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VOLUME 111, Advertising ltutes. incurs, 3 m | 6 m • 12m 1 Inch, single column $5 00 $ 7 00 $lO 00 2 Inches, “ “ 7 00; 9 00, 12 00 3 Inches, “ “ ‘ 900 1100 Ift 00 1 Column single 25 00 40 00; 75 00 1-2 “ “ 20 00 80 00 50 00 1-1 “ “ 15 00 20 001 80 00 2 Inches double column 800 15 00; 8000 3 Inches double column 12 00 18 00 30 00 4 Inches douole column ) 15 00 21 001 35 00 Dr. S. P. SMITH. H. H. SMITH Q. SMITH S. P. SMITH, SON & BRO. Wholesale Grocers . AND Boots, Shoes and Liquor Dealers, SMITH'S BLOCK, ROME, GA. We keep constantly on hand a full line of all kinds of Groceries and Pure Unadulterated Liquors You that are in need of goods be sure and give us a call. Our motto Is “ quick sales and short £roflts.” We are also proprietors of SMITH S KLKIIRATKI) STOMACH WITTERS. Be sure and give them a trial, they are sold by all Grocers and Druggists, throughout several States. S. P. SMITH, SON & IIRO. Town Property For Sale. CUE API CHEAP!! My place in Summerville is for sale. It is situated m the main street, three doors below the court house, a good house, well ami a large lot. Those dessring to pur chase a town residence would do well to look as this place and ascertain its price before purchasing elsewhere. A Bar gain CAN BE HAD IN IT! Call 00, Or Address J. H. GARRETT. [Dec-2-tf'l Summerville, Ga. ifcOfladay at home. Agents wanted. Outfit and terms free. TRUK & CO., Augusta, Maine. VICK’S Flower and Vegetable Seed are the best the world, produces. They are planted by a million people in America, and the result is, beautiful Flowers and splendid Vege tables. A priced catalogue sent free to all who enclose the postage—a 2 cent stamp. VICK’S Flower and Vegetable Garden is the most beautiful work of the kind in the world. It contains nearly 150 pages, hundreds of tine illustrations, and four Ckromo Plates of Flowhrsl beautifully drawn aud colored from nature. Price 35 cents in paper covers; 05 cents bound in elegant cloth. 'Vielc’’fi ICloi*l Collide This is a beautiful Quarterly Journal, finely illus trated. and containing an elegant colored frontis place with toe first number. Price only 25 cents for the year. Address JAMES VICK, Rochester. N. Y. ])ECIDED ADVANTAGES GIVEN to merchants who wish to Tap the Rich Trade of Chattooga County by regular advertising in THE SUMMERVILLE GAZETTE THE SUMMERVILLE GAZETTE The trade of a large and important agricultural section can thus be reached better than by any other medium better than by any other medium because nearly all the people read it every week. $1.75 a year in cash. Subscribe for it at once—Subscribe for it at once ADVERTISING RATES Carefully proportioned to its value as a medium to reach the peopleof this section. get the best. Webster’s unabridged Dictionary 10,000 Wards and Meanings not in other Dic tionaries. 3000 Engravings; 1840 pages quarto. Price 5154 We commend it as a splendid specimen of learn ing, taste, and labor. —Montgomery Ledger. Every scholar, and especially every minister should have it.— West Presb ., Louisville. Best book for evert body that the press has pro duced in the pret*ut century.— Golden Era. Quperior, incomparably, to all others, in itsdefl- O nitions— H. W. McDoitaUl, Pres. Cunib. Univ'y The reputation of this wirk is not confined to America. — RLehmon/J Whig. Every family in the United States should have this work. —Gallatin Republican. Depository of useful information; as such it H stands without a rival.— Nashville Dispatch. “The BEST PRACTICAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY extant.” —London Quarterly Iteciew, Oct. 1873. A NEW FEATURE. To the 3000 lux'htbxtionu heretofore in Web ster's Unabridged we have recently added four pages of COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS, engraved expressly for the work at large expense. ALSO Webster’s National Pictorial Dictionary. ICMO Page* Octavo. 600 Engraving). Price so. KST The National Standard. PROOF—2O to 1- The sales of Webster’s Dictionaries throughou, the country in 1873 were 20 times as iargeaa the sales of any other Dictionaries. In proof, we wiil send to any person, on application the statements of more than 100 booksellers, from every section of the country. Published by G. * C. MKRKIAM, Springfield. Mass. TTIQU the sum of one dollar JL and seventy-five cents You can pay subscription to The Gazette for one year; no reductions made to clubs. One dollar pays for six months One dollar pays for six months THE “PHILHARMONIC’’ PIANO. This entirely new Instrument possessing all the essential qualities of more expensive and higher-priced Pianos la offered at a lower prioe than any similar one now in the ronrket. it is durable, with a magnificent tons hardly surpass ed and yet it can he purchased at prices and on terms within the reach of all. This iustrumeut has all the modern improvements, including the oelebrsted ‘Agraffe’ treble, and Is fully warranted Catalogues mailed. WATERS' arc the best made. The touch is elastic, and ft fine singing tone, powerful, pure and even. Watirs’ Concerto Organs cannot be excelled in tone or beauty; they defy competition. The Concerto Styp is a line imita tion of the Human Voice. PRICES EXTREMELY LOW for cosh during this month. Monthly Installments received: On i Pianos, $lO to S2O; Organs, five to ten dollars; Second hand Instruments, three to five dollars; mouthly after first Deposit. Agents Wanted. A liberal discount to Teachers. Ministers, Lodges, Churches, Schools, etc. Special inducements to the trade. Illustrated Catalogues mailed. HORACE WATERS & SONS, 481 Broadway, New York. Box 3567. Testimonials OF— Waters’ Pianos and Organs. Waters’New Scale pianos have peculiar merit. —Nsto York Tribune. The tone of the Waters’ piano is rich mellow and sonorous. They possess great volume of sound and the continuation of sound or singing powwr is one of their most marked features.