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JACKSON CO. PUB. COM’Y, ) Proprietors. i VOLUME Y. Sfti W.msl skt\m. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, JEFFERSON , JACKSON CO ., GA. )fPICE, !fE. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Owe copy 12 months $1.50 “ “ 6 “ 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of tho paper will be given. —■ - RATES OF ADVERTISING. • One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) for the lirst insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. Jfra?* A square is a space of one inch, measured up and down the column. jrBTAII Advertisements sent without spccilica tiou of the number of insertions marked thereon, will he published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. SaTlJusincss or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. &p[’ JUucrtiscmmts. Administrator’s Sale. BY virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of .Jackson county, granted in terms of law, will be sold, to the highest and best bidder, on the Ist Tuesday in December next, between the lawful hours of sale, at the Court House door of said county, in Jetterson, the following lands, to-wit: One parcel, known as the N. 11. Pendergrass home place, containing one hundred and lifty acres, more or loss, lying in the county of Jackson, on the waters of Middle Oconee river, adjoining lands of C. M. Shockley and lands of Pendergrass A Hancock. On said place there is a good dwell ing house and out-buildings, two acres in apple orchard, two acres in peach-orchard, lifty acres of good bottom land in a high state of cultivation, twenty-live acres of good upland in cultivation, and the remainder in forest and old lields. One parcel, known as the Wash Lay place, lying on the Federal road, containing one hundred and seventy-two acres, more or less, adjoining lands of C. M. Shocklej r , B. F. Boggs, Levi Gunter and t’. W. Finch. On said place there is fifteen acres of good creek bottom in cultivation, forty acres of upland in cultivation, and the remainder in forest and old lields. On said place there is a comfortable cabin and out-buildings. One parcel, known as the John 11. Newton place, containing one hundred and lifty acres, more or less, adjoin ing lands of T. L. Harrison, Mrs. S. A. Turner, Mrs. S. P. Carithers and J. E. Randolph. On Haul place there is thirty acres of fine bottom land in a high state of cultivation, forty acres of rich upland in cultivation, and the remainder in tfA'tfinal forestand old is two conifortafTfirfoginvelTing houses and out buildings. All of said lands lying in the 245th District, G. M. Sold as the property belonging to the estate of N. 11. Pendergrass, deceased, for the purpose of distribution among the heirs of nnid deceased. Terms of sale, one-half cash, the other half on time, with notes payable first day of December, 18S0, bearing interest at eight per cent, from date. J. B. PENDERGRASS, Adin’r of N. 11. Pendergrass, deceased. Administrator and Administratrix Sale. liY virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary > of Jackson county, granted in terms of law, will be sold, to the highest and best bidder, on the tirst Tuesday in December next, between the lawful hours of sale, at the Court House door of said county, in JelFerson, the following lands and town lots, to-wit : One parcel, known as the James Wood place, containing four hundred and twenty acres, more or less, lying in the county of Jackson, in the 24.1 th District, G. M., on the waters of the Middle Oconee river, adjoining lands of Dr. Matthew Doster, James W. Wood, C. W. Finch, C. M. Shockley and the N. 11. Pendergrass home place. On said lot there is a comfortable dwelling and out-buildings, a very good orchard, thirty acres of bottom land, ten in cultivation; ninety-five acres of upland in culti vation ; one hundred and fifty acres in original forest, the remainder in swamp and old field. One parcel, known as the Burns place, containing one hundred acres, lying in the 247th District, (L M., adjoining lands of Dr. J. M. Burns, IV . A. Burns, J. S. Freeman and others. Said place is all in original forest. One parcel, containing twenty-six acres, lying within the incorporate limits of the town of Jeltcrson, adjoining lands ol T. 11. Niblack, Mrs. S. A. Turner, Wiley Han cock, colored, and J. E. Randolph. All of said lot is in cultivation and under good fence. One eighth remainder interest in the Mrs. Nancy Stark place, in the town of Jefferson. Said place containing forty accres, more or less. One lot in the town of Jefferson, the place whereon Mrs. iSallie S. Hancock now resides, containing one ami a half or two acres, lying on the corner of Lee street and Court House alley, adjoining lots of W. !. Pike and others. On said lot there is a good two-story eight room dwelling, good barn and stables, good garden and orchard. One store-house and lot in the town of JefFerson with two stories and basement, in good repair. All of said lands and lots sold as the partnership prop erty of N. 11. Pendergrass, deceased, and R. J. Hancock, deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts of said partnership, and lor division between the estates ot said deceased partners. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold, to the highest and best bidder, seven shares in Jackson County Publishing Company’s stock. Terms of sale, one-half cash, the other half on time, with notes payable first day ot Dccombcr, ISSO, bearing interest at eight per cent, from date. J. B. PENDERGRASS, Adm'r of N. H. Pendergrass, dec’d. MRS. S ALL IE S. HANCOCK, Adm’x of R. J. Hancock, dec’d. NOTICE! \\T ILL be let to the lowest bidder, before the Ordinary’s otlice, in Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., on the Bth day of December, ISiO, tbe contract for superintending, managing and caring for the inmates of the Poor House of said county. The county will furnish all provisions, clothing, medical attention, &c., necessary for the paupers, and the person making the lowest bid, per month, for said service of superintending, Ac., will be awarded the contract upon the following conditions : The contractor will be required, at his expense, to cultivate the farm and receive all the benefits thereof, the same to be allowed tor in making bids ; also, to cultivate a garden sufficient f ( > supply vegetables for the paupers. The con tractor will be required to give bond, with good .security, in the sum of five hundred dollars, con ditional, for an honest administration, respeepul and humane treatment of the paupers, and faith ful discharge of all duties, anu will be required to make monthly reports to the Ordinary, showing the number and condition of the paupers, amount expended for provisions, clothing and medical at tention during the month, and the amount of pro visions, Ac., on hand at the end of the month, besides forfeiting said bond, the contractor will be subject to removal by the Ordinary at any time for failure or refusal to comply with any ot the conditions or regulations. Eor more definite specifications, apply to this office. uo\7 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. Jackson Sheriff’s Sales. WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Decem ber next, before the Court House door in the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ua., within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: All that tract or parcel of land in said county of Jackson, known as lot No. (0) nine, (according to survey of John Simpkins, made for the Admin istrator of Green It. Duke, Sr., deceased) and known and described in the deed from said Ad ministrator to Peter McLester as the Rat Duke place, containing one hundred and twenty-seven and 7-10 acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Mrs. S. Turner and others, on the road from Jefferson to Lawrenceville, one and \ miles from Jefferson. On said land are two tenant cabins and other improvements, fifty or sixty acres in cultivation, twenty or thirty acres of it bottom land, remainder of place in old field and original forest. Levied on as the property of Peter Mc- Lester, to satisfy a mortgage ii. fa. issued from Superior Court of Jackson county, August term, 1378, in favor of N. 11. Pendergrass, surviving partner of Pendergrass & Hancock, against Peter McLester. Property pointed out in said ti. fa. Written notice of levy given to Peter McLester, defendant, and to Henry Turner, colored, and Andy Justice, colored, tenants in possession. T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’ff. Administrator’s Sale. AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Jackson county, Georgia, will be sold, on the first Tuesday in December, 1579, be fore the Court House door in Jetterson, in said county, within the legal hours of sale, the follow ing property, to-wit: All of the right, title and interest of Alfred Smith, deceased, it being the remainder, after the expiration of the dower or life estate of Mary K. Smith, in and to all of that tract of land situate and lying on Big Sandy Creek, in Jackson county, Ga., and the place whereon Alfred Smith resided at the time of his death, and whereon Mary K. Smith now resides, and adjoin ing and bounded by the lands of William T. How ard on the west, by Susan Johnson on the west and north, by the lands of Warren Hawks, de ceased, on the north and east, by Z. J. Hardman on the east, by James Thurmond and Dianah Sanders on the South, and by Andy Sailors on the west, and containing two hundred and twenty eight acres, more or less. Said place is well im proved, with all necessary buildings ; up-land and bottom land in good state of cultivation ; sufficient wood