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VOL. XVI.
Tiik Putnam County Alliance nom¬
inates Hon. John T. DeJarnette for
the presidency of the State Alliance.
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Twenty-kive moonshiners plead
guilty in the United States Court in
one day in Atlanta this week, and
were sentenced to jail from one t >
three months.
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John L. Adams, the Macon de-
faulter, expired Wednesday night,
Ile deliberately starved himself to
death; he was twenty six days with-
out food except two oranges and a
piece of cake. It is the most remark-
able case on record.
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There is a report that Fred Geb-
hard and Mrs. Langtry are married,
It is quite time; they have been trav-
eling around together in the same car
about long enough. Now look out
for a divorce suit: Lily Langtry Geb-
hard vs. Fred Gebhard.
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I he Inter-State Commerce Com-
mission has issued un order that ehang-
es in joint railroad tariffs cannot go
into effect without previous public no-
tice. A reduced rate requires three
days’ public notice; an advance rate
requires ten days’notice. This ar-
rangement will be welcomed by
pers. ****
An International Congress,com pos¬
ed of delegates from the United
States, Mexico, Central and South
American states, will meet in Wash¬
ington in October of this year. The
congress will consider the formation
of closer commercial relations between
the American States, the adoption of
a uniform system of weights and
measures, international, patent and
copyright laws, and a common silver
coinage.
* * * *
The News received a Idler this
week that was ten days coming from
Palatka, Fla. Cap!. B. M. Turner,
Superintendent, reports that of the 75
mail clerks, four are disabled by ticei-
*
dent, , . eight . l4 are sick, . , and tour arc , bro-
ken , down, . unlit ... for * work. , c Suffering . .
mail .... clerks . . large . .
require a increase m
the .. force;a , .... . public . .. demands , ,
suffering a
efficient mail . , Here T .
more service. is
a chart* far Mr. Wanamakertomake
manifest his rapacity ami fitness
, his . position. ...
new
The brutal murder of Capt. 1\ W.
Dawson, editor of the Charleston
News and Courier on Tuesday, sent
a thrill of horror throughout the coun¬
try. He went to the office of Dr. T.
B. McDow to remonstrate with him
for his improper conduct towards a
servant girl in Dawson's family. All
that transpired there is not known;
but this is known that McDow shot
Dawson, locked the dead body in his
office, tried for several hours how he
might conceal the foul murder,and fin¬
ally gave himself up to the police.
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Capt. F. W. Dawson was a native
of England. He enlisted in the Con¬
federate navy under Commodore Pe-
gram, was transfered to the ordnance
department, served during the war
wi’ll great bravery, and was promo¬
ted to a high position, being on Gen.
Longstroot’s staff in the Knoxville
campaign.
After the war he became proprie¬
tor of the News and Courier, and bv
his ability and energy advanced that
paper to the front rank of Southern
journalism, lie is cut down in the
prime of life, amidst great usefulness,
beloved and mourned not only in his
adopted city and State, but through¬
out the entire South.
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Mcl low's story is, that Capt Daw¬
son came into his office, charged him
with using indecent language to the
French girl, which he denied. Daw¬
son forebade him speak to the
girl; McDow said he would act fts
he chose; Dawson said he would pub¬
lish him in his paper; McDow replied
he would hold him personally re¬
sponsible; Dawson then struck him
on the chest, and with a cane knock¬
ed him on the head; McDow then
drew a pistol and shot him. Dawson
lingered about an hour before lie ex¬
pired. McDow tried to secrete the
body; being unable to do so, he laid
it out in his office, and after about 3
hours from the killing gave himself
up to the police.
Dr. McDow was born itt Camden
S. C., 36 years ago. He graduated
at Lebanon, Tenn., and at the South
Carolina medical college. He is
moral, and does uot stand well with
the medical profession. His story
being first struck bv Capt. Dawson
not generally believed.
MARKETS.
