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Professional Cards.
Cards inserted atone doll&r a lint per annum
if paid in advance, otherwise, faro
dollars aline.
A. S. CILES,
Attomov at X>aw
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.
Office in the Court House. '
Special attention given to business in the Supe
rior and County Courts of Houston County.
feb 21, 1
C. J. HARRIS,
^.ttornev at Xj .
KACON GEORGIA.
WILL practice law in litigated cases m the
ft counties of the Macon Circuit to wit: Blub.
Houston, Crawiord and Twiggs.
J. A. EDWARDS,
Attorney at Law,
mabshallvuxe gforgia.
W. H. REESE,
Attorney at Law.
MABSHALLV1LLE GEORGIA.
j*i“Spedal attention given to cases in
tuptcy.
DUNCAN & MILLER,
Attorneys at Law.
PERRY and FORT VALLEY, GA.
C. c. Duncan, Perry, office on Public Square;
A. L. Miller, Fort Valley- office in Mathew's Hall.
/ B. M. DAV3S.
Attornoy at Law
PERRY, GEORGIA.
W ILL practice in the Courts of Houston
and adjoining counties; also in the Su
preme Court and U. S. District Court.
NOTTINGHAM & PATTEN,
Attornovs at Xiaw
PERRY, GEORGIA.
PRACTICE in the Courts of Houston and a
joining counties. Prompt attention given to all
business entrusted to our care. Collections of
claims a specialty,
aug 23.
tf.
U. M. GUNN,
Attorney at Law
BYItON, S. IV. R, R. GA.
jC3“Spccial attention given to collections.
E. W. CROCKER,
Attorney at Law
FORT VALLEY, GA.
53-Collections and Criminal Law a specialty
Dflico at Miller, Drown & Co’s.
dr. M
JO BSC N
DE3STTXST,
PERRY AND HAWKINSVILLE GA.
B E WILL HP ND the first half of each month
in bis office in Perry, over the <old_ drug store,
md one-fourth, or the luttur half of each mont>.
vill be given to his practice in Hawkinsville, at
Mrs. Hudspeth’s. aug23 i
T. T. MARTIN
Manufacturer and Retail Dealer in
TIKT
COOKING STOVES,
SHEET IKON
TIN WAKE,
ET CETERA.
R epairing, rooking guttering
Ac., done at short notice and in the
best manner. T. T. MARTIN,
tf. Perry, Ga.
A. M. WATKINS,
CURRIER, SHERWOOD & CO.,
Broome Street,
WEW YORK.
BOOTS & SHOES
AT WHOLESALE.
Cash Saloon Re-Opened.
C.V. MARKET,
PERRY, GA.
FINE WINES,
WHISKIES,
* BRANDIES, ETC.
AT RETAIL.
fi@“Tliebest LAGER BEER a 5
cents a glass.
Everybody is invited to give me a
call at- my new store next door to my
old stand. G. V.MARKET.
March 21 3 m.
vu. ,. andkson, P- esident W.E. Brown, Cashier.
CASH CAPITAL, $100,000.
PLANTEES’ BANK.
FORT VALLEY, GEOKOLA.
Transacts a General Ranking, Discount, and
Exchange Business.
Particular attention given to the collection of
Notes, Drafts, Coupons, Dividends, etc.
DIRECTORS.
Wjl 3. Anderson,
H.L. Denxard, L. M. Felto ;
W.H.Hollinshead, W-A. Mathew
Jan. 16
B. T. BABBITT’S
Pure Concentrated Potash
OR I.YE.
Of double the strength of any other
SAPONIFYING SUBSTANCE.
I have recently perfected a new method of
, packing my Potash or Lye, and am now
packing it only in BALLS, the coating of
which will saponify, and does not injure
the Soap. It is packedin boxes containing
24 and48 !b. Ralls, and in no other way.—
Directions in English and German, for ma
ting hard and soft soap with this Potash,
accompanying each package.
B. T. BABBITT,
64 to 84 Washington St,, N. Y.
GOERGIA HOUSTON COUNTY.
—D. N. Hightower has applied for ex
emption -qf personality and setting
a part and valuation of Homestead and
I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock
a. m. on the 31st day- of March . 1874
at my office.
Jfcch 21st 1874, A. S. GILES
•ft Ordinary.
