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THE GAZETTE HIIMMKRVII.LK, GA. John A. HicNiir, Kn. and Proprietor • PRICK OK SUBSCRIPTION. Por on* year, •l.7rtj For #1 month*, SI.OO Payment In artvaar**. Advrrll*ii*K rut** r* alJwt<l to of thl* paper a* a circulating medium In Cherokee auction of Oeorgla. Kutlmatea and term* given on a||dlt'Htlon. Voluntary eom in imitation* from tho road •nt of thl* paper are alway* welcomed. New* of all kind* 1* preferred, imperially county new*. If you wiah to Improve jrounolf lu writing, prac tice can aid you. “ Practice make* perfect.” Cotnrouulcatlonn mu*t be accompanied by the writer'* name, or they cannot be published. THITRSOAY MORNING, JULY IR, - The picture here xhown in *up polled to be an ideal portrait of Ilcnry Ward Beecher while tcll ing ono of his funniest jokes in the pulpit of Plymouth church on a late Sunday morning. No wonlcr the pious congregation roars with laughter, stamps in thunders of applause, and cheers for the man they worship*. The portrait, of course, is copied from the spirit of some editorial notices in the New York Hun. The Atlanta weekly Constitution lias boon much improved hy anew dress of typo and anew make-up. Wo give it congratulation on the lively change. James A. Doyle k Cos. have begun an advertising agency in Savannah, designed to act for the pross of the Southern States. It will doubtless prove of convenience and practical good to the large number of newspapers in this section, and we trust the enterprise will lie successful. It is n prominent sign that Savannah is a live city, ami destined to find greater impor tance as the ocean port of Georgia. “We know that the great majority of the people of Chattooga county are as jieaoeful and law abiding us any oilmens in the State, and as deeply deplore these troubles as is possible for them to do so, and we have full confidence that they will take the necessary stops to put a stop to these personal encounters.'' Tho above remark, made by the Rome Courier of Thursday, is dbrrdot and truly represents the good disposition of a largo majority of our county citiaens. But it is an absolute necessity that something be done to stop tho carrying of weapons and, the i>otty wars between neighbors. The Gazette lias heretofore pointjd out tho true and only way for this to be done. Good and thoughtful men are beginning, to realize that the evil must Is: promptly met, and in the way which will boat restore mutual good feoliug. A Cabinet of Specinfem. There is no county in tho Htate richer than this in mineral specimens or objects of curiosity from past %gos. Evory ridge fciml vnlW contains more or less of* mine ral to stock a cabinet devoted to these things. Tho very first, stop towards call ing attention to tho richness of our moun tains, is to collect and show the specimens of them. There has never been itu effort tuailc towards a general collection, but such would cost very little. The good it will accomplish for tho county and section, may be estimated from the experience of other localities, whoso mineral value was made known to tlic world by these means, and men of capital saw and took hold of the opportunities thus brought to 4igh]k Below we give an example of one way to get. up a <abinet for public inspection- All that is needed is a grouping ol the specimens which abound in Chattooga county; then science can examine them, and their commercial money value made known to the men of means who are able to develop the wealth now lying idle in the earth “ The South Georgia medical associa tion, recently organised in Thomasville, has resolved upon the establishment of a museum, and having procured a room in Thomasville, an - now ready to receive and solicit from all quarters anatomical, path ologioal and geological specimens for the collection. A few specimens have already been presented to the society, and a little activity and energy will in a short time fill the walls of a largo room with a col lection of curiosities, capable of interest ing the most intelligent and scientific minds. Tho county commissioners have tendered the use of their room, and (’apt. Panye has the honor of donating the first specimen in natural history.” The above may he profitably taken by cur own county as a suggestion. Boom oouid easily be furnished in our court bouse for the purpose, and a few shelves would answer present needs. Then lot the iact be made known that there is such a depository, and every intelligent citizen will take pleasure in bringing forwaid the curious tilings he may pick up on his Farm, or in the garden, on the