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THE EXPOSITION AND THE
SOUTH.
“We are glad to hear that the Atlanta
••Cotton Exposition” says the New York
Sun, “which is to open next month,
promises to be very successful. The
city where it is to be held is the most
progressive in the South, the last cen
sus showing that between 1870 and
1880 it had made a gain in population
which compared favorably with that of
the most enterprising Western towns.
Moreover, the montlrof October is usu
ally a delightful one in the part of
'Georgia in which it is situated, and the
fair will have novel features that must
prove attractive to strangers.
“But what makes the fair chiefly in
teresting and important, is the circum
stance that for the first time in its his
tory the South will have an opportu
nity to display to the world at Atlanta
the peculiar advantages it possesses in
the way of soil, climate, mineral rich
es and varied products, both natural
and cultivated. A great stream of im
migration has been pouring into this
•country during the last two years, and
its volume is likely to be much in
creased during the remaining years of
this decade; but so far, a very small
part of it has tended to the Southern
States. Apart from Texas, they have
hitherto been benefitted little by the ad
ditions to our population from abroad ;
and even now the German, Irish, Scan
dinavian, and English immigrants look
forward hopefully to the West, and are
either ignorant of the fertility of the
South or are prejudiced against the re
gion on account of the slavery which
once blighted it. They do not wish to
enter into competition with negro la
bor, and they fear the climate of the
States in which it is commonest.
“Yet land is cheap at the South, and
nowhere in the Union are the industry
and the enterprise of the agriculturist
better rewarded. Its railway system
has been much improved and extend
ed within recent years, and the facili
ties for transportation both by land and
by water make it a very desirable re
gion for settlers. Its soil, too, is so di
versified and its products are so nu
merous that there is room there for a
•new population who shall engage in
many kinds of agriculture, and in dif
ferent departments of industry. Cot
ton manufacture, which has the ad
vantage of nearness to its raw material,
has only lately begun to assume im
portance, and is capable of extensive
development.
“With all this in its favor, however,
there are still vast districts of incompar
able fertility in the South which have
never been turned by the plough, and
many of the old plantations are now
overgrown with weeds, their owners
not having the capital to cultivate
•them. A great influx of immigration
which shall result in the dividing up
of these vast estates into small farms,
and in the patient tilling of the soil
not yet broken for crops, is what the
'region needs.
“It was a wise recognition of this
want which stimulated the projectors
of the Atlanta fair to make it some
thing more than a mere local interest.
Unfortunately, all the Southern States
have not been quick to second their
• efforts. Many of them have remained
inert, and have failed to apreciate the
advantage they would gain by their
calling the attention of capitalists at
'the North and immigrants from abroad
to their many and incomparable natu
ral resources. Florida, which has al
ready been benefited greatly because
of immigration, is one of the few States
which have understood the importance
of improving the opportunity to be af
forded next month at Atlanta.
“But enough will be shown at the
fair to surprise those who are ignorant
of the natural riches of the South ; and
if its management is as wise as its con
ception, we have no doubt that the ex
hibition will give a new impulse to
Southern prosperity. Capital in abun
dance is ready to go thither whenever
it can be proved that enterprise will
meet with its reward; and immigra
tion may be diverted southward by en
couraging the establishment of new
industries and by disabusing the for
eigner of the impression that labor
rests under a ban in the South, and
that the climate is unfavorable to
health. Perhaps the Atlanta fair will
be the beginning of a new era for the
States which have not yet recovered
from the curse of slavery.”
Hon. J. T. Glover.—The death of
Hon. James T. Glover, Representative
of Twiggs county in the State Legisla
ture, is an event sincerely mourned by
all who knew this excellent gentle
man. In him The Index loses an old
and valued friend, the Legislature an
able member, and the State a useful
and eminent citizen.
In the House of Representatives
suitable and touching memorial reso
lutions were adopted, and the body ad
journed, as a mark of respect for his
memory.
Mr. Dupree, of Macon, paid an elo
quent and feeling tribute to the deceas
ed. Mr. Clarke, of Wayne, followed in
an impressive and appropriate address,
giving his testimony as an intimate
friend to the great worth of the deceas
ed in all the relations of life. Mr.
Burch, of Laurens, also spoke feelingly
of the virtues of Judge Glover, and of
the great loss sustained by his death.
The resolutions were adopted unani
mously by a rising vote.
—The Sparta Baptist church has
been repaired, painted and enclosed by
a substantial fence.
