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W. A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
vol; ii.
A BUENA VISTIAN IN NORTH
EAST GEORGIA.
Gainesville, Ga., Juno 27, 1877.
Dear Argus: —ln compliance with
my promise,to you, I will endeavor
to give your readers a brief state
ment of the impressions made upon
the mind of a Southwest Georgian by
a thing trip to the North Eastern
portion of our nob c old State.
Inc climate and water of G tines
ville and vicinity, are all that can be
desired. A well at the Richmond
Housoouly 17 feet deep is as clear
us crystal, and cold as ice water. 1
am rus i atiug for a lew days four
miles tr,rill of Gainesville, at the hos
pital residence oi Col. Thompson, a
highly intelligent planter, v.no ha*
not a negro on his farm, and assures
me that theie are not two hundred
in the county, white labor being pre
ferred and to be had in abundance, the
share *yst> m being generally adopt
ed. The crops, like ours, are back
ward, but looking remarkably line.
The grain harvest just now is m luii
l hut, and yielding large returns.
Coi. Thou p oa informs me that larin*
eis are making money, and tnat corn
will rot command csvr thirty cents
n x fall in this section. He is anx
ious for me io buy a farm, but a few
iui.es off whirA ho once own**! and
Winked, con aining upwards of lour,
hundred acres withomy one hundred j
and twenty cleared, eighty-live of!
which is superb r bottom 1 ind, tlint,
vill p,odi.ee 100 bushels corn per'
acre, with fair imptovemeuts, anil the
foes', well of waier Le ever saw: oi
easy access to two good schools and
churches, excel.cut community, and
heavily titubated, with the pr.vilege
of increasing the farm almost iudi.fi
nitely with the same quality ot land,
for the sum of $5,000. Clover, the
grasses, fruits of ail kinds, especially
apple-*, grow to ] ertectiuii. Thomp
son has iu his yard filty odd barrels
ot viuegar made of the potnace cd hi
c.d. r crop, and finds ready sale for
it at 75 cents per gal’on, at a cost
to him of 10 cents per barrel. He
has several large appleorchaids, and
a young vineyard, from which he an
ticipates an independent fortune
But I have, digressed hom the main
object of Hi s communication, which
was simply to give my impres ions c?
the capacity of the sens ol Ham for
intellectual culture as derived from
the exercises of the Atlanta Neg>o
University during four days of lit:
past week. I lr.wkly confessed o
you, sir, that I am staggered. You
know I w T ent there skeptical, pro
f'o ndly persu.ded that it was all a
humbug— a grand expensive iraud
and sw ndlo. My cokeages had been
there before and had heard of my
skepticism, and they took special
pam.-. to aid tnc in ful v vtinill.iiing
the sham, in-isiing upon my taking
the lead through courtesy (over the
left) Well, Ib. nil 1 and tin mas Gran
does his ho soh, ch.iinp eigne conamore
I see my friend E. M. 8., ex, anded
for a big laugh. But hold Colonel,
and hear in.) through. There Were
about. 180 ot them, of all shades ol
complexion, among them an (female)
albin >, witn the sexes about equally
divided, ihe building is a large two
story edifice, the best arranged lor
school purposes I have ever seen,
with large airy rooms and passage
ways, thoroughly ventilating it
tho’ that, L wiil mention en pas-sant
did not altogether shield our olfac
tories from an occasional escape of
su puuric liydrogeu gass, or some
thing resembling it. The liouso, in
BUENA YISTA, MARION COUNTY. CIA,, JULY 111877.
every part visiting, was scrupulously
neat and clean, as much so as a lady’s
parlor, and tlie desks ami chairs of
the pupils biaring a like amendable
appearance, attesting the vigilance
of the teachers, and the neatness of
the pupils. With one thing I was
particularly struck—the weather was
very warm, aud I didn't see one of
th m nodding, whispering or inattm
tive, hut like ciay in the potter’s
hand, they were all entirely and al
together under tho absolute control
of their teachers—male and female —
and in one instance a male student
of ihe second class conducted the
recitation. Well, for three C“nsee
utive days wo (hilled them pretty
thoroughly in Gieek and Latin and
mathemathics. It was known to my
colleges, and was made known by
some means io the President, ihat I
was a doubting Thomas, aud he j
seemed anxious that I should solve ;
the problem to my cn ire satisfaction. '
And upon a pretty thorough test I j
have this to say—they have the best j
oj portunities for acquiring knovyl
edge of any school within my knowl
edge—teachers from New England
who sire determined that the eXpcri-
ment shall succeed, ami who arc will
ing to suffer martvrdom lor the cause.
