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SURVEYING.
I respectfully offer my services to all who
|n>y de*> ;e surTe J‘ n 8 done. All calls
IrW—“• D. McL.acm.ii,,
ill 30. '82. Surveyor,
CHARLES C. BUSH,
[Attorney at Law
COLQUITT, GA.
Prempt attention given to all business en-
I trailed to me.
| i scotu., M - o’nkal
McGILL & O’NEAL.
[Attorneys at Law.
BA1NBKIDGE, GA.
Their office will be found over the post of-
I lei.
MEDICAL CARD.
Or. E. J. Morgan
Hmremoved his office to the drug store,
firmed J occupied by Dr. Harrell. Resi
dence on IVeit street, south of ishotwell,
wkericalle at night will reach him.
DENTISTRY.
J. C. Curry, D. D. S.,
C*n be found daily at his office on South
Brand I'ree'. up stairs, in E. Johnson’s
bai!din|, where he is ready to attend to the
trims of the public at reasonable rates.
dec-5-78
DOCTOR M. L. B ATT L E,
Dentist.
Office over Hinds Store, West side
ceert house. Has tine dental engine, and
will have everything to make his office
Jot-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9
•. rftodp. m. jan.l3tf
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BYRON B. BOWER.
BOWER & DONALSON,
Attorneys and Counsellers at Law.
Office in the court house. Will practice
■ Decatur and adjoining counties, and
•eihere by special contract. a-25 7
DR. L. H. PEACOCK,
Respect fully tenders his professional serv
ices to the people of Huinbridge and vicini-
Office over store of J. D. Ilarrell A: Bro
Residence on West end of Broughton
street, where he can be found at night.
April 6,1881—
dnr. D. T.Al.BF.RT. WE. II. HARREI.L.
TALBERT & HARRELL.
Attorneys and Councelers at Law,
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
The above have formed a copartnership
soder the firm name of Talbert & Harrpll
u i’ ra( ’ , ' c, ‘ of I#w. Will practice in
■II the courts of t lie Albany Circuit. Office
over Harnett's store.
August 14,1882.
ALBERT WINTER,
ne?l Estate and Collecting Agent.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA.
J he glad to receive the patronage of
,, w " 0 have property to sell or rent, or
rn..feting to make. All business placed in
®y hands will receive prompt attention. I
look after wild lands, investigate titles,
taxes and protect from tresspassers.
1 propose to make the collection of bad
■aims a specialty. The worse the claim
‘•te more attention I will give it.
Correspondence solicited.
Aug.1, 1882.
B. F. COLBERT.
-HfiAKER AID JEWELER.
0FflCE a T J. A. DONALSON’S STORE.
Cambridge, - - - Ga.
a nd repairing watches,
iewott’ f ' c ' vlu S' ma nhines and all kiuds of
-■0. done with neatness and dispatch.
r.: .vSfAU work warranted.”®
“““bridge, Ga., Angus* 4, 1874.-
The Bainbridge Democrat.
BY BEN. E. RUSSELL.
BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1882.
BITS OF AIAVS
Waynesboro True Citizen: It ia
estimated that there are one hundred
case* of sickneaa ia Waynesboro at this
time.
The Montezuma Weekly says Mr.
M. P. Maxwell was bitten on a finger
by an enormous sipider one day last
week, and he has not been able to use
his arm since.”
Macon county, Ga., has a citizen
who has buried six wives, and is now
living with the. seventh. He has been
kept so busy getting married and
attending funerals that he only weighs
ninety pounds.
Griffin News : Over a thousand bar
rels of dried fruit ffcve already been
shipped from Griffin. The season will
close about September first, when we
will give the statistics of the eropa so
far as they can be gathered.
Athens Banner Watchman; Geo.
Hodge, a negro blacksmith, doing busi
ness near Winterville, was immersed
by a negro Baptist preacher last Sunday.
This old man has about attained his
b^dredth year and is perhaps the
most profane man in the land.
