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THE SOUTHERN STAPLE.
Cotton and its culture is at present
a leading theme in our newspapers, and
is receiving marked attention at the
hands of specialists.
The Atlanta International Cotton
Exposition has doubtless aroused public
attention to this great staple in an un
usual degree.
Harper's Magazine, for October, has a
well written and elaborately illustrated
article on "Cotton and Its Kingdom,”
which will be widely read. The pre
liminary Census Report on the cotton
production of the United States fur
nishes, also, very interesting and sug
gestive facts.
The official figures show that the in
crease in our cotton industry has been
uniform with the general growth and
progress of the country during the
past ten years. The total product of
the census year was 5,737,257 bales,
from an acreage of 14,441,993 acres.
The total product of the census year
1869-70 was 3,122,551, an increase in
favor of the present of 2,614,706 bales.
Before the war, in 1859 ’6O, however,
the cotton product was 4,861,292, the
highest point by hundreds of thous
ands it had ever reached up to that
time, and an exceptional yield, since
in the year following, before the effects
of the war had been felt in the cotton
fields, the total fell to 3,849,469. What
it was during the years of recovery fol
lowing the war will be seen from these
figures, which form a basis for com
parison with the present marked ad
vance : Total cotton product in 1865,
2,269,316 bales, 1866,2,097,254 ; 1867,
2,519,554 ; 1868, 2.366,467 ; 1869, 3,-
122,551; 1870, 4,362,317 ; 1871, 3,-
014,351. The figures by decades show :
1830, 976,845 bales; 1840, 1,634,954 ;
1850, 2,233,718; 1860. 4,861,292;
1870, 3,122,551; 1880,5,737,257.
The most interesting table in the
present report is that showing the to
tal product by States, together with
the acreage and population, as follows:
States in order of
production. Population. Acres. Bales
Mi55i55ippi.....1,131,592 2,093,330 9; 5,808
Ge0rgia.;.1,512,180 2,617,138 814,441
Texa51,592,574 2,173,73 2 803,642
A1abama1,262,5'5 2,330,0f6 699,654
Arkansas 802,525 1,042,976 6* 1 8,256
South Carolina 995,577 1,364,249 522 548
Louisiana 919,946 864,787 508,569
North Car01ina1,399,750 893,153 389 598
Tennesseel,s42,463 722,569 330,644
Florida 269,493 24>,595 51 997
Mi550uri...2,163,804 32,711 19,733
Indian Territory 35,000 17,000
Virginial,sl2.s64 24,000 11,000
Kentucky„.l,64B.69o 2,667 1,367
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T0ta116,808,664 14,441,993 5,737,257
When the States are taken by the
average production per acre, the order
is changed as follows : Missouri, 0.60 ;
Louisiana, 0.59 ; Arkansas, 0.58 ; Ken
tucky, 0.51 ; Indian Territory, 0.49 ;
Virginia, 0.46 ; Tennessee, 0.46 ; Mis
sissippi, 0.46; North Carolina, 0.44;
South Carolina, 0.38; Texas, 0.37;
Georgia, 0.31; Alabama, 0.30; Florida,
The white population of these States
is 11,024.123, the colored population
5,784,541. The present report does
not show any obvious relation between
the total production and the number,
or the ratio to the total number of the
colored .population, and the more de
tailed report will be necessary to dis
close how large a proportion of the
cotton is produced by the colored peo
ple. A comparison of the total popu
lation of the States of the cotton belt
proper, from North and South Carolina
to Texas, shows in all but two cases an
approximation to the proportion of one
bale for every two inhabitants. The
exceptional States are Mississippi and
Arkansas, in which the ratio is from
two-thirds to over three-fourths of a
bale per head.
From the table it will be seen that
Mississippi stands first in production,
though sixth in population, of the
thirteen cotton States. With regard
to this large production, which equals
over eight-tenths of a bale per head,
the report says:
“At first blush, in view of the great
fertility and area of the Mississippi
‘Yazoo’ bottom within the limits of
the State, the inference would be that
the high position of the State’s pro
ductions is due to these fertile lowlands.
But a detailed discussion of the areas
of production shows that a little over
one-fourth (27 percent.) only of the
cotton product of the State comes from
the Yazoo bottom, while over one-half
of the whole is produced in what might
be termed the first-class uplands, viz.,
the table land belt bordering the Mis
sissippi bluff, and the two prairie belts.
It thus appears that the high produc
tion of Mississippi is due to the fact
that quite one-half of its territory is
occupied by soils of exceptional fertili
ty, coupled with the circumstance that
cotton culture is the one pursuit to
which the population devotes itself.
Even with the imperfect tillage and in
complete picking of the crop now pre
vailing in the Yazoo bottom, the pres
ent average product per acre is over
three-quarters of a bale; and estimat
ing the lands reclaimaßle by simple
exclusion of the Mississippi overflows
at only three millions of acres, the an
nual production could thus readily be
raised to 2,250,000 bales, without any
change in the method of culture, in
the Yazoo bottom alone. With im
proved cultivation the production
• could easily be brought up to 5,000,-
000 bales; and thus with a similar
improvement in the culture of the up
lands, it is evident that the State of
Mississippi alone could produce the
entire crop now grown in the United
States.”
“And it is added still to this encour
aging statement of future possibilities,
that this estimate, so far from being too
high, does not adequately state the
possibilities within reach of careful
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culture. It will do, though, when the
capacity of some of the other States is
taken into account, to convince the
world that the cotton supply of this
country, like the coal and iron supply,
is not likely to be exhausted by any
demands that may bemadeupon them.”
It is interesting to note that Georgia,
which stands second in the list, has
but a very limited area of what are con
sidered first and second-class soils in
Mississippi, and owes her position to bet
ter cultivation of the soil and to thrift,
rather than to natural advantages.
Texas is third in production, first in
population and possibilities, since it is
said that, compared to the area of fer
tile lands susceptible to cotton culture,
the present cotton acreage of Texas is
almost insignificant.
The cotton production in the two
Carolinas is considered of special inter
est, because these two members of the
original Union of thirteen States have
been the first to place cotton culture
upon a permanent foundation, by
adopting a system of regular returns to
the soil. As a result the average pro
duct per acre is high as compared with
that of Georgia and Alabama, and in
North Carolina approaches that of
Mississippi. The value and necessity
of a proper use of fertilizers is becom
ing more and more recognized by the
cotton-grower. And the figures given
show how sure is the South in its de
pendence uppn cotton as its leading
source of wealth and profit.
SjfoXEY LANIBX. ■
CHARLES W. HUBNER.
I place a prism to my upturned eye—
The Sun god’s golden arrow cleaves it through,
And wondrous flashing splendor fills the blue!
A thousand shimmering rainbows arch the sky
In glorious, intermingling radiancy;
The gross, the common lades from out my view,
And earth in Eden beauty shines anew,
Robed in her ancient Virgin purity.
Such the etherlal, glorifying powers ,
Os thy rare verse, O crystal-souled Lanier'
For Truth thy pen did potent warfare jfrgo—
! (F'hrk-l’s spe-tr i:bva-<Hhr w; AvttUd
Lo 1 Art and Genius weep beside thy bier,
O Bard 1 whose song recalls the Goldeu Age.
NOTES.
Intelligence received from the War
ner Observatory, Rochester, New York,
announces the discovery of a new comet
located in the constellation of Virgo.
It is a striking coincidence that this
new and bright comet appeared at the
same hour President Garfield was
breathing his last. It was first seen
by E. E. Barnard in Nashville, Tenn.,
who has made claim through Prof.
Swift for the Warner prize of S2OO in
gold. This makes the fifth comet seen
since May first, and of this number
four have appeared in almost the
same spot in the heavens.
—The subscriptions to the fund in
aid of the Garfield family amounts
already to between three and four hun
dred thousand dollars.
—Guiteau, the assassin of President
Garfield, is ready for trial, and expresses
his belief in his acquittal. He claims
that malice cannot be proved.
—Twenty-eight thousand French
troops embarked in one day at Toulouse
forTunis. The total annexation of Tunis
by the French was a foregone con
clusion.
—Parnell has been eulogized by a
speaker at a great mass-meeting in
Dublin as “the greatest man the Irish
race has ever produced.” If matter
ship in virulent demagoguery consti
tutes “greatness” then is Parnell
“great”—the word has certainly many
perverted uses.
