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VOL. 11l
The Quitman Reporter
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Dr. E. A. J E L k S,
Practicing Physician.
Q LITMA N GA.
Office : Brick buiMing .'tiljniuing store
of Messrs. Briggs, Jclks & C 0.,. St r-ven
street. [l-tf
S. T. KISGSBERY,
Attorney at Law,
qcitmax, - - Georgia.
in new Brick Warehouse."Ys-\
Business b foro the TT. S. Patent Office
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I. A. Allbritton,
Attorney i\t Law,
p j
QI ITMATV, - - - - GA.
jsb'OFFlce in* corin’ hoit.se.
W. A. S. HUMPHREYS,
Attorney at Law,
QUIT M AX. GEORGIA.
Jl-frOFFKT. in the Court House "tST
HADI)OCK~& ItATFORI),
Attorneys at Law,
QITT.MAX, GKO.
Will give prompt attention to all business
entrusted to their rare.
JfiriP" Office over Karton’s store.
Dr. J. S. NL Snow,
I) E IST T I S T •
OFFICE -Front room up stairs over Hoy
ton's Store. OsuMulminintered for painless
ly extracting teeth.
to suit the times.
jan It), lv
R. 11. Robinson,
Physician and Surgeon
Having opened tin office opposite the
Mclntoxh House, in the building formerly
occupied by Mrs. Blnek. offers his Kerviees
to any who may call. Office hours from !)
to I*l o’clock a. m. , and from 2to 4 r. m.
Quitman, Ga., Feb. 2, 1870. 3m
I>k. E. A. Jelks. Dr. Harry Nlabrktt.
I)rs: Jelks & Mabbett,
Having purchased the drug department of
Messrs. Briggs, Jelks A Go.. would respect
fully notify their friends and the public gen
erally that they have just opened a NEW
DRUG STORE, in the house formerly occu
pied by Dr. Jelks as an office, which they
have considerably enlarged, and are now
supplied with a full and complete stock of
Drugs,
Patnt Medici ucs,
Perfumeries,
Toilet Articles,
Oils, Paints,
Window Glass,
Putty, &c., &c.
Also a fine stock nfSY'KOOtt BOOKS.
STATIONERY, TOBACCO, SEOARB,
SNCiT, A.*,
K. A, JERKS & IIARRY MABBETT.
7-Cui
It him boon estimated that, it costs
two dollars a minute to run the South
(.'uroHniu legislature, not counting
stationery and gas and what members
steal.
A \\ ashington fashionablo corres
pondent describes Grant as taking
long and lonely walks, deeply medita
ting the while. Well may he detach
himself, from people and think on the
wreck he has made of a great repu
tation, and a great,party.,—-A'. Sun.
A Philadelphian writes: “The
plain truth is, that if you really wish
to see tin' show you must stay half
the summer; if you want to run
through it you must stay not, less
! than a week.” This Philadelphian
; writes to a Chicago paper, not a rela
tive.
Another prominent candidate for
| Governor of North Carolina an
nounces himself: “I will here an
nounce myself as candidate for the
guvenunt election Nox foil A I will
■give Equclright lo all yours respect
; fully Rev. James Anderson colored.”
“How cos 7.0 third term ?"
askecTDorn Pedro of Grant, during
i his call at the White House. The
I Emperor was evidently not awaie
that he was touching upon a delicate
subject, and looking at the long faces
| produced by the question, with sur
| prise iio said: “O, pardon mo, Ize by
1 your solemn faces sot ze third term is
I dead. Too bad; too bad.”
! The remarkable and incomprehen
sible simultaneousuess with which
! several “leading Southern journals'
’ have broken out for Tildcn has given
| rise to the suspicion that practically
his financial policy is more liberal and
lesson the contraction order than
has generally been supposed.—Savan
nah New*.
A proposed amendment to the Con
stitution of Connecticut requiring alt
members of the Legislature when tak
ing the oath of ollico to swear that
they have neither directly nor indi
rectlv influenced voters, and have
neither paid for party organization
nor election expenses, has been intro
duced in the Legislature, and as the
mover is chairman of tho committee
to which it was referred it will be re
ported favorably.
