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W, sTvGLETON, Editor.
BUENA VISTA, CM.., FKttRUARY 6th, 1081
8®" Mnrft Tidd is authorized to
reiceve and receipt for subscrip
tions to the Argus.
MR. HILL KEMP DEAD.
Mr. William rfnll Komp died nenr
County Line Church, last Sunday, the
30th nit. lie was struck by apoplexy
on Thursday evening, olid died on the
following Sabbath morning. During
bis illness he neither opened his eyes,
or uttered a word, lie was tho sev
enth son of Joseph and Elizabeth
was born in Jones county,Go.,
February l*t, 1318.
Northern Seed 1. Potatoes
pure and rsliulile at
KOLLTN JEFFERSONS,
133 west side Broad Street., Columbus, Un
Written Fo. the Aunts.
DAILY DUTIES.
••Up and ando r ng!” “Up and doiug!”
Is the motto for to-day,
Steadily life’s workjpimminff,
Litogvr not upon the way.
See the world all clad in beauty
With a work for every hand.
God appoints for each some dnty,
Idle then we should not/*_staud.
Work to-day, hut for the morrow
Trust a Father’s loving care;
Trust him, and no tiouble borrow,
Extra weights for you to beifr.
Hear! Oh hear! Our Father speaking
“As thy day thy s'.rength shall be,”
And without’our anxious seeking
On the morrow we shall see
How the clouds which were so rab’e,
All were linoi with silver through,
And His gr ce will us enable
otill our daily work to do.
Yes, Ilis word is ti uly’given,
Grace is prom sed day 1 y day,
Ditties are tho steps to heaven
As we journey on the way.
IfcOI.INK.
Appatetmerits of Rev. T C- Boykin.
The following appointments have
been made lor Rev. T. 0. Boykiu,
Bunilay School evangelist:
Kl'av lie, at night, -lib; Buena Vis
ta, Sunday, 6tb; Union, Tuesday,Sib;
New Providence, Wednesday, 9tn;
Uluff Spring-*, Chattahooche County
10th. The brethren and friends are
earnestly invited and requested to
meet Brother Boykin at th-* above
named places, lie will try to inalo
the meetings very pleasant and prof
itable. T. J. Bell,
Yiec President Ist. Li-trict.
■ - ■ -*—♦
A PAISPUL ACCIDKWT.
Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. John Cry,
wh j li re Bir miles from Tazewell
brought their little twt year old
daughter to town to be examined by
tho physicians. About, two weeks
ago. the oiliest son of Mr. Cry, quite
s lad) was cutting down a tree, about
five feet it) diameter. His little sis
ter was will) him. and he failed to no
tice until too late that she was directly
jn the iV*y of the fulling tree, which
Struck heron the head and glancing
fell upon her left shoulder and side
and struck her leg just below the
knee and just above the ankle. Be
sides beieg severely bruised, the top
bone of the leg jmt above thj knee is
either bent or broken The injury is
very painful, to say the least of it
and the little girl stands it remarka
bly WklL
IMPROVEMENTS.
Sinae lhc first day of January we
have made quite a number of addi
tions to our office, chief among
which is a good job press, which ar
rived last Saturday. We are now
jirepared to print cards, posters, let
ter heads, bill heads, and indeed
most any kind of small work, and
the good pnrt is, we will do it as
cheap as the same work can be hod
anywhere in the South. Try us.
THAT Mioo.
Mr. A. P. Belk'a “frog’’ has shift
ed around to another locality, as the
followmg extract from the Walker
County Messenger will show:
‘‘Wo know of a man sensible, intsl
gent and wide awake, who was taken
ill by a sharper recently. They met
on tne Rome road. Mr. Sharper said
he was handling a patent medicine;
that he wanted our friend to intro
duce it, and that he always paid men
who worked for him, opening a box
and putting into it $25, ‘Now, said
he, ‘are you willing to give me sls
for that V ‘Almost any one would
do that,’ was the answer. The trade
was made, and they separated, but
when tho box was opened there was
no money in there; . j. _
—Rev. S. D. Clements will preach
at. Galatia on the second Saturday
and Sunday in this month, and at
Red Bone Sunday evening at 4 o'-
clock
Mr. John C. R gaby is moving
from Buena Vista to Taylor county,
neur tho liver,
—Mr. llanip Stevens is with Lowo
& Rush'll nml would be glad to sec
his friends. Call on him.