ridge. Mo matter if there be not now among us a special scientist who can at a glance tell the name and lineage of every specimen; let us first bring together the minerals and fossil remains which are so abundant to the hand. A simple label put on each can diseribc where it was found, when deposited, and by whom; afterwards there will be time and talent to ascertain all that is derirable to know. The youths now being educated in our county schools, can improve their interest in geology and kindred sciences, which will be of im mense value when united to their other studies. This matter is of permanent interest to Chattooga county. Its importance in an artistic sense is beyond the scale of dollars; but it has, also, an importance that can be directly measured in wealth to the county population at a day not far dis tant. We commend this suggestion to the ordinary, who, in the absence of the commissioners, has no doubt the power to start a movement that must afford so • much of present aud prospeeUvc'bonefit. Editorial Notes.—The qmation of restoring the president'a salary to what it was formerly ($26,000), will probably be part of the canvass next year. Once upon a time, says tho Brooklyn Argus, a cry arose that there was too much taxation und too little representa tion is this country, and, in order ostens ibly Ut remedy the evil, the people got up wliat. is knowiyts the Bunker Hill row. Since then thodiistory of taxation here has shown dial the object of shaking off the foroigrßlundercrs was to enable the l>eoplo to introduce a domestic plan of plundering each other. At this little game they have proved themselves capable of giving their English cousins two points and cumbering them every time. All reflecting people will agree with the Wilmington Star, that more harm to the morals of this country has been done by the trial of Henry Ward Beecher than by forty thousand ordinary police trials with all the flaunting accompaniments graph jcally and gorgeously set forth in the pictorial patters. The whole affair reek ing in licentiousness and pdrfumed by the upas of hypocrisy has been read and dis cussed in all the land. The melancholy spectacle of religion reviled ami dragged through the mire, of woman dishonored ami trampled under foot, of thousands feeding on foul swill and smacking their jaws, like swine at trough, over the bestial repast is too horrid to lie made the sub ject of refined or long continued comment- A number of crates of peaches have found their way to the New York market from Georgia, and fruit dealers predict an enormous crop this season, fhe present, prices aro exorbitant, small peaches bring from $3 to $.'1.80 per crate, and the larger and finer ones lining held at sls. Psulmuol Bard will hereafter bo known as the Great Deposed. He has employed counsel and proposes to tost in the courts the right of the president to remove an appointee of the government without alleged cause. Whatever differences of opinion may prevail respecting the future prospects of the rest, of tho country, there can be no doubt that the Southern States arc now in a more prosperous condition than they have been at any period since the com mencement of the w'ar. The final with drawal of the federal authority, or rather of the carpet-bag governments, and the restoration of the old principle of State control have been attended by the hap piest results. In Arkansas and Louisiana, which were longest deprived of the privi lege <tf self government, bankruptcy and civil war seemed to be imminent only a few months ago; but now, party animosity appears to have died out, and from both States wo have the most encouraging re ports. Everything is serene and pros perous— so prosperous, indeed, that a cotton crop of five million hales as now regarded - ns probable,- — IT. S. Economist. The Chattanooga Times speaks of a call from C. W. Howard, the distinguished writer upon agricultural ami mineral rc wmrees of Georgia. Air. Howard informs the editor that ho has sold his property near Kingston, and has purchased three thousand acres on Lookout mountain, near Rising Fawn, where he intends to go into sheep raising, in addition to the cultiva tion of fruits and vegetables, lie has ten acres iu Irish potatoes at present, from which ho expects to raise one thousand bushels, with no other manure than wood ashes- Mr. Howard is also interested in a coal mine on top of the mountain, iu the upper carboniferous formation, from which he hopes some day to supply Chat tanooga, by means of a narrow gauge railroad along the summit of the moun tain, on a lovel to tho point, and