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Agricultural Department, A Few Hints for May. We presume each farmer lias al ready planted his corn, and most, if not all, bis eotton seed for his main crops. The fanner has already de- eided upon the width of his rows, &c. The question now is, how to make the greatest yield of both. The first thing' we would suggest, if you have more ground planted than you can manage well, is throw’ some out if it is already planted, and push on when the weather admits of it, with the Hints for the Farmers. Many farmers have never applied lime to* their lands, but many are a waking to the importance of using it. Many have used nothing but barn yard manure. With the exception of that and some of the commercial fer tilizers, lime is the most important one that can be used. The precise nature of its action upon the soil is not w’ell understood. Many believe, however, that it furnishes direct food, and acts chemically upon the soil, decomposing and rendering the mat ter of which it is composed available balance. Success depends upon the for plant food. Lime is found in va- ,-wift extermination of all weeds and grasses, which are contending with the plants for the absorption of the fertilizing properties of the soil, wheth- er manured or not. It is an old say ing that if a man does not keep up with his business it will get ahead of him; the meaning of which is, he w ill be successful if he keeps up w ith it, and unsuccessful if he does not. The fanner is in a bad fix who is struggling to clean one acre of the grass, which is nearly as high as his corn, or cotton, while all his other acres are in the same condition. As a general rule much rain falls in the spring months, and it makes the grass grow as fast as the corn or cotton. With a good preparation of land the cotton comes up as thick as hops in termixed with a modicum of grass. Then is the time to keep the advan tage on the side of the cotton. When tlie latter is two or three inches high, all hands should work as if life de pended upon it; success certainly does. Leisure work, mere play-work then, will cause the laborer to shed many a useless and unprofitable gal Ion of sweat at a later period. The grass will get the mastery so com pletely that it will kill the cotton to exterminate it. Some in despair get out of tin* gross by abandoning the field. This is the month to conquer this enemy of the farmer. Swift, vig orous effort, now, will clean the crop. How delightful it is to the cultivator to look over his fields decked with the green growing plants of corn and cot ton, with scarcely a sprig of grass to contest their supremacy. This is the true farmer’s victory. But his work does not end here. He must work on and keep ahead until the crop is laid by to take care of itself. As eternal vigilance is the price of. liberty, so constant exertion is the price of agri cultural success. These remarks ap ply with equal force to the garden. A garden should be a rich place wdiere weeds and grass delight to grow. All of them should he exterminated at once. The seed of a single one of va rious kinds w’ould soon fill a garden, if allowed to ripen. Destroy them as soon as they show’ themselves above the ground. A garden should be hoed and cleaned up at least once a w r eek, and this can be easily done if it is kept clean from the start. If you have not sowed peas within the last two weeks, sow now at once, for a succession and so of all the oth er most valuable vegetable seed. Peas of the early kind should be plan ted in tins month for a succession. The Blue Imperial, tall Marrofats, and other iate kinds will not be readv for the table before the approach of very warm weather. Snap Beans, squash, radish, beet, leak, okra, vege table oyster, parsnip, carrot, cucum ber. cabbage, spinach, egg plant, let tuce seed, melons of all kinds, sweet- potato sprouts, early turnips, Irish potatoes and corn, may all be sown or planted in this month, but the sooner, the better for most of them. Pollard seed should be sown by the middle of this month, also late cab bage seed to make plants to be set out in June for fall and winter use. Keep every article now growing, well worked, water freely in dry weather, collect the water in tubes or barrels in rhe morning, and apply late in the af ternoon. If you have a flower garden pay due attention to that also, if you delight in the richest tints and the sweetest aromas. rying proportions in all cultivated crops, and these proportions are vis ibly affected by the character of the soil, the same plant in different soils showing a marked difference in the quantity it contains.