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A. S. GILES,
Attornev at Law
FEBBY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.
Office in the Court House.
Special attention given to business in the Snpe-
rior and County Courts of Houston County,
feb 21, IT.
C. J. HARRIS,
ifl.ttonaev at L w,
MACON GEORGIA.
HraX practice law fn.Htfgmtwl' cases tn tts
if comities of the Macon Circuit to wit; Bibb.
bouHton. Cxawxord and Twiggs.
J. A. EDWARDS,
Attorney at Law,
HAR8HAXX.VJIXE GEORGIA.
W. H. REESE,
Attorney at Law,
1IAESHAIXVTLLE GEORGIA.
US-Special attention given to cases in anX
ruptcy. r'
DUNCAN & MILLER,
a ttrirno V s at Law.
PERRY and FORT VALLEY. GA.
*ajC. C. Duncan, Perry; office bn Public Square;
A, L/Millcr, PortValley^ office in 'Mathew's Hal].
B. M. DAVIS.
attorney at Law
PERRY, GEORGIA.
W ILL practice in the Courts of Houston
and adjoining counties; also in the Su
preme Court sud C. S. District Court.
NOTTINGHAM & PATTEN,
a ttomevs at Law
PERRY, GEORGIA.
PRACTICE lu the Courts of Houston and a
oluing counties. Prompt attention given to all
eusiucM entrusted to our care,
claims s specialty,
sug 211.
Collections of
U. M. GUNN,
Attorney at Law
BYRON, 8 W. B, A GA.
^r-Spccial attention given to collections.
E. W. CROCKER,
Attorney at Law
FORT VALLEY. GA.
^•Collections and Criminal Law a special!*
Office at Miller, Brown & Co’s.
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DR.
DEKTTIST,
PERRY AND HAWKINSVILLE GA.
i liia office in Perry, over tbe ®ld drug store,
tnd onr-fourth, or the latter half of each month
will be given to his practice in Hawhinsville, at
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CURRIER, SHERWOOD & CO.,
Broome Street,
3XTEW YORK.
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AT RETAIL;
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March 21
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fort valley, georoia.
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DIRECTORS.
Wm. J. Anderson,
H.L. Dennakd, L. M.* > --
W.h.Hollinshead, W.A. MjCtsew
Jan. 16
T. T. MARTIN
Manufacturer and Retail Beales' in
TIN WARE,
COOKING STOVES,
SHEET IRON
TINWARE,
ET CETERA
Ac., done at short notice and in the
best ntnrmor- T, T. MARTIN.
t£ Perry, Ga.
JOHN B. COFIELD.
Photographed & Portrait Painter
Perry Georgia.
■\VILL lake ill styles of pictures at the lowest
” prices, and .guarantee satisfaction. He in-
Vitcs everybody to call and Examine his speci
mens, snd to compare his work with that of any
other artist. In price and sfyte of work he defies
competition.- -IS- fr".
Gallery on Garroli Street,
lrro Stairs, -frhir* M iis good sky-light and 8
itherwise a&ply prepared to serve those who
call.
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WELL AUGER & DRILL in good
territory.- Endorsed by Governors
of iowa, Arkansas & Dakota
fttikgct &M._ V, SIMS, St, Iritis, Ho,*
Tlie Sewers of Paris.
In Paris it is quite common to
make a trip underground, at any rate
from the Place du Chatelet to the
Place diu Madnleihe. The old guide
books are full of the -wonders of the
catacombs; nowadays, instead of go
ing into these great gypsum quarries,
visitors are allowed to traverse the
ejout RitoK, and there are always
plenty of claimants for the tickets of
admission. You sit in a sort of open
railway truck, with a lamp at each
comer, pushed rapidly on by four
men in white blouses; there is no
more smell than there is in the streets
above—not so much, except just when
we are passing (our guide fells ns) the
barracks of the Louvre. Under the
Place de la Concorde, the land jour
ney comes to an end; at this point the
Rivoli sewer falls into the main; and
so, instead of cars, we have to take
the boats; but the voyage is a short
one, and we soon get to the winding
i i n staircase, by which we emerge
among the astonished idlers of the
Place de laMadaleine.
