Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Household: It Li-8 boon a long tim e sin ce I last na4e my appearance in your midst, andkbe reason of my long silence is isliiftl I confess it?) that I really had nothing of interest to say. Now the men may not believe it, but we women do know how to hold our tongue when there is nothing to talk, about; so I have been content to remain silent though all the while fully apreciating the con tributions of the rest of the sisters. There has been a subject however that has been weighing on my mind tor some time, and I can never be sat isfied until I have given our .Household the benefit of any stray ideasjthat may happen to find lodgement in my .crani um. Indeed I intended to have writ ten this communication several weeks sooner, but was prevented by multiplic ity of my household cares. Our town was, during January and February, much frequented by tramps and women peddling laces. Now these are two species of individuals, which undoubtedly belong to the same genius and neither class ought to be encour aged by intelligent law abiding citi zens. As to the lace peddlers, Ido not think it is treating our merchants right to patronize them, .nor do they sell goods cheap. They may make us think that they do, but we will always find out that we could have bought the same class of goods cheaper from any of the stores in town. Though their laces are very pretty, they are always imitation. I havenever seen one of them have a piece of real lace. Only a year ago one af these very women bought her stock of laces from a store in town,and then sold it to the ladies at a large pro fit, As to the tramps, the northern pa pers have for a long while been full of accounts of robberies and outrages committed by them. Hitherto our section of the country has been com paratively free from them but lately they have begun to direct their foot steps more frequently to our “sunny southern land” and if they meet with any encouragement we will undoubted ly soon be as overrun with them as the northern states now are. Nay it is but reasonable to suppose that the majority of them will prefer to spend; most of their time in this genial clime in pref erence to the icy region |of the north. I gave something to eat to the first two or tiiree tramps that came along, but after that I began to reflect serious ly upon the subject, and I have come to the conclusion that we do wrong whenever we give any thing to eat to an able-bodied tramp. It encourages them to continue to lead a vagrant life, and if we continue to feed them they will make our town a regular stopping place. Soon after Christmas there were four who stayed here for several weeks, sit ting by the fire all night in negro hous es, or sleeping in unoccupied houses. Each day one of them would go round and beg enough food for the crowd. Now if they begin to make our town one of their stopping places, it will not be safe to leave our doors unlocked even in the day time. Atlanta is full of them and I have heard of numberless instan ces in which they have houses . there in broad day light, aud stolen apy thing they could lay their hands on. The only thing that we women can do, is to ref use to give them food, but itjseems to me that the men might do more. In Macon they are taken up by the police and put to work on the street 0 , whenever they make their ap. pearance in the place, consequently the inhabitants of that city are not troubled with tramps. Now would it not be well to follow the example of Macon '( I dare say the men do not condecoend to read our household col umn, but everybody knows, women have tongues. So we can talk to them about it, and if we talk and talk, and keep on that same subject, they will take some action just to stop our talk ing. Beatrice. Mr. Editor : Your excellent correspondent, Clod hopper, seems to think Stewartvill and myself will differ with him in early planting of corn. If he means in Feb ruary or thq first of March, I have a neighbor who has been planting at this time for a number of years: the result is lie lias to plant over or complains of a bad stand. My time to plant if I have favorable weather and the land well prepared, between 20th of March, and first of April, always get good stand. Another of my neighbors and one of our most successful corn raisers, says these early planters are generally early buyers. No specific rule of application can be given in regard to the time of planting when we take into consideration the different classes of soil we have to plant. Most of tho corn planting is done now and whether this indispensable crop is to be a success or a failure when har vest comes, depends very largely on the manner in which the work for March and that previous to March is done. Again and again have we ex pressed our opinions on this ail impor tant subject, pointing,oqt the inevitable consequences of slovenly and superfi cial planting,and the good results which attend thorough and careful perform ance of the work, Good crops cannot be raised unless the ground has been well prepared, deeply and closely plow ed—no hard ridges between the fur rows, but a mellow, soft, deep bed pre pared, through which the young root lets can easily peuetiate, and through which moisture, heat, air and light can reach the growing plants and give them the sustenance which are essen tial to their health aud strength. They who want good remunerative crops must abandon what is known as list planting,throwing three furrows togetli er with a stumpy scooter plow which breaks the soil about two or three in dies in