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O. HEARD,)
PROPRIETOR . j
VOL. XIN.
Fer ihd Herald.
TUX A S IJM i DIC.
Tlic Sleek Inleresin ot Texas
—Felice lulling in tlic West.
The all absorbing theme of news
paper and private diseussion in Texas
now ia ‘'fence cutting." As your
readers may hare seen stray allusions
te this, it may not be uninteresting tp
them to read sn explanation of the
term and some description ot the state
of things here which has led to its so
freqnent use among us of late. The
etock interest is one of tho greatest ins
terests of this great state. Asa gens
tinman said to me the other day, ‘ The
stock-men re tho Nabobs of this
country." The same party told me of
a man who had just died worth six
hundred thousaud dollars and who, he
said, went into the stock business a few
years ago a poor man. The number of
of men who have grown rich, in a com
parativcly few years, out here in the
cattle business is very great. Nor is
this surprising, when you take into
consideration a lew facts with refer
enoe to the cattle business in Texas.
The broad prai'ies affording pasturage,
summer and winter, for untold myriads
of cattle are open to every man alike ; j
so that, when a man is oneo in posses* !
aion of a herd of cattle here, the only
expense of raising beef-cattle, is that
attending the marking and branding of
the calves. Ti c laws against cattle
stealing are stringent, every ntao’.-
mark and brand are recorded, every
town has its hide-inspector, and, lastly,
th* cattle owners have associations fur
the detection and prosecution of cat.
tie thieves—so that this speeies of
property is remarkably safe in Texas.
Lastly beef-eattle aro as saleable hero
o<J .f vea r *. command
high prices. lam told that you can
draw on a commission merchant for
thirty-five dollars a head for as many
fit thres-'jesr old beeves as you can
put ob the cars. The result of it all
is, as I hate said, that the cattle men ;
of this state have grown immensely!
wealthy, they are worth untold mill
ions. Consequent partly up n tho de
velopment of the countrv and the ;
great influx of immigrants, the most
wealthy of tho cattle men find it to
their interest to buy up vast tracts o!
land, and enclose them with fences, so
that when the open range partly fails
they may have a fresh range upon
which to turn their cattle This feno
iogj is usually done with barbed wire.
And now conics the trouble. A set
tier—it may boa poor man— not un
frequently finds himself suddenly cut
off, by one of these mammoth enclosures
from market, from school, from church
and (what with most of them perhaps
is wi v*e than any of these) from stock
water—a great consideration in this
dry couutry. A barbed—wi[a fense
can't be let down, juatpud, or climbed
over very convenienf ly. The County
Commissioners were perhaps remiss in
some sections in not opening and keep
lng open roads for the people Men, in
various parts of the state, e xasperated
by what they conceived to be gross in
justice and i ppression, began to cut th#
wire fences, so that their own cattle
might pass through to water, etc,,
Soon tha disposition to cut fenecs spread
like a contagion. What was begun
from a sense of injustice was continued
from a spirit of wanton lawlessness and
rascality. Many hard-working and
inoffensive men, farmers as well as cat"
tle'-men, have had their fences cut.
It has been impossible to detect or
punish any of the offenders. The
courts and the state <toj.'rnmcnt arc
inert, and the evil spreads. The fact
that it has not led to blood.-shed speaks
volumes against the current opinion as
to the readiness of Texans to take the
law into their own hands. Help is
lookod for ftem the legislature, which
meets in February. The evil has goae
•o far that it will take the wisest and
most judicious legislation to rectify it.
In the meantime, mass meetings are
being held by the stock--tncn, the pa
pers arc teaming with suggestions to
the approaching Legislature on the
subject, and the government, which,
with the courts, the sheriffs and a
strong police force at its service, has
looked quietly and permissively upon
the spread and growth of all this law-
jessness, is getting “Hail Columbia"
from every side.
N. T. bUUKS.
Galveston, Texas.
HILL WK'i ItKSMiXATTOX.
His Sorrowful Halting with the Presi
dent.
Detroit Free Pres.
