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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-02-14
THE SOURCE OF NATIONAL
WEALTH.

What is national wealth? Wealth is
everything that supplies human wants,
natural or artificial. The artificial wants
of mankind have no limits; of course
wealth has no bounds but the productive
ness of nature and the capacities of hu-
man industry. And what are human
wants? The first is food. This can be
produced only fion the soil. Hence the
first and most important of human pur-
suits is agriculture. The first and most
important item of nations wealth is
cultivated land Before this, every other
species of property dwindles into insig-
nificance, and strange as it may seem, the
greatest investment in the country, the
most costly production of human indus
try, is the farm fences which divide the
farms into fields. No one dreams that
when compared with the outlay of these
unpretending monuments of human art,
our cities and t t9Mnaf WITH ou viii scarcely
believe me when say that the fences OF
the country cost more than twenty times
the specie there is in il. In many of the
counties Of the Eastern States the fences
have cost more than the farms and fences
are worth. The greatest burthen the ag-
riculturist labors under to-day is the
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The Internal machine as to which
Robert A. Parrish, a Philadelphia
awyer, has been found guilty of as
sault with intent to kill, was elabor
ately constructed of four gun barrels,
weights, cords, sand paper, aud
matches, and was placed 10 his desk
in such way that the opening of a
drawer would cause an explosion.
Parrish occupied an Office with other
lawyers, and he believed that some
body was 10 the habit of opening bis
desk. Some of the papers in one OF
his suits were Of great consequence,
and he wished to make sure of their
safety. So he put them into the
drawer with the destructive con-
trivauce and locked them up. An
office boy, who knew nothing oil
this, stepped on the desk to close q
window, and the pressure set the
machine going. The barrels were
heavily charged with bullets, one Of
which wounded the boy seriously
Mr.. Parrish has been a practitioner
forty years, and has al excellent
reputation. The impression is thai
he will be fined, and not imprison
ed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04
WHAT Is GOSSIP -?

We are often asked, What is COS
sipF' We answer, 10 a general wa,
that it is talking of persons rathe
than things Nothing shows tn,
psucity of ideas more than this talk
ing about the affairs of your neigh
bors. 1t is not only malicious peo
pie who originate scandal, it is mar
row~minded people, Ignorant people,
stupid people. Persons of culture
and Intelligence are not so hard run
fol topics of conversation. They
can usually find something to say
about art, literature, religion, fashion
or society. The moment people be-
gin to talk of their neighbors-ot
persons rather than things-they are
apt to degenerate into scandal, for
where one speaks of the virtues of
40 acquaintance, a dozen expatiate
on bis or her shortcomings.
And this brings US to speak of
real culture, or what we consider to
be such, at least. A cultivated per-
son, in the highest sense ofthe term,
is not merely one who can talk of
books, pictures and other elevated
subjects of human interest. To be
thoroughly cultivated, the heart, as
we'll as the intellect, should be rein,
ed and enlarged. Sometimes we
see women who, without education,
yet having been born amiable, are
never guilty of gossip. Again we
sea women, not naturally amiable,
whom education has taught to talk
of things not persons. The perfect
woman in this respect, is one who is
both amiable and educated.
But education does not always ell
evate people above the regions of
gossip. A really bad heart is all
ways malicious. The best advice
we can give is the homely old adsge,
"Mind your own business" Very
few of us ever know the whole truth
about anything concerning neigh
Dor, and to speak of his or her con
duct, is usually to run the risk of
being unjust. Much less should we
talk of the motives of others. Very
few of US know our own motives,
and to venture on discussing a neigh
boris motives is always impertinence
and often a real crime.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

HON. P. w. ALEXANDER.

1t is understood that Hon. p. w
Alexander will probably be candi.
date before the Legislature for Judge
of the Blue Ridge Circuit Judge
hLester, the present incumbent, will
not be candidate for reelection, but
seek the vacant seat on the Supreme
Court Bench. We can most corr
daily endorse Mr.. Alexander for
the position. He has all the qualif
cations and attachments necessary
for the position aspired to. He has
the wisdom of maturity, the experts
ence of a busy life, the learning of
the law, the practice of years, a
keen anal ;ical intellect aud the inn
partial poise that marks the judicial
spirit. Behind all this is a personal
n'ofate, upright, irreproschable and
the sum of honor. The Blue Ridge
Circuit would be admirably admin
istered by so capable, so worthy a
Judge as p. w. Alexander. -AuguS
tn Chronicle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

