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ATTOK N E Y-AT-L A W,
Danielsvili.r, Ga.,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
him. dec 17, ’BO.
Dr. r%. it. 4 asii,
NICHOLSON, GA.,
Tenders his professional services to the surround
ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis
eases of wo men a specially.
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Howard nion ■*<>>,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Gainesville, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi
ness placed in his Imnds.
WILEY €. HOW ARD,
Attorne ami (Jiin<clor at I<;w,
JEFFERSON, GA.
Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted
to his care. mefi4,
QILMAX A THOMPSON,
O ATTORNE YS-AT-L AW,
Jefferson,Ga,
Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties.
£cgaf jliliicdisciiu'iifs.
a I'IOIKCiIA, Jackson Count}’.
Whereas, the road commissioners appointed for
the purpose of running and reporting upon the
public utility of discontinuing tlie public road in
said county leading from the Federal road near
Green Wood’s residence, thence by the residences
of E. A. Veal and Coopers to the Ilall county
line, near said Cooper, having filed their report
that said public road is of no public utility, an
order will be granted finally discontinuing said
road on Friday, the 22d day of April next, if no
good cause to the contrary is shown on or by
that day. (liven under my official signature.
March 23d, 1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y
Jctchson Postponed Sheriff’s
Sale.
WILL he sold before the House door in
Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the
legal hours of sale, to the highest and best bidder
at public out-cry, on the Ist Tuesday in May,
. 1881, the following property, t(Kwit: Une tract
of.haul, lying in said county, : an6 in CUrkesbor®’
District, on the waters of Red Stone creek, ad
joining lands of Mrs. Martin* E. P. Clayton and
others, and further described as £hc place, where-,
on Jab? f. MoJjtniy resided At Jtlie tirhe of his<
death, "containing two hundred arid sixty-five
acres, more or less. Said land moderately well
improved. Said tract of land levied on as the
property J. Flournoy, to satisfy a ft. fa.
lssm-d from the Superior Court of said ednnty in
favor of Charles Witt against said John J. Flour
noy, which said fi. fa. is now controlled by L. C.
Matthews. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s
attorney. Legal notice of levy given tenant in
possession. * i .S. E. BAIIiEY,
Deputy Sheriff Jackson County.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door in
Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the
legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in May,
1881, to the highest and best bidder, the following
property, to-wit: A tract of land, situated in
said county, on the waters of the South Oconee
river, adjoining lands of Lanier, Duke, Webb and
others, and known as a part of the Washington
Lay place, containing eighty-four acres, more or
less. On said place there is a good log dwelling
house, out-houses, <fcc. About thirty-five or forty
acres in cultivation, balance in old field pines and
forest timber. Levied on as the property of M.
N. and M. J. Duke, to satisfy a ti. fa. issued-from
the County Court of Jackson county in* favor of
Upshaw & Griffeth vs. M. N. and M. J. Duke.
Fi. fa. now controlled by T. R. Holder. Written
notice served upon Thomas Bennett, tenant in
possession, as the law directs.
T. A. McELIIANNON,
Sheriff J. C., Ga.
Q.HOIHIIIA, JneksonCoHiity.
Whereas, Jas. L. Williamson applies to me for
Letters of Administration on the estate of Mica
gah Williamson, dec’d, late of said county—
This is to cite alj concerned, kindred and credi
tors, to. show cause, if any exist, at the regular
term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on
the first Monday in May, 1881, why said letters
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under mv official signature, this March
28th, 13SU M W. BELL, Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
\ GREE7VBLE totau or (for from the court of Or
jl Vdiiifiry of Jackson bounty, will be sold, before
; the'Co l t 3! ffofis(rdb6f in Jefferson the first
Tuesday in May next, within the legal hours of
sale, the following property, to-wit : A tract of
land situated in said county, on the waters of
Beech Creek, containing five acres, more or less,
adjoining lands of Harper Arnold and Jas. Mc-
Daniel. About one ana a half acres bottom land
and the balance old field. Being a part of the
Bailey Chandler estate, and sold for distribution.
Terms cash. J. W. H. HAMILTON,
T. K. SMITH,
Admr’s of Bailey Chandler, dec'd.
