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About Upson enterprise. (Thomaston, Ga.) 1878-1879 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1878)
THE UFSON ENTERPRISE a different impres- THOMASTON GA. ELAT _ - APRIL 28, 1878. eight inches on either side of the hill. |idly, and conveans Cover very lightly with a harrow sion to all the organs with two teeth Fet about ten inches it v apart. The cotton s butshould from what it does at other times of the body, as IE JE IVA CP • Z. ,, OLD STAND, on the North side of the public I have moved back to gOLD. all my friends and patrons. 1 For this reason, every good hearty square, where I ah:X WELI FIECIED STOCK, laugh in which a person indulges, I ARGE AND WELL ELECTED ■ tends tolengthen his life, conveying as LAHUE AN 1 make 91 " ' - ** 1 , sold 1 have no war to make ohi s LOW as they can be sect. * but have only to say that -visits them on that particular, my tie journey when the man is laughis not be rotted. . 1.:.. I never hurry in first ploughing preferring that th I to laud as it does, new and distinct stimulus to E sufficient eight and stalk ploughing the vital forces. Doubtless the time hat I am offering a . much dip as psic with a small, and will come when physicians, conceding anyone's stock or price ION UJFon Urs Ekin CO II X TRIEDOe mu upon thi- middle kisalari No in Might tal forces of the body, will take their won lite as well all more eco- remeriptions no w he i Homieals win K TV or More Body I and will, in so dI*E: firx tle planuie last ploughing - are done dicing the required effect upon the| entirely with the sweep and very light patient. . __ . The object being to stir the land lightly is dependent, in the cotton States at | on top, and keep down the weeds and | THE GUINEA FOWL, least, subsist almost entirely upon grass, but not to break the roots of the : This species of poultry is poorly ap- corn and the fodder produced fiom €Fa. . ,, mthe predated, but in our judget at is to: it. . 41 1,2 it this Plant peas immediately after thelthe pealtry yard what the cow pea is Upon every farm throughout this sceend ploughing and always in the| tothe plantation crops, cheap, produc- broad land, are wives and chidtocmiddle of the row, opening with a five and profitable. Cheap because hired laborers and their families, shotel plough, which makes the fin- five a roam far and wide, and thus faithful dumb brutes, pigs and poul-:ishisgfurrow of the second plough- they themselves and require no care, try, all looking to, having a right to ing. - Drop from eight to twelve peas Lev are comparatively wild, very supply of corn. What wonders ji Thebea crop Iconsido r the cheapert wait by varmints”in day time or that we hear the complaint of hard : crop grown on the farm, and if plant- caught - Th fact, they are the best times, and see the deepanxiety seated :ed as above described, no failure need tight c dogs, for if an owl or upon the faces of those who are only be apprehended. . . kind, airmint" or a Lutnant thief able to furnished corn to the m, and : Much more of details might be giv- other about at night the guineas are grown by others, in sparseto-scanty en, but if you will prepare your land com first to know the fact and are sure supply. In the charity of any cnt thoroughly and plant—yes, be sure to the Isreal alarm. Their yield of I can but exclaim, God pity them, uplant enough of it—and cultivate ac- to Pie Ishing one hen will lay such will be their fate until 1 Iom their : cording to directions, though few and cops is listen is 0 hundred in a aseason : - a. son their cribs are fitted hurriedly given, you will have no to dozen hens would furnish a small cause to complain of hard times for ITRIIN in meat- Their flesh is good then and not until then, will your cribs. To Upon the whole, there is prob- be tilled with corn—Extracts from ably more money in a guinea than Essay by Col. A.J. Lane, before 351 D other fowl Co.Agi Society, in Macon Telegraph. : any other Tow - Gentleman of the Bibb County As- sociation :—In obediance to your TO quest, I have the pleasure of present ing for your consideration the fol lowing hastily prepared essay: , Indian corn is a native of 041. timent, and since the advent of the white man in America, has been eul tivated as a good crop, not only all constituting the principal food, for er man, but the animals upon which