They km \v no such word as tire or
fail, ft i* drdl, dr 11. drill th° les
son is got by coutiamt! . muttering—
hi y befit our white b .jo .-.ml giri ut
of sTght in the accuracy of th -ii* rec
itations. To see a great blubber lip
ped, kinkey hemLd ALicau taking a
Greek verb and running it through
all its vaiiations and locating it just
at the tight place without any he. i
tency cr luiluaes, is more than cur
independent thinkers of the sons of
Japlieh can be drilled to do by tne
most patient an I learned professors
They follow the text and teacm r
blindly , implicitly. I think the wo
men excel the men, for you must un
derstand most of the school are
grown, especial y when other f'acu -
uis than the memory are required.
One mgro girl obtained the ansvv r
to a pr.-blem in A gcbra as I walked
in, and I asked her how she knew it
to be the answer. She r pli and, tnat,
was the answer in tlie book (troy all
have iheir looks open.) 1 asked
her to mve it. Hesitating, hot
teai-Lcr g.e ;he proper dbeclious,
but I *eft before she announced. A
mgro # so ved t! ■ pro lem of the
fish, ad h ■ was asm and to vary tho
w .rk vI-tt ng x represent the body
instead, as lie had and no, 'he head, but
he broke down. A class in the En-
glish Classics betrayed their utter
want ol appreciat on of the beau iful
in though oi struc u". A class in
Moral P, il.,sop l y attract’d my at
tention i,nd some merited praise, and
it was ihe only recita ion that gave
any evidence of originality; and th.t
was perceplibl in onl. orn- or two
pupils. The subject wa* the “The
Moral Sense or Conscience.” Unde
fined i> and was proceeding to illus
trations, when interrupted with the
question: “If,” us you say, “con
science touches right from wrong,
and, then-fore, must be followed as
a safe guide, what is to be done wl.cn
consciences teaches that to be right,
which we know to be morally iviong."
lie promptly replied, “You must fol
low it because n is the best you have,
or can get.” That reply betrayed
more originality than any and all
things else I beard. My conclusion
of the whole matter is that in a ma
jority of cases the labor and money
expended on the race is thrown away,
-A- DEMOCRATIC HSTENN7"SPA-TPEUR
| for they will remember and forever
teach that to be true which Ihev have
learned from a particular author or
teacher, and just as it has been
taught. If Russian should in th#
pies> nt contest wipe out out Tmkcy
| and extend her authority over Turk
ish dominions, and luturo Geogra
phers embrace it under Russian pos
session, they would be puzzled about
it.
Commencement day they were in
their glory and best feathers, and
ihey really did well with their
speeches anil essays, but they were
girls and men from Savannah, Ma
con, Augusta and Atlanta, where
they had learned to inmate the man
ners of their wealthy mast rs and
mistresses, and they copied their
graces of manner admirably and per
| feet ly.
I had a fine opportun’ty to examine
| the features R. 13. Bullock, as he
took his scat ju.-t opposite to and fac
ing tne. He is a partly well preserv
ed man, but If s cold, cunning, sinis
ter eye, is the index to his true char
acter. He is on hand io answer for
his villainies, and Bob Toombs, I
unders and, has voluntm red his ser
vice to the S;ate to assist in the pros
ecution. I should like to be present
and witness the shelling of 'Tie woods.
The runaway sccuudM applauded
to the echo ( very performance of the
day, ami afterwards received the
special attention of the pupils of both
sexes, which he seemed to regard
with peculiar delight. But I hin
the subject with tne remark that but
f r tlie as.aociat.on of my collages
ot the hoard, aid other gentlemen,
among them the Governor and Prof.
Orr, I should feel my own self rc
p cl had suffered in the conflict.
I go to Alin ns next, Monday, where
I expect to meet a full Board, ana to
njyy myself grea ly, and front Welch
point you may hear from me again.
I hid the pieasu.e of hearing Dr.
