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IOUSTON HOME JOURNAL J, T. WATERMAN. BY J. T. WATERMAN. There is too ^notion” more firmly fixed in the popular mind than that of- the influence of the moon on the fall of rain, the violence of the wind, etc.— Scientific men, acting on the theory that “where there is so much smoke, there must be some fire,” have given much attention to the subject, ■ and have hinted at certain theories as be ing possibly correct. Unfortunately, theresults of different series of experi ments -have failed to agree, and we are as far as ever from'any reliable con firmation of belief, except in the single point. of the dissipation of clouds by the full moon. " Sir John Herschelbe- For aD the purposes of a Family Cathartic Med icine. No mercusr or other substance in them. *1,000 fax Gold Will be paid for every grain of mercury or other substance found in our Liver'Pills. Forliver dis ease, for nervous or sick head-ache, constipation or costivenese, dyspepsia or indigestion, jaundice, rheumatism, gout and dropsy-, and are recom mended as a general family cathartic medicine. - These pills will give relief in nine cam out of ten for every ordinary ailment in our Southern climate, where most of the diseases are dependent on a diseased liver and imperfect digestion. v\ e have prepared tharn’to supply a safer and every wav better purgative remedy than Ties hitherto been available to mankind. Their penetrating properties cleanse and invigorate every portion ot the human organism, correcting its diseased action and metering tta hesithy^™^ Prepared ^ “ Tintmrifits'. Macon. Ga. No. 13 Cotton Avenue. The day Is done, and file darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward. . From an eagle ia his flight |e Tear,... — — - ---■$2 50 faee Months,.--"- •»-. 1.00 irhe paper will be stopped at the expire C 0 f ite time paid for, unless the sub lip tion is previously renewed, gf the address of a subscriber is to be Kuged, we must, have the old address as 6las the new one, to prevent mistake Wo subscription received for a less period. j.Ti three months. too attention paid to anonymous commu tations, as we are responsible for every- ang in our reading columns. This rule is iterative • Any one pending us five new subscribers id $12 50, will receive the Home Journal >e year fber. Displayed advertisements will be charged borhng to the space, they occupy. . . ‘tni adWtiseroents should be marked for. Specified time, or they will be continued [d charged for until ordered out - Advertisements inserted at intervals will [charged as new each insertion. {Advertisements to run for a longer tune inn three months, are due and will be col- feted at the beginning of each quarter. [Transient advertisements must be paid trS) work: must l#paid for on delivery. J Advertisements discontinued from any Lee before the time specified, will be [arced only for the time published. htTnrriqpe Notices and Obituaries not ex iting ten lines will be published free.— bitunries of more than ten lines-will be larged for at regular advertising rates. [Notices of a personal or private character, Jended to promote any private enterprise DEALEBSIN I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the inist, And a feeling of sadness comes o’er me, That my'sonl cannot resist; Your particular attention is called to the facts and figures below. Examine them closely. Febst.—Having taken the old stand known as Brown's Art Gallery, and refitted it up in the best manner, we are prepared to execute the finest and best wofrk. Second.—Our prices, as will be seen, are greatly below those of any other Gallery in Macon. Third.—We guarantee perfect satisfaction in every case, or no charge. Fourth.—The oney Premie Macon" Fair for tlie best PLu awarded to us, and we are dc-t the merit of our increasing re; Fifth.—Our facilities are.si duce the best pictures in MI< reasonable prices. - \ Sixth.—Unequalled" fadfitic Pictures, and no" trouble Or satisfaction. Can and’ be c -av • -.V V- Prices of Plain Photographs: Per doz, card size for the Album, any style, $4 00 Half 44 « 44 44 44 44 44 44 ~ 2 50 44 44 Victoria Card, 44 44 4 00 44 44 Imperial— (t 44 44 5 00 GENERAL MERCHANDISE That is not akin to pain. And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles rain. wg&, and at taking Babv Hired to give Come, read to me some poem; Some simple and heart-Mt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, . .And..banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, "Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. WOR-jVl CANDY A pleasant, safe and effectual remedy for worms inibe human, body. Symptoms of Worms. Alternate paleness and flushing of counifinance, a dull expression of