Mr. S. P, Jt htison is going to
open the Stevens’ hotel. Ilis furni
ture armed yesterday.
—Mr. Seaborne Steven’s school nt
Jacksonville is nourishing—forty odd
pupi's.
An assortment of Ncnv and Fresh
Garden Seed at J. Israel, Ag’t
Deeds are frnits; words are but
lea v es, —Exchange.
Then we know of tjtiitc fl’nutnbef
of barren fig trees.
—1 lie county officers recently elect
ed have received their commissions,
taken the oath and entered upon the
discharge ol their duties.
“Whitt, ought a pastor to do
when his cbnrch fails to support
him ?’’ is a query for 4 tlic next Gener
al Meeting, From a business point
of view, we would snv quitjand go
at something that pays better.
•—Mr. Speck, the artist now in
Buena Vista, is a nice young gent'e
man from Virginia, and besides be
ing clever, does good work.
The young folks have began al
ready to pfepffre their epistles for
valentines.
—Air. Ilo'mes Clements, son of
Rev. S. D. Clements, is visiting rela
tives in Talbot county, and last week
burned both hands by pouring pow
tbr or. a hot rock. “Mind your eye,”
Holmes.
—Suicides seem to be beconvng
fashionable within tho local vision of
tlie Argus. Last week we chron cled
the suicide of Mrs. Glover, in Sum
ter, near Friendship. The news now
reaches us that Mr. It. D. Ship, a
young intfn, who lives near Greenflill,
Stewart county,took bis own life last
Sunday, with a narcotic, if we have
been comedy informed. Whiskey
f * J
s thought to have thus been his ruin.
—ln speaking with a prominent
farmer from the lower part of the
county in regard to the grain crop,
lie gave it as his ’observation that
where the snow fell deep and coated
the ground it formed a protection for
oats and wheat and kept them from
injury, while in the suitliern section
of the county where but little snow
fell, tke oats and wheat are all killed.
We hear of considerable damage to
the wheat and oat crop in Jackson
ville district and about Peachorcbard
and rn lower down, but around
Buena Avista and north of here We
have heard lit tie or no complaint.
George W. Stallings will give li is
friends tho best of bargains and
make it to their interest to call
at AVAlkerson & Hatcher’s w*'on in
Geneva and see him. j29-3t
Northern Seed I. Potatoes
pure and reliab © at
ItoLLIN JEFFI'BSCN,
133 West bide Broad tjtrt, Columbus, Ga.
An In iiannpo is clerk became in
volved in debtaud was obliged to have
tive hundred dollars. Learning that
a waiter in a certain hotel had by
hard labor and close economy saved
up a considerable sum of money, he
applied to her for a loan. The request
was granted and his note given tor pay
ment at a certain dale. When pay -
day came, the clerk neither had nor
could get the money, i.e asked for
an extension of time, but the ladv
refused to grant it, and informed
the delinquent debtor that he must
either get the money or marry her.
She was forty years old,and “mighty”
ugly,but he could not get the money,
and was obliged to marry her.
Last summer two children of Mrs.
Cook, near Grangers villc, Macon
county, were fatally poisoned by the
mistake of a druggist, who sold her
morphine instead oi quinine, and
which she gave them. The Monte
zuma Weekly learns that the inct.hcr
of the children has entered suit
against the druggist for SIO,OOO
damages.
BUS I NESS LECTURE .
As heretofore stated, when the
Argus changed hands, the new pro
prietor adopt' and an entirely different
system of business. We reduced the
subscription from two dollars to ono
and a quarter, and, to guard against
loss, demanded it in ndvutice. The
cash system is just and right,and in
these days of finnucihl depression, it
is tlie only safe rule (or a business
man. The people clamor for a cheap
pa pet. They no not understand how
it is that a little paper in Buena Vista
requires a larger subsection price
than a city weekly large enough for
a bed quilt. But lets lake a peep in
a printing office, and the mystery
will bo easily understood. Th re is
the compositors standing by their
cases settingup the type. Each and
every Utter is picked tip by the fin
gets of the typo and car. fully placed
so as to spell the words. Did it ever
occur to yon, reader, that the type
which printed every word in the paper
that you hold in your hand was pick
ed up letter nfter letter by some-
body’s fingers ? After the type is all
set and properly arranged, it is a mat
ter of comparative insignificance to
do the printing. It is an easy matter
to print at the rate of Iroin 150 to
5,000 an hour, according to the press.