During recent revival in the
Trinity Methodist church in Atlanta,
nearly one hundred persons have
been added to the membership. -
Two of the candidates desired to be
baptized by immersion, and as there
was no arrangement for it at Trinity
the pastor of the First Baptist Offer
ed his church and pool for the pur
pose They were immersed by a
Methodist preacher in a Baptist pool
and the BaptiStS looked as happy
over it as they had been converts to
their own faith.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The Rev. Sam JOaes remarked
on one occasion that two thirds of
the members of my church are hon
orary members. They don't come
to class meetings, they don't come to
prayer meetings, they don't attend
the Sunday school, they don't add
to the life of the church, they are
passengers on the gospel chip, they
bear no burdens, add no strength,
their names arr on our books, but
they are never with US 10 church,
and l am fearful they will not be
with US 10 that better land.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The Rev. George Newbold ran a
bakery while pastor of the Methodist
church at BartonvilIe, Canada, and
further diversified his pursuits by
forging checks. While serving a
term of imprisonment for his crimes,
at Belleville, he made love to the
Warden's wife, and on his release
eloped with her. On his wedding
tour he visited Mansfield, Ohio, and
accidentally meeting the Rev. Mr..
GiIroy, who had once denounced
hin, gave that gentleman a sOuod
whipping. He is now to be prose-
cuted for bigamy, because he has
three wives.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04
Rational Treatment. Positive Gu

Rational IIeaLnsnC' GOSttlNS NuASS
DR.. r. V. Pierce, President of the
Worlds Dispensary Medical ASso~
citation, is in the earnest in selling
bis medicines under positive guar
autees, and if anybody who purchas-
es and uses any of these widely cele-
brated remedies, does not derive
benefit therefrom, the Association
would like to hear from that person
with description Of symptoms and
history of case. Organized and in
corporated, as the Association is, to
to teach medicine and surgery and
for the successful treatment Of all
chronic diseases and managing an
nually thousands of cases through
our original method of diagnosis
without ever seeing the patients,
and having also the largest santa =
rum in the world for the accommo-
dation of the more complicated cases
and also for surgical cases, the Fac
ulty feel themselves prepared TO un-
dertake even the most discouraging
cases. They resort to all the best
remedial means known TO modern
medical science egIecting nothing.
Address, Worlds Dispensary Medi-
cal Association, Buffalo, N. Y, or
Great Russell Street Buildings,
London, Eng.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04
WIVES.
[Journal of Commerce. ]

Three men Of wealth meeting, not
long since, in New York, the con.
versation turned upon their wives.
Instead of finding fault with women
in general and their wives in par,
ticuIar, each one obeyed the wise
mans advice, and gave honor unto
his wife.
Il tell you what it is,' said ore of
the men, they may say what they
please about the uselessness of mod>
ern women, but my wife has done
her share in securing our success in
life.
Everybody knows that her fatni-
ly was aristocFatic and exclusive,
and all that, and when | married her
she had never done a days work ia
her life but when w. e Co. failed
and | had to commence at the foot
of the hill again, she discharged the
servants aud chose bat neat little
cottage, and did her own houses
keeping until was better off,
And my wife, said a second,
was an only daughter, caressed and
petted to death aud every body said
We'll, if he will marry a doll like
that, he'll make the greatest mistake
of bis life, but when | gcame home
the first year Of marriage, sick with
the fever, she nursed me back to
health, ard | never knew her to
murmur because | thought we could
not afford any better style or more
Injuries
well, gentlemen, cbimed in a
third, Il married a smart, healthy,
pretty girl, but she was a regular
blue stocking. She adored Tenny-
son, dotted on Byron, read Emerson,
and named the first baby Ralph Wal
do Emerson and the second Maud
but tell what it is, and the speak
er's eyes grew suspiciously moist,
when we laid little Maud in her last
bed at Auburn my poor wife had no
remembrance or neglect or s;inted
motherly care, and the little dresses
that still lie 10 the locked drawer
were all msde by her own hands
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

An intelligent dog had for a long
time been sent every morning to a
butcher shop at Logan, Ohio, to buy
meat for himself. He always
brought five cent piece in his
mouth, and laid it down on the
block. One day he deposited dol
lar instead, and wagged his tail with
unwonted vigor, as though expecting
a proportionately larger chunk of
meat, An investigation proved that,
his master having gone away, he
had broken into the money drawer
and helped himself to coin.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

