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OUK AtiESTS.
For the convenience of our subscribers in
this county ‘ we have established the following
agencies. The gentlemen named are author¬
ized and will be glad to receipt for new sub¬
scribers or receive any renewals. They have
lists and can give you any information con¬
cerning your time :
Bairdstown—R. M. Callaway.
Crawford—C. S. Hargroves.
Winterville—J. I>. Winter.
Stephens—.!. Maxeys—Henry E. Freeman. F. Hurt.
Glade—G. H. Irby.
Mill stone—H. P Lilli ps.
Philomath—Williie Peek.
Sandy Cross—J. C. Martin.
CLINARD MOUSE
ioHvemieut to
CLAYTON ST... ATHENS, 6A.
SPECIAL rates given my Oglethorpe friends.
O Regular rates reasonable.
A. £>. CXJTYA&&f>* Proprietor,
FOUND AT LAST!
Jackson Sc Brydie,
npATLOES, 1 No, 51 Clayton Street, Athens, Ga.,
remove greasy spots; alter clothes to latest
styles; cut or mate suits to order, samples 011
hand. We have A!! hut work guaranteed price. to give satisfaction^ septo
one
DAVIS, HARIUS & BitVDIE,
TOffSORAL ARTISTS
AT55EXS. <UEORtJJA,
II A YING recently moved into tbeir large and
niedv arranged shop on llrosul stre.it, near
•University Rank, respectfully invite the cifci
«ens of Oglethorpe to call on them when they
want a clean shave or a stylish hair-cut.
BARBER SHOP REMOVED
w E have removed our Palace Barber Shop to
the stand on Broad street, formerly occu
jpiedby Lowe & Co., as a saloon, and are now
better prepared than ever to wait upon our old
•customers, and as many new ones as will pat
ronize us. We have the handsomest and best
■/-•quipped barber shop artists in Athens, employed. and only Give the
most skilled tonsorml are
as a trial. SicQUEEX & OCKHAM.
ROANE HOUSE
liEXSNGTO^ GA.
T .1 AV[NG tahen charge of the above House, 1
shall do my best to give good fare, polite
attention and satisfaction in bed and board.
Rates $2.00 per day; single meals, 50 cents.
I shall be pleased with to have any citizen of the
•county stop me dm ing Courts, and I will
give them reduced rates,
I shall be prepared reasonable to give feed and attention
to horses at rates.
MKtt. 5*. E. ROANE,
GLOBE HOTEL,
Under New Management.
rTMiE 1 undersKHed respecifully informs tl e
public that he has secured the control of the
old and popular GLOBE HOTEL, of Augusta,
and it will be kept open and run in the same ac¬
commodating manner as formerly. table will Every specially atten¬
looked tion paid after. to guests Families and the accommodated be with
pleasant rooms at moderate rates. Special rates
for board and lodging. ■J. VV. (IIIAV.
STONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Georgia Railroad Company.
OFFICE GEN FRA L MANAGER ,)
COMMENCING AUGUSTA, Ga., Nov. 21,1885. fol- >
c SUNDAY, 22d in*t., the
J lowing passeneer schedule will be operated
Trains run by 90th meridian time.
FAST LINE.
NO. 27, WEST DAILY. NO. 2S, EAST DAILY.
iLv. Augusta... .7:40 a m Lv. Atlanta.. ..2:45 p m
Lv. \VasUingt’n.7:2(» a m “ Athens......2:50 pm
•Lv. Athens.....7:45 a rn Ar VVinterville,3.11 pm
Ar. WinterYilie..8:04am; “ Lexington...3.42 pm
“ Lexington. ..r :33 am “ Antioch.....4.00 pm
“ Antioch.....8:55 am “Maxeys......4.1G pm
“ Maxeys.....9:04 am; “ Woo iville. .,4.40 pm
“ Woodville...9:20am “ Union Point.4 55 pm
“ Union P >int.9:40 am “ Washington.7 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta......i :00 pm \r. Augusta. ...8:15 pm
•Lv Union Point. 10:35am Lv Union Point.5.50pm
Ar Woodville...1C:4 s ; n» Ar Woodville. -6.02 pm
“ Maxeys......11:12 Antioch.....11:22 am “ Maxeys......6.23 pm
“ am “ Antioch.....6.32 pm
“•Lexington. .11:44am “ Lexington...7.47 pm
“ VVinterville.12:14 pm “ Winterviile..6.52 pm
Ar Athens......12:35pm “ Athens......7:40 pm
No. 27 stops at Grovetown, Tierzelia. Harlem,
Hearing, Thompson, Norwood, Barnett, Cnuv
fordville, Union Point, Greenesljoro, Madison,
Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers,
Stone Mountain and Decatur, and ail staiions
named on Athens Branch.
