----- Original Message ----- From: "Crilley" <crilley@eramp.net> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:24 PM Subject: [GEORGIA] GA Journal #36 > December 6, 1848 Vol XXVI No 36 > > > HUSK BEDS. An exchange says the husking season is the time to secure the > best and > most durable of under-beds. All the inner husk of the corn should be saved > for this > purpose. True it takes a great many to make a bed, but when once the sack > is filled > it is abed for life, and is the lightest and softest thing of the kind that > anyone > could desier. The husks curl up as they dry, and never mat down afterwards. > Moreover, no insects ever lodge in them, as vermin do in straw. They are > perfectly > clean and being of strong and tough texture, they will not wear out for > years. > > "Scientic American". > > Every state carried by General Taylor has been by an increased majority, > whilst > every state carried by Gen Cass has been by a reduced one. > > A test of genuine tea is a grain and a hlf of sulphate of iron; genuine green > tea has a bluish tint; bolica a blackish blue. If adulterated it is all > colors. > > Cider drinkers, it is now asserted by medical men in England, escape the > Cholera. It contains malic and tannic acid. > > The last time Gen. Taylor was in Washington, was previous to his going down > to > Corpus Christi [Texas] whither he was ordered by President John Tyler to take > command of the Army of Observation concentrated near the frontier of Texas. > He will > return on the 4th of March to make his his report in person. > > The work of the telegraph. The Detroit Free Press says: The unofficial vote > of > the city of Boston and the returns from 91 towns in that state were > received here > on Tuesday evening at a quarter past 8 o'clock, and before the result was > known in > the first ward of this city. The result in Baltimore and Philadelphia city > was > received by way of St. Louis via Chicago, in this city, before 12 o'clock > at night. > The vote of Chicago, Milwaukie, and this city [Detroit] was in New York > before 9 > o'clock. > > Receipts of Cotton. It will be seen that the receipts of cotton in this > city for > the last 3 monhts , have been unprecendently heavy, and the prospect is, > that they > will continue so to the end of the season. We would not be at all surprised > if from > present indications, the total recipe by Railroads and Wagons for the present > cotton year, would reach 160,000 bales. If 1/20 part of this were > manufactured in > this place, Macon would sustain 3 times her present population. > > Gen. Taylor's Resignation. We learn that Gen Taylor has sent in his > resignation > as Major-General commanding the Western Division of our army, and that it > will take > effect after the 1st of Feb. next. It is a remarkable coincidence that the > late > order of the War Dept to Gen Taylor, in relation to the transfer of Gen > Twiggs from > his post on the Rio Grande to the commandlately filled by Gen Kearny, at > St. Louis, > was dated 7th Nov, the day upon which the people ordered the General to > prepar to > assume on the 4th of March next, the position of Commander-in-chief. > > The National President. The National Intelligencer notes the fact that Gen > Taylor has received 97 electoral votes in the Free States and 66 in the Slave > States, being a majority of the electoral votes in both sections of the > Union.....he is more than any other since the days of Washington, a national > President--the man for the times and the crisis. > > ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold at the court hosue door in Fayettevile, > Fayette county, on the first Tuesday in Feb next, North half of Lot of Land > #166, > in the 5th District of Fayette County, sold as the property of the estate > of O.H. > Prince, deceased. Washington Poe, Adm. > > EXECUTOR'S SALE. Will be sold at late residence of Robert LOUDON, deceased in > Sumter Co, on Frid 29 Dec, the balance of the Perisahble Property belonging > to said > estate, consisting of meat and stock hogs, one yod of oxen, one bay mare, > one grey > mare, one mule, ocrn and fodder, plantation tools. W.J. Ronaldson, Exec. > > ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold before the courthouse door in Macon Co > on the > first Tues in Feb next, all the Negroes belonging to the estate of S.F. > Jones, > deceased, late of Macon Co. Thomas Ragland, Adm > > ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold before courthouse in Blakely, Early Co, on > 1st Tues March, lot of land #302 in 6th district of Early, belonging to the > estate > of S.F. Jones, deceased, late of Macon Co. Thomas Ragland, Adm. > > TAKEN UP about 1st Nov, Bay mare, supposed to be from 5-7 yr old of common > size. > >From appearance, it is probably she had been rod from a distance, and came > to my > neighborhood about the middle of Oct. The owner can have her by proving > property > and paying for this advertisment and reasonable expenses. Macon. Allen R. > Stephens > Virginia > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > > >