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PUBLISHED EVEBY THURBDA
BELLTON, GA.
BY JOHN BLATS.
Tsaju—Bl.OO per man CO cent* for Biz
meats*; 25 cent* forthree months.
<*rtte* away from Belltea are requested
Io send their aame* with sash amounts of
mosey n they mm pare, freaa See. to Cl
SOUTHERN NEWS.
In Columbus county, N. C., it is pro
posed to cultivate jute for market.
On one ranch in Texas a thousand
lambs were killed by cold weather.
Malvern, Ark., has voted down the
granting of liquor licenses in that place.
The new code of Mississippi cost $12,-
->OO, u,OOO volumes at $2 50 per volume.
It is said that castor beans can l>ee
raised to perfection in Western Texas.
William H. Vanderbilt has given $lO,-
000 to the University of North Carolina.
It is said in Alabama that for seventy
five years good crops have succeeded
hard winters.
The places of a thousand or more ne
groes who have left the prairies of Ala
bama tor Mississippi have been easily
filled.
In Louisiana there are said to be 139
species of fibrous plants which can be
made amenable to the requirements of
commerce.
During six days of Christmas, $3,780
worth of whisky was sold, the Rev. R. N
Pratt says, in the town of Abbeville,
S. C.
An effort is reported at Prattville, Ala.,
to prohibit the sale of liquor within the
corporate limits, or raise the license to
$2,500.
From Jacksonville, Fla., the shipments
of lumber last year aggregated 41,719,255
feet, an increase of 7,740,317 over the
year previous.
The largest crop of sugar in Louisiana
this season is thought to be that made on
Bellevue plantation in St. Mary parish,
about 2,000,000 pounds.
Public schools in Tennessee in 1880
numbered 5,522, against 3,942 in 1875.
In 1880 the teachers employed numbered
5,954, against 4,210 in 1875.
In Alabama a law has been passed giv
ing blacksmiths and woodworkers a lien
on vehicles repaired by them until the
price is paid.
The black lands of Alabama are said
to be degenerating rapidly. The ridge
lands, of canbrake have washed away,
and the bottoms need draining badly.
The city of Galveston has contracted
for the sinking of an artesian well to the
depth of 2,500 feet or till water is reached
satisfactory in quality and quantity.
Olives and oil have been raised in
South Carolina. Fine samples have just
been furnished by .Mrs. Preston 8.
Brooks, of Edgefield. The trees were
planted in 1853.
Build cotton mills. Five million bales
of unmanufactured cotton is worth to
the South $225,000,000. Spun into yarn
this cotton is worth to the South $450,-
000,000.
Lee county, to lie named in honor of'
Gen. R. E. Lee, is proposed in North I
Carolina to be formed out of parts of
Johnston, Wake, Franklin and Nash
counties.
The liquor traffic is one of the ques
tions which the Legislature of North
Carolina will have to face. A prohibi
tory liquor law association has been
started at Raleigh.
The South Carolina law prohibits ab
solutely the sale of intoxicating liquors,
including malt liquors and wines, outside
of all incorporated cities, towns and vil
lages.
The remains of the father of lion.
Jefferson Davis are buried in Wilkes,
county, Ga. It is alleged that Mr. Davis
has written to a gentleman of Wilke*
county, offering a I iberal reward forthem.
One of the most serious drawbacks to
the prosperity of S<»uth Florida is said
to be the fact that so large a portion of
the supplies is imported from the North.
The remark might be extended to other
parts of the South.
Kennedy, the South Texas cattle King,
who recently sold out to an English com
pany, had one of the largest ranches in
the State, having 180,000 acres of land
under fence, *upon which he fed 50,000
head of cattle and 10,000 head of horses.
Nagotiations are in progress for the
purchase of land in Eastern North Caro
lina whereupon to settle a colony of
Swedes, who are expected to arrive at
New York early in the spring. A loca
tion near the Pamlico river in Beaufort
county.
Th • Agricultural Departm utof South
Carolina will probably send an agent to
Germany to induce immigration. There
is some talk of managing this agency in
connection with those of North Carolina
and Georgia, thereby securing greater
advantages with less outlay.
