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The Farm and Household. Tabic of Weights ami Measures. Bushels. Lbs. Bushels. Lbs. iVbc it GO Blue Grass Seed...l4* Shelled co. n 56 Buckwheat 52 rum in the ear 70 Dried peaches 38 r is GO Dried apples 24 bye 50 Union 57 Oats 82 Salt ... ; >0 Barley I, Stone coal ..88 Irish 1’ datoes 08 Malt 40 Sweet p0tat0e5.....55 8ran...... 20 Waite Beaiw 58 Turnips 55 fast or Beans 40 Plastering, Hair 8 lover Seed 00 Unslacked Lime...Bo Timothy Hoed 40 Corn Meal 47 Flax Seed 50 Fine Salt 54 tletup Seed 44 Ground Peas 23 **s-' -jatMuMWi" in mum i ■ mwr Kiln-Drying ef Lumber. A correspondent of the American C ib.net Maker, after many experi incuts and much tribulation gives the following for the bcuefit of the pub lie • The eventual increase of business re quired more room for drying purposes and I set about to ascertain, if possible how to improve my kiln. After a muL tiplicitj|ot inquiries and a vast amount of correspondence, 1 happily hit upon a plan which l have used with success and which 1 can conscientiously recommend as perfect. in the first place l built my kiln of tlio proper dimensions to accommodate 11 y ptock.aud within it placed a seiies of joists in such a manner that a current of air could circulata throughout the entire area of the kiln. To better illustrate it, we will suppose the kiln was 13 feet square in the clear, which at 12 inches apart from centers would require 14 joists ; these l cue 12 ieot long and placed them within the kiln in such a manner that each alter nate joist left a space ofl foot between the end of the joist and the side of the kiln. 1 arranged the joists so that the {.puces occured at alternate sides of the kiln. I then had constructed a coil of I,incli gas pipe 15 feet long and 2 feet square : this i “housed in” outside of the kiln to which it was attached by uieans of a wood 3D pipe 12 inches square in such a manner that it entered the kil nbelow the slat door ; then by means of a Sturtevant Fan, I exhausted the heat radiated by the pipes directly iuto my dry house, where it diffused itself equally. In connection with this arrangements which was supplied by live steam direct ly from the boiler, I introduced the ex haust pipe of my engine directly beneath my kiln and would allow the steam to escape into a “new kiln of lumber for a whole day, at the expiratiou of which time I would turn off the escape steam and use the blast; by this means I was i ~nblcd to thoroughly season a kiln of asm or walnut lumber in six days time and 1 had the supreme satisfaction of see ing my lumber come out perfect in con dition and shape. In “stacking” lumber in my kiln T in variably cautioned the hands to exeicise great care in placing each piling strip directly above the next one below it, and in this manner avoided those short bends which are the bane ot workmen and an eyesore to the bosses. The introduction of unconfin edsteam into tho kiln gradually and thoroughly permeates tho wood and drives the sap from the pores ; it also gradually and evenly heats tne wood throughout and after being thus treated it only v etnains to evaporate the moisture caused by the condensation of tire cleam. W hethor method of the is perfect, time aud ex— p >rience will no doubt lully and satis factorily demonstrate. This is not cov ered by “letters,” nor is it likely to be. Best ¥srecti of Fowls. man will ever be able to decide which breed is best, so as to cause ev erybody to be ot his opinion j but there are certain qualities in fowls that should be sought by everybody who keeps this kind of stock, as good size, cornpa fc bo dies short yellow legs, haidiness not inclined to disease and to be good layers. We lead a good deal about Houdans, Ilamburgs, Black