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MACON. GA._______
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Hardware, Iron & Steel.
WOODENWARE,
Carriage Material,
Cotton Gins,
Circular Saws ’
SCALES,
PAINTS, OILS, &c.
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R. J DA V ANT. 1 8 W Ol), J i
DiVANT & WOOD,
114 Bay Street.
Savannah, Georgia
Special attention given to cale ol
eOTTOH,RICE & NAVAL ST0SE5
AOKJTTS FOB
DRAKE'S COTTON TIES,
CttSii ailvanees mad* on eonaignmentn.
W. B. MELL & CO.,
Wholesale and retail dealers in
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS
Rubber and .Leather
BELTING AND PACKING,
Freuch and American Call Skins, Sole, Hu
ness, Bridle and Patent Leather,
WHIPB and SADDLERY WARE
TRUNKS, VALISES,
Market Square, Savannah, Ga
Orders by mail Dromntly attended to.
SID. A. PUGHSLEY, Jr.
AGENT AND SALESMAN,
—WITH
I. L. FALK 8s CO •»
. CLOTHIERS,
425 and 427 Broome St., New York,
Cor. Congress and Whittaker Streets,
SAVANNAH, OA.
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fit Jt BRADDY OL SON
Wrightsviixb, Ga.
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
A fp'ciulty of HAntaMon Work. Wagon*,
Bnggiea, etc., n ade and repaired.
Plow* and Plow-Stock* of all kinds, and
•very kind ot Wood and iron Work done by
A. J. BRADDY & SON.
WrighlBville, Ga.
WKIGrHTSYILLE, GA., SATURDAY. JUNE 11, 1881.
The Merry Spring.
I need must sing, my heart is light:
If thine bo dull and aching,
Look up, look up, the sky is bright.
And stormy clouds are breaking.
What ho, what ho, the merry Spring !
See, Winter vexed and vanishing;
I Who robbed the tyrant of his sting ?
Who but the merry, merry Spring.
To life and love awaking.
Away with tears; there be but few
That do not speak of sorrow;
Unless, like sunshine on the dow,
A beam of hope they borrow.
Lo, on the lawn, so newly cropped,
The diamonds that Spring has drooped,
What time the morning star o’er-topped
The eastern hills, and lingering stooped
To bid tho day good-morrow.
And the swget sound we call the breeze.
Its wandering way betaking,
The murmur of the swelling trees
1 Into fresh beauty breaking;
This is her voice low whispering.
That is the rustle of her wing.
Come, lads and lasses, let us sing:
Ho, for the Spring, the merry Spring,
To life and love awaking !
A Little Gold Owl.
“ Do you know what a famons Rus¬
sian beauty once wrote in her album ?
I —» Ziiri Jt,
talking love, the Italian of acting it,
but the German rocks it to sleep, while
the Pole ruins it all.’”
“And the American?” pleaded a mu¬
sical voice in the ear of the flrst speaker.
The lady made no immediate reply
j The pair stood in the wings of a tiny
! amateur theater in one of our large
cities, and the drama of Matrimony, in
wb * cb t^y had acted, was over. Both
i were artists in that intense sentiment
i of excitement which stirs the ripples of
1 private life when theatricals and cha
| rades become the fashion. Augusta
j Bevan, tall, slender and proud, had re
| sutned her velvet walking dress, and
| toyed with a tiny muff of pink satin
which was suspended about her neck by
means of a ribbon. Captain Hornblow¬
er, easy, graceful and elegant, bent over
her in-an attitude of devotion which he
had as -mined with the facility of a glove
for the past fifteen years in the ball¬
rooms of West Point, Saratoga and New¬
port.
j “Your muff seems to be a sort
of fairy casket," pursued Captain Horn¬
blower. “Give me a keepsake from
me of the pockets, I beg, in remem¬
brance of the night.”
“What shall it be ?” retorted Augusta
BevaD, gayly.
She sought in the tiny pockets of per¬
fumed and quilted satin, and drew forth
a glittering object. This was a little
gold owl, beautifully wrought, with ruby
eyes and jeweled claws. When a spring
was touched, a slender pencil-case slid
out of the bird’s head.
“ Here is my gift,” she said, gently,
: and the gallant captain understood that
her words meant capitulation.
Was he glad or sorry ? He received the
little'gold owl with effusive gratitude,
i and kissed the hand which bestowed the
gift; but it was in tbe nature of this
! military butterfly to doubt, at the
moment, if lie had acted wiih unwise
precipitation, if he had no.t sold himself
too cheaply in the matrimonial market,
i and if Augusta Bevan was as great an
j heiress as she was reputed to be.