I ms is the great bugbear of our
Piedmont Region. People are timid
about raising certain farm products
for fear the v cannot fell them at pay¬
.
prices. In the home towns they
soon glut the market arid cannot sell
at any price, therefore, they reason,
it does not pay to raise potatoes, gar-
den vegetables or fruit. One very in-
telligent gentleman has witten a let-
ter to the Constitution in which he
states that he raised 90 barrels of po-
tatoes from an acre and had great dif-
ieulty in disposing of them; the whole
tone of his letter was discouraging;
He even endeavors to show it does not
pay to raise pork in Georgia. Fortu-
nately there are a few people in the
State who believe differently;men who
have faith in potatoes, in pork,in grass,
in cattle, in fruit, and are making s
grand success in all these products,
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A Floridian might have some
shadow' of an excuse for hesitating a-
bout engaging in t ruck farming,for he
can send his truck in one direction
on ly, viz. North, and hundreds of
miles farther than people here in Hab-
ersham and Franklin counties,
The Californian might well be dis-
heartened at the prospect of shipping
his perishable goods across the Rocky
Mountains, and risk selling them in
Eastern cities thousands of miles a-
way. People in this region have no
such discouraging obstacles before
them. They have markets in all di¬
rections, north, south, east and west.
Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Charles^
ton and the whole of Florida get their
beef, pork, hay, grain, butter and
cheese from Tennessee and States far¬
ther North and West. Many tons of
hay and bacon coming hundreds of
miles are sold here in Toccoa,i he pur¬
chasers paying heavy freight bills, all
of which might be raised here,the cost
of the articles and freight saved here
at home.
With few exceptions,people ****. have
a 1 r
as yet, J made no attempt 1 to raise . anv-
thing ° for foreign markets except * cot-
ton. 1 hey take ... it for granted, that
® 1
there . production, . the markets
is over 1 ’
are =’ ln,U ' d ’ and u . 15 . uselcss to ,r -'
Yetn * ht hm in Toccoa are Irish ,,o-
tatoes, one of the most delicious and
nutritious . . of vegetables* selling for
$1.50 a bushel, which can be raised at
a good profit for 50 cents. When the
market here is supplied, the surplus
can readily be shipped to other cities.
Thirty years ago a great impetus
was given to the cultivation of the
vine in New York, Ohio, Missouri and
some other states. The ery of over
production was raised at that time,
and many were deterred from engag¬
ing in the business. Others were uot
afraid; many thousands of acres have
been planted to the vine; the business
has grown to enormous proportions,
yet grapes are selling at as good pri¬
ces as they did thirty years ago. The
same may be said of other varieties of
fruits. There is no danger of over
production, the constantly increasing
populations, the rapid growth of our
cities will always make the demand
to the
No person therefore need hesitate
about raising any farm or garden prod
uets he may fancy, tie must, how¬
ever plan for marketing, the kinds of
packages to ship in, when and where
to shipffhese must be matters of care¬
ful study.
Profits of Crape Crowing.
It requires about three years be¬
fore an income can be realized from
a vineyard. During those three
years the vine requires constant ex¬
pense out without much return. Pre -
paring the ground, the cost of the
roots, setting, cultivating, pruning,
staking and trellising are expenses
which should be fully understood be¬
fore hand, and prepared for;else there
will be disappointments and often
discouragements. The third year
tbe crop r may - possibly* r *, .* par for stak-
trellising, ,,. . and , cultivating, . . hat _
ing, *
year. When this is accomplished, the
heavy expense is ended; after that
thecostof running the vineyard * is
small, ,, and , the , • , large. In this ,.
income
region 2 tons, or 4,000 pounds to the
acre is not a high estimate. If one
ships to the cities and sells entirely
for , , table . . grapes, the , prices . range
from four to ten ceats a pound,
cording to the season and varieties
grape. At an average of four cents
the . would ... be *160
income an acre,
Allowing *60 for losses add ex¬
penses,—a very large margin—this
would leave $100 an acre net profit,
ard a thatseldom fails. Made
The Toccoa News.
