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THE SUUTH IN LITERATURE.
The Mobile Register, in a recent able
leader, insists that education of the
highest order is and will be the great
est necessity of the New South in the
race which she must run with her sis
ter States. The defectiveness of her
system of higher education is enlarged
upon, and the value and importance
of Universities are up
on. In the course of the Article the
following suggestive language occurs:
But when we speak of authorship
we touch a subject which places the
South at the greatest disadvantage.
There can be no doubt about the fact
that we have furnished to the country
more than our quota of distinguished
men, —Southern statesmanship and
eloquence have blazed in glory and
have become a tradition. But in the
production of literature we have been
sadly behipd. Southern talent has
never sought to enbalm itself in books.
When we cast our eyes over the field
of American literature we find that the
book makers have not been of us.
Here and there we can produce a fine
book from a Southern pen, but when
we take the result as a whole we find
that, outside of political speeches, we
have contributed but little to the body
of our literature. What is the result?
The critical estimate of the culture and
education of this country is based upon
the books that actually exist, not upon
books that the South might have pro
duced; these do not enter into the cal
culation. Now, we started out by as
serting that we could not progress,
unless we were willing to look exist
ing facts in the face. The estimate
that disinterested people put upon us
is an existing fact of serious importance.
The ninth edition of the Bncyclopsedia
Britannica is now issuing from the
press; and it is regarded among all
English speaking people as one of the
highest, if not the highest, standard
of authority. In its article on “Ameri
can Literature” it has this to say of us:
“The attractive culture of the South
has been limited in extent and degree.
The hot-house fruit of wealth and
leisure, it has never struck its roots
deeply into native soil. Since the Rev
olution days, when Virginia was the
nurse of statesmen, the few thinkers
of America born south of Mason and
Dixon’s line —outnumbered by those
belonging to the single State of Massa
chusetts —have commonly migrated to
New York or Boston in search of a
University training. In the world of
letters at least, the Southern States
have shone by reflected light; nor is it
too much to say, that mainly by their
connection with the North the Caroli
nas have been saved from sinking to
the level of Mexico or the Antilles.
Whether w'e look to India or Louisiana
it would seem that the tropical sun
takes the poetic fire out of Anglo-
Saxon veins, and the indolence which
is the concomitant of despotism has
the same benumbing effect. Like the
Spartan marshalling bis helots, the
planter lounging among h’s slaves was
made dead to Art by a paralyzing sense
of his own superiority. All the best
trans-atlantic literature is inspired by
the spirit of confidence—often of over
confidence —in labor. It has only flour
ished freely in a free soil; and for
almost all its vitality and aspirations,
its comparative scant performance
and large promise, we must turn
to New England.
Its defects and merits are those of the
national character as developed in the
Northern States, and we must seek for
an explanation of its peculiarities in
the physical and moral circumstances
which surround them.” If this un
complimentary and unjust statement
of our true position in American litera
ture had been written by a '“Yankee”
we could dispose of it with a sneer, but
the trouble is that it was written by an
eminent Scotch scholar, who could
hardly have any motive in doing us an
intentional injustice. As a matter of
fact he has done us a very great injus
tice. but the trouble is that it will be
very hard for us to meet or counteract
it, and for one painful reason. Sup
pose we appeal from the Scotchman’s
verdict and attempt to demonstrate
before the world’s tribunal that the
South does occupy a high position in
American literature, and that she has
contributed her quota to the general
result. The first thing we would be
required to do would be to produce the
books in which our contributions are
contained. And here would come the
trouble; we don’t possess the books;
we have never been a bookmaking
people; we have talked too much and
written too little; the great body of our
intellectual work rests in tradition. So
it is no wonder that foreign critics un
derrate us, for the obvious reason that
w r e have no substantial literary results
in which to exhibit the force of South
ern thought. A few brilliant fragments
of personal or local history or poetry
and romance do not constitute a litera
ture. But the Scotchman accounted
for a great deal of the evil when he
said that many of our thinkers “have
commonly migrated to New York or
Boston in search of University train
ing.” This has been the bane of our
past, which must be abolished from the
history of our future. The South
must establish institutions in which
she can educate her youth to the
highest attainable limit,—she must
lay the foundations of a substantial
literature,—speak and talk less, and
express her thoughts more often in
books.
—A number of large cotton mills in
England have resumed work.