On Saturday last Marsha] Graves, of
Fort Valley, discovered in company with
soma traveling peddlers, a litt/e boy who
it is charged, was kidnapped in Columbus.
The men claim that the little boy's
mother consented to let him come with
them. He was returned to Columbus
od Saturday night.
Jim Griswold was taken to Eastman
Inst Thursday, and lodged in jail, to await
trial for the murder of young Harvard.
It seems that Jim was the one that fired
the fatal shot. The proof against him in
the case which he now stands charged is
so plain that he will certainly hang.
Charles Smith, who broke into a church
near Raleigh, N. O.,and stole the Bible
from the pulpit, and was sentenced to the
penitentiary, but escaped, was recognized
by hands on the Georgia Pacific Railroad
and taken up by the sheriff of Carroll
county. He was returned to the North
Carolina peniten'iary on Monday. He had
been out a year, less sixteen days.
Savannah* News : The steamtug
Eureka, which was sunk in the Ogee-
chee river, at Cherry Hill, daring the
fearful storm last Angust, was success
fully raised on Saturday by Mr. James
Duffy, assisted by Winn, the diver.
The steamer is said to be but slightly
damaged, although she has been uoder
water for a year.
Macon Sunday Graphic. On Tues
day a laborer in the gaug employed in
laying the new sewer across Mulberry
street threw up an old 'ime piece, an
open faceed gold watch, which had pro
bably lain in some drain for twenty
years or more. The case was encrusted,
but well preserved, but the ruunning
gear was ruined end almost destroyed
by the action of rust and water. The
case is worth, probably $10. which paid
the poor fellow who unearthed it a big
compensation *or his day’s labor.
Americas Republican: A farmer living
not far from Americus is responsible for
the following: “About three weeks ago
he found a hen’s nvst in a field near his
house which contained five eggs. Time
passed and they were forgotten until one
day when on going to the nest be found
that three of the five had dis»ppoared
Last week he was in the same field and
came suddenly upon a large black snake.
He had a hoe in his hand, which he used
in making two parts of the creeping reptile.
This had hardly been done wheu three lit
tle chickens made their appealance from
one of the wriggling parts of the snake, and
one from the other part. The eggs had
been swallowed and hatched.”
Fatal Runaway in Nashville-
New VtfftK. Oct. 5.—A Nashville speci
al to the Times says : At 3 o'clock on
Wednesday evening, while Charles B. Por
ter, son of ex-Gov. Porter, Miss Alice
Raines, daughter of Felix R. Raines,
George B. Burton and Miss Laura Easley
were driving in East Nashville, the horses
attached to the drag in which they were
seated became frightened, and Miss Easley
leaped from the vehicle and fell on her
head, and Mr. . urton jumped out fifty
yards beyond and lauded oa his right foot.
Mr. Porter and Miss Rames remaiued in
the drag, and succeeded in stopping the
horses after they bad proceeded a mile.
Miss Easley was conveyed to a neignboring
hooseinan unconscious condition, in which
shu remained till 8 o'clock,, when she died.
She was the only daughter of Enoch Easley
one of the most prominent and wealthy
citizens of Memphis.
Making a Farm.
In the early days of agriculture in
New England and New York there was
a class of farmers whose prototypes still
exist in many sections of the West,
who made a practice of taking a piece
of new, raw land, breaking it up, erect
ing a few cheap buildings, and then
selling the farm for the value #f the
improvement. This practice is not one
to be commended. Farmers working
under such faulty methods take all the
roughest, hardest work, and suffer moat
of the privations of pioneer farming,
only to go to the same round of experi
ence over again through the the re
mainder of their lives. The money
value of an improved farm may often be
as much as it costs to improve it; but
such a farm will rarely sell for as much
as it is worth to bold. The fact that
a man has only one life to live makes
it worth his while, aa far as possible,
for him to spend it aa pleasantly as pos
sible. If a man sets out to be a
farmer it makes ail the difference in the
world whether he farms it with con
venient and pleasant surroundings and
amid the comforts of civilization, or
roughs it on the frontier, beginning to
enjoy the comforts of this world only
as he is about to leave it.
