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AGRICULTURAL DKPARTMBNT.
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Points on Cattle Raisins:.
Col. T. J. Moore, of Spartanburg, 8. C.,
in a recent adde3s on cattle raising, said:
The raising of cattle is a subject of vastly
more importance than we are accustomed
to accord to it. In my judgment, it is the
basis of all good husbandry, because aside
from any pecuniary profits to be derived
therefrom, in the sale of animals or their
products, it is to this industry that we are
to look for the permanent improvement of
our poor wornout soils, which great desider
atum is to be attained through the change
of crops made nec ssary to support the ani
mals, and the careful husbanding of the
mauure made thereby.
You have doubtless heard the old Ger
man adage, “No, grass, no cattle; no cattle,
no manure; no manure, no crop.” It may
be as Ville, the great French chemist and
agriculturist says, that one can raise better
crops at a less cost by the aid of chemical
manures, but it dues not seem practical to
me with the kiads of crops wo raise. When
I look around and see the old scarred and
gullied hills, aud when I take my owu ex
perience into consideration, Mr. Ville’s
theory does not seem to work out iu prac
tice. When I want to raise a big crop Igo
for stable manure every time, and when I
apply it properly, no matter iu how small
doses, it generally responds satisfactorily.
This is not always the case with purchased
mauure. Sometimes I can hardly . tell
whether I have applied anything or not.
And to take Dr. Mcßryde’s statement as to
his success in raising cotton on the college
experimental grounds, one would be almost
afraid to venture much on commercial man
ures. But not to wander off. To any one
who thinks of going into cattle raising, cer
tain considerations suggest themselves, as
what breed or breeds are best suited to his
wants, and how he is going to provide en
closures, summer pasture and winter feed
for them. These are the subjects I propose
to talk about.
Now first as to breed; There are several
leading varieties in Bouth Carolina, and it
is of them only I wish to speak, because
from among them can be procured the
kinds best adapted to the wants of the coun
try in which we live. They are the Short
horns. Holsteins, Devons, Avrshires, Jer
seys, Guernseys. These are bred for specific
purposes, as follows, viz; the Shorthorns for
beef; the Holsteins for beef and Inilk; the
Devons for beef and work oxen; and the
Jersey and Guernsey for butter. Now all
one has to do is to decide what he proposes
to raise cattle for, whether for beef, work
oxen, milk, or butter, and make his choice
accordingly. If he wants to raise beef he
will not select the Jerseys, or if he wants
butter he will not select the Devon, and so
on through the list.
Now as to the adaptability of these
breeds to our wants: The shorthorn is a
very large animal, but in my judgment is
not adapted to our scanty pastures. It may
do very well for the rich gras3 lands of
Kentucky, Ohio aud Illinois, where they
are brought to great perfection and sell for
largo prices, but here they wear themselves
out in the vain search to find sufficient food
to maintain their magnificent carcasses,
and consequently deteriorate in size and
quality. They have been before our people
for many years, but their breeding is oue
the wane.
The Holstein i3 anew breed, introduced in
this section a few years ago from Holland.
Like the Shorthorn they are very large,
Weighing sometimes 2,000 and more pounds.
They are magnificent milkers, giving as
much as 70 or 80 pounds per day in rare in
stances, and make excellent beef, but how
animals of such large size are to be main
tained on our short pasture is more than I
am able to tell. This breed, or the Short
horn crossed upon the native, would, how
ever, greatly improve the later, and for
this purpose are very desirable.
The Dqvon is a beauty, of a rich red
color, of rounded frame, or medium size,
quick growth and action, and makes the
best marbled beef, and for a work ox is
unsurpassed. They have been bred almost
exclusively for these two uses. Iu their
breeding so little attention has been paij to
their milking qualifications that in the
Herd Book the size aud shape of the bag of
the cow is set down at almost nothing in
the scale of points by which they are
judged.
The Ayrshire is a small or medium sized
animal, introduced from the short pastures
of Scotland. They give a very large quan
tity of a poor quality of milk, rich, how
ever, in cheese-making qualities. Allen, in
“American Cattle,” calls her the poor man’s
cow from her great quantity of milk. 3he
makes fair beef.
The Jersey and Guernsey are both from
the Channel Islands. The Jersey is bred ex
clusively for butter. All the beef produc
ing parts have been bred away until
only a poor, scrawney carc3ss is left, not
fit for beef, except for people who do not
know what good beef is. It is claimed for
the Guernseys that they are larger and
coarser boned, and make as much butter aud
belter beef than the Jerseys.
We have thus given you the principal
characteristics of these breeds. If you
meditate trying the raisiug of cattle, you
will look around you, and seo what the
markets near you demand, and make your
selections accordingly. II you are near a
town whore tniik is in demand, then select
the Ayrshire or Holstein, if you have excel
lently good pastures for the latter. If you
want to raise butter try the Jersey, or if
beef, the Devon or Shorthorn, or a cross of
that upon natives.
But try whatever breed you may, even
to the natives, you will find many • difficul
ties in the way. The first great difficulty
you will meet with is how to enclose your
stock to keep them from depredating upon
your neighbors. The stock law is a won
derfully good thing,, ic fact, in such a
country as ours. IV ith our system of labor
there would be no farming without it. But
it has practically killed stock raising.
