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AGUICUi.TUIU:. Farmers’ Clubs. Hints for the guidance of farmers’ clubs may prove of great advantage to agriculturist#. These primary organiza tions, inexpensive, social, and formal, should bring out much of individuality, variety, and originality, and prove to be of great local utility. Asa contribution to the general fund of interest in these organizations, the following facts con cerning a farmers’ club, are copied from the proceedings of one reported in the agricultural reports for June and July: At a recent meeting a committee of six members was chosen to visit eigh teen farms belonging to members of the club, examine buildings, cattle, and other animals, note the general manage ments pertaining to the farm, and report upon the sAme at some future meeting of the club. The following subjects for discussion were also agreed upon: 1. Pasture lands—how improved; how much per acre will it do to lay out for improvements; comparative con dition now and twenty-five years ago. 2. Ought we to set out apple and pear trees? What is the general con dition of the trees, the prospects, etc.? 3. Does it pay to raise root crops largely for stock ? What is the cost, the value, and which are the best varie ties ? 4. Does it pay to raise hogs for mar ket? What is the cost of pork, with corn at one dollar and twenty-five cents per bushel ? 5. Ought farmers to make a specialty of any one crop ? G. Can the farmer afford to hire help ? How much can he afford to pay for ordinary help? How much can a man earn in cultivating hoed crops, setting aside cost of land ? Comparative earn ings of farmers and mechanics. 7. Can one afford to hire money to buy land, or to make improvements on land ? 8. Has chemistry been any help to the farmer ? Can he afford to use manufactured fertilizers ? 9. What birds are beneficial to the farmer, and what injurious? 10. Treatment of domestic animals, including feeding, etc. 11. Fertilizers. 12. Plowing. Drenching. Giving the drench is a simple opera tion, with most horses at least. The best method is by using a long-necked bottle, holding about, a quart. Fill the bottle with the drench, always warm if it can be made so, and insert the neck of the bottle into the mouth, upon the right side of it, and just in front of the jaw teeth, or grinders. Stand in an elevated position; for instance, upon a bench or box. Lift the head carefully with the left hand, and, with the bottle in the right, turn out a gill into the horse’s mouth and throat. If he swal lows it, as he will be likely to do, drop his head, and let him work his jaws and the muscles of his throat for a minute or so. In this manner continue until the whole drench is disposed of. A few simple directions in regard to preparing the drench may be of value to some. The liquid must contain no powders, lump, or sediment of any kind; for these may cause strangulation, and do serious injury. When any medicine is to be administered that is in powder or lumps, give it in some other way, and not in a drench. The great ad vantage of drenching consists in the greater rapidity with which remedies act than when given in any other way. The pill is a much easier method of medication, but the drench will usually have done its work before the pill is dissolved. Hiving Bees under Difficul ties. * Natural swarms will some times alight in nearly inaccessible places, as in a dense hedge, or in a gooseberry or currant bush. When this is the case, take an empty straw or box hive, with its bottom board, and place the latter as near as possible to the cluster, so pres sing it in the soil that the bees cannot get under it. Then with a long-hand led spoon or dipper scoop up a parcel of bees from the cluster, transfer them to the bottom hoard, and immediately in vert the hive over them, with the en trance toward the cluster. Transfer some more of them to the front of the hive, and the bees will immediately commence fanuiug and humming If the cluster cannot he reached with a spoon or dipper, take a long spoon or paddle, besmear one end of it with honey or syrup, insert it in the cluster, let the bees gather on it, and shake them off on the bottom board or in front of the hive. Now take a fumigator and blow smoke gently on the cluster, from above to alarm the bees, which, hearing the humming, and finding their lodging getting uncomfortable, will soon descend to the ground, travel