Notice to Tax-Payers!
I will be at tho following named places and
dates, for the purpose of receiving your Tax
Kcturns for the year 18S1:
Randolph's, April 4th., May 2d and 17th.
House’s, April sth, May 4th and 18th.
Chandler’s, April Gth, May sth and 19th.
San ter Fe, April 7th, May Gth and 20th.
Clarkesborough, ‘April Bth and 18th, May 9th.
lluiuan’s Store, April* 11th and 29th, May 23d.
William Hritteth’s, April 12tli and 27th, May
24th.
Maysville, April 13th and 20th. May 25th.
llarmony drove. April 14th and 22d, May 12th.
Nicholson, April 15th and 20th, May 11th.
Center. April 19thr
M lute's Mill, April 21st.
Nifhn s Store. April iotli.
Benjamin Atkins’, April 2Sth.
Jasper X. Thompson's, May 3d.
Williamson’s Mill, May loth.
Apple Valley, May 13th.
Maddox's Mill, May lGtli.
James M. Stockton's May 20th, (forenoon).
DeLaperriere’s Store, May 27th.
I will be at Jefferson every Saturday till first
of June, at which time my books will be closed
J. W. X. LAXIER,
Tax Receiver Jackson County.
"Watches, Clocks,
JEWELRY, £c., left in Jefferson with F. L.
Pendergrass, F. M. Bailey, or J. C. White
head, will be sent out to me, repaired and return
ed promptly. Charges moderate,
April I—3m E. M. THOMPSON.
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“THE JACKSON HERALD.”
Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage.
“ SPIDERS” INSIGNIFICANCE NO EXCUSE FOj|
INACTION.
The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in
kings* palaces.—Prey. xxx. 28.
Wc are all watching for phenomena. A
sky full of stars, shining from year to year,
calls out not so many remarks as the blazing
of one meteor. A whole flock of robbins take
not so much of our attention as one blunder
ing bat darting into the window on a summer
eve. Things of ordinary sound and occur
rence fail to reach us, yet no grasshoppers
ever spring up iu our path, no mote ever
dashes into the evening candle, no mote ever
floats in the sunbeam That pours through the
crack of the window shutter, no barnacles on
ship’s hull, no burr on a chestnut, no limpet
clinging to a rock, nor rind of an artichoke
but would teach us a lesson if we were not so
stupid. God in Ilis Bible sets forth for our
consideration the lily, and the snowflake, and
the locust and the stork’s nest, and the hind's
foot, and the aurora borealis, and the ant
hills. One of the sacred writers, sitting amid
the mountains, sees a hind skipping over the
rocks. This hind has such a peculiarly
shaped foot that it can go over the steepest
places without falling, and as the prophet
looks upon that marking of the hind’s foot
upon the rocks, and thinks of the divine care
over him, he says : “ Thou makest my feet
like hinds’, that I may walk in high places.”
And another sacred writer sees the ostrich
leave its egg in the sand of the desert, and
without any care of incubation, walk off; and
the Scripture sa3 r s that is like some parents
leaving their children without any wing of
protection or care. In my text inspiration
opens before us the gate of a palace, and we
are inducted amid the pomp of the throne and
the courtiers, and while we are looking
around upon the magnificence, inspiration
points us to a spider plying its shuttle and
weaving its net on the wall, it does not call
us to regard the grand surroundings of the
palace, but fob a solemn anti earnest consid
eration of the fact that “the spider taketh
hold with her hands and is in Kings’ palaces.”
