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©he gerald and ^drertiser. Newnan, Ga.. Friday, March 2,1888. bill nye on his travels. He Meets a Hard-Fisted Fanner on a Railway Train- On board a Western train the other day I held in my bosom for over seven ty-five miles the elbow of a large man whose name I do not know. He was not a railroad hog, or I would have re lented it. He was built wide and he couldn’t help it, so I forgave him. - He had a large, gentle, kindly eye, and when he desired to spit he went to the car door, opened it and decorated the entire outside of the train, forget ting that our speed would help to give scope to his remarks.. Naturally, as he sat there by my side, holding on tightly to his ticket and evi dently afraid that the conductor would forget to come and get it, I began to figure out in my mind what might be his business. He had pounded one thumb so that the nvil was black where the blood had settled under it. Tins might happen to a shoemaker, a carpen ter, a blacksmith, or most any one else. Sb it didn’t help me out much, though it looked to me as though it might have been done by trying to drive a fence-nail through a leather hinge with the back of an nxe, and nobody but a farmer would try to do that. Follow ing up the clue, I discovered that he had milk on his boots, and then I knew T was right. The man who milks be fore daylight, in a barn, when the ther mometer is down to 28 degrees below, and who hits his boot and misses the pail, by reason of the cold and tke un certain light and the prudishness of the cow, is a marked man. He cannot con ceal the fact that he is a farmer unless he removes that badge. So I started out on that theory and remarked that this would pass for a pretty hard win ter on stock. The thought was not original with me, for I have heard it expressed by others either in this country or Europe. He said it would. “My cattle has gone through a mow ful o’ hay sence October and eleven ton o’ brand. Hay don’t seem to have the goodness to it thet it lied last year, and with their new pro-cess griss mills they jerk all the juice out o’ brand, so’s you might as veil feed cows with excelsior and upholster your horses with hem lock bark as to buy brand.” “Well, why do you run, so much to stock ? Why don’t you try diversified farming and rotation of crops . J “Well, prob’ly you got the idea in the papers. A man that earns big wages writing “Farm Hints’ for agricultui al papers can make more money with a soft lead pencil and two or three sea son-cracked ideas like that’ll I can car rying of ’em out on the farm. We used to have a feller in the drug store in our town that wrote such good pieces for the Rural Vermonter and ,made up such a good condition powder out of his own head that two years ago we asked him to write a nessay for the annual meeting of the Buckwheat Trust, and to use his own judgment about choice of subject. And what do you s'pose he had selected for a nessay that took the whole forenoon to read ?” “What, subject, you mean ?” “Yes.” “Give it up!” “Well, he’d wrote out that whole blamed intellectual wad on the sub ject of ‘The Inhumanity of Dehorning Hydraulic Rams.’ Hows that ?” “That’s pretty fair.” “Well, farmin’ is like runnin’ a pa per in some things. Every feller in the world will take and turn in and tell you how to do it, even if he don’t know a blame thing about it. There ain’t a man in the United States to-day that don’t secretly think he could run airy one if his other business busted on him, whether he knows the difference between a new’ milch cow and a horse hayrack or not. We had one of these embroidered night-shirt farmers come from town better’n three years ago. Been a toilet soap man and done well, and so he came out and bought a farm that had nothing to it but fancy house and barn, a lot of medder in the front yard and a southern aspect. The farm was no good. You couldn’t raise a dis turbance on it. Well, what does he do? Goes and gits a passle of slim- tailed, valler cows from New Jersey and aims to handle cream and diversi fied farming. Last year the cuss sent a load of cream over and tried to sell it at the crematory while the funeral anil liollereost was goin’ on. I may be a soi't of a chump myself, but I read my paper and don’t get left like that. “What are the prospects for farmers in your State ?” “Well, they are pore. Never was so pore, in fact, sence I've ben there. Folks wonder why boys leaves the farm. , My boys left so as tected, they said, and so they went in to a clothing store, one of 'em. and one now that we’ve got the