This, of course, is the show-sewer
—widest, loftiest, cleanest of all—just
like a canal, with broad, neat foot
paths." Between this and tbe “bouse
drain,” there are ten kinds of sewers,
getting gradually smaller and smaller,
but all, except two, having foot-path
enough for the scavengers to walk
along. Besides noting the telegraph
lines, wrapt in their gutta-percha cov
ering, we see a long pipe, too narrow
for water, too wide for gas, inside
which eVery now and then we hear a
whiz like the rush of an arrow. This
is the pneumatic tube, along which
cases of little parcels are driven by
at mospheric pressure. The only other
things to be seen (for the journey is
rather a dull one) are the shafts calfed
regards, by which the workmen can
escape if the sewer gets flooded by
heavy rains. As a means of escape,
every regard has an iron ladder lead
ing to the mar-hole in the street.—
What struck me most was the vault
ing in the main sewer. It shone as if
covered with ehnnam, and was so
smooth that it carried the voice to
great distance. There is a whole sys
tem of- telegraphing which depends on
the echo along this vaulting.
How is tLe main sewer cleaned?
There are big barges, nearly as wide
as tbe water, each furnished m front
with an iron plate fitting almost ex
actly into the subtu-anean canal.—
These plates have each three holes as
an octavo volume cut -in their lower
edge. The barges are dragged up
stream, and the solid matter is all
forced through the three holes, leav
ing the channel completely free.—
Each of these barges is calculated to
dotbe work of a hundred men. Where
the sewer is too 1 arrow for the bar
ges, rails are laid along tbe footpaths,
and trucks furnished with some sort
of plates do the work just as well. So
swift is the stream that one never
sees a bit of anything floating along;
whetever there is. is swept under the
surface. But lower a sluice-gate and
stop the current, and straws, with
dead cats and dogs, with feathers
enough to stuff a score of beds, etc.
Corks, too, of which there are great
numbers, are caught by a grating be
fore they can escape into the Seine,
and after being pared down are sold
to the perfumers. “Wine merchants
and-scent merchants are both g iod
trades in Paris,” said- our guide, as
he explained to us the future use of
the corks. If you can get leave to
climb up the bidder of one of the re
gards, you will be able to look into
one ofthe smaller sewers without foot
path, wLi :h pours its unsavory cata
ract into the main drain. -Sewers of
this type have" to- be- kept clean “by
hand.” Somehow nearly all of the
six hundred and thirty men employed
in the Paris sewers are Gascons,
“from the sunny south.” It is a hard
life, and men can rarely stand it more
than fifteen years.
They get pains in their joints, gen
eral weakness—what they call le plomb
(as if their limbs wereoflead). “Se w
er rats,” the poor fellows are' called,
and their only comfort’is that they
have water-proof boots, a new pair
every six months. The old boots are
not' thrown away, they are stowed
a Way on one of the quays, and when
many hundred pairs are collected
there is a grand auction, and they are
sold in lots of a hundred for from a
fufodred and twenty t> a hundred
and twenty-five francs-.- It is almost
always the same ffihn who buys them,
and he cuts off thefeet and sends them
to’ tlie bogs up the Oise, where they
are used by the pea-nutters; the legs
are subjected to a process which turns
theminto fine soft leather. Many. a
fashion able lady’s b O'ots' are made of
tlie leather which has first been used
by a Gascon scavenger. -
Of real sewer-rats,>. there are com
paratively feW. They can’t work
throngh the hard cement with which,
the new sewets afe eased. • They keep
to the old stone-roofed drains;, and of
course they still abound in the mar
kets and at the abbattors and knack-
I leaving just space enough for one
man to squeeze through. These walls
were pulled down as soon as the arm
istice was signed, and were not re
built during the Commune, though
the Versailles troops, holding Asnieres
might hav6 marched in a dozen
abreast if they had cared to do so.—
After the fall of the Commune the
cry was “search the sewers,’ ’ and sto
ries got into the papers of hands of
desperadoes holdifig out below, and
selling their lives even more dearly
than their friends had done above
ground.
