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sllhcvokcc 35uancc. PUBLISHED EVEliY WEDNESDAY —)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.