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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
BY J. D. HOYL & CO.
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SIM <1 O 3 * <fc PICA E T T
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
DAWfsO.X GEOItG-A
JAMES KEEL
'TTORN Y AT LAW,
Leary, 4 silliuiisa Cos , Ga.
( . IS. \Y(M Tl N,
Attorney fat I.ow,
.itß./.rr, - KEOitGivi.
\Y ILL pr«c*ice in the Conns and in
* the Oivoi»i r and Dtefrief Coutus of the
Uni'pfl in hnViinnan. sept 27.
J. J. BIC K,
Attorney at Law,
lorsaii, Calhoun Comity, Gu.
nraetice in the Albuy Circuit nr and
f here in t.hp St.nte, by ContrHCt. /bompt at*
tention eiven to all business entrusted *o his
Collections a specialty. Will also in
vestigate titles and buw or sell real Estate in
nlliaun, Baker and fi’arlj’ Counties
march 21-ts
k. G CARTLE DGE,
Attorney at I aw
•••RGAS, - - GCOItGIt.
\\ T close attention to nil buss
- entrusted to hid care in Albany
"ircuit. 4>I V
1.. D HOYL,
-Attorney at Lawt
Dawson, Georgia.
U. FIELDER IDUB L. FIELDEK.
H. A I. L. FIELDER,
GfOiIUVS AT LAW
’ uilibgjrl, - - Georgia
\\ ILI. give prompt and vtgilunt attention
'o all business conticled to them tu
_'c cotitiile» ni Rsndolt It, Stewart, Quitman,
errell, Olay, Calhoun and Early, toe 8u-
P erne Oourt ot Georgia, and the U. S. Dts
nncl , an d Oircuit Courts lor the Southern
of G-orgia.
Office ove. city Poet Office Oct. 8-ts.
D. H. tVJ!LLEF!,
at law,
Morgan, Ga.
in Ordinary’s Office. 080,3 m
JAMES H. GUERRY,
Attorneys at Law,
- a Ko/tai«i.
°®i-e in the Conn House. Feb. 4
r - L. JANES, j
ATTORNEY at LAW,!
&AIVSOY, - GEORGIA.
over J. \V, JthnalOß’s Stott- JtnT
lilting A round.
I hey are sitting around upon barrels
and chairs,
Discussing their own and their neigh
bors affaiis,
Aud the look of codtetil that is seiu
cn each face,
vSeerus to say “I have found my appro
priate place."
Sitting arouud.
In har-tooms and groceiies calm ythey
sit,
And serenely cltow borrowed tobacco
an f ' spi',
V\ hile the stories they te l aud iho
jokes that they crack,
Show their hearts have grown hard
atld undoubtedly black,
While sitting around.
The sitter arounu’’ is a urau of no
mean’s
Aud his face wouldn’t pass for a quart
of while bean.-,
Yet ho somehow or other contrives to
exist,
Aud is fequently B“eu with r dnuk iu
his fist,
V\ hile bitting around.
The loungers they toil not uor yet do
they spiD,
Unless it be yarns enjoyi >g their
K in >
They are people of leisure, yet often,
,tis ti ue,
They allude to the work they’re intend
ing to do,
While sitting around.
They’ve a habit of talking of other
men’s wives,
As they wittled up sticks with tueir
boro-baudle knives—
They’re a scaly old set, aud wtierover
you go,
You will liiiil them in groups or strung
out in a row.
Sitting around.
Seme time ago in Tunis a Sicilian
athlete of liinaldqs’s circus excited
generally admiratit n by his manly
beauty and feats of strength, lie was
in tire habit ot overcoming a lion du
ring the petforuttiDce, which, however,
was trained to succumb. The Bey of
Tunis hearing of this, sent him an
oiler of a thousand ducats if he would
kill a lion widen he possessed. The
poposat was accepted, ano cu the
day appointed, ’lie Bey and a large
company gath ted round the pit where
the lion was kept. The beast bad
been three days withojt tood, and
was lurioue. The ium door of the pit
opened, but instead of the athlete, a
tiembling dog was throwu lotwa and,
which timidly took refuge io accruer.