No. 2S stops at all above stations with Lithonia
added.
REGULAR TRAIN.
LEAVE Athens...... . 9.00 a ni
Leave Winterville.... 9.31 “
Leave Lexington..... .10.16 “
Leave Antioch........ ..10.49 “
Leave Maxeys........ .31.12 “
Leave Woodville...... ..11.42 “
ARRIVE Union Point ..11.55 “
Arrive Atlanta....... .. 5.4*1 pm
Arris e Wr.sliington... .. 2.20 “
Arrive Milledgeviile.. .. 4.20 “
Arrive Macon......... .. 6.15 “
Arrive Augusta....... .. 3.35 “
LEAVE Augusta..... ..10.50a m
Leave Macon......... .. 7.10 “
Leave Washington... Milledgeviile.. .. 9.19 “
Leave .11.20 “
Leave Atlanta........ . 8.00 “
Leave Union P »int... .. 2.20 pm
LEAVE Woodville... .. 2.39 “
Leave Antioch........ Maxeys........ .. 3.18 “
Leave . 3.36 “
Leave Winterville.... Lexington...... . 4.13 “
Leave ".sm
Arrive Athens.......
a-hington ' run daily. Close connection t<» or from
tions and on from Sunday-. Double daily connec
to Athens and Washington by
.ast mail. E. R. DORSt Y, Gen’l Pas’n’r Agt,
JOL '>. w ill r i-* I r., >V ' Gen. GRKjEX, Trav. Superintendent. Pass. Agent.
Augusta, Ga
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 188(>.
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Enters tbe system from unknown
causes, at all seasons.
Shatters the Sesves, Impairs Digestion, anil
Enfeebles tile tluscles.
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it does not injuro the teeth.’cinreli.-idirtw, or
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He AiffligMy Dollar!
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How the Unsuspecting
are often Gulled.
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CAPITAL vs. MERIT,
It is possible that money dipped into a
bounteous supply of printer’s ink is to be used
to teach false ideas.
Why is it that such persistent anathemas
should all at once he hurled against the use of
“Potash and Potash Mixtures ?”
Those who insist that Potash is a poison do
so because that it the way they have of fight
ing B. B. B., as the latter contains potash
Pr OpTum,Tm"'in;, all deadly strychnine, poisons, and aconite, whis- daily
destroying ky, etc., are the lives of people, and why are do
not
these men cry out against them ? ‘It is be
cause there is no money in sight to do so. Io
dide of Potash, in proper combinations, is re¬
garded by the medical profession as the quick¬
est, grandest and most powerful blood remedy
ever known to man. Those who believe in
revealed combinations and Indian foolishness
are surely in a condition to become rather
“cranky" in their ideas at any time. We as
sert understandingly that Potash, as used in
the manufacture of I>. B. B., is not a poison,
air' the public need not put any confidence in
assertions to the contrary. which Why is it that in
one thousand letters we receive we nev¬
er hear a word against its use? The truth is,
P>. B. II. is working such wonders in the cure
of blood poisons, scrofula, rheumatism, ca
tarrh, etc. that others are trembling in their
cau£thev feaHts" triom?X 11 1 mim-'h! ' It is
making five times more cures in Atlanta than
ail other blood remedies combined. Wedou’t
say that other arc poisons or frauds; we are
not that easily and alarmed, but proof. we Send say ours is
the best, we have the for our
32-page book, free, and be convinced.
BL ° ° D
AthmtMia.
flu.
Wholesale and Hr tail
DBUGOISTS&SEEDSMEN
And Manufacturing Chemists.
We keep *roi everything in the I) nlg
lino bottom pric.
We give special attention to mail
order from merchants and
physicians generally.
When in Athens do not fail to come
and see us.
J0hfl I fv 11 M CRANFORD si * s s ^ E*\ CO.,
a
OPPOSITE PO TOFFICE,
Clayton Street, Athens, Ga.
LONG & CO.
Wholesale and Retail
11IBGISTI 5
Garden and Grass
SEE I),
A Specialty. ' :
BROAD ST., ATHENS.
TJrqvmri liulbuo dull earl ffnlna Ifldiob.
I have on hand now, and will keep constant-i
ly during the season, a
A Large Stock of
HORSES & MULES J
Of all kinds, to suit all classes customers.
W. S. HOLMAN "
Ather.s,
rJ''\ ! uRLr- tm-ii-c rojaf, Va and j,’:»ble we wilt
ll veil fr-c »■ san>
n 11 B G.x .» v “■•!- that will pin you i«
W U a • F ii,. ua , roakiac moremoneyat
once than am :bimrV;-' in Amer
of all a""- c : t live at home and ivork in spure *
time, or all the time. Capital not required. W«
will start you. immense pay s » ir# - tor those whfl
-.(art at oir:e STD's*»N" A f ■
“AN EPITOMIZED HELL.”