depth, and leaving the middle to be broken when there is time to get to it, or when the crop gets the first plowing. In our climate and on our soil, planting like this must end in fail ure. It is loss of time, labor and mon ey. Drouth is not the cause of failure; bad seasons have nothing to do with it, —bad work is the sole cause, Scratch planting on the list will bring nubbins, and not many of them. To get twenty or twenty-five bushels of corn per acre, the soil must be deeply broken and pul verized, and if it has been loosened by a subsoil plow in every furrow, so much the better will be the crop, and so much less will a summer drouth af fect it. Another tiling very essential to successful corn raising is the selec tion of good seed. Most farmers wait until they get ready to plant before se lecting their seed, then if these are so fortunate as to have any to select from it is hurriedly. To procure good seed begin to select when yon begin to gather the crop the largest, roundest ears; continue to do this when husking corn for milling or feeding purposes, until planting time, then shell off and throw aside at least half the ear from the small end, taking your seed from the remainder of the ear. It is thought by some that it is best to discard grains at the butt end of the ear. My experience proves this to be unwise, aud consequently more germi nating principles than any other. In regard to the distance corn should be planted depends upon the number of bushels you wish to make per acre. My plan is to have no more corn hills on an acre than I wish to make bushels of corn, allowing one hundred hills to the bushel; by doing this you dispense with the surplus stalks which adds nothing to the crop but prevents others from maturing a good ear. I hope, Mr. Editor, that every reader of your excellent paper will pot only plant his corn well but will plant plen ty of it or something that will answer as a substitute for it - Let not the all cotton fever lead him into the fatal fol ly of curtailing his forage crop in order to increase that of cotton. Surely ex perience has proven with sufficient force in the past the ruinous conse quences of the all cotton poi icy. Search the cotton States through and you will find that wherever you find a planter who is out of debt and with good credit with his merchant, he will tell you he never buys a bushel of corn; will show you now full cribs. But on the other side when you find mortgages for over due notes, for advances of corn and meat, lean mules, broken wagons, tum bledown fences, and everything wear ing a slip shod and seedy look, you will discover a planter who went in for all cotton, intending to buy his corn and meat, and make an immense pile be sides, His empty cribs, half starved stock, and his empty pprse are the most forcible illustrations of his impu dence. Four fifths of the debts whicli now oppress the Southern planters, con sist of money borrowed to pay for corn and meat, hay and fertilizers, to make a big cotton crop, but which the big crop never produces enough to pay. I hope the readers of the Gazette are not going to repeat the folly of a few years back, but will prepare for an ample pro vision crop, remembering t that eveiy bale of cotton produced at the South is a positive injury to us and a benefit to the spinner or the speculating cotton buyer. Surely the lessons of the immediate past have been severe enough to teach us to avoid in future the errors which have cost us so dearly. Yours, Little TowAliga. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. Our assortment will please you in quality, quantity and price. T. W. COCHRAN & Cos. Boss’Pickens County Corn AVhisky takes the cake for puritX Only $2,00 per gallon. Soldiers ho! looi# READ! |\ Send for our new circulars containing matter of utmost Importance to all ex soldiers or their heirs. Pensions, Bounties Patent. hand claims. Horse claims, and all others against the Govern ment promptlyaDd faithfully attended. Address with stamp \V; H. Wlils £ Cos,. Box 4SS Warhiugton. D. C. NEW ST ORE! NEW STOCK! The undersigned has opened at John T. Cham bers old stand a handsome new stock of grocer ies both family and fancy, cigars, tobaccos, Ac. First Class Marat, 1 have also In connection a first class restau rant at which meals are served at all hours, and customers can get whatever they desire at the most reasonable figures. Our Mr. R. P. Cook will always be on hand and ready to wait on all promptly. Call and see me when you come to Barn svllle. Respectfully, T. G. MIDDLEBROOKS. Beot-Keepi Simplified. A valuable book for those who wish to lear Rook-keeplng at home, or who are about to en ter a Business college; showing Ilay-Book. Cush Book, Journal, Ledger, etc., beside other matters necessary In business. Reccommended by book keepers, teaches and merchants. Gotton up In a manner to be easily understood by any one. Price 50 cents, postage paid. Address. H. C. HAILEY. to ayl 7 Saratoga. N Y. LUSTRA PAINTING AND EMBROIDERING • (Copyright and Registered by R H Br„gdon 1882) An outftt of colors for this exquisite new a it, Includes 30 bottles of colors. 