It is certain what was the partic
ular species of insect spoken of in the text,
but I shall proceed to learn from it—
First, the exquisiteness of the divine me
chanism. The king’s chamberlain comes into
the palace and looks around, and sees the
spider on the wall, and says, “Away witty
that intruder,” and tlie servant of Solomon’s
palace comes with his broom and dashes down
the insect, saying, “What a loathsome thing
it is.” But under microscopic inspection I
find it more wondrous of construction than
the embroideries on the palace walls, and the
upholstery about the windows. All the ma
chinery of the earth could not make anything
so delicate and beautiful as the prehensile
with which that spider clutched its prey, or
any of its eight e3 r es. We do not have to go
so far up to see the power of God in the
tapestry hanging around the windows of
heaven, or in the horses and chariots of fire
with which the dying day departs, or to look
at the mountain swinging its sword arm from
under the mantle of darkness until it can
strike with its scimiter of the lightning. I
love better to study God in the shape of a
fly’s wing, rri the formation of a fish’s scale,
in the snowy whiteness of a pond-lily. I love
to track His footsteps in the mountain mists
and to hear His voice in the hum of the rye
field, and discover the rustle of llis robe of
light in the south-wind. Oil ! this wonder of
divine power that can build a habitation for
God in an apple-blossom, and tune a bee’s
voice until it is fit for the eternal orchestra,
and can say to a fire fly, “ Let there be light,”
and from holding an ocean in the lioliow of
His hand, goes forth to find heights and
depths and breadths of omnipotenc3 r in a dew-
drop, and dismount from a chariot of mid
night hurricane to cross over on the suspen
sion bridge of a spider’s web. You may take
your telescope and sway it across the heavens
in order to behold the glory of God ; but I
shall take the leaf holding the spider’s web,
and I shall bring the microscope to m} r eye,
and while I gaze, and look, and study, and
am confounded, I will kneel down in the
grass and cry : “Great and marvelous are
thy works, Lord God Almighty.”
Second : Again, my text teaches me that
insignificance is no excuse for inaction.
This spider that Solomon saw on the wall
might have said, “I can’t weave a web
worthy of this great palace ; what can I do
amid all the gold and embroidery ? I am
not able to make anything fit for so grand a
place, and so 1 will not work my spinning
jenny.” Not so said the spider. “ The
spider taketh hold with his hands.” Oh!
what a lesson this is for you and me. You
say if yon had some great sermon to preach,
if you only had a great audience to talk to,
if you had a great army to marshal, if you
only had a constitution to write, if there were
some tremendous thing iu the world for 3’ou
to do, then you would show us. l'ea, you
would show us ! What if the Levite in the
ancient temple had refused to snuff the candle
because he could not be a high priest ? What
if the humming-bird should refuse to sing its
song into the ear of the honeysuckle, because
it cannot, like the eagle, dash its wing into
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1881.
.the sun ? What if the raindrop refuse to de
scend because it is not a Niagara? What if
.the spider of the text should refuse to move
its shuttle because it cannot weave a. Solo
mon's robe ? Away with such folly ! If you
are lazy with the one talent you wouW be
lazy with the ten talents. If Milo cannot
lift the calf he never will have strength to lift
the ox. In the Lord’s army there is order
for promotion, but you cannot be a general
until you have been a captain, a lieutenant
and a colonel. It is step by step, it i§ inch
by inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Chris
tian character is builded. , |L ere ft )re be con
tent to do what God commands you dp.
God is not ashamed to do small things. He
is not ashamed to be found chiseling a grain
of sand, or helping a honey bee to construct
a cell with mathematical accuracy, or tinge
ing a shell in the surf, or shaping the bill of
a chaffinch. What God does, He does well.
What you do, do well, be it a great work or
a small work. If ten talents, employ all the
ten. If five talents, employ all the five. If
one talent, employ the one. If only the thou
sandth part of a talent, employ that. “Be
thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee
the crown of life.” I tell you if you are not
faithful to God in a small sphere, you would
be indolent and insignificant in a large
sphere.
Third: Again, my text teaches me that
repulsiveness and loathsomeness will some
times climb up into very elevated places.
You would have tried to kill the spider that
Solomon saw. You would have said : “This
is not the place for it. If that spider is de
termined to weave a web, let it do so down
in the cellar of the palace, or some dark
dungeon. And the spider in the text could
uot be discouraged, It clambered on and
climbed up higher, and higher, and higher,
until after a while it reached the King’s vis
ion, and he said : “ The spider taketh hold
with her hands and is in kings’ palaces.”
And so it often is now that things that are
loathsome and repulsive get up into very ele
vated places.