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
United States Commissioner Le Due
has arranged for leasing 200 acres of land
in Colleton county, S. C., about two
miles from Summerville, for the purpose
of establishing an experimental tea farm
under the management of the United
States Department of Agriculture. The
owner, H. A. Middleton, of Charleston,
grants a lease for twenty years for one
dollar. At the end of the lease all per
manent improvements will be his prop
rty.
By the new heme»tead act of South
Carolina, a homestead in 1 nds, whether
held in fee or any lesser estate, not to
exceed in value SI,OOO, with the yearly
products thereof, is exempt to the head
of every family residing in the State
from attachment, levy or sale, on any
mesne or final process issuing from any
court upon any judgment obtained upon
any right of action arising subsequent to
the ratification of the State constitution.
Also personal property to the extent of
SSOO is exempt to the head of any family
residingin the State.
Rats in India.
A captain in the army, holding an ap
pointment in the Bengal Staff Corps
was staying with his wife and young child
in the same station. The father—a right
brave man he was. who had been wound
ed not a great while before by some hill
savage—wanted to bring up his son to
be hardy and fearless, (like himself, I
should add) so the parents put their lit
tle one in a room to sleep by itself. But
they soon noticed scratches and strange
marks on the young child’s hands, which,
getting worse, made them call in a doc
tor. This gentleman’s advise was en
couraging; he said:
“If you don’t want your child to lose
his hands you had better keep him away
from the rats, for they have been biting
him. ”
Traveling at one time in an out-of
the-way district, I had put up for the
night at a “d’ak bungalow,” i. e., travel
ers’ rest house. I asked the native in
charge whether any sahibs hail been
there lately, and he said no, not for a
long time. Before lying down to rest, I
took off my riding boots and flung them
on one side. When I came to put them
on in the morning I found I should travel
with much less leather than I had the
previous day, for the rats had made a
complete wreck of the lipper parts of the
boots. I hadn't another pair with me or
I should certainly have worn them, for
my appearance was somewhat novel, as I
was wearing white trousers at the time,
and the holes in the boot uppers wore
painfully manifest in consequence.
An old painter in India, whose word I
readily believe, assured me that the zine
lining of some grain bins was eaten
through and mended, and eaten through
again several times by rats, and that the
performance was quite skillful, in that
the bins were built on brick pillars, and
great care was taken never to leave any
thing beneath for the rats to stand upon.
But nevertheless they managed repeat
edly in some way, and gnawed through
the wood and then through the zinc un
til the grain fell out.
I was living for a few mouths in an is
olated, swampy district, and, as a nat
ural sequence, the place being excessively
unhealthy, I was frequently attacked
by the constant companions of Indian
jungle life, fever and ague. The bu»-
galow was a very rough building, and
had been put up in a great hurry, and
every time the wind blew with any vio
lence I anticipated it coming down in a
space of time even less than that in which
it was put up. When laid up with fever,
and unable to read, I use to watch the
rats running about the beams and rafters
of the roof. Their performances would
have put Blondin altogether to shame.
I amused myself by waiting until the
rats got into difficult parts of the roof,
and then clapped my hands to startle
them. But endeavoring to cause them
to lose their balance. was utterly futile.
They always got out of sight in safety.
I sometimes had something eatable left
on the table, and then watched the ma
noeuvres of the rats to carry it away. I
was sorry afterward, because they got
impudent and courageous, and fre
quently stole things intended for my own
consumption.
Blue Monday.
A recognized institution in England is
“blue Monday,” the direct fruit of the 1
beer drinking which is there tolerated
and allowed. The working Englishman
is wedded to his beer. He feels that it
is the great comfort, and one of the very
few enjoyments of his life. And not
onlv is the chocolate room or any like
contrivance “ slow,” but there is about
it an implication that he is taken in
hand and managed by his betters, like a
child, which he not unnaturally resents.
Rightly' or wrongly, he feels more
ashamed at being treated in this way
than he does of being drunk once a
week—once, however, being here a word
of wide signification. For in these cases
“the same drunk” often extends from
Saturday night to Monday, and not in
frequently into Tuesday. Many first
class artisans, knowing their own pro
pensity, absolutely refuse to work for
any man more than four days a week.
The social effect of this habit on the
community may be imagined.
The editor wrote “An evening with
Saturn,” and it came out in the pajier
“An evening with Satan.” It was
mighty rough, but the foreman said it
was the work of the “devil.” Audit
looked that way.
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., JANUARY 20 1881.