Secular Editorials—Literature— 5~-- s * Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
From the numerous biographies
which have appeared in the press with
in the past week, we collate the follow
ing facts in regard to the life and
character of our new President, the
successor of the beloved and universally
lamented Garfield, whose dust was laid
to rest at Cleveland, last Monday, to
await the angel’s call in the morning
of the Resurrection. t
Chester Allen Arthur was born,in
Franklin county, Vt., in October 1830.
His father, Rev. William Arthur, was
born in the county Antrim, Ireland.
When he emigrated to this country he
settled in Vermont, and he died in
Newtonville, near Albany, on October
27th, 1875. The General’s father was
at one time pastor of the Calvary Bap
tist church, New York, the present pas
tor of which, Rev. Robert S. MacAr
thur, is a relative of the family.
Chester A. Arthur found his father’s
ripe knowledge of the Latin and Greek
classics of great advantage to him when
he came to prepare for college. His
preparation first began in Union Vil
lage, near Greenwich, a beautiful vil
lage of Washington county, N. Y.,and
was concluded at the grammar school
at Schenectady.
He took a high position in Union
College, where he entered in 1845,
when only fifteen years old. Every
year of his college course he was de
clared to be one of those who had taken
“ maximum honors,” and at the con
clusion of his college course, out of a
class of more than one hundred mem
bers, he was one of six who were elected
members of the Phi Beta Kappa Socie
ty, the cohdition of entrance to which
is the highest scholarship.
He graduated from Union College,
Schenectady, in 1848, and then engag
ed in the study of law, and was admit
ted to the bar in 1850. Soon after
ward he w’ent to New York city and
entered the law office of Erastus D.
Culver. When Judge Culver was ele
vated to the bench, Mr. Arthur formed
a partnership with Henry D. Gardiner,
and, upon the death of the latter, in
1865, the business was continued by
Mr. Arthur alono until 1871, when the
copartnership of Arthur, Phelps &
Knevals was formed. Mr. Phelps, of
that firm, is the same gentleman who
filled the office of District Attorney for
several years.
He achieved considerable fame as a
lawyer in the celebrated Lemmon slave
case, and in other noted cases growing
out of the anti-slavery agitation that
preceded the war between the States.
In tlie year 1856, Mr. Arthur began to
be prominent in politics in New York
city. He sympathized with the Whig
party, and was an ardent admirer of
Henry Clay. His first vote was cast
in 1852 for Winfield Scott for Presi
dent. In New York city Arthur iden
tified himself with the “practical men”
in politics by joining political associa
tions of his party, and at the polls act
ing as inspector on election day.
General Arthur has been a Republi
can since the foundation of the party.
When the war broke out he was Judge
advocate of the second brigade, State
militia, and when Gov. Morgan was
inaugurated, in 1861, he appointed
Gen. Arthur Engineer-in-chief on his
staff. He afterward held the positions
of Inspector-General and Quartermas
ter-General. On the expiration of Gov.
Morgan’s term, Gen. Arthur resumed
the practice of law. He afterward ob
tained an appointment as counsel to
the Tax Commissioners, at a salary of
SIO,OOO per annum. For many years
he has been a bosom friend of ex-Col
lector Thomas Murphy, and when that
gentlemen resigned the office of Col
lector of the Port, on November 20th,
1871, President Grant appointed Gen.
Arthur as his successor, and when his
term of office expired he was renomi
nated. He was retired from the office
on July 12th, 1878, being succeeded
by Mr. Merritt, the late incumbent.
He then re-engaged in the practice
of his profession as a partner in the
law firm of Arthur, Phelps, Knevals &
Ransom. In the fall of 1879 he was
elected Chairman of the Republican
State Committee, of which he had been
a prominent member for many years
before his appointment as collector,
and conducted the victorious campaign
of that year in New York.
General Arthur is a widower. He
married Miss Ella L. Herndon, a
daughter of Lieutenant Herndon, of
the navy. She died in New York
January 12th, 1880.
Personally, General Arthur is a gen
tleman of most courteous and affable
manner. He is a man of fine phy
sique, being over six feet in height, and
weighing about 220 pounds. He is
striking in appearance, and one who
would attract attention and observation
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1881.
in any assembly. He has a full, open
countenance and large, clear blue eyes,
and when talking with one, looks the
questioner full in the face. He is pos
sessed of high intellectual endowments,
is a most social man among his friends,
and his qualities of heart have endeared
him to thousands.