The lijn, who was a - a distance,
turned in surprise at the iinmtde in
truder- His tail ceased to lash his
bides, his roats ceased, aud he sat,
wi h paws ex ended, contemplating
his victim. Propelling t in.soli lor
waid upon his beily, he fittully made
a spring. The dog, however, w o
had watched him with a vigilant eye,
sp’aug iuthe opposi e direction. I fie
lion seemed astonisne ! it missing t.is
prey, but afler roiing over a lew
times, made another jump, w hich was
also avoided. Pity for the dog it
duced the Bey to older a cord lo he
toweled for him, and while the lion
was gyra'ing preparatory to a renew
ed spiing, the dog intelligently seized
the cord with bis teeth, aud was
drawn up. As he ascended, the lion
sprang agait , hut was too late. At
this moment the Sicilian appt-arei,
calm and fearless. He was in a rich
citcus costume, and earned a heavy
mace. He took his jositionin the
same corner pieviously occupied by
the dog. At first the lion did not
precetve him, but on turning his eye
expressed a vague inquietude. Tie
slowly withdrew a few step*, #.t thing
his cnee y with a fuitive and sidelong
glance, jhe Sicilian,on the lontraiy,
louked straight iu flis iye,am\ w tclied
every moment. The lion evidently
bad misgivings, but impelled by hun
ger, spiatig upon tue man with a ter
rible roar. The Sicilian slipped aside
agility, and before the paws of tne ion
touched the ground, n violent blow
from the mace upon the head luid
him insensible. The mace was raised
for the death bi(-W, when the Bey
interposed. lit' ottered toe man an
other thousand ior the life of the best
It was accepted, and the lion was al
lowed to recover.
Nai'iilkon’s ApuoMbMs.-VVotds pass
away, but actions remain.
Tire only victory over love is flight.
He who iuunmoved by tears has no
heart. ,
The woman we love is always 1,1
most beautiful of ner sex
There is nothing terrible indouth.
Men are led by ti ldes.
Death may expiate fault?) hut it
does uot repaii 'hem.
The throne is a hit of gilded wood
covered with velvet.
To really understand a man wo must
judge him in misfortune.
DAWSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1877.
Had u Itlglil |» l.utigli.
There is a legend affirming that one
day neurly a hundred years ago, the
snow was seven feet deep on thestroota
of Detroit) 0/t that day there was
not a woman seen down town, hut
next day, when the snow had settled
a toot tr so, they were abroad as usual*
They were out wading through the
slush aud juuipiug the pools, and one
ot them .ell “kernplash !” t ssite passed
the soldiers’menu merit. A man stand
ing thiity feet away hegau laughing
uproariously. He gv.tisd in the face*
tears came to his eyes, and his hat fell
off as he laughed and cried out:
“VVbnt lightdown likoabagof sand
slush a foot deep — staiched up to kill,
nuVt-rsaw anybody look so cheap —ho
ho ! ho ! ho !”
“You are no gentleman, sir'.” re
ntal ked a man who had witnessed the
mishap.
“Can’t help that—ha ! iia ! ha! ha!”
laughed the other, Leudiag nlur-st
double,
“You havu’t the first ins incts of a
gentleman, sir,” lontinued the other,
growing very mad.
“lkuow it,hut Ito! ho!lto!” scream
ed the oilier “1 know just how she
telt as she went down carrying all tliat
style, ami 1- hai ha! ha!’,
“I don’t see any lung so funny in
it,” growled ttie other.