The “Damphools.”— The Louisville
Courier-Journal has the following par
agraph: “The Syracuse Journal de
clares that “the purpose of the Dem
ocratic leaders at the South to regain
their old supremacy, to justify their
rebellion record, and to repudiate, so
far as may be possible, all the results
of the war.” It is very sickening to
see such silly stuff in print, but it is
fearedthat we shall never cease to
see it until the last of the Damphool
family shall have ceased to meddle
with newspapers.”
The Belknap Case.— The Baltimore
Gazelle says the Senate is unexpected
ly involved in a judicial wrangle over
the question of jurisdiction in the
Belknap case. It was the opinion of
senators, freely expressed to-day, that
tho cutire week would be occupied in
debating the question. Nearly every
Senator has prepared a written opin
ion upon the subject, which will bo
printed after the vote has been taken.
There is, however, no doubt as to the
vote being in favor of jurisdiction.
Tho reporter of tho Atlanta Consti
tution had an interview with Bul
lock takes the trouble to announce
that when he got through he bowed.
Whereupon Harris, of the Savannah
.Yea's, remarks: Since this fact has
become, as it were, public property,
we would like to ask if the reporter
bowed of his own accord or whether
ho was asked to do so by Bullock; be
cause there are some reporters so
still in tho hind-legs that they have
to be struck across the stomach with
a folded umbrella before they can be
made to unbend.
The Boston i’uJ, in forcible, un
mistakable English, says: “The fact
is, tho Republican party is staggering
under a load of infamy sufficient to
sink any party, and it is only by ap
peals to the worst passions of the peo
ple that it continues to present a de
cent show of strength to tho country.
All its old leaders are dead or expelled
from its ranks; tho men who have
taken their places wear the brand of
corruption and rottenness upon their
foreheads. Among these who are as
pirants lor its highest honor there is
not a man who is not in some way
tainted with the viciousness of the
time.”
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, JINI] 1, IS7IU
STATE NEWS.
lVneilings and Scissoring* from
our Exchanges.
—The gubernatorial candidates did
not attend the Thomasvillo Floral
Fair Inst Friday.
—CapL John A. Crawford, of liar
tow county, whilst at work around
his bee stands last week, was stung
i upon the forehead by a bee, from
< which bodied in about two hours,
i -Mrs. Maria J. Westmoreland is
writiug another book, to be called
“Waif.” The scene is laid in Florida,
; near St. Augustine. It will be pub
lishedin Jnlv.
> rr • T': annas’Osmoro, an old res
ident of Randolph county, who enter
ed suit against bis wife for divorce,
and, after a long and tedious trial, ob
tained judgement last week, took out
new license and was re-married to his j
first lovo. *
-—A man’s respectability is meas
ured by bis money in Atlanta. No
| questions are asked about how he got
! it; but when a combination is formed
to cheat the State out of a hundred
j thousand dollars-or-so, and one of
the nmul|'r is detected, by mishap,
his confederates become his bondsmen.
I —The State Democratic Executive
Committee will meet in Atlanta on
Wednesday, the 7th of June, for the
j purpose of completing the delegation
j for the State at largo to the National
; Democratic Convention, and for the
I transaction of other important busi
ness.
—Atlanta Cunditutiorialiist: It's get
ting about time the Atlanta (hnditn
-1 tini i was out in an article saying that
it had Colquitt in its mind’s eye all
the time, and insisting that it was
first to mention his name in connec
tion with the Governorship.
—Bullock expresses himself as tru
ly delighted with tho cordial recep
tion the “leading citizens of Atlanta”
have given him. Suppose he had
been treated like other criminals; or,
in other words, suppose he did not
have that little tin box, the' opening
of. whichov.nd.l roug-il secrets v>
by the atuvcaid “lead? ig citizens"
got on the high road to prosperity
which now makes them acceptable
bondsmeh for the fugitive ex-Govern
or.
—Tho Columbus Enquirer of the
24th says that witnesses are being
summoned in the Kendrick case. This
has the appearance that a trial will
be held at this term of the court. It
is generally stated that an endeavor
will be made by the defense to prove
previous nucha: tty in the girl. A few
months over six years ago she was
entered as a pupil in our public
schools, and her age recorded as sev
en years. Gf course she can no lon
ger attend them. Mr. K. remains
very quietly at home.
