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G. A. KING. B. I. KING. V. D.hIOJME,
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WILLIAM D. STONE, Editor.
FORSYTH:
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n i* rapidly improving
Pecans art* produced in Spalding county.
Ever the church clocks in Sav-m .ah are report
ed a? tur periled
It i* propoffd that the magistrate® of Savanmh
haveab&ll.
Fifteen Italian emigrants have been ioeea’.ed
on a farm near Savannah.
The Central railroad paid Its employe# their
last month’s writes In “greenback?.”
Tis con I* over the city offices in Atlanta
proichd to 1* hup and decisive.
V , xrited the quiet occupants of a
li->. - -;n Savannah, last week.
. ii of the Indianapolis Surgical Institute
,i -bed lu Atlanta at an early day.
I, KA- :ta Herald reports that over 600 me
, -i now out of work in that city.
,u, r- v •• on Adv rtiser denies that there is,
I>r |,a- Ui a case of the yellow fever in thr.t
city.
OKAY gle was killed in Floyd county bat
wick, rn ing “from tip to tip” a foot and <
Inches.
The negroes of I'ike county will hold an edn
ctllonal and latiorer’s meeting in Bartlesville, on
the22d.
The Barnet. o', z tte i ntera its sixth volume
with more su’ s.nbere, and in a more prosperous
condition, than '. ver before.
A Savannah maD won immortal glorylast week,
according to the New?, by shipping and classing
1,112 bales of cotton in one day.
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Thu mortuary report o! Savannah, for the
month ending the lOib, shows only nineteen
deaths of both white and black.
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The citizens of Polk eouuty had a ma? 6 meet
ing, Ifst week, and passed resolutions favoring a
Constitutional Convention.
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Tub farmers o! Walton connty have deter
mined to change their system of agriculture, by
raising more wheat and com, and less cotton.
The Savannah News 6ayn an entry will be made
at the Fair to be hold in that city on the 17th, of
a large case containing over one hundred ancient
and curious coins.
A whit of injunction has been issued against
the Coast Line Railroad at Savannah, In a penalty
of flvj thousand dollars, prohibiting it from laying
a hor.-e mil road tiack any or o’, her track on
Broughton street, in 'hat city.
The Home Courier says: Mr. R. W. Whitehead
oi Polk county, ginned from 1084 pounds of seed
cotton, 485 pounds of lint. This was accurately
weighed in and kept distinct lrcm all other. This
Is the largest yield of lint we ever heard of. Can
any one beat it ?
The grand jury of Polk county have this to say
Hat I niton Touched Bottom.
Norton, Slaughter <fc Cos , cotton brokers of
New York, issue the following circular on the very
important and vital question of the price of cot
ton: It seems to us that cotton, if not at “the
bottom.’ is so nearly so that the purchase of lnt
ure deliveries, say Jauuary, February and March,
can rcarce'y fail to pay a good profit. The panic
has now prevailed fo* forty days, during which
time cotton has suffered the depression conse
quent upon the locking tp of the greenbacks all
over the country, and more recently the still more
di-astrous con?equenct of large commercial fail
ures and the stoppage of at least one half the spin
dles employed in Its consumption in this country.
That a decline should result under thia state of
things is most natural, but It does not follow that
cotton has no stopping point, and no price at
which investments may be tempted. We always be
lieve In buiiugat “panic prices,” and especially
any article below the cost ol production, and we
cannot see why parties who in former years bought
cotton so freely at about twenty cents should now
hesitate to buy at a little over half that price. If is
expected by our shrewdest financiers that mon
ey will accumulate in the banks and in the hands
of private capitalist to such an extent duiicg the
next sixty days as to become a drug, and go beg
ging for investment. The stoppage ofbnsiaess to
ao large an extent will necessarily produce this re
sult, and our banks and capitalists will grow tired
of receiving no incomes, and the whole machinery
of tiade and manufacture be set in motion by fiee
offerings of money. Our American spinners, by
their temporary stoppage, will greatly redute the
stock of goods, and will be able before very long
to resume work at healthy prices for their goods,
and with easy money will seek to secure a supply
of good cotton for their and summer en
i gagements. This, with reduced planting, will
bring Englieh buyers in competition with
American spinner?, and with the aid of a large
, short interest which speculation w ill surely create,
will no doubt advauce prices in February or March
to very remunerative figures. Those who expect
lower prices and want to get in at “bottom.’’ will
doubtless fail to get in on as favorable terms as
those who commence now, and we do not hesitate
i to council our fi ieuds to make a beginning at pres
ent prices, and if a further decline, (which cannot
be much, it any,) then to average down with
double the quantity. Don’t forget that it is tie law
of nature for one extreme to follow another, and
as we have been running to a point of extreme de
pression, we may soon expect a reflex action that
will restore values to a more reasonable basis.
Our people are not “ broke,” and ewinot be to any
general extent while every portion of our wide
domain is teeming with the products of the rich
est soil on earth; and, as during the war, and
all other periods of depression, we will recover
from the present panic to find that we are still
the most properous people on the globe. It is
simple folly to think that cotton, or anything else,
will shrink to nothing, and we will stake our rep
utation on the wisdom ol our advice in corn
menting a speculation in cotton at about present
prices, say for December and January 18 cents,
February 13% cents, March 13% and April 14 cents.
The Acquisition cf Cuba.— The elections are
over for this year, the times are exceedingly hard,
and there isn’t, apparently, very much to live for.
It occurs to us that we might as well proceed
now to carry out a6cheme very dear to the Amer
ican heart. We allude to the acquisition of the Is
land of Cuba. We are not troubled about Cuba
because we lack elbow-room, because wejthink
the Island should be made a part of the United
Slates, and because It would certainly be an Act
of taum&Dity to put a stop to the slaughter which
has been needlessly going on there for the past
four or five years. The Spanish Republic is a myth.
It is a failure, and even If it was not, it is little
better than despotism. The Cuban patriots have
no more disposition to take up with the bastard
Republic than they had to endure the rule of Ama
dsus. What they want is free Cuba ; they don’t
want Spanish domination in any shape. The Span
ish auDiorities on the Island arejust as cruel and
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