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HJiscrUanrous. LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR. A good wife arose from her lied one morn, And thought with n nervous dread Of the piles of clothes to lie washed, and more Than a dozen mouths to he fed. There are meals to be got for the men in the field. And the children t<lix away To school, and the milk to he -kimnied and churned, And all to he done that day. It had rained in the night, and all the wood Was wet as it could he : And there was pudding and pics to hake | Besides a loaf of cake for tea. The day was hot, and her aching In ad Throbbed wearily as she said— “ If maidens but knew what good wives a know, ■They would be in no hurry to wed.” Bennie, jut do yon think I told Ben Brow maJledjjH vij. iV,*' l '■ irm WSOU T< pu i Ti/i.-.l ’ a court mart Rm to lie ry io make iiim realize hTk R* t *nin*hHsentence was liter vmi ■l.q.-tn in%Ji tlie Fu \we It! i )$ lf.llMi' (( ,heg *" ' * wfite as the foam in lie- sea; Her bread was light, and her butter was f sweet ‘olden as it eouhl he. IPcK' the ehildren all railed in i lut- ru)TXtl..t-i ca ! He Voul™it, I pfjeg'lv li.'nl ! As happy a lmimf Ujic night came ,lr "‘ilie good ■ vtvlfe smiledlhmeilt ■To herself, as KTIs sweet to labor for those we love, not strange 1 1 1:11 maid- w ill wed." ■pHINGTuN I’l lmi lI.D San Francisco < 'ln-onicli [■fia letter purport ing io come HNWashington, and tinted Feb 15, in which the writer says : Wo visited Washington’s tomb R>-day at Mount Vernon, Virginia, pome twelve miles from this city, Lbown the Potomac, and \vc had 'the unusual privilege of beholding the mortal remains of (lit* ininior tal Washington. Visitors to the tomb will remember that the west Lwall of the same has for several 'years been in a falling condition, land in great need of repair. A Huv days since part of it tumbled the tomb, completely cover* the sarcophagus of Washing ton and also that of Martha Wash ington. In order to repair the Vantage in a competent manner, ■t was found necessary l<> remove iiem a few feet from their resting place. The one containing the Kemnins of Martha Washington ?ras removed first, but attracted to attention. Hut tin* unusual weight of the one containing tin 1 remains of Washington aroused the curiosity of the oilicial who was superintending the work of removal, and it was decided to o pen the sarcophagus in order to ascertain the cause. This was done and the remains were found to be petrified; in fact, a solid stone re sembling a statue, the features perfectly natural, with the exeep tion of eyes and ears, no trace of which can be seen. The body is of a dark leathery color, and may be said to be a soft sand stone, which would likely break should an attempt be made to remove ii from the sarcophagus. Edward Baker, an aged colored man, who has resided upon the farm since he was a boy, and who assisted in re moving the remains from the old tomb to the present one, informs us that it is thirty eight years since their last removal. At that time they had rested in the old tomb thirty eight years, and were ex burned in a state of preservation beyond all expectation, being a solid compact mass, with the skin drawn tightly to the bones, petri faction no doubt having common ced its work. The repairs to the tomb will be completed to-day, and the sarcophagus is not likely to be opened again fora century fo come, unless indeed, ifl the case an accident, as in the present Instance, and petrifaction will Pbmplete its work, and the re uns of the immortal Washing then he ;is enduring a- hi- HMTvfry isdttui* ■ —Jqi les R Jour noliu volcanoes. |At the reyplar meeting of the Merican- Geographical Society ■bickering Hall, New York. HakiMHr Daley introduced w In>i :vai, BM „ I tile l Mir, "' remark' upon iu general, their geo and the the >*.• tin of the I’aeitie ML/. *fc- coast of the United (States, show ing their position on a physical map of California, Oregon and Washington Territory. The west ern wall of tlie great Cordinerian or Rocky Mountain system is formed by the chain of the Sierra Nevada, and its northern Contin uation, the Cascade Mountains of < Iregon and Washington Territory, which runs parallel to the present coast line. In former geological periods the Pacific Ocean exten ded up to the western base of the Sierra Nevada, whose geological continuation to the northward is found in flic Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. North of the parrallel of 40 deg. north there is a break in tne continuity of the Sierra Nevada chain, which finds its topographical continuation in i a series of high volcanic peaks, capped with perpetual snow, landing at distances of about fit ly miles apart, and which in Northern Oregon and Washing ton Territory rise out of the very -iimmits of the Cascade Moun tains. These are Lasser's Peak and Mount Shasta in Northern Cali fornia—the former, about ten thousand feet in