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THE BUTLER HERALD.
•vmourion Prior $1.50. P*» annum.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2udl 879.
not be better for the State to de-j If anybody can point out a bigger
mead the amount lut named, ae jfraud than this, on a small scale, we
WHAT THE SOTTH NEEDS.
There is a long, and it seems to
ns, well-timed artiole in the New
York “World' 1 upon shit subject.
The World after adverting to the
former system of labor at the South,
which, in some respects is pro
nounced vicious, finds that the
great need of our seclion is capital.
The World assorts that the em
ployer, for want of capital, is com
pelled to employ the laborer on a
credit, and that so long (until the
crop is harvested), that he is com
pelled to pay too much for hie la
bor, In addition to this, he has
to buy his own supplies on a cred
it, and hence is compelled to pay
a nigher price than if he bought
for cash. In these two items alone
the landlord loses all the profit of
his crop; and at the close of the
year if he is not in debt he feels
that he has come off well, and is
thankful for even this small meas
ure of success.
Nor does the laborer fare any
belter than his employer. Forced
to work on a credit until the har
vest is gathered, he is compelled
to purchase his supplies at credit
prices, and these are simply ruin
ous. The laborer cannot there
fore hope to save anything, and,
like hiB employer, is fortunate if
at the end of the year he is out of
debt.
In no other country do laborers
work on so long a credit as in the
South. If the negro exodus should
continue, our people cannot sup
ply the places of the freedmen
with laborers who will wait eo
long for their pay. It seems there
fore probable, that if our people
do not in this respect change their
system of labor from interest, they
will be compelled to do so from
necessity. If. they wait until they
are forced to change, they will be,
in a measure at the mercy of the
capitalist. If they will begin to
make the transition now, the
change can he made much easier
and upon much better terms.
The question will no doubt be
asked where the capital*is to come
from? The World shows that
there are millions of foreign capi
tal lying idle in New York that
the South oan borrow at what
would be considered here a low
rate of interest, provided good
security can he had. What is
meant by this is, that we shall
have plaoed upon our stature book
laws that will assure the lender,
that he can, without vexatious de
lay, and costly litigation, collect
his money in every instance where
the borrower is worth the amount
of the debt.
Finally let our legislation be
shaped as much for the protection
of the creditor as the debtor; let
our people show that they value
their credit as their honor, and
then all needed capital will flow
into our impoverished section and
the price of the Road ? Or, if that
price cannot be obtained, hold the
title to the original Road until the
dose of the le&se, at w.hioh time
we have no doublet cad be sold
for that sum.
There is another Railroad bill
pendiug in the General Assembly
of vast importance to the people
of this State. Now we do not ask
that the railroads of this State be
treated with injustice, for we are of
opinion that the value of the taxa
ble property of Georgia has been
largely increased Jby those very
roads. Another reason that they
should be treated with justice is,-
that a great many widows and or
phans. to say nothing of hundreds
of private citizens, have a large
portion of their property invested
in railroads. Besides, a great
State—the “Empire State of the
South,”—cannot afford to do in
justice to any of its citizens, or in
deed to anyone. While these are
our sentiments, we are neverthe
less decidedly in favor of such
tion being taken by the General
Assembly as will prevent these
corporations from oppressing the
people.
That the railroads have carried
matters with a high hand, and in
many instances demanded high
and excessive freights, will not we
presume be disputed by any per
son who has a due regard for truth.
When goods can be transported by
wagons tor about one half the
price demanded by railroads it
strikes us that something is wrong,
and that the time has arrived when
the strong arm of the law should
be stretched out for the protection
of the people.
The time has been when our
people entertained none but the
kindest leelings for the railroads,
while, at the same time the roads
paid hansome dividends to stock
holders. That this state of things
has been reversed is the fault of
the railroads and not of the peo
ple. If so many roads have been
constructed that dividends have
fallen off, surely the people are not
to blame, and should not there
fore be required to make good the
loss. If otherwiso, if railroads are
to be allowed to pool—we believe
that is the word—and levy a tariff
of freights sufficiently high to pay
good dividends to the stockholders
of all the roads, then the people
of this country will virtually be
long to these corporations.
