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ole name, not for publication, Init a* ai'iwruntee
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.1. 11. KHTILL, Haviuinub, <•.
The Slate Hoard of Health.
Wo arc in<lel)to(] to Ir. J. (}. Thomas,
Ohiiiruiaii of the State Board of Health,
for a pamphlet copy of the proceedings
of the initial meeting of the Hoard, re
cently held in Atlanta. The pamphlet,
in addition to the proceeding*, contains
a very important addreu to the medical
men of <;.orgia, the most important
portion* of which will he found hereunto
appended;
“A great and important interest haw
just been con tided to the medical profeg
aiori. liy the passage of the hill inau
gurating a Sanitary Commission for the
Stnto of Georgia, physicians have been
recognized a* an active and working elo
•nctit in tin- government. A vast number
of important facta, tranupiring heretofore
wtl,.ut .i.*se.oid. are now to become the
data from which the law* of iiealth are
to be educed, and from which correct and
reliable principles of hygiene are to ho
established. Upon the faithful and cor
dial co operation of medical men through
out the State does the success of this all
important and highly benevolent enter
prise principally depend.”
***** “Wo are
not unmindful of the difficulties and etn
Imrrussmenta that will often attend your
efforts to secure all information pro
posed and required in the blanks sub
milted. Hut whilst wo trust you will he
resolute in your determination to make
full mill complete returns in every case
of birth and death, when practicable, still
in thorn) cases in which you find your
holvch unable to do ko, wu hope you will,
nevertheless, make ns full answers as
possible. Not a solitary cane of either
birth or death Hhould be allowed to occur
in your circle of practice without are
turn of Nome kind, and to Home extent
be ini' made, however few, meagre, and
incomplete may bo the facta you may bo
able to obtain.
“And in thin connection wo beg to
Hubmit tliut the great and important ob
jocta sought in the creation of the board
may be greatly facilitated, if you will
liftvo the kindness, in your intercourse
with the citizens of your respective neigll
borhood, to impress on them the obliga
tions that rest on them to make these
returns of both births and deaths-—in
nil cases when no physician is in attend
ance. The twelftii section of the act of
the Legislature that established the
board expressly says: ‘That when any
birth or death shall take place, no physi
cian being in attendance, the same shall
bo reported to the Ordinary, with the
supposed cause of death, by the parents,
or if none, by the next of kin.’
A like obligation to report is imposed
by Jaw on Coroners in cases of inquest.
The proper forms will at all times ho fur
nished you, citizens and Coroners. And
now a few words ns to the precise mean
ing of some terms used in the forms, and
as to the lust way of making answers,
and we shall have dom? :
hirst. In giving the “names” of “chi!
ren born,” we ask that you bo particular
to gfevf juiddle names in full, and so enter
them oVa the form. Do not return initial
lotters inWend of names.
N.-comi In regard to “color,” state
whether the child is white, black or mu
loitto. ♦
Third!, in giving the “number of child
of thi - motUerJ’state whether it is tho
lif *, 'locoed, third, ere., of the mother*
* I*'mirth. Whety you give “the place of
birth,” wo wish to know whether it oc
curs in a city or in the country.
fifth. Instating “age of parents” or
of “deceased persons,” give ago at last
birthday.
Sixth. In all eases of twins or triplets,
state the fact.
Seventh. In tho form for the return of
n defttli, you will ftud just under the first
question, within brackets, tlio following
words; “if ununmed give the names of
the parents." Those words apply to in
fants that die before being named.
Eighth. The propriety and object of
tho eleventh and last question on this
blank may bo illustrated by tho death of
n person who has consumption—tho pri
mary cause but who died of pneumonia,
the secondary cause of death.
In addition to tho foregoing, tho Chair
man of the Standing Committees of the
.Hoard, whose names are herein men
tioned, earnestly request tho favor of
prompt assistance from their professional
brethren in furnishing data, tunoever brief,
for the preparation of their several re
ports, to bo made in October next.
Endemic, epidemic and contagious dis
eases, their extent of region, their char
actor, the number of cases, fatality, and
season of greatest prevalence, should be
reported to Dr. Campbell.
Hygiene of schools, prisons, and public
inatituktuns. the military condition of
with tho kinds and
amount of diseases, and degree of mor
tality, noticing also any points of excel
fence or any obnoxious features incident
to their management, should be reported
to Dr. Nottingham.
AH peculiarities of geology and topogra
phy which may have a bearing on the
health <>f the locality in which you reside
should be reported to Dr. Little.
All facts upon the subjects eontided to
Uw> Committee on Poisons and special
sources of danger should bo reported to
Dr. Stanford.
Report to Dr. Logan, Chairman of
Special Committee, all facts bearing on
vaccination and means of suppressing
small pox.
'l'mt Tuiiivlations of Plymouth
Church. Failing to raise by subscrip
tion tho money necessary to uiako good
the increase of llrothor Beeeher’s salary
to jjt 100,1)00, so promptly and exultantly
voted by the Plymouth Society at tho
close Oi' the late trial, it is now proposed
to mortgago Plymouth Church for the
additional SBO,OOO. The St. Louis lie
pub&cttn thinks this is the proper way to
raise the wind. It says: “Plymouth
Church has got almost everything else on
. it except a mortgage, and the sooner thut
is supplied the better. Still,
when the cause of outraged innocence
requires a mortgage for its assistance,
the inevitable inference is either that the
cause is painfully weak or the champions
of it painfully poor. Whichever in
fcrcnce is accepted, it rather tends to
•take the feathers oil of ‘the great moral
■victory.’ ”
>Ve would not now be surprised to
learn that further proceedings to raise the
money for tho increased salary had been
postponed nutil after the new trial which
**Ts to take place, with new and important
testimony in favor of the plaintiff, in
September.
The Washington Telegram is pouring
hot shot into the administration, and
especially. that portion of it embraced
under the district government. A few
. days since it presented astatoment, giving
facts and figures, showing that nearly
every newspaper in tho district had beeu
subsidized by the ring. It calls upon the
people to carefully examine the figures
and then determine the matter with
whether sheets so corrupt are
MSutitled to public support.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
Affairs In Georgia.
The Greensboro Horne Journal thinks
that Senator Norwood's presentation of
facts and his deductions therefrom, in his
recent alumni address, are, to say the
least, injudicious. Hut, after all, that
would seem to be a matter for debate.
We have heard some very careful, cau
tious and conservative men Applaud the
very deductions and prophecies which the
Journal criticises.
What underflie sun does the Atlanta
Grange mean when it talks about Hi
Kimball’s “editorial superinjendency ?”
It makes the cold chills gallop up and
down our chine to imagine that Hi is ed
iting a newspaper.
Reports from Southern Georgia bring
the gratifying intelligence that there
bare been general rains throughout that
section during the past three or four
days.
Wilkinson county is building anew
jail.
Cherokee county boasts of forty-eight
puMie schools.
Atlanta is ritilHViiar sonar* grotm-l, but
a great change has come over the place
since the reformed circus man related his
experience; and it is a change that is
obvious to all. Now, when a prominent
citizen treads on a banana skin and slides
off <m the roof of his hack, he merely gets
up, straightens out his hut, feels in his
pockets, examines his umbrella, and walks
off with a sigh. Hix months ago he
would have halted the first lawyer that
eame along and entered suit ugainst the
city for damages.
