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TO CONTRACTORS.
Rrildi lie let to the lowest bidder, before the
A , - o iirt House door in .Jefferson, on Saturday,
■ mi, 0 f .January. 1879, the contract for build
■ the bridge across the Oconee river known as
[■Academy bridge, under the following specifi
: Said bridge to l>e built on level with
■ t bank, with 12 feet road-way, by spanning
■ river with fifty feet swinging span, built on
■) arches to be placed as near the edge of the wa
■tis the extension of said fifty feet will allow :
■lurches to be built on mud sills 30 feet long,
■il weighted down with rock, the uprights to the
■lie to be 12x12 inches, well braced with timbers
■i) inches, extending from well out on mud sill
■ivithm 12 inches of cap sill; in center of uprights
■be put in piece of timber Bxß inches. Cap sills
■he 12\11 inches, morticed half through so as to
■on top of tenants on uprights; king post to
■mgiiig span 10x10 inches ; rafters Bxlo. and live
■c[hts 10x12 inches. Said span to be well bolted
■li iron bolts and swcecl iron :] inch thick and
■idles wide, to hold the same. One other span
■ lie built on the east, or Jefferson side of the
■t. extending from arch under swinging span
■a mud sill, well fastened down, as far out on
■ hank as the planks there now extends ; this
■n to have five sleepers (5x12 inches. Flooring
■ 'if 11 feet long and 2 inches thick, well spiked
■'.vii with five inch stringers. Banisters fasten-
I in uprights, made of three inch scantling, three
■t high and eight feet apart, morticed through
■i keyed on under side of flooring plank, said
■r.k to extend two feet farther out than balance
■flooring, for braces to uprights to rest on ;
■Aril on inside with inch plank ; four inch strip
Her top; all sleepers to lap well on cap sills, and
■ timbers to be all heart and sawed, with the cx
■cimi of mud sills and sleepers to swingingspan.
■ latter, if hewn, to be well and smoothly done,
■l work must be done in a workmanlike manner.
■ die work, as well as every piece of timber, will
■ inspected, before being placed in the water, b\
■upetent pel sons appointed for the purpose, so
■it the bridge may ho received when completed.
B'ersons bidding otl the contract for building
■d bridge will be required to give bond, with
■ml security, in double the amount at which said
■ltriii t was bid off. immediately after the letting,
■order to prevent re-advertising.
Wuli and complete specifications can be seen at
■ office. (tecl4 H. W. BELL, Ord'y.
Jackson Deputy Sheriff’s Mort
gage Sale.
BV I'T be sold, on the first Tuesday in Febru
■ nr .v, )579. before the Court House door, in
of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., with
■ w legal hours of sale, the following property,
B * hie tract ot land in said county, known as the
■u't place, containing one hundred and twenty
■' 111 ilcll ' s * m,,re 0,1 less, the same being the place
■ 'rum John S. Messer resided on the 10th of
■•"■'■ii. is,7. bounded as follows: by C. M.
S. IJnkc. James Rogers, estate of
•"iig. dec and. and I'. R. Kinningbam, decal;
“m u State and county. Levied on by virtue
■' oto.sitily a mortgage li. fa. issued from Jack*
I ,'Tvnor ( mirt. returnable to February Term.
■Ti’.r. l '"\ lin ", retl . :llul seventy-nine, in favor of
■ ' ar ' l $ ' vs. said Jolm S. .Messer, as
B ’'opvrfv of said John S. Messer, said land
K y, 11 H 'd il:, d conveyed in a certain indent
■ar,.; “"'TO’ bearing date on the 10th day of
■i,| ' ‘ 1 ,l ' •' l>ar our Lord. eight teen hundred
W:uii! rlif.TV'"’,,- <>n iduce is a good fratn
■•Uh's- 1 , T . < " c| l ,ll o house, kitchen and out-
I \'l li,, n | !nl well ot water; some fifty or six
in; J :l b r ° IHI s tatc of cultivation ; convcu
enure!,. &,*. Written notice given
' ,u “hndaiit m ti. la. and tenant in
111 terms of law.
