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C(j? Visitor
MY D. W. DROILLY.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 26,1874
One of tbe editors on the ex
cursion, who always has an eye to
“ biz.,” stepped off the train to get
an advertisement, when, about the
time he thought he had secured his
customer, the conductor cried, “ All
abawd! ” So eager was he for an
“ ad.,*' that he came very near losing
his place on the train.
Nobtii and South Road. —Gov.
Smith lately stated to parties in Co
lumbus that ho hoped to be able to
sell this road next winter. We hope
ho will. Much of the grading is fin
ished, and a company could make a
good thing of it by buying the road
and completing it to Rome.
“ Uncle Joe.” —In another column
will be found a communication oVer
this signature. Although “Uncle
Joe ” has failed to comply with our
rule, by sending us his real name, we
publish his article for the good sense
it contains, and hope he will write
again and give us his name.
Matrimonial. —The editor has re
ceived an Invitation to be present at
the Wedding of Mr. John Mohaffey
ftlld Miss Laura E. Ford, in Colum
bus, on the 2d of July, and regrets
that business will prevent his attend
ance on that occasion.
SSjTTho Tax Collector of Bibb
county gets a salary of something
over three thousand dollars. The
commissions of the Tax Collectors
of Chatham, Fftllon and Richmond
amount to from seven to ten thous
and dollars a year.
Statu Link Press. —Mr. Callaway
writes us from West Point that his
new paper will be issued in a few
days. It will boa news and family
journal, of fair size, and printed with
good type.
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63F" Some of tho Georgia editors
are said to bo very fond of Ponce de
Leon water. Indeed, it was said of
some, that, when wanted, they wero
sure to bo found at Ponce do Leon
spring.
Polite conductor of sleeping
car.—Madam, will you havo a berth
to-night ?
Toting bride, blushing to her tem
ples ,I—I—-no—I—I —suppose not.
An Athens man has raised a
crop of wheat on ten acres that is es
timated to be worth six hundred
dollars. This is a more robust show
ing than cotton can make.
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Stir The ' schooner Exile, loaded
partly with nitro glycerine, blew up
on Lake Superior recently, killing all
on board—eight persons. Tho vessel
and cargo are a total loss.
'W
tar Wo regret to know that, at
the present time, neither of the rep
resentatives in tho legislature from
Harris oounty are subscribers to their
conuty paper.
iy The employees of the Colum
bus factories were paid two weeks’
wages, lost Saturday, amounting to
nearly $12,000.
nr And now it is said that there
is a negro in Bibb oouuty who plows
under an umbrella. 110 must have a
gentle mule.
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C3f~ There is a little negro in At
lanta who can imitate perfectly every
note of the •euking-bird. It is truly
wonderful.
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535 r * A snake with ten rattles and
a button, and an alligator nearly ten
feet long, were lately killed uear Bos
ton, Ga.
nr The deepest hole iu the world
is an artesian well at Potsdam, Mo.,
which goes down 6,000 feet.
13P* Tom Collins has not made his
appearance in Hamilton yet. We
look for his advent daily.
•9* A countryman at Rome wanted
to know “if it took all dem editurs
to run Atlantv ? "
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tW Romo has more pretty young
ladies than any city in Georgia, ex
cept Columbus.
IST Atlanta should be called the
“ Fly City.” It has 9,850 to the cu
bic inch 1
tar The Isaacs House is tho only
houee in Macon where y<pi can get
meals at all hours.
ii—i m ihii
tar Macon has two fairs overy
year, “ und still dey don’t wuz
happy.”
ty The Home Railroad should be
called tho Oostanaula Serpentine Rail
road.
According to the almanac,
last Sunday \vao |j|c loygest dat.
Small Farms and Lara^Brops.
Ed. Visitor — l do not v
be a farmer, nor the son or a farnlllp
though I was raised on a
from the time I was large enough to
plow I have earned my bread bythe
sweat of rny face.
My father came to Harris county
in 1835, when I was about 18 years
old, and I have been a citizen of said
county thirty-nine years.
In the first few years of my farm
ing we had small farms and raised
large crops. The land was fresh,
fences good, timber plentiful, and no
mischievous stock.
Then we raised com to sell and to keep,
Good cows, hogs, lion-es, mules and sheep ;
The land was too fresh for wheat,
'though we raised a little to cat.
But those good days have passed
and gone, to more, and left
a few of us here to make money
by running our old, worn-out farms,
enclosed wwn fences calculated to
teach stock to be mischievous.
Some are saying, “Oh ! 'that we
had a stock law in Harris county.”
Why should wc pay men to make a
law for us that we can do without?
It will lake about as many rails to
keep stock in as it will to keep them
out. So, then, we will turn out half
of our old land, and use the rails on
the other half; and then we’ll have
good fences, and our stock can have
some land to walk and feed on with
out turning and twisting about in the
lanes and fence corners.
