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—)BY(—
BEN. F. rHRRY.
Office (J/rs fairs corner (fain nr tile and
west Marietta Street—old stand of the
''Georgia Advocate."
Otttclal Orff an Cherokee County
tihmb:
Single copy, one year,
41 “ six months,
“ “ three months,
Postage free.
00
50
00
Advertising Rat<-s extremely
low—to Roit the tin*
Lkoal advertisments inserted and
charged for as prescribed by a recent
act of the Ueucral Assembly.
Local notices 10 cents per line lor the
first insertion.
Advertisements will he run until for*
bidden, unless otherwise marked, and
chargM for accordingly.
All communications intended for pub
lication must bear the name of the writer,
not necessary for putilicatiou, hut as n
guarantee of good faith.
We slu^l not in any way be responsible
for the opinions of contributors.
No communication will be admitted
into our columns having for its cud of
defamation of private character, or in
any other way of a scurrilous import a
public good.
Correspondence solicited on all poinio
of rcncrnl importance —but,lot them lie
briffly to the point.
Ali communications, letters of busi
ness, or money remittances, to receive
prompt attention, must be addressed to
BEN. F. PERKY,
Canton, Ga.
THIS PAPER
may be found on
11 lu at Gko. P.
Rowkll ft Co’s
Newspaper Advertising Bureau <10 Spruce
Street), whoro adver- aaw If AM#
tisintf contracts may MB* MV VIIKK
be made for it in 11 Sill I Ulllli
©moral Shrcctovg.
CHURCHES
M. E. Cnuncir, South—Rev. E. K.
Akin, Pastor. Preaching every first
Sunday by the pastor. Preaching on
the 3d Sunday by Rev B E Ledbetter.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night.
Sunday School at 9 a. m. Ben. F. Payne,
Superintendent.
Baptist Chuucii—Rev. J. A. McMur-
ry, Pastor. Preaching every second and
fourth Sunday, and Saturday before
2nd Sunday. Sabbath school at 3 p m.,
M. B. a ’uggle, Superintendent.
ORDERS
F. A. M.—Meets every first and third
Monday’s at 8 r. m„ in Masonic Hall.
Jabkz Gai,t, W. M.
J. W. Hudson, Sect’y.
K. of H.—Meets ev^ry 1st and 3rd
Tuesday at 7 1-2 p. m., in Masonic Hull.
: W. A. Teasley, Dictator.
Jai>ez Galt, Reporter.
cou.rjrr officers
O.W. PUTNAM, Ordinary.
JABEZ GALT, Clerk S. Court.
E. G. GRAM LING, Sheriff.
JOS. D. DOBBS. Treasurer.
A. L. KINNETT, Tax Collector.
L. JORDAN, Tax Receiver.
W.vr. T. KIRK. Coroner.
■V W. HAWKINS, Surveyor.
V M. McOLURB, County'S. Com.
IJk. J. H. SPE1R, 1 county
M. A. KEITH, | Board
Rbv. M. PUCKET, j*
A. T. SCOTT, | ^.
J. B. RICHARDS, j Education.
Read Tills.
We presume that Post Masters every
where know their duty, and il our paper
is not taken out of the office in any part
of the county to which We are sending
it, we hope they will notify us uf the
fact. We will also,say to ail to whom
we are sending the Advakob, that if they
do not intend to be subscribers they will
do us a great favor by notifying us at
once, as we pay cash for blank paper and
postage.
THE NEWSPAPER ADVER
TISES BUREAU.
To Geo. p. KoW'-ll & C«>,S. News
paper Advertising Bureau, 10 Spruce
St.. New York, the piess ai-u the
public are indebted for most of the
statistics of American Newspapers.
When this firm commenced business
in 1805, tl iere was not accessible to
the public, anything which upproxi
mated a complete Newspaper List.