to the hive in re gular troup, and take possession without hesitation. Let them enter without further annoyance of smoke ; wait till yon are sure the queen is with them, if you have not seen her travelling along in the crowd. If they remain quiet and content for half an hour, remove them to your apiary and transfer them to a movable comb. — Am. Bee Journal. Water for Bees. —A writer in the Western Promologist, says : “There is no insect more fond of water than the honey bee. In fact, water is believed to be absolutely indispensable to the suc cessful operations of the hive. Water should at all times be near the bee stand, where it may be easy accessible, and at the same time not to endanger the lives of the bees by drowning, as in open troughs, tubs or pails. Take either of the vessels mentioned, fill up with water, cover with a piece of coarse canvass, such as comes around bales of sheeting, and you have a most perfect watering place for bees. The canvass should be made to rest upon the surface of the wa ter. The water oozes up through the canvass, upon which the bees may light without danger of being drowned, as in open vessels.” If a man is honest and truthful, there is little need of saying much about it. Turning Out Horses to Grass. A correspondent of the “Times” writes as follows on this subject: “When hor ses have suffered in their work for any thing of the nature of strain of the sin ews or their ligaments, or when their legs are very much the worse for wear, they should be allowed no exercise but such as they can get in a loose box; they should be treated as a man would be who had sprained his ankle and must be confined to a sofa. On the other hand, I have seen horses which were good on their legs, but stale, groggy, and tucked up from hard work, and dry and exci ting food, improve as if by magic, when turned out to grass, on the following plan : I have housed them during the day time in a well ventilated dwelling, darkened so as to exclude the sun and flies, giving them about half a peck of grain daily, with bran and clover chaff; they have then been turned out at night in a pasture in which there was an abun dance of grass. Under these circum stances, they are never tormented by flies; when they are out all is cool and quiet, the long grass saturated with dew supplies an admirable cool, refrigerating poultice to their legs and feet, and the grass they get, combined with their daily grain, seems to plump up their bodies without much interfering with their con dition for work. I have taken horses treated in this way as late as September, and had them in very fair order for work by the commencement of the hunting season. lam aware that this system will not suit all horses; small barrelled washy horses are too much purged by green food, they arc also, in general,' restless and irritable, galloping about and teasing their companions, and so are better at home. This may possibly be the case, but with valuable horses we must not grudge a little trouble. Sweet Potatoes. —By .carefully opening the rows, some of the largest roots may be removed for use, and the others allowed to grow. It is necessary to dig the crop at the first touch of frost, otherwise the potatoes will not keep. [From the Albany News.] The War at Home. "NY ar is the theme of the day. We turn from the phastly battle-fields of Gravelotte, of Metz, and of Rezonville, heart-sick and sad. Corpses strew the ground, and streams run red with blood! History will record these terrible con flicts and terrific carnage, and its pages will glow with Prussian victories and French chivalry. But there is another war waged in our very midst, which does not extort a comment. It is a strange war; one where the victorious sword is wreathed with flowers—one Avhere the captive hugs his chains and yields to death with out a struggle. So insidious is the foe, that it lures its victim on, like the rep tile—charmes the little bird, which, with pleased content, hovers around its destroyer—drawn nearer and nearer by irresistable fascination, until with bosom quickly panting, it folds its little wings and drops into the fangs of death. Not only is the enemy insidious but it is in vincible, and its thirst for victories in satiable. Unsatisfied with these already achieved, it goes on mowdng down thousands year by year, and because cause these victories are bloodless, the Press sounds no note of warning, and utters no