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IN THE OLD PRINTING OFFICE
Building, Powder Springs Street, Mari
etta, Georgia.
JOHN O. GARTRELL, Attorney
at Law, practices in Cobb and adja
eentJcounties. Office in Masonic Build
ing. upstairs. Marietta, Oct. 10, IS7B.
WM. T. WINX. Wil 1.. .J. WINN.
WT.&W.J. WINN, Attorney*
• at Law. March 13,1877. lv
"\\T |M.SESSIONS, Attorney'at Law,
W office north side of Public Square
iin Blackwell’s Building, up stairs.
M arietta. October 1, 1877. lv'
E. M. ALLEN, lies Unit
Dentist, of more than twenty
' 'J-iULiX? {years. Charges Reasonable.
(irricR —North side, of Public Square.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. lv
Dll. Cr. TENNENT, Practicing
physician. Office on Cassville St.
—Residence on Cherokee street.
Marietta, March 13,1877. ly
Dll. E. J. SETZE, PhytlcUin and
tiara eon, tenders his professional
services in the practice of Medicine inall
its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at the
Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 13-ly
DA T. B. IRWIN, Attorneys at
. Law Will practice in the Blue
Ridge, Rome, and Coweta Circuits.
Marietta, March 13, 1878. ly
W. . I*OWK. H. M. IIAMMKTT.
POWEII &;HAMMETr, Attor
neys at Laic, Marietta, Ga. Will
practice in tlie Courts of Cobh aud.adja
. cent counties. Collecting a specialty, ly
Phillips* crew, wholesale
and retail dealers in Books Station
iery, Sheet Music and Musical Instru
i meats. 8 <fc 10 Mariettast. Atlanta, Ga.
/\ Satzky, Merchant Taylor, under
Jt\.o National Hotel, Atlanta Ga.
YXT -A-. Haynes, (at Phillips &
W|r Crows,) Jewelry, Atlanta Ga.
Flf. llart, 30 S. Broad St. Atlan
, ta, Ga. See Advertisemetin this
paper.
3 jiRUIT J ARS—Pints, Quarts and
: Half Gallons; .JELLY GLASSES,
ivxtra Jar Caps and Rubbers, Cement
(gad Sealing Wax, for sale by
may 33 WILLIAM ROOT.
RUEDE te QUEEN,
Watchmaker Jewellers,
MARIETTA, QEOROIA.
ALSO, dealer in Clocks of every de
scription. Repairing of Watches,
Clocks, etc. a specialty. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Sign of Big Watch, west
side Public Square. oct 2
NEW CARRIAGES and Buggies,
Wagons and Harness on hand.
All kinds of Vehicles built or repair
ed. Work guaranteed. Orders solicit
ed. 111)11) A(IRA M LiNG.
CONTRACTOR
AND
ni’ILDKIi.
npllE undersigned.continues hisbnsi
-1 ness of Brick Making, Stone and
jßriek Building, and is prepared at any
time to take contracts on the most reas
onable terms, and to execute them in the
most satisfactory manner.
11. B. WALLIS.
Marietta, Mqrch 13, 1877. ly
OREER i ~RE YN 01 jI) S,
Dentists.
WEST RIDE OF TIIK PUBLIC SQUARE
Rooms overM’Clatehey’s Store.
IT gives us pleasure to inform our
friends that we have returned from
our Philadelphia trip where we have?
been working solely in the interest ot
our profession. Again we tender our
.services to our friends and the public
generally, confident that witii the lat
est appliances and most improved in
struments, with all other improvements,
f fathered regardless of expense ortrou
>le, we can do work as satisfactorily
and efficiently as can he clone elsewhere.
Marietta, Ga., March 5, 1878
MARIETTA SAVINGS BANK.
.JOHN K. WINTERS, President.
11. C. BURXAP, Vice President.
A. VAN WYCK, Cashier.
Notes Discounted.
Exchange Botight and Sold.
SAGE’S CATARRH REMEDY for
sale by
sept ltl ‘ B. R. STRONG.
•‘Appearenees are something with
everyone—everything with some.” —
[Bishop Berkley.
1857. 1878.
Tno. W. Metcalf, respectfully in
forms the citizens of Marietta and
vieinity, that he is better prepared than
ever to do anything in the Tailoring
line, guaranteeing his patrons faithful
work at moderate prices. sepl9 ly
lit mvErTstirib!
REDUCED PRICES!
