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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. ♦ 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. — • - - ~— 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. ■ !■- C3f~ There is a little negro in At lanta who can imitate perfectly every note of the •euking-bird. It is truly wonderful. ' —■ 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 ? " ♦ 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. ■■■ ■> “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. t 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