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} {•'“r. 'r ' BELT IN THE LOW GROUNDS. • Fodder- Pallia* l^aarkea Mr. Wit- llaai Arp nitd Froat Which lie Mloeo 17# to Protect A*alaol Uarwla'tf Moaltey 'I'beoirj. If fiidt nfd stubborn things, then pulling fodder in the low gwruuds is a fact. There ain’t a redeeming circurn» stance about it. Its Working on a con tinual strain to pull it, and there’s no fun iu tycing it up, and I reckon Unit tho toting of it two or three hundred yards to the wagon road, ten bundles at u time, stepping like a blind horse over cornstalks bent down, and tripping up in morning glorias, nud every now and then losing your hold and having to load up again, and all tin time .^mothered up so that you can’t see where you arc go ing, and not a breath of ref reciting air to cool you, is about tho meanest busr- noss I havo yet experienced. It is all fact—solemn fact--uo na poetry, m> joke. BuV that ain’t all of it. Its got to bo hauled and then be throwu up in the barn loll and stacked away, and if there’s any hotter place to work in than a burn loft I don’t know it, and I’ve been considerin' that after its all dono ygy can’t , sell it for more than a dollar a hundred, and right now in my present frame of mind it 1 had any to sell odd some fellow without any soul was to offer me 90 cents 1 should hit him if it was the lust lick I even struck. They may jew mo on my corn agricultural bureau bn* let alone. It's a grout blpeeiog to this impoverished laud, and its origia is do accident, I think the Legislature ought^to gl v « tho bureau another term to investigate thefo mysteries and determine whether things spontano or do not spoutane—and where the army woniy cornea from, and when they are coming, and how to stop ’em when they do eotne, for they eat up all my (.abor's fodder and about this time yesterday evening I wished they had eat up mine.—Bill Constitution. Arp in Atlanta Clenertil Urnnl'a Future. (Sp«H:l»l to tho Netf York Po«t.j ’WAsiliNt'itoNy^Novcmber 25. —M. Dc Franco arrived boro Irst night to confer with Admiral Am men oh Nica ragua Canal mattcoi, I asked him this morning whut bearing on Gen. Grant’s politiotth future tho acceptance by him of the l*re#dtslpcy of tne Canid Company yPjMMya-, M 'I* rnply was , subataelialiy as follow*: It would take Mm perma nently out of politics. He will be ten dered the office with tho understanding that he is to Gil it until the completion of the canal. He would not be expected to resign if nominated by a political con vention next year but rather tq dpcljne any political nomination. That would ho the understanding, and it is upon this basis that the foreign capitalists now in terested in the project are desirous to put their money into it. I asked him if he thought that Gen. nud wheat and couou rrtid potflioeg, but -Grunt would, under these ropsiderattons, w » « „ . : w * i:.i nru. I wont be jewed on fodder. It does seem to me like all this sort of work < J ought to be done by machinery or not done at all. The fact is, I don’t be lieve in fodder pulling, though it is the very best forage for a horse or a milk cow iu the world, and is always worth more than it brings. I think the corn ought to be sowed or drilled like wheat and cutvlown in the same way, and that would get rid of the wor^t part of old fashioned fodder-pulling Juid give ten times as much forage for the same amount of manual labor. One of my nabors, who is regarded as the best far mer in tho settlement, is noWanoving down a mixture of rag weeds and crab grass that followed his wheat crop, and he says its good ruffue.