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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- .LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS,JEtc.—PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM.
GEORGIA TEL APH BUILDING
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, FRIDAY. MARCH 3, 1882.
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VOLUME LVI-NO 9
n j'iCE.
When I an dead, with mockery of praise
Thou shall not rex the stillness of my sleep;
Leave me to long tranquillity ana deep*
Wlio, through such weary nights and lonesome
days.
Such lonesome stretch of uneompanlonedways.
Have come at length my quiet rest to keep
Where nettles thrive, and careless brambles
And things'that lovo the dark their dull brood
raise.
After my restless years I would have rest—
Long rest after so many restless years—
iVace after strife-a dreamless sleep and blest,
Unmockcd by Hope, set free from hauut-
Slnce ttm ohfpeln might waken at thytread.
Come thou not nigh when I am lying dead.
—Louise Chandler Moulton in Our Continent.
KITTY.
[From the Springfield Republican.]
September 'SI—A brief ride along the
beach and a very humble entry into a
crowded reception-room were my first im
pressions. Porters were hurrying trunks,
and elevators rumbled confusingly. Im
portant old students who stood about did
not help uie much. There were a few
girls in the corner, though, who seemed
to feel as small as myself, aud I picked up
my basket and went across to them for
sympathy. Ithiuklam going to like.
1 must say my mom is bare, and looks out
on nothing but the piers along the bay.
Beyond are only leagues of distant air
tremulous over the hot country. Bight
near, a tuft of long-bearded grass bends
forward and shakes .tself In the wind, aud
miles away a palmetto is cut upon the
sky like my cameo. Uutrightat my band
are great inside blinds to shut this out; by
and by, though, I shall have them open,
and the winter moonlight will strike
across my little book-shelves gloriously.
October 5.—A dull rain just drips, drips
from the eloude. My bare floor is tracked
up; a little brook is running across it from
the umbrella, and there Is not a bit of
home in the institution table and chairs.
They look as indifferent as the professonf
down-stairs. Thepaintiug hall is high
and still and cold. In the best light a
girl is copying a copy of “The lauding of
William of Orange.” Original designs
of lace and wall papers hang about; the
mechanical models are disposed like
platters ou the table—there is no inspira
tion to be had. At home I hold clearly
the thing I would paiDt. The other day
I took up my brushes and worked; the
next day aud auothet I did the same, but
nothing came of it, and the day fails and
who can work in the gloom and the cool-
uess? Sly lessons are easy and I have
nothing to read. So I lie ou the bed and
stare out of the window, or run about
with my chum. Aud by aud by the bell
rings.'
October 12.—I am beginning to think of
how people will like me. My bit of morn
ing sky, ill done as the sketch was, is
talked of. This morning one of-the first
young ladies here stopped me on the stairs
to kiss me, silly to tell of but^wry nice to
have happen to tanned me, tffth a nose
as homely as Petrea’s. Last night chum
And 1 got an excuse to walk down Market
street, slipping along the wet pavements
in the light of the great squares of color
spread Horn the windows. We bought
lovely, fruit. I am sorry I spent my
money; though 1 never buy many things
most girls always keep on hand I do not
refuse what they offer—and If I take I
must give. 1 am ashamed to gi^e so sel
dom. Mother has now sent me enough
to buy her new gloves. Aud what have
I spent it for? for something to cat, and to
give away with a deceitful look of liberal
ity. Aud what does it amount to? Not
that 1 do not have good times here. There
seems to be no loom for anything else
and 1 have to drag myself to the books.
To-morrow I must be studying by suu up.
Mother’s letter came just now. My poor
dear, hard-worked mother! I can see her
bring in the milk in heavy palls, and at
night the children lying awake in the
trundle-bed to talkof me. And I am now
improving; I am too proud to have poor
relations, but a pony in some things.
Borne sc; it, of course, and I have the
bilternessjof losing the respect of others
as well as my own.
October 14.—To-day the drawing teach
■ . cr complimented me befere the class and
L that copy of the Northern birch has the
•a. best mark. So I am getting on and am
W popular after all.
October 16.—Last bight I rose in the
tile prayer-meeting to say I was unhap-
, v jf>y and desired to be different. 1 can not
- * ''say why, for I am not altered. The eam-
lftpst prayers affected me, 1 think, and the
, r Sudden, fatal desire of a new sensation,
another sort of popularity—urged me. 1
C- felt in no respect different when 1 sat
w down, and by the time the meeting closed
I had gone so far back into my old self
tbatl replied to their kind talk with real
liyprocrisy, to keep up their idea of a seek
er. If 1 had bad the courage to go on—
■when I was up—and tell them what one
girl is!
October 10.—I have been to chnrcb and
been “forward” again: Since I came
back, one of the devoted ladies has ad
vised me to d duty do and not expect a
sudden, distinct conversion. She said she
was sure of me. Poor lady! She thinks
she perfectly knows my case. I wonder
if a religious life can tie proof over lies?
I wonder if what I read in “The Scarlet
Letter” once, “Be true! Be true! Let the
world knew your worst!” can be slipped
by?
October 20.—A week has gone and i
am more wicked than at its beginning.
1 have added to what I was by becoming
a complete hypocrite). And yet 1' started
iu good faith last Monday. Heaven
knows my restless heart wished peace,
And I can never pray more heartily than
I did then for help I shall always re
member that 1 fell better for a while af
ter the prayer, too. I think the trouble
began by hearing one of my false recita
tions praised. One of the girls told me,
in her impulsive way, how much 1 had
been admired, particularly of late. “She
never did see how I could be so clever.”
And I smiled and liked to hear it, thoagh
my lips were begging her si'euce. It end
ed by my helping her to algebra with a
great air, though I was indebted to a key
for the examples. When she went away
every bit of feeling was out of my heart.
Then I idled away the precious hours be
tween breakfast and French over peanuts
and a story, and when the bell rang a
“pony” was a necessity. So I scratched
off a lew rules to read from under my
shawl. In Miss Day’s room are cards In
scribed, “Idle words! Idle words!” And
the like hung over her walls. Reminds
of duty, I suppose. What a cantiast to
my ever-slipping thought and speech.
The deeds we do, the words we speak
Intc still Air they seem to fleet,
But they shall ever iait;
At the great judgment they
And we shall meet.
October 27.—I have been to the window
to breathe the soit warm night, and to
watch the Josephine come in from the
bar under the awfully white sheen of the
xnocn. “It is always in our power to act
honorably." Had not I best turn my en
ergy about higher marks into another
-channel? Can not I help this soul of
mine, which is going down so fast?
