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_ Dr. E. J. Setze, continues the Prac
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MARIETTA. GEO., Jan. 17 1867. |
Dr. W, E. Dunwoody Homeo
pathist, Officeon Cherokee Sireet ncar Public Square.
MARIETTA, Ga., Jan., 18th 1367.
, « FUEANT
E. I\l. f\IJIJEB ¥
RESIDENT DENTIST,
THANKFUL TO THE CITIZENS |
for a patrounge of nearly twenty years l
is better prepared than ever io pre
gerve the natural teeth, or to insert artificial subsii
tutes at his office —north-side Puablic Square coruer
opposite Wa. ROOT & SONs.
Marietta. Ga., IFeb. 14, 1363,
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x. R. GILBERT
G. . BERT,
Cherokee Street Fiarietia Geo.
Grrocorios, ’
WV ares, e,
All kinds, Country Produce bought
and sold. jya—-bm.
SEPH ELSAS
JOSEPH EILsAS
‘vnomsmm and Retail dealear in
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Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots, Shoes and Hats,
READY MADE CLOTHIRNG?
I wiLL sell tor CASH at ATLANTA PRICES
New Goods constantiy receiving irom the largest
and most reliable houses ot New York City at the
lowest market prices. Call and see biefore prrehasing
your Goods. at the old corner of “Chack Ander- |
on's.” ian.3.’GB. ‘
N. SIMPSON,
A. N. SIMPPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Marictta, Ga.
PRACTIC]CS in the Btate Courts and District
Courts of the United States.
Prosecutes claims against the Government,
Givesspecial attention to the purchase and sale of
Real Estate in Marvietta and surronnding country.—
Any business confided to him will meel promypt at
tention and any enquiries made in regard to Real Es
tate, &c., &e., will be promptly given.
RASS SEED
GRASS SEED!
WE HAVE ON HAND a lot of fresh
Grass Sced. Red Clover, Orchard
Grass, Red Top, Timothy, Lucerne,
Blue Grass, &e.
R. T. Brumby & Somns,
Marietta, Sept.” 13, 1868,
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Watchmaker and Jewsoler
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[WEST--SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.]
Marietta, Greorgia.
T HE undersigned would respeetfully - inform
his old friends and the ruhl%c generally that he
1s prepared to do all work in his line in the best man
per, and at moderate prices. Repairing done at
short notice.
Marietta, Nov. 11, ’67. A.D. RUEDE.
Agricola’s Bakery
\ oricola’s Bakery.
(Established 1851,) on Cassville Strect,
Jourth door from A. N. Simpsons’ Law
office.
IS open again for the public. The following ar
ticles kept for gale: Bread, Cakes, Crackers,
Candy, Baloans, different kinds of Fruits, especially
lucht{)r Fruit Cakes—which the undersigned will
make or hake on short notice—also, Family Grocer
jes, Sardiues, Cove Oysters, Condiments Cigars,
Tobacco Pipes. &ec, A liberal patronage inviied
Respeetfully,
R. J.T. AGRICOLA,
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_Agricultural Implements!!
! GRICULTURAL Implements of every de-
Mri“ntinn and mest improved models will be
furnished ‘glus for CASTI at the Mantfacturer’s lowest
prices expenses of transportation enly added.
WM. ROOT & SONS.
June 26th, 1868, .
@The Morictta Journal,
THES HOG--HIS FAULTS, VIRTUES,
AND CLAIMS.
[¥From the Richmond Whig,
The cold weather is about setting in,
and hog killing time always comes be
fore Christmas. Farmers and house
keepers are now preparing for it. In
Virginia we have not, since the war,
raised as many as we were accustomed
to raise before the war, bat he is a poor
farmer and a bad provider who has not
some to kill. In the next fort-night
many thousands will be killed, scalded,
scraped, cat np, salted, and hung up in
the well locked smokehousesto be eured.
Virginia cured bacon is famed for its
incomparable excellence. Our ouly
fear is that there will not be enough of
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May we not bg allowed, in view of
the approaching season, to say scme
thing in favor of that much abused, but
useful and valuable animal, the hog !kf
The hog plays an important part ™in
commerce, agriculture and domestic
economy. IHe is a sort of citizen of the
world. He thrives and multipliesinevery
part of the globe except the Polarregitns.