So it will ba seen that tlie great labor
of tho printing office depends upoo
the setting up and arranging the
type. When the type has been once
-et, it will print any number, and
here is the advantage that the city
weeklies have. The punisher pays
to have the matter set in type for tiis
daily, and keeps it and makes use ol
It for bis semi-weekly; bis tri-weekly
ami his weekly. Thus tlie publisher
of a daily pays once for his type set
ting, and is paid for it as ofteu as he
uses it, whi'c the publisher of a week
ly must pay for his type-setting, and
use it only once. So it is clear that
a mammoth weekly can be sent from
a ilailv office at a less cost than a re
spectable weekly issued in the coun
try. Then again, a city is the center
of trade for several counties,and the
city weekly, has a wider range of cir
culation, andean consequently afford
to make a lessper cent, profit. For
illustration, suppose the city weekly
lias a circulation of 5,000 ami 15 per
cen!. is realized,it gives the pablisher
$750 for his work. Now suppose a
country paper has 2,000 circulation;
at the same late of per cent, it would
leave s3oofor the publisher.
We hive demonstrated- that the
country weekly has great disadvan
tages to labor under when he under
takes to compete with bis city neigh
bor. But the people clamor for a
cheap paper, and as our city neigh
bors have thrown down the gauntlet*
and made reduced subscription a
necessity, we cheerfully acquiesce,
and now offer the AluiUS from this
date until Christmas Day for Oue
Dollar. Friends, could you ask it
for less? It is os cheap as a New
York weekly with its boasted thou
sands of subscribers, that never con
tains a single mention of this section.
Under this proposition we must
have the cash, and when the time
paid for expires, the paper will be
stopped.
The question will quite naturally
arise in the minds of shrewd business
men, ‘‘Can he hold up at that ?’’ In
reply, we say that we cm and will.
How? By increased circulation!
In less than sixty days the Argus
will be u visitor to a great majority
of the homes not only in Marion but
in Schley, Chattahoochee, Webster,
and Taylor. We have agents at
work, and CAN and WILL do Ml we
claim. The editor of the Akous
bus been toiling nt the printing bus
iness for several years, and is by no
means an amateur in the business,
knows preciseily what ho is about.
POPPING THE UUESTIOV AT THE
DINNEIi TABGE.
A London newspaper tells a curi
ous story about a gentleman who
proposed to a lady that is now his
wife at a dinner party. He hud been
a lover lor some time, but. never
quite persuaded himself up to the
point of popping the quesiion. Dur
ing the eventful dinner lie learned
from a person s tting next to him
that a rival intended that evening to
make an attack upon his Dulcinea’s
lieait. She was sitting some dis
tance from him at the table and the
rivul at her side, lie was equal to
the emergency, however, for tearing
a half leal from his note book, be
wrote upon it : “Will you be my
wile? Write yonr answer, yes or no,
upon this paper and return it to me.’
Calling a waiter, the ingenious lover
sent the missive to “the lady in biue
nt the end of the table —be very
i careful.’’ The servant did as direet
jed, but the lover, in Ins anxiety, lor
! got to send his pencil. The lady had
presence ol mind, however, and luck
; ing the note into tier bosom, said to
j the waiter: “Tell the gentleman
res,”
CHANGING THE 1.1 IVE OK MILITIA
DIMTHICTH.
Below we publish the order of the
court of Roads and Revenues ehnng
ing the line between the Kincliafootiee
aud Buena Vista militia districts.
Before the change Mrs. Malmla Butt,
Mr. Fulford and Mr. Siokes were in
the Kineltnfoonre, while Mr, T. B.