This is the strong argument for
for making homes in the other States.
The same reasoning is. however, quite
as c inclusive in any locality for pur
chasing the most highly improved land,
which for homo purposes, is always
most valuable in proportion to its
cost.
Whatever improvement has been
made upon a given farm, still a good
farmer will always find room for more.
Usually the improvements made after
the first clearing of land pay better
than those which through necessity
everybody is forced to make. No
farmer will leave bis land in an un
changed condition after occupying it a
few years ; while a good farmer will
always leave it in better shape. How
it shall be improved must depend some
what on his available capital, as well as
on his natural skill and aptitude. With
good management, the improvements
that add most to the value of a ferm
need not be very expensive. Granting
that the farm will pay its own expen
ses and provide support for the farmer
and his family, ho can do much of the
work of improvement himself.
An example from real life illustrates
the manner in which this may be ac
complished. A young man just twen
ty-one years of age purchased a farm,
paying therefor SCO per acre. His first
woik of improvement was to plant 150
peach tree*, occupying about an acre of
ground. The third year after planting
he so!d from this acre 100 bushels of
peaches for as many dollars. In the
five years succeeding, he sold from this
same orchard upwards of $1,500 worth
of fruit. This encouraged him, and
he made a second peach orchard of aix
actes, besides planting an apfffe orchard
of 30 acres, 5 acres of quince trees, and
4 of pears of different varieties. Hie
rale was to make the farm crops pay
all expenses and invest bis fruit money
in more orchards. When be bad the
farm eighteen years be had an assured
incomo of $2,000 to $5,000 a year from
fruit alone. Then he had an offer,
which ho regarded as a good one, re
ceiving $210 an acre for his improved
lartn. The large part of this advance
in value he had earned by improving his
farm. His reason for selling was that
the farm was larger than he wished to
care for, and he regarded some of
his selections of frnit
unfortunate. He now bas a place of
less than fifty acres, of which ten acres
are in Duchess pesrs, seven acres in
quinces, twelve in peacbes, nearly all
early and late Crawfords. The trees
have only been set seven years, but the
farm would now readily sell for $300
per acre, yet its owner regards it as
worth more to hold.
Many other arguments will be sug
gested to the casual reader in favor of
making & farm, in a neighborhood ad-
jaoent to good local markets, accessible
to manufacturing centres, where a daily
demand exists for milk, fresh butter,
vegetables, fruits and similar farm pro
ducts, from which the husbandman can
extract a profit far beyond that which
attends the growing of the coarse
grains and live stock on the Western
praries. Good roads, fine educational
privileges, established neighborhoods,
opportunities r or social and friendly in<-
tercourse. proximity te kindred and
early friends are all strong arguments
in favor of making a farm by improv
ing the paternal acres or these in close
vicinity, instead of sacrificing the best
years of one's life to the vain attempt
of securing double the area of land and
double the happiness in some distant
seotion of the country.—American Cul
tivator.
WAATtU SPIRITUAL AID.
A MAN WHO PRATED FOR STRENGTH
ENOUGH TO WHIP A “NIGGER.”
The Rev. Mr. Eagle sat in his study
preparing a sermon on the “Divine
Mission of Moses,” when Bill Blake
entered without eeremony. Blnke’s
face did not wear a happy expression.
“How do you d«, air,” said the min
ister arising. “What is your name,
please ?”
“I am Bill Bluke, the boxer of Dry
Fork. I don’t reckon you recollect
me 7”
“No, I don’t think that I ever had
the pleasure of meeting you before.”
“Some time ago,” said the visitor,
seating himself and wiping hia face
with a tidy cat design, worked by a
young lady and presented to the rever
end gentleman, “you come out to Dry
Fork and got up a revival”
“Yes, I remember.”
“Yes, I reckon so. You persusded
ms to come up to the bench, and I
staid till you pulled me through. I
shouted as loud as anybody aud done
everything I could for the coneern.”