I cannot very well see how siock can be
raised profitably without a radical change
in the labor system. The only true system,
especially for the stock raiser, is to hire his
labor for money wages, and have what he
wants and ne. It is utterly out of the ques
tion with croppers, or hands working for a
share of the crop, or renters, to raise cattle.
You depend on l bum to keep up the fences,
which they will not do, or it they
do, they will have more stock than yon, anil
then you cannot rotate your lands as you
ought to. Every one-horse farmer must be
provided for equally, which in our poor,
hilly country is bard to do without having
several different kinds of crops in the same
field. And then you have not got the rails;
the timber is too precious to split into rails.
If you are going to raise cattle, turn off all
your share hands and renters, and pay
money wages. lay off your fields in large
bodies, and enclose with wire fences. Three
strands will serve for cattle, which can be
done at no great cost.
Before we can raise stock successfully we
will have to go to something like ante
bellum days, when the owner of the land
was “boss,” and directed his affairs with
judgment. I must confess that our present
way of doing things is “too much for me.”
Why, in those good old days, the farm was
divided into fields, well fenced. On my farm
one-third went into cotton, one-third into
corn, and one-third into small grain. Then
there was a surplus of everything. The
stock were taken from the uncultivated
lands as soon as the wheat and oat fields
could be opened. A run upon these for a
month or so, with the scattered grain, and
crab and other grasses, put them in good
order. Then a corn field was gathered,
which with the corn left and peas, with
which every corn field was planted, put
every animal in fine condition ready to be
fattened for the butcher. Then I sold,
after supplying the plantation, hams and
lard, beeves and milch cows, hides and tal
low.
How changed now! I will make.a reflec
tion just here. After awhile cotton got to
be a i ig price, and this one-third arrange
ment was abandoned, and one-half went
into cotton, and now supplies had to be
bought. I suspect that most of you older
men have gone through the same experi
ence.
Recognizing the fact that all this was
wrong, but seeing no way to correct ic, I
determined at least to raise my own sup
plies, and commenced carrying out in n
small way the ideas I have been advanciug.
■ Arouud my homos to ad I selected me a farm
separate and distinct from the tenant, and
upon this I am operating, principally rais
ing cattle for the butter dairy, witn which
I am much pleased.
Plums and Peaches.
The Florida Crawford peach and the
Kelsey plum, says G. L. Taber of Florida,
iu the Southern Cultivator, have given
most excellent results in tbe northern sec
tions of Florida, and the lattor has already
attained a reputation all through the south
ern sta es. An illustration of this plum
was made from a specimen taken from one
of my bearing trees and weighed five and a
half ounces, measuring inches in
circumference. Several other specimens on
the same,tree weighed the same as this. An
other tree, only 3 years old, bore in 1887
476 large fruit, which were counted ahd so
reported on by the editor of the Florida
Dispatch. The introduction of this Orien
tal type of plums, of which the Kelsey was
the first representative ill this country,
promises to revolutionize plum culture
through the south, and amongst othors ol
this class the Ogon, Botan and Blood plum
of Satsuma are believed to be valuable. Thc
latter of these was imported two years ago
by Luther Burbank of California at an ex
pense of S4O in Japan for a single tree.
The Florida Crawford peach is a native
Florida seedling, a large yellow freestone
of very fine quality, resembling the Late
Crawford iu appearance, yet seems better
adapted to the extreme south. It is well
kuown that mauy varieties of peaches that
do well at the north do not succeed as well
when planted in northern Florida, southern
Georgia aDd the Gulf coast of Texas, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and con
siderable attention has been given during
the past few years to the development of a
class of peaches that will prove equally
well iu those sections with those ftf other
well known varieties as particularly
adapted to a somewhat higher latitude. In
this region the Florida Crawford is counted
oue of she best peaches we have, and bears
heavy crops annually, in marked contrast
to many varieties that succeed well in North
and Middle Georgia. Other varieties of this
class (selected soedlings) h-.vo been planted
in this soction of Florida considerably, and
we never.fail of a crop of these so-called
“native” peaches. The best varieties of
these have been propagated by budding and
are now being planted to a considerable ex -
tent. The Florida Crawford is believed to
be one of the best of this class.
Breeding for Sex.
G. T. Rankin of Lines ville, Penn., thus
expresses himself in the Jersey Bulletin on
this vexed question: “My theory is that
every other ovum dropped by the cow is of
opposite sex. If tho last calf was a bull,
the first ovum deposited, if impregnated,
will be a heifer; and quite frequently the
cow will receive service as from nine to
twelve days after calving, but will 6how no
signs of being iu heat. Sometimes cows are
in heat when in calf, and all those must be
considered, as an ovum is deposited every
time a cow is in heat. I know by quite an
experience that when the theory is properly
observed, wo can breed sex at will.”
Sanders Spencer, in a lengthy paper rend
before the Institute of Agriculture of Lou
don, England, fully discusses the “Influ
encing of the Sex of Offspring.”
He said that the system of attempting to
regulate the sex by mating the female with
the male as soon as tbe state of heat com
mences, with a view to the production of a
female, and at a later period for producing
a male, has a large number of adherents.
Many apparendy most carefully conducted
trials have been givon in the American ag
ricultural papers, while some few of oui
own countrymen bavegiven us the result of
their experiment*.
John Slater of Cordell Hall relates in a
prize essay, written by him in 1871, that in
a herd of twenty cows he had for tbe last
seven years been able to obtain a heifer or
bull calf as desired, except with Alderney
cows, the reason of the failure with these,
he st tted to be that they "were timid and
afraid of a big bull” (he used a Kliorthoru)
“so thut he could not be sure of detecting
when they first cune into season."