- All cultivated soils, perhaps, contain lime in suffi cient quantity to meet the wants of crops if the amount present in plants were all that were necessary. But the fact that burned lime and plaster of paris have been found as useful upon limestone land as upon any other, sufficiently demonstrated that its chemical action is of vastly more importance than the supplying of this element of its growth. Whether lime would be useful upon soil, or not, must generallv be ascer tained by trial. We believe, with very rare* exceptions no mistake will be made in applying it in proper quantities, and therefore the test can be made without fear of evil conse quences. Where land is naturally sour, lime is the specific in every case. On heavy clay soils its action is excel lent. It renders them friable and more easily worked. On lands con taining undecomposed organic mat ter, an application of lime is always in order, for reasons before stated. Reclaimed lands, such as swamps and low lands, are examples of land con taining much undecomposed matter, and where lime is particularly valua hie. Dry sandy soils are benefitted because it renders them more com pact and better able to retain moist ure. It not only decomposes dead matter, but it kills and transforms in to a valuable fertilizer, the living in sects in which most soils abound. In short, lime is almost as universally a useful agent as even the time-honored b^m-yard manure itself. In regard to its application there is no difficul ty. It must be well burned, reduced to as fine a state as possible, sown on the ploughed soil, and harrowed in. The reduction to a fine state is accomplish ed by slacking it with water, and this should not be done until the ground is ready to receive it. Air-slacked lime is not near so fine, and, besides when it is exposed to the air, thus for a length of time it is rendered far less active by the carbonic acid, which it absorbs from the atmosphere. The amount to be applied is a variable quantity. As a rule heavy applica tions are to be avoided. It is better to put on a little, and put it on often, than to give overdoses at long inter vals. Light soils require a less quan tity than heavy, cold or sour soils. Twenty-five bushels per acre for the former, running up to fifty and one hundred bushels for the latter, are sufficient in almost any case. Discussions of health will never cease. The laws of hygiene are sim ple enough. If children were taught to eat slowly and masticate wholesome food they would have no dyspepsia when grown to manhood or woman hood. Meals are swallowed with out proper preparation for the stomach, and that patient but vindictive organ becomes a devil instead of a friend. But good advice is seldom taken, and doctors and medi cal men are entitled to a living. Health Suggestions.—Half a tea spoonful of common salt dissolved in a little cold water and drank will in stantly relieve “heartburn” or dys pepsia. Dr. Vigorous recommends a glass of hot lemonade every hour or half hour, as an easy, agreeable and efficient treatment for diarrhoea. Nev er wash the feet in warm water except just before retiring. Cold water with a little ammonia or salt dropped in is much pleasanter, and more healthful, j Coarse brown paper soaked in vine- j gar and placed on the forehead is good for a sick headache. If the eye lids are gently bathed in cool water, the pain in tlie head is generally al layed. ^ A Captain’s Fortunate Discovery Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City and N. Y., had been troubled with a cough so that he was unable to sleep, and was induced to try Dr. King’s New Discov ery for Consumption. It not only gave him instant relief, but allayed the extreme soreness in his breast. His children were similarly affected and a single dose had the same happy effect. Dr. King’s New Discovery is now the standard remedy in the Cole man household and on board the schooner. Free Trial Bottles of this Standard Remedy at C. L. Case’s Drug Store. POWDER Absolutely Pure! This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness.’ More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold In competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans, Royal Baking Powder Co., 106WaiLSt. New York. 15 11m JCORDIAL Ac - FOR THE BOWELS ^CHILDREN TEETHING It is THE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY for the bowels. It is ono of the most pleasant and efficacious remedies for all summer complaints. At a season when violent attacks of the bowels are so frequent, some speedy relief should be at hand. The wearied mother, losing sleep in nursing the little one teething, should use this medicine. 50 cts. a bottle. Send 2c. stamp to Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., for Riddle Book. Strawberries. if is a good plan to cover the young \ :ues with straw, as the finest berries are obtained from as little exposure to the hot rays of the sun as possible. To cover the young vines with straw, through which they can come, is the best plan that can be adopted to ob tain large and delicious berries. At the same time, however, they require same stimulating fertilizer* without exposure to the hot. rays of the sun. Perhaps the best fertilizer is the ni trate of soda applied in a liquid form at the rate of 100 to 150 pounds per a< j e. The. writer found, also, that Mr. J. H. Madrid of ward one, gives an interesting account of a fight that took place upon his farm, between a black snake and a mother rabbit, who was protecting her young from the fatal attentions of the snake, in which the rabbit came out victorious and saved her young after a two-hour struggle with her snakeship. The mode of madam rabbit’s warfare was to stand upon lier “after beam” and slap Mr. Snake over with her forelegs whenever he made an onslaught. The Natchitoches Review’s fish story falls into insignificance before • this rabbit and snake story; but we have Mr. Madrv and several other witnesses whose testimony cannot be impeached to prove that our story is no story at all, but pure unvarnished facts.—La. Democart Tribune. Abolish the Evil Altogether.— The bill for the nominal abolishment of Imprisonment for Debt, now on its way through the Legislature, does only partial work. It still retains enough of abominable evil to render it certain that Ludlow Street Jail will still remain full of unfortunate vic tims. It provides for imprisonment where fraud is practised in incurring a debt, for personal damages and in some other cases. But right here is the root of the evil. If a debtor is guilty of fraud or false pretence let him be punished for the offense under the criminal law. til* application of a murtuY^YaVami j J™?? f 1 ps-rsci. has injured another half, of Peruvian and Phoenisa gua' ■ !fLL" ■ b - sub J ect -imprisonment greatly increased the quantity of "" the fruit and ’ ~ ‘ -i Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mnllein will cure Coughs, Croup, and Consumption. Price 25e. and Ji a bottle. . Dec. 15th, 1S35. 23 ly OH! MY BACK Erery strain or cold attacks that weak back and nearly prostrates yon. BROS". ^ “ ’ Georgia Railroad Company. STONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER, Augusta, Ga., April 17th, 1886. Commencing Sunday, IStli instant, the foliow- ingpassenger schedule will be operated. Trains run by 90th Meridian time-'’ N018—EAST (dally). Leave Macon 7:10 a m LeaveMilledgevilie 9:19 am Leave Sparta 10:41 a m Leave Warrenton 12:00 noon Arrive Camak - 12:15 p m Arrive Washington. 