The Smuggler’s Isle,
Whoever has seen Loch Arkiet in
Perthshire, with the rude yet roman
tic scenery aronnd it, can never efface
its remembrance, from his memory.
About forty years ago, when .every
Highland hill and glen was the haunt
of the smuggler, and a thousand se
cret stills were at work in silent and
secluded spots, in defiance of the law
and its executor, the exciseman, one
of those desperate and fearless men
who carry on this illicit trade selected
this remote island for his retreat;.and
long did Mhasal Chrein’s haunt and
his illegal occupation remain undis
covered and unsuspected. Secluded,
however, as it is, you cannot enter the
glen on either side but you see the
waters, with that isle upon its bosom,
stretching away calmly and broadly
beneath von. But no one thought
that such a sweet spot would be
chosen as the refuge of the smuggler
and the outlaw.
Yet scch-it was, and a more secure
could not have been contrived. Cut
off from communication on every
every side, this “lone island of the
west” could only be reached by means
of a boat, which was always in the
possession of the smuggler, and even
if he had been discovered, it would
have been a difficult, if not an imprac
ticable matter to catch him, sole mas
ter as he was of the boat and of the
island, and armed with the weapons,
as he was with tile energy and fear
lessness of heart, a reckless and des
perate man.
His wile, old and weather-beaten
like himself, dwelt on the island with
Mhasal Chrein, and with her assis
tance he carried on with success his
business of an illic t distiller. He bnd
two or three children—short and mis
shapen imps, “uulicked cubs,” rude
and uncultivated dwarfs—who ran
about the island in a wild state, and
were never on any account permitted
to leave it. It.was their birth-place,
and perhaps might be their grave.
Mhasal Ghrein was, as his name im
plies, a little, swarth® beetle-browed,
shaggy old man, whose form and fea
tures had been too much exposed to
wild and stormy scenes and weather
of his native hills not to have caught
something from their character and
spirit. He was, in short, as wild and
rude, both in look and nature, as the
romantic scenery around him, or as
the wind that blew in tempests over
Glen Arkiet. His wife, as much ex
posed as he had been, partook also of
his wildness, and with her tartan
gown and red jacket, and long yellow
hair streaming in the breeze, might
have been taken, when seen from the
opposite shore, sitting on the rock,
waiting the return of her husband
from one of his excursions, or walking
impatiently along the beach of the
little isle, for a witch-wife muttering
one of her spells, or one of the furies
conjmiug tip a storm.
For a long time, as has been said,
Mhasal Chrein pursued his illicit oc
cupation undetected. He was careful
and cautions, and never fired his still
but at night, that the smoke might
not be discovered in the darkness.—
At night, too, he transacted his bus
iness with tlie few friends with whom
he dealt and on whom he could de
pend; bringing over from the island
barrels of whisky in his boat, and
sending them away across the coun
try in secresy and silence.
But the attention of the excise was
at lust directed toward that district,
and excisemen began to swarm thick
and active around him. Every hill,
valley and pass, rock and ravine, ev
ery cave and corner, every lone and
quiet spot, for miles and miles aronnd
him, were searched for smugglers,
and many a secret distillery was dis
covered and destroyed. But the little
island of that lonely loch, and its wild
inhabitants, still remained unmoles
ted. At* length, however, suspicion
began to point its finger toward the
spot. A solitary exciseman, passing
early through'the glen when the gray
twilight of morning was fast merging
into the slowly-coming light of day-
da svn, and the mountain eagle, rising
from her eyrie in the yet cloudless
peaks that look down upon Loch Ark-
let, soared away to the east to welcome
the sun; perceived a continued
stream of blue smoke ascending from
the little isle, which with the eye and
perception of one who, from long ex
perience, could distinguish the smoke
of a still from that of a cottage, he
knew at once could emanate from a
still at work. Rejoicing in this dis
covery, he retired for assistance to
enable Mm to seize and destroy it,
and to capture those to whom it might
belong.
Meantime, Mhasal Chrein, totally
unconcious that his proceedings had
been observed, extinguished his fires
—his constant enstom at the approach
of day—and lay down on his bed
to sleep. Shortly afterward Ms wife
was awakened by a shrill whistle, well
known to her, as the signal of the ba
ker’s boy, who came there every mor
ning to supply them with bread and
barm. She therefore arose and pad -
died across the loch for the boy, who
had long been in th eir secret, and
was, therefore, the only person per
mitted to come to the island; where.it
was usual for Mm to breakfast, and-
afterward to return home.
