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BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9; 1883.
Etobfh- BREVITIES.
YOL XII--NO. 43.
Governor lias signed the
niained Confeder-
raij ,u,, c
y er - from poll *<tx.
baThw 11 introduced in
„ f ,jre making it a ]>oni-
, 0$e to soil lnpior to a
4 drunken man. J
Uii
Union Company,
..... • ite telegraph office
-\. ; . K1 lii no one remains to
fork there except a little
it : iv: at cl that the corn crop
c'-i Inis cut off one-
drought, hut that a
•v for home use will he
,,»ro man was attempting
fc-rr a
r. from a building.
i Anted, lie loosened a brick
iJ!. struck him on the
,„(] fractured the hone
:r .v !cr in North Carolina
l. a r Wayucsvillo a church
|. n l n I'cct liigli, with a pine
malo from one tree,
• was enough lumber left
ce the churchyard.
K. Tripp, of Ward’s sta-
i Saturday last, by some
[fa took an overdose of mor-
rhicli 1 ml for the timely
and skilled treatment
rman, must have result-
L her death.
Arp
never wrote a wiser
tiiis: ‘‘Close ob-
s say there is a
r ak in every man, and I
■is, but I know some
ve managed to hide it lor
:;:er.rs and they are hiding it
|! reckon we will hear of it
sir tomb stones/"
rti Georgia Citizen: It is
it wolves infest the wildest
. •; isolated localities of the
A range of mountains to
state of Dalton. Frequently
loneliness of night their
mill howls have been heard,
sore than once, emboldoned
: ,vr. they have made de
mons upon the barnyards of.
in the neighboring val-
Tni justice is dealt out by
i courts a little while
f r -it has been this year,
• r iH decrease rapidly, for
1 will realize the fact that
1“ vailaltp tha laws they will
jnvictetl. and conviction now
? punishment : for Governor
i does not deal in senti-
• »r.d petitions tor pardon are
rd. unless it is shown that
•:on was wrongfully ob-
!t scramble I or tne Supreme
•badge hip is both disgrace-
ting, and the legis-
'' >aoi dl leave each of the
a ? a Indicants “out. in the
‘’. l ®et a man conspicu
his silence and his fitness,
filiations and complica-
tuu-red into by candidate®
■kusually such as will leave
[•came spotless, if such men
V|; ‘ >s a had commentary
times that gentlemen must
I}., fsuldron of a political
If'°ra seat on the Su-
The approaches to
■“■i.ue iisclf. Thus only can
tserved the dignity, the puri-
; saiutity of this highest
4 -diacu ijdiia Chronicle says
has been shown by tele-
" sports that a system as
~ te au,, ‘ extensive as that of
Union can be built
‘ out ‘-iy of §9,000,000 by the
mai^nt itself. If the abuses
ffi'fation service cannot be
‘■'1 and th e Government
• a> ne less of two evils—for
, n ‘ ut telegraphy would
* at;. i—establish a system
, * Vn I be Treasury can be
i: b' ^.'d of by constructing
_ ai( ‘‘> than by buying out the
V ‘ Q *- “i 011 at what would be
^ ■ ur >- to be an exhorbitaut
The Florida Trade.
The New Orleans Timea-Demo-
crat just, before the completion of
the Pensacola and Atlantic Rail
road drew altentmn to the oppor
tunities this new highway would
afford the Cresent City to secure
a large share of the trade of Flori
da. It published a list of promi
nent merchants in various parts of
that .State and urged prompt ac
tion in the premises upon the
part of the business men of New
Orleans. Our contemporary in a
recent issue took up tlie theme
again and made the visit of Judge
W. II. So bring, of Bronson, to
New Orleans upon a commercial
mission the subject of an article
reiterating the importance of en
tering this new field of trade. It
urged that New Orleans has now
as quick access to Florida as Sa
vannah, and claims that the larger
cities can offer a better market for
the sale of Florida products and
tbe purchase of supplies from the
West. It pfbposes as the means of
making sellers and buyers better
acquainted the institution of free
cursions from Florida points to
New' Orleans and vice verso.