Turn the old land out. Let it
grow sedge grass, briers, pines and
piue straw, to put on Irish potatoes
and stop washes.
Cultivate less to the hand; manure
better; pay more attention to fencing
and ditohiug; pick up and haul off
the rocks; work so as to save land
and make bread—save the land for
the next generation. If we continue
to farm as wo do now, we will dio
poor, and our children will be as poor
as a church mouse.
We can raise a bale of cotton to
tho acre about as easy ns a bale to two
acres, and corn can be raised in the
same way. Make two ears of corn,
or two blades of grass, grow' whore
only one grew before. This can be
done by having smaller farms.
'Birds pick the insects off of cotton
planted in patches. Then let us pay
more attention to Btnall farms, or
patches, and patch our old clothes, if
they havo holes in them, rather than
hny now onisi ot)/. lima, y
Unclk Jos.
133" Anew phase of wife murder
has been developed in Tennessee. A
man who had lost two wives under
suspicious circumstances, lately bound
his third wife, and attempted to kill
her by tickling her feet. The wretch
had previously requested her to
allow him to bandage her from head
to foot. She mentioned this to a
cousin, w ho urged her to yield, while
he remained in an ndjoining room.
At tho proper time the cousin took
his position. Soon he heard the
wife laughing immoderately, and
this continued at intervals for some
time. At last, however, profound
silence intervened, and the cousin
burst iulo the room. The husband
fled, leaving tho wife upon the floor,
cold and inanimate. It was with
difficulty that animation was re
stored, and the unhappy woman is
now an imbecile, her nervous sys
tem having been entirely destroyed.
The bamboo, generally sup
posed to be one of tho most iuoffen
sive of vegetables, is said to contain
a poison w'hich the natives of Jaya
use against their enemies. It is ob
tained by cutting the bamboo at a
joint, and detatcliing from tho saucer
shnpod cavity some small black fila
ments, covered with almost imper
ceptible needles. Tho filaments con
stitute tho venom, against which no
remedy has been found to act.
Fikst Bloom. —Tho Euquiror re
ports the receipt of the first cottou
bloom, from the patch of a colored
man, near Columbus, lie also has
sweet potstoes two inches in length.
This man sets a good example to his
race, by showing what cau bo accom
plished by industry and perseverance.
15?”“ A negro w as recently robbed
and beaten in Atlanta, by a party of
negroes, and then left upon the rail
road track to be ruu over by a pass
ing train.
Johnny is just beginning to learn
geography. Ho says the Poles live
partly at one end of the globo aud
partly at tho other.
gW“ Mr. Phinixy, of Athens, has
sold over seventy dollars worth of
oats from a crop grown on an aero
and a quarter.
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“Stricken down iu the prime of
life,” is what a Mississippi paper has
to say on the death of a man eighty
veartLoLL
Ik Mere Mention.
Bp female- pupils of Franklin
™emy, Talbot county, have all
eed to wear calico dresses at the
approaching examination
A correspondent informs u, e Stan
dard that a snake was lately kiliuj in
Talbot county with four legs, which
it had the power to draw in and
ceal at will. When struck with a
stick the snake broke into four parts,
and each of these parts, when dis
turbed, would separate into other
pieces, seeming to separate at each
joint.
Tho Columbus Enquirer learnj
that a snake nine feet long and hav
ing seventeen rattles, was killed new
Neal’s Landing, Fla.
A dispatch from Louisville ar".
nounces the death of the $19,001
heifer, Duchess of Oneida.
The Talbotton Standard says there
is a large rattlesnake in the negro
cemetery there, which has
for the last sixteen years. A
negro started to hop across a r Hy
the other day, and saw the snake
sunning itself on the other side. Ha
gave a yell, and the snake disap
peared in a hole in the grtJund.
Over sixty of the best oitizens of
La Grange have petitioned the city
council to submit the question of li
cense or no license to the legalvoters
of the city at an early day.
A boy of fifteen has just hem sent
to the State prison for life fron Cat
taraugus county, N. Y., for tie mur
der of his step-father. Both were
drunk at the time.
A freedman and his * wife were
lately killed by lightning in Huston
county, while under a tree, where
they had taken shelter from tie rain.
Two mules were recently kiled by
lightning in Wilcox county.
A lady in Baltimore recent! lit a
lamp and threw the lighted piper on
the floor, which set fire to he dress.
Her screams brought a man to her
relief, who burnt his hands hdly in
tearing off her dress, but sired her
life. Her little son, only twenty
months old, who ran after or and
clung to her dress while it was on
fire, crying piteously, was erribly
burnt on the face and hand.