J. J. W A LLIS. Dep'v Sh'ff.
J '**‘(,l4, .laekson focisiiy.
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v, ii;. ( l , ; . ’( '■ • b anthers. late of said coun
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hiiiu-st,,■ :,i uu ,le bas lullv and completely
v, r 1(| r . 1 tll estate of said deceased, and asks
•"‘Nitne— 1,111 betters of Dismission from
t r^w 10 all concerned, kindred and cred
buidav hi \i ' ,ui> e- H any they can. on the first
c?uV.t J Ch : ,S ? J ' in tho Court of Ordinary
a! ‘ estate <i,‘ 'n I '' betters of Dismission from
biv ,ll '‘ not be granted.
'N i'u -°thcial signature, December 4,
, lb \\ . HKLL. Ord’y.
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b'tainiMratirt,, 1110 " l P ro P cr form for Letters of
bu, ,• . J thc est ate of William Me
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‘‘reditors f,'V P crsoas concerned, kindred
loi| day in ‘ow eause. if any. on tlie first
i ' :rt °f Ordin.,,- ' U v at regular term of the
"r ' !| °ubt not ho 0 sa " l eqtmty. why said* bet
i '! Vcn uuJe < I. t , l ,^f ran 1 tet i. tl . ,e applicants.
'Q. : : bnd officialhq Dccember2oth,
H. W. BELL, Ord-v.
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!' rs<ni and pronort- C r S i°l *-* Ua, 'dia nship on the
, a "' minors J! ■ Jo,ins °n Cowan and Helen
'kcZllL btevcn late of said
ca >^o."if concerned, kindred, Ac., to j
; /-’lilted the". '- v said Letters should not 1
0 Sry. 1579 n?V Ca on the first Monday in !
c !:! ‘ r y of s a ; ( V t '? u ' iir term of the Court of j
J ,,v en ui 1 d c °unty.
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,m! H. \Y. BELL. Only.
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
Among the Colorado Sheep Ranches.
Leaving Kiowa, a Kansas and Pacific
Railway station, 31 miles east of Denver, we
drove 8 miles over the plains in a buck-board
wagon, reaching Cob \V. Raymond's well
known ranch at the close of a lovely October
day. We were warmly welcomed by the
proprietor and his young wife. who. having
finished her school days in New York, had
come two thousand miles to grace a ranch
mails home. There is a novelty and charm
about this life which attract very many from
the older States, and one is constantly dis
covering in the rough herder's garb, men of
education and culture. They are fond of the
freedom and exhilaration of this mode of
existence, which also promises health, wealth,
and adventure. \ cry many of the herders
or hired men are fresh from college ; youths
who are serving their apprenticeship in the
occupation of sheep-raising. Others come
here from the Eastern and Middle States to
engage in mining operations. They arc un
successful, become straightened for money,
and take to herding because herders are in
demand. Their wages vary from $15.00 to
$30.00 a month and board, according to ca
pacity and experience. Many not only
remain with their sheep during the day, but
sleep near them in the corrals at night, as a
protection against wolves. On three succes
sive nights since we have been here, these
wolves have made a descent upon the corral,
killing several lambs. In the early days of
Colorado sheep raising, the herders were
accustomed to camp with their flocks wher
ever night overtook them. This, however,
was found to be a dangerous practice, inas
much as the sudden storms of the Colorado
plains would blind and scatter the sheep, and
often lead to great loss. Sheep invariably
go before a storm. Sometimes they can not
be checked, but will push on to certain de
struction. e recall one instance where
three thousand sheep in southern Colorado,
overtaken at night by a sudden storm, blind
ly followed their leader over a precipice, and
perished in the waters below, notone escap-
ing. Now the ranchmen have their sheep
corralled at sunset, instead of keeping them
out on the plains. Though generally mani
festing but little intelligence, they invariably
hsplav much sagacity in wending their way
i.oward the corral, which they know will afford
them protection against wolves, and keep
them warm and comfortable. Thc sheep
soon come to know the herders, and manifest
as much affection for them as sheep are capa
ble of. It is not well, however, to have them
become too tame, because they hang back
and do not drive well. The thrifty owner
has his sheep out of the corral and upon the
plains by daylight. They feed until about
10 o'clock, then “bunch up," or form a com
pact mass, until 4 o’clock, and from then the3 T
feed until driven in at dark. They eat
gramma, buffalo, wire, and bunch grass.
