Georgia Historic Newspapers

    farmers want schools
IBS AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY DIS
CUSSED EDUCATION.
-rv, e Need for Better Schools in Geor
zia-Commissioner Bradwell, Col.
James Barrett and Congressman
Moses on the Education Question—
A Movement to Secure a Georgia
Exhibit at the World’s Fair-The
Immigration Question Before the
Convention Again—A Committee Ap
pointed to Memorialize the 1 erisla
tu:e_Tbe Summer Meeting of the
Society to be Held in Athens.
The agriculturists had a jolly day of it
yesterday. The society was in eessionEur
ing the forenoon, but the proceedings lacked
interest to a good many member-’, who
wanted to see the eights of the city, and
who were afraid they would miss the Tybee
excursion and oyster roast if they did not
not keep a sharp lookout for it.
The farmer is from habit an early riser.
Many members of the convention were on
the street before 7 o’clock taking in the
oity. It was a long time before breakfast
to some of them, who were up before the
rest of the city was awake.
There were not more than a dozen mem
bers in Masonic hall when President Wad
dell called the convention to order at 8:30
o’clock. On account of the small attend
ance a recess was taken for half an hour.
Tne delegates dropped in by twos and threes
from then until 9 o’clock, when there were
perhaps fifty in the hall.
On the reconvening Col. James Barrett
of Augusta was introduced aud delivered
an eloquent address on “Education of
Farmers’Boys in Georgia. ” He spoke as
follows:
HR. BARRETT'S ADDRESS.
It has been conceded in all ages that the pro
motion of agriculture by government would
have the greatest influence upon the material
progress of the state, which necessarily would
improve the mental advancement of the peo
ple.
We will examine the above proposition as
applied to Georgia and inquire into the reason
way so few advantages have been furnished the
farmers to acquire knowledge that would tend
to mental and agricultural information.
The cause that has depressed education and
led to the employment of incompetent officials
h3 been the systematic rule of pauperizing
education, thereby causing the parent to take
no interest in that which he receivrsas a charity.
I know ibis will be disputed; but I contend that
whenever a government relieves a parent from
parental rare, which God has imposed, the child
becomes an object of charity aud the parent's
care become, so light that it Increases his
neglect, aud therefore degrades and destroys
the benefit received. We should adopt the sys
tem of requiring all parents who are able to pay
tuition, if for no other reason than that they
would look closely after the school where they
invest money to eduoate their children, thereby
creating a local inspection. The system of paid
schools before the war proves this proposition,
as we had fewer white illiterates under a paid
system than under a pauper system. To illus
trate: Gov. Northen, who was a distinguished
educator, stated at LaGrange that in 1860 there
were 15,000 grown up white illiterates in the
state, and now 128,000, found mainly outside
the oities and towns. He also stated in his
message that with toe increase of expenditure
upon education we had an increase of illiteracy.
TUB PARENTS TO BLAME.
The parents of the farmer hoys are greatly to
blame in the inorease of illiteracy by never
surrounding them with any of the means of
mental culturs or amusements; while the hoe,
plow ar.d ax are the necessary instruments for
the support of the body, they are not the means
of mental enjoyment. You may go into the
the farmers’ houses of Georgia and a book of
any sort (except the Bible) is as rarely seen
there as an ourang-outaug would be. Educa
tion begins at the home fireside, and is propa
gated at the school-house, theref -ro it should
be the duty of the parents of the farmer boys to
lay the first rock in the corner-stone of their
sons’ education at home.
The negro of the state is another cause that
has prevented the governing class from ap
propriating the necessary funds to educate the
wmte farmer boys of Georgia, as the blacks
share the appropriation without returning any
equivalent for tne money disbursed. The
wnites feel that llie little knowledge the Afri
can acquires is dangerous to the state, and that
the more he is educated the greater enemy he
becomes to his section and the white people of
the south. With these stubborn facts looking
us in the face daily, is it to be wondered at that
the mass of the white people are unwilling to
follow the advice of enthusiastic dreamers upon
the benefit to be derived from universal educa
tion in a mixed population? It is
my g) deliberate Jopinion that the Africans
as a people can never be intelUgently
eriucated, and their advancement in the last
twenty-five years in mental culture is so s nail
as to be almost absolutely nothing, and proves
that we have expended money foolishly, and it
is time for the people to cry a halt in this ab
surdity of the age. I am convinced that the
mulatto cau be cultivated to a mucb higher de
gree than the negro, and in a lesser degree than
the Aryan races.
THE IGNORANCE OP SCHOOL BOARDS.
Another reason that has prevented the ad
vaimement of education and causes the increase
ot illiteracy is the ignorance of the school
boards in tne various counties in the state and
the political and family influence which controls
the election of teachers totally unfit for the po
sition they occupy. With an ignorant school
hoard we cannot have competent teachers and
progressive education, as it is utterly impossible
Inran uneducated commissioner to l<-ad chil
dren to the fountain of knowledge. The rem
edy for these evils is for some member of the
legislature to introduce a bill that all members
o, tee county school boards shall pass an ex
amination fixed by the state school commis
sioner, and tnat there shall be a board of exam
,a>rs in Atlanta, whose duty it shall be to ex
amme and pass upon the mental and educa
u mai qualifications yearly of the school com
imssioners in the various counties of the state,
and to reduce the county school board to three
wtlo ar to receive the same corapen-
juryman in discharging their
J^ 11 ' tha* southern white teachers shall be
L L„° ye<l to teach the ngro children (if we are
so as to prevent the
(iffnmtlof of enemies with our money in our
„ “ " ith these remedies I believe vou
..n't ~ l ° re confl< lence in our public schools,
-Our farmer boys to appreciate the
v.? t P of education as applied to the culti
“Vr or th© soil.
nn'„ h rt“i* e consider the revolution that has
nm • li n m .' r l abor s y st ra. and thut mind
of tho n PerS6 , de , the physical force and ignorance
c.im!, :,ior previous to the war, it be
shonis k! i kteatest importance that, there
the estal >llshed in the various sections of
tnat farms, where everything
p, H r rta “‘ s t° practical agriculture should
a id suctl as *ha use of farm machinery
B tock‘?P ,eme “ u ’ Ule care anJ breeding of
ailin'™ 10 u ' e and application of fertilizers, hay
tnat th L F„ ra;n growing, aud cotton raisin.-, so
exnen.e lan.I an .' ler boys can learn such without
thepTrll ■ then* parents, as their labor ,pon
la*ti^“ 1 f< “ m would compensate the
elution for the expense incurred.