land in original forest to make this one of the most attractive places in the county. The above land sold as the property of Alfred Smith, late of said county, dec'd, subject to the life es tate of Mary K. Smith, tenant in Dower, and for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said Al fred Smith, deceased. A plat of the premises can he seen at the Clerk’s ollice Jackson Superior Court. N. B. CASH, Adm’r, oct24 M. K. SMITH, Adm’x. Ach)i inistrcitor’s Sale. AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Jackson county, Ga., will he sold, to the highest bidder, before the Court House door in Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in December next, the following property, to-wit: Seven hun dred and tifty-one acres ol'Jand, in three lots. I t ate: Aundretfowid eighty-one acres, more or less, on the waters of Sandy Creek, adjoining lands of Cooper. Walker and others. On said lot there is a good dwelling, good out buildings of all kinds ; one hundred acres in cul tivation, fifty acres of it bottom land, thirty acres of original forest land, the remainder good old field land. Lot No. 2, containing one hundred and seventy acres, more or less, adjoining Lot No. 1, Walker. Thurmond and others. On said lot there is about twenty-five acres in a high state of cultivation, fifty acres of original forest land, the remainder good old iicld. Lot No. 3, containing four hundred acres, more or less, on the waters of Sandy Creek, adjoining lands of B. Sailors. Jas. Thurmond and Lots No. 1 and 2. On said lot there is a good dwelling, good out-buildings, seventy-live acres in a high state of cultivation, forty acres of it bottom land, seventy-five acres of original forest, the xemainder good old field land. All of said lands lying in the 253d District. G. M. Sold as the property belonging to the estate of Samuel Smith, Sr., deceased, for the benefit of the heirs of said deceased. Terms cash. S. S. SMITH. T. S. SIIANKLE, oc t24 Administrators. Administrator's Sale. AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Jackson county, Ga., will be sold before the Court House door in said county, with in the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in December, 1871), at public outcry, to the highest bidder, the following property, to-wit: A tract or parcel of land, situated and being in the 248t1i District, G. M., of said county, adjoining lands of Edwards, Randolph, Smith and others. The same being the place whereon M. 11. Sims now resides, containing one hundred and nine acres, more or less. On said land there is a tolerable good log house and necessary out-houses ; about forty-five or fifty acres of the land in a high state of cultiva tion, the remainder in old field pine and forest land. Sold as the property of the estate of G. W. Saul, deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts and for distribution among the heirs at law of said dec'd. Terms—one-half cash, balance on twelve months time. MALLITA SAI L, oc q 24 Administratrix. Executor s Sale. \tt ILL be sold, on the Ist Tuesday in Beccm- YY her 1579, before the Court House door, in Jefferson,’ during the legal hours of sale, the following tract of land, to-wit: One hundred ai d three acres, more or less, lying in the 253d District. G. M., of Jackson county, adjoining lands of Green Nance’s estate, W. W. Davis, B. Tuck and others. There is on said land a good framed dwelling house, stable, barn, and other out-houses ; about twenty acres in cultivation, and balance said land in forest and old pine field. Sold as the property ol Martha A. Strickland, deceased, under will of said deceased, for the mirnose of distribution among the heirs at law. S’erms, cash. S G. STRICKLAND, Ex'r of Martha A. Strickland. Thomas Phillips has made application to me to supplement or amend the exemption of personalty and setting apart and valuation of homestead, heretofore set apart to him by the Ordinary of said county on the 22d day of December, 1809 ; and 1 will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock a. in., on the 12th day of November 1879, at my office. 11. W. BELL, Ord y. oct 31 Jackson Count}’. Whereas, J. W. H, Hamilton and T. K. Smith makes application in proper form for Letters of Administration upon the estate of Bailey '..hand ler, late of said county, deceased— This is to oite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said comity, on the first Monday in December, 1579, why sanl leave should not be granted the applicants. Given under my official signature, this October 24th, 1879. H. W . BELL, lrd y, i:OKbiIA, Jackson County. John G. Long has applied for exemption of personalty and setting apart and valuation of homestead;‘and 1 will pass upon the same at 10 o'clock A. on the 18th day of November, IVJ, at my office. oct3l 1L W. BELL, Old y. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 14,1879. Administrator’s Sale. AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Jackson county, Ga., will be sold, on the first Tuesday in December, 1879, before the Court House door, in Jefferson, in said coun ty, within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit : Three hundred and seventy live acres of land, more or less, lying in said coun ty, on the road leading from Jefferson to Gaines ville, about seven miles from former place; the place whereon Temperance Pettyjohn resided at the time of her death. Said tract of land lies on the waters of Allen’s Fork of Oconee river, has about one hundred acres of bottom land, twenty five acres (or about that amount) uncleared, the remainder of said bottom land in a tolerably good state of cultivation ; about thirty-five or forty acres up-land in cultivation, thirty or thirty-five acres in original forest, balance of said tract in old pine fields. Said tract of land is reasonably well improved. The above tract of land will he sold as the property of said Temperance Petty john, deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts of said deceased and for making distribu tion amongst her heirs. Terms cash O. 11. P. PETTYJOHN, oct24 Adm’r Temperance Pettyjohn, dec’d. Administrators Sale. 4 GREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or j\- dinary of Jackson county, granted at the Oc tober term, 1879, of said Court, will ho sold, on the first Tuesday in December next, at the Court House door in said county, within the legal hours of sale, one tract of land in the 257th I)ist., G. M., of said county, said tract or parcel of land con taining one hundred and forty acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Henry Merk, Thomas Garrison and others ; about thirty-five acres in a state of cultivation, the balance in forest and old field. On said land is a small log cabin. Sold as the pro perty of George Merk, dec’d, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Terms cash. HENRY MERK, oct24 Adm’r of George Merk, deceased. Administrator’s Sale. WILL be sold, before the Court House door in Jetterson, Jackson county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in December next, during the legal hours of sale, one tract of land, in said county, contain ing eighty-four (84) acres, more or less ; half mile from Nicholson, the Northeastern Railroad run ning through said land ; there is about forty acres in cultivation, part of which is branch bottom, balance in original forest and old pine field. There is on said place a good four-room dwelling, and other buildings, and an excellent well of water. The place whereon Green Nance lived at the time of his death. Sold for the benefit of heirs and creditors. Terms cash. N. B. CASH, oct24 Adm'r of Green Nance, deceased. Administjxitor’s Sale. 4 GREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Jackson county, granted at the Oc tober term of said Court, will be sold, in Jetter son, during the legal hours of sale, on the lirst Tuesday in December, 1879, thirty-seven acres of land, more or less, known as the land laid olf to 11 olly r Davis, out of the lands of James Davis’, de ceased, estate, as dower. Said land adjoins lands of Marion Carruth, John Austin, Perkins and Sold as the property of James Davis, de ce{?.e.<L for the purpose of distribution among the heirs at law, and io pay Co's-t of administration. Terms cash. N ATH ANIEL ROOKS, 0c.t24 Adm’r of James Davis, dec’d. Executors’ Sale. 4 GREE ABLY to an order of the Ordinary of A Jackson county, Ga., will he sold, on the first Tuesday in December next, before the Court Douse door, in Jetterson, during the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: Fifty acres of land, more or less, lying in said county, adjoining lands of Mrs. Garrison, Wilson and Merk. Sold as the property of Samuel Garrison, deceased, for the purpose of paying debts and for distribution. Terms cash. HENRY MERK. J. G. DUNNAIIOO, oct24 Executors. Jackson County. Whereas, Z. T. Suddeth, Administrator of S. Cowan, late of said county, deceased, represents to the Court, by his petition duly filed, that he lias fully administered the estate of said deceased, and is entitled to a discharge— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in December, 1879, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Letters of Dismission should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 2Gth, 1.879. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, L. Y. Bradberry, Executor of Samuel G. Ilunter, deceased, applies for leave to sell the real estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in December, 1879, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this October 24th, 1579. 11. W. BELL. Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, S. S. Smith and T. S. Shank le, Ad ministrators of the estate of Samuel Smith. Sr., dec’d, applies for leave to sell the Railroad and Bank Stock belonging to said estate, also the lands belonging to said estate— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors. to show cause, if any they can, at the regu lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the iirst Monday in December, 1879, why said leave should not be granted the applicants. Given under my official signature, this October 24th, 1879. v ' IJ. W. BELL, Ord’y. * tdntinistra tor’s Notice ! VLL persons who owe in any manner the estate of Samuel Smith, Sr., dec’d, of Jackson coun ty. Ga.. will please come forward and settle said debts with decedent’s Administrators immediate ly. All persons holding claims against said de cedent’s estate will please present the same for settlement to SAMLTEL S. SMITH and T. S. SA ANKLE, oclO Gt Adm’rs estate Sarn’l Smith. Sr., dec’d. BOOKS! Everything Pertaining to the BUSINESS Furnished as Low as Can be Had ANYWHERE. W. FLEMING, Octal Athens, Gra. A Magic Hum. A Walk Throutjh Westminster—The Clement Attachment—A Little Machine that Makes Millions — What it Amounts to — A Talk zoith Mr. Stribling. Atlanta, Ga., October 28.—1 was coin missioned more than a week ago to report fully the operation of the Clement attachment at Westminster, South Carolina, and I have delayed the work simply that I might get some system from the bewildering array of figures that presented themselves when the magical attachment was mentioned—that I might evolve some principle from the complex technicalities with which the experts over whelm neophytes when they try to explain its workings. I hare succeeded in getting a pretty clear idea in my own mind —though with what clearness I can transfer it to others, will de pend. I shall he careful to give only the best attested figures and to write a3 calmly as the exhilarating suggestions of the theme will permit. Be it known in the preface to those who have not investigated up to date, that the Clement attachment is an invention by which cotton is spun into yarn from the gin, and be it known to those who would turn back from this technical definition that the facts which will follow have about them all the spice and flavor of romance, it is a romance turned from the patient and unam bitious hand of a mechanic, who little sus pected how wisely lie plodded. TIIE HISTORY OF TIIE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT. The Clement attachment was invented about five years ago by a Tennesseean named Clement. lie lived in Memphis, and had a small shop there in which he proposed to manufacture his attachments. lie died shortly after making his invention, and it now belongs to his heirs, having been per fected by the workman who had assisted him in making it. Mr. F. E. Whitfield, of Cor inth, Miss., has charge of its interests for the heirs. There are now six mills operating this attachment. The first ever built was put up in Corinth in IS7o. In 1876 one was put up at Andersonville, S. C.. and in the past two years four have been added—all along the Piedmont line. The best known of these is at Westminster, S. C., where lives Mr. J. V. Stribling, a most intelligent me chanic, who has charge of the affairs of the attachment, and to whom all correspondence is addressed. A GLIMPSE OF WESTMINSTER. Westminster is 110 miles from Atlanta, and is a place of about 100 inhabitants. It lias not heretofore been considered of much importance, being simply a sprightly young village. Since the excitement over the Clem ent attachment it has become famous, and is visited by crowds of capitalists who wisii to look into the operations of that piece of ma chinery. It has had visitors from New Eng land, New York, all the Southern States and from almost every county in Georgia. There is not a single day that passes but what one or more persons get off' at the unpretentious liLtle station and go ontto sec the attachment at work. The site of the Westminster manufacturing © company, as it is pretentiously called, is situated almost on Choestoo creek—a slender stream, dammed into some sort of breadth, and dropping a trickle of water twenty-two feet, on the wheel of a roughly built mill. The mill itself is a two story house, valued at $1,200. It is managed by about seven boys and girls, young Mr. Stribling being in direct supervision. To describe the work of the Clement at tachment, we will compare the operation in its incipiency to the ordinary gin, and in its prosecution to the ordinary cotton factory machinery—for the attachment is nothing more or less than the marriage of the gin to the spindle, the union being deftly effected in wild operation. It may bo remarked in the opening that an ordinary gin cannot be used for this attachment —-though ordinary spinning machinery may bo used. THE OLD PROCESS OF GINNING. In the regular old-fashioned