-s for stock, and _ they, lill clem Lt-aILup^Ju vary gated food just like folks. Well, I am glad to know it, and I’m going to do likewise, and let your farming editor know the result, for if there’s any virtue iu rag weeds, everybody ought to know it—especially them farmers up about King-ton who have been feeding on dog fennel so long their cattle have all turned yaller and they are selling ’em oil’ as full blooded Jerseys. I always thought that rag weeds und.crub grass was ordained to fullow small grain and shade the ground from the summer's sun, but I never did know where it ccme from under certain circumstances. Its all an unexplored wilderness to me. Last year there wasn’t a rag weed in my corn **' , * U Y , and 1 sowed, wheat upon the land and now the weeds are about five feet high, all over if, and . so thick you can’t walk through ’em, and 1 want to know where they come from. About a month ago 1 cut some of the weeds down and tho grass come up just us rank and thick and I’m mowing it for hay and I would like (o know where the grass come from. Last year there wasn’t a morning glory in my clover field, and now its full of them, mid I want to knowhow they got there. In the spring I graded off a little rise in my front yard and dug down two feet into the clay end slate and left it too poor and hard to sprout peas, and iu less than a month the bidL^gttles and the pepper grass and other woods had sprouted up all over it, and it bothers me to know where they conic from. Gimp- son weeds and opedildotk or some other dock will just spontano anywhere around a horse lot or cow pon or an old houro in a field, and I don’t understand that, for the birds wont cat the seed nor carry them and they are too heavy to blow around. There's young hickory bushes all over my woods and nary old one in a qrartcr of a mile. If you cut down an oak forrest piues will come up thick all over it, and if you cut down a pine Ibrrest oaks will come up, acorns or no acorns. A few years ago the bed of the creek on my farm was changed and now there’s a young cane brake coming up in a new place, and canes don’t blos som nor bear seed. How did they get there? May be all those things spon- tane according to the new fttngled doc trine of evolution, and if so then I reckon I’m an Cvolutioner, for I’m obliged to believe that- under certain conditions of soil and atmoSpIa'rc plants oru originate themselves withOupseed. The other day 1 locked up a piefce^of cheesa where d fly couldn’t find it, but N»e iiMtcs got into it somehow from the itWitle and worked out, so it seems to me if animals cun develop without uu> ccstors vegetable lilo can do the same thing. But I don’t believe that a hair from a black marc’s tail will turn into a snake if you put it in tho branch. I douT be lieve that a man ever enmo from a monkey, for they arc both just like, what they were as far back as history runs, and haven’t made very much im • provement if anv; I am uot that sort of an evoluter. I don’t believe that the jumpiu’ kangaroo swumall the way from Noah’s nrk to the island of Australia, or - .that every sort of a man descended from Shcna, Ham and Japheth, but I do believe that nature furnishes her owp resources apd all these weeds that fol low the crops come up-without seed just as natural as original sin follows the hu man family. The first year after the war a new kind of clover came up