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WHKK BILLS AUK BUZ , All bills for advertising in this paper are due on the first appearance of the advertise ment. except when otherwise arranged by Fontract, and will be presented when the money is needed. Dr. E. A. JELKS, Practicing Physician. QfJITMAN GA. OrncK : Brick building adjoining sfor Of Briggs, Jclks fc Cos., Hero Ten fireet. [l-tf S. T. KINGSBEIIY, Attorney at law, QUITMAN, - - GEORGIA. yM-OFFICE in #* £rirt* WifehotfM. -IBS, Bn*ine* before the I). S. Patent Offie* . . —■—— I, A. Allrritton, Attorney at Law, atICTMAN. “ - - - OA ; jtfHOTffffl COURT HOUSE.-** W. A.i 111 l Ml* It HE Vs, Attorney at Law, Qt’tTMAN. GEORGIA. W-Ft''iCE in the Court House -tto HADDOCK & RAIFOHI), Attorneys at Law, QTTITMAN, OWOt Will gir pfttiapi Hftehiion to ail butanes* Ontmated to their elite pB~ Office oTer Kay ton’s store# Dr. J. S. N. Snow, DENTIST. OFFICE —Front roorrt tip stains Ore r Kny lon's Store. Gas administered for painless ly extracting teeth i /SGrCharges to suit the times. jan 19, ly Fretwdl & Mcliols, AVHOI.EBALK STATIONERS AND DEALERS IN Straw and Manilla Wrapping Paper, Paper Bags, Cotton Flour Sacks, •Twines, Inks, Playing Cards, Muci lage, etc. Give us a trial. 129 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH - - GA. 1)1. E. A. Jklkm. Dr. Haiirt M.ibbett. Brs. Jelks& Mabbett Haring purchased the drug department of Messrs. Briggs, Jolks Sc Cos., would respect fully notify their friends and the public gen- they have jut opened a NEW DBoO STORE, in the house formerly occu pied by Dr. Jelks as an office, which they hare considerably enlarged,, and are. now supplied with a full and complete stock of Drugs, Pa tut Medici lies, Perfumeries, Toilet Articles, Oils, Paints Window Glass, Putty, Ac., &c. Also a tine stock of SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY, TOBACCO, SEGABS, SNUFF, Ac. E. A. JELKS A HARRY JIABBETT. ite (Qitifman geputfe. The Paducah (Ky.) New reports that the Kansas grasshoppers, or “hoppers” similar to them, have made their appearance in Calloway county, and are creating devastation with all kinds of vegetation, and particularly with the young tobacco. Tlie New York Herald says: “It may be interesting to some people to learn that hemp and Democrats are usually raised in Kentucky.” The hemp ought to he used to hang Rad ical rogues and the Democrats to fill their places in the public sorvice.— Macon Telegraph. Mrs Degree, of Now York city, wns sent to jail for twenty-five days re cently for cruelly whipping her hus band. Good. If tlie laws were properly executed everywhere as in tliis case, the universal demand for a society for the prevention of cruelty to husbands would soon die out. — Courier Journal. Gil Haven was on the platform of the Forty second street railroad de pot, llio other day and spoke these words: "I didn't care haw much the people talked against the President— they would talk against their sainted grand mothers—but when I saw him taking his whisky without any water in it, I ceased to pray for a third term. Brooklyn A rgtie. The colored Radical delegate has been promptly refused hotel accom modat o is at the Caucasian caravan saries in Cincinnati, and has been told to betake himself to the “negro hotels.” As the sensitive Fred Doug lass declined to attend the Nashville colored convention in April, because the hotels were in the habit of refus ing accoininoflafio’rts to Africans, the convention on Wednesday may pos sibly be deprived of his presence. Kerosene a ('tire for Snake-Rites, The Aberdeen (ijtiss.) Eramh.er ••*# that. .‘.n effective antidote for (he bite of a snake, when applied externa tel v. It says the lit tle child of C. M. Jones was bitten by a high-land moccasin and per fect relief and wife itas obtained bv application of tMs oil. It further says that a valuable doe Was bitten by a ‘eoftrth-ttlunfb, and was in a dy ing condition when the first external application of the oil Was made and obtained ittsfant relief and was up and running about in two or three hours. A NeW York letter Srtys: “The marriage of Mr. James Gordon Ben net, the proprietor of the Herald, to Miss May, will take place shortly, but will be celebrated in a perfectly quiet and refy private manner. No one will know it except the immediate friends and relatives of the parties until after it has taken place, so that newspaper gossip and comment may be avoided. Miss May has one of the brightest and loveliest of faces, and is said co be relined, accomplished and good, and Mr. Bonnet is to be heartily congratulated on the acqui sition of the only earthly good he did not possess—a wife, who willMouble to him the value of every other pos rossion. The Marietta Journal of the 2d says: “There is ono Mr. Well of Louisiana in our county looking out a location for sheep raising. Says he has 4(!00 of sheep, and realizes ten pounds of wool from each. He wants two thou sand acres of poor ridge for pastures. He is in the right pew now.” Would that North Georgia .hild