NOTES.
The national board of health com
plains that much annoyance is experi
enced by them from the persistence
with which the local authorities at
tempt to conceal the existence of yellow
fever in ports where it is known to
exist, the latest instance being at Key
West, Fla.
A dispatch has been received at New
York thanking that city for her liberal
donations to Michigan, and hoping for
more help from her. The dispatch states
that it will require at least one million
dollars to take care of these people until
another harvest. More help it says must
be obtained outside of Michigan for
that State is not able to bear the entire
burden.
Exhibits are daily arriving in large
quantities at Oglethorpe Park, Atlanta,
The International Cotton Exposition’s
main building was finished a few days
ago. All the other buildings will -be
ready within a week. The opening
day occurs on the sth day of October
and it is exceedingly important that
the exhibitors should hurry forward
their goods and see that they are put
in the places allotted to them without
delay.
The Scottish chamber of agriculture
have drafted a scheme for the land bill
for Scotland, providing for an adjust
ment of rents by arbitration, revulsion
of farms, and for power in the tenant
to sell his holding.
A Berlin correspondent of the Times
says it is reported in well informed
circles that negotiations have been re
opened between Germany, Austria and
Riissia, in order to revise the treaties
regarding the extradition of criminals
who have made murderous attempts
on the life of the sovereign. It is
stated that England and France, who
at first declined to support the Russian
proposals, in well known circles, will
not be again invited to join in the dis
cussion us the question.
lmpressive memorial services in
honor of our late President were held,
according to resolution, at the Capitol
by both houses of our General Assem
bly on Monday morning. Rev. Dr.
Boggs, of the Central Presbyterian
church delivered an impressive ser
mon. The exercises were witnessed
by a large concourse of citizens, and
were peculiarly impressive.
—The case of Guiteau will be pre
sented to the Grand Jury next Monday,
and his indictment will speedily fol
low. Guiteau has requested his
brother-in-law, G. M. Scoville, of
Chicago, to come to Washington as
one of the counsel for the defense.
—A fearful tornado passed over
Quincy, Illinois. About twenty per
sons were killed and wounded and
many houses were demolished.
—Last Monday was a day of mourn
ing all over the United States. A
nation bowed in grief for the illustri
ous dead is an ennobling, a majestic
spectacle.
One thousand two hundred em
ployees of the Old Colony railroad
have been examined for color blindness,
in compliance with the new Massa
chusetts law, and forty engineers,
firemen, conductors, and others have
been dismissed as having defective
sight. Some of them were old and
valued servants of the company. It
would be well in behalf of the lives
and limbs of travelers on our railroads
if similar laws could be enforced in all
the States.
The Standard’s correspondent at
Copenhagen says the authorities there
have been informed that Nihilists and
Fenians in America have arranged to
ship infernal machines to Copenhagen
for reshipment to Russia and England.
The Poles have organized for the
protection and advancement Os their
race in America, and in order to take
practical steps for helping the poorer
people among them and the care of
immigrants a convention has been in
session in New Pork.
The exports of domestic cottons from
the port of New York to foreign conn
tries since January Ist have been the
largest of any year since the inaugura
tion of our cotton manufacturing in
dustries.
A number of high Romish ecclesi
astics at Rome are in a state of rebell
ion against the Pope, and have pub
licly denounced him.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
' Peterson's Magazine for October is
unusually good, even for that incom
parable lady’s book. The steel engra
ving, “Don’t Be Scared,” is one of ex
ceptional beauty. The historical nov
elet, “The News from Yorktown,”
which has attracted so much atten
tion, is appropriately concluded in this
number in time for the “Yorktown
Centennial.”
—“The Story of the Bible,” one of
the most popular and entertaining
books recently published, containing
seven hundred pages, and two hun
dred and seventy-four illustrations, is
still in great demand. Between sixty
and seventy thousand have been sold.
Let it be remembered that this beauti
ful book and The Christian Index
for one year, will be mailed to any one
for three dollars and twenty-five cents.
—Mr. Oscar Wilde, the leader of
the “eesthetic craze” now raging in
London, has recently published a vol
ume of poems, which has already
reached a third edition in England,
s and a second edition in this country.
The book has caused a great stir
among the critics. He is roundly de
nounced on theone hand as “no poet,”
and as a trashy purveyor of trash, and
on the other, as a true poet, full of
tender and beautiful thoughts, and
gifted with the inspiration of genius.