Secular Editorials—Literature— v 1 Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
- Work of an Evangelist. Review of
Fifty Years. By Rev. A. B. Earle, D. D.
James H. Earle, publisher, Boston.
A very readable little book of sixty
odd pages by a well-known writer.
The writer publishes it in the hope of
doing some good in encouraging others
to enter this department of ministerial
work.
—We have received another of the
valuable little books published by
Presley Blakiston, 1012 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, treating on subjects of
health and sanitary laws. This volume
treats of “Constipation,” and how this
painful disease can be plainly treated
and relieved without the use of drugs.
It is by Dr. Joseph F. Edwards. It is
a clear and practical exposition of the
trouble and its remedy.
—Wedlock : Selections from the best
English and American Poets. By Prof.
J. H. Gilmore. Boston. Harry A.
Young & Co., publishers.
A delectable little book, fair in out
side and true and beautiful in the in
side. It is a cluster of gems from some
of our best poets, who herein sing of
wifehood, motherhood and domestic
felicity generally. A more appropriate
gift could not be given to bride and
bridegroom, and the brides and grooms
of three score and ten will renew the
youth of their hearts by a perusal of
this happy little thing.
—The Art of Speech. Vol. 11. Studies
in Eloquence and Logic. By L. T.
Townsend, D. D. New York. D. Apple
ton & Co., publishers.
A thoroughly interesting and reli
able book. It is full of useful hints
and rules for the public speaker, and
all who wish to study one of the
greatest and most potent of human
arts—the art of eloquence. This little
volume has been prepared particularly
for the use of clergymen, and the illus
trations are drawn largely from the
Bible and sermonic literature. In
glancing through the pages we were
struck by the following true and per
tinent paragraph:
“We are deeply interested in theo
logical schools ; but if their training is
to disarm the pulpit candidate of that
earnest and passionate enthusiasm
which he has by nature and in which
are directness, force, vividness and
fearlessness of delivery, then every
such school may as well be closed, for
as Charles Dickens says, “There is no
substitute in this world for thorough
going, ardent and sincere earnestness,”
at least nothing that schools of theology
teach can be a substitute for oratorical
earnestness.
The art of oratory is a high art, and
the author proposes to give rules by
which excellence in this royal art may
be attained. He has collected a good
ly number of illustrations of eloquence,
and his counsel generally is very good.
The Popular Science Monthly, as
usual, presents an excellent and varied
table of contents for September.- The
Development of Political Institutions.
By Herbert Spencer. IX. Represen
tative bodies. Physical Education.
By Felix L. Oswald, M. D. Remedial
Education. Ancient Copper-mines of
Isle Royale. By Professor N. H. Win
chell. (Illustrated.) Writing Physi
ologically Considered. By Carl Vogt.
Modern Basis of Life Insurance. By
Theodore Wahle. State Education : a
Necessity. By Charles S. Bryant.
The Blood and its Circulation. By
Herman L. Fairchild. (Illustrated.)
About Measures of Length. By Romyn
Hitchcock. Are Cemeteries Un
healthy ? By M. G. Robinet. Inheri
tance. By Charles Darwin, F. R. S.
Increase and Movement of the Colored
Population. By J. Stahl Patterson. I.
Increase. Progress of Higher Science-
Teaching. By W. H. Stone. The
Australian Aborigines. By G. Marcel.
(Illustrated.) Unexplored Parts of
the Old World. By M. Venukoff.
What is a Molecule? Sketch of James
Craig Watson. By Alexander Win
chell, LL. D. (With Portrait.) Cor
jespondence. Editor’s Table. Liter
ary Notices. Popular Miscellany.
Notes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, for
August, issued by the Leonard Scott
Publishing Company, 41 Barclay
Street, New York, furnishes as usual
an excellent table of contents. This
number contains the opening chapters
of a brilliant story “Uncle Z.” Hints
for a Vacation Ramble; Florio: A
Little Tragedy; The Private Soliloquy
—Part X ; The Land of Kehmi—part
lll—Old and New; Holidays; Auto
biographies, No. IV; Edward Gib
bon ; The Meiningen Company and
the London Stage; Besieged in the
Transvaal.
The Dictionary of Education and In
struction; A Reference Book and Manu
al on the Theory and Practise of Teach
ing, for the use of Parents, Teachers and
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1881.
others. Based upon the Cyclopedia of
Education. By Henry Kiddle and A. J.
i Schem. E. Steiger & Co., 25 Park
Place, New York, publishers.