“Oh, yes, I remember now ; it was a
bright conversion.”
“And when I jined the church you
talked to me a loDg time about the
wickedness of the world. You said
that whenever I was weak, to pray and
I would receive strength. Well, the
other day I had occasion to fight a nig
ger. He was too strong for me, and
beat me up pretty bad. Remembering
what you said, I went off and prayed
for more strength. Then I taekledthe
nigger agin, but he whipped me. Then,
thinkin' that I hadn’t prayed with
enough heat, I prayed agin, and agin
tackled the Digger, but he got away
with me. Then 1 found out that the
nigger bad been prayin’, too. Now sir,
I want to know if a nigger is to have
more influence that I’ve got. I know
that he got strength, for each time he
hit me harder. It struck me that I
didn’t git the right kind of religion, and
as my reputation as a boxer depends on
whuppin’ that nigger, I thought I’d
come ia and git you to pray for me.
Wish you’d represent hew important it
is for me to vrhup the fellow. Throw,
in a few words about my standin’
among the neighbors, and I don’t
mind if you say that I’ve al’ers voted
the straight ticket.”
“I cannot grant your absurd request
my friend,” exclaimed the minister.
“Such a thing is unheard of among
civilized people.
“You don’t seem to get at the spirit
of the thing,” said the visitor, leaning
over and spitting on the floor. “But
can’t you write me a pra’r 7 Just say
hiw important it is for me to get away
with the nigger. Throw in something
about pood crops and thankfulness, and
many blessings, and wind np by request
ing strength enough to lay the nigger
out.”
“You shock me, sir, and I greatly
desire to be left alone.”
“Wall, parson, I’ll have to try my
hand on you, 1 reckon. Git down and
pray for me, or I'll have to mix with
yon. You led me into this thing and
you’ve got to help me out. Git down
now and send np a few petition!.”
“You are blasphemdRs, sir. Leave
my presence.”
“I’ll have to jump on jou, captain.’'
“Are yon going 7”
“I say I’ll kave to mingle with you.”
“All right,” exclaimed the minister,
and pulling out a drawer he seized a
pisnel. Don’t be in a harry,” remarked
the preacher, cocking the weapon.
“Yas, I’ve got to go. Reckon I’ll
have to take out license to preach be
fore I can get away with the nigger.
Good day.” and the minister was alone.
Smiling blandly, he returned the pistol
and resumed his sermon.
Fhe Mexican veterans, in session at
Nashville, 7eno.. last week marched in a
body to the residence of Mrs. James K*
Polk, and paid their respects to that ven
erabielady. Mrs Polk was attired in a
handsome black silk drees, and held in her
band an old-fashioned feathered fan She
woro an appropriate head-dress, and at her
throat a likeness of her illustrious husband.
Many of the veterans were accompained by
their wi ves and daughter*.
If those who are euemies of inno
cent amusement bad the direction of the
world, they wonld take away the spring
and youth, the former from the year
and the latter from human life.
Cattaa PlcUlaR.
Jast now, many of the leading fami
lies are in a dreadful fix. Nearly all
the “colored wash and oook ladies,”
they call themselves, have quit work
and have gooe oat eotton picking,
which is, temporarily, more remuner
ative. An industrious eotton picker!
can scoop in between three and foui
hundred pounds of fleecy staple of the
sunny south in one day, which at
reventy-fivs cento a hundred ia pretty
good wages. The colored “oook lady”
is always mere or lass sassy,” but as
the cotton picking season approaches
she becomes also laterly sublime in
her impudenee, and this is, also, ap
plicable to the colored gentleman who
has se far forgotten himself as to become
a menial for high wages. As the cottoi
picking season advances, the pay fo;
the eotton also climbs up like the ther
mometer on a hot dry. Farmers com
to the cities and hire their eotton!
picking force. We heard a good story
of how a farmer got even with a lot
city darkeys, who were disposed
take advantage of him. He had en
gaged them to pick cotton at fifty cents
per hundred, and when he esme for
them with hia wagon they notified him
that they would not go +or less than
sixty cents. He finally yieded, and
told them to be ready, as he would be
back in a few minutes. When he got
back they raised oa him again. They
kept this up until they asked a dollar
a hundred. He reflected a few moments,
and then said: “Very well, I’ll pay
what you ask. Now jump into my wa
gon, aud I’ll take you oat to my farm.”