Seven trees in the neighborhood of
Irwinton were struck by lightning and
set on lire one day recently.
We have received the first number of
the Cherokee Georgian, edited by Rev. P.
11. Hrewstcr and Mr. J. J. A. Sharp. It
is very neatly printed and gives groat
promise of success. The selections are
judiciously made, and considerable atten
tion is given to home matters.
Crops in Cherokee county are very
promising.
The dwelling house of Mr. Jack Nelson,
of Wilkinson county, was burned re
cently.
The hail storm which passed over Mor
gan county recently was exceedingly
destructive to crops. On some plantations
corn and cotton were entirely destroyed.
Mr. J. Macon Smith, a prominent citi
zen of Wilkinson county, is dead.
Richmond county hns 12,523 acres in
corn and 5,480 in cotton.
The Macon Telegraph says that Dr.
Tucker, Chancellor of the State Univer
sity, rofused to plead to the ridiculous
charges tabled against him, and with a
sublime faith exclaimed: “My trust is
in God; lie will not deliver me into the
hands of mine enemies.” Now, we
would like very much to know if the
foregoing is a verbatim report of the
Doctor’s remarks on tlio occasion re
ferred to.
Mr. Jesse Perry, of Morgan county,
made sevon hundred and sixty bushels of
oats on forty acres of land.
Journalism is such an important pro
f<: :*{< n in <U *■ rot ,<r> enority that tlio fore
man of the now paper, the Georgian,
published at Canton, finds it neoessary to
appear before the public in a salutatory.
The value of property in Richmond
county has decreased $507,072 23 since
last year.
Iu Canton they put even sohool-boys
in jail for hugging school-girls. And it
isn’t Canton, China, either.
The Augusta negroes seem determined
to get up a row in one way or another.
The police, howover, have their eyes
open.
Mr. Malcolm Johnston, Secretary of
the Georgia State Agricultural Society,
lias returned from his Northern tour.
A correspondent of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist, gives an account of a very
heavy hail storm that passed over Lincoln
and Wilkes counties recently. Much
damnge wits done to the crops by the
hail. The crops of Mr. Thomas Martin
and Mr. Aycoek were almost fatally
ruined, niul those of others injured par
tially. Mr. Martin said he expected to
make thirty-live bales of cotton, but tha
now he will not make one. There is not
left hardly a leaf or a boll on the cotton
stalks. The corn was beaten almost into
threads, lie has become discouraged and
discharged the most of his hands. He
states that he could have gathered at his
frout steps, when he returned from the
church nfter the storm, at least a half
bushel of hail stones. The outside por
tion of the house has the appearance of
having hiul a shower of rooks rained upon
it. Some window glasses were bfoken.
The hail stones in some places were piled
up at dusk, and no doubt remained there
for several hours after dark. Mr. Ayeoek
suffered at least as much as Mr. Martin,
though he is much more able,pecuniarily,
to bear the loss. The storm covered an
area of about five or more miles, but
these were the only two farms seriously
injured.
We still desire to know whether Col.
11. Honeycomb Jones’s report of Chancel
lor Tucker’s remarks upon a recent occa
sion weie verbatim. We intend to see
this thing out.
. Montgomery eouuty claims to be the
best sheep grazing country iu the State.
Hon. A. H. Stephens is spending the
heated term in North Georgia.
It seems funny that Hargrove,of Rome,
should know so much about Georgia
Democrats.
Two-thirds of an average porn crop
will be made iu Montgomery county.
We regret to learn that Mrs. A. W.
lieese, of Macon, wife of Mr. A. W.
Reese, of the Macon Telegraph, is ill.
An old negro woman iu Gridin went to
Mr. Van Patrick the other day and pro
posed to be his slave for her victuals and
clothes. The old darkey has evidently
discovered that it is not all of freedom to
be free.
Racker McCrary was killed in Mouroe
county recently by Pinkney brown.
These individuals are suuff-colored by
trade, and the trouble was about a female
negro woman.
Triplett, of the Thom&syiljs Times,
heads the list with a poultry story. He
says that a uestfull of hen eggs hatched
the other day after having been deserted
by the pareut bird for ten days.
Base ball killed a nigger in Gridin the
other day.
Mr. H. M. Chastain, of Thomas county,
has raised a sixteen pound beet.
Dr. James 8. Lawton, of Forsyth, will
remove at once to Atlanta, for the pur
pose of assuming editorial oontrol of the
Grunge.
Tho artist of the Thomasville Enter
prise makes out a pictorial case of sour
grapey against the Albany If cm.
Grady, of the Atlanta Herald, is a
printer by profession, but not by trade.
Tbe other night one of the forms of his
paper was thrown into pi, and he wrote a
hurried apology for the “scrambled” ap
pearance of things. He was evidently
laboring under the impression that the
paper-would have to be printed from the
pied type, no matter on which end they
stood.
Things have got to that pass in Atlanta
that the hoarding-houses won’t take a
man in unless he belongs to the church.
And then they do take him in.
A Macon man complains that they
haven’t got any “luxuries” at Indian
Spring. He evidently expected to get
cocktails at ten cents a glass and peanuts
at five cents a quart. It is funny how peo
ple commence thinking about “luxuries”
as soon as they get away from home.
Thq Washington (Wilkes county) peo
ple say they would rather be blown up by
giant powder than by a two-horse power
tubular trombone.
The Atlanta Herald had to go West
a reliable statement of what Senator >,orU
wood said of the negro.
The Atlanta Comtilution is still run
ning with a comma in its head. Howbeit,
it can claim that there is point in it.
The Rome Courier now denies that it
ever heard of a place called Kirkwood.
Dr. Tucker, according to the Atlanta
Herald, was re elected Chancellor of the
Htate University by one vote after four
ties. Who was his opponent ? Perhaps
this result was brought about by Col. H.
Hamilton Jones’s verbatim report of his
recent speech.
Home paper said the other day that
Watson, of the Macon Telegraph , ought
to take a few weeks’ vacation. And pray
why? Watson has very little to do
Benner’s bear hasn’t chased him up
a treo in three months, and it is only
on occasions of that kind that he can be
persuaded to perspire.
We hope our agricultural friends will
not allow themselves to be deceived. The
popularity of the long-fibre Japanese
corn has tempted unscrupulous men to
place counterfeits upon the market. The
genuine is sold in pound packages which
are ornamented with a highly colored
map of the autographs of Colonel 11.
Chickasaw Stephenson and Colonel J.
Hackensack Randall, of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist. Again we say to the un
suspecting Granger, be not deceived.
We call for an immediate assembling of
the journalistic Board of Honor. W.
Timpkins Christopher, of the Fort Valley
Mirror, charges that M. Monmouth Bar
ron, of the Franklin News, has appro
priated one of his local paragraphs. Let
this matter be thoroughly sifted.
Fitch’s Newnan paper is to be a semi
weekly.
A negro was found dead by tbe road
side in Henry county. A mule was grazing
a short distance off, but the coroner’s
jury, in order not to have too much said
about the matter, brought in a verdict in
favor of a congestive chill.
Boston Grange (Thomas county) num
bers one hundred and twenty-three mem
bers. .