The Legislature of New York
has, or will soon take hold of this
matter; for, according to our ex
changes, that State is in the same
coudition as Georgia. We trust
our law makers will be enabled to
enact a law that will be just to
all parties; but above all, a law
that will protect our people; a law
that railroad officials cannot evade
at will, and which will afford only
nominal relief to the impoverished
people of Georgia. Let the law
be well considered and properly
drawn; and let it say to the roads
“thus far shalt thou go, but no
farther.” Unless this is done;
unless great care is bestowed on
the act, we repeat, a loophole will
.reready for the - exhibition. Our
charges for all the wild lands advertis
ed in that oounty did not reach forty
dollars—the amount was considerably
le^—and we did notgivu the sheriff or
the transferees any receipt or voucher
for any large Bum. Yet the Comptroller
General allowed these excessive costs
in a settlement with the sheriff. Why
ho’did not require the sheriff to bIiow
a receipt or a voucher for that amount
of money paid out, is a mystery we are
unable to solve, but the whole matter
will oome to light in time.
Cotton -How Long it takes the
Fruit to Mature.
From the dlbany Advertiser.]
In a recent issue of the Advertiser
we stated, upon the authority of a
farmer who said he had marked a cob*
con square and thus tested the matter,
that “it takes the square just thirty
days from the time it begins to bloom,
the bloom thirty days to develop into
a full grown boll, and another thirty
days to open.” Two of our subscribers,
Messrs. VV. R. Faircloth and Redding
Gray, who read this statement, culled
at our office one day this week, and
convinced us that the farmer from
whom we got our information did not
know any more about the growth of
cotton than we editors do. Mr. Fair-
cloth says he planted cotton on the 21st
of April last, and that he had open
bolls on the first of August. If we
allow ninety days between the time the
squares were formed and the time the
bolls commenced to open, then the
squares must have come on when the
cotton was only about ten days old,
which, as every one knows, would be
impossible. Mr. Faircloth says he has
seen blooms on cotton fifty-five days
after it was planted. He also
that if it took cotton fruit ninety days
to mature there would he very little
of it made in this country.
that ha did not wish a difficulty,
but he did not think he, Patriok
Russ, should take up his son's dif
ficulty.
In the meantime, John Ruse
left the store in order to borrow a
pistol, remarking to the person to
whom he applied that “if he
could not get a pistol, he would
kill him with something else.”
He returned to the store. The
party went out on the poroh, and
were standing on the top steps,
with a Russ standing on either
side. As Mr. Kelsoe was speak
ing to (he elder Russ, John dealt
him a tearful blow on the temple
with the bar need in fastening the
store from tbs inside. Mr. Kel
soe thought he was not seriously
injured; he remained about ten
minutes, then went over to his
house, still asserting that he was
not badly hurt. He was persuaded
however, to lie down and almost
immediately expired, and in about
twenty minutes after being struck.
John Russ fled before morning.
Patrick Russ was arrested and
put in jail. Several negroes saw
the whole transaction, and it is re
ported an effort was made by John
Russ to purchase their silence by
drinks.
The Coroner’s jury found a ver
dict of mnrder on the part of John
Russ, and accessories for the other
two who W6re with him.
Kelsoe was well liked in Ogle
thorpe and hns many friends.
It is rumored that Mr. Hazelett,
a particular friend of Mr. KeiBoe,
has offered a large reward for the
arrest of the fugitive Russ.—Tel
egraph and Messenger.
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out people will start out ou a new be found through which the roads
era of prosperity that will enrich can escape,
themselves and astonish the world.
The Legislature and the Rail
roads.
The news comes from Atlanta
that the General Assembly has
passed an act, authorizing the
lease of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad: The act requires that the
leasee of the Road shall extend it
on to Atlanta within the space of
three years, and also put on it two
hundred thousand dollars* worth
of rolling stock. No person with
out the limits of Georgia will be al
lowed to lease tho Road. The act
permits the lessee, after the Road
has been extended to Atlanta to
purchase the entire line for $1,250.