This literary riot has made Mr. Wilde,
for the time being, a lion, which he
will continue to be until the critics
cease their barking, and allow him to
shrink back into his natural propor
tions.
Dr. Holland, editor of Scribner's,
(now The Century,) Magazine, says,
doubtless with truth, and unqestiona
bly with commendable candor, being
a New Englander himself, that, in Lit
erature, New England is no longer
king. Her great literary school is
dying out. Those who have been our
literary leaders and exemplars have
passed their meridian, and though we
shall part with them sadly, we are
‘are that American literature will not
j'elfrer, bull rather be improved, by the
wider distribution of its productive
forces. The South and the West are
hereafter to be reckoned upon in ma
king up the account of our literary
wealth, and the North will welcome
with no stinted praise and no niggard
ly hand, the best that the South can
do.
—A young friend writing to N. P.
Willis, in 1846, asking advice as to
the adoption of literature as a pursuit,
received very little encouragement
from the veteran literateur. “Poetry,”
says Willis, “is an angel in your breast
and you had better not turn her out to
be your maid of all work. As to wri
ting for magazines, that is very nearly
done with as a matter of profit. The
competition for notoriety alone gives
the editors more than they can use.
You could not sell a piece of poetry
now in America. The literary ave
nues are all over-crowded, and you can
not live by the pen, except as a drudge
to a newspaper.”
Still the struggle and scramble for
honor and for pelf continues in the
vast literary arena, and the Fates, that
are the umpires, continue to dole out
to the eager contestants the ninety
nine blanks and the one golden prize
—The British Museum has recently
purchased a collection of Biblical and
other Oriental manuscripts, which are
considered of great importance to the
criticism and exegesis of the Old Testa
ment. The collection, which was
made in South Arabia, consists of for
ty manuscripts. Fifteen of these are
portions of the Hebrew Scriptures, and
two are probably the oldest which have
as yet come to light of the Old Testa
ment Scriptures. A third which con
tains the Hagiographa, exhibits a re
cension of the Hebrew text, the other
two portions of which are already in
the Museum, thus completing the
whole Hebrew Bible. Several of these
manuscripts have the Arabic transla
tion of Suadiah.in alternate verses with
the Hebrew, while others have the
superliniary, or Assyrian, vowel-points,
which till comparatively recent times
were unknown. The remaining twen
ty-five manuscripts are Midrashim, or
homiletic commentaries and liturgies,
which are more or lees unknown.
Georgia Paint Company—This is a
new and important enterprise, the only
one of the sort in the South, and we
commend the advertisment in this is
sue of The Index to our readers. Dr.
D. B. Plumb, of Augusta, is the Presi
dent of the company. The excellence
of the productions of this company is
guaranteed.
The Garfield Memorial Services
in this city last Monday, including a
procession of military and civic bodies,
and s lornnexercises at DeGivo’s Opera
House, were the most imposing and
impressive ever held in Atlanta. To
mournful music thousands marched
with reverent pace through the draped
streets of the city. At the Opera
House an immense throng filled the
seats from pit to gallerv, listening with
deep attention to the ritual services of
the Knights Templar, and the touch
ing addresses made by the several
speakers. The stage and the entire
building was beautifully and artistic
ally draped and adorned with appro
griatejfunereal designs- A fine choir
rendered appropriate music. Eloquent
addresses were delivered by Rev. Dr.
D. W. Gwin, Henry Jackson, Esq.,
ahd Rev. Dr. A. G. Thomas. The ad
dresses were full of pathos and generous
sympathy, and fully reproduced the
intense feeling of the popular heart
on this mournful occasion. The ad
dress of Mr. Jackson was one of rare
beauty and lofty eloquence.
—Rev. Dr. Spalding has announced
his resignation of the Second Baptist
church, Atlanta, to accept the call to
the consolidated church at Galveston,
Texas. He left on Tuesday for a visit
to that city, to attend the session of the
Texas Baptist State Convention, which
is held there this year, and will be ab
sent some eight or ten days. Dr. S.
will carry with him to his new field the
tender regrets and warmest sympathies
of a large circle of friends throughout
our State.
Richard’s Dry Goons Syndicate
Our lady readers will read with pleas
ure the announcement made by
Messrs. Richards <fc Brother, of Augus
ta, in these columns. Buyers of dry
goods by this system w’ill save a good
deal of money., Read the announce
ment.
