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1 * THE a TIM ip DEMOREST ■- «*.. J-' m . '.Kfr ■ ; -. ~h 0 ■ y,"' .. ; v : ■ mm 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. ......— 1 * ■" ......... ----- Tax 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 * * ’ *ingfor the collection * Ofth* tax. These sections .ft., th. levied col $1 all and ap t \y. SEPTEMBER i4, 1894 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. • . 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. • * - •• .. ~~ . & Every body wa &*- !« ■ per* wfth the writ* 4 Day at the chaute a A . of 1 "-'-A . nt in 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. • * 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 \ *. & B - •it. «n c , .peed, trial -■ ’ " PSP iiA'- JOB PRINTIN ■ Jti When you are in need of fine Job Pri Send or Cali on THE TIMES , Demorei We guarantee the best Work and the to be the Lowest* 'v. i; Xj&gS ' '-ki^fSa — They All Do I «- Do What? Complain of Hard Timei Some have promised to secure for us better times, but in a time, while the hard times are On us, what shall wc do? MIZE? Blit how economize? This is one answer : ist. Buy only what you need; 2d. hot In buying deceived pay more the quality than to quantity; 3d. Do be by “Largest stock,” “cheapest prices,*'etc. This often goods to the purthasiy. Be your own judge of goods and Investigate for yourself. In your investigation do not fail to tii Safford & Dunla • —DEALERS IN— -tf: - Dry Good^f Hardware ,• 'jiteCWgS Groceries. We also handle crockery, glassware, paints, oils, vat Call and see us. DEMOREST, The Bank of Dem Capital , $25,000 Doing a business under a special charter from the state. X money on approved security. Pay interest on time dejxisits. ' Dei in domestic and foreign exchange.' Transacts'a general banking t ness. CORRESPONDENTS* Chase National Bank, New York. Lowry Banking Co., Atli aim Board of Directors: mMm A. A. Safford G. W. Dunlap J* B W. H. VunHise A. A. .Campbell A. Hami OffkersXT A. HAMPTON, Presidents a. a: ■ W. H. VanHise, Vice-President 1 Demorest Nor: SCHOOL imm , FJrst Fall term opens August 6; Second fall term o: > 1 % v Departments lit Pedagogy, Science,Literature, V Thorough, 1 Up with the Pr ■> ■ ; Special Classes in and Actual Business. Addrcts, ||^1 Write for our new circular,. . . Demorest Nt ----- V ■jFtr* ^7 m fgm .