SAD HISTORY OF THE ( ONFEDER
ATE GENERALS.
The Men Who Offered Up Their Li von
mid Property On the Altar ol T, eir
Country, nne How They Accepted the
Arbitranjeiit of the Hword and Abi*
ded by It.
What a strange, and in the main, what
a sad history is that of the generals who
led the confederate armies in the late
war. It is a story of poverty and depri
vation, lit up here and there by a gleam
of good luck—but of poverty borne man
fully, and of deprivation met with the
same courage that led these men to the
front of their legions.
The fate of the “rebel brigadier” at
the close of the war was enough to de
press the most bouyant among them.
They had put evorvthing on the turn of
the sword and had 'lost. Property, busi
ness and all had been sacrificed in the
arder of war, and they were left, in the
fierce light of fame, without any resource
—expected to support a certain dignity
and nothing to support it on. There was
no standing army into which they could 1
be retired with adequate salary. There
was no hope for them in the thousands 1
of lucrative offices that the republicans 1
distributed among the federal generals. ’
Their States were impoverished and were ;
unable to support civil establishments '
that would furnish offices out of which '
anything could be hoped for. Os course J
the privates of the confederate army
were deserving of all sympathy ; but it '
seems to me that the generals had some- (
what harder lines. At any rate lam '
sure that there is no old soldier that fol- 1
lowed the stars and bars that will not 1
read with interest a kindly inquiry into •
the history of these old leaders and their ’
families. I believe the annexed will be'
entirely accurate, certainly nearly so. ‘
I hardly know where to begin, but !
suppose we take the living Lees with ’
which to open the hurried review. W. H. 1
F. Lee, the oldest son of Robert E. Lee, !
is living at present in Fairfax county, 1
on a farm that belonged to the estate of '
bis aunt, Mrs. Fitzhugh. It is a fine '
place; the General is an attentive and '
successful farmer, and he gets a comfort- 1
able living out of it. Custis Lee, the i
next son, succeeded his father as I’resi- 1
dent of Washing-Lee University and 1
lives in Lexington. He is a bachelor,
and bis two sisters live with him. He
has fine expectations, Judge Hughes hav- I
ing decided that the Arlington estate, 1
now used as a federal cemetery, is his by
ri ht of law. The case has been appealed,
but the judgment will hardly he reversed
—and the place will be appraised and
payment made for it. Robert Lee lives
on the old Lee estate in Westmoreland
county, where he is moving along
smoothly, making enough to supply his
wants. General Fitzhugh Lee has a farm
on the Potomac, that belonged to his
aunt, Mrs. Fitzhugh, and it is said is
showing considerable enterprise, though •
not amassing money. He has a saw mill,
I think, in connection with his farm.
The House and the Senate have a good
many of our generals, and I think with 1
the execution of Generals Cockrell and
Vance, all of them find their salary very
important. General Vance was living
very easily, and added to his fortune bv
his late marriage. Senator Cockrell, j
who was a brave and dashing officer,
built up a lucrative practice in St. Louis
before lie came to the Senate, and is well
fixed. Besides these there are in the 1
Senate. Major-General Matt Ransom who 1
is struggling to clear his property of en- '
cumbranees that-he was forced to put '
upon it to make it productive Briga
dier-General John T. Morgan, of Ala
bama, who depended upon bis law prac
tice, which was larger in volume than in
income; Lieutenant-General Hampton,
of South Carolina, who is a comparative
ly poor man, though a large land owner;
Major-General Butler, his colleague, who
last all in the war and has not recovered
much ; Major-General Maxey, of Texas,
who by the way has an independent in
come from his practice, and owns a beau
tiful home in Paris, Texas.
In t c House there are many briga
diers, and a few heavier generals. Gen
eral Joe Johnson leads in rank, though
his service in the House has not been
brilliant. He has a fine insurance busi
ness, and his wife, a daughter of Judge
McLean, had considerable property. His
lx>ok has not paid him much I hear, be
ing published under a poor contract.
Alabama has done well by her generals,
having in the House —Major-General
W. 11. Forney, who has little beyond his
salary, and Brigadier-General C. M.