000.
We are glad that some disposi-
tion has been made of this vexed
question; we are not certain how
ever that the State will be doing a
good thing to sell the entire line
at the price named. The Road
from Macon to Brunswick cost, if
we remember correctly, about
$3,000 000 of dollars. It seems to
us that when the line is completed
to Atlanta the Yalue of its
Macon and Brunswick end will be-
largeiy enhanced;—enhanced at
Of the bill now pending before
the Legislature we are not prepar
ed to speak, having seen only
synopsis of its provisions. We are
not sure however that it is a wise
thing to entrust so much power to
the commissioners it proposes to
create. Suppose they should be
influenced by the money that the
railroads would be willing to pay
we would then be at the mercy of
the road and without any protection
whatever. We repeat, let what
ever may be done in this matter,
be well and wisely considered, or
the law will not he worth the pa
per on which it is written.
The Atlanta “Constitution” publish
es the following lette**, which may re
lieve some anxious mothers suspense:
Annapolis, III,, August 6.—Editors
Constitution. On the 9th day of
April, 1862, as we wore burying the
Confederate dead at Shilon, I found
the corpse of a youug man—a n
boy in appearance—probably 17 y
old. He had been wounded by a rifle
ball, and had crawled off into a vine
hidden ravine to die. He was a very
handsoniejfouth, with light curly hair
und blue eyes, and features strictly
beautiful in death. Having bled to
death, his body looked like chiseled
marble. There was nothing on his
person to tell us who lie was or where
he was from. But there was a picture,
evidently that of his mother, which he
had held and gazed upon until his eyes
dimmed in death, and hia cold hand
relaxed its grasp, and let the treasure
softly fall upon his lifeless heart, where
I afterwards found it, and still havc^t
in my possession.
The lady is dressed in heavy black,
with a wide collar. The face is oval,
apparently 35 years of age; and of pure
Southern type. The eyes and hair are
black, or very dark brown. The hair
is worn in the old style of ’58, and ii
combed over the angles of the forehead,
A long gold chain with pencil encircles
the neck. But the most singular
thing about the picture is that it is ta
ken on patent leather and is still well
preserved. With the aid of a comrade,
although much fatigued, we made him
a grave—a deep grave—and after wind
ing an arm blanket about him, laid him
to rest. It wa^all that we could do
for our handsome, unfortunate foe,
“He was somebody’s darling.” but
whose ? Who among your readers
cognize the youth and the picture ?
If the unhappy mother should see this
it will be a comfort to know that her
boy died a brave and painless death,
and that he received as decont a burial
as did his dead enemies.
Any one wishing to know farther of
this may address Db. D. Hughes,
Annapolis, Crawford county, 111.
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One ot the most serid-comic eccle
siastical trials of which we have any
knowledge has just been deoided in
one of the New England states. It
seems that the Rev. Mr. Hopper was
induced though much against his will,
to make one of a fishing party, com
posed of ladies and gentlemen. When
the party arrived at the stream of wa
ter, it was decided that the fishing
should be done by couples, each couple
composed of course of a lady and gens
tleman. Greatly to tho dismay of the
preacher he found that a gay and “gush
ing*’ widow had been assigned to him
After fishing for about half an hour
without success the widow decided that
she would cast her hooks farther into
the stream; for, wishing to take two
chanceB she had fastened two hooks
about one foot apart to her line. When
the widow made her cast, the hooks
instead of falling in the stream, caught
one of them in the nose of the widow,
and the other in tho ear of the preach-
Now the lino was too strong to
be broken and the preacher had forgot
ten his knife. The couple being out
of hearing of the party, started in search
of a surgeon; they had only gone a few
steps when it was found they could on
ly proceed by the widow placing her
head on the preacher’s shoulder 1 , and
this required that the preacher should
place his arm around the widow’s waist.