all over the land and covered it like a new carpet and nobody ever found out accept tnc’oflice. He said yes. They had recently received a letter from him saying that he would accept provided he •was satisfied that the company was on a* solid business basis and would carry out tho proposed work, and these require ments, M. Be Franco said, would be met. Ho fully expected, therefore, that General Grant would identify himself with this work. Ho would gain nothing in fame or fortune by a third terra. This undertaking was worthy of his highest ambition and powers. It would give him a duuble immortality, a perma nent position of vast respormibiHty, prominence and wealth. M. Bo Franco considered the Lesscps scheme jead. M. l)K LKSSKl’S XOT OISIl FASTEN ED. \ * *: Paris. NovcnibGr Da sops will start for Puptuna early in De cember. A brigade of pioneers and sur veyors has already left to prepare for canal. cutting tho if. A Cosily Jloko. On^s day Washington where it came or how it got here. ?ome gay the Yankee cavalry brought itiu their oats, and some said it was blown hero in a storm and an old Irishman told mo it came from Krin by instinct, for it never grew anywhere but in con quered countries. One thing is certain, L come all of a sudden, and come every where at once, and its a conundrum the at the dinner table in a hotel, when the dinning hall was well filled, Cnpt. Jonea finished his dianer Gist, got up and walked al most 1 to the dinning hall door, when Emerson spoke to him in a loud voice and said : Halloo, Captain ! see here; 1 want to speak to you a minute.” The Captain turued and walked back to tho table and bent over him, when Emerson whispered: “I wanted to know how far you would have gone if I had not spoxen to you r Tliel Capi«i» n«r«i changed a muscle, but straightened up and put his fingers in his vest pocket and said, in a voice loud enough for all to hear him : “Capt. Emerson, I don’t know a man in tho world I wauld rather lend |5 to than you, but the fact trl haven’t a cent with me to-day,” and turned on his heel and walked away. Emerson was tho color ol h If a dozen rainbows, but he had to stand it. He never heaid the last of it, and, pt cost him more than $10 to treat on if 1 . FIRE INSURANCI The St. Paul Firt —AND— Marine Insurance Company CAPITAL $1,704,881 THE SAFEST COMPANY Ilf TII UNITED STATES } J Wilt underwrite an all kinds of property, real nnd personal, in Barnwell comity, in- eluding gins, gin-houses, mills anil machin ery. cotton ginned and unginned at the low est current rates. IT. M. THOMPSON, Local Agent, Williston. 8. C. N. B. Policies issued in best English Fire Companies if preferred, confined to dwell ing houses, stot es and contents. june27-tf » . JOSBfH H DAT. MltUBL TASNAHILL. ■AM VKt I. SI BLIT AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. OFFER FOR SALE AT TERY LOWEST PJtlCES AT FULL ASSORTMENT QF ' V. >■ Carriages, Buggies and Wagons OF RELIABLE AND GUARANTEED QUALITY. A splendid slock of Coach Material, Axles, Springs, Spokes, Hubs, Rims, Shnfls, Bolt** Mom, Molding, Glue, Borax, Masurytia Color*, Valentine’* Varniihes, &c. f &c. SADDLES, HARNESS, BRIDLES, COLLARS., LADIES’ AND GENTS’ FINE TRUNKS aw*-R*tt«yfMK and ftRM-LOrlUgOLg UATliEit, CALF 'Sm^ranTT tfclf line of Shoe Findings of reduced prices. We take pleasure in stating that we have tho agency for this section for the sale of WILSON, CHILDS & CO.’S PHILADELPHIA WAGONS and CARTS, which hare bo com- petor inthe field, pnd will sell th#n