November 5.—1 saw a pair of sarcastic
eyes to-day when Mr. Fennell andl were
going through the|play at rehearsal. I was
indignant, for I am not at ail in love*
And yet I cam enough for him to be will
ing] to lie for his good opinion. I have
bought a white fan aud kids, and a gold
cross for my chain—on credit. ’ The bill
JS $10. And I have written home that 1
broke two pants in a great window, and
must have some new Books. Dispicable!
But I must have the things, lor the enter
tainment must be as good as we can make
it, aud every one of the managers is very
stylish. I have no silk or elegant white,
but I have sent home for my garnet.
November 8.—I have been made a
member of an exclusive society of five.
Spending money is all its object, and I
wish I possessed the boiduess to decline
the honor, but I have my position to look
after, and the members lead the school.
November 12.—The eventful evening is
over, and I have had praise enough to
satisfy even my thirsty soul.. My voice
was clear aud ray acting successful. My
garnet came. My hair was elegantly
combed bv an obliging friend. Mr. Fen
nell sent a bouquet mooned and cressetcd
with camellias, and I think I took a place
among the belles. Quite a change from
my unnoticed condition a month ago.
November 20.—I am enjoying myself as
well as any girl who has ever been here,
1 know. The days are a delight. The
routine of dressing, and of going out to
recitations, of running up to the obser
vatory witL lessons to be learned, iiad lost
its boredom. Up in my sky-parlor I watch
the limitless sand and heat, and feel the
profound hush with a growing apprecia
tion of how precious the world is. Even
the old rooms in the hall brighten up
when the sun shimmers through the
branches during 4 o’clock hour. It is
sweet to see it opposite, as I sit and half
hear the drone of the prolessor’s talk and
theyoung ladies’ blunders. It’s delicious,
but it’s not ju«t the thing, for my thoughts
are anywhere but on tho subject. Last
Monday Ben Fennell escorted me from
Mrs. Andrew Neill’s. We stopped for
cream, and walked on the beach, and I
was Dot surprised when he told me his
liking. But I knew he did not like me
half well enough. I intended to make it
more than a mere flirtation, and I cast
about for something to te IL - fin J -—‘- 1
iromises
Kate laughed t little.
“She’s said something about you and
Mr. Fennell.”
I whs nearly crying by this time, but it
cased me to speak of it. 1 looked up at
her. She has a sweet face and glorious
eyes, greatly admired by overy one.
Somehow she looked helpful, too, just
then. I felt as if every man’s hand was
against me, I told her, and I might as
well have the game a3 the name, you
know—
“Yes, I know,” she interrupted, “I have
felt just so. It’s a false way to think.
But excuse me, maybe the memory of
half-defying the opinion of the faculty
stings a little too.”
My face must have been fiery, for she
added:
“1 do hope you’re not hurt, I shall not
go on if you do not look up. I know how
slight your flirtation very likely is. I can
g uess how Independence aud a good time
ave led you on from one imprudence to
another. But if pcoplo see you defy them,
they will speak a harsh judgement. What
they say can cut bitterly, you see.”
“Is it their business to watch me, to get
something to put me down for?” I said
hotly.
“No, I do not thiok it is,” said Kate,
“but you know we all do a great deal that
isn’t precisely our business, aud we must
leave a good margin in life for remarks—
not kindly criticism, but unkind, making
much of little things. Trying, of course,
but we must look for it. It must be a bit
of original sin, or restless liking to med
dle.
“But,” I told her, “there is no pleasing
people.”
“That’s a question,” said she, “wo can
give them as littio as possible to talk
about. One has to sailer some—at least
I did—before independence is toned down.
But character is too sacred for a wrong
thought, I have wanted to be at your
elbow lately.”
As we went back beside the great lawn.
Beu Fennell met us aud touched bis hat,
I have not seen him since.
My canvas—a bit of stainless sky to
which contrast with the angles of a tent
gave violet tinges—won me the medal in
the painting hall. As I was wandering
smong tne racks of charcoals and crayons
Dr. Sterne came over to me and present
ed the photographer who took tho class
pictures.
“You found that sky here,’ 1 -said my
stout, bald-bcaded visitor, with comrad-
erie in his glance.
Yes, I told him, it was the view from
my window. No, I should not see it in
mid-winter. I should not return.
“That is no matter,” bending over me
and speaking thickly and quickly. “You
have learned nothing here. You must go
to Now Orleans to au art school.”
But, I said desperately, I could not go.
The money was gone. Oar farm would
not crop enough to find me iu further
money. I must go back and teach.
“So,” said he, “that is a pity. In time
H
But he did not finish, and turned off
chewing the tips of bis gray mustache.
So! Failure at all points, and myself to
thank for it. He was mistaken, though,
I have learned to be afraid of myself. I
have that to carry back to the Brazos.
HOME AND FAEM.
'^'a-i-^J&Mr. Fennell is fine looking,” said
ong stoty of
uubappiuess. My affair with Fred I
made a perfect love story; and insinuated
that my engagement made me miserable.
Why, he could not get mo to say. He
looked sober to find that I was engaged.
But we walked on in silence too long. So
I quietly spoke again of how much this
had troubled me, aud howl dreaded going
heme to meet my sweetheart. I describ
ed our place. I need not say it was as
little as possible like reality. I warmed
to the subject, and developed a talent for
“making up” as I went along. I did not
know I could do so much; but my auditor
was interested, aud I suppose that is the
test.
November 23.—The first cool Sunday.
Morning prayer-meeting, and churcii aud
Sunday-school have been disposed of, and
I have been stretched across the bed’s
foot with a novel eversince dinner. Sun
days are depressing.' There is such a
subdued spirit about everything that even
the walls and the great green doors in the
balls catch the infection. It is a bore to
even put my bead out of the door of my
room. I know well enough that the long
hall is empty or that vanishing Sunday
dresses are flitting up the winding stairs.
My chum sits ou the floor before her tiunk
taking an inventory of her finery—her
usual Sunday occupation. Of late it is
very strictly attended to, as she corres
ponds witli somebody, and comes from
entertainments iu the glory of an escort.
Poor thing! with her great yellow curls,
and heavily trimmed, illy fitting clothes!
Monday noon—Ben Fennell has a broth
er here to-day, and I was introduced on
the street. I wish I had uot been., His
dark eyes looked at me so reflectively that
I am rather startled. He looks far too
knowing, and I am afraid I shall not come
off with Ben’s respect, as I hope to. This
gentleman saw through a good many
tilings Ben is blind to, as he quietly ate
his dinner with his eyes on his plate. We
bad dinner at a restauraut, and a right
nice one too; butjl had to run a gauntlet to
get away to it. The whole affair was so
stiff that I felt hardly paid tor my trouble,
Ben’s brother was so old and cool, and
Ben himself a bit flustered. I dressed as
well as I could and looked nicely when I
started. Put my hat mashed my hair,
and my collar came unfastened and had
to be horribly righted with a crooked pin,
and I was a dowdy when I sat down to
the table. I think I must have glowered,
for Ben said I was solemn. He would
have been so himself, I fancy, with his
hair out of crisp and a great pin sticking
into bis neck. It is all past and gone,
however, and I am breathing free over
regular polygons in the silence of my own
room. I can’t imagine how 1 am going to
fix my attention on the horrid old thing,
but it has had to be done sometimes when
it was harder to do. Thank heaven! I
shall consign it to an uninterrupted rest
in a fortnight. It rests me to thins of it.