The familiar burlesque of the “hog on
ice,” is enongh of itself to demonstrate
the unsuitableness of those regions to the
hog. With_this exception he can pras
pereverywhere. 110 is in his übiquity
like the herring, which is found in all
waters. He docs not rank high in the
social scale, being considered, indecd,
less of a gentleman in his habits than
any of the animals. Like the clephant,
the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus,
he is addicted to wallowing in the mire.
Naturalists tell us that he does this te
destroy vermin, and to protect himself
from the bites and stings of insects.—
This has been his habit from the earliest
times, and will remain such as long as
he continues on earth. “The sow that
was washed returned to her wallowing
in the mire.” There is no reformation
for him in this particular. Another of
of his peculiarities is Lis grunt. Anoth
er is that he carries straw in his mouth
when it is about to rain. The Log has
played an important part in religion,
having been plaged uuder the ban of
two great religious sects—the Jews and
Moslems. Their lawgivers and priests
prohibited his flesh as an article of food.
These two religions had their origin in
ihe hot climates of the Kast, wherc
swine's flesh was found to be unwhole
some, and its prohibition was a sanitary
measure.
There are wild hogs as there are wild
horses and dogs. The historic wild boar,
the peceary and the African ground hog
are some of the varicties. Hew aud by
whom the hog was first domesticated,
we leave to the more curions to inguire.
The hog fiuds his Paradise in Ircland,
where hic is tenderly adapted into the
social cirele. Every tenant raiscs a hog
as he raises his children, and with that
hog he pays his taxes. The Romans
valaed the bog, and with all Lis unclean
ness he was reckoned the fittiest sacri
fice to Ceres, the Goddess of the har
vest.
We read that Mr. oz was introduced
from Spain into Hispariola by Colum
bus, in 1493 ; into Florida by De Soto,
in 1533; inte Nova ‘Scotia and New
IFoundiand in 1553; into Canada in
1608, and into Virginia in 1606, - It is
related that here they multiplied so rap
idly that the colonists.were compelled to
palisade Jamestown to keep them out.
Different breeds are preferred in differ
ont localities according to the fancy of
the farmer, facilities for raising, or the
particular object of the raiser. The fal
lowing are some of the varieiies that
have by turns been in most favor: the
Chinese, the Neapolitan, (the most cele
brated of the Italian breeds,) the Irish
grazier, the Berkshire, the Cheshire, the
Issex, the Woburn or Bedford breed,
sent to Gen. Washington by the Duke
Bedford, (being a cross between the
Chinese boar and the large English hog,)
the Middlesex, the Chester, the lamp
shire and Suffolk, which last originated
from the Suffulk crossed with the Chinese
and Berkshire. Without entering at
length into the discussion as to the best
breeds, we may say that there are hogs
that scem to be capable of taking on more
fat than others. After all said, written
and done, the corn breed hog that is sup
plied from the time he can crack corn
to the time he falls under the knife, with
as much corn as he can consnme, is the
best of all. There is a wonderful cor
relation between the hog and Indinn“
corn. We shall not undertake to de
scribe the old fashioned, unimproved
Virginia porker which, having been left
to roam at large and scufile for itself,
contracted a shape so strangely ludi
crous, habits so wild, queerand perverse. |
as to be a notable curiosity. If we re-|
member aright, this cceentric variety[
has been described at length by “Moses |
Addums,” in his learned lectnre on “Ha-’
con and Greens.” We take oceasion
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1868.
herc to say, that if in aught we have
said, or further say, we should trespass
upon the demesnes of that favorite au
thor, it will be aawittingly done.
