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Executive Committee.
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Some Figures for the Thoughtful.
According to the returns made by the Revenue
officers to the Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States, it appears that the people of this
Republic pay every year for liquors, bought at re
tail shops, the enormous sum of $1,500,000,000.
The public debt of the United States is about $2,-
300,000.000; and the public debts of the States
added together, would aggregate about $300,000,-
000, which sum added to the public debt of the
United States, would foot up $2,600,000,000.
Now, in two years the liquor-bill of the people
of this country would pay off the entire public in
debtedness of the United States and of all the
States, and thus relieve the icople of burdensome
taxation ; and at the end of the two years, there
would be left the sum of s4oo,ooo,<X>o to he spent
in building railroads. And that snm would build
and equip 10,000 miles of railroad, or more than
400 miles of railroad for every' State in the Union.
Just think of it for a moment ! In two years the
people of this civilized nation pay for alcoholic
liquors a sum of money sufficient to pay the public
debts of the United States and of all the States,
and to build and equip 16,000 miles of railroad !
Now let us see what might be done with this
sum of money during the third year, after all the
public debts had been paid and 16,000 miles of
railroad had been built with it during the first two
years. $600,000,000 of it will build 120,000 church
es, costing $5,000 apiece, and that will give one
good church to every 325 inhabitants of the United
States, including every man, woman and child,
white and black. $240,000,000 more of it will
build 120,000 good school-houses, costing $2,000
to each one, and that will give one school-house to
every (10 children of schooling age in the whole
country, including white and black.
We may thou build 180 colleges, or about four
to each State, and spend $200,000 in buildings,
libraries, furniture and apparatus for each college,
and the expense of all these will foot up $36,000,-
000. Let us next buy 200,000 good farms, or
homes, for that number of poor families, giving
$2,000 for each home, and the sum of their cost
will be $400,000,000; and then let us sum up the
cost of all these together :
Cost ofl 20,000 churches $ 600,000,000
“ school-houses 240.000.000
“ 180 colleges 36,000,000
“ 200,000 homes 400,000,000
Aggregate $1,276,000,000
If we subtract this sum from the liquor-bill of
one year, the figures will stand thus :
Liquor-bill $1,500,000,000
1,276,000,000
Remainder $ 224,000,000
Thus, after building 120,000 good churches,
120,000 good school-houses, and 180 good colleges,
and buying two hundred thousand good homes for
that number of poor and homeless families, we
will have left from the annual liquor-bill of the
United States, the prodigious sum of two hundred
and twenty-four million dollars, to be spent every
year in sending the blessings of Christianity and
civilization to the benighted heathen.
Let us next ascertain what might be accomplish
ed with this liquor-bill during the fourth and every
succeeding year. Oar churches, school-houses
and colleges arc already built, and therefore wc
will put one hundred and twenty thousand good
pastors in our one hundred and twenty thousand
churches, giving to each one of them an annual
salary of fifteen hundred dollars, and their salaries
will all amount to one hundred and eighty million
dollars. We will next put two good teachers in
every one- of our one hundred and twenty thou
sand school-houses, which will require two hun
dred and forty thousand teachers, and we will
give each teacher an annual salary of twelve hun
dred dollars, and the salaries of all of them will
foot up two hundred and eighty-eight million dol
lars. In the next place let us put twenty skilled
professors in every one of our one hundred and
eighty colleges, making three thousand six hun
dred professors in all, and give to each one of them
a salary of two thousand dollars, and they will
thus cost ns seven million two hundred thousand
dollars. We will then board and clothe one mil
lion of school children, whose parents arc too poor
or too lazy to feed and clothe them while they are
going to school, and we will pay two hundred dol
lars for the support of each one of them, and their
expenses will thus amount to two hundred million
dollars. Now, let us again this year buy two
hundred thousand farms for that number of poor
families, giving two thousand dollars for each
farm—aggregating four hundred million dollars.
Let us noM sum up for the fourth year’s expenses :
Salaries of 120,000 pastors, $180,000,000
“ 2 40,000 teachers, 288,000,000
“ “ 3,600 professors, 7,200,000
Support of 1.000.000 children, 200.000,000
Cost of 200,000 farms, 400,000,000
$1,075,200,000
Tf wc subtract this from the annual liquor-bill
of the l nited States, we will have left four hun
dred and twenty-four million eight hundred thou
sand dollars, or nearly one-third of the whole
amount; a sum sufficient to support three hun
dred thousand teachers and preachers for the
heathen, allowing fourteen hundred dollars for the
support of each one of them.