There can be no doubt that the
merchants of New Orleans will
not be slow to see the force of our
contemporary’s counsel, and it
behooves the busines men of Sa
vannah to see to it that none of
the F lorida trade that they have
enjoyed is diverted to the Cresent
City. Indeed, there i^o reason
whv Savannah should flil increase
her Florida tiade. New Orleans
will acquire some trade in Flori
da, of course, but Florida is a
prosperous Slate, and the volume
of her trade is rapidly increasing.
— Soviinnah Nrws.
Tne Florida trade is important,
and it is increasing annually, and
unless our Savannah iriends pur
sue a different policy to that
which lias prevailed for several
years past, they will find that New 7
Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola
will acquife the “lion’s share” of
the cotton and business of Middle
Florida, of which Savannah has
had a monopoly for many years.
Their “diummer” policy has serv
ed them well, for the reason that
there has been no competing city
to which our business men bad
direct communication, but the
glib tongues of their commer
cial tourists’ wagged over
What shall our Young Men I»o.
A friend came into The Consti
tution office a few days ago and
said: “My son lias just finished
college; I want to get him into
business, and I want you to help
me. I have plenty of land, but
fanning don’t pay, and my son
prefers some other business. The
professions are over crowded, and
I think if lie can get a situation in
some business house he will do
better. He is a steady boy, will
ing to work and has no bad habits.
I have no money to set him up in
business on his own account, and
besides x prefer to let him learn
something about it before I risk
any money, as so many men fail
in business. 4 ’
There is no doubt that half the
farmeis in this state who have
sons just starting in life are on the
same mission, and it is a great
mistake. Any man that has five
hundred acres of land in Georgia
to give his soruis able to leave him
ina better fix for living, if there
is anything in the boy, than if he
had ten thousand doliars in bank
stock, rxiiroad stock or money, to
give him.
Not one man in twenty-five
succeed in a profession*; not one in
twenty succeed as a merchant or
trader. No man who sticks to
his business and attends to it fails
at farming when he has the laud
to begin with. YVe know' no bet
ter mission for an energetic, well
educated youn^man than to take
monster sample trunks, will
no longer suffice to
hold the trade of this section.
The cotton reports for the year
18*2-'3 show a falling off in the re
ceipts of cotton at Savannah, and
the discovery of the fact recently
created some alarm in that city ;
and unless systematic efforts are
made to retain the business of this
count* 7 , at the end of the cotton
season of lSS3-'4 there will be a
greater deficiency in receipts.—
Monti'-ello (Eli.) Constitution.
We are glad to see the Florida
press falling into our train in this
matter—for it enunciates, sub
stantially, the grounds previously
taken by us—so far as they are
applicable to that section. Savan
nah has not appreciated us in past
years as she should have done, and
as she must do if she hopes to re
tain our business. Besides New
Orleans there are Pensacola and
Mobile, both of which have been
doing be! ter for us than Savannah,
in some lines of goods. As soon
too, as this fact becomes gener
ally kuown and fully appreciated
Savannah will realize it iH no un
certain manner.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, a
leading lawyer of Baltimore, lias
written a letter to the striking
telegraphers, indorsing their
movement. In it he says that
when a number of working men
and women demand higher wages
from a corporation which pays 7
percent dividend on SSO.OOO.UOO of
watered stock, and the stock does
not represent $15,000,000 ot real
money, the case is too plain for
argument. No corporation has
the right fo tax the public, at its
own discretion, to absorb a mass I
of taxes thus levied, and to reluse ;
to pay just compensation to the;
people by whom its enormous
profits are gathered.
