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®he lerald and ^foertise| Newnan, Ga., Friday, April 6, 1888. NIGHT BLOOMING THISTLE. Bill Nye's Experience as a Judge and Orator at County Fairs. Mr. E. D. Church, Secretary of the Aehfield Farmers’ Club of Ashfield, Mass., informs me by the United States mail that upon receipt of my fa vorable reply I will become an honora ry member of that club, along with Georgy William-Curtis, Frof. Norton, Prof. Stanley Hall, of Harvard, and other wet-browed toilers in the catnip- infested domain of agriculture. I take this method of thanking the Ashfield Farmers’ Club, through its secretary, for the honor thus all so un worthily bestowed, and joyfully accept the honorary membership, with the un derstanding, however, that during the county fair the solemn duty of deliver in' 1, the annual address from the judges stand, in tones that will not only ring along down the corridors of time, but go thundering three times around a half-mile track and be heard above the rythmic plunk of the hired man who is trying to ascertain, by means of a large rnawl and a thumping machine, how- hard he can strike, shall fall upon Mr. Curtis or other honorary members of t he club. I have a voice that does very well to express endearment, or other subdued emotions, but it is not effec tive at a county fair. Spectators see the wonderful play of my features, but they only hear the low refrain of the haughty Clydesdale steed, who has a neighsal voice and wears his tail in a Grecian coil. I received $150 once for addressing a race-track one mile in length on “The Use and Abuse of En silage as a Narcotic.” I made the ges tures, but the sentiments were those of the four-ton Peicheron charger, “Lit tle Medicine,” dam “Eloquent.” I spoke under a low shed and rather adverse circumstances. In talking with the committee afterward, as I w-rapped up my gestures and put them back in the shawl-strap, I said that I felt al most ashamed to receive such a price for the sentiments of others, but they said that was all right. No one ex pected to hear an agricultural address. They claimed that it was most general ly purely spectacular, and so they re garded my speech as a great success. I used the same gestures afterward in speaking of “The great falling off among bareback riders in the circuses of the present day.” I would also like to be excused from duties as a judge of curly-faced otherwise absolutely empty. Let us consider this before spring fairly opens, so that we may be prepared for any thing of this kind. One more point may properly come before the club at its next meeting, and I mention it here because I may be so busy at Washington looking after our other interests that I cannot get to the club meeting. I refer to the evi dent change in climate there from j ear to year, and its effect upon seeds pur chased of florists and seedsmen gener- ally. Twenty years ago you could plant a seed according to. directions and it would produce a plant which seemed to resemble in a general way the pic ture on the outside of the package. Now, under the fluctuating influences of irresponsible isotherms, phlegmatic springs, rare June w-eather and over weather in August, I find it believe that our seedsmen put so much money into their catalogues that they do not have anything left to use in the purchase of seeds. Good religion and very fair cookies may be produced without the aid of caraway seed, but you cannot gather nice fresh figs of thistles, or expect much of a seedsman whose plants make no effort whatever to resemble their pictures. Hoping that you will examine into this matter, and that the club will al- avs hereafter look carefully into this column for its farm information, I re main, in a sitting posture, yours truly, Bill Nye. done any stock or as umpire of ornamental nee dlework. After a person has had a tansy an j ca stor oil go through almost impossible to produce a plant or vegetable which in any way resem bles its portrait. Is it my fault, or the fault of the climate ? I wish the club would take hold of this at its next reg ular meeting. I first noticed this change in the sum mer of ’72, I think. I purchased a small package of early Scotch plaid curled kale, with a beautiful picture on the outside. '^It was as good a pictuie of Scotch kale as I ever saw. I could imagine how gay- and light-hearted it was the day it went up to the studio and had its picture taken for this pur pose. A short editorial paragraph un der the picture stated that I should plant in quick, rich soil, in rows four inches apart, to a depth of one inch, cover lightly and then roll. I did so. No farmer of my years understands rolling any better than I do. In a few weeks the kale came up, but turned out to be a canard. I then waited two weeks more and other forms of vegetation made their appeal - ance. None of them were kale. A- small delegation of bugs which deal mostly with kale came into the garden one day, looked at the picture on the discarded paper, then examined what had crawled out through the ground and went away. I began to fear then that climatic influences