national debt coppered I wish they’d take a little hack at mine. I’ve put in fifty years farmin’. I never drank licker in an5' form. I’ve worked from ten to eigh teen hours a day, been economical and close, and never went to a show more n a dozen times in my life, raised a fami ly and learned upward of two hundred calves to drink out of a tin ffeil without blowing all their vittles up my sleeve. My wife worked alongside o’ me, sewin’ new seats on the boys’ pants, skimmin' milk and even helpin’ me load hay. For forty years we toiled along together must suffer from Messrs. Rodgers & Sons alone in their cutlery and other productions. Very little Egybtian ivory has recently come to hand. The Cairo merchants buried their treasures du ring the Soudan war to keep them out of the Mahdi’s hands, and even now they are reluctant to send to market. What is sent is the result of hoarding, not hunting. Egyptian ivory, which is mainly sold in London, is largely used by cutlery manufacturers and in other Sheffield industries, as well as by piano-forte makers for keys. The paucity of Egyptian is largely compen- d hardly had time to look into each sated by the increased weight of West and get Coast African, which is growing in fa vor for hafting the higher classes of table cutlery. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County: C. A. Bolton, executor of Peter Owens, late of said county, deceased, having applied to the Cou^t. of Ordinary of said county for let ters of dismission from his said trust, all per sons concerned are required to show cause in this Court, by the tirst Monday in April next, if any they can, why said application should not he granted. This January 6, ls88. W. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, $5.<X). Ordinary. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County: H. J. Lasietter, administrator of J. M. S>. other’s faces or dared to stop and get acquainted with each othei. Then her health failed. Ketched cold in the spring house, prob’ly skimmin’ milk an’ wash in’ pans and scaldin’ pails and spankin’butter. Anyhow, she took in a long breath one day while the doctor and me was watchin’ her, and she says to me, ‘Henry,’ says she, ‘I’ve got a chance to rest,’ and she put one tired, worn-out hand on top of the other tired, worn-out hand, and I know’d she’d gone where they don’t work all day and do chores all night. “I took time to kiss her then. I’d been too blisv for a good while previous to that, and then I called in the boys. After the funeral it was too much for them to stay around and eat the kind of cookin’ we had to put up with, and nobody spoke up around the house as we used to. The boys quit whistlin around the barn and talked kind of low by themselves about goin’ to town and gettin’ a job. “They’re all gone now and the snow is four feet deep on mother’s gra\ e up there in the old berryin’ ground.” Then both of us looked out of the car window quite a long while without say ing anything. “I don’t blame the boys for going in to something else, long’s other things pays better; but I say—and I say what I know—that the man who holds the prosperity of this country in his hands, the man that actually makes money for other people to spend, the man that eats three good, simple, square meals a days and goes to bed at 9 o’clock, so that future generations with good blood and cool brains can go from his farm to the Senate and Congress and the White House—he is the man that gets left at last to run his farm, with no body to help him but a hired man and a high protective tariff. The farms in our State is mortgaged for over seven hundred million dollars. Ten of our Western States—I see by the papers— lias got about three billion and a half mortgages on their farms, and that don’t count the chattel mortgages filed with the town clerks on farm machin ery, stock, wagons and even crops, be. gosh ! that ain’t two inches high under snow. The government is rich, but the men that made it, the men that fought prairie fires and prairie wolves and In- jins* and potato-bugs and blizeards, and has paid the war debt and pensions and everything else, and hollered fo’r the Union and the Republican party and high tariff and anything else that they was told to, is left high and dry this cold winter with a mortgage of seven billions and a half on the farms they have earned and saved a thou sand times over.” “Yes; but look at the glory of sending from the farm the future President, the future Senator and the future member of Congress.” “That looks well on paper, but what does it really amount to ? Soon as a