If AN EDITOR omits anything lie
is lazy. If be speaks of anything as
it is, people are mad. If he smooths
down the rough points, he is bribed.
If be calls things by their proper
names, he is unfit for the position of
an editor. If he does not furnish
his readers with jokes be is a mullet.
If he does he is a rattle head, Lack
ing stability. If he condemns the
wrong, he is a good fellow, but lacks
discretion. If he lets wrongs aid
injuries go unmentioned, be is a
coward. If be INDUCES in person
alities, be is blackguard. If be
does not, his paper is dull and in
sipid.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The LaGrange Reporter, under
the heading of good farming, says
that three boys of Mr.. J. f. Jones,
Hogsnsville, Willie, Hugh and Cor
don, aged respectively fourteen.
eleven and nine years, cultivated
twenty-five acres of land this year,
on which they raised 80 bales of
cotton, averaging 800 pounds 10C
bushels corn; 80 bushels rice
1000 pounds fodder 1920 pound;
hay F; 200 bushels potatoes; 6 fine
6eeFes and s fue hogs. On ten
acres they raised 80 bushels wheat,
end on eight acres 400 bushels oats
puly 81 were paid for extra work
This is a good showing.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04
WHAT HOME PAPERS DO.

An exchange combats with con-
siderable vigor the argument that
the papers of the large cities are
cheaper and better than the home
papers because they give more read
ing matter for the money. "Do
these papers," it asks, fever give
you any home newsY Never. Do
they say anything 10 regard to your
county ? Nothing. Do they con.
tain notices of your schools, church
es, and hundreds of other local mat )
ters of interest, which your paper
publishes without pay Not an
item. Do they ever say a good
word calculated to draw attention to
your county and its numerous thirty,
Jog towns, and aid in their progress
and enterprise ? Not word And
yet there are men who take such
contracted views of this matter that
unless they are getting as many
square inches of reading matter 10
their own paper as they DO in city
paper, they think they are not get
ing the worth of their money, 1t res
mind us of person who took the
largest pair of shoes in the box be-
cause they cost the same as the pair
much smaller that fitted him."
We ask those of our citizens who
are helping to support papers, strang
ers to the interest of themselves and
your section, in preference to their
home papers that is working for
them every day, to read the above
carefully.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Jim Lyon, who was killed in a
barroom fight at Willard, Nebraska,
was found to be clad in complete
though penetrabIe suit of armor.-
Shields for bis back and front were
made of heavy leather, padded with
an inch of cotton batting, and sus-
pended under his clothing by straps
over his shoulders. This protection
had long given him the courage to
figure as a bully.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

In Atlanta there is an old negro
man who is a whitewasher by trade.
His wife is stone blind aud sccompa
MES him wherever be goes and helps
to carry his truck. When he gets a
lob he fixes her a seat and she talks
to him while he does the work. He
has not been seen without her in ten
years.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04
Indna II I Mora ahnnk se

Judge H. J. Moore, about seven
ty years of age, living about .
miles from Jonesboro, Ga, after SELL
ing two bales of cotton in that town,
on Thursday last, started home and
he was followed by Thomas Belts,
coIored, and while in his lot putting
up his horse, was knocked in the
head, killed, and robbed of about
500. Belts was captured and the
money recovered
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Willis Rowsey, black man, NOV
ed to Hart county from Ebert few
years ago, and bought good farm
on credit. He has now paid for it
has good stock of all kinds about
him; has made thousand dollars
worth of cotton this year, aud corn
enough to do him.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

There is not one citizen in ten
who does not believe that if our
elections were lessened one half
there would be proportionate gain
in the country both in money and
morals. Aud yet no statesman or
politician is found to take hold OF
this reform 10 earnest.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

A white man in Jail at Morgan,
Calhoun county, attempted to burn
out last Friday night, but when the
smoke began to stiAe him be called
for help, and was rescued in time to
prevent his being smothered. He
was in for stealing mule.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Georgia was never in more
prosperous condition-Ihe cotton
and corn crops were never better,
all our towns are improving. the
system of agriculture has greatly inn
proved, emigrants are coming 10,
and the empire is booming.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Here is ringing extract from a
ecent speech delivered by Maj.
boincy 1.-The Spartan youth said
d his mother that bis sword was too
hort, whereupon she replied: My
on, add another step to it, The
Democratic party must adopt the
ldvice of the Spartan matron and
ush forward, closer to the foe, where
he battle is the thickest and most
eyere, and with the resolute deter>
|nination to win."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

A clerk in S. K. Johnson's store,
at Grangerville, sold Mrs. Cook a
bottle of morphine through mistake
for quinine. She gave it to two of
her children with fatal effect.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Georgia has eighteen gold mines
producing ore, or in process of de-
velopment. Among these are some
as rich mines as can be- found in the
famous west, and which will be fully
developed in tho course of time
Cobb county has several.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

w. Mack Gay, of Randolph coun>
ty, Ala and medical .student in At
lanta, was swindled out of $50 by a
sharper who gave his name as
Brown.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