The church of Christ, for instance, is a
palace. The King of Heaven on eartl\ lives
in it. According to the Bible, her beams are
of coder, aud her rafters of fir, and her
windows of agate, and the fountains of salva
tion dash a rain of light. It is a glorious
palace—the church of God is ; and yet some
times unseemingly and loathsome things creep
up into it—evil speaking, and rancor, and
backbiting, and abuse, crawling up on the
walls of the church, spinning a web from arch
to arch, and from the top of one communion
tankard to the top of another communion
tankard. Glorious palace, in which there
ought only to be light, and love, and pardon,
and grace—yet a spider in the palace!
Home ought to be a castle. It ought to be
the residence of everything loyal. Kindness,
love, peace, patience, and forbearance ought
to be the princes residing there, and yet some
times dissipation crawls up into that home,
and the jealous eye comes up, and the scene
of peace and plenty becomes the scene of
domestic jargon and dissonance. You say,
“What is the matter with the home ?” I will
tell you what is the matter with it. A spider
in the palace.
A well developed Christain character is a
grand thing to look at. You 9ee some men
with great intellectual and spiritual propor
tions. You say, “ How useful that man must
be ! But 3'ou find amid all his splendor of
faculties, there is some prejudice, some whim,
some evil habit, that a great many people do
not notice, but that you have happened to
notice, and it is gradually spoiling that man’s
character ; it is gradually going to injure his
entire influence. Others may not see it, but
3*ou are anxious in regard to his welfare, and
soon you discover it. A dead fly iu the oint
ment. A spider in the palace.
Fourth: Again my text teaches me that
perseverance will mount into the king’s
palace. It must have seemed a long distance
for that spider to climb in Solomon’s splendid
residence, but it started at the very foot of
the wall and went up over the panels of
Lebanon cedar, higher and higher, until it
stood higher than the highest throne in all
the nations—the throne of Solomon. And so
God has decreed it, that many of those who
are down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall
gradually attain to the King’s palace. We
see it in wordly things. Who is that banker
in Philadelphia ? Why, he used to be the
boy that held the horses of Stephen Girard
while the millionaire went in to collect his
dividends. Arkwright toils on up from a
barber’s shop until he gets into the palace
invention. Sextus V. toils on up from the
office of a swineherd until lie gets into the
palace of Rome. Fletcher toils on up from
the most insignificant family position until
he gets into the palace of Christian eloquence.
Hogarth, engraving pewter mugs fora living,
toils on up until he reaches the palace of world
renowned art. And God hath decided that
though you ihay be week of arm and slow of
tongue and be struck through with a great
many mental and moral deficits, by His
Almighty grace you shall yet arrive in the
King’s palace—not such a one as spoken of
in the text, notone of marble, not one adorned
with pillars of alabaster, and thrones of ivory,
FOR THE PEOPLE.
! and flagons of burnished gold—but a palace
in which God is the King and the angels of
Heaven are the cup-bearers. The spider
crawling up the wall of Solomon’s palance
was not worth looking after or considering os
compared witlFthe fact that we, who are the
worms of the du9t, may at last ascend into
the palace of the King immortal. By the
grace of God we all reach it. Oh ! Heaven
is not a dull place. It is not a worn out
mansion with faded curtains, and outlandish
chairs, and crocked ware. No ; it is as fresh,
and fair, and beautiful as though it were com
pleted but yesterday. The kings of the earth
shall bring their honor and glory into it.
A palace means splendor of apartments.
Now, I do not know where Heaven is, and I
do not know how it looks, but if our bodies
are to be resurrected at the last day, I think
Heaven must have a material splendor as well
as a spiritual grandeur. What will be the
use of a resurrected foot if there is nothing to
tread on ? or of a resurrected hand if there
be no harp to strike, and no palm to wave,
and no place to take hold in the King’s
palace ? Oh ! what grandeur of apartments,
when that Divine hand which plunges the sea
into blue and the foliage into green, and sets
the sunset on fire, shall gather all the beautiful
colors of earth around His throne, and when
that arm which lifted the pillars of Alpine
rock and bent the arch of the sk\ r 9hall raise
before our soul the eternal architecture, and
that hand which hung with loops of fire the
curtains of morning shall prepare the uphol
stery of our kingly residence !
A palace also means splendor of associa
tions. The poor inan, the outcast, cannot
get into the Tirillerics, or Windsor Castle.
