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Peb. i'a, /&?</ BUTLER. GEORGIA,
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It is probable that the pay;car system
will soon be abolished upon most of the
prinoipol railways of the country. A
few years ago tho paymasters began to
take out checks for a great many of the
principal employes in ordor to avoid tho
risk of oacryiug such largo sums of
money, and tho plau has worked so well
thitnow the'check system will entirely
supercede the other.
Thb subscriptions to the Bartholdi
pedestal fund now amounts to $126,000,
about half of the entire amount required.
People do !}ot seem to realise the graud
pfoportions ot this statue and pedestal.
It iB over three hundred feet high, fifty
feet highpe than Trinity steeple.' ft is
seventy feet square at the point where
the masonry bogins. As this mammoth
statue is a gift from France, and as the
United States government has appro
priated Bodloe’s if lan l for its location, it
U a matter of surprise that tho $250,000
required from the j o >ple for tho j edestal
should be so long delayed.
and will l>e given up to boilers, railroad
tracks, otc. Arcliitoctually the building
will greatly resemble the Louvre of Paris.
The floor space will be 1,398,300 square
feet, of whiob 1,048,762 foot will be
used for exhibition purposes. The dome,
entrances, hal s, offices, corridors, eto.,
will be on a magnificent scale, arranged
with an oye to both business and beauty.
Exhibitors will pay no rent for space ; a
reasonable entrance fee being all tbat
will bo required. Assurances received
from all the States, and from foreign
governments, justify the belief that the
exposition will bo the largest and best
attended of any over he'd in this country.
Thb Statistician of tho Department of
Agriculturo has just issued liis estimate
of the principal crops in tho year 1883.
We publish' 1 these estimates below, an
nexing a column of the corresponding
crops in 1882:
1883.
Corn, bushels 1,551,060,835
Wheat, bushels 420,154,700
Oat*, bushels 571,233,600
Cotton, bales 6,014,220
Tho production of wheat in Europe in
1888 in sifted at 1,060,088,688 bushels,
•gainst 1;270,167,150 bushels in 1882, the
average yield being estimated at 1,143,
826,044 bushels.
1882.
1,624,017,800
602,780/600
400,000,000
6,057,000
The Alaska seal business is a big thing,
and the seals themselves afford material
for an intereating study. Am,l) seal
selects about twonty-five fern lies for his
family circle, and spends most of his
time loafihg on tho sunny sido of a rook
watching his harem. He is a jealous
fellow, allows no gadding, and if a female
attempts (o go army, ho batches her neok
between his toeth and beats her with his
flippers. If he sees a youug fellow
making up to one of hi* wives ho pun*
ishes him sometimes to the death. The
killing of soals lasts about two months
in the sntnmcr. The old male seals their
harems and the young soals are never
killed, afld under this policy the senl pro
duct grows larger evory year. The na
tives get 4J cents for oach skin, and the
United 0tate$ government .gats $2 apiece
for them from the Alaska Commercial
Company, which also pays $60,000 an
nually for the privilege.
The bills already introduced in the
House during the prosent session would,
if passed, absorb all the surplus revenuo
of tho government for years to come
The bills and the amounts they call for
may be stunmejl up as follows: Public
buildings and grounds, $12,000,000; river
and harbor improvements, $6,000,000;
public education, $106,000,000 ; now bu
reaus, commissions, etc., $1,000,000;
soldier's homo in Kausas, $200,000;
equalising bounties, V 00,000,000; pen-
lions, $176,000,000; prize monoy, etc.,
$868,644; deserters, nurses, etc., $2,250,•
000; half pay for revolutionary officers,
$25,000,000; depredations and spolia
tions, $1(^,000,000; private bills, $25,-
000,000; Stato claims, $60,000,000; draw
backs. rebars, etc., $8,975,549 ; miscel
laneous items, $5,000,000 ; to ai, $500,-
1n a general article on the different
kinds of cotton jn the world, the Boston
Commercial Bulletin states the highest
priced article is the sea island cotton
grown principally on the coasts of Geor
gia and Florida. It combines great
longth of staple with silkiness, beautiful
gloss, and general excellence. Borne parts
of Australia and is'onds in the Pacific
ocean aro now competing seriously with
Georgia in tho production of long- tapled
cotton, though the entire crop of sea is
land' cotton is comparatively unimport
ant, amounting to .ess than 40.000 bales
for tho whole United States, against
nearly 7,060,000 bales of our common
diort staple cotton.
