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Table of Weights and Meas¬ ures. Wheat............. ...CO Shelled corn....... ..56 Corn in the ear..... ...70 Rye............... ca © Reas.............. © O Oats............... co <M Barley............. ** Irish Potatoes...... ......G8 Bwcet Potatoes..... 55 White Beans....... ......58 Castor Beans....... ^ O Clover Seed........ © O Timothy Seed...... 46 Flax Seed.......... ci CD Hemp Seed........ tt Blue Grass Seed.... £ Buckwheat......... S Dried Peaches.. co od Dried apples.. M-ltitss*e <M if Onions .... • ut ••••«• .57 Balt..’..... cn o Stone coal. co co Malt...... th. o Bran...... to o Turaips ... cn ot Plastering Hair. n Unslacked Lime. •..80 Corn meal ..... ......48 Fine Salt....... 54 Ground Peas.... i.*; Cotton Seed .... -- The Negro Share Farmer. Tbs following description of tho "Negro Share Farmer” is taken from the American Agriculturist. The Southern reader will be interested in noting many of tho inaccuraces that occur in tho Northerner’s graph¬ ic description. Making the negro preacher tho banker is a new idea in this section, for instead of Laviug money to loan b* paises around the bat early and < 1 en. The changes wrought by the civil war ia the South have produced one character whom wo found oue of the most inieresting studies of a recent trip through the South. We allude to the Negro Share Farmer. Al home, in his ramshackle cabin,among Iris lean pigs, his bony cable nnd his always numerous family, or iu the market place, with his spike team, often composed ef a mulo and a cow, which he has driven a long day's jonrney to sell a dollar’s worth of wood or a couplo of bnshela of pota toes, he presents a grotesque aud in¬ teresting type. It would be difficult, probably, to get down to poorer and less profitable agriculture than the share farmer practices. But ho mau ages to scrape a living cut of the ground, exactly how be would per haps sometimes find it difficult to explain himself. You come upon bis cabin among the pine woods, with a patch of scraggy corn behind it, aud the ground oround slievn with faggots, among which pick a straggling crew of rusty fowls. A co iplo of curs bark furiously at you, aud a couple of pigs, which look like dogs, tboy are so bony and long legged, trot gr unting away into the brush. The mosey roof is sagging on its yielding beams ;■ there s o great fissures in the mud-plastered chimuoj, and the wind fhtds ingress through tho cracks between the slabs nnd logs of the walls, from which the mud has fallen. Tho commotion your approach has aroused brings a troop of children tumbling over one another out into the road, to watch you with wide open mouths aud eyes,and shrinking back when you look at them. A sturdy negress, with a cob pipe, gives you a curtsey in the doonvav ; behind her you see a figure like the witch of a fairy tale cowering in the big fireplace : the figure of some old grandmother or grandfather, carry¬ ing thl weight of nearly a century on bent back. * a As you ride on, you jou perhaps come upon the farmer, sturdy pnd uncouth, hoeing in his potato patch, or wandering among his corn or cotton. The share farmer obtains his tijl from the tenure by which he holds hi* land. Ho rents it at the simple pnes of half its yield. It is common ly a portion of some largo planta¬ tion, often of the same oue on which lie once labored. The system of share farming has given existence to another typo be¬ sides the farmer himself. ThiB is tbs banker, as be calls himself; the usurious money lender as ho really is. This worthy, like the class he thrives off of, is a negro. He is in a small way a capitalist, and his busi ness is simply lending money on the security of the share farmer's crop. Few of the thriftless blacks cau re¬ sist the temptation of anticipating their gains, and the banker is an ob¬ liging friend, wbsn he oonsideis it safe to be so. In business he is, by all accounts, desperately hard and grinding, otherwise he is eminently respectable, and not infrequently a preacher of no little local fame. Be- tween the money he owes this credi¬ tor and hia store account for molas¬ ses, tobacco, etc., also secured by his crop, the share farmer is often sav ed the trouble of handling any mon¬ ey at all for it, when it has boon gathered. Sncli as it is, the existence of the negro share farmer is not devoid of elements of picturesqnences. His labor is hard and lfis faro coarse, bat be is a tough, rude man, and has no (raving for unknown luxuries. Among the fogs of early day ho is at work, when night falls bo fiddles or croons his simple melodies beforo Ihe yawn¬ ing fireplace of his cabin. Ho gen¬ erally has an