific Guano, $34.77.
Sold in Atlanta at SSO.
Sea Fowl, $47.03. Sold in Atlanta
at SSO.
Peruvian, $89.47. Sold in Atlanta
at SBS.
English Dissolved Bone, $47.83.
Sold in Atlanta at $55.
Currie’s Ammoniated Flour of
Raw Bone, $58.17. Sold in Atlanta
at SSO.
Russell Coe’s Superphosphate of
Lime, $52.80. Sold in Atlanta at
SSB.
Patapsco Guano, $25.74. Sold in
Atlanta at SOO.
Chesapeake Gnano, $32.32, Sold
in Atlanta at S6O.
Logan Fertilizer, $44.65. Sold in
Maoon at SSO.
Hunt, Rankin <fc Lamar’s Home
made Fertilizer, Formula No, 1,
$27.80. Sold in Macon at $03.75.
Hunt, Rankin & Lamar’s Home
made Fertilizer, Formula No. 2,
$17.04. Sold in Macon at $66.
Frank Coe’s Ammoniated Bone
Superphosphate, $54.62. Sold in
Savannah at $55.
Peruvian Gnano—Guannpc—s99.o9.
Sold in Savannah at S6O in gold,
Peruvian Guano—Chincha—s4o.27.
Sold in Savannah at $07.50 in gold.
Langdale Guano, $36.20. Sold in
Savannah at SSO.
The analysis made by Prof. White
discloses the feet that our farmers
have paid, in many instances, exorbi
tant prices for dirts and acids that
possessed little or no value outside of
their stink t
N. & S. Road. —Tlio La Grange
Reporter Raja:
We understand that the rond will
probably be sold, on condition that
the purchaser assume the obligation
now restiug on tho State. The Buie
endorsement amounts to $240,000.
In case such a trade is made, individ
ual subscribers will simply lose what
they have paid in; but wo do not be
lieve that any in this seotion will ob
ject to that. As matters Bland, the
stock is worth nothing to them; if
the road oan bo sold to some party
able to build it, all the advantages
that were expected to accrue to La
Grange will be realized.
Wo agree with the Reporter that
the sale of the road is the best dispo
sition that oan be made of it.
90“ A negro named Daniel Dela
raar, killed Bristow Delaraar, another
negro, near Hawkinsville, some days
since. Daniel is in jail.
Both the negroes owned some prop
erty. Bristow’s wife has applied for
a homestead, to save the expense of
administering on the estate, and Dan
iel's wife has also applied for a home
stead on the ground that Daniel will
be hung anyhow, and she had better
have his property, than to pay it all
to the lawyers for defending him.
The Dispatch gives us the above
intelligence.
Clotuing. —Bead the new adver
tisement of Messrs. Thornton A
Aoee. The latter gentleman has just
returned from New York, where he
laid in a handsome stock of spring
aud summer clothing, which was
procured on such good terms for the
cash, that they are able to sell olothea
as cjissp as anybody. We prioed
some of their goods a day or two
ago, and were surprised at their
cheapness, as well as pleased with
their quality.
Cigars. —Attention is called to the
new advertisement of Mr. P. W.
Loudenber, of Columbus. The firm
of Loudenber A Bro. has been dis
solved, and the latter gentleman will
continue the business, and guarantees
to sell cigars to dealers as cheap as
they can get them anywhere. We
affirm of our own knowledge that he
eelk better cigars for the money
than we have oome across any
where in Colnmbns.
SGT A Mr. Norris, formerly U. S.
deputy marshal in the northern dis
trict of Georgia, lately appeared be
fore a Congressional committee in
Washington, aud made a statement,
not under oath, charging that a regu
lar conspiracy existed between the
marshal (Wns. H. Smyth), the depu
ties, certain collectors and the illicit
distillers, to defraud the government.
Memphis claims to be the second
manl-rtl see Ka YTtaatsgwl
Matters in Georgia*
The Franklin News learns that the
residence of Mrs. Burnham, a few
miles up the river, was burnt a few
nights since. Mrs. B. is a widow,
and bad gone to see a neighbor. On
her she found her house and
Us contents were in ashes. It is sup
posed to have been robbed and Set
on fire.
Thfc Savannah News states that the
proprietor of the Brunswick Appeal
held a coupon of the ticket that drew
the $75,000 prize in the Louisville
lottery. His “take ”of the “fat” is
$7,500. Lucky fellow! He ought
now to retire from the newspaper
business.
An organization called the Georgia
Sportsman Club, has been formed in
Savannah. Its main object is to pre
vent the destruction of game when
not in season.
A bear belonging to a circus com
pany lately escaped in Newnan. A
large crowd had collected at the de
pot to see the show go by, and the
way that bear made them scatter was
astonishing.
Athens claims a bird-charming dog.
She is said to have caught a covey of
seven partridges by this means the
other day.
Shad are becoming plentiful in the
Savannah river at Augusta. Fifty
were recntly caught in one seine in
two days.
Augusta is making grand prepara
tions to celebrate memorial day.
On the night of the 27th ult,, says
the Carrollton Times, a young man
named James Helton was killed by a
negro named Isaac Hogan, near
Hutchinson’s ferry, in Carroll county.
Helton put a sheet over him to fright
en the negro on his way home, when
the latter came up to him and stabbed
him with a large knife. As soon as
Helton made himself known, the lat
ter expressed great sorrow for what
he had done, and helped him home.
Helton died on the second day after
wards. The negro has been commit
ted to jail.
Talbotton is to have a Sunday
school celebration in May. Hamilton
should do likewise.
The Standard states that a terrible
suioide occurred Dear Talbotton a few
days ago. John McMurraiu, a stout,
healthy man, committed suioide by
cutting bia throat with a razor. He
bad been threatening for some time
to put an end to his life, but the
threat had bcoome so common, that
nothing serious was expected. On
the fatal night, however, he wrote to
his wife, telling her that he desired
to live no longer, and then cut his
throat from ear to ear. He is sup
posed to have been crazy.
Dr. J. M. Sohley, one of Savan
nah’s most distinguished citizens, died
in that city on tbe sth inst.
Mr. John Johnson died in Colum
bus last Monday, in the 74th year of
his age. He was Ordinary of the
county for several years, and was an
efficient officer and a good eitisen.
A Pulaski oonnty man has rye five
feet high.
The Granite Mills at Augnsta turn
out daily 100 barrels of flour and
1,000 bushels of meal.
Savannah shipped about 6,000 bales
of ootton to Europe direct one day
last week.
The dead body of a man, horribly
mutilated by dogs and hogs, was
found in Hsnry oounty, on the Ist.
He is supposed to have been a ped
dler named Edward Clark. An open
knife was lying by his body, and it is
thought that with this he either killed
himself, or waa murdered.
A Washington oounty farmer says
that the flowers of the common yellow
jasmine placed round barns and eorrr
criba will cure the rats.
The grand jury have found a true
bill for murder against Chisolm, who
killed Bedell. His trial is expected
to take plaoe at the term of the coart
to bo held this month.
The Atlanta Herald says that the
only ticket held in that city which
drew a prise in the Lonisville lottery
was owned by a dub that had in
vested 1675 in the enterprise—hav
ing bought three whole tickets and
twenty-one half tiokets. They drew
one-half of s7so—losing S3OO by the
transaction. A preacher who risked
S3OO npon the turning of the wheel,
fltiled to get any compensation, ex
cept a moral lesson.
The Senoia Journal represents the
citisens of Meriwether and Fayette
counties as very much interested in
the proposed narrow-gauge railroad
from Atlanta to Greenville. It esti
mates the cost of the road at $480,000.
An extension to Columbus would
give as near an air-line to Atlanta as
practicable.
A wolf is causing much alarm to
the negroes of Spakung county. The v
I the wolf baa eaten a negro child.
Matters in General.
Three strangers arrived at Lynn
field, Mass., the other night, at the
home of E, O. Russell. No one of
them could speak a word of English,
and they w'ere naked and destitute,
not oho of them having a penny.
They were furnished with food and
clothing, and will be cared for übtil
liiey can do better, 'i’he aggregate
weight of the three was 2l£ pounds.
A girl aged eleven years, living in
Brooksville, Me., was recently killed
by falling on a knitting needle, which
pierced her head near the eye and
penetrated to tbe brain.
A terrible state of affairs exists in
Missouri. Banded robbers and mur
derers, iu some instances 300 strong,
depredate on the towns. The Gov
ernor has called upon the Legislature
for aid.
Ninety-nine years ago the father of
Dr. Mark, who is the father of a
young milliner now in St, Joseph,
Mo., leased eighty acres 6f land in
New York city for ninety-nine years.
The lease has expired, Dr. Mark is
dead, and the milliner is the only
living heir. The property is worth
$17,000,000.
The Western Railroad of Alabama
was placed in the bands of a receiver
on the Ist inst.
A duel was fonght last week, near
Montgomery station, Miss., between
Aristides Bienvenne and T. B. Phil
lips, with double-barreled shot-guns
loaded with a single ball, at 40 paces.
Phillips was unhnrt, but Bienvenne
was shot through the brain and killed
at the first fire.
In King and Queen county, Va.,
the negroes prefer wood-chopping to
farming, and the white people are
learning to do their own ploughing.
Dyspepsia and despondency are be
ing worked off by field labor, and the
country is assuming a cheerful, culti
vated appearance.
The New York Sun reports 4,914
employees in the Treasury and In
terior Departments, not anthorized
by law.
