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THE a TIM ip
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VOL. III.
A Northern Farmer’s Testimony.
•Northern farmers who desire to
learn something about the south
should read a letter written by Mr.
J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury,
Conn., to his local paper.
^Ir. Hale is making a visit to hrs
great fruit farm in Houston county,
in this state. He says in his letter
that he was tired of the heat and
dust of northern summer when at
the end of July, he started south.
The chaitge was refreshing. Be¬
low Washington there were no signs
of drought and all across the Car
olinas and Georgia he found the
crops looking better than he had
ever seen them. Of the situation
at Fort Valley he says:
“There has been lots of rain here
for a month past, and the place
looked finely. After the heat and
dust at home it was niee to see the
green grass and crops here, lovely
roses in great abundance, and many
choice semi-tropical plants.’ So far
we have not had a hot day; mer¬
cury 70 to 72 each ufoming and 80
to 84 in the middle of the day, and
ff good gulf breeze all the time.”
Hale’s peach orchard con¬
tains 100,000 trees of fruiting size,
(divided by avenues and streets ag¬
gregating sixteen miles in length.
Since the 1st of* February the
tract has been plowed twice and
harrowed and cultivated many
times. Within the past month two
tons of cow peas have been sown
between the rows of trees. Single
plows are worked next to the trees,
and cultivators between the rows
of peas. This will be continued a
while and then the trees will be
given a. rest; The owner writes
that it is worth $77,000,000 to look
over such an orchard, even if there
is no fruit on it this year.
His nursery stock has been very
successful this year. He has about
1,060,000 trees on fifty acres of land
*-s<)e«c?r, phmv pear and apple,
and they are all grown and propa
’ gated by negro^boys, who knew
nothing of the art of budding and
grafting tW6 ye&rs ago. The-sup
^rintendent estimates that it will
require 75,000 feet of lumber t6
make shipping boxes for the trees
whicii will be sent away this year.
As much more wiW be required
next year, and still more for pack¬
ing shecte, houses, etc. In order to
tneet the demand a big sawmill
will soon be erected. -
©f Mr Hale gives a glowing and his letter account is
southern crops,
an admirable compaign document
“for those who are trying to Jo induce^ this
northern settlers to come
region. When a Tew more such
npitbern fanners in the south bear
similar testimony it is safe to say
that all of agricultural New Eng¬
land will be seized with the desire
Vq move southward.
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Washington,Sept. 10.—Commis¬
sioner Milfer has been so occupied
deciding questipn* arising unitor
the internal revenue* schedules of
the new Tariff law that required has
immediate decision that be
been able to Bestow little attention
upsai the consideration of regula¬
tions to caJry into effect the pro
sion section 27 and subsequent
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Ofth* tax. These sections
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levied col
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DETIOREST, HABERSHAfl COUNTY, QA.,
into effect, Aug. 28, 1894, but
actual payment would probably not
be required before July 1, 1895.
This daffe, July 1, he said, would
also probably be theilate of settle*
ment for subsequent years as to the
income of the preceding calendar
year. •* .
Why Shouldn’t He Be a Deadhead?
Carrofl D. Wright, who went
out to Chicago to investigate the
Pullman strike with a Pullman pass
in his pocket, is having lots of fun
wRh the western papers and with
the labor leaders, who seem to
think that the United State’s Com
missioner of Labor ought not to be
a deadhead. There was certainly
no evidence of partiality in the ex¬
amination of witnesses by Mr.
Wright and his associate commis¬
sioners,and there is no reason to ex¬
pect any partiality in their report;
and yet it would have been better
not to travel as Mr.Pttllman’s guest.
But Carroll D. Wright is a thrif¬
ty person. He is probably the
highest paid civil officer, except
the President, in the service of the
United States.,- He is C omm i s *
sioner of Labor, with a. sala ry of
$5,000 a year; and Superintendent
of the census, a.t $3,000 a year, and
Chairman of the special commission
on the Chicago strike at $10 a
day—say $3,650 per annum—and
expenses, There is unquestionably
room for the suggestion that out of
this accumulation of salaries Mr.