Now, let us figure it out in another way : One
billion fire hundred thousand million dollars are
spent for liquor in the United States every year.
Divide that sum of money out equallv to everv
man, woman and child, white and black, and it
will give about thirty-eight dollars to each one of
them. Those thirty-eight dollars will buy for
each man, woman and child as follows :
Ten bushels corn $lO qq
One barrel of flour 8 00
One hundred pounds bacon 15 00
Coffee and Sugar "’ ’ ,5 qq
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Thus the money spent for liquor in the United
States in one year, would buy bread, meat, coffee
and sugar enough for all of the forty million of
people of this country.
No wonder that there is so much poverty, and
so many homeless families.
G. 11. Cartledge.
IdF" An editor having asked an Illinois far
mer for crop news, received this answer:
“And now the reaper reapeth, the mower
moweth, and the little bumblebee getteth up
the busy Granger’s trouser’s leg and bum
bleth.’’
“SMALL COTTON MILLS.”
The writer of these lines has endeavored,
in an humble and unpretentious way, since
the commencement of this journal, to impress
upon the readers of the paper—and especial
ly those in the immediate and adjoining coun
try—the importance of taking advantage of
what nature has already done towards male- 1
irtg us a “free ami independent people.*'
And in this behalf we now call to our aid the
following article copied from a late number
of the Columbus Enquirer, as showing and
proving what lias been and what can be done
by a combination of small means—by a con
centration of the labor, energy and enterprise
of those who, if left to themselves, could do
very little or nothing towards'accomplishing
the great aims and ends to be arrived at; but
who, nevertheless, in a union of mind, of
means, and of bone and muscle, could, as it
were, “ remove mountains.”
One of the most successful men in this sec
tion of country, and one too, who is engaged
in manufacturing to some considerable ex
tent, remarked to the writer only a few days
since, that “ what Jackson county —and what
all the country round about needed and want
ed, was more people.” “There is,” said he,
“ too much land, too much water-power, and
too man}' of the natural advantages with
which we are benificently endowed, lying idle
and running to waste. You need more peo
ple—skilled labor and capital, to bring into
use and dcvelope the hidden treasures of
this, one of the garden spots of the world.”
Of course, it is not claimed that these remarks
applied really, to Jackson county alone—but
to the whole section known as “ Northeast
Georgia.” Then, how are we to induce this
needed influx of people—of skilled labor—of
good and permanent citizens ? The only
answer we can give or attempt to give is, to
open up new avenues of industry—create a
demand for diversified labor and mechanism.
And then, just to the extent that this idea is
carried out, will hill and dale, town, village
and hamlet resound with the “ busy hum*’ of
machinery, and the land be peopled by an
intelligent, enlightened, happy and indus
trious yeomanry. But to the article above
mentioned:
MANUFACTURING IN TIIE SOUTH.
Editor Enquirer : —ln the May number of the
Rural Carolinian , the editor, in a sensible article
on this subject, gives a letter from Mr. Wm, M.
Lawton, agent in England of the •‘Georgia Direct
Trade Union,” and a gazette published in London,
which gives the names of thirty-seven cotton man
ufacturing companies in England, price of the
shares, the amount paid on them and the present
value, and also the amount of the last annual div
idends; from which we may learn an important
lesson if we will rightly consider the facts as
shown in the gazette. Of the thirty-seven compa
nies named, twenty started with shares at £5 each,
say $25, on which was paid from one pound to five
pounds, and the present value is from £1 18s 6d.,
to £9 ss. ()d. Nine others started with shares at
£lO, say SSO. One company—Melbourne—start
ed with shares at £l5O, paid in that amount and
the present value is £275 per share, and is paying
twenty-four per cent, dividends. One company,
“Central,” started with shares at five pound's,
five pounds paid in; present price nine pounds,
and is paying forty per cent dividend. Another,
the “Grosvcner," paid in two pounds, ten shill
ings; present value £4, 4s. Od. and and is paying
forty per cent, dividend. All are paying from ten
to forty per cent, and this from cotton which has
been carried four thousand miles from the fields,
an army of handlers having fed on it while on the
route. Whyis it that Englishmen can manufact
ure our cotton and make these bewildering profits,
while we can’t? The explanation may be found
in the fact that these men are content to do things
on a small scale, or rather to begin doing them m
a small way and gradually rise to large. They
start their mills with a few thousand pounds, and
put the shares at a price within the reach of
the small men, the men who are to run the spin
dles and looms—the men from whose brain and
muscle the wealth of the future company is to grow
—men who can and will invest five pounds in the
mill which is to employ them and their children
for life, but who would be frightened off if the
shares had been put at one hundred pounds; and
when once they make the investment they become