Among the resolutions passed at a
meeting of the citizens of Pittsburg
was the following:
“Re solved fourth, That we regard the
act of the President’s murderer as the
natural outgrowth of that godless ma
terialism which, in many forms and
under many names, has shown its mor
al character in lawless acts of violence,
culminating in murder, in many lands,
in our own time, and against which we
utter our most solemn protest; against
which we pledge ourselves to do un
ceasing battle, and which we here and
now denounce as treason to human
liberty, to all free institutions, and to
the best hopes and efforts of the human
race towards a higher and better life on
earth and a happier and nobler life
hereafter.”
Three young scoundrels succeeded
in robbing a train, last week, on the
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad.
They robbed the passengers and the
Express messenger of about thirty
thousand dollars, stopping the train
until they - could conveniently accom
plish their villainy. It was one of the
boldest pieces of villainy on record.
The authorities have offered a reward
of sixteen thousand dollars for the
capture of the robbers.
Railway traveling is getting to be as
unsafe in the {Southwest as traveling
the highways of England used to be in
“Dick Turpin’s” time.
LaGrange Reporter: Rev. A. R. Cal
laway baptized six persons at Hamil
ton on last Sunday, and says there is
considerable interest in the communi
ty on the subject of religion.
There will be State elections in ten
States this year, in only six of which
Governors will be chosen, viz : In Mas
sachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Vir
ginia, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Fairburn News Letter : The protrac
ted meeting, which had been in prog
ress at Shadnor Baptist church for
several days, has closed. It was con
ducted by the Rev. D. Brown, and was
attended with good results. There
were seven accessiorfs to the church —
five of whom were baptized Friday.
Judge Stewart of this circuit, has
been engaged in a protracted meet
ing at the Baptist church in Conyers.
His appeals to sinners are said to be
very effective.
, Quite a good meeting has been clos
ed at the Baptist church in Greenville
recently. There were nineteen acces
sions to the church.
‘'Plumer's” American Hotel,Philadelphia,
•pposite Independence Hall, is the favorite
•>f the traveling public, and deservedly ; with
a landlord so untiring in his application, it
certs' nly merits success.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—The colored people in Oglethorge conn- ‘
ty ere buying up land.
—Sumter county will make an average
yield of top crop cotton.
Houston county will vote on the liquor
question in October.
—Gordon county will not make more than
half a crop of corn and cotton.
-The Sibley Cotton Mills, Augusta, will
go into operation next January.
—Murrain is playing havoc with the cat
tle on Sand Mountain, Dade county.
—The largest portion of the cotton crop in
Houston county has been gathered.
—The cotton crop in the valley in Dade
county will exceed any previous year.
—Dried peaches are worth, in the Sparta
market, from nine to ten cents per pound.
—There is work to the amount of over
S2OO 000 awaiting the workmen in Macon.
, —W. H. Willis, of Oglethorpe county, has
cleared $2,000 on dried peaches this season.
—There will be an average of one bale of
cotton to every four acres throughout Wilkes
county.
—The Georgia Railway Company will pay
a dividend of $2 50 per share on the 15th of
October.
—Macon's real and personal estate, at a
fair valuation, bears a taxable value of over
$7,000,000.
—A large number of Canadians intend
visiting the Atlanta Exhibition. They want
to see the South.
—lt is estimated that at least three hun
dred tickets to the Louisiana lottery are sold
in Macon every month.
—The cotton caterpillar has swept over
Terrell county like an avalanche, and the
cotton fields are literally leafless.
—Mr. Joe Cofer, of Goosepond, Oglethorpe
county, has sold his place to a colored man
for 200 bales of cotton on twenty years’
time.
—The owners of the Etowah shoals have
had the property surveyed and mapped.
They propose to exhibit the map at the Ex
position. The fall of the water is calculated
at 1,340 horse power.
—The Bainbridge Democrat states that a
new steamboat company has been formed in
Columbus with a capital of SSO 000. They
have purchased the steamer Caddo Belle,
which will be placed on the river shortly.
—The Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway is to be extended from Bainbridge
westward, making through and direct con
nection with New Orleans. The Quitman
Free Press credits Col. Haines, General
Manager, with saying that the work will be
completed in less than eighteen months.
—Sparta Ishmaelite: “A rise in the price
of cotton will accomplish anumberofthings.
