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EE: f CONSOLIBATED MAUCH 17.1877.
. SOUTHERN STATES.
GEORGIA.
Vegetables abound in Valdosta.
Chicken pox is reported in Schley
county.
The improvement spirit is still on a
boom in Thomaston.
La Grange has put the liquor license at
ten thousand dollars.
Burke county has five hundred acres
planted in watermelon?.
There are over one hundred varieties of
timber in Murray county.
There are a large number of fine carp
ponds in and around Thomaston.
Young America No. 5, of Columbus,
claim to ba the champions of the firemen
of the State.
A young lady near Bainbridge has about
four acres in onions and expects to realize
91,500 on the crop.
Cave Spring has tbe building
boom. More houses are going up there
now than ever before at cne time.
It is said Colonel Moore has just sold bis
Ophir gild mines, near Canton, in this
State, to an English company for $5,000,-
000.
There are three steam saw mills within
seven miles of Thomaston, and they can
not furnish lumber as fast as the mechan
ics use it in Thomaston.
There has been shipped bv express frcm
Quitman this season 48,369 pounds cf
vegetables, of which 33,792 pounds have
been shipped the present month.
Mr. John Burke, of Henry county. has
a cow that he has refused §125 for. From
the milk he churns two pounds of butter
a day. She is of bis own raising.
Dick Dedwiley, of Quitman, while hunt
ing on the creek a few days since, found a
•'bee tree,” and upon cutting the same
found that it contained ten feet of solid
honey.
There is no section of Georgia better
adapted to raising vegetables for shipment
than Stewart county, but the trouble is
that they have no railroad facilities and
the farmers do not want the cotton crop of
the county to fall under fifteen thousand
bales.
Mr. Mcßee, of Lowndes county, who
who planted cotton for a number of years
and always came out in debt to his factor,
has gone into truck farming, and is accu
mulating a fortune rapidly. His income
this year from his crop of cucumbers, cab
bages, potatoes, etc., was §28,C00 clear of
all expenses.
Atlanta wants a gymnasium.
Rome is to have a fine racecourse.
Greenville wants a railroad connectio n.
Milledgeville clamors for a public mar
ket.
Monroe is clamoring for afresh beef mar
ket.
Coffee county has nearly §4,000 in her
treasury.
A military company has been organized
at Cuthbert
Randolph county has 734 acres planted
in watermelon".
A truck farmers' association has been
formed at Perry.
Fall oats in Walton county are nearly
ready for the reapers.
The question of enlarging the city limits
of Americus is being agitated.
Fleas, Hies and mosquitoes are worrying
the good people of Brunswick.
A stock company has been organized for
a banking house in Brunswick.
A petrified terrapin has been found on
the mountain side near Lafayette.
A sixty acre truck farm near Blackshear
is one of the things talked of for anomer
” A case of white leprosy has been de
veloped in Newton county, near Social
Circle.
Elbert county is excited over a doctor
•who professes to effect cures by the touch
of his hands.
Camilla has raised the money, and ie
now receiving the machinery for boring an
artesian well.
The brick work on the court house at
Monroe is finished, and the carpenters are
•raising the roof.
The crops in Coffee county generally are
in good condition and are looking well.
The peach crop also promises to be exoel
* lent and abundant.
A Hawkinsville lady is making money
rapidly selling Italian queen bees. She
sends them through the mails, and gets
§3 a piece for them.
There are growing in the town of
Blakely now, in flourishing condition, four
banana bushes. They are to be seen in
the orchard of Mr. John M. Wade.
At Plahrville, on Sunday, two negroes
while in bathing got into a dispute and
one of them swam to the shore and got a
knife from his pocket, cut the other fatally
and then made his escape.
Mr. W. W. Woodruff, of Griffin, has
made hia first shipment of strawberries
North. They were large and luscious
specimens. Peaches in Spaulding ere
showing their first blushes of red.
It is estimated that there will be six
thousand car loads of watermelons grown
in the State thia year, or 7,500,030 sepa
rate melons, which, averaging the erop
this year at 20 cents each, will bring about
91,500,000.
A number of gentlemen of Savannah
'have organized a club to be known as
the Chatham Gun Club. The object of
the club is to encourage practice shooting,
and its members will confine their shots to
aday pigeons and glass balls. Two similar
organizations have heretofore existed in
Savannah, but both are now disbanded.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia is to hare a four ton a day
cotton seed oil mill.
David Green, of Austin township, has
corn which is already tasseling.
Anderson proposes to have an eight ton
cotton seed oil mill running by fait
Arrangements are being made by a gen
tleman in Greenville to ship fruit in large
quantities to England.
It is certain that subscriptions will
shortly be opened for a two hundred thou
sand dollar steam cotton mill in Anderson.
The crops in the neighborhood of Kean’s
Neck, in Beanfort county, look well and
the prospects of a large yield is favorable.
The Columbia stocking mill is in
operation -in the penitentiary, and is now
turning out three thousand six hun
dred pairs cf finished stockings a day.
Greenville has taken steps to aid the
Board of Trade of Columbia to raise the
necessary funds to defray the expenses of a
South Carolina exhibit at the Boston fair.
Fairfield county has this wear 74,722
acres of laud in cotton, and 38,784 in
xx>rn. The coatty ranks one-fifth in cot
ton area and Obe-sixteenth in corn area.
The full amount of stock in the Ander
son Building and Loan Association, one
hundred thousand dollars, has dot been
subscribed and it will shortly be organ
ised.
