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LIQUORS, pORTERS,
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AUGUSTA, GA.
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MUITc. HUDSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Thomson, Ga.
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ness outrusted to his care.
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tflt Broad Street. Augusta, Georgia.
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or day.
April 9 lim
R. W. H. NEAL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMSON, GA.
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CHARLES S, DuBOSE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WARRENTON, GA.
ts-tr Will practice in the courts of the
Northern, Middle and Augusta Circuits.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMSON, GA.
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jan JCw t GA.
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THOMSON, GA.,
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Paints, Oils. Varnishes, Glass, Putty, Pure
Wines and Liquors for Medicinal purposes.
Kerosene Oi* of 150 fire test; also Lamps,
Chimnies and Burnes.
ALSO, Just received a fresh supply of
Buiats Warranted Garden Seeds.
Prescriptions carefully compounded.
jan 15 mil
Thomson High School
ion bops .i.m gihls.
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The Spring Term began on the I.lth of
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The Fall Term begins August 11th and
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ND
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March 26 Viy
20Dollars Reward!
T?
i' ELIX Ransom, colored, an apprentice
bound to the undersigned to learn the black
smith trade, ran away Saturday night, 17th
inst. He is about 17 years of age, is tall
and slim, with flat face and large head and
mouth, and is very nearly black, had on
when he left dark clothes and a dove color
ed hat. He will probably seek employment
as a blacksmith.
The above reward will be paid for his de
livery to me, or his arrest aud confinement
until I can secure him.
•JOHN M. CURTIS.
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THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA., JUNE 18,1873.
POETICAL.
The Blue and the Gray.
[The following appeared in the columns of
the Journal once before, but its touching
beauty and pathos justify its republication.]
By the flow of the inland river.
Whence the fleets of iron hath fled.
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver.
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgement day;
Under tho one the Blue.
Under the other the Gray.
, These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory.
In the dusk of Eternity meet;
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgement day,
Under the laurel, fie Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours,
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike for the friend and the foe ;
Under tho sod aud the dew,
Waiting the Judgement day,
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lillies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the Judgement day ;
Wet with the rain, the Bluo,
Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not upbraiding.
The generous deed was done,
In the storm of tho years that are fading,
No braver battle was won ;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgement day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the war-cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red.
They banish our anger forever,
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgement day i
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
A Day Dream.
In a long-forgotten pockcs,
Tied up with ft fiilken band,
I found it: only a letter,
Traced in ft girlish hand,
I read it over and over,
Ah rae! as I did before,
In the days that we were full of sunlight—
The days that are no more.
I dreamed of a golden summer,
Far back in a joyous time,
When every day was a poem,
And every hour a rhyme.
There came a fragrance of roses,
And lilacs, and mignonette,
And a sound of sylvan music.
And the eyes that arc with me yet,
A flood of purple sunset,
In Kcintillnnt glory came,
Till the deep old forest kindled,
And burned like a fluid of flame.
There came a girlish figure.
With billows of floating hair,
And she bent her face above me—
An angel over my chair.
I saw it all in a moment,
While I held the crumpled sheet
And then, as the vision faded,
The long, gray city street.
With its hateful rush and clamor,
Cajne back to my eyes, ;
Ah. still the fruitless struggle !
Ah, still the worthless prize!
SELECT RISC ELLA AT.
Mr. Maynard’s Hired Man.
“Dickery. dickery, flock,
The mouse run up the clock ;
The clock struck one,
Anil down he run ;
Dickery—”
“Oh, my good gracious! how dare
you ?” Fanny laid the pink bundle down
in a rocking-chair full of pillows. The
bundle protested with a vigorous move
ment, aud in another moment the roek
ing-cliair and the baby came down to
gether. “Now, you awful man, the
child is killed !” cried Fanny, with a
scared face, as she lifted the tiny morsel
from the floor; but the pillows had pro
tected it, and the startled baby, after
one effort at curling her lips, broke into
a charming smile.