“ My children, remember tho Scotch
: proverb, ‘ Those who fish for minnows
never catch trout,”’ said Mr. Riddel,
! behind them.
Mr. Riddel, who invariably enacted
the part of benevolent old man,
proffered his snuff-box to Captain Hora
blower with his quizzical smile.
“We are caHed out agam! exclaimed . „
Mrs. Trentham.
There was a patter of applause, and
the four emerged before the foot-lights,
making their salutations in the most
stooS manner.
stage Mrs Trentham in a superb
toilet, Augusta Bevan, Captain Horn
blower and Mr. Riddel. Beyond the
circle of foot-lights was a fashionable
audience, where blended satin, gold,
feathers and lace resembled a parterre
of flowers, while the little theater, built
for Mrs. Trentham, made a charming
background for smiling faces. Certainly
the two actresses looked their best, for
Captain Hornblower, deeply versed in
such craft, had made np their stage
complexion, with the aid of rouge and
other cosmetics, moist purple worsted
furnishing the requisite shadows beneath
the eyes.
Said Mr. Riddel, as he conducted
Miss Bevan home: “ You will not forget
my proverb, Augusta ?—‘ Those who fish
for minnows never catch trout.* ”
The girl glanced askance at him and
frowned. Mr. Riddel, divested of gray
wig and paternal bearing, was a digni
i fled gentleman of forty years, lawyer
and manager of the great Bevan prop
erty.
“ You have always warned me of for
tune-hunters and worthless suitors since
I left school,” she exclaimed, petulant
ly. “Is a woman never to, believe in
any one because she is rich,?’’
Mr. Riddel remained silent, but the
blood mounted to her brow.
Said Mrs. Trentham to Captain Horn
blower, at a little
fashionable restaurant; lo-tS "
van really did very well to,
novice, except m tbe awlwardneee ot
bor ultitndea. Ulow m. to loot at the
little gold owl she gave you behind the
scenes. Ah! I saw it all. A manager
must be everywhere, you know.”
Very piquant looked Mrs. Trentham
as she spoke, coquette of as many sea
sons sons as as her Her companion companion had Had posed nosed for for
beau, an arch sparkle m her eyes, more
than a suspicion of malice in her smile;
for to see any man admire another
woman pierced her vanity, if not her
heart, and she could not rest until she
had lured him away from his allegiance
or at least sown mischief in the path of
possible lovers. Yet Mrs. Trentham was
a most popular person and an acknowl
edged leader of society. Captain Horn
blower resisted; but the enchantress
was adroit, witty, flattering, and the
supper good, and in the end he yielded,
The lady attached the little gold owl to
her watch chain, and emerged in the
streets at 2 o’clock in the morning,
When she reached her own home the
little gold owl was gone ! She had lost
it during the wa .
Next day Mrs. Trentham sailed up to
Augusta Bevan, at a crowded kettle
drum, ook both of her hands, and ex
claimed : “ Oh, my dear, I am so dread
fully sorry ! I am always committing
some folly. I do not deserve forgive¬
ness. Captain Hornblower gave me—I
mean lent me—your little gold owl last
night, and I actually lost it in the
street.”
The Sevres teacup fell from Augusta’s
lingers on the floor. Mr. Riddel and
Captain Hornblower stooped for the
fragments simultaneously, thus knock¬
ing their heads together.
“She is disillusioned,” thought Mr.
Riddel.
“ The game is lost,” reflected the gal¬
lant warrior, with unfeigned regret,
“Of course no woman ever forgave that.”
At 6 o’clock that morning a young
Swiss maiden, by name Marie Hetzel,
had gone on an errand to tbe market for
her mistress. Marie was sixteen, with
a round brown face framed in a crimped
cap, and carried a basket on her arm.
Her foot struck against a small object;
she stooped, and found a little gold owl
on the curbstone.
“Himmel?” exclaimed Marie, and
sped with the treasure to the lager beer
garden where Fritz, her lover, was em¬
ployed as a waiter.