One hundred and seventy-seven corre
spondents throughout the State report
that the opting has been very unfavorable
for farming operations, and twenty-fire
report the season favorable.
Anderson is to have a door, sash and I
blind mannfaetory.
Anderson has a silk manufactory. There
are 5,000 worms at work.
There is fair prospects of Sumter having
a bank, which is an institution greatly
needed in that thriving town. The busi
ness men and citizens generally are uniting
in the movement.
Small grain throughout Edgefield coun
ty is pronounced poor.
Mrs. J. H. Hollingsworth an estimable
lady of Edgefield county died Wednesday
morning.
VIRGINIA.
There are seventy seven mills of various '
kinds in London county.
The peach crop throughout the State i
bids fair to be moat abundant.
Norfolk will not permit kegs of powder ■
to be kept within the city limits.
The wheat and throughout this
great Valley, says the Staunton Spectator,
are looking well.
Mr. Connell, of Lynchburg, in hia 94 h
year, and Mr. Rucker, of Amherst, in bis
K'O'h year, met the other day .and had a
talk about the "olden time.”
Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties, j
comnrise nearly 800,000 acres of the very
best land io Virginia, and yet there is not
a line of railroad within ten miles of either
county.
Two hundred Hungarians have arrived
at Pocahontas, the terminus of the New
River Railroad, in Tazewell county. A
little more than a year ago the site of Po
cahontas was chopped out of the laurel,
and now over two thousand souls inhabit
the town.
FLORIDA.
The Banford water works are proving a
soccers.
Judge Means, at Micanopy, has begun
shipping his crop of Peen-To peaches.
A new hotel and a collegiate institute
are the next new things to be established
at Bartow.
A gold vein has been struck at Gains
ville by men digging an artesian well. It
is believed that it will assay 1500. to $!,-
000 per ton of ore.
Florida fruit growers intend cultivating
the grape on an extensive scale. They
claim that they can be as successfully
grown as in California.
The use of tobacco stems as a fertilizer
for the orange tree is attracting consider
able attention in different parts of the
State. Mr. William Shoeveling, of Orange
City, first intro 1 need it.
General E. T. Sturdivant, of Orlando,
recently took nineteen dollars worth of
honey out cf one bee hive, and yet left
honey enough to keep the colony in good
spirits and working condition.
Sir Philip H. Clarke, of London, has re
ported to the British syndicate, which
sent him to Florida in favor of purchasing
eightv thousand acres of the land in St.
John’s county. The land is a portion of
the Disston tract, and is covered with valu
able timber.
Mr. N. W. Eppes, of Bradfordville, by
way of experiment, planted a peck of
snap beans on one-quarter of an acre,
from which he has shipped forty bu«hel
crates The yield is at the rate of 100 for
J. and his net proceeds at the rate of about
§llO per acre.
WORTH CAROLINA.
The acreage in cotton about Scotland
Neck is much diminished from last year.
limber covers about two-thirdsGf North
Carolina; Mississippi has some twenty
million acres of it; Louisiana, fifteen mil
lion; Texas a great amount
In 1860 there were 546,749 sheep in
North Carolina. In 1870 the number was
463,435; in 1880. by the aid of the Leg
islature and the dogs, the number had
fallen to 461 638.
On Monday Messrs. J. S. Westbrook &
Co. had nearlv 2CO hands in their field,
in the Mount Olive section, picking straw
berries, and they shipped 3,106 quarts
that day to New York and Philadelphia.
Five car loads of black walnut timber
have passed through Greensboro, con
signed to a manufacturing establishment
in Philadelphia. Many of the logs mea
sured three feet through. The timber was
shipped from a point beyond Asheville.
The Asheville Citizen says: "Mr. W. A.
Torrence informs us that he has found
some fine gold ore within three miles of
Asheville, which promises to yield most
profitably. He will proceed at once to de
velop it. He also has found some superior
silver leads and asbestos in Buncombe.
ALABAMA.
The fruit crop in Hale county promises
to be abundant.
An addition is being made to the Mat
thews cotton mill at Selma, to increase the
operating facilities 16 per cent.
Corn is reported as looking well in Ma
eon county, but the stand of cotton gener
a'ly is not good. Oats are quite promising.
Captain L. P. Phillips has purchased
the tract of land on which the Macon coun
ty poor house is situated, and proposes
stirring a poultry farm on it.
Mr. V. E Purvis, of Butler county, has
on bis farm about a mile from town ten
acres in cotton, whose stalks will average
about eight inches in height and bear from
eight to nine leaves.
A party of Michigan land owners have
purchased 56,009 acres, and lowa parties
16,000 acres of lend lying in Escambia,
Conecuh. Butler and Crenshaw counties.
The lumber sawed will be shipped North.
The farmers of Russell county are in
dustriously chopping out their cotton now.
Some few who planted early are well ad
vanced in the work, but generally the
chopping will be fairly begun this week.
The stands are generally good. A large
portion of the cotton being chopped is
ra her small and young, but the planters
are crowding it as the season is crowding
them.
MISSISSIPPI.
Work will be commenced soon on the
Meridian street railway.
Crops in Pike county are doing well.
The corn crop is welfadvaneed, and there
are good stands of cotton. The oat erop
is as good as was ever known.
A large timber company will begin im
mediately the construction of a saw unit
in Bolivar county. The mill will have a
capacity of twenty-five thousand feet per
day, and will cost ten thousand dollars.
The lands of the company contain thirty
feet of oak a?d cypress t'mber.