Tho following is the only exact copy
of Hill Nye’s official letter in which he
resigned the postoffice arLaramie City,
Wyoming :
Postoffice Divan, Laramie City, )
Wyoming, October 1, 1883. j
To tlic President oj the United States ;
SiK : I beg leave at this time to offi
eially leader my resignation as Po*U
master at this place, and in due form
to deliver the great seal and the key
of the front door of the office. The
safe combination is set on the numbers
33, GO and 99, though 1 do not remem
ber at tlm moment which comes first,
or how many limes you revolve the
knob, or which direction you should
turn it at first in order to make it ope-
eratc.
There is some mining stock in my
private drawer in the safe which I
have not yet removed. This slock you
may have if youMesire it. It is a lux
ury, but you may have if. I have de
cided to keep a horse iustead of this
mining stock. The horse may not be
so pretty, but it will cost less to keep
+i i m.
You will fin I the postal cards that
have not been used under the distribut
ing iable, and the coal down in the
cellar. If the stove draws, too hard
close the damper in the pipe and shut
the general delivery window.
Looking over my stormy and event
fill administrlfion s_v Postmaster here.
I find abundant cause for thanksgiv
ing. At the time I entered upon tlie
duties <>f my office the department w.is
not yet on a paying bis;?. It was not
evr.ii self sustaining Since that time,
frith the active co-operation of the
Chief Executive and the heads of de
partment, 1 have been able to make
our postal system a paying one and on
too of that lam now able to reduce
the tariff on averaged sized letters from
3 cents to 2 cents. I might add that
this is rather too too, but I will cot
say anything that might seem undig*
oitied in an official resignation which is
to become a matter of history.
Through all (he vicissitudes of a
tempestuous teun ofiffice, I have faff -
ly passed. I aui able to turn over the
office to day in a highly improved cm I
dition, and to present a purified anu
renovated institution to my successor.
Acting under the advice of General
Hatton a year ago, I rcmved the
featherbed with which my predeces
sor, Deacon //ayfrd, had bolstered up
! his administration, ty.stuffing tho win
blow, and substituting glass. Finding
nothing in the b >ok of instructiousjo
Postmasters which made the I cat her
bed a part of my official duties, I filed
it away in an obscure place and burn-
it in effigy, also, in the gloaming.
This act maddened my predecessor to
such a degree that he then aod there
became a candidate for Justice of the
Peace on the Democratic ticket. r ihe
Democratic party was able, however,
with what aid it secured from the lie
publicans, to plow the old man under
to a great degree.
It was not long after I had taken
mv official eath before an era, of unex
ampled prosperity opened for the
American people. The price el beof
rose t) 2 reoiu: kable altitude, and oth
er vegetables commanded a good figure
and ready market. We then began to
make active preparations for the intro
duction of the strawberry roan two
cent stamps and biack-and-t*n p itta!
Bote. One reform has crowded upon
the heels of another until the country
is to-day upon the foaon-ciest wave of
permioeot prosperity.
Mr, President, I cannot close
this letter without thanking your
self and thu heads of departments
at Washington for your active,
cheery and prompt cooperation in
these matters. You can do as you
see fit, o' course, about incorpora
ting this idea into your Thanks
giving proclamation, but rrst assur
ed it would not be ill-timed or inop
Devoted to tlic Cause of Truth and Justice, and Hie Interests of the People*
GREENESBORO’, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY JeK 1884.
portune- It is not lone a credt
te myself; it reflects credit upon
the Adminstrution also.
I need not say, that I herewith
transmit tny resignation with great
sorrow and genuine regret. Wo
bare toiled on gather month after
month asking for no reward except
the innate consciousness of recti
tude and the salary as fixed by
law. Now we ara to separate—
Here the roads seem to fork, ns it
were, and you arid I and the Cab*
inet must leave oach other at this
point.
You will find the key under the
door-inat, and you had better turn
the cat out at night when you close
the office. If she dees net go read
ily you can make it clearer to her
mind by throwing the canceling
stamp at hor.