Shedley who is in about the same condil
tion. Georgia has Brigadier-General Phi-
Cook, who has a good law practice in
Americus, Ga., and who has had four
terms in the House. Brigadier-General
Dibrell, of Tennessee, is comfortably
fixed, and is re-elected to the House for
his third term—and Atkins and White
thorne, of the same State were generals
of State troops. Virginia has Brigadier-
General Beale, who is doing well outside
of Congress, and General Eppa Hunton,
who retires at the close of the present
Congress, perfectly able to take care of
himself. North Carolina has General
Robert Vance in the House, to balance
General Zeb in the Senate. Louisiana
has General Randall Gibson, who has
beemelected to the next House, and to
the Senate also. He is a rich man, hav
ing had means of his own, and his wife
having had some property. General
Chalmers is Representative of the fam us
shoe-string district of Mississippi, and is
moderately well off. This finishes up the
list of “rebel” generals in the House and
Senate, I think, without omission.
There are a number of confederate
generalsin the departmen Is and in various
service in Washington. First in the im
portance of his work is General Marcus
.1. Wright, who has charge of the Con-
■ federate records, and who was looking
towards a literary connection when he
was offered this place that would have
; brought him fame and money. Major-
General C. W. Field, «ho fought to the ,
■ last day in the morning with Lee, is
door-keeper of the house, having former
ly had an insurance business that gave
him a living, but not much more. Ma
jor-General L. L. Lamar, who was a
brave soldier, has some position about
the house, probably being in the docu
ment room. Major-General Cadamus M.
Wilqox is with the sergeant-at-arms of
the Senate and has little fortune outside
of his position. Major-General Sam
Jones is in the adjutant general’s office,
where he has a good though not a prom
inent place. Major-General Harry Heth,
who was a classmate and great friend of
Burnside, has a comfortable position in
the treasury —and this closes the roll I
believe of the generals of the Southern
armies about Washington in any capac
ity, unless General C. L. Stevenson, who
was formerly clerk of a congressional
committee, still holds his place.
The cause of education has engaged the
time and gives support to a good many
of the old le ders of the boys in gray.
General Custis Lee is at Washington-Lee
as before noted. General Kirby Smith
is chancellor of the university of the I
South at Suwanee, Tennessee, his neces- ’
sities making him greatly dependent on
his salary. Lieutenant-General D. H.
Hill is president of the State agricultural j
college of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, at •
m salary of $3,500.. He has been poor
ever since the war, and lost much time *
and money in publishing a periodical ’
that was, however, a creditable and pure
publication, and in teaching school. '
Brigadier-General M. P. Lowry has ■
charge of a female school at Salem, Miss., 1
and is prospering finely. Lieutenant- '
General A. P. Stewart is chancellor of '
the university of Mississippi, where he '
gets a good salary and has a fine position.
Brigadier-General Lilly is a professor
somewhere, I think at Washington-Lee
unive sity, and this, I lielievc, closes the
list of generals who arc engaged in train- ;
ing the young men of the South. And
yet there is General J. Argyle Smith,
now superintendent of State instruction
for Mississippi.
There are very few of our old generals
who have accepted office from the federal
government. Lieutenant-General Long
street is minister to Turkey. Colonel
Mosby, who won the prominence of a
gene«'il, is consul to Hong-Kong. Majer-
Gcneral LaFayette McLaws, who was
one of the powers of the Army of Vir
ginia, is postmaster at Savannah. Major-
General James Fagin was United States
marshal of Arkansas under Grant, but I
believe is out of the service now. Ido
not know of any others that hold politi
cal appointments, and believe there arc
none others. Oh yes, there is General
Jack Wharton, of Ixiuisiuna, who took
the marshalship of the New Orleans dis
trict a few years ago.
The railroad business has captured its
quota of the generals and pays good sal
aries for light and genteel work. Major-
General Jo n C. Brown, of Tennessee, is
first vice, president of the Texas Pacific,
with headquarters at Marshall and a sal
ary of SIO,OOO a year and expenses. He
hr.’d money before he took this place,
having had a practice of SB,OOO to SIO,OOO
from soon after the war. Major-General
J bn B. Marmaduke is railroad commis
sioner of the State of Missouri on a salary
of $5,000 a year, on which he lives with
dignity and ease. He is a bachelor and
will probably leave his position with a
competency. He stands high in St.