The total receipts for publie lands at the
State receiver’s office amounted to $159,-
000, the largest amount ever received for
the same length ot time. Messrs. Robin
son A Lacy, of New Orleans, representing
a syndicate of Michigan capitalists, have
deposited '•50,000 in Green’s bank, for
the purchase of delinquent lands.
TEXAS.
The outlook for corn and cotton in Texas
was never better.
It is claimed that thirty million dollars
was invested last year by English and
Sooth capitalists in the live stock business
in Wyoming and Texas.
Sherman has a prospect of being made
the terminus of the St. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad. This would give that
town three railroads to Bt. Louis.
A vein of eoal has been discovered in
the northwest corner of Kidney county,
15 miles from the line of the railway. The
coal is near the surface, having been found
while digging a tank. Experts are exam
irg the beds.
English capitalists have bought the Pan
handle of Texas, which has an area of fif
teen hundred square miles. The contract
has been put out for wire fence two hun
dred miles long to head off the cattle from
rang4cg north.
Tha .building for the First National
Bank, to cost ten thousand dollars; the
Stock Company’s hardware store, to cost
six thousand dollars; a six thousand dol
lar school buildi.ng, a large hots! and the
machine shops of t.he Galveston, Houston
and Henderson Raijroad, are it course
of erection at Taylor.
GATH QUOTESLOCHRANE.
WHAT THE EX-JUDGE THINKS OF
THE IRISH.
He Haw no Sympathy Whatever For
Their Movement—Their Opposition to
the Paying of Rents is on a Par With
That of Defaulters of the United States
—Unnecessary Outcry.
(Gath in the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
I have had an interesting interview with
a native Irishman on the Irish question—
i Judge Lochrane, of Georgia —which will
; bear reading. He has probably reached
the highest position cf any native Irish
man in the United Spates - chief justice of
the Empire State of the South. He came
from Ireland at the age of eighteen, and
was a clerk in a drug stere at Athens, Ga.,
till his public speaking at the University
there attrae'ed the attention of the bar to
him. He became a lawyer and filled many
effices in the State, and now is a man of
large acquaintance and general prosperity.
I engaged him in conversation with the
following results.
"Judge Loch ran e, jou are a native of
Ireland ? Have you considered the land
question ?”
"I was born in Ireland, and I have
always been a lover of my people. With
all their faults and follies, their is some
thing in the blood and race of Irishmen
that distinguishes them from ether na
tions. They have a great history behind
them, and they make history wherever
they go. As they are now going, it will
be like the Confederate history the first
pages will read pleasanter than the last.”
"What do you think is the cause of their
want of prosperity athome.”
. "The Irish people have bsen filled up
with prejudices to England. The religions
of the two countries are different. If Eng
land were Catholic Ireland would bequ’et.
But the laws of one nation are always dis
tatefnl to another; and while the present
laws of England are milder and better than
those Ireland passed for Ireland, the idea
that they are passed by the British parlia
ment arouses prejudices, inflames pas
sions, and invokes resistance, abuse and
hostility. I have seen even Irish famines
a tributed to the English government, and
the providence of God seriously discussed
as evidences of British misrule.”
"Who do you think has done most for
Ireland out of the great names Ireland has
produced ? ’
"In my opinion the man who did most
for Ireland, and who will live longest in
history, was Daniel O’Connell. He achiev
ed Catholic emancipation. He governed
the public opinion and hearts of Irishmen
and respected law and prosperity; but, in
an evil hour hot-headed counsellors, im
patient of constitutional restraints and
harriers, broke up the harmony of Concili
ation Hall. The young Ireland party was
born. O'Connell’s heart was broken.
Young Ireland was scattered to Australian
forests, and peace reigned until a new
crop of agitators became conspicuous by
sufferings; and Fenianism, with its head
centres in New York, and its spouting-*
and parliaments, finally broke in pieces in
Canada, amid the laughter of the world ”
"Yen were not, then, a sympathizer with
these movements?”
"I have opposed them all, not because
I would not go as fast or as far to serve
Ireland as any of them, but I have an ut
ter detestation for the constant agitations
which have disgraced Ireland, and which,
in the hands of the present leaders, are
fast losing to Ireland’s cause the sympa
thy and respect of the world.”
" What do you thiuk of the last Phila
delphia meeting?”
"The idea of an Irish Parliament in
College Green is all right, and the idea of
Irishmen going to their old shores and
carrying their lives in their hands if they
want to is all right; but an Irish Parlia
>ment in Philadelphia would be a farce, if
it were not an insult to American nation
ality ”
"You read the proceedings, I suppose?”
"I read them and admire the power of
silence they portrayed. It bad the flavor
of the recluse. But I would have admired
more the courage of leadersip that dared
offend Irish prejudices by openly de
nouncing inhuman atrocities and mean
end cowardly assassinations, and not by
purposed silence have become the apolo
gist for crimes that have disgraced the
age, and rendered the very name of Irish
man a reproaeh. The result in the end will
be to create a stronger sentiment of Ameri
can nationality, that will not tolerate the
outrage of foreigners coming here to hutch
treasons end torment wars against nations
with which we are at peace. Such gentry
may indulge in high flown speeches and
say they represent the who’e Irish race on
thia continent; they may dig, like Old
Mortality, among the tombs to parade old
wrong®, musty and worn out, with allu
sions to Mullaghmaet and the treacheries
of Essex as apologies for present outrages
on God and man, and forty priests hold
their hands over it, as they say there were
a) Philadelphia; but I tell you that the
heart of the country has been beating fa-t
with hotter blood of nationality at
the on tri. ge, and the American mind has
been thinking how to handle it The idea
ofinvokirg American sympathy by refer
ring to Irish papers landed here deceiv d
nobody. The Irish parliament of Phila
delphia means that such men are needed
for desperate work in Ireland or the par
liament is out a parade of emptiness and
1 void. The gentry who were leaders at
Philedelphia know well the powers of the
deceit and sedition of the ash corner ; and
this is not the time to improve conditions
by rnrgration. They want the poor Irish
to do at home what th" contented Irish
abroad are too careful of their precious
persons to accomplish so far from their
adopted homes.”
