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VOL. XVI. Tiik Putnam County Alliance nom¬ inates Hon. John T. DeJarnette for the presidency of the State Alliance. **** Twenty-kive moonshiners plead guilty in the United States Court in one day in Atlanta this week, and were sentenced to jail from one t > three months. **** John L. Adams, the Macon de- faulter, expired Wednesday night, Ile deliberately starved himself to death; he was twenty six days with- out food except two oranges and a piece of cake. It is the most remark- able case on record. **** There is a report that Fred Geb- hard and Mrs. Langtry are married, It is quite time; they have been trav- eling around together in the same car about long enough. Now look out for a divorce suit: Lily Langtry Geb- hard vs. Fred Gebhard. * **# I he Inter-State Commerce Com- mission has issued un order that ehang- es in joint railroad tariffs cannot go into effect without previous public no- tice. A reduced rate requires three days’ public notice; an advance rate requires ten days’notice. This ar- rangement will be welcomed by pers. **** An International Congress,com pos¬ ed of delegates from the United States, Mexico, Central and South American states, will meet in Wash¬ ington in October of this year. The congress will consider the formation of closer commercial relations between the American States, the adoption of a uniform system of weights and measures, international, patent and copyright laws, and a common silver coinage. * * * * The News received a Idler this week that was ten days coming from Palatka, Fla. Cap!. B. M. Turner, Superintendent, reports that of the 75 mail clerks, four are disabled by ticei- * dent, , . eight . l4 are sick, . , and tour arc , bro- ken , down, . unlit ... for * work. , c Suffering . . mail .... clerks . . large . . require a increase m the .. force;a , .... . public . .. demands , , suffering a efficient mail . , Here T . more service. is a chart* far Mr. Wanamakertomake manifest his rapacity ami fitness , his . position. ... new The brutal murder of Capt. 1\ W. Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Courier on Tuesday, sent a thrill of horror throughout the coun¬ try. He went to the office of Dr. T. B. McDow to remonstrate with him for his improper conduct towards a servant girl in Dawson's family. All that transpired there is not known; but this is known that McDow shot Dawson, locked the dead body in his office, tried for several hours how he might conceal the foul murder,and fin¬ ally gave himself up to the police. * * * * Capt. F. W. Dawson was a native of England. He enlisted in the Con¬ federate navy under Commodore Pe- gram, was transfered to the ordnance department, served during the war wi’ll great bravery, and was promo¬ ted to a high position, being on Gen. Longstroot’s staff in the Knoxville campaign. After the war he became proprie¬ tor of the News and Courier, and bv his ability and energy advanced that paper to the front rank of Southern journalism, lie is cut down in the prime of life, amidst great usefulness, beloved and mourned not only in his adopted city and State, but through¬ out the entire South. **** Mcl low's story is, that Capt Daw¬ son came into his office, charged him with using indecent language to the French girl, which he denied. Daw¬ son forebade him speak to the girl; McDow said he would act fts he chose; Dawson said he would pub¬ lish him in his paper; McDow replied he would hold him personally re¬ sponsible; Dawson then struck him on the chest, and with a cane knock¬ ed him on the head; McDow then drew a pistol and shot him. Dawson lingered about an hour before lie ex¬ pired. McDow tried to secrete the body; being unable to do so, he laid it out in his office, and after about 3 hours from the killing gave himself up to the police. Dr. McDow was born itt Camden S. C., 36 years ago. He graduated at Lebanon, Tenn., and at the South Carolina medical college. He is moral, and does uot stand well with the medical profession. His story being first struck bv Capt. Dawson not generally believed. MARKETS. I ms is the great bugbear of our Piedmont Region. People are timid about raising certain farm products for fear the v cannot fell them at pay¬ . prices. In the home towns they soon glut the market arid cannot sell at any price, therefore, they reason, it does not pay to raise potatoes, gar- den vegetables or fruit. One very in- telligent gentleman has witten a let- ter to the Constitution in which he states that he raised 90 barrels of po- tatoes from an acre and had great dif- ieulty