2:20 p m Arrive Athens 5:30 p m Arrive Gainesville 8:25 p m Arrive Atlanta 5:50 p m Arrive Augusts, 3:35 p m NO 17—WEST (daily). LeaveAugusta 30:50 a m Leave Atlanta 8:00 a m Leave Gainesville 5:55 am Leave Athens 9:00 a m Leave Washington— 11:20 am LeaveCamak 1:36 pm Arrive Warrenton 1:50 pm Arrive Sparta 3:04 p m Arrive Milledgeville ■4:20 p m Arrive Macon 6:15 pm NO 16—EAST (daily.) Leave Macon 7:35 pm LeaveMilledgevilie 9:30 p m Leave Sparta 10:48 p in Leave Warrenton ; 12:01 a m ArrtveCamak 12:10 a m Arrive Augusta 6:00 am NO 15—WEST (daily.) Leave Augusta 9:40 p m LeaveCamak 1:18 am Arrive Wprrenton 1:33 am Arrive Sparta 2:57 am Arrive Milledgeville 4:27 am Arrive Macon... (6:46 a m No connection for Gainesville on Sundays. The Fast Trains does not stop at Camak. Trains will, if signaled, stop at any regular scheduled flag station. Close connections at Augusta for all points East, and Southeast, and at Macon for all points In Southwest Georgia and Florida. Superb improved Sleepers between Macon and Augusta. Superb Improved Sleepers between Augusta and Atlanta. JNO. W. GREEN, General Manager. E. R. DORSEY. General Passenger Agent. JOE W. WHITE, General Traveling Passenger Agent. Money Makes the Mare f; —AND— Money Buys Groceries Cheap! —AT. THE— GREEN STORE! We buy for Cash and sell the same way. If you want your to go a long ways, be sure to go to WHITE & TREMOR S. If your cow is hungry send to WHITE & TREANOR for Bran r, haye nocow send to them for the finest Butter in the city. Nic« 1 bn I Shoulders and white Meat cheap as the cheapest. Lard in 3, 5. 10 20 lb. Buckets; also m Tierces, at bottom prices. Nothing but water * Meal sold at WHITE & TREANOR’S. Nice lot smoked Pork SausJ? 0 ^ M C i e eu ed * i ^ EJ our the best ever brought td this city M seU the celebrated Wade Hampton Flour. In Fancy Flour, Tube R? ^ Cadet, we will suit you. Extra Family, Odd Trump ‘and Moss Rose are t Coffee from 10c to 35c per lb. Fresh Rice, New Grits. The & of Buckwheat m the city and Maple Syrup that will make your mouth?> Chow Chow Pickies loose, any quantity; also, in bottles. We sell best Teas, green and black. Full line Spices and Extracts. Cigars a, 5 to bacco our specialty. Canned Goods, Candy, Crackers and Cheese. d ^ in fact you can get anything nice you may want at the GREEN STYm* All goods delivered promptly and free of charge to any part of the city ° Kl XT , WHITE & TREANOR Feb, 9th, 1836^°' 17 S ° Uth Way “ 6 Stree ^- • • -MILLEDGEVILLE, I.. 811,. Erick! Erick! Erick! 1,000,000 FIRST-CLASS BRICK for SAD« or Centrai Eaaroa " s ' ^ First-Class Paving Brick a Specialty, ke?ya a rd makiDfir BriCk With the lat6St Improved Machinery, on the celebrated cf R ! I BRICK DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF TOWN P te^nt takepleaSUreinrefeiTinfftoMai ’ J ’ FUSS ’ Archi tect and Building Supers 1 foster & mcmillan, 1 Milledgeville, Ga.,June 10th. 1885. Contractors and Builders. I Central and Southwestern Railroads. [All trains of this system are run by Standard (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minutes slower than time kept by City.J Savannah, Ga., Nov. 15, 1885. N AND AFTER THIS DATE, PAS SENGER Trains on the Central and Southwestern Railroads and branches will run as follows: GOING NORTH. LUMBER! LUMBER!! I have moved my Saw Mill into a fine lot of timber, six mhea south of Milledgeville, and am prepared to fill orders promptly f 0 > any and ’ J All kinds of Lumber at the Lowest Prices, in any quantity, notice. April 6th, 1886. Will fill orders and deliver lumber on short W. H. H. BARNES, 39 3m Agricultural Implements —AND—, 0 ] BEST TONIC not re- a<Mi‘<i to ft its size. But. Tlie nitrate of soda is a special fertil izer for sn aw berries, and it is cheaper Than the guanoes. Doubtless well decomposed stable manure is an ex cellent application for these berries, ihe bed of. young vines should be covered three or four inches thick with the straw. This keeps them cool and moist. If the weather is hot and dry a free application of water (not not water) every day or two, is use- tub As the vines come up through the straw the fruit is protected agamst a mixture with sand. This plan we know from