“No harm done ; and I trust I’m for
given,” said Mathew Donn.
“No you are not forgiven. I shall
never forgive you Air. Mathew Donn ;
so please leave baby aud me, I have noth
ing more to say.”
“AVell, I—l’m going.”
“You can go, sir.”
The young man went softly, slowly
out ; but he looked neither grieved nor
angry on the other side of the door, he
smiled.
The circumstances were these :
Fanny had been amusing her sister’s
child, and the little eherub seemed
never to tire of musical sounds ; so Fan
ny, who had “Mother Goose” by heart,
liked flothiug better than to sit in the
cozy sitting-room, which was really the
nursery, and sing these old melodies.
Mathew Donn was the hired man and
on this particular morning had stolen
quietly behind Miss Fanny and, tempt
ed of—what ? surely not the Evil One—
had bent over and kissed her on the fore
head.
Aud this he had dared to do, knowing
that Fanny was a city young lady, living
in a fashionable quarter, aud used to the
best society.
Fanny’s sister had married a rich far
mer not quite two years before. People
talked about these Brysons burying them
selves alive, but both Olive and Fanny
loved the country better than the town.—
Every summer Funny was glad to leave
the “stuffy old house,” as she called it,
and almost by one leap on the express
train find herself in paradise breathing
air redolent of white clover and sweet
brier. During the winter the sisters cor
responded regularly ; and Olive had
sung the praises of Mathew Donn, their
hired man, so often that Fanny found
herself thinking of his acquaintance as
one of the pleasant probabilities of her
next visit.
“We don’t pretend to treat hhu as
help,” wrote Olive, holding her baby
on her knee and steadying the paper
with a bronze weight ; “for he is not in
the least like men who hire out in these
parts. I should be ashamed not to ask
him to come to the table ; and just for
the novelty of it, I want you to take a
peep in his room. Harry calls him his
kaka avis ; and the two really enjoy
themselves together almost like brothers.
Besides he’s nearly as humlsome as my
Harry ; he, you lmow, is the handsomest
man iu the world !”
Aud the pleasant pen ran on aud told
about planting the prospective sweet
corn, and pea blossoms, and how the
grajie vines were full of the tiniest bunch
es, and young peach trees were going to bo
splendid, and Adela had two of the “cun
ningest, milk-white-teeth,” and I know
not how much more loving nonsense.
Now Fanny had a rich lover, and like
most rich lovers, he was not prepossessing
in his personal appearance. Iu her writ
ten language to Olive, “he pestered her
to death.” To be sure it was pleasant to
see his splendid equippage iu the front
of their .door, with the two superb grays,
for on rare occasion Fanny yielded to his
solicitations to take a ride, and he always
mauaged to drive her by his castle of a
brown stone front, perhaps to tempt
her ; for Fanny was fond of beautiful
things as women ought to be, and was
well aware of the advantages which
money cau give.
Both her father and mother were anx
ious that she should marry the Hon.
Ebenezer Wolcott, but Fanny was high
spirited, and they seldom advised her.—
The girl knew that they were living be
yond their means for her sake, and this
knowledge had been bitterly earned.—
She aud Olive had many conferences over
it.
“I think if you wore married,” said
Olive, “papa would come here aud take
a small house ; then business need not
press him in his old age. ”
Ebenezer had done the proper thing—
hail offered Fanny his heart, his house
his carriage, and his horses, and although
he was known for a pugnacious old gen
tleman, terribly set in his own way, he
was honorable, and he loved beautiful
Fanny Bryson with all his heart. And
Fanny hail told him that she could not
then deoid—that she was going for the
summer months to sister Olive’, and at
the close of her visit she would give him
his answer.
“And may I come out there Homo
times ?” asked Eben.
Fanny gave a reluctant consent, and
wished with all her hi art that she had
refused him ; so, with the understanding
that he was to call as a friend, the two
parted.
“Can this be the hired man ?” thought
Fanny ; and then she looked at his dress.
