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POETICAL.
THE HUMBUG.
Os mellow voire and soft address,
hh* »« no meek at find yon'd guess
That aha oould only an«w«. ••Ye*,”
The Hutu hug!
Bpeak yon too plainly ? aba’ll only try
To hide bar blushes from your aya,
And breathe the while, parhapa. a «gh,
The Hmubog!
And afaonld yon make your last demand,
She ll only gently pr«KH yew hand
Prrbsps she doaa not undaratand
The Humbug!
Tree not your unit, uor lore Iwatow,
Unless yon really want to know
How firmly aba can answer, ••No,"
The Humbug!
WISE AND OTHER WISE.
A truism ■ An e»; ensire wife makes a
pensive husband.
The good Raraaritan stopped at the sound
of woe; so doaa a good horse.
Sunday boots squeak more than every
day ones. So do Hnndar Christians.
Marriage is described by a French cyaie |
as a tiresome book with a very fine preface.
What diaagraaabla parson wss it that
the national tnna of Amsrioa is the spit
toon?
Crusty says that the list of marriages m
tbs newspapers ought to be put under the
head of “Bing Franda."
The saw Spring bat waa originally In
tended for a bnatla, and has crawled np as
far aa the back of the neck.
Mre. Ira Mead, of Greenwioh, who la one
hundred and six years old, says: "Fow
people die after they get to be a hundred."
The entire assets of a recent bankrupt
were nine children. The creditors acted
magnanimously and allowed him to keep
them.
A Connecticut patriot offers to tote
Rhode Island to tha Centennial if some of
our wealthy men will pay for the wheel,
barrow.
Irate wife (whose huahand has returned
home lata) —“Now, 111 give yon a piece of
»y mind." nnsbaud —‘'Don't, my deal;
yon can’t spare it!
A woman in a Western city recently fell
out of a second-story window on her head.
Bha said she didn’t know when anything
had made her ao mad before.
When a St. Louie grocer recently discov
ered that an employee named llall had been
etealing, there was only one thing to do to
Ball, and that waa to “bounce" him.
!o Philadelphia they have handkerchiefs
with the Declaration of Independence on
them, printed in Freuch, German and Kug
liab, so that a mun can now blow hi* noec
in three language*.
An exchange says: “New York ladies
wear nothing but gypsy hsu." And unless
the brim of the hat ie at least four feet
deep, and tur. a down all around, we should
think a modest mail would want to leave
tha city.
A grumbling oar driver eaid to a passen.
gar: “You always want me to atop when
yon get ofT. “No, eir," eaid the passenger,
who hail no jumping notions, "I don't
care what you do. I ouly waut the car to
atop. You can go on. ’
Ai))H!sn:uccs are often deceitful, but
when a man who is engaged to a red heeded
girl, is seen nt midnight, with both arms
around a atreet lamp, tolling it it is too
sweet to live, it is usually safe to presume
that anew kind of temperance bitters haa
bean introduced into the neighborhood.
Art received rather an awkward criticism
from a free-and-easy young men who re
oantiy met a sculptor in a social circle, and
addressed him thus: “Er—er so you are
the moo-er—that makes- er mud heads?"
And this was the answer: “Er—er— not
all of them ; I didn't make yourn."
A Jersey street car man wrote to his
sweetheart: "I don't care much what I
do, you seem to feel stuck up above a hose
oar driver: if my bauds is large my hart ie
to. I want yer to understand that it ie
easy to cry tears, but at the same time yer
hart may be tuffern a bell strap."
An old Baptist preacher enforced the na
oaasity of differences of opinion by argu
ment : “Now, if everybody had been ot
my opinion, they would all have wanted
my old woman." Oue of the deacons, who
■at juet behind him, reapouded: “Yes;
and if everybody waa oi my opinion, no
body would have her."
That our girls have a fine ear for music
cannot be gainsaid. —Milwaukee paper.
Eight, neighbor. When a Milwaukee girl
is requested to play the piano (like) forte,
ahe does not aak Aim, with a smile that
meets at the back of her neck, to “Juet
flop over that ere music," but site right
down and turns the leave* with her off ear.