Horrible Atroriiies Which nre Practiced inn.
Convict Camp.
Wc give below a letter written by a
i i convict, withhold a young for tbe white man, that whose name
we reason there is
j no protection between him and the ra
! bacidy and cruelty of the lessees except
, the profit of his labor may bring to them.
11 tbe Slate of Georgia had been half so
I careful of her own interests as she was
J hasty Date human in giving beings over to these people poor unlortp- who
are
1 mainly interested in pulling the last far
thing’s worth of profit out of tbeir bodi
ly labor, we should not be compelled to
lay these bare facts before the public,
despairing as we do of a remedy until
the State's forbearance will endure it no
more, ihe poor convict who laid these
horrors before his attorney is as helpless
as a Siberian exile under knout. He
was sentenced for receiving stolen goods,
and sent to Smith’s camp, in Oglethorpe
county. We will give his letter in full,
followed by our friend’s letter:
M ACOX, Ga., Feb. 8, 1886.
DearSir:—I give you below the facts
regarding the cruelty which was carried
on in J. M. Smith’s camp in Oglethorpe
county, six miles from VVinterville, from
.March 4th to May 8th, 1885.
John Martin, who complained of be
ing sick and unable to work, was whip
ped, two men holding him close to the
ground, with a large leather strap made
of three-ply sole leather. He was struck
175 lashes.
til Burrell, a negro boy, was whipped on
he was disabled for work three days.
John Bell, Lindy Moore and one oth
whose name I have forgot, had the skin
whipped off their hips in places as large
as a man’s hand. 'I fie pi aces were raw
and swollen when I called Mr. Tower’s
attention to it.
While piling manure in the horse lot.
there were five others bucked an un trier
i rtefciv eq from ID
to 225 lick* each, i counted the lick*,
r as inside h crib Hssorthag sjeed corn.
tfs* !N*j!'-.;k auti Ju! u i a ie «■’ere
i OGLETHORPE COUKTT.
The Court-House Work. Lexington’* Gran¬
ite. Prohibition and the Stock Law. Small
Grain Crops* Hard Times. Political, etc.
Editor Banner-Watchman: Hands
are now engaged in clearing away the
debris of the old court-house, when the
ground will he graded down for the new
building. The square will wall be taken oft’
some three feet, the stone in front
removed, and the new structure set to the
rear of where the old house stood—its
front old just building. reaching Our the hack wall of house the
new court
will be a model and convenient one, with
fire proof rooms for the storage of rec¬
ords and other conveniences, it is now
proposed to add $2,000 to the cost of the
building and have the first story built of
Oglethorpe granite, which, I think will
be a good investment, A $1,000 clock
"’ill put on top the court-house when
completed. I was not in tavor of build
U1 " a new Court-house just at this tune,
but since . it is decided on, let us have a
first - c hiss structure, even if it costs a few
fTf d 0ll r m ° r< \ wiH be paid
tor by bonds a that can be floated at o or
5J per cent., and the next generation will
lmve t0 liquidate proud them. of her
Lexington is granite,
which tlie court-house workmen say ia
tUe be8t l }\7 ! ver ® luck * ehi * e ‘ t0 ‘ ,.}*>
susceptible to beautiful . polish, splits
ts a
like wood, and the deeper it is taken
from the earth the finer the quality.
There is an inexhaustible quarry of this
stone in and railroad around Lexington, and .we
only need a to develop it into a
industry.
Both prohibition and the stock law are
working like a charm. Last sale day 1
did not see a drunk man in town, and
very littie liquor was in the crowd. Men
who were never known to come to Lex¬
ington and go home sober now keep as
straight as shingles. On the first of
April the bar-room at Maxeys will close
doors, which dries up our county. One
can hut be impressed already with the
j beneficial I think that workings between of prohibition. half and
; one two
i thirds of the wheat has been killed out
1 by the freeze, while oats, with the exeep
i tion of a few patches in the fiatwooda,
j are entirely destroyed. Some fields have
been re-sown with spring oats, hut they
{ seed rarely and ever time. do much. it is a waste of
, to look
-* don t want you upon mo as a
chronic croaker, but I tell you our farm
ers are in a bad way financially. The
low price of cotton this winter has about
completed the this ruin of three-fourths the
planters in county. How some of
them will manage to run their farms this
year—being minus provisions and credit
—is a serious question. They have
worked hard, lived sparingly, and yet
find themselves poorer every year. It is
all due to the credit system. They pay
from 50 to 200 per cent, interest, and no
business on earth can stand such a drain.
