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MI RRAY % .. •; GAZETTE.
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Volume i.
MURRAY COUNTY GAZETTE.
A LIVK WBBKLY PAPER OB MV* ISStJfcS,
LISHKD BVRRY WRDHB8DAY
MORNIMO AT
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY CO., GA.
M. F. BOISCLAIR, Editor.
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conveniently located for Tritv elers arriving on
all trains; More ’elegantly furnished than
hny hotel north df Atla'ntai
BEST TAHLE FARE IN GEORGIA.
fcAEDIAL INDUCEMENTS TO VISITORS
PROM
MURRAY COUNTY. ;
«T, Q,. A. LEWIS, Crirk. Proprietor.
W M. LEW’IS, Ch f
WHERE TO REST, REFRESH) OR SPEND
THE SUMMER-.
Travelers on the Kennesaw Route needing
fcefreshment or rest, or persons wishing a
healthy lbcation) with first-class accommoda
iione, dttring the suimner, should Stop at, or
h idrwe, for terms,
THE DUFF GREEN HOUSE)
Dalton, Georgia.
Dr E. H' L Keister,
Physieian and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Dr. Keister tenders hia professional services
io the citizens of Spting Place and Sttiround
ing country, dnd calls special attention to the
fact that he makes the treatment of PIlBs
specialty, and guarantee's a cflre in every case
that he undertakes. Office at his Drtig Store.
May 12, lfi79.
HANDS WANTED!
TEAMS WANTED"!
I want to employ men to dijg soap-atone ;
rill give regular employment for the year,and
tod k'&n wages by the ton. to
also give regular employment two or
■ee teams to haul soapstone to Dalton from
Amines. Will pay good prices, and pay
for all work dime. For further particu
dy to - W. C. TILTON)
Spring Place, Ga.
SPRING PLACE, GA, Si E 3. 1879.
Clover as a Fertiliter.
the first year; the second v vear
cut it once for fodder; then al
low it erf- o grow again and go to
seed, which is save for future use,
ami there left in the soil of
an acre, to the depth of ten in
ches, <5,580 lbs. clover roots,
which contains. 77 lbs. potash,
^ soda, ;±o lbs. magnesia,
246 lbs lime, 71 lbs. phospho
ric acid, 21 lbs. sulphuric acid,
180 lbs, nitrogen, available for
a crop which, when plowed,
leaves the land clear, light re
tentive of moisture, and easily
tilled, with available constitu
soil enough to produce any crop
profitable and feilillissers the necessity of
purchasing plying them is and ap
saved. The
farm is made, as it should be,
self-supporting be done by but judicious it can only
so a rota
tion of crop... If this is not re
sorted to, fertilizers, which are.
much more costly, must be sup
plied. The constituents in clo
ver roots above, amounta in
ue, izers at prices calculated commercial fertil
are • at, to $85-.
tT for tt« or ic
mn w if 5 Oiehts,
Irliidi Se equally as important
to the growth ot crops.—A. 11
Ward. V . :
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Marriage ExtkaoRiUNaRy.
Last week, at Franklin, Wedding Ohio,
a novel place arid interesting
took in tile court room.
Mr. Ed. Wilsoti arid Mrs, Hettie
Danforth were the the happy coup¬
le. What made crise^ more
interesting Was, just tell minutes
before Mrs, Danforth Was gran¬
ted a divorce from her husband,
Charles Danforth, As soon as
the divorce was forward granted Mr. and
Wilson stepped Danforth’s and
took Mrs-. arm,
requested Judge Hol'd to make
them liUsband and Wife, Which
request lie promptly complied
with 1
A Mr. Hightower, while fish¬
ing in Bosque a short time ago,
discovered an animal which he
described as being about the
size ot a dog, with a head like
a mule, bright eyes-, largo ears,
body like a lion, spotted like
a leopard-, feet like a hog* and
it carried its tail curled over its
back like a dog.