I was stopped by Miss Bayne’s soft rap,
frightening me sufficiently. I still think
she came to be sure I was in, though
book was her errand. She has gone," aud
was as lively and condescending as I ever
saw her. But her manner was too ob
structed. There was nothiug lying about
to betray me. I presume, thougb^be knows
the whole aflair.
My bill at the restaurant is $20.50—I do
not see how mother can possibly pay it.
I shall ask them to wait for part of it
until next term. I can tell mother that
new books, enforced contributions, and
flees for damages have run it up.
November 28.—I am too unhappy for
anything but scribbling my vexation.
The drawing teacher told Miss Wheeler
before breakfast that 1 kissed Ben Fen
nell last night in the hall. There-was an
entertainment in town; of course I went
and had a very good time and truth to tell
he did kiss me when we parted; but I had
just promised to be Mrs. Ben Fennell
some day.' Being “talked about” is a new
thing to me and it nearly kills me. I
have not deserved scorn. I presume I have
been silly though. That is the bitterest
thing about it. I have never broken rules
to go driving or to spend long afternoons
down the bay or do anything peculiar to
the “fast” set here. I know I have whis
pered at lectures and flirted continually,
but it has been mostly under the teacher’s
eyes.
i smile to thiuk I am fretting. This
will soon fade, and I have many triumphs.
My rank will be the highest, and I am
getting attention from people. The pro
fessors say the kindest things. Won’t all
this weigh down a bit of trouble?
Bnt I never merit the praise, and _
know it. If I did my duly I should speak
out when the averages are • read in my
class and confess my trickeries. There
would still be some bard work at the bot
tom. I should not be quite at zero,
shall never respect myself until I am
brave enough for such things, and “Too
soon, too soon, the neon will bo the aiter-
noon; too soon to-day he yesterday.”
Afternoon—I have had a walk with
Kate Erakine. It was so pleasant at noon
that I asked her to walk. We went along
by the gardens and tamarisks. Shadows
must tall, I Fuppose, for presently we met
that drawing teacher. I bowed very
slightly, indeed, and felt so vexed—so
vexed I showed iL Kale broko in upon
my palnfal thinking. Ob, nothing was
the matter, I told her, and we went on
but her face betrayed her struggle, and
soon her great eyes met mine keenly,
“You have heard something unpleas<
ant?” - .
“Tea, I have,” I broke out, “Miss Tracy
is making remarks and I think a teacher
may be in better business.”
Kate; “you have a nice escort, Kitty. Did
you know him before you came? ’
I wanted to say yes badly, but I did not
feel just like lying to her. So I shook my
head carelessly.
Whan we reached our floor I followed
her into her room. I sat rocking and
fanning vacantly, but the sight of Ban
passing by the house again, inspired me
to obey a sudden impulse.
“Kale,” I broke out, with a great gasp,
“I am not a bit what you think me. I
am in trouble. Not about Ben Fennell;
I don’t mean that. But I have gone
wrong about other things from the com
mencement of this term.”
Kate was arranging her paints.
“Did your profession of religion have
anything to do with it?” she asked.
“Yes, a great deal,” I had to say. “I
never felt converted. I might have been
if I had kept right, but I didn’t dare be
honest. I have beeu a hypocrite ever
since. You can not like me any more,
but it is a right pleasure to tell what a
whited sepulchre I am, I have kept it
hidden so long.”
1 went and flung myself on the window
seat face downward, for I could not
endure oven her sweet eyes* She sat very
still at first. I expect she was perfectly
astonished, for she has always seemed to
think right well of me. But before I had
Cone—and my word* were a torrent—she
was beside me with her arm around me.
“Ob, pray Kate,” said I as I was leav
ing, “do advise me. I may go wrong
about things again. I am in such a tan
gle I can not do right,”
“lie true,” she said, with her dear arm
around me. “I am sure your heart will
tell you best what truth in all things will
be. Nothing but the deepest truth will do
now. I pity you, Kitty dear, and 1 do not
like you a particle less. No, I love you
more.”
It was very kind of her, wasn’t it? And
I expected she would nearly turn me out
of her room.
November 29—I have decided, and the
evil one is so ever present with me that
I am going to act with resolution now. I
am going to send a note to Ben Fennell.
I suppose he will ask for an interview;
and if he comes I am going to put right
some things. He would find them out
some time anyway, if he ever inquires
about me of a mutual acquaintance, and
we have a few. Ho had best hear the
truth from my lips. He can not believe
me quite so hardened. And I must tell
him above all, because it is right he should
know. I must “Be true!” And when I
have sinned I must try to bring a sacri
fice. Heaveu knows it is a sacrifice, for
the thought of what he will thiuk nearly
kills me.
I went about the rest of the day in. a
perfect maze of trouble. ( felt so stunned
by what I had started to do that I rose iu
geology and read a page of “Bataille de?
Dames” which I had fetched to the class
instead of the text-book. I behaved every
where as if berell ol what wit I was bless
ed with. And when I went to Miss Bayne
for the reception room I could hardly
talk. 1 don’t think I should have been
any worse if I had been about to be banged.
But time is relentless, and supper came
and ended, and I brusded my hair and
put on my best dress and started. My
hand gets nervous at the mere remem
brance of the way I felt. It was dread
ful. Ben was there waiting. I knew he
stood by the table and spoke to me, but I
was too frightened to see him distinctly.
My appearance seemed to startle him, for
he fairly shouted out, “What is the matter,
Kitty?” as if I bad gone deaf. I know it
my face betrayed much I must have look
ed stricken. He asked me what I could
possibly mean by my note, and I saw
there was no use putting oil'what must bo
told. So I shut my eyes with a horrible
fneliug of desperation and went straight
into Qie middle of my reasons. Nearly
the first thing I blundered out was bow
sorry I was about Inviting him up in
vacation while my home was so different
from the pleasant place I had led him to
expect. I told him ho had very likely
never visited at such a poor little place
as our house. And I told him I had heard
bis family were aristocratic, but 1 bad de
ceived him ir. saying mine were so. Tho
distinguished people of whom I bad so
often spoken lived in the town indeed
but they never vis'ted ui. My parents
were poor.
He listened, and then asked what mo
tive I had in telling him this.