An Effingham county correspondent
says that only a half-crop will be made in
that county. Some farms are entirely
ruined. Those who planted early will
make pretty fair crops.
Judge Hoplrins, of the Atlanta Circuit,
is still too ill to see his friends, though
we are glad to learn that he is steadily
improving.
The drought has been so effectual in
withering vegetation in Washington
county, that an acre of corn that was
expected to yield one hundred bushels
will now yield next to nothing.
Lee county has 30,070 acres in cotton,
and 24,087 in corn.
The Gainesville ladies pin sprigs of
pennyroyal on their sweethearts’ coats
for the purpose of keeping off the fleas.
Could anything be sweeter ?
Mr. A. R. Strother, of McDuffie coun
ty, is unfortunate. Only a short time ago
his house was burned, and now bo has
lost by lire seventy thousand feet of lum
ber, with which he proposed to rebuild
his dwelling.
We are glad to hear that the crops in
Chattahoochee county are good. Chatta
hoochee and Cherokee seem to be two of
the exceptions.
Our Boston (Thomas county) corres
pondent writes that the weather has
toned down considerably since the late
rains which commenced at some points
in that section on Friday and culminated
in a general “season” on Sunday.
A Lumpkin rooster has taken charge of
a gang of motherless chickens and
scratches for them with great assiduity.
A Columbus bank cashier has gold and
silver coins a hundred and fifty years old.
The aggregate taxable property of Mus
cogee county will be some six hundred
thousand dollars less than last year.
Mr. James W. White, of Griffin, has
been offered a thousand dollars to play
first base on a Boston nine.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution proposes the name of Col. G. N.
Lester for Governor. W e have no ob
jection to Cob Lester. The only question
with us is, how many bushels of corn can
he raise to the acre V
Anew evening paper has been issued
in Atlanta. Where is the Commonwealth t
The Holly engine for the Atlanta
water works has been placed in position.
It is guaranteed to raise fifty million
pounds of water one foot high for every
one hundred pounds of coal consumed,
and will cost the city fifty thousand
dollars.
Alabama men come to Columbus, get
drunk, and wheel each other home in
wheel-barrows.
Augusta has had her usually harmless
shooting scrape.
The com crop in Thomas county is cut
off fully one-third.
There are few 7 crop liens or guano notes
iu Effingham county.
Dr. Calhoun, of Atlanta, suggests that
all who desire to use chloroform for the
purpose of extracting their teeth should
be accompanied to the dentist's office by
a physician.
A Forsyth firm has bought and shipped
over forty barrels of dried peaches this
season,
Thomas oounty has 30,(i51 acres in corn
and 20,‘,HX) in cotton.
Dr. Wright, of Forsyth, suggests that
the Middle Georgia Medical Society es
tablish a Pathological Museum in that
town.
Liberty county claims to have developed
a mad flog.
Mr. Walter Sullivan, a yery promising
young man of Rome, died repently at
Poughkeepsie.
Youug George Foy, of Effiugham
county, died recently of typhoid fever.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1875.
McGinley, of the Kimball House, has
got bis back up about balls. The Atlanta
folks dance too much without paying for
it.
There are two hundred and twenty
seven guests at New Holland Springs on
the Air-Line Railroad.
We recorded some time ago the killing
of a young man named David Hudson in
Twiggs county by a negro named Joe
Redding. The Macon Telegraph gives
the sequel of the crime. About 12 o’clock
Saturday night, a party of disguised men,
variously estimated at from twenty to
sixty in number, went to the house of
Mr. J antes T. Evans, sheriff and jailor of
the oounty, entered his bed-room, with
drawn pistols, seized him and demanded
the keys of the jaiL He told them that
if they intended to force him to
give up the keys, he could do noth
ing to prevent it, but that he had
on]y, the keys, to the outer door of the
jail, the keys to the dungeons being
■paired up in the large iron safe in the
rj urt 11008$, and that Judge C. A. Solo
•non, eU 'Ar. P. A.
County Treasurer, were the only persons
who Jjad keys to the safe. The party
immediately blindfolded Mr. Evans, put
him on one of their horses and proceeded
to Mr. Finch’s residence, awoke him £nd
took him with them to the Court House,
when they procured the keys to the cells
of the jail. Some twenty or thirty of
them enfcyed the jail and brought out Joe
Redding, then sent Messrs. Finch and
Evans back to their homes. In about
five minutes both of these gentle
men heard six or seven pistol
shots fired, seemingly about one hun
dred or two hundred yards from the jail.
On Sunday morning Mr. Finch and
Mr. A. M. Smith found the dead body of
Joe Redding hanging to a limb of a tree
with seven bullet holes in his back and
face. That is all the information we have
been able to get of the unfortunate
tragedy. No one about Jeffersonville has
the least idea as to who composed the
party of outlaws who did the deed. Men
and horses were all disguised in white,
and it is believed that they came from a
considerable distance. The people of
Jeffersonville greatly lament the occur
rence. The negro was in the hands of
the law, and would undoubtedly have re
ceived such penalty as was due the crime
which he had committed, and the law
should have been permitted to take its
course.
The Irwinton Southerner says: Judge W.
M. Whitehurst, of Gordon, exported to
Liverpool last season, through C. H. Olm
stead, the agent of the Direct Trade"
Union, six bales of cotton, which netted
him seventeen cents per pound. Freight,
insurance, interest on advances, exchange,
etc., amounting to a considerable sum,
and, after they were paid, Judge White
hurst received seventeen cents per pound
for cotton that would not have
brought him, at home, more than four
teen cents. Our Granger friends should
make a note of this and follow the ex
ample of Judge Whitehurst, by sending
a sufficiency of their incoming crop to
test the question thoroughly. The fact
is, our cotton . passes through the hands
,of too many middlemen before it, reaches
the couK' uier, each ouee f whom receives
a large profit, which naturally belongs to
the farmer, and could be secured by him
if he would, through the agent of the
Direct Trade Unions, sell his cotton to
the consumer. The farmer should look
into this matter carefully.
Irwinton Southerner: “On Thursday
last, as Mr. Allen Dixon was coming to
Irwinton, on horseback, when near the
residence of Mr. N. C. Hughes, his horse
stepped on a small pole, about four feet
long, which fiew up and struck the horse
in the flank and penetrated to an artery,
inflicting a wound from which he
bled to death in a few min
utes. "The horse was a valuable
animal, and his loss will be seri
ously felt by Mr. Dixon. It is a peculiar
characteristic of the horse to resist with
his whole weight anything like a stick
that presses against his body. Mr. Henry
Brazeal, who lives near here, lost a fine
horse for which he had just paid SI,OOO
several years ago, in this manner. The
horse stepped upon a hoe and the helve
flew up and struck him in the stomach.
The horse pressed against it with his
whole weight, and it entered his stomach
and killed him.
Macon Telegraph: The semi-annual
convention of the Georgia State Agricul
tural Society will be held in Dalton next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The
following is announced as the order of
business: Tuesday—Opening address of
the President; report (being the fourth)
from the Experimental Farm, by Dr. E.
M. Pendleton; Grape Culture and Wine
Manufacture, by John Stark, Esq., of
Thomasville. Wednesday—Address by
Col. W. Leßoy Broun, President State
College of Agriculture, etc.; A Year’s
Operations on the Farm, by Dr.