The sentinel stands there and cries “ Halt!”
as he tries to enter. But in that palace we
may all become residents, and we shall all be
princes and kings; We may have been
beggars, we may have been outcasts, we may
have been wandering as we all have been, but
there we shall take our regal power. What
companionship in Heaven ! To walk side
by side with John aud James, and Peter and
Paul, and Moses and Joshua, and Caleb and
Ezekiel and Jeremiah, and Micah and
Zachariah, and Wilberforce and Oliver Crom
well, and Philip Doddridge, and Edward Pay
son, and John Miltion, and Elizabeth Fry,
and Hannah Moore, and Charlotte Elizabeth,
and all the other kings and queens of Heaven.
O, my soul, what a companionship.
A palace means splendor of banquet. There
will be no common ware on that table. There
will be no unskilled musicians at that enter
tainment. There will be no scanty supply
of fruit or beverage. There have been ban
quets spread that cost a million of dollars
each ; but who can tell the untold wealth of
that bahquet ? Ido not know whether John’s
description of it is literal or figurative ; but
prove it. Ido not know but there it may be
real fruits plucked from the tree of life. I
do not know but that Christ referred to the
real juice of the grape when he said that we
should drink new wine in our Father’s king
dom. Ido not say it is so ; but I have as
much right for thinking it is as you have for
thinking the other way. At any rate, it will
be a glorious banquet. Hark 1 the chariots
rumbling in the distauce. I really believe
the guests are coming now. The gates swing
open, the guests dismount, the palace is filling,
and all the chalices flashing with pearl, and
amethyst, and carbuncle, are lifted to the
lips of the myriad banqueters, while standing
in robes of snowy white they drink to the
honor of our Glorious King ! “ Oh,” you say,
“ that is too grand a place for me.” No, it
is not. If a spider, according to the text,
could crawl up on the wall of Solomon’s
palace, shall not our poor souls, through the
blood of Christ, mount up from the depths of
sin and shame, and finally reach the palace
of the Eternal King ? “ Where sin abounded
grace shall much more abound that whereas
sin reigned unto death, even so may grace
reign through righteousness unto eternal life
by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
In the far east there is a bird called the
huma, about which is the beautiful supersti
tion that, upon whatever head the shadow of
that bird rests, upon that head there shall be
a crown. Oh, thou Dove of the Spirit, floating
above ns, let the shadow of Thy wing fall
upon this congregation, that each at last in
Heaven may wear a crown ! a crown ! and
hold in his right hand a star ! a star !
Given up by Doctors.
Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and at
work, and cured by so simple a remedy?”
“ i assure you it is true that he is entirely cured,
and with nothing but Hop Bitters; and only ten
days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must
die I” r
“ TVell-a-day ! That is remarkable ! I will go
this day and get some for my poor George—l know
hops are good.”— Salem Fast.
A Cincinnati young woman killed her baby
by stabbing it thirteen times with a knife.
The only witness of the crime was her lover.
Ohio law does not compel a husband to testify
against his wife in a criminal trial, and there
fore the marriage of this couple was considered
a sure way of saving the prisoner. The
authorities undertook to prevent the union,
but were not sufficiently vigilant, for a mar
riage ceremony was surreptitiously, though
legally, performed in jail.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.
Nothing Settled.
William Arp Discovci's that Everything in the
World is Going Wrong , and that Very
Little of it Was Ever Right Any
hoiv—Bursted Banks, Etc.
There’s nothing settled. Spring and win
ter keep skirmishing around. The deadlock
at Washington continues. Railroad stocks
are jumping up and down. Money kings and
corporation magnates butt heads awhile and
then retire on a still hunt while we, the peo
ple, look on and wonder and exclaim what' is
all this devilment going to do to us? Farm
ing has begun about in spots. The fruit is
killed in some orchards and left alive in
others. The flood has passed away, but the
wreck of it still lingers in the land. The
bridges have not been rebuilt, and the soil on
many farms has been taken off and left holes
and pits which cannot be filled up. Fences
have not been replaced, and there’s enough
rails in-the Gulf of Mexico to build a cordu
rc>3' bridge across it. It would be a good
time now to vote on a stock law—“ fence or
no-fence.” We have worked hard for ten
days hauling rock and building rock pens and
filling ’em. It’s double, double toil and
trouble, but still we are not unhappy. We
don’t set on the bank and cuss at my house.