In proof of this system a very interesting
report was written by aM. G. Couraz, in
which ho states that in twenty-two succes
sive cases he endeavored to obtain heifer
calves from Swiss cows by a Shorthorn
bull, and in every ease ho obtained the sex
desired. Ho afterward bought a pure bred
Shorthorn cow, aud was anxious to breed
from her a bull calf; this time the cow was
served at tbe latter period of tho heat and a
bull calf was tbe result.
M. Couraz also tried to breed six half
bred calve* for conversion into working
oxen anu was successful; in fact, bat bo
failures. I oould give several other similar
case*. _______________
Every farmer * son should be educated to
a knowledge of botany aud also to thor
oughly understand all tbe pants of to*
different breeds of stock, as well a* be
familiar with lit* nature of fertilisers and
tnetr lltp-rr for certain ci op* and aud.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1888.
Farm and Stoclc Notes.
A farm must not only be self supporting,
but should pay a profit. W hen the farmer
reaches that stage when he is compelled to
borrow, or depend on some income from au
otlier source, his farm is unprofitable, and
he sould then endeavor not only to discover
the cause, of the loss, buj also aim to im
prove in some manner, an order that the
farm may be self supporting.
The following recipe has been tried by a
ladv who says she has eggs that were pre
served by it four years, They are good yet.
Take one pound of unslacked lime and oue
pint of common salt to two gallons of soft
water. Put your eggs on end, in layers, in
any good tight vessel—a jar is goal. When
as full as you wish, make enough of the brine
to completely cover the eggs. If you put
the eggs down as gathered each day, add
some of the brine so as to keep ali com
pletely covered all the while.
Aim to keep the hens always at work and
provide plenty of scratching material Oc
casionally the yard should be dug up with a
hoe or spaded. If at any time odor comes
up from the yard spade up the ground or
disinfect it. This may be done by adding a
gill of carbolic acid (crude) to four gallons
of water, and sprinkling the yard with an
ordinary watering pot. The poultry
house should never give off odor if properly
attended to.
All seeds sown, whether indoors or out,
says Popular Gardening . should he pressed
firmly in the soil, so as to exclude the air,
and thus prevent the seed being shriveled
and dried to an extent that in four cases
out of five would destroy germination, and
also in places where germination does take
place, if the soil is let loose, the dry air is
often sufficient to shrivel up the young
plants even after they have started.
Improper milking, lazy milking, Incom
plete milking, one-hauued milking, forcing
dry a perpetual milker, or . drying off too
s >on or neglect that causes garget, or too
seldom relieving the udder, are frequen
causes of spoiling u good cow. ludoed,
milking a cow is a fine art when properly
conducted, and the most important work
in the whole dairy business, and tue most
important element in the individual cow
culture.
Household.
Roast Haunch of VENisoN. <r -Rub tho
veuison with butter, pepper and salt, put
iu the oven, stick cloves ail over the roast,
baste with butter. When done pour over a
teacup of wine or vinegar. Thicken the
gravy with grated cracxer. Serve with
currant jelly. *
White Cocoanut Drops.—One pound
grated cocoanut, half pound pulverized
sugar, whites of six egg 9 beaten stiff; drop
on buttered paus and bake. These drops
are delicious.
Chocolate Creams.—Two cups of sugar,
one cup of one and a half tablespooa
fuls of corn staren, one teasp >o,iful vanilla;
mix all except vanilla. Let it boil from
five to eight minutes, stirring all the time;
take it off aud stir until it comes to a cream;
when nearly smooth add vanilla aud make
into balls. Mix half pound chocolate, but
do not add water. Roll the balls in it while
warm.
Chicken Pie. —Joint the chicken, which
should be young; boil them till nearly ten
der in just sufficient water to cover them;
take them out of tue liquor and lay them in
a puddidg dish lined with pie crust, and to
each layer of chicken put three or lour thin
dices o£ pork, or a couple of ounces of but
ter cut into small bits; seasoix each layer
well with pepper and salt, and dredge flour
over the top, and then turn in the liquor in
which the chicken was stewed, till you can
just see it at the top; cover i£ with pie
crust, cut a slit in the center, and orna nent
with strips of pastry. Bake in a quick oveu
for about an hour.
Popular Science.
A cement very much used in China and
Japan ib made from rice. It is only neces
sary to mix rice flour intimately with
water and gentlv simmer tbe mixture over
a clear fire, when it readily forms a deli
cate aud durable cement.
Nicotine is one of the most powerful of
the known nerve poisons. It is virulent as
prussic acid. There is no substance kuown
which can counteract its effect*; the system
either succumbs or survives according to
its resisting power.
An electrical fire engine, which can be
tapped for service whenever wanted, is the
latest invention. Tbe advantages claimed
are that it can be started at full speed; that
it is much lighter than a steam fire otigino
of equal power; that it costs one-tnird
less; that it is noiseless in its opera:ion;
makes no smoke, sparks nor ashes; that it
is safer and easier to control and is eco
nomical.
A German paper reports that a novel use
of electricity lias been made in India for the
prevention of the intrusion of snakes into
and wellings. Before all the doors and around
the house two wires or laid, which are iso
lated from each other, and concocted with
an induction apparatus. Should a snake
attempt to crawl over the wires he receives
a shock ot electricity which either kilis or
frightens him into a hasty retreat.