-Agusta Chronicle: Judge Pee
ples, of Atlanta, lias made a special
charge to the grand jury .on the
subject of vagrants, and the charge is
warmly praised in that virtuous city.
They are “thriftless, shiftless vaga
bonds,” dependent upon trickery,
begging, sponging and stealing,” are
“morally debased, wholly depraved
and vicious,” are “negro loafers and
lazzaroni,” “have been outlawed by
tho State,” and “should be driven to
the fields.” Ti ne, Judge Peoples and
good peoplo of Atlanta. Drive the
vagrants to the fields, by all means.
But what are you going to do with the
“thrifty” vagabonds who lived by
‘ trickery and stealing;” who were
“morally debased, wholly depraved
and vicious;” who were political “laz
zaroni;'’ who foisted themselves upon
the peoplo by fraud and force; who
plundered tho tax-payors without
shame or stint; who corrupted citizens
and debauched the press; who have
“been outlawed by the State”—what
shall be done w ith these ? Alas,
these are received by the good people
of Atlanta with open arms; these find
scores of “wealthy and respectable
citizens” to go upon their bonds and
save them from prison; tlieso are ten
dered public receptions and banquets;
these it is impolitic to punish. Drive
tlie vagrants to tho fields and take
the robbers by the hand.
—Tho Gwinnett Herald can go
head on the following: During last
year there lived upon the plantation
of Mr. A. A. Trible a family of ue
groos, the youngest, a child about
three years old, had tamed a king
snake, and it became so warmly at
tached to the child that it would meet
it every day not far from the house,
and near a cow pen, to be fed. The
child would fondle it as if it had been
a kitten. The parents, when they first
saw tho child with the snake, were
alarmed, but after awhile became sat
isfied there was no danger, and paid
no attention to it. At the close of
last year the family moved over to
Mr. Bond’s, some two or three mites,
and tho child grieved about tho snake
until it became sick. During its s;ck
ness, when any person would come
over from Table's the child would iu-
variably ask for its “snake" and was
continually calling for it. When it
got better the family went to Trible’s
on a visit one Sunday, taking the
child along. As soon as it got to its
old homo tho child slipped off, but
finding it was watched, came back,
and getting another opportunity, it 1
started again for the cow pun. This
time they were more careful in watch
ing, and tlie child supposing it was
not seen, went to an old fence row
and called, and in a few minutes the
snake made its appearance. Both
seemed rejoiced at the meeting, and
it was not until those who wore
watching came near the snake would ,
leave; it then lnd. When the child '
was about leaving for home it went
back and called its snake and carried
it home. Those who saw it nay it j
was as largo as a man’s arm, but
seemed perfectly mani
fested strong attachment 'tor the j
child. It was afterwards killed.
Over in Florida,
—Pensacola is jubilant over a four
teen pound beet.
-—The new town of Padlock, near
Live Oak, is said to be rapidly improv
ing.
—A crowd of Tallahassee darkies,
celebrating emancipation day, made
the policemen hide out in ’Jackson
ville.
—There is a colored man in Live
Oak who is supposed to be one hun
dred and ten years of age, and, strange ■
to say, he does not recollect ever hav
ing seen George Washington.
—How would George. F. Drew, of
Ellaville, do for Governor. It strikes j
us that he is just the kind of man for J
the Con serva ties to fasten to, if they j
want to make a clean sweap of it next
November.
•—And now Pnrman rises to say
that Stearns swindled the negroes;
while he was agent of the Freedman’s
Bureau. The only reason whv Stearns ,
can’t charge Pnrman with the same j
thing is, that the latter never had the ■
luck to get hold of the aforesaid agen
cy.
•—Where is that 837,(1 •in blue |
*. - S ■ Vt SvnP -f’ ‘ ■ llCIM: ; ills-.;::-.
uati nis. but isn't it about time Pur-'
man had put in an appearance!—
.1 Turning N mm.
Perhaps the bine scrip found a safe
hiding place about tho time the vote i
was being counted, that kept Bloxum
from being Governor of the State.