in disposing of them; the whole tone of his letter was discouraging; He even endeavors to show it does not pay to raise pork in Georgia. Fortu- nately there are a few people in the State who believe differently;men who have faith in potatoes, in pork,in grass, in cattle, in fruit, and are making s grand success in all these products, **** A Floridian might have some shadow' of an excuse for hesitating a- bout engaging in t ruck farming,for he can send his truck in one direction on ly, viz. North, and hundreds of miles farther than people here in Hab- ersham and Franklin counties, The Californian might well be dis- heartened at the prospect of shipping his perishable goods across the Rocky Mountains, and risk selling them in Eastern cities thousands of miles a- way. People in this region have no such discouraging obstacles before them. They have markets in all di¬ rections, north, south, east and west. Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Charles^ ton and the whole of Florida get their beef, pork, hay, grain, butter and cheese from Tennessee and States far¬ ther North and West. Many tons of hay and bacon coming hundreds of miles are sold here in Toccoa,i he pur¬ chasers paying heavy freight bills, all of which might be raised here,the cost of the articles and freight saved here at home. With few exceptions,people ****. have a 1 r as yet, J made no attempt 1 to raise . anv- thing ° for foreign markets except * cot- ton. 1 hey take ... it for granted, that ® 1 there . production, . the markets is over 1 ’ are =’ ln,U ' d ’ and u . 15 . uselcss to ,r -' Yetn * ht hm in Toccoa are Irish ,,o- tatoes, one of the most delicious and nutritious . . of vegetables* selling for $1.50 a bushel, which can be raised at a good profit for 50 cents. When the market here is supplied, the surplus can readily be shipped to other cities. Thirty years ago a great impetus was given to the cultivation of the vine in New York, Ohio, Missouri and some other states. The ery of over production was raised at that time, and many were deterred from engag¬ ing in the business. Others were uot afraid; many thousands of acres have been planted to the vine; the business has grown to enormous proportions, yet grapes are selling at as good pri¬ ces as they did thirty years ago. The same may be said of other varieties of fruits. There is no danger of over production, the constantly increasing populations, the rapid growth of our cities will always make the demand to the No person therefore need hesitate about raising any farm or garden prod uets he may fancy, tie must, how¬ ever plan for marketing, the kinds of packages to ship in, when and where to shipffhese must be matters of care¬ ful study. Profits of Crape Crowing. It requires about three years be¬ fore an income can be realized from a vineyard. During those three years the vine requires constant ex¬ pense out without much return. Pre - paring the ground, the cost of the roots, setting, cultivating, pruning, staking and trellising are expenses which should be fully understood be¬ fore hand, and prepared for;else there will be disappointments and often discouragements. The third year tbe crop r may - possibly* r *, .* par for stak- trellising, ,,. . and , cultivating, . . hat _ ing, * year. When this is accomplished, the heavy expense is ended; after that thecostof running the vineyard * is small, ,, and , the , • , large. In this ,. income region 2 tons, or 4,000 pounds to the acre is not a high estimate. If one ships to the cities and sells entirely for , , table . . grapes, the , prices . range from four to ten ceats a pound, cording to the season and varieties grape. At an average of four cents the . would ... be *160 income an acre, Allowing *60 for losses add ex¬ penses,—a very large margin—this would leave $100 an acre net profit, ard a thatseldom fails. Made The Toccoa News. T OCCOA , GA. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1889. into wine, the income is much larger. Mr. Ben. Brown; of Ayersville, sold last year about $800 worth off from about 2 acres. Ac Walhalla, the vineyardists realize from $300 to $500 an acre. The News eranesriv urges all its readers to engage in grape cul¬ ture. If you canhdtset out an acre or more, rnakea start with a few vines, vou'are'aww^ 11 vrofwm"’,avt 'in'iZ Come that will' make vour hearts glad. FARMER’S ALLIANCE EXCHANGE. The following is an outline of the plan of the Alliance Exchange,glean¬ ed from an interview of Mr. Corput, by a Constitution reporter: A capital stock of $200,000 is sub¬ scribed by the County Alliances, $50,000 