Not a trace of servitude about him ; but
he treated her with extreme deference,
said but little, drove with tho precision
of a man accustomed to horses, and drew
up before the cottage in grand style.
Fanny was in her sister’s arms, aud
after her, the baby came in for a fair
share of kisses.
“Well, is that your hired man?” quer
ried Fanny, after her comfortable install
ment in one of the luxurious easy chairs.
“Yes, dear ; that is Mathew Donn.—
How did you like him ?”
“He looks like a gentleman,” said
Fanny after a little pause.
“He is a gentleman, dear, in the best
sense of the word. I told you that. ”
“And does he speak English well ?”
“Why, child, he isn’t a foreigner,”
laughed Olive.
“I mean grammatically,” said Fanny.
“Oh yes ; I presume he has had a good
common-school education,” replied Olive,
“and something better. I know there
are certain clasical books in his room ;
whether he ever read them or not I can’t
say.”
“Why in the world does he hire out ?”
cried Fanny, dismay in her voice.
“Why shouldn’t he?” asked Olive
laughing heartily again. “He likes the
country, is used to horses, aud—and I
suppose he can’t get anything better to
do.”
“But a man like him—be somebody!”
ejaculated Fanny, with vehemence.—
“My patience ! has he no ambition ?
I’m afraid I shall despise him.”
“Perhaps, dear, he wouldn’t mind if
you did,” said Olive, hiding her face in
the white neck of her baby. “He is so
very independent.”
Surely, why should he care what she
thought of him ? soliloquized Fanny, her
cheeks flushing.
The next day she met him at the table.
It seemed strange enough to sit down
with hired help but she was forced to
confess that in nothing did he give the
impression of being a menial
“Shall we take hold of that five acre
lot this morning ?” he asked respectfully,
of Mr. Maynard, Olive’s husband.
“No; I prefer you should look to the
drainage of that strip east of the hill,”
TERMS--TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
was the answer. There’ll be no rain yet
a while, and I want to prepare that land
for potatoes.”
Fanny watched Mathew Donn out on
the sly, and Olive caught her at it,
“I wanted to see what kind of dress
he works in,” said Fanny, with tell-tale
cheeks.
“Don’t you think him a little hand
some in his blouse and heavy field
boots ?" asked Olive.
“He certainly is very handsome,” said
Fanny frankly. “but why in the world
—however,” she added, stopping short,
“it’s none of my business ; but such a
man as that should surely work his own
land.”
“That’s true, said Olive quietly.
Time passed on. Fanny become ac
customed to eat, sit, and even talk with
a hired man. One day Olive took her
up to his room. Fanny stood aghast.—
It was as exquisit in its way as a lady’s
boudoir.
“He furnished it himself,” said Olivo,
iu reply to Fanny’s look of surprise.
“A Wilton carpet,” murmured Fanny;
“marble-top set; that Paychel, those
floweres !—aud what is this ?” She lifted
a lovely little miniature from tho table,
one of the most beautiful and refined
faces she had ever seen.
“Oh, one of his friends, I snppose,
said Olive, iu her undemonstrative way.
“And see how perfectly neat everything
is kept ; always in this beautiful order.
Do you wonder Harry calls him his bai:a
avis ?”
“Indeed I cannot,” said Fanny slowly,
“But he must spend every cent he earns
to furnish himself in this extraordinary
manner. ”
“He has nothing else to do with his
money, dear,” said Olivo ; he don’t even
buy cigars. For my part I think he is
perfectly elegant.
Fanny said nothing but she found her
self wishing that she knew who was the
original of that lovely miniature, and
trying to reconcile the tastes and sur
roundings of the man himself with his
servile occupation. Not but what the
work was good enough aud honorable for
any man ; but why was he not laboring
for himself instead of another,
For days she thought of the miniature
Every time she met him, heard him talk
or sing—-he had a fine voice, and was
not averse to using it—up popped that
mysterious face with the Spanish eyes
and the clustering .curls.