battle-cry. Other Kings have “fretted their hour upon the stage,” have slain their scores, and have passed away.. King Alcohol’s subjects are to day as the sands of the sea shore for multitude, and yet, unimpaired by the lapse of years, he is mighty and strong. A more wily diplomatist than Prussia can boast upholds his throne, for it is none other than the Arch Fiend himself w T ho instigates and aids in every on slaught. Who are his aids-de-campe in this warfare ? The distiller and vender of ardent spirits, and sometimes woman herself. These wear no victor’s wreath es ; no trumpet blast proclaims their triumphs, but verily their reward will come. “And their works do follow them,” so declares the sacred penman. Then tears, heart aches, groans, cries of heart-broken widows, wails and shrieks of starving orphans, and the ever ascend ing smoke of torment of lost souls will be their never ending rewards. If “no drunkard” shall inherit the kingdom of heaven, shall he who made the drunkard enter ? No, never. His cup of woe will be full, it will be pressed down, shaken together, heaped up and running over. Physician, beware, lest you unwil lingly aid the foe. It is yours to brace enfeebled systems, and bind up shattered nerves. To what do you resort? In the name of weeping widows and wailing orphans, in the name of all that woman holds dear, let me ask, is there nothing beneath the broad, blue heaven, nothing that grows under the sun, nothing that the hand of skill can compound, that can infuse strength into a wasting gynstitm tion. but the consuming, baneful, exe crable beverage of hell ? If this is the only remedy, then let death come. All honor to him who suffers because he will not drink—all honor to the man who refuses health upon such disastrous terms. Physician, beware! Not only do you hold lives, but you hold souls in the balance. To-day, even now, the conflict rages. Behind many a screen in our cities King Alcohol’s clans are gathered. The bacchanalian song, the maudlin jest, the inebriate’s laugh sounds often in our streets. Shall we fold our arms in cool indifference, and let this stealthy war fare go on ? Can we complacently see husbands, brothers and sons reel beneath the pleasurable delirium of the wine cup ? Where are the heroes of a loved but “ lost cause ?” Sons of Georgia, to you we appeal. Shout aloud the battle cry fly to the rescue. A Malvern Hill is before you —will you falter now ? A few Knights are ready for the fray, who will join them in the glorious struggle ? History may never recount your vic tories, but while a woman’s lips can bless, your name shall live. No trophies of war may enrich your stores, no trium phal arch proclaim you conqueror, yet far over our sunny land their praise will ring—King Alchohol has slain his thousands but you have saved ten thous and hearts, ten thousand times ten thousand pangs. Temperance. A Day in the Woods. How welcome the day that reveals to the sight, The Sunday School picnic, the children’s delight As free as the air, or the bird on the wing, We lift jp our banner and merrily sing, Cho. — A day in the woods for me, A day in the woods for me, Where flowrets are blushing and streamlets are gushing, A day in the woods for me. The goodness of God, and his wisdom snd power We rest ia the wild wood, the field and the flower The charms that surround us, the glories above, Declare his compassion, forbearance and love. We pity the young, who would happiness win Where revelry reigns in the temples of sin ; Who pleasure put bus at the banquet or ball, But turn from the works of the maker of all. Then march to the woods where the banquet is spread, A beautiful banner waves over your bead ; The Sunday School army’s recruiting to day, Then fall in the ranks, for we’re marching away As Flows the Rapid River. As flows the rapid river, With channel broad and free, Its waters rippling eve r , And hast’ning to the sea, So lilt is onward flowing, And days of offered peace And man is swiftly going, Where calls of mercy cease. As moons are ever waning,’ As hastes the sun away; as stormy winds complaining, Bring on the wintry day ; So, last the night comes o’et us— Th» darkness of the grave ; Grim death is just before us ; God takes the life he gave. Say, hath thy heart its treasure, Laid up iu worlds above ? Say, is it all thy pleasure, Thy God to serve and love F Beware, lest death’s dark river, Its billows o’er thee roll, List thou lament for ever The ruin ot thy soul. Programme of the Southern Commercial Convention. The Committee of the Southern Com mercial Convention, to be held in Cin cinnati, October 4th, have agreed on the following topics for discussion : 1. Direct trade between the Southern Atlantic cities and Europe. 