farmer boy gits in a place like that be forgets the soil that produced him and holds his head as high as a hojlyhock. He hellers for protection to everybody but the farmer, and while he sails round in a highty-tighty room with a fire in it night and day, his father on the farm has to kindle his own fire in the morning with elm splinters, and he has to wear his son’s lawn-tennis suit next to him or freeze to death, and he has to milk in an old gray shawl that has held that member of Congress when he was a baby, be gorry 1 and the old lady has to sojourn through the winter in the flannels that Silas wore at the re gatter before lie went to Congress. “So I say, and I think that Congress agrees with me—Dang a farmer, any how ! ” He then went away. The ivory dealers of Africa are very good hands at obtaining full value for their goods, and some of tile Sheffield firms find that they are not novices in fraudulent trading. They can “load” ivory quite as cleverly as Lancashire can load cottons. By pouring lead into the cavity of the tusk the weight is greatly increased, anil there is no pos sibility of discovering the deception un til the ivory has jessed through various hands to the cutlery or other manu facturer. Then the workmen find the saw grinds against the lead, sometimes snapping the steel teeth. One Sheffield mcnt - firm recently found lead imbedded in several elephants’ tusks, from eight pounds to twelve pounds weight in each. As ivory is worth twelve shilling! per pound, there is a perceptible profit in selling lead at that price. Smith, lute ol said county, deceased, bavin applied for letters of dismission from his saiu trust, all persons concerned are required to show cause in said Court by the first Monday in May next, if any they can. wliy said ap plication should not be granted This beorti- arv 2, 1SS8. W. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, $5.00. Ordinary. THOMPSON BROS. NEW NAN, GA. :o:- FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE 1 - at prices- 7 THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE. * To Wliom it May Concern. Bio- stock of Chamber suits in W alnut, GEORGI A - Cow eta Cou nty : The estate of G. M. Sharp, late of said coun ty, deceased, being unrepresented and not lik.-ly to be represented; all persons concern ed are required to show cause in the Court ot Ordinary of said county, on the first. Monday in March next, why such administration should not be vested in the County Adminis- rator. This Februaiy 3d, 1SS8. \V. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, ,*3 00. Ordinary. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA—Coweta County: All persons having demands against the es tate of Cortes Lazenby, late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned, according »law; and all persons indebted to said es tate are required to make immediate pay- iis 10th day of February, 1888. T. G. DICKSON. Administrator Cortes Lazenby, dec'd. Printer's fee. $3.00. The Ivory Trade. London Times. The London anil Liverpool ivory sales have just been concluded. An interesting feature of the London sales was the offer of six tons of what was called “Stanley’s ivory.” It was the first lot of ivory sent by Mr. H. M. Stanley from the Congo. It was for warded to the Belgian Government, from whom it came to London. The quality and weight was very good. One parcel, of 400 weight, knocked down to Messrs. Joseph Rodgers & Sons, the Sheffield cutlery manufactu re get pro- | rers, averaged about three teeth to the 100 weight. -V new source of supply Bismarck as an Orator. Pall Mall Gazette. Bismarck as an orator has been com pared to Cromwell. Though he makes no pretensions to being a speaker, yet his practice does not always comport with his theories, as is- shown by the fact that on important occasions he holds the floor several hours at a time. On Monday last he spoke for one hour and three-quarters. Bismarck, how ever, would, in all probability, prove his consistency by claiming that wlu.fc he says is not mere idle words. It is more interesting to watch Bismarck when making one of his great speeches than to listen to him. His words are fUr stronger and make much more of an impression in cold type than when they fall from his lips. This shows their inherent force and weight. His delivery is slow; he always uses the ex act word he wants and his facts are marshalled in clear and lucid order. When he first rises to speak a great si lence falls upon the Reichstag; not even a whisper is heard, and the deputies of all shades of political opinion crowd closely around