the eves, drowsiness, itching of the nose, a swelled upper lip. tongue whitely furred and thickly speckled with red spots, fetid breath and enlarged belly, a partial or general swelling or puifinesa of the skin, a starting in the sleep, and grinding of the teeth, a sensation as if something were lodged in the throat, a gradual wasting of the flesh, sickness of the stomach, vom iting, a short dry congh, appetite sometimes vora cious, at other times feeble, an unnatural craving for dirt, chalk or clay, bowels sometimes costive, at other.timcs loose, great fretfulness and irrita bility of temper, pains in'the stomacb and bowels, colic, fits, convulsions and palsy. For directions see top of the box. It would be well to give a small-dose of castor oil, with a few drops of spirits of turpentine, after the candy, to bring away tha worms. Tbis candy- gives imme diate relief. Prepared only by L. W. HUNT & CO., Druggists, Macon, Ga. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life’s endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Bead from some humbler poet, "Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, SHU heard in his soul the mnsic Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet" The music of thy voice; And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. t licans black and bine.” Notso. They s were black before and the Democrats • have only beaten them bine. A Williamson county, Tennessee, ’ negro, died the other day, at the age of one hundred and forty-four years. It is astonishing. how freedom is ; killing off the young negroes of both sexes. * Secretary Robeson calls Grant “a t full-orbed soldier, statesman and lead- , er.” The orb refered to may be the moon, and as the moon has a couple ■ of boms, the simile is not inapt, only ; there is not near enough “horns:” Yallandigham says: Let us have a ■ Democratic President, and in looking for one let us-not seek to know where 1 a man stood some years ago, but " where he stands now.” Can it bet-hat 1 there is-something in Val’s record that ■ he would willingly have forgotten.” The Germans before Paris intended, it is said, to bombard St. Dennis, the sepulchre of the Kings of France.— Thus is it that in the course of this destuctive siege of the French capital nothing is spared—neither the lives of the living nor the bones of the dead. The war between Prussia and ; France is a big thing; but it is abso- l lutely noth.’ng in comparison to the ■ war that is going on between Cincin- ; nati and Louisville. The latter is continually poking the ribs of its ad versary, who does nothing bnt torn over and grunt. Cincinnati has been depopulated of cats by a commercial traveler who ad vertised in the name of a Kentucky firm, offering S18 a dozen for them. A young clergyman, having buried three wives, was asked by a lady, how he happened to be so lucky. Madam,” replied he, “I knew they could not live without contradiction, and so I let “them all have their own way.” The latest about Mr. and Mrs. Jenny Lind: “A happier and better matched pair, says a Boston lady, is hardly to be found in - England. They reside near London, in elegant style sur rounded by all comforts of life.” Roderick B. Butler, of Tennessee, whose trial, under an indictment for forgery, commences in "Washington to day, is charged, with defrauding pen sioners, by signing their names, in drawing pension money, without au thority. Gov. Baker, of Indiana, recommends a modification of the divorce laws of that State," so that Actions for divorce Delimited to bona fide "residents of that State. Cortld anything be more self ish ! The Governor is sensible of the fact that his people have a good thing, and he.wants them to have it all to themselves. 'Grant’s head cannot be called, by a term thatis more appropriate than the National - Vacuum. The Mexican people are still at* tbeir old amusements, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Hon. John Covode left a wife and nine children, with only a million and and a half dollars to support them.