Spanish, Leghorn.! and Polands, which may bo termed “ fancy’’fows; but they are not what farmers want, as they all lack the above uood qualities except that of being good layers. When we have chickens hatch' cd out, wc want them to be hardy, and to grow rapidly ; not to be sickly and moping about and hall that are hatch ed dying in the course of a month or two. The larger breeds are much pre ferable as the light and dark Brahmas, Coch'ns of different colors. A cross of those fine breeds on common fowls is a great improvement over the latter, using cocks of tho former breed and many prefer them crossed to the pure breeds not being quite so large. — Ex change' Treatment of Bee-Sting —A wri. ter in the American Journal of Micro - eeopy gives the following directions for the treatment of a bee stiug which are worth remembering: “Onion, ammonal ashes, beef and a hundred other reme dies have beeh prescribed, but we never found them of any special value. If the poison sharp knife, or, still better with a pair of tweezers arc just the thr g. This must, be done quickly, or it will be of no use. orasping the bag and sting with the figners only squeezes the poison out of the bag and into the wound. After the bag has been removed, suck the wound strongly, and M ply a poultice ot moist mud. \\ e never found anything better. How to Color Green on Cotton. First have your rags elean ; then make a bale dye of the followinig: Two ounces of prusiate of potash, two tablespoonfu'i oil ot vitrol two tablespoonfuls of cop peras. Bring to a boil, then put in the goods for twenty uonutes stirring them often ; tb.cn r’nse in clear warm water. Then make a yellow dye: One half pound sugar of lead dissolved in hot water, one-fourth of a pound bichromate of potash dissolved in a vessel of wood in cold water. Dip the goods first in tbe lead then in the potash until the color suits. This will color five pounds of cotton good*. AN ADDRESS TO THE SICK. Do you want to purify the system? Do you want to get rid of Biliousness? Do jou want something to streng hen you ? Do you want a good app :tite ? Do you want to gei rid of nervoursnes ? Do you want good digestion ? Do you want to sleep weii ? Djyou want to build up your constitution? Do you want a brisk aud vigorous feeling? If you do. TAKE Sil¥3i¥iOr^S 7 LIVER REGULATOR ! Purely Vegetable. Is harmless, Is no drastic violeni medicine, Is sure to cure is taken regularly, Is no intoxicating beverage, Is a faultless family medicine, Is the cheapest medicine in the world, Is givcD with safety and the happiest re sults to the most delicate infant. Does not disarrange the system, Takes the place of quinine and bitter. jjof every kind, Contains the simplest and best remedies. Ask the recovered dyspeptics, bilious sufferers, victims of fever and ague, the mercurial diseased patient, how they recov ered health, cheerful spirits and ) ood appe tite—they will tell you by taking Simmons’ Liver Regulator, The Cheapest, Purest, ami Best Family Medicine in the World. It contains four medicinal elements, nev er united in the same happy proportion in any other preparation viz: a gentle cathar tic, a wonderful tonic, at. unexceptionable alterative ar.d certain corrective of all im purities of the body. Such signal success has attended its use, that it is now regarded as the EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC For all diseases of the Liver Stomach and Spleen. Asa Remedy in MALARIOUS FEVERS, BOWEL COM PLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL DE PRESSION, RESTLESSNESS, JAUNDICE, NAUSEA, SICK HEADACHE, COLIC, CON STIPATION and BILIOUSNESS. IT HAS NO EQUAL. CAUTION. As there are a number of imitations of fered to the public, we would caution the community