Wild hay is cut and stacked for feeding in
winter, so that they may not want for food
should there lie a heavy fall of snow. The
herders generally have horses of their own,
which subsist on prairie grass, are very much
attached to their owners, and become won
derfully skilled in managing sheep. Give
them the rein and they* will gather in and
keep the flock together with as ranch dexteri
ty as the shepherd’s dog who accompanies
them. The dog is an essential part of the
•outfit,” being a companion to his owner,
and exercising a constant vigilance for the
safety of the flock. Herder, horse, dog. and
sheep-together make a very picturesque ap
pearance as they move over the plains.
The flocks, comprising Mexican sheep ami
their increase from Merino bucks, generally
number from 1.000 to 3.000. During the
winter the larger flocks arc generally divided
in order to insure better feeding and better
protection. One herder can readily manage
2,500 sheep, but lie has to have his wits about
him constantly. The leader of a flock is
generally a Mexican goat, whose prowess is
recognized by the whole herd, and whose
prominent figure enables him to be easily seen
both the sheep and the herder.
The Mexican sheep, as a general thing, are
purchased about the first of October. The
bucks are turned in with them in December,
and the lambing season begins about the
middle of May. Shearing begins about the
first of June. The Mexican sheep shear from
two to four pounds, and improved sheep from
four to eight pounds. Of course there are
exceptions ; for example :—The Willard Bros.,
at their shearing-match last year, clipped
thirty-two and one-half pounds of wool from
one Vermont ram, which brought twenty
cents a pound. In shearing sheep great care
must be exercised not to begin too early, on
account of late storms. The shearers are
paid from five to eight cents a pound for
tlieir work. One man can shear from twenty’
to seventy sheep in a day. Mexican wool
brought last year from sixteen to twenty cents
a pound (prices are much less this year), ac
cording to the absence or presence of “kemp,”
a hairy, valueless substance. As sheep im
prove, the quantity of kemp gradually dimin
ishes. The fleece of the native Mexican
sheep is a coarse carpet wool, but as the flocks
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1879.
are improved by the introduction of Merino
bucks, the quality of the wool is improved,
until many of the ranchmen now claim that
it is fully as good as that grown in the East
ern States. They further maintain that when
their improved sheep become disassociated
in the public mind from the native Mexicans,
their wool will justly command as good a
price as is paid for Eastern fleece. Owing
to the scarcit)’’ of water, sheep are rarel3’
washed in Colorado, and it is stated that
man J tons of dirt are annually shipped east
in the Colorado fleece. Until recently, the
ranchmen disposed of their wool to Inca!
dealers and agents. Two years ago they
began to consign it to New York, Boston.
Philadelphia, Hartford, and other Eastern
houses. The main disease among the sheep
is scab, which is due, like the itch in man, to
a minute mite, and may be communicated
!rom one animal to another. The treatment
is, to dip thc sheep in some liquid that will
destroy the parasite ; the dipping apparatus
costing from SSO to SIOO. The principal dip
is composed of tobacco, sulphur, and some
times arsenic and soap. Three men can dip
twenty-five hundred sheep a day. Seal) does
not affect the wool itself, but causes the sheep
to lose wool, often to a considerable extent.