Atlanta Street, near Blacksmith Shop.
Marietta, Georgia.
and. SPII.MAN has just
J|jEfer2sjßMLoj><-noil near Barker and
£2S£jLJKSL Manning's Blacksmith
Shop, a first class Livery Stable, where
the public can be accommodated with
fine Horses and elegant Buggies at re
duced prices. Can always !*• found
ready to respond to any call, in supply
ing the needs of local nr transient pat
rons. Parties hiring are responsible
for themselves and teams. Good accom
modation for Drovers. Stovk bought
.and sold on commission.
J. SPII.MAN.
Marietta, Aug. 6, 1878. ly
THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
Vol. ll.]
B. R. Strong,
(Bu(‘c*of9Bor toll. W. ’Williams,)
BffSST,
AND
Apothecary.
WILL continue business at the 01(1
Stand in MARIETTA, and will
keep on hand, and for sale,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OE
FRESH AND GENUINE
Drugs! Chemicals!
Toilet and i'aiicy Article"!
Paints and Oils!
Fine Perfumery, etc.
All which will be SOLD LOW FOR
CASH. Prescriptions carefully com
pounded by an experienced Ajiotheca
rV, AS HERETO 1-ORE-
B. R, STRONG.
Books and Stationery.
School Books and Stationary of all
kinds. Also, Musical Note Books for
Sunday Schools and Singing Classes.
Any book not in stock, either Literary,
Scientific or Educational, or any piece
of Sheet Music, will be ordered and de
livered in Marietta at publisher’s pri
ces. B. R. STRONG.
Marietta, Feb. 2fl, 1878.
FINK CIGARS, best smoking ami
chewing Tobacco, at
sept 15) B. R. STRONG’S.
/Y AHKETT’S SCOTCH SNI FF
V X for sale by
sept 11) B. R. STRONG.
Pure Cider Vinegar— Received
at the Drug Store of B. R. Strong.
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Tropical Vanilla (warranted good), Le
mon, Rose, Peach, and other Flavor
ing Extracts, at
june27 B. R. STRONG.
HIKD SEED.—Canary, Rape ami
Ilemp Seed, for sale at the Drug
Store of
julie 27 B. R. STRONG.
JAYNE’S HAIR TONIC’, Ayer’s
Hair Vigor, I.yon’s Kathairon, Bar
ry’s Tricoplieroim, Vaseline Homier,
and various other Hair Dressings, also
Hair Dyes, for salt; by
june27 B. It. STRONG.
j. B. O’Neill & Cos.
HAVE REMOVED THE I It STOCK OF
General Merchandise
To Gus Barrett’s old stand,
East side of Public Square,
Marietta, Georgia.
\t here they will keepa full line of choice
Family (Irocries
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
/attorn tons, Botions,
Boots and Shoes, &c.
All of which will be sold low for
cash. 11. D. McCutcueon will be
pleased to wait on any, who will
favor them with a call. Country
Produce taken in exchange, on
reasonable terms.
Respectfully,
J. B. O’NEILL dr CO.
Marietta, April 25, 1878. ly
itm pianos, f&n
TUNING AND REPAIRING.
r pHK undersigned respectfully tcn-
JL tiers liis services to the citizens of
Marietta and vicinity as tuner and re
pairer of Pianos. Warranto Ids work
in every respect, and will doit as cheap
or cheaper than one. Postal cards
dropped in the l’o'-ollicc, will secure
prompt attention. Will sell Pianos or
Organs at the lowest figures, and upon
as accommodating terms, cash, or oil
time, to good and reliable parties.
july 11-tf .JOHN HEALS.
Removed!
Removed!
11l AVE changed my place of business
next to Marietta Saving’s Bank, and
will be thankful to welcome all my old
friends and patrons at my new stand.
I Will Sell at Atlanta Prices,
c. o. D.
Dry Goods! Notions! Huts!
Crockery! Clothing!
AND
Boots mill Slums!
And every thing else kept in a Dry
Goods business.
B3SP N. B.—Would call the attention
of all who are indebted to me, to come
at once for settlement, and save cost.
JOSEPH ELSAS.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
Marietta, (Georgia,) Thursday, January 23, 1879.
J. M. Wilson,
MANUFACTURER OF
TIN & SHEET IRON
AND
Woodc ui W ares.