A PRACTICAL FARM SCHOOL.
oolvt™^ r i mental station at Griffin should be
as , uto a Ptactical farm school for boys,
tnroin'h r ?i duates Bllctl a school, disseminated
'ear Uoin h . O ii St ?i t0 ’ v W, :',‘ ld do more K ood iu one
bre,-.,? aal tke bulletins ever issued by the
tiatrinu° D agriculture; for the reason that their
tce.r ni?„h£?. u and be practical, from which all
toi l • k°- rs team. One of the trustees
far™ Z ,5, 11 of little practical use to the
05...! ® oor **a a now constituted,
is tho.„ tae “'•taken crusades of the farmers
to upon ® ur university; it stands
cho£u7 e *" ’ ,eTer have good local
~ ' Jls without educated teachers, necessarily
veneii dra *' our teachers from eollegos, uni
s' „,i?’ ° r Perl menial s! nitons; therefore it
the™-, I our dl;t - v t° fester bigherculture with
ou- °* '“proving lower education. In
lnthgf lcul . t,jra l diatrtete vre should introduce
Beitnt, achoulg the practical teaching by
inrisi 5° brjuiers, which ate to simple that the
which , P'd onn cemproheßd: suck primers
ecorn,. 1 ot aoologjr, ebsmiatry. political
® nl ooiogy, gso ugy, mechanics,
the -n, r l hotanv and others. The study of
irDnort^ 000 wealth.is becoming of absolute
a£rn cl 0 ,o ? ur toy*,- and the good
Mteiia"*?' M, ' J alliance in arousing the
Volvo 7,J 1 farmers to the questions iu
a nUL ? pol . ) “°l oeonomy stamp* the order as
In , nr ,'* a:or ° r ail agricniuira! classes,
riciih,?™. Us , i ' n ’ 'urutar culture hi a part of ag
th eduoatioti. and every farmer-boy in
anre -f 0 B toid he impressed with th# import
the cho,. *°°i education. Wkoaver educates
merit-.? ri!o . of tbe country eontrols the govern
iga,., ' vreforu the teachers of minors arc in
this -„ s b on f“’ J ' r f vr good or tad rulers, and for
wit- ® pv* than necessary to eliminate,
and ror aftacttOß, the ignorant teaciier
ti meompatent basrd out of our educa
al bystsm, regardless of the cost.
j-i aot - 8- D. Bradwell, state school com
-sioner, was the next speaker on the pro
gramme after CoL Barrett, but as he was
not in the hall President Waddell took up
the regular business of the convention.
IX FAVOB OF IMMIGRATION.
CoL Gorman of Talbot county offered the
following preamble and resolutions:
One of the great needs of Georgia is the loca
tion of actual settlers who will build up her
waste places and develop her resources by en
gaging in diversified agriculture and the culti
vation of the vine and various fruits for which
her soil and climate are pre-eminently adapted.
Believing that this cannot be successfully ac
complished without some actioa on the part of
our state authorities, therefore,
Hetolvtd, That the president of this conven
tion appoint one from each congressional dis
trict, making a committee of ten, who shall pre
pare an address to the legislature, setting forth
the importance of immigration; also, the action
of this convention, and urge the passage of a
bill establishing a bureau of immigration at the
capital, and making such appropriations as will
make the bureau effective tor the purpose con
templated and give effect to such otaer meas
ures as will aid in promoting immigration to
this state.
2. The chairman of this committee shall have
authority to order a meeting of the committee
waen it becomes necessary.
8. That this society bear the expenses of the
committee.
THE NECESSITY OF IMMIGRATION.
Col. Gorman said that resolutions had
been offered at divers times at various con
ventions in Georgia on this subject, but no
definite action had been taken heretofore,
because the necessity of immigration had
never been felt until now. He considered
nothing more important to the farmers of
Georgia or the prosperity of the state than
immigration.
Col. Barrett said he was in favor of the
resolution with the exception of the last
paragraph, providing for the society’s pay
ing the expenses of the legislative commit
tee. He was in favor of letting the com
mittee pay Its own expenses.
Col. Gorman hardly thought the conven
tion would be able to find men patriotic
enough to lose time to go before the legis
lature and pay their own expenses.
Col. Barrett replied that he and others
had been patriotic enough to serve on
similar committees and pay their own ex
penses.
CoL Gorman then withdrew the third
paragraph of his resolutions, after which
Col. T. J. Lyons of Cartersville moved to
lay the whole matter on the table, as it was
superfluous, the resolutions offered by Mr.
Barry and adopted Wednesday night cover
ing the issue. Before the question to lay on
the table was put Col. Gorman withdrew
the resolutions, and President Waddell ap
pointed the following oommittee, in oon
tormity with the Barry resolutions, which
will memorialize the legislature on the sub
ject of immigration:
O. A. Barry, W. B. Burroughs, W. L.
Glessner, A. H. Cox, B. D. Lurasden, Pearce
Horne, P. M. Hughes, J. H. Nichols and W.
P. Flint.
COMMISSIONER BRADWELL’S ADDRESS.