The average longth of the various de
scriptions of cotton known to the world
are given by Mr. Evan Leigh, of Man
chester, England, oa follows:
Iuchesiq Length.
Sea Island 1.60 to 2.20
Australian 160
Egyptian! 1.50
Brazilian 1-15 to 1 35
Surinam and Peru 1 30
St. Kitts, West Indies... 1 CO
Southern and Western Afr ca 90 to 1.20
Borneo and Java 1.10 to 1 20
Surat, Ewt Indies. 105 to 1.10
Other loci in 65 to 1.10
New Orleans 110
American uplands 05 to 1.00
American cotton, of which tlio two
classes of New Orleans and uplands are
referred to in tho above table, is tbo
most useful and best known of all the
cottons, owing to the immense quantity
produced, amounting for the year endiug
September 1, 1883, to 6,992,284 bales.
Egyptian cutto •, says the Bulletin,
ranks next to sea is and in .'ength and
fineness of stuple as well as in silkiness,
but has not tho bright color of tbo latter
variety. Tho sea island cotton has boen
spun into cotton ns flue as No. 800, while
tho Egyptian is not spun above 150.
Some small quantities of cotton tre
grown in Algiers, and are s milar ns
Egyptian in quality.
Tnero a o many varieties of South
American cotton, tho moat common be-
A well posted writer in the Southern
Lumberman saya that the yellow pine of
Georgia Is worth as it stands fully $700,-
000,000. Tho turpentine business is rap*
Idly wasting this valuable timber. Mil
lions of acres ha?j been thus destroyed.
After the turpentine men abandon the
timber large quantities of it burn down,
blow down and die before it can be
reached by the sawmill men. It i;
gnod that the yellow pine forests of the
South will last at tho present rate of
production 150 years, but the writer
above quoted thinks that tho timber
available for sawmill purposes will ho
cut short fully one-third by tho devasta
tions of tho turpentine mon. Tho lum
ber business is really in its infancy. In
•ix or eight years it is safe te predict
that the yollow pine lumber product of
fho South will be 5,000,000,600 feet a
year. 'Ahe present long depression will
be followed by higllor pricos. During
the war fellow* pine sold at tbo North
for $60 and $80 per thousand. In twenty-
five or thirty years tbo Bamo figures may
be reached again.
TnE preparations for the coming
World's fair in New Orleans aro progress
ing satisfactorily. Tho exposition will
consist of cotton in flfi its conditionsi of
culture end 1 WlitnTifoT thr i as a chief ex
hibit.. Tbo classification of objects ex
hibited will compriso such groups as
agriculture, horticu turo, raw and manu
factured products, ores, 'minerals and
woods, furnituro and accessories, textile
fabrics, clothing and 'oeoea ; oriei, Indus
t ini ftrja, ftlifflyatafry product*, education
aud Instruction,' works of art, piscicul
ture, The exposition will be under the
odntrol'of aboard of thirteen oomrais
sioners appointed by tho President of the
United States, and a direotoi-gcueral ap
pointed by the board of management
The building wjll be in ttye city park,
and will‘.<y?vep the^ largest amount of
appee ^or'tooted .to suqh a JWrpoee*
wiui'ttM single exception, perhaps of
iirif^'. v a i.' tj.rwimi r n.ok,iU/i_
the Worfd’| Bair, of London, The build
ing will have three fronts, a main front
of L^OOIfftifqqing tho city proper, one
side of 900 fefet facing the Mississippi
river, and the oth_rof the same length
looking ifiWarfAQt/CSjarlfls^ttrfet. • ‘The
rear of the building will face Carrollton
are harsh and irregular in quality, and
much coarser than sea island or Egypt
ian. The cotton of St. Kitts and other
West Indian islands is much finer than
the Brazi ian, and is useful for mixing
tli sea island for fino spinning. The
quantity of cotton grown In the West
India islands, howover, is small.