height, Jormfthe northern extremity of (lie crest of ; the Sierra Nevada; the latter a peak of surpassing grandeur, rises to tut elevation of 14,440 feet above sea level, and stands, as it were isolated. It has two sum mits. the westernmost being a perfect crater, its interior a thou sand feet deep, audits wall a nar row rim of rock about two thous and feet below the main summit. When t lit' railroad reaches its base it w ill no doubt be a favorite re sort of alpine tourists. The prin ciple volcanic peaks of Oregon are M<nmt Pitt, Mount Jefferson and Mount Hood. While the others present outlines of great beauty, raising their snow-white crests above the pine-clad ridges of Oregon, they reach elevations of less than ton thousand feet, and are surpassed in majesty and grace of outline by Mount Hood, which rests upon the summit of the Cascade range, about twenty live miles south of the Columbia River. When first discovered by Vancouver as he sailed up the Co lumbia, it was estimated to he at least 25,000 feel in height. Re cent measurement by the barom eter has reduced tlys to 11,225 feet. It is an exceedingly sharp peak, its summit being formed by a single block of lava, part of the ruin of an old crater, now almost entirely destroyed. Its ascent, though difficult and dangerous, lias been accomplished several times, owing to the fact that its base is of comparatively easy ac cess. The principle volcanic peaks of Washington Territory are Mount St. Helena, Mount Adams, Mount Baker and Mount Rainier. The latter, which is 14, 444 feet in height, is the grandest of all tlu> peaks described. Al though some fifty miles from Pu get Sound, it rises so steeply above I In* gently rising, forest covered ridges that it seems but a few miles distant. Its broad summit is surmounted by three distinct peaks, one of which is the more recent crater. From its sides extend no less than fifteen large glaciers. The speaker gave an interesting description ol an examination of the peak and its surroundings by Mr. Wilson and himself in I*7o in connection with the Government exploration ol’the fortieth parallel. In their first attempt to reach the moun tain their pack-mules were thrown down steep slopes and nearly! killed. After a further circuit of j three days through the fores they , succeeded, by the aid of some In-1 diafis, in reaching the top one ] of the mountains, and cam >etl at it" base near the snow line, on a level with the summit of the Cas cade* Mountains. After having spent ;t fortnight in working from their eaiup, making half the cir cuit of the mount alu and explor ing the glaciers and spurs which radiate out from it. they finally made the ascent of the peak on October 17. The ascent was very dangerous, involving hand and foot climbing on loose rocks, where a single slip would send them to destruction, and proceed-1 ing up a steep ice passage or! chimney, between rock and gla- j eial "serac” where each footstep had to be cut in the solid ice.— Speaking of this part of the climb,, Mr. Emmons said : **The chimney I became constantly steeper, so j that at last 1 could scarcely lean j my body back far enough to clip | the ice in front of me, for fear of toppling over backwards. More- J over, in its windings I could never j see far above me, and when 1 had nearly reached the top I perceiv ed. to my horror, iinbeded in a jjtoni the well: HIM THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE, projecting mass of ice directly over my head, a boulder weighing about two hundred pounds, now about two thirds melted out. All the way up there had been a con stant rain of small pebbles on my head, for the day was at its warm est point. But as I saw this boul der I hesitated a moment, know : ing that its fall while we were in the passage involved inevitable destrution. Fortunately it did not fall while we were in the chim ney, but when we returned from i the summit we looked anxiously for it, and it was no longer there.” The summit was reached at 1 p. m. ; They returned to camp after a month’s absence. Among the new members ad mitted to the society were Corne lius Vanderbilt, E. B Eliott, Wm. ; H. Brewer, A. T. Rice, Christian Boes and Le Grand Lockwood.