— Poor orphans! Chicago has one hundred and fifty churches, and they are found insufficient to marry people as rapidly as the epurts divorce them. " Gen. Sheridan, who has for some time, been pirouetting around Europe, has lately turned np at the Patti Pol- Georgia, interest, will be charged os other adver- lements. Advertisers are requested to hand in their rors as early in the week as possible. The above terms will be strictly adhered NOW IS THE TIME janlft-6m [“ Set aside a liberal percentage for adver- ling. Keep yourself unceasingly before e public; and it matters not what business in are engaged in, for, if intelligently and dustriously pursued, a fortune will be the suit”—Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. “After I began to advertise my Ironware idy, business increased with amazing ra- dity. For ten years past I have spent 10,000 yearly, to keep my superior wares First-class Pictures HOME-MADE FERTILIZED it “wonthold water,” or on which you can’t hang a powder-horn.” At the South, a “wet moon” is one which “lies on its back.” It is supposed to be “full of water,” and as its center fills up, the water is forced over the edge, and it rains. When we consid er that the moon is a sphere and that its apparent shape depends only on the manner in which we see the sun’s light upon it, it becomes even more in comprehensible that any connection should have been imagined between its appearance and the amount of the rain fall What we call the “changes” of the moon are purely arbitrary. It changes constantly, and as much at one time as at another, and there is no reason for supposing that it will rain more or less at that particular part of its change that the almanac makers have, for convenience, selected to indicate its “quarters” We often hear it said that we may expect rain or fair weather) pretty soon, “be cause the moon changes to-night;” so it does; but it changed just as much last night, and is changing constantly, TOMC LITER SITTERS. ifore the public. Had I been timid in ad- irtising, I should never have possessed my rtune of £360,000.”—McLeod Belton, irmingham. “Advertising, like Midas’ touch, turns erything to gold. By it your daring men nw millions to their coffers.”—Stuart It is not a wliisky drink, but is a compound of vegetable tonics with .pure -stimulant, and is rec ommended in all cases where a tonic and gentle laxative is needed. In dyspepsia, indigestion, de bility, languor, head-ache and costiveness, these bitters are especially commended. As a preventive of chills and fever, it will be found to be a valua ble medicine, bj* gently stimulating the liver and assisting nature to throw off miasma. Take one, two or three doses a day—just enough to produce a full, healthy action on the bowels. If you have cause to use bitters of any kind, this is what you want. Prepared only by L. TV. HU>’T & CO., Druggists, Macon, Ga. SOMETHING ABOUT GREAT MEN. Bismarck.—Vulgarly termed “Old Biz.” A modem hero, but very illit erate. He formerly signed his name with a capital B, above and beneath which were the words “his mark.” He was consequently called “B his mark,” which was soon corrupted to Bismarlc. He played for Prussia, and made a count; he is now toying with Paris, and expects to make a dukedom. Then he will emigrate to Cincinnati, and go Into the bologna-sausage business. Plutarch. - "Wliat audacity is to love and boldness I war, the skillful use of printer’s ink is to Sccess in business.”—Henry Ward Beecher. [“Tlie newspapers mode Fisk.”—James isk, Jr. “ Without the aid of advertisojnents, I )uld have done nothing in iny specula- nns. ~ . t- . A. J. BIDDLE, the well known proprie tor of Biddle’s Photographic Temple, Ma con, Ga.,—the same Biddle who photo graphed for the Army of Tennessee, under “Old Joe,” respectfully informs the citizens of Houston county that he will establish a branch Gallery in Perry, on January 15th, 1870. Having given the picture business Dawson, Georgia, December 6th, 1870. Messes. L. W. HUNT & CO., Macon: Gents:—Your favor of the 1st is at hand. In answer, I will say that my Home- Made Fertilizer produced as well as either of the others used, (the Etiwan ami Chesa peake. ) They were all used alike—planted the same day, in the same field, and cultiva ted alike—ull distributed from the same machine, with the same guage. In the sprint* and early summer I decided m Sivor of the Chesapeake, but later in the season the Home-Made caught up with it, and I am not sure hut excelled it in fruit-producing. The coming season I shall use no other except such as I compound myself I also com pounded a ton for Mr. John Moreland, of this county, and enclose his certificate of the result Yours respectfully, ' C. A. CHEATHAM. I have- the most complete faith in jniec’8 ink. Advertising is the royal road business.”—P. T. Barnum. A STANDARD COUGH REMEDY. H. J. I.AMAIt. HUNT; -I only knew this gen tleman by reputation, spoken of in the plural number, tarch’s Lives” is a common expression, ■ but how many there were of him I am ; not prepared to say. General Duke of Wellington.— An officer of the British Army. Mr. Longfellow makes honorable mention of-him as the “Warden of the Cinque Ports.” Cinque means five, and he was the director of five principal points usually denominated “Five Points.”— He lived to a ripe old age and died. Julius Cesar.