man 11 own production their cribs a1 with corn. Addressing myself to you as South- ern farmers, cotton raisers, men Wh‘ try to make cotton profitable, W ho depend upon it almost exclusively as their money crop, I would say to a such that your financial troubles arise more from this one fact from all oh- ers, because your cribs have not been filled with corn. . ., 47. We have most of thetime since the war realized fine prices for cotton. - -.; ranging from 45 cents per pound ble article down to the present low standard. We have in this county, at least, made good average crops, and yet are not excluded from the distressed class, all- luded to. Again I ask, why is this? Speaking to you and other cotton planters, were I called upon to say watchman, what of the night?" Do LCII LED ‘‘11. 44 * empt from the large class at whose door the wolf is standing : I w ould. my friends placing all the stress em- phasis possible upon my words, tell you it is because your cribs have not WITH ANYONE I KEEP This space belongs to Tobacco, Snuff, Tin-ware, Hard-ware, Etc. And a FreafmarnolNF RODNDAL IsumiHELOWE Re 4 full of LIVERPOOL SALT, 400 17 STOCK of . STTSTI WHISKIES, BRANDIES, W INE, VY LLNS9 GENERAL MERCHANDISE THOMASTON, GEORGIA. I have in this DEPARTMENT, some LIQUORS that the WORLD Mar GIVE ME A TRIAL and you STALL BE PLEASED. mch6-tf NORTH SIDE PUPLIC SQUARE, It seems to be the general misfort- une of mankind not to be content with what they have. If all would tudv to make the most of their situa- me and not be grasping at what is Old Peach and Cognac Brandies; Ancientivou C - -| 1, they might 40 - Whiskies; Catawba, Muscat and Sherry wines attain to that enviable Ipositionthat cri: bemides numerous other such leverages Sttrisiinu plied, and so much better than stable InCArce Stater am, therewith to mythological gods of yore, together with ny TIRK XC4, while visitors can manure, and so little trouble to pro- in whatever state ‘|ern times. Also a fine and varied line of Totaccosle a Billiards on a new and ele- cure- Aride to tow to the depot. The Christian, above all other S PICC UIG FREE OR CIARGE CIS) THOS. L. ADANS, Agent, and the simple signing f c should atall times strive to cultivate grant Carom to a slip of paper W ill be the meats this virtue, learn to love what is sim- of obtaining for you all you may de- 11 and beautiful, and try to and sire. Stable manure and cotton seed DCa—what to the well-being of are too bulky and require so much la- saniind If riches flow in upon| bor to apply, that by many their use mat In thankful, but do not think that| is utterly ignored, and the fashionable rcdor and affluence bring peace! cheap valuable and concentrated gh-sinsuict These are gifts from and has taken the place of these old nca vol and can be had for the asking fashioned manures. , 1 whether rich or poor; but if you| Plant largely of cotton. It sounds wtistle rich, be sure that it be justly| big to talk about your cropof cotton.l1 DUE for remember that one unjust serves to make you interested in theleotIoLIC Plant plenty of cotton, of course: it always brings the money, and with it you will be enabled to pay for four guano—that valuable and indispensi- without which it would non, reach be verv foolish for any man to try to not within their .reuch make a crop. It is more cast lie the Apostle spoke of, “I have learned and LAGEE BEER: THOMASTON, --- where can be found such LIVING WATERS its GEORGIA, FINDLAY IRON WORKS 01a Peach and Cognac Brandies; Ancient Red and Pale Rye Old Peach and coelo 44 C327 Lines DEALER IN been filled with corn. . 1:1 1 Suppose that the planters in Bibb county had now the money that has since the war been paid for corn, and :002 ,~- - ----- • . # CIPy this same inquiry throughout money market and the price of the the cotton States, would you or they staple both in this country and in Eu- Tco cause to complain of hard : rope. It seems to quicken the per- TIEN 2 ‘Would the remonetizing of :ceptive faculties and cause you to cal- silver affect you 2 I think nof. | culate how muel 1 guano you can buy Il.llanefit is it to have a few sil- for so much cotton, for by many this is the purpose forwhich it is raised5 or, if not, it is the only purpose to which the money received for it can What benefit is it to have a few sil-| ver dollars given you for cotton, when before you can jingle them twice, your