of which will be paid as cash capital. As soon as this amount is paid in, cities will be called on to bid for the location of the exchange. Where this is located will be the cen- tral point for the 1900 Alliances of Georgia, embracing about 80,000 farmers. A building will be erected, and the business put iu charge of compe¬ tent business men. Goods will then be purchased of the manufacturers in large quantities, and sold to farm¬ ers at cost with freight and cost of of handling added. An effort will be made to induce manufacturers to lo¬ cate in the city where the exchange is, and thus save the freights. No at¬ tempt will be made to handle any- thing except leading heavy goods, as plows, guanos, meats, and farm rna- ehinery. It is not expected to wipe out the middle men, but greatly re¬ duce the number, The profits of the cotton seed oil mills are very large; the exchange proposes the farmers shall have a portion of these profits,as well as those of all other heavy goods. The farmers are not obliged to buy of the exchange, but of their local merchant, providing the latter st L goods as cheap. If the exchange sells meat at 8 cents, the local merchant will need to se 1 at the same price to get the farmers’ trade. The exchange will buy for cash and sell for cash. Some plan will be de¬ vised with refrence to those farmers who havo no cash to pay; perhaps Georgia will adopt THE TEXAS PLAN, The County Alliances will buy in quantity of the exchange all the sup plies needed for all the members of the county. Those who have money and those who have good commercial credit will have no trouble getting their goods. Those who have no credit, but are honest, can give mortgages on their farms and crops to the sub- Alliance agent. This agent then makes a sub-Alliance note for the entire amount of purchase money less the cash; the cash with the Sub-Al¬ liance note is then forwarded to the trade agent of the County Alli¬ ance, who gets the notes discounted at the banks, and forwards the full cash for the county supplies to the State age it. By this method the sub-alliances become RESPONSIBLE FOR TIIE1R MEMBERS, secured by mortgage on the farms or crops. When the notes become due, the sub-Alliance pays them an 1 co - leets the amounts, if need be,by sell¬ ing the farms or crops of its mem¬ bers. It is claimed that this will not antagonize or injure the merchantile interests of the State;on the contrary, it will aid them. The farmers, by saving 70 to 80 per cent, on their heavy goods, will be enabled to pay their debts, and purchase more of the necessaries, and even the luxuries, to add to home comforts and attractions, and thus the entire business interests of the whole State will be benefited. The results of this exchange business will be watched with deep interest. --- An Athens young man paid a young lady’s father $5 for the privilege of courting her. It seems that he had COU rtcd the fair one all along the winter months, burning both wood and kerosene freely, and had a splen- did tim*. He sold the father of the young lady a cow ana received the p ft y except $5. In course of time there came upon the scene another young lady whom they oung man liked better. He courted her, proposed, and hardly was tbe marriage feast over before he wa3 in need of the He called upon the father of his old sweetheart and asked for the money. H is re< l oast was re ' ased * iUl V le r< \ ply: , “ You burned my w«»od and „ nd no „ p ro going to keep this $5 as pay. Sadly the young man took bis departure, and he gets a little mad now when you ask bim a- boufc that $5.—Exchange* HUNTING STORIES* -- • The following is published by re- of a friend. TI,e hero of stories is Adam Vandiver, named the ‘•Hunter of Tallulah.” He lived in this county and died near Clarksville, WOLF STORY. On one occasion he came upon a laf g e R r “V "olf, »t whose head he diac ' 1,or R' jd “ i,al1 ' The animal did not drop, but made its way into an adio aajo nincr n.nrr cavern casern and ami disioneared disippeared. Vandiver waited a while at tne o- penina, and as he could not see or hear his frame he concluded it had ceased to breathe, whereupon p he fell ... his hands , and , , knees, and . upon enter* ed the cave. On reaching the bottom, he found the wolf alive, when a “clinch-flight” ensued, and the hunter’s knife com¬ pletely severed the heart of the ani¬ mal . On dragging out the deal wolf in¬ to the sun-light, it was found that his lower jaw had been broken, which was probably the reason why he had had not succeded in destroying the hunter. REAR STORY. At one time he