as much a part of the mill as the spindles and
looms, thus securing a capital not only of machin
ery but of skilled labor, interested in the results
as an employer and stockholder, and success is
hound to follow. Here we can’t think of a cotton
mill with a capital of less than SIOO,OOO paid in by
men who know nothing of the business, and to be
managed by men who have no interest in the suc
cess of the company except the salary they get,
and by employees who look to their monthly pay
days as the end of their engagements with the con
cern. Now, arc there not hundreds of men in
Georgia and Alabama who own good water pow
ers that, with a few hundred dollars, could be
made available; and are there not hundreds of men,
women, boys, girls, skilled spinners, rcelers,
warpers, and weavers who have saved and would
save twenty-five or more dollars to invest in mills
if they hoped such a thing would ever be in their
reach; and can't we get these parties together
some way and start up a hundred or more mills of
$5,000 or SIO,OOO of capital? 1 know a number of
beautiful sites where the cotton can be grown
up to the door of the mill, healthy and every way
desirable, where a few men might lay the founda
tion of a fortune which would bless their children’s
children, and at the same time help to solve the
question of Southern independence. Men who
profess to know, say that $4,000 will pay for all
the machinery necessary to spin 160 lbs. of yarn
per day; add cost of house and power and commer
cial capital sufficient to buy one year’s supply of
cotton, and we have a nice nucleus around which
a Lowell may grow in a lifetime. Why can't we
doit? It is the way the English have worked,
until now they have more than one spindle to
every man, woman end child in the realm, whose
ceaseless hum is the voice of ever-increasing:
wealth.
This is our road to prosperity, and the building
up of our loved South, made piain to us by our
cousins over the water. Let us follow it.
Respectfully, G y.
The Enquirer in speaking “editorially”
on this subject—“ small cotton mills—throws
out the following suggestions which apply
with the same force to any other suitable
locality as they do to that of Columbus :
The establishment of a number of small cotton
mills by the means of the working people of the
South, meets our views exactly. We have on
previous occasions endeavored to show how this
could be done, and we hope a little repetition will
be excused if we make here a similar showing.
There are, we believe, at least five hundred oper
atives—men, women and children—working in the
cotton factories of this city, who could easily
appropriate $5 or $6 per month each to the accu
mulation of a fund for the building of a small fac
tory of their own. By these savings, in the space
of sixteen or eighteen months they would have
accumulated a fund of fifty thousand dollars,
which is sufficient to build and equip a factory of
very respectable capacity—notan Eagle and I Mice
nix, it is true, but still a mill that would add many
thousands ot dollars to the permanent wealth and
resources of the neighborhood in which it might
be located, and afford to the working owners as
sured employment and support. Of course all of
that number of stockholders could not be work
ers in a mill of that size, but the ownership of *it
would not compel any one to give up employment
elsewhere. Neither do we mean to say that only
workers in factories could profitably take stock.
It would he a good investment for all working
men. Ihe ownership of a large interest in it by
factory operatives would be an assurance to other
stockholders That it would, be intelligently and
economically managed. The establishment of one
such mill by people of slender means, and hy pay
ments so easily made, would surely lead to the
establishment of others. The idea that only men
of large capital can build and own cotton factories
is retarding their establishment in the South. Let
it be shown by successful experiment that the
monthly savings of hard-working people will soon
enable them, by their associated means, to build
and operate very respectable factories and to make
money by it. and we would see others exerting
themselves to do likewise. The incitement to
saving which it would afford would also be bene
ficial. This is the way that the business has been
started in other manufacuring communities—grow
ing from small beginnings to gigantic proportions
—and in this way we can soon add to the business
of the South a vast industry which by many nat
ural advantages rightfully belongs to our section.
The Fall Campaign.
“The canvass in Kentucky has ended as
every! >ody knew it would end—in the elec
of the entire democratic ticket by between
thirty and forty thousand majority. The
fight was made in regular Kentucky style,
the two candidates for governor going
throught the country together and speaking
from the platform. The republicans put
forward their best speaker and ablest man,
and much was expected from Gen. Harlan’s
efforts. The result shows that the democra
cy of Kentucky have exceeded their vote in
1871, and probably carried the state by a
majority of 40,000. Centralization is clear
ly at a heavy discount in the state that has
never wavered in steadfastness to the faith
since she upheld almost alone the democratic
banner in 1866.”