he visited with a thousand just such gentemen as Mr. Wells. It would do more to ward bringing about prosperity and independence among her now impov erished people than all her agricult ural interests combined. We will gladly welcome nud joyfully receive all who shall be pleased to make their homes among ns. Wo clip the above in order to in form those who desire to go into the sheep husbandry business, that there is no portion of the Southern States that offers greater inducements than that portion composed of Colquitt, Worth, Irwin, Berrien, Coffee., and Telfair, counties, in this State. The herbage found all over the above nam ed counties seem peculiarly adapted to the browsing of sheep, and hero it is they flourish and do well with the least amount of attention, and here lands can be bought nt lower prices than any portion of the State, wild lands frequently selling for not more than ten cents per acre. Those en gaged in the sheep growing business iu the above named counties have found it exceedingly p*o<)table,though they have not yet procured tL im proved, breeds which makes their profits much greater. (juiTMAii, ga., Thursday, jine , isffs. state News. Penciling* mid Scissoring* from Oilt' Exchanges. —The Rome flouring mills are do ing a good business, So witli all in the State. —A Thomas county colored far mer has five hundred dollars invested in good securities. It, is needless to add that he lias corn to sell. —Atlanta had a fifty thousand dol lar fire last week. —Lowndes county will hold her meeting to select delegates to the gubernatorial convention on Tuesday, 4th of July. —W. It. Mclntyre and Eli Mallette, two Thomas county boys at the State University, have been elected orators at the approaching commencement exercises at Athens. —The crop new* from all over the Stato warrants the conclusion that there will be even more cotton made in Georgia this yoat than there was last, whilst the present indications are that it will not bring more than eight cents per pound next fall. —When Macon thieves make a raid on an unsuspecting citizen’s premises they carry off everything they can lay hands on—not even leaving the watch dog. —Rough Rice wants J. H. Janies to be Governor because he used to plow an ox when he was a boy. Whereupon Charley Pendleton re marks that “If that fact will make a Governor then we ought to become a President. We have, in our boyhood days, plowed a couple of oxen and a blind mule, and rode a billy goat to mill" —Bovd announces that the Quitman Reporter has entered into silly abuse of Atlanta. We can’t tell who this “sarkasm” bears hardest on, Atlanta or the Reporter. Atlanta doubtless thinks she has the worst of it.— Warren lon Clipper. That “sarkasm” wasn’t the fruit of Bond's own brain, brother Ham; he stolo it from the Atlanta trumpet, which we think is the “hardest" filing of all. Tf von eive Boyd credit for all the leaded matter you see in his editorial col umns. “there’s where you make a mistake.” A more accurate wav would he to judge by tho style of his rhetoric. — l Thomasville Enterprise: The Atlanta Conslihdion does not like the remarks that are being made about Atlanta. Well, "entlemen, we are snrrv that von feel badly about it. but there is the strongest sort of feel in" throughout, all this seetion that Atlanta is not a rood plaee for the T/egialatnvo to hold its sessions, nor for the officers of the State to reside, and when tho proner time comes a vigorous effort will be made to move the capital back to Milledgevillo. Don’t get mad now, gentlemen; it's entirely too enrlv. Your ammuni tion might give out before it is need ed most. —-From the aruienranco of tilings, the Fort A'alley Mirror is apprehensive tli.-.t. that section is to have a visita tion from the great plague of the Northwest—grasshoppers. On Ma jor Neil's place they have accumula ted in ’arge numbers, and are eating up bis cotton. They have already destroyed a hundred acre field of cot ton on Air. Mac. Robinson's up on the river. He ploughed up the few re maining stalks in the iield and plant ed corn, and now the pesky grasshop pers are eating his corn. Large num bers have been seen on Mr. AVesley Houser’s farm, but as vet they have done no damage to crops. We no tice in onr exchanges that they are eating up tho crops in North Ala bama. —The Columbus Enquirer of the 15th says: Mr. Kendrick in the last few days has appeared on Broad street. He remarked only yesterday in a store that he was innocent of ev ery charge brought against him, and that he would yet establish it and bring his accusers to shame. The ac cusers, who number nearly all Colum bus, are waiting to be put to shame. Mr. Kendrick, seemingly, is very anx ious to have a trial, but every post ponement has been made by bis side. The general impression is that he will try to get another ooutinauce next week. —Thouiasville Times: The large and respectable number of citizens who met on Thursday to organize an immigration society, demonstrated that at last the people are aroused on the