T OCCOA , GA. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1889.
into wine, the income is much larger.
Mr. Ben. Brown; of Ayersville, sold
last year about $800 worth off from
about 2 acres. Ac Walhalla, the
vineyardists realize from $300 to $500
an acre. The News eranesriv urges
all its readers to engage in grape cul¬
ture. If you canhdtset out an acre
or more, rnakea start with a few vines,
vou'are'aww^ 11 vrofwm"’,avt 'in'iZ
Come that will' make vour hearts
glad.
FARMER’S ALLIANCE EXCHANGE.
The following is an outline of the
plan of the Alliance Exchange,glean¬
ed from an interview of Mr. Corput,
by a Constitution reporter:
A capital stock of $200,000 is sub¬
scribed by the County Alliances,
$50,000 of which will be paid as cash
capital. As soon as this amount is
paid in, cities will be called on to bid
for the location of the exchange.
Where this is located will be the cen-
tral point for the 1900 Alliances of
Georgia, embracing about 80,000
farmers.
A building will be erected, and
the business put iu charge of compe¬
tent business men. Goods will then
be purchased of the manufacturers
in large quantities, and sold to farm¬
ers at cost with freight and cost of
of handling added. An effort will be
made to induce manufacturers to lo¬
cate in the city where the exchange
is, and thus save the freights. No at¬
tempt will be made to handle any-
thing except leading heavy goods, as
plows, guanos, meats, and farm rna-
ehinery. It is not expected to wipe
out the middle men, but greatly re¬
duce the number, The profits of the
cotton seed oil mills are very large;
the exchange proposes the farmers
shall have a portion of these profits,as
well as those of all other heavy goods.
The farmers are not obliged to buy
of the exchange, but of their local
merchant, providing the latter st L
goods as cheap. If the exchange sells
meat at 8 cents, the local merchant
will need to se 1 at the same price to
get the farmers’ trade.
The exchange will buy for cash and
sell for cash. Some plan will be de¬
vised with refrence to those farmers
who havo no cash to pay; perhaps
Georgia will adopt
THE TEXAS PLAN,
The County Alliances will buy in
quantity of the exchange all the sup
plies needed for all the members of
the county. Those who have money
and those who have good commercial
credit will have no trouble getting
their goods. Those who have no credit,
but are honest, can give mortgages
on their farms and crops to the sub-
Alliance agent. This agent then
makes a sub-Alliance note for the
entire amount of purchase money less
the cash; the cash with the Sub-Al¬
liance note is then forwarded to
the trade agent of the County Alli¬
ance, who gets the notes discounted
at the banks, and forwards the full
cash for the county supplies to the
State age it. By this method the
sub-alliances become
RESPONSIBLE FOR TIIE1R MEMBERS,
secured by mortgage on the farms or
crops. When the notes become due,
the sub-Alliance pays them an 1 co -
leets the amounts, if need be,by sell¬
ing the farms or crops of its mem¬
bers. It is claimed that this will not
antagonize or injure the merchantile
interests of the State;on the contrary,
it will aid them. The farmers, by
saving 70 to 80 per cent, on their
heavy goods, will be enabled to pay
their debts, and purchase more of the
necessaries, and even the luxuries, to
add to home comforts and attractions,
and thus the entire business interests
of the whole State will be benefited.
The results of this exchange business
will be watched with deep interest.
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An Athens young man paid a young
lady’s father $5 for the privilege of
courting her. It seems that he had
COU rtcd the fair one all along the
winter months, burning both wood
and kerosene freely, and had a splen-
did tim*. He sold the father of the
young lady a cow ana received the
p ft y except $5. In course of time
there came upon the scene another
young lady whom they oung man liked
better. He courted her, proposed, and
hardly was tbe marriage feast over
before he wa3 in need of the He
called upon the father of his old
sweetheart and asked for the money.