—Son of old man Ce sar. He was bom at Borne in his in fancy, and on arriving at the estate of manhood, became a Boman. He was a fighter and a warrior of some note. : His friend Brutus one morning asked him how many eggs he had eaten for breakfast; he replied, “Et tu, Brute.” His friend became enraged at being called a brute, and stabbed him quite dead. Mahomet.—Author of the Koran, an exciting romance, which he wrote in the Mammoth Cave at Mecca. He was the author of a religious creed with which he stuffed Turkey, and tried "to get up a broil in Greece, but failed.— Many of his early followers suffered great persecutions; seme of them were burnt at the stake. He had three tem ples—one at Mecca, and one on each side of his head. Gux Fawkes.—A warm-hearted, im pulsive Englishman, who believed the Parliament too good for this earth, and devised an expeditious method of elevating the members to a better 1 sphere. He was interrupted in his good intentions, but for which circum stance he would doubtless have made a greai noise in the world. He. was executed for his benevolence, and^was afterwards burned in a place called Effigy. Bonaparte I.—A harem-scarem sort of a fellow, who occupied a position of considerable responsibility in tire French nation. The impression went abroad that he was ambitious; which damaged his reputation materially.— He gained the respect and admiration of the French nation,-because; happi ly, he was not a Frenchman. ' "When asked if he thought he could govern France, he-replied, “Of Cprs-I-ean.” "The dose of his life was not as bril liant as its beginning,"hot there was more of it in a narrow compass. Peter the Hermit.—-Pete was prin cipally notorious jor stirring- np a -little difficulty between, .tile Christians and Mahomedans, which extended over a EpALlRSjISli HIS PICTURES. CARNOT BE EX CELLED . He is always “Plu- >RE MEDICINE' By any in the State. Every description of Picture known to the profession taken in the highest style of the art Bemember the time; he will open his gallery on the 15th Let" all avail themselves day and night, from one end of the century to the other; it always makes the full change, from new to old, once in every lunar month. of next January, of this opportunity to get good pictures; no inferior work goes out from Biddle’s Gal lery. dec 28-tf la a pleasant. safe and effective medicine in couglis, cold*, fioreues of tlie throat, chest and lungs-, bronchitis* etc. Every case of consumption commences with a cough, excited from the individual having taken INTS.OllS ^ ... lg taken cold. Tile-diseases of the air passages arc of giek*. interest to every intelligent being. The delicate organization of the lungs, their constant activity, and their being exposed to contact of air'of such different temperature, and winch contains various irritating matters snspeiided in it, render them especially liable to diseases, and those of mOst se rious character. ■ For those diseases we offer Frof. Loud’s Cough Mixture as a remedy. If you catch a cold, do not wait to let'it get a deep hold, but take the remedy at once. To show, the estimation in which this medicine is held, we append a few certificates ; It Glare Ready and Entire Relief, Nearly four years ago, when suffering from ase- verc cougli, I was indued by Mr. Loud to try bis Cough Syrup, It gave such ready and entire re lief that I take great pleasnre in recommending it to such as may lie in a similar condition of suifer- ing. : E. W. Wabeen. Macon, Jan. 32,1870. The Annexation Project. The St. Louis Democrat, the leading Republican paper of Missouri,, in a late issue animadverts severely upon the eagerness with which General Grant is pushing the San Domingo annexation scheme. It saysr Does President Grant really suppose that Jhese extraordinary efforts to put through a measure so unpopular will add to his- personal strength? This scheme has now been ventilated.— What we have long known was the real motive in the San Domingo plot is no longer concealed. It means war. After San Domingo comes. Cuba, the rest of the "West Indies, and the conflict of foreign, powers, it is calcu lated, wifi, certainly reelect Grant.