While sheep-raising presents so man3 r at
tractions, it is no child's play, as many coming
here from the East learn to their sorrow.
Drones cannot succeed in this better than in
any other business. Money, muscle, and
brains are required to achieve success, and
the idea that owners can live in the East,
and safely trust their flocks to the manage
ment of others here, lias been rudely dispell
ed. One has got to be upon the ground, and
superintend his own ranching operations, if
he expects to prosper. Upon coming to
Colorado, to engage in sheep-raising, a man
should hire himself out as a herder, in order
to learn the details. No man should embark
in the business, until he has had some expe
rience. He should be here during the three
seasons, that is : lambing, shearing, and dip
ping. At the end of that time he will have
a very fair insight into the workings, although
it would be advisable for him to pass a winter
here, and have an experience with one of the
heavy storms. He must not take the advice
of any one man, but form his judgment after
conversing with various sheep-raisers. He
must expect to invest not merel3 r money, but
his time and brains. He must expect to give
his personal attention to the business, not
simply' for one or two 3’ears, but for five or
ten years, until he gets his herd sufficiently
well graded, to bring in a fair income from
wool. lie will find the stories of ranchmen
to differ in many particulars. Two years ago
five thousand dollars was regarded as the
usual amount required in purchasing a com
plete sheep “outfit”—that is—a ranch, hor
ses, dog. sheep, and bucks. lie should start
with about one thousand Mexican sheep, which
can be purchased of dealers at Denver, and
almost anywhere else. They sold two years
ago for two dollars to two and one-half dol
lars each. They can be purchased this autumn
for from ninety cents to one dollar and fifty
cents each. The Vermont bucks will cost
him from twenty to fifty dollars apiece. There
should be one buck for evcr3 r fifty sheep.
lie will not be required to pa.y anything for
his land, which belongs to the Government.
Generally the buildings and ranch franchise
can be purchased of someone, who, for
various reasons, wishes to make a change.
If the new comer locates on anew range, lie
will have to build a dug-out or an adobe
bouse, an 1 must have a wagon, a span of hor
ses. an 1 a shopher ! dog. The corral with
accompanying she i. shoul 1 lie built as soon
is possible. If lie has his family with him.
lie shoul 1 purchase the needed household
furniture here. The rates of freight are so
high, that as few effects as possible should be
brought from the East. He should cmplov a
herder to watch the floor s. while he himself
keeps close guard over the bucks, lie must
make up his mind to be absent from the ranch
only a few hours at a time during any season.
In selecting a range, wood an 1 water are
the great essentials. It is for this reason
that the ranches through Colorado and the
other Western States and Territories are
generally located along the streams and river
bottoms. Some of these streams are very
treacherous. For example :—Kiowa Creek,
running by the ranch in which we are now
writing, contains very little water in the
summer, and is apparently a harmless river
bed. There are times, however, when it
swells into a roaring torrent, carrying every
thing before it. One evening, last May,
while Col. Raymond and his herders were
sitting around the big fireside, a noise was
suddenly' heard, outside, like the rushing of
many waters. Quickly opening the door,
they plunged into water, and found torrents
rushing through the corral. They had barely
time to tear down the boards and get the sheep
upon higher ground. Nearly' all the lambs,
amounting to several hundred, were carried
down stream and perished. This water-spout,
for such it proved to be, swept over the plains
for a long distance each side of the Creek,
carrying off sheep, cattle, ranches, trees, efe.,
and destroying valuable pasture-lands by
covering them with a thick coating of sand
and drift-wood. A short distance below here,
the railroad bridge over the Kiowa Creek was
swept away. An unwarned freight train
soon after came rushing along. The empty
cars floated down stream, but the engine has
not been found to this dav. Gangs of men
are still searching for it in the quick sand
with long, iron poles. A party of laborers
came all the wav from Lawrence, six hundred
miles distant, to “fish” tip the ill-fated engine,
and expected to remain only ten days. They
are still at work now five months after the
accident occurred. This is as remarkable
an occurrence as the fall and disappearance
of a section of the railway bridge at Omaha,
a year ago. \\ ater-spouts are of rare occur
rence, but they are one of the tilings which
a new-comer should have in view when locat
ing his ranch. The buildings here are made
of adobe, viz., sun-baked mud. They are
substantial, comfortable, and the place
ol frame houses, which are expensive, owing
to the high price of timber. It is not an
uncommon thing to find a family recently
from the East, temporarily occupying a dug
out, and having with them a piano and other
evidences of culture and refinement.—Ameri
can Agriculturist.