— y. }\ World. PRACTICAL IDEAS. To be a jjood housekeeper re quires education and practice, but if a woman’s heart is in tlie work she will soon learn, if necessity places the duty before her. When the comfort and prosperi ty of a loved husband renders it necessary to economize and live to the best advantage with small means, a devoted wife will turn her thought and care to the du ties of her home. The help of a good, careful pru dent house-keeper,enables a man to advance his business prospects more than anything else a woman can do. ■ Tlie superficial accomplishments of a boarding school miss are no thing compared to a practical ed ucation in all that pertains to ma king home attractive, and sensi ble men know it. It is very imposing to witness the majestic sweep of yards upon yards of expensive silk flounces and laces into a parlor, bnt, young man, it requires a large income to support so much style. It is delightful to talk to a young lady who knows French, and all the latest novels, and to have a divine creature dispense her best skirmishes of dirt ing with her eyes smiles and fan; but, young man, there oft is but little heart or sin cerity in such practised charms. A girl who lias only a common school education, and the accom plishments taught her by a loving mother, of cooking and all other domestic duties, will be more like ly to make you a good wife. She may not have the most pol ished address; she may not be a ble to entangle you with battal ions of arts aud wiles with which a petted fashionable belle sur round* and captures beaux; but she will prize the love of an hon est heart more, and in truth and j sincerity devote her life to requi ting the love and kindness given ■ her. If your income be only a few hundred a year, a fashionable de votee of style and heart smashing ’ will, in a few years, fret herself into a miserable and discontented wreck, and be a dead weight upon you; while a fresh hearted, do mestic girl, will develope into a blooming matronly woman of sense and responsibility. THE NORTH POLE. Capt. How gate, of the United States Signal Service, has invent ed anew plan for reaching the Nortli Pole, and there is a bill be fore Congress to enable him or somebody else to earn’ it out.— But there is really but one way by which that confounded pole can ever be reached. Take the Na tional Academy of Science and transplant it to the shores of Lady Franklin bay ; then rake the sur rounding country with a fine-tooth comb, so to speak, until you have scraped up, say 500 healthy Es quimaux babies, all boys; pour these babies into the hopper of the institution, and let them be ground out, twenty years hence, full-grown Arctic scholars, thor- j oughly educated and trained for Arctic discovery, and thoroughly inured to all its toils and dangers and difficulties, and when thus trained to the business, if they can’t discover the North Pole, you may then set R down as one of those things which no fellow can find out—and that isn’t worth the trouble when found. HOW TO FEED FOWLS. Fowls are not fed for the mere ! sake of keeping them alive and healthy on the least possible a- j mount of food. We wish to con- j vert the food into flesh, or into eggs. In feeding for quick fat tening, it is understood that poul try should be made to eat as much as possible. Our rule for feeding is to throw out the feed twice a day, as long as the fowls will run aftej it, and no longer. We are told, and it is our own experience also, that fowls thus fed will eat considerably more than if they can go to a feeding-box and help themselves at all times. We want the fowls to eat; the more they eat, within reasonable bounds, the more eggs they will lay, the longer they will lay, and the bet ter condition they will be in.— Laying fowls should take exercise. If they can go to a trough and eat at any time they wish, they will take next to none. If they are fed but twice a day, they will hunt insects and wander much more. If fed soft feed, such as wheat bran mixed with corn meal or ground oats, they will be hungry again in two hours after feeding, and be off after insects, etc. Give feed then only to adult fowls while they will run after it—soft feed in the morning, whole grain in the evening. Keep them supplied with gravel, lime, (plastering, or, better, oyster shells,)ashes to dust in, and fresh pure water, some meat in winter, and they will be healthy and prolific.— American Agriculturist. ttJtf Lkouminoi s crops, as peas, beans, vetches, saintfoin, clover, Ac., all partake of the character of the pea, which may be accept ed as the type of this family of plants. The prevailing mineral constituent of these plants is lime: for this reason they are sometimes called “lime plants.” As we might for this reason expect, these plants flourish most luxuri antly on lime soils, and are culti vated most successfully in lime stone districts. For the same reason, the addition of lime to soils containing but little of this substance greatly favors the growth of these crops. Another mineral constituent required by these plants is sulphur: hence, the addition of some combination of sulphur is generally attended with benefit to a crop of this de scription. A substance well fit ted for this purpose is gypsum, or plaster of Paris. This com pound, as already noticed, con tains sulphuric acid aud lime, and on this account may be regarded as a special manure for legumin ous plants.