—The Live Oak Timex is howling j
for a public well. If we thought Pur
man and some of the other leading;
“public” men of Florida would fall in
it the next time a grand Radical pow* !
wow is held at Live Oak, wed sub
scribe liberally to have it dug. How
ever, upon reflection, we arc reminded
that Pnrman and all his followers will
be politically buried, anyway, in No
vember.
—Thus the Sanford Journal: A
few evenings since, while a number of
young men, including the junior edit
or, were out in the shoal water of the
lake seining for minnows, a lafgpfMli
gator made his
Discovering them by, he immediately
struck out for deep water, making a
great splashing. Our dog, Prince, be
ing along, the young men hissed him
after the’gator, and lie went with a
will. He jumped on the back of the
monster and quite a skirmish ensued,
. the dog being under water part of the
time. Finally the running fight car
ried them out in deep water out of
sight in tho darkness, and the dog
was gone fully, ten minutes before lie
returned. TBc first instance on rec
ord of a dog whipping a big 'gator in
his own element. * '
.—The Pensacola ffucTte says that
on Saturday it\ A as S. Leon
ard was closiugTlie door TTr 1 1 ms grist
mill in Miltoi##t stranger, who was
lying iu wait for him to come out,
struck a blow at him with a stick of
| lightwood, evidently taken from the
pile of cord wood near at hand. The
stick struck' the lintel of tho djjpr
above Leonard’s head and b|pkc in
two. Leonard turned, saw another
man advancing, and got inside the
door, but before he could secure it, it
was burst open, and he ran to a door
lon the other side of the mill; before
!he could open that the enemy were
; upon him, and, grappling with him,
threw him down and robbed him of a
pocketbook coutaing six hundred and
eighty dollars, tearing out tho pocket
and a portion of the pants. They
then darted away and escaped. In
the other pocket were fourteen dollars
i that they did not look for. The sum
in the pocketbook had been received
that evening ill a business adjustment,
and the robbers evidently knew of the
transaction. Mr. Leonard was clos
ing to go to Mr. Lawrence Mayo’s
store to deposit the money, that mer
-1 chant having an interest in the
; amount as the settlement was for
joint account. Mr. Leonard saw
enough of the man who struck at him
] to know that he was a white man, and
the other he knows to be a negro, as
i he felt his wool while they were strug
gling in tho mill.
A Young Lady s I,utter.
What She Will Do When She Heroines
a Ilride.
A father of an interesting and ac
complished daughter of this city has
left at tho Eagle office a sort of litera
ry curiosity in tho shape of a letter of
correspondence. The letter is from a
lady friend, and was written to tho
above gentleman’s daughter while she
was absent from Reading. Wbeu she
came home she happend to show it to
her father, who feels interested
enough in social literature, to have it
spread before the community for the I
benefit of the public in general. Here
it is:
“Well, Lizzie, yon know I’m to tie
manned. I believe I told you of it \
before I left. Then, however, I was
not so certain about it as lam now. j
You know you can’t always tell what
the young men mean until they act.u- j
ally commence talking about the wed
ding clothes. By and by someone;
! will come 'along and pick you out
j from the crowd and propose matrimo-
I ny. Don’t let the young men fool
yon. They are much more naughty
and awful now than over before, and
l gracious knows what they will be a
j few years hence. But we are nearly
nil fixed. I’m to he dressed very com
mon. Wo are going to be married at
our home and there is not going to
be the least fuss about it, either. My
dress will be of white cambric, and
you know that material is very cheap,
and so serviceable that I can wear it
during the summer evenings. Isbnu’t
buy a costly dress and then fold it
away and keep it in a trunk in rc
memberance of oar wedding day.
Not a 1 >it of it. I had put down my
outfit at a hundred dollars, and do
you know I’ve saved sixty dollars on
it; and with that sixty dollars we can
furnish one more room in our new
house than we had first intended. So
nlucli for that. We shall have a little
wine and cake, that is all. Only a
few relatives will be present. Wo do
not expect any silver presents, neither
are we going to borrow any for the j
occasion. Wo shan’t have a house j
full of spongers to eat up our things,'
laugh at our foolishness and criticise
our manners. We do not desire a
house full of young men to crack vul-
gar jokes at our expense, either.