—We had the pleasure of a call this
week from Mr. J. M. G. Medlock, the
clever and intelligent agent of The
Christian Index—the best edited de
nominational paper in the State. The
Baptist who fails to takeTHEINDEX lives
beneath his privilege.— Sparta Ishmae
lite.
—The cholera has appeared in
Arabia.
—An International Socialist Con
gress assembled at Barcelona, in Spain,
with five hundred delegates attending.
It has approved the terms of a mani
festo to be sent to all Socialist societies.
A communication from a number of
Russians in London concurs in the
objects of the congress. The president
and secretary of the congress have
beet arrested for expressing approval
of the preceedings of the Nihilists.
According to the reports of the
Treasury Department, just published,
the total value of our exports for the
year ending August 31st, was $894,-
695,274, and the value of imports
$643,163,664. The decrease in the
value of imports from the preceding
year was $53,990,854, and the increase
of exports $30,451,215. The total re
ceipts Irom internal revenue will reach
$150,000,000.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1881.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
Three important circulars have late
ly been issued by the Bureau of Educa
tion. The first on the Spelling Re
form, gives a condensed historical ac
count of the spelling reform movement
both in this country and in England.
An appendix gives a full reference-list
to the literature of the spelling reform.
The second circular deals with the re
lation of education to industry and
technical training in American schools;
and the third is an illustrated pam
phlet on the construction of library
buildings.
We have received the "Report of the
Commissioner of Education for the
Year of 1879.” Published by the
United States Government.
Scribner's Monthly, for October, ha§
an unusually interesting variety of
valuable articles; among the papers
are to be noted : Old Yorktown, an an
ecdotal and descriptive sketch, illus
trated by Blum and Pennell; The New
Phase of Napoleonic History, as view
ed in the light shed upon it by Lan
frey, Metternich and Remusat ; A Plea
for Railroads, an authoritative and im
partial paper. Bear-hunting in the
South, a personal experience, striking
ly illustrated ; Primeval California, an
illustrated sketch of a vacation in the
wilderness. Queen Titania, Boyesen’s
novelette concluded; Miss Asia’s
Match, a bright short story, by Isa
bella T. Hopkins. Poetry in Ameri
ca, a concise and valuable contribution
by Edmund Clarence Stedman ; The
Sonnet in English Poetry, historical
and critical, by R. H. Stoddard ; Book
Reviews, etc., etc. The Forests of the
Sierras, with illustrations by Swain,
Gifford, Smilie, Vanderhoof, and oth
ers ; The Migration of Birds; A New
Moth, (Smerinthus Cablei,) with an
illustration engraved by Henry Marsh.
Aldus, “The First Editor,” by Theo
dore L. De Vinne, with illustrations ;
|jje
actor. Peter the Great, Eugene Schuy
ler’s Illustrated History, is finished.
This great work, it is expected, will be
followed by a series of papers by the
celebrated Russian novelist, Ivan Tur
gueneff. on Russia of To-Day. Mrs.
Burnett’s new novel, Through One
Administration, a Washington story,
will begin in the November number,
the first of the new series of “Scribner,”
to be known as “The Century Maga
zine.”
Readers of St. Nicholas will rejoice
to hear that Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge
has written a serial story for the mag
azine, to be called Donald and Dorothy.
Edward Eggleston has catered to the
boys, by writing The Horsie School-
Boy. Both stories will be published
very soon.
Illusions: A Psychological Study. By
Janies Sully. D. Appleton & Co., .New
York, publishers.
This is another important link of
The International Scientific Series of
this enterprising publishing house.
The volume embraces a number of ar
ticles that have been carefully elabora
ted and perfected in their original form
as magazine papers, and the result is
a curiously interesting work on a real
ly attractive subject. The work treats
not only of the illusions of sense that
form the subject of treatieses on physi
ological optics, but embraces also in its
view the errors commonly designated
as illusions, and which resemble the
former in form and origin. It is a
strange and, in some respects, a fasci
nating study, in which fact and fancy
play an important part.
A Selection From the Letters of Madame
De Remusat To Her Husband and Son from
1804 to 1813 From the French by Mrs. Cash
el Hoey and Mr John Lillie. D. Appleton
& Co. New York, publishers.