They piled into the wagon in high spir
its at having e^rried their point.
The farmer also seemed to be very
cheerful, and whistled a merry roun
delay.
'.Boss ain’t we nebber gwine to come
to dat eotton pateh 7” asked one of the
darkeys after they had driven about
fifteen miles.”
“We will be there pretty soon; now.
Finally the wagon halted. The far
mer got out, and drawing a pistol.
“Now you all pilo out of that wagon
and foot it back to Austin,” and he
drove off, leaviug the ambitioua cotton
pickers in the middle of a ten mile
prairie, seventeen miles from town.
The Beautiful Comet in the East.
A man wt.o remembers the great comet
of 1858 declared yesterday that the comet
now visible in the morning sky is more
beaatifol than its famous predecessor. It
is not so long, but it is brighter. But for
the presence of the aeon the tail weald
probably appear considerably longer, aa
well as more brilliant. A remarkable feat
ure of the tail, which was clearly seen yes
terday morning, ia a narrow, dark rift run
oir*g through its entire length.* With a
telescope this dark channel can be traced
close up te the bright, planetary head.
The chaoge in color which the comet un
dergoes as it rises is very interesting.
When its hand is just clear af the horizon
ita*iines with a reddish, flickering light,
tha upper dart of the tail being light yel
low. As the morning twilight begins to
appear and the comet gets above the mists,
all trace of redness disappears aud the head
exhibits a clear whila fight, while the tail
assumes a silvery hue. Th* remarkably
sharp outliues of the tail, especially on
the southern side, attract the attention ot
all observers. Tha southern or lower edge
of the tail is brighter than the other edge
towards which it fadea off, thus giving it
the'appearance of a gigantic feather. At
times bright flashes seam to extend for
some distance toward the end of the tail.
The telescope shows a mass of nebulous
matter surrounding the head, appearing to
be banked ap in front sad parting and
flowing back on each side to farm the tail
aa if the comet were ploughing its way
through a luminous aea, leaving a great
wake of light behind it. But in fact it is
moving away from the snu, tail first, and
this makes it clear that the tail ia tha re
sult of some repulsive force exerted by the
sun,which drives the material ot the tail
abend of the solid nucleus, jnat asastrong
wind drives the smoke of a steamship ahead
of the vessel.
The comet will probably be well seen
during all of this week. It ia ao interest
ing and beautiful that if aa enterprising
showman could only build a fence around
it, and so shut it out from the sight of
those who did not pay to see it, he would
unquestionably make a fortaue out of the
gate money, even though his patrons bad
to rise an hour before the sun. But it
doesn’t cost a cant to behold this marvel-
oas wanderer of the skies, which may have
come uncounted billions of miles te pay
•ur solar system a visit.
VOL. 12.—NO. 2.
Dr. Dosem, an Austin physical, was
called on to attend old Uncle Mose, Who
drives a dray.
“Yon have been gorging yourself with
green watermelons for dinner,” said the
physidau, feeling the patient's pulse.
“Hew de debbel did yer find dat out
—by feelin’ my pulseses T”
“No, but by seeing the watermelon rinds
under the bed.”
“For God’s sake," said the old man
raising himself np in bed. “you am de know-
inist man in Austin. Heah old ’oman,
take dat ole harness from under de bed,
or die beah medicinal gemman am gwir.e
ter treat me fer eatin’ a mule for dessert
to settle my stomach. I ain’t teched a
watermelon in foah weeks. Hit’s rheiima-
tiz what ails me. I’se de most rheuma-
tickv ole niggah in Texas at nis season ob
de yeah.”—Texas Siftings.