subject of immigration. The meeting was called to order by Capt. Davis, who nominated Col. James L. Seward for Chairman, and Mr. H. J. Mclntyre for Secretary. The society was organized by the enrollment of fifty or sixty members—and the adop tion of a Constitution This instru ment provides that it shall be man aged and controlled by a board of tbiit-cu Directors. These, by resolu tion, w ill be elected by the Assoeia- tion on next Wednesday. Col's. Young, Mclntyre; Judge Handel], Capt. Davis atul dtHers took part in the discussion, all evincing a warm interest in the organization We re gret that want menace prevents us from giving a full report of the pro ceedings. They will appear noxt week. The bull lias been put in mo tion. Keep it moving. Lot every land owner in the epunty who will sell lands, furnish the Association with a description of the san e local ity, quantity of soil, price, ami every other needed information necessary to make a sale. Savannah News: Tim Atlanta Cam monweallh says: “Soma' thieves broke into an establishment a short time ago, and their cry was: ‘Remove the Capital!'” True, Commonwealth. Comparatively a short time ago, the Bullnck-Biodgett-Kimball gang broke into the State establishment and re moved its capital as well as its Cap ital. The former could not, we pre sume, be recovered even by process of law, but the latter we desire to seo returned to Milledgcville. Whatever may be vour opinion in regard to this matter, Commonwealth, you owe it to your readers—to justice and fairness —to advocate a plan whereby the peo ple may be allowed to say whether they desire the Capital to remain in Atlanta. Savannah Ninas'. “Dov ain’t no nig ger on de top side er iteration,” said a colored man at Tennille the other day, putting his hand to his banda ged head, “what can sing a hymn an’ put de gear on a kickin' mule at de same time.” The Eaton ton Me.i.trnger lias the fol lowing, which we apprehend is not an-exceptional case: It is currently rumored that there is a man in this county who says that his family is ac tually suffering for bread to eat. And yet, strange to say, that man can vis it liis neighbors, stay till dinner, cat heartily, and then sit down and play drafts the whole evening, without ex hibiting any care or solicitude for his wife and children at home wanting something upon which to live. Over in Florida. —'Bah,for Drew Hid Hr' 1 -! i ’ —David Montgoimjry, the Radical candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Florida, will probably put on a more dignified air now and quit play ing base ball. He is quite an expert with the bat and ball, and has been “pitcher” for the Madison club. We don’t know that it will afford David any great satisfaction to hear it, but we are nevertbless constrained to of fer it as onr opinion that there is no danger of his ever having to give up his favorite game to attend to the du ties of Lieutenant Governor. Too much “foul ball,” David. —The new management of the J. P. ,A M. It. H. showed what kind of schedule it was going to run by send ing the Radical delegates and a host of hummers to the Cincinnati conven tion in a special car. —Monticello has organized a Dem ocratic Club for the Campaign. —Every Democrat in tho State seems to he satisfied—yea delighted— • with the nomination of Drew and Hull. Tallahassee Sentinel: On the first day of the present month the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mo bile Railroad was turned over to Hon. Dennis Eagan, as agent of the State of Florida and of the Trus toss of the Internal Improvement Fund, by Mr. Robert Walker, the late receiver of the road, in accordance with the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States. Under the new regime the officers of the Road are as follows: Dennis Eagan, General Manager; Edward M. Cheney, Assist ant Manager and auditor; T. C. Spooner, General Superiutenent; AY. At. Cowgill, General Freight and Ticket agent. The new management has already taken steps to curtail the running expenses of the road by re ducing the employes to the lowest 1 number possible, and pursuing a sys tem of rigid economy. A circular has been issued to station Agents and other officers and employees on the road by the manager to the effect that those who have not already received notice to the contrary will bo contin ued in their present positions. Madison News: The supple parson, W. \Y. Hicks, who boasts that he has a “backbone” nevertheless, closed the funeral obsequies of the late Radical party of this State by making a fare well speech and singing the doxology. Asa specimen of the manner in which he engrafts quotations from scripture upon his slang phrases and the lingo of the race course, we note the fol lowing, taken down at the time from his lips: “AVo have fought a good fight, kept the faith and are now com ing in on the homeward stretch.” Floridian: If Cheney, flgan & Cos., are so much opposed to “immense landed estates,” and to the “baronial system,” why did they not oppose the selling of three million acres of lands belonging to the State of Florida to a Yankoo company for twenty-five cents per acre ? AVhy were not those lands divided up into forty-acre lots and sold to the poor tenants of the “DjuiYou Democrat,” instead of e.ip- italists, to bo hold without being im proved for the purpose of specula tion ? Floridian: The Nentinel says that, uuless it has beep "mpnstrpUiUJ im posed upon,” George F. Drew, the Conservative candidate for Governor, fled to Jacksonville just before the surrender, where ho was kindly re ceived by the Federals, etc. The Sentinel has undoubtedly been “mon strously imposed upon.” Mr. George PV Drew spent tlie closing years of the war in South Georgia and Flori da, engaged in salt making and bridge buildiug. He ueyer went to Jacksonville until after the surrender. Mr. Cnrfbfihti* Drew was rtreidcntrrHy caught in Jacksonville by the Feder al Pickets late in the war. He went therefrom Monticello to remove his family, effects, etc., hut before he could get out the enemy had posses sion. He, however, escaped in a few days. The New Silver Rill. In the House of Representatives on the 10th the Committee oil Banking and currency reported the following: Cox, of New York, Chairman of tlie Committee of Banking and Currency, having called Sayler, of Ohio, to the Speakers chair, reported the follow ing bill: That the Secretary of tlie Treasury, under such limits and reg ulations as will best secure a just and fair distribution of tlie sums through tlie country, may issue the silver coin in tlie Treasury to an amount not ex ceeding 1,000,000, in exchange for an equal amount of legal tender notes, shall be kept as a special fund sepa rate and apart from all other money in the Treasury, and to he reissued only upon the retirement and de struction of a like amount of fraction al currency received of the Treasury, and in payment of dues to the United States, and said fractional currency, when so substituted, shall be destroy ed and held as part of the sinking fund, as provided in the act approv ed April 17, 1870. The hill passed without division. The same Committee reported the following: That in addition to the amount of subsidy coin authorized by law to be issued in the redemption of fractional currency, it shall he lawful to manufacture at the several mints and issue through the Treasury and its several offices such coin to the amount of $2,000,000. Sec. 2. That the silver bullion re quired for tlm purpose shall lie pur chased from time to time at market, by the Secretary of the Treasury with any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated, and the resulting coin may ho issued in tho ordinary disbursements of the Treasury, or in exchange for legal tender notes nt par; bi,it no purchase of bullion shall be made under this act, when the market rate for the same shall be such as will not admit of the coinage and issue, or exchange, as herein provi ded, without loss to the treasury, and any gain or seigniorage arising from this coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury, as provi ded under existing laws relative to the subsidiary coinage, provided that tho amount of money at any one time invested in such silver bullion, exclu sive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed $10,000,000. Sec. 3. That the trade dollar shall not hereafter boa legal tender, and the Secretary of the treasury is here by authorized to limit, from tiino to time, the coinage thereof to such an amount as he may deem sufficient to meet, the export demand for the same. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, moved to strike out of the secoud section the words “or in exchange for legal ten der at par,” also to strike out the words “or exchange.” The amend ment was agreed to. The bill as thus amended was then passed without division. GKOridlA AM) PKX.XSrLVAXIA COM PA HKD. During the debate in the House on the bill to restrict the disposal of gov ernment lands iu flie Southern States, Air. Hewitt, of Alai a na, made a speech, in the course of which lie drew the following comparison, which we commend to a careful reading: “If we should take the State of Georgia instead of Indiana, and com pare it. with the State of Pennsylva nia, we would have a better illustra tion of our proposition. The State of Georgia has five million of acres in cultivation in excess of Pennsylvania. The value of the farms of Pennsylva nia is over nine hundred and forty seven million in excess of thosje of Georgia. The State of Georgia has engaged in agricultural pursuit over 7(1,000 persons more than Pennsylva nia, while the value of the annual products of agriculture of Pennsylva nia is over one hundred and three millions in excess of those of Georgia. The reason why the Pennsylvania far mers succeed so much better than the Georgia farmer is found iu the fact that Georgia has but 3,830 manufact uring establishments, while Pennsyl vania has over 37,000; that Georgia has employed in these establishments only 17,000 persons, while Pennsylva nia