experience is much better both for quantity of irmt and exemption from sand or'dirt, than the usual way of growing this luscious and wholesome fruit. L\ ery farmer should aim to raise all the possible products of the climate for his owu use. Herein lies tlie inde pendence of farm life. He grows every supply for his table, so far as ins soil and climate admits, under his own eyes. He is dependent on no one for the necessities of life, or even for the luxuries of his table. Because you have but a short dis tance to go is no reason why you can drive faster or put on a heavier load than usual. To go two or three miles at too rapid a rate, is much harder upon a horse than it would be to go five times as far if it was properly driven, under the Penal Code if he i sponsible in money damages. Unless every vestige of law that warrants imprisonment for debt uu- ! der any circumstances is swept away, cruel creditors and unscrupulous law yers will find some method of stretch ing the law to meet their cases. Ludlow Street Jail is no longer sub ject to its old abuses. Under Sheriff Grant honest practices prevail there. But the Sheriff has no control dyer the law which throws the unfortu nate and defenseless into prison. We are told of the case of an unfor tunate Italian, Michele Negri byname, who has been in Ludlow Street Jail for several weeks on affidavits made by a man who lias a suit for $2,500 damages against him. The case has not been tried. There is no judgment against the prisoner. Yet he is held, and his own counsel says that “his case cannot be reached until next De cember.” Hoxv can such an outrage as this be perpetrated under the present laws, which -were pretended to be anti-im prisonment for debt statues? Sweep the abominable evil out of sight altogether. That is the only safe and humane policy to pursue.— N. Y. World. “Most of these hair preparations don’t work,” writes Mr. J. S. Burdick, of St. Louis, “but Parker’s Hair Bal sam is an honorable exception. My hair was thin and prematurely gray. The Balsam made it brown again and soft as in my boyhood.” 43 lmo. Strengthens the Muscles* Steadies the Nerves* Enriches the Blood, Gives New Vigor, Db. J. L. Mtkks, Fairfield, Iowa, paya; “ Brown’s Iron Bitters is the beet Iron medicine I have known in my 30 years’ practice. I have found it specially beneficial in nervous or physical exhaustion, and in all debilitating ailments that bear so heavily on the system. Use it freely in my own family.” Mb. W. F. Bbowh, 637 Main St., Covington. Ky., says: “I was completely broken down in health ana troubled with pains in my back. Brown’s Iron Bitters entirely restored me to health.” Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BKOWN CHEMICAL CO.* BALTIMORE, MIL Leave No. 51. Savannah D Arrive No. 51. Augusta D Macon D Atlanta D Columbus D Perry D E S 8.40 a. m.. 3.45 p m.. 4.20 p m.. 9.35 p m. 3.42 a m. April 6, 1886] 39 cw. iy- DON’T YOU USE » > WHY i,i r COFFEE And stop worrying every morning over a poor article. GROCERS SELL IT. Send 10c. In stamps for a complete set of I.evering's New Cards (60 original designs). E. LEVERING & CO.. BALTIMORE, MU. May 4th, 1686. 43 3t. The Mirror is no flatterer. Would you make it tell a sweeter tale? Magnolia Balm is the charm er that almost cheats the looking-glass. No. 53. D S.10 p m No. 53. D 0.15 a m . D 3.20 am D 7.32 a m D 2.15 p m 8.45 p m D E S 12.05 p m Fort Gaines. DES 4.38 p m Blakeley DES 7.10 p m Eufaula D 4.00 p in Albany D 10.45 pm.. D 2.45 p m Montgomery.. D 7.25 p rn Miliedgeviile DES 5.49 pm Eatonton —DES 7.40 p m Connections at Terminal Points. At Augusta—Trains 51 and 53 con nect with outgoing trains of Georgia Railroad, Columbia, Charlotte and Augus ta Railroad, and South Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with outgoing train on Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. Train 51 connects with trains for Sylvania, Wrights- ville and Louisville. At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 53 connect with Air Line and Kennesaw routes to all points North and East, and with all di