thence by an incline to Chattanooga. The Chicago Tribune complains that there is a class of foreigners in that city, composed of those who do not speak or read English, who have come there from Bohemia ami Poland ami other places in Europe, ami who have the most ignorant and extraordinary notions of what con stitutes freedom in a free country. Last year these persons insisted that it was (he duty of the government to provide for them and their families by donations from the city treasury! and generally main tained that law which protected property in the hands of one man while others had none, were tyrannical und despotic. The Rome Commercial, in an editorial article on the present paper money system of our country, speaks as follows: “To devise and cirry out a wise and effectual plan of reform of long standing abuses, rerpiiros the highest ability. This is especially true of financial reforms. If we could find a time when there existed no debtor class, much of the difficulty would be removed; but unfortunately, an inflated and depreciated currency is al ways accompanied or speedily followed by a vast amount of indebtedness ; and this indebtedness creates a formidable obsta cle to any affoctu&l plan of reformation. Wo have therefore to choose between (lie alternatives of no reformation, or refor mation at the hazard of opposition from the whole mass of debtors X o real frion 1 of the permanent prosperity of the conn try will sonsent that evils, such as invari ably attend a bloated, fluctuating and depreciated paper currency shall remain permanently fixed upon the country, lie formation, then, is a necessity. Whether it is possible to reform our currency with out contraction so such an extent as to occasion a serious reduction of prices is a question to be maturely considered, Let us hope that our financiers may be able to devise some plan which will lead us gradually but surely out of our difficulties without any sudden and ruinous contrac tion. If contraction is an indispensable preliminary to a return to a specie cur rency, then we must make minds to endure contraction just as we submit to take physic to get rid of malignant disease. ■ Northern and WtrtherjConrteiies. < The New York Herald says.: “Nothing could be more grateful than the treatment bestowed upon the representatives of the Southern army who went to Boston dur ing the Bunker Hill celebration. They were overwhelmed with courtesies and honor and every evidence of kindness and fraternal feeling. The effect of this has not been lost upon the South. Governor Kemper, of Virginia, has given public expression to his feelings, and he regards tho treatment by Boston of Virginians ‘who went with the smell of Confederate battles on their garments’ as a ‘ step to ward inaugurating the true work of the centennial period, the work which is to extinguish all sectional animosities for ever- 1 The undervalue of these centennial festivities, and especially of the exhibition which is to lie held in Philadelphia next year, is aptly expressed by Gov. Kemper. All that we want to remember of the war is its devotion, chivalry, and the romance which always surrounds these tremendous strifes. Any remembrance that implies bitterness or anger is an act of moral treason to the Union. The South has no greater enemy than the statesman who would endeavor to revive the smouldering fires of secession, while the North more mischievous leader than the implac able republican who insists upon blandish ing the fiery tresses of war and radicalism in every political campaign.’’ Rom* News.--There was a “ speaking bee” ut tho city hall on Thursday night. Rev. Mr. Reese of Floyd has been in Eensacola and returned.; Col- Graves, who left Rome to join tho Egyptian army, is on his way. Prof. Townoi and family have gone to reside in South Carolina. The stove works will resume work at first of next month. A mass meeting of colored citizens was held in the city hall on the 6th instant, to promote the best interest of the race. It was an orderly meeting, ar.d will result in good influence. Married by Esq. Hawkins on the 4th, Henry McKenzie to Miss Patterson. The July term of superior court is in session, Underwood presiding. On the 7th of August, a vote will bo taken on the plan of compromise Idtoly made with holders of the city bonds. In the superior court we notice only one citizen of this county as interested in suite, viz: Wesley Shropshire B. Blake. Verdict given for Shropshire, SIOO and costs. The Rome railroad has elected E. Hill yer president, and C. M. Pennington superintendent. Yesterday a meeting was to have been held in the city hall, called together by hy the mayor, for the purpose of discuss ing plans to open the Coosa river and reach the gulf. The subject is very im portant to Rome, and the county and city are invited to talk it over. Navigation through other rivers is also wanted. The express office has been removed to the new Commercial building. The steam fire engine “Rainbow will perhaps be sold to Marietta. Au. Around.