Fritz happened to be polishing the
rows of little tables placed in bowers of
evergreen. He was a prudent youth of
nineteen, with blonde hair and bard
blue eyes. He examined the trinket
and put it in his pocket. Tho gold owl
might be very pretty suspended about
Marie’s throat, even as Roman women
rejoice in their hairpins and chains, or
the Genoese in their filigree earrings ;
but money also could be made out of it
money to add to frugal savings where
with to return to beloved Canton Berne
as man and wife and buy a modest farm
Marie shed a few tears of feminine
vanity while yielding to logical argu¬
ment, and trudged home with her
basket. Fritz sought a little den of a
shop in an obscure quarter and sold the
j ^ toaJewa{ter much h aggling
five „ dollar8 , „ ... , ^ . ,
01 ’ BUm
° a savin 8 s an * ow ia e e wa8 6
owl lost hopelessly lost, for it . had dis¬
appeared in the black shop of a wretch
ed HTm °- “
po It f happened et of ^ that 8S f^an u the owl s pmk had satin never muff met *
with greater appreciation, however Tho
ruby eyes glowed like flames, while the
8 olden P luma S e b “ Ammons as
the ornament passed from one dusky
hand to another -
Finally the Jew took the trinket to a
fashionable jeweler celebrated for skill¬
ful workmanship in metals, and sold it
fora considerable sum. Mr. Riddel,
walking downtown one morning, paused
suddenly before the jeweler’s window.
He saw a little gold owl suspended by a
hook, and radiant in the sunshine. He
fancied the bird of wisdom actually
winked at him in recognition. He
entered the place, and bought it
promptly.
Augusta Bevan, pale, thoughtful, and
with a new tenderness in her bearing,
received back the little gold owl. “ I
I have been thinking of so many things
j of late,” she said, softly, placing her
hand within the arm of this faithful
friend. “I even remember your
proverb, ‘ Those who fish for minnows
never catch trout,’ ”
Mrs. Trentham tapped Captain Horn
j blower on the arm with her fan at a
J reception, where the ladv was
j i resplendent in a Worth toilet of black
satin and old gold. “Mr Riddel and
are
j d'oe/bow ' -T" ™ “k“w S
, „ t ,„ to water in that way in
fe wieled worfib Jtandeo, he is ,»lly
the 01llv man worthy of Augusta.”
Captain Hornblower went his way,
having been ordered to a fort in Montana
Terr it 0 ry. His amiability was not
i mcrenseci ncreas ed bv ^ the ttie discovery dl8co yery that that his lus hair hair
was growing gray, and that he expen
enced a twinge of rheumatism in his
right knee.—Harper’s Weekly.
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Sharks m . generally T—~ turn tlieir sides ..
on
The mor-fish, . though . , it . .. lives in . salt .
water ’ seems to abhor salt ’
The ancients believed that the lynx
could see through stone walls,
The tusks in a full-grown male ele
pliant sometimes are ten feet long.
a turtle’s head that had been cut off
several days latel f bit a duck’s neck and
killed the fowl, in Talbotton, Ga.
Butter was f irstma deby the Scythians
and ThrftcianSj andwa8 at flrst used as
an ointment for baths and as a medicine.
whenever any one of a herd of hyenas
in their native state ia woimded> its
companions tear it to pieces and devour
p
In the growth of all animals they
fiass from the simple to the complex.
The young of the higher animals repre¬
sent the full growth of the lower ani¬
mals.
It ia said on tho best authority that a
toad frequented t the steps before the
hall door of a gentleman’s house in
Devonshire for upward of thirty-six
years.
M. St. Pierre once saw a vast number
of ants overcome a centipede. They
seized it by its legs and bore it along as
workmen would have done a large piece
of timber.
An English baronet says that an im¬
mense army of “ snow” geese flying
against a Southern California sky pre¬
sent a spectacle which is worth a year’s
voyage to see.
A flea will eat ten times its own weight
of provisions in a day, and will drag
after it a chair a hundred times heavier
than itself. It leaps a distance of at
least two hundred times its own length.
Suppose a sapphire as large as an
olive of ordinary French size. It would
be worth here $1,500 ; an emerald of
that size would bo worth $8,000, a dia¬
mond $15,000, a ruby $40,000 ; an opal
of line color of that size would be
worth only $1,000.
A Hungarian chemist has been show¬
ing in Paris some remarkable experi¬
ments with a new light-giving substance
that burns with so little heat that it will
not set lire to the most inflammable
fabric. The burning liquid can be held
in the bare hand without discomfort.
pj>j ds new illuminating fluid is one form
of that Protean substance, petorluin.
Japanese auctions are conducted on a
novel plan, but one which gives rise to
none of the noise and confusion which
attend such sales in America. Each
bidder writes his name and bid upon a
slip of paper, which he places in a box.