okl gun and wages war upon such game aa tho woods around him shelter. What little leisure lie enjoys ho spends in sleep. In the scale of education he ranks very low. He cannot read or write. His ideas are frequently clouded by supersti¬ tion, though quite often be exhibits a peculiarly keon native wit and cun¬ ning, which make Lira a great bar¬ gainer, and stand him in good stead in hia dealings with men of better knowledge. His dross is a mass of patches and of rags. But he is as Well dressed as his neighbors, and has uo ambition to outdo them. His children wear a single garment, a shirt of coarse cotton, apparently never washed. The women folks own a dress of calico each, and a showy cotton handkerchief nnd shoes for state occasions. If tbo farmer has any money he ties it up in old rags and hides it iu holes in his fireplace or under tho hearth. Raking out his money ut night and counting it by the firelight is bis gre iteet, per¬ haps his only luxury.— American Ay rioultnrist for October. *-■ Tho planting of trees along the public roads of France is considered worthy of statistical mention. At prosent the total length of public roads in France is 18,750 miles, of which 7,250 are bordered with trees, while 4,500 miles are at prosont bo ing planted, or will shortly be plant¬ ed. Ou the rtmaining 7,000 miles tbo nature ef tho soil does not per¬ mit of plantations. The number of trees already planted amounts to 2,678,603, consisting principally of elm, poplar, acacia, plane, ash, syca more, and lime tr«es. Strangers traveling in France could almost find out in what department of the coun¬ try they are by noticing the differ¬ ent kinds of trees planted nlong the high road. »• The farmers of West Tonnofsce have met aud organized. Tho organ zation is declared strong in every element that constitutes success. Farmers fill every office nnd fanners are charged witlrDvery duty imposed by law. The work mapped out is important and practical, and the sp rit of tho movement earnest, ag¬ gressive and libornl. Jt antagonizes no interest of tho state, but proposes to enoounigo reading, investigation, reflection and experiment, aud every thing conducive to the progress of farming. Stewart county should fol¬ low Tennessee’s example. Work for Rainy Days—T he farm¬ er who provides no work for rainy days and has to sit down in the house with all his laborers for many day s during tho year ‘because it is raiu ing,' will not be likely to make a fer tune at that business.—There is a large amount of work about the prem ises that may be performed in doors, and where practicable that should be set apart for the raiuy days. Mend¬ ing toois and harness under the work eholter, husking aud shelling corn, clcauing out stal’s, whipping out peas, selecting seed corn aud many other things. Farming That Pays. Mr. J L. Batts:of Smithvillo, Ga , who, by the way, is a farmer that Southwest Georgia can boast of, has gathered .from a one horse farm nine bales of cotton cf average weight np to August 31 inclusive. He expects to get twenty bales of cotton, two hundred bushels of corn, field and ground peas, potatoes, sugarcane, etc., in propotion. All on a one-horse farm. This alios what, can be done in Southwest Georgia, and is an exam¬ ple for others to be governed by. Hasn't the Chance of a Doo.— ‘Why don’t you feed that dog ?’ was asked of an old negro. ‘Why doan I feed him ?’ ‘Yes, why don’t you feed him. ’ ‘Why doan I feed myee’f? I’se as hungry as de dog is, an’ ’sides d*t be's got de ’vantage ob me. He kin go out An’ 6teal a piece ob meat an' go 'boat this business, an’ de white folds doan say nothin’, but ef I pieka up nothin’ ter eat da wants ter slap me in jail, sab. A nigger ain't got de chance of a dog, nohow.' — 4 rlansaw Traveler. No More Eye-glasses. J\'o Weak More Eyes! MITCHELL’S EYE SALVE, A certain, safe and effective remedy for Sore, Wear and In¬ flamed Eyes , Producing Long-Sightedness, and Restoring the Sight of the Old. Cures Tear Drops, Granulantion, Stye Tumors, Red Eyes, Matted Eye lashes, and Producing Quick Relief and Permanent Cure. Also, equally efficacious when used in other mala¬ dies, such as Tlcers, Fever Sores, Tumors, Salt Rheum, Borns, Piles,or wherever inflammation exist, MITCH ELL’S SALVE may be used to ad¬ vantage. Sold bv all Druggists at 25 cents. Mar. 10th-1883. LegalAdvertisements G EOItGIA ) Office of Ordinary Stewart County j Of Said County. Exemption Theophilns S. Evcrritt has appliod for of personalty and I will pass up¬ on the same at ten o'clock a. m., on tho Twentieth day of October 1883 at my office in Lumpkin. September 24th 1»83. J B. LATIMEli, Ordinary. Sept. 29th-1883-3t. NOTICE ! EOTiGI