Capt. Bradwell having arrived during
the discussion of the Gorman resolutions,
was cslled on for his address on “Our Pub
lic Schools. Capt. Bradwell spoke in sub
stance as follows:
Mr President and Gentlxmsn of the Con
vention—l congratulate myself on securing the
opportunity to speak to-day in the oldest oity
in Georgia, and a city of which every one ot us
is proud; a oity whose hospitality you have all
had ample opp ortunity to test, and a city re
nowned all over this country fer its system of
public schools. I congratulate myself also on
speaking before an audience of farmers, who
above all others feel the necessity of proper ed
ucation. I feel at home in speaking to you, for
I know lam in the house of my friends, friends
who have honored me In the past far beyond
my deserts.
I have not had an opportunity of preparing a
siieech filled with rhetorical flowers, and will
simply try to use the straws of a broom, as it
were, to sweep away the cobwebs that hang
upon our school systsm. My theme will be
•'More Schools and Better Ones."
GEORGIA BEHIND IN EDUCATION.
Georgia is a state of wonderful resources. She
has been moving forward steadily in manufact
ures, wealth, property and prosperity gener
ally. but she is sadly behind in the matter moat
important—education. 1 am proud of being a
Georgian, and if I thought there was a man
present who was ashamed of being a native
of Georgia I would be the first
to move a resolution to have him removed from
the hall. Bdt while I am proud of being a
Georgian, I say with shame und with my head
hanging down that this state stands fourth in
the column of illiteracy, almost at the top. Nor
is the illiteracy confined to the colored race.
The white people are very sadly deficient Id
this respect as well.
A GLARING WANT.
There is a glaring waut which is spread on a
banner which floats all over the state, from the
Tennessee lino to the Florida line, and that is
“More schools." In the country our boys and
girls are wandering through the fields
and woods Instead of attending school. In the
cities we find almost the same condition of
affaire, where the Arabs wander through the
streets never knowing the good of a school.
Look at the thousands of men who go to the
polls in this state who cannot read their bal
lots. This is a most serious question which
confronts us, aud demands immediate attention.
Our country is one of universal suffrage, and it
should likewise be one of universal education.
I believe tbs time is coming and is not far dis
tant when the right of suffrage in this state will
be dependent upon the voter being able to read
intelligently the constitution of Georgia. It
will be the beet thing for education that has
ever been done, and the people will then pay
more attention to schooling in order not to ba
deprived of the right to vote.
A GREAT WORK BEFORE THE STATE.
Eduoation of the people is a work in which
the state must employ all Its energies—a work
which must go hand in hand with the develop
ment of the country. Don’t be blinded with
prejudice in the matter because an infe
rior race will get a benefit from the school
fund. Look at tbe statistics. Out of 600,000
children in Georgia between 6 and 18 years of
age not 240,000 attend school,
Many people have a prejudice against educa
tion on the ground that it unfits the iarmer boy
for the necessary duties connected with farm
life. Get that idea out of your heads, any of
you who may have it. I will never admit that
development of the brain unfits a man for man
ual labor. Where such conditions exist it is not
the result of education, but the result of his
surroundings. Where you find a man
above honest toil, no matter whether he
may be able to reach into the beaveits and
find from where cyclones originate, or go
down in the bowels of the earth and grasp
its secrets. I say he is not an educated man.
Education does hot simply mean the gathering
up of facts, but the development of the moral
nature as well.
six months’ school demanded.
Another cry is that the farmer oan’t spare his
boys from tbe farm. I don’t believe there is a
farmer in Georgia who cannot arrange to spare
his boys to attend school for six months out ol
the year. It is your duty, and you must do it.
Demand of your representatives in the legislat
ure that the state of Georgia furnish abso
lutely free education six moi ths out of every
year. When such a condition results my high
est ambition will lie reached.
It is the fault of of the state that we have
not better teachers. Only in one instance, the
founding ot the Girls’ Normal and Industrial
School, which, I am proud to say, I had the
pleasure of voting for, has Georgia
made the slightest attempt to provide the
schools with proper teachers. Better schools
insure more schools, good pay insures good
teachers and good teachers insure good school
ing. Meet the state half way on this question.
Help pay teachers if necessary. Don’t grumble
about a little extra taxation. You willingly
pay other taxes that do not give you hair as
much benefit.
The available fund of public schools this year
is $1,125,000, which I calculate will kefqi the
schools in operation for five months. This is
not .sufficient, however. We want $1,500,060,
and then we can have our schools open six
months every year. Chatham county furnishes
the largest proportion to the school fund, $1 an
acre being turned in from its oyster beds.
don’t neglect the girls.
There is not a class of people on earth which
has a brighter future before them than tbe
farmers’ children, if they get an education. But
if any of your children's education must be
neglected, let it be the boys’. For God's sake
don’t neglect your girls in this respect. It is
their only support in the battle of life. Let the
boys depend on their muscle, but don’t turn
your daughters out on the world without the
necessary means of reaching their proper plane
in society. Lack of tbe refining influence of
education often causes woman to fall into a pit
from which there is no redemption and from
which th® longest rope in the world cannot pull
her forth.
An incident occurred to me many years ago
which has left an indelible impression on my
mind. It was a letter from a girl whose father
I well knew, aod whom I Raw fall on the higbis
of 'Cbickatuauga battling for his country’s
rights. Tnat letter was the most pathetic ap
peal I ever read, asking me to give a “pore"
girl a chance to be educated ao she might help
her little brothers and sisters. That chance, I
thank God, was given her, and to-day she i a
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1891.
cultivated and refined matron, giving many lit
tle oars a like chance
My friends, we have as governor of Georgia a
farmer teac.-er, who is anxious to give the bors
and girls of his state a chanc i I bid him god
speed In his efforts and ass you to lend lira y v ’
aid.
COU MDSES ON IMMIGRATION.
