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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 O —*-*— John S. Reese & Cos., Baltimore, General Agents o CASH PRICE, 856 00 FEE ION. ALSO, ON TIME, FOR COTTON OR CURRENCY O 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 *