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(ESTABLISHED lx THE YEIE 1835). 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 SmsHM'taut to Yoiiiix Ilnt.- T!io Dext session of the reuowncd Commercial College of Ky. University. Lesiugton, Ky., begins Jan Sill, 188 T Total cost to complete Full Diploma Business Course, including Tuition, Books, and Board, SBS, Time requir ed 10 weeks, Literary Course free Telegraphy taught. 5 000 successful graduates. You can begin at any time. No vacation. For circular,ad and less WILBUR R. SMITH, Lexington,£y. DON'T DECAY! LX I UR E Yarn PROPERTY!! I in prepared to insure all species ofpiooerty in first class companies, igaii si fire, liyhtnini/ and cyclones. In ner yc vr G in-house before it burns. W. M. WEAVER. A. A JERRICAN. W. E. ADAMS Drs, Jernigan & Adams, :0:- Fhysicians and Surgeon* Sgy- Offer their professional service* nil wfio may need them. Greene County, Ga., Mnreft, 2, ’B'2. gg%„Otie thousand Eve hundred pa pers ot fresh Carden Seed of all kinds jast received, direct from D. Lindreth k Son and Robert BuUt, Early Rose. Roerloss and Snow Flake, eastern pota toes. Red and H'hite Silver Skin On ion Potts.—Coptlan, Seals'A Armor. W. I. (iari'Wf, H A. I(icuc-i*. "GARRETT & LATIMER, 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 Will. IM. Jorxliin Froil. It, B’op". 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 E43~Striet personal attention given to business intrusted to us. liberal aifvadces on Consigunients. sept. 11, w II HOWARD, 0. 11. HOWARD, S. I*. WKISKJKR. W. 11. HOWARD & SONS, Cotton Jit telnuits, JYo. *2O [Mclntosh] Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. INSTRUCTIONS implicitly obeyed. Consignments of Cotton nod other Trodaoc os 1 licited. Orders for Bagging and Ties tilled at lowest juices. soptH f HT. T. 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ML'NN Si Go. are Solicitors of American and For eign Patents, have had 36 year* experiencS; apd now have the largest establish meat in the world. Patents ate obtained ou the best terms. A special Motive is made iu the Nrienlilic tuirrii’Nli ot all I4f ventions patented through this Agency, with the name and residence of the Patee tee. By Hie immense circulation thu* giv. en, public attention is directed I* the mer its of the new patent, and sales cr fitro dection often easily effected. A tty person who has made anew discov ery or i A vet it ion. can ascertain, free ef charge, whether a patent cun. probably oh niued. by writing to MRNNJ-C'e We also send free our Hand Book aboat the Patent Raws, Patents, Caveats, Trade- Mark-, their costs, and how procured, with 1 hints ror procuring advances on invention# Address for the Paper, or 'concerning Pa tents, 111 W i* .. 37 Park Row, Sew York. Branch Olfiee,rbr. F. Tilt Sts.. Wash ington, D. C. April 14, IStfT. 1 lie Old KellaMt, THE BIST NEWSPAPERS In The South! N* Scnsatiralism 1 ... .Na Imairslflr f AUGUSTA Chronicle AVI) (onstihitiofiftfet f 1834. Smbn tribe for st! I HE Chßoxk'i.k afid CojiVriTUTJoWijW is tlie oldest newfpnpar in tlie South, sad perhaps llie oldest in (lie Uit'*d St*ta*.' haring been established in 17SS. Wh.il/ thoroijfdy Lieinoeratie in firi'ncipla. it is liberal. progressive and lolaraul Tbf Cliroftfcli con Inins tbe latest new* fioa TANARUS, parts of tbe world, und is recognited a* t, first, class paper. As an ail vert isTng medium. It eorars th/ country tn (icorgia end Soth Caroliaif IriNufary to Augusta. W 6 endeavor to exclude fisiisati’onalis*. * publish no artieles of an iihmorel eber-’ aster. l'aily, ohc year $lO 00 VVeeltly. one year 2 IW ’i'ri-VVoeKfy, one year 5 00 .4.Wrest; ; WAL ll‘ rV 4 IGHT, Jan. -d, ISS’J— .JugiisSa, Ok. Sale* r>v virtue of an Order from the Court ) id Ordinary of Gieene ( sunty, will* by sold before (lie < uurl House in (iieens* . bo 6 tin , on (lie first Tuesday in January, lKrl. One House and but in (irectiesbore ciintiiiniug one half acre, more or less, ad joining the l.ot of James Hark. Sold as' the l’ropertv of Jamoa lb, Charles 11. and Willie b. Williams, minora, Teraieon the' day of sa!w. HENRY I’. WIbUA.MS, (liintdiuii of aid minora Move.i'.bef J'2nd, IBBd. //J ATTEND THE;/?) ,;// Of Kentnoky University, LEXINGTON, TANARUS„ Timk tt rotuplet* the l ir! Diploma Business Court? itmt 10 weeks T..UI < "*t, I cludin? Tuition. Books, .Stationer?, }‘ <,ar 'L f* c., ahmt $-*5. *JVU.srraphy taught. LB'Tarv Court*, .'or one Tear if desire I. free. Nearit 400 students frnn.’ai *a*t } rnr. 5.000 succesf-il jrvDntes. Mu-1.-nts cm bruin at any time; no vacation. Fa! icwslo* iMt.'ias September 10th. Tor full particttlart, a‘4ret* WILBUR R. SMITH, Lexington, K.' COTTON SEED, I HAVE about ,*0 bushels of the KI.KT COITON SEN-ilt. noted for its’ long tine lint, largo boll's and prolific qual ity. I will exchange One for Eight, or s*tf at !?1 per bindicl. This cotton briHg*‘ about (wo cents pet pound more than th# aest upland. ~ JAMES L. BROWN. Clrcencsl'cfo*, Gr>., DcfC. 7a I^BBs* NO. 4