In an ore bed at Port Henry, N.
Y, recently, a petrifed fish, weigh
ing 2l9 pounds, fifteen feet long, and
three feet thick at the largest part,
was found in a shaft 30 feet below
the surface, aud 20 feet in the solid
rock.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The little daughter of MIR. Newton
Brownlee, of Butts county picked
1877 pounds Of cotton enc day last
week, and she is not yet nine years
old, and her little brother, not seven
years old, picked III.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04
HEADQUARTERS for Mineral Water

l sm making a special sale of Apolinaris-
the Queen of table waIers-tbe best digester
and appetizer known-The Rakoezy and Hun
yadi Janos, German Mineral Waters are best
cAibartics also the celebrated Congress Water
whose merits well known.
W, X. ROOT.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

A colored woman in Milledgeville
had three children born to her on
Wednesday of last week. They
were all females, and died soon after
birth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The gin house and 80 bales of
cotton, belonging to William Print
up, of the bearing district of Nc
Duffie county, were destroyed by
fire last week. This makes n gins
burned 10 Georgia to date.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

'WiH you ard your son occupy
one room 7 asked hotel clerk of a
woman of thirty five, who arrived at
Omaha with boy of sixteen
This is not my SON. she said, With
emp basis. but my husband. We
are on our bridal TOUR
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

There are 96l crippled soldiers
in this State who have drawn the
bounty recently allowed. which
amounted to $64, 900.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Let every one sweep the drift
from his own door and not busy him>
self about the mud on his neighbours
steps.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Judge Kershaw of South Carolina,
who is President of an anti,duelling
society, said in his charge to Spar.
tanburg Grand Jury: ''If the duel
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

At the election ia Griffin on the
public school system there were
about four hundred votes cast for
aud only eight or ten against it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

A party of hunters from Warren,
ton killed 265 squirrels in one day
10 Ogeechee swamp.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Mrs. Hoffman, of Thomson, at
tempted to commit suicide by jump
ing in we'll The water restored
her to reason and she was rescued
by the marshal.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Never condemn a friend unheard,
or without letting him know his ac~
cuser or his crime.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

1t is good in fever, and much bet
ter in anger, to have the tongue
kept clean and smooth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The a8e makes Two
cents of one and liberal man makes
a dime of it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

He that pryeth into every cloud
may be stricken with a thunder
bolt.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Atlanta has been chasing a sau-
sage thief for three dsys-at last &C.
counts the thief was about three
links ahead.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

AS long as miser lives his mon
ey-chest is very sure to be heir
tight.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

John hill had his arm badly cut
in a gin near Warrenton, He will
probably lose his hand.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

An ape is ridiculous by nature
but men become SO by art and stu
dy.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

A white woman named Mrs. Haw>
kins was found dead 10 a school
house in Americas.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

The merchants of Lexington have
lost over 81, 900 on cotton this win
ter.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Marietta. Ga, Thursday, Nov. 4, 1880.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04

Never join with your friend whel
be abuses his horse or his wife.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1880-11-04
aIlle sSlarlrtta 9oaruaI.

puhl,sHEp EvERY THURSDAY MORNING BY
NEAL &c M ASSET-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-23
lancaster fntelIige1lrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH %, 1890.
OleOmargarine.

n. ii. Herald.
1t was once believed of Mrs. Winslow's
soothing syrup that "the children cried
for it, and the makers of oleomargarine
would like to have the world believe that
their sapid substance is in a good repute
as this with all generations. Oleomargar-
inc no doubt has its uses and its excel
lences, and may in many circumstances be
regarded as we'll invented and acceptable
substitute for butter. As such it is legiti-
mate article of commerce. But it should
stand on its own merits, strictly and severe
ly. If it is better than butter it ought not
to descend to pretend that it is butter, or
be made the occasion for any devices OF
dealers aimed to make the public believe
that they are buying mere butter when In
fact, according to the theory of the makers,
they are actually buying a superior sub
stance. There has been much complaint
on this score on cur own side the Atlantic,
and we find by the foreign papers that
John Bull has his weather eye open on this
point. Our merchants know the readiness
with which the English government seizes
upon any plausible pretext for stopping
or impeding the sale in England of Ameri-
can products. Inscriptions dealers ship
unhealthy cattle, and that fact is seized
upon as reason for stopping at once an
enormous trade in live beef. American
pork has in the same way fund its mar
ket some what reduced beyond the seas
because of the sale of bad meat by men OF
little conscience. If the trade of Ameri-
can butter is even impeded or stopped by
any Europeon country it will be on the
theory that the trade in Oleomargarine has
shaken the confidence Of foreign officials
as to the actual nature of the contents OF
any package from America pretending to
be butter. In view Of such possibility 1t
may be thought by those most concerned
that the present laws about the mark
to be put upon oleomargarine are not so
effective as they might be made.