It don’t pay. Corn is going to be corn and
wheat wheat this year, and it becomes every
farmer to be up and doing. If we don’t make
a surplus these railroads will suffer and be
impoverished for want of freight. The stock
will tumble for want of dividends. The mer
chants will have no customers who can pay
for what they bu3 r . Then the bankers will
have no borrowers they can trust. Says Ito
Mr. Dean, at Gadsden, who is a solid mer
chant and a close observer : “ Suppose this
turns out to be a very poor crop 3 r ear, what
then?” “Why, sir,” said lie, “the whole
country will be broke. The corn and meat
and hay and guano that steamboats and rail
roads are pouring into this country on a credit
will not be paid for. Everything depends oil
a good crop year—more so than I have ever
known.”
I went round by Dalton to get to Rome—
eighty miles to make twenty—for the Rome
and Kingston line had not been repaired.
It’s all right now, waiting for the next freshet.
Dalton is a lively place, and says she
wouldent have a river if she could. That’s
all right, I reckon, for I like to see folks con
tented and happy, though I told Mr. Lewis I
couldent help thinking about the feller who
wouldent have the corn because it wasent
shelled. But he ncedent care about rivers or
anything else as long as he can keep that tub
mill agoing. Six train loads of passengers a
day to feed, and he sets a good table, and
everybody knows it. lie is an old line whig
—John Quincy Adams Lewis—the only man
I know down south who was named for that
President. There’s thousands of G. Ws and
TANARUS, Js and T. Ms and A. Js and IL Cs and
J. Cs, but the old Adams family wasent very
popular with our people. When I got to
Rome I found a fresh sensation, for a bank
had busted and every man who lost bv it
thought his own case the hardest, and all of
em were mad with the State for bagin r the
assets. The State is rich and they are poor
and they want to know what right she hns to
a prefere'hce. You can argue with the men
about it, but Mr. Speer had better keep clear
of the women if he knows what’s good for
him. One good lady had s6so’in there and
when she heard that the bank was a little
shaky, she told her husband to take it out,
but he put on generous airs about it and said
it would be wrong—it would-show a lack of
confidence—that it was confidence that sus
tained banks and kept em from breaking. A
few days afterwards the bank broke and he
went home a sadder man and got demoralized
and went to bed sick and took on amazin,
and woulden’t eat and coulden’t sleep and
groaned and tumbled about on the bed and
called for morphine, and finally his wife told
him to sit up a minute, and then she showed
him a package of money marked S6OO, and
informed him she took the money out herself
before the suspension, and he got well imme
diately, and danced all around the room, and
kissed her forty times without stopping, and
on looking at the package again, “ Why,”
says he, “ this is only S6OO, and we had
$650.” “That’s so,” said his wife, “ I took
out S6OO for us and left SSO in there for con
fidence.”
But you musent joke with ’em much as} 7 et.
They are not in a joking humor. The pulpit
text now in that town is ‘‘Lay up your trea.
sures in’lleaven,” and one of the ministers
added : “ Where there are no preferred cred
itors.” Well, it’s bad, very bad, especially
on poor folks, but there are a heap of good
people who dident have any to put in a bank,
and I reckon we will have to be sorry for
them, too. I heard of a poor sickly woman
who had scratched up fifty dollars and put it
in there to pay her burial expenses, and when
she heard it was gone she got up out of bed
and said she couldent afford to die now, and
is sewing away to make some more.
An old acquaintance saluted me so gaily I
said, “\ou don’t look like you lost anything
by the bank.” “ Loss the mischief, no, sir.
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO for Six Months.
I’m assets; I owe cm, and I’m enjoined frond
paying over. Ain’t it splendid ?”
Having some business at Gadsden I jour
neyed to that little maritime city and was
astonished at its progress since I was there
two years ago. The population has nearly
doubled. They haven’t built any more falls
but they have built more saw mills, and lots
of new stores and dwelling houses and a
steamboat and a hotel that would do credit
to Rome or any other such town. It’s a
lively, prosperous city, with fine prospects.
