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MI RRAY % .. •; GAZETTE. 0W 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. H. C. HOLCOMB, Publisher, Subscription.* Fifty cents a year. Invari¬ ably in advance. LAWYERS. Wm. Luffmak W. D. HaRbis. LUFFMAN «fc HARRIS, ATTORNEYS *AT LAW , SPRING PLACE, GA. Will attend faithfully to rfll business entrust¬ ed to their care. OpPichi- On Pub lie Square South oi Court-house. LEATHER DEALERS. jrpreoLE,- LEATHER, SHOE AND HARNESS SHOP. SPRIN G PLAC lii, GA. Keeps ROOTS constantly SHOES, qn band & full line of Attn HARNESS SADDLES abb COLLARS, OR filS OWM MARK. MERHANTS. l. s. oatis & BRO., ^SPRING PLAtir, 0*L.,| dry-goods, GROCERIES, BOOTS :;sHOES,tAND HARNESS. Prepared to fill promptly all order* in,this line. Satisfaction guaranteed to , J>AY ’ SCi,IK)r _ 4Y * SCHOI ' 10 WmTKrtA’Jt.. < .......... t -Ong Charts, €beiip lif I3«af Cluster, Maps> Model wi Pales¬ tine, [in Iron,] Blackboards) and* verv ex tensire liufi of Sunday r -school jRe^uisifcos. iTour.nals, Lesson Leaf-, and other IVlliteliaii- periodicals. Don’t forget the ntimber, llO tetreet'. HITCHCOCK A WALDEN. HOTELS. !* 1 ' i. , NATIONAL 'HOt EU 1 ’’ DALTON, GA.)* . j. Q. a; lsVis,* 1 pro^ristor. depot. Mosj Directly in front 6 paSscngei 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 . : . 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 ■ J 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.