Cast-Iron Collins.
THE MAN WITH THE ARTIFICIAL WIN DIM FE— A
ST 1 1 AXGE IMSK A SE.
John Charles Collins, the “cast-ir m man.”
! lice in St. Lukes hospital with some alloy in
his composition. While he was acting last
j fall as a teacher of sparring in Colonel Mon
story’s academy in Sixth avenue lie was sud
I denly attacked with a sense of suffocation.—
He was removed to Bellevue hospital, and af-
I terward to St. Luke’s, where he was found to
| be suffering from paralysis of the vocal cords—
the little organs whose vibrations cause sound)
and which, when paralized, fall together and
prevent the entrance of air into the lungs.—
Che only immediate relief for Coilins was an
operation that would allow him to breathe
from a point below the vocal cords, and so a
hole was cut in his throat, or, as the doctors
would put it, the operation of laryngotraeli
eotom}* was performed, and a silver tube, open
at both ends, was introduced into the wind
pipe. Collins was able to breathe
without the use of his nose or mouth and in
spite of the paralysis of the vocal cords, his
life was saved. Since the operation lie has
been doing well, and the doctors arc now
treating him with a view to cure the paraly
sis. Thc case is a peculiar one, and there are
few instances on record of a paralysis of the |
vocal cords, and Collins' disease is further
complicated by the fact that the cause of his
affection is unknown. Before lie was attack
ed he had suffered from a slight cold, but was
otherwise, as he had alwa3*s been, in the best
of health.
A reporter of the World found the “cast
iron man” sitting up in bed attentively read
ing a newspaper, and wheezing through a sil
ver tube. It max' be imagined that under
these circumstances conversation was diffi
cult, but the “cast-iron man” endeavored to
make himself equal to the emergency. Tor tak
ing a long breath through the tube he stop
ped up the orifice with his fingers and then
began to talk with the air he had introduced
in this way into his lungs. 11 is voice, how
ever, was only a hoarse, loud whisper, and his
speech was like that of a ventriloquist. “1 i
don’t know what gave me this,” said ho. “fru
it came on all of a sudden. I nearly died.—
But last night I was worse off. I got a cold
and the tube was stoppe I up. I tried to pull
it out. but I con! In t. and 1 ran to a nurse.
l ut he couldn't do anything with it either.—
While they were gone Co.' a doctor I keeled
>ver ; and when the doctor came lie squeezed
my ribs. But it was a long time before 1
came aroun 1.”
Collins took another long breath through
his vacations larnyx. and throwing open his
shirt revealed a chest t hat looked as if it were
clothed with the pelt of some grizzled animal.
He pointed to an enormous swelling on his
left collar-bone, and asked. do you know
what that is ?”
The reporter arose to examine it.
” It's where the gentlemen ‘Lap’ me in spar
ring.” and the ‘'cast-iron man,” by-way of il
lusiration, tapped the reporter on his left col
lar-bone. The reporter suddenly resumed his
seat. “ I've been tapped there so often.” con
tinued Collins, taking another breath, “that
the swelling came there. The doctors sav it's
a curious tiling, and they're going to make a
cast of it.”