J. S. Lavender ; report on the
Geology of Georgia, by Professor
George Little; report of Committee on
Fish Culture and Game Laws, by H. H.
Cary, chairman. Thursday—Address on
Agricultural Education, by Gen. Wm. M.
Browne; the Science of Agriculture, by
John C. Ragsdale, Esq.; resolutions, etc.;
closing exercises. During the sitting of
the convention, a superb gold medal will
be presented to Hon. Mark A. Cooper,
father of the Georgia State Agricultural
Society. The medal was voted to Mr.
Cooper at the spring convention in Thom
asville. It has been made, and is now in
the hands of Mr. Malcolm Johnston, Sec
retary of the Society, and ready for de
livery. It is a handsome testimonial to
the founder of the society, and one who
has been its fast friend at all times and
under all circumstances
Macon Telegraph .‘We have informa
tion of a sad fatality by lightning, which
occurred at Elam Church, about three
miles from Clinton, iu Jones county,
about two o'clock Monday afternoon. A
protracted meeting was in progress in the
church, and the casualty occurred during
a storm between the morning and after
noon services. After a vivid flash of
lightning and a startling peal of thunder,
Rev. J. \V. Butts, a young minister, was
discovered to have been struck by light
ning. He was found lying near a tree not
far from the church. He was at once car
ried into the church and a physician sent
for, and after a prompt use of restora
tives he soon returned to consciousness
and was considered out of danger. His
worst injury was a seyere contusion on
one of his cheeks, caused by falling face
downward upon a root when he received
the shock. When Mr. Butts had been
restored and the excitement caused by the
casualty had somewhat subsided—this
was nearly an hour after Mr. B. was
found —the absence of Mr. Henry G. Mc-
Arthur and Mr. John Phelps was noticed.
They had walked out about the "same
time that Mr. Butts ha l , and both were
under the same umbrella. Search was in
stituted for them at once, and not far
from the church bbth of the men were
found lying together, struck dead by
the same awful flash of lightning. It
seems, from app. arance, that the
lightning had struck a tree near
which they were standing, de
scending it to about ten feet of the
ground, when the current left the tree for
the umbrella under which the two men
were. Death was probably instantane
ous. The umbrella was torn all to frag
ments. The neck of young Phelps and
nearly every bone in his body was
broken. In the case cf Mr. McArthur
no bones appear to have been broken.
The shoes of both men were torn off
their feet. It was a horrid fatality, and
cast a gloom of sadness over the whole
community.
Tbomasville Enterprise: The address
of Senator T. M. Norwood before the
Alumni of Emory College, a few days
ago, was another of his masterly orations,
second only to bis famous great speech
in Congress, last year, and abounding in
the same scathing ridicule of the prevail
ing moral, social and political evils of the
day. His wit is not the two-edged sword
cutting fore and aft, but the sweeping
scythe blade, mowing down the whole
forest of grain before him, and is all the
more powerful and effective that it
sweeps around the horizon panoplied in
the electric polish of the orator. We
would that he could repeat this speech
in every town and hamlet of the
nation, or that we had a thousand Nor
woods to thnnder in the ears of a mis
guided people, the dangers which follow
in the train of loose moral and aggressive
politics. Whan be comes to speak of the
“cause of the war,” in his speech, he
answers the mooted question with the
wisdom and understanding of one thor
oughly acquainted with the events, char
acter and history of his country, one
whose kaen penetration has sounded the
very depth of the national heart and
touched upon the secret spring which
‘ ‘fired the Northern heart”and set aside the
Constitution to inaugurate a fratricidal
hwar. A gain, when he comes *0 the consider-
Sobu orTLe'Yiegro raeein th.. South. Mr.
Norwood has shown a great superiority
of understanding and wisdom over his
cotemporaries. His delineation of the
negro character, though exhibited in a very
few sallies of wit and a few inferences to
be drawn from the arguments, carries
the conviction of truth to every intelli
gent Southern man acquainted with the
character of the race. Mr. Norwood reads
the destiny of the race in the character of
the individual,and while he is conscious of
the unprecedented moral obligation their
freedom has fixed upon the nation, he twit
ters the Northern statesmanship that for
a fruitless fanatical idea augmented the
political power of the South with nearly
a million voters, as plastic as the potters
clay, in the hands of those upon whom
the negro race must depend for support.
Florida Affairs.
The Union man calls for a watermelon
torpedo.
We haven’t seen a copy of the Ive
Oak Times since the charges against
Hicks. What is keeping Keep ? Can it
be possible that he has been suppressed
by Hicks’s attorney ?
Ocala has five churches that she can
count.
Pensacola sometimes excurtsto Mobile,
and wisy worsy.
The Garden City Base Ball Club has
thoroughly reorganized.
The Florida editors are candid. The
Press alludes to “the drunken vagabond
and cowardly deserter, McLin, of the
Sentinel," etc. This accounts for the
range of the thermometer.
Fort Myers has a man who pays taxes
on lifts thousand head of cattle. It
strikes us we have used this item before,
but it is interesting at any time.
Leon county hogs are giving way to
cholera.
The upper St. John’s is so low that a
perch has to float on his fide to keep
wet.
Somebody asked Colonel Britt, of the
Union, to play bottle-holder iu a set-to
between editors, but the Colonel swears
he never hqjds anybody’s bottle but bis
own.
Key West must have some sweet
scented old plums to nils L.r. The
papers there publish as a fact that all the
open spaces between the city and the sea
are covered with carrion.
A colored man iu Gadsden county lias
stumbled upon a banana tree growing
wild in the woods. Competing counties
should send in their returns at once.
Lean Bear, chief of the Cheyennes, who
attempted the life of two soldiers while
on his way to St. Augustine, is dead.
Mohmantee, a Kiowa Chief, and said to
be a most remarkable man, is also dead.
They were decently buried by the officers
of the fort at St. Augustine.
A rattlesnake eleven feet long was killed*
on Crystal river recently.
Crystal river thinks there has been too
much gasing about the railroad between
that place and Ocala.
Atsena Otie is tucking up- her skirts
preliminary to a basket picnic.
The employes in Faber’s mills, on At
sena Otie, are paid one thousand dollars
a month.
Gadsden county is suffering for want
of rain.
People are still investing in orange
groves ; -i Marion county.
The church at Atser.a Otie will soon be
completed.
Gadsden county is disposed to brag
about her watermelons.
Some Connecticut capitalists are en
gaged in erecting a four story hotel at
Green Cove Spring.
Col. Honeymoon Hardee, of Jackson
ville, in his anxiety to scare up a shower
by concussion, came near killing an Irish
man by tbe same process.
The Jacksonville Press says that noth
ing new has been developed in regard to
the murder of Dr. E. G. Johnson. It is
generally believed that he was assassinated
by an enemy from North Carolina in con
sequence of some old difficulty.
Jacksonville is pining for a big town
clock.
Lake Monroe wants a boat that can run
on a heavy dew.
The Mellonville Advertiser says the
drought now prevailing in South Florida is
unparalleled.
The Fernandina Observer has taken up
the cudgels in defense of that lying old
rip, Bishop Haven.
Pensacola has got as far along towards
the erection of her new hotel as to have
photographs of the front elevation and
ground plan.