Mr. Eben Wolcott, meantime, had
taken advantage of her reluctant per
mission uud brought his dashing team to
Wiuuicut. Poor Fanny, at sight of Lis
respectable aldermanic person, his gold
bowed spectacles, and thick gray whis
kers, felt a Btrange sinking at heart.—
Why would that six-footer rise up hi her
imagination aud cause by mere force of
contract a repulsion so terrible.
“It’s positively wicked for mo to seem
to encourage that man,” she said, almost
passionately, ouo morning, the day after
a drive.
“Which man ?” asked OUve, inno
cently, and their eyes met.
The red blood flew all over poor Fan
ny’s face ; she felt hot to the crown of
her head—and yet why should she ?
“That’s a pretty question to ask !” she
exclaimed, nearly angry.
“Well, my dear, how am I to know
who “that man’ is?” querried Olive,
with a conscious look.
“You know it is Mr. Wolcott,” said
Fanny, nearly crying.
“Well, he is a good man, and a rich
one,” was the answer. I know girls who
would jump at the chance, as the saying is.
I would either marry him or seudhim off.”
“Psliw !” said Fanny, biting her red
lips and a few moments after she left the
room, conscious of anew, a painful, and
ut the same time strangely delightful ex
perience. No use to try to conceal it or
cloak it to herself—not the slightest ; she
loved Mathew Bonn, her sister's hired
man.
How she paced her room, half distract
ed, sobbing without tears, forming wild
resolves, and then tlirowing herself down
with a sense if her utter helplessness
I shall not describe. How could she
ever meet him again ? Could she keep
her almost painful secret, and did Olivo
guess at it ? What would Olive thiuk—
what counsel her if she knew ?
Only the next time that Mr. Eben
Wolcott came out she quietly dismissed
him, and then made up her mind thatshe
must go home. If she could only fly to
the ends of the earth !
But Fanny did not go, for Olive would
not hear to it. A slight cold confined
Oilve to her room, but one evening she
sent Fanny out and bade her perempto
rialy to take Harry and go for a walk.
Then she summoned her husband to
give him his orders, but when ho came
down stairs Fanny was gone, and Math
ew, with a wickd little smile’ was taking
down his hat.
“That’s right Donn,’ said Harry breake
ing into a laugh, ‘she ought to know bet
ter than to go alone. By-the-way, I
happen to know she dismissed old alder
mam”
Donn smiled again and wont out clo
sing the door behind him. There was a
bright moon, displaying flower, leaf and
bud. Supposing that Fanny would only
make the round of the place, he ran swift
ly down to the back gate and met her just
as she had reached the great elm that
stood guarding the l.ine.
She started at sight of him.
“You will allow me to walk with you ?’’
he said. “There is a squad of gypsies
in the neighborhood, ond someone
might molest you.”
Fanny could not say no ; could not
talk, then, for with ready tact he took
all the conversation on himself. What
did he not touch upon? Opera, arts, na
ture, city, country-all derived new beau
ty from the glamour of his tongue.
Was it strange that Fanny found herself
leaning on his atm and listening with
wrapt attention to the eloquence of his
speech ? From that time there was a
certain tacit understanding between
them, and all went smoothly till the
morning he kissed her. For that Fan*
ny was angry at herself th at she was not
angrier with him. All day long she was
full of moods, changing from grave to
gay, from fits of reflection to the wildest
merriment.
“Fanny,” said Harry, coming up to
his wife’s room after tea, “Mr. Donn
wishes to speak to you down stairs,”
Donn was in the parlor, walking back
and forth. And came to meet her with
outstretched hand.
“I want you to forgive my rudeness
of the morning,” said he. “In my as
sumed character I had no right to take
such a liberty, or, indeed, in my own,”
“You assumed character !”'she ex.
claimed trembling, as she seated her
self.
‘ ‘Yes my friend Harry met me a year
ago, when we were both travelling. I
was a good deal run down in health, and
the doctor said that were Ia laboring
man I might overcome the disease that
was waiting me. So I contracted with
Harry to work for him, like any com
mon farmer and he was to keep my real
name and position a secret. ”
He saw the change in her beautiful
eyes.