was out of amuni- tion, the dogs fell upon a large bear, and it so happened that the latter got one of the former in his power, and was about to sqeeze it to death. This was a sight the hunter could not endure, so he unsheathed his huge hunting-knife and assaulted the black monster. The bear tore off nearly every rag of his clothing,and in mak¬ ing his first plunge with the knife,he completely cut off two of his own fin¬ gers, instead of injuring the bear. He was now in a perfect frenzy of pain and rage, and in making anoth¬ er effort,succeeded to his satisfaction, and gained the vie ory. The bear weighed three hundred and fifty pounds. DEER STORY. On another occasion, he had fired at a large buck, near the brow of a precipice some thirty feet high. On seeing the buck drop, he took grant¬ ed that he was about to die, when he approached the animal for the pur¬ pose of cutting its throat. To his great surprise, however, the buck suddenly sprang to his feet and made a tremendous rush at the hunter,with a view of throwing him off the ledge. But what was more remarkable,the animal succeeded in its effort, though not until Vandiver had obtained a fair hold of the buck’s antlers, when the twain performed a somerset into the pool below. The buck made its escape, and Vandiver was not seri¬ ously injured in any particular part.- About a month afterwards, he killed a buck which had a bullet wound in the lower part ‘ of its neck, whereupon , he concluded that he had finally tri- umphed over the animal .which had given him the unexpected ducking, NARROW ESCAPE; But the roost remarkable escape r which old \andtver ever experien- . ced, happened in this way; He had encamped upon one cf the loftiest mountains in Union county. It was ” the * twilight , • i - l hour, and j . he , had , near heard the howl of a wolf. With a view to ascertaining the direction whence it came, he climbed upon an immense boulder, which stood on the brow of a steep bill-side. w 5V ... hile standing , this boulder, , ,, upon he suddenly felt a swinging sensa- tion, and to his astonishment,he found that he was about to make a fearful Lk>: plunge into the ravine, half a mile him. As fortune would have it, the I,rob of an oak . . tree drooped , .. over the rock, and as the rock started from its totterish foundation,he seized the Bmo, and thereby saved his life. i he it .dread descended ml crashing the mountain-side, o. . the . . bould- ,, er,as cam e to the hunter’s ear,while he was susDended in the air, and by the time 4 . , had . reached lj. the 1 l.. bottom, l he drop- j it ped on the very spot which had been vacated by the boulder. Vandiver said that this was the only time i„ bis life when he was reallj frightened; and he also added, that for one day after this escape, he did not care a finger-snap for the finest game in the wilderness, AS OTHERS SEE US. There is a Frenchman named Paul Bl«met (Max O’Rell) who spent six months in tire United States and then wrote A book about our people and what he thinks of us. The book is interest! i * and amusing; below we give a few extracts; j The inhabitant of the states, the Yankee, differs as much j from the western than and the south- ^^ For ?xample, call a Yankee “a and he will get out of the room, re» marking: ‘‘You say so, sir j but that proves nothing.” Call a !“!)„ M cw?'ind W *H get wilf ^ n ° c“ f reaMVestcrner eJ be R o ut his revolver and shoot you dead c n the 8 P ot * Should a minister indulge in un- orthodox theories in the pulpit, the eastern roan will content himself with slinking his bead, and going to an- other church to perform his devotions ‘m™”*]** will open a violent polemic m the newspapers of the locality. The Ivan- » -ill -ait for the minister at t,ie church door and give him a sound thrashing. Jonathan admires all that glitters, even that which is not gold. In his e 3 r es the success of a thing answers for its quality, and the charlatanism that succeeds is superior to the merit that vegetates. The dollar is not only the unit of the monetary system,* it is also the unit of the metrical system. I was chatting one day with an A- merican about the famous Col. Robert Ingersoll. “lie is your greatest orato - , I am told,” I said. ‘•Yes,’ he replied, ‘‘Ingersoll can fill the Metropolitan opera bouse any day. and have a five thousand dollars house.” Certainly that is a curious way to speak of a great orator, a great writer and great thinker. I need not say tliat I am now speak¬ ing of the average American, not the literateur or the man of good socie- ty* I saw, in an American paper, the appearance