had been at work on the seeds, but I had not fully given up all hope At first the plants seemed to waver and hesitate over whether they had better be wild parsnips or lima beans Then I concluded that they had decided to be foilage plants or rhubarb. But they did not try to live up to their por traits. Pretty soon I discovered that they had no bugs which seemed to go with them, and then I knew they were weeds. Things that are good to eat al ways have bugs and worms on them, The Unterrified Country Press. Arizona Kicker. There is no use in attemping to dr- guise the fact that certain rings and factions in this gulch have for the last three months made desperate attempts to ignore the existence of the Kicker. Having failed to frighten or bribe us, ostracism was their little game. They determined to freeze us out. We first became aware of this movement three months ago, when Mrs. Judge Gilder- sleeve gave her blow-out. At that time we received the following card: fountain pen kicked endwise through his chest by the animal to which he has awarded the prize, and later on has his features worked up into a giblet pie by the owner of the animal to whom he did not award the prize, he does not ask for public recognition at the hands of his fellow-citizens. It is the same in the matter of ornamental nee dlework and gaudy quilts, which goad a man to drink and death. While I am proud to belong to a far mers’ club and “change works” with a hearty, whole-souled ploughman like George William Curtis, I hope that at all county fairs or other intellectual hand-to-hand contests between out door orators and other domestic ani mals I may be excused, and that when judges of inflamed slumber robes and restless tidies which roll up and fall over the floor and adhere to the backs of innocent people; or stiff, hard-doric pillow-6hams which do not in any way enhance the joys of sleep; or beautiful, pale blue satin pin-cushions, which it would be wicked to put a pin in and which will therefore ever and forever more mock the man who really wants a pin, just as a beautiful matchsafe stands idly through the long vigils of the night, year after year, only laugh at the man who staggers toward it and falls up against it and finds it empty; or like the glorious inkstand which is so pretty and so fragile that it stands around with its hands in its pockets acquirin'* dust and dead flies for centuries, so that when you are a hurry you stick your pen into a small chamber of horrors—I say -when the judges are selected for this department [ would rather have my name omitted from the panel, for I have formed or ex pressed an opinion, and have reasonable doubts and conscientious scruples whieh it would require testimony to remove and I am not qualified anyway, and have been already placed in jeopardy once, and that is enough. Mr. Church writes that the club has taken up and discussed and settled all point of importance bearing upon agri culture, from the tariff up to the ques tion of whether or not turpentine pour ed in a cow’s ear ameliorates the pangs of hollow-horn. He desires suggestions and questions for discussion. That shows the club to be thoroughly active. It will soon be spring, and we cannot then discuss these matters. New res ponsibilities will be added day by day in tin? way of stock, and we will have to think of names for th£m. 'Would it not be well before the time comes for active farm work to think out a long list of names before the little strangers arrive? Nothing serves tolotyer us in the estimation of our fellow-farmers of the world more than the frequent al tercations between owners and then hired help over what name they shall give to a weary, wobbly calfwvho has just entered the great arena of life, full of hopes and aspirations perhaps, but The inference was as plain as the pimples on Mrs. Judge Gildersleeve’s nose. They thought we hadn’t a -white shirt. They thought we would attend ith an army blanket thrown careless life unmolested. I ordered a new style of gladiole eight years ago of a man who had his portrait in the bow 1 of his seed cata logue. If lie succeeds no better in re sembling his portrait than his glad ides did ;n resembling theirs, he must be a human onion whose presence may easily be detected at a great distance. Last year I planted the seeds of watermelon which I bought of a New York seedsman who writes war articles winters and sells garden seeds in the spring. The portrait of this watermel on would tempt most any man to climb a nine rail fence in the dead of night and forget all else in order to drown his better nature and his nose in its cool bosom. People came for miles to look at the picture of this melon and went away with a pleasant taste in their mouth. The plants were a little sluggish though I planted in hills far apart each way in a rich warm loam, enriched by everything that could make a sincere watermelon get up and hump itself. The melons •were to be very large, in deed, with a centre like a rose. Ac cording to the picture, these melons generally grew so large and plenty that most everybody had to put up side boards on the