For a few moments the “cast-iron man”
gave himself up to breathing. As lie sat in
his bed he looked like a giant. Ilis frame is
immense in breadth, and his great muscles
seetn to have been turned into stone. But
his hands are small and very dextrous and
flexible.
“Collins came here a good many years
ago,” said Colonel Monstery. “He was orig
inally a sailor in the British navy, where lie
became known as the “cast-iron man” on ac
count of his great endurance and his power
to stand a great deal of physical punishment
in the rough and tumble fights in which he
was frequently engaged. He was brought
into prominence here by bis fight with George
Rooke, a middle-weight champion, at Fish*
er s island in 18G7. Rooke was a very heavy
j middle-weight, and lie stood about six feet
j two, while Collins is only about five feet
seven. Rooke whipped him. but Collins
! stood np so under the punishment that he
! fairly timed then, if not before, his title of
; the “ cast-iron man.” Afterwards he went
into the United States navy, and after leav
ing the service became a teacher of sparring
lin the Washington gymnasium. lie did well
there. Sarforis, Grant’s son-in-law, was in
W ashington at the time, and lie, with his
friends, used to spar with Collins. Sartoris
was delighted every time he could succeed in
I knocking the “cast-iron man” down, and
i every knock-down was as a S2O note to Col
| Dins. T.ie marquis Do Bolestad, of the Span
ish legation, was also a great friend of Col
iins. and offered to give him one thousand
dollars any time lie wanted to go into busi
ness tor himself. The marquis is now in
Baris. He will probably be here soon, and I
have sent him a letter about Collins. When
Sartoris and his friends left Washington bu
sinews became ba 1 wit.ii Collins, an 1 he went,
on the United States school ship as master-at
arms. V* lien his time was out he came here
us teacher of sparring. — New York World.
Some Missionary Facts.
1* if>3 one years ago Japan was sealed from
the Gospel. Dr. Morrison was allowed to
enter China, but as the servant, of the East
In ba Company, and there was no missionary,
lesides Jud>on and his wife, prisoners in
Burmaii. where there were just eighteen Chris- j
than natives. In India, even Ileber was con}*
l>e!led to decline baptizing a native c r JVvert.
lest lie might excite the jealousy of those
whom it was desirable to conciliate.
From India to Syria there was not a Mis-
sionary of the Cross ; Turkey was without,
- -u
Missionary, and the Sultan had
anathema against all Christian boq*j- eut
or three Missionaries were a!ong (JC
coast of Afric t. two or three more in the
south; Madagascar had scarcely been enter
ed; the Church Missionary Society was re
joicing oyer its first convert in New Zealand ;
and only,' the first limits were beinu slowly
gathered in the South Seas.
Outside Guiana and the W est Indies, there
were not G,OOO Christians in the lieathan
world.
Now, in China, there are thirty Christian
churches at work?-and the number is increas
ing six-fold every ten years.
Japan welcomes evjry Christian teacher,
ami proclaims the Clristian Sabbath as the
weekly festival.
For every convert there is in Hannah there
urc 350 churches, an 1 nine-tenths of the work
is done bv native M ssionaries.
There are 5,000 communicants gathered
into the Mission Churches of Syria.
Gambia, Sicrva Leone and Liberia have
powerful Christi iu communities, aggressive
upon the neighboring heatliau with the ag
gression of th i Gospeb
There are 40.000 communicants in the
churches of South Africa and 45,000 chil Iren
in the schools.
Moffat waited years for a single conver
sion, and he lett behind him a population
that, cultivate the habits of civilized life and
read the Bible in their own tongue.
There are 70.000 Cnristians gathered into
the churches of Madagascar; Polynesia is
almost, entirely Christian.
There are 500,000 church members among
the hcathan, and probably not less than two
millions connected by ties more or less loose
with the Christian settlements, where 2.300
missionaries labor. And this is the result of
only fifty years. —J uveniie Missionin'*/ Hr mid.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.
Future of Georgia.