The fecuadity of t: = "og family is one
of the marvels of natwie. That animal
is capable procreation at the carly age
of one year, an age at which the haman
infant can scarcely crawl, is without
teeth, and is unable to express itself,
and when the calf and the colt are still
sustained by the mother. Mrs. Hog
produces cight te twelve, and even more
at a birth, and that twice a year. Vau
ban estimates the product of a single
sow, with only six young at a timey in
ten generations, te be about six millions
five hundred thousand, from which he
deducts five hundred thonsand on ac
count of accidental death. The case
with which the hog is raised, his onmi
vorous appetite and his industry and
self-reliance make him the cheapest of
all animals to keep. o the poor, he is,
indeed, a precious boon. To “increase
and multiply,” seemns to be regarded by
the liog as his first duty.
The whole number of hogs in the
United States. in 18506, was put at forty
millions, about a hog and a half for every
man, woman and child of the then pop
ulation, Valued at 87 per head, the ag
gregate value would be $230,600,000.
What a ceuntry this for hogs and Indian
corn! Withthens it will be easy to
ward off starvation.
There is no part of.the hog that can
not be ntilized. Ilis ilesh, fat, lnisilvs.i
bair, hoofs and benes are turned to ac
count. His very entrails are eaten.—
The divisions inte which his body are
cut are as well known as the divisiens
of the carth—hams, shoulders, mid‘|
dlings, jowls. Ilis cars and feet ave
mde into seuse, and his braine ave mud 1
a choice dish for the epicure. [lis tail
has for ages been claimed by successive
generations of children as their peeulia:
property. Tradition points cut the way
of cooking it—roastinz on the coali——
aud of eating it without sait, and bheld i
ahe fingers. Spare-ribs and chine ! I
thore a man with a heart in his bosoun
and teeth in his head who does not de
light in them ¥
some call the hog stupid. Stupid.
indeed T His intelligence is of a high
order, and his instincts are as sharp as
—well, a razor er & beiar, or a stecl
trap. Ilis conragze, when e gets his
bristles up, and chooses tonse l:i?’)mks,
make him the terror of boath wen and
dogs. e knows “abiawk frima haud
saw,” and can tell his feeding time as
‘well as if he carried a clock in his bLady.
Ho is an carly riser, and the familiar
te-hi-0-a-r-k, ¢-h-o-a-r-k” o! his feede
just at the peep of day never fails to b
“answered, He never anisses roll-call,
‘though he cannot Le called wsoldicr. A
#hog in armor” is said to b the mes
ridiculous of all things. lissagacity in
determining latitudes exceuds that o
the mast scientific inen. -~
What weuld inaukind do without the
heg? He supplies food, to willions —
Those who are too distant from market
to sell their grain and truck products
feed them to the hogs, thuas killing two
birds with one stone, DBread is called
¢ihe staff-of life,” the hog is life itscil
The beauty in her silks and satins may
turn from him in disgust as le cieoges
from his sty all reeking with niire, bu:
she eats him, and enjoys him, toa, whes
he appears on the table. As has been
observed by those accustomed to cater
for the public, that the favorite diet of
ladies generally, however dclicate and
dainty, is sloaf. -
The hog is a mighty iastitution—a
power in the land. In spiteof hissnont,
of his bristies, of his grunt, of his foul
habits and his perverse ways, the log
deserves to be held in high esteem; to
be treated kindly while living, and to
be killed gently, and with as little pain
as possible when his time coines. The
tirne of many is at hand. -
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g 5 Temperance has promising chil
dwan; but among the sons of Diunken
lness are Debt, Dislionor, Disease, and
Death.
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777 Many a man, for love of self, to
stuff his coffers, starves himself; labors,
accumulates, and spares, to lay up ruin
for his heirs; grudges the poor their
scanty dole; saves every thing—except
| his soul!”
AP
{55 Themistocles said, “I would be
stow my danghter upon a man without
money, rather than upon money without
a man.”
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l 75 A little boy running aleng stump
ed his toe and fell en the pavement,
«Never mind, wy liitle fellow,” said
a bystander, “you won’t feel the pain
‘to-morrow.”
. “Then,” answered the little boy, “I
‘went cry to-morrow.” -
T 8 SECRET OF AUGRICULTURAL
SUCCHSS.