And it is still going on. Only a few
weeks ago I saw a well-to-do, prosperous
p | ant er pay 8’,- cents pound lor meat on
tin “® ti ' 1 I J. ov ’ lst ' wken >' e ®°" ld ha ™
E ot '*• j (t,r h cents cash. Here is over 40
percent. Our farmers don t stop to
count the cost when they buy on time,
These store accounts are injuring the
planters more than even cotton at 8 cents.
That big interest for goods on time is the
«>»«" 1 learn that most ot the »•!<! big P^erty. farmers .
in
Wilkes are badly embarrassed, while a
collector who has been over Madison.
Jackson and Clarke tells me that hard
times are not confined to Oglethorpe.
Politics are very quiet now, except that
Mr. Reeese’s friends are secretly at work
in his interest, and are stocking the cards
for him. I have heard of a private meet
ing they belli a few Java since, at which,
way re f to ort save 8a - v V‘ Keese ,ey d L Oglethorpe ci f a that ,he county only
'Oil he to repeat the old game when
3 mass meeting of the democratic party
that Mattox has a dead sure thing. I
know that this week Mr. Reese’s friends
have been very active in sraining con
verts, and I advise Col. Mattox’s friends
to be on the alert. You hear but little
said of county polities. We concede
Madison the next senator if she wants it,
a nd our people wouid iike to see Mr.
John J. Hrickland selected, lie is one
of the best men in the district. — Ogle*
thorpe in Banner - Watchman.
cruelly treated—were whipped almost
every day. jaw
On the first day of May my was
broken and I was unmercifully beat¬
en because I reported them for their in- I
human treatment to the prisoners.
was told bv guards and convicts that
Gilmore Johnson, who did all the whip
: ping, shot and killed a negro man for no
reason but because he ret used to pull
down his breeches to be whipped the sec¬
ond time for the same offense. This was
done in June, 1884. It is impossible to
write it all, hut this is some specimens
of their cruelty. Respectfully, etc..
Now we give an extract irom the let¬
ter enclosing the above to the Courant:
“I enclose you a statement made by a
man, at present in the penitentiary. He
w as tried and convicted of reeeving sto- j
len goods, and went to the camps. AG
forward his relatives took the case to the
Supreme Court. A supersedes being
granted, he was released. The Supreme
(jourt refused to interfere in his ease, and
he ilaa been returned to the penitentia
ry . Smith's camp is the same Westmoreland. reported
to the Governor by Dr.
Tlie convict who wrote the letter is a
young white man, with good connections
in this citv.”
if these'things are true, there must he
a remedy somewhere, It cannot be pos¬
s jble that our Christianity and civiliza¬
tion will longer tolerate this horror in
our midst. The State must redeem her
name and honor. It will be remembered
that a Georgia Legislature fefused to al¬
low a separate camp for women, or a re¬
formatory prison for voting criminals.
Even legislators on the floor of the House
sneered at such a humane effort, denom¬
inating it. a scheme to “fix up a Kimball
House lodging for convicts.”
newspapers
themselves Democratic journals, arrayed
themselves on the side of inhumanity
(perhaps stimulated by substantial help
from leasee lobbyists,) and they claim became
so brazen in their support as to the
necessity of more brutality, more inhu¬
manity, more vicious treatment.
If such sentiments could be openly set
forth in otherwise decent newspapers, it
is to be wondered at that J. M. Smith’s
camp has become the head centre of bar¬
barism and unnecessary cruelty to pris
oners ?
The ieadingjournals cleared of Macon, Colum¬
bus and Augusta their skirts,and
advocated a house of correction for the
unfortunate children Who are hardened
and corrupted by association with veter¬
ans in villainy, but the little understrap¬
pers (some ot whom, we are reliably in¬
formed, took a fee of $5 to change sides
on the Railroad Commission) yelled like
they were paid by the line in behalf of
the convict lease system.
Nmv in view of all these facts, what is
to Lie said of our pupils, which moan and
sigh over Chinese ignorance, and are
perfectly Georgia? “mum” on this great crying
shame of
Here in our midst white men and
black men are punished likedumb brutes
l »>’ vicious "trusties,” themselves often
the grandest scamps in the corral (and as j
in the case of a white convict shot in the i
Chattahoochee river by a negro fiend,
himself sentenced for a more villainous |
crime) there is whitewashing, exculpa
tion and apology powerful in high places, because
the lessees are in polities and
vindicative in their revenge.— Courant,
Ohio and Georgia.