“No, you don’t, but l—!” Aud he
hung to the lamp po. t and laughed
until Ins legs weakened. When tie
hail recovered It is breath he explained
to the crowd:
“It was my wife, you see She
probably warned a pair of shoestrings
or two cents’ worth of silk twist, and
it took her three hours to curl anil
twist and powdur and fix up to come
down here and wade arouud. Then
to lall down v.Mi all ht rbe tduds on;
and to be helped up by a rag-huyei,
ami to hear the boys y il out, why, it
just take- all the—ho! ho ! ho! mus
cle light t.a 1 ha ! out of me ”
Kwcei Ptiiiifucs
Ld So Vutikalor --Alter taken eight
year.-to learn to make sweet potatoe , I
thought I would iryto lielptbeyoung
er poitiou ot my brother farmers, by
te ling lino iow ’ti- done
Supposing that tht sweet potat r-s
of the previous ciop ate in pumps
i. e. put up in Conical shape and cov
i red a i'lt straw or corn stalks and
then earth, and then bo.»rded ovet, I
commence in March, Ly taking off my
hoard cover from my seed pump and
If tin rain n i . In April, my pota
toes being sprouting I nimk out the
size I want my seed bed, and have it
du out a spade dee; —then fill it lull
loosely »i‘h green co too seed; theti
ge' in on it and tramp down the seed.
Ti ey wnl tramp lown utility one-half.
Then put tu four inches ot eai til; then
lay you. sweet-pota ons, 'inching each
ot ier, all ove' t'n earth; then cover
orie anil a half inches wttli earth.
ll t hero is a rainy spell, alt rig.-: but
it not water thi- seed tied thorough!}’
twice a week By lie first of May,
yi "r i ed wi l have tho'JSaud of plants
on it.
Plough your intended patch two or
three times befo-e Betting out drawers,
having it iu lows. Plough ar“ reverse,
getting thesoii iufin«tlllli. hen the
t.iue is near for setting out, take a
single shovel plough, open your beds
to the depth of three inches, pu a lit
tle pure stable i anure in tin trench,
and await the lam, it the mill does
not come, set out wiiu water hull a
pint to the lilli ihe earth being
pressed firmly around the p-.tatn rout,
and a little diy eaithspii' klt«i<.round
the grutiud. Next is the setting
out--soiiie say one foot, some nay two
feet, apart—l say tour inches.
Then the cultivation. Is t" p oiigh
to your potatoes ull the time, pulling
the earth up around the little plants
with the hoe die first wmking. Never
hai off, t erehy saving die small run's
which make putatoev, and saving oln
half the ploughing.
In 18TG, 1 made 150 bushels ot
sweet potatoes on one-half aeiecf land
by this mode—giving one hoeing, oi
two pu lint up with the hoe, mid wo
ploughing, t' the potatoes.
11. I. Takkf.h.
Children are seut into the world to
teach us how iovely angles are; but
w hen a man finds ilniselt pasted to
the seat oi a chair by a pieceef spruce
gum he nevor thinks of this.
“Too thin” has become obsolete.—
“Not sufficiently maieiialized,, is the
latest from in which this idea is
clotbod.
An Old Moldici''* Tight W illi a
Wolf.
Three young girls were minding a
flock of sheep, u ftiwdays ago, at Vergt,
(Dordognrie,) when a large wolf slid,
denly appeanl, and, separating some
of the stseep, drove them before it.
The cries of the girls irri’uted it, and,
passing near one of them, Matie S ,
it flew at her, knocked hat down, anti
tore her savagely. Iler choek and
upper lip were sadly injured. How
ever, the dogs attacked tlieaniina! aud
released the girl. Tho cries and bark
ing attracted the attention of a man
named Moreau, aged fifty, who bad
formerly been a -oldier, and who, with
bis daughter, a gi.l of eighteen, was
engaged iu cutt ng wood. Ho came
out of the thicket to see what was the
matter, an i found himself face to fai e
■villi the wolf, which immediately
sprang at nis throat. He had no
weapon, so he clasped the animal
arouud the body, aud they both fell
together, ruiiing over each other.—
Alter a protracted struggle M.ir.euu
managed to get Ine beast beneath him
and hold it firmly by the throat. Ho
then shouted to tiis daughter, wi-o
came and dispatched the wolf with
blows fibin a pickaxe. Moreau was
much exausted by the fight, but fort
unately escaped with only a wound
on Ine left hand. Tin animal was
fouud to measuie a metro uud a half
from the nose to the eud of tbs tail.