EAGER TO BE JOURNALISTS.
Newspaper Offices Flooded with Ap
plications from Amateurs.
New York, Dec. 29.—“1 think every
young man and young woman in this town
wants to go into journalism.”
The speaker was one of the best known
managing editors in New York city, and
ho passod his hand over his troubled brow
as he spoke.
“I get about forty applications per day
from men and women who want to become
journalists, and the proprietor of this paper
gets twice as many more. A young man
whom I know to tie making SIOO per week
in the dry goods business came to me this
morning and offered to work for $25 per
week as a reporter. It makes mo a trifle
weary. If these young men and womin
knew how mauy b anks there are in this
lottery and how few prizes drawn, they
woul l quit.”
This managing editor was in a had humor,
but he was all right as to facts. Tnere
isn’t a newspa: er office iu town that isn’t
flooded with application* for work. The
prizes ii New York journalism are few.
You are reasonably sure of drawing a blank
pretty nearly every time. There are more
than 1,000 hard-working newspaper men in
New York city. Outside of their own
offices and the New York Dress Club not a
dozen of them nre known to tbe general
public. Those who are known outside of
New York could almost be counted upon
th fingers of a single band.
The men who have drawn p: izes cannot
themselves tell >ou how they did it All
they know is that th -y started at tue bot
tom and got tliero—somehow. Threo of
the brightest working newspaper men in
New York to-day—a:.d, singularly enough,
their proper names bogin with the same
letter “C" —John A. Cocksrill, Amo* Cum
mings and Foster Coates, started from the
printer’s case. The latter, just a out the
time when his trade was learned, and while
still a boy, was insulted by a superior, and,
in an umotiscioui but happy moment,
threw about a pound of lead typo la hi*
face. He was discharged, became a re
porter, and is now a leading managing
editor.
Wren asked the other day how be came
to succeed, he said, lauzbingly: “1 hardly
know, bat I think that handful of type did
it.”
“This U not intended to encourage prints
oiV devil* to throw type arouud, but a* an
lilu-tratlon.
Chari** A. Dana I*. perhaps, the moat
famous of the iimn who Lav* urawn prise-.
At editor of tbe Sun be draw* a salary of
$25,000 per year, eud, from other aouice*,
bio Inc mie i* swelled to about $150,000 per
year, upon which he tnaiagu* to live very
comfortably, aided by e French hook,
whuee income 1* bigger than tb it of a
congressmen. Daua started on the New
Yoik Tribune, at a sad ary of sl2 per week.
He started in e wtel way from e town Ik
the Ulterior ot Ohio,
Joseph Pulitzer of the World is said to
clear $2,00.) per day. He is not a working
journal! t now, but not many yeirs ago he
was an ordinary reporter In St. Louis, aud
they say he was a hustler too.
Whitelaw Reid, as a matter of form,
draws a salary of some $14,000 per year
from the Tribune, but his income from his
stock iu the patter is several times this
amount, and he is the .sou-in-law of 1). O.
Mills. These are about the only editor- in
chief who are known outside of New York.
Thoro are three or four more who draw good
salaries, but they are not kuown to the
general public.
John A. Coekerll is one of the working
managing editors and newspaper men, and
draws a salary of $15,000 per year from tho
World, aud has interest iu it besides. Cock
erill was a typo and fought his way up
from the ranks.
Atuos Ouuunines is said to have an in
come of $15,000 per t ear. He was a com
positor aud a private in the union army
during the war, ami lie, too. came from the
bottom lip to where he is now.
Chester A. Lord, the managing editor of
the Sun, has a salary of $7,500 per year. He
started on a small os per in the interior of
this state and had to work hard for suc
cess. But he is little known ou side of New
York.
George F. Spinney, as managing editor
of the New York Times, has a salary of
about $7,000 per year. But he has been a
hard working journalist all his life and the
salary is not so mu h. He too is little
known outside of New York.
Foster Coates, of the Mail and Express,
is one of the youngest, but best known of
New York newspaper men, and, as has
been before stated, he started as a priuter’s
devil. He gets about the same salary that
the other managing editors do. There aro
probably fifty or sixty men who are simply
write, s, line. Blakely Hall and Juliaii Ralph,
who earn anything from SSO to $l5O
per week, but, with the exception of tho
men namod, aud four or five more, they
are nevor heard or spoken of except in
then- own homes aid circios. These may
seem pretty good salaries to work for.
There are several hundred men in New
York, such as John A. McCaull, of the
Equitable Life Insurance Company; Presi
dent Hyde, of tbe Mutual Life; Ileury E.
Abbey, the theatrical manager; a cowple of
scoxes of bank presidents; Mary Anderson,
who is just at present earning some $12,000
I>er week, who get double, and some of
them much more than double as much
salary as any of tho newspa(>er men
named.
At the Fifth Avenue hotel the other night,
Archie Gunter, the author of “Mr. Barnes
of New York,” was a lion, lie was more
courted than any one at tho hotel, and
most of the young men around him are
ambitious to become journalists. If thoy
knew of Gunter’s struggles up to the time
that be succeeded iu getting “Mr. Barnes of
New York” before the public, they would
hesitate. If they could go into any news
paper office and sea how long and how hard
men work for small salaries, they would
he-itate some more. And if they could go
into smne otbor places and see some of tlie
wrecks that the tides of the years have cast
up on the shores of journalism, they would
go.into some other busine s.