• The above quoted paragraph is copied from
the Atlanta Daily Constitution, and so en
couraging and hopeful is the remainder of the
writer's remarks on the same subject, that
we are pleased to transfer them to our own
colnms :
“The latest victory was secured on a plat
form that discarded all issues that do not
pertain *to state politics. The currency,
tariff and other questions that have no proper
place in an election for state officers, were
ignored, and the candidate was placed be
fore the people as defenders of the rights of
the state under the the constitution, and as op
ponents of centralization and of any uncon
stitutional interference with the local affairs
of any state to any extent or under any pre
tence whatever. On such a platform the
party easily elected by an immense majority
a full list of state officers, and anew legisla
ture.
“The next elect ion of the preparatory pres
idential campaign will occur in California
on the first Wednesday in September. This
will be a scrub race with four entries—an in
dependent and a temperance candidate be
ing in the field, besides the nominees of the
two great parties. On the second Monday
in September, Blaine will try to carry Maine
by a heavy radical majority in order to get a
good send-off for the presidential nomination
of his party. This brings us to the event
ful second Tuesday of October when Ohio,
lowa and Nebraska will strip for the fight,
and friends and foes of popular liberty meet
for a conflict of an importance that no man
can measure.”
The signs are all auspicious for democratic
victories. Even in lowa the radicals arc
badly scared. The times are hard, and the
party that has been in unrestrained power
for fifteen years will be held, and rightly too,
responsible for the fact. Gov. Allen’s
majority will surely be immense : .and this
will, in November, powerfully influence the
election in Pennsylvania. If the democracy
carry these two states, their opponents may
as well engage Philadelphia’s great elegiac
poet to celebrate in touching verse the com
plete and deserved political burial of both
radicalism and Grantism. Thyy will occupy
a common grave.”
The Augusta Constitutionalist discusses
the virtues of the lash. It is inclined to
to favor the administering of a dose of cat-o'-
nine-tails as an expiation of flagrant offences.
It believes that if a majority of men know
that they would get a sound chastisement,
publicly inflicted, for rascally breaches of the
law, they would hesitate before committing
crime. We give the concluding paragraph
of the moderate and sensible article :
It is not a pleasant thing to witness the
flogging of a fellow being, but neither is it
pleasant to have the laws outraged with im
punity. When we find Delaware, with her
whipping post, a model state, and so many
other commonwealths, without that aveng
ing instrument, sunk into dominant disorder ;
when the learned judges of England with an
overwhelming approval, recommend a return
to corporal punishment as a barrier to crime
—it would seem that, in spite of the senti
mentalists, there is a power for good in the
lash which the highest civilization may well
employ to preserve itself from rapine, insult
and decay.
Southern vs. Northern Cotton Mills-
A few days since, says the New York
Bulletin, we published the results of the ex
periments made in cotton manufacture of the
South, by which it appeared that the mills of
Georgia had been able to run steadily and
full, and to pay handsome dividends on the
capital invested. Almost simultaneously
comes the news of the closing of more of the
New England mills on account of over pro
duction and inability to find a market for
their goods. Taken together, these are sug
gestive facts and to the further inquiry of the
cause at work which upon this showing would
indicate a tendency to change in the location
of this industry.
It is not only true that machinery costs
less now than that of most of the New Eng
land mills, which were largely at war prices ;
but the same may be said of all mill property.
Water privileges, dams, mills and machine
ry can doubtless all be bought and con
structed at nearly, if not quite, half the ag
gregate cost of many of the New England
mills. Beside, the the South has virtually a
protective tariff on its manufacture, both on
raw material and goods, in the saving in
transportation. And this advantage it will
continue to hold until its production exceeds
its home consumption when only it can be
compelled to come into equal competition
with the mills at the North. These facts
must have an important influence for some
years to come, no doubt, while the effects
may very possibly prove permanent. At all
events the dispositian certainly exists on the
part of the Southern people to make a
thorough experiment in the matter. Capital
only is wanting, and that, doubtless, will be
speedily supplied under the new era of pros
perity which is evidently dawning on the
South.
♦♦♦*♦♦-
CdPlt seems almost incredible—but the
telegraph says there was a slight snowfall in
Nashville at two o’clock of last Monday
morning.— At. Const., 6th.
High Salaries.