AND DEALER IN
STOVES, HARDWARE, CUT
LERY, HOUSE FURNISH
ING GOODS AND
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
EMBRACING
Straw and Feed Cutters,
Corn Shelters,
Turning Plows,
Wheel Barrows,
Rakes, Shovels,
Hoes, Grass Scythes,
Plows, Plow Stocks, Arc.
also.
Syrup Mills,
Of a Superior Make.
POCKET & TABLE CUTLERY
AND
Carpenter’s Supplies.
Many Varieties of Wooden Ware.
All these and many other valuable ar
ticles sold on best possible terms.
Marietta, July 3, 1877. ly
The White
HS—
THE EASIEST SELLING,
THE BEST SATISFYING
SeviiMaclii
Its Introduction and World-renowned
reputation was the death-blow to high
priced machines.
THERE ARE NO SECOND-HAND
WHITE MACHINES IN THE MARKET.
This Is a very important matter, as It Is a well
known and undisputed lad that many ot the so
called first-class machines which are offerod so
cheap now-a-days are those that hava been re
possessed (that Is. taken back from customers
aftor use) and rebuilt and put upon the market
as new.
THE WHITE IS THE PEER OF ANY SEWING
MACHINE NOW UPON THE MARKET.
IT IS MUCH LARGER THAN THE FAMILY MA
CHINES OF THE SINGER, HOWE AND WEED
MAKE,
IT COSTS MORE TO MANUFACTURE THAN
EITHER OF THE AFORESAID MACHINES.
ITS CONSTRUCTION IS SIMPLE, POSITIVE AND
DURABLE.
ITS WORKMANSHIP IS UNSURPASSED.
Do not Buy any other before try
ing the WHITE.
Prices and Terms Made Satisfactory.
AGENTS WANTED I
J? kite Sewing Machine Cos.,
CLEVELAND, 0.
Liberal Inducement* oflered to cash
buyers. May, 2(1, 1878.
J. D. & T. F. SMITH,
General Agents,
No. 50, S. Broad St. Atlanta, Ga.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC
Kail Road.
TIME OF DEPARTURE ~
FROTI MARIETTA.
No. 1, night passenger, north 2.15 p. in,
No. 2, night passenger, south 9.52 p. m.
No. 3, day passenger, north 0.45a. in.
No. 4, day passenger, south 12.0 H a. in.
No. 5, day freight, north 0.47 a. in.
No. 0, day freight, south 4.12 p. in.
No. 7, night fr’gt, ace. north 0.20 p. in.
No. 9, way fr’gt, day, north 8.30 a. m.
No. 10, way fr’gt, day, south 2.15 p. m.
No. 12, aceoin. freight, south 5.00 a. in.
CST'AII freight trains carry passen
gers, provided they have tickets.
.lime 20,1878. VV. MoRAE, Nup’t.
LIVERPOOL l LOMIO\ 4
GLOBE
I.ASI KA HUE UO.fl I*A \V.
I'. S. Branch Assets $3,959,901 IK)
Liabilities 2,191,709 49
Surplus over all liabilities $1,708,131 51
Total income of 1877 $2, 713,059 32
“ expenditures of 1877 1,003,910 79
Surplus income of 1877 $1,10ft,142 53
Aggregate of losses paid by the
< 'oinpany over $79,000,000
Risks taken at. reduced rates of Premi
ums. Apply to,
Wm. KING, Agent.
Mariutta, Ga. Oct. 31, 1878. l y
Subscribe to Kidd and Fireside
at one dollar.
[communicated.]
Gen. Toombs reiterates the as- j
sertion that Georgia lias been i
growing poorer and poorer every
year since the war, and he ought
t® add that our tuxes have steadi
ly grown higher and higher. Now
let us reform our governments,
counts and state, reduce their ex
penses tewst basis of rigid econo
my—hq,;e them administered, not
for the benefit of office holders,
but for the good of the people,
and then we.may consider the
causes, otherwise, of our growing
poverty.
Chief among these causes is the
fact that while the products of
Georgia are as valuable as before
the war, they cost more to pro
duce them. Labor is more cost
ly, and to that extent more waste
ful. Look at the matter closely.
Mr. pjckHoji tells us that his
hands average in products about
one hundred and fifty dollars. In
this, the “banner” county, good
hands may produce, say two hun
dred dollars. This includes a
good hand, a good mule, iiuple
incuts, and twenty acres of land,
the capital invested in which, a
part from the land, is nearly e
quivalent, in cost, to the product,
so that it is next to impossible,
with hired labor, to make farm
ing pay. With land of his own,
mules, implements, stock, etc., a
farmer, by doing his own work,
may make a comfortable living,
and hard work to do that.