Captain P. B. Brokaw, a prominent
citizen of Tallahassee, is dead. He was
for many years Chairman of the State
Democratic Committee.
Dr. Oliver Bronson, a prominent citi
zen of St. Augustine, is dead.
Thus the Lauj . ity Reporter: We can
not furnish a “fish” or “ alligator story,”
but can give a r'osi remarkable, truthful
“snake’ ! statement. A Mr. Adams, of this
county, is the possessor of a dog which
some two months ago had the misfortune
to be bitten by a rattlesnake. By careful
treatment of the wound the dog sur
vived, and a few days ago the wound
swelling to considerable size, Mr.
Adams determined to relieve it by the
application of the lancet, which resulted
in the discharge from the wound of
a round substance some two feet in
length, with a head resembling a snake.
Mr. A. hung it in a neighboring tree, and '
visiting it after the lapse of half an hour :
found to his astonishment that it had
assumed the color of the rattlesnake, and
was endeavoring to change its position.
Mr. Adams’ statement is sufficiently cor
roborated by the evidence of his neigh
bors, who witnesse ’ the operation and
its result, to entitle us to give it with
credence to the public.
Jacksonville Press: In addition to the
reward of one thousand dollars, offered
by Nassau county for the arrest of the
murderer of Dr. Johnson, the Executive
has thought it necessary to offer a similar
Amount for the same purpose. “Nil de
morluis, nisi bonuin," is an ancient adage,
and a very correct one, generally speaking.
Admitting this, we do not care to parade
the dead man’s faults, numerous as they
were, but would simply ask what virtues
I
he had to warrant so high a
price being placed upon his value
; to the community ? Now, we warrant
that if a respectable Democrat had met
! the same fate, that his untimely end
would have attracted very little notice,
either from the Radical County Commis
i sioners of Nassau, or the honorable Mar
cellos. If a reward were offered at all it
would be so small as scarcely to induce a
constable to arrest the criminal. We think
the State authorities offered $5,000 for
I the apprehension of the person or per
sons who shot down Purman some years
ago, and a large amount for the parties
| who attempted to kidnap a well known
I railroad developer. The true tax payers
of Florida would consider these men well
sold at the same number of cents instead
j of dollars.
Marianna (Jackson county) Courier:
Since our last report, fifteeu days ago,
j the yield of all crops raised here have
been cut short, owing to a continued
drought for eight weeks. Indeed, near
the Ochesee pond, southeast of this place,
the trees six and eight inches in diameter
are literally dead. The cotton, which
bid fair for an enormous yield a few
weeks since, is shedding, and while the
stalk appears green, it is noticed the
forms are dying. More particularly is
this the case where manures, nave been
applied; hence those who fertilised most
ana receiving the largest yield have suf
fered to the greatest extent. It is
learned the worm has been seen, but
owing to the excessive dry and hot
weather, their increase is not noticed,and
no fears are entertained as to a disadvan
tageous result to the crop from that
source. The corn crop is made, and a
ve v short one too. From all parts of
G**-county it has suffered —and while
there are a few planters who will have
enough to make their next crop upon,the
majority will be compelled to buy or re
duce their force. And with the present
prospects they will pursue the latter
course. Fodder-pulling has commenced,
and with the present weather it will be
well saved. The potato and cano crop
will necessarily be poor.
South Carolina Affairs.
Col. J. Addison Morosco, of the Charles
ton Neics and Courier, has invented a
machine for breaking tbe backs of small
boys, which he calls the street car Bo
gardus kicker. He desires to employ
active young men in all parts of the State
to act as agents.
Abbeville is to have a sauce factory.
Abbeville county is exceedingly healthy,
considering the weather.
Newberry is to have a telegraph line.
Tbe seventy-third anniversary meeting
of the Saluda Baptist Association will
he held with Salem Church, four and a
half miles north of Anderson, beginning
to-day.
Mr. Marx Plegek, of Marion, has been
admitted to the bar.
Prof. R. 0. Sams, of Greenville, has
been elected by the trustees of the male
academy of Spartanburg to take charge
of the school.
Mrs. C. F. Lesesne, widow of the late
C. F. Lesesne, of Clarendon county, died
at her residence last week, of pneumonia.
Andrew Thompson, a colored boy about
fifteen years old, was drowned at Accom
modation wharf, Charleston, on Saturday.
Anew church is in course of erection
by the Baptist Society in Darlington.
Recently, while a colored man was
engaged in blasting in the 'well of O. C.
Smith, at Easley’s station, on the Air-
Line Railroau, he was clown up and
severely injured, one leg being so mu til
ated that Dr. \V. R. Jones, of Greenville,
left for the purpose of amputating the
same.
An illicit whisky distiller iu Pickens
county fooled the revenue officers by as
suming his wife’s apparel.
A hail storm passed over Smith’s Ford,
Union county, a few days ago, which did
considerable damage.
The house of Mrs. Porter, of Kings
tree, was set on fire recently by incendia
ries.
On Saturday morning last, Croft’s mill,
situated about four or five miles from
Aiken, was completely destroyed by lire.
The building was uninsured, and the loss
is said to be about SSOO.
Hamburg is getting forward in the
world. A printing company has been
established there with unlimited capital,
and a company is skirmiehing around lo
start a paper to be called the Hamburg
Gazette.
The Greenville News publishes a list of
nearly one hundred new buildings in
course of erection in that city, including
thirty cottages for the operatives of the
new factory.
The saw mill of Shumate & Hunt, at
Greenville, was burned down on Monday,
and it was rebuilt and running again on
tbe J riday following.
By the new census the population of
Aiken is 1,8G2.
A Child’s Eventful History.— A Mas
sachusetts paper relates the following:
“Passengers on Conductor Johnson’s
train on the Eastern Railroad have no
ticed at a house close to the road, just
beyond the North Beverly Station, on a
piazza next them, a beautiful little girl of
about three years old. She is always
there when Mr. Johnson’s trains pass, as
he is a near relative. She was born on
board ship in the Pacific ocean. Before
she was three days old her mother died.
Before she was seven days old the ship
was wrecked and sank. Her father, who
was Captain of the vessel, the infant and
one sailor were saved in a boat. The
babe was wrapped in a blanket and kept
warm, and the sailor paid every attention
to her and kept her alive with biscuit
soaked in water, and was hardly less at
tentive to the little one’s' want than her
father. Ten days after the wreck the
three were picked up in an English ves
sel and taken to Liverpool. Thence they
came to this country, and the little one
has been brought up at the house of her
grandparents, close by the railroad near
the North Beverly Station— N. Y. Times.
The Yankee Outwitted. — A Yankee
and a Frenchman owned a pig in copart
nership. When killing time came they
wished to divide the meat. The Yankee
was very anxious to divide so that he
would get both hind quarters, and per
suaded the Frenchman that the proper
way to divide was to cut it across the
back. The Frenchman agreed to it on
condition that the kankee would turn his
back and take choice of the pieces after
it was cut in two. The Yankee tamed
his back, and the Frenchman asked :
“Vick piece will you have—ze piece
wid ze tail on him, or ze piece vat ain’t
got no tail?”
“The piece with the tail,” replied the
Yankee.
“Den, by gar, you can take him along,
and I take ze oder one,” said the pleased
Frenchman.