Some of the “ big brethren” of onr State
press are discussing the above subject. M e
like to see this—like to hear it—in fact, it’s
refreshing, these hard times. Asa matter of
course, we cannot believe that any “ pent up
Utica” controls them in this laudable (?) un
dertaking. True it is, the financial status of
one or two poor men (we pity ’em, hope a
collection will be taken up for them Sunday.)
who, it is intimated cannot make “ buckle
and tongue meet” on $3,500 per annum, lias
been the starting point of all this ; but cer
tainly these “ manufacturers” of public opin
ion would not be so parsimonious as to con
fine so good a thing to so small an area.
Then the idea of “ high salaries” tallies so
well with the present state of affairs, espe
cially when taxes are so high; the two will
work so harmoniously together— high salaries
and high taxes! Yes, by all means let us
have high salaries l Those farmers whose
crops have been cut short will, we know, be
pleased to hear that their salaries are to be
raised; the day laborer, who pays 18 or 20
cents per lb. for the meat he eats—the factory
hands, who have been working for the last
two years at low wages and on half and
three quarter time—all these will fairly dance
with exultation at the prospect of higher sal
aries ; and the poor Methodist “ circuit rider”
(often the peer of the “ ermined” dignitary)
who toils through wet and dry, heat and cold,
sleet and snow, up in the buckeye and laurel
jungles of Rabun —whose yearly salary will
not go much above seventy-five dollars, with
a jeans suit and half a dozen pair of socks
thrown in by the good sisters—what bright
anticipations will fill his breast as he reflects
on an increase ! By all means, let us have
“ high salaries !” but if lion, gentlemen can’t
live on $3,500 a year, just let them step down
and out, for “there’s nine men a’standin’ by,
and they all say they’ll take sugar in their’n !”
Seriously, however—let men be amply paid
for their work, and let “ dignity” and high
living support themselves !
LtPThe survivors of the Third Georgia
Regiment, holding their re-union at Ports
mouth, Ya„ had their annual election for
officers on Thursday, with the following
result: President, Col. Claiborne Snead ;
Vice Presidents, Major Jno. F. Jones and
Captain Stephen A. Corker; Secretary, Cap
tain A. A. 'Winn; Quartermaster, Captain
Alexander Philip.
Johnson leaves a widow, two
daughters and one son: Mrs. Patterson,
wife of ex-Senator PatteiVm, the lady of the
White House who received and entertained
during her father's administration with such
dignity and grace; Mrs. Brown, formerly
Mrs. Stover, at whose.residence lie died;
and Andrew Johnson Jr., of the Greenville
Intelligencer.
EdF’OvER a considerable portion of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, it is conceded
that the late unprecedented rains have large
ly destroyed the wheat crop, reduced the corn
crop below the average, injured the grass,
and almost ruined the oat crop. Potatoes
are rotting in the hills, and tomatoes and
other vegetables are not ripening. And yet
we are as dry down here as a powder horn.
Rain water has been unevenly scattered thus
far this season.— At. Const.
PP 3 The convention has been called in Ala.
bama by fifteen thousand majority. The
people of that State have now an opportuni
ty to make a constitution to suit themselvcs-
Ilome-made constitutions are decidedly pre.
ferable to the imported article, and we hope
it will not be long before the people of Geor
gia are permitted to try their hand at con
stitution making.— Exchange.
New Professor. —lt gives us special
pleasure to announce the election of W. W.
Lumpkin, Esq., to the chair of English Lite
rature in the University of Georgia. Our
distant readers may not know him. lie is a
son of the late eminent Chief Justice Lump
kin, and inherits much of his father’s love of
learning. lie is well qualified to fill the
chair to which he has been assigned, and
will make his mark.— So. Watch.
OPMr. W. 11. 11. Thompson, son of our
fellow-citzen, 0. B. Thompson, acquitted
himsfelf in fine style at the late commence
ment in Athens. W. H. distinguished himself
while a student of Martin Institute, Jeffer
son, Ga., and bore off the prize. We are
more than gratified to chronicle the success
of our young friend. —Gainesville Southron.
OPThe victory in Kentucky is more com
plete than first reported. It is now believed
that Col. McCreary’s majority, will reach
fifty thousand—a gain of thirteen thousand
over Governor Leslie's majority in 1871.
IdPTiiE Columbus Enquirer says: “The
re-election of Dr. H. H. Tucker as chancellor
by the trustees, creates immense satisfaction.
This section has never had any sympathy in
the war which has been made upon him by a
few editors and correspondents.”
Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 7. —Returns re
ceived during the past two days leave the
result of the election still in doubt. Both
parties claim a majority of delegates, and it
may be several days before the result is
definitely known, as several extreme western
counties are yet to be heard from. It is not
probable that the majority will exceed two
either way.