It was the custom of tlw advertising
ag'-ncieR to keep their’s secret, lie
beving that they thereby made it
necessary lor advertisers to consult
them. In 1809, Messrs Oeo. P. Unw
ell & (Jo. issued the first American
Newspaper Directory. In the pre-
lace of thut work occurred this par
agraph :
“Wo have always believed, and labor
ed in the belief, that, as Advortisiug
Agents, it. was and should be in our
power to be of material service to both
udvertiser am) publisher, and we know
no better way to convince them of the
value of our services than by issuing this
book, thus enabling them to communi
cate without our aid; tniswedo in the
belief thnt we shall thereby the sooner
persuade them of the utility of employ-
lug and encouraging our Agency.”
Th c result showed the position to
be well taken. Within t\# inths
their firm was in recipt <4 age
larger that* had ever ben, , oc-
corded to an Advertising Agency.
It is a fact, frequently comment
ed on, that there is no other business
interest of the country, the statistics
of which are so thorouglj set forth
and made pubi c, us that of making
Newspapers: and for this the Amer
ican Newspaper Directory has the
entire credit*
in 1378, at the World’s Fair at
Philadelphia, Messrs. Geo, P. Ro v
ell & Go., erected a building in which
were r c ived, filed and exhibited,
lace copies of every American peri
odicat publication: numbering at
that time eight thousand one hun
dred and twenty-nine. Of this en
terprise, the Loudon Times cones
pondent, in the opening paragraph
ol hia letter of July 10th of thut
year, writes as follows:
“I have frequently had occasion to no
tice the big way in which the Americans
do things, and I do not know tnat it
would be easy to find an apter illustra
tion of it than that furnished by the
Newspaper Building in the Exhibition
grounds.”
Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Go. point
with satisfaction to the two years in
which they incurred the greatest ex*,
pense for extending to the public
broad sources of informal ion concern
ing the business in which they are
engaged (18G9,187G), as the two in
which, notwithstanding the extraor
dinary outlay, did actually produce
for tl em a r.et income in excess of
^tny other years of their business ca*
r reer.
One of the strongest holds which
this Advertising Bureau hag upon
the newspapers, is obtained by their
system of making prompt payments
for work done. Newspaper men who
have commended this feature, when
visiting the office in New York, have
been invited to the cashier’s desk and
shown a conspicuous printed notice
posted there, which reads :
•‘ALL BILLS RECEIVED BEFORE
TWELVE O’CLOCK MUsT BE
EXAMINED AND PAID
TO-DAY.”
The Advertising Agent avere to
his patron, the advertiser, that lie
will procure for him (he lowest jiosi
hie rotes. IIis profit comes from a
commission from the publishers. To
take the advertisement uta reduction
from usual rates, and pay th** agent
for securing it, is not always pleas
ant. for the newspaper men,' but the
reflection “we shall surely get the
money the day we send our bill,’’ has
often decided him to accept au offer
far below the price he ought to have
received. From those newspapers
which have one price for everybody,
and require everybody to pay that
pace, it is unnecessary to say that
Messrs Geo. P. Rowell & Co,, obtain
no ad vantages beyond the es'ablished
commission, nor do tin y desire any
hat they want, and must liavy fm
'heir pHfons. is the IwWi-st price} and
when they have that they are satisfi
ed. They are quite well award tlni'
the b* st papers are, as a general jink,
the cheapest.
[From Southern Farmer's Monthly ]
WORK FOR THE MONTH.
7
April is here again, with fun&hine
and shower, and, far down Saiitli,
with Hinny a brilliant flower j but
s •metimes the arrives upon a food,
just at our fruit trees begin to]bud,
and then—our plowed fields are wash
ed uw a ' jud. To avoid this ca
lamity, tlu* fa" rt , t ,r should not delay
the cleaning out or* uV or opting
of new hill side ditches, prtqeVve
his soil and protect his gMWing
crops. If this is continually negleff
ted. he will soon find that his hill
side fertility has all emigrated f<J the
already fertile valley below, and years
of expensive labor wdl be necessary
to restore it. But, if this important
work has not been performed already
begin now, for the heavy tont-nts
of spring nre often delayed until
May, and, in that event, you will still
be in time. The ditches insy be
opened with a good broad dugon or
turn shovel, throwing the earth on
the lower side with three or more
furrows, according to size of the
ditch required, and leave but slight
work lor the hoes in completing.