hand must be placed deep down in your pocket and the bot- tom dollar extracted te pay for W es- tern corn ? Is tne picture overdrawn: And am I not justified and don’t I speak truthfully when I say with you cotton planters, nearly all your ills, financially speaking, are caused from the fact that your cribs have not b-en allied with corn? , 1 1 Did you ever, my friends, through- out your whole acquaintance, before or since the war, know a farmer W ho has made money whose cribs were not filled with corn? Have you ever known a farmer, unless overtaken by disasters other than those incident to planting, who ever complained Plant largely of cotton and neglect your corn crop, because if you make cotton you can purchase corn (on a credit, and meat, too), but if you raise corn and a plenty of it, you will have fat horses, fat cattle, fat hogs, and money in hand, and then you will be deprived of the exquisite pleasure of asking for credit, and being some- times refused. Thisluxury will have penny will eat up ten just ones. Far better contented poor. It matters but little what the outside people say about you so long as you carry a clear conscience. But what would you think of yourself should you .1| wrong thing? You can shut out oth- er people’s talk, but you cannot shut out your own thoughts. In his life we are often mistinderstood, micjugd-| ed, but but we have an Elder Broth-| er who has promised to carry all our| burdens. Take them all to him and, e to be dispensed with. And you do not desiae this—of course not, for it is| such a delightful feeling to owe your factors, to be indebted to your mer- .chants, to know that almost every man you meet has your note in his pocket, past due, and to be button-holed and dunned a dozen times a day ; it adds so of hard times and scarcity of money, whose cribs were filled with corn? If you find a farmer who thinks-- well of himself, as a good husband, soothing to your nerves, so tranquil- kind father, and who loves hi neigh- zing to your whole system gives you bors are not his cribs always filled such an excellent appetite, and pro- duces such quiet and refreshing slum- that you cannot afford to dis- Imuch to a mans popularity; it is so content to leave them there THOMASTON, GEORGIA. : O : you IAS on hand and to arrive a LARGE and WELL ASSORTED STOCK ac a of MERCHANDISE, suited to the wants of the trade—consisting of Danta Chong InndOT Major Gen. Phil. Sheridan issued HAIIWA for half a million dollars—being the 3aDHUUD, MOIUT ul plunder of a Louisiana plantation. 200L) MS88y 800° stock and crops, which he is charged with having seized and converted to his own use, during the late unpleas- antness. Phil, per contra, says the bill is exhorbitant; and, besides, he was doing that stealing on behalf of the United States Government, and Also: GROCERIES atities to suit and at Me • - not on his own account CORN, NEAL, FLOUR, WHEAT BRAN with corn?.., If a neighbor invitetes to his house, ber don't you somhow feel that he would pense with it. rather you would stay at home 01 come on foot, unless his cribs are 2, filled with corn ? to be your duty to yourself, to your| Have you known any man to sell family, ant to your friends, to owe! out and quit farming to emigrate, and to do this, plant plenty of cotton,| since the war, whos cribs were filled for it wil1 be sure to keep you in debt, with corn? and if this will make you contented. When you hear the oft-repeated : you will be happy indeed. You can, expression from a farmer that he can't in your leisure moments, sympathize thine 16s negroes steal them and with your neighbor who hasa smoke-| they die with cholera—don't you Being in debt is such a glorious feeling, so conducive to |health and happiness, that you feel it A cheap and wholesome article of! vinegar may be made of water, mo-! lasses and yeast, say twenty-five gal- lons of water, four of molasses, and| one of yeast. This when it ferments,| will yield good vinegar. A fair im- station of white wine vinegar may be! made of mashed raisins and water kept in a warm place for a month. Hon. Montgomery Blair is at Wash- ington urging his meastire for ousting Hayes from the Presidency. He is confident as to his final success. house full of bacon, of his own rais know it is becatise his cribs are not ing:a corn crib well filled with large cars of the golden grain, who has When you see poor