ginning ope ration, the seed is fed into transverse sections of bars and saws. ' The bars are placed about one-eighth of an inch apart and the keen saws sweep rapidly in and out between these bars, cutting and tearing the fibre of the cotton from tiio seeds. The space between the bars will not allow the seed to pass through. As soon as they are comparatively cleansed of the fibre which has field them in place they fall into the place provided for them. In the meantime the lint or fibre having been cut and torn loose from the seed is driven through the bars and is deposited on a circular brush which revolves with enormous rapidity. This revolving cylinder is covered with stiff bristles on which the lint is caught, but turns with such swiftness that the centrifugal force throws it off into the lint room. By this process the fibre is torn, dislocated, tangled and twisted. In this state it is pressed into bales and sent to market. After awhile it finds itself in the factory. The first work of the factory is to pick it to pieces. It is taken to the picking room and picked and pulled into tiny bits, the fibre being again torn and kinked and broken. The next process is to re-unite or pa*eh together these broken fibres and get the bits of cotton into rolls. For this pur pose it is taken to the carding-room, and is finally, after harsh and complicate handling, combed out into a roll of some fibrous strength. This is, in general terms, the treatment of cotton by the present method. THE NEW PROCESS OF GINNING AND CARDING. Now I shall uive the exact process of the Clement attachment. In the first place, up stairs, in a loft above the general machinery, the seed cotton was stored ; near the pile of seed cotton was a cleaning machine, which was used simply to cleanse the cotton of all dust, or dirt before it went to the gin. After being cleaned it is let down a chute on to an endless revolving apron, which carries it to the gin. By the side of this apron stood a boy, whose duty it was to regulate the feeding of the gin. The apron was marked off into square yards, and about one pound of seed cotton was spread to the square yard. This amount varies slightly with the weather. The seed cotton having been spread upon the apron it sweeps slowly into the gin. The Clement gin differs from the ordinary gin in many respects. In the first place, it is much slower. There is no rush, or clatter, or hurry about it. Its motion is gentle and even, and its speed about one-third of the ordinary gin. It is of much finer make than other gins. It lias sixty-four saws to the space usually given to forty saws, and the teeth are much smaller and finer. Its opera tion on the cotton seed is essentially differ ent. In the regular gin the saws plunge like flashes through the fibre cutting, or tear ing, or puffing it. In this gin the fibre is pulled from the seed. The motion is so much slower and the hold of the saw-teeth so much firmer, that the fibre is pulled out and not chopped or torn. The seed has time to turn completely around under the pull of the saw, so that the fibre may be pulled out, as if it were hand-picked. In the one case the lint is roped from the seed —in the other it is coaxed. After the seed is stripped of its fibre it drops out of the way. and the fibres of lint arc carried on to the brush. In the regular gins this brush revolves with fierce rapidity, its centrifugal force throwing the lint from its teeth. In the Clement gin it revolves slowly and the lint holds its place. As the brush revolves slowly, holding the lint securely, it meets a revolving card eyl inder armed with steel teeth. The brush is covered with hair bristles, and the cylinder with steel teeth. The teeth of the cylinder push in gently between the bristles of the brush and pull the fibre loose. The brush is inclined to hold it. and the slight resistance made to gi\ing it up stretches the fibre to full length and leaves it hanging on Hie teeth of the cylinder. As the cylinder rolls up ward with these pendant fibres it meets a pair of cards, suspended just above it. The teeth of these cards sweep through the teeth of the cylinder and card the fibres back as the cylinder pulls them past. As the cylin der turns on, it meets a doffer—another cyl inder moving a trillo faster—which pulls the fibre from the carding cylinder without breaking the fibre or twisting or dislocating it. As the doffer turns with it it carries it against a series of combs that, moving up and down between the teeth of the doffer, gently strips the fibre off. Nothing can be more beautiful, smooth and even than this fibre as it is combed from the doffer. It comes off in a roll of thirty-six inches in width, carded, combed and straightened in marvelous contrast to the ragged, torn, shreds of lint thrown from tho harsh teeth and whiz zing brush of the regulation gin. A boy