Breakfast had scarcely been finished
when Mhasal Chrein, who always rose
when it was ready, chancing to look
through the rude patched window of
their hnt, saw three strangers and a
dragoon standing on the opposite
shore and pointing toward the island.
TTis suspicions were instantly on the
fdert, and taking a better view of them,
was not slow iu conjecturing their er
rand. They had come there, doubt
less, to search the isle, and if possible
to apprehend himself. Nevertheless,
priding himself in Ms security, lie
The soldiers fired in return, and I Breach of Promise against a Lady,
now d regular but uneqnal skirmish j Considerable interest is felt in
took place. Everyone of the smug- i southern BerksMre, Mass., in the
laughed at their endeavors to reach frqm the bullet of the smuggler’s wife.
him, for his boat was safely moored
wonidhave-to procure" another at a
distance of fourteen miles before they
could cross the .loch. So he did not
gler’s shots told, while the dragoons
discharged their pieces for seme time
without effect. Mhasal Chrein at
length received a wonnd in his arm
which leveled him with the earth,
and the excisemen and the soldiers
neariDg the island, instantly sprung
ashore. Bnt the foremost fell dead
who throwing her wounded husband
on his side of the island, and they, over her shoulder, hurried up to the
care though they stood there pointing
at the cottage all dry, and when uiglit
came he could easily if necessary, es
cape unperceived in an opposite direc
tion to where they were. He there
fore, when the boy proposed to return
across, absolutely refused to allow
him to stir f-ionrthe spot, because that
would'be puttiug the boat completely
into the power of the excisemen.
But the boy had no idea of remain
ing on tlie island any longer; In the
first place, he had finished his errand
and his breakfast, and was desirous
of proceeding homeward. Iu the sec
ond place, he liked not? either Mhasal
Chrein or his wifejand thongh obliged
to come to them every morning, he
could not conceal his fears that they
would do him some mischief, perhaps
kill him, if they ouce got angry or
suspicious; and, in the third place, he
knew that if the excisemen caught
him there he would be accounted
equally guilty with them, and pun
ished accordingly; for what was he
doing on the island if he did not know
of, and pe’lmps assit them in their il
legal proceedings? For these reasons
therefore he was anxious to leave the
island as soon as possible, and as the
old man would not permit him, he
was determined to carry off the boat,
and make his escape if lie could with
out his knowledge or consent.
Mhasal Chrein, therefore, had no
sooner left the cottage to roconoiter,
after enjoining his wife to keep a
watchful eye on the callant, than he
began t > put Ms design into execution.
Accordingly, finding that the old wo
man was determined to prevent his
departure, without saying a word, he
slyly came up behind her and tripped
up her heels—he then spraDg to the
door and rau with, the rapidity of a
greyhound down the beach. But.
Mhasal Chrein observed him . ere he
was half way, and guessing his inten
tion, immediately set off in pursuit.—
The boy, however, perceiving he was
pursued, and finding that he could
not reach the boat in time, turned,
stopped, and lifting a large stone
the ground threw it with all Ms might
at the smuggler’s, head.
His aim was well taken, and hit
him 011 the right forehead, and Mha
sal Chrein fell stunned to the earth.—
He then leapt d into tlie boat and had
already loosed the rope, when the old
man, recovering from the blow,
reached the shore, and running into
the water up to his waist, caught hold
first of the boat, and then the boy’s
plaid or rauchaa; but quick as light
ning the adventurous boy unclasped
the plaid with one hand while with
the other he struck the smuggler with
the oar, and the boat shot across
the loch like an arrow from a bow,
leaving Mhasal Chrein standing iu
the water, like Potiphar’s wife, with
the boy’s plaid waving in the wind.—
The old woman now joined her hus
band with a gun, who immediately
sent a bullet after the boat; but the
boy cowered down at the bottom, and
the balls sent after him by the en
raged smuggler, passed over his
head without doing him the slightest
injury.
The excisemen on the other side
beheld the scene with much interest,
and prepared to take advantage of it.