Rome, Ga., Aug. 6.—To-day at Shu
gulak, Mississippi, a white man named
McGraw had his throat cut by a negro man.
The negro resisted arreet, and was shot and
killed. McGraw’s wound is not considered
fatal.— At. Const.
Death of Col. Wm. 11. Jackson.—The
remains of Col. Wm. II Jackson, father of
Judge Jas. Jackson, now of the Supreme
Bench of this State, reached Athens on
Monday evening last, and were intered in
Oconee Cemetery. We have not learned the
particulars of Col. Jackson’s death, and
only know that he died at the residence of
his son, in the city of Macon, a few days
since, in the ninetieth year of his age.
Col. Jackson was one of the most vener
able, esteemed and distinguished citizens of
our State. “Peace to his ashes.”— N. E.
Georgian.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
A colored female in Wayne county recent
ly gave birth to a baby weighing twenty-four
pounds.
The first bale of new cotton was sold in
Augusta on Monday at twenty cents per
pound, and classed middling. This is high
er than the price offered for Savannah's first
bale.
A negro made an attempt to outrage the
person of a daughter of Mr. James Davis, of
Fayette county, the other day. lie was
caught, and it is to be hoped lie is now or
namenting an oak tree.
Floyd Chapman, a negro boy 20 years old,
was playing base ball outside of Griffin,
caught a ball which struck him on a finger
and drove the nail up. He went to town,
drank ice water, took a congestive chill and
died.
The Dalton Citizen of the sth inst. reports
a rise in the price of wheat there, caused by
the advance in the Northwest. It is now
selling at $1.05, an advance over last week’s
quotation of 10 cents, with an upward ten
dency.
Mr. William Terrill, an old eitizen of
Greene county, died the other day, to all ap
pearances, and preparations were made to
bury him. When these preparations had
gone on about as long as he thought com
fortable, Mr. Terrill rose and objected, and
succeeded,after some argument, in convincing
his friends that he was still alive.
There are 231 organized companies of
military in Georgia, only 58 of whom are
armed—4s infantry, 11 calvary and 2 artille
ry. Georgia's quota of arms from the United
States is sufficient to arm three companies
per annum, and the Legislature of Georgia
very properly refused to make an appropria
tion to arm these 173 companies that have
not weapons.
Gen. B. T. Williams, of Rome, was play
ing with his wife at home, a few days ago,
when his foot slipped and he fell to the floor,
breaking his right thigh bone.
The G ainesville ladies pin sprigs of penny
royal on their sweethearts’ coats for the pur
pose of keeping off the fleas. Could any
thing be sweeter?— Sav. News
United States deputy marshal Findley
captured thirteen prisoners, four stills, three
oxen, one wagon, one horse and a bar-room
and fixnres in Franklin county. —Gainesville
Eagle.
The last of the lichees died in Pulaski the
other day. 11 is name was Indian Sam.
It gratifies us to learn that Governor Smith
has appointed Colonel Peterson ThWeatt to
take charge of the State archives remaining
at Milledgeville.
Max Cohen, one of the survivors of the
Schiller, has returned home to Montezuma.
He was in the water about 10 hours.
The busiest chicken in town is an old
rooster, belonging to Mrs. R. F. Watts. He
has kindly taken the place of a hen that was
recently killed by a dog. He carries a gang
of motherless chickens and hovers them with
tender care. The only difference the little
chicks seem to notice is the [rough manner in
which he does His scratching. They have to
keep their distance when he is on the track
of a worm, and when one ventures in reach
of his toes he get s kicked clear over the trash
pile.— Lumpkin Independent.
Messrs. Bell, Sturtevant & Cos. yesterday
sold the first bale of Florida cotton that lias
been received in this city, in front of the store
of Ph. Dzialvnski,to Mr. John C. Rowland, for
14(e. — Sav." News.
The school teachers of 1871 will receive
about 50 per cent of their claims from the
taxes first, collected in the fall.— Southron.
Mr. T. Allen jr., son of Major Thompson
Allen, of Banks county, left the city yester
day for St. Louis, his new home.— At. Const.
7 th.
An old negro woman has sat on a rock in
the sun fishing ro long that the heat of the
sun has addled her brains. Chicken
cholera is cured by smoking them with pine
tops, tar and feathers. —Hamilton Visitor.
Serious Accident.
F. G. Colley, Esq., of Wilkes county, while
riding a vicious mule, was thrown by the giving
away of the saddle girth, and fractured his skull.