“Wher's the bar?” asked a dirty and
rather boozy looking individual of the bell
boy at the hotel the other day. “What
kind of a bar ?" asked the latter. “Why, a
saloon bar, of course; w hat do yon sup
pose I mean?" Wall,” drawled the boy, “I
didn’t know but you mesut s bar of eoap.”
They sat in the parlor and he squeezed
her band. “Oh, would this baud were
mine,'' he sighed. “Why ?” she simpered.
* Because, if it was mine 1 could knock a
bull down with it bettor than I could with
a sledge hammer." The next seen of that
young mat he was trying to climb to the
top of the house by means of (be light.,
mag rod
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| COMMCKICATED. ]
McDrrr:* Oats.
Itocky Hill, June 6, 1876.
Editor* :
About the first of November last, 1 set
apayt and had our county Surveyor meas
ure off, just four acres ct land. My object
| was to enclose it to raise barley tor past
| uring my stock. I concluded to try first
: one crop of oats. I began by broadcaat
| ing 360 bushels of cotton seed ; then
■owed 9J bushels of Bed Bust-proof
oata, p.owed all under together, with a
common one-horse turn plow, and lei 1
them to grow, which they did vigorously
from the beginning. They soon attract
ed tue attention of my neighbors, and
all paoaers-by ; aud now, since they are
harvested, 1 hare thought it would be
well to publish the amount gathered
from tho lot in your valuable paper.
In order to ascertain as near as possi
ble bow much tho lot produced, without
measuring it all, I had Professor N. E.
Ware measure off one acre through
the centre of the hit. 1 then invited un
cle Vince Beese, Hon. John H. Scott,
and H. McCorkle to be present ami
superintend the weighing aud measur
ing. These gentlemen begau by weigh
ing, on ‘ Fairbanks' Scab's,” the sheat
oats from the aero, amounting to 6,440
pounds. They then weighed two lots of
100 lbs. each, and had them thresh and
out. The average was 37j lbs, per hun
dred, or 751 bushels per ucre.
The Superintendents put the cost of
raising thus : Cottou need, $36.00; la
bor, seeding, harvesting and houniug,
#IO.OO ; total, $52.00, or $13.00 per acre.
This laud was cultivated by my father,
about fifty years ago ; since abandoned
to grow up in pines. Nine years ago I
began taking it up from tho wilds, and
from time to time since, have tuken in
the entire lot. Cultivated it regularly
in cottou except oue year, when it was
sown iu wheat; have never used a pound
of commercial fertilizers on the lot, bat
have applied annually from the barn
yard or cottou seed. The soil is a stiff
clsy laud.
It is proper to r.tute that the present
oat crop waa considerably injured by the
severe cold weather in Marob, so much
so that there were s]>ots that hod to
start from the grouud after the cold.
I am satisfied that if the land had
been thoroughly broken and subsoiled,
the yield would have beou twenty per
cent, greater.
•Now, from this Allowing, we have es
timated the giaiu worth SI.OO per bush
el ; 8248.00 net profit trom the lot, or
$62.00 per acre. Can we do so well with
cotton, even at fifteen ceutß per pound ?
I think not. Thou, Messrs. Editors,
continue, as you have done, to stir up
the pure minds es the farmers to plant
oats, aud away with the “all cotton and
starvation” policy.
Moat respeotfully yours,
Wm. 8. Smith.
On* Aon* Betteb Than Two.
It is better to raise one hundred bush
els of corn on one acre of ground than
fifty. The yiold oould be doubled on
nearly every aero of ground in cultiva
tion iu the country. What is wanted is
deeper plowing and better preparation
of the soil, and more thorough utter cul
tivation. This skimming over the soil
is one of tho great evils of our farming
Plow deep, aud then cross-plow deep,
aud you prepare food and moisture for
the plauts, and enable them to resist
the droughts, aud make them laugh and
thrive aud bear abundantly. Many
farmers plow but a few inches deep and
get smull yields. They have so much
ground to work that uone of it is well
worked. Better by far to cultivate only
half as much aud cultivate it bettor and
get far more, than by the slip-shod
system of farming too generally follow
ed' It is bettor to thin out the plauts
and keep out the weeds, and cultivate
fifty nores as they should lie cultivated,
thau to give a “lick and a promise” to a
hundred acres. It is bettor to hervest
the same yield off cf oue acre than to go
over two acres for it. Our readers
should thiuk of those matters.