Despairing at first of obtaining access
to the island, they were about to re
tire to procure means to transport
themseives across, when, to their sur
prise and satisfaction, they beheld the
boy push ofi in the boat, which was
now approaching them, the bpy oc
casionally raising his head and making
use of the scuttle while the old man
was engaged in loading the gun, and
wuen he again presented, disappear
ing at the bottom of the boat. No
sooner, however, had he reached the
shore, than tliej boat was seized by
the excisemen, and be Mmseif jump-
ins: from the bow, set off away among
the heather, as if he had been a hare
pursued bp hounds, or a startled fox
with the whole pack in full cry be
hind him.
The scene now assumed a romantic
and extremely picturesque appear
ance. Half way across was the. boat
with the excisemen and as many sol
diers as the boat could hold; on the
other side might be observed the old
smuggler and Ms wife, alternately
loading and firing at them as they
approached, while perched up on a
rock appeared two mis-shapen urchins,
each of them firing away. with a pis
tol firing away as if for life and death
at the intruders.
In the meantime the smuggler, who
was .resolved not : to ' be taken alive,
and liis wife, reserving their fire till
the boat approached the landing-place
and-takmg deliberate aim, fired. One
of the excisemen and one of the dra-
goons were wounded. Indeed, Mha
sal Ckre in’s shot could-not have"mis
sed amongjsuch a crowded company. leg.
at, where, assisted by the urcMns,
she-barricaded the door, and as the
enemy advanced, opened up an inces
sant fire from the window, as from
the embrasure of a fortress. After a
desperate struggle, the soldiers forced
the door, and the smuggler and his
wife were forced to yield. The ex
cisemen then destroyed the. stsll and
all the work, and carried off an exten
sive seizure of whisky which they
discovered on the premises.
Mhasal Chrein and his wife were
afterward imprisoned, and the beau
tiful Isle of Loch Arkiet was no lon
ger the abode of the outlawed smug
gler.
very, strong breach of promise .spit
brought up by George F. Butler of
Sandisfied against Mrs. Susan B.
Richards of Newton, formerly Miss
Chadwiok of Lenox to recover §10,000.
The acquaintance and engagement of
the parties was brought abont at Le
nox a dozen years ago, when Mrs.
Chadwick, a widow, and her daughter
were Summer visitors at Lenox, and
boarded with the plaintiffs mother,
who was then entertaining guests at
the “Allen Comstock farm.”
Together they became interested in
a rivival then in progress, while the
acquaintance was renewed on succeed
ing seasons, as the Chadwicks visited
the town, and was kept up when they
occupied the delightful villa of Fanny
Kemble. Butler was an intelligent,
interesting and well conducted com-
paMon, while Miss Chadwick was
most estimable yonng woman, hold
ing a place in the best social circles,
possessed of large wealth, and, of
course, well-beloved, by her moth-
Training of Xh dge Dogs.
The existence of the people Kolymsk
depends upon fishing and hunting for
in which they are assisted by their
dogs. These faithful but cruelly-
treated animals are said to resemble
the wolf, having long, pointed projec
ting noses, sharp and upright ears,
and long bushy tails. Their color is
black, brown, reddish-brown, white
and spotted; their howling that of a
wolf. In summer they dig holes i 1
the ground for cooluess, or lie in the
water to escape the musquitoes; in
Winter they burrow in the snow and
lie. curled up, with their noses cover
ed with their bushy tails. The prepa
ration of these animals for a journey
must be carefully attended to; for a
fortnight. u.t least they should be put
on a small allowance of hard food to
convert their superfluous fat into
firnr flesh; they must also be driven
from ten to twenty daily, after which
they have been known to travel a
hundred miles without being injured
by it. A team consists commonly of
twelve dogs, and it is of importance
that they should be accustomed to
draw together, The quick and steady-
going of the team, as well as the safe
ty of the traveler, mainly depends on
on the docility aud sagacity of the
foremost dog or leader. No pains
therefore are spared in his education,
so that lie may understand and obey
his masters orders, and prevent the
rest from starting ofi' in pursuit of the
foxes or other animals that may
chance to cross their path. Their
usual food is frozen fish, and ten good
herrings are said to be a proper daily
allowance for each dog while on duty.
When Dot actively employed, they are
obliged to concent themselves with
oflal, and toward Spring, when the
Winter’s provisions, are generally ex-
nausted, they suffer to the keenest
hunger.—Polar World.