What was there not.in the Paris
papers a,t that horrible tune? Who is
to know the truth? The officials say
that not a human being was found
down there at the time. Rifles were
found in plenty, not only those drop
ped down street traps by runaway
Communists, hut those hidden by
quiet citizens, lest- the possession of
them should bring about a domicilia
ry visit from the Commune. But
more numerous still were tbe kepis,
red scarfs and sashes, cartridge boxes
etc., of which there was quite a heap
under each man-hole in the quarter
of the barricades. As the fellows ran
off, they got rid of all their badges,
hoping shus to escape the savage fury
of the Versailles troops
As I said, there is not much to see
in these sewers; nor much to hear,
except the plash from the side drains,
and the signals from the workmen,
and the occasional thunder of a car
riage that rolls over the cast-iron cov
ering of tne man-hole. -For some
time after May, 1871, it was the fash
ion to go down and look round, and
with every party there went a detect
tive, according to that wonderful sys
tern, whereby, whether under an em
pire or a republic, the French are
—no matter where they are or what
they are doing. It-, is not by groping
under ground, but by studying a map
that one gets a notion of the extent of
the sewage, and what still remains to
be done. As far as carrying tae sur
face-water, Paris is at least as well oft
as London; to something less than
900,000 yards of public way it has
close upon 800,000 yards of sewers.—
But when we come to house drainage,
the difference is startling. Yet, by-
imitating English usages, the method
of floating off refuse from houses ^l>y
water, is getting introduced. IiL-car
rying out this novelty, the French
had no tidal difficulty; their liver-
filth was not brought back to ?theii
doors twice every twenty-four hours,
and left ljing on the mud banks; as
was the case on the Thames. Once
in tbe water, it was carried off by the
current* and wlien the main sewers,
right and left, were carried down to
Asnieres and St. I.-.rants, the city saw
no more of it. But at the bend of the
river by Click and St. Ouen, where
there is dead water, the mud soon be
gan to collect in a way to threaten
navigation. Dredging is an expen
sive process, and it seemed hard to
throw away manure worth three quar
ters of a million at least, and to have
to spend some five thousand a year in
getting aid of it. All our talk about
sewage farms, the example of Croydon
and of Parking creek, had “told in
France, where, moreover, a sort of
imperfect “dry earth system had
been in use from time immemorial; so
not half a dozen years ago it was de
termined to discharge the sewage on
fhe plain of Genevilliers, instead of
throwing it. into the river.
This plan, of melancholy interest
since the Prussian seige, was other
wise very uninteresting, except, per
haps, to the botanist and the bii fl
ea teller. It was a desert in the wil
derness of market gardens with which
Paris is surrounded, and not yielding
annual rent of m ire than thirty
shillings per acre. Now what a change
has been effected by dispersing rills
of sewage over tbe land! With rent
increased to $50 an acre, tbe sewage
gardens of Genevilliers, as they are
called, produce vast crops of the
finest vegetables. Three thousand
lettuces a day were sent last summer
from Genevilliers to the Paris mar
kets; and as for fruit, there is no end
to it. and the size and quality are mar
velous.
The process of irrigation is not
costly. For instance, at the Asnieres
end tlie-e is a steam engine of forty-
horse’ power, which pumps up the
sewage into a cast-iron tube. This is
carried across the Seine by that well-
known picnic place wbieh Parisians
call “L’isle Robinson;” and at the
Gresillons, this tube and a similar one
from St Dennis discharge into a res
ervoir, whence, by. a canal and whole
net-work of trenches, the sewage is
distributed 1 over the land. Of coarse,
it has been properly deodorized,, and
in the deodorizing process the solid;
matters is all precipitated, much -s it
you were fining wine. Diluted sul
phate of alumina is the deodorizer;
and a quart of this is enough to puri
fy two thousand quarts of liquid ma-
inure. The water, when not wanted
to run off in
to the' Seine; it is perfectly pure,
Kcihingbnt a Granger*
Too true/ Mr. Bonl-holder. I am
nothing but a Granger! ~
So you tarn up your hose! Your
papers, owued by your money-making
rings denounce ns. We are all fools!
We are nothing but clod-hoppers,
plow-holders, cow-milkers, and poor
ignorant country jades with hay seed
in our hair! -
In Washington, you sneer at us amd
denounce those who hut tell the story
of our wants, as inflationists, nincom
poops and western trash!