Wright could afford to pay his own
way. Sitting us a Jqdge in the
case of Debs agt. Pullman, his
attitude docs become a little embar¬
rassing when the pass comes into
view.—Philadelphia Times.
Senate And Whisky,
The House and Senate are divid¬
ed on the liquor question. The
House favors the* beer fnterest, and
the Senate stands stanchly by the
whisky trust. The. Senate passed
June 29, the provision for extend¬
ing tfie bonding period for whisky
to eight years. When the question
came up, Senator Pfeffer moved
to amend by hissing three years,
the pfesent time, in the bill. The
amendment, however, was rejected
by a viva voce vote, and the eight
year bonding period went through.
The taxon each gallon of distill¬
ed spirits was fixed at-$i.io.
The bill as passed exempts from
taxatipn all spirits used in the arts.
The allowance for shrinkage is
from one gallon for two months to
nine gallon for forty-eight months.
The tax -on all distilled spirits is
:$i.io on each proof gallon. The
proposition by Senator Allison to
provide an udditkmal tax of five
cents per gallon per annum on all
spirits remaining in bond after four
years was rejected.
The New York Sun, Democrat¬
ic, calls editorial attention to this
wicked measure, a» follows: “The
Senate has been almost as kin^ to
the whisky trust as to the sugar
trust. Estimating the present stock
in the bonded warehouses at 20o,
000,000 gallons, the increase of "the
tax from 90 cents to $1.10 a gallon
will put exactly $40,000,000 into
the pockets of .the whisky trust;
But the $40,000,000 is not the
only gratuity given by the Senate
to the whisky trust. The bonded
period, three years under the exist¬
ing law, is made eight years by the
Senate; that is, the trust gets fiv^
years more from the government
before being obliged to pay the tax.
AU this time the whisky «improv¬
ing and the whisky trust is saving
interest. At $t.iQ a galton, the
interest at. four per cent, would be
4.4 cents a gallon. On 100,000,000
gallons the interest would be $4> sir*
490,000. This sum the Senate
fually gives to the whisky
mi year for five years. Inw
, besides making a direct
1 of $40,000,000 to the w
Mt, it saves that |
n five years inte
Rabun Column.
The Times has an office in the
courthouse, R. E. A. Hamby,
manager,who will receive and re
cept for all subscriptions, etc.
Clayton News
Special Correspondence to Tux Times.
Clayton, Sept. 13.
-i^herchero is building a new
school house near the Methodist
church.
Judge Blefekiy and Sheriff Dil
lard went to the Falls one day last
week to look after one Deavers, an
escaped criminal.* Deavers^a the
so claimed U. S.- detective #ho
took Harnett’s cow some two
months ago. He was convicted at
the last superior court of larceny
after trust and false imprisonment
and sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary. He escaped jail a
few nights after his conviction and
was recaptured by Senator Tom
Robinson near the Falls and put in
the calaboose at that place. The
sheriff put him in the Clarkesville
jail, to await the penitentiary au¬
thorities. •
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V. Price of Cberehero was in
town last week, and walking on
crutches, the result of a sprained
foot.
Clerk J. L. Hamby made a busi¬
ness trip to Moccasin one day last
week.
Col. W. S. Paris is on .a business
trip to Athens and Augusta.
Mr. Jas. W. Curry is controlling
the mail routes * from Clayton to
Tpllulah Falls ana from Clayton to
Franklin, N, C.
There were a number of people
baptized last Sunday at the Stecoa
colored church.
D. T. Duncan is on the sick list.
Captain DiHingham is improving.
Lowlanders are emigrating south
every day; wagons and buggies
are loaded with retreating health
seekers. ", ;• • -
Mart Wall has been sowing small
grain in the valley. * He.is a a good
hand Jo thresh it out, too. H«
A Lost Industry.