Yet, to this complexion it- must
come at last. The thrifty farmer
may make his few acres fertile—•
may bring them up to the highest
productive capacity of the soil—-
may have luxuriant grass lots,
choice stock, and if he attends
himself to all the operations of
his farm, he will not grow poorer.
But not so with the man who runs
a farm with hired labor, in Geor
gia, never more, while his expen
ses for the year are confronted
with prices for corn at fifty cents,
bacon at six, and cotton at seven
cents. Lucky will he be, if he
finds enough left to pay his taxes.
Most of our farmers have adop
ted the tenent system, as Mr.
Dickson has (lone, and won’t grow
richer that way. With good man
agement, individuals may, in
some eases, succeed ; but even
in these instances, they will find,
in summing up the damages to
land, stock and implements of the
farm, that, in the course of time,
they are not gainers. The evil is
not understood—the difficulty is
not appreciated. No farming will
pay under the tenent system, or
that of hired labor, where the la
bor is not skilled and the land is
not brought up to the highest
state of fertility. It pays in Eu
rope, in England, and in some
states of th<! North and West, but :
it cannot pay here where the cost j
of raising a bushel of corn, a i
pound of bacon or cotton, is more j
than its value.
What, is the remedy? Culti
vate only as much land as vom
can improve, and improvei is ( ||s
rapidly as possible, as you most
see that if you double its product
there is no increaae in the cost of
labor. If you employ teneuts,
let them be skilled, and be sure
that they improve the land; if
you employ labor, let it be when
it is indespensible. Sncli is the
only road to independence; and
in this you may fail, if you do not
avoid “store debts,” or compel
your public otlicials to live on
salaries not much in excess of the
earnings of your own labor.
Wojikkh.
Subscribe to Eield and Fireside
[communicated.]
Gold is king, and throughout
the world is worshipped with
more than Eastern idolatry. The
science, so-called, of political
economy explains the principles
which control its production,con-
sumption and an d
all know how
it is consumed/oV B dr
tion which i..... jf at I'* 1 '*
V fi^ c it etnplo" yin tlfljj
m.—,iJudes of transportiß
manufactures, for ed neat'
poses, and the supporrof -
ment. This is all right,
profits upon investment and the
salaries of officials do not exceed
the profits upon the labor of pro
duction. Commerce is the great
distributor of productive' wealth.
We see cities—ulcers, as Jeffer
son called them, on the body poli-
tic—springing up, and the pro
ductive wealth of the country
pours into them until the produ
cers are depleted of all save a
bare subsistence.- Now, when the
cities of a country not only count
their millions, but individuals in
them often accumulate enough to
buy a dozen counties, it is time
to enquire whether the produc
tive wealth of the country is pro
perly distributed. Why is it, for
instance, that the productive la
bor of the country around Atlan
ta does not advance in value,
while the trade of Atlanta—the
exchanging of these products—is
creating millions of wealth? Is
it not the mere substitution of the
trader for the Sigueur of the
Castle, to which the productive
wealth of all the fiefs were drawn
under the Feudal system ?
When laws or customs, which
are merely conventional, and
founded alone upon the consent
of the people, have for-a time pre
vailed, they are not readily chan
ged. We might have supposed
that even the Hebrews would
have continued, from the mere
force of habit, hewers of wood
and drawers of water for the
Egyptians. But we are living in
an age of higher mental develop
ment., and with higher hopes for
humanity, and though other and
noble efforts are now employed
to enlighten it, the demand of
the producer for a fAir share of
j the wealth produCed'is the spirit
| at work which will place society
| upon its proper basis. The Gran
gers have assailed transportation
monopolies and the excesses of
middle men, and the time will
soon come when the excessive ap
propriation of the wealth of the
country will not go to transpor
tation and speculators, and when
a man cannot make as much on
♦he purchase and sale of cotton
or any other product as the man
who toiled to make it, and when
a man cannot buy shoddy or re
fuse goods at auction sales in the
large cities, and, like A. T. Stew
art, sell them to the producing
class and receive two hundred per
cent, above their cost or value in
hard money. That’s the way the
money goes. Lot the producer
have an eye upon all other classes
interested in its appropriation, in
the distribution of the wealth
they create, and then your farms
and workshops will llourish.
Toiluk.
Salt for Wheat.
