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lie IhMtsirilU Ktrar&er. YOU. II. J0H3 C. W SICEL & CO *» Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CROCKERY, GLASSWARE 1 House Furnishing Goods Tin-Plate, Stoves, • Hardware, See.. «&c. HAKXTTAOTCICKKS 09 TINWARE. No. 116 Third Street, MACON. GA._______ CARHART & CURD } DEALERS I> Hardware, Iron & Steel. WOODENWARE, Carriage Material, Cotton Gins, Circular Saws ’ SCALES, PAINTS, OILS, &c. M’nc'nn. O 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. _ _ 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. " ■■ .» ■■ ■.! 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 ■»'* - “*“ ?•****« 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.