Those who have read the “Memoirs”
of this gifted and charmingly garru
lous lady will take pleasure in reading
this volume, filled with selections from
her epistolary correspondence with her
husband, who held high office under
the Emperor. They are of interest as
showing the chequered, gay and brill
iant salon life of the French capital
in the most brilliant period of its his
tory. Distinguished personages in
French civic and military circles, the
celebrities of fashion and of art, are al
luded to in these letters with refresh
ing candor, and the peculiar spiciness
of which the French pen, especially
in the hands of brilliant French wo
men, is so capable. Mme. Remusat’s
self, as revealed in her letters, is, in it
. elf, an interesting study. “Perhaps,”
says the Saturday Review, “however,
the most really interesting thing in the
book is its display of the affectionate,
vivacious, acute, but somewhat hasty,
nature of the writer. Mme. de Remu
sat never cooled in her affection for her
husband, and theoretically acquiesced
in the doctrine which husbands find
it hard to make wives believe—that in
absence business makes correspond
ence difficult. Every now and then
there are the oddest little outbursts of
wounded feeling, because a letter has
hot come or has been cold in style, out
bursts which are almost invariably fol
lowed by penitential apologies. Alto
together, the book, if it does not add
very much to actual historical knowl
edge, adds agreeably to the literature
rtf biography.”
The International Review, A. S.
Barnes & Co., publishers, New York,
for October, opens with a very able ar
ticle upon “The Treasury and the
Banks,” by Mr. H. W. Richardson, ed
itor of the Portland Advertiser. It is
an exhaustive and exceedingly inter
esting discussion of the currency prob
lem, and will be sure to attract the at
tention of." 11 bankers, as well as those
less intimately connected with the pres
ent greenback system. Mr. Wm. My
all contributes a critical and biograph
ical essay upon “John Wesley.” The
author of the best recent book upon
Carlyle, Mr. Edwin D. Mead, is entire
ly at home in a scholarly essay upon
‘ Immanuel Kant,” dealing with the
subject in a dual capacity—Kant the
riian, and his philosophical doctrines.
A third biographical article is “Roscoe
Ccnkling,” by Mr. F. W. Whitridge.
Rev. Wm. E. Boggs, D. D„ of Atlanta,
Ga., replies to an article recently pub
lished in this Review upon “The Solid
South,” by Mr. Edward Atkinson. It
sterns this article of Mr. Atkinson’s
has been the cause of considerable
ftxcitement in certain circles at the
South, and the reply here published
b one of many offered to the editors.
It is evidently meant to be fair
and candid, and is valuable be
i cause of its Southern origin. “The
Southern Educational Problem,” by
Mr. Walter H. Page, is also a timely
contribution to current topics and of
considerable interest.
L Popular Science Monthly, D.
.fppfcTton & Co.f York’
in the October number maintains its
high rank in the realm of philosophic
and scientific thought. The following
is the rich table of contents presented
by this number: Physical Education.
By Felix L. Oswald, M. D. Remedial
Education (continued). The Practi
cal Business of Life Insurance. By
Theodore Wehle. How the Earth is
Weighed. By Dr. Otto Walterhofer.
(Illustrated.) The Development of
Political Institutions. By Herbert
Spencer. X.—The Militant Type of
Society. The Cultivation of Medical
Science. By Sir James Paget. In
crease and Movement of the Colored
Population. By J. Stahl Patterson.
11. Movement. About Comets. By
Aaron Nichols Skinner. (Illustrated.)
The Connection of the Biological
Sciences with Medicine. By Professor
T. H. Huxley. Progress in the Manu
facture of Steel. By A. K. Hunting
ton. Intelligence of Ants. 11. By
George J. Romanes. Forest-Culture
in Alpine Ravines. By M. J. Cleve.
Cattle-Raising in South America. By
M. Couty. Sketch of Professor
(Jliarles A. Young. (With portrait.)
Correspondence. Editor’s Table.
Literary Notices. Popular Miscellany.
Notes.