to buy no powders or prepared Simmons’ Liver Regulator unless in our engraved wrapper with trade mark, stamp and signature unbroken. None other is genuine. „ J. H. ZEiLIN &■ CO.. Macon, Ca. and Philadelphia. lour valuable medicine, Simmons’ Liver Regulator, has saved me many doctor’s bills, I use it for everything it is recom mended and never knew it to fail; I have used it in colic and grubs, with my mules and horses, giving them about half a bottle at a time. 1 have not lost one that I gave it to, you can recommend it to every one that, has stock as being the best, medicine known for all complaints that horse flesh is heir to E. T. Taylor, Agent for Grangers of Georgia. sep2o-ly. JOB PRINTING! are constantly adding new materia OUR JOB DEPARTMENT and increasing our facilities for th cxecu tion of Job Printing of all kinds. We ait now prepared to print, in neat style on short notice, CARDS, LEGAL BLANKS, CIRCULARS, BLANK NOTES BILL HEADS, BLANK RECEIPTS LETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES, TICKETS, LABELS, POSTERS, PAMPHLET &c., &o. We guarantee satisfaction. Don’t send your orders away to have them filled, when you have an establishment at home that will execute work neatly, and at AT EXCEEDINGLY LOW RATES. Give your patronage to the Timel Job of fice Specimens can be seen at our office. Jh P, DUFFEY, MANUFAC TUBES HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, HORSE COLLARS. Guarantees all work in his line. Trices the very lowest ■< t can be afforded. Give him a call. feb2. (CHAMPION The Best Presses Made They are Well jjqjj SHUT*' Impression comes up true, even and firm, PRINTERS, J°r( ic ie” not spri ” g a Business- Men j®- do the best _ ~ _ WORK ! AND . . Larger sizes, self-ink* Amateurs. in g . ALSO Job Type for Amateurs ! AND Printers’ Furnishing Articles Of Every description. Send 10 cts. for pamphlet. Address . L. GUMP * CO., 17G William street, New York. Fisk’s Patent Metalic Having purchased the" stock of Boaz & Barrett, which will constantly be added to, a full range of sizes can always be found at the ohl stand of Reeves & Malone. decls 6m. T. A. FOSTER. MUSIC EMPORIUM, W. F. CUMMINS, 4z*7 Gay Street, Knoxville? Term., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN HANOI. ORGANS. SHEET MUSIC, MUSIC BOOKS, And All Kinds op MUSICAL MERCHANDISE. New Pianos from $250 to $1,500-organs from SSO to $7501 INSTRUMENTS SOLD ON EASY INSTALLMENTS. Great Inducements to CHURCHES, SABBATH SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS Grreat Indiioemoiits J AGENTS WANTED IN THE SOUTIIEIIN STATES Send for Catalogues and price lists, and correspond with this house, if you want bar gains. Pianos and Organs of all leading manufacturers furnished at the lowest prices. Satisfactton Guaranteed. Usual inducements to Southern papers on advertising. rw I rTi liiilisiM L\/ i- - Vhn 1 AECEJ VCD THE I GRAND PRIZE % , Vf£fflVA,/.875. WAR i YEARS! It requires no instructions to sr-uv St. it esa net set out of order- It will do every class and Lind of veals. • It will sew from E&suo Eaper to Earnss3 Leather. It la as far la advance ef ether Lbwingr Machines in tho magnitude ef its superior improvements, an a BwC-a Gar esecilo in achievements tho eld fashioned Stage Coaeh, XSLSLCI (_ cS i. j wi Cl. Jo2l ?imeS| Either for Cash, or Credit. * ! AGENTS WANTED. Address: wllson dewing machine co. CLETELAKD, OHIO, Cv.