Lumpkin’s houso was partly in one
and partly in tho other. The change
makes th Buena Vi ta district the
largest in the county:
Whereas a portion of the ciPzens
and owners of lands residing in and
owning Finds it) the 7lOtli district of
said county did pent on this hoard to
change tlie lines between said 71 Ot!i
district and the 807tfo district of said
comity and whereas, in the January
term of th * meeting of said board,
B; T. IVacock, A. I*. Bilk nhd H T.
Hollis were appointed commissioners
to exahiino i to and report to ttie
bonnl ttie expediency and practica
bility of saui change: and whereas
said commissioners have made their
report, recommending said change of
line prayed for by said petitioners:
whereupon it i- oidered, considered
mid adjudged that said line between
said districts lie changed by milling
all that portion of said 710 tn distiict
lying and being north and east of
Ivinehafoona creek in said county of
Marion to the said 807th disir ct, so
that said creek shall be tho perma
nent line between said aforemention
ed districts.
An order was also taken making
the now Fort Berry district into two
new districts with the following
bounds: Bounded on the north by
the county line, on the west by the
county line, on the east by the road
leading lrout Brantley to Geneva,
and on the south by little Fiuo Knot
creek from wh-re it touches th-
Chattahoochee line up to lot ot laud
number ueai Short’s ml 1, from '
thence by a line running north to
tlie original Red Bone and Fort
I’errv line, and tram thence by the
original dial rii t line between the Red
Bone and Fort Perry district.
PROCEEDINGS OP TIIE BAPTIST
(XENKUAI. MEETING.
The general meeting for this dis
trict convened with the church at i
Tazewell on the 28tli nit. The intro
ductory sermon wa- preached by Rev.
\V. W Mabry, from the sixth chap
ter and idtli verse ot Ephesians.
FIRST D.VY.
Organized by electing Rev. T. B.
Deavors, 'Moderator, and J. A. Shop,
pal’d secretory.
SECOND BAY.
The following subjects were dis
cussed:
Giving to the support of the
ebu reb.
Ought chnrchiß to have services j
every Sabbath?
As is the custom the programme
ot business fur ttie next general
meeting was agreed on. The next
meeting will convene at Union
church on Friday before tho fifth
Sabbath in May. The introductory
sermon to bo preached by Rev,
Washington Tharpe. The following
subjects were adopted for discussion
at t hat time:
What is the dnty of pastors when
their churches fail to remunerate
them for their services? Opened by
Dr. E. T. Mathis.
Do the churches differ in faith and
practice from ttie churches ot the
New Testament? If so, in what re
spect?
TIIE BEST POLICY.
The above is more or less tho experi
ence of the Geotg'a planters also, Cred
it, at a preposterous rate of interest, for
meat, corn, plantation implements and
household supplies, has been the great
est bane. No business ®n earth could
be made to yield returns sufficiently re
munerative to cover rales of interest
which run all the way up from 25 to
75 percent. And yet many farmers
still continue tho suicidal policy of
planting nearly all their land in cotton,
lo the neglect of proTisin Crops, and
the raising of their own meat. It is a
matter for congratulation, however,
that some of t ieni have seen tfie er
ror of this course, ami are, therefore,
beginning to prosper substantially.
It is sale to say that the sale ol wes
tern corn and bacon in this state has
declined fully one half within the past
live years. We long to chrouiele the
fact that one pint ol tho former, or a
single pound of die latter can find a
market in this heaven-blessed region*
Fay cash for everything, ruise your
••grub,” is tue only true poll of our
uggricultural friends.
Mr. Dennis, United States Sena
tor from Maryland, is the o-wner ot a
twelve acre pond of bait water on
the seaboard of that state. This is
devoted exclusively to the raising if
terrapins ami is said to be I he largest
terrapin fainjin vhe-rroild.
A LETTER PROM OOLll*A!)ltPE.
Tlm Thltv' Wary >•, Ac.
Oolbthobpr, Ua., Jan. 81, 1881.
Mr. Eh (tor: You will perhaps re
member tlint I promised ii anything
should “turn up” I would inform you
of it. In expectations I have not
been altogether disappointed; some*
tbiug has “turned ftp.”
For more than two years post
there las been depredations com
mitted by what appears to bo an or
ganized baml of burglars. The
different towns along the Southwest
ern railicad hate suffered from their
acts more than once. '1 here is a
trite old adage, however, which says,
“It is a long v Tano that has no turn
ing,” and something has occurred
which, it is to bo hoped, will loud to
the arrest of the whole gang.