The fracture extends through the frontal bone,
passing through that portion of it which is cover
ed by the eyebrow, runs up half way of the fore
head. and then passes back on the side of the
head several inches, to a point behind the ear. It
then runs downward behind the ear. and then for
ward again, just over the ear. meeting the point
first mentioned. There is thus a piece of bone,
near the size of the hand, broken loose from the
rest of the skull. How many splits there may be
running oii' through the bones from this central
break, and how many smaller fragments there
may be. it is impossible to tell. Besides this ter
rible fracture, the check bone, called in science
the malar bone, is broken and crushed in. There
has been no delirium, no stupor; no want of con
sciousness whatever: no paralysis, none of the
usual symptoms accompanying injuries to the
brain, even when slight. Ilis appetite is pretty
good, he sleeps well, talks rationally, raises him
self up, sits up. and even walks across the floor
occasionally, contrary to the advice and wishes of
his physicians and friends. All the functions
seem to be properly performed, and in a healthy
manner, and he does not appear to be in any way
seriously sick. The only unfavorable symptom
about him is the character of his pulse, which is
unnaturally slow and irregular, showing disturb
ance about the brain. It is very remarkable that,
with such a terrible fracture, there should be no
more unfavorable symptoms; and the only way in
which the physicians account for their absence; is
that the fracture is simplv a break through the
bones without their being driven in upon the brain
substance. Thus there is no compression of the
brain by the bone, and there cannot have been any
internal hemorrhage to produce pressure by the
formation of a clot of blood within the cranium.
Washington Gazette.
“Dem’ Publikins.”
There were three of them sitting
lazily upon the platform, looking like cast
iron tobacco signs.
“Dere’s goin’ to be anoder ’publican pa
' per here purty soon, cle folks sav,” said one.
| “An’ we all niggers got to subscribe, kase
de ’lection is coming nigh unto hand,” said
another.
“’Scribe nuthin’ !” said the third one, as he
loosed up his cotton suspender; “I’m done
wid dis ’publikin business. I is. Didn’t I
hear the preacher readin in de Bible bout de
’publikins. Why, when de Lord hisself was
on de yeartli dey used to set in de high
places at de front gates of de towns and
take up taxes and ’sessments from de fokes.
And now dese publikins doin’ de same’ting,
dontyer see? Now dey don’t git no more
: sessments outen dis nigger fur no ’lections,
scribins and nothin’! Dat’s de kind o’ free
; Afrikin I is—l'm a talkin to yer !”
And he seemed to feel greatly relieved.
- Parker Escapes. —The ex-Treasurer of
South Carolina lately tried and found gulty
of embezzlement and fraud, has escaped
from jail—having been assisted by others of
the ring to which he belonged.
COTJUsTTPUST GLIMPs^.
Mr. Editor: —In accordance with
vious notice, the Grangers' Pic-nic came off
Beech Creek on Saturday last, and was
eminent success in every particular.
As early as 8| o’clock, a. m., the immr. k
throng, estimated at from five to six hundre ■
began to assemble, nor ceased to arrive t
noonday.
TIIE ADDRESSES.
The first speaker, Col. R. D. Win*
Gwinnett, began by saying that he loved\
people of Jackson—that it was the conn', i
of his nativity, that he had always met a *
come and hospitality here which greeted hi,
nowhere else. In eloquent terms he
to the pleasant memories and associations
the past, lie then branched off- V
Grange, its'beauties, objects, etc, and clog,
The next speaker was our efficient coi] lf
School Commissioner, Mr. J. G. N. WiV
He was perfectly at home in the discusskJ
of the benefits of the Grange. He also <r,
a brief synopsis of our Educational
lie stated that there were 50 schools in ,T ftot !
son Cos., with an aggregate attendance
2000 pupils. The speech was well deliver
and well received.
Then came that ever welcome annonu
ment dinner.
And it was a dinner. There was p or ,
mutton, ham, fowl of various kinds, cakeif
well, there was eyerything good. We wej
so busy about this time that we took
notes. About the close, we heard E
Johnson hallowing at the top of his voiJj
“if there’s a man, woman or child here n
hasn’t had dinner, come this way !” Besi
having an abundance of the more subst.
tin! things of life spread upon table, lie
hibited a dozen or more melons, from his c I
ebrated patch, to which his numerous frier *
did ample justice. And here we are digre>
ing somewhat, and must go a little faith I
still. It is positively asserted that Mr.bf
Johnson and Gen'l Reeves killed a wh<
drove of sheep on Friday, preparatory tot |
dinner. It is also hinted that our esteem
friends, Messrs. Hinton and Thompson, hi
feathers for sale, the result of the last weel
fowl {foul) killing.