H is re< l oast was re ' ased * iUl V le r< \
ply: , “ You burned my w«»od and
„ nd no „ p ro going to keep
this $5 as pay. Sadly the young
man took bis departure, and he gets a
little mad now when you ask bim a-
boufc that $5.—Exchange*
HUNTING STORIES*
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• The following is published by re-
of a friend. TI,e hero of
stories is Adam Vandiver, named the
‘•Hunter of Tallulah.” He lived in
this county and died near Clarksville,
WOLF STORY.
On one occasion he came upon a
laf g e R r “V "olf, »t whose head he
diac ' 1,or R' jd “ i,al1 ' The animal did
not drop, but made its way into an
adio aajo nincr n.nrr cavern casern and ami disioneared disippeared.
Vandiver waited a while at tne o-
penina, and as he could not see or
hear his frame he concluded it had
ceased to breathe, whereupon p he fell
... his hands , and , , knees, and .
upon enter*
ed the cave.
On reaching the bottom, he found
the wolf alive, when a “clinch-flight”
ensued, and the hunter’s knife com¬
pletely severed the heart of the ani¬
mal .
On dragging out the deal wolf in¬
to the sun-light, it was found that his
lower jaw had been broken, which
was probably the reason why he had
had not succeded in destroying the
hunter.
REAR STORY.
At one time he was out of amuni-
tion, the dogs fell upon a large bear,
and it so happened that the latter got
one of the former in his power, and
was about to sqeeze it to death.
This was a sight the hunter could
not endure, so he unsheathed his huge
hunting-knife and assaulted the black
monster. The bear tore off nearly
every rag of his clothing,and in mak¬
ing his first plunge with the knife,he
completely cut off two of his own fin¬
gers, instead of injuring the bear.
He was now in a perfect frenzy of
pain and rage, and in making anoth¬
er effort,succeeded to his satisfaction,
and gained the vie ory. The bear
weighed three hundred and fifty
pounds.
DEER STORY.
On another occasion, he had fired
at a large buck, near the brow of a
precipice some thirty feet high. On
seeing the buck drop, he took grant¬
ed that he was about to die, when he
approached the animal for the pur¬
pose of cutting its throat. To his
great surprise, however, the buck
suddenly sprang to his feet and made
a tremendous rush at the hunter,with
a view of throwing him off the ledge.
But what was more remarkable,the
animal succeeded in its effort, though
not until Vandiver had obtained a
fair hold of the buck’s antlers, when
the twain performed a somerset into
the pool below. The buck made its
escape, and Vandiver was not seri¬
ously injured in any particular part.-
About a month afterwards, he killed
a buck which had a bullet wound in
the lower part ‘ of its neck, whereupon
, he concluded that he had finally tri-
umphed over the animal .which had
given him the unexpected ducking,
NARROW ESCAPE;
But the roost remarkable escape r
which old \andtver ever experien- .
ced, happened in this way; He had
encamped upon one cf the loftiest
mountains in Union county. It was
”
the * twilight , • i - l hour, and j . he , had ,
near
heard the howl of a wolf.
With a view to ascertaining the
direction whence it came, he climbed
upon an immense boulder, which
stood on the brow of a steep bill-side.
w 5V ... hile standing , this boulder, , ,,
upon
he suddenly felt a swinging sensa-
tion, and to his astonishment,he found
that he was about to make a fearful
Lk>: plunge into the ravine, half a mile
him. As fortune would have
it, the I,rob of an oak . . tree drooped , ..
over the rock, and as the rock started
from its totterish foundation,he seized
the Bmo, and thereby saved his life.
i he it .dread descended ml crashing the mountain-side, o. . the . . bould- ,,
er,as
cam e to the hunter’s ear,while he was
susDended in the air, and by the time
4
. , had . reached lj. the 1 l.. bottom, l he drop- j
it
ped on the very spot which had been
vacated by the boulder.