of Miss Minnie Palmer spoken of in the following terms: “Minnie Palmer will wear all her diamonds in the third act.” The booking office was besieged all day, and , in the evening, money was refused. An amusing detail was the arrival of a goad fourth of the audi¬ ence at 10 o’clock, to see the diamonds in the third act. The English spoken in Boston is purer than any to be heard elswhere in the north. Yhe voices arc less harsh and nasal, the language ceases to be “vurry, vurrv Amurracan.'' if you think yourself in England as you walk along the streets the illusion becomes comipete when you hear the well bred people speak. All the anecdotes told in America on the subject of Boston are satires upon the presumptuous character of the Bostonian, who considers Boston the center of the universe. Here is one out of the many bun dred I have beard. A Boston man has lost his wife. As soon as telephonic communication is established between tliat city and Par* adise, lie rings and cries: “Hello 1” “Hello!” from the other end. “is thaf you, Artemisia? “Yes. dear,” “Well, my love, and how do you like it up there?” ‘Oh. it Is very nice, ofcourse—but it isn’t Boston ’ --i •<——---— UNCLE BILLY BOYVEKS IN A NEW ROLE „ T uncle . , Billy ..... Bowers, „ of ... Bow- lour ersviUei is d esti „ec; “to cut a big swath” iu Georgia politics during the next four years. Uncle Billy is,as everybody knows, one of the two'original Lincoln roe,,’ in Georgia. Hr<? claim that he is the on ly living Georgian who voted for Abraham Lincoln for president is as yet undisputed. That being the case, the question naturally J arises—who better than he draw . salary . i can a government Your Uncle Billy has his eye on something soft. No postmastersliip at Bowersville “in his’n.” He knows a g°od thing when he sees it,and just ■>»« * l»b<m., K anderthe ,mpre« ; sion that a gentleman of his age and s j ze W ould make an excellent clerk | of the United States circuit court,pro- viding, of course, that Col. Alfred E. 1 ^ ^’tall . . , Tro Ter" "no”,ah,in” A , !"»lv interest matters nerianiuig to the government offices,tells a good story. / ^ was comrng down on tne Air- Lrno the ^her day,-’ he said, “when my Biily, attention who was attracted by Uncle was in earnest conversa- tion with a gentleman whom I did net knotfh I was so near that I could tleman, no ^ ^ ie ^P h eari ng talk. 1 he gen- I soon learned, was a private in the greU artny of office-seekers- a would-be postmaster of n thriving northeast Georgia town. He was pouring info the willing ear of Uncle frora Bowersvi+le bore a peculiar ex- passion and l wondered at the cause. I didn’t have long to wait. Uncle Billy relieved my anxiety by inform- j ing his friend, in a voice that could the'ot’her ^that alf asrdrants hi”” 0 east Georgia must look to him. Col. • Buck,sorUncle him the Billy said, bad turned over to distribution of the P»'ronage for that portion of the State, and he was going to see that the offices were properly distributed. So Uncle Billy is to be the dictator for that, end of th© State.” u , v Ve 9:4Kl known who ’ intd heard » ' v en the repub conveaatii-n he "•“<>' would Se'ljuVhS f>e believed any 'idtfdm when he said wh at he did. Of course Col. Buck never made any such promise.” But Uncle Billy will be a power ftl1 the same » Cons titution. CHEESE vs. BEEF. A « ood cow ou S llt to yield 600 pounds of cheese annually, Professor wiiu,.,, ' ' , P<IW 1 1 } ... !< 0 P°i> n sa\earfor , twelve , years, deducting the first two years during "' h ; clL a9 hl!ifar ’ sl ' e “thing and compares her with three steers, ’ 9i .. 4 . -' ears „ old .. wl,! ,, ,eld , n >-000 , ' ' P° linds oC meat. 1 he cow in tiie time specified will yield 4 500 pounds of good, whole¬ some food, every pound of which, as above, is 50 per cent, more valuable as a nutritions food than the meat will be. \7e have virtually 9,000 pounds of nutriment from the dairy in twelve years to eacli steer. But tak¬ ing it, pound for pound, and putting it at current prices for full cream cheese, and the beef at more than av¬ erage p’rice for the carcass, and what have we? The cheese at 10 cents a pound — the highest ruling price at- this time—would yield the gross sum of $550, while the meat,,at an average price of 10 cents, would give the gros 3 sum of $300. ONCE A WEEK. Very beatiful is this weekly mag¬ azine. The high character of its literature, will always insure it a wel¬ come in the most intellegent and re¬ fined homes. Its method of reve.il- iug character is a feature at once u- niqde and immensely attractive. Said a lady friend to the