V— Stewart County. \.T Office of Ordinary of said county. Mrs. Nancy Wiggins, L. E. Ethridge, B. L. Kimbrough, N. C. Alston, et al, having mnde application to hare a new road o pen ed and made public, beginning at the land line dividing Mrs. Wiggins abd N. C. Alston on tho road leading from Highland to Pres tou in the 727fli District, G. M., and run¬ ning in a Southerly direction and entering the public road leading from Lumpkin to Weston near Mrs. fi. 0. Seville's in the 747<ii District, G. M. This is to cite all per¬ sons concerned to show cause before me at lu o’clock, A. M., ou the tenth day of Oc¬ tober next, why an order should not then bo granted opening and making public said described road, else an order will at that time be granted, requiring and directing the opening of said road and duels ring it a public road of the third class. Witness my officiul signature this Sep bor 7th, 1883. 3 B. LATIMER, Ordinary. GUARDIAN’S SALE OF LAND GEOliGIA STEWAHT COUNTY. Under and by virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of Mid cofmlj will be sold boiore the Court House Door in Lump kiu between the lawful sale hours on the first Tuesday in Norember next at public outcry, lots of land No. Forty-four and for¬ ty-five in be'onging the Twenty -first District of said county to the Minor Orphans of Samuel Kennedy late of said courty de¬ ceased. Torna one half caah, one half twelve months time. Sold for the benefit of said minors, September 9th 1883, John H. Pearce Guardian of Minora Samuel Kenneday. Aug. 25th 1883. I'ABMIB G131: CO‘OEING 5-1-0173, “2;;ch 5% SLAE AND TULL WARRANTED BY B. I s EUFAULA,WMWm ALABBML IUTCrp«p. » v jLLJ JLTto 9 are always their earnings, on the increase and in time become wealthy; these who do not improve their opportunities remain in poverty. We offer a great chance to make money. Wo want many men, women, bovs and girls to work for ns right in their own localities. Any one can do the work prop¬ erly from the first start. The business will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. who Expensive outfit furnished free, hlo one engages fails to makt> money rapidly. Ton can devote your whole time to the work or mation only and your spare that moments. FuH infor¬ all is needed sent free. Ad¬ dress Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. Mar. '24 th-1883-tt. FIBS INSURANCE. Insure your dwellings, Furniture, Merchandise, Gin Houses, and other property. None but first-class Com¬ panies represented. Rates low. J. B. Richardson, Agent. Sept. 2*th-1881-ti mmmwnn Eleven Year OM ! 1872 1883 THE LUMPKIN INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHED IN 1872 BY W.H.HA KRIS0N Strictly a News Pa - per, carefully edited in every Dep artment. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At $1.50 Per Annum ! AS A HOMS PAPEE. Only paper published \n Stewart County, has a fine circulation outside and reaches nearly eveiy family in the County. It gives all local news of Town and County, and official no tices eminating from the Ordinary's and Sheriff’s offices. Brief News Summary of State and National events, Foreign News, with Pithy Editorial Comments on the leading topics of the day. Selected Miscellany and Agricultural articles. \S AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM Lumpkin is the centre of one of the most fertile cotton sections in Geor¬ gia, which makes The Independent valuable aa a distributor of News, and a splendid medium lor advertis¬ ing merchandise of every description. Advertising rates liberal. EVERY ONE SHOULD READ —THE— Telegraph and Messenger. Published Daily and Weekly. It is the leading opponent of the besses, rings and cliques. It takes all the Associated Press dispatches, and has unsurpassed fa¬ cilities for obtaining news from all quarters by mail and wire. The decisions of the Supreme Court are prepared for it by its spe¬ cial reporter and are published the day after they are delivered. Its re¬ ports of these decisions have been pronounced by leading members of the bench and bar inclnding one judge of the Suprebe Court, to be the clearest and best ever published in the State. Its Market Reports are carefully corrected daily and will be found full and reliable. In a word, THE TELECRAPH & MESSENGER is a live, clean, fearless and ccmplcle newspaper. TERMS: Daily one year.. $10 00 Six months...... 5 00 Three months.. 2 50 One month..... 