1 looked up then aud met his blue eyes.
1 could see that every bit of respect for
me was gone. Because it was right he
should know it, I said, and I was as calm
as he then. I did not desire him to believe
himself escorting a girl ot high family
when he might be balf-asbamed to own
my acquaintance, if ho could see how
small our means were.
And why had I deceived him? he asked
again, as indifferently as if my state of
mind were a new aud amusing experience.
I hesitated, but I could not say I did
not know. I told him that I supposed it
was to make him like me. Ihnjoyed his
admiration so much that I bad tried to
increase it by such fictions.
“And how is that rich young man just
back rrom Germany?” he asked, with a
cruel laugh. “I expect he is as visionary
as the rest of this, isn't he?”
“Yes,” I was forced to say. “I am not
engaged to any one at home. Tbero
such a person and he has liked me a little;
but his family is an old one and he would
never think of marrying me.”
He appeared to be reflecting a few min
utes aud then he said be hoped I would
consider myself released, and walked out.
Blood and refuse meat rubbed upon the
trunks of trees will keep away mice and
rabbits.
Chester whites are the favorites in
Pennsylvania; tho farmers ara claiming
that they are better adapted to tbeir sec
tion.'
The best bams are produced by the
Berkshires, bat the Essex is said to give a
greater amount of side meat in propor
tion.
The dead bark from the trunks and lar
ger limbs of trees is best removed during
a thaw. A wash of whale oil or soft soap
applied with a brush gives a smooth,
healthy appearance.
Nest of tho tent caterpillar, fall web-
worm, and other insects that feed aud
nest together, should be carefully removed
from the trees and destroyed.
Lime, wood ashes, and old iron placed
around the roots of declining fruit trees
have a very beneficial effect. These fer
tilizers restore the trees to a healthy con
dition, and also greatly improve tho fruit
iu quality aud quantity.
A clover field is tho place to pasture
hogs. They come up in the fall in good
prime condition for getting hardened id
with corn.
There are three classes of Yorkshhes—
the large, middle, and small. They are
all good, and are long established breeds,
pure white in color.
It is said that corn makes harder fat
than when ground, and meal makes
difference from both. It seems carious,
but hog-raisers affirm it.
The Essex hog is coal black without
any white. The Berkshire is also black,
but has a spot on the forehead aud on the
end of the tail, with white feet.
Young pigs will drink cows’ milk very
soon after they find out where the feed
trough is. It should be supplied to them
in plenty when the litter is large.
If a good brood sow is rightly kept the
pigs from her will more than pay Tor her
keeping by the sale of some over and
above those intended to be kept.
A small, early maturing hog is much
more valuable than a largo one, a3 ut>
more food will be required to raise two
good quick-growing ones than it will for
a large but slow all-lard.
In planting new orchards for profit, se
lect such varieties as are in demand, or if
for family use, such as will give a good
succession from early summer to late win
ter. Order trees for spring planting at
once. Ii trees arrive iu frozen condition,
bury them entire in the earth until spring.
An excellent compost for putting around
the roots of newly-planted fruit trees may
be made as follows: Two loads ol swamp
muck, one load of rotten stable manure,
one barrel of tine bone dust, one barrel of
of air-slacked lime and a barrel of wood
ashes. These may be well mixed in a
Leap and covered with a few Inches of
eartb, and after two weeks turned over
and thoroughly mixed and more eartb
may be added if thought too rich. This
will make a good supply for 100 acres.
Mr. Daniel Bennett of the New Orleans
Picayune, says he never saw better hay
anywhere than that made of crab-grass
this season on the pine land along the rail
road line to St. Louis.
Colonel C. P. Rarasdill, a Virginia lar-
mer, was dangerously wounded recently
by a bull witbhorns, and would have beeu
killed but for the timely interference of a
brave daughter.
A patent has been granted for a plan of
making live hedges by cutting tho roots of
the plants on one side, and tipping them
over at an angle of 45 degrees in tho lino
of the hedge.
A California farmer sows his grain rid
ing In a two horse wagon, driving tho
team and sowing the grain from a box by
bis side, and coveting witli a harrow at
tached to the rear of the wagon.
If a man wants quiet aud amiable cows,
horses or other stock, he should handle
them gently when quite young, and never
tease. The man or boy who does the lat
ter lays up wrath against the day of
wratb.
The opinion has generally prevailed
that a little bran mixed with meal would
produce more pork tban cleat meal, but in
some experiments lately triedit was found
that clear meal made more pork tban a
mixture of bran and meal.
what too small, tban that which is devo
ted to the reckless cultivation of an ex
cessive area. While either extreme is
unwise, it is better to fall below a right
estimate of the possibilities of the availa
ble force with the advantages of thorough
fertilization from the compost beds, and
thorough culture, than to take on so
many acres that both the land and tho
crop are injuriously treated. Proper at
tention to preparation aud cultivation,
will cause one acre to produce perhaps
more than two under less favorable treat
ment. In the former case the farmer is
not only gathering an ample har
vest, but is makiug the land
more valuable intrinsically; in the latter,
labor is strained to its utmost tension,
horses are overworked, and the land itself
impaired by slovenly preparation and cul
ture. The poorest lands, with a clay
foundation, may he permanently enriched
to tho highest degree by the application
of domestic manures for a succession of
years;' aud it is equally true that good
land may he impoverished by its improvi
dent culture. The making, or the de
struction of soil, should be taken into ac
count in all estimates of the results of
farming.
When the agriculturists of the Southern
States awake to the importance of limit
ing the area foi cultivation so that time
may be allowed tor such details as con-
cermthe real improvement of their lands,
they will not only liavo the satisfaction ol
more extensive harvests, hut ot seeiDgthe
real fertility of their fields enhanced.
Then, by reasonable industry, they will
be enabled to keep their farms in condi
tion for present profitable use, and like
wise as productive heritages for their chil
dren. Each farmer must be the judge of
the number ot acres his force can culti
vate well, keeping in view the
work necessary for preparing and apply
ing domestic manures, and for mak
ing such ditches as are required to prevent
the washing away of the soil. It will be
a glorious period for Southern agriculture
when the policy - herein commended is
universally enforced, and wo long for the
coming or that day. If this generation
and the next can not repair the ruin
which was wrought by our fathers, in the
reckless cultivation ol their lands with
slave labor, it is Impossible to stay the
woric of destruction, and preserve and im
prove that which escaped as our heritage.
Let this subject be seriously and wisely
considered, and acted upon, by every
tiller of the soil!—Southern Cultivator.
fly witb^
wine ■
ckv
$13,000 lit HO its EFLESH
Now Quartered at the Park, Catlap
Ike Oat* ot Idleness.