In Wall street, you sit in yoDr pal
ace-furnished offices, drink your
wines, smoke your imported cigars,
plan, scheme, rob and shave the en
tire business interests of the country
outside of your special lines, and
then, haw-haw in glee at the nice way
in which you fixed, things at Wash
ington in the treasury department so
the bond-holders will hold the money,
fix the rates of interest, build up mo
nop dies and enjoy the labor of hon
est men and women without paying
for such labor what it. is worth.
Whai do ice intend to do?
As a granger I will tell you. We
intend to devote ourselves to onr own
interests.
To fill tbe offices and places of pow
er with honest men.
To send thieves to prison, or treat
them to a concert conducted by Judge
Lynch.
To protect ourselves, ‘our wives and
onr children.
To organize wherever the sound of
a dinner horn will awaken an echo,
and* work together in the future as
■yfm,,the thieves, bankers, brokers,
bond-holders, military jobbers, Con
gressmen, Credit "Motilier - swindlers
and others of your class do for the
men, means and measures which fill
our pockets and empty"yours. „
We intend to vote’ for honest men
for office. x
To prevent, being delivered when
swindlers self us to railroad and Oth
er corporations. We intend to har
monize, restore the equilibrium of
finances, and to have laws, money,
and such rates of taxation as will give
the ] low-holder the same chance for
/his life that the bond-hoider has. or
will repudiate the entire national debt
and serve those who come to collect
taxes as they do the surplus wives in
that- country through which the Bos
phorus flows.
I am a Granger.
I work for what I have, but do not
have that which I work for and
earn.
From morn till midnight I toil.—
I ent down trees, bum stumps, build
fences, grub out roots, erect houses,
make roads, improve lands, plant
soeds, raise crops, pay taxes and work
like
property he has stolen, boasts of his
loyalty, helps continue the present
damnable Republican party in pow
er and pays not a penny to - support
the government whose, inqnisitorial
machinery is grinding the life, enter
prise and happiness out of millions
upon millions of honest men and over
worked tax-payers each year.
I am a Granger, and au honest man,
It is true that I have no friends at
court—no influence with the great re
form parly which came in power a
few years ago to abolish slavery!
have no interest in the money of the
country for that all belongs to the
bankers of the east. I have no inter
est in the laws, for I am not a thief,
a monopolist, a railroad owner,
land-grabber, or a relative of the Pres
ident, nhose friends are partners of
thieves and robbers.
I am nothing but a granger now,
but before the next Presidential elec
tion I will be one of millions, who
united will stand, and who united will
strike to the earth, under the feet of
our horses and into oblivion tbe army
of plunderers who now claim to be the
government.
When I see my wrinkled, over
worked wife, my hard working chil
dren, my unfurnished home, my hard
hands, my empty pockets, accumula
ting taxes; when I see my lands being
sold, and all my years of labor going
without profit to myself or my loved
ones, then I am glad that I am
granger, and one of a band of broth
ers in interest, sworn to remedy the
evils and abuses which of late have so
cursed the industries and industrious
ones of the conntry.
I am a Granger to-day.
I will be a savior of the country
and an avenger of its wrongs to-mor
row.—Pomeroys Demoerai.
Horrors of the Flood.
A week ago, when the flood in the
Mississippi was at its height, the width
of the river from Cairo all the way to
the gulf was not less the forty miles,
and in some places it reached sixty
miles.
From Vicksburg down the conntry
is partially, and in some cases wholly
under water. Stock is perishing both
for want of snstance and drowning.
In number of instances houses have
been swept away, and the inhabitants
bene left witbont food or shelter.
Capt. Campbell of tbe steamer R. E.
Lee, picked up from tbe river banks
on bis way down, over a dozen persons;
some of them had.not tasted food for
forty-eight hours, many of them had
been well to do previous to the devas
tation, but all were, without money.
Notwithstanding, the many efforts
made to prevent the levees which sur
round Bayou Sara" from breaking,
do g r f^m'"boylood^to " ihe Saturday night about 7 o’clock the le-
vee between Captains Reed and White
not at present say anything.