—largo fire in the busi ness part of Dalton, partly insured. Mrs. Pupccll of Quitman shoots all the bogs she finds in her garden. This is a first class receipt for the nuisance. Middle Georgia crops flourish. In Jones county, eighty bushels of clean oats wore raised on one acre. Rev-W. I’. Ilarrbon intends to publish a Methodist paper in Atlanta. “Tom Hardeman" is the name of a new locomotive ou the State road. An Augusta man says that for thirty odd years itwhas rained on the 21st of June, as helas observed. Dwelling af 11. M. Walton, in Wilkes county, was burned by an incendiary. Tho Scofield rolling mills in Atlanta are to be started again. There are faint prospects that the North A South railroad will, one of these days, be completed through to Atlanta. Mr. Matt Briscoe of Ogtethrope has a violin 104 years old. (’lark of the Atlanta Constitution, and Alston of the Herald, were to have duelled in Alabama, but Alston was arrested at West Point. Sardis church in Columbia county was burned by unknown persons. Full opened cotton bolls arc already shown in Thomas county. Elijah Martin, a farmer of Coweta county, has not bought a pound of meat or a grain of corn in fifty years. A gentleman gives the Elbcrton Gazette a remedy for snake bites which he has never known to fail. Immediately upon being bitten, or as soon as possible apply a piece of moistened copperas to the wound, and keep it there until the effects of the poison disappears. The copperas can be applied with a bandage, or a large lump placed ou tho wound, to which it. will adhere as the mad-stone is said to do. When the lump drops off it should be replaced by another piece, moistened as the first, and this kept up until the ad hering ceases. Columbus factories paid out $12,000 for wages last Saturday night week. Crops in Muscogee county arc tolerable; in Stewart and Chattahooche fair; in Talbjt and Meriwether favorable; and in Harris there is a prospect',of an average yield. Prof. Bernard Mallon has been again re-elected superintendent of the Atlanta public schools. Atlanta now claims to be the fourth in the list of inland towns in the matter of cotton receipts. She has received several thousand more bales this year than ever before, and in the last twelve months has passed Macon, Columbus and Nashville. ; Her receipts for the present current year I will probably approbate 70,00 bales..- Au igusia, Memphis and Selma are ikiw the only inland towns that get more cotton than the Gate City. It is probable that she will lead Sekna next year, and thus be the third on the list This place she must bold for a long time, for it will re quire a tremendous step to pass Augusta’s 175,000. bales, and the 250,000 that pour into M<wnphis every year. If the North k South road were completed to Atlanta her cotton receipts might be increased thereby. A venomous alligator attacked Louis Thomas, in Wayne county, reofently. The Times complains that the Thomas county jail has been ootikertcd into a lunaticary. Bishop Beckwith and family passed through Atlanta on their way North. Farmers <]tf Oglethrope are oomplaning of dent ration caused to their lands by beavers. A cypres* tree was out down in Ran dolph county which contained a colony each of sap-suckers and bats and two hundred pounds of nice honey- The cotton factories of Columbus and Tallassee have taken 1089 bales of cotton more than they did last season. Hon. T. M. Norwood proposes to invest in a ihccp and stock farm in Ware county. Banks county comes forward with a centennial water-moccasin. He has two heads and foifA . - Mr.'W®- Hsrri son is in jail at Jesup, charged with murdering his wife. Everybody in southern Georgia planted out potato vines on the fourth. The Valdosta Times says that at least $75,000 are annually taken from that section to purchase mules, and it wants to know why the money cannot be retain ed in the State. It believes that the hardy animals can’bc profitably r ' ed in Southern Georgia, whore oats and ber muda grass can be grown in unlimited quantities. Dr. A. Matthisof Washington county sold ono hundred and fifteen tons of his fertilizer this year. The comptroller general decides that cotton held on the first day of April iH taxable, and must be returned to the re ceiver, as other personal property, in the county where tho owner resides. The fact of its being stored in another county does not rolieve the owner returning it and paying the tax on it. _ A protracted meeting in TalbottOn. Janies Tankersly of Albany is dead. The State lunatic asylum is so crowded that no more patterns can be accom modated „ * On the first day of last month tm twelve national banks in Georgia üblo for $2,197,271 they held $1,020,240 in reserve, o?a little over forty-six per cent. The average rltio of reserve throughout Lke country was onl&thirty-three per cent.