On last Inoieday morning when
Mr. 1) S Bakes, an enterprising mer
chant ol our sister town ol Monte
zuma, entered his store, ho found a
great many things out of order; the
lloor being *t:own with various arti
cles that on the previous evening hud
occupied the show-cases and shelves.
Oil going to the sale he lound that a
largo hole had been drilled in its
door, which had been charged with
powder, and an attempt made to
blow it up; but here they were un
successful, or, as i? thought by some,
they were frightened yff. Mr. Bukos,
on trying the safe lock found it was
mined. He next made an examina
tion of the store doors and goods,
and found that they had left the door
at which they entered slightly ajar.
The small change left in the money
drawer was gone, also a large num
ber of pocket-knives, pocket-books,
pistols, effl. from the showcase. It
would also appear that thv-ir work
gave them an enormous aj petite,
from the large quantity of crackers
and clieeae 4 tlmt bad disappeared.
Nothing else so far as known had
been taken.
The only clue there was left, as to
the direction the scoiindr Is had
taken, was a valise containing a brace
and several bits or drlls of different
Sizes, found between Montezuma and
Oglethorpe, one of which exactly fits
he bole in the sate, and gave evi
dence of having been recently in use.
News of the robbery was sent to dis
creet parties both up and down the
road, and on Friday Dr. Westbrook,
if Andersonville, succeeded tn cap
taring one of the parties concerned
in the affair, near ttiat pine--, lie
was sh .wing some of the pocket
knives and pocket-books to some ne
groes, and being questioned as to
how and where lie came by them,
would not give any satisfactory an
swers. The doctor thought it best
to a.-k him the favor of his company
to Montezuma As'might have been
especled 'that is by some ill dis
posed persons,) he was rather dis
posed to go in any other direction
than the one requested. But the
Doctor succeeded in persuading him
to go with him after showing him a
small toy, which the law says persons
should not persist in carrying in their
hip pockets, as it says it is a danger
ous practice. When they arrived in
Montezuma Mr. Dukes was able to
identify the properly found on the
negro. lie was then prevailed upon
to stay in Montezuma during Friday
night, and on Saturday morning was
escorted in state to a small brick
house two stories high with iron bars
across the windows, in the city of
Oglethorpe, whefe he is as safe in
bis castle as were some of the lords
of the Middle Ages.
He was told that if he would give
information which would lead to, to
—well, we will say to the where
abouts of Ins companion or compan
ions, he might claim the leniency
that the law extends to such confid
ing natures a9 ure thus deluded.
And so he “squealed.”
He said his name was Bob Wil
liams, that he formerly resided in
Macon, that he has four companions
who make it their business to pry
into other people’s affairs while this
portion of our old world is in the
shade. On the night of the bur
glary, he kept w'atch while the
others did the work. On Friday
night he had an engagement with
them in Americas, but was per
suaded to postpone the meeting in
definitely; he also gave the informa
tion that they lay their plans a long
time ahead, and then work by them.
In accordance with the information
gathered from his confession, officers
were dispatched to Americas and
other points where the other mem
bers ot the gang are said to be, but
at the present writing they have not
been hemal from.
The prisoner is of about the me
dium height, ginger-cake colored,and
of not Kfy prepossessing appror
what one would term a shrewd,
calculating look. One limb is shorter
than the other, consequently lie has a
h pping gait. This, however, it
partly overcome by his wearing a
idioo with an extra sole attached.
Tho business of Oglethorpe is on
the upward look. Several uew
brick stores will shortly be created
in the place of the old wooden linild
ings. The bricks are being mndo a
i-liort distance from town. Some
sice residences arc also being built.
We have as good hotel accomrnbda
tions us can be found in Southwes
Georgia. Wo ab.o have a city coun
cil, mayor and marshal that are not
afraid to do their duty. The marshal
can always be found quickly when
needed, which cannot be said of some
towns I know ( f.
There has been received during
the piVaent season in this place, 4,853
bales of Cotton, and it i thought
that the number will reach 5,300
bales before tfie sfcnson closes, which
I think does very Well for a town
that was some years ago considered
“dead.” vVe have a good school,
good church, good people, and a
population of over 500.