“My real name is Donn Mathews,” he
added, smiling,“and there is no need
of my working for a living, but I really
think I shall go in partnership with my
friend Harry, and turn farmer. But you
have net told me whether you forgive,
me.”
“I—l don’t know,” retorted Fanny,
half laughing* half crying.
“Fanny, Fanny! if you knew howl
loved you," he cried, suddenly stopping
in front of her, “I do think you would. 1 '
“I—l am so, so glad !”
It was not polite, perhaps our confes
sion, but it was v ery natural.
“Aud I thiuk I can match your aider
man’s house,” he added, taking her hands
in his, “dear, dear Fanny I”
“And his horses?” laughed Fanny
looking up with beaming eyes.
•‘Yes, dearest, end perhaps—himself
and the ringing laugh, united sounded
through the house. Os course Harry—
who had an inkling—and Olive came
down stairs, and of course everybody was
very happy over it.
"Horry,” said, after a moment, “I
think I am qnito cured.”
Two Curious Needles,
The King of Prussia recently visited a
needle manufactory in his kingdom, in
order to see what machinery, combined
with the human hand could produce.
He was shown a number of superfine
needles, thousands of which together did
not weigh half an ounce, and marvelled
how such minute objects could be pierced
with an eye. But he was to see in this
respect oven something still finer and
more perfect could be created. The bo
rer—that is, the workman whose buisness
it is to bore the eyes in those needles—
asked for a hair from the monarch’s head
It was readily given, and with a smile he
placed it at once under the boring ma
chine, turned a hole in it with the great
est care, furnished it with a thread, and
then hunded the singular needle to the as
tonished King.
The second curious needle is in the
possession of Queen Victoria. It was
made at the celebrated needle factory at
Redditch, and represents the column of
Trajan in minature. This well known
Roman column is adorned with numer
ous scenes in sculpture, which immort
alize Trajan’s heroic action in the war.
On this diminutive needle scenes in the
life of Queen Victoria are represented in
relief, but so finely cut and so small that
it requires a magnifying glass to see
them. The Victoria needle can, more
over, be opeu( a nd; it contains a number of
needles of smaller size, which are equal
ly adorned witn senes in relief.
Botanical Learning. —J. J. Smith,
in his addross before the Germantown
Horticultural Society, mentions an old
gardener who, when asked after his
health, said he had no exact disease, but
was afraid he had a little touch of the
complaint called Anno Domini ! and
that it was probably the gardener’s son,
who said the only botanical names he
could remember were Aurora Borealis
and delirum tremens. This was not so
bad as Sydney Smith, who was very caus
tic in a joke on a certain noble lady, who
was arrogantly claimed that she had
every cultivated plant in her garden.—
“Save yoa psoriasis t” asked Smith.—
Unwilling to be found at fault, she
promptly replied : “O yes, I obtained it
of Lord A.” (It is the scientific name
of the itch.)
An unfortunate calf has been born in
Indiana without a tail and is as yet all
unconscious of the horrors of “fly time.”
AdvortUiu«f IlaiCSi
One Hquare, first insertion $ 1 e 4
Each subsequent insertion T<
One square three months 10 0#
Onesqaresix months IS 0*
One square twelve months 20 00
One quarter column twelvemonths. 40 0*
Half column six months 60 00
Half colnmn twelve months 75 00
One column twelve mouths 124 00
*v?r Ten lines or less considered a square
All fractions of squares counted ass (uare*
Postal Law Summary.
The Richmond Dispatch has procured
from the Post Office Department all the
postal laws now in force, as well as those
which go into effect on the first of June,
from which we compile the following:
FOR ALL EDITORS AND ALL SDBSCBIBEKS.