— New York Times. Waters' Conterto Organ is so voiced as to have a tone like a full rich alto voice. It is especially human is its tone, powerful yet sweet.— Rural Neto Yorker. |jan2o-lyj THE WEEKLY SUN. 1776. NEW YORK. 1876 Eighteen hundred and seventy-six is the Cen- i tennial year. It is also the year in which an Op position House of Representatives, the first since the war, will be in power at Washington; and the year of the twenty third election ol a Presi dent of the United States. All these events are suae to be of great interest and importance, es pecially the two latter; and all of them and everything connected with them will be fully and freshly reported and expounded in The Sun. The Opposition House of Representatives, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by The Sun, will sternly and diligent ly investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant’s admin istration; and will, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for anew and better period in our national history. Of all this The Sun will con tain complete and accurate accounts, furnishing its readers with early and trustworthy informa tion upon these absorbing topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it, will be memorable as de aiding upon Grant's aspirations for a third term of newer and plunder, and still more as deciding who shall be the candidate of the party of Re form, and as electing that candidate. Ooueern ing all these subjects, those who read The Sun will have the constant means of being thoroughly well mforinen. The Weekly Sun, which has attained a circu lation of over eighty thousand copies, already has its readers in every State and Territory, and we trust that the year 1876 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough newspaper. Ail the general news of the day will be found in it. condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and instruc tive manner. It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall con tinue in its columns a largo amount of miseol laneous reading, such as stories, tales, poems, scientific intelligence and agricultural informa tion, for which we are not able to make room in our daily edition. The agricultural depa tinent especially is one of its prominent features. The fashions are also regularly reported in its columns; and so are the markets of every kind. The Weekly Sun. eight pages with fifty-six broad columns is only #1.20 a year, postage pre paid. As this price barely repays the cost of tho paper, no discount can be made from this rate to clubs, agents, postmasters, or anyone. Tho Daily Sun, a large four page newspaper of twenty-eigh columns, gives all the news lor two ceuts a copy. Subscription, postage prepaid, 55c. a month or #<1.50 a year. Sunday edition extra, #l.lO per year. We have no traveling agents. Address, THE SUN, NEW YORK city. nERTAINLY YOU CANNOT FIND V 7 in any other newspaper, no matter where it is published, or however large it may be, so much of personal interest, and local benefit as appears every week in The Summerville Gazette. ITPAYS! IT PAYS!! What Pay*? rf PAYS every Manufacturer, Merchant, Mechanic, Inventor, Farmer, or Pro fessional man, to koep informed on all the im provements and discoveries of the age. IT PAYS the head of every family to intro duce idto his household a newspaper that is in structive, one that fosters n toste for investiga tion, and promotes through and encourages dis cussion among the members. rptlE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN which has 1 been published weekly for the last thirty years, does this, to an extent beyond that of any other publication, in fact it is the only weekly paper published in the United states, devoted to Manufactures, Mechanics, Inventions and New Discoveries iri the Arts and Sciences. Every number is profusely illustrated and its contents embrace the latest and most interest ing information pertaining to the Industrial, Mechanical, and Scientific Progress of the world; Descriptions, with Beautiful Engravings, of New Inventions, New Implements, New Processes, and Improved industries of all kinds; Useful, Notes, Receipts, suggestions and Advice, by Practical Writers, for Workmen and Employers, in all the various arts, forming a complete reper tory of New inventions and Discoveries; contain ing a weekly record not only of the progress of the Industrial Arts in our own country, but also oi all New Discovertes and Inventions to every branch