You can find lovorsof fine horseflesh
anywhere. The good old family horse with
clumsy legs and steady gait, upon whose
broad, safe back the children clamber, al
ways bolds a soft, warm place in the affec
tions of the household; but it is your
trim-limbed raoer that commands your ar
dent admiration. Upon his lithe figure
you build a tower of homage. Ashe
springs forward to the race or as he passes
proudly in review, held in check by the
cunning band of the trainer, there is a
majesty iu his steps, a grace in his motion,
that lifts him far above the old family
horse and for the nonce supplants that old
stand-by iu your affections.
Our reporter was thus led into this train
of reflection by a visit to our park, where
are quartered a number of tine raoereupon
whom is lavished a world of care. Horse
men ail the country know of thegreatvalne
of our traok, and in a tew years all the not
ed horses on the turf will come to Macon.
Tho track has a peculiar fitness for young
horses. There are finer tracks for racing
in the conntry,being of harder surface, but
thoy uro death td colts aud tender-legged
horses. Oar track has a soft, springy sur
face, and for training horses cannot be ex
celled in the world. It is, by reason of its
soft surface, about four seconds longer to
tho mile than the hard tracks of the North.
Its famo is traveling fast, and some day we
will see the nobility of horsehood making
Macon winter headquarters.
Tosterday afternoon our reporter visited
the stalls, situated on the right hand aide
of tho track. In the large lot whioh en
closes the stables a frisky young colt was
disporting himself in the 6unahinc, now
nibbling at a pile of straw, now snddeuly
scampering off as if he had just bethought
himself of a good joke and wanted to get
in a quiet corner to enjoy it. He looked
very ordinary, thia colt, but a thousand
dollar bill couldn’t buy him. And be
seemed to be fully oonsoious of the high
estimate his owner plaoed upon him. And
there was a certain brightness of eye, a
ctoar-cutncss of limb, and an elegance of
contour that gave the beholder to under
stand at once that he had good blood iu hie
veins and his pedigree .was chock fall ol
names that marked bright pages in the
stud book. ... ,
One of tho gentlest of the horseB is a
black mcro named Black Cat, and her
keeper says she is not afraid of anything
on earth, and when a lady mounts her back
her gate i3 so even and steady that it is
like riding in ft cradle. There is nothing
strikingly handsome about Black Gat, ex
cept her figure. The color is a dingy
black, and but for the fact thatshe is worth
her weight in dollars, would fail to raise
more than an ordinary exclamation of ad
miration in tho boholoer.
Looking out from a window of one of
the stalls was the head of a horse for whom
her owner refuses ten thousand dollars
every day. This is Mattie Graham, a bay
mare belonging to Mr. J. Batchelor, of
Kentncky. Mattie’s record is 229K» bnt she
can boat that time any day. A single
glance at bor is conclusive that she belongs
to a noblo lino of raoer*. The long body
and spare legs are evidence indisputable.
Tho famous horse, George Wilkes, has
three representative in the stalls. The first
is a bay mare, Rosa Wilkes, whose time is
2:25>4. Shads well known all over the South
ern turf and has a good record. Her sis-
tsr, Bonnie Wilkes, is equally as handsome
and her record is brighter. Her time is
2:40. Aliie Wilkes, is a bay horse,with 2:37
as best time. All these horses are splendid
animals, and are owned by Col. W.F. An
derson, of Macon. They are kept in good
oondition, and are ready for races at any
Adjoining tho stall of the Blaok Cat is
Tom Montague, by Longfellow. His hide
is like a.mirror and his form is perfection.
A sight of him ns ho daintily erunohes his
oats is a rare treat. Being a running hor e,
no record of his time is given. These two
horses are the property of Mr. J. S. Camp
bell, and it would take a pile of money to
buy them.
Mr. Hughes, tho trainer, has some seven
or eight roadsters and a valuable colt, men
tion of which was made n few days ago,
This oolt cost his owner $1,290, and imme
diately after $1,5C0 was offered for him by
a well-known lover of horse flesh of our
City,
Summing up the cost of the sixteen
horses now at tho park, we find that $25,-
000 would not cover tho right figures.
For fifteen or twenty minutes after
breakfast each morning ihe»o horses are
taken ont on the track and given an airing.
They trot four or five miles, and then are
rnbbed down and put away. In the after
noon they are walked about an honr, ara
the rest of tho day they havo to nibble Mia
be looked at. It is worth the while of Ml
who love horses, particularly fine horses, to
go down to the park while the weather is
on it* good behavior and ses these animals.
It is quite unfortunate that no spring
meeting of our jookey olub is given. Bata
prominent horseman said yesterday timt
next spring the races would oome off if no
lived, and we guess he meant it.
The spring races in this country com
mence in Louisville, on May 7th. Then
follows a series of races over the entire
West and North.
WbatlMls Learning.
Mill Arp-
I’ve never seen anybody yet that didn’t
know something that I didn't, and there
is many au old farmer who knows things
that wise meu, like professors in colleges,
don’t. They learn from observation and
experience. Some folks go through a long
life and observe little or nothing, and
most of the boys never stop to think but
ieara all they know from books. Nature
is the next study. Dr. Jtnner was a
close observer. He was the first man to
find out that the cuckoo never builded a
nest but always laid her egg* in other birds’
nests. Do the boys know that when a
horse crops grass he eats hack to him,
but a cow eats outward-from her because
she has no front teeth in her upper jaw
and has to gum it. Do they kn
that some kind of snakes lay eggs and soi
don’t but give birth to tbeir young,
know that a cane gets its full growth
year, whether it is large or
the limb of a tree never gets any jj|ber
from the ground, no matter how kflfh the
tree grows. The hoys have aeejjfiany a
white horse, but did they ever^pa-white
colt? Do they know how cjprue twig is
that bears the peaches, anjJKw old the
vine that lias the grapes jHg on to it ?
Do they know that a hjCnne winds with
the course of the sunffEbut a beau vine
always winds the oijvway? What tim
ber will bear the tmm. weight, what is the
most elastic; whajffffill last longest in wa
ter and what oiJBTf water; what is the
best time to c^Saown trees for tire wood;
how many 1iMfis of oaks can you count up
that grow hMhis region, and what are
they snecTy good for; bow does a bird
noving a leather or flapping a
oes a suake climb a tree or a
Tat is the difference between
and a hog’s track, and how
p. buck shed Us horus and what
of them; which ought to be
t, the throat of a chimney or the
d ought it to be wider at the top
_ 1. Books are a wonderful help,
but a m\ u ought not to be satisfied to go
through life and be always on the borrow
from otlilr people’s braius. He ought to
find out if me things himself, and leave a
little to raslcrity inpayment tor all that
he has leftned from others. I was down
in the piney woods not long ago and saw
thousands of little salamander hills «4png-
side the road, and asked a good maoy
people abont them, but nobody I asked
bad ever seen one or knew anything
about them except one man, and he sala
they were like a large rat with a short
tail and had a pouch or pocket on each
side the neck to carry roots and bugs aud
nuts in. I thought that every boy in
that country would have dug alter
them just for sport, like
we used to dig after a mole or a bum
ble bee’s nest. But there are bigger
things lor boys nowadays, I reckon.