garden fence to keep them from falling over into other farms and annoying people who had all the melons they needed. I fought squash bugs, cut worms, Hessian flies, chinch bugs, curculio, mange, pip, drought, drops} 1 , caterpillars and eon tumely till the latter part of August when a friend from India came to visit me. I decided to cut a watermelon in Old Frederica, on St. Simon’s Island, was at one time the largest town in Georgia. It was established as an out post against the Spaniards of Florida by Gen. Oglethorpe, but the location was so advantageous for trade that the place became a flourishing town. Large wholesale concerns and warehouses were established, and trade carried on with the Indians and trading posts of the interior was very lucrative. Most of the buildings were “tabby,” which is a composition of shells and cement,. The tabby is almost indestructible. A large amount of it was used from the old buildings of Frederica in building the first lighthouse on St. Simon’s. A great deal of it was sawed into blocks and used in building chimneys to the lwellings on the Island. The battle of Bloody Marsh,” in which the Ameri- ican forces under Gen. Oglethrope kill ed 300 Spaniards, was fought on St. Si mon’s Island. ALL GENTLEMEN ATTENDING THIS! RECEPTION WILL BE EXPECTED " ; Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County: C. A. and J. P. R ussell, administrator of J as. Russell, late of said county, deceased, having applied for letters of dismission from their said trust, all persons concerned are required to show cause in said Court by the first Monday in June next, if any they can, wiry said ap plication should not be granted This March 1,1888. W. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, *5.00. Ordinary. TO WEAR A WHITE SIIIRT. ly over our shoulders. The object was to let us know that Mrs. Judge Gilder- sleeve didn’t look upon us,as knowing what belonged to manners. It was all right. We didn’t go. As to whether the Gildersleeve ring came out ahead opinions differ. Our account of the party, headed: “Gathering of the Vul tures,” is still going the rounds of the press. In that article we proved Judge Gildersleeve to be an embezzler and a horse thief, and we adduced positive evi dence that Mrs. Gildersleeve was a bro ken down and played-outMortune-teller who had been compelled to skip from St. Louis. The Judge called at the Kicker office next day with a shotgun, but when we brought out more letters—proofs that he had served terms in three prisons, and that Mrs. Judge Gildersleeve still had the Work House cut on her hair when she arrived in Arizona—the Judge didn’t shoot. The Jackass Hill set next tried to make us sing small. They got mad be cause we weren’t puffiing them in every issue. Col. Ducker had two shillings worth of repairs made to his mule har ness, and the Kicker didn’t notice it. Mrs. Professor Frothingham turned an old silk dress top-to-bottom, and the Kicker didn’t come out with a notice that she had received another $500 dress from Worth. Maj. Hornblower put a porcelain door-knob on the front door of his adobe, and we didn’t come out and list it as one of the enterprise bound to bring in new settlers and boom real estate. It was therefore determined to down us. Lily He Lisle, the red beaded daughter of the one-leggell County Clerk, made her debut, and we were not invited to the blow-out. was an action intended to break our heart, and we promptly countered was upon our tip that the Sheriff went up about ten o’clock that evening and gath ered in two bigamists from New En gland, an embezzler from Ohio and fugitive from Chicago, all of whom were looked upon as the cream of society, and were airing their frills and scallops at the grand debut. We are here to stay. We put up our own shanty with our own hands. We board and lodge ourself, and we have not only got the cost of living down fine, but are getting our white paper so cheap that we can make money on a list of thirty subscribers and three pages of dead ads. We are going to run the Kicker after our own style, whether it pleases the bigbugs on Jackass Hill or the half-starved coyotes in Poverty Hollow. While we don’t hanker after £e$al Icoticc: RERVE TOHIC. ffissjtjssr* Nenroaa lennen, Ac. u alterative. SSSSS^BSSS^SSSl and so overcoming those aiseas* resulting from impure or impover ished blood. LAXATIVE. Actingmildlvbut surely on the bowel* it cures habitual constipation, ana promotes a regular habit. It ptv» the stomach, and aids For The NERVOUS The DEBILITATED The AGED. DIURETIC. In its composition the best and moat active diuretics of the Materia Medica are combined scientifically with other effective remedies for diseases oftho kidneys. It can be relied on to givo quick relief and speedy cure. Hundreds of testimonials have been reeeiTedl from persons who have used this remarkable benefit. Send for circulars, firing fall particulars. Price $1.00. Sold by DrMf 1 ***- WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Prop’s BURLINGTON. VT. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County : H. J. Lasseter, administrator of J. M. S. Smith, late of said county, deceased, having applied for letters of dismission from his said trust, all persons coucerned are required lo show cause in said Court by the first Monday in May next, if any they can, why said app'i- cation should not be granted. This February •22,1888. VV. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, *5.00. Ordinary. THOMPSON BROS. NEW NAN, GA. FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE * } - AT PRICES- THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Coweta County: H. M. Arnold, administrator of Tas. Arnold, late of said county, deceased,havingapplied to the Court 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 first Monday in July next, if any they can, why said application should not be granted. This March 29,1888. W. H. PERSONS, Prs. fee, $5.00. Ordinary. Letters of Administration. GEORGIA—Coweta County: Basel Smith having applied to'the Court of Ordinary o' said county for permanent let ters of administration on the estate of Senora J. Puckett, late of said county, deceased, all persons concerned are required to show cause :nsaid Court by the first Mom day in May next, if any they can, why said application should n<jt be granted. This March 29,1888. Prs. fee, $3.00. W.H. PERSONS, Ordinary. Order to Perfect Service. GEORGIA-Coweta County: Annie Lee Morris) Libel for Divorce, in vs. > Coweta Superior Court A. P. Morris. J March Term, 1888. It being shown to the Court that the de fendant, A. P. Morris, does not reside in this county, and that he does not reside within the State: It is ordered that service be per fected by publication of this order in The Hekald and Advertiser, a public gazette of this State, published at Newnan, twice a month for two months. S. W. HARRIS. J. S. C. C. C A true extract from the minutes of Coweta Superior Court, March Term, 1888. This March 19, 1888. Daniel Swint, Prs. fee, $3.60—tam2m. Clerk. Order to Perfect Service. GEORGIA— Coweta County: E. K. Head) Libel for Divorce, in vs. > Coweta Superior Court. W J. Head.) March'‘erm. 1888. It appearing to the Court from the return of the Sheriff that the defendant in the above stated case is not to be found in said county, a"nd it further appearing that he resides be yond the limits of this State: It is ordered that he appear on or before the next term of this Court and defend, or the Court will proceed with the ease as in default, and that this order be published as the law directs. S. W. HARRIS, J. bi Li. u. o A true extract from the minutes of Coweta Superior Court, March Term, 1888. This March 19,18*8. - Daniel Swint, Prs. $4.05—oam4m. Clerk Order to Perfect Service. GEORGIA—Coweta County: Charles Elder) Libel for Divorce, in vs. > Coweta Superior Conr Maria Elder. S March Term, 1888. It appearing to the Court by the return of the Sheriff in the above stated case, that the defendant does not reside in this State : It is therefore ordered by the Court that service be perfected on the defendant by the publication of this order, once a month for four months before the next term of this Court, in The Herald and Advertiser, a newspaper published in Coweta county, Georgia. Granted: S. W. HARRIS^ Willcoxon & Wright, attorneys for li bellant. A true extract from the minutes of Coweta Superior Court, March Term, 1888. This March 17, 1888. Daniel Swint, Prs. fee $4.11—oarntm. suits in Walnut, Antique Oak, and Bis: stock of Chambe Cherry, and Imitation suites. French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from $22.60 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, night day. THOMPSON BROS., NEWNAN, GA. or * FURNITURE! I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you 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. 1 Clerk. honor of his arrival. When the proper moment, had arrived and the dinner had progressed to the point of fruit, the tropical depths of my garden gave up their season’s wealth in the shape of a low-browed citron about as large and succulent as a hot-ball. I have had other similar experiences and I think we ought to do something about it if we can. I have planted the seed of the morning glory and the moon flower and dreamed at night that my home looked like a florist’s adver tisement, but when leafy June came a bunch of Xorway oats and a hill of corn were trying to climb the strings nailed up for the use of my non-resident vines. I have planted with song and laughter the seeds of the ostensible pansy and carnation, only in tears to reap the bachelor’s button and tluj glistening foliage of the sorghum plant I have planted in faith and a deep, warm soil, with pleasing hope in nre heart and a dark-red picture on the outside of the package, only to harvest the low, vul gar jimsou weed and the night-bloom ing bull thistle. Does the mean temperature of the average rainfall have anything to do with it ? If statistics are working these changes they ought to be stopped. For nay own part, however, I am led to invitations to eucher parties and church socials, we don’t propose to take a snub from any set. While we are willing to boom the town we don’t propose to sit