of Engineering, Mechanics, and Science abroad. THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN has been the foremost of all industrial publications for the past Thirty Years. It is the oldest, largest, cheapest, and the best weekly illustrated paper devoted to engineering. Mechanics, Chemistry, New Inventions, Science and Industrial Progress published in the World. Merchants, Farmers, Mechanics, Engineers, Inventors, Manufacturers, Chemists, Lovers of Science, and people of all Professions, will find the Scientific American useful to them. It should have a place in every Family, Library, Study, Office, and Counting-room; in every Reading Room, College and School. Anew vol ume commences January 1, 1876. A year's numbers contain 832 pages and Several Hundred Engravings. Thousands of volumes are preserved for binding and reference. Terms, s3.Boayearby mail, including postage. Discount to Clubs. Special circulars giving Club rates sent free. Single copies mailed on reciptof 10 cents. 3- ay be had of all News Dealers. Address for the Paper, or concerning Patents, MUNN <fc CO., 37 Park Row, New York. Branch Office, cor. F & 7th Sts., Washing ton, I). C. Srea.t improvement, giving VJ benefit to every reader, is seen each week in i The Gazette, as it carries the news to the farm homes of a thrifty and widspread section. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 8, 1816. Phiadelphia Correspondent. Philadelphia, Pa., May 26, 1870. The American collection of paintings at the Centennial, is a disgrace to the Nation. They can best he described as a large number of poorly painted' pieces of canvas, and a fair eolleetion ot frames. The whole collection consists of poorly executed portraits of nobodies, the '.flat, uninteresting landscapes, and tho naked women that are to be foilWd in every pic ture dealer’s store in the country. Some of them are not wanting in finish and artistic execution, but thore is such an utter dearth of ideas and originality I among them as to make every true Amer- ; iean lover of art hang his head. Our greatest painters either are not represent ed at all, or have sent works that are ut terly unworthy of them. For grand his torical events; for seme national traitor characteristic; for some science, art, or invention, the paintings do not shadow forth a single idea, while all the folds of a woman's dress, old pieces of carved furniture, naked women, and vases are represented with a minuteness that is ab solutely painful. After spending the greater part of two days among these pictures, 1 was scarcely able to recall four of them distinctly to mind, so utterly wanting are they in subjects that attract only a passing glance, or so poorly and miserably are they painted. I shall re turn to this subject again from time to time. Ever since the opening day everyone has been waiting anxiously for the ap pearance of n catalogue to the Art Gal lery, and now that it has appeared, it can only bo designated as a perfect “fraud” and a cheat. It is enough to disgrace a schoolboy. One looks in vain over page atter page for something which will give some idea of what a pictures represents, and finally will find it under the artist’s name alone, and designated simply as “a portrait,” “astudy,"'or “a fancy sketch.” So great has been the indignation in re gard to this catalogue, that anew one is now being prepared, and it is sincerely to be hoped, for the credit of the nation, that someone who knows something about pictures, ami who has sense enough to keep him from running against a post in broad daylight, will be put ut it. The Austrian collection of paintings contains many pictures that are admir able in every sense ot tho word, but this collection has been closed by the Austrian Commissioner, on account of the acts of vandalism exhibited by the visitors. Two of the finest pictures in the whole collec tion have had holes punched through them, and others dinged and disfigured. Watchmen are placed in every room, but they appear to he more for ornament than use—arid for either purpose, they are worse than failures. The commissioner says that when lie receives some guarantee that lie can have the picurfes properly protected in future, lie will again open the collection to the public, and not before. Loud complaints are heard from all sides where statues or anything else are not io fenced off that cannot be reached. Statues made in clay or plaster of Paris are cut and scratched arid disfigured in an outrageous manner simply to enable the ignoramuses to de termine what the material is. Other statues have been handled until they are so dirty as to detract greatly from their beauty. But as this is a free country, arid the Centennial only comes every one hundred years, I suppose it is hardly fair to growl over such little trifles. If one wishes to realize how beautiful the female form is, and what wonders can be performed with tho chisel, he must see the statuary in the annex to the Me morial Hall, More beautiful forms, or poetic ideas, than they express can scarcely be imagined. Of course nine out of every ten consist almost entirely of a nudo, or partially nude woman, but they are represented in such varied