Lawyers’ Fies in England.
Who would not be a “Q. C.,” in
England? Mr. Hawkins, for conduct
ing the prosecution against Arthur
Orton, received a retainer of 1,000
guineas and a refresher of 100 guineas
for each day of the trial. The trial
lasted for eighty-nine days, so that
Mr. Hawkins received in all §50,000.
He is now retained as counsel in six
different election petitions with a re
taining fee in each case of 600 guineas
and 100 guineas refresher each day,
Each of these cases will last at least a
week, so that Mr. Hawkins’ fees will
amount to at least §21,000, Mr. Gif-
fard Q. C., lias been retained in elev
en election petition eases, Air. Ser
geant Ballantine in nine, and Mr.
Powell, Q. C., in five—all with very
liberal fees. Mr. Hawkins’ practice is
stud to be worth about §280,000 a year
while there also dangles before bis
eyes tlie almost certain prize of a
judgeship when lie gets tired of mak
ing money and will be content with a
modest, §25,000 a year the rest of his
life.
Worthless Warranties.
The'word- ‘^'warranted,” used in the
sale of a horse, extends only to sound
ness, and “warranted sound,”" goes no
futher. It is a common pactice with
dealers of use the terms ‘ ‘ali sound
und right.” As it is uncertain what
such an expression would cover in law
it would, to avoid possible controversy
and misunderstanding, be best to use
forms more comprehensive. For in
stance. the following:
“Received oLA. B. §200 -for bay
mare Kate, warranted only six years
old, sound, free from vice, and quiet
to ride and drive.
The warranty to be valid must, of
course, be passed at- the time of the
sale, and constitute part of the trans
action. A warranty after the sale is
void, for it is given without a legal
consideration. _
High Stepping.
A Kentucky paper telling how a man
got- drowned while in bathing, says
he ‘stepped off over his head.” Now
that was a eareless thing to do. Lit
tle boys should be careful not to step
The latter, however, seems to have
had a higher ambition for he daughter
than an unlion with a Lenox farmer’s
son, and whatever intimacy there was
between them that was warmer than
the merest friend ihip she frowned
upon. It is a good while since they
made Lenox their Summer residence,
and Butler has awaited faithfully and
Requested to retact
417
patiently to elai^i liis’promised bride.
Didu’t retract
416
But she was not so steadfast and wed-
Invited to parties, receptions
ded Mr. Richards, a lawyer, who was
presentations, etc., etc.,
u Lenox last week to attend his wife’s
by people,
3,333
interest in the case.
Took the hint
33
Didn’t take the hint
3,300
Railroad Hatters.
Threatened to be whipped
174
The branch of the Iron Mountain
Been Whi >ped
0
Railroad, from St. Louis to Memphis,
Whipped the other fellow
4
is under survey. The route will be
Didu’t come to time
170
located in a .few weeks, andlthe read
Been promised bottles of chain-
built speedily.
pagne, whisky, gin, bit-
The Georgia Railroad Convention,
which held its session in Augusta last
week, decided to abolish free passes;
and next the hotels are expected to
abolish free lunch. One by one the
privileges of the press are being taken
away, and hereafter “Editorial Cor
respondence” will be seldom seen in
our exchanges.
The Galveston News states that
General Beauregard went to that place
on invitation of the City Council, to
fix the grades of a general system of
sewerage.
The last rail has been laid on the
Lonisviile, Nashville and Southeastern
Railway, which opens a new and val
uable connection with the South in
competition with the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad.
The stockholders of the Chester and
Lenoir, S. C., Narrow Guage Railroad
has absorbed the King’s Mountain
Railway from Chester to Yorkville.J
Prospect of Another State.
New Mexico, which has been a ter
ritory since shortly after its acquisi
tion, over twenty years, has now
some chan e of being raised to the
dignity of a State. A bill for that
purpose has been reported by the
House Committee on Territories.—
The vote of the committee stood six
in fayor and one against the bilk—
New Mexico has not made much pro
gress in population, thongh there has
been a gradual development of indus
try and wealth. It has a tine climate,
great mineral resources, and is a val
uable grazing country. The exten
sion of the railroad system will soon
bring the Territory and its natural
advantages into more prominent no
tice. It boasts some very bad In
dians.