mules, poor : plenty of money and is troubled about horses and no hogs, don't you know seeking a safe and secure investment i poor man, and |for his surplus. Go and see him, you because can relieve him of his troubles your filled with corn? that they belong to the reason of his poverty i his cribs are not filled with corn? plantation lies adjoining his, and a BACON, LARD, SUGAR, COFFEL, SOAPS 8) STARCH, TOBACCO, CIGARS AND SNUFF TORVEN Lows. Call to eke me to the Buck DEEDING Fontina trot Court-house and examine my stock and prices before buy ing. En Southern Depot Pennsylvania Agricultural Works :O: We are receiving constantly large lots of CONFECTIONERIES, sues as APPLES, ORANGES, RAISENS Manufacturer of and dealer in Plows and Plow Stocks, Single-trees, Turnshovels, Scooters, Bull Tongues, Harrows, Corn Shellers, Did you ever know or hear of a friend assist him 111 investing 118 farmer whose smoke house was filled money by borrowing it, and give him with bacon whose whose cribs were a mortgage on your place. W hat a not filled with corn? I satisfaction this will be to you, to Should an ox know his owner or know you have done your neighbor. an ass any master's crib which is not good, and to know that in a few years OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, and other filled with corn? he will have control of all your prem- good things. We are prepared to fill all But I W ill proceed to give you, very ises, and you be relieved entirely from orders for PARTiEs, Also, splendid briefly the plan of cultivation prac- | the caresand responsibilities of own- |line of treed by myself, which I understand ership. What a joke it will be to tell to have been mainly the object of you have succeeded in making your your resolution. neighbor with his corn and his meat In the cultivation of corn a general pay the taxes now, formerly paid by modus operandi can be given that you. But then he deserves to be pun- will be applicable to every section; ished in this way, because he never but I have found it to do well on was much of a planter; he only made the lands I cultivate, which are com- a few bales of cotton, and was hardly : monly known as mulatto pine lands, known out of his district ; but you are with a good clay subsoil. Icultivate a big planter—you make your hun- about eqtial quantities in corn and dred bags, and are known j! Savani- cotton, and about fifty acres to the nah as a gentlemen who is always mule The fields are accurately sur- in debt, whose cotton crop never real- rered and so mapped out that the ac-izes a sufficient amount to pay your tual acres are known. I expenses for the current year. This I commence ploughing the 1st of is your reputation; do you enjoy it. January, breaking all the land both If you do, plant largely of cotton. It for corn and cotton, broadcast, with you do not like the picture, change $ the your course, and try to live at home; the only make your plantation self-sustaining; to acpun. 102 . ... plant corn, raise meat, and let your always bedded before plant- cotton crop be restricted to a surplus -. only' first raising everything else you BRAZIL NUTS, ALMONDS, Etc. WAGONS AND BUGGIES, HORS CROCKERY just received, at the lowest prices. General Merchandise consisting of STAPLE AND FANCY a two-horse plough as deep as mules can pull it-this being limit as to depth. For cotton the 1 1 or "fall" of thread, 614 inches, and For either Horse or Iland Pow :1 itch 0 FT VETOU NDS, requiring only packs: a bale in two to three minutes, in T FIXDLA Y WROUGHT IRON two to fourhands, or one light tie:one Dover. SUGAR MILLS, SCREW PRESS, for hand, horse, water or stidube. Composition Box- 12-15-18 inch diameter, turned, yers ion rd Very shallow and large es. SYRUP K FETTLES, From Sto ISA and GRIST MILLS, GIN Evaporating Surface, STAM EN Description of CASTINGS and STACINERE TO ORDERS Workmanship and Material unsurpassed and FINDLA y IRON FORKS, Macon, Ga. D POWERS, CARRIAGES, Buggies and STEAM ENGINES, de,, &0c., &ce. AGRICUTURAL HARDWARE GENERALLY. FARMER'S FRIEND AND REEsE PLOWs mchl2-ly THE OLD RELIABLE yer ITachine STILL LEADS TILE VAN. Although these Machines have been reduced one-half in price, the Harness, &c., &c Manufacturers and Dealers in SADDLES, A7, Baby Carriages, Whips, Valises Sole, Upper & Harness Leathr FRENCH AND AMERICAN CALF SKINS, Lace Leather Shoe and Harness Findings. MACON: GEORGIA Bar Repositories, 206 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Macon, Ga. We have also for sate the IME ROVI and 98 Cherry mc Street, of all kinds. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS, At its Highest Standard. land is - ing, but the corn land is never bed- ded, except in bottom land. I have a little land, which which is first broken broadcast and then bedded. I usally commence planting about own master the 15th sometimes as late as the 20th... ,. of March, and never plant any land the slave of the cotton factor and the that has not just been thoroughly commission merchant. Take advice broken. In the preparation lies the while there is yet time; profit by the great secret of success in making corn. | admonition before it 1s too late, and When ready to plant, my rows are plant more corn, run first with a large scooter or small shovel, six feet wide, and in very thin BENEFIT OF LAUGHING land seven feet, following in the same ThtbiaPillem of Health » furrow with a large shovel porch Greene says that there is not th made forthe purpose, and to this motest corner or the little inlet of the| plough I work two mules.On all minute blood-vessels of the human upland, my corn is dropped three foot body that does not feel some wavelet it and after wards thine to one from Ie conlion STICmietCE stalk. On bottom land the rows are good hearty laughter. The Ite DIE mid off fir feet on laic TRC |iwueost dels ACaingew tides eighteen richer the land the more vice versa. Manure with cotton seed. need in preference to the snowy sta- When you do this, then a change will come; you will soon be your ple. and not be as you are now, and as you have been for year Take advice| a handfull to the hill, dropped in furTOW Mith the corn TOBACCO, SNUFF, CIGARS. Remember our celebrated LUCY HINTON TOBACCO. PLAIN TABLE, COVERED OIL, DROP LEAE COVER, FOLDED TOP, 40 Cash, 45 Cash, 50 Cash 50 on time. 55 on time. 60 on time. Foamer price $75 Former prices Former prices Former price 80 85 F ALL KINDS NWe are determined to sell goods as CHEAP as any body. You will al- ways find LOUISand STERLING at their post ready to wait on their customers with Dr. promptness and dispatch. Give us a .N. Pritchard & Bro mch6-ly MRS. MAGGIE BEALL, THOMASTON, GA., Fashionable Dress-Maker. The innermost depth stalks, and of life and strength to the surface, thus cu materially tending to ensure good Gents clothing made and rebaired on the health to the persons who indulge the most reasonable terms. Public pat- and from six to therein. The blood moves more rap- ronage solicited. meho-tf And all other genuine Singea Machines at equally reduced rates. The public are cautioned against buying imitation maceines, as they are of an inferior make; all CnutOTs Singer Machines are sold through authorized agentt and bear the trade-wark and lathe of The Singer Manufacturing Company on the arm. “Be ye not deceived by Mushrooms that rise with the Sun and die 88 it sinks in the far distant W est. +, We keep a first class mechanic and are always prepared to resair our machines at a Ver Small COST. K WE CHARGE NOTHING FOE: ADJUSTING.LEU Order your oil and n edies from an authorized agent if you wish a good genuine ar- ticle, and cheaper than any other. We take pleasure in answering letters, and will send price list on application- . == 1. -- DSIAN ONER LOI a COTTON SAVED IS MONEY MADE: sa Cotton Option Fifteen Cents and Freight included. mch6-2m THOS. MI 80 Mulberry street. WATCHES, CLOCKS WILLIAM GUILFORD, Hr X. B.= The Company will not be responsible for the private debts of their cents, such as board, livery stable bills, &c. meh19,-6m business you can engage in. 1 $5 to $20 per day made bv AAt any worker of eithe Particulars and samples worth $5 free. Im prove your spare time at this business Address STINSON & Co., Portland, Maine ownto wh. $5 Out 000 fit free. No risk. Reader, if you want a business at which persons eithe r sex can make great pay all the me they w.k, w rite for particulars to H.1 HALLGEP J Portland , Maine." ly AVING returned to Thomaston, I would respectfully inform the eiti-i AES of Thomaston and vicinity that I am. prepared to do all work in my line in the 1 best manner and at reasonable prices.-! Office, West side of Public Square.: mch5-6m JOHN M, LUNQUEST. Will always be found at his And ready to attend the warei