A Freight cimducter on oue of our
laihoads, nut long since, went to the
superintendent end said he thought
lie ought to be advanced, Itaviug sei\-
ed on the freight for several years.
The superintendent agreed with him
i.nd told him that the change should
Le made the very next week A- ii
it was made. The superintendent a
day or two after took a seat in the
real end ot the coaches to see
how the new conductor would take
to I tisiness, and pretty soon the offic
ial danced int-i the doof, cap on his
ear, sleeves pushed up, icdu half-acre
smile on Ins face.
“Get out your pasteboards!” lie
shouted, “I’m the iii«h munkey muck
that mris this tiuin,” and then turn
ing right ami left c ntinu and:
“Rght bowers this way—play live
ly— pass or order up—bow’s tramps
with you?—slide you light into Chi
cago—huuy up there tramp this
ace—what kind of aliauldoyou hold,
old man?”
I Item was sometliiug novel anrt ex
hilatating tn his style, but yet tbc su
perintendent called tho conductor up
stairs 'lie next day and told tiiui that
he wns the best mail in America to
run a freight train, and that llesbould
have to promote him buck war and. He
was too talented for a passenger con
ductur.
A hasty man, with his anus lull of
his wife’s baggage, thought t e was
left Ly the train la»t and run
nig rapidly across a platform, fell over
a truck. He straddled oue of tLe
handles and rode it for a second, lun
ged forward aud gi t his legs tangled
up in the cross-pieces, when the mali
cious thing reaiad up an i slid foi ward
just enough to throw the man off his
bal uce and got hi.n down; he black
ed Ins ey and broke bis spectacles
agaiust the handle, and ran over his
loot with the wl eels, Mid even after
h“ g„t away frotu it and was seated in
the car, lie says tlie truck ran after
him and kicked him twice in the ribs
hetioa the hreakman unuld take it !
away lion. him.
“Do you see that trunk, sir?” de
manded an indignant tiH.eler ofOioiv
lie bender, the courte ais Lake Shore
haguage agent, at Toledo, as he sur
v. yed a demolished packing-box to
whit h ache; k was ha ging that Cor
responded with oue lie held in his
hand. “That tiunk is ruined, sir, and
1 demand damage..” “Yes, sir,” said
the smiling Chin lev; “you ought to
have pay lor that trunk. People git
a tender little ti uuk like that uud pack
it u lot a nuuilied n.lies’ journey as ll
they weie g’ it*g to the Pyramids.—
They put iu two or three good-sized
bans, a crock or tv.o ot appie-butter I
a suck of double X lumily flour, ten \
o. fifteen pounds ot nails, a tew pounds
ol shot, new castings tor a couple of |
pyn, and dime or four changes of ,
clothing. I'lien they mg itdowu here
at the last r. mute witli the handle
burst oil one end, and expect it to go
tluougii easy enough to allow a horse
fly to rideou the end. Thai’s the way
your trunks get broken, tny dear sir.
Thirty-five, sixty-four. Cleveland
Branch. All tight. Good morning.”
A IMymoiitii < bmch I*crfurtn
uiice.
At the Plymouth Church prayer
meeting last Friday night, Mr. Beech
er said that every man’s Dials were
fitter! nut for hirr, and that if tie Itad
to live his life over again fie would
rather pass throUg his own affliations
than through those of others To one
of the brethren who propounded an
unusonlly knotty conundrum concern
ing the intmo. tality of the soul, Mi,
B echer replied : “I will tell you, sir,
when you and I meet in the o.hor
world.” [Laughter.] Another bro
ther «sid that “he liked Paul throng
and through.” n« tad himsell sum.v
thing of a choleric disposition, but he
considered rtrat' all then Were alike
in that re-pect. Some men were lik
cataracts and others like "till lakes
Mr. Beecher--“It takes twenty men to
make u perfect man. Martha wns a
good housekeeper, hut Mary oxcellod
in spiritual power; each formed the
complement of the other. Peter was
a watch dog. [Laugter. ] He uever
heard a mouse around the corner but
he would bark. John, on the contra
ry, was the quietest; he hold his peace,
and developed a rich, quiet soui power
that Peter lacked. M n who are
catechetical (to the lute speaker),
like you, sometimes do a grout deni of
good—at any rate they make other
people do something. No one man
has all the qualities which make a
perfect Christian ; we are each of us
the complement of the other. lam
indented where you bulge, and we
both fit together the better for it. If
Brothel will supply the fire ar.d
force and a l that, I will supply the hu
mility.” [Laughter.] The services clos
ed with the familiar benediction,
“Giaee, mercy and peace.”