CoL Moaes of Coweta, congressman-elect
from the Fourth district, followed Com
missioner Bradwell. He took a radical stand
on the immigration question, which he con
sidered a part the educational question. “God
forbid” he said, “that the lands of Georgia
should be sold to northern ar.d western
speculators. Leave the immigration ques
tion to the young men of Georgia, and
they will se’tle it.” Col. Moses wants
Georgians and nobody else to ocoapy Geor
gia-
Following the immigration question he ad
dressed himself to the educational question.
With all respe-t to the commissioner of ed
ucation, Col. Moses charged his department
with the illiteracy of Georgia’s children.
The present public school system he de
nounced as a stench in the nostrils ot the
people. Teachers are put < in charge of
tha schools of Georgia, he said, who are not
fit to be there. And why are they there?
Because competent teachers will not do the
work for the pay they receive. The state
does not pay its teachers. Wuen we pay
our stable and farm hands more
than we do our public school
(teachers we can expect nothing else. We
are paving more for the care of our horses
and cattle than we are for the instruction
of our children.
AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER.
Col. Moses was interrupted by an old
farmer named Mcßae, from Telfair county,
who was very anxious to second all that
gentleman had 6aid. President Waddell
had considerable difficulty In bringing him
to order. At soon as Ool." Moset concluded
his remarks the member from Telfair took
the floor and started off in a long har
angue, whioh was entirely an apology for
his addressing the convention. He wanted
bis auditors to understand particularly that
he was aa uneducated wiregrass cracker.
CoL Carmichael, a 75-year-old delegate,
made a point of order, and, on being re
quested to state his point,caused uproarious
laughter by stating that the point was
that no one in the house under
stood what tbe gentleman was in
favor of. President Waddell ruled Col.
Carmichael's poiut not well taken. Then
the apologetic orator made a wordy attack
on CoL Carmichael and was finally ordered
to take bis seat by the president. From that
until the close of the meeting he insisted ou
making a speech on everything brought up,
much to the annoyance of every one present,
and had to be repeatedly ordered to take his
seat by the president.
COL. MOSES REPLIED TO.
H. H. Colquitt of Fulton replied to Col.
Moses on tbe immigration question. “Wo
don’t want any people from Castle Garden,
who are ignorant of our laws and our
oountry," he said; “but we do want intelli
gent people from the north and from the
east aud from the west. We need
intelligent, educated people from
anywhere. The position that we do
not want intelligent immigration from
the north aud west is in the way of the
progress of Georgia. Let tho people come
from New England, from the middle states
and from the west, and develop our lands
and the public school question will settle
itself. The price of laud will be increased
and we will have schools ot every cross
road.”
Dr. Burroughs of Camden heartily
indorsed the immigration movement.
PROF. WHITE’S ADDRESS.
Prof. H. C. White was called on, and
said that his name had been put on the pro
gramme without his knowledge and he had
been notified by the secretary after the act
had been committed. Still he could not res
fuse the society any time it called upon for
a speech, as it bad many times listened to
bis long addresses. He said the only theme
on which he could speak at a moment’s
notice was the subject of education, and he
thought the members had heard enough for
the morning on that subject.
Dr. White said he oould not forbear in
dorsing everything that had already been
said. He was in favor of more schools, and
better schools. Monev was the necessary
object in education, and he did not think
there would be aiy trouble about securing
it when the people were shown the necessity
of education. He urged the farmers to go
borne and create a demand in their differ
ent communities for good schools, and the
legislature would soon find means to raise
the required funds.
THE WORLD’S FAIR.
Gov. Noroben asked permission to present
an important matter to the conventions
which was granted,and had the secretary
read a letter from 001. Charlton H. Wav,
one of the commissioners of the world’s fair
from Georgia, requesting :the agricultural
society to take steps to have Georgia rep
resented properly at the exposition.
Gov. Northen said he had notified Col.
Way that the general assembly had no
power to appropriate money for” this pur
pose, and he thought the farmers were the
proper people to take the initiative in tbe
matter, and since the threatened obnoxious
federal legislation would hardly become a
law he would like to see Georgia represented
in a becoming manner; far better than ’she
had been at the New Orleans exposition.
The governor then moved that a oommittee
of two be appointed from each congres
sional district to aid Col. Way and Gen.
McLaws, Georgia’s commissioners, in get
ting up a proper exhibit The motion was
unanimously adopted.
A MONUMENT FOR LEWIS.
Gov. Northen said there was another
question which he would like to have the
convention take action on, and that was to
aid in the erection of a suitable monument
to David W. Lewis, once a secretary of the
agricultural society, and who had passed to
the world where God’s people go. He said
that a oommittee was endeavoring to erect
a monument to the memory of the great
and good man, and he would like to give
the members of the society an opportunity
to contribute to the worthy object. He
made a motion, which was adopted, that a
committee of two be appointed from each
congressional district for” this purpose, and
to aid the other committee iu its efforts.
INVITED TO TYBEE.
Col. Warren entered the hall shortly be
fore 12 o’clock and extended au invitation
to the members of the society and their
ladies to meet the committees at the Savan
nah and Atlantic railway depot at 2 o’clock,
to proceed to Tybee to partake of the enter
tainments prepared for them. The invita
tion was received with much applause.
Prof. J. W. Glenn offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted-
Resolved, That the director of the experi
mental station, or ihe proper authorities, be
requested to conduct experiments to determine,
a- speedily as possible, the best available
methods:
I. To prevent washing of soils.
2 To restore exhausted soils in various locali
ties in Georgia.
8. To prevent cotton shedding its fruit.
4. To reduce the ravages of blight, etc.,
among our crops and fruits.