When the bidding is over the box is
opened by the auctioneer, and the goods
declared the property of the highest
bidder.
fill their digestive apparatus with gravel.!
and pebbles, which act as millstones j
in grinding up their food. Recent in
vestigations show that other animals are \
addicted to similar habits on a larger
scale. Seals swallow stones weighing
from one to two and sometimes even
three pounds each, while one investiga¬
tor found, not long since, ten pounds
of these boulders in the stomach of a
sea-lion.
President Grevy, of France, has no
taste for the stir of public life. He
gives few receptions and only now and
then a dinner. He is of simple manner,
and may be always found in the morn¬
ing by those taking the trouble to call
upon him. But the visit must have
some positive motive of business or
friendship; the president will not con¬
sent to be an obliging celebrity, acces¬
sible to those who like to boast of shak
ng hands with notabilities.
FOB THE FAKM AMI) HOME.
sand a» au Absorbent,
Ihe owner of a pile of manure found
^ was under cover, yet
tbeY?aor ^ pressed out and stood in
pools ar ° Und lts baB< ; When tbe .P llf ‘ s
came to be removed he was astonished
to find ot 80 dr7.
seems tbat ^ sand had been used largely
“d“ c"kof»^ei“ for LEg moll
“ pr “'”1 ““ a out S “'’ ^ “ e “ ,ly ■»'*
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“*“ ?•****« Tff*
" P ° n f® ™ Wh ” le * ? “ beS * to 1186 lt ^ Un *
jJ’f. ^ absorbeat “ ™ Uck and Experiment straw Wl1 proves cach
absolb and retain about two aU(l one ‘
hftlf times their weight of water, ’ while
.. ..., ,, .
moistuie. , w We know i T of a I farmer g who ,
uses cut straw in connection with sand
in horse stable, and afterward uses
the whole in the gutter behind his cows,
This makes a kind of manure which
does not become dry, and, aside from
its fertilizing properties, it lias a me
chanical effect upon the soil whicli is
not its least advantage.— Exchange.
Feeding Bee*.
Take four pounds A sugar, two gal¬
lons hot water; dissolve in a tin can
five or six inches in diameter at the
mouth; take a simplicity lid, or any
tight box two to four inches deep and
twelve inches square, pour melted wax
into it to make it waterproof; tack
wooden strips across the insido of it,
one inch deep and a half inch wide,
about an inch apart, cut the strips out
of the center so that the mouth of the
can or jar will i*»t on the bottom of tbe
box ; invert the box over the can filled
with the sweetened water, and one hand
on top of the box, the other under the
can they are quickly inverted, and
placed in a warm sheltered place; the
can should now be raised a half inch by
blocking under the edge, and a half¬
inch of the sweetened water will remain
in the box until tbe jar is empty. Two
gallons of this nectar should be given an
upairy of thirty hives every morning
until some natural source of honey is
ope .ed up, and when that ceases resume
the feeding. Have alongside of this
feeder a box of wheat flour; if this
can be placed under glass it will be
much better. A good many pounds of
sugar and flour will thus be carried off,
but I believe every pound of these will
give us a pound of bees, which will be
worth ten times the amount invested.—
Fanner’s Friend.
Jersey* aw Dairy Cows#
We have not the slightest hesitation
in saying that tho weak point with
Jerseys is the lack of vigor, or constitu
tion. We do not believe any practical
dairyman could ever make money selling
the milk or butter only from a herd df
heavy-milking Herd Register Jerseys
more than he could from breeding pug
dogs or Dutchess Short Horns. They
are too delicate for the hard work, and
itisnoreplytothopracticalquestionthat
dairymen should have no hard work, and
lee sides to their fences for shelter. Men
cannot change their habits in a day to
suit a race of cattle. The dairymen of
the country are improving their farm
management, and with a due consider¬
ation for the principle that ho who
builds slowly builds best, they are
making speed quite fast enough. They
cannot sell calves at high prices. They
must look for not only a profitable yield,
but it must be carried through a long
series of years, and with the least
possible outlay for feed and attention.—
American Dairyman.
Farm anil GariliiaNote*.
All cereals wants ammonia, it is the
leading element of fertilization; root
crop8 dem and potash and phosphoric
ac j d>
Pennsylvania farmers claim that bran,
•when mixed with corn-meal of the same
weight, will produce more weight in an
animal than feeding pure corn-meal.
A Afewdrons few drops of of ammonia ammonia added added to to a a
gallon of water and applied once a week
to all pots of flowers, will do much good
and keep the potB and earth from sour
ng.