IN THE FIELD.
Corn—add very little to
what has (,r«t#aid in former num
bers of ” ^Mpihly about the im
portance G^ness required in
the cultivation ol good com ci^p:
but farmers 'should reme-nVer^iivsi
nigh prices of corn in the Southern
markets at this writing and plant ac
cordingly. I£ you plant what you
think just enough for yourselves,
what assurance have you that the
crop will not again be cut short, and
foreign murkets have to be sought,
as ut presen’, in order to obtain a
supply? There should always be a
lair margin far surplus, to ba.on the
safe side. Continue to plant corn as
long as you have ground, labor and
'seed. If you have-enough in the
field plant the vacant patches, and,
if you don’t need the grain, plant
thick and cut while in silk and tn9-
eel, for forage. There is nothing in
the South better for stock winter food
if properly cured auttthoused. Plant
ed for forage the planting may be
deferred until ubout the last of May,
south ot the Carolina coast line, and
later north of that line. It is well
to plaut earlier, in order to have the
cutting come off duiiog the dry,
good curing weather of June and Ju
ly*
Corn needs to be worked very
promptly, us it will not wait for con”
venience. When the time arrives
for its maturity, it will be mature,
whether fat, full ears, or scatter-
grained nubbin8. Ten days is long
enough between plowings, sometimes
too long, especially if heavy rains
have fallen just after the last plow
ing, followed by a “baking” sun.
Cotton—The unusually large quan
tity of commercial fertilizers pur-,
ohuse by our planters this season in
dicates that the rise in price lias
stimulated them to the planting of a
much larger area this season. We
think the area should not be increas
ed, but, if planters will have more
cotton, use the extra guano on the
same area. This may be effected in
two ways without “firing” the crop
with too much : First. Alix the gu
anos, where they have not been com
posted, with rich earth, mould, or
dried pounded muck (most farmers
can obtain one or the other in abun
dance), and in this mixture the gu
anos can be used iw larger quantity
to the acre. If none ol these can be
had, open the cotton rows us deep as
possible with ordinary plows, run
ning first with a widfc plow, then m
the sames furrow with a long scoot
er, put the guano at the bottom of
this furrow and run through it with
a narrow scooter. Now, il the fur
row is too ilot-p. siul ii. ought to he,
till half np with a small shovel on
one sid* . or bed on the furrow and
open when ready t«» plant. A larg
er quantity of guano pan be used
when* thus mixed ihorougly with the
soil, and more can bs added when
the cotton is sided, by deepening the
side furrows and uiixini in the same
w «y. Bur there is a lirmt to the very
best mixing, and the firmer must
use Ins wits as-well or the gu»n •
Strong land will take more guano
ihun weak, and poor, sandy soil,
will take veiy little to advantage,
without abundant compost, mould,
n*m k, or other well rolled vegetable
matter. Intelligent planters need
n3t to be n minded of the importance
of the best prolific seed, but it is real
ly surprising to note the general in
feriority of the s ed used, when we
consider the abundance and cheap
ness of prolific varieties. Many
’ ^pi vs will continue to plant “their
< seed because they doubt new
and do not care, as they say,
ty tuk'e any risk. Ol course, this is
the very height of blindness and fol
ly—expenditure of money and labor
fora little, when the same would
just as easily secure much. And
then, when some of them nre induc
ed to try better seed, they will try a
handful—perhaps a peek or such a
matter—that will cost but a tew oents,
and thus lose two or three years in
raising a supply, even if suited.
The teuth of April is early enough
to plant eoltou throughout the sou ill
ern portion of the cotton belt, and
the twe .tietli for the northern por
tion, Eirlier planting is common,
but we lire not sure that any udvun
tpge i«/lcrived from it. ^
corvid labor.
An Appeal Against Tlietr Use
by the Marietta & North
^Georgia Road.