— Veoleher's Agricul tural Chemistry.] There is a bill before the Virginia Legislature which is go ing to be a big thing for the fi nances of the State when it be comes a law. It provides that a person found with a deadly weap on concealed about his clothes shall be fined not less than S2O, and have his pistol confiscated— one-half of the fine and the pistol going to the informer. Under this law Blodgers will report Snougers to the grand jury for carrying -a concealed deadly weapon, and will take the pistol, with half the fine; on his way home Blodgers wilk be found with a pistol .on him by Podgefs, who will report him and take the weapon, and on j his way heme Modgers will catch j him with a concealed deadly wea- j pon and report him and pocket j the pistol, and then Nodgerv will! “snake in” Modgers in the same ; way, and thus the thing will go : on until from that one pistol the ! State will realize a small fortune. £9* The London Examiner has an article on “The Fashionable Doctor,” which reminds us of the very graphic illustration of the distinction between the city doc tor and the “Louisiana swamp doctor,” as given by one of the last named class. The first quiet ly enters the sick room, draws off his kid gloves, places his hat upon the table or mantel, seats himself by his patient, and feeling his pulse for a moment, says, in a gen tle, sympathetic tone of voice:— “Please inflate your lungs to their utmost capacity ;’’ while the swamp doctor stalks into the room with his pantaloons stuffed in the top of his boots, throws his hat in to a corner, takes a chair at the bed side, and giving his patient a punch in the chest with his fist, exclaims, “Come now, let me see you swell your very d—dest.” tW To walk into a bank and have a forged check for $64,000 cashed, and walk out with the mo ney under your arm, as a fellow did the other day in New York, is about as neat and cheap a way of c-oming into a foitune as could well be devised. But then the disposition on the part of the bank to grumble as soon as it begins to see through the joke, and its lia bility, too, to begin to see through it before you have had time to reach some country where extra dition treaties are considered low flung, are calculated to rob the thing of a good deal of that charm of romance which naturally at taches to it. TIB FIELD 1M) FIRESIDE. BOOK AND JOB Priitiig EstaUisknt! POWDER SPRING STREET, MARIETTA, GEO., BEING FULLY PREPARED WITH NBI4 IMPROVED PRESSES, Also, with the Uteet styles at' Cgpf, Sorkrs, ORNAMENTS, &C. Is prepared to execute EVERY DESCRIPTION or Book & Jol) Printing, IN A NEAT MANNER : Such as Bills of Fare, Programmes, Drug Tickets, Picnic and Ball Tickets, Auction Bills, Hand Bills, Circulars, Deeds, V Invoices, GIVE } BUI Heads, US A J Headings, * I n | TRIAL { * . Patent Tags, i . 'd Bills Lading, I Druggist’s Labels : Promissory Notes, '— , j Cards, Bank Checks, I i' * *N ' * j I Catalogue!*^ Envelopes, <si . v - \ Mortgages. Contracts, AMD EVERY VARIETY 0F BLANKS. Posters, Street Bills, Programmes, Dodgers for Shows, <kc. DONE IN A SUPERIOR STYLE, AND At tfaft wary Lawaa* Rates! tOT Orders by Mail promptly at tended to, and estimates for warded, on application to J. G. CAMPBELL A CO. BRIGHTON ’3I IMMOMITED MW T . .v Superphosphate MADE BY George Upton, Boston, Maes. AND J. C. RAGSDALE'S AMMONIATED [DISSOLVED BONE | PHOSPHATE. These are the Fertilizers so ta vorably known in Georgia as the j UPTON’S and RAGSDALE’S, | equalling, in all tests made, any i other manufactured Fertilizer. i They can now he had at the ' | Old Printing Office Bfilding, I | Powder Spring street. Marietta, Georgia, at mi DOLLIES, COTTON OPTION, Fifteen Cents. March, 1877. E. N. RAGSDALE. Commission House. l i mi HO. DEALERS IN FERTILIZERS, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS Ac. <ke. Ac. HAVE NOW ON SALE, Sterne’s Jimmoniated font Bone Dust, Land Plaster 3tC. At-. Ae. On the best Terms OF THE MARKET. Will take on commission, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY, AC. Adapt*.4 to Chit, locality, advertise and store mr alc in pur tire-proof Ware house. March, 1877. e. t. WITHERS, Ira Folk & Mioii MANUFACTURER OF Steam Engines, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, Improved Sorghum lills, GRIST MILL MACHINERY, RUNNING Gear for Water Wheels, of every size and description; Plans and Specifications for Mill W’ork furn ished free of charge. Also, Manufactu rer of Gold Mining Machinery of latest improvements. Prices to suit the times. All work first class, and guaranteed. And having just built new buildings, and having as good machinery as could be had North, I feel confident that lean defy all competition as to quality of work and cheapness of price. Being a practical mechanic of thirty five years experience, I am not afraid of my abili ty to give satisfaction to all who may feel disposed to patronize me. Marietta, March 13, 1877. Just Received THE RAGSDALE FERTILIZER, at the Old Printing Office Building , NOW IN STORE, And ready for delivery to customers. PRICES REDUCED! The price of the Upton and Ragsdale is reduced tb S7O 00, cotton option fifteen cents. i March 13. E. N. RAGSDALE.