* Of specie the Georgia hanks held $35|534 ( a mrioflCflj tenders $493,668. Thriir ft’* '■ |gr cent re iVmi.tmn f%* ..'J While fifteen un WC running a threshing machine/near Alpha retta three of them were k illed hy a stroke of lightning. A soap-stone pipe of the post-plioccnc era has been ploughed up in Gwinnett county. Dogs are slaying sheep in Gwinnett. Columbus has a shirt factory in wliieh thirty-live females give a practical rendi tion of Hood's oelebrated song. She is to have a clothes factory in which seventy five more females will find bread- With a population of 20,000, Augusta can boast of twenty-five prosperous man ufacturing establishments, the largest of which gives constaut work to 700 hands. Who in turn spread their money among the merchants, giving an air of business and prosperity to the whole community. Tho Southern Cross factory, of Augusta has been leased for ten years by Amos K. Clark, who is now North getting new machinery. The organization of a company in Co lumbus, for manufacturing ready-made clothing out of Georgia-made goods, is a very important step toward commercial independence. Watermelons from Florida are being sold in Dalton at fancy prices. W. B. Steele, of Jefferson, is dead. An infant child of Mr, R. C. Itallard of Dirtsellor was very ill on Tuesday. Gustavus Johnson of Chattoogaville is said to have g.mc to Cartersville, where his wounded bribers Alnla and Jeff had proceeded after the late shooting. It is said that Abda's wounds have assumed a dangerous character, owing to his long ride and want of medical aid in time, lie was shot In three places, the severest be in the head md thigh. We find it difficult to get particulars of the late trouble. The undeniable fact is that quietly disposed citizens find it safer to take no sides, and say nothing. This condition of things may be expected to go on until a general indignation takes hold of the matter and commands peace. If the time should come when every citizen feels that he kits an interest in these an noying “pyivatc feuds,” that interest be ing inseparably connected with his family peace and public prosperity, then the law can be trusted to take care of all differ ences, and shotguns be laid aside. It is .-outed that the bailiff of Seminole district (JTu. H. Ragland) has resigned. There serins to have been a gross impro priety attending the late effort to arrest the Johnson*. Persons were members of the posse or following it, (whether they were summoned or not we do not know,) who had no right to be there, and who were notoriously at enmity with the men intended to be arrested. One of them is reported 1 to have said that he was with the bushwhacking party which fired upon th retreating Johnsons, and asserts that “they shot to kill.” If this be so, it in dieateft a neglect of official duty not hhln to restore good order. * AFFAIRS IN TOWN AND COUNTY If you livs *ii opinion on any nubjoct that interest* the general community, write it down and send it to The Oaaettc. You may be always confident of a fair hearing through it* columns. In all case* send your name to the Editor. Mr. H. cfToilreath came up from Car tersville on Tuesday. Templar*4iari a thin meeting on Tues day night, owing to the rain. Mr. Richard C. Vernon has returned from Atalla, Ala., and is nßw in Dirttown. Mr. Thos. B. High of Dirttown visited Cave Spring last week. Grangers near Coosaville are to have a grand picnic on Saturday. Alpine grange has sent to Louisville for a large shipment of salt. Rev. Mr. Lovejoy preachen on Satur day and Sunday at Macedonia. Miss Maggie E. Rosser reopened her school near LaFayette on Monday. She left here on the Saturday preceding. Rev. Mr. Milner filled his regular ap pointment in the Presbyterian church here on Sunday last. The communication signed 11 Spectator” is very good, but the name of the author is not given. Since the plentiful rains, “General Green" has camped his army in