at prices within the reach of all who want a good ar ticle. Also ugenUfcr the CORTLAND WAGON on Platform -Springs. For persons in want of a-Occup, y*t reliable Vehicle, we recommend the CORTLAND CHARIOT, the lightest, most stylish and best thing on four wheels for sixty five dollars, sad Leather Belting two to fourteen inches-. Packing of all kinds. Whips, Um brellas, Nentsfoot Oil Blacking for Harness, etc. aug2I-6m - ■' DAY, TANNAHILL & CO - J-"" ■ — —s- Augusta, Qa. FRED DAMISH, (formerly of Barnwell.) FItEB L. PINK HAM. 313 BROAD STREET, - - AUGUSTA, GA., (Next to Planter’s Hotel) —^ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALEPtS IN BOOTS, SHOES, At. We liave on hand a large and fering at very low figures. well-selected stock of goods which wc are of- We Hake Small Profits and Quick Sales. GUARANTEE our-Goode! to bo-what they represent. DAMISH & PINKHAM WE oe*23-:Hn : fi*er Cent. Oii Cost I DRY GROCBRIBS, W1XBS, -LIQUORS, EVERY ARTICLE NEW AND FRESH. Our stock has been selected with the greatest care, and we will warrant every article as represented, and will sell as low as any house lu the county. mmmj & simsiiul, . WXT.LISTOlSr, s. o. oc30-3 E. F. GALLAHER, i ■ —DEALER IN— Chas C. Leslie, Wholesale Md Retail Dealer In Fish, Game, Lobsters, Turtles, Terrapins, Oysters, &c. Stalls Nos. 1 & 2 Fish Market, Charleston. So. Ca- Having ntado largo additions to my business, I am prep»rvd to furnish Fish, Game, Ac. at short notleo^ All orders promptly attended to.: Terras ensh or city aoeeptahse. octfi-Sra 2G7 King Bt» Charleston, 8. 0. Ml PfiOTOGBAPfiS, AND A LABOR COLLECTION OV WR. AMTCW at mndcraW prto» v pl-ly 9 And all styles of Mouliogs for square », Made frames, Made to order, at 50 per cent, less than ever offered. Chromos, En gravings and all style* of Plcturee Framed at remarkably low figures. Portrait and Mirror Frame* Regtlded. Photographs atgreatly reduced price*. .Satisfaction guanteed, at Pelot * O ole’s Gallery* oc23-3tn 192 Broad St, Augusta, Go, BOOTS AND SHOES, Hats and Trunks, !N"o* Q&9 33road Street. , 4...- - - --- ' AUGUSTA, *epJ8.3m GEORGIA. Low Prices For" Hoots, Shoes ami Hats. Wc have now in store a very large and complete stock of *— BOOTS, SHOES HATS, Which has bccu purchased direct from the Manufacturers, at the Lowest Prices the Cash Will Comtnond, and as our motto is Lar^e Sales and Small Broflts, OurJCustomcrs and the Public can rely on GOOD BARGAINS. A^Largc Stock of Philadelphia and Baltimore Fine Shoes on Hand. A Liberal Biscount to the Wholesale Trade. WM. IHITLIIERIN, sepl8-3m 293 BROAD STREET, ATJGtJST A, G A. Planters Hotel. To ''my Frienrlt and the Trtivrli’iy Publit: . In consequence of the great reduc tion In nil of the staples of our coun- -tryr-L hnve conctnrf?tt"tq~~ruilqt!g~my rates of board to $1 50 and Siper dny, according to location of rooms. Special accommodation* for families and corhmerciitl travelers. My table shall not excelled by any in the South, and will constantly be supplied with selected Boston beef. The hotel hfiS~reeently undergone thorough re pairs, and been newly furnished and made complete in all its appointments. Courteous ejerks and attentive aer vants. When you visit Savannah do not fail to call at the Planters, as I am de termined thanhia hotel shall not bo excelled by jiny in the South, regard- loss of price. Thanking you for past favors, and hoping for a continuance of the same, I am, very respectfully ‘ ffb20-ly John Brksnan. Manager. >.n 11 Si g White " S£wiK6 Machine TKZ BEST OF AUU . - ■ - -—ft. ——— Unrivaled in Appearance, Unparalleled in Simplicity, Unsurpassed in Construction, f Unprecedented in Popularity, And UndiSpM in the Broad Claim •rtwo tMC ' ' v— ^ VKRT EtnST UTET.ATSMO QUICKr.ST or.X.f.ITNG^ v lioat Porisct sirirjg Ikciiina tft THE WOULD. . JSTO. 265 BROAD ST.. AUGUSTA. GA. . _ Wholesale a&d Re* - ■ _ 4j tail Bcalerjn COOKING STOVES.