A boy of sixteen was latel; bitten
by a rattlesnake at Arlingtn, Ga.,
and died in two hours. Tin snake,
which was killed, was ct :r fi>e feet
lon S , 4 Jirnl twelve rattleisit.nl a
button.
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Tho La > Grange !?• -poTtef A, re
formed that Mr. Charles M. B <tf
Harris county, was shot and 'filled 1
on the 15th, near Houston, leard
county, from a clump of bri rs on
the road. One John Walstorl was
arrested, tried and, in default oflbail,
bound over.
The new perfecting printing jress,
invented by Messrs. Sawyer; and
Hampton, of Borne, has been listed
with satisfactory results. It will
print both sides of a sheet at uce,
at the rale of 2,500 impressiois an
hour.
The residence of Hon. w! P.
Price, at Dahlonega, was destroyed
by fire recently. The fire originated
from the stove pipe passing through
the roof of the kitchen. Loss $3,500.
No insurance.
A man up iu Lawrenceville has a
young fox that follows a terrier, and
sucks with her pups.
The barn of Mr. John Lampkin,
of Columbia county, was destroyed
by lightning lately, together with two
hundred bushels of wheat and a lot
of corn and fodder.
A Floyd county farmer has a pair
of Cotswold sheep only one year old,
from which he dipped twenty pounds
of unwashed wool, a few days ago.
A Thomas county man has found
a yellow jacket’s nest on a pino tree
near his residence. It is six feet
long aud three and a half wide.
The Jonesboro News says there is
an old gentleman living in that
(Clayton) county, Mr. Wm. Baley,
who is 86 years old, and has ever
lived on the same farm w here he was
born. Ho has lived with his one and
only wife 65 years. He is yet appa
rently stout and hearty. Has kept
up two shops, wood and blacksmith,
ever since his manhood, until re
cently.
A little child of B. \V\ Budd, of
Madison avenue, Elizabeth, New
Jersey, put a screw into his mouth,
and it slipped into his throat. It
became fastened in tbc windpipo in
sucb a manner as to stop his breath
ing. Mrs. Budd seized him and ran
over the street for assistance, but be
- she reached the house of her
neighbor the little fellow was dead.
Mr. Perry Knighton walked tight
miles receutly to prevent an accident
to the Selma, Rome and Dalton road.
Mrs. Gulled go lately diet! in Dcca-
Jur.
WIT and HUMOR.
Agassiz says that any full-growD
man nan live for ten days by chewing
at a pair of boots; and yet there are
men who will growl if they don’t
have mince pie every meal,
Kansas judges are either very gen
erous, or else they have very little
dignity. One of them was called
Skilet-legs” by a-lawyer, and
he b.iy imposed a fine of 87£ cents
for the vjntempt of court.
A lady srj Kalamazoo, Mich., has
the photograph of her three departed
lords in a group with a vignette of
herself in the centre, and underneath
is the inscription, “The Lord will
provide.”
A man was boasting tbt he had
been married for twenty years, and
had never given his wife a cross word.
Those who know' him, say that it was
because he didn’t dare to,
Tbe quickest way we know' of to
make a man believe there’s nothing
Til the world worth living for, is to
excite him into chasing a cat across
a yard where two or three clothes
lines arc innocently swaying in the
breeze.
“Have you ‘Blasted Hopes’?”
asked a young lady of a librarian with
a handkerchief tied over his jaw.
“No, ma’am,” said be; “it’s only a
blasted toothache 1 ”
“ How is it,” said one little miss to
another, “that John’s never afraid,
and I am?” “Because he’s got a
Roman nose, and feels safe. Don’t
you remember how we read that it
has always been said that ‘ a Roman
knows no danger ’ ? ”
“ There are two ways of doing it,”
said Pat to himself, as he stood mus
ing and waiting for a job. “If I
save four thousand, I must lay up
two hundred a year for twenty years,
or I can put away twenty a year for
tw r o hundred years. Now, which
shall I do?”
A little boy having broken his rock
ing-horse the day it was bought, his
mama began to scold, when he si
lenced her by inquiring, “ What’s the
good of a horse till it’s broke ? ”
A lady wished a seat. A portly,
handsome gentleman brought one,
and seated her. “ Oh, you’re a jew
el 1 ” said she. “ Oh, no,” replied
he; “I am a jeweler; I have just set
the jewel.”
Bill Shanks says that courtship is
bliss, bet matrimony is blister.
Nakrow Escape. —The Franklin
News says that while Hr. G. W.
i Pedrtv, of that place, was crossing
Brushy creek, the other day-—the
creek being up at the time—his "horse
stepped off the bridge into the creek.
! He lost his medicine case and instru
-1 ments, and came near losing his life
| and that of his horse.