Provision Prospects.
From our alegraphic news it will
be te«n that considerable activity is
displayed in the Chicago and other
eastern markets over the war news.
Our merchants received private advices
yest' rtlayof the advance in bieadstufls
and some large trensactions were
made iu this city —to what extent it is
not ltecessaty to state. Our merchants
are always wide awake lor business
and keep well informed of the chan
ges it the markets. Their success in
bu-iue»B is mainly duo to this fact.
It is a gratifying tact '.hat Georgia
is better prepared to make large ciops
thi- year than in any year since the
war. And a general war in Europe
will hardly affect our farmers— -cer
tainly not those who have provisions
of their own on hand. We are in
formed t 1 at but one car load of corn
bus been shipped from the west to the
country between A lanta and Macon.
An intelligent merchant remarked, a
few days ego, that corn was so cheap
in Atlanta Hint it did not pay to buy
it west of Tennessee, and that it hud
to he sold at a very small profit when
purchased iu that state.
The commencement of war between
the gieat powers of Europe and A»siu
will, during the next six months, ad
vance very rapidly ineais and biead
stulfs. We may expect to see corn
selling fi r olio dollar a bushel before
the summer is gone ; fl »ur from ten
to fiiteen doilais a barrel, and bacon
at not less than twenty cents a pot’nJ. !
tlll|>alo<l on :m Iron U»(l
Nkw York, Aptil UO.--Wednesday j
evening am mi named J amesß. oung |
was taken to t’.e hospital, having,it is
supposed, (alien from a window at
202 Broadway. He decended in an
oblique direction and struck an up
right iron rod supporting a sign. The
but end of the rod broKe off,ibesbarp \
point pierced the man’s abdomen, and
passing through hie body, came out ut
bis back. He then sank down to the
post which supported the tod, about
five leer of which passed through his
bodv. Vt lnlo tuus impaled be was
approached by a policeman who
thought the man had merely fallen
across the tailing, and he atteu pted
to turn him over when he discovered
that Yt ur>g was transfixed, lie then
attempted to lift film over ttieiod but
•ould nut, aud the man was allowed
to sink buck agam until a steel was
brought, w hen iwo men stood upon it
and be was removed, the blood gush
ing from bis wound*. He died yes
terday. It is now said that ho threw
himself out.
i A woman’s lotus soften a mans
heait; I er flatteries, his head.
To keep Oli Crows
Granger tells us to save corn from
crows by satmating or covering tho
seed with coal lat, then stir in plas
ter or a-hes toaid in droping. I tried
that pLn one spring, ami I will ad
mit the cmws did not eat the corn,
but they palled it up which was just
as bail for the pro-pective crop, be
cause they kept trying to. find clean
kernels-. I replanted, but tl o crows
had got the ta6te of corn and it was
almost impossible to keep them off
Finally, having found they wrie
determined to have corn from or iu
the field, I adopted the following
plan: Take a pock or half bushel
ol corn, i<oak it in whisky, all it will
absorb, then drop a good many ker
nels on each hill. The result wil.
he "drunk crows,” wh'oh you can
shoot, and their careasees will be a
good preventative. W hen crows onco
begin to pull corn it is ulmost irnpos
ib eto stop thorn. Getting them once
drunk worked in mv case like a
charm. I uever wo u hl he persua
ded to use coal tar agait:. Another
way to stop corn pulling is lo hang
a dead crow in the field the day
you finish planting.—U. N. G.