Littell's Living Age, Littell & Co.,
Boston, publishers, is, as usual, excel
lent. The last two numbers for Sep
tember, and the first number for Octo
ber, contain articles on Schlieman’s
“Uios: ” the Site of Troy, Quarterly;
The Future of Islam, Fortnightly;
Lawn Tennis and its Players, and
Scottish, Shetlandic and Germanic
Water Tales, Contemporary, Besieged
in the Transvaal, Blackwood; The
Great Southern Comet of 1880, and
Nassau Senior’s Journals and Conver
sations, Fraser; Arthur Penrhyn Stan
ley, and Cutzola, Macmillian; The
Lafayette Family, Figaro; Protective
Diseases, Masked Heartlessness, The
Grievance of being Overestimated,
Summer Coolness in Poetry, and Wo
men at Fifty, Spectator; Camping-out
on the St. Lawrence, An Ancient Illy
rian Capital, Pall Mall; Recollections
of George Borrow, Atheneeum-, Brig
ands and their Captives, Public Opin
ion ; with instalments of “In Trust,”
and “The Freres,” and the usual
amount of poetry.
A new volume begins with October;
now is a good time to subscribe.
As announced in our last issue Rev.
Dr. Spalding of this city has accepted
the unanimous call of the First Bap
tist church of Galveston, Texas. In
the words of an esteemed contemporary :
“Texas has indeed won a man who is
worthy of her confidence and esteem.”
—lt is stated that President Arthur
desires the election of Se iat< r David
Davis to the presidency of ti e Senate.
ALBERT THEODORE SPALDING.
The following sketch of this distin
guished minister’s and pastor’s life,
taken from the “Biographical Compen
dium of Georgia Baptist Ministers,”
just issued from The Index press,will be
read with interest by the brethren in
Texas and elsewhere:
Rev. Albert Theodore Spalding, son of
Albert M. Spalding and Lucinda Barton,
was born in Elbert county, Georgia, October
20th, 1831. While he was an infant, his
father gave up a lucrative medical practice,
entered on the duties of a minister of the
Gospel, and soon became the successful
pastor of the Baptist church at Greenville,
South Carolina. In that picturesque and
beautiful spot the early childhood of the
subject of this sketch was spent. There his
young mind acquired the foundation of a
good education, in the classic school of
"good old father Leary," which gave Green
ville an early and lasting fame. At twelve
years of age, with his father's family, he
returned to his native State, and Gainesville,
Georgia, became his home for the next eight
vears. Four of these eight were spent at
Mercer University, where he graduated in
1851, bearing off one of the honors of his
class. In the beginning of his collegiate life,
when entering bis sixteenth year, he was
savingly converted to God, and wasbaplized
by Rev. B. M. Sanders, pastor of the Penfield
church. At its close, when twenty years of
age. be decided to consecrate his lite to the
preaching of the Gospel, and was licensed
by that church. Then, for the first time, he
learned that when but a few days old, he
was solemnly set apart by bis parents, on a
day of prayer,.to the service of God. Return
ii iLo peiiflejfl he spent twb years in. the
theological department of Me,cer University;
an inmate of the home of Dr. N. M. Craw
ford, enjoying the benefit of his instruction,
and the advantagesand moulding influences
of an intimacy with him, such as few pupils
ever sustained towards a teacher.
On completing his theological course, Mr
Spalding, at the age of twenty-two, accepted
a call as temporary supply by the First Bap
tist church in Augusta. It is pleasing to
record that Dr. Wm. H. Turpin, a venerable
and large hearted deacon of this church,
bore most of Mr. Spalding’s expenses, as
his benefactor, during his collegiate course
of six years—an act of generosity as produc
tive of good as it was worthily bestowed,
t he pulpit of the Greene Street church was
rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. J.
G. Binney, in anticipation of a return to
missionary life in Burmah ; but, as this pur
pose was for a time abandoned, the Augusta
church, which had reluctantly given him
up, recalled him, and Mr. Spalding, after
three mouths’ work id Augusta, accepted a
call to the church in Aiken, South Carolina.