- .ii.W.Alr Jj i=i*.Jii>aj 17 IT/7 TORS, TANARUS., 17LW CSLSAITS, LA., C 7. L 0 "CIS, 2:20. Harvest Machinery! MARK W. JOHNSON * WOODRUFF, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Now beg leave to call the attention of the public to their extensive list of THRESHERS AND CLEANERS, Spike or ground hog threshing. DRUMS, SEPARATORS, HORSE POWERS, down ajd mounted. RAILWAY TOWERS, GIN POWERS, COTTON GINS, CONDENSERS, FEEDERS, LTNTERS, FAN MILLS, MOWERS AND REAPERS, GRAIN CRADLES, SCYTHE BLADES, GRASS BLADES, SNATHES, LAWN MOWERS, HAY FORKS, STEEL TOOTH WHEEL HORSE RAKES, REVOLVING WOOD HORSE HAY RAKES, BROAD HAND HAY RAKES, HAY FORKS, PEACH AND APPLE PARERS, GRAIN DRILLS, CIDER 31 ILLS, FEED CUTTERS, SHOVELS, SWEEPS, SCOOTERS, CLEVICES, HEEL PINS, RODS, Portable Send for our price List and make early engagements, so as to have everything in read mess. Sugar Mills and Evaporators Cheaper Than Elsewhere. MARK W. JOHNSON & WOODRUFF. ATLANTA, GA. ?. S.- We are also agents lor POLAND SPRING WATER, a sure cure for diseases of the Kidneys, Liver Complaint, and General Debility. Send for circular. [tjl. Mortgage Sale for May. \yiLL be sold before the Court House door in the town of Cal' n.Gordon Coun tj Georgia between the ic-gal hours of sale, on the fi.st Tuesd y inj>lay next, the fol lowing property to-wit: One red cow, one yoke of oxen, one wag on, and eight head of sheep, ag the proper ty of C. D. Hester, and Rr'hia Hester levied upon by virtue of a mort ge fi fa issu'd from Gordon Superior Court, in favor of Sameul Pulliam and T. A. Foster as. C. I>. Hester, and Ilutliia Hester. Property pointed out in said fi fa. E. L’AETLETT, Sheriff. Georgia, Gordon County. TTTHEREAS, Lewis T. Covington, admin- N istrator de bonis non of John C. Watts, represents to the court in his petition duiy filed and entered on record, that he has fully administered John G. Watts’ estate— This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they c n. why said adminis trator should not be discharged from said administration and receive letters of dis mission on the first Monday in May next. This February Id, DIG. D. W. NEEL, Ordinary. THE CALHOUN TIMES. ! : # j • f . '' ■ ' ' ' : * • A Spicy, Interesting Local and Family Newspaper. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT CALHOUN, GORDON COUNTY, GA. RATES OE SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR $2 00 THREE MONTHS $ SIX MONTHS 1 oy (JIXISS OF TEN , iO(J S T Mr ~f M * cx!s,<,, - c< '' ”"■> I'MO'HC firmly oslnb ing public who desire to oblufn * *•"'**“ s “PP'J'i"g the wants of the road- home kews from parls - *“• "• fu. the TIMES, nee salty lo M wlio rtintl able "*"*• wUI be Mof to mak, Good Newspaper, a ll ' l ° ne that wUI be hi S hl y appreciated every week as a welcome visitor to the family cikcle TO ADVERTISERS. in tl,e Cou " ties ° r •"*" Geor his busing. u s B “cur“g Jw,l ifT" ““ ,l,r<m S'* "• bich * known S s reatest good to h e greatn number. Kates reasonable D REE.MAN, Proprietor. V I V POH SAMPLE cmioMo UiU'l AND paper: j FOU SAMPLE CIIROMo AND PAPER! )f\ rirru SAMPLE ( IIIIOMo Ut) tlb. AND PAPER! $1 10 A YEAR ! SI 10 A YEAR I Including Premium and Postage Including Premium and p (lfit^e ' OUR OWN FIRESIDE Is a Home Journal for the Fireside. Eight large pages, with Illustrations Now in its Fourth Year. Trice $1 00 a year. 10 ctg extra must bo ent to pay postage. A Chromo with Every Number. A Chromo with Even/ Number. A Chromo with Every Number. For $2.00 a Year For $2.00 a Year For $2.00 a Year Subscribers of Our Own Fireside, desir nga chromo with every paper, will rocciv'c he same upon the payment of $2 (in stead of SI 10. These chromos are larger and of a bettor class than those used by other publisher* and every one worth more than the sub scription price. Sample number of the paper with sam ple Chromo sent to any address upon receipt of twentyMive cents. Eveiy family should take Our Own fireside. For its good stories ! For its fashion articles ! For its miscellany ! For its household news Address: “Oru Own 170 William street, New York. N. 13,—Canvassers Wanted.