India ranks next to tho United States
in the quantity of cotton produced, and
was one of the centers of the cotton man
ufacture for ages before the culture of
the cotton plant in America had been
dreamed of.
The best cotton grown in southern Af
rica is the Port Natal, averaging about
1.20 inches in length. On the west coast
aro produced the Lagoa and Loando va
rieties, ranging from nine-tenths of an
inch in length. The Sarawak cotton of
Borneo is about an inch and one-fifth in
length, and Java cotton is a trifle short-
The cotton which is grown la China
is of exo odingly short staple. Some
small quantities and irregular grades of
cotton are grown in the Ottoman empire
and in Italy.
The balance of trade for the year 18R9
ii more than $100,000,000 in our favor,
since the United States tent abroad pro
duce and merchandise worth $813,166.-
138, receiving from foreign ports ship
ments worth $720,762 827. New York
City receives about two-thirds of all the
imports and dispatches about 46 per cent
of all the rest.
Mr. John Shirley, one of tbo largest
landowners in Australia, has just pur
chased from the Southern Pacific railroad
all the camels used by that company in
carrying goods and freight across the
deserts of Arizona. There are about 500
animals now living. Mr. Shirley intends
shipping them to Australia, whore he
will uko tb*ir for carrying purposes on
his cattle ranches.
Advices from Mobile say the late cold
snap caused immense damage in that
section. The loss to orange groves is es
timated at nearly $1,001,000, and the
value of the vegetables k lied in Mobile
groves in Florida, but many orange
growers profited by the signal service
warning and built fires in their groves,
and thus saved their trees.
The new poatoffico at Atlanta, Geor
gia, oost $275,000. Offices in otlior cities
cost as follows, the cost of the site not
being included: Cairo, Illinois, $286,000;
Des Moines, Iowa, $230,000; Fall River,
Massachusetts, $362,000; Hartford,
Connecticut, $438,000, a city of much
less population than Detroit; Indianapo
lis, $370,000; Knoxville, Tennessee,
$389,000; Madison, Wisconsin, $344,000;
Mobile, $534,000 ; Nashville, $405,000;
Raleigh, North Carolina, $344,000; St.
Paul, $445,000.
It ia estimated tbat 20,000 rabbits
have been sold iu Nashville during tho
present winter. Between $4,000 and
$5,000 must have been realized from the
sale of these animals from the opening
of the season to the present time. A
number of hunters make a regular busi
ness of supplying Nashville with rabbit
meat. They have dogs trained for the
purpose, and .manage to capture a good
many rabbits in a day. Sometimes a
single shot will k II a rabbit, no matter
how small the shot or whoro it strikes
the animal.
The late news from Egypt is impor
tant Virtually there is no longer an
Egyptian Government although there
are nominally an E-yptUui Khedive and
Premier. The decisive step taken by
the English Ministry, nastenen dv tne
patent schemes of tho French, settles
hencefoith tho British poficywith refer
ence to tli is country. By ordering the
abandonment of Khartoum and the
Soud n, England now takes on herse'f
the defense « f lower Egypt, and, at the
same time, assumes its government. An
nexation is practically inevitable soonei
or later
Peter Cooper’s Favorite Poems.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Modocs now number twenty-six
families of 106 persons. Tho govern
ment furnishes implements, supplies and
an instructor in agriculture and they are
fast becoming farmers.