positions, and each one so entirely different from the others, that one can scarcely tire of studying them. Had life been breathed into some of these, und Saint Anthony had to deal with them, I fear the church would have been treated to something else than a beautiful fable. Each sepa rate collection of paintings and statuary, I shall describe, in turn, from time to time. The Commissioners still refuse to open the exhibition on the Sabbath; for which they have received a vote of thanks from the members of the Episcopal Convention; and had enough curses showered unon their heads, by the more ungodly, to sink a frigate, if curses had any weight to them. Last Sabbath fully thirty thou sand people gathered around the grounds, the greater part of whom were mechanics . and artisans, who can find no opportun ity to visit the place during tho week. How the opening of a place like this, which cannot but improve and elevate the lowest and most brutal, can he a source of wrong, none hut those who willfully, close their eyes to reason, can see. If the exhibition is intended to im prove our mechanics and artisans; to show them the machinery and products of other nations; to encourage them to greater efforts, more skill, and invention in competing aguinst them, then to close the doors against them at the only times that they can come, is simply to have the exhibition for the more favored classes. Those who are too pious to go on Sunday will stay at home whether it is opened or closed, and those who beliove that the Sabbath is intended for the good and relaxation of man, will go where not a tithe as much much good is to be expe rienced. Should the Commissioners de cide to keep tho door closed in future, . they should at least be impartial, and not pass in whole troops of their own friends j to the exclusion of all others. Brazil bus sent the finest und largest diamonds, ever seen in America to the Centennial, hut they are held in tho Cus tom Houso foi the payment of duties, or until the commissioners give a bond to the amountof twice their value, that they will neither be sold nor stolen while in this Country. As their value is said to he in the neighborhood of $10,000,000 it is not likely that the bonds will be given, and so unless Congress intervenes, the diamonds may us well be returned to their owners. Dom Pedro did all that he could to get them released, but failed. In the Machinery Hall there tire now about 8,000 machines, of all kinds, in position. At the present time the ma chinery is run only from 10 to 12, and from 2 to 0, each day, but will probably be ran longer when things are in better shape. On the front end of this hull is one of the finest chime of bells in this country, and which are rung several tinier a day by a man sent from Wash ington for that purpose. In one end of the Main Hall is a $15,000 organ, which is played for several hours a day, and as Gilmore’s full brass baud also plays sev eral times tf day in this Hall, we are not afraid of a “corner” in music. The Centennial forms a little world all within itself now. A prison has been erected on the grounds, and a magistrate appointed, so that trespassers can have speedy justice meted out to them. Some days since a whole boat load of alligators was received from Florida to be turned loose in the lakes. These “open countenanced” long tailed “Varmints” are more likely to be kept as curiosities than pets. In the Government Building, and also in the Main Hall, th -re is a fine collec tion of Gatlin guns, of all sizes, from the small ones that throw but a medium sized bullet, to those that are mounted on wheels, and throw a small sized cannon ball. These guns when in rapid opera tion, throw about four hundred bullets a minute. Sometime since, in order to de termine to what extent the barrels would heat, in case a rapid fire was kept up for any length of time, one ol the guns was fired 100,000 times. When 10,000 car tridges had been fired the barrel got so hot as to char wood, as soon as it touched theta, but after that got no hotter. In the Government Building are also 600 models from the Patent Office, of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, und most of them of the most beautiful design and workmanship, hut these are the best that i are in the whole officii, and are not a fair sample of them as a whole. When this has been said, and that they take up a great deal of room, the most has been said in their favor. They are closed up so that the internal mechanism cannot be seen, nor the invention understood, and so are about as useful as bump on a stump. A solicitor of patents, from Washing ton, Mr. F. A. Lehmann, tells me that ihe only way that the attorneys have of examining as to the patentability of in ventions sent to them is to examine the models in the Patent Office, and as long as these are kept here Examinations can not be properly made, arid hence it is an outrage upon every inventor in the coun try to keep them. This curious lot is presided over by a great red faced, red whiskered man, who walks as if he ex pected the earth to tremble under him, arid looks as if lie was mad because he was not consulted about the creation of this petty, little