[Fry‘fn the Savannah Republican,
_ This is what noarly everybody wants
to know and bint few have found eut.—
As a general thing farmers and planters
of the South have beenopposed to learn
tng. They getinto the habits and old
beaten vuts of their ancestors, and it is
next te hupossible to get them out.—
“Book-farming,” as it is termed, as a
general thing, is unpopular, and yet
these very books so summarily discard
edare but the experience of nien whose
labors have been crowned with success,
and who have grown prosperous and
rich by abandening the errors of the
past. Look at Me. David Dickson, of
Haneock county; he is a book-farmer,
working a plantation which ten years
agn was remarkable forits poverty more
than for any other quality, and yet he
makes one acre prodace, with the same
amount of labor, from three to ten times
as much as the lands of Georgia neigh
bors. Hoew is this great result accom
plished? That it is great, and that the
same processes adopted generally by
the agriculturists of the South would
double onr wealth in less than five
years, is beyond all question, The
facts are clearly established, and a scliool
boy wlho can cipher in the Rule of Thres,
will be atno loss at demounstrating this
conclusion.
\Weo taka Mr. Dickson’s caso because
it is an illnetrative one. It is not a
question of luck, bat one of skill um”
good julgment, and any man who Aol
lows his plaus is obliged to succeed.—
What, theu, is the secret of this great
Georgia farmer? It is simply to give
ba:k more of the prodacing principle to
the soil every yoar than you tnke away
rrom if. o Heie is a solution of the whole
mystery, aud wa may add that the more
you give back the more prosperous you
will becomre, .~ Mre. Dickson’s plan id
volves ro particular skoll of enliivation,
He ploughs deep, keeps hie crops clean
and the carth well stirred during the
srowing season, Most planters do this,
and yet thereds one essential part of his
ystem—the one that vitalizes all his la
bors and crowns them with success——
that maost other planters da not observe.
Itis that which we lLave mentioned-—
the liseral use of masnures, whether made
on the farm or imported from abroad,
though in (:\'o,"y respect experience has
Jemenstrated the superiority of the lat
ter. They are more powerful and more
portable, and¥in thglong run the cheap
er of the two.
We are well aware that the idea of
paying out money for manures is rapng
nant to many old fogies, who are contei
o lng behind in the race of progress;
but ail inteliigent planters are obhged to
sce and coufess that practical resualts
bave estabilished their nnreasonable ob
stinacy. Ifanacre of ground unaided
will bring the value of $33 in cotton,
and by the application af $2O in manure
you cainmake it produce $lOO, there is
a clear gain of $47 after payiog all ex
penses. ‘V'his is a reasonable caleula
tion ; many planters who nse commer
cial- manures greatly exceed that amount
oA gain, Then, wihy do our agricultur
ist hold back? Why not avail them
selves of this new power commerce has
placed at their eommand and reap the
slorious fraits, instead of toiling on year
after year &ith exploded systems of eul
ture, and growing poorer and poerer as
time advanges! Common scnse is a
popular plirase among planters, and we
carrmenid them to s teachings in this
matter. It is a grave one indeed, and
involves the destiny of our people for
the future, ~
And in this connection we would bring
to the publie attention the claims of
those merchants of Savannah who have
embarked’in this particalar business of
supplying our planters with the various
fertilizers, ffreign and domestic. While
they seck their own prosperity, they are
engared in a beneficent work, and we
wonld rejoige to see them all get rich,
for we wmk have the assurance that
they did 5o not at the cost of their coun
trymen, but upon their thrift and pros
perity 3 though, tospeak more correct-
Iy, we should reverse the order of cause
and effect-the planter will have pros
pered on the business of the merchant,
The time is approaching for prepar
ing the soil for another crop, and as
most of our planters will have a surplus,
let them all invest a liberal portion of it,
it not the whele, which would be better,
in well selected fertilizers. It pays
guickly, pays surely, and a far better
percent than any other pessible invcst-i
ment, '
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5" A revivalist encountered a large
sized African, and asked him, “My good
man, have you found the Lord?’ To
which SBambo replied in a surprised
manner: “Golly, massa, am d¢ Lord
lost 1 .
© THS BOTTOM OF T 8 OCBAN.