Upon turning around, the Yankee
found that the Frenchman had cut off
the tail and stuck it into the pig's mouth.
I
Hobbxble Result of" Intoxication.
William and Ann Jones, both of very dis
sipated habits, became intoxicated yes
terday afternoon at their wretched abode
in the tenement house No. 162 Hope
street, and fading in a drunken stupor on
their little child Mary, aged seven months,
smothered her. The fact having been
discovered by some of the neighbors, was
reported by them to officer Scullen, of
the Fifth Precinct, who, on proceeding
to the place, found Jones and his wife in
b drunken sleep, \fiih the dead body of
the infant under them. He took them to
the Fourth Street Station House. — Brook
lyn Argus.
LETTER FROM EATONTON.
Condition of the Crop*—Corn I.nid By—
The “White 7lnn’ Day”—Cyclone oi
Turnailo— A Confession.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning New*J
Eatonton, August 2d, 1875.
“LAID BY.”
Most people are done working their
crops, though, if it should rain, some
would go lightly over a part, or all, of
their cotton once more. In spite.of the
gloomy prospects occasioned by the
drought, as soon as the work began to
grow easy—which was a week or ten days
ago—people who had been staying closely
at home ail summer, leaving Eatonton
silent and dull, commenced coming in to
trade, or merely to recreate, and oui
streets once more began to look a little
lively. This will last for the short time
that intervenes between now and fodder
pulling, when plantation folks will be busy
as bees. After that, there will be another
brief slack-up; then cotton picking will
be the matter to which men will most
‘Variously incline, ’ until the corn, guano
and other bills will be falling due, and
the bales will begin to pour in. Then
our streets will present an appearance of
business and bustle that will increase, day
by day, till January. For a fortnight or
so about Christmas everything will cul
minate in a perfect carnival, in which
the negro will play far the most eon
spicuous part. Darkies with their ban
jos, and dancing, crowding around bar
room*, wheels of fortune, Japanese bowls,
Ac., literally filling the principal thor
oughfares, will present a scene at which
one who looked upon it for the first time
would stand amazed.
After these children of Ham have spent
all their money, they will begin to drop
off to the plantations. The town will
grow more and more quiet; only on Tues
days aud Saturdays there will be a crowd
till late in the season, when farming will
grow more earnest, and even Tuesdays
aud Saturdays will bring but few, till
“laying-by” time approaches, when the
number of visitors will once more in
crease; and so on in the same round
which, in this section, the “whirligig of
of time” brings about.
I have mentioned Tuesday as one of
the set days for “coming to town.” 1
never knew the custom to obtain any
where else, but it has been thus, here,
ever since I could remember, and I have
heard old people say it was so, long
before I was born. It will be seen that
we have our local peculiarities, as they
do everywhere. Here is the way it
happened; A long while ago, the mail
came to Eatonton only once a week, as
was the case nearly all over Georgia,
and our post day was Tuesday.
People got in the habit of com
ing here on that day, and they
have kept it "r r since. Tuesday
is called here, “the white man’s day,”
and Saturday “the negro’s day.” True,
a good many whites come on Saturday,
but it ia generally for the accommodation
of their laborers, tbe darkies, who come
to trade, and wish their employers to
“stand” for thorn. It is very convenient
to have a certain day every week on which
to assemble, for it saves many a long
ride. If a man who lives on one side of
the county wishes to see one residing on
the opposite, by oomiug here on Tuesday
he will stand a very good chance to have
his wish gratified, and save the trouble of
riding clear across the county.
NOT QUITE SO BAD.
The drought has not been quite so gen
eral as I at one time supposed, but there
are neighborhoods that have suffered
fully as much as I stated. Iu fact,
their calamity is almost complete.
There were partial rains on several days
of last week, This moruing the city is
entirely covered with clouds, and there
have been several sprinkles. It seems as
though a general rain is at baud. It
would do corn an immense deal of good,
even at this late day, and of course would
be very beneficial to cotton.
MARKETS.
Watermelons were later coming in than
usual this year, but when they did start,
which was several weeks ago, they came
with a rush. True, a few dropped in
before, and sold for fancy prices; now
you can buy a most excellent oue for ten
cents, and so on up to twenty and twenty
five for as fine melons as any one ever
ate. Chickens are cheap, too. Tlieir
price is the same as watermelons—ten
cents for smallest frying size, and twenty
or twenty-five for the very largest of
present year’s growth. Eggs bring ten
to fifteen cents per dozen; beef, eight
and ten cents; peaches, apples, etc., wry
cheap. The fact is, currency is so much
scarcer here than anything else, that it is
worth a premium in the way of all coun
try produce. I think this section, to a
man, would vote for inflation.
NO CYCLONE SINCE.
The papers stated some time ago that
one of our distinguished statesmen said
there would be cyclones nearly all sum
mer. The result has been rather unfor
tunate for his character of either scien
tist or prophet, as J believe there has
not been a very extensive cyclone since.
By tho way, that gentleman, if I reco!
lect aright, said these storms should be
called tornadoes, and not cyclones. 1
suppose both words mean about the same
thing. Cyclone is derived from the
Greek kuklos, a circle, or say from the
verb kukloo, or- participle kuklone
(I spell the last two words so
as to come as near the Greek
pronunciation as is possible with English
characters.) Tornado, according tq some
of the dictionaries, comes from the root
of the word turn. Spanish and Portu.
guese tornada means return. I think,
though, that Mr. S. was right, for the
simple reason that tornado had been in
use long before cyclone was invented, and
it expressed the idea fully. Where, then,
was the necessity for coining anew word ?
CONFESSION GOOD FOE THE SOUL.
One or two letters back I wrote that a
certain tree was eighty inches or seven
and two-thirds feet in circumference. I
recollected the mistake very soon after 1
mailed the letter 'fhp tree eighty
inches, but that is only sU and two-thirds
feet. lam glad the types did not cor
rect my error, for it will make me more
careful hereafter. I intended to speak of
this in my last, but forgot it. K.
Cobnebed Him at Last. —A Georgia
miller, in a recent conversation with one
of our grain buyers, incidentally remarked
that dealers in his section wouldn’t need
any of our com this year.
“Well, we haye raised it for you,” re
plied the Fayetteville merchant, “ and
you are bound to take it.”
“ No, we are independent now —Geor-
gia will have enough corn of her own,”
retorted the miller,
“Well, we’U feed it to hogs and sell
you the meat.”
“ We are safe there too,” continued the
miller, “our people will furnish their own
pork. ”
“Nothing daunted, our Fayetteville
friend discharged his Parthian shaft:
“Well, we’ll make our com into
whisky, and you can’t get around buying
that.”
Georgia admitted that he had him
ther e.—Fayetteville Express.
R • -g.
A youthful clergyman who recently
went forth to enlighten the ignorant,
while dealing with the parable of the
Prodigal Son, was anxious to show how
dearly the parent loved his child. Draw
ing himself together, and putting on his
most sober looks, he dilated at length
upon the killing of the fatted calf. The
climax was as follows:. “I shouldn’t
wonder if the father had kept that calf
for years, awaiting the return of his son.’*
A father fearing an earthquake in the
region of his home, sent his two boys to
a distant friend’s until the peril should
be over. A few weeks after the father
received this letter from his friend
“Please take your boys home and send:
down the earthquake.”