verging roads for local stations. COMING SOUTH. As the prosperity of every country depends upon the success! of agriculture, and realizing the necessity of thet horough breakin* of land and cultivation of the crop, I have supplied myself with a large lot of two and one horse Plows of the best makes, consists of tlie Syracuse, Benton & Harbor, White’s Clipper, Meikle’s • Blue Pony and the Boss, and I also have a large lot of Steel Plows, Hannan and Southern Plow Stocks, single and double, and farming implements generally. To all who use Guano, I would recommend the Chesapeake or Pendleton Goods! And to all who would like to have a Pump put in their wells, I would recommend the Buckeye Force Pump, which mvself and man} others have been using with perfect satisfaction for some tnije All who wish to supply themselves with any of the abovo articles will do well to call and examine my stock and get my prices before buying elsewhere. 29 ly Milledgeville, Ga,, Jan. 26th, 1886. Leave—Nos. Augusta.. 18 D Macon 52 D Atlanta....52 D Columbus 20 D Nos. 9.30 am..20 D 9.30 pm 9.40 a m. .54 D 10.50 p m 6.00 am.. 54 D G.50 p m 9.00 p m.. 6 D 11.10 am May 4. 1880. lm. Perry 24 D E S 6.00 a m.. 22 D E S 3.00 p m Ft. Gaines 28 “ 10.05 a m Blakeley 26 “ 8.15 a m Eufaula 2 D 10.55 am Albany 4 D 4.10 a m. .26 D 12.15 p m Montg’ry 2 D 7.30 a m Mill’dg’ve 25 D E S 6.87 am Eatonton 25 D E S 5.15 am Arrive—No. No. Savannah.52 D 4.07 pm..54 D 5.55am Connecfions at Savannah with Savannah* Florida and Western Railway for all points in Florida. Local Sleeping Cars on all Night Pas senger Trains between Savannah and Au gusta, Savannah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Macon and Columbus. Tickets for all points and sleep ng car berths on gale at the ticket office, No. 100- Mulberry street, and at the Union Depot, Macon, Ga., 30 minutes prior to the leav ing of all trains, WM. ROGERS, G. A. WHITEHEAD, Gen.Supt., Sav, Gen. Pass. Agt. Sav. T. D. Kline, . • A. C. Knapp. Supt. Macon. Agt. Macon. • W. F. Shellmax, Traffic Mang’r., Sav. “D” daily' ‘D E S,” daily except Sunday. CAMPBELL’S ONE SPOON Baking Powder! For-sale by C. L. CASE, Druggist. Milledgeville, Ga*, Jan. 26. ’86. 43 1 Midville, Ga., 9| C. R. R., —MANUFACTURE— Yellow Pine Lumber, ^ Of Every Description, Rough and Dressed. Framing Lumber, Ceiling, Flooring, Weatherboarding, Staves, Shingles, Laths, Fence Pickets. VEGETABLE AND FBUIT CRATES. connected with U j?tea iu Saw and Planing Mills in Emanuel Countv, Midville by Private Railroad and Telephone Lines. April 6th, 1886. 39 6m. LANDRETH’S Seed Potatoes! EAP.LT EOSE, PEERLESS, . GOODRICH, . at the Drug Store of C. L. CASE. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 23, 1886. [Spectacles and Eye-Glasses Wool Carding 1 . T AM prepared to do Wool-Carding i at my place, at Scottsboro. Wool sent to my address at Milledgeville, Ga., will be promptly carded and re turned. All persons shipping wool to me should, also, mark plainly their own name and address on the package, so that no mistake can be made in re turning carded wool. A. CORMANNI. Milledgeville, Ga., March 2, 1885. tf THE “PEEPERS” “OUR BOOM” 1 “PRINCE EDWARD,” all favorite -brands of Cigars, at 5 cts. at C L CASE’S Drug Store. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 20,1830. 43 ly OLD EYES MADE NEW! A N astonishing announcement which will please the people, is that JOSEPH MILLER has the largest, and one of the best select ed stocks of “King’s Combination” Specta cles and Eye Glasses, in the State of Geor gia. \v e have studied to supply the need of every eye requiring assistance, and with our large stock and long experience) we guarantee to fit the eye Call and see them in prices ranging from 25c to 83.00. •JOSEPH MILLER, . The Jeweler and Optician- Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 5,1880. 20 tf Onion Sets At C. L. CASE’S Drug Store. D-o U QIGARETTES and Cigarette holders at C. L. CASE’S Drug Store. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26,1S8G. 43 iy Harrison’s Combined Writing and Copy ing Fluid for sale at this office.