"Do you thick that there are Irish in
this country opposed to the (Philadelphia
parliamentary proceedings?”
"Why, of course, Thousands of Irish
men in this country are utterly opposed to
making America the hot bed of conspira
cies by any nationality of people, and will
resist the principle of fostering secret so
cieties and gathering money to buy arms
to send into other countries and raise up
wars and stir up bloodshed to upset
governments. Wbe her it comes from
the Irish or the Dutch or the Nihilist
from whateveruouroe it comes—the Ameri
can people will not sit idly by and
have this country plunged into war, and
our commerce and prosperity hurled back
a quarter of a century by foreign parlia
ments and their abettors and backers and
apologists for high crimes. I remember
when, after the late war, Mr. O’Mahoney,
on the platform of Cooper Institute, in
vited my aid to Fenianism, and I told
him: Tam just out of nne war, and if I
have nothing better than the blood and
desolation of a rebellion to give my friends
in Ireland, I will not cover the country with
crape and poverty by giving them that.’
But the idea of using this country by
foreign revolutionists to hatch our plots in
will not be tolerated. American honor is
higher th&r. party, and the party that
thinks foreign votes are worth more to this
country than the peace and prosperity of
our people will soon shrivel and roll up in
the heat of public indignation.”
"You hint at a know-nothing party ?”
‘No; that party was based on religious
fanaticism, and that in our country would
kill any party. There was a great mistake
in forty Catholic priests gathering with the
clans at Philadelphia. Religion is only re
spected when it keeps away from ppblic
meetings, and inspires respect by its
peaceful practices. Let it thrust itself in
to the arena, and it is always rebuked. i
The other day I was in Chicago, and felt I
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1883.
that the churches opening warfare on
Harrison aroused a sleeping element ot
opposition that woke up bright and early
at the polls to rebuke it.”
"Well, what party do you think will
come out bold enough to denounce this
abuse of onr flag and country by foreign
plotters
"I say only this, that if the Democratic
party comes out for it, down tumbles the
fabric in front of an aroused sense of Am
erican nationality; and if the Republicans
pander to it, it will fall like Casar at
Ponr pey’s pillar, hacked to pieces.”
"You do not, then, believe the present
movement in Ireland will succeed?”
"It will succeed infilling jails and build
ing scaffolds, and turning back Irish pros
perity for a quarter of a century. Poor
Ireland ! How often has she been the vic
tim of unwise counsels! No country
could sustain itself on the theory of de
stroying landed proprietorship. To pay
no rent is a principle cf plunder, like out
laws on a train refasing to pay fare. If we
waut honesty here we must not foster
dishonesty abroad. An Irish land owner
in Belfast or Dublin has just as much right
to his rent as the landlord, in New York
or San Francisco, and the itarary doctrine
will some day convulse thiThountry. We
may play with the Hon before his teeth are
grown, but when we sow dragoons’ teeth
we may look for a crop of armed men. I
oppose the principle, because in the end it
will destroy all the integrities of contract
relations, and the result in Ireland will be
disastrous. The lives of nations are kept
up by eternal principles of justice. ' When
the rule is reversed the country will totter
to its ruin. The agitations in Ireland that
have swept over and over her during the
last thirty years, have only been like so
many waves of fire, that left blackened
roof trees in their track.”
"But is not the eviction of tenants harsh
and oppressive ?”
"All processes of law to enforce rights
are harsh. The sheriff does not come
with a gloved hand to levy on property to
pay debts, and the voice of the auctioneer
who sells the homestead under mortgage is
never musical. Put it is just as bad here
as in Ireland. I recollect seeing in the
Chicago Tribune one morning that its chief,
Mr. Medill, had been elected Vice-Presi
dent of the Land League, and the next
morning the columns of the same pa
per showed where a poor woman
and her children were evicted into
the streets. The poor Irish widow in
New York or Chicago feels the hand of the
law just as harsh as does the widow of
Bil a. I hope, alter this unfortunate
sequel to Fenianism has been ended, that
we will have a reign of prosperity and
peace in Ireland, and the arts of industry
may add to the glory of the country. Ire
land has been kept poor by political agita
tions that have scared off capital and leaves
to day the Shannon to roll to the sea with
out moving a mill-wheel or wafting a sail.
God send Ireland peace, not war; prosper
ity, not desolation I”
REPLY OF MR. JOHN F. ARMSTRONG.
Augu-tj, Ga., May 21, 1883.
Editors Constitution:
My reason, judgment and the sober sec
ond thought, born of reflection, unite to
convince me that I was wrong in publish
ing ay note of the 18th inst., and I with
draw it unequivocally and unhesitatingly.