up nights to let the outside world know that some citizen has added a bath-tub to his dug-out, or that some merchant has just received a fresh wad of bed ticking. There have been hints thrown out by the Court-house ring that we are to be starved out. Try it on, gentlemen! M e are now $15 ahead of the game, have paper enough on hand for ten weeks, and our living expenses last week foot ed up only sixty-seven cents. We came to stick. Consumption Surely Cured. To the Editor—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless ca have been permanently be glad to send two ’ dy free to any of . have consumption if they will send me their express and post office address. Respectfully. T. A. SLOCU3I. M. C., 181 Pearl street, New York. Sheriff’s Sales for May. GEORGIA—Coweta Count-y: Will be sold before the Court-house door in Newnan, said county, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in May, 1888, the following described property, to-wit: Sixty acres of land, more or less, in the northeast corner of lot of land No. 240, hound ed on the south and east by J. T. Hearn (now J. W. Kelly,) west by land of R. Hearn, (now E- F. Hearn,) north by lot 241. Also, forty acres of land, more or less, lying in the south east corner of lot No. 241 and bounded as fol lows: on the soutn by lot No. 240, east by lot No. 16, north and west by lands of J. W. Kel ly. and being measured so that said 40 acres will lie broadside the northeast fourth of lot No. 240; containing in all one hundred (100) acres, more or less, and all lying in the orig inal fifth but now the seventh district of Coweta county, Georgia. Levied on as the property of J. W. Kelly to satisfy a mortgage fi la issued from Coweta Superior Court in favor ot Hutcheson & Mosely vs. said J. V,. Kelly. This Marct 29,1888. Frs. lee $6.ol. Also, at the same time and place, fifty acres of land, more or less, lying and being origi nally in the fifth hut now the seventh district of Coweta county, Georgia, in the southwest corner of lot of laud No. 16, hounded on the east bv lands at one time owned by S. F. Steed, south by J. T. Hearn, (but now by J. y . Kelly,) north oyJ. W. Kelly, and west by lot of laud No. 241; and also twenty ;20) acres of land, more or less, being twenty acres in 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, MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON, WHOLESALE GROCERS, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. sixty acres being in the southeast corner of lot of land No 24’. said sixty acres being bound ed on the south by kit of land No. 240,on the t bv lot No. 1H, on the north and west by ' 1 lands ot J. W. Kelly. Levied on as the prop- — — mortgage n. Court in \V. Kelly. 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, FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Consignments solicit ed. Quick sales and prompt remittances. Good, drv, rat-proof stor age. Excellent facilities for the care of perishable goods. Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman. nd place." two icr-s of lan;: Every man !v.\* a bag hanging C.-Ck* him, in which he puts his neigh' ■:'* faults, and another behind him m which he puts his own. Can’t Sleep nights is the complaint of. thousands suffering from Asthma, Con sumption, Coughs, etc. Did you. ever try Acker’s English Remedy? It is the best preparation known for ail Lung Troubles. Sold on positive guarantee at Hie., 50c. Fcrsale by W. P. Broom, Newnan, Ga. AI~o, at the >;ime nine hundred two and a half or less, situat in ot >* .la, urn - enth forigir.a ly sixth; district 01 Cowet:: .. ,-y..A1 s<*>. ss.r.tuecut•-*;aer:-sof :i ei s iot or Stephen Hearn’s old place. Also, oi -- fourth 'southwest) of lot No. 17, containing .-,a acres, more or less. Also, west half of lot , , tabling 1 ;res, m.05 - ess, in . •- it:: district Cow -ta county. < : [I }03 acres, more or less. _All of Jot No. id | mention . - • ■ ic - in th : s • a he-s - :' corner,; ana the ] art nf_S:ephen j , .:,•>, f; ptace beiongs-to J. Yd. Kelly and ’ 1 ,1 tfi • said described nremiso belong:; 1 j to said t.W. Kelly and K >. Kelly. Levied on : ,s ; ie pro, ertv of J. 'V. Kelly and E. 8. Kelly ; to sati-fv two mortgage fi. ias, issued from > >"oveta * Superior Court, one in favor of I Hv.trhe on A Moseley, and one in favor of A. | Hutcheson & Co., versus said J. 'V . Kedy I and E. S. Kelly. This March 29, 18»8. Prs. i tee $6,25 GEO. H. CARMICAL, Sheriff. ITCf~ References generally. Gate City National Bank, and merchants and bankers ox Atlanta Insure your houses against Tornadoes and Cyclones, with H. C. FISHER & CO., Ag’ts., Newnan, Ga. The safest Companies and lowest rates. rr. Cert? CibrurtisemcuU. TO ADVERTISERS, A hst of u.100 newspapers divided in STATES r aper_ _______ ... AND SECTIONS will be sent on aopliertion— PEEK. To those who want their advertising to pay we can offer no better medium for thorough and effective work than the various sections of our Seubct Local Ltst. GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10 Spruce Street, New York. S^Bring your Job Work to Mc Clendon & Co., Newnan, Ga. .V*U-V. -