1 00 Weekly one year 1 50 Sexd for sample copies and club rates. Agents wonted in every commnni ty, tS whom liberal commissions will be paid. Address, J. F. HAMS0N, Manager, Macon, Ga. Savannah Weekly News A First-Class Reliable Newspaper One Year, and an Interesting Serial, for $2 00. The well-known Weekly News needs no introduction to the public. For one-third ot n century it has made its regular weekly appearance at thousands of homes throughout this broad land, an ever welcome vis¬ itor. It bis kept pace with the re quiremmts of advanced journalism, and each succeeding year has wit¬ nessed marked improvements, and to-day it ranks with the host week¬ lies published in this country. This mammoth sheet contains 8 pages of reading matter, comprising all the nows of the week, telegraphic dispatches np to the hoar of going to press, agricultural items, original seriais, etc. To the farmer, mechanic or arti¬ san, th# business or professional man, who has not the advantages of a daily mail, the Weekly News is the medium by which be can be inform¬ ed of events transpiring in the busy world, whether in his own State or in the most distant parts of the globe. In addition to a first class news¬ paper at a moderate price, we offer to each yearly subscriber a copy of any of the published novels of the Morning News Library free. Subscription $2 00 a year, in ad¬ vance. J. H. ESTILLr. 3 Whitaker street, Savannah. F^BOVE ALL COMPETITORS k HEWHOME r SIMPLE c-sa 0 n X , O g H •w Cl E ns •SEWING MACH] HE CO N SQUARf NEW Y 0 RK CHICAGO. ILL.*---- MASS. »*e -—ORANGE ATLANTA. GA.-—-— AMD i !• L CRIME’S MILL. I have recently renovated the Vo rns Lower Mill, one mile South East of Lumpkin, and fitted up the Corn Mill with a new rnn of Fine Mill Stones, f nd I am now prepared to grind grain in the most perfect and satisfactory manner. Mr. Fred Ush¬ er, a careful and experienced miller, is still with me, and desires to see all oi his old friends and as n any more as may come, Satisfaction guaranteed to every customer. Corn and wheat ground properly and team promptly louled so as to ivoid delay at the mill. Patronage solicited. RCBT. J. GRIMES. Jan21 . “mm“ . ‘ J PEDIGHEESEEDS Wuluffilfilhlwegansm ' $553153: F th 95° MERCHAN éfifiwlflws SEEDS cggwngay mm LL SEEDS ourselves 0'- ' F r5" nuisane lllml’nlcd Owens and Rim. Register FREE TO ALL. MERCHANTS. SEND US YOUR. BUSINES CARDS FOR. TRADE LIST. DAVID LANDRETH&SON§,SEED 6ROW£R8,PHILAIIEI.PIIIA --illlfl ’i i HP i§| ffp gj to Stranger-" ba littia ‘off.’ X What Sttater aits Civ f ” Ilead, you scoo* a you with Big the Heo4- bora last ,, night, W»lI, and ytt; yon kinder #*© mixr-d.’* I < <,„« Stranger—" li got from tbo looks o| haa<L” appear* co your Big Head-" It don’t M ©sadly like h»«4; 'pears to be kinder 'swelled up,’ and if my it Lai* oi notion Stranger to * bust,’ " end If the wilt pain is terrible.'’ bottle of Baiirr’* - you net n Saline Aperient, one or two Hoses will 'put a Lead on you,’ that your friends would recognise.” Big Bead—" I'll do any thing to get rid of all this pain and suffering." This marvelous remedy enroa thoso terribla head¬ aches, unlocks cleanses the liver, the relievee stomach, constipation onloads at the bow«N. and gives the bile chance to It bos become once, the a go. popular iousness, and sick standard headache, remedy heartburn, for constipation, acid stomach, bil¬ and all diseases requiring a real sice and pleuaut purgative It or physic. gripes, In two hours, never and nauseates nor acts one or drink, that everybody Is just so delightful and refreshing a likes it. It unclouds and cools the brain, quiets tbs nerves, and is a tint qua nee for th® headache of ladies. It mitigates the pangs of rheumatism and gout, relieves kidney and urinary troubles, and pam ia back. For dyspeptics it acts tike a charm, and has no equal in curing a constipated habit. It is merchants, highly rocommended derki, mechanics, lor persons who hands, travel, for dents, teachers and all persons factory who lead closely stu¬ a confined life and ara subject to headache, dirtiness and torpid bovrels. If you are troubled with a coated tongue, foul breath, loss of appetite or gen¬ eral sluggishness, Bailey'a Saline Aperient will cure you. It performs better work than pill*, ia more pleasant and palatable, and ia much cheaper, in fact H ia a regular family medicine chest within itself. It sparkles and foams just like a glass of soda water, and is just as pleasant. 