They don’t seem to have near as much
time as we used to—time to play bull pen
and cat and town-ball and shinuy and go
a seining aud ccon hunting and set traps
and coops for partridges and break the
colts and mix up a good deal ox work
with a little study besides. A boy is a
young gentleman about five years sooner
tban he used to be, and 1 think the legis
lature ought to change the law and
set ’em free and let ’em vote at sixteen
instead of twenty-one. Well, they do let
’em work the roads at sixteen, and that is
about the only playing they do generally,
which is all right, I reckon.
IntroducluK » Bill lu the Club Legis
lature.
Sacramento Record Union,
The regular Speaker of the House is a
man of considerable ability and not at all
green in legislative ways. A few days
ago, however, he was obliged to go borne
on account of sickness in bis family, and
a chronic obstructor of business named
Parr was elected speaker pro Um. A bill
was introduced to prevent stock and poul
try from running at large.
Member from Beaver—“Mr. Speaker,I
want to introduce a pound btll.”
The Speaker—“All right. If it’s a good
bill, there won’t be no objection. Pass it
right up.”
The bill was accordingly “passed right
up,” and the Speaker, putting on his
spectacles, read it over very carefully,
the reading occupying about tea min
utes. “All right,” he said, finally. “I
guess it’s a good bill. Mr. Clerk, read it
to the House.” The bill provided
that cattle, horses, goats and poultry
shoula be impounded when caught run
ning loose. Alter the reading the author
did not know what motion to make, and
it was laid down again for awhile, when
some one rose up with, “I move we sus
pend the rules and pass the bill.” At this
the man who had fought the introduction
of rules sprang up with: “You’ve
agreed to have rules, and now
you’ve got to stick to ’em. I
move we don’t suspend a rule.” “Can’t
we suspend part of the rule ?” queried
another. “That is just enough to let the
bill pass, and let the rest stand in case
we needed ’em.” At this there was not
a smile auywhere, and a wrangle began
as to what particular rules it would be
necessary to suspend in order to insure
tbe passage of the bill. As the bill
seemed to be in a fair way to pass, some
one asked how a policeman or a sheriff
could catch poultry, and it was referred to
the judiciary committee to see if such a
law would hold water. The chaplain-
pronounced the benediction and the
House adjourned.
Spital, “toundel in 1197 by Walter
Brune and Koala, bis wife"— at a period
still more remote, the burial place of Ro
man London. On tbe east sido of this
Priory “Iieth a large field,” Stow tells us,
Senator Logan’s brother Cornelius is
anxious to draw a prize in tho shape ol tha
Chilian mission.
PEKSOXAL.
—Father SI)echfiy is inNewOilesns,and
Is being handsomely entertained.
..w., —Congressman Allen, ot Missouri, who
‘of old time called Loleswortb, now ‘i» thought to be dying, is estimated to be wortii
Splttledeld, which about the year 1570 ' 1 '
was broken up for clay to
make brick. In tlie digging
thereof many earthen pots called
urn a;, were found, full of asbes and
burned bones of men, to wit, of tbe Ro
mans that inhabited there; for it was the
custom of the Romans to burn tbeir dead,
" ‘tbeir asbes In au urn, and then
% same with certain ceremonies in
eld appointed for that purpose near
There hath also been found,”
Stow, “in the same field, divers cof-
of stone containing the bones ot men.”
one o£ tlie bouses In Spltal-square
Pope’s iriend, Lord Bolingbroke,
where
8L John’s sell (Greet Dryden’s Iriend before)
With ypen arms received cne poet more.
Each a Blacker Villain Than
the Other.—Daring tbe wild-cat days in
the West a Brooklyn man, who died not
long since, was in business, in a Michigan
town and formed a close friendship with
tbe cashier of one of tbe private banks.
One evening th; cashier admitted that he
was laying plans to rob the bank of all its
funds and skip into Canada, and bis iriend
permitted himself to be drawn into the
plot. They were to skip together
and share alike, and a certain day was
mentioned for the affair to come off. The
Brooklyn man sold out his store at a big
sacrifice and went to Detroit, where the
cashier was t# Join him with tbe stolen
funds. The hour came and the cashier
came, but he bad no sparkle in his eye.
“Busted—busted all to blazes!” he
groaned, in explanation.
“Didn't you get the money 7"
“Not a cent!”
“How’s4hat?”
“Why, tbe president skipped out Sun
day night, the secretary followed him
Monday morning, aud tbe whole board of
directors disappeared tbat night. On
Tuesday morning there wasn’t au infer
nal dollar bill left to steal!”
•‘There wasn’t?”
“Not a one! Just think of the mean
ness of the whole board Jumping in and
stealing the cashier blind as a bat! Where
will human meanness end ?”
—Gen. RoseDcrans denies tbat part of
Blaine's eulogy In regard to troublo in tha
Army of the Cumberland.
—Professor Proctor denies that he ever
predicted the end of the world by reason of a
comet's contact with the sun.
—Major Ben i’erley Poore has com
pleted hts “Life of General Burnside," which
will bo published iu Providence.
—Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has said
that ho intended to koep Maud S. is private Ufa
until her record ot £10)£ Is beaten.
—It is now claimed tbat Daniel Draw-
baugh, an obscure artisan of Eberly’s Mills,
Pa., Is the inventor of the telephone.
—Mr. Saulsbury gives signs of a refusal
return to tho Senate from Delaware at the
close of his present, and second, term.
•Tho Prince of Wales dances deux
temps because he can’t dance anything else,
and all Great Britain Is trying to dance deux
temps.
—Don Oarlos has written to Senor No-
cedal, his representative In Madrid, that he
docs not intend to go to Borne, as he docs not
wish to cause the Pope any inconvenience.
—The Rev. A. H. Knight, pastor of tha
colored Methodist churrh at Mitchell, Ind., has
been suspended. Ills wifo found poison in her
tea. and her husband Is accused of putting It
there.
—In 1844 “Long John” Wentworth
published In tho Chicago Democrat the tenets
of the XauYuo Mormons' faith, and there waa
nothing in them recognizlngor countenancing
polygamy.
—Ex-President Woolsey, of Yalo Col
lege, has been presented by sixty professor*
w tli a gold medal In recognition of faithful
sendees for half a century. Hols nowin his
eightieth year.