Personal indignation or abase is not argu
ment. Although unskilled in public writ
ing, my interest in the cause of Ireland,
and my conviction of its righteousness, in
duce me to undertake to reply to Judge
Loch ran e’s interview on its merits. I pro
pose to answer the pointe in their order in
tbo paper.;
Catholic, Ireland would be
statement is not true. The Irish people
have seen the very Catholic Duke of Nor
folk voting against the "Compensation for
Disturbance Bill,” in spite of Gladstone’s
declaration that in Ireland a writ of evic
tion was equivalent to a sentence of death;
and they know that the Catholic Tablet
(London) is as bitter against Ireland as
the Tinies. The Irish people are not near
ly as stupid as the Judge would have us
believe. To-day they are led by a Protest
ant, and the religious question has been
relegated to the rear, and will be kept
there
His next statement that he has seen
"Irish famines attributed to the English
government” is true, and that they are
correctly attributed to it is easy of proof.
The<e has been no year since the Union
that Ireland has not produced far more
than enough to support her population.
Where this is the case, Under good govern
ment there should never be a famine; but
in Ireland the landlords took everything
over a bare subsistence from the producers
in the very best of seasons, and hence bad
seasons always brought starvation. The
landlords and their friends call this the
"providence of God;” I call it misgovern
ment pure and simple. The Judge’s com
ments on O’Connell I will not criticise,
but he dismisses "Young Ireland” all too
readily. Has he read, have you, Messsrs.
Editors, read Sir Charles Gavan Duf
fy’s magnificent book on Young Ire
land? If he had read it he would have
known that the "Young Irelandera”- Da
vis, Mitchell, Duffy, Meagher, Martin,
Magee, O’Gorman, and the rest of the bril
liant galaxy tfcft belonged to that party—
were the sowers of the seed that has fructi
fied and made Irish Nationality a thing to
be proud of to-day on account of its self
reliant attitude and determination. All
honor to Young Ireland.
Against his opinion of the Philadelphia
Convention, I put the favorable criticisms
of the American press, the unanimous ap
proval of the Irish-American Press, and
the unqualified commendation of Cardinal
McCloskey.
Fenianism, notwithstanding the Judge’s
bitter criticisms on it, embraced in its
ranks some of the best and bravest of Irish
blood, both in Ireland and America, and
Mr. Gladstone was not ashamed to ac
knowledge that it caused the passage of
♦ he Church Dis-establishment Act and the
Land Act of 1870.
I have already replied to his sweeping
accusations against the present agitation,
by stating briefly what it has done and
proposes to do. It has drawn the lines
sharply, separating real patriots from the
sham St. Patrick’s day oration kind; it has
already effected a reduction of nearly 25
per cent in rents, and it proposes to con
tinue until it secures for Ireland self-gov
ernment - the right of the people to make
and administer the laws under which they
live—the certain remedy for all her wrongs
and wees. In the struggle for this right
it hopes and expects to receive the sympa
thy and encouragement of every liberty
loving American.
The dark picture of "blackened roof
trees, &c,,” drawn by the Judge, has not
followed as the result of agitation, but of
the malignant power and hate of the Irish
landlords, always shown more vividly
whenever the people have attempted to rid
themselves of the shackles that bound
them to poverty and despair. His com
parison between the Irish and American
land-owner is far from happy. Even Mr,
Gladstone and the British Parliment have
deemed it theinduty to interfere with the
Irish landlord to the extent of taking out
of his hands the power of fixing the rents
of his lands. I trust the day will never
come when such a drastic measure will be
considered necessary in this free and hap
py land. The Irish people will be found
to be the conservators of the rights of
property whenever, as in this country,
they receive fair treatment. And the
Judge’s attempt to assist the position of
the Irish landlords by appealing to the
fears of American property owners is dis
creditable to him, and I hope will meet
but scant encouragement.
John F. Armstbong.
THAT DREAD DISEASE.
SMALL POX EXISTING AT ROBINSON.
ILLINOIS.
And How It Was Distributed—Bungling
Doctors Tile Cause—The Disease in
the Lancaster, (Penn.) Prison—Quar
aniine Precautions Yellow Fever’s
Ravages.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.' l
Cincinnati, May 23.—A letter has been
received from the town marshal cf Robin
son, Ills., addressed to John F. Wiltz\ an
undertaker, saying that the body of one
Miss Young arrived by express at that
place, May fourth, after being embalmed
by Wiltze with a burial permit signed by
Dr. Bramble,health officer,and a certificate
signed by three physicians that the dis
ease was puerpura hemorrhagica and
that the body was exposed to view
and had spread the country with small
pox. He says Miss Young died while
attending Miss Baner’s music school.
It is true that the girl died as Jones says
and that the physicians said the disease
was not small pox, but two persons have
since been taken with small pox at Miss
Baner’s school, and the place has been
thoroughly quaiaLtined.
Small Pox in the Lancaster Prison.
Lancasteb, Pa, May 23.-A smallpox
of a virulent type has broken out in the
Lancaster county prison and the institu
tion has been placed in quarantine by the
local board of health. With the exception
of the keepers and physicans, no one is
allowed to leave the building, and a simi
lar prohibition has been placed on all
manufactured goods. At present six
prisoners are ill with the diseases.
Deaths From Yellow Fever.
Washington, May 23—The National
Board of Health has been informed that
11 deaths from yellow fever occurred
among the soldiers at Santiago de Cuba
during April.
Small Pox in Jacksonville, Fla.
New Orleans, May 23.—A Jacksonville,
Florida, special reports great excitement
there about small pox. There were eleven
cases to-day.