If Deacon Hay ford does not pay
up hl a box rent you might as well
put his mail in the general delivery,
and when Bob Hoad gets drunk and
insists on a letter from eno ef his
wives every day in tho week, you
can salute him through the box de
livery with an old Anne
tomahawk which you will find near
the Etruscan water pail. This will
not in any iii ann & r surprise either
of these parties.
Teais are unavailing I once
more leeoino a private citizen,
clothed only with the right to
read such postal cards as may be
addressed to me personally, and to
curse the inefficiency of the Post
office Department. I may bs in er
ror as to the attributes of the Araer
. vrt rrc-rvj- i ix-v \mxrxr v~
ii'ip n
to he the most prominent. I be
lieve tho voting class to bo divided
into two parties, viz , those wbo
are in the postal service and those
who are mad because they cannot
receive a registered letter every fif
teen minutes of each day, including
Suud-iv.
Mr President, s an official of
this Government 1 now retire.—
My term of office would not expire
until 1886. 1 must therefore beg
pardon fer my eccentricity in re
signing. It will be best, perhaps,
to keep the heart breaking news
from the cars of European powers
until the hangars of a financial pan
ic aro fully past. Then hull it
broadcast with a sickening thud.
Very respectifully yours,
Bili Nye
TK.4CI\(>
flow Mrs. Garfield is Probably the
Grand Niece of Marshal Ney.
The Leader will to-inonow pub
lish a story to the effect that Mar
shal Noy was not only an Ameri
can, but that he was a brother of
il/rs. Gaifield's grandfather. At
the beginning of the Revolutionary
war the Rudolph family, composed
of several boys, lived in tho Shan
andoah Valley. Virginia. One of
the brothers was Ihe great grand
father of Mrs. Garfield. Another,
Michael, left a young wife, and en
listed in the colonial army, doing
good service. Nows reached him
in the camp, that his wife had prov
ed unfaithful. Stung almost to
madness, he left tho army and
country. llis friends nover heard
from him again. In 1789, shortly
after the close of tho revolution,
Michsel Ney was a sub-Lieutenant
in a French regiment of ll ussars,
With his subsequent history
everybody is familiar. The sto
ry goes that after Noy’s execution
for elleged treasonable utterances,
a Frenchman came 10 Baltimore.
Hi said that among Ney’s effects
was found a short autobiography,
in which he wrote that he was not
a Frenchman, as was supposed, but
an American, His name was Mi
cbael Rudolph. He left America
because of a great trouble, and
sought to sitik his individuality’ bv
changing his name and enlisting in
the French army. Mr. Z. Rudolph,
Mrs. Garfield's father, was seen at
Mentor by a reporter and question
ed concerning the story. He said
he had heard it, and in his mind
'.here was no doubt that Michael
Rudolph end Marshal Ney were
identical, lie remembered hear
ing his father talk of his brother
d/ichaeiand his departure from the
country,
“About sixty years ago,” said
Mr. Rudolph, "a newspaper con
taining this story came into posses
6ion of our family, b it it has beou
destroyed. While T hive no doubt
that Marshal Ney was my uncle,
I would not like to claim relation
ship without further proof,”
A wiiter in the London Lancet de
plore# the habrt of assuming an air ol
excessive haste, which ha complains is
now so prevalent in business lift
"The moment a lad takes his .-cal before
the lowest desk of a home of business he
begins to make believe te others, and too
quickly to himself, that he is ovsr.
whelmed with work. Merchants and
managers require this farce to he play
ed, from the heads of departments to the
youngest boy. Thu result is thu form
ation of a mental habit of liurryiug.
which before long becomes the key
note auJ motive of the w hole life.
the custom to write and speak as
though comm ucial men were really as
much pressed lor time as they appear
to he, and wholesome but not very
intolligeat counsel is offered to the effect
ill at it would ho better to ‘get up a little
earlier,’ aud to do this and avoid that.
danger aud evils which result from run
niog to catch (rains, eating hasty
luncheons and tho like. Now, all this
haste and turmoil, prejudicial and often
ruinous as it is, is artificial,” and only
done on the principle that ‘‘Sawyer,
late Nockemorf,’ was ealled out of
church by bis boy in Hie middle of the
second lesson. The writer continues :
—* Tha old merchants of London, who
amassed large fortunes and founded
families, were wont to stand at their
doers and were never in a hurry.