—General Grant will go to bis .cottage
at Long Branch early in June, and hi* presence
there, tho hotel keepers think, can be diplo
matically utilized for one of the magnetic ma
tures of the season.
Wbat Gnltenn RstCMag.
Wilming'on (S. CJStar.
It la. to bo remarked that the mills of the
Stalwarts grind slowly, but they grind awfully
sure. *
A MAC OX BOX
Write* Bom* Good Words Aboot HI*
Boyhood’s Homo.
Mr. John T. Waterman, whose boyhood
days were spect in Macon, has these kind
words for us in the last issue of the Athens
Banner. Tbe rrtiele was prompted by the
perusal of our interview with Mr. Henry
Horne the other day
Thera is no paper that we read with more
interest than the Maoon Tcleohzpb akd
Mxssexoeb, and there is no city whose
progress we watch with closer ntU ntion or
more gratification than tbe beautiful Cen
tral City of Georgia. This is partly due to
tbe fact that for maoy years Maoon was
oar home. Here the haloyon days of onr
childhood and yonth were spent—perhaps
tbe happiest period of life.
But there is another reason and that is
that Msoon’s progress upward in financial
prosperity ami commercial importanoe is
such aa cannot fail to he gratifying to ail
who know the splendid old city and it*
cbaractoristius. With a steady, step, she
marohes onward. Without tbe rapid growth
which some cities have attained, ortho
self-assertion of others, she has taken on
growth as rapidly as is compatible with a
truly healthy condition; and she has never
taken a step backward. Unpretentious,
yet deserving, srodest, bold in genuine
progress, Macon maintains a queenly posi
tion among Southern oitie3, and is the
worthy home of some of the best people
that ever breathed the air of heaven.
We rejoice from day to day to note in the
columns of the Tslxobapb and Mksskxoeb
the steady, increasing advancement of our
old home. What it has done in the past
seems but a foreshadowing of what it will
do in the future. Macon will never have
more good fortune than it deserves.
Conkling Given « Lift, Anyhow.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
If the President has not succeeded In captur
ing Oaakling for tho Supremo Court he hasat
least given his law business a boom.
Vhio in tho Shads.
Atlanta Constitution.
Tlie fact that whale* are caught browsing off
the Georgia coast shows wliat a prosperous
and progressive Stale wo havo. For Instance,
no whales are ever caught on the coast ol Ohio.
Happy Family.
. Maltimore Gazette.
If Grant aud Blaine, Carl Schurzand Chap
lain Newman, Conkling and anybody, can be
reconciled In harmonious union, then all hu
man experience Is at fault and not worth much
in estimating coming events.
Neat Bat Not Gandy.
Detroit Poet.
The London Telegraph considers the execu
tion of Gulteau as "a forfeit too insigiiiflc-ant
for the loss of such a man a* George Garfield."
The Telegraph apparently looks upon George
Garfield and James A. iv'asliiufton as two of
our best men.
Fewer Acre*—Belter Cnltitation.
In tho presence of wiser methods of
culture than those which were common
under the regime of slavery, the habit of
attempting to cultivate too many acres
stills prevails to a great extent. Those
who have abandoned it are experiencing
the benefits of this feature of reform, and
we hope the day is not distant when tho3e
who yet cling to tho practice will discover
its folly.
It should be the policy of every one to
adjust the number of acres to the availa
ble force of tho farm, so that, by reason*-
ble industry, the whole may he culti
vated well. This will certainly result,
relatively, in larger and more excellent
products, than a greater area Imperfectly
cultivated.
There is something more to be done
tban the mere planting, plowing and hoe
ing oi the crop, in order to successful ag
riculture. Tho preparation of the land
by ditching, breaking up, and fertilizing,
is not only essential, but should be pro
vided for in the calculation ot the work of
each year. Tho farmer who collects the
materials and makes the composts for his
own fields, is not only rendored secure
against tbe possible frauds of the vendeis
of fertilizers, bnt adds to his soil tbat
which is enduring in its influence and sat
isfying in iu results. When an acreage
which requires tbe constant work of all
available labor, for cultivation and har
vesting, is set apart for the year, the very
essential items bf making and applying
home manures is sure to be overlooked.
Tbe common practice of paying high
prices for commercial fertilizers oruncer
tain character, and sprinkling them in
hills or rows, is by no means an equiva
lent for the use of domestic manures. One
stimulates for a season—the other be- ■
comes a real addition to tbe soil. $1,500 P« yesrean be easily made a.
Time spent in the actual and perma- home working for E. G. Rideout « go.,
nent improvement of the land is more 110 Barclay street, New York, bind lor
»wisely spent, even with an acreage some- 1 tbeir catalogue and full jArticu an.
Rpltal Sqaara.
Eilgravla.
Further eastward, but still only a step
from the commercial din ot Bishopgate-
street Without,
Where Spitalflcld with real India vies,”
are to be found some sombre-looking red
brick bouses, built about tbe time of the
early Georges. This place is called Spital-
square, but how it came to be christened
so it is difflcnlt to imagine. Two streets
meet at right angles, and In a corner of
one of these streets there is a garden.
We suspect this garden of having seen bet
ter days. It looks as though it had been
put into that corner in disgrace, ont
of a more dignified position in the center
of the square, which at some period it
possibly occupied. In size it is modest,
and if the two overgrown ahrubs and the
dwarf tree did not Happen to be on
friendly terms, entwining their branches
like an embrace, they would have killed
each other long ago. All day long—we
cannot answer for the night—an elderly
gentleman walks up and down. There is
an expression of great responsibility on
hit face. Is he the custodian of the gar
den, or of the square, or of both? He
limits his patrol to the space in front
of the garden railings. But from this
poiut be commands a view of the entrance
to the “square,” which is fiercely guarded
by posts with iron spikes. Sometimes he
grows thoughtful, when be stops and leans
upon bis stick. He has somewhat the ap-
pearauc^ of % Cbtlset pentioner, In his
long coat and electro-plated buttons. Per-
baps this is his native place; and this
garden is the one green spot in Spital-
lelds which remains to remind him of
hit youth. Two centuries back presents
this tqusre as an open plot of ground,
with a pulpit standmg in the north
east corner, and near to it a
bouse for the accommodation of the
Lord Mayor and corporation during the
preaching of tbe Spital sermons. At a
more remote time an open area, part of
tbe burial-ground immediately adjacent
. . * . T»_l J e-f VI fr
MAC OX COMMBBCMAL COLLEGE.
Several Be*aon* For Locating It at
Bacon.
Professor McKay in seeking a point for
the looation of an institution of high
grade, came to the conclusion that Macon
was the moat suitable looation for the col
lege because it is the “Central City,” and
one of the healthiest in the State, having
easy railroad and other communication
with all parts of this and neighboring
States. It is rapidly growing in popula
tion, wealth and commercial importance,
and presents attractions to the business
men of the State and elsewhere aa offering
most desirable openings for investment;
thus creating employment for young meu,
to which gradnation in this college is an
important introduction.