Georgia penitentiary companies
Nos. 2. and 3 have filed a petition to
the Governor setting forth the facts
contained in the bill pending against
the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad, in which they hud prayed
for an injunction, which was denied
by the state court a short time since.
In this petition they s'ate they have
amended the bill for injunction and
have set forth new facts; and they
state that whatever right the Mariet
ta & North Georgia railroud obtain
ed for the use of*he state convicts
was for the purpose of aiding the
people to construct a railroad from
Marietta to the state line. They al
lege in this petitipn that the Mariet
ta & North Georgia railroad now has
nearly two hundred convicts; that
these convicts are not at work for the
company, nor on its railroad, nor
have they been since April 1, 1878,
but that they are being worked by
the Cherokee mining company in
mining, building railroads for it,
etc.; and they charge that this is a
perversion and a misappropriation
of the labor, and instead of giving
a railroad to the people, the convicts
are being used to make money. The
petitioners ask the governor to puss
an order requiring said convicts to
be worked on the Marietta & North
Georgia railroad, and to be held,
caret! for and worked in the man
ner prescribed by law, until the fi
nal order and decree in that bill
now pending ii given. Ex-Gover
nor James M. Smith and HopkinB
(Sir Glenn are the Attorneys for pe
titioners.—Constitution.
Mississippi exodq.sters are re
turning.
Base hall playing has begun tb
attract attention.
Camden, 8. 0., hint h >ld 170,000
worth nfgimno.
Gov- Colquitt has grantod Ham.
Hill a respite of two weeks.
The 21st of this month General
Grant is due in Atlanta, so says
the Constitution.
An oil wdII has been found in
Alabama which flows at the rate of
00 barrels per day.
Atlanta's manufacturing enter
prises employ 230 children, 1,073
imales, and 534 females. *
Rev. Dr. Talmnge, of Brooklyn
Tabernacle, lectured in Augusta
recently, and in Atlanta last Sat
urday night.
Good Advtce.
Never exaggerate.
Never betray a confidence.
Never enter a room noisly.
Never leave home with unkind
woids.
Never laugh at the misfortunes of
others.
Never give a promise that yon do
not fu'fih
A family was poisoned a few
weeks since, in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
by drinking jimson weed tea
through mistake.
Gen. L, J. Garttell was in Hart- •
welllast frock and the Sun says:
“Everybody is. pleased with the
General, mid he looks just like a /
man that would mnlro a Governor
'thft "OVtTyi Georgian wrnijd. Jifl.
proud of.” 66 he would.
While the State Democratic J5r-
ecutive Committee wore in Atlan- -
ta on Tuesday a reporter for the
Constitution interviewed the mem
bers on Presidential ptefereuces,
with this result: For Thurman, 4
for DondrickH, .3 ; for Field, 3; for
the nomineo, 3 ; for Bayard, 3 ; for
Tilden, 1 ; for Pendleton, t. AVc
will publish next week their views
on the Presidential outlook.
An esteemed friend writing us
on Inisinessadds this postscript: “I
want to know if Joseph -E. Brown
would accept the nomination for
governor ? Can you answer ?” We
will say to our fVicnd that we have
no definite information on the sub
ject and while wo are satisfied that
Ex-Gov. Brown has no aspirations
for office of any kind, yet we be
lieve he is patriotic and if called
by the people of Georgia would
not refuse to serve them in any ca
pacity.—Gainesville Eagle.
What We Like.
We like lor a man who has been
getting our paper from the begin-
iug and had the benefit of the grand
jury presentment il e legal adver
tising and gem i i J'his coun
ty and State, to ; liis
paper and not s , , for
the payment ot the : -.pw
le has not written o. Lis
oaper but refused tot. from
the office. It looks so muen like a
man means to do rigni uiiCii lie
will read his own county paper for
two or three months then have it
“discontinued” and not send any
money to pay for the time he has
been getting it. This is what we
ike to see, but it would relieve
our mind greatly, as well as our
reditors, to have these men send
us what is justly due. Do you
Glow of any one wii > had their
paper discontinued ? If so tell them
to send us what is due, whether
thev subscribed or not.