Lake Erie has swallowed 20,000
persons since its navigation began.
At a recent lecture in New York,
Henry Ward Beecher, allnding to the
“ waste of lying,” said: “ Communi
ties lie, governments lie, like that gi
gantic wickedness of our government
to-day, printing lies by the handreds
and hundreds of thousands,-tending
to depress and destroy our industry,
and rotting out the foundations of
our future prosperity.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: “The
New York Herald threatens war if
the financial policy of the West and
South is persisted in. Very good.
We are in favor of the next war. Let
New England secede.”
Six inches of snow fell in Chicago
last Monday.
Judge Edmonds, the well-known
lawyer and spiritualist of New York,
u dead.
The London Morning Post has en
tered upon its 101st year. It was
founded November 2, 1772, and in ita
issue of November 2, 1872, devoted
an article of eight fi&lumns to remi
niscences of men and things a hun
dred years ago.
A little girl, aged eleven years,
was pushed down a flight of stairs by
a boy and killed in New York, re
centiy,
Littlefield & Cos., of Brunswick,
estimate Georgia’s product of rosin
and turpentine for 1874, at 45*640
barrels.
Sixty-five car loads of oorn came
through firom New Orleans to At
lanta reoently.
The Gadsden (Ala.) ’Bines reports
the Cooea river as still nut of its
banks, and fears “ the oontinued over
flow will entirely destroy the low
land wheat, and leave the land to be
cultivated in ootton and corn in sueh
condition that the yield from it will
not repay the labor of cultivation.”
The growth of Texas may be un
derstood by reference to the vote
polled a few months ago. The en
tire vote of the State was 158,000,
indioative of a population of 1,050,000.
In 1860 the population was but
604,000, and in 1870 it numbered
818,000. Au increase of nearly a
quarter of a million in less than three
years is absolutely wonderful.
The House Committee on Territo
ries, by a vote of six to one, have
agreed to recommend the passage of
a bill for the admission of New Mex
ico as a State in the Union.
Arthur Orton, the Tichborne
“claimant,” on being weighed at
Newgate, in accordance with the
rales of the prison, was found to turn
the soale at 360 pounds. His arm
measured twenty-seven inches round,
his cheat fifty-six inches.
One bandied and fifty convicts are
busy at work renovating the Atlanta
State Pair Grounds.
Women Fighting Wild Cats.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Times says.:
“The residence of Mr. Powell, near
tbe head of navigation on Sunflower
riVer, was recently attacked by a
gang of wild cats, Mrs. Powell and
the colored servant only being at
home. The door being closed, one
of the cats -jumped through the win
dow, when Mrs. Powell throw a
blanket over it and threw it out at
the back door. This one was soon
followed by another, which she killed
with a small axe. By this time the
colored cook was attacked a short
distance from the house, and she
alarmed a white neighbor, who was
at work near the place, who came to
her assistance and killed the cat with
a hatchet, but not until the cook had
been pretty well “ chawed ” by the
kitten. The gentleman then went to
the relief of Mrs. Powell at the
house, when two of the cats attacked
him and injured him quite severely
before he succeeded iu despatching
them. Four of the pack were killed
and several wounded before .they
could be scared off. The hides of
.he four cats that were slain were
brought to the city yesterday. A
day or two after this attack the car
cass of a deer was found buried near
this place, with evidence of its being
the work of this same pack of wild
cats. This account comes to us
through a reliable source, and we
can vouch for the veracity of it.
The natives attribute the attack to
hunger.”
The Mad Stone. —An lowa far
mer who seems to be reliable, and
who offers to furnish testimony to
the truth of his assertions, writes
thus to the St. Louis Democrat: By
request of some of your subscriber?,
I will say to you that I have a mad
stone which I have used for over
twenty years for the purpose of ab
stracting poison from bites of mad
dogs and snakes. I have had over
500 cases, and I have never failed to
cure a case yet, and I do defy any
one to show a failure in a single case
that I have treated of hydrophobia or
snake bites. I know that there are
a great many humbugs in the world,
but I will say nothing but what I
can substantiate, as I have had over
twenty years’ experience in this mat
ter. 1 feel perfectly safe in saying
what I have said in this matter, I
claim this to be nature’s own remedy,
and it will do that which man cannot
do, therefore it enables me to work
under the rule of no cure no pay. I
give this information tor those who
may he bitten and need relief.
The Siamese Twins Outdone.—
The Albury (Canada) Border Post
records the death of the wife of Mr.
F. W. Tietyens, who has recently
given birth to twins. The extraor
dinary complication attending the
birth caused great exhaustion, from
which deceased never rallied. The
infants, who are full grown and in
every respect perfeot, are joined to
gether from about an inch below the
armpit to the upper edge of the hip
bone, and about four inches in width;
with thiß exception, the infants (both
females) are well proportioned, and
in every respect each in itself perfect.