Vandiver said that this was the only
time i„ bis life when he was reallj
frightened; and he also added, that
for one day after this escape, he did
not care a finger-snap for the finest
game in the wilderness,
AS OTHERS SEE US.
There is a Frenchman named Paul
Bl«met (Max O’Rell) who spent six
months in tire United States and then
wrote A book about our people and
what he thinks of us. The book is
interest! i * and amusing; below we
give a few extracts;
j The inhabitant of the
states, the Yankee, differs as much
j from the western than and the south-
^^
For ?xample, call a Yankee “a
and he will get out of the room, re»
marking: ‘‘You say so, sir j but that
proves nothing.” Call a
!“!)„ M cw?'ind W *H get wilf ^ n ° c“ f
reaMVestcrner eJ be R
o ut his revolver and shoot you dead
c n the 8 P ot *
Should a minister indulge in un-
orthodox theories in the pulpit, the
eastern roan will content himself with
slinking his bead, and going to an-
other church to perform his devotions
‘m™”*]** will open a violent polemic m the
newspapers of the locality. The Ivan-
» -ill -ait for the minister at
t,ie church door and give him a sound
thrashing.
Jonathan admires all that glitters,
even that which is not gold. In his
e 3 r es the success of a thing answers
for its quality, and the charlatanism
that succeeds is superior to the merit
that vegetates. The dollar is not only
the unit of the monetary system,* it is
also the unit of the metrical system.
I was chatting one day with an A-
merican about the famous Col. Robert
Ingersoll.
“lie is your greatest orato - , I am
told,” I said.
‘•Yes,’ he replied, ‘‘Ingersoll can
fill the Metropolitan opera bouse any
day. and have a five thousand dollars
house.”
Certainly that is a curious way to
speak of a great orator, a great writer
and great thinker.
I need not say tliat I am now speak¬
ing of the average American, not the
literateur or the man of good socie-
ty*
I saw, in an American paper, the
appearance of Miss Minnie Palmer
spoken of in the following terms:
“Minnie Palmer will wear all her
diamonds in the third act.”
The booking office was besieged all
day, and , in the evening, money was
refused. An amusing detail was the
arrival of a goad fourth of the audi¬
ence at 10 o’clock, to see the diamonds
in the third act.
The English spoken in Boston is
purer than any to be heard elswhere
in the north. Yhe voices arc less harsh
and nasal, the language ceases to be
“vurry, vurrv Amurracan.'' if you
think yourself in England as you walk
along the streets the illusion becomes
comipete when you hear the well bred
people speak.
All the anecdotes told in America
on the subject of Boston are satires
upon the presumptuous character of
the Bostonian, who considers Boston
the center of the universe.
Here is one out of the many bun
dred I have beard.
A Boston man has lost his wife. As
soon as telephonic communication is
established between tliat city and Par*
adise, lie rings and cries:
“Hello 1”
“Hello!” from the other end.
“is thaf you, Artemisia?
“Yes. dear,”
“Well, my love, and how do you
like it up there?”
‘Oh. it Is very nice, ofcourse—but it
isn’t Boston ’
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UNCLE BILLY BOYVEKS IN A NEW ROLE
„ T uncle . , Billy ..... Bowers, „ of ... Bow-
lour
ersviUei is d esti „ec; “to cut a big
swath” iu Georgia politics during the
next four years.
Uncle Billy is,as everybody knows,
one of the two'original Lincoln roe,,’
in Georgia. Hr<? claim that he is the
on ly living Georgian who voted for
Abraham Lincoln for president is as
yet undisputed.
That being the case, the question
naturally J arises—who better than he
draw . salary . i
can a government
Your Uncle Billy has his eye on
something soft. No postmastersliip
at Bowersville “in his’n.” He knows
a g°od thing when he sees it,and just
■>»« * l»b<m., K anderthe ,mpre« ;
sion that a gentleman of his age and
s j ze W ould make an excellent clerk
| of the United States circuit court,pro-
viding, of course, that Col. Alfred E.