— Long ago this scheme was ’ privately, and confidentially talked of by persons who seek. the. re-nomination of the President, and talked of as it were his own. His. message enables, every body to judge for himself; Handsomest Stocks he and his laborers taking all-the stock V There is ho plantation in the country that does not afford, ample and the richest material to be used as a basis. The chemicals necessary to utilize its material are well known, and can be obtained in abundance. The enterprise and energy of a few practical men have, the p'ast season, proven that as good i or better com or cotton can be made from the Home-Made Fertilizer, as may be yielded by any of the nostrums sold at such extravagant prices. Experience shows that where lot manure or other rich deposite can be obtained, it answers a better purpose than dry swamp, earth: In that case, eight (8) barrels of the lot manure should be used with the quantity of chemicals bones, etc., instead of five (o)barrels of dry muck. This improves the qualify*, and lessens the price of the fetili- zer, by increasing the weight. Some have added pure Peruvian Guano to the compound in the proportion ol lot) to 20Q pounds :but five or six bushels of cotton seed have been found to be of equal service as the Peruvian, and much, cheaper. In all cases the ,ones and Plaster of Paris should first be well mixed with the Lot Manure or rich earth, and then the barrel of mixed chemicals dissolved in a little water, and thoroughly incorpo rated. The chemicals, Bones, Plaster of Paris, etc., sola by ns we guarantee to be of the very best quality. We call particular attention to our preparation of Bones, as it is Bone dissolved in Sulphuric Acid and dried with Bone Charcoal As there will be an active demand for these chemicals, parties who wish a supply should send in their or ders early. L. W, HUNT & CO., Druggists. MACON, .GEORGIA IN MIDDLE GEOEGIA \o Our Patrons, To Dealers, and to the General Public. Afforded Immediate Belief. Macon, Ga., January 5“ 1870. Messrs. L. "W. HUNT &; CO.: G;ENTs:—Understanding iliat you liave engaged in tiae manufacture of P.Xoud's Cougli Syrup, it affords me pleasure to bear testimony to its mer it. lavas sufferingirom a very troublesome cougli when Mr. Loud presented me with a bottle-of his Syrup, the use of which afforded. me immediate relief. My mother used a small portion left by me, with similar beneficial results. . Respectfully, yours,. J-O. CUnb. AND FINDINGS No. 8, Cotton Avenue, MACON, GA. Dr. J. C. GILBERT, Agent at Perry. ] Gen. C. D. ANDERSON, Agent at Eor N. T. JOHNSON, Agent at Maxshallvil Respectfully invite the attention of wholesale and retail buyers to their large and well assorted stock, which comprises everything in the shape of ladies’, gentlemen's, misses', youths’ and boys’ wear, of all the very newest styles, among them the best-makes of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Haven, etc. We feel confident of suiting customers, both in quality'and price, and there fore invite a call: dec28-3m ; From Mayor G. S. Obear. Macon, Ga., FebraaryT, 1870. . Messrs. L..W. HUNT i: CO.: I Gents:—Mr- P. Loud having referred you to me relative to the merits of his Cough Syrup, I lake pleasure in stating that when suffering from a very severe cold and-distressing congh, which destroyed my rest, Mr. Loud noticed my cough and present ed me with some of his Syrup, which afforded me immediate relief, ani enabled me to rest quietly, a thing I had not been able to do for several nights before. I therefore esteem the Syrup a very valu able medicine. Yours, very respectfully, ga Geoege S. Obeak. Frank Blair. General Francis P. Blair has taken his seat, as United States Senator from Missouri. Just-before his election by the Legislature, he made a speech be fore that body and referred to his let ter to CoL Broadhead as follows: “My letter Contends that the milita ry should be made to undo their usurp ations at the South. I say so still. And you have only to withdraw them from the -South; and their work will "be un done. The carrion . crew of carpet baggers who are gorged upon the plun der and drunk with the blood of the vanquished people of the South, will disperse themselves in an instant if not sustained by the "bayonets of the Fed eral Government. There is no item in that letter that I take back. I sland by it.- T believe, in the construction erf the Constitution of the- United States by. the Supreme Court, thatthis recon- i is unconstitutional" My hope to Congress, if I should attain THOMAS J. CATER COMPOUND EXTRACT DRY-GOODS, CLOTHING, DRUCS, MEDICINES BO OTS AND SHOES Erysipelas,* Tetter; Scald-bead; Ring-wormi n j® 1 ** Tumors, Sores, Syphilis, Mercurial Pois- and for ' .' . ■ v PRKDFma THE BLOOD. 7 no particular disorder is felt, people > Ule MooifieeUby ana allisv^ll, of Me disordered, therl ^^5 health. Sooner or later eome- in going that high position, is That I may aid in withdrawing the troops from those ■Southern States, which are held "there to saddle upon the backs of that peo ple a pared -of carpet-baggers and cfUilnwno’S fnTlmrprl Tvc' an iommwnf Paints, Oils.’Vafhisties, GARDEN AND The'Hermit was an itinerant lecturer, and, had he lived, in our day, would have turned lps attention to humor, thereby saving a deal of bloodshed.— The Crusades turned out like the au thor of the creed they were intended to annihilate—a false profit.