60 cents and sold •very-whera. J. F. Proprietors, Droxooolb & Louisville, Co., Sy. A WOMAN’S REMEDY. At certain ages r.nd periods of woman’s life. there Comes certain troubles, aches, pains and sufferings. girl's These life compfeint* at sixtaen. ana and irregularities follow and jeopardise haunt the married up the woman until after the ** turn of life.” Some have headaches, ewixnming of the head, mental and nervous prostration, blanched cheeks, bloodless lips, lifeless eyes, clouded brain; whila others suffer with painful irregularities, uterint dis¬ placements and nleers, hysterical spasms, physical prostration, chronic leucorrhcea, chlorosis, suppres¬ sions, loss of appetite, ovarian diseases, kidnay affec¬ tions, etc., which in numerous cases end in epileptic tits, convulsions, insanity and death. These ara generally the result of inattention. All females know the class of complaints we allude to. Now, ladies, We have all these troubles can be averted and cured. Dr. Dromgoole'a proof from English thousands. Female Bitten will cura you sound and well—will make you healthy and happy—will mistake. make Sold by you all feel like a new woman Send and no Druggists at 91.00. J,P. Dsomooolx £ CO., Proprietors, Louisville*** EXCEL SIO IR,. •0 ‘NO SHODDY’ CLOTHING; Just .Received ^ G. E. THOMAS. I hare just retained from the North, where I hare purchased a large stock of Spring Clothing. On account of last ef m> year’s constantly stock, I increasing business, and carrying make over very little While 1 sell have been compelled to heavy purchases. at a low margin, I am not one of those so-called merchants who pretend to sell cheaper than any one else, by offering old counter-worn Goods goods that are dear at any ' price. My 3 are new. Handsome, and stylish AND I HAVE * A Large and Attractive Stock to Shoose From. Betides my iramenses stock of ready made clothing, I have several thousand samples of new goeds that I can have made to order at short notice. Grand Opening This Week. Come One, Come All G. E. THOMAS Clothier, Columbus' Columbus, Ga., Octl4-1882. ■t THE PLANET a *. - •« One-Horse Cultivator. How It Works. CERTIFICATES from parties who are using it: Mr. -C, H. Redding : . The Planet, Jr, one-h rse hoe culti¬ vator, bought of you, works like a charm. You need not be afraid to recommend it, for if it will work in my land it will work ■« ay where. I have a two horse crop planted and cau cultivate it easily with one horse and the Planet, Jr. In fact, it is all you recommend it to be. Youra truly, R. M. GILBERT. From a colored man who is culti j vating red land : Mr. Redding: I lost my wrench that belongs to that plow—please »end me auother. I line it splendid. It is just like vou recommended. I would not take nothing for it. Everybody likes it that ever saw it work. I don’t be-< grudge what it cost me. Respectfully, J D DRAPER. C. II. REDDING, Hole Agent, Macon, Georgia. Sept. 8th-1883 It. NOTICE. I have taken charge of my Father’s shops and will continue the Carriage and Wagon Business. Reparring a specialty. Painting done in good style and all work put at low pvices. Will get no any new Job to order on liberal terms. I mean business and hope to receive a liberal share of public patronage. B.F. SURLES. Lumpkin, Ga, May 1, 1883 3m CHB3NELE & CONSTITUTIONAL¬ IST AUGUSTA, GA; The Oldest Newspaper in the South The Chronicle & Constitutionalist is the oldest newspaper in Ihe South, having b:en established in 1785. Tue Chronicle is progressive and liberal in all things and is essentially a fair representative of Southern opinion and a persistent exponent of Southern industries. While free from sensationalism and immorality, it is in no way behind the best of its co¬ temporaries as a purveyor of the news. The .Morning Chronicle & Consti tutionalist is an eight page paper of 48 columus. Price $10 per year; six months $5. The Evening Chronicle & Consti¬ tutionalist is the same size ns the morning paper. The Price is $6 per year ; six months $3. This makes it* the largest ODd cheapest eight page paper in the South. The Sunday Chronicle is a very interesting paper. It is an eight page fifty-six column paper. Price $2 per per year. The Weekly Chronicle & Constitu¬ tionalist is one the largest papers ia the South. It is ten pages and con¬ tains seventy columns of matter. Tries $2 per year ; $1 for six months. Specimen copies seut free. Address, Chronicle &. Constitutionulist, Augusta, Ga. Dissolution Notice. THE FIRM OF W. J. & C. H. W A TT is this day dissolved accord¬ ing to agreement. I will aesu na all its liabilities, and 0 dlect the debts. T1 ose who have c'a'ms against the firm will present to me for payment, and all who are in detled to it, eith¬ er by note or accounts that are due, must make payment to m» only. Thanking the my friends and custom¬ ers. and public generally for their generous confidence and pat¬ ronage for the last fifteen years, I desire to say that I shall continue the WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocery Businiss nt the tame place, and solicit a con t nuance of their support. W. J. WATT. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 25-1 in.