^g HEATING StOTES GRATES. ’ TINWARE, ETC, ■ • 7 He keepi in stock that v first class stove, tlia Excelsior Cook- Patented 1839,1801, 1865’, Extended 1803, Renewed 1807- Patented March Patented November 28,1876. _ 29, 1870. IMPKOTETT ■ • Superior bfeyond comparison to any other high-hearth stove in the market. It has Urge single oven doors, artistically designed, lined with tin and fitted with bright turnbuekles • large hot blast the dopr, swinging hearth-plate, and deep ashpit with Spear’s Patent Baled Ash Pan and sifter prate. The oven is large, and the flues of unusual size,-and so arranged as to be easily kept oleitfi. It has at - large top, provided with Manigle’s Patent Gas Bnrnjug Ixrag Btvision Piece, the best cross piece in use. All the mouldings of the stove are heavy, and its design and ornamentation will satisfy the most critical taste. For wood, the stove is fitted with a Patent Combined Wood Grate and’Firo Dog, ami entirely new arrange ment, and tbc most durable wood grate iu use. , FOUR SIZKS—(i inch, $22; 7 inch, $27; 8 inch, $30; 9 iuob, $34. Call imd see ii before purchasing elsewhere. HcatitigJitoves tor Coal and -V ■ Wood in variety.. . ‘ NEW CHART SMALL FLAT TOP STOVE Priced os follows : No. 6, 815; No. 7 : $17; No. 8, $20. Step Stoves with lull set trimmings, No.. 6^ $11/ No. 7, $13; No. 8, $18. \ Tinware at wholesale price very low. " ’ ’ O(0-5rn For sale by W- I- DELPH, AUGUSTA, OA. 4 HOUSE, $2. Charleston, G. $2 SITUATED IN THE BEND OF KINO street, the most fashionable promenade In the city. Hint elaoB In all Re appiilntaant*. -^ - Table furnishetl with the b^st afforded y local. Northern and Southern markets. First cIkSS Far and Burlier Shop. • ■ -ww The finest Billiard Room in tho South. * rvants polite and attentive. l’< >.»t d : f... |I per day. Lower rab s by tho week or month. » OLO. tv. 8U.UTAN, Latk or A. J. Ebsski*! A Co.,) - • Proprietor. HOLD THE FORT ! WE HAVE COME ! Hold : 0 : — Year Cash Until You Go To Burekhalter jiWlULISTON.iS. C- Indepotulcnts in trade who beat old fogies. Undersellall Barnwell, rival Charlsaton and Auguata.^X. - Everythin^Wl Nothing to keep If you are wise, tra* sale. scpl8-3m the front place. rilh us; We will make you happy. BURCKH ALTER & CO., iderscllcrs and Truth Tellers, Willi|ton, S. C. OSAHLSS S- 0, 159, 161, 103 ani 165 East Bay. 2, 4, nnal2 Queen Street. 13, 15, 17 and 19 Vendue Range. Wholesale Orocers and liquor Dealers, Cotton and N aval Btores Factor®. Solje Agents for Georgia aqd Wagoner Grange Guano. LiberuJ advances made * on Shipments of Cotton. . We have a special Produce Department for which wc solicit consignments of Rough Rice, Peas, etc. scpl8-6m '..4 L - u*., u :. «J -yil ThSfrwtlU.'f'-'ttHyel H 3 \v , '.l!s fx.F»j raetoen- tnUld t.^ i.i ».-< tHXitorriy Tm’Trmcr'Hi-ct Tji: 8 LI'. u lo.tLa . t ide wc pH ;• R'li.’i F<' rl »r J Ii r.s Iri*;iac8 it o>.'-r vei Sowik,./ lit lie ta«Cf. The item.i" ! l.rV'sVtkP.H h55 !