Bob Kyle used to own the concern pretty
much, but he don’t now. He has worket
hard and done much to build it up, and ough
“to be proud of his success. It's astonishing
bow much one energetic man can do for •
place. The ladies are rejoicing over th
speedy banishment of whUky from that conn
ty. The law has been passed on the vot
and before long the bar-rooms will be clo9c<'
and a man will have to go out of the count
to get it, for the sale is prohibited, both o
wholesale and retail. What they want no’
is for public opinion to.sustain the law an
give it a fair test. It’s a woman’s movemen
to protect their husbands ah'd sons, and
wish the women all over the land had th
right to vote on that question, if no other, fo
they arc more interested in it than anybod
else.
Gadsden is wide awake about making rai
road connections with Georgia. They ar
hopeful of the Georgia Western and the Op<
lika road, and tfcen with the Coosa opene
up to Mobile in a few years it would be
considerable city. The coal that was burne
in my grate cost only ten cents a bushel, an<
that is about $2 50 a ton, and it come fror
a mine near the suburbs. Qadsden is prom
of Gadsden, and when you ask about th
population by the last census they don't kno\
exactly but will tell you that hundreds hav
moved in since the census was taken. Irc
member asking Cousin John* Thrasher abou
the population of Toccoa City, and he sal
the census give ’em 700, but it wasen’t hat
taken and two families and a nigger ha<
moved ffi since. Ido like to see folks stan<
up to their town—don’t you ?
Bill Arp.
Early Melons.
A correspondent of the Practical Farme)
gives the following rules for securing eafl}
melons;
“ About a month or so earlier than it v.
usual to plant these' seeds, procure a numbei
of good sized rutabaga turnips, cut off the
tops, and with a knife or other instrument
scoop out all the inside, so'that they will re
semble gourds, or cups; fill the cavity'of this
cup with good, rich earth, and plant in each
a few seeds of melons, cucumbers, beans, or
seeds of any ether plant that you may desire
to have early. They should then be placed'
in a warm part of the house or in a protect
ing frame, well made and secured from frost; ,
and the earth in the cup be kept moderately'
moist. If kept in a room they should be put
out in the open air every clear, fine day ; and
if in a frame, let them have air by removing
tlie sashes. By doing this you will prevent
the plants from growing tall and slender and
cause them to become straight, stout and
healthy. When the season has advanced be*
j T ond all danger of frost, you can put out
these turnip cups, plants and all r in the beds
where they are to remain, but be careful that
you do not put them out too soon. The'
plants will continue to grow and the turnip -
cup will soon rot and enable the roots to er
tend themselves without bounds in search of
food, and in time become itself an excellent
manure for the plant. When yon set out, in
sert the cup in a hole just large enough to
hold it, pressing the earth well around tho
cup and drawing a little over the top or edge
up to the stems of the plants, covering en
tirely the turnip. To hasten the process of
decay in the cup you may, before putting out,
cut off, with a sharp knife, the hard rind from
the outside of the turnip, leaving only a thin
piece of the rind enclosing the earth. A
small hole, as large as a ten-cent piece, should
have been cut in the bottom of the cup be
fore filling with earth when first:made.”'
The Kitchen Garden.
The Massachusetts Ploughman very season-,
ably says : “ Too many farmers neglect to
supply their own tables with any suitable
variety of vegetables and fruit. By a small
outlay of money and labor every farmer can
keep his table supplied with a succession of
freslt vegetables through the whole season.
Spinach planted as soon as the weather is
suitable will furnish the finest greens before
other vegetables come on, but if it had been
planted in the fall it would have come into
use this month, under ordinary conditions.
Then radishes, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes,
peas, beans, sweet corn, summer squashes,
bj&ets, melons and turban squashes, will fur
nish a welcome and wholesome addition to
the farmer’s fare throughout the season. If,
in addition to these, there are a few roots of
rhubarb, a bed of asparagus, a bed of straw
berries, and a small collection of small fruits,
a farmer may live in luxury and health, such
as his occupation ought to afford, instead of
the tiresome monotony and scarc’ty of the
good things of the farm that many farmers
put up with from sheer carelessness, thought
lessness or laziness.”
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