I'here he was ordained, in March, 1854. He
remained in Aiken, as pastor, two years,
during which he was united in marriage to
Miss Constance Schaffner, of Charleston,
South Carolina, a lady whose refined culture,
in the best schools of Charleston and of New
York, prepared her to bea worthy co laborer
in the Master’s work. From Aiken he went
to Madison, Georgia, where he was pastor
four years, when he was called to the B-reau
Baptist church, of West Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania. During his pastorate of eighteen
months this church was almost doubled in
numbers. After the late war had com
menced. feeling that theSouth was his home,
he left Philadelphia, returned to his native
section and took charge of the Selma, Ala
bama, Baptist church, which during his
pastorate of four years, became one of the
leading churches in the State. After the
war he accepted a call of the St. Francis
Street church, at Mobile, which he served
for nearly four years with such zeal and
pronounced success that it has taken rank
with the first churches in the land. He then
moved to Loci ville, Kentucky,beinge!ected
pastor of the Walnut Street church, one of
the largest and wealthiest churches on the
continent During his pastorate thischurcb
began to build and completed a splendid
structure as a house of worship for a colony
of her members, which, at present, consti
tutes the Broadway church, of which Dr. J.
L. Burrows is pastor. It also built the
Orphans’ Home, one of the noblest monu
meats of Kentucky’s beneficence. Here the
health of brother Spalding failed, and his
physicians advised his removal south as a
necessity. Just then the providence of God
offered him the pastorate of the Seoond Bap
tist church, Atlanta, Georgia, to which city
be moved in 1871. Jt wa- during his resi
dence in Kentucky that the degree of Doc
tor of Divinity was conferred on Mr. Spald
ing, by Georgetown College, in 1869 He
has remained in charge of the Second church
of Atlanta until the present time, the salu
brity of the climate having restored his health
Dr. Spalding possisres a mind remarkably
fecund in illustration, a style as remarkably
fluent and felicitous, and no less remarkable
powers of pathos. These qualities clothe his
pulpit utterances with a b’gb degree of at
tractiveness and effect, which he uses in the
interest of evangelical truth, and under the
promptings of an enlightened, warm hearted
concern for every form of benevolent and
Christian enterprise. His record as a pastor
is one of great,varied and uniform efficiency.
Few men have friends more strongly at
tached to him, and the stars in the crown of
his rjoicii g will be. for number a galaxy.
Like every person of decided views and per
sistent lines of action, be has encountered
hostility, and differences of taste may have
caused estrangen e it in other cases; but his
integri y as a man, his devotion as a Chris
tian, and his usefulness as a minister, stand
unimpeactied and unimpeachable. He
ranks witii our best and foremost men ; and
ns many ardent sympathies gather about
h m living many tender regrets will follow
him when he'dies.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—A telephone exchange is to be established
in Rome.
—A strike among the workmen of Macon
is apprehended.
—Walton county will make two-thirds of
a corn and cotton crop.
—About 15 000 gallons of wine will be
manufactured at Cuthbert.
—The gold mines at the head of the Eto
wah are closed for repairs.
—The new locomotives on the Atlanta and
West Point railroad have paper wheels.)
—There will be an average of one bale of
cotton to every four acres throughout Wilkes
county.
—Caterpillars are destroying the cotton in
Baldwin county. They will probably cut off
the top crop entirely.
—The Covington Star learns that there is
a good deal of typhoid fever and diphtheria
in portions of Jasper county.
—Twelve negroes were drowned while
attempting to cross the river near Savannah
in a ferry boat Friday morning.
—The Bainbridge merchants are doing a
good business, and collections are above the
average thus early in the season.
—Dalton has a new highway running over
the mountains into Walker county, which is
expected largely to increase her trade.
—A Georgia Legislature declares that there
are tive thousand minors in the State of
Georgia employed in the sale of liquor.
l'he people of Hamilton are jubilant
over the passage of the bill granting them a
branch of the State Agricultural College.
—Mr. George I Seney has offered to send
his check for $5,000 to build a chapel at the
Lucy Cobb Institute if the citizens of Athens
will subscribe $4 000.
—The bakeries and candy factories of
Atlanta have a capacity of 450 barrels of
flour per day. They ship bread and crackers
all over the country.
—The Quitman Free Press says it is be
lieved that Brooks county can spare several
thousand bushels of corn and have plenty
left for her own needs.
—The Augusta police force are to have
new winter uniforms. It is the regulation
New York police uniform—dark blue cloth
and black helmet hats.
—The Dawson Journal says: “We learn
from several of our farmer friends who have
gathered their corn, that it is turning out
much better than was at first anticipated.”
—Governor Colquitt has offered a reward
of two hundred and fifty dollars for the ins
cendiary who burnt the gin house of Mrs.
Catharine Trammell, in Pulaski county,
recently.