him, fearful lest they might lose a single syllable of what he says.. Bismarck has little or no rhe torical action. His motions are not "raceful, his voice is husky anil unmu sical, and some of his sentences are as long as those of our own Evarts. Du ring a debate he makes frequent notes in a coarse, scrawling hand. When at tacked by some keen opponent he grows nervous, shifts in his seat, his pen shakes between his fingers and very often his hand goes menacingly to his sword-hilt, for Bismarck, while he is the first civil officer in the Empire, is at the same time a General of Cavalry, and always wears his undress uniform in the Reichstag. When aroused his ebullitions of pas sion are frequently terrible. His great frame quivers with emotion and his gray-blue eyes flash fire as he turns to ward the benches of his adversaries and demands to know who it was that hissed him. Scenes of this character, however, are of rare occurrence in re cent years. He is merciless in retort unsparing of persons, no matter their age, their personal services to himself or to the Empire. He possesses a caus tic humor, which he uses with great effect. A master of invective, his coarseness of speech very often defeats his own object. One of his country men, speaking on this point, has de scribed him as “an Achilles in courage, and a Thersites in debate as often as the candid censure of friends or the vicious taunts of foes goad him into the loss of his temper.” Bismarck has, in an extraordinary degree, the art or faculty of embodying in a terse phrase some great national aspiration which throws his immediate audience into raptures of enthusiasm, and thence forth becomes a battle-cry from one end of Germany to the other. Notice of Indenture. GEORGIA—Coweta County : Ir. being made known to me by the petition of L. B. Gurley, that Arthur Lee Willingham, of the 992d district, G. M , of said county, is a minor, the profits of whose estate are insuffi cient support and maintenance, and the pa rents of said minor reside our of said county: AH persons interested are required to show ‘•ause before me, at my office, at 10 o’clock, A. 31.. on the 9th day of Marcli, 1888, why said minor should not be hound out in terms of the statute in that case made and provided, at which time and place I will pass upon the same. This February 0, hsss. W. II. PERSONS, Prs. fee, $3.75. Ordinary. Antique Oak, and Cherry, and Imitation suites. French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from 822.60 to $125.00’, Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward. Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward. Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00. Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set. Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot. Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00. Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents. Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low. Picture Frames on hand and made to order. SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS Low, for cash or on the installment plan. Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, day. THOMPSON BROS., NEWNAN, GA. Road Notice. To all whom it may concern: Jos. E. Dent and others having petitioned the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for said county to change the Newnan and Franklin road at Scroggin’s mill, in the pres ent Hurricane district, as follows: Commenc ing at the top of the iiiil just west ol the branch at. said mill and running in an easter ly direction to the foot of the hi!! just west of said branch, through land in control of Mrs. Sarah Towns; and the commissioners ap pointed to investigate said matter having re ported that said change would be of public- utility, all persons are notified that if no good cause be shown to the contrary, said change or alteration will be made on the first Wed nesday in March next. February 1. INKS. JOHN A. HUNTER, Chairman Board County Commissioners. night or FURNITURE! I you Executor’s Sale. GEORGIA-Coweta County: Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordi nary of Coweta county, Ga,, will be sold be fore the Court-house door in the city of New nan, Ga . at public outcry, on the first. Tuesday in March next, within the legal hours of sale, a strip ofland lying in the western part ol Newnan, Ga..on Carrollton street, line begin ning at a stake on said street and running along said street 93 feet to the corner of Dr. Brown’s garden fence, and thence north along said fence one hundred and ninety-two yards to a point