stands ready to raise the roll as it is combed from the doffer. It is then a thin, fleecy roll of thirt\ T -six inches in width and of diphanous thickness. lie doubles the ends of it togeth er and forces it into a card head about an inch and a half wide. As the combs feed tho rod to Hie card head, the card head takes it, and as it emerges from the other end a per fect “sliver,” which i3 deposited into a tin can. A sliver is a roll of cotton fibre about the breadth of two fingers and a half, the thickness of one. and it is then ready for spinning into yarn. From this point it is fed into spinning machinery, just such as we see in any cotton factory, and is in a few minutes the most perfect yarn. THE THEORY OK THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT. The render who has gone thus fnr with us will sec the theory upon which the Clement attachment works. 1. It avoids chopping, or tearing, or break ing the fibre, by using fine teeth saws, set close together, and by ginning so slowly that the seed are stripped as if by hand rather than jostled and rocked and jerked as in the ordinary gin. 2. Instead of throwing the torn lint into tangled masses, as the ordinary gin does, it handles it carefully and never releases its hold on it. It is first taken on a delicate brush, where it is smoothed ; then pulled to a cylinder, where it is carded ; then to a do Her, where it is combed, and then into the card heads, where it is spun. After studying it carefully I am struck with two points —its simplicity and its power. It is miraculous that no one has ever ap plied the principle before. And yet this wonder pales when wo think of what its effect will ho. It is my honest opinion that the handful of machinery before me—for the at tachment is nothing more than the card cylinder by which an improved gin is con nected with a system of spindles—will do as much for the south as the invention of steam has done for the world. A TALK WITH MR. STRIBLING. I had a long talk with Mr. Stribling, who is an unusually intelligent man. He said : “ The main thing we claim for the attach ment is that it simplifies the manufacture of cotton, and will encourage its manufac ture at home. Now, follow a bale of cotton raised by a farmer, lie first picks it out. lie then takes his seed cotton to a gin. 11c hauls his seed cotton back home and then gets his lint cotton. He then pays for bag ging and ties and packing and hauls it to market. He then sells it. After paying a half dozen middlemen good commissions it reaches a factory. It is then ripped open and taken to the picking room. The tangled mass of short fibres is picked apart and the odds and ends carded into indifferent rolls. It is then spun into yarn, and is worth just double what the farmer gets for it. Now wo take a farmer who has otic of these attach ments, or where there is one in his neighbor hood. lie takes his seed cotton to the at tachment ; he puts it in, and it cornea out yarn. He has no gin fees to pay ; he has no bagging or hauling to do; he has no com missions to pay ; and he sees his seed cotton converted, not into lint worth 9 cents a pound, hut into spun yarn worth 17 cents a pound. It does not hurt the factories, because the factories will weave the yarn that is spun on the plantations. They can discard the picking, carding and spinning machinery and substi tute looms. “ In the process then of converting the seed cotton into cloth, besides, Ist, cheap ening and simplifying every step of the pro cess it deals with. 2nd, Producing a strong er and better product. 3rd, Encouraging the \ TEEMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO For Six Months. producer to return the profits of partial manu facture, and 4th, doing away with much freights, commission and package. It also eliminates from the process the gin of the farmer, and the picking roojn of the factory?** es, sir j because the ginning becomes part of the manufacturing process, and tho picking machines are needed, because the lint is never either torn or tangled or packed.” ° A HUGE ESTIMATE OP PROFIT. “ What will be the result of the general in troduction of these attachments?” W ell, let us look at what they have dono already. We were farmers—those of us in terested in this mill. \\ e used to sell our cotton at say 0 cents a pound. Wc now get 17 cents a pound for every pound of yarn wo sell. Wc have therefore added a value of 8 cents to every pound of cotton wc can con vert into yarn. This is the gross added value. Our net profit is a! out 3 cents per pound. To be brief, then, we virtually double the value of every pound of cotton wc get. Of course much of this increased value goes, to labor and expense. But then this value is created on the farm and it stays at home cither as wages or expense of our profit. Now the south rai.'