I look upon the crow as a fiiund
in everything except in pittiahty for
young coin. Even in this I eliaiitu
bly be ievo that hi* first desire is
the gtub or cutworm, and the tender
piaut thus suffers or is demolished
Bometmes unintentionally. But the
object of this line is to acquaint farm
ers with the simplest aid most effec
tive rem“dy of keeping crows from
molesting growing corn, which is to
spread out a dead crow cr crows flat
on tire ground, placing small stones
on tip of wings to krep them well ex
panded. I guarantee that no crow
will alight tin the land near it. One
crow tu threeor lour antes is sufficient.
To obtain the crow«, B i„ot them or
rob a nest. This beats all the twine
ami scarecrows < ver use j. Have some
times employ tried crow bluck-biids
well spread out, with the same good
result. The ne>t morning alter put
ting these dead birds mi tite corn field
there was a wonderful commutiou
among the crews; they caw-c wed
all their neighbors together, tcibd,
and sounded a regular dead match
over that fie'd, Went off, mi returned
no more. 1 look upon the crow hUek
bir 1 as a more sot ions enemy tc
young corn. They ure bolder and
not to be seated. They tug away at
the plants before your very eyes anil
within easy gunshot, s m.etimos top
pling over when tho blade breaks or
the plant combs up suddenly. Who
will prescribe for them?—W. A. C.
A chap from the western putt ot
the State wont to bed at one of th«
hotels the other night, aud blew out
bis gas ir steud of turning it off. The
gasiuslud out, the loom was closs
and in about half un hour the siut-il
became so sirong that tho stranger
got outrf Led, opened tha door, and
shouted for the cloik. Tho clerk
c un up ar.d demanded to know what
tvus up “1 never stopped in Drtioit
overnight before,” replied the s'ia”
ger, “and I don’t know but ibis smel;
is all light, hut it ‘pears to me us U
lonielhing had busted somewhere.”
A youth named George was engag
ed to be married, but was financially
unable to call >n the minister. Ills
affianced wanted the atlait brought to
a finale, but George kept putting Let
off with promise*, saving he was un
able to marry, e*c. Fiua!l_ , she said
“Dealt Gauge, I am willing to mar
ly you, if we have to live on bread
and water.” “Well,” cried “George
in desperation, “you fllrnial the bread
I and I’ll tiy uud bkiru ish arouud and
| hunt up enough water.”
A cieigynian who owned n farm,
found his plowman siting on his plow,
resting his home. Qoutli the cleigy
man, “John, wouldn’t it be a good
plan for jou to liavo a good stuh
scytbe bore and bo culling a few
bushes along tho fence while thohorse
is resting a short time’?” “Wouldn’t it
be well, sii,” said .John, “for you to
have a tub ol potatoes in the pulpit,
and when they ar<t singing, peel ’em
awhile to he ready for the po V”
A short time sii.ee a noble savage
came to a teitmu agent m the noith
em part of lowa to procure some
whisky lor a young wariior win* had
been bitten by a rattlc-nahe. “Four
(juaits'f” l open tad the ngont, with
surprise; “as much as that?” “Yes,”
replied the Indian; “.our ipui to —
biiake veiy big.”
OL. XII. —-NO. 13.
Tuwu Turin era.
Somebody sends the Marietta Jour
nal the following article, which recept
j ly a; ; eared iu tho Southern Cultiva
tor, It is worth a wide circulation, and
wo give it the benefit of ours;
“When I livol on my farm, 1
tended to my own business in person
—overseeing my overseer aud every
thing else, and I prospered at it iu
very thing and iu every year. I
had plenty for man and beast, and
sold more of other things than 1 had
of cotton. I sold corn aud fodder,
and wheat and oats, and barley aud
potatoes, together with be?f, bacon,
lard, mutton, wool, etc. I may add
wo haM geese, ducks, pea-fowls, tui
kt-ys, w.th lroru 150 to 300 chickens,
k pt at night iu a mink proof and
negro proof hen house. We also
had many hives of bees. Mr. Editor,
did you ever tire of milk and honey,
*r butter and eggs? If I ever did dir
not now, for in an evil hour I Dft my
farm and removed to town, and the
farm and till things on it felt the
change. Do you know a thrifty farm
er who livs» in town ? I don’t. From
that one hundred head, nty cattle fell
to less than forty. Hogs from three
hundred to one hundred. Sheep from
eighty-five to seven, chiefly by dogs,
(yet wo cun not get a dog law.) Geese
from forty-five to three or four doslato
old g anders, too tougbt Irr Cutfee’v
teeth. Bee hives fiteen or twenty
down to three or four, anti they saved
in a pit.e iule peu, under a lock and
kev.