—The Watkinsville Advance thinks the
late revivals in that county have done much
good, about two hundred and twenty souls
having been converted and added to the
several churches.
—The riot among the negro laborers in
Savannah, which at one time were very
threatening, were suppressed by the firm
ness and excellent management of the city
and police authorities.
—Talbot county has several genuine cork
trees on the places of Mr. H. S. Smith, Belle
view, and Mr. J. D. Kendall, near Redbone.
The seed were sent to that county in 1856 by
Hon. Joshua Hill, M. C.
—The Hawkinsville Dispatch announces
the death, in Wilcox county, of Hon. George
R Reid, at the age of seventy five years. He
was a large stock raiser in that section, very
hospitable and popular.
—The Sparta Ishmaelite has been investi
gating the niatter, and is led to the conclu
sion that ih> pubiio bcIW tel will, u.mewd
of $60,000, realize only about S2O 000 from
the fees from the inspection of fertilizers.
—Mr. S?ney has completed the payment
of his gifts to Wesleyan College, Macon—
sso 000 bonus endowment, $40,000 cash for
building the college, $5 000 for its library
and scientific apparatus, $5,000 for new fur
niture and improvement of the grounds.
—How will this do for one man’s labor?
Seven bales of cotton, 200 bushels of corn,
100 bushels of p as, 150 bushels potatoes, 80
gallons cane syrup. 25 bushels ground peas,
76 bushels oats. This will be produced this
year by one of Talbot's steady going farmers.
—The Dahlonega Signal says a much lar
ger number of mines have been ‘old this
season than ever before during the same
period of time, and the buyers, principally
eastern parties, are doing development work
on the properties they have purchased.
—Rome division of the E T., Va. and Ga.
R R. is the name by which the railroad
from Rome to Atlanta will be known.
Work has begun, and the probability is that
before twelve months from to day the cars
on this new road will be making regular
trips from Rome to Atlanta.
—Oglethorpe Echo: “Mr. Seaborn Ay
cock. ot this county, can stand in his field
and, with a three foot stick, touch forty-five
ears of corn without moving from his tracks.
We learn that Mr. James M. Smith will
make 9,000 bushels of corn on a single field.
There is no danger of Starvation in old Ogle
thorpe as yet.’’
—Montezuma Weekly: “We have been
told that some citizens of Dooly offered hands
sixty-five cents per hundred to pick cotton
last week and could not get them, even at
that price. They refused to work at all.
Our laws ought to be made more rigid so far
as it pertains to laborers. A man who has
no visible means of support and won’t v ork,
ought to be made work.”
—Savannah News: “Several counties now
have laws enabling them to prohibit the sale
of intoxicating liquors at will. If those
counties save their usual liquor bill this fall
and winter, it will offset the damage by the
drought. Every State in the Union spends
enough money per annum for whisky te
pay its ordinary public debt.”
—The Ellijay Courier says: “The eastern
portion of the county is in almost a fever of
excitement over the discovery on the planta
tion of Spencer Burrell, of a deposit of gold
bearing quartz which it is said surpasses in
richness anything ever discovered in the
country It is said a large sum has been
offered for this mine. It is in the Cartecay
neighborhood.”
—The New York Sun says: “There is a
rich syndicate, with Ben Butler at the head,
controlling millions of capital. It has been
hinted that an effort will be made during
the Exposition to induce a transfer of the
machinery of the Sprague Mills, in Rhode
Island, to Atlanta, or some other equally
eligible point in Georgia. The inducement
will be cheap fuel, food, clothing and a loca
tion where the articles manufactured are
raised. The expenses to the company would
not be half as much in Atlanta as in Rhode
Island.
—Quitman Free Press: “Having inter
viewed some of tbe best and most reliable
farmers from different sections of the county,
we are now prt pared to say that tbe crops
are fairly good. The cottor crop is larger
than last year and grades much better.
Twenty five per cent, more will be realized
for the crop of 1881 than for tbe crop of 1880.
The corn crop is double that of last year, and
is amply sufficient, if properly managed, to
supply home demands and perhaps spare a
few nubbins to our neighbors. The late
rains have come in time to make peas, cane,
rice and potatoes. In view of tbe distressing
aeeounts which reach us from different sec
tions of our own State, and other States, our
people have much for which to be (hank-