A llard Com. If True.
A colored Georgia convict tells this
story; “1 worked in a barber shop in
Gainesville, and one day a negro cam* in
aud wanted a shave and hair cut. He
lacked five cent; of having the money with
which to pay me and pawned with me a
ring that I took to be brass. A man who
keeps a confectionary in Gainesville saw
me with the ring and said that it wad his
wife’s. It turned out that somebody had
broken into the shop and stolen the riug,
and as I had it in my possession and conld
not show ap the man that I got it from, I was
convicted and sentenced to one year. The
was worth about $4. I shall go ou to the
penitentiary, and I expect by good behav
ior to come out before the 12 months ex
pire."
—» —
“Chet” Crosses the Jane-
Philadelphia Record.
President Arthur is believed to be the
first President of the United States who
entered the limits of* foreign country dur
ing his term of office. It is understood
that bis yacht crossed the dividing line in
to Canada last waeek through an ominous
passage known as Lost Channel. Senator
David Davis will be entitled hereafter to
be known as ex-President Davis, since dur
ing President Arthur's absence ia foreign
waters, Senator Davis was the de jure
President.
Billie Chandler's Chums.
Sere Torlc Am.
It is understood that the chams are ‘di
vided up into First Chum, second Chum.
Third Chum, and so on; and the Deputy
Chums and the Sub Chums are to be simi
larly vivided, though concerning this Chan
dler is understood to be cogitating. One
idea keeper of the President's flag. At
present it is understood to be in Commo
dore Walkers possession. The importance
of providing a permanent custodian for the
thing is generally felt, and decidedly in
sisted on by Walker, its author sod inven
tor.
The future for the South ia unde
niably bright. Everywhere, on every
hand, in everything that tells of the
tide in iudnatrial affairs there are signs
of a vigorous, pulsating prosperity not
to be mistaken. Of course there are
hundreds of thousands of people in the
South who have not yet perceptibly
felt the renascent influence that is
showiog itself mostly in thu cities and
towns along the the lines of the rail
road, and in the mining and manu
facturing districts. Bat the time is
coming, and it is not distant either,
when the humblest household of the
poorest surviving soldier in this south
ern land will be visited by a glow of
sunshine, to ehase away the shadows
that have been darkening the doorwmy
to his hearth as well as hia heart so
long. In the name of heaven, and of
humanity, no mote it be—Southern
Cultivator.
WIT AMD WISDOM.
How n carrier, in throwing a newspaper
over a transom, can always manage to
make it fall in of water, is something
that cannot be explained by modern phil
osophers.
Mr. Vanderbilt is ironbled just at pres
ent wi|b fears that upon getting into the
other world be will neither be able to bay
dp the furnace nor bribe the present pro
prietor.
He camu home the other night in the
.drizzlingrain, soaked iosideas well as oat.
‘What excuse hare you te offer,” said his
better half, “for earning home in such a
beery condition T” “None, my dear," waa
hia answer, “ ’cept ’twas a very muggy
day.”
A Tittle girl read a composition before
the minister. The subject was “A Cow.”
She wove in this complimentary sentence:*
“A cow is the most useful aDimal in the
world except religion.”
The mistress gently reprimanded her
maid for oversleeping herself in the morn
ing. “Yon see, ma’am,” explained the
rvant, “I sleep very slowly, and so you
see it takes me much longer to get my fall
sleep than it does others, you see, ma’am.”
De hardest nut ter crack has de sweetest
kerfial. Between de fear ob de debil an’
de joy ob redemption de ignorant nigger
loan know which way to turn. Howeber,-
de chickin: ain’t.altergedder safe.
A preacher aud a merchant swapped
ws last Saturday. Both of them
think they know a good piece of cow
flesh when they see it, and each one
boasted to his friends what a good trade
he had made; but when milking time
came, they changed their tone. The
preacher’s new cow kicked the shingles
off of the stable, and the merchant’s
cow tore down bis lot fence running
from the milker. They arc both
anxious to dis-Spcnce with the trade.