THE BECKWITH
PORTABLE
Family Sewing Machine,
Capacity * Speed J
3 equal to any, rc-
Jj coat. gy £:
*pd Automatic Stitch Fastener. All other Machines
require tlie movement of from 25 to 30 pieces to
every f.titcß—this requires but Tvrol Hence it is a
svifrool nrslmpllcity and strength. For full partic
ulars send for Circular—then buy no other until you
see the Machine, for “ seeing is believing.” Agents
wanted in every toicn in the country. If $5 are sent
with the order the balance can be C. O. D. Agents
must pay full price for single Machines, per centage
on ftrstto be deducted when six Machines are paid
, for. Turns to agents, cash with order, or C. O. D.
BECKWITH S. M. Cos., 862 Broadway, N. Y.
'GEORGIA— Habris County.
Wm I Hudson, administrator of Lovick
[iraddfck, dec'd, makes application for ltave
K> sell the land belonging to said deceased—
All porsons concerned are hereby notified
1“ show cause, if auy they have, by the first
Monday in Avgust next, why said applica
tion should not be granted. Given under
my hand officially, June 16, 1874.
junl'J-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y-
TTTHVT' r-yagjSlg^:PElNl
CAPILLARY FSKD2B. ' ■ J Patented Feb. 10,18 TA
, Claw handle contains the Ink: ordinary gold or Heel pen* naed, and changed as In a common holder. Ink
an ir ly under the writer’* control. Jo*t the thing for book-keeper*, reporters, lawyer*, and all continuous
writer*. Prepaid to any addreaa on receipt of price, t3 00. Discount to dealers. Address H. B. Latocssitb
Pew York'
. J. E HAMILTON)
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
BAGGING, TIES, BACON, CORN,
SALT, SUGAR, COFFEE, &c., J
FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR!
A Large Stock of Best Brands at prices which defy competition,
. ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF
Plantation & Family Groceries & Provisions,!
Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe St?;
COLUMBUS, * - •
Bgt.No charge for Drayage. fl>2l —lyr
BOATF.ITB & CLAPP,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Dry Goods, Clothing’, Hats, Boots, Shoes, &c,l
Have Just Received Their
NEW SPRING GOODS.
Best Spool Cotton 70c. Prints 10c. Dress Goods and all other good,
at very low prices. 4—4 Bleached Goods 10@ 124 c.—worth I6c. !
Columbus, Ga., May 1, 1874. mayl-3m
1874 SPRING MILLINERY 1874
CHEAPER THAN EVER, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL!
MRS. L. A. LEE
HAS NOW OPENED AT HER STORE,
75 BROAD ST- COLUMBUS, GA.,
A Magnificent Stock of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Hats, trimmed aid
untrimmed. Flowers, Parasols, Fans and Ribbons. Hosiery, Gloves aid
Corsets. And many other novelties, which she offers cheaper than ever.
Bgt,Orders faithfully attended to. niavl-2in
GRAND ATTRACTION.
NEW CLOTHING STORE,
THORNTON & ACRE,
78 BROAD BT-, COLUMBUS, GA,
Having received their new stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING,
For Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ and Children’s wear, off.r superior inducements to the trade.
Having carefully selected their goods with an eye to the wants of the trade, and the finan
cial condition of the country, and having purchased their entire stock for C’aßh, they are
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 civil. aplO-Cm
J. W. PEASE & NORMAN,
COLUMBUS, GA,,
Wit OLE SALE AND DETAIL DEALERS IN
SSilffiJKSy IPHOSPUTIBIBSs
Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Geo. Woods & Cos,
Mason & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjos,
mouth harpß, sheet mnsic, etc. We make orders for sheet music and inusio
books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock, will U
ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. . nov7-ly
W. J. CHAFFIN,
BOOKSSIiIiSR tib STATION BB
ANI) DEADER IN
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
CEEROKOS, FRAMES AM© M©TO©IM®S,
NO. 92 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
a. wrmes- c- m- ensh.
WITTICH & KINSEL,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS,
JEWELERS Mi IISRAVm
NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
An of tlxe Latest Manufactures-
An entirely new stock of the best goods and the latest styles has been recently bought iu
New York, aud is hereby offered at the Lowest Cash Prices. j
Diamonds, gold and silver Spectacles nnd Eye-Glasses, gold and silver Thimblm, ladies a
gents' t’hains, plain and fancy Gold Kings of beautiful workmanship, and every
variety of article found in a First-c'ass Jewelry Store.
Stencil Plates of every description cut at short notice.
Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Pebbled Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and Ag
for the Arundel Pebble Specks, which are slightly colored, and in high favor with eve ;
body using specks or eye-glasses. .
Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairing in all its branches, nair Jewelry, Society pads'*'
Diamond setting, or any new work made to order at reasonable charges. .
.'£T Engraving promptly executed. ocC.*-iy t