David Wechslkr.
Weather Indications.
1 Special indications for Georgia:
RAIN Rain, stationary temperature, east-
I I r.y winds.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, ! lee. 30. 1888, and the mean of samo day
for ftfteeu years.
j Departure Total
Mean Temperature from the Departure
Mean Since
for 15years|Dec.80 ’BB.| -[-or — Jan. 1,1888.
SO j 50 | *- 0 7BB
Comparative rainfall statement:
Do arture I Total
Mean Daily Amount from tbe Departure
Amount for I for Mean Since
16 years. ! Dec. 30, 'BB. -|-or — Jan. 1,1888.
,12 | .00 l2 - 6 82
Maximum temperature, 63 0; minimum tem
serature, 15 0.
The hight of the river at Augusta at 7:33
o’clock a. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was
9.8 feet, a fall of 1.0 foot during the past
twentyfeur hours.
Observations taken at the same moment of
rime at all stations.
Savannah, Dec. 30, 6:86 p. m., City time.
Temperature.
Direction, j <
I as
! Velooity. j 9
Rainfall.
NAME
or
STATIONS.
Portland 3l| fi 12 Clear.
805t0n.... 40 8 W 12 Clear.
Block Island 42j W jlB ... Clear
New York city.. .. 40] 8 6 .... Clear.
Philadelphia 44 8 6... .‘Fair.
Washington City. 42 8 j— j Clear.
Norfolk *' FI —’Clear.
Charlotte 40. N— Clear.
Jiatteras 54 K 6 ... Clear.
Detroit : 31 8 Oj Cloudy.
Fort Buford ! 20 NW .... Clear.
Kt. Vincent I 0; N 18!... Cloudy.
W’ilmington j 52! K Clear.
Charleston 51,N E 6 .02 Raining.
Augusta 5-i E 6 .... Clear.
Savannah. j 54j K 12].... Clear.
Jacksonville | SS|N F 0 .... Cloudy.
Cedar Keys 1 C 4 NEI2 .01 Cloudy.
Key West | 71 F, 14 .01 Cloudy.
Atlanta ! 62 E 40— Clear.
Pensacola j 60 E ! 8 .22 Cloudy.
Mobile 80 8 Ki.. .3: Cloudy.
Montgomery ! 62! E 6*T Clear.
Vicksburg j 62] K ! Cloudy.
New Orleans j 58:N E 8 Cloudy.
Shreveport ! 48|N Ej e .0! Cloudy.
Fori Hiuitb \ 42 01 Cloudy.
Galveston ! 64 NE 12 .08 Cloudy.
Palestine 44] N ! 8 .60 Raining.
Brown sville i 62; K 1? ,04 Cloudy.
Kiotirande 6P|N E 6 .06 Raining.
Memphis j 44|NW 6 .88 Raining.
Nashville. 42 NWI 6 .lu Raining.
Point Jupiter, Fla.| 62 N K 14 .. . Cloudy.
Titusville i 70! E 6 0! Cloudy.
Cincinnati I 40 ; 1., .10 Raining.
Pittsburg 48 ! K i Cloudy.
Buffalo 86 BW] 6.. Cloudy.
Marquette 8] W 5i.... Clear.
Chicago 30 8 8; *T Raining.
Duluth 21 Wl. L...]Falr.
St. Paul 20 W 5: . Fair.
St. Liu is 42 W ] 6 *T Fair.
Kansas City B*> W ! 6 ,0? Cloudy.
<imaha I 80 NW |0 ... Clear.
Yankton g; NW 10 . ;Clear.
Bismarck. .. IH NW.ll ... Clear.
Cheyenne ] 281 N 8 ... Clear.
*T denotes trace o 7 rainfall.
M. J. WmoHT, Ja.. Observer Signal Corps.
Aro We to Have Another War?
Some political prophets aver that we shall.
Be that a* It may, tbe battle waged by medical
science against disease will never cease until we
arrive at that utopian epoch when tbe human
family shall cease to be afflicted with bodily
ailments. One of tbe most potent weapons
which the armory of medic ne furnishes is
Hostetler’* otoniach Bitters, which loot special
utility as a family remedy, os It i* adaoteil to
the Immediate relief and ultimate cure of those
disorders of the stomscb, llv r and bowels
which are of commonest, occurrence. Indiges
tion, biliousness and constipation are Insepara
ble comp ulon*. and these ailment* are com
pletely eradicated by tbe Bitters. But the
remedial scope of this superlatively wholesome
and genial medicine take* lu also nervous ai U
rneuts. rheum*’ism and kidney troubles; Its
action in these, as in the other complaints, being
characterized by uuequaied thoroughness.
Full assortment Crystal and Glass Table
Goblet* and Tumblers, plain and engraved,
at West’s China I'.. Luce.
At tho Harnett House, Kn van nah, Ga.,
you get all tbe comfort* of tbe high-priced
hotels, and save from $1 to $2 per day.
Try it and be oonviuaed, —Button Hums
Journal.
Oak Pino and Light wood.
Have removed my wood yard to corner
Owjinett stree t and ovsrmub Florida and
Wus tern railway. Telephone 77.
H. U >'AOSKUh
Jjbrary lamps, Piano Lamps, Wtand
I *iu|n, and 1 Aiiops of every JsscnpUon, at
West’s CUua Paiaos.