Doling the winter of 1870, the Par
isians were terribly frightened lest the, - . r ■ , r| r- -
Prussians should get into the drains, evilliers just now has been com./ared
and- suddenly show themselves in the
middle of the city, as Galimus did at
Veil So they actually walled up. the
main sewer in two or three places,
ers’ yards. There axe many stories • though, before purifying, it had con-
of their fierceness, but of these I need .tailed some thirty per cent, of organ-
/.■: ic matter. No better manure can be
found than the solid matter thus- pre
cipitated? indeed, the plain of Gen-
to Egypt, which, fertile beyond all
belief as far as the Nile nrad ; reaches,
changes to absolute barrenness where
that mod docs not •• "*/«•*?
grave.
When I was minding my own bus
iness you were inciting the people to
strife.
When I was swinging the axe or
steering the plow, years ago in the
land of the pioneers, you were praying
to God, lying about the people of the
South, distributing fanatical books
and building no a wall of prejudice
between honest men of different-
States but of a common interest.
After you had plunged the people
into the red bath of war, you called
on me to help destroy the country.
While you printed notes and bonds,
we signed them in our blood.
While yon, the bond-holders, bro
kers, spoon thieves, abolitionists, long
haired meddlers and prowlers for
plunder were working to fill your pock
ets, I was working to defend theqoun-
try from, dissolution. While you sat
in your fancy offices in the East, -I was
working in the iWest. and South. You
sent your sons to Europe to escape
the draft. 'My sons went to the war
and were killed in one of your dam
nable crusades after cotton, negroes
and silver ware.
While your sons were dancing with
the fancy females of Paris, my poor
sons were dying in hospitals or being
buriedm trenches. I am nothing but
a granger, hut that means a good
deal. It means an honest- man who
ha s at last wakened from the sleep he
has so long been in, and who now pro
poses to work for the good of his fel
low workingmen' and! not for .the:. far
ther enrichment of an army of swin
dlers and corruptionists who live ex
clusively by legislation.
While your wife wears her diamonds
and foreign-made jewelry,-my wife
wears tears and wrinkles.
While your wife rides in her car
riage, bought with money stolen from
the-people, my poor wife walks the
fields to help plant, to- hunt for the
eows anil -slave herself almost to in
sanity to pay the tax-collector and the
soulless wretch who smiles*- smirks
an d mbs his palms as-he reaches for
his interest of three per cent, a
month.
-I am a Granger.
A plow-liolder’.
A man who has been robbed.
A freeman boro, but now a slave to
the money power of the country.
A man who would.- release his chil
dren from bondage.
A maw who pays- taxes and builds
up a country for bond-holders’ tc-
own. . . -’ V -V
a-man who pays taxes on-every dol
lar’s worth of property he has, while
the bond-holder whose income i*
near the railroad depot, gave away
and in a few hours the town was cov
ered with water. On Sunday at
at about 12 o’clock sl, the levee in the
rear C. Bockel’s residence was alsp
broken, a ad the water with fearful ve-
locity, carried away small buildings,
and even large hauses were shaken
from their foundation. Although the
people had warning enough, yet but
few families had, up to Sunday at
noon, moved from the town. AU
seemed to cling to their residences,-
hoping that the water would not
[reach their floors; but in this they
were mistaken. At four o’efoek p.
Sunday every house in Bayou Sara
had been invaded by the streams of
water pouring in from the Mississippi.
The bedding and household goods of
all were floating on carelessly towa d
the foot of the hiU, being driven there
by the force of tne water entering
t jwn. The .cries of women and chil
dren, mingled with that of dogs and
cattle, made it a scene which forced
tears of sympathy to flow from' the
eyes of all who beheld this scene of
desolation. Monday fhe floors of
the buildings were from six to twenty -
four inches under water. The loss of
property is immense. Thousands of
dollars iu merchandise, buildings,
fences, etc., have been swept away.
Business is at an end for Bayou Sara,-
for at least two' months to come. But
coupled with this, and the most seri
ous thing is, that with the reced
ing waters, in summer, yellow and
other pemicions fevere will prevail to
a great extent- To the loss of life
wiR. also follow that of property.—
Reis Orleans Times.
Reduced to Ashes.
An actual case of cremation occur
red in this city on Friday last The
body of Geo. Opdyke, son of Dr.