I\ ould you '? We’re going to have a
oniet wc.flnint'-. No trips for ns. The
mmseTfhsVot to bo furnished from
attic to basement, and the gas and
water turned on. Mother says the
fire in the heaters and range will be
ready burning just as if wo had been
at house-keeping for a year. She is
going to market the day before, and
the pantry will be full of just what
wo want. Isn’t shea dear soul?
Just to thin?. I’m to bn mistress of
a whole house. My husband, (how
queer that sound) and ho is not my
husband yet, says I can have a girl
•and a wash woman. But no, I shall
have no such thing. No girls around
my house forme. As for washing;
guess I can attend to that. Just think
’of such an extravagant proposition.
Why, I’m going to keep up five shares
in a building association and the
money I can save by doing our own
work I can pay into, the society, in
our joint name, so that half will be
mine. Then if we ever have a daugh
ter or son we can build them a house !
when they got married. I won’t de- I
scribe the future wo are going to
have. You must see that for your-1
self. But no drinking in our house, j
Lizzie ! No side boards, no liquor. ■
Friends can have fruit, water, cigars, !
flowers or tea, but no st"ong drink of |
any kind. lam bitterly opposed to
it. My husband, when lie’s out, can
do as lie pleases, but he has promised |
to allow, me to be the guardian of our 1
home and I shall ever pray for
strength to make it a happy, Chris- j
iian home for both of ns. I don’t j
' mean a trim, tidy, straight-laced,
quiet house, dark, gloomy, and moul
| dj’. Oh, no'! I believe in plenty of
i sunshine, plenty of light and air, !
laughter, joy, mirth and merriment,
flowers, canary birds, society; but no
whiskey, beer, I. r indy or horrid gin. I
No, no. It is a vile serpent, this ]
strong or malt drink. But, my bus- 1
band dare smoke, iu the house. In
deed he dare do anything he pleases !
' that will please his friends, except
what I have mentioned. They may
have all tho fun they want— tear up !
(•he house and upset everything, as
1 long as they don't break or destroy
things, and provided it don’t come
too often. Now, that’s the sort of a !
wife I’m going to be. I’m going to
have a bill of fare for every day iu the
week all mapped out and agreed up
on. And I’m going to keep it up, ,
too, right straight along. I believe j
that it will bo cheaper in tho end to
know just what you’re going to have
before hand. Then there will be
nothing done in a burry, and I shall
never be at a loss to know what to
get for dinner and supper. 1 shall
buy bread and rolls and have the
butcher call every mornjgig, if Idesire
! him. I detest too much meat-eating,
■ particularly in summer,
But there, I have written so much
that my little head is swimming
: 'round and ’round. Well, we don't
get married but once or twice in a
lifetime, so wo might as well make
the most of it while we are at it. When
yon come home call and see us—you
| will always bo welcome. Then I shall
i tell you all about the more real side
iof married life. I! cdiicj E.ijlc.
Nciise on Hesiunptiim.
The St. Louis Commercial ttaiette,
as its name implies, a paper devoted
purely to commerce, finance and in
dustry, in a tenth number on the
money question, says:
A decent respect for the opinions
of bis fellow-citizens should have
caused the President to state the rea-
I sons for the complete change in views
which made it possible for him 4o
veto tho currency ebill and sign
the resumption act. He said iuIKTJ:
T do not believe there is too much of
it (currency) now for the dullest pe
riod of tho year.”
Now wo find tho resumption net
lias caused a contraction of over 1
354,500,000 since January 1, 1875.
and yet the President does not roc- '
ommeud its repeal. In December,
1871!, ho said; “To increase our ex-1
pi iris" suTiidont currency is nvfnired
to keep all industries of tho country
employed. Without tliir, national a s
well as indiridued banirnplcj must
ensue.”
Are we not “without this” to-day ?