this county. _ The exhibition at Mrs. Knox's school at Alpine, on Wednesday evening of last week, was enjoyed by a large assembly of patrons and friends. Mr. James M. Bellah of Summerville has been invited to address the Templars at their picnic at Alpine on Saturday, and will probably do so. The stand formerly occupied by Ray Allen has been fitted up by order of Wm. M. Johnson, and will soon be opened as a saloon. On nearly all hands we hear report* of a good season, and farmers look forward with bright hopes of a plentiful crop gathering. , It is said to be a fact that some of the mutes in the Cave Spring asylum are being taught to speak, and in time will be enabled to converse freely. A little son of Mr. It. F. Roberson ot Summerville, two yoars old, died on Sun day night after a long and serious illness. The funeral took place on Monday. Mr. J. J. P. Henry of Summerville his a very fine collection of hogs, that are not mreelled nathe county. One of them died m week frmn effidera. ▼alley, in Cherokee county, has been re moved from Holcombe’s store to theresi donee of Dr. ShamhHn. Mr. Miles R. Hammons carried the southern mail to Centre on the Monday trip, instead of the regular driver. Mr. Hammons wished to perfect the mail ar rangements below. At the sheriff’s sale in Rome on Tues day week, only one piece of property was disposed of- It was 86(1 acres near Floyd Springs, and brought $1000; sold to Col. Phillips of Atlanta. Mr. Morton, whose death we chronicled last week, was aged fifty-one years and three days, ilis death is reported to have been quiet, and in the full hope of a better world beyond the grave. Pleasant call on Monday week from Dr. J. W. Bryant, formerly of this county but now located at Crawfish Springs in Walker county. He returned home on the same day from a visit to Coldwator district. During the absence of Rev. Mr. Love joy in Tennessee, lately, some persons entered his premises and took,therefrom a quantity of provisions, principally meats and sugars. Mrs. M. A. Powell of Summerville left on Tuesday morning to visit Fort Payne, Alabama. Her son, Mr. J. S. Powell, resides at Fort Payne, and came to ac company Mrs. P. They traveled by buggy overland. Those execut >r, administrators and guardians who have not yet made their annual returns, will find an important notice from the ordinary, under head of ‘ ‘ legal advertisements.' ’ The duty must be performed. The “Cardwell” thresher belonging to Messrs. Moore, Kilgo and Owens in Dirt town, is a very fine machine although not new. It runs with ease by six horses, and has frequently threshed three hundred bushels a day of wheat. From seeing the picture of the steamer Magnolia, which is every week published in the Centre Advertiser with an adver tisement. one would think that the Coosa river had already been opened, and that full-rigged ships were sent up from the Gulf to navigate the river. The southern mail hence to Centre now departs on Mondays and Fridays, and arrives Tuesdays and Saturdays. This arrangement will a great convenience to south county residents, as it will ensure a connection with the eastern mails arriving here on Thursday evening. For some cause not understood, the mail route between Centre and Cross Plains, which is a continuation of the line from here to Centre, was not let by the postoffice department* The Cherokee Advertiser compfams of this, and asks that it be at once attended to. A negro named Lee Vann, a lunatic, stabbed two other negroes who were en gaged with him at a threshing machine an John Berryhill’s place about seven miles from Rome. This occurred about two weeks ago, on the Alabama road near Coosaville. The crazy man was captured and carried to the jail in Rome. Mr. E. F. Floyd sent to this office on monday a specimen pod of the California black pea which is planted among his corn. The pods of this pea are about two feet long, and contained each from thirty to fifty berries. It is easily culti vated, and very good for table use or as feed for stock. Floyd county expenses for the last six months were $11,924.30, divided as fol lows: On old debt $5079 80; for jury service $1035; court house $423.82 ; jail $822.67; poor house $1284.71; and gen eral expenses $3278.30. Mr. Thomas J. Perry is clerk to the board of commis sioners, and a very efficient officer. Acknowledge a very pleasant call on Saturday from Mr. J. A. Rheudy, who is on a visit to his old home. Mr. Rheudy is now located at Carrollton in Carroll county, and came overland from that place, accompanied by his family, and intends to return during this week. His