Gran berry’s Commencement sermon,
in Macon, and of meeting my old
friend and school mate, Coi. J, ties,
of the Telegrap.i, who laid violet.t
tiaiu.s upon me and too - me bag and
baggage io his home in VL.evitl.,
onceasubuib but now a con .mta
tii>n of the city. There 1 m t his r.c
compli lied wife and iuteiestuig chil
dren, spending a pleasan even! g in
recalling incidcn.s mutually inieivtt
mg to us, but which was suddenly
inteirupted by ihe whistle that sum
moned us to the railroad in a ru
that nearly exuausied me. We
reached Atlanta about day and on
bathing my face and bands, i wa.>
struck with the water 25 ears ago
and then, in 1850, Atlanta water
would compare with Lookout in pur
ity, now it is tne color of brandy—
and walking the streets afu r a slow
er with Goi. Mark Johnson, 1 asked
whence Caine the intoexuble stench
1 sine.t, ho rep fod the waier in tne
gutters—it was the smell o; decayin',
hln 1 wonder die . ily is not visa
ed by an epidemic.
But 1 have worn you and your
readers out. with this yran, and will
e.o*e abruptly without apology.
Pedagogue.
It m ikes a farmer mad as a wet j
hen to see a lotato bug with a pick
i-n its shoulder crawling over his gar
den ft nee, and when it pauses on the
top rail to ask why in the name ot
Julius he didn’t plant it ear
lier, only a mortal fear of the pick
prevents him from ordering it off of the
Turnips—Sheop—Rich Tand
—Economy and Profit.
From Georgia Enterprise.
We are kindly permitted by Dr.
Thomas P. Ja, es, the Georgia Sta e
Commissioner of Agricultural, to lay
before our readers tm following ex
tracts from a letter written by him .o
Mi. J. R. Resapess, of Ellavdle,
Schley county, Ga.:
STATE OP GEORGIA, )
Department of agiricultciie, >•
Atlanta, Ga., 14 thof May, 1877 )
* * * * * *
You ask me how many acres in
turnips Will winter one hundred sheep.
I cannot bet er reply to tins than
to relate the experiment of the late
G. W. Howard, which I had the sat
isfaction ol witnessing at his farm
near Kingston, early in December
1874.
He planted s'x acres in tnrn'ps, in
rows 24 feet apart an 1 one hundred
feet long, aud fertilized wi h a good
phosphate. A drought alter sowing
prevented a good stand, but they pro
duced 500 bushels per acre, a eer
tained by gathering and measuring
a fair average row. They were ot the
Flat Dutch variety, and owing to ju
dicious fertilization, had very fine,
perfect roots, and very small ‘tops.’
He constructed a moveable jv.ank
fence with which he enclo-ed some
tenor twelve rows of the turnips—
say thirty feet by one lumdied (three
panels wi. e, and ten panels long—
panels ten feet in length.) Into this
inclosure he put hP ifock ol 125
sheep, where he allowed them to re
main twenty-tour hours, by winch
time tli v had eaten up all tho turn
ips and were [tut into a similar fresh
enclosure. He had enough of the
moveabl.’ fence to make two mclos
urcs of'the allotted area, or a rly two
panels in all—thus giving no sort ot
tr übie in tr.inslerring them to a
resn inclosure or fold, when one was
eaten ou .
By the time tn ■ sheep h <1 been On
one f id for twenty-four h urs, the
ground was richer than any is ever
made by farmes for ordinary crops,
and was immediately turned under.
Tli us. ihe sheep were fed without
gathering and housing their food,
and the ground enriched without col
led ing, hauling and spreading tne
manure.
The six acres f <1 Ids flock over
i wo months —nearly as long as they
lie- dal food iu winter m Bartow
county. You can, however, calculate
the area necessary to feed a given
number of sheep a given length of
time.
Mr. Howard set aside one acre lor
matke , selling the turnips n this ciq
at fi'ty cen s pc bushel or more, or
ovei S2OO fur the acre.