While matters might be better, they might
be lar worse. The State is not growing
poorer, hut is in a better condition than ten
vears ago. and. were the people out of debt,
or, could the debts be paid on same basis
they were contracted, our condition would
he better now than at any time since the war.
The State debt is about eleven millions,
and the State property would almost pay it,
and when the Cincinnati Southern 1L R„
now running to Somerset. Ivy., is completed
to Chattanooga, then Georgia, and Ohio, and
the great west can enter into full co-partner
ship in a direct trade with the world and fur
nish hog and hominy to Europe and shirts to
400.000.000 of Chinese. “Millions in it."
with a shirt apiece to each follower of Con
fucius and Mencius, the demand will equal
the supply and cotton be again king. If we
cannot afford to raise it with present labor,
then John Chinaman can. perhaps, solve the
problem. He cannot work too cheap in
Georgia with cotton at seven cents.
Many things are possible an 1 few proba
ble with 22 feet of water on the bar at Bruns
wick. and Georgia owning a line of railroad
to Tennessee, except 105 miles, and Cincin
nati owning a iine of 325 miles to Ohio and
a Southern Pacific railroad to cross below
Memphis.
The port lias made New York superior to
Norfolk without natural advantages on her
side, and southern harbors are void of ship
ping; but it need not he so in future, and
Georgia has a seaboard which Bismarck or
Gortschakoff would give a war lor and a few
millions thrown in to boot. Money and
brains did the work, and mostly monev. for
Virginia in 1770 to 1800 certainly was not
surpassed by New York. Has our oppor
tunity passed ? Can we of the south not com
pete for the ocean-bound trade of America
) TERMS. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
t SI.OO For Six Months.
with New Orleans. Galveston, Mobile, Pern
saeola. Brunswick. Savannah, Port Royal
an<l Norfolk ?
Commercially. i fwo at e not satisfied to begin
lSi!> with pleasures of memory, we can surely
find some comfort, in the pleasures of hope.
Some pious people about ten years ago
thought that the Lord had got on the wrong
side, hut when negro suffrage is set to mtlsic
by Blaine, and Georgia polls eighty thons
and majority, wo remember that ** there s a
divinity that shapes our ends, tough hew
them as we will.”
'N c tire safe in domestic and national poli
tics. If partnership with Africa does not
make assurance doubly sure, then we will
take a bond of fate and order ten millions of
Chinese voters direct from Shanghai to Savan
nah. and end t he matter at once.
Agriculturall y Georgia is not growing poor
er, and while much money is not in circulat ion,
the wealth and comfort among the people
are greater t! a i one won and imagine
comptroller's reports. The last teport s!
value of whole propert y two hun l red*,
thirty-five nrll-ops. while the year bef 0101
j report showy 1 two hundred and ' -
millions, a decrease of ten
analysis demonstrates that this d^.?!'. t r^\’
: suits almost entirely from the fact v ‘ nzua
lani]vv a9 *iv,„inlor.■ ''l.“, t"°' V
in:lt<\ IwHinu.e there wa, !i L111 n ,
the |,e..|.;e felt |>.,„r. ami Crf™' “i 1
town awl ait.v property wi "' .. I't
mi the item' of mom ** • l " ,:lllv <lccu f d
and solvent rtehta T’l ? f 8 *"! BCa , tbo
It ' m i .^be had better shut down
h Ids tiresome travelings and plan a way
' keeping warm till help came. He there-
Ire beat a track in the deep snow, steadily'
unrobed up and down the little runway hoar
fifir hour, through the afternoon and into
Plight, with unceasing yet weary step,
iug all the while the discouraging sensa
on ol feet freezing and the body growing
\mb with the intense cold.
