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Tell Me Ye Winged Winds. Home an i! Karin. Raising Hogs. I cee in your valuable paper that aiccK-raisirig in the with is attract ing ; nine atteiition. 1 have been much interested, in reading the cemniunications of your special cor respondent, J. H. Moore, of Arkan sas, and a; I am and have been ex perimenting some in the business, I will give you and your many read ers my plan, especially in raising an 1 fattening hogs. lathe first place, 1 sow pasture intended for spring pasture for hogs, in red rust-proof -oats, say in From the Coweta Advertiser. Our Public Highways. Tills question must 'at* kepi be fore the people until a sentiment Is made that will result in an entire revolution. What we need is per manent roads. It is a waste of mon ey and time to simply make our highways passable. Every dollar expended ought to have reference to the future. In ten years we ex pend enough to got a long way to ward roads that would last through the generations. The present law is a failure because it is based on a wrong idea. Our legislators as a 'Fell me. ye winged winds That around ray pathway roar, Do you not know some spot 'Where mortals weep no more— Some lone and pleasant dell, Some valley in the west, Where, free from toil and pain The weary soul may rest ? The loud winds dwindled in whisper low, And sighed for pity as it answerd, “No! ,! Tell me thou migty deep, Whose billows round me play, Know'st though some favored spot, Some island far away, doner. (flUShson Count}’ Farmer Who Has Solved the Economics cf Home Production. Our older was yesterday invaded by Squire Kirk, of Madison county, one of those thrifty, solid men that are the backbone of the country. “I see that you newspaper men ar:-^jiew advising 11. • farmers to 1§|fltheir own meat anti wain and I^Bcction,” ho ’Veil, the war ns pa pers, and in fuc 1 the :uv.- mi over Turin Senoia Brooks Vaughns Griinu The Carroll Free Press comes he re the people of Carroll county in sponse to a popular demand. With new type NUMBER 2. Leave Gridin Arrive at Vaughns ns pa- thc pres.: all over eorgia, were urging us farmers to raise more cotton and buy our sup- plivas there was mar.ry in if.” ‘•Why, is that true ?” we asked. “Mover heard of it he fore." “Yes, and most of the farmers acted on this advice, and where are they now ? Well, I kept up my old plan of raising my own bread and meat. For a few years these cot ton farmers had more clear money than I, but they soon began to go backward and I caught up with them again. I know one old tann er who listened to them and sold off every hog he had. Vv ell at the end of the year he came to me and remai'Ked: “Squire, they say it costs us fann ers twenty-five cents a pound to raise bacon at home, and maybe it does. But this year loo buying and I ain’t got a dollar more in my pocket or an ear of corn more in joy crib than when I raised a half dozen fattening hogs. 1 want to start from you again and T raised meat ain’t had a backbone, rib or a chitterling this win- I just feel like one year of life has been thrown away. I’m going to raise hogs hereafter if I ’t get nothing but the chitter- out of them.” my family and wages I don’t miss what the I have a good range my place, and when the mass ripens my hogs keep in fine order on the acorns. Every farmer has enough shattered and rotten corn to feed his hogs between mass time and harvest, which would oth erwise be waisted. I calculate for my wheat and oat pastures to keep my hogs for nine weeks, and they will improve every day, too. I then take them off and sow some of the stubble fields down in whip poorwill peas. In the meantime I get enough slops and vegetables from my garden to keep them go ing. ^Yjm know it don’t take a | whippoorwill pea long to ripen, \ when I turn the hogs in on them. [ They begin to fatten right away, and by the time my corn fields are ready for them they are in fine or der. Here they have more peas, pumpkins and nubbins left on the stalk and begin to take on bacon. When, they have these pastures pretty well cleaned out I put them the pen, give them a litLe corn harden their flesh, and have not plenty of bacon to do me, but sometimes to sell to my tenants. Besides, a farmer ain’t half living in this country unless he has the trimmings to feast on about Christ mas. We enjoy them more than anything we raise. For the life of I can’t see where my meat cost even two cents a pound. The eat what otherwise would be all I am out is the looking after them. Every farmer in Georgia can raise enough