1 ^ ^’tall
. . , Tro Ter" "no”,ah,in” A ,
!"»lv interest matters nerianiuig
to the government offices,tells a good
story.
/ ^ was comrng down on tne Air-
Lrno the ^her day,-’ he said, “when
my Biily, attention who was attracted by Uncle
was in earnest conversa-
tion with a gentleman whom I did
net knotfh I was so near that I could
tleman, no ^ ^ ie ^P h eari ng talk. 1 he gen-
I soon learned, was a private
in the greU artny of office-seekers-
a would-be postmaster of n thriving
northeast Georgia town. He was
pouring info the willing ear of Uncle
frora Bowersvi+le bore a peculiar ex-
passion and l wondered at the cause.
I didn’t have long to wait. Uncle
Billy relieved my anxiety by inform-
j ing his friend, in a voice that could
the'ot’her ^that alf asrdrants hi”” 0
east Georgia must look to him. Col.
• Buck,sorUncle him the Billy said, bad turned
over to distribution of the
P»'ronage for that portion of the
State, and he was going to see that
the offices were properly distributed.
So Uncle Billy is to be the dictator
for that, end of th© State.”
u , v Ve 9:4Kl known
who ’ intd heard » ' v en the repub
conveaatii-n
he "•“<>' would Se'ljuVhS f>e believed any 'idtfdm
when he said
wh at he did. Of course Col. Buck
never made any such promise.”
But Uncle Billy will be a power
ftl1 the same » Cons titution.
CHEESE vs. BEEF.
A « ood cow ou S llt to yield 600
pounds of cheese annually, Professor
wiiu,.,, ' ' , P<IW 1 1 } ... !<
0 P°i> n sa\earfor , twelve , years,
deducting the first two years during
"' h ; clL a9 hl!ifar ’ sl ' e “thing
and compares her with three steers,
’
9i .. 4 . -' ears „ old .. wl,! ,, ,eld , n >-000 ,
' '
P° linds oC meat.
1 he cow in tiie time specified will
yield 4 500 pounds of good, whole¬
some food, every pound of which, as
above, is 50 per cent, more valuable
as a nutritions food than the meat
will be. \7e have virtually 9,000
pounds of nutriment from the dairy in
twelve years to eacli steer. But tak¬
ing it, pound for pound, and putting
it at current prices for full cream
cheese, and the beef at more than av¬
erage p’rice for the carcass, and what
have we? The cheese at 10 cents a
pound — the highest ruling price at-
this time—would yield the gross sum
of $550, while the meat,,at an average
price of 10 cents, would give the gros 3
sum of $300.
ONCE A WEEK.
Very beatiful is this weekly mag¬
azine. The high character of its
literature, will always insure it a wel¬
come in the most intellegent and re¬
fined homes. Its method of reve.il-
iug character is a feature at once u-
niqde and immensely attractive. Said
a lady friend to the writer: “I am
greatly interested in Once A Week.
1 without hardly know how I could get along
it; 1 regard it as tne best
weekly magazine published.” The
News coinmenus this Weekly to its i
many lady readers.
THE SAVANNAH NEWS.
One of the bes*, if not very best
daily paper published in the south is
the Savannah News. For genera]
news, for sound and able editorials,
for well arranged systematic make
up, it is equaled by few and sur-
passed by no paper that comes to
tliis office, We commend the Sa-
vannah Newstff all who want a first
class daily paper.
CELEBRATED GARDENS.