The negroes said theoverseer’s wife
at* and sold all if the chickens, atld
she said the negroes devoured them;
and so on of everything. The pros
pect that the cul.ivator, helped me to
much to achieve, all gone. Now, it>-
gretl’u! memories ciowd upon me iu
rny m mdy moments But l will not he
again tr< üb'ed iu seeing the sills of
my bam bending under the weight of
80i) or 1,000 1 Ushels of wheat. lam
in town, however, temeitdous'y respect
ably (il it weio a negotiable commo
dity, I would exchange some respect
ahili y for bread and butler), I wear
“store clothes,” instead of walnut-brown
home-made jeans, as formerly, I eat
town vituais,” euch as it is. But let
m whisper a woid in your ear, and
don,t let it get out, to kill a chicken
is as great an event now as it wus to
.slaughter an os when I lived at tho
plantation. 1 have ceased to wonder
at Jacob’s children longing fur the
leeks and onions of Egypt. If I could
shake i If a few years farm my shoul
ders, 1 would fly back to my farm
and prosper again, as I did while nu
it, for two aud two will always
muk; four while the world stands.
A lady at E Iswo/th, Me, eighty
four yeaiß old, has cut two new teeth
within the past month.
The net euruings of a Florida rail
road last your were nineteen cents.—•
No dividend will be declared, and the
amount Will be added to the sinking
fund.
A Ga lift mi a preacher is preaching
on tt e first way to raise h iys. W#
It.tve always round a Number 14 hoot
about as effective ue any thing for
raising them.
A malicious politician say* the
Grangers turn out to dig the graves
of deceased I ro hers, thus preventing
ext irtiou on the part ot that “middle
man,” the soxtuu,
A fiottentot ouce got up a pain'ing
of lieavou. It was inclosed with a
fence made out of sausages, while the
cciitio was (ccupied with a fountaiu
that squirted potpie.
“Uow come 6Uch a greasy mess in
the oven?’ said a lady to her maid-of
all-work “Why,” replied the girl,
“the cand es fell into the wash tab,
aud 1 put them in the oveu to dry.”
A Cleveland youth of rather fast
protliviti s fei) in love with a parson’s
daughter, and as a clincher to Ns
claims, said to the revc'nnd gentb
luun, “1 go tny bottom dollar on pi-
OLdlltteb.”
Sooner or lafor, jus ice ceitainly
ovei taxes tho leader of a country
brass band. A bridge came along
and struck one on tlie head, the other
day, as ho shod on the top of an
Eiie fieight-tr in.
When an Arkansas judge ascends
the bench, the first thing he does is to
feel under the disk for the wisky
bottle, airl it the tipstafl has forgot
leu to have it filled, legal proceeding*
that day dou't amount to much,
limwsy Bunker, ot Carmel, loafed
around all day trying to get the high
est hid for his vote. He wanted three
dull ms; but just as they were about
to compromise on two doilaig and a
hall, the sun went down aud the in
spector declared the polls ch sed. All
; ho remarked was “Gloat Ceasar! is it
possible I'm u-'t in time to vote ior the
constitutional amendment prohibiting
bribery at electiuna?”
A woman committed suicide by
banging herself to au apple-tree. At
the luneral, a neighbor, noticing the
ead appearance of tho husband, con
soled him by saying be had met with
a terrible loss. “Ye?,” said the hus
band, heaving a sigh, “she must huve
kicked like thunder to shake off six
t>u*h<»ls of gieeu applet that would
I have been worth a dollar* luaLel
when they got ripe.”