The p eparation of the ground, the
fertilizer, ad pm ting in the seed,
cosi bun $lB per acre, ot SIOB foi
>he six acres; thu* the sale of the
turnips from one aero paid him very
nearly SIOO more tlmu the i ire and at
of the tieid, upon which he wintered
i is flock -.‘f 125 sheep, ana enriched
lie land to a degree not easily to be
iallied. He intended to plant col
on on the iau.l r.i xty ar, confident
ly expectinir to make two bales per
acre even i Bartow county, il s. a
son- were favm able, but ne sod Its
place and moved to Lookout Mono
tain with hi* flock ol sheep and did
not make another crop on the place.
1 am, very truly,
Thomas P. Janes,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
LIGHTNING ACCIDENTS.
During a recent severe hail and
thunder stoim at Hyde Park, a bull
of tire ran along the telegraph wire,
and entereu the operator’s room in
N< w York and New England railroad
depot. It incited the connecting
wire and damaged the instrument so
badly as to render it useles. Mi>s
Josephine F. Folsom, the opeia or,
was near the instrument, but escaped
injury, though much alarmed. Charles
Gerry, a p ivatc opera or, sustained
a sev. re shock while at work at his
instrument.
During the storm of June 6, the
l ghtning followed the telegraph wires
into the office of Thomas Haines, su
perintendent of the Ilcstenville Hail*
road Company, West Philadelphia,
Pa., and prostrated that j’CuUwu&n.
•~ScienUfA American,
GENERAL NEWS.
A boy named Butler, near Chatta
nooga, Tenn., slabed another named
Kenedy, by plunging a. knife to the
hilt just above the heart.
Cat'erpillers are detroyiug cotton
crops near Marianna F'a.
*lt is said preparations are being
made for a grand Gubcrnalo.ial ex'
cuition, in which all tho Governors
of the Uni ed States will unite to
gather and visit commercial cen
ters.
Frowns blight young children as
frosty ni-hts blight yrung plants.
It costs New York $1,000,000 a
year to keep up its day and night
schools.
A cheerful face is nearly as good
tor an invalid as healthy weather.
It has been positively stated, that
the United S'ates government will ex.
ert itself towards the acquisition of
the northern states of Mexico.
Montgomery Ala. is talking about
having a narrow gauge Railroad to
some point .n Frorida.
The failure of Mr. Ilayes to ap
point Hijinan tool, ex-member of
Congress) eollectoi of Itvernai Reve
nue of 2nd Norih Carolina Dist., is
regarded by his party as proof that he
is unsound “on tho goose.”
D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, has
been el cod president of the indus
.rial university, located at Fayette
ville, Arkansas.
“Sunday is the golden clasp that
binds together the volume of the
week,”
An utter c ntempt of public opin
ion, and a sensitive regard for it, ate
equally the ear mark of a fool.
A. U. Dockery, ot North Carolina,
las been appointed U. S. Consul at
Leeds.
Electricity is now being employed
on persons too sick, or refusing, to
eat when necessary lo strengthen a
patient. Electrical action is applied
to the upper pait of the throat which
it causes to rise and open as it does
before swallowing, when a small par
ticle of food may be dropped in Ihe
throat, and the electrical influence
being removed, the throat will c ose
upon the food and rocecd, and in
that manner ii will be carried to the
stomach as nutriment, By repeat
ing this operation a sufficient amount
of food may bo administered to pa
tients whose throats have become s<>
paralized as to be unable to swallow
fluids and preserve life for sometime.
A soul without prayer is like a sol
itary sheep without is shepherd.
The tempter sees it and lures it away
into hiosnare
The idea of a heaven and existence
liereaft r is no more extraordinary
than the tact of an earth and an ex
ist-, nee hi l’e.
An excim ge says: We are ac
quainted with a “mon-ter in human
form,” who says the on y time a wo
man does not exaggerate is When she
Is talking of her age.
A mad dog bit two hundred and
two dogs who were trot mad at Sar
dis, Ken., the other day, and the
ctiildn n don’t feel much like being
out n ghts.
The welfare of a nation rests upon
the happiness which it. enjoys within
i S'if, and its independence of all con
trol irorn without-
The class of Eighty, of Princeton
coll gc, numbering nearly 100 y. ung
men, have beeu suspended and re
quit ed to leave town. Causo: bull
dozing the faculty.
Monroe county had a grand Ma
sonic celebration at Indian Springs
on Saturday last, which accord mg to
the Advertiser, was interrupted by a
party of “roughs,” which lesulted in
Several fights.