Brain Food.
By a careful analysis it has been
found that apples cod tain a larger
amount of phosphorus ? or brain food
than any other fruit or vegetable, and
on this account they are very impor
tant to sedentary men, who work their
brain rather than their mnscles. They
also contain the acids wMch are need
ed every day, especially for sedentary
men, the action of whose liver is slug
gish to eliminate effete matter, which,
if retained in the human system, pro
duces inaction of the brain, and, in
deed, of the whole system, causing
jaundice, sleepiness, scurvey and
troublesome diseases of the skin.
General Gordon.
Senator Thurman thus spoke on the
Financial Question. .“Senators, you
have taken the measure of a Demo
crat and placed it upon the statute
books of the country in defiance of the
recommendation of a Republican Pres
ident and Secretary of the Treasury,
and in utter scorn and contempt of
the recommendation of the Committee
on Finance. The glories of the paper
money trinity, Morton, Logan and
Ferry, have faded and gone; and it
was reserved for the piney woods of
North Carolina, Mr. Merrimon, and
the red bills of Georgia. Gen. Gordon,
to shape the financial condition of the
country.
In the Crater.
me
tri establish a railway from the base of
Vesuvius to the crater, to be worked
by steam and ropes. They have al
ready procured the model of a train
over their heads, for even if they do j wMch received a prize at the Vienna
not get drowned, they might break a j Exhibition, and has been for some
time^nnse at Bn da.
The War In Cuba.
The state of Cuba is growing daily
more hopeless. Financial embarrass
ment is added to military failure, and
every one sees that the grand crash is
coming. From Havanna we have
the news of financial failnre and dis
turbance, and from the Central De
partment comes news of military dis
aster. So far from the insurrection
losing strength the troops gathered
to give the final, crushing blow,
which has been impending for six
years,{but somehow never comes down,
are routed whenever they ventnre to
leave their fortified strongholds. So
unfavorable has been the tide of the
war lately that the Spaniards can no
longer conceal tlieir reverses from the
outside world. There is nothing de
cisive in theso endless battles, but
they go to show that the Cubans are
able to prolong the war indefinitely,
and that after six years of struggle
they are stronger in a military point
of view thau they were at the out
break of the insurrection. It may
drag on for years, exhanstiug the re
resources of both Spain and Cuba,
bnt in the end the Spaniards will have
to relax,their grasp, as they have had
to do with all tlieir American posses
sions.
An Editors Contession.
Report. Times.
Been asked to drink
Drank
11,392
Kindness from the Aged.
Is there one being, stubborn as the
rock to misfortune, whom kindness
does not effect? It comes with a
double tenderness and grace from the
MILLIONS OF ACRES,
Rich Farming Land
IS NEBRASKA,
old; it seems iu them the hoarded : NOW FOR SALE VERY CHEAP,
and long purified benevolent e of, ten teabsckk it, jxiKKEsxosi-TGrEBCEST.
years; and if it bad survived and con- ; Descriptive Pamphlets, with Sectional Maps.
qnered the baseness and selfishness! THE PIONEER
of the ordeal it had passed; as if the j
... , , .A Handsome Illustrated Paper, containing t - i
winds which had broken the form,; Homestead Laws, mailed free to all parts ifc
and swept iu vain across the hair, and Addrraw tte " orkl ' 0 . f. davis.
La ml Commissioner/ U# P- R* R-
the frosts which had chilled the blood
and whitened the locks had possessed
no power over the warm tide of affec
tions. It is the triumph of Nature
over Art, it is the voice of the angel
which is yet within ns. Nor is this
all; the tenderness of age is twice
blessed—blessed its trophies over the
obduracy of encrusting and wither
ing years, blessed because it is tinged
with the sanctity of tne grave; be
cause it tells 11s that the heart will
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the tomb, and fetter us witli the in
violacy and immortality of love.
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Dogs and Sheep.
Tlie Richmond Dispatch says the
Grangers in Virginia are increasing
in number and power; They are un
derstood to be united upon tbe dog
§5.00
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30land sheep question—i. e., dogs or
Killing a Cat.