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A MOVING QUESTION.
The Transportation of Fruits and Veg
etables—How the Georgia Railroad
Will Do the Work This Summer.
The question of swift and suitable trans
portation for truck and fruit this year is
second only in importance to the best
method of raising these popular commodi
ties far market. It is mainly due to the
promptness and efficiency of the carrying
service that the epicures of New York and
Chicago are enabled to have their gardens
and orchards in Florida and Georgia, and
gather grapes in market before the purple
has been brushed off or before the fresh
ness has worn from the succulent tomato.
Os late the railroad managements have
done much to perfect their summer freight
schedules for fruit vendors and truck
farmers, and the Chronicle is glad to state
**H»e in Some time ago
Colonel E. R. Dorsey, th« prompt and in
defatigable freight agent, issued this cir-
Offioe General Freight Agent, I
Augusta, Ga. (
Special Order, No. 216.
Agents: In the interest of fruit and
vegetable growers along the line of road,
we have arranged to run a line of the cele
brated Tiffany refriger tor cars, operated
by the Austell Refrigerator Car Company,
of Atlanta, over this road, connecting at
Atlanta with fast schedules for all princi
pal points in the Northwest. You will
give as much publicity as possible to this
arrangement, to the end that those per
sons residing along the line of road, or
contiguous thereto, may be assured that
all fruit and vegetables which they may
desire for market, will have speedy and
sure transportation to the various Western
and Northwestern cities. An attendant
will accompany the cars to destination,
whose duty it will be to give personal at
tention to the care and condition of the
truck confided to his charge.
E. R. Dorset, General Freight Agent,
In answer to a circular letter of Maj
Campbell Wallace, Chairman of the Rail
road Commission, Maj. John W. Greene
has thus replied relative to the same mat
ter:
Georgia Railroad Company, General
Manager’s Office, Augusta, Ga , May 17tb,
1883. Major Campbell Wallace, Chairman
Bailroad Commission, Atlanta, Ga. Dear
Sir—ln reply to yours of tha I6:h instant:
First and second No refrigerator nor
ventilated freight cars (unless stock cars
can be considered ventilated cars) are own
ed by this company.
Third and fourth—No cars of such char
acter belonging to the Express Company
are used on this road.
Arrangements have been made with the
Austell Refrigerator Oar Company, of At
lanta, for the immediate use of ten Tiffany
refrigerator cars for the transportation of
all kinds of fruit and vegetables requiring
he use of ice for their preservation. If
necessary additional refrigerator cars will
be furnished.
Fifth —Melons destined to distant points
will probably be transported in refrigera
tor cars. Experience shows that the ordi
nary stock car answers admirably for the
transportation of melons.
Sixth—l am not prepared to say for what
length of time fruits and vegetables cm be
held in safety in ventilated cars.
We expect to obtain from the Austell
Refrigerator Car Company the necessary
number of cars to transport vegetables and
fruits without delay.
Your attention is invited to the enclosed
circular. Very respectfully,
J. W. Green,
General Manager.
It will be seen that the Georgia Railroad
will be fully equipped for the transfer of
melons and vegetables from this section to
the West, and that every precaution for
the perfection of this service will be main
tained. It is to be hoped that in the mat
ter of reasonable freight rates as in the
promptness of forwarding the railroads in
Georgia may operate fully to the interest
and satisfaction of the truck and fruit men.
If Southern farmers have to depend some
what upon Western graineries and smoke
houses for their winter produce and pro
visions, the complement of commerce may
be restored and the balance of, trade pre
served by reciprocal shipments from our
orchards and gardens in the summer.
HEAVY FROSTS.
Missouri and Illinois Visited—Vegeta
bles and Fruit Injured.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
St. Louis, May 23.—A heavy frost oc
curred Monday and Tuesday nights
throughout southern and part of central
Missouri, and particularly in that section
of Illinois swept by the tornadoes last Fri
day night. All early vegetables are almost
entirely destroyed, and iruit and grain are
badly damaged. Ice from Xtjto %of an
Inch thick formed in some localities.
NEW CITY DIRECTORY.
F ifth Volume of Sholes' Augusta Publi
cation—An Excellent and Complete
Work—Augusta as it Is.
We give our friend Sholes the palm for
the accuracy, completeness and general ex
cellence of his City Directories. He is
thorough, pains-taking and lucid, and in •
his arrangement of his work sets forth a !
regular encyclopedia of Augusta and its
busy souls. The present publication,
which is the fifth volume of Mr. A. E.
Sholes’ work, is the most elaborate and
satisfactory yet issued. It contains over
five hundred clearly printed, open face,
pages, which embody the full directory
and tell the story of Augusta’s progress.
Mr. Sholes, who is now a citizen and mer
chant of Augusta, takes great pride in
these publications and works up the town
con amore. At the fame time, his esti
mates and census may be relied upon as
reasonably correct. According to the new
work
The Census of Augusta
Is 35.492 inhabitants 1 The book opens
with the following introduction and
analysis:
The fifth volume of Sholes’ city direc
tory, herewith presented, exhibits an ad*-
vance in population and in business in
terests that cannot fail to gratify every
citizen of Aueustn. In 1880 the directory
contained 9.877 names; in 1882,11,164,
while the present work contains 12,760,
a gain of 1,586 names in a little over one
year, as compared with an increase of 1,-
287 names in the two years previous. The
names are divided as follows: 8.606 white,
and 4,144 colored, while the census
shows a white population of 19,673; color
ed, 15,819. The census reports of the
last work, issued 15 months since, gave a
population of 32,595, or 2,797 less than
at present. The same rate of increase con
tinued through the decade would give
Augusta in 1890 over 57,000 people with
in her limits.