HON. 11. 11. CARLTON’S ADDRESS,
was the speech of the occasion, and was and I
livered in that eloquent, earnest, cand i
manner so characteristic of this true |
gian. A1 way's the champion and outsjiok
defender of Right, regardless upon who> |
head the blow falls, he is winning his wav; I
popularity among the masses, as few Votr 1
men of his day are. He said that ourresor I
ces must be developed through the unis
of the young men of our country—this |
the lever power of our success. He oppos |
the policy of State legislation to induce Jr.l
migration—let it come of its own aceor |
He said that a man who had corn to sell hi-l
money to lend. He advocated the policy
making more corn and less cotton, in aim I
terly style—making direct home appeal 1
We do not pretend to give even a synops I
of this solidly pract’ca effort. We wanttL-jjH
Dr. to visit Jackson often. Her people 1 I
him. and he will always be made to “feel®
home” when he comes among them. L. I
but by no means least, we must not I
L o mention that that high-toned, public spir l
ed Old Roman, Col. Robt. White, wasprtfi
ent, introducing the speakers and givir*
shape to affairs. To look into his
Irish face is at any time a real pleasure— 'M
indeed and in truth, is he a true represent*
tive of the “Old School.”
“Prof.” Bill Hunter, with his “goot Icm I
ale” was present, and “refreshed” the crons
from early morn to dusky eve.
Refreshingly, Tcgmuttox. I
-
For the Forest News, j
“ Letter from Harrisburg.”
Mr. Editor:—’Twas very kind in yon |
grant Mr. “Myrneh” the privilege of be I
heard through the columns of your vain: l .' I
paper ; but had I been in the gentleman I
place, in speaking- of the “ model farmers"
Harrisburg, I should have mentioned w §
than one. For had I been confined to ok!
frankly confess I should not- have km*®
what name to mention. 1 think there will®
more than seven thousand bushels of ccfl
made on Parks’ creek this year, exclusive®
upland ; of course, it will not all lie made*
the two gentlemen whose names are menti l |
ed in “ Mymeh’s” letter, but bv them ■ %
others. Now, friend “Myrneh,” it may
wrong in me to write this short letter; 1* ;
speak the honest sentiments of m3' heart, vfij
they come as free as water—when you v ...
for individuals, applaud them to the skicj
they deserve it; but when you write fa®
District do not write as though there
not a half dozen men in it whose names I
serve to be mentioned before the pul m
And in speaking of schools, you write r
wc had but one teacher and his pupils ' : m
patrons whom we delight to honor. Tr®
dear “Myrneh,” makes other farmers, ®
chanics, teachers, pupils and patrons
very small (which many' of us are) in thee.;*
of the readers of the Forest News. b
spoke, in your letter, of enlarging; du *
‘Mvmeh,” if you write for Harrisburg-' §j
don’t enlarge on individuals.
Orsekvw*
Harrisburg , Aug. 9 th. 1875.
For the Forest News.
The Crops, Cotton, &e.
Mr. Editor:—Many writers have sh
that crops were fine, very fine, indeed; 5
it was thought by nflhiy farmers and sp
lators that the cotton crop would be b<
than it had been for many years;
quentl}' we were in fine spirits, especially a
neighborhood—hoping to have plenty ol
ton and moneys too, in the fall. But alas
the farmer —he is disappointed again:
drouth having, I consider, cut off the 1
nearly one-half. I, like many others, b ; >
very fine crop three weeks ago ; it was 1 ]
good for the land—indeed I thought it
best I had raised on the land. It was £
ing rapidly and forming well, and I pbj
my crop at 20 bales ; now, I put my erv
ten bales. My cotton had stopped gr°"
until it rained on the third of this month
squares and bolls were dropping rapidh i
still continue to drop. While exawj
my cotton to-day, 1 noticed it was she' 1
off the fruit to a great extent;
where the cotton was manured the hea'
has this been the case, because in these -V
it was “fired” the worst.
Iver much fear that many farmers
making cotton for the benefit of other p fl
Let us watch and see if we do not lose !
even under the most favorable circuinst^ 1 ,
unless we make our “ supplies” at h olll ®\|
man can afford to make cotton at P r j|'
prices in the south, and have his corn-efly
meat-house in the western States. ht
er onr farmers learn this important
and make everything they eat at homy- 1 1
we will not be alarmed by short or hah' g
of cotton, such as many of us will 1
year—according to my judgment.
Jackson co.. Aug. 9th. A J