ESTABLISHED 1850.
#
LETTER FROM MANATEE
Cattle ItuiliiK In South Floriiln—lt (*ro
fll* nml lt I.o**m*n —How to SurciTii—
Wild Life in llie Kantru—.iu Intermtina
Letter.
iSpecial Correspondence of the Morning News.)
Manatee, South Florida. )
July :10th., l,sr:.. ,
Previous to the war Manatee county,
containing an area of about ten thousand
square miles, was one vast cattle range.
With the exception of a few wealthy
residents along the river engaged in su
gar planting, every m&n was a cattle
owner, and followed that business exclu
sively. At that time the stocks were very
large for Florida, and the cattle roamed
over the whole country, great herds to be
seen in every direction, deer and cattle
frequently feeding together, which uiav
be seen now on the large prairies farther
south. Five,ten. twenty and
THIRTY THOUSAND HEAD OP CATTLE
were respectively owued by individuals.
The tan*;* magilmen t„ Um grass
m owing and continuing green Th? V.
round, and the steers attained great s>z<l
I have been informed that Jacob Sum
merlin at one time marked four thousand
calves, which, at five dollars per head,
made a pretty good iucouie, besides the
increase in the steers.
Since the war the cattle business in
South Florida has undergone quite a
change, and is now, to the people of this
section, what slavery was to the South -
ern. Every spate thousand a man
could accumulate then was invested in
a negro; every spare hundred here is in
vested in cattle. At this time, in this
county, taxes are paid on about 350,000
head of cattle, which, I presume, falls
short of the actual number at least one
fourth. The stocks vary from one
hundred to twenty five thousand head.
Three-fourths at least of the population
depend on cattle for a support, and this
interest has almost absorbed every other
pursuit aud made it a complete and
powerful monopoly upon the domestic
industries of this section. The profit
arising from an investment iu this
property, particularly within the last few
years, was so great anti so certain, carry
ing with it so much excitement and
freedom from manual labor, that it lias
become the most popular, as well ns re
munerative pursuit, until the odor of
burning hair becamo sweet incense, and
mutilated ears aud incised “dew-laps” a
daily sacrifice. The business became a
kind of sfocA-brokerage, and a man who,
perhaps, did not own a thousand dollars
worth of property, would purchase a ten
thousand dollar stock of cattle, giving his
notes and a mortgage as payment. If he
was a shrewd, attentive business man, he
would
SELL STEERS ENOUGH IN THREE YEARS TO
PAY FOR THEM.
The Cuban war, for the last seven
years, has given to the beef market of
South Florida a financial individuality
and independence possessed by no other
industry. Owners of stock knew, and
still know, that so long as the rebellion
in Cuba continued they would have an
unfailing market for their beef, and
could hold their steers at their own
figures.
Texas tried to compete with Florida,
but failed. While she offered steers
much cheaper, the loss in transitu was
so great, on account of tho longth of
time consumed, that she hud to abandon
the race. Florida v..c „
Havana iu two ami throe tlays, and the
loss by death hardly ever exceeded five
per cent.
Iu 1808 the best steers we had could
be bought here at twelve dollars; in 1872
they sold as high as twenty dollars. At
this time tho price is fourteen ami fif
teen dollars. During 1872, I think
it was, it was estimated that over 50,000
steers were shipped from Manatee, Pease
Creek and Puuta Itassa, Doubloons cir
culated as freely as Confederate notes
during “the late unpleasantness,” and a
cattle owner would part with any prop
erty before he would sell a “oow-beast.”
Cattle, at this time, are held nominally at
five dollars per head, but very few tran
sactions in this line take place. As I have
remarked, just so long as the Spaniards
and Cubans continue butchering each
other, cattle raising her 9 will continue at
a premium, aud being entirely indepen
dent of the fluctuations which occur in
the cotton, sugar and grain markets, will
number among its investors the bulk of
our population, To make stock-raising
a success, however, it has been rep.eatedly
demonstrated that a stock of any consul
erable size, personal attention must be
given to the details, although a great deal
of help is required in the marking and
branding season, which begins iu March
and ends in June. During this soasoD,
one is compelled to be on the “cow-path”
all the time, or the consequence
will be that his more attentive
and industrious neighbor will ap
propriate his “Ileredecks” for him.
The man who follows his cattle closely,
not only gets all his own calves but
frequently those of tho thriftless and
negligent cow-hunters which, while it is
legal, many have conscientious scruples
about taking advantage of tho custom.
Many parties in this county have accu
mulated considerable stocks in this way,
but they are usually < potted and do not
enjoy a reputation as fair as Cmsar’s wife.
There has always been an antagonism be
tween cattle owners and ‘‘new comers,”
as the necessary settlement and cultiva
tion incident to the pursuits of the latter
have a tendency to infringe upon the
hitherto undisputed possession of the cat
tle man to all the land upon which his
stock ranged. Every one coming in to
locate was considered in the light of a
trespasser. Persons claimed as their own
thousands of acres of the very best lands,
when, in truth, they have never entered
an acre; and any person buying a forty
or eighty acre Jot for settlement, brought
down on his bead]the wrath of the stock
man. This system is rapidly changing,
however, and the inevitable concomitants
to a healthful, temperate and fertile
country —occupation and settlement—are
being aooepted by those of our popula
tion who have heretofore been able to
exclaim—
“I am monaroh of all I survey.”
The same conditions and iiatus, how
ever, of cattle raising as a business con
tinue, such as value, sale, &c., are con
cerned. Persons, as a general thing, are
now entering the land around them, open
ing fields and putting in groves of fruit
trees, while many are moving their fami
lies from the isolation and solitude of the
range and locating in the most populous
neighborhoods and villages, where they
can have
THE BENEFITS OF SCHOOLS AND CHUBCHEB.
A desire to educate their children is
earnestly manifested by all classes, and
an enlightened and cultivated, spirit seems
to be infused into their desire. The cat
tle man, financially speaking, on account
of the continuous and certain sales of his
1 beef, enjoys a monetary popularity which
is not meted out to his less favored neigh
bor of the plow and ko.e, and I speak
from observation when I say that it is a
rare thing to find him contracting an
obligation that he will not be able to meet
at maturity, and he loves his “ four year
olds” too well to place himself in a posi
tion where the Sheriff is likely to adver
tise his stock to the highest bidder. An
intimate connection with the routine of
legal cases, for the last seven yoars, places
me in a position to stafe that during that
time there has. not been entered on the
civil or criminal docket a single case in
volving the financial standing or personal
reputation of a cattle qwnei' of respecta
bility in the county, They are so fear
ful of involving their property that they
abhor debt; and a natural prejudice to
paying large lawyer’s fees makes them
studiously avoid doing anything that
would involve them in criminal prosecu
tion.
I will not sit in judgment on fche ap
parent conflict between cattle raising and
I other vocations; but of one thing I
| certain—take away the cattle interest of
Mauatee county and you destroy
{ THE “810 BONANZA” OF OUB MONETARY
CHANNEL.
* So long as we have our cattle, the col
4pse of banks, brokers and railroad cor
porations will affect our financial interest
but very little. Wheu our hundreds of
' thousands of orange and other fruit trees
come into full bearing, matters may be
come different
In speaking of the little inclination
that parties owning stocks have to selling
i tßem, I do not wish to be understood to
i mean that they do not change banda.