Francis Opdyke, wns burned in the
cellar of his late residence, 1,949
North Fourth street. George died
on Wednesday morning. Orders
were immediately sent as foUows:
To a boiler maker for a boiler-like
contrivance, six feet and n half long
by two foot six inches in diameter,
closed and riveted at both ends, and
an opening in the middle on binges;
it was to be made of tbe best boiler
iron; to a bricklayer to construct a
furnace in the cellar, closing up with
it the large - opening beneath . the
chimney, and milking a floor of brick;
half way in the furnace and half way
in the chimney on the bnck floor
were erected two little brick towers,
some six feet apart, upon which the
boiler or coffio, flat upon one side
was to rest; for two loads of yellow,
resinio.is pine.
The orders were all filled, and the
work done by Thursday night, and on
Friday morning at 9 o’clock the cere
monies commenced. The body, per
fectly naked, was placed inside the
coffin, which was riveted and screwed
together, put upon the little towers,
which rose about a foot above the
floor, tke tin throat piece taken from
the chimney, wood piled under, about
and all around the iron coffin and set
on fire. The windows were opened
for better draught. It will, of course,
be understood that, to prevent the
boiler bursting, holes were pierced for
the escape of the gases all along the
upper sides. It was kept at a white
heat until 4 o’clock p. u., when they
ceased firing up.
of wood was used.
It was at first thougLt that the cof
fin would be opened about midnight
but it was afterward determined to
allow it to remain as it was until day
light. It was then dawn forth. When
opened not a vestige of body remain
ed —nothing but about a qnart of
whitish gray ashes. These ashes
were collected and are now ir an urn
on the mantel in the doctor’s study.
There is not a particle of bone, among
them, and the doctor declares that
when the ancients burnt their dead on
wood piles and collected the ashes
they took with them many;pieces-of
bone, for, says he, nearly all the old
burial urns opened contained small
bits of bone.
During tbe burning, which tbe doc
tor himself superintended,! and which
was attended by several prominent
physicians aid other gentlemen, there
was a little of an unpleasant odor in
the cellar. It was about? o’clock a, ir.,
that the ashes were deposited in the
urn, When we called-upon the doc
tor he showed us abput a teaspoonful
of these ashes. They are to the touch
much like pulverized sugar, and per
fectly odorless. The vase is shaped
like a common flower vase, corked
and with red sealing wax, and is about
eighteen inches high. Inscribed upon
it is the birth and death of George
Opdyke.—Philadelphia Press.
Against Emigration.
On last Saturday we met with i
friend who seemed anxious'to emigrate
to Texas iir search of rich lands. He
said he conld notbe content to culti
vate as poor lands as we had in Brooks
county. In that we thought he was
right, bnt we greatly differed as what
was the remedy. Onr proposition
was not to emigrate to rich lands and
encounter all troubles and trials ne
cessary to a move to a new country,
but-to remain where we are, make the
lands rich and enjoy all the privileges
and advantages we now possess. We
have no donbt that the same amount
of money, toil and labor it would take
to remove a familv from here to Texas
and settle them there, if properly di
rected in manuring and cultivation,
would make common pine lands of
Brooks as productive as the Texas
tanas. And then how mnny disadvan
tages does the emigrant to that State
labor under! We would not pretend
to depreciate the Lone Star State, bn.t
in talking with a gentleman who had
lived in Texas, and who had travelled
extensively not only in North and
South America, but in the Eastern
hemisphere also, he remarked, “Tex
as has some rich lands, very rich, but
that is all yon can say for it.” Let us
go 'o work to have some very rich
lands in Brooks also. Let us not on
ly improve the soil, but make your
homes attractive to onr children and
comfortable to ourselves—raise all of
our provisions, and live independent
and be contented.— Quitman Report
er.
Compulsory Edaeatf >ii.
One Hor.se of tbe New York Legis-
A cord and a half ,atnrft hfts l J:lssocl a compuisory educa
tion bill. The first section will show
f. J. CATER & SON,
PERRY.- GA
Afo n6# feCarffife' fhtif
SPRING & SUMMER STOCK
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING^
BOOTS, SHOES,
CROCKEEtf,
ETC.*, ETC., ETC.
A“°>
on Wand 1 :
30 } casks choice smoked SIDES,
with SYRUP,
SUGAR and
COKpEEi-
CH WE OFFER FOR SAJr
—AT—
FAIR PRICES.