ijouis. Major-Geralen M. D. L. Rosser,
one of the most daring cavalrymen that
ever drew a sabre, is chief engineer of
the Northern Pacific at a big salary, and
has made a fortune in lands along the
line. He is a bachelor, and divides with
Pierce Young the honors with the fair
sex. Lieutenant-General John B. Gor
don is counsel for the Louisville and
Nashville road, ata salary of $14,000,
and General E. P. Alexander, the best
artillerist of the army, is practical mana
ger of the same road at probably as large
a salary. Neither of the gentlemen are
rich, but will both probably save money
from their salary. General R. H. Ran
som was in charge of the freight agency
of an important Southern line. Major-
General E. C. Walthall lives in Grenada,
Mississippi, and is general counsel for the
Mississippi Central road ata salary of
SIC,OO I per annum, and is well off in the
world’s goods.
There are three of our generals who
have become chiefs of police. Brigadier-
General R. 11. Anderson, a dashing cav
alry officer, is chief ofjiolice in Savannah.
Brigadier-General Tige Anderson, is
chief of police in Atlanta, and Brigadier-
General W. W. Allen, is chief of police
in Montgomery, Alabama.
Theie is a nunibe- who have turned
the sword int? a plough, and are leading
bucolic lives Besides the Lies, who
nave g< ne to farming, there is Major-
General Frank B. Cheatham, who has a
fine place in Coffee county, Tennessee, on
which he makes a good living. General
W. H. (“Red”) J ckson, who married a
daughter of General Harding, and has
charge of the famous Belle Meade farm,
the home of Bonnie Scotland, Great Tom,
and Enquirer, and from which came
Bramble, Ben Hill, and Luke Blackbam.
; He is rich and is up to his knees in clo
ver, literally and deservedly. Major
i Gem ral A. Buford has a fine stock farm
i that is in itself worth a fortune, being a
> gem of the blue-grass. He raises thor
oughbreds, none of which are more thor
oughbred than himself. Brig dicr-Gen-
■. era! Wirt Adams is getting rich on a
> Mississippi fa-m. General Joe Davis is
- farming near the famous Beauvoir pace
i in Mississippi, but is in moderate circum
• stances. Lieutenant-General Joe Wheel-
; er, whose wife was rich, runs a farm,
■ doos a large law practice, and owns a
• store. He is rich and is becoming richer,
and goes to Congress next session. Major-
General Pierce Young is farming in
. Georgia, and Gen ral L. J. Polk has a
fine stock farm in Murray coun y, Ten
nessee.
There are few of the gen rals who hold
State offices. I may begin with General
A. H. Colquitt, who is governor of Geor
gia at $3,000 a year and who is quite
jaior, although he has valuable lands.
General Beauregard is adjutant general
of ihe State of Lonisiana at 52,500 a year
—which salary is supplanted it is said by
a salary of $5,000 for the Ixiuisiana Sta p
lottery, of which lie is commissioner.
The law of course has its votaries.
General Toombs, of Georgia, who is very
rich, practices law in a casual way,
chiefly representing the State against the
railtoads, volunteering for the State.
General A. R. Lawton and H. R. Jack
son, both of whom are well-to-do, prac
tice law in Savann 11, Georgia, and nave
large incomes. Major-General Bate has
a good practice in Nashville and is look
ing to the Senate. General Alpheus
Baker, most eloquent of men, practices
in Louisville, where he is coming into a
good income—which General Basil Duke,
who is also in Louisville, has already
built up for himself. Major-General 1
Bradley Johnston, whois said to have
made a great deal of money in Virginia
State bonds, is practicing in Baltimore
with a big income, where Brigadier-Gen
eral George H. Stewart is also located,
and in good shape for a fine practice.
Major-General W. Y. C. Humes is prac
ticing in Memphis, where he has already
amassed a competency, and Brigadier-
General C. W. Gordon is in the same
city doing nearly as well. General
Clingman, of North Carolina, is also
practicing law and doing well.
Insurance has lost its popularity with
the generals, although Major-General
B. H. Robinson, now living in Washing
ton, has made a snug fortune out of it, 1
and is driving a pair of Bonnie Scotland
bays down the avenue—a gallant gentle
man and general favorite, and blessed is
the mahogany under which his legs are
crossed. Major-General D. 11. Maury is
at insurance, and has done well, though
not so well as General Robinson.