The lightning entered the tele
graph office in Athens, on the tele
phone line during the display of
electricity Tuesday evening, and a
flash set on fire some paper that
was lying on. the table. Liglitn
ing also struck two trees on the
lower part of the campus, and tore
them up fearfully.
rive-hundred acres of Georgia land
and make it do its best. Let him
start out with the determination
to succeed; let him work and see
that every one around lum works;
let him continue from day to day,
trom w r cek to week, and month to
month, to add improvements
to his land; keep out of debt, and
all lie makes more than a support
let him add to this land in per
manent improvements. He will
rind in ten or fifteen #ears, as he
begins to gather a family around
him, that his land has increased
in value—triat he is interested in
his home, in ins farm, in his s ;oek—
that his children are healthy and
independent and happy ; in short
that he is a successful citizen, who
has made himself comfortable and
added immensely to the prosperi
ty ofliis state. The hope of our
state is that the large farmers will
divide up their plantations among
their children (not forgetting a
good education, for that Is just as
important for a fernier as for a
professional man); that tiieir chil
dren will keep up with tho prog
ress of file age in improving their
places—sticking with fideli
ty to one fact, and that is to make
everything they can for home use,
and buy only such tliidgs as are
absolutely necessary and which
they cannot make themselves.
There is no greater fallacy than
that embodied in the idea that
farming doesn't pay. Fifty years
ago it took one bushel of com to
buy a pound of nails, now it will
buy twenty pounds. Fifty years
ago it took thirty dozen eggs to
buy a bushel of salt, now one
dozen eggs will buy a bushel of
alt. In 1816 jt required sixty-four
bushels of barley to buy one yard
of broadcloth, now five bushels is
a large price to pay for it, with all
the protection ol our present tariff'
Then it took a bushel of wheat to
buy a yard of calico, now you can
buy fiity yards, Then it took the
price of a cow to buy a pair of
woolen blankets, now you can get
twenty pairs superior in every
way for tlm j^rice of a good cow.
The purchasing power of the pro
ducts of our soil has increased en
ormously and this increase is in
every direction. It demonstrates
beyond doubt that there is money
in farming properly. A man must
exercise judgment, be iadustrous
and economical to succeed, but if
he cannot do this, be will fail at
anything. It is the duty of every
lanu-owner in this state to instill
into his children the neecessity of
looking alone to his land for a
effect the industrious farmer
who is out of deU with a
good house to live in. There is
no happier man in our state to-day
than an industrious, economical,
contented educated farmer, The
Great Creator's idea of happiness
for man was the Garden of Eden.
And all the evils that followed are
the result of a desire to improve
on what God then made perfect,
and from that day to this man's
happiest days were spent at home
on a farm that he had beautified
w.th his own labor, eating his own
bread under his own vine and fig
tree.
Let our young men who are look
ing for a situation after going
through college make up their
minds to take the land their father
is willing to give, Let him re
solve to make a living cn it, and
to add the surplus each year to its
improvement. Diversify the crops
on it, select that which pays the
best, raise good stock, fruits, etc.,
and every yeaf make the land you
Cultivate better than it was before
and we are willing to risk your
condemnation if you fail,
The Agricultural Bureau
Macon Telegraph.
Is in trouble—very serious
trouble to tbe head of that de
partment. This is not the first
time it lias been in truoble. Some
years since the chief of the Bureau
found it convenient to resign, as
officers of the army are permitted
to do in the very face of a court-
martial. A special telegram from
Atlanta on Thursday night con
tained the information that, the
committee now investigating the
Agricultural Department had dis
covered a gress violation of law
and an unauthorized use of the
public funds. The present com
missioner is charged with having
employed four clerks in place of
the one allowed him by law.
The charge is a grave one and if
sTGTaineff should cause the speedy
removal of the commissioner of
Agriculture, it is further stated
j^iat the inspectors of fertilizers
e unable to produce clear and
satisfactory exhibits. One these
officials is charged up with 24,000
guano tags which lie cannot ac
count for. Perhaps he may find
some of them in this neigh boihood.
A firm that handled large quanti
ties of commercial fertilizers,
have informed us that they have
a large bag full of these tags.
The farmer, poor soul, supposes
that these tags are attached only
to sacks of guano which have un
dergone full and satisfactory in
spection, according to law. It
would appear that they have been
dealt out in large quantities and
in such a way that they might be
attached to bags of sand or ashes
or common or “precious dirt.”
The showing so far made is ugly
and should stimulate the commit
( ee to the most vigorous and
searching examination on all
points.