J. CATER. F. S. CATER".
D. n. HOUSES.
W. H. HOUSES.’
Matrimonial Matters.
A young woman in Iowa the fourth
"day after her marriage, met an old
lover who persuaded her to elope with-
him;, and the couple have not been
heard from since ^
A western paper says of the air,
kisses and blesses min, but will no
obey him. ” Blobb3 says that descrip
tion suits his wife exactly/ ;
An Iowa jury recently decided that
when a marriage engagement is broken
the parties must return all- the pres
ents or their value in money.
King Coffee, of Askante,- keeps his
3,333 wives under the’same roof with
his powder magazine. If the powder
blows up he don’t want it all- wasted
for nothing.
It is- said that the' custom' of having
orange blossoms for bridal wreathes
was derived from the Saracens, with
whom the orange branch,- from its
; bearing fruit and flowers at the same .
timPj was ffinciJoPfl/]. OT»- amKlam. a.9 !
prosperity.
Largest Flower iu Ihc World.
On some of the East India islands,
where so many queer things 'grow,
is found a flower that measures a full
yard across. Yet it has only a cup-
like centre, and five broad, thick
fleshy petals. Seen from a distance,
throngh the dark-green leaves of the
vines among which it grows, the rich
wine-tint of the flower, flecked with
spots of a lighter shade, is said
to impart a warmth and brilliancy of
color to the whole surrounding scene.
But the nearer the observer comes—
all eagerness to see more closely so
wonderful a flower—the less does he
like it. Not that the color is less
beautiful; but who cares for beauty in
human beings, when its possessor is
malicious, disdainful, or untruthful?
and who cares for beauty in a flower,
when'the odor is disagreeable?
So notwithstanding, its proudly
brilliant color, and its great size,, the
rafflesia-amoldia will never be ad
mired; for we are told that, its “odor
is intolerable, polluting the atmos
phere for many feet around.” An
other badtrait of its flower-character is
that it'is too lazy to support itself,
b'ntlives upon the labors of others.
In the forests where it is found, there
are many vines, sometimes climbing
up the trunks of the trees, and some
times hailing along tne ground.
Fastening itself to a vine in the latter
position, the unprincipal raffleria
grows wifhotrt other trouble to itself
than- to djaW foYks- oWn use, the hu-
trimest whieh -the industrious vine-
roots- are' all the while collecting from
the earth. This Fine .must be very
amiable, you think? Ah!- hut . the
poor vine cannot help itself. It can
not shake off the big, selfish, flower,
and can only work harder than ever
to collect supplies sufficient to nourish
the odious - kahger-on,- and: have
enough, in addition; for' its own
branches and leaves.— jS£ Nicholas.
its scope:
Section 1. All parents and those
having the care of children shall in
struct them, or cause them to be in
structed, in spelling, reading, writing,
English grammer, geography and
arithmetic. And every parent, guar
dian or other person fofving control
of any child between the ages of eight
and fifteen shall cause such child to
attend some public or private day
school at least fourteen weeks in each
year, eight weeks at least of which at
tendance shall be consecutive, or to
be instructed, regularly at home at
least fourteen weeks in each year in
spelling, reading, writing, English
grammer, geography, and arithmetic,
unless the physical or mental condi
tion of the child is such as to render
such attendance or instruction inex
pedient and impracticable.
The bill passed tbe Assembly by a
vote of sixty-eight to thirty-five. It is
said that the Senate will probably re
ject it. It is a straw, however, which
shows the direction of a prevailing
wind. Compulsory education is at
tracting more tffrd more attention doi
ly, not only in this country, but in
England, and in Europe. Germany
has had long such a law. England
bos modified enactment of the same
kind, and so has Italy,, and the sub
ject has long been under discussion
Austria. Several of our States
have passed compulsory education
laws, which have worked well in prac
tice.
Sumner’s Succ ssors.
The result of the election for U. S.
Senator, to fill the vacancy of the late
Charles Sumnet, was reached on the
thirty-third ballot. The whole num
ber of votes cast was 267—134 neces
sary to a choice, Tl ie vote stood as*
follows, electing Hon. William B.