I The special objects designed to be
, attained by the publication of the
I Dictionary, more specifically stated,
• are : (1) to supply a brief compendium
of the theory and practice of educa
tion in a series of clear and definite
articles, alphabetically arranged so as
to be easilv referred to,or systematically
studied; (2) to encourage in this way
the study by teachers of the principles
and practice of their profession, thus
giving to the work of education a
greater degree of intelligence and effi
ciency ; (3) to afford a convenient
class manual of pedagogy for use in
normal schools and teachers’ institute®,
as the basis of a course of instruction
in principles and methods, not neces
sarily superseding other valuable
manuals differently arranged, but
accompanying and strengthening
them ; (4) to supply, at a small cost,
to every teacher of that portion of the
Cyclopadia which is of especial value
in practical education, reserving this
larger work for occasional reference,
particularly when information regard
ing educational history,biography,and
statistics is needed; and (5) to supply
a useful hand-book to parents in the
home education of their children.
Os the character of the articles con
tained in this work but little need be
here said, as they have already secured
the highest encomiums for their philo
sophical and professional correctness,
practical character, and literary excel
lence. This indeed was to have been
anticipated, the writers being all
practical educators of long experience
and distinction in their profession.
The Atlanta Constitution, in its new
eight-page form, new type, renewed
enterprise, and old newsiness, is now
t/ienewsp'aper of the New South, and
the one to which we would point in
quirers, with justifiable pride, as the
public exponent and representative of
the progressiveness and prosperity of
our section. It is unquestionably the
leading daily in the Cotton States. Its
splendid management has placed the
Constitution in the front rank of Amer
ican journals. Its continued and in
creasing success is indubitable.
Exposition Advertising. —Extract
from an essay recently read before the
Commercial Club, by a prominent Cin
cinnati merchant.
After giving his views upon the val
ue of persistent, judicious newspaper
advertising, he said:
“Continuing the record of my own
experience, I may say that, in my es
timation, no small amount of my mod
est business success is due likewise to
the Cincinnati Expositions. Cincin
nati, you will remember, is the mother
of Expositions in America. Other
large cities in the United States have
imitated our example and given Expo
sitions in one shape or another from
time to time, but all have been, at best,
merely faint copies of the splendid
original.
“These draw visitors by the hundred
thousand every year. Naturally, the
merchants and manufacturers who
make the most attractive displays, will
have their names spread far and wide,
when these visitors recite the wonders
they have seen. So I speak what I
certainly know, when I say that one of
the best possible ways to advertise, is
to make handsome displays in our an
nual Expositions.”
—Brother W, I. Patrick writes : “I
visited one of brother E. M. Hooten’s
churches (Mt. Olive, Pike county) on
first Sabbath in this month, and found
a great revival in progress. It is im
possible to describe this meeting. About
seventy were added to the church, sixty
by baptism, ten by restoration and let
ter. Many noted for their wickedness
were converted, backsliders of lon'g
standing reclaimed, and the church
greatly revived. This is a model church
numbering over 270 members. They
keep up a live Sabbath-shool and pray
er meeting. They put their young
members to work. I listened to some
earnest prayers and telling exhorta
tions from these young brethren. They
have a model pastor, who found the
church seven years ago but few in num
ber and in a bad condition.”
—Sandersville Herald: Mr. John
D. Boone, a worthy and efficient mem
ber of the Baptist church at Darien,
was on Sunday last granted license to
preach the gospel. His past devotion
to the cause of religion, together with
his exemplary Christian life, warrant
the belief that a career of much use
' fulness lies before him.
NOTES.
Terrible weather has prevailed and
typhoons have occurred in the Chinese
seas. There has been much loss of
life, and great damage to vessels, in con
sequence. Another severe earthquake
occurred at Manila.
Judicial and military reforms are
promised as the result of the recent
elections in France.
A land slip occurred near the vil
lage of Elm, in the Canton Glarus,
Switzerland. Two hundred persons
were killed and thirty houses destroyed.
It is stated the Congress of Socialists
to be held at Berne will not be inter
ferred with by the local authorities,
provided they behave themselves.
The emigration returns for Liver
pool for the month of August show
that 21,321 emigrants left that port,
being 2,669 more than in July. Os
this number the destination of 18,072
was to the United States, and 2,968 to
British North America.