A petroleum well lately sunk in the
Bnkn district of Russia promises to sur
pass tho most famous “gushers” of this
conhtry. i t is said to be yielding from
7,000 to 8,000 barrels a day.
Professor Huxley says that in his
voyage around the world bo found no
people so miserable, wretched and de
graded as those who exist in the poorer
quarters of London.
Mrs. Murkleham, Jefferson's favorite
and only surviving daughter, who lives
at Georgetown in ntter destitution, was
70 years old Thursday, and Congressman
Potter sont her $250 as a present and
said that if Congress didn't take cure of
hertfor life ho would.
The production of syrup in South
Geergia, owing to the killing of the cane
by frofta, will be shorter than for several
years, btubblo was the only hope for
seed, and this has been killed by the late
froSts, wbiidr'wiU'bxtentr tbo shortness
tfato nex^year’s crop, owing to tho lack
of seed.
The oddest day in the history of
Mon gomery, Alabama, was the 3d day
of February, 1836, forty-eight years ago,
when the thermometer froze down to
zero, a pqint which it has never since
touched. Tho driver of a stage from
Selma to.Montgomery wai frozen on the
box pf his coach.
No ^paBseqgor rifling in a passenger
train was filled fast year in Massachu
setts except from his own fault. As
there were over 61,000,000 passengers
earned an average distance of 15 miles
each, this is a remarkable record. One
passenger was 'killed upon a freight
train, where he was riding contrary to
rnlo.
Writing of Peter Cooper, in the De
cember Century, Mrs. Susan N. Carter
says: “His opinions were positive, anfl
ho stated them definitely; and his illus
trations were often simple and ever
homely. It would be difficult to tell tlio
occasions, so numcrons wero they,
which drew from him the poems and
little rhymes which wero bis solace and
delight. Ho told them to strangers in
their visits to tho sohool, or often ho re
peated to tho pnpUs verses of whiob he
was specially fond. Among thoeo he
particularly liked wero lines from
'Pope’s Essay on Man,’ which appealed
strongly to him by its common sense
and the knowledge it showed of human
nature. I believo he know the whole of
the poem, but the parts ho oftenest
quoted were those that are nearly
familiar os proverbs.
•“Look round onr world; behold tlio chain of
LIFE AMONG THE COW 111
*KI»Y EXCITING ftCKNKM AT A ll
IN AN IDAHO TOWN.
OnnMnn Hbot Ornri i
Did Not Know the OblrrtIon o
lovo.
Combining all below and all abovo.’
And there is hardly any ono familiar
with Mr. Cooper who bos not heard
more times than once:
•' ‘Oh, happiness 1 our being’s end and aim
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whoe'er thy
name—
That something still which prompts tli’ ctomal
rich,
For which wo boar to livo or daro to die.
Remember, man, “tho universal
Acts not by partial but by general laws,”
And makes what happiness wo justly rail
Subsist not In tho good of one, but all.*
• ‘Health consists with tenipcranco alone,
And peace, O virtue, peace is all thine own.’
' “ ‘Honor and shamo from no condition visa,
Act well your part, thoro all tho honor lies.'
“ ‘Know then this truth (enough for man to
know),
Virtue alone is happiness below.’
*• ‘Onr own bright prospect to bn blest,
Our strongest motive to assist tho rest.’
Of all other parts of this poem the lust
was tho ono, perhaps, about which he
cared most, and which most closely har
monized with his own theory of life:
“ God loves from whole to parts; but human
soul
Must rixo from individual to the whole,
Self-love but senes tlio virtuous mind to wake,
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake;
Tho centre mov’d, a circle straight
Another stUl. and still another spr
Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace;
... ------—* —d next all human
His country next, ami next all human race:
Wide and more wide, tli’ o’orflowings of tho
The cowboys bad a dance ltorJ
oilier night, says an Idaho lei ten
tbo survivors Lave been around tfl
making a mental list of the
As cowboy dances go, tho carnagoj
uot great, only ouc man being 1
and four wounded. Thu dead ina|
dy been buriod, and the
aro all doing ns well os could bo expel
and before many days have passed!