Orr Worms.— A green leaf wrapped
around the stem of u plant at the time of
settiug out, and allowed to g» down into
the ground a fourth of au iuch, and to
extend up the stalk an inch or so, will
entirely protect it from the out worms.
When the plant haß grown sufficiently
to burst off the leaf, it will be out of
dauger.
Calves do not injure au orchard, but
usually improvo the fruit by picking up
the wormy fruit as soon as it falls, and
thus destroy the iusect eggs. Calves arc
seldom inclined to knaw the bark, or to
injure oven small trees ; they sometimes
rub agaiust the trees, but can do them
no damage except to those newly set.
Wkiuhts and Measures. —Oue quart
of flour weighs one pound ; oue quart of
com meal, one pound two ounces ; one
quart of soft butter weighs one pouud
one ounce ; oue quart, louf sugar weighs
one pouud ; one quart of brown sugar
weighs oue pound two ounces ; ton eggs
! weigh oue pouud ; one gallon is a half
peek ; four galloon are n half bushel.
Economy is Weal!
rPHE UNDERSIGNED respectfully in-
X forms the public that be ie prepared to
REPAIR OLD FURNITURE,
of all kinds, at a very moderate cost. If
you desire your Bureaus. Washstands,
Wardrobes, Sofas, Settees. Chairs, or any
kind of room or parlor Furniture made to
look as good as new, bring them along.
Satisfaction guoranted. Can be found at
J. M. Curtis’ Shop. tUffTerros Cash.
GEO, C. ATKINSON,
al2-tf. Main Street, Thomson, Ga.
For Sale or Root.
It A Y H V I I. L E,
With good Dwelling, Store, Ac., Ac., farm
for one to three horses. Also my home
farm, with comfortable dwelling Ac.. farm
for one or two horses. Good neighborhood,
healthy, good water, fruit, Ac.
V. M. BARNES.
CWApply to Editors Jockxal.
11-ts.
LIFE AND MONEY SAVED
BY THE USE OF THE
SOUTHERN REMEDY !
FOR IT WILL CURE
Dysentery , Diarrhoea ,
Cholera Morbus.
—AND—
CUTTING TEETH of CHILDREN
And no mistake. Examine the following
certificates, which aro enough to satisfy any
reasonable man, woman, or child, that it is
not an imposition palmed off on the peo
ple. To prove it, get a bottle, and use as
directed on the bottle, and you will be sat
isfied that it is all that is uhdmed for it.
It is prepared purely from vegetables of
a medical property.
S. T. BIDDERS, M. D. Proprietor.
Atlanta, Ga.
TESTIMONIALS.
Atlanta. July let, 1874.
DR. BIGGEKB -Dear Sir : In the use
of your Southern Remedy in my family. I
have found it the most pleasant medicine
for children to take, and the most satisfac
tory to enre I have ever met: I have used
it now for several years, and never allow
myself to bo wiihont some of it on band,
and its immediate use saves all trouble and
danger. I have always felt that if you had
no other claim to the public confidence
than this specific, it alone should give it to
you, and both fame and furtuno added, if
yon would only sufficiently advertise it to
let the world know its healing power aud
benefits. Respectfully,
0. A. LOCHRANE.
The abovo is from the Ex-Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Georgia.
EUREKA! EUREKA! (I have found it.)
My Wife and two children were down
with Bloody Flax, We h»d two doctors,
as good ns any in the city, and found no
relief. My baby, 7 months old. while
teething, was expected to die for two
weeks, when being induced to try Dr. Big
gers' Southern Remedy, the relief of each
was marvelous, aud aro at present doing
well. I tried it on myself for the same
disease, and it proved a success,
0. C DAVTK,
Atlanta, Ga.
This medicine is for sale by Dr. A. D.
Hill, Thomson, Ga.
L. P. Q. S.
AiipslaMiisicHoflse,
*£<}«? LSi*«m<t Htroot.
—o—
Mason & Hamlin Organs. New
SUPERIORITY EVERYWHERE AC
KNO* LEDGED. First Prize awarded
nt the "World's Fair," in Paris, 1867; at
the "Vienna Exposition," 187. TANARUS; aud at the
recent Exposition, 1875, at Linz, Austria.