The celebrated “Hanging Gardens
of Babylon” were within the pre¬
cincts of the palace called “'The Ad¬
miration of mankind.” They consist¬
ed of gardens of trees and bowers on
he topmost of a series of arches 75
feet high and built in the form of a
square, each si Si3 of which measured
400 Greek feet. The ei:y of Baby¬
lon, witn its famous gardens, was raz¬
ed to its foundation, 690 B. C. Two
Thousand, Five Hundred ahd Seven¬
ty-Nine years later we find the cele¬
brated gardens of James Vick in
Rochester, New York. For descrip¬
tion, Catalogue of seeds, advice how
to obtain free a copy of Vick’s Floral
Guide and also of the famous new
rose, called “Vick’sCaprice,”address,
James Vick, Seedsman, Rochester N.
Y.
OUR NAME AND FAME ABROAD.
Wc clip IBS following from the
Charleston News and Courior, a jour^
n _i t . , • _ •.
' .
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„ _ .
(>ne most thrh-ing .Tir/'u,'"
per South Carolina- Itsgromhdur-
ing the past decade lias been in every
T " e CCnlt<! a P™'
|M)rou3 agriculture! countrv, with „
splendid climate and large, though
undeveloped, material resources, its
future is rich in promise,
“The Immigration Association; of
Seneca Citv, have prepare 1 a very
valuable little monograph, in which is
set forth briefly, but concisely, the ad-
vantages of Oconee County for raan-
ufactirring, stock raising, dairying.
fruitgrowing, market gardening,’ a-Uoti...! «ffe ,
which is sure to attract the
of those seeking profitable invesments
for their capital or for homes.”
The publication of the above men -
tionrf “ alread >' bcarll, S
f ™ rt * The treasurer of the Assoeia-
tlon sho ^ ed lls a letter fr °'n a gentle
n,an * n Charleston who wishes to know
more of our advantages With a view
to settlement. This is only the be-
‘ nd W 110 ' 8 «*
di9tributed and cheerfully
anc ^ catH ^ ( ^3’ answered, will result in
a large accession of desirable people
Let our citizens, yonug an ! «»M,
consider themselves on a «.*«.
to entertain and cha^.^...-
who may come in our misdst w 1 1 a
NO. 10.
view to resi lence. 1/et our property
holders encourage them by induce-
, " e "“° f k,od * *° b * co “ C 0 '' ner,
of reaI est3te * Aeat residences on
some °f the lots now vacant would
enhance the value of surrounding
property to a much larger amount
than would be lost lost by deducting
a liulcjfpom the real or estimated val-
ue of such property.—Seneca Freo
Press.
York City looked at that time, and tr.o
customs and costumes of the rest*
dents, are graphically told and beau,
tifully illustrated in Dcraorest’s
Monthly Magazine for April, which
has just arrived. At this time, when
the Centennial of the Inauguration of
Washington is about to be celebrated,
this article will be greatly appreciated;
amd those who purchase the April
number of this popular Magazine will
be repaid, not only by this, but by
numerous other attractions, not the
least of which are tiie beautifully il¬
lustrated article on ‘Birds,’’ by Olive
riiorne Miller; ‘Young Japan at
Play,” which will give many hints to
the children for new games; ‘Homes
with Two Servants,’ which c •ntaifts
suggestions for the management
,,f servant*’, and there are numerous
other equally interesting subjects.
Published by W. Jennings Demurest,
14th New York.
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
A little gu'nc’ arable imparts a gloss
to ordinary starch.
To prevent a door from creaking
apply a little soap to the hinges.
To clean steel, rub tbe article with
a piece or wash leather dipped in ker*.
osene.
A good egg has a clean, health}*
looking shell, While a bad one has a
porous-looking shell.
jy Q not re striet the boys and girls in
the matter of fresh air. Dirt is often
„ benc fi oial accompaniment,
The best thing to clean tinware is
common snds ; rub on briskly with a
damp c j ot ^ afu?r which wipe dry.
c ke u bakec} w hen a fine splinter
of wood -ill pass through without m»y
of tbe cakc adhering and «t nnt.l
then.
When ivorv
■■ Cr ' '
exposed to the action or light while
shut in a welUcloscd glass case,-