There is a man on Franklin street,
in Danbury. Ct., (says that the News
man), who has been engaged for the
past few months in a mighty effort to
kill a cat. In that time that unfortu
nate animal has explored the bottom
of every sheet and stream of water
within six miles of Danbnry, has had
an unintentional taste of the several
new varieties of powder, and has got
so it can tell in the dark, without
without looking around the difference
between a half brick and a whole one
The man himself hasn’t got a whole
piece of clothing in his wardrobe, and
has almost entirely lost the use of one
leg from rheumatism, contracted while
drowning the cat, and has more
scratches on him than any survivor of
four wives. His aged father says he
will take a chair ont in the yard on a
pleasant afternoon, and sit there two
honrs at a time, and look at that ca t
aud swear.
The Big Trees.
The big trees of California (qnaSoia
Gigantea). sometimes called, without,
propriety after the Duke of Welling
ton, were introduced into England
sbout thirty years ago, and have al
ready become very grand and inter
esting objects in the landscapes
throughout the United Kingdom
many of them being from forty to six
ty feet high, with stems from six to
eight feet in circumference, and
branching most beautifal to the
earth’s snrfaee.” They are said to be
‘quite hardy everywhere, only get
ting a bit scared in very bleak, expos
ed situations on the windward side,
from northeast to sourheast;” are ever
green, and come freely when not more
than three or four years old.
Hint, for Grangers.
The Memphis Avalanch says that a
Grange at Rienzi, Mississippi, received
last week from Liverpool the sum of
,000 in gold in return for cotton
“hipped there on account of its mem
bers; the result of the experiment
proves to be a serious loss. Hail the
cotton been shipped'to Memphis, the
realization in currency would,have
bought over §5,000 in gold. One of
the members wishing more gold than
Ms proportion of the shipment spoken
of, paidanother §50 in currency for
§40 in coin. In' Memphis he conld
have bought it for §44 80.
A Wiregrass Farmer.
Mr. H. J. Parish, of Berrien conn-
ty, as we learn from an exchange, ran
three plows last year and made 26
bales of cotton, averaging 500 pounds
a bale, no. fertilizers used but home
made. Also he made 550 bushels of
corn, and 300 bushels of it whs made
on ten acres; about^ 300. bushels of
sweet potatoes and seven barrels of
syrup. He had planted 44 acres in
cotton, and nine bales were produced
on ten acres.
sheep. And they being sensible men
as the farming community always is,
take the right side. Dogs are beesm-
ing daily of less valne and sheep are
daily increasing in value. Dogs are
of especial service in cleari- g the
“varmints,” and in fox hunting in
primitive days; but now in one fox
bunt dogs will do more damage to
flocks and crops than all the wild
beasts of prey, other than themselves,
in a year. On the other hand, sheep
are a great element of wealth. They
furnish the very best food for the ta
ble, and give us the best clothing for
winter. Shall there be any doubt
which of the ,two to choose—sheep o.i
dogs? They can not live together in
peace in the same district. Sheep can
not prosper where there are dogs?—
The Virginia Grange sknow tlii-: nn.l
they demand some degree of abate
ment of the dog nuisance.
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A neighbor has a roler cast in three
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onglit to be had for §40 or §50 at the
shop, and at those prices could be
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Dried Blood as a Fertilizer.
The process of granulating the
blood of hogs, to be nsed as a fertili
zer, is becoming a business of consid
erable importance in connection with
the pork packing establishments of
the West. It is cooked and dried to a
black powder, and is in fine grains.
The blood of a hog Is worth for this
purpose about three cents before it is
prepared. One establishment - in Wis
consin, which uses up five thousand
swine per day, receives for the blood
alone §150.
A Hint to (Hardeners.
From one of our exchanges we learn
that tar water is a sovereign remedy
for the lavages of the pestiferous cut
worm. An old Spanish lady living od
MoHle Bav, accidentally made the
discovery years ago. Take a tight
barrel, put tar in it, let it remain
for some time, give it a trial on
plants and report progress. If tbe
remedy should prove a good one,
it will be of great valne to our -peo
ple. - -
Kentucky Giant Dead.
A colored man died in Ramsey, in
this county, a fe w days ago, who was
probably the giant of Kentucky.—
His rame / was Lewis Johnson, but
more generally known _s “Big Foot
Lewis.” He was seven feet high, two
and a half feet across the shoulders,
and his feet touched the tape staring at
fifteen inches.—McLeacm Connty Prog
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