They have always received the Highest
Medals in competition with the celebrated
European makers. A LARGE ASSORT
MENT. at liOwest Factory Prices, for Cash,
or Small Monthly Payments, at the
Augnslii Miinlo House,
O. O. ROBINSON A CO.
Wholesale Southern Agents.
L.. P °Q. H.
AUGUSTA MUSIC HOUSE.
265 BROAD STREET,
Special Inducements!
PIANOS AT NEW YORK PRICES, with
a good Stool aud Cover, forwarded to
any point, freight paid, for Cash; or Small
Monthly Payments, arranged to snit all re
sponsible parties, at Lowest Factory Priceß.
Six of the beet makers aro represented by
G. O. ROBINSON A Cos.
I-.. P. Q. S.
Augusta Music House
265 BROAD STREET,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
SILVER, BRASS AND STRING,
In great variety.
MUSIC BOOKS and SHEET MUSIC.—
THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS.
] MI’SIC received every day by Mail or Ex-
I Press. Orders, promptly filled hv
O. O. R( HHNSON A CO.
\ I f*
JOHN M. CURTIS,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
BUGGIES, L REPAIRING
CARRIAGES,
WAGONS. <fee. [\J nT/ rates.
Undertaking.
HAVING purchased a large lot of Coffins of all sizes and qualitea, will sell the same
reasonable terms as can be had in Augusta.
Jgpgt 'C. My new hearse has arrived and will be sent
when desired to any portion of town or in the
country at a reasonable price.
W\7 Jomn M* €urtis,
SPRING GOODS
-AT—
CHRISTOPER GRAY & CO’S.
We have on hand a Superior Block of the CHEAPEST ANI) MOST FASHIONABLE
SPRING GOODS ever offered in this market.
Wo keep a Buyer constantly iu the Northern markete, and are therefore always able
to show our customers
New and Fashionable Goods
long before they are seen elsewhere in our market.
As there may be many of our friends among (be readers of the McDLFFIE JOUR
NAL who would like to purchase their supplies of SPRING GOODS, but cannot spare
time to go to racket, to such we will always take pleasure in
SENDING SAMPLES OF OUR STOCK
We have only ONE PRICE, from which we never depart, except when we make a
general reductio*.
Our customer may therefore feel the fullest confidence that on sending ns their or
ders they will receive as much attention as if they were present in person.
Our motto for a quarter of acautury has been
PAIR IDE A-LTISTO- !
and to this we attribute onr present success. We will Prepay Freight on all bills
amounting to over Ten Cellars.
c. CRAY & CO,, AUGUSTA, GA.
D5-3*
O. M. STONE,
COTTON FACTOR,
Corner Reynolds and Mclntosh-Sts.,
AUGUSTA , GA.
GENERAL AGENCY for any variety of plantation machinery, embracing the celebrated
QnlletCs Light Draft Cotton Gins.
Knrquur'H W bon t Tlii'chlii re. niitl Hojioratora
which are aot surpassed by any, besides being the lowest priced.
THRESHERS range in price from $55.00 to $160.00
The SEI’ERATOU first threshes, then seporates from the straw, then oleana and
sacks tho wheat ready for market Can furniah them mounted on wheela or not aa
desired. Prices from SIBO.OO to $320.00, according to size, Ac.
Stationery and Portable Horse Powers. Wright’s Improved
Wrought Iron Cotton Screw, patented 1875-
With this Screw two hands esu run down 450 lbs. Cotton in fitr. to rir minutes, or three
hands a 500 lb. We in the same time. Pack np ordown—can be placed in doors or out
side. Can be run by Hand, Horae, Water or Steam Power. Will deliver at the planters’
nearest depot at prices, 20 peroeut lower than the present prices of any other Wrought
Iron Screw.
STEAM BNGHTSTES.
Planters, spare your stock by buying a small plantation engine. With it you grind your
corn, prepare food for your stock, thresh your wheat and gin cotton.
The ECONOMIZER a small Horizontal Engine, with return tubular boiler. 4H P
S4OO ; 5 H P $4-*»0 ; 8 IT P $575.
mux turn, 'mjsFM w*
COLEMAN’S CORN MILL, complete shipped, ready for service. Makes good
meal. Can bo run by Horse, Water or Steam Power. Prices according to size, from
$ 110 to $240.