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ING, WANTED HELP. WANTED SITUA
TIONS, WANTED ROOMS, WANTED BOARD,
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Calls answered P. M.
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MARRY.— Large marriage paper free. If
you want wife worth over Sid,ooo pet Jan
uary issue. Address HOME MAGAZINE, To
ledo, Ohio.
11 ELI* WANTED.
WANTED, traveling agent for the State of
Georgia to sell bottled lager beer ou com
mission for a largo New York brewery; jiarties
trading with grocers, hotels, saloons, etc., can
make advantageous arrangements. Address,
giving references, experience, etc., BREWERS,
care William Young, Cl Park Row, New York.
YVANTED, immediately, a competent girl to
VV attend two large children; references re
quired. 14S Harris street.
\YTANTED, a woman as cook and to do gen
it eral housework; must come well recom
mended. Apply 174 Jones street, n -ar Tattnall.
YETANTED, active solicitor for Accident In
V v surance Company offering special advan
tages; good commission; state age and experi
ence. Address ACCIDENT, this office,
WANTED, a small, bright boy for office
Tv wo-k, about 15 years old, at SMITH
BROS.', Bay and Whitaker.
WANTED, good help of all kind*, at
V> ROGERS & CO.'S INTELLIGENCE
OFFICE.
WANTED, lady, active and Intelligent, to
represent, in her own locality, an old firm;
references given and required; permanent post
tlon and good salarv. Address SI'PT. MANU
FACTURING HOUSE, Lock Box 1585, N. Y.
WANTED, first-cla s carriage painter imme
diately. Must be good striper. Address
R. D. ZAHM, Jacksonville, Fla.
EMPLOYMENT WANTED.
WANTED, a position by a stenographer anil
typewriter; best references given. Ad
dress 8., TU Huntington street.
MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.
YOUNG MAN ON) would like to associate
himself with traveling business man;
would take any kind of business traveling. A.
C. TANARUS., Morning News office.
IOAN ASSOCIATION STOCK of all kinds
J wanted by ROWLAND & MYERS, 103 Bay
street.
Y\7 ANTED TO BUY, a second hand safe of
V V medium size. Address 8., this office.
ROOMS TO RENT.
IAOR KENT, unfurnished flat of four rooms;
r bath, etc.; central location; possession at
once. 55 Abereorn stieet.
lAOR KENT, one or two furnished rooms, with
' or without board. 7U Broughton street.
HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT.
FjXiK KENT, store and dwelling corner of St.
Gaul and Zubly streets; good stand.
MICHAEL FEELEY, Bt. Julian and Habersham
streets.
r pO LET, In St. Augustine, Fla., nine-roorn
1 house. Furniture for sale on easy terms.
Fine views of the ocean; good location for
boarders. The hous -and lots will also be sold
ch'-ap for cash. Address G. 8. W., Postofflce
Box 13, St. Augustine, Ha.
ITUNE OPPORTUNITY to rent a popular hotel
1 liar and cigar privilege. Address, for one
week, H. 8., this office.
17*014 RENT, the three-story brick house 205
r Hull street, near Montgomery ; possession
given Ist January; rent low. E. MUIILBKRG,
187 Congress street.
F'Olt KENT, that desirablo brick residence
soul east corner of Broughton and Aoer
oora streets. Apply to LUKE CARBON. _____
L'Olt P.I NT, three-story brick lions'-, No. 05
I* Jefferson, corner of Perry; newly painted
and repaired; contains nine rooms on basement
and two-story outbuilding. Apply to J. W. Mc-
ALPIN, Executor.
STATE
OF
WEATnER.
KOR KENT-MISCELLANEOUS.
A VAULT in Market basement to pent. Ap
ply to RUBT. J. WAI>K, City Marshal.
FOR SALK.
ODEXAB HORSES A.'. D PONYS Harness,
I' huddle and unbroken; medium to large
sized. Texas niarea delivered In carload* any
mam line railroad atatloD In Georgia. |35 to |4O
each, lo *uit purchaser* Prices on lio:*e*,
mule* and colt* on application. .J. K. OUIL
MAKTIN A CO . Tex/,* Ranch A cents, Savan
nah, (la. Postoflico Box i £l.
HAMMOND, HULL A CO.'S Pure Animal
Roue High tirade Vegetable Fertilizer;
Available Phosphoric Acid H to 10 per cent..
Ammonia 6 to 7 per cent., Potash 0 to 7 per
cent. No man should plant a vegetable garden
without using It. _
I/OK HALE, in BsrnesvUle, Ga., a fine two
story brick residence, with good outbuild
Ing*. on a two-acre lot: excellent water; many
choice varieties of grape* and fruit on the
place: also one medium size triune residence,
on a large lot, near the Gordon Institute. These
are just the place* for parties desiring homes
for health and educational advantages: location
about 075 feet above sea level, and climate
healthy and delightful. These properties belong
to a non resident and -will be Bold at a tiargsln.
Apply to JollN K. MORGAN, Uarnesville, Ga.
KAINIT. KAINIT, KAlNir.’-Parties wishing
to purchase can secure any quantity from
Hammond, hull * co„ boss Agents of the
German Katnit Mines.
I7OR HALE. Iron and wood pumps. The city
’ water work* department have for sale 75
iron. Iron boxed and wooden well pumps; all in
gruel order; by the lot or single pump. Enquire
at water works office, City Exchange. A. If.