In welcoming the t)hio farmers, visits
ors to Georgia on a tour of inspection,
Commissioner Henderson ot the Agri
cultural Department said ; “A quarter
of a century ago, had you come among
us, you would have been met with a res
ception remarkable for its warmth. It
is our ambition to make it so now, but a
different kind of warmth. It is my pleas
ing privilege to inform you, gentlemen,
that the ‘war is over,’ the bugle no longer
sounds to arms. The pruning hook and
plowshare are the emblems of our office
and our occupation. Peace, brotherly
love and friendship reign throughout the
length and breadth of the land. Go
where you may, gentlemen, and you are
alike safe, whether by ones, twos, dozens
or scores, and you will be welcome every
where to our fire-sides and our boards,
A hundred thousand brave hearts are
pledged to your protection and safe re*
turn to the loved ones who sent you
among us. If your visit, here is a search
for homes, our people will everywhere
extend to yon helping bands, and will
deal with you candidly, truthfully and
intelligently in everything relating to
our climate, soil arid laws, You will dis
cover that we are not heathen, for the
spires of churches point heavenward from
a thousand hill-tops, and the school-mas
ter is abroad in the land. While you
are here, so through our capitol and our
library and sec how our laws are made ;
f orm ;) K > acquaintance and of our Executive, yourselves
visit our courts, assure
tba; our laws are not, as they have been
charged, a mockery, but are fairly ads
ministered without regard to race, color
or previous condition ol servitude. But,
gentlmen, I had not set out to make a
speech. All who know me know that I
am no speech-maker. You will
j,, various directions to meet and mingle
with the bone and sinew ot the land, f
was born among the people of Georgia,
and may therefore he supposed to know i
Home thitm of them. You will find them j
hospitable and kind wherever you go,
and of their generosity advised. and bravery Do all j I
who have read are us not
the grievous injustice will of be supposing wholely that ;
to come among us a one
sided game. You are experts in stock
raising and the grasses, root crops, and
probably many other things. We arc '
none the less so in cotton, potatoes, peas,
pindera and many other semi-tropical !
plants, which are not known a thousand
miles north of us. You are familiar with
the improved implements ot the day,and
your expertness agriculturists will greatly of aid Georgia. our le.-s j
experienced he mutually ben
Thus, you see, we may
eficiai to each other. Then we, who are ,
to the manner born, have gll the advan- !
tages due to an acquaintance and of enlighten the di
irn.te and prodco ion-, can
you on many things that can save the
inexperienced from many a dear-bought
lesson. Plainly, in my opinion, a little
infusion of new bltsai wiil hurt, neither
side of the iine, and, -o far as i am con
cernert, S re< m r like the idea. Once
mor-, f Uvi you welcome to
tbe capita'. c»ty .. .cxl t * ru?
ra! district - c . .-rv c.”
When we reached Marietta both ol . us
went to the same hotel. I thought lie
began to fight shy ot me nnd I took pains
to keep out of his way. During the eve
ning lie asked several townspeople in re
j gard to the country north ot Marietta,
and engaged of a livery^ man a saddle
horse tor next day. I did a heap of
thinking that night over the stranger’s
ease, hut when morning came I was none
the wiser for it. IHs homo was brought
around after breakfast, and he rode oil.
I was tempted to get another and follow
him, but what right? What had he done
or what was he going to do? I went up
to my room on an errand, not yet decid
ed whether to go or to stay, and in the
hallway my foot struck a memorandum
hook. I carried it into my room, and
the first thing my eye caught was the
name inside the cover, “George i’atgc.”
H was a well-worn book, and nearly lull
nf entries. Most of them seemed to re
hue to trips betw een Boston and Brovi
deuce, hut near the back end 1 found
one, reading :
“About ten miles north of Marietta, Ga.;
turn to right where highway fiends to left;
go into woods about ten roils; look for twin
beech tree witn imntials ‘l>. (% cut low
d °wn.”
My heart gave a jump. That was the
spot where the yankee cavalry run me
into hiding, and those were initials I
had seen on the tree ! Had this stranger
come down to unearth a skeleton? 1
was wondering over the matter, when I
heard the clatter of hoofs and knew that
he bad returned. He had discovert the
loss of his book. Now, then, I did what
you mav call a mean t-ick. I pocketed
the book, got down stairs without being
seen, and went to the nearest justice and
demanded a warrant for the arrest of
George Baige for robbery. Before he
had ceased looking for his lost inemoran
dum a constable, made him prisoner,
Meanwhile I had engaged a horse and
wagon, borrowed an empty tea chest and
a spade, and, as I’aige went to jail I
drove out of town. I wanted to uuearth
that skeleton myself. I had left it, hut
It was six years since
I had but little difficulty in finding the
grave, although tbe beech tree had been
cut down. Indeed, I walked almost
straight to it. and though the initials
were indistinct, they were there as wit
nesses. In half an hour [ had unearth
ed the “corpse.” He, or it, consisted of
a rotten coffee sack wrapped around a
mouldy blue hlou-e. and inside the
blouse were three gold watches. $420 in
gold, $1,203 in greenback , half a dozen
gold rings, a fine diamond pi.., two gold
braceM*, a gold lined cup, e full set ol
cameo jewelry, a *«»'>*<* .-diver hack comb,
and about four pounds uf silver »ih/uus
A TREASURE OF THE M AR.