be around as full of life aud iunf
sport ns ever,
The preparations tot a cowboy
e, as a rule, quite as interesting!
fully as dangerous to life and limb af
dance itself, and for that reason it I
be well to describe sonio of the ii oiq
of tho day preceding tbo opening i
of the Benson. The boyB gathered <
in the day, and made several raidi
tho dispensers of bugle paint. TL
went smoothly enough nntil about!
middle of the afternoon, when a t
ing man arrived in town. Some c
old heads expected trouble the m|
he appeared, for tho boys wero ;
humorous mood, and ready for any I
of fun. The traveling man went t"
tavern and did not show himself
until about 6 o’clock, when be was
walking down the Btrcet wearing
hat. Gold ohills ran up tho baolj
tho ancient citizens, aud the f
keeper, with a view to save the
life, started after him to give bin
word, but before be could overtakl
stranger eight or ten of the bovs |
seen him aud were following him dog!
ly down the street in single file. H
man with tho silk hat may have no!
the procession, but it is probable f
be bad no idea of its significance. ]
stopped in a little store for a few I
utes, and while lie tarried there!
crowd on tho outside increased. Tl
he emerged ouco more the boys fell!
line behind him again in "uigfo file I
resumed their march; gathering reef
at almost every step, until finally ^
were twenty or thirty of the gang iJ
C rocession. By this time the stroa
egan to understand that something!
the matter either with him or with I
town, and he darted into a little jew!
store, pretending that ho wanted to|
his watch. The boys camo hi a haltf
tlio sidewalk and faced the store. 1
jeweler, whose stock consisted pril
pally of revolvers and other shoot!
irons, looked inquisitively at his car
and then at tho throng in front. Th|
ing it a good opportunity to say
thing, the traveling man observed: I
“You have a nice town hero, butj
you tell mo why theso men are folio J
me arouud?" 1
“I can," said the storekeeper lac|
callv; “they’re after that ho^*
“What hat ?’’ *
“That plug. They don’t allow 1
here, sir. Never been hero boforo?”
“Never,” gasped tho man.
“Well, now, look here.” said tho jl
eler. “The Loys aro a littlo full of f
to-day, and they might make things I
oomfortable for yon. I’ll just esq
you up to tho hotel and introduce
to some of them as my friend. T
you put that hat away and don’t weal
any more.”
Thanking tho jeweler, the siranj
walked out arm-in-arm with him, 3
boys falling in behind and followi!
them to tlio hotel. On entering tl
barroom the jeweler called one of tl
boys to one sido and said: “This is 7
B , a friend of mine from tbo State
Tho “boy” seized him by the haufl wl
a grip thnt brought tears to bis eyl
aud said:
“I’ll take turpentine. ”
Others crowded up and wero inti
duoed, each ono smiling a sickly sort!
sniilo, but looking unforgivinglv at tr
hut. All ngrecd that they would lin
to havo something, and quietly urgl
the stranger toward tho bar, on whil
tho innkeeper bo<l placed the bottlo afl
glasses tlio minute tho first speaker hi
"nominated his medicine.” When on!
tin y wero arranged iu front of thb bill
with ghwses in baud, the hat sudden!
slipped from tho head of its wearer, aT
Mated by u cowboy iu the rear, aud L
loss time than it takes to tell it, a rinl
was formed around the offending artioll
and a score of revolvers were blazinl
away at it. The terrified trnvnlr!
stopped to one side with his new four.iT
friend, and was met with the coinfoi t|
ing remark:
"It’s a mighty good thing for yon tha
you got onto me, for in ten minntJ
more those chaps would have been iirinl
at that hat on your head. They wouldnf
havo taken the trouble to knock it off
Thev would have shot it off, and yo!
would have been lucky if you bad esl
enped with a whole skull, for some o!