J. McC. Bryan of Oglethorpe county
offered the following resolutions, which
were adopted by acclamation:
Resolved, That the heartfelt thanks of this
convention are due and he ebv given to the
citizens of this grand old city of havannah for
their great kindness and hospitality tendered
the members of this society during their
sojourn in its midst.
Resolved, Also, that our most earnest thanks
are due and most graciously given to the sev
eral railroads in the state for their great courte
sies in extending free tickets to and from tne
places of our meetings.
ATHENS THE NEXT PLACE OF MEETING.
The selection of a plaoe for bolding the
summer convention being next in order,
nominations were called for.
Col. Bovd nominated Griffin.
T. M. Hughes, on behalf of the citizens of
Clarke county, asked the society to meet in
Athens.
Col. Livingston, on behalf of Mrs. Under
wood , the only lady delegate, placed At
lanta in the field, and asked the convention
to consider it favorably, coming, as it did,
from a lady.
CoL Lyons of Cartersville seconded
Athens in a brief speech, saying that it bad
always been tbe object ot the society to
get as far north as passible with its sum
mer session.
Secretary Jemisoa then rend letters from
the mayor and aide men and Farmers’ club
of Athens, inviting the society to meet ,
there in August, aud promising it a hearty
welcome. CoL Boyd withdrew Griffin in
favi r of Athens, and, a motion being made
to hold the noxt session in that city. Presi
dent Waddell put tbe question, and it was
adopted without a dissenting vote. Atlanta
was not noticed after being put in nomina
tion. and it was evident that the agricultur
ists did not want to go there.
THE STATE FAIR.
Secretary Jemisoa submitted his report
upon the state fair, touching upon the dif
ferences bet ween th* society and the city of
Macon, and showing tbe sections of the
state from which exhibits were made. la
reference to the differences betweeu the city
of Macon and the society Mr. Jemison said:
“The charge has been intimated, if not
directly male, that the city of Macon, os a
ojrporatlon and a community, bat been lax
in its duty to the city, and the counter
charge has been made that tha fairs and the
affairs of the society Uavo no: been run on
business principles. I shall pass both
the charge and counter-charge without
comment, further than to say that the city
might have doLe better by us, and that our
business methods have been of suob a nature
as to enable us to keep our heads above
water and give us a nest egg to show for
our works.”
In the list of exhibits and exhibitors at
the last state fair and at preceding fairs
Secretary Jemison referred to the fact that
the representation from tha various parts
of the state ha* not beeu such as
the secretary has a right to expect.
The First congressional district, composed
of Appling, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden,
Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Echols, Effing
ham, Emanuel, Glynn, Liberty, Mclntosh,
Pierce, Scriven, Tattnall. Ware and Wavne
counties, the secretary did not recollect had
a single exhibit, except oue from Liberty
county. Tho Second district, corn nosed of
Baker. Berrien, Brooks, Cilhoun, Clay,
Colquitt, Decatur, Dough wty, Early,
Lowndes, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Ran
dolph, Terrell, Thomas and w ortb, had no
exhibit outside of Worth.
Tbe Third district, comprssd of Coffee,
Dodge, Dooly, Houston, Irwin, Laurens,
Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Pulaski, Schley,
Sumter, Stewart, Teliair, Webster and
Wilcox, was better represented. Half tbe
counties had exhibits of one kind or another.
The most noticeable exhibits were from
“Cycloneta," the model farm of tho Geor
gia Southern and Florida railroad, and the
county exhibit of Sumter county.
The Fourth district, composed of Carroll,
Chattahoochee, Coweta, Harris, Heard,
Marion, Meriwether, Muse igee, Talbot,
Taylor and Troup, had a single exhibit, ex
cept from Talbot county, and that was a
cucumber from Carroll county, which was
entered as a melon.
Tho Fifth district, composed of Clayton,
DeKalb, Douglass, Fayette, Fulton, Henry,
Newton, Rockdale, Spalding and Walton,
had but one exhibit,and that was live stock
from Spalding county
In the Sixth district, composed of Bald win,
Bibb, Butts, Crawford, Jasper, Jones.
Monroe, Pike, Twiggs, Upson and Wilkin
son, every county in the district except
Crawford was represented.
The Seventh district, composed of liar
tow, Chattooga, Cobb, Dade, Floyd,
Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding,
ing, Polk, Walker and Whitfield, was not
represented at all.
The Eighth district, composed of Clarke,
Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Hanoook, Hart,
Madison, Morgan, Ooonee, Oglethorpe, Put
nam and Wilkes counties, made au excellent
exhibit.
The Ninth district, composed of Banks,
Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gil
mer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Jackson,
Lumpkin, Milton, Pickens, Rabun, Towns,
Union and White, had np exhibit.
Tha Tenth district, comprising Burke,
Glasscock, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln, Mc-
Duffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren and
Washington, bad only one exhibit, and that
of livestock from Burke oounty.
The secretary urged that the executive
oommittee from each district have at least
one county exhibit at the next fair. “With
One county exhibit and two lndvidual farm
oxhibits from each district at the next fair,”
Secretary Jemison said in closing bis re
port, “the grandest collection of agri
cultural produce ever seen in the south will
be gathered together."
Col. Waddell urged on the convention the
necessity of taking a most active part in
the state fairs. Ho asked that every
member give his best efforts to make tho
fairs successes, aud the officers would try
and get the railroads to oontinue their
courtesies.
THE SOCIETY’S FINANCES.
The finance committee submitted its re
port, showing the financial condition of the
society. The reoeipts from all sources dur
ing the year were approximately SIO,OOO.
The amount on hand ut the beginning of
last year was SII,OOO, making tho total
amount collected by the treasurer $27,009.
The expenses duriug the year were SIO,OOO.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad owes the society S7OO.
Tbe committee addod to its report this
appeal: “In view of the great effort re
quired on tbe part of the officers of the
society to prevent lots and to maintain the
funds on hand, and as our only revenue is
obtained through the state fair, it behooves
every mem' er of the society to lend his aid
in sustaining the annual fair and to con
tribute to its financial suocess.”