By mi Ex-Rebel.
When Johnson was falling hack before
Sherman’s advance through North Geor¬
gia and before the conflict at Lost and
Pine Mountains, I was continually on
the front with a baud of scouts. We
penetrated the Yankee lines time after
time, but always to return to headquar¬
ters with the same report. Sherman had
one of the grandest armies in the world,
and he was in such strength that he
could fight Johnston in front and flank
him at the same time.
One day, scouting between Marietta
and the Etowah river, thel'ederal caval¬
ry passed and ent off my retreat by the
highways, and for six or seven hours I
was obliged to secret myself in a thicket,
It was in leaving this hiding place that
1 came across a dog which was doubtless
owned in the immediate vicinity, but
had been frightened into the woods by
the skirmishing. He took to me kindly,
and had dogged my heels lor half an
hour when he quickly leaped aside and
began pawing the ground at the foot of a
large beech. 1 halted a moment and saw
that the earth was fresh as if a grave had
been dug. It was but natural to con¬
clude that some one had been shot near
by, and that his comrades had given him
burial.
Upon closely examining the tree I
found llie fresh cut initials, “!). S. G.”
They were not where one would have
looked for them, but within three feet of
the ground. I had no doubt whatever
that a dead'man rested there, and 1 pick¬
ed up a stick and drove the dog away
under the impression that he the was hungry
and determined to get at body. I
succeeded after a couple of days in get¬
ting back into the Confederate lines, and
the incident did not occur to mo for long
rs.
One summer day in 1870, while I was
going from Rome to Cartersville, I limn¬
ed the acquaintance of a stranger who
gave his name as Charles Gains, and who
claimed to he a Virginian. lie said he
was looking fur improved land, and had
been advised to locate near Marietta.
This story was straight enough, except
that J did not believe he wasa Virginian.
He hadn’t the look nor the dialect, and
when 1 came to quiz him about certain
locations around Richmond lie soon be¬
came confused.
1 was then a detective in the employ
of several railroad lines, and it was only
natural for me to ask myself why this
man had lied to mo. 1 took pains to let
him know that I was willing directly to answer
all his questions, and he began
asking about the section of country be¬
tween Marietta and rlie Etowah. Ho
wanted to know the value of land ; if
much forest had been cleared since the
war ; if there had been any finds of treas¬
ures around Marietta, and various other
things. He worked the answers out of
me without seeming to be more than
generally interested, and while I was
somehow suspicious of him, I could not
exactly determine on what to place my
finger. But he had lied. Why? I
kept asking myself this had question, but
could not answer it. He a ticket to
Cartersville, and before we reached that
place 1 had made up mind to go on with
him to Marietta. What decided me was
this; He sat on the outside ot the seat,
and a passenger going to the water cool
er knocked his hat off. It rested fora
moment in the aisle, and 1 plainly read
the name “Boston” inside in guilt letters.
1 he name oI the maker was above it, hut
I could not catch it. No hat sold in
Richmond would bear tlie name ol Bos
ton. Where*did he get it? By and by
I made a careful examination of his
boots. He never bought them South ol
the Ohio. I decided the same in regard
to his clothing. He was trying to de
ceive me. What object could lie have
in view?
Bud on the Nigger,
^ Waterloo letter to the Lawrensville
Herald says : “On thelflth of February,
j\j r Walker, the emigrant agent that
skipped by the light <if the moon from
our ,, uvll year, stepped off the train
to take a look at the place. He rectignis
ZPf ] K()ln0 |' !lL . ( . Si -.|iil he would pay us
avisitsoon. The nextday his sub-agent,
Ji, [ r J Joy d, appeared in town and demur
ilixeci the labor. For some distance
around all the negroes that could be in
fiuced to go to Arkansas began to collect
at the depot, with their effects ready to
tnke the special train that Mr. Boyd had
ordered for them. They spent three days
waiting for aspeeial train, in the mean-'
time Mr. Boyd had left for Greenwood
j or t,h ( > purpose of hastening on the spe
,-ial train. Ou Friday 47 colored and I
white emigrant left our town for Arican
j : 'p| )e stopped at Greenwood for tlie
purpose of changing cars for Atlanta,
j,’j VR days have passed and they are still
fl [ Greenwood, without transportation,
food—with their baggage locfc
f jj,| jn charges. t | le depot held as security for
re lt The most of them are
:l rixious to return to Waterloo, and some
of t |„, m are eni | Pa v(.ring to gel their for
mer but employers to pav tbeir wav back ;
our citizeusseem disposed to let them
freeze out.