Young chickens drink a great deal of
water, but they, in common with all
animals, know just how much they need.
Mix your corn and dough very dry and
crumbly, therefore, and let your fowls
drink fresh, cool clean water after they
are through eating. If your mess is too
thin and sloppy, yon will force them to
swallow more water than they need in
order to get at their feed.
A Kentucky fa.mer who raises im
monso quantities of Irish potatoes.
NO. 4.
says in the Farm and Home that it
comes of rich, light soil, containing
plenty of vegetable matter, deep plow¬
ing early in the spring, planting fifteen
inches apart, covering four inches deep,
or more, keeping down the weeds, and
not working the ground after the
potatoes begin to bloom. Tbe main
secret, he says, is in selecting the seed.
He always cuts off the blossom end.
One eye will yield more potatoes than
two.
Squashes are of tropical origin, and,
therefore, when spring opens it is use
le&i L'j them until the soil is quite
warm and all danger of frost and cold
nights is over. Again, as they make a
very rapid growth, there is no necessity
of haste in getting the seeds into the
ground. Squashes are good feeders,
liking a rich soil. It is best to manure
in the hill. In sowing place a dozen
seeds in each hill, and when danger
from the bugs is over pull up all but
three or four. A mellow, warm soil is
the best. For busb sorts make hills
three or four feet apart, and for running
kinds twice that distance. All winter
squashes should be ripened thoroughly
or they are watery, lacking sweetness
and richness, also lacking keeping
properties.
Keclues.
Potato Cakes for Breakfast. —Save
from dinner a soup-plate of mashed
potatoes, add to it a half a saltspoonful
of pepper, the same of nutmeg, a little
salt and the yolk of an egg ; form into
small cakes, put in a buttered baking
pan, brush the top with the white of an
egg, and brown in a quick oven.
Hot Spice. —Hot spice is the name
iven by a cook of a past generation for
a delicious adjunct to gravies, steaks,
chops and soups. Take three drachms
each of ginger and black pepper and
cinnamon, one of grated nutmeg, one
of white pepper; pound these together,
mix till well blended and then put it in
a perfectly clean, dry bottle for use.
Danish Pudding. — One cupful of
tapioca, three generous pints of wa¬
ter, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a
teaspoonful of sugar, one tumbler of
any kind of bright jelly. Wash the
tapioca and soak in water all night. In
the morning put on in the double boiler
and cook one hour. Stir frequently
Add the salt, sugar and jelly and mix
thoroughly. Turn into a mold that has
been dipped into cold water, and set
away to harden. Serve with cream and
sugar.
Scotch Cake.—S tir to a cream one
pound sugar, three-fourths pound but
ter, add tho grated rind and a juice of
lemon; separate whites and yolks of
n j ne e ggs and beat each to a froth; stir
j nto the cake and add one pound sifted
flour; stir fifteen minutes, and just be
fore putting into cake-pans, which must
be lined with buttered paper, add one
pound raisins; spice to taste and bake
0 ne hour,
1
Malaria, Whisky and ({ulnine.
j q some parts of the West and South
ft is customary to mix whisky with
wate r to destroy the poison, but those
w bo do it simply take two poisons in-
8 t ea d of one, and they do not counter
aet each other. The whisky rather
helps the malaria poison along. It has
been a question whether quinine has
power to combat malaria. It has the
power of averting the generation of
inalariaial poison for a time, but it will
not cure. It is, however, the only
thing that can combat malarial poison,
and hence I’m an advocate of quinine.
You can do harm with it, but it will be
hard work. I don’t believe in con¬
stantly taking quinine, even if you
dose whenever you need relief. It will
relieve you for a time. If yon have
neuralgia and headache and sometimes
get bilious, and have a numbness that
makes yon apprehensive of approaching
lY i . likely . chronic .
P ara B s > y° u are ver y in a
condition of malarial affection. Quinine
will relieve you temporarily, and if you
g ° tD B6aslde or to the mountains
^ be f ree d._/>ro/es*»or Loomis
York
The Publishers' Weekly gives an inter¬
esting summary of the books published
in this country in 1880. The total num¬
ber included in its list is 2,076—an
average of over thirty-four a week.
Divided according to classes the follow¬
ing are the classes, each of which num¬
bers over 100 books: Fiotion, 292;
juvenile books, 270; theology and re¬
ligion, 239; biography, memoirs, etc.,
151; education—language, 131; descrip¬
tion, travel, etc., 115; medical science,
114; poetry and the drama, 111; literary
history, and miscellany, 108.