INVITATIONS ACCEPTED.
The board of managers of the Savannah
Volunteer Guards Club extended to tha
society the privilege* of the club room for
ono week. It was accepted, and the society
ordered to return the thanks of the conven
tion to tho Guards.
The president of the Georgia Hlstroical
Society invited the convention to attend
the address of Col. C. C. Jones to-night on
the ten signers of the declaration of inde
pendence at Hodgson hall. The invitation
was accepted.
This about completed tho work of the
convention. The members for an hour had
been anxious to adjourn, and at 12 o’clock
au adjournment was taken until tha sum
mer meeting iu Athens.
the world’s fair committee.
President Waddell announced last night
the appointment of the following commit
tees in accordance with resolutions passed
in the convention:
Committee on Columbian Exposition:
L. F. Livingston, chairman.
First Dissrict—J. C. Deii.
Second District—R. I. Denmark.
Third District—W. L. Glessner.
Fourth District— W. 1L Cary.
Sixth District—Edward Taylor.
Seventh District—Pearce Horne.
Eighth District—J. T. DeJaruette.
Ninth District—G. H. Jones.
Tenth District—James Barrett.
Committee on Monument to Hon. David
W. Lewis:
Gov. W. J. Northen, chairman.
First District—3. D. BradwelL ,
Second District—-A. J. Moody.
Third Diitrict—J. C. Clemente.
Fourth Distriot—G. W. Thomas.
Fifth District--W. G. Whidby.
Sixth District—M. J. Hatcher.
Seventh District—T. J. Lyon.
Eighth District—J. B. Ebarhart.
Ninth District —J. W. Glenn.
Tenth District—M. I. Branch.
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B. H. Levy ffc bro.'i Clothing Es
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A Kick Against Street Hucksters.
Bavax* ah, Ga., Kb. 11— Editor Morn
ing Stmt: While hit honor Major Me*.
Donough is doing so much good for the
quiet and law-abiding citizens of Savannah
why not call his attention to the many
“street hucksters" who swarm in from
Thunderbolt and other small places around
the city at daybreak and sometimes much
earlier, crying “Oysters, flsb, crabs buy
ers,” or whatever may be in season! It is
certainly a shame to have these mD,
women and children disturb the peaceful
sleepers at that time In the morn log. Tne
citizens living iu the southeastern part of
the city suffer much more from this nuisance
than those living m other parts, as this is
the first section they strike when they enter
town. If his honor wilt put a stop to this
nuisance he will please mauy citizens.
j. m. n.
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IRON AND LEAD AND OTHER PIPES AND
COOKS.
A full line of Valves and Fittings, from % to
S inches. Everything necessary to fit up Steam,
Hydraulic and Wind-mill power.
Civil and Steam Engineers will And it to their
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BATH TUBS,
WATER CLOSETS and
WASH BASINS.
CHANDELIERS. GLASS GLOBES,
And other articles appertaining to a first class,
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MACHINERY.
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AGENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
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Ail orders promptly attended to. Send for
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INSURANCE.
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(Successor to 11. H. Footkan A Oo.,)
FIRE, MARINE AND STORM INSURANCE,
106 BAY STREET,
fNext West of the Cotton Exchanged
Telephone Call No. 34. Savannah. Ga,
KIESLING’S “NURSERY;
WHITE: BLUFF ROAD.
T>LANTS, Bouquets, Designs, Cut Flowers
J furnished to order. Leave orders at DAVIS
BROS.’, cor. BuU and York U. The Belt Rail
way passed through the nursery. Telephone 240.
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
ONE CENTA WORD.
Jt PPE E T r*EM E.VT3, IS Wor<U or
m ore, wi thit oolunws inserted for OS*
CANT A WOHD. Oath sn Adnamot, too*
kiwrfiOA
Moerybodf v\n %as any mane to tmpptt.
xj-tAGvy to bwy or mil. owy bsismsn or
aaeommodat tone to Mrarw indeed, any wm\
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CALKNDAR.
FEBRUARY
FRIDAY
If it don’t happen to be good for my work to
day, it's good for som. other man's, and will
corns around to me to-morrow.—Dickens.
SMOKE
km Corlsz Cigars
TO-DAY".
PERSONAL.
(X O TO headquarters for fine Photographs;
X cheapest and best; finest accessories in
Savannah. For thirty days I will give sway
one extra In iarge gilt fra ire with oaoh dozen
cabinet*. Business established June 4, 1805. J.
N. WILSON, 21 Bull street.
nONT fall to got a copy of Sunday’s Issue of
the Mokmin o Nwg. For sale at BISHOP’S
DRUG STORK, corner Hall and Prieo streets.
| rvC for replacing pin in brooches; all other
I V repairing at reasonable prices. FELLA.a,
Itt Broughton.
MTU FREE and Saturdays’ Out Prices in
special notices. Remember it. New Pict
ure Card. HEIDI' S, to-morrow.
/ 1 O to the FOREST ('ITT PHOTOGRAPHIC
l I ROOMS for fine Cabinet Photographs; $2
jier dozen,
READ the Bunday Motunwo Nsws. For sale
at KIEFFKH'S I)RUU STORE, West
Broad and Stewart streets.
j J AVE you tried the F. W. Cook Brewing
Company’s
BOCK BEER
on draught to day at all saloons?
lAC POUND To-morrow. Saturdays’ Cut
IV* Prices, look for it in special notices. Free
New Card. Sugar Plums 10 conts at HitlDT’d.
IT is false economy to buy cheap goods when
you can get the genuine for a slight addi
tional cost. M. LATIN’S ESTATE. __
DO you not know that our lung experience.
valuable agencies and minimum cost of
transacting business give us surterlor advantages
for handling goods. M. LAVIN’S ESTATE.