earth, on which he con sents to dwell simply as a favor to his Maker. Laying aside this pomposity of man ner, he is a genial, educated gentleman, and a worthy representative of the Pat en! Office, Affectionate Inquiries. Parker has been out in California for nearly thirty years; but last winter he came on East and paid a visit to Iris old home. Among other acquaintances of former days "lie met. Mr. McGonn, and Mr. McGonn mentioned that he was sorry his wife was out of town as he would like Parker to see her. “And how is she?” asked Parker. “1 remember her well. Mary Jones she was before you married her. Splendid woman! And how is she, anyhow? ’ “I am sorry to say Mary is dead; been dead more than twenty years.” “Oh, I beg pardon,” said Parker. “Ex cuse me forstirring up old griefs. Buthow is your second wife? Fine looking woman, I’ll bet. McGonn, you were always the awfulest man at falling in love with pretty women I ever saw. What is she? Bru nette, I venture to say. Ain’t you going ; to introduce me to her?” “It is not —not a pleasant subject to dis cuss—hut—but—my second wife was laid away in the grave more than fifteen years ago.” “You don’t say so? Oh, I know of course, your second wife, of course; I for got about it. Did [ say your second wife? 1 meant your third instead of your second. And how is she? McGonn, I must know that woman. Introduce me, will you? Hung me if I don’t stay in towu till I know her.” “That will be impossible, Mr. Parker. My third wife has been an ancel since 1865.” “Well, now I declare, its too bad. I had no idea—of course I didn't mean any thing. Le's see, its ten years since 1865, ain’t it? Ten. yes. Well, now, old fel low, you'll forgive me for tearing up your feelings that way, but I’ll make it all right by asking how in the thunder is your present wife —your fifth?” “Mr. Parker you are mistaked again. I have no fifth wife. [— “Well, then, your sixth. How is she? Pardon me, old boy, for saying that you have'been going it. Six wives in thirty years, and I’mlhere not married yet. Now how is Mrs. McGonn, No- 6?" • “Mr. Parker, the lady with whom I live at present is iny fourth wife. I do not like the tone in which you speak of this subject.” “Oh, you and >n’t, don’t you! Well, when a man shoves them under the ground like you do, he oughtn’t to talk about his sen sibility. I don’t care how your wife is? Hang your eutiro family l” Mr. Parker took tho early train for California. , - Curious Facts About Water. The extent to which water mingles with other bodies apparently the most solid is very wonderful. The glittering opal which beauty wears as an ornament is only flint and water. Of every twelve hundred tons of earth which a landlord has in his estate four hundred are water. The snow-capped summits of our highest mountains havo many million tons of water in a solidified form. In every plaster of Paris statue which an Italian carries through our streets for sale there is one pound of water to four pounds of clalk. The air we breathe contains five grains of water to each cubic foot of its bulk. The potatoes and turnips which are boiled for our dinner have, in their raw state, the one seventy-five per cent and the other ninety per cent of water. If a man weighing one hundred and forty pounds were squeezed in a hydraulic press, seventy pounds of water would run out, the balance being solid matter. A man is, chemically speaking, forty-five pounds of carbon and other elements, with nitro gen, diffused through five and a half pailfuls of water, hi plants we find water mingling no less wonderfully. A .sun flower evaporates one andaquarter pints of water a day, and a cabbage about the same quantity. A wheat plant exhales, in one hundred and twenty-five days, about one hundred thousand grains of water. A Red Hot Story. A Swede named Oestberghas invented a suit of clothing which quite eclipses Capt. Boynton’s dress in its marvelous ingenuity. An exhibition of its powers was given before the Emperor of Germany in Berlin, a few weeks ago. The Cologne Zeitung thus describes the experiment: “Captain Ahlstrom appeared in a pecu liar looking costume, made of tho Oest burg invention, and walked into an im mense fire made of wood saturated witli petroleum. The heat of the fire was so intense that no one else could approach within eighty paces without being burnt or scorched. The Captain, however, walked around in the glowing pile per fectly undisturbed, leaning on the burn ing wood, and quietly seated himself on the coals, lie remained in the fire fifteen minutes, and on his coining out, everyone pressed round to see how much he was injured. He was unharmed, and in spite of the Emperor’s asservation that he h id seen enough of so dangerous an experi ment, Captain Ahlstrom went again into the fiery oven.' ’ Why was one hundred and ninety-six pounds selected as the weight of a barrel of flour? Because weights were formerly computed by tons of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds, hundred weights by one hundred and twelve j pounds, quarters, etc., arid a quarter of a j quarter of a hundred weight, or twenty-; I eight pounds, arid seven quarters, or one | j hundred and ninety-six pounds, being the I | limit that could be conveniently handled, ! this weight was adopted by statute in, ' England under a heavy penalty for its, violation. NUMBER 23. Temptations are true tests, and accord ingly are often the best friends we have. The man or woman who has not lempta tions can never know the strength of principle he or she may possess. The merit of a virtue is brought out when it is beset by the enemy. The world likes the strong and tho good, hut it never sees it till it has shown itself by severe contact and struggle with the opposing elements, and has been on severe trial, as it wore. About seven years ago a little girl named Long was carried from Polk county to Atlanta to be treated for some disease of the eyes. She was successfully treated, when two men named Garrett volunteered to carry her back home, and took charge of'her. Instead of returning her home they carried her to Alabama, whore they had kept her in ignorance of her friends until recently, when they ran away for abducting another child; but before leav ing they wrote to the sister of the girl, Mrs. Scott, living near Stilesboro. inform ing her of the whereabouts of her long lost sister. Mrs. Scott immediately sent for tho girl, and Monday evening they returned with her through this city. The girl is almost a grows lady now, and tho strange incident of her life affords a basis fora thrilling novel.— Rome Courier. ♦ ♦♦ A Philadelphia lady writes to tho New York Graphic: I protest against all this talk about .small feet, as if they were a sign of beauty. In the first place, this is not true. No lady who is of average height and weight, 150 ought to wear a a smaller shoe that No. 38. A smaller foot than that—at any rate a shorter foot —becomes a personal blemish. Moreover all this talk is demoralizing. When Gabriel blows his horn you newspaper men will have a heap of sins to answer for. Your description iof fashionable parties, and your praise of Miss Soamlso and Mine. Suclmone as “the beautiful,” “the bewitching”—all tends to make fools of sensible young women. The old-fash ioned eulogies ot wasp-waists have passed away, and the “waists of the period” is more natural than that of the preceding generation- Let us hope that all this silly talk about the necessity of having microscopic leet will soon pass away. The Girl of the Period. She work a round hat upon the back of her head like the aureole of a saint, to whom her sweet face gave her an appear ance of kindred. Her bodice was close fitting—indeed, drawn tigiit about the waist, like the hark of a young tender tree. Her scant skirt, pulled tight in front so as to show her form, and “tied back,” terminated behind in a short fan like tail, like the tail of a mermaid. She was mounted on shoos seven sizes too small for her feet —indeed, only her toes appeared to have accommodation in them, and the high heels coming under the in step tilted her forward and completed the grace of her carriage. When she walked she put down one little foot after the other as if each leg wore as elastic as an iron rod. It was a great pleasure to see her stepping along, a thing of perfect beauty, like some of the drawing of some mythological biped by one of the old masters. - Hurt ford Times. —— Measurement of an Acre. To aid farmers in arriving at accuracy in estimating the amount of land in dif ferent fields under cultivation, the follow ing table is given: Five yards wide by 068 long contain one acre. Ten yards wide by 484 long contain one acre. Twenty yards wide by 252 long contain one acre. Forty yards wide by 121 long contain or.e acre. Seventy yards wide by 69 long contain one acre. Eighty yards wide by 60 long contain one acre. Sixty feet wide by 726 long contain one acre. One hundred and ten feet wide by 369 long contain one acre. One hundred and twenty feet wide by 363 long contain one acre. Two hundred and twenty feet wide by 198 long contain one acre. Two hundred and forty feet wide by 181 long contain one acre. Four hundred and forty feet wide by 99 long contain one acre. An Agricultural Wonder. 1 [ulless oats havo been produced by hybridizing the California wild oats with the old fashioned English oats, and it was. done down east, where they do all kinds of new things. These oats, it appears, have merit, for they havo taken, the. premium at the State agricultural fairs of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The oats are truly hullcss, the berry com ing out of the chuff on threshing, bare and clean as that of wheat. N. S. Fisher, of Leesport, Pennsylvania, who has it on sale, claims in his circular for it: First, that it will measure fifty-six pounds to the measured bushel; that one-hall of the seed usually sown to the acre will produce I nearly as many bushels as does other j varieties; that they are at least two weeks [ earlier than other oats, and they do not waste by shelling out in harvest; that j while common oats will make but 124 pounds of oat meal per busliel, 36 pounds of these will make 31} pounds ol meal, which is sweeter and of better quality; that, it will yield twice aynany measured bushels per acre as will wheat, and that the meal made therefrom is worth more in the market than wheat flour.