tho boys aro wild in their shooting.” T
While the boys wero still holding liigq
carnival over their drinks and the hat A
hard-looking customer, whom few in thJ
crowd appeared to know, camo in, and!
elbowing bis way up to the bar, seizes
tho bottle aud took a long pull from itJ
nozzle, disdaining to uso a glass. Onf
of the lroys made a profuuo remark tl
tho effect that the newcomer was a hoJ
from Hogsvillo and tcetotally unfit til
associate with gentlemen. Quicker thail
a flash ribe man known as Babe Will
limns, had liis self-cocking revolve!
raised aud ready for business. f
"Take that buck!” ho soared to tliq
cowboy who had insulted him.
“Never!” said tho latter with ail
oaU*
Take every creature in or evory kind;
Earth smiles around, with Ixmnillomi bcanty
bleat,
And heaven beholds Its imago in his breast.’"
He Left No Effects.
Uncle Abe was fond of ’posum. Hav-
iug caught one, lie gut his wife, Dinah,
to cook it for him and requested that it
should be placed in tbo cupboard until
morning. The favor was granted and
Uncle Abe lay down before a log fire
and went to sleep. His son Most*, com
ing in late, got the ’possum aiwl ate it,
laid the bones down at Undo Abe’s head,
smeared tlie old man’s face aud bands
with grease and went to bed. Tho fol-
lbwing morning Uuole Abo awoke and
asked Dinah:
“\Ybar's dat 'possum Y*
“In de cupboard," which she explored
and found it missing.
Returning, Dinah inquired:
'Abff, when did you eat dat ’possum ?
1 L' ... 1 J #
Dor’s de bones at' your bend, ycr food
smells of ’possum and yet ban's are
greasy.”
“Maybe I did eat dat ’possum, but if I
did it did me less good dan any 'possum
I evei et ’’
Interest in tho proceedings was roviv-l
‘Pi.n of the boys stood around!
ing. The rest c
their faces revealing tlio enthusiaem|
which they felt.
Williams was very ranch In earnest.
With finger on trigger he yelled : “Ml
give you ono minute to tako that back.”
The cowboy stood with folded arms, un
moved, his gray eyes - fixed on liis
enemy. There was a lingo rovolvor in
his belt, but a movement of tho baud to
ward tho weapon meant death.
“I nm not afraid of you,” ho said,
“You can’t kill roe without killing your
self at tho same time.”
"llow’s that?” asked Williams.
Because there’s a mau behind you
who has got the drop on you, and
when—”
Before the cowboy finished tho sen-
tenee'Williams hud turned quickly on
his imagiqai'y foe in the rear, and with
a movemrat like lightning the cowboy
bail his revolver in hand and was firing
lend into Williams in a way that seemed
very wasteful' to say tho least, for tbo
first shot pierced his brain and must
havo killed him instantly. No idea of
the rapidity with which fliis was done
can be given in any mere narration of
llio fact. It was done and over v illi like
a flash.and us the boj siaugcd llu lusclvtw
jimtlcd mo; I U ivI“ mn^SJuf 4 .
should be recognized ; blit thoro T 1
feasting my eyes on tfio fnsoiuofc,
poster, and saying proudly to myself,
the words of tho great Vinoint
Crummies, This, this, is fame !’ That
day my pupils had an indulgent foncher;
for, while they wero struggling with
their-ppWiooks,.! was writing Ipunerjil
works, and when they droned nut* tlieir
multiplication-table,* I was cotfnting out
tlio noble fdrfuiin my pen was to earn
few mo in- tbo dim, delightful fqfauA
my sisters made a. pit
grim age to behold the famous placard,
and, finding it torn by the wind, boldly
sto)o it, and came borne to wave it. likq
a friumphal banner iu tho bosont’ of the
excited family. The tattered paper still
exists, jtvlded away with other relies of
those early days, ho hard and
sweet, when tlio first mu.i1 I v
were won, and the enthusiasm of jj
lent romance to life’s drud
I