; There are persons who will sell at reason
able figures, but the disposition to do so
is hot so great as with most all other
kinds of property. Persons desiring to
' come here and invest in the business will
j find it a lucrative investment, but he
i must make up his mind to come in con
tact with all tho exposures and denials of
| personal comfort that are incident to the
life of a cattle man, aud to acquaint such
i with the faetd, I will give a true picture of
LIFE ON THE COW-PATH.
Cattle owners in tho marking, brand
ing and herding of their cattle, and par
ticularly in the sale of them, have certain
customs and traditions, handed down
“from time immemorial,” which are con
sidered as sacred among each other as
"holy writ, and woo be to him who
breaks tho rules; he is at once read out
and thereafter hath no lot or parcel with
the rest.
When a vessel comes in for cattle, a
contract is made with some leading cattle
dealer, who is usually’ also owner of a
stock, who agrees to furnish the required
number on board the vessel, on a day
specified, aud at a price agreed upon.
This person then makes his arrange
ments with the most prominent
stock owners, who agree to fup
uisli him the desired number, some
times at a dollar less per Lead than ha
receives. Notice is duly circulated to all
within reach who rendezvous at a certain
point, ami >T >,
#ach owner is allowed to finish a nu m- *
her in proportion to the number hunting
or to the number of hunters ho may have
along. But wheu tho number hunting
have not each of them a sufficient num
ber of steers gathered to make up the
bunch, a large stock owner is allowed to
make up the deficiency. But, however
small the stock of any of the hunters
may be, he has an equal chanco
with his wealthy neighbor if his steers
sre gathered on the drive. Perfect
equality is observed between rich
and poor. They all hunt iu ooncert,
but go out in squads, iu different di
rections, at night, each party retum
mg to the same pen, and all tho
steers put together. Next day the cattle
are “held out to graze,” some of tho hun
ters minding them,and tho hunt continues
until the number is gathered; sometimes,
and indeed usually, more than the num
ber are gathered, as some of the steers
may get away, or be rejected. During
these hunts, it happens frequently that
man’s life hangs on a hair.
Going like tho wind after a steer, as
fleet as the wind, over logs, palmetto
clumps, holes and other things that may
be in the way—horso and rider both ani
mated with the spirit of the chase—one
false step would bo almost certain death
to both rider and horso. The least slip
or stumble would result in a broken
ueck. Frequently, while a hunter is
in full chaso after a steer, he will
stop suddenly and turn upon his
pursuer with the fierceness of a tiger,and
before the panting charger could’ bo
reigned iu his sharp horns will have been
lunged into his body the full longth, aud
the life of tho rider put in great jeo
pardy. Strength, activity aud reckless
abandon are necessary points to a suc
cessful cow hunter. Long and continu
ous praotioo make him as much at homo
on the back of a horse as the Comanoho
Indian, and until he becomes thus ex
pert he is of but littlo service on a hunt,
which always requires great celerity of
movement. But to return. When tho
necessary number of cattle arc collected
they are
DRIVEN TO THE VESSEL
in a body, aud driven between two fences
<m board, where they are placed in stalls
on deck, or let down into the hold. One
man receives the money; the marks aud
brands are taken by an officer and re
corded in the clerk’s office, open
inspection all concerned; wharfage-
CApensea mro/ladi'cied,
and each hunter receives his proportion
of the purchase money. Then ami there
all little arrears between part.es a j
promptly settled; each one ins his
doubloons or greenbacks to the bottom
of Ins ample pockets, and an adjourn
ment to the stores then takes place,
when the bland aud smiling merchant
relieves each ore of the of his
cash in a remarkably short tiafe. And
thus is willingly and hon -stly■kid out
by the cattle man the and
ilaiiM. rously earned inomyW:
l-bor of days
. u lii'vcd
retained, and he is
Going homo to spend a few
their famijioa and to get a fresh horse and
renew their supply of rations, they are
ready for another tramp, and thus it gees
during the season .of cattle driving.
These men are among our best and most
worthy citizens, as well as the wealthiest,
who are inured to all the privations ana
dangers of the cow path, but who really
lovo its peculiar excitements, and aro
never so well satisiied as when on a hunt,
expatiating on the one engrossing
ject cattle. “ Third terms,” “
Kmma” mines, and “whiskey fraud®
give them but little thought. Two huS
died words of the English vocabulary
enough for them, and the words
cow, steer, bull, mark aud brand, consti
tute about every third word of their
conversation. They are healthy, happy
ami contented with their mode of life,
aud do not seem willing in many in
stances to exchange it for any other.
Jiut to see them in the saddle for days,
weeks and moDtbs, in rain, sun r.71l
cold; in the rainy season frequently®
“’b'ht piling lightwood knots to
their bodies out of the water; somra®
going for days on n s, uty supply
musty rations, and in the dry season ®
DIGGING HOLES IN THE MUD FOB WATEB-
Oue cannot but wonder how they can
endure it, aud even seem fascinated with
the mode of life. I say all honor to|
these men who, while we sleep in rJ*A
comfortable beds, are far away
silent woods gathering that prop'll
which distributes money to rich and poor.
Captain F. A. Hendry, our present
worthy State Senator, is the owner of tha
largest stock in South Florida, wlrch
numbers about 25,000 head. Jacob
Summerlin, Esq., comes next, with about
20,000 head. John Whiddon, Joel Knight
William Alderman, Ziba King, WillLtu
Whitaker aud the Messrs. Curry, of Uite"
place, all own stocks of from two to live
thousand head each. Perhaps it would
not be out of place to give the names of
successful individuals who have accumu
lated large stocks within the past few
years by close attention to the business,
and which may serve to be of encourage
ment to any of your young, enterprising
men who may be tired of their present
pursuits and wish to embark in the cattle
business,
WHAT CAN EE ACCOMPLISHED BY PLUCK.
Two brothers, Locklear, began oattle
rearing a few years since, by splitting
rails for their first. They now pay taxes
on over three thousand head of cattle.
It is but a short time sinoo that Willing
Vauderipe purchased a small stock on
time. His stock ia now valued at eighteen %
thousand dollars, and he lives in one of I
the handsomest residences in th? villager
Dr. Hough, and his sons and brother:in®
law, about seven years since
all their cash, a few hundred dollars,
cattle, and they now have large stocks
of horses, cows and hogs; are getting
rich as fast as any men in the county,
and are among our most comfortable
livers, producing abundance of all kinds
of farm produce. Mr. William B. Hen
derson, one of the leading merchants of
Tampa, began with a small stock, and
now has three thousand head of cattle in
this county.
I am informed that Samuel Mitchell
Esc;., purchased a stock on notes and
mortgage. He has paid every dollar
his stock has largely increased in nuns’
bers, being several thousand head and
he is now one of the most enterprising
cattle contractors in this county, and m
rapidly becoming independent.
But I must close this communication
and subject, which I foar will prove tame
and monotonous, in its details But **
the matters of the subject have never
been given in full, I shall hope *tW
tnat this truthful and unvaried
count of our important sou Voe of weakh
may give some at le<K, au
its workings. In my next I will wrlteof
umniat. a Nattve op Savannah.