READ the Sunday Mohmj.no News. For sale
at KIKFFKRB DRUG BTOUE. West
Broad and Stewart streets
IF you are is need of money and
want a Ilboral loan, for any length of
time, at lowest rate of Interest, on Diamonds.
Watches, Jewelry, Clothing, *to., and if you
want your valuables returuedlu the same con
dition ns left, patronize home enterprise and
.call at the Old Reliable Havannab Licensed
Pawnbroker House, 1?9 Congress street, E,
MUHLBEKO, Manager.
GIVEN AWAY, one handsome almost life
size picture with each dozen Cabinet Photo
graphs. Call and see samples. LAUNEY A
GOEBEL, Savannah. Gs.
IIF.LI* WANTED.
WANTED— A good cook. Apply at 109 Jones
street.
Ditcher wanted in wnghtsviiie, Go.
Apply to J. W. BRINKON.
N’URSE WANTED—AppIy Friday or Satur
day morning between 9 and 11 o’cleck.
178 Bolton street
WANTED, position to travel by a man ac
quainted with Savannah territory; good
references. Addroes J., oare Morning Nows.
\\7ANTED, boy 14 to 10 years old, to work
tv around the house; white preferred. Apply
187 Broughton street, 9 a. m.
WANTED, a good tailor by H. J. TIBCHLKK.
101 Liberty street. Good pay to a good
worker.
WANTED, one competent cook and one
house servant? must come well recom
monded and be thorough; good wages paid.
Apply at 163 Liberty street.
’ll T ANTED. —We make a liberal offer to travel-
V T lug and local salesmen in every statu who
call on retail grocers. GLUTEN ENTIRE
WHEAT FLOUR 00., 133 IjtKo street, Chicago.
WANTED, a competent porter fora first
class saloon, one who understands the
business; none other need apply. Call 8 o’clock
sharp at Custom House Shades Wins Room.
JOSEPH A. GALINA.
WANTED, secretaries and organizers by an
asseksment order, paying 3100 in six
months at an estimated cost of $44; reputable
rnen and women can secure liberal compensa
tion. Address M. McINTYRE, Supreme Mana
ger, No. lOStCArch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
KMPLUIMKNT WANTED.
YOUNG married woman (German) wants
work in a private family. Address F., care
Morning News :
WANTED by respectable white woman, po
sition as cook; no objection to some light
washing. Call at 210 Broughton street, up
blairs.
WANTED, to buy one second-hand show
case and two pairs counter scales. Call
at Marshal House, room 88, at 2 o’clock.
BOOKKEEPER, office assistant and corre
spondent open for engagement; English,
French or German. D. M. 24, Morning News.
DRUG CLERK (licensed) wants position, Al
references. Address A. L. FORD,
Charleston, 8. C.
WANTED, by a young man of some ex
perience, a position that will make him
a livelihood, bookkeeping preferred, can give ref
erences. Address J. 8 . Morning News.
ROOMS WANTED. "
A YOUNG MAN of quiet habits wishes to
rent a comfortable room, partly or whollly
Address PULASKI, News office.
WANTED, flat of three or four rooms by
gentleman and wife. Address L., this
office.
MISCKLLAMKOU* WANTS.
V \T ANTED, Chatham Bank stock. Reply,
v v stating price aased. to P. O. box 160.
Y\, r ANTED, every housekeeper to try CRAIG'S
vv Breed and Rolls; unequaled In quality;
delivered by wagon. 43 East Broad street.
THERE Is everything to interest you in the
Suoday Morkiku Nbws. For sale at
YONGE’S DRUG BTOUE, Whitaker and Duffy
street*.
\\T ANTED, the public to give our standard
V V brands of *2.it. Jl, %i> and 85 60 Rye Whis
kies. and other liquors a fair trial, to be con
vinced of tbelrsuperiority.M.LAVlN’S ESTATE.
ko6 rent! *
ROOMS TO RENT, with or without board,
furnished or unfurnished, suitable for per
sons In moderate circumstances. Apply at
Absrcoru street.
FORK jbnt-misckllankoui." ‘
F)R RENT, warehouse oo Hirer street, for
merly occupied by Arwsnin 100 Company.
Apply to F. a. BELL* Business office* Morning
New*.
HOUSES AND STORES TOR RENT
IX) R RENT, a house at Montgomery on the*
1 silts. Apply 13 Perry street.
1501 RENT, one brick home. No. <O7 Congress
I street; possession given at once. THOMAS
A fO LLIARD.
IjVR RENT, two new homes on New Houston
’ street, between West Broad and Montgom
ery strests. THOMAS A FOLUABD.
JT'OR RENT, in good locality, large house,
r modnm improvements. Apply A 8.
COHEN, 18&K Broughton street.
r>OR RENT—Two houses, Just finished, with
U all modern improvements. Henry, 3d east
of Aliercorn street. Appiy to CLARK 4 DAN
IELS. Congress, 2d east of Barnard street.
IXJR RENT OH LEASE, the Whitfield build
ing; it is a handsome new edifice, eligibly
located, strongly constructed and well adapted
to any class of business; possession given imme
diately. Apply o JOHN SULLIVAN, Treas
urer IT nlon Society.
FOR SALS.
UORSKg. mules, mares, best incur; carriage,
draught, business, big and medium mutes.
Nloe drags, buggies, and saddle horses in livery.
GCILMARTIN A MKHRTENS, Uoardlug, Bales
Livery Stables. Telephone 251.
TNOR SALE, fine building lots in Roberts villa.
U on Installment plan. ROBERT H. TATEM,
Bull street.
[jV)R BALE, desirable building lot at Poolers
1 near station. Apply JAB HARKNEB*.
West Broad, three southeast Duffy.