The case is one which will doubtless
possess many features of interest to
the medical profession, no record be
ing known of any case so extraordi
nary—the union of the infants being
more complete and of much greater
extent than that existing between
the Celebrated Siamese twins.
ISST* The New York World says
that the sixpenny compliment paid
the memory of tho Hon. Wm, M.
Meredith by the Grant administra
tion, in placing his likeness on the
new tenpenny shiqplasters, was cer
tainly done in ignorance of Mr. Mere
dith’s expressed opinion of Grant him
self. Only a few days previous to
his death, whilst in a general conver
sation with several members of the
Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven
tion, of which he was then President,
he thus expressed himself: “ I have
always been a consistent Republican
—it has been ray pleasure to support
all that President Grant has done—
but, in approving the bill increasing
his own satary, he was virtually gtfiky
of a violation of his oath of office, and
should have been impeached for it.”
Progress or Narrow-Gauge Rail
roam, —The three-foot narrow-guage
railroad system is rapidly becoming
popular in this country, and but few
people are aware of the fact that
since it came in vogue, during the
last three or fonr years, no less than
1,446$ miles of narrow-gauge railway
have been built in this country and
in Canada, which roads, when com
pleted, will have a mileage of 4,562$
miles, while there are 1,291 miles un
der construction.
There are 675 convicts in the Ken
tucky penitentiary, 31 of whom afe
females.
$400,0 00, 00 dll!
Commas having passed the Bill making the legal tender circulation Four Hundred Mih
lionsX* out for arise in Gold, Cotton and Clothing.
THORNTON & ACRE,
78 BBOAT ST-, COLtjMbtTS. GA-,
itaVing received their new stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING,
For Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ and Children’s wear, offer superior inducements to the trad*.
Having carefully selected their goods with an eye to the wants of the trade, and the flu
cial condition of the country, and having purchased their entire stock four Cash, they an
enabled to offer great bargains to all buyers of good clothing.
Their stock of Furnishing Goods is complete, new, novel and cheap.
Give them a call. aplo-6m
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
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John S. Reese & Cos., Baltimore, General Agents
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CASH PRICE, 856 00 FEE ION.
ALSO, ON TIME, FOR COTTON OR CURRENCY
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The use of this Guano for the past eight years has established its charac
ter for excellence and reliability. I need only assure consumers that the
Gnano brought into market this season is precisely the same in both position
and quality as that heretofore sold. t ,
The large fixed capital invested by this Company ih this business furnishes
the best guarantee of continued excellence. The Company baa a greater
interest in maintaining its standard of quality than any number of consumers
can hare;
Orders received, and information furnished, on application to my Agents
at various local markets.
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
vm QQmmsvma w mm Q&vvm skrb.
PERUVIAN GUANO, DISSOLVED AMONIATED BONES, LAND PLASTER, le., At.
W. H. YOUNC, 12 Broad St.. Columbus, Ca.
W. C. JOHNSTON, Agent at Kingsboro. feb2o-2m
J. W. PEASE & NORMAN,
COLUMBUS, GA.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
B®®2SS 9 IPHAST®S 9 ®IB(&ASJB 9
smieißS m£AimE&k
Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Geo. Woods & Cos,
Macon & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjo*,
mouth harps, sheet music, etc. We make orders for sheet music and music
books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock, will be
ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. uov7-ly
W. J. CHAFFIN,
BOOKSELLER tib STATION BE
AND DEALER IN
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
camosios, frames amd mouldings,
NO. 92 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
a- wittich. c-1. kissel
WITTICH & KINSEL,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS,
JIWIIHS HB
NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
All of tile Ixatest Manufa.ot'ureiß-
An entirely new stock of the best goods and the latest styles has been reoently boogW*
New Yoik, and in hereby offered at the Lowest Casn Piucra. j
Diak /Rds, gold and silver Spbctacus and Eve-Olasses, geld and stiver 'ftnimMs. fc' ll * B
gents' Chains, plain and fancy Gold Ring* of beautiful Workmanship, and every
variety of article found in a First-elasj Jewelry Store.
Stencil Plates of every description out at short notice. ,
Sole Agents for tho celebrated Diamond Pebbled Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and At*
for the Arundel Pebble Specks, which sire slightly colored, and in high favor trlth * ,er
body using specks or eye-glasses. ■
. Watch, Clock and Jewelry repalrftrg' in all Its branches. Hair Jewelry, Bociety Beg*
Diamond setting, or any nbw work made to order at reasonable charges. .
promply executed. eet2+' 1 *
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
CHAPMAN & VERSTJLLE
Announce to their friends aud patrons that their stock will be k e P* f 0 *
stantly replenished with Seasonable Goods at Lowest Market Pr >cef
Will receive in payment Eagle A Plienix money and Cotton at bighat maA" 1 *