MILLER, BiiperiiiUmdent,
LOST.
If >HT. a collar button, sapphire set with dla-
J uiotid I luder will lie suitably rewarded
If return*! u> JHi President street.
I' <>ST, (Tirivtmai evening, a liver -colored and
J White Cocker Fp,nl*l. Hillside reward
will be p* ul for Us mom Pi uortt. wrat oor r
Roll and Libert/, or to HENRY T HOI Ik, Hsy
street.
I*llol OfvKA I'll Y.
/ ■;<*(. 1.1 . The him of Larues A Wotf
( lieh n • usjl-igrd Pi Miiwiaiß ikt Mr* If
■'imm bahisUod rciug. o> mak sg, K • Hrl Oa*.
tig t vie/tov'ej'h in ibis *Kr M ILidAM K.
vvIJewRI, Landi**j*e PL togiapher
rvii .u jyaaike**
MISCKLL AN EO V S.
If NTlLthoroughly introduced, on Mondays
J only, half pouud boxes HEIDT S Fine Con
fections 25c.
'TMIIS WEEK, a Turkish Towel and 6 cakes
A good Toilet Soup S.V. HEIDT's.
T I 'O-DAY, fresh lot of HKIDT'S Fine Confec
X tions put up in beautiful style, (kid and
see.
\T HKIDT'S THIS WEEK, 20c for tbe 35c
Fancy Box of Perfumery and Soap.
OAMPLES of the Celebrated Silver Belle
Cl Cologne given away at HKIDT’S, Cougicss
and \Stjl taker streets.
Beautiful dressing oases. v~tew
tiuo cases at low prices at HEIIJT’S PHAR
MACY.
MAKF. a specialty of flue Handkerchief Ex
tracts and Colognes at HEIIiT’S. Largo
line of reliable makes.
ITIOR Holiday Goods. Fancy Articles and Fine
I Candies, at reasonable prices, go to
11 El DTK I’ll ARMACY.
VUF.NCIEB FOR HKIDT’S FINE CONFEC
TIONS.- W. A. Pigman, 03 Abereorn; O. T.
Shaffer, Whitaker, corner Wayne; HKIDT'S
PHARMACY.
NIGHT BELL answered at all hours at SHAF
FER'S, 110 Whitaker
BEFORE you buy or sell property consult
HOBT. H. TATKM, Real Estate Dealer
and Auctioneer.
DIVORCES— A. GOODRICH, attorney at law,
134 IlearlKirn street, Chicago; advice free;
*1 years experience; business quietly and legally
transacted.
f OOK at CORNWELL & CHIPMAN’B adver
1 J tisemant on page 2.
DRY GOODS.
fill! SALE
01 Onr Entire Stock
AT COST!
—FOR—
-30 DAYS!
Previous to Our Annual
Stock Taking.
SALE TO COMMENCE ON
MONDAY, DEC. 31,
at 9 o’clock A. M.
CroMDonr.
187 Rroucrliton St.
nursery.
ISTABUHHID 1850. 201 ACHttH IN XRLIT NCIISXKT.
Fruitland Nurseries,
ATTGFXJBTA, GF-*Y.
P. J. BERCKMANS, Proprietor.
lARUIT and Ornamental Trees, Roses, F.ver
l 1 greens, Htrawberry plants, Grape Vines,
Greenhouse and Redding Plants. An immense
stock and extensive variety. Hend for cata
logues.
N. 11. -No agents employed. Send your or
der* direct to 11* and avoid lying Imposed noon.
KIESLING’S NURSERY,
WHITE B L.TTJTB' ROAD.
PLANTS, BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, CUT
KI.OWKRS furnished to ojder. Leave
order* at DAVIS BROS’., corner Bull and York
atreets. Telephone call 240.
HOTELS.
WHIDbOiN HOUSER
(Opposite ITney Woods Hotel),
THOMASVILLE, - GEORGIA.
E. B. WHIDDON, Proprietor.
THIS house, located In the most desirable and
central part of the cltv, la new snd com
plete in every pari icular. Furnished in the most
elegant manner and provided with all conve
niences of modern hotels. The menu U perfect,
and the service renders*! by trained and polite
servants. Term* reasonable, and price* graded
according to accommodations furnished. Car
riages from the house meet all trains.
THE MORRISON HOUSE
CENTRALLY located, on line of street cars,
offers pleasant south rooms, with excellent
board, lowest rates. With new baths, sowerage
and ventilation perfect, the sanitary condition
of the house is of the beet. Comer Brough
ton and Drayton streets. Savannah, (>a
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
CHARLES R. UEKKON, JOHN J. GAUDRY,
Herron & Gaudry,
fiucceaaors to L J. Gullmartln A Cos.,
Colton Tractors
and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
120 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA.
IIPERAI. advances made on oottnn con-
J signed to us fornal*. Consignments of cot
ton solicited. and strict attention will no given
to ali huaines* entrusted to us,
G. DAVIS & SON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
PROVISION, HAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR,
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
196 and 198 Bay Street, • Savannah, Ga.
NKKII OAT*.
Georgia Rust Proof Oats,
1 EXAM RUST PROOF OATA,
KANSAS RUST PROOF OATS
KKYHTONC MIXED FRED,
OtH OWN MIM.II \m KiK COWS,
COTTON NEED MKAL
Com, Ottte, liny, Etc,
T. J. DAVS & eo.,
17S l llav HtvoisU
AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.