Besides this, it is unquestionably tbe ed
ucational centra of Georgia. Its universi
ty, male and female colleges, public and
private schools, with this commercial and
business institute, cover all the area of
classical, intellectual, mathematical, artis
tic and commercial training, and give this
city unqualified rank among the foremost
and most privileged communities in tbe
country. The social advantages to be
gained in a refined and cultivated com
munity liko Macon are an important con
sideration in selecting a place of education
for young men.
Again Prof. McKay presents the follow^
lowing practical view of his understanding:
We differ from the usual mode of conduct
ing business colleges and institutes, in that
we attach little or no value to the practice
of devoting a considerable portion of time
to so-called “Actual Business” exchangee
and fanoy imitation markets. Wo regard
all such arrangements as suitable only for
the play-ground, and a useless waste of
time whioh oonld be more profitably em
ployed in hard study at tbe desk.
As we would not exi>ect to advance tlie
practical training of a builder by exercis
ing him with a box of toy bricks, so we
oould not hope to educate a merchant or
banker by any such means as ticketed
swatches of cloth, or flash currency. This
class of knowledge can only be acquired in
aotual and not in artilici il business, as the
sense of personal respoati lility and the
conviction that serious results must follow
what we do, are the only safe influences to
regulate and balance the judgment and
furnish tho menial and moral discipline
neoessary for training a reliable man of
business.
Gordon S«wi.
Goboon, March L—Dr. H. W. Bridger,
who has been attending leotnres at the At
lanta medical oolege, has returned to ns a
full-fledged physician.
Tbe sad news came yesterday that Ham'
ilton McCook, Jr., a railroad employe,
whose family resides near here, had the
misfortune to get his foot crashed by the
train. Ihe kind-hearted superintendent,
Mr. Rogers, sent a ticket up,- with the re
quest that Hamilton’s mother oome im
mediately. Sickness prevented, and his
father left for Savannah last night. At
last aooounts the injured foot had been am
putatedaud the young man was speeoh-
less..
A negro woman died suddenly last night
in the neighborhood of the car shed.
The regular passenger ooach on the Mil'
ledgevilie road has undergone repairs, and
this morning it came out as bright as a
new dollar. Without exception, a cleverer
set of men rever ran a train thau this road
has in its employ.
Miss Mamie Smith, who has been siok
to the Priory and Hospital of St. Mary’s several days, is recovering
H.
She Meanest no* T«l.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Gnltean'g stock In trade Is his autograph.
Selling these autographs Is his only way of
making money whereby to save bis nock.
In that autograph he has a sacred right
of property which JshouUl not be violated. A
man from Toronto, grudging the poor wretch a
paltry two dollars, its price, wrote to him,
proffering aid and asking it it would be accept
able. To this Guitcau replied tn a letter, to
which he, of course, signed his nam*. The
happy possessor of tho autograph paid fora
stamp and tho troubleof writing* letter, ts now
congratulated on hts shrewd device. The To
ronto man must be an emigrant Connecticut
peddler of the old school.
How I* Tblf. Colonel T
Griffin Xetes.
Hvcktos. O.. February 2i, 1882.
Editor Xeue: Will you please tell me why
theta are so. many more “Colonels” in the
South than In the North, while the proportion
ol troops in the latter section was much larger?
anxious uquiaxB.
Oh, yes! Nothing easier. The number of
colonels in each section is really about the
same, only down here they are more conspicu
ous. You see, Sherman's army shelled this
country, thus leaving the kernels exposed. Any
further information in regard to climate and
soil will be chocrfully furnished.
There are 254 entries for the St. Louis
races.
Terrapin sell for as much as $00 a
dozen tn New York.
“Opera houses” are going up in most
ot the Colorado towns.
Florists have put up the price of sun
flowers from SO to 81.50 each.
A New York man bought $10,500
worth ot land at Tampa, Florida, the whelo
sum to be paid in whisky.
The Bible has been translated into 226
languages and dialects, and in the last eight
yean 110,000,000 copies have been circulated.
It is proposed that the government shall
devote S25.000 to the erection. In the principal
cities of the country, of.time-balls, which shall
be lowered at 12, meridian, every day.
Quite a bobbery was kicked up in the
Connecticut Legislature by the Introduction of
a bill permitting school committees tn order
instruction upon the effect of intoxicating bev
erages.
In Canada last year 2.400,000 letters
were registered. Ninety-three of these letter*
were reported to bo lost or tampered with, but
all but one of them were rccov. M l or accounted
for. This comes close upon a perfect postal
record.
Texas is a progressive Slate, aud while
San Antonio Is suffering from a lack of hotel
accommodation, Austin is talking of convert
ing one of the largest hotels into a temporary
sutchousc.
Sin inmates of a house of ill-fame in
Providence. R. I., were Saturday poisoned by
arsenic put Into the coffee by the housekeeper,
Dora Avery or Iligbce, who has escaped. Mrs.
Turner, the keeper of the house, and one of tho
girls remain in a dangerous condition. Tho
other cases are more hopeluL
At last the final report of the commis
sioners o! the Farts Exhibition of 1878 Is pre
sented, and the French government ts shown
a very prcUy little bill to foot In almost every
item the expenses were more and the receipts
less than the estimates, and the totals are. re
spectively, 55,752,000 and 24,350,000 francs, leav
ing a deficit of 31,425,000 francs, where but a
third of tbat sum was expected.
—Hoiston, on the extension, is to be the
great country resort for a number of our
maiues* meu and working people Already
Sots are being bargained lor, and the pros
pect is that quite a nice little settlement
will soon spring up, whioh will eventually
levelop into a town. When tbe new rood
•a completed an accommodation or
'goober” train will inn twice a day for the
convenience of these out-of-town residents.
They will oome into work early and go
home at aix o'clock in the evening,
in conversation with a gentleman who
live* near Hoiston, he told ns that lots
could be bought for about fifty dollars an
acre, and cheap cottages could be put up
out there for about fifty dollars a room,
rhe working man, at these figures, will be
able to boy a lot, and his home will cost
him bnt little. We rather like this soontry^
life idea, and will probably Rive,«fter a
while, oome actual figures of living in
liotatoa and doing businera in town.
—Messrs. T. J. Caret*rphen & Co. offer a
large assortment of heavy groceries for
sale cheap in another column. These gen
tlemen buy their goods in large quantities,
and hence are enabled lo give their qnatona-
ers inside figures ou any good* in tbeir
tine. They are oonttddht of tbeir ability in
meet competition and only aak a trial, *
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