■> w't ao extent tn&t \. i iioir*oovei«Ml to turn out .A Ccoarxylorbo •Vfc-ry ir-Aj. tiic -’oy- t-> ^-c-c-yly E' -ry msch'ee waj-;i«t;-J Ire 3 yxxrs, tni seidf-.r c-tfi at disc-iiiti,or upo i easy to suit th^coRvooienco ct cu^temera. wizassh vhTmn mrjomzz. CtilTE. S£ ■■JIHQUh CHW£ CC? hi 3E8 Euch4 A»a., Cievoiand, Cnio. — For sale by— J. D. & T. F. S M I T II, 290 Broau St., • - ArqusTA.O.,. Only 5c. Each. * I will receive, In a f*-w days, from New York, anoth*<r lot of goods, at FIVE CENTS EACH, consisting of Sauce Fans. Brass Hand Bells; Toy Knives, Forks and Spoons, Curry Combs, Hammers, Can Openers, Garden Hoes and lUkes oora- Mned. Scissors. Lamp (.hiraneys, Fape- terie. Note, Letter and CapTaper per (piire. Envelopes per package. Lead PenelU, *Vriling Books, Chromos, Mncllage, Ink, Slates, A U C Blocks, Checker Boards, Book sttops. Toilet Soup, Tooth Brushes, Knitting Cotton. Round and Dressing Bombs, Rta -king, Handkerchiefs, Towels, Doyiafl Laco Bibs, Etubroldeioa Marseiles Bibs, Jewelry, &e. T have a.fo# arthdes it'ft of rny first lot, consisting as follows, all of which I t iter at five cents each Dippers, Pans. Cake Cutters,Pepper Boxes Wash Basins, Coffee Canisters, Egg Beat ers, Potato Mashers, Toasters, Frying Fans, Mouth Organs, Hoop-Skirts, Dime Novels, Iron^Stands, (Vffee^Stands, Tack received weekly. I have nn order for a lot of second hand books, provided they can be purebsed low down. J. 8. SHUCK. angas-ly Agent. Hutson & Co., GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS, •AUKETST, 8, C„ ' Represent the following - companies: first class Liverpool and London and (Robe Cos. lUysl Insurance company Queen Insurance Company Weatern Assurance Company Va. F. and M. Insurance Co. $27:000.000 28,000,000 10,000,000 1,200,000 009,000 fh. Fait! F. k M. trraurance Co. .890,<X)0 Petersburg Sav. and Ins. Co. , 600.000 Columbus Ins. and B. Bing Co. . 350,000 Assets . • - $<;3,6.')5 > 000 Houses and contents, Dwellings, Stores: s of Goods and all insurable proper red. Call on or write to HUTSON & CO„ seplS- • ^ ^ Aiken, S. C. OF BA.R^WFFtL, i. 7 WITH WHESjESS & < ■»., - Wholesale and Retail Grocers, . Corner Broad and Washington Streets, (BURKE CORNER,) AICmSTA, . . . WmiE, HP* SATISFACTION GUARANTEED^! W. PIIAPARD WUELESS, 8<‘p25-5m WKSI.ET X. WUEI.KS*. CONTRACTORS AND RUIT.DFIRS, , >1 AXUK’A.C'X'f’UTilvH Ol<» Doors, Sash, Ulimls, MouitlinTs, Ryackcts, Newels, Mantles^ lialusters, Verandas, etc. DFAI.KRS IK Dressed and Undtcsscd o Builders AVindow Glass, Lumber, Paint, Oil, Putty, Hardware, etc., etc. PLANING MILL AND LUMBER YARD, HALE STREET, NEAR CENTRAL RAILROAD YARD. ♦ OFFICE AND WARE ROOMS, 43 JACKSON STREET, dfClO-ly VI liuiTH-r A. KOTtf-J I-X. - OTTO F. WESTERS, Wholesale Grocer, —AND DEALER IN— - - C -T- . ----- . ■ ' ■ * - 'N.. ... * * , Spears, Liquor and Tobacco. AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED Monarch Whiskey. Also, I. T. frj. O. Frost £ C^.’a Self-Raising Flour, and Thorn Brothers’ celebrated Butter Crackers. —. —r— *ep2tHy _JIo8. 108,110. 112 ftnd 181 East Bay, Charleston.’S. C. F. WOOD, IIAJIKWEU,, g. C. & WOOD, COTTON FAVTUKS AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, \ SptSiitU Attention given to the Handling pf Cotton and all Other Products of the Farm, nmmnm faa selling, sae, vm saijj. Quick Sales and Returns. Cotton Advanced on in store. Fire-Proof Warehouse. corner McIntosh and Reynolds sts., augusta, ga. sep4-3m J. H. PARKER & CO. - - . • Factors and Commission Merchants. " COTTON AND NAVAL STORLS, Accommodation Wharf aad Vender Range, Charleston, South Carolin - f%i Liberal Advances made On Consignments, j an 17-1^ ^ , *