mother, Mrs. S. E. Bailey, is a resident of Summerville. In this hot summer season, it will be wise in housekeepers to sprinkle some lime about their domestic preeincts, to disinfect the miasma which hot weather causes to rise. Carbolic acid is also an excellent article to use. Those who pre fer lime can obtain it from DeJournette k Son in Rome, who are agents for the Shelby lime works of^labama. Ami Methodist church near Alpine has an interesting Sabbath school, of which Mr. W. F. Horton is superintendent, ami G. T. Horton secretary. On Sunday last, by request, Dr. King made a short address to the school. About sixty pupils are enrolled, and the average attendant* is good. A number of children come from the mountain. There was a lively fistieuff between a white man and a mulatto on Thursday last in Broomtown. Bill Green, the party of the first part, lives at the old Gilreath place; and Badger Hawkins, the colored party, belongs at MelVhorters. Both were engaged at a threshing of wheat, and varied the labor by trying to thresh each other. White blood proved the winner. Croquet is the ever-attractive game. It is skillful, elegant, and affords amuse ment to almost any number of people whether young or old. A set of croquet can be had at Ombergs bookstore in Rome for any price from $3 to $8 acenrd >inAn quality; and for the sum expended, we know of nothing more enticing in the way of home sports. Go to Omberg s and see these things. From arrangements now being made, we can predict a complete and enjoyable picnic to be given by the Templars at Alpine on Saturday. Some of the most energetic citizens are at work, and there can be no doubt that all who go there will have a part in one of the best celebrations ever known in this county. The Gazette returns thanks for an in vitation from the committee, and regrets that its representative will not have time to attend. There is no advantage in buying a poor quality of kerosene oil, merely on the excuse that it is “cheap.’’ Remember that as a rule the best is the cheapest. Poor oils are greasy, smoky, and danger ous to use. A house burned up, or a child injured for life, would more than offset all the money you could save in a hundred years by purchasing inferior ker osene. Go to Turnley's drug store, in Rome, and get his “Aladdin” oil—it is the best, it is absolutely safe, and it gives a beautiful light that will not injure the eyes. Be sure and give him a call. Cherokee Alabama News. —Centre has a school for colored youths. Efforts are making to raise funds for support of an academic school for whites, and to employ Mr. Patterson as principal. Corn sells at $1.25 per bushel. A. L. Morgan at Anabersonville makes and sells anew musical instrument called the “harmonium." The examination of Gaylesville high school begins to-day. Died near Centre, on Sunday the 4th instant, Mrs. Martha Sharpton. The editor of the Centre Advertiser speaks of anew farm implement which was shown in Broomtown valley of Cher okee. He saw in operation the Roden cultivator (a plow) lately invented and patented by a Mr. Roden of DeKalb county, Ala. The stock is adjustable and any kind of point can be used on it, thus saving the cost of several stocks. Thos. Holcombe, of Broomtown in Cherokee, has the right for Cherokee, Chattooga, Walker and part of Floyd county. He will sell either farm rights or sell the plows ready put up. We have seldom read such an astonish ing strong puff as the following sample, which an Alabama exchange’ bestows on one of the speakers at a late masonic cele bration in Centre: Col. S is certified to be “an orator of nature’s rarest con stitution. His eloquence is of the Roman east which grasps the attention of thous ands in the clutch of a single word and holds them helpless upon his lips. Bold in debate, liberal in argument, sound in politics, he is the first to attack error, the last to shield impolicy, and always found at the right place when the work is to be performed. At the election in Alpine district on Saturday, Mr. Hiram A. Brownfield was chosen justice of the peace, vice James E. Burns resigned. There were thirty one votes cast, of which Mr. B. received all but one. Some friend of Mr. A. J. Strickland nominated him, but he did not consent to serve. The returns were de livered at the court house on Monday morning by Esq. P. T. Carrell. Rome Cotton Statement.