TEXAB BLUE GRASS Only perfect ever
green lawn grass south. For prices and
particulars address 11. P JONES, Herndon, Ga,
5 CENTS gets the Sunday issue of the Moan
rwu Nbwh. Bs sure and mad R. For sale
at MULLRYNK'S DRUG STORK West Broad
and Wald burg streets.
(X3R SALE, the finest Imported Wines, Whle.
kies, Cordials, etc., at lowest prices con
sistent with quality. M. LAVIN'B ESTATE.
1 AC. pound Sugar Plums, to close them out,
1 If so supply yourself; HEIDT’S selling Cream
Peppermints at 25c.
DON’T fall to get a copy of Sunday's issue ol
the Mormihq Nsws. For side st BISHOP'S
DRUG STORE. turner Hall and Price streets.
ALMONT LIVERY STABLES. htylisk
Horses. Buggies and Carriages. All orders
promptly attended to. Special attention given
to boarding horses. Telephone 303. J. C. DE
MARTIN, Manager.
£■soll BALE CHEAP, the best stand In the
I’ city for a live mat; barroom with restau
rant attached. Apply CHARLES MARTIN,
Bay and Jefferson.
FX>lt HALE, Imported Martell Brandy, St.
Croix nod Jamaica Rum. Holland Gins, all
kinds of Cordials. Champagnes, Ssuterne, Clar
ets, Burgundies, etc. M. LAVIN’B ESTATE.
15OR SALE, line evergreen shrubbery and
r ornamental trees, flowers, etc., at Con
cordia park; raised at the place and healthier
Slants than any from tbe north; suitable fog
ower gardens, lawns and cemeteries. CHAR.
SEI LER.
JSOR HALE, the purest and t est California
Wines and Brandies. We ship direct from
first hands and sell accordingly. M. LAVIN’S
ESTATE Telephone 64.
.jjujjE ■■. i. 1 j-i uj—
HO AH IHNG.
ISIRST-CL ASS table hoard can be procured at
' 101 President street. __________
ITHRST-CLASS BOARD can ho had at 13 Ha
bersham street, with or without rooms.
LUST.
10ST, on Aberoora, between New Houston
J and Gordon streets, a ring. Reward if
left at No. 78 New Houston.
ICBT, on Bull, between South Broad and
J Jones, pair gold-rim eyeglasses. Reward
if returned to BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
MISCELLANEOUS.
epO DAY, Oyster soup and baked Red Snap
-1 per for lunch, at CAP’S, 101 Bay.
Sav Inn an intelligence office, no.
30 Jefferson street; servant nan lie obtained
at short notice. P. H. BRACE WELL 4 CO.
nOUSES RENTED and rente collected.
ROUT. D. TATEM. Real Estate Dealer
and Auctioneer, Bull street, opposite Pulaski
House.
5 CENTS gets the Sunday ssue'of the Moaie
wo Nsws. Be sure and n-ad If. For sale
at MULLRYNK’S DRUG STORE. West Broad
and Waidburgjitreet*.
CJLXTY CENTS a dozen for Hyacinth Bulbs,
O very cheap, at GARDNER’S, 30)4 BuU
street.
I) EFORE you tmy or sen property consul!
J ROBERT H. TATEM, Real Estate Dealer
and Auctioneer.
WE HAVE the sole agency forScbuylkiH
Malt Whisky. Its superiority gained 18
a national reputation. M. LAVIN’S ESTATES
riMLE SUNDAY HORNINQ NEWS la on sale
1 at JOHNSON’S DRUG STORE, New Hous
ton and Drayton.
I NHURANCE, protect your property against
1 fire, storms and cyclones. See advertise
merit JOHN N. JOHNSON S. 00.
WANTED, painters and builders to examine
my stock and prices of Wall Paper, White
leads, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, etc. ANDREW
HANLEY.
rpiIEHK is everything to Interest you in the
1 Sunday Mobfjno Nkwh. For sale a!
YONUE’S DRUG STORE, Whitaker and Duffy
streets.
WANTED, contractors to get special prices
on White Pine Doors, Sasb, Blinds. Mould
ing*. Lime, Plaster, Hair, Cement, Sewer Pipe,
and Buildere’ Hardware, from ANDREW HAN*
LEY.
I GROCER IKS. ~~~
Specialties
1 AT
tal & KoHli's
J THIS 'whjhjk,
NO. 144 CONGRESS STREET.
FANCY GOODS:
California Fruits.
Keeler’s Calves’ Feet Jellies.
Campbell’eand Curtice’s Preserves and Jeb
lies.
Wiesbaden Preserves.
Dundee Marmalades and Jams.
Asparagus Tips.
Windham Coro.
Windham Succotash.
Early June Peas.
Extrs Sifted Peas.
French Peas.
German String Beans.
Brussel Sprouts.
Pinard’s Mushrooms.
Pinsrd's Peas.
Olives in Bulk and Glass.
Crackers —Holmes & Coutts'.
Afternoon Teas.
Glen Coves.
Oswegoes.
Butter Wafers.
Cnocolate and French Jumbles.
Jelly Blocks.
Graham and Oaten Flaks,
Imperial Wafers.
Cream Crackuells.
Zwieback.
Water Thin and Alberts.
Rex Wafer, new.
Ceraaline, Vanilla and Lemon Wafers.
Also, on hand at all times, a full line of Im
ported Wafers and Wurnberg I-eblruchen. Do
not forget, if you wish Van Houten’s Coooa, wa
can always supply you.
OBAIN AND PROVISIONS.
M East Proof SeeJ Oafs
DIRECT FROM TEXAS.
SEED BYE, COTTON SEED MEAL;
Corn, Hay, Oats, Etc.
—SOLS AGENT POE—
ORSOR'S MANHATTAN FOOD.
T_ D-A.YTIS.
156 BAY STREET
3