What would bo thought of any one
who dared to seem leisurely now '! II
those who furnish the city men of to
day with medical conr.sel would go to
the bottom of tilings and try to cure the
evil of this mental habit I bey would do
far more to prevent nervous disease and
to arrest the thousand an 1 one troubles
of body and mind which spring from
work and high pressure, and hurry,
worry and waste of energy, than by
dealing in detail with particular forms
and fruits of this evil, as is their wont,"
In fact they would lose half of their
patients
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gg%„Otie thousand Eve hundred pa
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jast received, direct from D. Lindreth
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Roerloss and Snow Flake, eastern pota
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Cotton Factors
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 8 Mclntosh Street AUGUSTA, G.\.
gaO** Liberal Cash advances made on Consignments in Stoic. Gagging and Ties
at lowest market Price*. .“opt. N, i
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Formerly of Sibley <|- Jordan Of II ashington Ga
JORDAN & POPE,
Cotton Coiiiiuis-'' • tlmdiniits.
No. 729 -—dSr- Reynolds Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
TATE arc General Agents for Gullett’s Patent Steel Brush GIN, Light Draft (‘often
VT Bloom GIN, I nmums or lmbroved Taylor (JIN, with feeders anil oomlensors
for all of them. Write for terns and circulars.
We will give our personal attention to weighing and selling Cot 1 on, and guarantee
quick sains and prompt returns. We hope by .lose attention to business to merit a
liberal sltaree of the shipment of cotton. ’ Kept 14, ’ —
WHELESS & Cos.,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants,
A UGUSTAt "GEORGIA.
Prompt compliance with instructions relative to disposition tit Cbiisigmiienla.
Liberal Advances on Produce in Slor*. Sept. 14, ii—
JOHN W. WALLACE,
And Agent for the Celebiatcd
WITH OR WITHOUT FEEDER ANd’cONDENSER
At Old Stand of Warren, Wallace & Cos , 729 and 732 Reynolds Streci,
Afignstii, (itaorgia*
Ample facilities for doing a Cutton ntisiiicss. Satisfaction guaranteed.
SPARTA, Ga . July 14 1883.
Jfr. .Tolm W. Wallace: Dear Sir- Ymirs received, asking my opinion of the Bull Gin
l bought of you last year The Gin is all tho maker promised it to be and 1 uni very
well satisfied with the Gin and Feo'd'cr. Should 1 need another I would purchase the
Hall Gin. Respectfully, DAVID DICKSON.
CULVERTON, Ga , May 31. 1881.
Messrs. Warren, Wallace A Co.,—ln answer to your inquiry as to niy opinion of
the Mall Gin, I think I can safely say, that 1 have never used a heller Giu limn the
HalL I have never soon anything to equal it in cleansing the seed of lint 1 have
ginned about 40 bales of cotton on lbe Gin, and have saved half enough la pay for it in
th way of cleaning tge seed. It makes a good sample, equal fit tint best —as to durabil
ity it lias no superior. I think I lie feeder is a goed tiling. I have never Used '.lie wm
denser, therefore I cannot say anything as to fis use, but it is highly rceonuuendcil by
those that have u-ed it. There is no Gin belter Gian the Ilall, its capacity is goed
enough. On a4O saw Gin 1 can gin (i bales of cotton a day, making a good somple,
with a four horse engine. Yours most respectfully, J W. MOOIIL’.
Sept. 14, 18P3
I*. E. PEARCE N. L WILLETT. 0. 11. BALLARD.
PEARCE, \VILLETT*'& BALLARD
cotton gsm factors
“and
Commission Merchants,
No 19'Jacksjn St eet,
AUGUSTA, ... - GEORGIA T
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on Consigunients. sept. 11,
w II HOWARD, 0. 11. HOWARD, S. I*. WKISKJKR.
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Cotton Jit telnuits,
JYo. *2O [Mclntosh] Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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COTTON SEED,
I HAVE about ,*0 bushels of the KI.KT
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