In this manner the couple entered the
village, followed by all the local boys.
As soon as the preacher was released
he left the village. A report was soon
started that the preacher had paraded
the streets with a drunken widow, his
arm around her waist and her head on
his shoulder, he exclaiming as they pro'
ceeded, “Whoa Emma.”
In consequence of this exagerated re
port charges were preferred against Rev
Mr. Hopper. The trial showed how-
ever that he was the victim of an acci
dent and he was therefore honorably
acquitted. The clergyman has taken a
row never more to fish with a widow.
ANOTHER COUNTY HEARD FROM.
Some more of the wild land devil
ment, says the Hawkinsville Dispatch,
has leaked out. We have pushed our
investigations into another county ad<
joining Pulaski, and we have in our
possession another letter from the
Comptroller General relative to the
fees allowed to the sheriff for advertis
ing wild lands in the Dispatch last
year. The Comptroller says that his
books show that two hundred and
eighty lots were sold, and that three
dollars and fifty cents per lot were
claimed as advertising fees, and that
a the amount claimed was allowed in the
)ewty|750 000, making its tctal' settlement. The sum, therefore, is mv- __ „
value, My (2,000 000, Would it «n hundred and twenty-eight dollars* cidedly, when Kelsoe remarked again.
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SOMETHING FOR THE MASSES
THE OGLETHORPE HOMICIDE,
The Murderer Still at Large.
The killing at Oglethorpe, on
Sunday morning last, has created
considerable amount of excitement
in that usually quiet and law abid
ing little city. The facts of the
killing, as gathered yesterday,
were abont as follows: Mr. Pat
rick Russ, John Russ, his son, and
Thomas ABhbery, Jr., had been
drinking pretty freely, and were
under the influence of tjie oft re
peated beverages. Mr. J.T.Kelsoe.
the deceased, kept a general store
in which he also retailed 'spirits.
The party went to his place and
roused him to get drinks. He open
ed the store for them. After get*
ting inside, the difficulty sprung
up between John Russ and Kelsoe,
about Thomas Ashbery, who, it
seems is a mere lad. Patrick Russ
espoused his son’s cause very de-
1 Turkey Gobbler that Lays Eggs, Sets,
Hatches, Etc.
The Thomasville Southern Enter
prise asserts upon its honor that it nev*
er publishes anything without either
personally knowing it to be true, or
having undoubted evidence of its truth
Henoe the following story, whioh would
never otherwiso he believed, must,
under existing circumstances, be
copted as emphatically oorrect. It
“A gentleman of this county is the
owner of a turkey gobbler that layB
eggs, sets, hatches and carries the
young brood. All except the firat act
are known to have been done, and that
seems as probable as the others. There
were but a pair of turkeys on the place,
The hsn had a young brood following
her, when a nest containing three tur
key eggs was found. Not supposing
the hen to be laying again so soon,
these eggs were believed to have been
laid by her at some previous time, but
just then she was killed by some means
and after her death still another tuts
key egg was found in the nest and the
gobbler bent on setting on them.. His
desire was gratified, and after he bad
been setting a week, enough chioken
eggs were put with the other to make
out a setting. He proved faithful, and
in three weeks time came off with the
brood of little chickens—bis own eggs
having failed to hatch. But ono of
the brood still survives, and this he
delights in carrying. He is expected
to “wean” soon and oommence laying
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LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON COTTON IN STORE’
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The Legislature.
So many newspapers having died in Atlan
ta, that when the Daily Post was annonoed,
tne general opinion was that in a few months
it would go like the rest; but not so. Very
it will be
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It is jnst moving into a large and
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am better prepared to HANDLE COTTON this season than
ever before. I am now located on Second Street, the finest
stand in Macon for the cotton business. I have made arrange,
ments to get money at a very low rate of interest, on Cotton in
Store. My scalesman, Mr. Hugh M. Willet, a son of Prof.
Willet, is accurate and reliable, Mr. C. B. Willngham .till has
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