Are not the industries of the nation
stifled ? Is not “individual bank
ruptcy’’ ensuing at a most fearful
rate? But why reason upon this
subject ? Ouo might as well under
take to show by reason that tho
President could not lift himself by
the straps of his boots. Every man
who has any brains can understand
that resumption is a barren humbug
and a phvsicul impossibility while
our foreign demand for interest is
yearly 81(10,000,000; the average bal
ance nf trade against ns (from 1800
to 1.875) is $9-1,152,473, while demand
for the previous metals in manufac
turing is annually $10,000,000. Mak
ing a total demand for those metals
of 3264,142,473, while our supply
from the mines and from importations
reaches but an average of $82,524,102.
Thus leaving an annual balance
against ns of $181,018,371.
Wo say with these facts before ns
no business man will assume that, re
sumption is possible until this whole
business is reversed for a suffi
cient length of time to recall our;
stocks now abrpad, and to hold the
exchanges in our own favor.
This result can be consumated in
but one way, and that is by promot
ing our industries—by adopting and
j adhering to a policy that will keep
every hand employed. We niqpt re
realize tb it ail wealth, of whatever
i nature or name, is but the power to la
j,: ■.r , i v.,0,! i TU.■ i, ■• i ■ vo crystallize
• this power of our people the wealth
ier we will be, if at the same time
we arc not compelled to surrender
: otir surplus as tribute to foreign,
powers.
Yes, it is just ns impossible to re
sume, and stay resumed under these
I conditions, as it is to make water run
up hill.
We fully agree with the St. Louis
Commercial Gazelle, when it. says that
resumption is a barren humbug. Let
us have more currency, or the coun
try will go np the spout.
Hon. IV. A. Harris, of Worth coun
ty, writes to a friend about sheep
raising as follows: “Yours, asking
about sheep raising in this comity, to
baud. I will say that it cannot bo
surpassed—the mildest climate, and
then tlie most economical. No feed
ing required, no herding but once, at
dipping off wool. No varmint* to dt -
stroy lambs. Dogs kill but few. All
land protected fiom lire. The wire j
grass never dies. Our sheep have no
diseases. Many who moved here
since I did, and bought fifteen to:
twenty head of sheep, have now large
1 tlocks, and are getting rich. Sheep
have been sheared here a month. We
arc now getting on our tables the
fattest of mutton I ever saw off of the
wire grass. Lands cheap and plenty,
and water abundant. A railroad, open i
I to all markets, running through the
[ county. It is the best country on
earth. The sheep raising business is
j the one now agitating this whole sec
tion. It is all clear money, for, after
! the purchase of tho sheep, there is no
expense, except to gather the first of
April, and clipping. Hands get two
‘ cents per head to shear and feed.
The rule here among us all is to gatli
\or one’s sheep as we find, and notify
him. We have no estraymg of sheep,
because we know all marks. Worth,
Irwin and Colquitt are the counties
for sheep raising. 1 will assist any
one by advice.
What Country Papers Do.—An ex
change combats with considerable
vigor the argument that tho city
weeklies are cheaper and better than
1 the country papers. It asks, Do they
ever give you ’any home news? Never.
Do they ever say anything in regard
jto our own comity? Do they contain
1 notices of your schools, churches,
meetings, improvements and hun
dreds of other lscal matters of inter
j est, which your country papers pub
lish without pay? Not an item. Do
1 they ever say a word calculated to
draw attention to your country and
its numerous thriving towns, and aid
their progress and enterprise? Not a
word. And yet there are men who
| take contracted views of this matter,
| that unless they arc getting as many
! square inches of reading matter iu
I their own papers as they do in a city
paper, they think they are wot getting
• tho worth of their money. It reminds
■us of the person who took the largest
pair of boots in the box, because they
cost the same as a pair much smaller
I than fit him.