No doubt Mr. Sabbath HightoWer school Wa^s
som mb truant
scholar, and this his the first tempting visit
on the Sabbath to
brook, with “tanglefoot” for a
cor^anioth—T lxas Herald.
An },ast Yeiinesaee Snake Story.
mm 50 ^ account of a Lou-
8 well digger who
W9R.- 1 boon clean
o out a
well, and proceeded to the work.
™. i he windlass . T1 , let down the
man
box to thq bottom, and he com
meiieed th| examination. lie
was, wadin % around in the wa
ter looking * for obstructions,
^discovered, , . , , he thought
as
an root > took hold of l4 >
pulled, and when it come to the
top, it proved to be a large
moccasin. His hold on the rep
tile was about seven inches from
the .># He lts . proceeded brams out at
thh and to his great terror,
saw dozens of great reptiles
with their heads sticking out
0 f the Wall, ’ hissing with their
JWJW . ■ % tI H « cned . alo,lu ^
br %box to bring him , . up,
and-refinested the windlass man
to pf 1 L for life. The party
n. the mouth of Pond
rl
i? 1 * $^ w ° r|u ' i • * :
■
iBR thei Wbat of it ? Is it ‘
a disSiace« D she any less a
true WGUaii, less Worthy of re¬
spect than she Who sits idle in
fine clot te*,. vain of fingers that
never lalior? “Does her work.”
We listened to this sneer a few
days ago, and the tone in which
it Was litjered betoken a narrow,
ignolfielmnd, better fitted for
any place than a country whose
insMitions rest on honorable
labor as one of the chief corner
stones It evinced a false idea
of trile Womanhood, of genuine
nobility. It showed the detes
tible spirit of caste, of rank,
which a certain class try to es¬
tablish—a caste whose
foundation is money. Position
in -flieir rank is bought with
gold, and each additional dollar
is another round in the ladder
by whftb elevation is gained.
Since the discovery of the
counterfeit $20 legal tender
IKM executed with the pen,
three others similarly executed
have been passed upon New mer¬
chant istife city of Or¬
leans. Each otie showed such
radical differences Aeavdyno from the oth¬
er as t<> doubt but
that they the result of
work- •» f
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NUMBER 35.
GENERAL.
Auburn, Cal., had frost on
the 7th.
Hugging societies are the
rage in Auburn, Cal;
Two negroes were hung at
Augusta Ga., the 9tli.
There are seven murderers
in the San Antonia, Texas jail.
Ben. Hill made a .rousing
speech in the Senate Saturday.
A Clayton county mail has a
chicken with two beaks and
three eyes.
Too many men brace up their
constitution by leaning against
the bar of a drinking: saloon.
Several million feet of lum¬
ber and tliirty-tliqee Clinton, buildings
were burned in' Iowa.
The horse fLat caused the
death of Gus. Anderson, of Ma¬
rietta, has been sold to the Gyp¬
sies.
Criminals at the rate of four
a day are increasing the popu
lation qf tlie *-■......’t' 8au A^Aiia, Tex*
jtifGpv 7 '
- The smaller the girl the lar¬
ger the wax doll necessary to
appease her incipient maternal
affection.
Paris has 65,000 lipuses, tjlaii Lon¬
don 460,000 more Paris,
Berlin,! Vienna, aue Sew Vo|k
combined. ;
The average annual increase
of population hi Texas for the
last five years is 250,000 during
that period.
will The Atlanta out in Daily full bloom Dispatch the
come
firk of June. Subscription ou
ly $6.00 a yean
The prospect ot the corn and
cotton crop in Mississippi is
promising. The planters are
busy and hopeful.
One negrojkilled another in
Savannah on Sunday afternoon
by hitting him in the pit of the
stomach with his fist.
A Texas lady, married five
years, recently went north with
nine children, aud couldn’t ex¬
plain it except on the basis of
‘Texas water.”
A Sumter county negro cuts
from five to eight acres of
wheat per day. He is nearly
seven feet tall, aud can make a
“Bweep” of t re ieet.