The Dublin correspondent of the
Times says: “ The movement in fa
vor of Irish trade and manufactures is
the key to a solution of the labor prob
lem. A large sum has already been
subscribed toward an exhibition of
Irish manufactures.”
Relief societies have been organized
in many places for the relief of the
sufferers by the forest fires in Michigan.
Mr. J. S. McDonald, secretary of the
committee organized in New York
for the relief of the sufferers, and who
was sent to Michigan, writes to the
committee: “Have just emerged
from the burnt district. Have trav
eled over seventy-five miles of roads in
it. The suffering and devastation are
indescribable. In many places, as far
as the eye can see, along land once oc
cupied by comfortable homes and pros
perous people, scarcely anything is
visible but what seems a boundless sea
of ashes, from which arises a stifling
odor of burning flesh and bones.
Blinded and fire-crazed people abound.
Transportation is difficult, and supplies
come through slowly, especially at a
distance from the shore and railway.
A man is asked the whereabouts of his
wife and children and he stares wildly.
He leaps at a loaf of bread and leaps
away like a wild beast. Almost hour
ly the names of additional victims are
added to the burned and death list.
The homeless are thousands, the blind
ed, scorched, crippled and deranged
are very, very many.”
General Sheridan says the Indian
troubles in Arizona are confined to
the White Mountain Utes, and there
is as yet no reason to believe it will
spread.
The Oceanic, due at San Francisco
this week, will bring a thousand Chi
nese coolies to work on railroads in
Texas and New Mexico. Two agents
have been in China engaging labor.
They pay $1 25 per day and transpor
tation.
Emigrants are pouring into New
York by the thousands. Nine-tenths
of them “go West.”
The Pennsylvania railroad contem
plates reducing time from Chicago to
New York to twenty-five hours, and
from St. Louis to twenty-eight.
loseph and Samuel Hanby, two
prominent planters of Logan county,
Arkansas, were shot and killed near
Booneville, last week, by a large party
of negroes. A spirit of ill feeling has
existed between the white and black
races of that section of the State for
some time, and the assassination of
these brothers is likely to lead to fur
ther bloodshed.
There is more genuine heroism re
corded in the following brief report
than in many a volume in ancient or
modern history, recording the deeds
of heroes, honored by centuries of
fame, embalmed in mausoleums, or
decked with crowns—it is the grander
poem of humble life :
The Postoffice Department received a let
ter on Saturday from the Postmaster at
Marlette, Mich., reading as follows: “Mr.
Ira Humphrey, mail carrier on the route
between Marlette and Argyle, perished in
the tire between Elmer and Argyle. On
Monday night, the stb inst., when surround
ed by the fire, he cut his horse loose from the
bugey, helped an old lame man on to P, who
was a passenger with him, and told him to
flee for his life. Mr. Humphrey was true to
his trust. When found the charred remains
of the mail-bag lay at his side.”
At the Baptist Ministers’ Meeting,
held last week in New York, the sub
ject for discussion was “ Vacation Ex
periences.” We clip from the Sun
the following items of “experience:”
“The Rev. Mr. Motley, who was a slave
until freed by the war, had visited the
old plantation in southern Virginia,
and had been invited to dinner by hit
former master, and had been treated
by him as one gentlemian treats another
Dr. Parmlee, a Southern man by
birth, had made a trip through the
South. He had found a new South
that had caught the spirit of progress.
The negroes were showing thrift and
prosperity. One colored deacon was
looked upon in his community as like
ly to become the richest man in the
county. In Marshall, Texas, a minis
ter in need of a bank accommodation
was taken to the bank by colored dea
con Abell. The bank officer remarked
that the deacon’s endorsement was
good for SIO,OOO at any time. The
Rev. Mr. Carter, who had also been
South, had found abundant evidence
that the South was about to fulfill the
grand destiny for which her natural
resources prepared her.”
The greatest monopoly in the United
States, the Western Union Telegraph
Company, has again a new rival to
contend with and eventually to “ buy
out,” at a big profit to the rival, as
was the case with the American Com
pany. The new company is called
the Mutual Union Telegraph Com
pany. The line extends already to
the leading cities of the North and
West, and is to be extended to all the
Southern cities.
The cholera is making dreadful rav
ages in Siam.
The loss of lives and the destruction
of property by the forest fires, West
and East, has been great. Hundreds
of families in Michigan are utterly
destitute. Help is urgently needed.
The labor troubles in New Orleans,
which were very threatening, and
necessitated the calling out of the mil
itary, have subsided. The majority of
the strikers have resumed work.