lwis-over 300,080. Georgia pro duces from her manufactories annual ly only about *31,000,000, while Penn sylvania derives over $700,000*000. The Geargi i farmer, like the Indiana, seeks a foreign market, while Penn sylvania furnishes a home her farmer. Ignorance in Fanning; Olla of the grentait drawbacks to successful farming is the presence of the unknown quantify ignorance of the exact condition of things, in val ue, weight and measure. Concerning our products. Womoften produce at a loss. Ail account v*th each crop would decide the matter, it after a few trials it Cost more to produce than a crop will ScW for, its cultiva tion should be abandoned, Many continue to produce.from year to year at a loss, simply frpm the want of a little calculation. In order to conduct farming opeyn tions understnndingly, and intelli gently, it is necessary to ascertain the cost of production by keeping accu rate account, as far as possible, with the farm as a whole, and rich field in detail. To do this requires, in the first place, c.n accurate measurement of the different fields. A map of tlie farm should be made, and each field numbered, with the number of acres also marked down. A farm account book should lie prepared or purchas ed, in which should be noted tlie crop productions on each field, charging to its account the labor required to pro duce the crop, together with seed, manure, interest, taxes, etc., credit ing the amount for which the pro duce sold, or at its market value. By this course the actual cost can easily be ascertained showing liow and where the profits or losses arise, af fording an excellent guide for future operations. An account should also be kept with the farm, as with an in dividual, on the above basis, balanc ing tho books at the end of each year, and taking an inventory of stock, farming implements, etc., to open cor rectly the account for tile succeeding years. This method will demonstrate conclusively whether farming pays or not as fur as that person Iconcerned. Most farmers aro very -careless about keeping any account whatever even with neighbors and others with whom they have dealings, which is a prolific source of trouble and vexation, often leading to expensive lawsuits. But farmers will say they have no time to attend to such things, and trust to luck and the honesty of other people to carry them through. Any merchant or business man who con ducted his affairs to such a slipshod, slovenly manner would surely fail, and would not deserve to succeed. It will require but afew moments at the close of each day, and one year’s trial of keeping farm accounts will convince most farmers that it is a very sensible aud proper method of doing business. T would like to hear from others through these columns on this sub ject. Country <i ntleman. Why Johnson's Ram Failed lo Got :t Prize. * [Michigan Farmer.] Our comity fair’s just over; but Johnson’s Cotswold ram did not take the prize that was offered for the best animal of that kind. Judge Klump was chairman of the committee on rams, and he manifested the deepest interest in Johnson’s, indicating clear ly that if any cheep ought to take a prize that one ought to. Johnson’s ram was by itsclt in the pen with a high board fence, and before adjudi cating the Judge thought lie had bet ter go in and make a close examina tion of the animal for the purpose of ascertaining the fineness o c the wool. As soon as the Judge reached the in terior ho walked toward the ram, whereupon the ram began to lower his head and to shake it ominously. Juntas the Judge was about t feel the lleeoo, the ram leaped forward rtftil planted his head in the Judge’s stomach, rolling him over on the ground. Before the judge had time to realize what had happened the ram came at him again, and began a seri es of promiscuous butts, each given with the precision and force of a pile driver. It butted the Judge on the back, on the ribs, on the arms, on the shoulder-blades, and tho bald place on his head, on bis shin; it butted his spectacles off, butted his high hat in to silk chaos; it lmttcd him over into the corner ami lip against the fence, then it hutted four boards off the pen, and escaped into the fair grounds and skedaddled, and would not wait to have the first prize ticket pinned to his ear. Judge Klump did not go after it. No, no! Four men came and carried him home. The doctor anticipates ho will recover bv the next fair. Happiness. —The idea has been transmitted from generation to gener ation, that happiness is one largo and beautiful precious stone a single gem so rare, that all search after it is vain, all effort for it hopeless. It is not so. Happiness is a Mosaic, composed of many smaller stones. Each taken apart and viewed singly, may bo of little value, but when all aro grouped together, and judiciously combined and! set, they form a pleasing and j graceful whole—a costly jewel.. Tram ple not under foot, then the little, pleasures which a gracious providence ' scatters in the daily path, and which, 1 iu eager search