New Bedford, Mass., is said to
be the wealthiest city of its size in
the United Sjtates, and most of its
oapital, which is estimated at $100,
000,000, came from blubber and
the bones of whales. The business
began as earlyjas 1755, and reached
its height in i860, when there wyre
nearly 600 vessels going out from
that port with more than 10,000
sailors and representing an invest¬
ment of more than .$12,000,000.
The catoh that year/was worth
nearly $7,000,000, for then oil sold
for $2.75 a gallon and whalebone
for $6 a pound. But now the
whales in the northern Atlantic are
almost exterminated, and the only
places where it is worth while to
hunt theih are down- around the
antarctic circle and among the seal
isiandaof the north Pacitc. Many
old whaler*have been turned into
sealers, and now sail from San
Francisco and Portland instead of
New Bedford. Now there are only
thirty-five ships from this port en
gaged in the trade, and toss than
900 men. With the competition
of petroleum, oil %worth only 67$
cento a gallon, and whalebone has
been largely replaced, as most, of
you know, by metallic appliances
that make the form divine divi
still—Chicago Record. •
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Convicted.
In the superior court Friday, the
jury,after being out a few minutes,
in the case of the state vs. Joe and
Jack English, returned a verdict of
guilty of murder, with a recom
mendation to mefCy for Jack. This
is the ending of the case, unless a
new trial or higher court intervenes
of the cold-blooded murder com¬
mitted here on July 4th by the de¬
fendants. Joe English shot Roe
Warfdrip, which caused his death,
ahd Jack English cut him in the
back.
Shooting Affray.
Last Friday a dispute arose be¬
tween Fletcher Robinson and a
Mr. Shirley at Tallulah Falls over
the settlement of a shingle bill, and
was ended by Robinson shooting
Shirley in the breast with a Win¬
chester rifle, so it is said. Shirley
at last accounts was doing well and
would probably get well. Robin¬
son gavi" himself up to the sheriff
of this county, but we understand
has been released on bond.
Edi to rial Notes,
Hon. W. J. Demorest has con¬
sented to let the speech he made
here on August 25 last, before the
Prohibition Club, be used in the
Medal Contests. We are glad of
thi6; this is another laudable way
Mr. Demorest has for showing his
appreciation of the jjeople and
town of Demorest. ♦ ».
The Constitution has had a great
deal to do with the carrying' to a
successful beginning of the great
Exposition which takes place in
Atlanta ih ’95 and advertises the
whole South for twenty years.
Miss Ellen Dortch wants to be
Gov. Atkinson’s * secretaiy. We
hope she will get the appointment;
no doujjt she would fill the position
as well as any man, and probably
a good deal better.
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Wdnder if Thomas Brackett
Reed doesn’t think it somewhat
impertinent in his majesty,
Gov. McKinley of Ohio, planting
his boomlets for the Republican
nomination in the stony fields of
Tom’s own state? 1
The Atlanta Constitution is
striking some sledge hammer blows
for southern immigration, and we
now begin to look for results, and
usually the Constitution does not
fail to bark up the right tree.
Gov. Northen,will, as soon as his
term of office expires, assume the
management of one of the largest
real estate and immigration bureaus
in the south. The different rail
roads running into Atlanta are
stock holders and it is the idea of
this agency to settle people in any
P art ©f the state they may desire
to go. Hurrah for Northen, he
always works for Georgia’s interest
whether occupying a governor’s
to* 1 or that.of a private citizen,
Georgia is pro^d of such sons.
Th ere j, a crowd of English snobs
appointed by club or otlicr
Kght brain organization, over here
to toqk after and repremand the
southern people for letting Judge
Lynch sit on some cases that occa
sionally Sccur.in the south. Now
the best thing these hayseed can do
[ he to go home and sweep the
iith from their own. doors, sucji as
be brutal stou^ter of hundreds of
Benguto’s- men, (negro*) after
tried to surrender, and sent the .
een charged to southerners.
lurr
o China, as a result of \
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