The Association of Old Defenders
organized in Baltimore in 1847, with
over one thousand members, volun
teers who defended the city against
the British in 1814. Last week the
anniversary of the battle was cele
brated. At the head of the procession
marched the survivors, now dwindled
to eleven. This handful of tottering
veterans was headed by Henry Light
ner, aged 84. A dispatch says: “ Hen
ry Lightner, the drummer boy of 1814,
was at the head of the procession, and
dexterously beat the accompaniment
to “Yankee Doodle.”
Late statistics of education show that
England has emerged out of the dam
ages of 1870 into the broad beams "of
general enlightenment in 1880. In
1870 the educational system of Eng
land was far behind those of Germany
and the United States, and now it has
advanced up to the front. The Glad
stone education act was passed in 1870,
and its beneficial influence upon Eng
land and Wales were immediately felt.
A comparison of figures will show the
change in the decade. In 1870,8,281
schools were inspected ; in 1880, 17,-
743, more than double the number.
In 1870 there were school accomoda
tions for 2,000,000; in 1880,4,250,000.
Attendance in 1879 was 1,152,389;
last yoar it was 2,750,916. The Eng
lish school system has improved as
fast as these figures have advanced.
Twenty-five million dollars were ex
pended in the public school interest
last year. The salaries paid to teach
ers, male and female, are about the
same as those paid in the several grades
in this country, and the cost per head
for free school education is about the
same.
There is a wide range of figures sug
gested to cover the shortage of the
wheat crop. By some it is calculated
to not exceed 80,000,000 bushels,while
by others it is estimated at as much as
180,000,000. —The truth may be be
tween these limits, and is likely near
est the latter.
Advices received by the Nat : onal
Board of Health report that yellow fe
ver and small-pox prevail at Vera
Cruz in a most malignant form. The
former disease continues at Havana.
—Sandersville Mercury: The Col
ored Baptist Association, that was held
at the Ohoopie last Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, was a big thing and was
well attended, from the number of
vehicles that passed through our city.
Some of our citizens counted 160 wag
ons and buggies that went through,
and there is no telling how many went
in other directions.
The continued meeting in the San
dersville Baptist church is well attend
ed, much interest is manifested and
several additions have been made.
Dawson Journal: At the regular
conference of the Baptist church held
in this city on last Saturday, the Rev.
J. A. Ivey was again re-elected as pas
tor to serve the church another year.
Whether or not he will accept is not
as yet known.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—A telegraph office is to be established in
Marshallville.
—The sugar-cane crop throughout Stewart
county is looking well.
The burnt district of Covington will soon
be rebuilt with two-story brick houses.
—Oglethorpe county made 10,000 bales of
cotton last year, and will make 7,000 this
year.
The Georgia Press Convention meets on
the opening day of the Atlanta Exposition,
October Sth.
—Butler Herald: ‘ There is considerable
sickness in various portionsof thecounty, as
well as in our town.”
—The “Jackson News” is the name of a
new paper issued at Jackson, Butts county,
W. E. Harp, publisher.
—There are eighty-two prisoners now con
fined in the Fulton county jail, among them
ten females, all negroes.
—There is a good deal of sickness reported
through Stewart county. We learn that on
one plantation on the Hannahatchee creek
there are over twenty cases of fever.
—The Wilkes gold mine that has attracted
so much attention recently is located near
Lutherville, and is said to have yielded large
quantities of the precious metal.
-The work on the Macon and Brunswick
extension is rapidly progressing. The tim
bers and iron are in readiness, and the road
will be in running order by February or
March.
—Newnan Herald: "The cotton crop is
being rapidly marketed, there havingalready
been received about four hundred bales of
new cotton to date, which is two to one
compared with the same time last year.”
—The Atlanta Constitution says that
Bishop Gross had an order read in the Catho
lic churches at Atlanta prohibiting the chil
dren of Catholic parents from attending
public schools, and it appears to have force.
—The Rome Courier says Floyd county
taxable values foot up $5,710,043, an increase
of about half a million on last year's returns.
The negroes return only $91,959 worth of
property. Lands and all other real estate
only amount to $1,762,646.
—Cuthbert Enterprise: "The wine factory
has had more grapes offered this week than
it could manage. The Superintendent hopes,
however, to be through the press soon.
There is a probability that its present capaci
ty will be increased three fold before another
season.”