after some great and exciting joy, we are so apt to over-, look. AVhy sisou’d we- always keep our eyes fixed on the bright, distant horizon, while there are so many love ly roses in the garden in which wo are permitted to walk V The of our chase thc our - m f<ji' Tat Among the anfloVed and drippinpf pedestrian)! who sought the aid of a Grand rivet atiedt car yesterday to help shorten the way home was a mau with gray locks and aii old maid with beau catchers and false teeth. They seemed to hate each other at first sight, for he was hardly seated beside when lie growled: "If you women ilidnH wear bustles there'd be twice as much room in street cars.” “If men didn't sit cross-legged there’d be three-times ns much room ?” she snapped in reply. •'lf I was a woman I wouldn’t lie gadding nr on ml with fbo rain pour ing tlowu ill this way,” ho remarked. ‘ Yes you would. Tf you were if woman yot! Would wniit to go out and show those feet.” Ho drew liis No. ll's under ihe seat, flushed no a little, and growled: “They are not false, like some folk’s teeth!” “No, and they don't turn up quite as much as siJittr people s nose! she answered. He was rtllt'fi'feil for a time, lull presently recovered himself and went on. “Thirty years ago women got along without paint, powder, bustles, straps, buckles and such nonsensical fixings.” “Thirty years ago," sho promptly replied, “it was a rare tiling to sec a man come out of a saloon wiping his mouth on liis thumb I He didn't say anything more but lie wondered if she wasn’t looking out of the window when he signaled the car, Sheep in Orchards. Having a small orchard of bou£ sixtv trees, I have for three years past, pastured it with six or eight sheep for die benefit of the trees. Last year, being It non-bearing year in this State, I had more apples than all the neigh boring farms together. My practice is to plough shallow alternate years, in order to disturb the surface of the ground and not cut the roots too deeply, which I consider to be against the longevity of the tiees, and sow to clover, to be fed one year to the sheep, the meet plowed and sowed again to clover, the sheep kept in another feeding lot rill after haying, when flic clover roots have gained strength and maturity, so that the close fee ling of the sheep will not kill them. AVhy J plow so often is because the tramp ling of the sheep is apt to pack tho ground around the roots of the trees, preventing their bearing. The sheep eat all the blighted windfall apples, which contain the germs of the inju rious insects, ns soon as they fall fro nr the trees; and they distribute their manure so evenly and finely over tho ground that the rains soak it immodi atelv down to the fine surface l'ootc of the trees, causing them to bear ev ery year. The sheep should not be kept in too late in the fall, nor put ill t o early in the spring, when the grass is dead, as they are apt to kuaw tho bark of the small trees. — Nor Eng land Fanning. Some Southern papers are printing a call issued by the officers of llm National Independent Political Lnioit for a national convention of colored men in tills city, on the 20th of June. The purpose is avowed to he: "To shape onr ’iciV' miff Consolidate ouf baih/ts, to tlie cod that, the best inter est of our people may bo subserved thereby, and that the loathsome par ty yoke imposed on us may be sett aside, and to confirm a final depart ure from the Republican party with its loathsome corruption and forever hetcafter cast our vote for better moil and a better party.” The. political interests of the colored men of the South are identical with those of the whites. AVe hope to see thousands 4 in the coming campaign appreciate and act upon this fact. HeiotofOftf they have hunted with the white Re publicans who have given them tho buzzards and gobbled all the turkeys. —A ngusla (Ihrnniele. AVe think the negroes are getting their heads level all over this coun try, after so long a time, and if reports are to bo believed, especially is it true as regards Florida. Al e understand that they are very indifferent in that State, and express themselves boldly that they will not again be controled by the designing carpet-baggers. Tun Biggest Hog in the AYoki.d.— The famous hog owned by Air. Win. Bush, of Alonroo, aud so celebrated as the largest porker ever known iu these ■ parts, passed through the city on j Tuesday last, in charge of its owner, join the way to Philadelphia, the seat of the great Centennial celebration.. It is of a black and white color, and is a cross of the China aud Poland; ie live years oldwas born in this coun ty on t lie farm ot Air. Joseph Pond. It measures 7 feet aud -l inches iu length, 3 feet and 1 inches in height, full 30 inches across (he busk, girths* 9 feet, and weighs 1,510 pounds. It has been fed principally on milk, with small quantities of com occasionally to give solidity to the flesh, and show* that no particular pains have been taken to give it an artificial nnuear anee. Its hair is flesh rough and it i;*!^ No. 17.