Os miscellaneous pursuits there is a
variety. General Jubal Early is living
at Lynchburg, a Bourbon bachelor, in
tolerable c/rcuinstances. It is eaid that
he draws s‘>,ooo a year from the Louisi
ana lottery as commissioner of special
drawings. Major-General Mahone is con
sidered rich, having made money in rail
road bonds and stocks, it is said, and is
new Senator elect from Virginia. Lieu
tenant-General J. C. Pemberton isliving
quietly and in poor health in Philadel
phia, where be lias a rich brother. He
is himself in moderate circumstances.
He has writ en a book on Vicksburg’s
defense and surrender, but I do not know
whether or not he will publish it. Major-
General S. B. Buckner has had a varied
experience. His wife owned large tracts
of unimproved real estate in Chicago,
which was confiscated, but afterwards
recovered. It was then mortgaged and
built up —and in the panic was sacrificed
for its mortgage money, leaving General
Buckner poor. He is now living in Lou
isville. Brigadier-General Zack Deas,
of Alabama, went into Wall street and
made about $200,000, with which he re
tired, and is now living in ease. Bri a
dier-General P. D. Roddy, the brave and
cliivalric cavalryman, also made a for
tune in Wall street, but lost over SIOO,-
000 in a few d ys, and went to London,
where he is now living as financial agent
of some banking firm, in moderate cir
cumstances. Brigadier-General J. W.
Frazer, who surrendered Cumberland
Gap is in New York, in the brokerage
business, doin ■ well. Brigadier-General
Thomas Jourdan is editor of the Mining
Record, on Broadway—a prosperous pa
per. Major-General Loring, who served
four years in the Egyptian army, is now
engineer for a mining company in New
Mexico, and is taking chances of a big
fortune. General Frank Armstrong has
made a fortune by running a “pony” ex
press in Texas, and General A. W. Rey
nolds, who went t» Egypt with Loriijg,
is still there —though out of service.
General Tom Benton Smith lost his
mind, and was, the last time I heard of
him, in an insane asylum in Tennessee.
It is a melancholy fact that nearly ev
ery general who died or was killed, died
in poverty brought about by his devo
tion. Raphael and Paul Semmes both
died poor, but a daughter of tho former
married Luke E. Wright, a promising
and prosperous lawyer. G neral Zolli
coffer left nothing to a family of five
daughters, but they have all married,
save one, and have married well. Gen
eral Pillow’s death caused- the sale of his
house and library which, however, his
friends rebought by subscription. Gen
eral T. C. Hindman, who was assassinated,
left nothing at all, but the people of
Helena loved and respected him. This
family has many friends. General Dick
T iylor died poor; and his two daughters
are living with his sister at Warrenton.
His book did not pay anything of account.
General “Stonewall” Jackson left his
wife and daughter without means, but
his name lias raised friends for them, one
of whom Mr. Wade Bolton, of Memphis,
I think, left them $5,000 in his ” d.
General Polk left nothing to his fa y, !
. but his son, Dr. Polk, has an immenq
practice and distinguished character in
New York. General Bushrod Johnson
left only one son, who is doing well, and
. end Forrest, who left but little, left it
■ with a thrifty and nrssperous son, wlm
■ makes all thatis needed. General Ewell’s
wife had about SIOO,OOO worth of prop-
• erty in St. Ixiuis, j think, which was
PVBMKBKD EVEBY THURSDAY AT
BELLTON. GEOROIA.
BATES OE SUBSCRIPTION.
One year (52 number*), $1.00; six month*
U 8 numbers) 50 eent*; three month* (13
numbers). 25 cents.
OJice in the Smith building, east of the
d.pot.
]NO. 3.
saved from confiscation by a friend.
Mrs. Ewell died within three days of her
husband. General Bragg died without
property and his wife lives with her sister
in New Orleans’. The history of Ge- eral
■Hood’s children is part of the history of
the country. General I). H. Cooper died
in poverty, and his’wife lives with her
daughter in Texas, I believe. Major-
General W. 11. C. Whiting, of Fort
Fisher fame, who died in Wilmington
prison in ’64, left nothing, and General
L. M. Walker, who was killed in a duel
with Marmaduke, left but little to his
wife, who now lives in Charlottsville.
General Cobb—oh, what a cavaliex was
there I —left to his family but little of
the fortune that his generous heart dis
pensed so bountifully in the piping times
of pence.