where the east and west lines meet, and thence south one hundred and ninety-two yards to the beginning corner—the.same lying in a triangular shape- containing hall an acre, more or less. Sold as the property belonging to tlie estate of W. B. W. Dent for a division. Terms cash. Tli is February 3, 1888. JOS. E. DEM, Pr. fee, $4.92. Executor. I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in> Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments, buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices: A Nice Plush Parlor Suit. $35.00. • A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00. A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00. A Good Single Lounge, $5.00. A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00. A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50. A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50. „ A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00. A Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00. A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00. A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00. A Fine Book Case, $20.00. . A Good Office Desk, $10.00. A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00. A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00. A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00. Sheriffs Sales for March. GEORGIA—Coweta County: Will be sold before the court-house door in Newnan, s«id county, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in Marcli, 1888, the following described property, to-wit: All of lot of land number 278. except Mrs. Jane BridSes’ dower interest in about. 33 acres, and except about 7 acres in the ^northeast, corner belongingto M. F. Delk, W. W . Couch and Mrs. simmerly. and except about 5 acres on the west side, belonging to the mill prop erty; also ail of lot 290. south of the branch, containing 109 ac.es more or less; also the east half of lot 2(51, except the mill property ol about 15 acres; also the undivided half inter est in the mill near Senoia, known as Bridges’ Mill, and the land appurtenant to the same—about 15 acres of the east half of lot 261, and about 5 acres of lot 278—all in the original First district of said county, and lev ied on to satisfy a fi. fa. i- sued from Coweta ^superior Court, in favor of S. J. Elder, admin istrator, etc. vs. R. B. Bridges, security, Mrs. Jane Bridges being in possession of all of the same, except the east, half of 261, and the mill property, and R. W. Freeman, adminis trator of 85. T. Bridges, being in possession of the remainder. This February 3, 1888. Also at the same time and place will be sold a tract, of laud containing fifteen acres, more or less, lying and being in the First, district of said county, being part of lot number 290, bound on the north by .T. Y. Noland, on the east bv John D. Noland, on the south by Jane Bridges, and on the west oy J. M. Gar rick. and further known as the Thomas J. Wells place; levied on as the property of James Burns to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from tLo 7 nction Unni'f Kint.h Bistrifit. ( r. ^I.« 111 I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices. / A. G. RHODES, 85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga, HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH, ;6 AND 38 PEACHTREE STREET, the Justice Court, 645th District, G. M.. favorof M. E. Murphy vs. said James Burns and Ben Glass. Tenant in possession notified in terms of the law. Levy made and returned to me by J. T. Banks, L. C. This February 3 1888. ’ Also, at. the same time and place, one house and lot, situate on the Newnan mid Fayette ville road, one mile east of Court-house, and bounded as follows: On the east by L. R. Reese, on the north by R. I>. Pole, Sr., on the ATLANTA, GA. IN- DEALERS Stoves, Heating Stoves, Hall Stoves, Parlor Stoves, Office Stoves, Cooking Stoves for everybody, Hanses, Furnaces, Marbelizeil Iron and Slate Mantels, Mahogony, Walnu't, Cherry, Oak and*Asli Mantels, Tile Hearth. Tile Facings and Vestibule Tile. Plain Grates, Enameled, Nickel and Brass Trim- - rued Grates. J ust received, a beautiful line of Brass Fenders, Andirons, Fire Sets, Coal Vases, Coal Hods and Tin Toilet Sets, that in quan city, quality and designs cannot be sur- eil in the city, Gas Fixtures, Chandeliers I . passed m weSt by Lane Reese, a‘nd on the south by the j 1 p en( lants. Plumbers Newnan and Fayetteville road. Levied on as ; 1 -ppe,,, t he property of Henry Lazenby to satisfy a tax li. fa. issued by I. N. Farmer, Tax Collec tor, for .State and county taxes