Among other things, it will insure the plant
ing of a large cotton crop next year. As
soon as cotton begins to bring a good price,
the farmers set themselves to work like
beavers to bring the price down. This they
accomplish by over-production.”
—Cartersville Free Press: “Mr. H. C.
Garrison, the sub agent of this county for
getting specimens of minerals for the Cotton
Exposition, sent down a huge specimen of
iron ore that will weigh from four to five
tons. The original piece was three times the
size of tbe specimen sent. It would probably
analyze from fifty to sixty per cent It was
sent from the Guyton mine, four miles north
of Cartersville, and controlled by the Dade
coal mine."
—Darien Timber Gazette : “It is with a
great deal of pleasure that we state most
positively that a branch road from No. 1,
Macon and Brunswick railroad, to Evelyn,
will soon be built, and connect with Darien
by steamer. The route, about five and a
half priles, has been ordered surveyed, and
we have no doubt but that by Christmas
daily trains will be running regularly on the
route between No. 1 and Evelyn. When
this is done passengers can make tbe trip
from Darien to N j. 1 in about fmty minutes,
which will be a saving of many hours."
—Rome Courier: “ Mr. M. T. Singleton,
who, since Lieutenant Marshal left, has had
charge of the government works at Ten Is
land shoals, was in town yesterday, and
gives the gratifying information that the
work is moving on in a very satisfactory
manner. He is working regularly about
two hundred hands, and this grand water
path to the coal field of Alabama is not only
being made more certain, but gives promise
of completion, with only such delays as are
usual in government enterprises. This work
completed, gives cheap coal to Rome, and
cheap coal makes Rome a great manufactur
ing city.”
—The Georgia State Fair will be held at
Macon, commencing Monday, October 17th,
1881, and continuing one week ; E. C. Grier,
Secretary. Macon. The fair of the Talbot
County Stock and Fair Association com
mences October 11th, and continues three
days, at Talbotton, Georgia; W. T. Dennis,
Secretary. The Western Georgia Fair Asso
ciation hold a fair at LaGrange, Georgia,
commencing October 27th, continuing three
days; F. H Whitaker, Secretary, LaGrange,
Georgia The Oconee County Agricultural
Society will hold a fair at Watkinsville,
commencing October 10th, and ending on
the 14th of October. The International Cot
ton Exposition opens at Atlanta, Georgia,
October sth, 1881, and closes December 31st.
Those wishing to exhibit at the State Fair at
Macon, Georgia, can do so and then enter
their goods at the Exposition.
—Augusta News: “The ‘craze’ among
North Georgia people to go West has not
died out by any means, and, if possible, is
increasing. We learn from a gentleman of
this city, recently back from an extended
tour of the mountains, that people in North
Georgia are anxious to sell their splendid
farming lands, so that they can move to
Colorado. They are led to this step by a
systematic plan of advertising, kept up by
land agents and railroads out West. At
tractive newspapers are circulated among the
mountaineers, and are even dropped off the
cars in sight of every farm house, and in this
way the minds of Georgia people are dis
turbed and attracted by highly colored ac
counts of success and big fortunes out West.
Indulging hopes of bonanzas and visions of
easily obtained wealth, Georgia farmers are
willing to sell rich improved lands in the
bracing climate of North Georgia, worth
from ten to twenty-five dollars an acre, and
go to Colorado to improve land leas valuable,
endure the hardships of a half civilized life
and an untried climate.”
—Rome Courier: “Rev. W. F. Glenn,
presiding elder of the Rome district, has
recently made his grand rounds, traveling
quite generally over Floyd, Polk, CarrolL
Haralson, Paulding, Douglas, Cobb and
Bartow counties. He says the most notable
falling off, in both corn and cotton, is
noticeable in Bartow, Polk and Floyd 1 In
these three counties the crops are considera
bly short of last year, and somewhat, say 20
or 25 per cent, below an average for the
past ten years. But in Carroll county the
crops are considerably above the average,
except in a very small strip next to Coweta
and Douglas, where they have suffered
from drought. In Paulding, Douglas and
Haralson there are places of excellent crops,
and other places below the usual produc
tion. but he thinks the average will be a lit
tle above that of the past eight or ten years.
Cobb county is also spotted. Mr. Glenn
thinks that, taking the acreage of all the
eight counties he has been over, that the
crops will compare favorably with the aver
age of the last ten years.