Clothing, Furniture, Groceries, Pictures,
AT AUCTION'.
C. H. DORSET, Auctioneer,
Will sell this MONDAY, Doc. 81st, commencing
at 11 *. st., at 142 Congress street.
BOYS' KNEE PANTS, MEN'S MELTON AND
COTTON PANTS, OVERCOATS, VESTS,
LADIES’ CLOAKS AND WRAPS, BOYS’
SHOES AND SLIPPERS, WOMEN'S SHOES,
SPOOL COTTON, Eto.
—ALSO—
-3 DESKS. PARLOR RF.T, LOUNGE, CRIB.
mattress, safe, s bedsteads, feather
PILLOWS, ROCKERS, COMMON CHAIRS
knocked down, OFFICE CLOCK, BUREAU,
MATTRESSES, 3 COOKING STOVES, 1
RANGE, 25 PICTURES, A LOT OF GRO
CERIES and a COMMON PIANO, 1 SINGER
SEWING MACHINE.
— ... .-■!
PETITIONS FOR INCORPORATION.
CTATE iih’ GEORGIA. Cm vrv or Chatham,
i ’ —To the Honorable, the Superior Court of
said county;
The iwt tion of HERMAN MYERS, JOHN J.
McDonough, chari.es f. prender-
G AST, WILLIAM GARRARD and P. W.
MELDRIM, ahoweth; That they desire,
for themselves and such other per
sons bh may be hereai'ler associated with them,
to tie incorpmafed under the name and style of
THE SAVA.NN VII ELECTRICAL COMPANY.
That the object of their association and the par
ticular business they propose to carry on, is the
•'Kiahtiatiment of a general Imrglur alarm and
district telegraph service, by in-aus of electri
cal appuratus and machinery; to own, lease
use, control and operate local telegraph linea
and wires; to receive and transmit, or to cause
to tie traimmitteJ local teegraph raessag s; to
construct, build, connect, operate, rent, hire,
sell and leone telegraphic w ires and connections
for the private use of other partloaanil persona;
to establish, maintain and op rate for hire, a
general system of district messenger telegraph,
for the delivery of |'rsonal communications,
notes, messages, errands, parcels and the iike;to
manufacture, hold, own, use. enjoy possess,
buy, let, hire, sell or lease every discrlption and
manner of electrical devices, apparatus, ma
chine! y, parent or invention, ami generally to
do nil other tilings necessary and proper for the
furtherance of said buslne-s. That the amount
of capital stock to tie employed bv them is to bo
the sum of Fifty Thousand (850.000) do liars, of
which tbo sum of Ten Thousand l|!0,000i dol
lars, being twenty (30 |>er cent.) tier cent., has
been actually (mid In; and they desire tbe privi
lege of Increasing the capital stock of said com
putiy to uny sum from rime to time. In the dis
cretion of its Board of Directors, not to exceed
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($250,000)
dollars.
That the place of doing business of said cor
poration will be the county of Chatham, in
said state, with the principal office la the city
of Savannah.
That they desire to lie incorporated for the
term of twenty (SO) years, with the privilege of
renewal at t he expiration of said time.
That they may have power to purobase, own,
leave, rent, use ami enjoy all lauds, building*,
easements, franchises, electrical apparatus, de
vices, machinery, patents ami Inventions and
other real and personal property, and to sell,
mortgage, lease, rent, hire, sub-let or convey
the same, or any part thereof, and to reinvest
the proceeds, or any part thereof, at pleasure;
to have a corporate seal; to borrow moaey and
Isstio obligations or bonds therefor; to sue ami
tie sued In and by said corporate name; to enter
Into contracts; to make liy-laws not inconsist
ent with the laws of the land; and to have, use
anil enjoy all other oorpo ate powers and priv
ileges incident to private corporations for oust
iichs purposes as prescribed by the laws of
Georgia
Whehevoki, Your petitioners prsy that they
and their associates may tie incoriiorated for the
purposes afoie stid. under said corporate name,
for the term anil with all the powers aforesaid.
And your iietltioneiN will ever pray, etc., etc.
GARRARD A MELDRIM,
Petitioner*’ Attorneys.
Fill’d In office and recorh and this 32nd day of
Dec., 1888, JAMES K- P. CARR,
UlerkS. C. U. C.
STOVES.
m
THE GRAND OIL
HEATINGS STOVE
XS .A. GOOD OI'TE.
—FOR SALE AT- ,
CROCKERY HOUSE OF
JAS.S. SILVA
mis, 1* A I I.S, E l f .
THE WINDSOR FACTOBY,
WINDSOR, K’XjA.,
MZNUriCTLBXJUi or
TUBS, PAILB, W ATLR CANS, SYRUP
KEGS, ETC., ETC.,
A-II of Best Florida Cyprp**.
COAL. *
Coal, Coke and Pig Iron,
In Carload Lots, Shipped to All Point*.
ALABAMA COAL CO.,
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. I
HEAL ESTATE.
G. H. REMS HART,
Eeal Estate Agent,
118 Bryan Street, Rear Office.
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I'HINTLVO. ~
'flic lif Sews
■I 808
WILL BE PLEASED TO FURNISH
ESTIMATES!
ON ALL KINDS OF
SPECIAL BUI ML
Kino Work and Low Price*,
MOUMNii NEWS RIILWSi,
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