Truly it is sad history! The story of
men who gave their lives to their coun
try, and left nothing to their wives but
a poverty that made life a struggle.
Braver soldiers never drew sword—purer
men never went to battle —whi er-niinded
men never went to death. Had the issue
of the conflict to which they pledged
their honor and their lives been different,
a pleasanter record could have been writ
ten. As it is, the love and sympathy of
a whole people will envelop their widows,
their sons, and their daughters—and
their names and their deeds shall be part
and parcel of the glory of the South.
“H. W. G.”
In the Atlanta Constitution.
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
The Yonker’s Otaetie calls the minis
ter’s fee “the tax on matches.” We can
match that; the shoemaker’s fee is the
tax on men’s soles.
A little girl reproached with diso
bedience and breaking the command
ments, said, “Mamma, those command
ments break awful easy.”
When a man offers to read your for
tune ont of the grounds of a coffee cup,
set that man down for a cup and sor
cerer.—Burlington Hawkeye.
The average age of a hog is only fif
teen years. This always consoles us
when we see a man spread himself over
four seats in a railway car. ■
The first time a white man sees an
English railway coach, he thinks he has
struck a traveling American photograph
car on rails. Burlington Hawkeye.
Not everybody will be able to see the
Naiitch girls, but everybody can get a
pretty good idea of the.ir dance by put
ting two hornets down the housemaid’s
back.— Boston Post.
A man in Caton, Steuben County, N.
Y., has raised a cabbage around the head
of which thirteen smaller heads were
clustered. Exchange. Probably the
cabbage was on the table.
A few days after going to a wake,
Bridget asked her mistress for her
money. “Are you going to leave?”
"Yes' ma’am, I’m going to marry the
corpse’ husband. He told me I was the
life of the wake!"
Saxs his landlord to Thomas,
“Yow rent f must ralso, 1
Fin so plaguily pinched for the pelf.” '
“ Kaiee my rent!” replies'ihoiuas,
” Your honor’s main good,
For I never can raise it myself.”
It is now said that the inventor of the
Brush electric light received his first
hint from brushing a black cat’s bock the
wrong way. This should teach us not
to despise the small and apparently use
less things in nature.
“I say, Clem,” cried two disputing
darkies, appealing for decision to a sable
umpire, “which is right—dizactly or
dezaotly?” The sable monarch reflected
for a moment, and then, with a look of
wisdom said, “I can’t tell perzactly. ”
Toddlekins is a very small man, in
deed; but he said ho never minded it al
all until his three boys grew up to be tall,
strapping young fellows, and his wife
began to cut down their old clothes and
cut them over to fit him. And then he
said he did get mad.
“ How can I b«t increase my stock?”
Said turner John to Thomas;
“ By making six of one,” quoth Tom;
” Ho miracle 1 promise.
A simpler process ne’er was known.
Whatislt? Well now, a’poein’
You put that yearling cow to sleep,
’Twill make a heller-dolin’.
Ymksr'i Oatelle.
One night Uncle Harvey, keeper of a
poor house down in Maine, was waked
by tho groans of one of the old men.
“What is the matter?” he asked. “I’m
dying. Uncle Harvey," said the old man.
“I’m dying; go and get me a doughnut;
I must have suthin’ to pass away the
time. ”
Fitting emblems are not always ap
preciated; The neighbors of a poor fel
low who died erected a tombstone to his
memory, and had placed aliove it the
conventional white dove. The widow
looked at it through her tears and said:
“It was very thoughtful to put it there.
John was very fond of gunning, and it is
an especially suitable emblem.”
Another New Plant.
A curious plant has been discovered in
Wisconsin, which produces a kind of
cotton and flax from the same stalk. An
exchange says: It has already been
woven into fabrics, and, as any article
that will make as good cloth as can be
made from this plant will make good
paper, it has been called the paper
plant. It can be planted in the spring
and ent in the fall and winter. It
i bleaches itself white as it stands, and it
rill .yield three or four tons to the acre.
rem a single root that was transplanted
i t spring grew twenty large stocks,
i h three hundred and sixty-five pods
com-lining the cotton, at least sixty
seeds <ach. From this root were ob
tained “< en ounces of pure cotton, and
over a ,>onnd of flax. It is a very heavy
plant, and grows from six to seven feet
high.*