for the year 18S7. Levy made and returned to me by T. D. Haines, L. C. This February 3.1888. GEO. H. CARMICAL, Sheriff. Bismarck’s Favorite Flower. Christian Work. Prince Bismarck, of Germany, like Napoleon and other great men, has his favorite flower. It is neither more nor; t j lc yj n( ] ]- C pt a t other less than the common red blooming heather. As long ago as 1862 when traveling in France he wrote to his wife as follows: “Cliambord Castle, in j ' Eg its present deserted state, reminds me BERMUDA GRASS SLED. of the fate of its owner. In the spa cious halls and vast saloons rhe toy- of the little Duke of Cordeaux form al- KNIVES AND SCISSORS. Not cheap goods, but first- class. Suitable for presents or for persons desiring a superior article. These troods are not stores oriced. vet AVERY. and Steam Fitters, Supplies, Water Closets, Bath Tubs, Pumps, Rubber Hose, Brass Goods, steam Cocks and Gauges, Tin Plate, Block anil Galvanized Sheet Iron, Wrought Iron Pipe for steam, gas and water. Practical Plumbers, Steam Heaters and Gas Fitters, Architectural Galvanized Iron Workers and Tin Roofers. Agts. for Knowles’ Steam Pumps, Dunning’s Boilers, Morris & Tasker’s Wrought Iron Pipe for steam, gas and water, Climax Gas £^=Plans and specifications furnished on application. Machines.' Call and examine our stock or write for price list and circular, eeive prompt attention and bottom prices. You will re- HUNNTCUTT & BELLINGRATH. and are cheap. higher W. E MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON, would be exceedingly acceptable, for most the only feature. The sunny W* 1 offer Fresh Crop l»y Mali ! pound. Price for Luve quant Ev ent ion. Send lor our * z 00 p on a pi * WHOLESALE C-ROCERS, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. into hardware and one into talk- i ivory is now so freely used for so mam in’ protection in the Legislature this winter. They said that farmin’ was gittin' to be like fishin’ and huntin’, well enough for a man that has means and leisure, but they could not make a living at it, they said. Another boy is in a drug store, and the man that hires him says he is a royal iellei. “Kurd of a castor royal feller,” 1 said, with a shriek of laughter. He waited until I had laughed all I wanted to and then he said: “I’ve always hollered for high tauff in order to hyst the public debt, but ^ S&zsifL Al-v -..Uft'--:.* a purpose* that there is some peril of the elephant being exterminated. Messrs. Rodgers' consumption is twen- ty-five tons per annum, and includes Gaboon, Angora and Niger, East In dian. Cape and Egyptian. The large tusks weigh from 50 to 100pounds each; twiddle from 25 to 50 pounds each, and small from 3 to 10 pounds. The firm’s average weights are 35 pounds. Twenty-five tons contain 1,000 tusks of 35 pounds each, and as each ele phant provides only one pair, it follows that at least 800 elephants per annum court yards appear like so many desert ed church yards. From the top- of the towers one enjoys a fine view, but wherever one looks one sees nothing but silent forests and heather as fat a- the horizon—no town, no village, no farm house visible near the castle nor as far as the eye can reach. From the inclosed samples of heather you will see how beautifully blossoms here the purple flower I love so much—the only flower in the royal gardens. Swal lows are the onlj T living creatures in the castle, which is even too lonely for sparrows.” GENERAL SEED CATALOGUE. NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. 15 .JOHN ST. THOR BURR &. CO. ----- SEW SAVE YOUR EVES By being properly fitted with good >peeta- cles. If one eye is Uiffi rent from tlie other, or j if near-sighted. or if old ago is creeping upon von, I have tlie “specs'' 3-0:1 need, (ilns-es. Frames and all parts. Remember. I have tlie j only emupl’te stock of everythin" in 1 lie spectacle line in Newnan. Also, Pebble" Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes! Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour, Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese, Fhrvstals, Dude Glasses. Microscopes, etc. Ylso, “old, silver, nickel and steel frames. \V. E. AVERY, the Jeweler. FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY S^aBring your Job Work to Mc- i Clendon & Co., Newnan, Ga. PRODUCE. Good, dry, rat-prool stor« Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman. Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt remittances age. Excellent facilities for the care of perishable goods. generally. Refebexces: Gate City National Bank, and merchants and bankers of Atlanta