Boyd lias indeed left them in a help
let's condition. At tbia writing, Monday
22d, we learn that moil of them liavelelt
their fiagyatre in the depot at Greenwood
aid are walking back to Waterloo.
In Oglcthoree.
i,r Vv e spent . several days of last week in .
tbe good old county of Oglethorpe, and
were pleased to note the apparent pros- j [
perity of the people iri that section. al-!
Brohibition and the stock law have
ready proved a blessing to the people of j
the county, both white and black, and
former opponents of both economical
measures admit that great and lusting ,
benefits will cotne from their adoption— !
especially that of prohibitum, as working
men, poor and needy men, if you please,
are raving their hard earnings to pur-;
chase food and clothing for their tamilies j
arid putting the'r homes in better order
instead of buying a deadly enemy to !
steal away their brain, rob them of their
self-respect, and bring want and sorrow
to their unfortunate and often helpless
latnilies. A new and elegant court- i
house, not to cost less than $20,000 is i
now being erected. Lexington, the :
county site, is noted far and wide for ' ls j
talented and gallant men and its fa : r
and .
beautiful women. The Echo gives j
life and tone to the community and is!
one of the best and cleanest papers in 1
this or any other State. May Providence !
bie-s the people of Oglethorpe with peace ;
and plenty, for they arc kind and cour- ,
teons i- x'endid and when ‘.be heart the hand goes of with friendship it. >S. j
Hawkins. I
VOL. XII—No, 23,
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and forks, the whole fine being worth
me nearly $8,000. deposited there by
The stud had been
two or three or perhaps half a dozen for¬
agers, and much of it had been stolen
from the dead on the battle'fields.
When the treasure had been secured I
drove on to Cartersville, and from tlieuce
telegraphed to 1‘aigc my regrets at mistake his sit¬
uation, as 1 had discovered my
in accusing him. lie was held a day or
two arid discharged. He rode out to the
spot, found the treasure gone, and left
the State without a word as to what his
real errand had been .—From the Detroit
Free Press,
Tobacco Growing: in Georgia.
The interest manifested by Georgia,
farmers in the culture of tobacco is the
most remarkable feature of the present
agricultural value outlook. A reduction in the
market of cotton at a little more
than one cent per pound been as compared
with last season has a more effect¬
ive argument to prove the folly of rely¬
ing on one money crop than all the
speeches and writings ot ten years. The
Department of Agriculture has kept well
abreast of the movement to engage in to¬
bacco growing, and !«is supplied several
thousand packages of choice seeds, tally
meeting all demands. In addition Judge
Henderson has prepared and published
a slier;, simple “Manual of Tobacco Cul¬
ture for Beginners,” which gives all the
information necessary to enable a novice
to embark in the business.
We have never left much inclined to
encourage the culture of an article like
tobacco, which ministers almost solely to
a vitiated appetite and a —not very nice
habit (the writer is a “slave”). In a
broad, comprehensive sense, tobacco adds
nothing to the wealth of the world. We
would all be better off if the weed were
the fossils of a
But we wilt not pose as a reform polit¬
ical economist. Let every one settle for
himself the expediency and propriety in
this view of the., business. We have to
do only with the agricultural economies.
From the lights before us it seems very
probable that very considerable portions
of the extreme South will find some re¬
lief from the discouraging results of cot¬
ton planting by switching off Tobacco an tobacco
planting to some extent. Carolina, is no
new crop in South Georgia,
and the States South and West; hut it
has been planted as a leading crop on a
very few farms, and generally on a very
small scale, in tbe past. The same was
true of North|Curolina, Connecticutt and
some of the other States until within a
few years. There similar is a large area of land
in Georgia very in its character¬
istics to the celebrated tobacco lands of
North Carolina and Virginia. A large
proportion of it is still in the original
forest, and can be easily brought into
immediate profitable tobacco culture.
Northeast Georgia and Northwest South
< 'arolina abound in ridges of light, grav¬
elly or sandy soil—the especial need of
the bright yellow type of tobacco. If
the farmers of other States find it profit¬
able to grow tobacco, there is absolutely
no reason why its culture may not be
equally remunerative in the sections
named. Besides, in the middle and low¬
er portions of the Gulf States, especially
the pine region, the very best types of
high flavored and high-priced produced. smoking
and cigar tobaccos may be
It will be wise, however, if the farmer
"goes slow” in this "new departure,“not
plant too largely at first. Let this be a
year planted of experiment, confining the area
in tobacco to not more than one
or two acres to the mule, until confident
experience shall have been secured.—
Southern Cultivator.
Gough Bend.
John B. Gough, the great temperance,
lecturer, ih dead, lie was a marvelous
talker. The editor heard him in 1850,
just before the war, in Beecher’s church,
in Brooklyn. I lie place was packed.