.ns 5.000,000 bales of cotton. At S7)O a bale this would be $250.000,00ft., Now the universal use of Clement attachments would nearl}' double this value. That crop spun on the plantations, as it is now ginned, would bring into the country $450,000,00ft instead of $2n0,000,000. In order to do this, work on the farms we si.ould give employment to fully one-fourth more persons than arc now* employed. It would rapidly make the south independent.” ” 4ou do not think it possi I*l ethat anv such genera! introduction of the attachments will take place?” “ I do not look for them to bo universally adopted at once, but I do look for their rapid introduction. Now let us get back to figures. I ask every farmer that visits me how many bales of cotton the gins in bis neighborhood gin every year. The average I have pot at 40 bales. But let us say the aver ago is sft bales. To gin the 5,000,00 ft bales now raised would require 100,000 gins. These gins cost with building and all $750 each, let us say. Then we have $75,000,000 invested in gins in the south. The same amount would very nearly provide Clement attachments with which to gin and spin the whole crop. Take our case. Wc gin and spin 500 pounds of seed cotton a day. In three days we gin and spin 1,500 pounds which equal 500 pounds or one bale of lint. ... 100 tunes a year. To gin this 100 bales we have used heretofore, three gins, costing us with the houses, etc.* about $2,500. just what our Clement, attach ment cost. 1 look to see gins replaced by attachments as fast as the gins wear out or can bo disposed of. I look to see many gins set aside and those attachments substituted. The $75,000,000 invested in gins is idle capital eleven monthsof theyear. The “attachments’'’ run every day in theyear. We shall see tbn idle capital withdrawn as fast as possible and, put into Clement attachments.” WIIAT BENEFIT TO THE FARMERS. “Of what benefit is your mill to the farm,-, ers around you ?” “ The benefits aro defrnito, but of course, are limited to a few. We give the full mar* ket price for seed cotton brought us, ehnrg-. ing nothing for ginning. A farmer who brings his seed cotton to us, gets just as much as if 1 he were to have it ginned, baled and hauled to market, and has none of t hese expenses o*- worry. We then make one cent per pound* on seed cotton or 3 cents on lint cotton, cleat profit.” “ Is this your regular profit?' 1 •* Yes, sir; I published the details in your paper some time ago. Our books will show that on 500 pounds of seed cotton, our daily consumption, we make one cent a pound or $5 a day— or $1,500 a year. This is below the actual profit, but 1 put it low purposely. I see that Mr. Hardee wrote a letter which was published, in which he. on a SI,OOO mill, makes $lO a day, or $3,600 a year. 1 hare, no doubt be does even better. lie spins 1,-. 000 pounds a day, and should make one am\ a half cents a pound, as the profit with the product. For $25,000 Clement at tachments can be bought to use 5,000 pounds of seed cotton per day. which I am sure will pay $75 per day, or $22,200 a year. It is perfectly safe to estimate that the profit will he from one cent to one cent and a half on, every' pound of seed cotton used. That it is cheaper than any other process is proven by this. With the Clement attachment we usa only four machines from the cotton in the. field to the thread on the spool. By the ol<\ process there are about ten machines. SOME POINTS OF INTEREST. “Is the yarn that you make better thaq the yarn made in factories?” “ Yes, sir. And for this reason, others : The seed of cotton is filled witli oil. Of course this oil is put in the seed for a pur pose. Its purpose is to oil the fibre—make, it flexible, smooth and strong. In the old ; styde, the farmers pull the cotton before it is, fully mat ured, and the seeds aro then takeiy out at once. The cotton is packed away and dries, and hardens, and grows brittle. Wit,l\ the Clement attachment, we buy the seed and pack it away. The seed is then with the fibre, and the oil enriches and smoothes it, and makes it flexible. We are row spinning old cotton that is still packed away in thq seed. Our yarn is soft and smooth. We chr see the difference at once when we begin to spin new cotton. Another thing that our yarn better is that the fibre is never chop ped, or torn, or cut, or tangled. Experts say. that our yarn is just as line as the yarn sput\ from the sea island cotton. It is simply be cause we preserve the fibre in its original length and strength. The old Indies who use our yarns say r that it is like the hand-picked y'arn of olden times. It is not hard and tensq like the factory yarn, but is soft and flexible. We cannot supply the demand for the Clement yarn. We sell it in New York and Philadel phia, \yhere it is pronounced “the best.” and the demand in local markets is more than WQ could supply.” [continued on fourth paoe.J NUMBER 23.