The Rural New Yorker replies
to a correspondent in this way :
“ It is the strong belief of many
farmers, at a distance from the
seashore especially, that salt is a
valuable fertilizer for wheat. It
appears to decidedly stiffen the
straw ami increase the yield. The
quantity applied is from two to
six bushels to the acre. The lat
ter quantity will do no harm, but
two or three bushels are enough.
Fine salt should be used, and care
must be taken to sow it evenly.
It must be uruf#r " a f: jj
will in no wise take I.
a proper preparation 11 11
suitable fertilize"
well put in. Bum?
a considerable he, ,**
applied to winter a
the spring, and A . . MSI
spring wheat aft ->- ‘
in and rolled, l/iltie J ’V£|
lions, tin* average es "i aV Xlj|
in the non Wf’!
is from i-.vouammd toH
abbers.
[No. 24.
care.' said
.nought it \v ou 1 djp -*!!!* 4K
0 A* learn
V’mW i here
\ oil' AIU
c o 11! u■ s e _ t S?f!
v ! I to
nd -V haft- ■
ilic\
~,- ,M.
11 i .^wS^SS^sSSm^mMSssm
piriaHßaiifi
m the gipiulMill to inc! ,
square space 12 feet by 12 r M
the tops level'and
mi teet from the
lour ot the 2x4 pie<-es
nailing on the hoards
posts, leaving ono
where the ice is tobepil
the remaining 2x4 pie'c J|
ridge pole, and nail ojj?*eJsB
rooting with battens.nve flMfl
ting hole six inche.nts iindjJS
should he made in l
, • sor excltnnfl
Bel ore packijv lj( . squ nrlg
about live cords
tan bark, or if these
vi'iiientlv obtained, iAruSBEBj
straw or bog hay '
cut about an inch loi
location is not well dra'.^T^^S
it. Rack a foot of dry
straw w‘ll beaten dow4®;.
ground before storing- iJHHN
then place the blocks of
teen inches from the walls of tfl
building, and fill in bet ween Ufl
blocks with snow or chips qgßj
and around them to the
the cut-straw or sawdust, covemj
up tlie packing material willuu
until it is full. Then coverfS
top of the whole with eiglilH
inches of chaff* and tread it
well. If this is watched evd
week and the packing careful!
x r
crammed down around the iccr
and renewed, if necessary, it will
keep well all the summer; but, if
neglected, will melt away very
rapidly, for when tlie ice settle*
in melting it will leave cracks in
the packing which -will admit
warm air, and if not filled imme
diately will cause waste of ice.
If this building can be placed
in the shade of a tree near the
back door it will be better, as
the heat of the sun will not strike
the boards, or the whole may ho
covered from view by some quick
growing climbing vine for a simi
lar reason.
The ico house described will
hold about five hundred cubic
feet of ice, or lull two cubic feet
a day for the warm Reason, after
making liberal allowance for
waste. If there is at hand an ice
company,that makes a business
cutting ice, it will bo found very
convenient to buy enough t® fill
the house of them while they are
entting; they are generally will
ing to Roll it at the pond for a
bout a dollar per cord, which in
much loss than the cost of cutting
it by hand -American Cultivator.
Coal Ashes on Sand.—A coi
respondent of the American Cul
tivator Rays that three years ago,
lie commenced putting on coal
ashes, and has put them on every
spring since. The result is sur
prising. This spot, which throe
years ago was as hare and dry as.
the highway, is now covered witll
white clover, which has been out
once this year, and is now, under
a July sun, as fresh and green as
in the spring. No ot her fertilizer
has been used on this land, and
the effect must he due to the use
of coal ashes. In some spots the
aslu*< were two inches thick,while
there the effect is most marked.
He has also used coal ashes in a
compost with stable manure, and
applied them to potatoes in the
hill. lie found on digging them,
the smoothest potatoes where
there were the most ashes.
From sunflower sood is expres
sod a palatable, clear and flavor
less oil, the demand for which in
Russia is very great. It is export
ed from St. Petersburg at about
fifty t wo dollars per gross ton, and
is said to bo extensively used like
cotton seed oil, after purifying,
for adulterating olive or salad oil.
A considerable quantity is grown
in Russia for oil pressing; (lie
plant being largely cultivated in
Kiels and Podulia, alsD eastward
on the black soil lands, the stalks
being used for fuel.
mi mil- i 11e
.an to tiilk t:> them WSIISI