—ln 1870, the population of Pike county
was 10,889, and in 1880, it footed up 20,287.
These show a gain in the county of 9,398,
which is nearly double that of 1870. By this
gain Pike will be entitled to two Represen
tatives in the next House of Representa
tives.”
—LaGrange Reporter: “ Cotton is not
coming in very rapidly, but it is owing to
the fact that it is so thick in the fields the
farmers have not time to stop gathering to
gin, pack and haul to market. When the
pressure is over, it will roll in with a rush.
We have gone over parts of two or three
counties lately, and this is the conclusion
from our observations.”
—Barnesville Gazette: “It is generally
conceded by informed parties that Barnes
ville will not receive as many bales of cotton
this season as last. Pike will no doubt bring
in as many bales as she did last season, but
Monroe will not, owing to drought in some
localities. In and around Culloden the
drought has well nigh destroyed the crops.”
—Mr. H. R. Johnson, of Americus, is
putting out a two acre LeConte pear orchard.
It should contain seventy two trees, and
these, the eighth year, should produce 144
bushels of rears, worth S2BB. But if the
soil is rich, they may produce that number
of pears the sixth or seventh year. At ten
years of age his orchard should be worth
$1,500 per annum.
Burke is the largest cotton raising com ty
in Georgia. She made, last year, 29,172
bales. Washington is next, with 23,058
bales. Burke planted 87,356 acres in cotton
and Washington 66,900. The average yield
in both counties is nearly the same—about
three acres to the bale. The entire reported
yield of the State was 819,465 bales, and the
total acreage 2,615,668, which comes near to
preserving the average,but falls a little short.
—The Constitution says that within the
past week a large amount of counterfeit coin
has been detected In Atlanta. The denomi
nations are twenty-five, fifty and one dollar.
The dollar pieces are well executed, and will
fool the best expert, unless he gives it a close
scrutiny. The fifty cent piece is easily de
tected, being much lighter, both in weight
and color, besides being much thinner. The
quarter is a poor effort, and is easily detect
ed. Business men will do well to watch
out.
—A correspondent of the LaFayette Mes
senger writes: “McLemore's Cove is a place
of churches and schools. Some of the oldest
and'best citizens of North Georgia live there.
She has the grandest scenery, the purest
atmosphere, the best water, the most pro
ductive soil, and the best contented and
happiest citizens of any section of our State.
This section makes a surplus of all the crops
raised within its boundary, hence there is
more spirit, trade, enterprise and life in the
people than in most sections of country.”
—Athens Watchman : “Judge Bowers is
enthusiastic over the building of a narrow
guage road from Carnesville via Danielsville
to Athens—saying the road from Bowersville
to Carnesville is sure to be built. We are
satisfied that this road could be built at a
small cost, and would prove of great benefit
not only to Carnesville and Danielsville, but
also to Athens, and we trust our people will
take hold of it at once, in order to bring back
to our city the trade of Elbert, Hart, Frank
lin and Madison counties, in Georgia, and a
portion of several counties in South Caro
lina.”
—Although the time has expired for allot
ting space in the Atlanta Cotton Exposition,
and, according to the Constitution, ten times
as much space has been furnished as was at
first designed, the managers find themselves
short of the demand by over ninety thous
and square feet. But, equal to the emergen
cy, they have determined to furnish the
space, and have gone to work to finish up in
a few days three more large additions to the
structure in order to meet this demand
Some of the largest firms in the country are
still unaccommodated, and the managers are
determined that this shall not be.”
—Greenesboro Herald: “There seems to
be a general disposition among our farmers
to let go the old time and honored business
and seek other work. We regret to see such
a disposition, for farming underlies every
other pursuit or trade, and when farming
fails everything else will fail. We have too
many consumers now for the number of
producers—too many mouths to feed, and
too few hands holding the plow. We need
more farmers and fewer persons under tire
shade—more workers and fewer idlers.”
What do they expect to live on when the
farms are abandoned ?
—Augusta Chronicle: “Wednesday night
a party of nine German immigrants, who
recently landed in South Carolina, came to
Augusta from Columbia. They had no
money, could speak no English, and knew
no one. Yesterday a family, consisting of a
man, bis wife and two children, wandered
about the streets. Wheneverany one would
speak to them in their own tongue, their
faces would light up for the moment, but at
other times they bore a careworn, anxious
appearance. A party of citizens made up a
small amount of money and presented it to
the man, who was evidently very grateful.”