—lf a relia ble business man will accept the agency to control canvassers in this vicinity, we will put his name to this advertisement, Mi l will give him special inducements to act as our agent. -ivrotice. U. S. INTERNAL REVENUE SPECIAL TAXES, MAY 1, 1876. TO APRIL 20,.1877. The revised statutes of the United State* sections 8232. 3207, 8238, and 3289, require every person engaged in any business avo cation, or employment which renders him liable to a special tax, .o procure and PLACE CONS PIC UPUSLY IN Ills ESTABLISHMENT on place or business a s amp denoting the payment of said special tax j ear for the special tax year beginning May I, 1870, be* toie commencing or continuing business alter April o(), 1876. The taxes embraced within the pr (visions of the law above quo ted are the following, viz: Rectifiers S2OO 00 Dealers, retail liquor 05 00 Dealers, wholesale liquor, 100 00 Dealers in mall liquors, wholesale 60 00 Dealers in ma t liquors, retail 20 00 Dealers in leaf tobacco 26 00 Retail dealers in leaf tobacco 500 00 And on sales of ov r SI,OOO, fifty cents for every dollar in excess of $1,(H)0. Dealers in manufactured tobacco 5 00 Manufacturers of stills 50 00 And for cac 1 still manufactured 20 00 And for each worm manufactured 20 00 Manufacturers of tobacco 10 00 Manufacturers of cigars 10 00 1 eadlers ot tobacco, first class [more than two horsesor other animals] 50 00 Peddlers of tobacco, second class [two horses or otliei an : nulls. 1 25 00 Peddlers of tobacco, third class [one horse or oilier animal] 15 00 Peddlers of tobacco, fourth class [on foot or public conveyance] 10 00 Brewers of less than 500 barrels 50 00 Brewers of 500 barrels or more 100 00 Any person, so liable, who shall fail to j comply with the foregoing requirements will be subject to severe ppnaltie . Persons or firms bable to pay Special Taxes named above must apply to Jno. L. Conley, Col lector ot Internal Revenue at Atlanta, or to Samuel Sheats, Deputy Collector at Rome, Ca., and pay for and procure the Special lax Stamp or Stamps they need, prior to May 1, 1876, and without further notice. D. D. PRATT, Commissioner of Internal Revenue Office of Internal Revenue. Washington, D. 0., February 1, 1870. mar22-2vv—aprl9-2w. imam him ms AND WAG OXS. i TIIE undersigned having purchased of Mr. Z. T. Gray his shop, tools, and stock of material, consisting of everything ne cessary to the completion of first-class Wag ons, Carriages and Buggies, and also Har ness, Bridles, &c., together with All Kinds ol Farm Work, in Wood, Iron and Steel. Ilorsc-slioeing done in the best style. All kinds of repairing done at short notice, and in good style. The same hands contin ued in the shops, with the addition of Mr. Mctts, who is known to be among the best of wood yvorkmen. Mr. Gray will give his personal attention in the shops fox awhile. Try me. All yyork and prices warranted satisfactory. A liberal discount will be made for cash. A. W. REEVE. j. s. McCreary, JACKSON VILLE, IL L., Breeder and shipper of the celebrated POLAND CHINA HOGS. OF TIIE BEST QUALITY. Send for price list and circular. febl6 6m. Aftenhon, Farmers. I HAVE now opened at my farm, one mile west of Calhoun, a shop for the manufac ture the manufacture of Wagons, Buggies, etc., and the execution of ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND BLACKSMITH WORK, and will be pleased to serve you. The work I have done in the past is a sufficient guar antee lor the future. None but the best mechanics employed. Will furnish nerv work jr repair for you. My expenses a this place are not near so great as they were in town, hence I can do your work so much the cheaper. I a>k old customer-"' and the public generally to give me a ca.u Z. T. GUAY. *■ mar29-Cm,