I will now close, Mr. Editor,b fore
1 weary your renders, and will say
that if anything else “turns up.”
which l uin hourly expending, you
will hear again from
VViiJfNs Micawber.
“This morning,” says th: Macon
Herald of Saturday, “occurred the
most startling event that ever hap
pened in the court of Bibb
county. The Superior court was in
session hearing the divorce Case of
Hays vs. Hays. Ju fgc Stewart was
in his chair, tin jury in position, and
, a number 6f lawyers and spectators
i present. Suddenly the whole cour.
i room was thrown into a state of con
! sternatioD. Robert Tucker, a col
or and man, about seventy years old,
ltvir.g out on the plantation c/f Wily
! and Winship, was a witness in the
I case for the defendant, and while he
was standing testifying was seen sud
denly to fall over from the witness
stand on to the floor, a distance
ot several feet, and, when several rail
to pick him up, Robert Tucker was
1 found to b*a dead man—died in the
twinkling of an eye—without a mur
mur, from a supposed stroke of apo
plexy. He did not appear to be la
boring under any excitement, but had
calmly answered ail questions, and
was just on the eve of replying to
the final one to be propounded him
when death Caine sudden rfinl unux
pertly. We saw the remains shortly
after death, and the face of Robert
Tucker bore a tranquil appearance
as if the deceased had suffered no
pain in the flight ol life.” In this
connection the Herald mentions a sin
gular coincidence. It says: “This
nlorning exactly at the time the col
ored man, Robert Tucker, fell dead
in the Superior court room, a large
pane of glas3 in the front door of the
Tax Collector’s office, in the basement
of the Court house, was shivered into
a thousand pieces by some un3een
agency. Several men were standing
inthcoffue and behind the railing,
and not one of them, after a careful,
examination, could account for the
mystery. The situation of the door
and the absence of any visible means !
of the destruction of the glass, pro- i
ciudes the possibility of any one from
the street having been the cause, The’
Tux Collector is impressed with the
idea t hat the glass exploded in conse
quence of a veiy hot lire in his stove,
in close proximity to the door and a
cold eurrentof air on the outside.
DECISIVE bvttl.es op the
WORLD.
Creasy’s extremely interesting vol
ume narrating the hist->ry of the fif
teen decisive battles of the world,
those few battles of which a contra
ry event would have essentially vari
ed the drama ol the world iu all its
subsequent scones, is highly esteem
ed by all readers of history. It has a
long lime been ouHarpei’s list as one
of their standard books at the price
of $1 50.* Now it is issued in a very
handsome cloth-bound volume, by
the American Bonk Exchange. New
York, at the nominal price ot 35
Cents. It forms one of their Acme
Library of History, which includes
Macaulay’s England. $1.25 (reduced
from $7.50 ), Gibbon’s Rome, $2.00
reduced fr-mi $3.00, Rollin’s Ancient
History, $1.75; Froissart’s Chroni
cles, $1.50, and to which list will
s<>oti be added, at equally low prices,
Grote’s Greece,Green’s (arger) Eng
land, Mommsen’s Rome, Masson’s
Guizot’s France, Carlyle’s French
Revolution, Schiller’s Thirty Years’
war, and others. Catalogues ot the
standard low-priced books of the
[Literary Revolution will be sent on
application to the American Book
Exchange, Tribune Bailding, New
York. ,
IAIII vi.rRRDIT.
People who bay for cash always
buy ch'Op-r than those who buy on
credit. They buy also mor closely,
and select more carefully. Purchase®
wHch arc paid f r when made, nra
limited more exactly to tho pur
chaser's wants. Tbefo is nothing
like having to count tha money out
when tho nrtico is bought to make
people eCodcrtiikml. The amonnt of
imh btedness incurred is not much
considered when the pay day is far
off. Persons who do all their busi
ness on a cash basis, know jn-t
where they stand and wliat they cun
afford. Real wants uro lw and
can be gratified for cash; at all
events they should be limited to wbat
can bo paid for in cash. How rauou
anxiety, heart burning*, disappoint
ments, nml regrets, would lie avoided
if this rule was strictly adhered 1 to?