writer: “I am greatly interested in Once A Week. 1 without hardly know how I could get along it; 1 regard it as tne best weekly magazine published.” The News coinmenus this Weekly to its i many lady readers. THE SAVANNAH NEWS. One of the bes*, if not very best daily paper published in the south is the Savannah News. For genera] news, for sound and able editorials, for well arranged systematic make up, it is equaled by few and sur- passed by no paper that comes to tliis office, We commend the Sa- vannah Newstff all who want a first class daily paper. CELEBRATED GARDENS. The celebrated “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” were within the pre¬ cincts of the palace called “'The Ad¬ miration of mankind.” They consist¬ ed of gardens of trees and bowers on he topmost of a series of arches 75 feet high and built in the form of a square, each si Si3 of which measured 400 Greek feet. The ei:y of Baby¬ lon, witn its famous gardens, was raz¬ ed to its foundation, 690 B. C. Two Thousand, Five Hundred ahd Seven¬ ty-Nine years later we find the cele¬ brated gardens of James Vick in Rochester, New York. For descrip¬ tion, Catalogue of seeds, advice how to obtain free a copy of Vick’s Floral Guide and also of the famous new rose, called “Vick’sCaprice,”address, James Vick, Seedsman, Rochester N. Y. OUR NAME AND FAME ABROAD. Wc clip IBS following from the Charleston News and Courior, a jour^ n _i t . , • _ •. ' . ” * „ _ . (>ne most thrh-ing .Tir/'u,'" per South Carolina- Itsgromhdur- ing the past decade lias been in every T " e CCnlt<! a P™' |M)rou3 agriculture! countrv, with „ splendid climate and large, though undeveloped, material resources, its future is rich in promise, “The Immigration Association; of Seneca Citv, have prepare 1 a very valuable little monograph, in which is set forth briefly, but concisely, the ad- vantages of Oconee County for raan- ufactirring, stock raising, dairying. fruitgrowing, market gardening,’ a-Uoti...! «ffe , which is sure to attract the of those seeking profitable invesments for their capital or for homes.” The publication of the above men - tionrf “ alread >' bcarll, S f ™ rt * The treasurer of the Assoeia- tlon sho ^ ed lls a letter fr °'n a gentle n,an * n Charleston who wishes to know more of our advantages With a view to settlement. This is only the be- ‘ nd W 110 ' 8 «* di9tributed and cheerfully anc ^ catH ^ ( ^3’ answered, will result in a large accession of desirable people Let our citizens, yonug an ! «»M, consider themselves on a «.*«. to entertain and cha^.^...- who may come in our misdst w 1 1 a NO. 10. view to resi lence. 1/et our property holders encourage them by induce- , " e "“° f k,od * *° b * co “ C 0 '' ner, of reaI est3te * Aeat residences on some °f the lots now vacant would enhance the value of surrounding property to a much larger amount than would be lost lost by deducting a liulcjfpom the real or estimated val- ue of such property.—Seneca Freo Press. York City looked at that time, and tr.o customs and costumes of the rest* dents, are graphically told and beau, tifully illustrated in Dcraorest’s Monthly Magazine for April, which has just arrived. At this time, when the Centennial of the Inauguration of Washington is about to be celebrated, this article will be greatly appreciated; amd those who purchase the April number of this popular Magazine will be repaid, not only by this, but by numerous other attractions, not the least of which are tiie beautifully il¬ lustrated article on ‘Birds,’’ by Olive riiorne Miller; ‘Young Japan at Play,” which will give many hints to the children for new games; ‘Homes with Two Servants,’ which c •ntaifts suggestions for the management ,,f servant*’, and there are numerous other equally interesting subjects. Published by W. Jennings Demurest, 14th New York. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. A little gu'nc’ arable imparts a gloss to ordinary starch. To prevent a door from creaking apply a little soap to the hinges. To clean steel, rub tbe article with a piece or wash leather dipped in ker*. osene. A good egg has a clean, health}* looking shell, While a bad one has a porous-looking shell. jy Q not re striet the boys and girls in the matter of fresh air. Dirt is often „ benc fi oial accompaniment, The best thing to clean tinware is common snds ; rub on briskly with a damp c j ot ^ afu?r which wipe dry. c ke u bakec} w hen a fine splinter of wood -ill pass through without m»y of tbe cakc adhering and «t nnt.l then. When ivorv ■■ Cr ' ' exposed to the action or light while shut in a welUcloscd glass case,-