2. The Southern Pacific railroad. 3. The obstruction to navigation by the narrow span bridge piers. 4. A continuous water line communi cation between the Mississippi and the Atlantic seaboard. 5. The removal of obstructions from the mouth of the Mississippi river. 6. The construction of permanent le vees on the Mississippi river. 7. To abolish all toll on navigable riv ers. 8. The enlargement of the more im portant lines of canals in the United States, and render them navigable by steam vessels. 9. Finance and taxation. 10. A settled policy on the public in terest in regard to the disposition of gov ernment bonds. 11. Charges on freight by rail and water lines. 12. To abolish throughout the coun try all licenses imposed on commercial travelers. 13. The removal of the National Cap itol. 14. For making all rajlyoad viaducts over navigable rivers highways for all railroads that will pa y jir-o rata rates of toll on the same. Essay on Tobacco, by a Small Boy —Tobacco grows something like cabbages; but I never saw none of it boiled, altogether I have eaten cabbage and vinegar on it, and I have heard men say that cigars that was given to them on election days for nothing was cabbage leaves. Tobacco stores are mostly kept by wooden Injuns, who stand at the door and try to fool little boys by offer ing them a bunch of cigars which is glued into Injun’s hands and is made of wood also. Hogs do not like tobacco; neither do I. Tobacco was invented by a man name Walter Raleigh. When the people first saw him smoking they thought he was a steamboat, and as they had never seen a steamboat, they were frightened. My sister Nancy is a girl. I don’t know whether she likes tobacco or not. There is a young man by the name of Leroy who comes to see her. I guess she likes Leroy. He was stand ing on the steps one night, and he had a cigar in his mouth, and he said he didn’t know as she would like it, and she said, “Leroy, the perfume is agreea ble.” But next morning, when my big brother Tom lighted his pipe, Nancy said, “Get out of the house, yon horrid creature, the smell of tobacco makes me sick.” Snuff is Injun meal made out of tobacco, I took a little snuff once, and then I sneezed. James L. Orr. —Our hxchanges will do well to give publicity to the follow ing which we glean from the Richmond Dispatch , one of the very best papers published in Virginia, so that every gen tleman can know what is thought of the Hon. James L. Orr, the would-be Sena tor of South Carolina. Read and pass it round: Candid. —We admire the candor of Hon. James L. Orr, of South Carolina, who, without circumlocution, avows that he intends to act with the Republican party because it is so strong that it will in evitably rule that State for years to come ! There are a number of patriots of this sort iu Virginia as well as in each of the other States. They are acting, and will continue for a time to act, with the Republican party, because it controls all the federal offices; but let the Demo crats come into power, and these same slippery knaves will be among the bit terest enemies of Radicalism to be found in the ranks of the successful party. Judge Orr, too, will of course resume his Democratic principles whenever he shall see a prospect of the Democracy ruling South Carolina for a number of years. Two centenarians have resulted from the census in Caroline county, Maryland : Jane Hutson, aged 116, and Anne Mur ray, aged 110. DRUG STORE ! o DR. D. C. HUNT. DEALER IN 1) EUGS —AND MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, LAMPS, WINDOW-GLASS, DYE STUFFS, PERFUMERY, TOILET . . ARTICLES, &c. &c. Also. Agent for the GREAT SUMTER BITTERS, Corner of Railroad and Court House streets, CALHOUN, GA. o SODA WATER. My splendid Soda Fount is now in full blast, with pure Syrups to suit the taste of all. Aug 11 I— ts Groceries at Atlanta Prices! PITTS & JOHNSON, Wholesale and Retail GROCERS, And dealers in WHEAT, CORN, And North Georgia and Tennessee Produce Generally. Our facilities for Buying are unsurpassed, and we are enabled to furnish Country Merchants and Planters, of this section with GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS AT ATLANTA PRICES. We pay the Highest Market Prices 111 Greenbacks, for Wheat. A trial is only necessary to convince the people that we Mean Wliat we Bay. and See its, on South side of Court House Street. Calhoun, August 11, 1870. ts T. M. ELLIS. W. M. COLBUKN. ELLIS & COLBURN, Manufacturers and Dealers in HARNESS, SADDLES and BRIDLES, FINE FRENCH CALF BOOTS AND SHOES, AND all kinds of work usually done in a First Class Boot and Shoe Shop. We keep constantly on hand and for sale, Harness and Sole Leather, Also, a good stock of SHOES and SHOE FINDINGS, which we will sell Cheap for Cash. Boots and Shoes made to order at Short Notice. In this department we employ the best of workmen, and guarantee satisfac tion. We pay cash for all GOOD HTDES. ELLIS & COLBURN. Calhoun. August 11, 1870. WAGON AND BUGGY Manufactory! Z. T. GRAY, Respectfully announces to the people of Gordon and surrounding counties that hie Wagon and Buggy Manufactory at CALHOUN, GA, is now in full blast. He is prepared to fur nish any style buggy or wagon at SHORT NOTICE, AND A T PRICES TO DEFY COMPETITION. My work is well known to many of the people of North Georgia, and speaks for itself. REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS, DONE AT SHORT NOTICE. Blacksmith Shop. In connection with my establishment is a blacksmith shop, where all work in that line is promptly attended to. The best of Workmen are employed in every department, and en tire satisfaction always given. Aug 11 1 ts NEW GOODS —AT — New Prices ! Just Arrived and Arriving From IV e w Y ork ! R. MAYOUNG TAKES pleasure in informing the Trading Public that he has on hand A LARGE and GENERAL Stock of SfflEß: FALL COHOS, Which he has selected in person, with special care to the LATEST STYLES and CHEAPEST PRICES, for articles combining Beauty of Finish with dur ability of Texture. My stock comprises everything in the DYY GOODS LINE, usuasly kept in this market. FAIL? GROCERIES!! Java, Laguira and Rio Coffee; Loaf, Clarified and Brown Sugar; Bacon, Lard, Flour, Syrup. Rice. Teas, Liverpool JSalt, &c. Boots, Shoes and Hats, HARDWARE, Iron, Woodware, Oils, Paints, Drus, Medicines, Dyestuffs, Hem- LOCK LEATHER. Also, a good supply of the Athens and Roswell Y T arn always on hand. THE 13 A 11 ROOM, In the Cellar, Is supplied with every variety of Bran dies, Wines, Cordials, Rum, Gins, &c. Pure Corn Whiskey, Mellow with age, from barrels soiled with the dust of days agone. My entire Stock has been purchased in the best market in the country, at Greatly Reduced Prices, and will be Sold for CASH As Low as the Lowest. COUNTRY PRODUCE, at the highest market price, taken in exchange for goods. Call and examine my goods before purchasing elsew here. Nothing charged for showing them. Fisk’s Patent Metalic Burial Cases For ordinary interments, Depositing in Vaults and transportation, they have no rival. Made of most imperishable material. A good assortment always on hand. R. M. YOUNG. DYSPEPS lAdTINDI G ESTION^ PRtVfNTS CHILLS hV: SOLD EVERYWHERE. Awl D0Wtt o «» B '« navis a WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS €»imSLSTOIt,S.C. Sumter Bitters IS PLEASANT to the Taste, EXHILARA TING to the Body, imparting VIGOR and STRENGTH to the CONSTITUTION. A Purifier of the BLOOD, a Regulator of the whole NERVOUS SYSTEM. DYSPEPSIA or INDIGESTION is speedily cured by the use of this TONIC. It is a specific as a pre ventative of FEVER and AGUE, and restorer of the natural powers when broken down by continued attacks of the enervating disease. FEMALES, whose constitutions have be come Nervous and Debilitated through seden tary habits and close confinement to household or other domestic duties, will find Sumtev Bitters the true Tonic, possessed of intrinti k virtues. For sale by Dr. D. G. HUNT, Physician and Druggist, Calhoun, Ga. aug26’7o-6m CHEROKEE MAMACTIIRII! CO., DALT ON, GA. Manufactures all Kinds of FURNITURE, Os the best material this country affords, and very superior in style and w orkmanship, which they offer to the public and the gen eral trade, as low as can be afforded. Chairs & Bedsteads a Speciality. Blinds, Doors, Sash and Job Work, to or der, on short notice. Dr. D. G. Hunt is our Agent at Calhoun, Ga., and keeps a good supply of Furniture on hand. J. W. WALKER, Sup't. L. D. Palmer, Secretary. aug26'7o-ly T. R. RIPLEY, Established in 1850. 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