Cattle Raining ia Texas.
To illustrate the profits of eattle raising
in Texas, we take the liberty ef publish^,
ing a brief estimate of the success attained
by a friend of ours during the past eight
years. In 1873, the gentleman referred
to owned about 3,000 cattle which he off
ered with his horses, ranche.etc., for $25,-
000, but could find no purchaser, and was
forced to hold on to his cattle. I.aft year
hesold from this Barae stock $100,000
worth of beef, and th>s year has contract
ed to one party over $100,000 worth of
beevrs. In addition, be expected to sell
and ship this season $50,000 worth of beef
out of the stock, making his sales this year
over $160,000, and still has left oa his
range 30,000 head ef cattle, 400 head uf
horses, outfits, etc., amounting to ever
$400,000. $400,000 worth of stock and
probably half that amount in cash from a
$25,000 stock in eight years is convincing
evidence that there is money in cattle busi
ness in Texas. These figures are not ex*
aggerations, but are gives from facts; snd
of our knowledge no part of this remark
able success has been due to speculation,
but to the simple legitimate increase of
of this stock the plan pursued during
these eight years being to sell annaafiy s
lot of beeves and at once re-invest the
money thus received in young cattle. The
estitimates in cattle raising which wa have
published from time to time are eclipsed
by the above actual experience. It should
be borne in miod that the result ef $650,-
000 from an investment of $55,000, is ah'
taioed by the yearly re-investment of espi'
tal.—Texas Live Stock Journal.
The Hood Children.
Mr Burns, secretary of Hood’s brigade
association, is in receipt of the following
letter giving an account of the Hood chil
dren :
Westchester, N.Y., Sept. 20,1881 Robert
Burns, Esq., Secretary Hood’s T exas. Bri
gade, Houston, Texas :
Dear Sir.—I write in behalf of my
brother-in-law, John A. Morns whose
her 1th for some'months past has been so
uncertain as to interfere very materially
with hia coireapdud«fle«^-H^de»iroe me
to acknowledge the receipt ofyHUF Jettef—
of the 28th of April last, and to give yov,
aa you request, some information regarding
the children of the late Gen. Hood. These
are all, I am happy to say, exceedingly weil
placed. The eldest, Iwin girls of twelve
years of age. are being educated by Mr.
Morris himself in Hanover, Germany,
whence bis own children have returned
after a sojourn there of several years.
John Bell, the eldest boy, ten years old. has
been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Russell, of
Mississippi, and we frequently receive the
best account, of his health and happiness.
Duncan iZobert, aged nine years, is now
at school near Saratoga, New York, where
his expenses are defrayed by Miss Furniss,
a wealthy maiden lady of New York, with
whom he spends his vacations at her beau
tiful summer home in Lennox, Massachus
etts Lillian and Marian, twin girls of eight
years, are the adopted and beloved chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs Thatcher Adams, of
New York city .Mind Odile aud Ida, aged
six years, also twins, have been taken by
Mr. aud Mrs. McGee, of Woodville. Mss-
sachesetts, where they have a very lotely
and happy borne. Oswald, the next in or
der, a boy of nearly five years, bas been
adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Harney, of New
York who last summer took the child to
visit all hiB father’s relatives in Kentncky,
and who are devotedly attached to their
youngebarge. Anna Gertrude, the youDg-
eat. after haviog been taken by Mrs.
Josephs, of Georgia, died two years since
from teeth; ug, at the age of oneyear. All
of those who have adopted these children
are tbemselvea childless, save only Mr.
and Mrs. Morris, and thus the little bovs
and;giris have the undivided love and de
votion of their new parents. They are
each and every one fine children, handsome
intelligent and fall of character, and there
is every reason to hope that they will do
honor to their blood and make fine men
and women. I remain, dear sir. 7erj truly
yonrs, Eva Hesses Hard iso.