-Huwkinsville Dhqwtch.
Bninbridge Democrat: Tho scarcity
> f farm labor is a universal complaint
in Southwest Georgia. It is a rare
i lung to meet a planter who hu* se
cure I all the larin hands he wants
h r this year. Iu (act, wo don’t think
that a smglo instance of ifle kind ettu
be found iti Decatur county, nnl,
judging from our exchanges, Decatur
is no worse off in this line than her
sister counties. Auf to increase the
trouble caused by this state of affairs
crowds of m-groos Dave every week
to get work on the new railroad,
where they are offered one dollar a
day and rations. It is becoming a
serious matter with our planters.
They are told that the railroad will
be completed, and that labor will bo
returning home to look for work bv
the lirut of April, but planters cannot
afford to risk the losses of planting
large crops on ru< re supposition*.
The consequence will be that many
acres of land which were planted
last year will ibis year lie idle. De
catur is much bett r off in this mat
ter than Thomas, Brooks, Lowndes,
and other counties np the road. Tho
railroad has not taken over two littn-
Ired labor,ts fr >m Decatur county,
and many of these are returning, yet
hands are sufficiently scarce to cause
our planters cousiderub’e trouble.
Griffin News: There are scores of
young boj s in Griffin who are a low
ed to run nt large on the streets day
and night, who are growing up in
idleness and ignorance. Parents
need not wondr that these boys are
learning bid habits. It is not un
i common to see on the street-- urchins
who are liaidly old enough to bo
emancipated from the nursery, walk
ing about with cigars in their
mouths, from whose young lips dirty
oaths flow glibly and familiarly.
There ate boys older than these in
Griffh) who are intinitely worse. For
this s-tate of things parents are re
sponsible, and tne solemn responsi
bility of it cannot be thought of with
out shuddering. The youth of the
city should be kept moral and pure
by a wholesome restraint at home,
and made useful and intelligent by
the discipline and tuition of tho
school room.
The Share and Tenant Systems.—
At the meeting of the Mississippi
Valley Cotton Planters’ Association,
at Vicksburg, Mississippi, last week,
the share and tenant systems of
planting were denounced as ruinous
to the landowner. The tenant does
not attempt to enrich the laud. The
natural manure of cotton, its own
seed, is sold instead ol spread upon
the land that needs it. On the share
system the planter has to furnish tho
substance for a year, and both
planter and cropper have to pay
ruinous rates of interest. The asso
ciation recommend that planters hire
a few hands on a cash basis ami
gradually work out of the share and
tenant syt-terns.
Mr. Jack Tenant toki ns, the other
day. of a singular and fatal accident
that occurred to a horse belonging
to his neighbor, Mr. Matt Sheffield,
one dny last week. The animal, in
jumping a fence, struck its breast
against the sharp, broken end ot a
hoe handle which stood near tho
tence. The snag passed on up ap
parently under ttie shoulder blade
until It made a bulge on the hide at
the very top of tho shoulder. Soon
after the accident, tho animal Wnß
discovered standing iu a drawn up
position right over the handle, ns if
pinned to the ground by it After a
good deal of effort the snag was
withdrawn, but the horse lingered a
few days in great torture and died.
Griffin Sun: Last Sunday after
noon a little girl in Fayette county
was burned to death. Mr. Gus Ger
lin, her father had been burning
some brush on Saturday evening, and
the little girl with other children,
were playing around the remaining
coals, putting leaves, etc,, on them
to heup up the lire, when a shift ot
the wind caused her ciuthes to be
cme ignited and burned her almost
to a crisp before the flames were ex
tingni-bud, She lingered from one
o'clock until seven when her suffer
ing was ielieved by death-
Advertising alwajs pays; we claim
the Derrick is u good medium. How
ever, wc are willing to admit that the
Philadelphia News is better. A few
days ago a young Philadelphia mer
chant inserted the line “Boy Want
ed ’ in that paper, and the very next
morning a boy arrived; weight,
twelve pounds.—Oil City Derrick.
That Associate Editor of a western
pnper knew what he was about when
lie announced the illness of Ids prin
cipal, ami added: “All good paying
subscribers are requested to mention
him in their prayers. The others
need not s the prayers ol the wwtked
avail nothing,