meat to do him, and he won’t be one dollar poorer at the end of the year. On the other hand, it is just that much clear money in his pocket and a heap of solid en joyment and good eating about Christmas.” If there is a man who can eat his bread at peace with heaven and man, it surely is that man who has brought that bread out of the earth by Ills own honest industry. It is cankered by no fraud—it is wet by no tear—it is stained by no blood. It has long been a matter of won der with sober minded people that the secular press should sometimes seem beside itself. This may in part be accounted for by the follow ing extract from a lecture by Dr. J. M, Buckley on “Cranks“Adler’s German Dictionary,” so says the doctor, “was compiled in the Bloomingdale lunatic asylum, in the city of New York, at a time is unfit to be Hea. Our legislators as a uctooer. uiie nmci, alter sowing, body seem to be afraid ofthisqu.es- should be well harrowed and rolled, Horn An ad valorem tax is the first so as to have the surface; penectly towards what we need. When- smooth and firm, to prevent the ; ever this L taken we will begin to roots of the plants from freezing du- al rapidly. Permanent ring winter, and to prevent pulling i roads and turnpikes would turn up by the hogs while grazing. j Georgia in to the fairest garden of Say by the first of February, or j the world. We commend the fol- sooner, I have a pasture ready for i lowing sensible and strong words my hogs that will keep them in | f r0 m the Telegraph and Messen- good condition until July 1. By that time I have pasture No. 2 in peas ready. When they eat the peas off No. 2,1 have No. 8, ready— peas. When they get through No. 3 I change them back on No. 2, the ger The importance of good roads cannot be over estimated. Their influence upon trade, and upon cap ital widen seeks investment in real estate, is practically unlimited.— same vines having another crop,; This is a principle so nearly indis- then back on No. 3, until frost kills the vines. I then feed with corn a few days and they are ready to slaughter. The peas I am now cultivating are a new variety, or at least new to me, having never seen or heard of them until four years ago, when, in passing through a field 1 saw one stalk, or bunch, it being full of peas while the other peas were not yet in bloom. I thought no more about the matter umil just before Christ mas, while gathering corn, I found the vine referred to, it being rotten and fallen on the ground, the peas being perfectly sound, i gathered what I could find, put them away^Th use. Other cities, notably Pom- thinking I would plant them the next season, but did not -think any- tmng more of them the season ext year passed yet planted, The third year, in April, I was getting my beans out of the drawer to plant, when I discovered two of my peas lying loose. I immediately made diligent search, when, to my dismay, the two kernels were all I could find. I planted them in the garden, at the outside of beans. They both came up vigorous and strong, and commenced bearing in about six or seven weeks. The last of June I had gathered 112 pods, which I planted July 1. The second crop from my two vines was about equal to the first; the third crop some less, which was not gathered. I left them to see if the winter rains would rot them. They came out perfectly sound in the spring. I gathered from the second crop— July planting—a quarter of a bush el. Last year I did not plant until the last of June, owing to a destruc tive cyclone which struck my farm on the 8th of May. Land planted last year was very old and poor. I think six bushels of corn would have been a fair average per acre. I picked, I sup pose, thirty or forty bushels, and turned hogs on them—the hogs gathered the remainder, after which the vines bloomed heavily again. I turned cattle on them, thinking frost would come before they would have time to ripen. I give description of my new pea: Color gray; if planted early, vines run considerable; if planted late, they bunch. Now, Mr. JEditor, do you or any of your numerous readers know where or how this pea originated? The color resembles the whippoor will pea; the shape of the pea and also the pod do net; when dry, it is very hard, very easily crushed. I intend cultivating this pea on a larger scale this season, as I have a good supply of seed. I will give you results. J. L. Stewart. Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La. Judge A. B. Longstreet claims that his father invented and built the first steamboat in America Ful ton’s claim notwithstanding. The boat, it is claimed, plied the river above Augusta. Mr. Longstreet was a man of moderate means and was unable to perfect his machine ry. He could get no assistance from monied men, who considered him demented for attempting so wild an impossibility. He applied to Governor Telfair for aid but the governor was of the same opinion. General Longstreet, grandson of the inventor, says that this letter to Governor Telfair is, or ought to be, on file in the executive depart ment of the state now. ^Drinking-pan for Fowls. mlt to keep the behest put:.Me as to have become axiom atic. It is older than our civiliza tion. The Roman empire brought the principle into favor more con- spiciously than any nation that preceded or followed it, until the advent of steam as a motor. The Roman reads were the finest of their class the world lias ever seen. The Apple ii Way, that magnificent structure twenty feet wide and three hundred and fifty miles long, exhausted the public-treasury in its creation. Yet the road was bipM and was in perfect .repair seven hundred and- fifty years later.— TMm Yet remains a portion of it peii recognized the principle, if we may judge of the specimen that yet remain. The influence of these perfect highways upon the most fa mous empire of ancient times can not be calculated. It is, however, reasonable to suppose that they were the result of experience, and built in obedience to a policy pre viously proven to be sound. In modern times we find the principle accepted eyerywhere.— The old countries indorse and in some sections of this, it is also recognized. The valley roads of Virginia, the turnpikes of Mary land and Kentucky have long since proven the policy which gave them place. Railroads themselves date back and rest upon the original principle. Wealth and knowledge spring from the contact of man with man. As a general rule for tunes are made quickest, where as sociation is unobstructed, and con tact most freon . The most rap id accumulation of useful knowl edge comes in the same way. Any system therefore which promotes extensive association, any system that removes dificulties from the way, benefits the people who are within reach of its influence. There is no more powerful promoter of as sociation, the instinct of our spe cies, than good roads, and it follows, the better the roads, the nearer complete the association, the finer the results. It is not exaggeration to say that a city cannot progress, whose ways are choked and dificult. If the principle which recom mends good roads is sound, and it has never yet been assailed, every man in reach of it should be its ad vocate. Taxes paid to secure and preserve it, return,in increase of the land adjacent. No matter what sum is expended, as long as work continues to bring improvment, the mony is well spent. Where weary man may find The bliss for which he sighs— Whose sorrow never lives, And friendship never dies ? The fond waves rolling in prepetual 11 ow, Stopped for a while and sighed to answer “No !” And thou, serenest moon, That, with lovely face, Dost look upon the earth, Asleep in night's embrace, Tell me, in all the round East thou not seen some spot Where miserable man May find a happier lot ? Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe And a voice, sweet hut sad, responded “No!” Tell me my secret, soul, O tell me, Hope and Faith, Is there no resting place From sorrow, sin and death ? Is there no happy spot Where mortals may be blessed, Where grief may find a balm, And weariness a rest ? Faith, Hoj.e and Love, best boon to mor tals given, Waved theii bright wings and whispered, “Yes, in Heyvw'A • uyra Incantata. BY THEODORE TILTON. Within a castle haunted, As castles were of old, There hung a harp enchanted, And on its rim of gold This legend was enscrolled : “Whatever bard would win me Must strike and wake within me, By one supreme endeavor, A chord that sounds forever.’’ Three bards and lyre and viol, By mandate of the king, Were hidden to trial To find the magic string (If there were such a thing), Then, after much essaying Of tuning, came the playing; And lords and ladies splendid Watch as those bards contended. The first—a minstrel hoary, Who many a rhyme had spun— Sang loud of war and glory— Of battles fought aud won ; But when bis song was done, Although the bard was lauded, And clapping hands applauded, Yet, spite of the laudation, The harp ceased its vibration. The second changed the measure And turned from fire and sword To sing a song of pleasure— The wine-cup and the board— Till, at the wit. all roared. And the high hall resounded With the merriment unbounded! The harp—loud as the laughter— Grew hushed at that, soon after. The third, in lover's fashion, And with his soul on fire, Then sang of love’s pure passion— The heart and its desire! And, as he smote the wire, The listeners, gathering round him, Caught up a wreath and crowned him, The crown—hath faded never! The harp—resounds forever!. Josiar. The New York Herald, which is giving mere attention to matters in the southern states than ever before, has tins to say of the south : “The tide of southern prosperity, which set in but a few years ago, is steadily rising, and there is every sign that j| will continue to rise.— The southern people have gained exerything and lost nothing by turning from political turmoil to industrial activity. With slavery they never could have advanced to their present prosperity. Their gain of material wealth more than offsets the loss of their slaves. The country has every reason to re joice over the progress the soutV is making. Increase of southern wealth is increase of national wealth.” Here is an item for fruit men, from the McDuffie Journal: “Mr. James L. Hardaway informs us that many of the fruit trees at Stockton place, near Thomson, have been killed by the application of coal tar to the roots. He thinks the tar was extended too far up the bodies of the trees. We hope his fears may prove groundless, for his is the finest and most valuable orchard in ; the county, and its destruction will prove a heavy loss.” Things has come to a pretty pass The whole wide country over, When ever married woman has To have a friend or lover ; | It ain't the way that I was raised, And I hain’t no desire To have seme feller pokin’ round Instead of my Josiar. I never kin forget the day That we went out a walkin’ An' sot down on the river bank An’ kep' on hours a talkiu ; He twisted up my apron string An' folded it together, Jen' said he thought for harvest fime ’Twas cur'us kind o’ weather. The sun went down as we sot there— Josiar seemed uneasy, An’ mother she began to call ; “Loweezy ! oh, Loweezy! An' then Josiah spoke right up, As I was just a startin' An’ said, “Loweezy, what's the use Of us two ever partin'!” It kind o'took me by surprise, And yet I knew ’twas cornin'— I'd heard it all the summer long, In every wild bee’s hurnmin’ ; I'd studied out the way I'd act, But law! I couldn't do it : I meant to liide my love from him, But seems as if he knew it. An' looking down into my eyes He must a seen the fire, And ever since that hour I've loved An' worshipped my Josiar. I can’t tell what the women mean Who let men fool around ’em, Believin’ all the nonsense that They only say to sound’ eib; I know, for one, I've never seen The man that I'd admire, To have a hangin after me, Instead of my Josiar “Wrong none by doing injuries, br omitting the benefits that are your duty.” It is not death it is dying, that alarms one. The only rose without thorns jtndahip. an getting will dc power press its facilities are the best tor out a neat and handsome paper, which o credit to the county at home and abroad. 2.20 p. in 2.35 p. ra 3.20 p. ra 4.05 p. m 4.30 p. m 5.13 p. in 5.40 p. m W.m. Rogers, Gen. Sup't. Breakfast at Whitesburg. Turin -Siiarpsburg Newnan Sargents Whitesburg Atkinson, T. O., Carrollton COUNTY CHURCH DIRECTORY. METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Corinth. 1st Sunday and Sunday night; Mt. Zion, 2nd Sunday and Saturday be fore; Bethel, 3d Sunday and Saturday before—'V. E. Tarpley, pastor. METHODIST EPISCOPAL. SOUTH. Carrollton, every Sunday in each month; —W. J. Scott, pastor. THE FREE PRESS Will keep you posted upon the leading events of the day, especially Georgia affairs. We in tend to give the news if industry and energy can get it. New Hope, 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore :~Paul's church 2nd Sunday and Sat urday before; Whitesburg, 3d Sunday and Saturday before; Mt. Carmel, 4th Sunday and 3<u unlay V-iore; Pierce's j Chapel,fist Sunday, 3p. m.; Hutchinson, 2nd Sutdav, 3 p. m.; Whitesburg, 3d I Sunday night—W. H. Speer, pastor. i Shiloh, 1st Sunday and Saturday be- i fore: Bowdon. 2nd Sunday and Saturday ; before: Mt. Zion, 3d Sunday and Satur- I day before: Old Camp Ground, 4th Sun day and Saturpay before; Stripling's Chapel, 5th Sunday and Saturday before —M. W. Arnold, pastor. THE FREE PRESS Will always be found the true and unflinching friend of the people, opposed to rings, cliques or combinations, if any such organizations ex ist, for the purpose of deceiving, misleading, or thwarting the popular will. PRIMITIVE BAPTIST, Tallapoosa, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before: Poplar Springs, 3d Sunday and Saturday before—E. Phillips, pastor. Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore : Hopewell, 2nd” Sunday and Satur day before-; County Line, 4th Sunday anil Saturday before—J. D. Hamrick, pastor. MISSIONARY BAPTIST. New Lebanon, 1st Sunday and Satur day before; Oak Grove, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—W. N. Carson, pastor. Carrollton, 1st and 3d Sundays—E. B. Barrett, pastor. THE FREE PRESS Will be free and independent in all its expres sions. It will not stoop to subserviency in any form—it will not “bend the pregnant knee that thrift may follow fawning.” While it will be Democratic to the core, it will not hesitate to criticize the actions of the party when in the wrong. Whitesburg, 1st Sunday and Saturday before; Bethesda, 2nd Sunday and Sat urday before; Eden, 3d Sunday and Sat urday before; Beulah, 4th Sunday and Saturday before—IV. W. Poop, pastor. Aberleen. 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore ; Bethel, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—J. M. D. Stallings, pastor. Mt. Olive, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before: Providence, 4th Sunday and Sat urday before—J. P. Little, pastor. Bowdon, 3d Sunday and Saturday be fore—Jno. A. Scott, pastor. Bowdon 1st Sunday; Pleasant View, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—T. A. Iligdon, pastor. METHODIST PROTESTANT. Carrollton, 2nd Sunday in each month at the Presbyterian church--Dr. F. H. M. Henderson, pastor. Antioch, 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore; New Hope, 2nd Sunday and Satur day before; Smith's Chapel, 3d Sunday and Saturday before; Bowdon, 4th Sun day and Saturday before—Juo Thurman, J. M. M'C'alman, pastors. PRESBYTERIAN. Carrollton, 4th Sunday, I)r. Jas. Stacy, pastor. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. New Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday before, J. A. Perdue, pastor. Enon, 3d Sunday, G. Hardegree, pas tor. Williams', 2nd Sunday, Beersheba. 3d Sunday, Hethany, 4th Sunday—R. J. Miller, pa-sror. THE FREE PRESS Will give prominence to local news. It will be a “map of busy life, its fluctuations and vast concerns.” Every interest of the county will receive attention, for we intend to have “a chiel among you taking notes and faith he’ll print ’em.” JOB WORK. tism of woman is always The Free Press office has a nice selection of job type and as soon as its job press arrrives, it will be prepared to do job workas cheap and neat as can be done anywhere. No public spirit ed man will send work out of the county, when he can have it done here, just as well. The way for a people : to prosper is to keep their money at home. We ask no favors. If we dont do your work as cheap and as well as it can be done elsewhere, then dont give it to us, and we will not complain. COURT CALENDAR. Carroll superior court. 1st Monday in April and October—S. W Harris, judge. J. M. B. Kelly, clerk. J. M. Kewiit, sheriff. Court of ordinary, 1st Monday in each month; For county purposes, 1st Tuesday in each month—R. L. Richards, ordinary. JUSTICE COURTS. CARROLLTON. 714th District, G. M.. 2nd Wednesday in each month—E. B. Morrell. X. F” G S Sharp, J I\ LAIRDSBORO. “i.lth District, G M, 2nd Friday in each month—W L Craven, X P., John K Poop, J P. BOWDON. 111th District, G M, 3d Friday in each month VY H Barrow, N P., nabez Miles! J P. WHITESBURG. 682nd District, G M, 3d Fri.lrv in each month—Richard Benton, N John O'Rcar, J P. ’ ’ WADDELL. 04btli District, G M, 3d Saturday in each month—J M Cobb, N P., G T Bow don, J P. VILARICA. 642nd District, G M; 2nd Saturday in each month—Marcus A Turner, N P J D Stone, J P. ’ MOUNT CARMEL. 729th District, G M; 1st Saturday in each month—R B Jones, X P., J T Nor man, J P. COUNT*- LINE. 129rih District, G M; 2nd Saturday in each month—L Holland, V p w h Richards.jp. ’ ” ,y B TURKEY CREEK. 1240th District, GM;2nd Saturday in each month—J M Ellison. J p. 3 KANSAS. 1152nd District, G M: 1st each month—P H Chandler, Spence, J P. SMITHFIEIJ). 1006th District, G M:i?t Saturday each month—Ransom smith J P ”l Thurman, N P. ’ NEW MEXICO. moth District, G 31; Lst Friday Ccich month—J x > \ sic 5 ' \ p t Jones, J P. ’ r '' J / LOWELL. 1163rd District, Gil; 3d SaMmDv I'ihmions, N P., 0 X 0(1(1, x, FAIR (LAY. 1122nd District, G j Jf; 4th Frid-iv ich month I W IvJ?, .. ™‘T , G j each month—J W Carroll, N P IV llliamson. J P. Ml