'I bottles of medium for mixing and full Instruction for use, at a cost of $5 00. The colors may he used on any object or fab ric, and are brilliant, durable and unlike either oil or water co.ors. Elegant, original designs, perforated with strong band paper, lor embroi dery and painting, circular sent lor 2c stamp. R. H. BRAGDON, Abtist, Studio, 23 Union square, New York City. planters MECHANICS, MBITS & IIIH A- word in your-ears -and- dollars your-pockets- Happy New Year! Good-bye, 1883- Crops not first rate, hut might, have been worse. Money not exactly plenty, but yet, enough to go round, and laying in supplies, slock, clothing, gunno.and all things needful, there will yet be something left to Invest. And now, let us suggest that the BEST PAYING INVESTMENT. And one that will pay the largest dividend, Is In something that will make happiness In our homes, that will elevate our children, our friends and ourselves to the highest standard of refine ment, culture, and sociability. Music Alone Will Do This. Have you a piaao or organ in your home? if not you should h .ve, and We can save you money in its purchase. Over 20, 000 delighted purchasers, whom we have supplied in the past fifteen years, will endorse this statement. See the grand Inducements we offer. Ten leading makers, Cluckerlng, Mathushek, Luuden & Bales, Hallet & Davis, Hardman, Arion, Ma son & Hamlin, Packard, Palace, and Ray State Oyer 300 Styles. All grades. All Prices. Pianos, S2OO to SI,OOO. Organs, $2-1 to $760. Makers’ names on all. No hteno lor Cheap Instruments sold. “The Best Is always Cheapest,’ but our cheapest Is good. See flat We Give Firciasers. With Each Piano, a Good Stool and Cover. With Each Organ, a Good Stool & Instructor. With Each Piaao or Organ, a Boot of Music. Also a six years guarantee; a fifteen days tr.a with Freight paid both ways, if Instrument doel not suit; and a privilege of exchange at any tims within six months, if the selection made is noe satisfactory. More than this, We Pay all Freight Yes we mean it. We sell you best Instruments at lowest prices, on easiest Installment terms and pay every cent of the freight, no matter where you live; so that the instrument cost you no more than If you lived In Savannah or New York city. Why hesitate? We are the men for you. Send us your name ami we will mall you Illustrated cat logues ane Circulars which will tell you what we have not room to say here. krMPMPPRwewIU save you money IliljlVlJjlVllJJjlAiand give you something good. Lndden & Bates, Southern Music House SAVANNAH, GA. The First IStsic lease in the 7. S. to Deliver Pianos and Organs Freight Paid. CONSUMPTION. I have a positive remedy for the above disease: by its use thousands of cuses of the worst kind and of long standing have been cured. Indeed, so strong is ray faith in ite efficacy, that I will Bond TWO BOTTLKS FRKE, together with a VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease, to any sufferer. Give express and P. O. address. Dr. T. A. SLOCUM, 18) Pearl St.,New York. r IBP The REMINGTON PgllP horse-power ■ I ilk FIRE ENGINE I Nearly as effec-HK mt Manual expense five ax a steam- H KPffi repairs, er; about one. Im B U For descriix third first cost. M tivocireulars and lens than ■ 111 one-tenth an-■ ■ ■ ® ■^■jials.adi'-osa REMINCTON|B||||H AGRICULTURAL CO. h | is fm IUON, New.Yorkl Mk THE Marne Fite Com TEMPLE & SHIPP, Proprietors. Chattanooga, - - - Tennessee. MANUFACTURERS OF Walnut, Ash and Poplar FURNITURE ! Walnut Chamber Suits, Imitation Walnut Chamber Suits, Walnut Bureaus aud Washstands, Imitation W alnut Bureaus, W ashstands, Walnut and Imitation Walnut Bedsteads, Walnut, Ash and Poplar Extension Tables, Center Tables and Stands, Kitchen Safes and Tables, Etc,, Etc, Send for Price Lists and Photography sep2o-6m " • GEORGE IV, SCOTT & CO., . -A.TXjA.ISrT.A., GEORGIA, MANUFACTURERS OF GOSSYPIUM PHOSPHO! THE Great Cotton and Corn Fertilizer A special manure for southern lands and crops, and “now' ° f P,aDt tooilß ttelr best form ‘ Xt has swod test of years, THE SAFEST AND BEST FERTILIZERS IN USE “ and many ° f the “ost prominent It is one of the HIGHEST GRADE FERTILIZERS sold in GEORGIA. (See the Agricultural Department Reports.) WE INVITE TESTS ALONGSIDE THE BEST FERTILIZERS IN USE We offer It low for cash or on time for c urrency or cotton. Merchants, Granges Agricultu ral clubs and Neighborhood associations and eslrlng to purchase In large quantities will iS ta correspond with us before buying their Fertilizers We arithe6rtg&2bs£d omyMannfactoeS of Gossyplum Phospho Us great popularity has brought Into the market several taftatlonib None is genuine unless branded on each sack. oeteiai mutations. MANUFACTURED BY GEO. W.S OTT&CO., .a nl o-3m ATLANTA GA„ J. E. R E 33 33 I INT Gr, Athls old stand on Zebnlon street. Dealer in Groceries, Har fliare.Croctery, Tinware,WooiaMWinare Kindly thanks h!s old fr'ends and customers for past favors,and solicits a continuance of their patron age.and as many new ones as are Inclined to give or divide t heir business with him Pledge ing as low prices as the town affords. I have secured the services of Mr Geo.Huguley who Is well known in tills section for hlB bualness Integrity,who will be pleased to meet and serve his friends and the public generally. Ilirougli their respective seasons I will keep a full line of Fresh Fish,Oysters,Chickens,Eggs And Fruits Generally. Agent for the “Syracuse Chilled Plows” and attachment, the best plow on the Continent - - N. B — AS lam going out of the Dry Goode business, I offer my stock of staple Drv Goods Shlies, Notions, clothing &c. at cost or below. p septlS-ly Betts Street Furniture Company. 224. 226. 228. Betts Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. MtfSALE MMMIERS OF fdllTll. MEDIUM BED ROOM SETS. Especially adapted to the Southern Trade. Childrens Bedsteads, Chil drens Patent cribs a speciality. sep27 ly 4 BROWN. FILLMORE BROWN EDGERTOIV HOUSE OPPOSITE PASSENGER DEPOT, MACON, GEORGIA. E. E. Brown * Son, Proprietors. JATXia 88.00 VZIBSAV.