Extreme care has been taken with the
present work to make it all that a Directo
ry should be. None but old and experi
enced men have been employed, and every
alley and lane, every street and every
house in the city, has been explored for
information; and yet, with all this, there
is no doubt but that imperfections will be
found, and ignoramuses who know noth
ing of the difficulties cf Directory work,
will curse the publisher for omissions or
mistakes which they perhaps themselves
occasioned.
The changes that take place in a city,
even of the size of Augusta, in a year, are
beyond the comprehension of the com
munity at large. In the compilation of
this work 3,294 names are omitted which
were in the 1882 book, while 4.883 new
names replace them. Besides this, 3.675
of the names which are in both volumes
are changed in this as to the business or
location, thus making a change of 62 per
cent, in the total entries.
Thanking heartily those who have en
couraged the work with their patronage,
and crediting the Chronicle job offi?e for
the excellent topography and binding, the
publisher signs himself very respectfully,
A. E. Sholes.
The book is an elegant specimen of the
printer’s, pressman’s and binder’s art. It
is clearly and capitally printed, in all of its
reading matter and display type, showing
taste a'od neatness. It is boftnd with rare
finisUand durability, <ad is an ornament
to thfl library, as H indispensable to
the office table. Messrs. Thad 0. Jowitt
And M. J. Too hey have expended much
time, taste and excellent skill upon this
work in their respective departments of
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist print
ing establishment. The work ie an honor
to Augusta in every way.
WILL THIS BE REPEATED 1 )
The Astonishing Summer That This
One Looks Like—Snow and Ice in July
and August—Augusta's Spring Freeze.
During a cold spring, like that which
is ju t now drawing to an end, people gen
erally console themselves with the refl:C
tion that the sun will eventually get the
victory, and that eummer will certainly
come at Inst, though its coming mav be de
layed. Uncertain as thewsathe: is the g n
eral features of the season recur with a reg
ulirity which warra.ts the confidence thus
reposed in the annual return of seed time
and harvest: but there are instances cn
record in which even the seasons seem to
have lost their characteristic features, as
if the ordinary laws of meteorology had
been temporarily suspended. A remark
able case of this kind, and one which the
long continued cold weather of this spring
makes particularly interesting just now,
is that of the year 1816, which has been
called "the year without a summer.” A
communication printed in the Congrega
tionalist gives the following summary of
the weather of this remarkable year I
January and February were mild ;
March was cold ; April began warm, but
ended in snow and ice. Ice formed an
inch thick in May, and fields were planted
over and over again til! it was too late to
replant. June was the coldest ever known
in this latitude ; frost and ice were com
mon. Almost every green thing was kill
ed ; fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow
fell to the depth of ten inches in Ver
mont, seven in Maine, three in the in
terior of New York, and also in Massa
chusetts. There were a few warm days.
It was called a dry season. The wind
blew steadily from the north, cold and
fierce. Mothe's knit extra socks and mit
tens for their children in the spring, and
wood piles that usually disappeared dur
ing the warm spell in front of the houses
were speedily built up again. Planting
and shivering were done together, and the
farmers who worked out their taxes on the
county roads wore overcoats and mittens.
In a town in Vermont a flock of sheep be
longing to a farmer had been sent as usual
to tneir pasture. On the 17th cf June a
heavy snow fell in New England. The
cold was intense.
A farmer who had a large field of corn
in Tewksbury built fires around it at night
to ward off the frest; many an evening he
and his neighbors took turns watching
them. He was rewarded with the only
crop of corn in the neighborhood. Con
siderable damage was done in New Or
leans in consequence of the rapid rise of
the Mississippi river. Fears were enter
tained that the sun was cooling off and
throughout New England all pic-nics were
strictly prohibited.
July was accompanied with fro®t and ice.
Indian corn was nearly all destroyed:
some favorably situated fields escaped.
August was more cheerless, if possible,
than the summer months which preceded
it. Ice was formed half an inch in thick
ness. Indian corn was so frozen that the
greater part was cut down and dried for
fodder. Almost every green thing was des
troyed in this county and in Europe. On
the 30th snow fell at Barnett, forty miles
from London. Very little corn ripened
in New England and the Middle States.
Farmers supplied themselves from corn
produced in 1815 for seed in the spring
of 1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 per
bushel. _
Dead.
New York. May 23.—Matthew Arbuckle,
the well known cornet player and orches
tral leader, died at his residence in West
22d street, at 5 o’clock this evening of
pneumonia, aged 54 years. He was born
in Scotland.
TERMS-$2.00 A TEAR
BRESS COMMENTS.
Sullivan’s Speech.
<N. Y. Morning Journal.)
Mr. Cullivan’s speeches after the late
slugging match have been grossly misrep*
resented. After he had been sponged off
he made but one remark, and that was
‘•Next!”
A. H. Stephens.
(Dr. Faust in Catholic World.)
To say that he had some weaknesses is
only to admit that he was human; but in
view of his real greatness these little foi
bles are as motes in the sunshine. With
clsan hands and a pure heart.he passed
through a life which to a less noble nature
would have been full of snares and pit
falls, without once faltering in what he
considered the path of duty.
All Modern Improvements.