Profits iu Lillie Tilings
Southern farmers have thought
that no crop but cotton could bo
j turned into money. They have,
therefore, paid little or no attention
; to tho minor products of tho farm,
such as apples, peaches and other
; products, eggs, butter, honey, chick
ens, hides, tallow, etc., and even
wheat, barley, oats and other crops of
similar importance have been neg
lected. The last season somewhat
changed this opinion in a majority of
the farmers. In Arkansas county,
the Patrons made an arrangement
last spring with u certain merchant
to take in payment for merchandise
anything marketable that the far
mers might bring. Money was scarce
and another crop uncertain, while
many little articles, of the nature
above stated, were cither wasted or
unnecessarily consumed, that in lar
ger cities, to wiijcli tinny was ready
adeem;, would find' an capfijt sale. Tho
result of this arrangementSvas, in tho
first six or seven months of tho year
1875, thei'e had been shipped and
sold from the county about $20,000
worth of products not before deemed
wortv of sale. But for this happy
forethought of the Patrons, many
farmers, could not have sustained
; themselves through the Bpring; they
, would have -had nothing to live on
while they made a crop, the mer
j chants being unable to credit them,
; and then they having no money to
pay for what they needed. This
should teach a lesson to all who ucg
■ lect the seeming trifles of a farm. Ev
| cry thing should be utilized. Mer
j chants should buy every product of
the farm, whether there is money iu
it or not; the goods which they gen
erally give in exchange will pay profit
enough. Thus will his sales he in
creased, and tho country become
more prosperous.— Exchange.
In reference to the above the Ath
oils Georgian says:
Wo will beg each farmer iu Georgia
to cut out tho above, arid post tho
same on his bed pest. The recent de
cline of cotton in Liverpool indicates
surely that the crop of 1870 will bring
only a nominal price, and it behooves
our farmers to be forewarned and
prepared for any contingency.
If the advice in the above article bo
strictly followed by our farmers, and
their “liog and hominy” be raised at
home, our people will once more be
come prosperous anil leappy. We will
not complain of the expenditure of
any reasonable amount of money for
commercial fertilizers, for oUr lands
are much worn and exlnsisted by cot
ton culture, but we will never con
sent for our farmers to buy their farm
supplies when the same can be raised
at homo.
The Georgia Grangers should take
this matter in hand and expel every
member from their Order, who fails
to make his farm self-sustaining.-
When we hear a farmer sav that ho
can’t raise his own “hog and hominy,”
wo know well “what's the matter”—
he is too lazy.
Looking for Kinilh.
[From (lit) Austin IU-veiUe.]
A respectable looking old gentle
man, just arrived from tho Eastern
.States, was around town to-day try
ing to find a man named Smith.
There are several members of tho
Smith family in Austin, but the old
gentleman experienced some difficul
ty iu finding tlie exact Smith be want
ed, and we are not positivo that ho
lias found him yet. Probably pos
sessed of the somewhat prevalent idea
that boys know everything, the old
gentleman accosted a bov, nnd ad
dressing him as “my son,” asked him
if he knew anybody in this town by
the name of Smith. “Smith?” said
the boy. “Which Smith do yon want 9 ’'
Let’s see—there’s Big Smith and little
Smith, Three-fingered Smith, Bottle
nose Smith, Cock-eye Smith, Six-toed
Smith, San Joaquin Smith, Lying
Smith, Mush-hcad Smith, Jumping
Smith, Cherokeo Smith, One-legged
Smith, Fighting Smith, Bead-headed
Smith. Sugar-foot Smith, Bow-legged
Smith, Squaw Smith, Drunken Smith,
El Dorado Smith, Hungry Smith, and
I dou’t know but maybe one or two
more." “My son,” said tlie old gen
tleman, “tlie Smith I am in search of
possesses to bis name none of tho
heathenish prefixes you have men
tioned. His name is simply John
Smith.” “All them fellows is named
John 1” screeched tho boy, as ho
drew his six-shooter and ran to tho
other side of the street to get a good
shot at a passing Chinaman. Tho
old gentleman mused for a moment
and then walked into a blacksmith
shop and asked to see a city directo
ry.
Advice to 0 Iris-
Girls talk and laugh about mam*
ngos as though it was a jubilee; a
gladsome thing, a rose without a
thorn. And no it is, if it is nil right
—if they go about it as rational be
ings instoad of merry making children.
It is a serious thing to marry. Ii is a
life business. Therefore, never do it in
haste; never run away to get married ;
never marry for wealth or standing,
or line person, or manner, Lint for
character, for worth, for the qualities
of the mind and heart which make an
honorable man. Take time; think
long and well before yon accept any
proposal;consult your parents, then
! some judicious friend, then your own
judgment. Learn all that is possi
ble for you to learn of your proposed
husband. When nil doubts have been
I removed, and not till then atvcp;.
No. 11.