Gough’s opening was a stroke of rhe¬
torical art. ilis greatest difficulty was
the exaggerated idea of his power and
meeting the high expectation that pre¬
vailed. Jle did it adroitly, lie was a,
small, unpretentious looking man, round
shouldered, homely, awkward. He had
on a spike-tailed coat that looked oddly
on him. He arose, and twirtling his lin¬
gers and standing in a siiapibling sort of
way, he talked on in a dull prosy straiu
that rapidly disenchanted the eager mass.
Such a letting down has never been seen.
The change was complete. There wits,
never a more disgusted audience in tlje.
world. The vital attention gradually re¬
laxed, and a yawning convocation of
and hearers platitudes. sat disappointed under his drawl
When he had them thus, then the,
wonderful man began to raise the crowd.
A flash of humor here and a spark of fire
there, a quivering word of pathos follow-,
ed by a burst of ringing invective, and,
the transformation was like magic. Into,
the dulled sense of the va-t gathering ho
infused the throbbing magnetism of his.
eloquence. The crowd became stirred.
8ucb effects the writer never witnessed,
before.
A typical incident occurred. The rev¬
olution was brewing then. The North¬
ern feeling about slavery was oeep and
intense. It was like a smothered volca¬
no. Gough referred to events over the.
world, the agitation and menace here and,
in Europe. He said it meant something.
The, abolition of the slavery—— ! Such
a storm ! The great audience went wild.
It chipped off like a flash the orator’s tit-,
terance. For ten minutes it was a mad
moo. Men stood up and yelled, ladies
screamed arid beat the air with handker¬
chiefs. The roof trembled. The nbise,
would quit off and then with deafening
volume surge up again. Speakers 1 gen- v
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Lifk will acquire new zest, and cheerful-.
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them to healthy
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U. Little and all gettetai.iieaiets.
Broom Corn Culture,
It is a shame and sad commentary on
the industry and enterprise of the South-.,
ern farmers that the manufactures of the
South are compelled to import tbeir
broom corn from the West and North,
when onr climate is so much better adap—
ted to its cultivation. W'e can plant be¬ a
month earlier and harvest a month
fore the W estern crop comes in. The
Southern farmer can have the money in,
his pocket in four months from the lime
he drops the seed, in the ground, long handj be¬
fore cotton ceases to bloom. One
can cultivate between 30 and 40 acres.
The land should he prepared in 3J the
same manner as for sorghum, rows to
4 feet apart, 5 or ti plants to the hill.
Should he planted from the 15th of April is,
to the 1st of June. If a large acreage
put in, best to plant one-third each at
intervals ot two weeks, in order that all
the crop may not ripen and have t > be
harvested at the same time and thus ne¬
cessitate the employment of extra labor.
It is very important that it be thor-
oughly w-drked until 5 or (i feet high. de¬
The quality arid value of the crop
pend in a large measure upon the time
at w hicli it is harvested. A delay of a
•week may make a difference of one halt’
in the market price. Those who follow
the old fogy plan of turning down the
heads and harvesting when the seed are
fully ripe may get a good crop of seed
but very poor brush. The crop is gener¬
ally ready to cut in ten or twelve weeks,
after being planted. Light green color
commands tile best prices. To obtain
long, (jjeen and line brush, particular at¬
tention must he given to harvesting and
curing. The brush must be, cut as soon
as the heads are well out of the stalk,
when in the “blossom'd before the seed
begins to form, or at least while in the
milk. The seed must he permitted to
till or ripen. A lew rows can be left to,
ripen lor seed. It matters not how good,
it growth may be produced, if left stand¬
ing in the field until it turns red becomes
dark from mould or wet, its value is re¬
duced lully one half. Cut the brush,
with five or six inches of stalk below the
hurl, not exceeding seven inches. Should
be gathered and threshed the same day
as cut, as the weight of the seed will soon
cause it to heat and stain the brush if al¬
lowed to lie in piles any length of time.
When threshed pile on racks in a shed
or barn, not over three inches in thick¬
ness. Have the tiers of poles or siats
about three feet apart, one above the
other, in order to allow free circulation
of air. Every two or three days stir up
the piles well to prevent moulding. If
cured in a barn the windows should be
kept open ho as to admit plenty of air.
In two or four weeks, according to the
weather, it will he ready to hale.
One bushel seed will plant ten to
twelve acres. One man can cultivate
from thirty to forty acres. One man can
cut from { to an acre per day. Yield
per acre 400 to 800 pounds, Brice rang¬
es, according to quality, from 24 to fi
cents per pound. Price of seed per bush¬
el $4, half bushel $2.25 and $1.25 per
peek. Logan Broom Company, Atlanta,
(ia., will furnish seed and circulars fultj
of information, and buy all your broom
corn.