Washburn by a respectable majority;
Washburn, 151; Curtis, 6-^/Dawes, 2d;
Adams,. 15; Loriug, 4; Banks, 4; Wen
dell Phillips, 1; Stephen U. Gifford, 1;
John G. Whittier, 1.
William B. Washburn was born in
Winchester, Mass., January 30, 1820
and graduated at Yale College in 1844
He has always been engaged in the
manufacturing business; was a mem
ber of the State Senate in 1850, and
of the lower house in 1854; was subse
quently President of the Greenfield
Bank, and was eleeted a representa-
tive from Massachusetts to the Thirty-
eighth Congress, serving the commit
tees on claims, and revolutionary
pensions. He was a delegate to the
Philadelphia “Loyalists’ Convention”
of 1866, and was re-elected .to. the
Fortieth Congress. He has since the
war been twice elected by the Repub
licans as Governor of the State, which
position-he now holds.
Rather Huge:
Yostmite Valley has liakk Hs Supe
rior in the matter of big trees- in- tbe
region: of the River Jbhnsfofie,- in Au
stralia. The English Government
botanist recently found-there a- huge
fig tree which- three’ feet' froth the
ground, measured 150 feet in circum
ference; at fifty-five feet, where it
2,000,000 Immigrant 1 ’.
<Wery near two miliion Irish emi-
... ucaiuig Jiliju ouu uuwera iat uu same I . - I- - “““ |
counted by thousands lives at ease and | was considered an- emblem of 1 sent ffrtli giant branches,- the stem j grants have landed in New York dur-1
enjoys in idleaSSS Ike fr-uit of the ' prosperity. was nearly 80 feet in circumference, ing. the past twenty-five yeas.-
STONEWALL MILLS).
H AYING completed the repairs of our
STONEWALL, late Carr & Jone’s,-
MILLS, we are now ready to grind for the
public, saw on shares or sell merchantable
Lumber at $i 00 perTOO
Feet
iig-Hoping by strict attention, to give'
full satisfaction we solicit the patronage of
the neighborhood.-
April 2ti 4t. HOUSER Jt SON.-
NEW GOODS II
JUST RECEIVED!
AT MDS. TURNER- & EVANS’
LADIES’-HATS,!
MISSES’& BOY’S HAfS,
CENTENNIAL RUFFS
TtffrtfMED BONNETS,
FLOWERS, RIBBONS,
FEATHERS & M AN^
OTHER ARTICLES
To numerous to mention.
No 3, COOK’S RANGE, Peny, Ga,
ni4tf
THE BEST INVESTMENT
W HO wish to obtain a thorough Practi
cal Business Education, and p
themselves for the duties of Actual I
Life, under the instruction and advice of
Experienced Accountants, should attend
STANDARD INSTITUTION,
AND HEADING
Business School in the South.-
CONDUCTED ON.*
ACTUAL-BUSINESS'PRINCIPLE.-
Supplied.with banking and otheroffiWs;
combining every know tacility for impart
ing a thorough practical' and- systembtic’
knowledge of the science of accounts, in the'
shortest posable time, and at the least ex-
>ense. Students received for Telegraphy,
fo vacation. Students admitted at any
time. Circulars containing Terms, etc .-
mailed on application.
Peb.28. 1871.
B. F. MOORE, A. AL
If
Superior Court.
At thft t
this Court!
in the following order:
Term of-
be called'
1st.
2u. APPEAL
3rd. EQUITY
4th. CLAIM
5th. C.
Buying Things.
A farmer should never go to town ,
without currying something to sell— i
butter, eggs, potatoes, poultry or even !CRIMINAL <fc
a load of wood. By so doing bis in- !*° . as
come is quite sure to exceed his out-
s.- There is no more miserable an d
poverty-stricken way than to kaep
sending to the stores and shops, and
having things charged, : with the ex
pectation of. paying for them when
special crops come. -
Sausage Bi’cuit.
A new foim of Biscuit for troops
used in Russia- With satisfactory :
=sults: It is Composed 1 of one third
rye flonr, one third of beef reduced to
powder and- one third of- pfiWerized
sauerkraut.- Great >-elis'a for the food
and' excellent health characterized
soldiers who’ used it.-