‘ BY PROFESSOR HUXLEY. %
; In 1853, Lientenant Breoke obtained
'mud from the battom of the North At
lantiey between Newfoundland and the
Azores, at a deoth of wmore than ten
thousand feet, or twa miles, by the help
of his sounding apparatus. The speci
’ inens were sent for examination to
)l‘]hrepburg, of Berlin, and to Daily of
- West Point and those able microsenpists
found that this deep sea mad was al
most entirely eomposed of the skeletons
of living organism—the greater propoer
tious of these being just like the Glohi
gerginae already known to ocenr in the
chalk,
‘Thus far the wark had been carried
on simply in the interests of sciencos
but Lieutenant Crooke's method of
sounding acquired a high commercial
value when tha enterprise of laying the
telegraphic cable between this country
and the United Siat:s was undertaken,
Ifor it bacame a matter of imwmense ims
portance to know, not only the depth of
the sea aver the whole line along which
the eable was te bo laid, but the exact
nature of the bottom, so as to guard
against chances of eutting or fraying the
strands of that costly rope.
The Admiralty consequently ordered
Captain Dayman, an old friend and
shipmate of mine, to ascertain the depth
of the whole line of the cable, and to
bring back specimens of the bottom, In
former days such a command as this
might have sounded very much like one
of the tmpossibla things which the young
prince in the Fairy Tales is ordered to
do before hie ean obtain the hand of the
princess. However. in the month of
June and July, 1557, my friend per
formed the task assizned to him with
great precision, without, so far as [
kinow, having met with any reward of
that kind. The specimens of Atlantic
muad which he produced were sent to me
to be examined and reported upon,
The result of all these operations is
that we know the contours and anature of
the surface-soil covered by the North
Atlantic for a distance ot 1,700 nriles
from cast to west, as well as we know
that of any part of tha dry land,
" lluis a prodigious plain, one of the
widest and most even plains in the world.
If the sea were drainied oft you might
drive a wagon allthe way from Valentia,
on the west coast of Ireland, to Trinity
Bay, in Newfoundland. And, execpt
one sharp incline, about two hundred
miles from Valentia, lam not quite sure
that it would be cven necessary to put
the skid on, so” gentle are the ascents
aud descents upon that route. From
Valentia the road wouldlie down hill for
about two hundred miles to the point at
which the bottoin is mow covered by
1,700 fathoms of sea-water. Then
would come the eentral plain, more than
1,000 miles wide, the inequalities of the
surface of which would be hardly per
ceptible, though the depth of the water
uponit varies from 10,600 ta 15,000 feet;
and there are places in it in which Mont
Blanc might be sunk without showing
its. peak above water. Beyond gthe as
cent on the American side commences,
and graduaally leads for about three hun
dred miles, to the Newfoundland shore,
- Alimost the wiolo of the bottom of this
central plain—which extends for many
hundred miles in a north and south di
rection is covered by a fine mud, which
when brought to the surface, dries into a
grayish white friable substance. You
can write with this en a blackboard, if
you are so inclined ; and to the eye it is
quite like very soft, grayish chalk.—
Examined chiemieglly, it proved to be
composed almost wholly of carbonate of
lime; and if yon make a scction of it
in the same way as that of a piece of
chalk was made, and view it with the
microscope, it presents innumerable
i GUlbigerinae imbedded in the granular
matrix.
Thus this deep sea mud is substantial
ly chalk, I say substantially, because
there are a good many minor differences ;
but as these have no bearing upon the
qnestion immmediately before us—
which is the nature of the Globigerinae.
of the chalk—it is unneccessary to speak
of them.
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-z L, like war, is a series of mis
takes ; and heis not the best Christian
nor the best general who makes the few
est false steps. Poor inediocrity may
secure that ; but he is the best who wins
the most splendid victories by the re
trieval of mistakes. - Forget mistakes;
orgaaize victory out of mistakes,—F,
W. Robertson. : En
%7 Blessed iz he who kan pocket
abuse, and feel it no disgrace to be bit
by a dog. : 2
Blessed aro the single, for they can
double at leisure. 8 B
No. 51.