(Springfield Republican.}
There is really more to ex-Senator Tabor
than even Colorado dreamed of. Being
called upon suddenly for a casket upon
the death of his father-in-law, he had one
made of wrought iron, with a solid plate
glass from head to foot, excepting a bar
across the centre, the inside being polish
ed cedar lined with the richest silk. It
cost SSOO. The burial robe is not as ex
pensive as the Senator’s rob de nuit. but
the get-up is as striking. It is of satin,
embroidered with needle work, with silk
cords and tassels tied about the waist, and
plaited silk bows extending from the
breast to the feet. Tabor did not wait to
attend the funeral, but Oshkosh has no
cause to complain after being blest with
his taste and money.
Trade.
(N. Y. Times-}
Trade is advancing throughout the Union
with rapid strides, not only in extent, but
in variety. The simple statement in our
Atlanta dispatch yesterday that a new road
to North Georgia’opens up 8,000 square
miles of agricultural territory, and with
another on the western side of the State
will "add 25 per cent, to the cotton
yield,” throws a great deal of light upon
the forces which control the prosperity of
the country. Considering the condition
of the currency, the general soundness of
commercial credit, and the promise of the
crops, it is not reasonable to apprehend
anythin is, like a serious depression or even
a material check to steady prosperity the
present year.
Don Cameron’s HealUi.
(Cor. Baltimore Sun.)
Don Cameron, who sailed for Europe
Saturday, leQ Washington two or three
weeks ago, after giving farewell to all his
friends. In a day or two he astonished
them all by returning, and did not leave
again until the last moment necessary to
catch the Saturday steamship. He was in
very depressed spirits on account of his
rapidly failing health, and showed very
decidedly that he took no further interest
whatever in politics. He said that he did
not expect to return to America before late
in the fall, and if his health was benefited,
he might remain abroad for two years. His
friends say that Don is so anxious con
cerning bis physical condition and so dis
gusted with politics that he would resign
his seat in the Senate except for the fact
that a Democrat would be sent to succeed
him.
Lydia Pinkham,
(Hartford Cour ant.)
Mrs. Pinkham was an exclusive person.
Her motto, familiar to every reader of the
i newspapers, was "woman can sympathize
wit 3 woman.” For man she seems to have
had little regard. Nobody knows any
thing about even Mr. Pinkham, and
eral desire on the present sad occasion to
telegraph him that "man can sympathize
with man” is checked by the utter lack of
information that she has given us concern
ing him. He is not even mentioned in her
last account. The husband of a great
woman lives in the shade. Mr. Winslow
did years ago. Mrs. Winslow’s name was
in every newspaper and her soothing syrup
in every nursery, but the worst drugged
baby among all her patients was not more
thoroughly quieted than the grown up
Mr. Winslow himself, whom she probably
never permitted to taste the syrup. His
quietus was his wife’s fame. The shadow
upon Mr. Pinkham’s life up to the present
time has been of the same nature, if he has
a life. >
Southern Railways.
(Nashville American.)
The South’s railway map is yet to be
constructed. The States north of the
Ohio present such a gridiron of railways
that there is scarcely room for any more,
and consequently railway capital is seek
ing the almost virgin field of the South.
Wherever cotton is grown and manufac
tured near the gin—wherever coal is dug,
and coke is made, and ores melted into
iron pigs, from hills within a stone’s throw
of each other, there railways are sure to
find their way. The rapid industrial de
velopment of the South—its proved eco
nomic advantages for the manufacture of
cotton and iron, leave no room for doubt
about the future of its railway system.
That the South is not receiving immigra
tion, and largely, is belied by every pas
senger list of every train that crosses the
Ohio river in the direction of the Gulf.
That the civilized world is afraid of get
ting into the South has not a scintilla of
proof to sustain a lie of such colossal pro
portions. The towns that are growing up
in the vicinity of the iron and coal regions
—the census reports and statistics of pop
ulation, all refute the gross and reckless
slander.
One Brefetu’on in Which There i«
Room.
(Atlanta Journal.) i
It is the fashion to lament the disposition
which carries our young men into the
learned professions. The newspaper? and
other public teachers inform us year after
year that the professions are crowded. It
seems, however, that the highest in rank
of all the professions, instead of being
crowded, is in actual need of recruits.
According to the New York iun, there ex
ists a “famine of preachers’* in the Presby
terian Church. The Rev. Dr. Johnson
loudly bewailed it before the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church in ses
sion at Saratoga. “I’he Church,” he ex
claimed, “is rapidly approaching calamity.
It is threatened with a famine of preach
ers.” And he proceeded to give facts that
might well s*t the preachers’ hair on end.
Well, it is a remarkable thing about which
the Bev. Dr. Johnson makes his outcry.
The clerical profession is the only one
that is in the condition he describes. Law
yers are so thick in the country that half
of them cannot make a decent living. Dee’
tors - why, they swarm like ants. Editors
why, whole armies of men, and not a
few women, are trying to become editors.
Then look at the swarms of people striving
to get into all the other pursuits where
brains are at a premium. How are we to
account for this famine of preachers ? We
are sure that preaching is not the hardest
work in the whole world. We know that
preachers are not the poorest paid men in
the world. Tell us, ye watchmen on the
walls of Zion, tell us what is the cause of
the famine 1
The Sale Confirmed.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Richmond, May 23. —Judge Milford, of
the Circuit Court, to-day entered an order
confirming the sale of the Washington and
Ohio Railroad, made some time ago. The
counsel of the parties opposed to the con
firmation of the sale will probably appeal
to the Supreme Court of the State,