Terms easy. Send for circulars. Address O. M. BTONE,
b23-h* Augusta, Ga.
p. B.—W’ill furnish an INSURANCE POLICY for 12 months with each Bigelow En
gine.
BOOTS! SHOES
PETER KEENAN
GAIN salutes the good and true people of McDuffie, and invites them when they
come to Augusta to call at his
First-Class Shoe House,
where they oan find a stock inferior to none in the Southern States. The terrible hard
times now' prevailing all over our country are keenly felt by all, and he aasnres his cus
tomers who bny for
CASH,
that he will sell them lower than at another period since the war, and be striotly responsi
ble tor everyarticle that leaves his store. He believes in
Free Trade,
and employs
No Drinnnieriai,
THE ONE IPEHOE SYSTEM,
aud Btrictly
FAIR DEALING
is the rale of the House. Don’t fail to call and bay your shoes at
mMJßtfsiJrs
aei-tf CENTRAL HOTEL BLOCK, AUGUSTA, GA.
A FIRST-GLASSS OUTHERN INSTITUTION.
TIIK
MOBILE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
OF
MOBILE ALA.
M. McCarthy, Pres’t- H. M. FRIEND, Sec’y.
SHEPPARD HOMANS* Actuary.
Patronize Home Institutions. Insure in this
sterling, sound, reliable company.
™ Life can give you as good protection for your money as any Northern
tAb MobUe Life was organized, by well known merchants and bankers of Mobile
in June, 18fl, and, up to January, 1875, has issued 4000 policies, snd paid over
One Hundred Tlion*nnd Dollars
Death Losses.
i E»ery loss has been peomptly paid without a day’s delay.
INSURE YOUR LIFE. I INSURE YOUR WTFV'q t twv
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THOMSON, GA.
T8 ’ ® l, terpriaing men wanted in every county in Georgia to work the
Mobile Life. Apply to R. O. RAN L> ALL, Gen 1 Agent A Manager,
° 2g ' f GADSDEN, ALA.
T. MARKWALTER,
H vitm.K WORKS,
fl BROAO STREET| NEAR LOW£R mark et.
r Oi;srA, GEORGIA.
MONUMENTS. Tombstones, and Marble work generally always on hand, and made to
order. All work for the conntry carefully boxed, and delivered at the Railroad de
pot in Anguata, free of charge. Sjieciniens of the work can be aeen at the manu/ae
tor7- A. 19-el S
"Augusta Crockery Store.”
T. C. BLIGH,
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
CMm, Blass, Earthenware, Lais, Brackets,
CHANDELIERS & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 297 Broad Street,
Y. Richards & Bro. AUGUSTA, GA.
a26-c+
AUGUSTA VARIETY STORE,
334 Broad Street AUGUSTA. G,' „
OPPOSITE C. V. WALKER'S AUCTION ROOMS.
WHITE and MARY A. P. WHITE would rcpectfnlly return thanks to
their friends for the liberal patronage extended to them hcretofore.and would solicit a
continuance of the same ; and call the attention of the public generally to their varied
stock of goods, comprising in part, viz :
CROCKERY, CHINA, GLABB, AND EKATHENWANE.
Table Cutlery, Silver-plated Ware Britannia and Tin Ware, and HonseKeeping Goods
generally, with an endlesa variety if LAMPS and LAMP GOODS. ETC.
NON-EXPLOSIVE KEROSENE OIL, ALWAYS IN STORE.
GROCERIES AND FINE CANDIES.
<*■ AU the above will be eold at BOTTOM PRICES. a26-a§
I. 11. & (JO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF
WHITE LEAD, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY,
BRUSHES, COLORS, AC.,
READY MIXED PAINTS, atrictlv pure, sold with a guarantee,
DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, MOULDINGL, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE*
Every description of Builder’s supplies, of most reliable character, sold on most pleas
ing terms. Agents for
COTTAGE COLORS METALIC CENTRE PIECES, Ac.
ADDRESS, X. h. HALL A CO.,
“THE LIVE CROCKERY STORE.’’
Tlios. Hammond,
JOBBER aim DEALER of
tUSS, CHINA, EAETHEHWAEE.
Lamps and House Furnishing Goods,
Country Merchants me especially invited to call and examine goods and prices.
No. 382 Broad-St., AUGUSTA, CA.