The new law allows no matter to be
sent free through the mails. So weekly
papers will hereafter be subject to a pos
tage of 20 cent per annum, even in tho
counties wherein published (and only 20
cents whereever delivered.) Newspaper
editors will have to pay 20 cents per an
num on their weekly, 40 on their semi
weekly, 60 on their tri-weekly, $1,20 on
their daily exchanges. Nobody can frank
letters hereafter. But Congress appro
priated money to pay postage Upon dead
letters to be sent to Washington, and
upon letters and other mailable matter
to bo sent by tlie President of the United
States, and perhaps some of the head
bureaus and the clerks of the two bouses
of Congress. No such appropriation was
made for Congressmen themselves,
PRSPAVJtENT ON NEWSPAPERS.
The postage on regularly-sent news
papers and other periodicals is not re
quired to be paid at the office from which
they are sent, but may be paid there. It
must be in advance at the office of delev*
ery if not paid at the office from which
sent,
miscellaneous.
There shall be three classes of mail
matter : Letters, regular printed matter,
and miscellaneous matter.
All liquids, poison, glass, explosive
materials, and obscene books shall be ex
cluded from the mails.
No package weighing more than four
pounds shall be received for conveyance
by moil, except books published or cir
culated by order of Congress.
Postmasters shall notify the pu is’.ier of
any newspaper or other periodical when
any subscriber shall refuse to take the
same from the office, or neglect to call
for it for the period of one month.
All mail matter deposited for mailing,
on which at least one full rate of postage
has been paid os required by law shall be
forwarded to its destination charged with
the unpaid rate, to be collected on de
livery.
If any mail mutter on which by law
the postage is required to be prepaid
at the mailing office shall by inadver
tence reach its destination without such
prepayment, double the prepaid rates
shall be charged and collected on deliv-
ery.
No mail matter shall be delivered un
til the postage duo thereon is paid.
Drop letters two cents where there is
a system of free delivery, other places
one cent.
On newspapers aid other p rio ica’S
publications not exceeding four ounces
in weight sent from a known office of
publication to regular subscribers pos
tage shall be charged at the following
rates per quarter—namely : On publica
tions issued less frequently than once a
week at the rate one cent, for each issue,
issued once a week five cents per quar
ter; and five cents additional per quai
ter, for each issue more frequent than
once a week. And an additional rate
shall be charged for each additional four
ounces or fraction thereof in weight.
Every route agent, postal clerk, or
other carrier of the mail, shall receive
any mail matter presented to him if prop
erly prepaid by stamp, and deliver tho
same for mailing at the next post-office
at which he arrives; but no fees shall be
allowed him therefor.
No money order shall be issued for
mure than fifty dollars, and the fee*
therefor shall be: For orders not exceed
ing ten dollars, five cents; gxceed
ing ten and not exceeding twenty dollars,
ten cents ; exceeding twenty and not
exceeding thirty dollars, fifteen cents;
exceeding thirty and not exceeding forty
dollars, twenty cents; exceeding forty
dollars, twenty-five cents.
Manufaturing.
The benefit of manufacturing estab
lishments to a town is pointedly illustra
ted in an incident mentioned by Dr.—
Morse before the St. Louis Farmers’
Club. He said : “A few yeara ago, a
gentleman having invented an improve
ment in mowing machines, proposed to
the citizens of Canton, Ohio, that they
should loan him SIO,OOO to manufacture
them at that place. They did it, and
that one manufactory was the nucleus
around whioh the following have gather
ed : Two immense agricultural imple
ment manufactories, one of plows ex
clusively, one of stoves and hollow-ware,
one of paper, one of mower-knives, one
of saddlery and harness, two of funiture,
one of horse-rakes, one of farm-wagons,
one of cultivators, one of wrought iron
bridges, ona of soap, besides a largo
number of others, more or less extensive.
Those numbered are not small con
cerns, the machine interest alone sup
porting 2,500 people. The town has
trebled in population, quadrupled in
wealth, and the people, satisfied with tha
experiment, are still pushing forward in
that direction. These facts were given in
1867. If we had facts up to this date, a
still more important growth would doubt
less be shown, because it is like rolling a
snow-ball—the larger the ball the mote
rapidly it. accumulates.