Brown not returning at noon to the cauip
• engineers Who were behind him, little tear
as apprehended for his welfare, but when
.ght come, and and. • ,v Y” M ' , .‘ bring back the
missing man. 1110,1 un(,er =• Hi luted,
and a lari"' 180 * (>,,rn and wheat, in the erb
whereabow n y r,me perhaps since the war. am.
c.nd Satuny are c<mfortable at home, health
until noon '-onsist so tnuch in money as it,
money purchases, and Georgia is
wealthier in the true sense than she was last
year.
W itli comfort at homo the people are really
rich, if content were theirs. “ Poor and
content is rich and rich enough, but riches
boundless are as poor as winter to him who
ever fears be will be poor.”
lake another view, say Georgia's whole
| property amounts to $235,000,000. Seven per
j cent, on this sum would be about $16,000,-
000. Georgia's cotton crop, say iOO.OOO
1 bales at eight cents would be $16,000,000,
j The increase on national wealt h does not
i often exceed three per cent. With one crop
I realizing about $16,000,000 per annum,
I Georgia's future is grand, with prudence.
Her debt of eleven millions can be re-
I funded at perhaps four to five per cent, and
; the annual interest of say SSOO 000 will he
paid by the income of the State and Bruns
wick railroads, and a pretty good article of
I government can be obtained for one-tenth
i of one per cent, taxation on the labor of the
! people.
1 hen the possibilities of sheep and more
so of goafs ? The writer started in 1878 with
thirty-five ewes : they raised thirty lambs, and
their wool sold for nearly S4O. He killed
about sls worth of mutton. Estimate the
II ek at $7.5 and the ine n ne was thirty lambs,
s.<o ■, wool, S4O; mutton, sl.i; $/5 dollars in
sheep yields, an income of $11.5 per annum,
to say nothing ol fertilizers, etc. Bermuda
grass did the work.
Truly our lives are fallen in pleasant
places, and Georgia is rich in the comforts
of life and true wealth.
With self-sustaining farms, a surveyor of
our State to give us an idea of what God has
bestowed on us above and be low the soil, and
a moderate degree of contentment. Geor
gians can stay at borne and do well—perhaps,
better than in Texas, with the same energy
and expenditure.
Georgia is not growing poorer; besides we
ought, not to desire too much wealth—some
body might steal our bodies and make our
widows unhappy, and- in the future world
might have to roll tug bags of gold up a steep
bill during all eternity, as described by Dante
in his “ Inferno.”
Lagrange, On. W. (). T.
Georgia’s Next Governor.
1 he friends of General Lucius J. Gartrell
are pressing him vigorously for the next
Governor, and if it was left to the people now
he would get it easily. It is said that North
Georgia lias not had a Governor since Joseph
E. Brown left the executive chair. General
Gartrell will carry the whole of North Geor
gia solid. 11 is most formidable competitor
will be General A. R. Lawton, of Savannah,
and the race will be between North Georgia
and South Georgia. I)r. Felton will not be
a can lidate for Governor, and it is hardly
safe to say that he will permit his friends to
sacrifice him. He must stick to the Seventh
District. Governor Colquitt will not, be a
candidate for re-election ; Judge Herschel V.
Johnson will stick to the bench; James will
remain in his bank and make more that wav.
while it is possible that Colonel Thomas
Hardeman will relinquish sufficient of his
time from the Agricultural Society and his
cotton warehouse to attend to the duties of
Governor should he be elected. Colonel
Rufus E. Lester. President of the Senate.
Colonel Evan P. Howell. President pro tem.
of the Senate, nor Colonel A. O. Bacon. Speak*
er of the House, would not object to beim*
Governor—in fact they have aspirations that
wav. Any of them would make a splendid
chief magistrate, but it is more than probable
Ilia*. Gartrell will win. although the rest may
combine against him .—Atltmtu Corns ponA,
cnee Awjuxta E count] Neiex.
Buffalo, December 23.—The heaviest
snow-storm since 1871 visited this section
last night and is still raging. The snow is
three feet deep on a level, and is badly drift
ed. Trains Irom all directions are delayed.
NUMBER 31.