Yellow fever is raging even at this
early season in Havana. There have
beeu 186 deaths iff the past two
weeks.
Annual Subscription $2,00
3NO. 30,
A SHARI* TRICK.
During ihe revolutionary war in
America, two brothers fiom one of the
Eeastcrn ports were commanders of pn
vaieers. They cruised together an 1
"ere eminently successful, doing great
damage to the enemy and making mon
ey for themselves. One evening being
in the latitude of the shoals of Nantuck
et, but many miles east ol them they
taped a largo BrUtish vessel, having
the appearance ol a merchantman, and
made towaids her; but, to their aston
ishment found he to be a frigate in dis-*
guise. A h'gh breeze prevailing, they
hauled oil in different directions. One
only could be pursued, and the frigate
gained rapidly on him. Finding ho
could not run away the commander had
recourse to a stratagem. On a surclen’
he hauled in sail, and all hands were
employed in setting poles as if shoving
his vessel off a bank. The people on
board the frigate amased at this sup
posed danger they- had run, and to
save them self from being grounded
immediately clawed off, and left tho
more knowing Yankee to make himself
scarce, who, as night rendered it pru
dent for him, It,listed sail in sea two
huudred fathoms deep.
Easy Lesson in Physiology.
Suppose your age to be 15 or iliere
about- You have 160 bones and 500
muscles ; your blood weighs 25 pounds,
and your heart is 5 inches in length and
1 inches in diameter, it beat* 70 limes
per minute, 4,200 times per hour, 100,-
800 timos pei day, and 36,772,200
tunes per year. At each beat a titties
over two ounces of blood is thrown
out of it ; and each day it receives aud
discharges 7 tons of that wonderful
fluid. Yom lungs will contain a gal
lon of air, and you inhale 24,001) gal
lons per day. The aggregate sur
face of the lungs, snpposiig them to
he spread out, exceeds 29,000 square
inches. The weight of your brains is
3 pounds ; when you are a man it will
weigh about 8 ounces more. Your
iimves exceed 10,000,000 in number.
Your skin is composed of three layers,
and lal’ies from Jto £ of an inch iu
thickness, The area of your skin is
about 1,700 square inches. Each square
inch has 8,500 sweating tubes or per
spiratory [lores, each of which may ho
likened to a little drain tile \ of an inch
long, making au aggregate length on
the entire surface of your body ot 201,-
166 feet, or a tile ditch for draining the
bod almost 40 miles long.
A Remarkable Food-Preserva
tive.
A practical physician—Dr. J. W.
Davenport of Dallas Texas —has obtain
ed a patent which promises to bo
of great usefulness. It is simply
a fluid to keep all kinds of
fruits, vegatahles arid meats, fresh
and sweet. The aim of the chem
ist has been to discover the ingredients
of a pickel which would arrest the pro
ces of decomposition and extinguish the
germ ot decay of all animal and vege
table subt.ances, without impairing their
flavor or imparting to them any injuri
ous effect, ft is simply a pickle of the
most inexpensive sort, o sting less than
brine or vinegar, in which ativ meat,
or vegetables will keep in an open ves
sel, submmged for months, and when
taken out, will he found as pure and
Iresh as when the vegetables came out
from the garden or the meal from tho
butcher’s stall. This pickle may be fur
nished and prepared at the cost of four
cents per barrel. The pickle is
so nearly tas less and palatable as
to demonstrate inocuousness, and yet
from the specimen we saw yesterday,
green corn which was immersed in
it lor twelve months, when boiled
could not be distinguished from tho
corn which had been gathered that
morning. Mutton and pork-chops,
and even fat pababottes, placed in
tnis piclde weeks ago, when subject
to heat, and preserved all their origi
nal freshnes aud flavor. —New Or
leans Democrat.
A tramp, with last tail's fracture s' ill
-Lining in his simple apparel, hid it
yesterday by sitting on the cub-siono
opposite the City Sail, and softly sigh
ed : “I wish I wuz a little daug! If I
wuz a little daug I could sot in a silver
bird-cage, with a gold collar on, aud
Lev the ladies feed me with cookies, an’
doke me wiih their parasols, and ca'l
splendid inisid of settiu’ ’round here dry
az codfish ’cause my ’ruiourauc blood
rebels agiust heatin’ on pets, —Fx
change.