—The fol lowing shows the figures in cotton for the week ending on Friday: Stock on hand Sept, 1, 1874 133 Receipts this week 20 Received previously 26,467-26,487 Total 26,620 Shipped this week 64 Shipped previously 26,233-26,297 Number of bales on hand 323 Quotation* —Dull and quiet; middlings 13f cents ; low middlings 131 cents; good ordinary 12J cents. We have been shown some very hand some pen-and-ink sketches made by Mr. Jules V. Wheeler, that indicate his skill in the art. They are a testimony to his thorough training iu the department of penmanship; and we would be glad if he will, as he intends, get up a school of instruction in this locality. The knowing how to write is as necessary as knowing how to read, while a higher proficiency with the pen is of the greatest practical value to every one who expects to do business in the world. Mr. Wheeler has our best wishes for success, and the public will, we are sure, give him a liberal pat ronage. He teaches the “Spencerian system,'' which is known to be tbe best now practiced. It is said that a mans nature is only “a bundle of habits.” And it is generally found more comfortable to follow a well defined path than be dodging out of it too often. Nevertheless, a wise man keeps his eyes open to all chances, and promptly goes where his interest calls. There are many of this County who have for yfhrs , traded at Brenner's, always to the mutffil satisfaction of dealer and customer, and it is noticed that they generally keep it up, without much change. Others there are, who have their attention attracted by the enterprise of the store we mention, and come to test its advantages. In such eases, comparison does not result in a split like in the case of Beecher's trial in New York, but always unanimous for Brenner. Tiuon News. Tuesday. Weather warm, with rain nearly every day. Had two heavy rains to-day. Farmers report their corn aud cotton crops as being very promising, generally in the section contiguous to Trion. The prospect for a good crop is quite flattering at this time. Work on the factory is progressing very rapidly—although it rains and the work is retarded a few hours almost every day. Are done moulding brick, and will be ready to burn in a day or two. Mr E. W. Marsh, of the firm of Moore, Marsh & Cos. of Atlanta, accompanied by Mrs. Marsh and two of his childrin, are visiting iu this aud Walker county. “Tiuon.” We published some time since an count of the mysterious disappearance of revenue officer Leatherwood near Gads den, Ala.; how his horse was found with blood upon his saddle, leaving the in \ ference that Leatherwood had been assas sinated. A few days since, the body of a dead man was found floating down Coosa river near Childersburg, and supposed to la; that of the missing man. There is something about the matter yet to be accounted for, as will be seen by the following taken from the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: “Mr Jas. R. Crowe, of Pulaski, Tennessee, who has recently returned from a trip to Texas, wrote to the probate judge of Limestone county a few days age that he saw leatherwood in Waco, Texas. If Mr. Crowe was not mistaken, (and he is a very accurate and reliable person,) the body found floating in the Coosa was not that of Leather wood. We should be glad to hear from our old friend Crowe on this important matter.” The regular printed report has been sent to us from the State department of agriculture at Atlanta. It comprises re ports received up to 15th of June. The condition of crops in Chattooga is put down as follows, the figures 100 being taken as an average: Corn 85; sorghum 70; fall oats 90; spring oats 47 —injured 10 per cent by rust; wheat 105; clover yield 80; cotton 90. The acreage in peas is 90 per cent. Sheep loss by dogs is 5 per cent, and by disease 10 per cent. Honey stands at 105, and an average of 40 pounds to each colony. Throughout the State, the condition of crops is as follows: Corn 98 suffered from drouth in South Georgia; cotton 100, late but thriving; rice 95; melons 90 ; sorghum 109; fall oats 106, spring 80— both better than last year, but spring oats | are rusted; wheat 90, and good yield at harvest; clover 90; corn forage 99, and large acreage; field peas 100; wool clip 101; honey 103, average to colony 28 pounds. On the subject of cats, the commis sioner says: “It is well proved that fall j sown oats are most successful. It is also known that a good stand may be secured by sowing in cotton about the Ist of Sep tember, without plowing in. Farmers are advised to try this in the fall on at least part of their crop.” The commissioner sent out questions asking what is the main obstacle to rais ! ing sheep n this State. In almost every instance the reply was “dogs.” And such will always be the obstacle until a good dog law is made in Georgia.