The present Commissioner of
Agriculture is a legacy from the
Colquitt administration. Howls
and interviews should not deter
the committee from using the knife
freely to expose the rottenness of
I the subject upon which they are
engaged. The oeople desire and
demand the truth, and the whole
truth.
Senator Butler on Ne^ro Labor.
News and Courier.
Senator Butler said that this
was the great question for the
farmer. We should not mince
matters in this discussion. The
labor of this country is becoming
more and more unsettled every
year. There has been no time
since 1SG5 when the labor ha
been more reliable than now. It
is admitted bv the colored men
even that those horn since free
dom are becoming more and more
worthless. We must get a supply
of this dcficieucy. We could safe
Jy spai'e tno hundred thousand of
the negro laborers. Let them go
into Kansas and elsewhere if they
wish. We could follow the ex
ample of Mr. Crayton and get Ger
mans. There is too much cheap
labor. Some have been driven by
necessity to procure machinery
and us; it themselves. Thev have
not 10 mouths now to feed vs here
they should have had one.' Ex
perience is good for all, Go-upon
the farms and give them personal
supervision. Land in New Jersey
which was worth $1 per acre is now
worth 8100.00 per acre. He
was sorry to believe that the la
borers we have are not making
progress in this country 7 . The
white race cannot afford tc be
handicapped by such a drag upon
them, and must use all labor-sav
ing machines and get rid of an
army of drones. There is no
question of sq much consequence
to the progress of the State. There
should be no question between
capital and labor. No question is
so grave as that of maintaining
the efficiency of our labor. There
is no more beneficent purpose for
the use of brain than the tilling of
the soil. No field ot discussion
calls for more thought nor is more
worthy of the consideration of a
high order of intelligence.
War.
We are not prepared to say that
the Department of Agriculture
should be abolished, if it shall be
proven that it has been run in the
interest of individual® in p'ace of
those of the public, and it shall
be shown that it was one branch
of an extensive and powerful
political ring. But if the charges
already made public are sustained
by competent proof, the Com
missioner and all hands should
go, and go at once. The General
Assembly in its wisdom may per
haps, reorganize the thing on a
wiser and more practical basis.
Il may possibly be made to bene
fit the agricultural interests of the
State. But the head ol'the bureau
should be elected by the people,
his term should begin and end
with that of the Governor, and
the latter officer should have su
pervision and control of the un
derstrappers who tag guano and
brand oils, who inspect, test and
collect and handle the publie
monies.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature to establish a board of
assessors in each county to secure
; an honest return of the property
in this State. An important bill,
living. It is the most reliable; j anc j should pass without opposi
panics may come but they will not' tiou.
A Singular Incident of th
Petersburg (Ya). Index-Appeal.
In the early part of 1864 a short
but spirited fight occurred at a
pl^e in East Tennessee called
Dandridge between a pa't of
Longstreet’s corps and a consider
able force of Federal cavalry.
Man} 7 were killed on both sides.
—Among the Confederate dead
was a man named Seaford, fi'om
North Carolina, who had been a
a professor of mathematics in one
the colleges ot that State, and who
was one of the finest-looking men
we ever saw. He Was a private
in the Washington Light Infantry
from Charleston, S. C., and would
not accept a commission, though
it was tendered him several times.
He was buried on. the spot where
he was killed, and his comrades
returned to their quarters—sever
al miles away. About two weeks
after the light a letter came to his
address. The captain of the com
pany opened it, and if proved to
be from a young lady to whom
Seaford was engaged to be mar
ried. * It was written on the very
day 7 the fight occurred at Dari-
dridge, related a dream the writer
had just had, in which she saw
Seaford lying dead on the battle
field shot through the breast—de
scribing the death wound exactly
as it was and even the topography
of the field, though she had never
seen it, and in all probability
knew nothing of the battle. She
begged him to send her a lock of
his hair as a sacred memento,
should anything happen to him.
Kainit, or German potash salts,
contains about 25 per cent, of sul
phate of potash, 14 per cent, of
sulphate of magnesia, 12 per cent,
of chloride of magnesia, 33 per
cent, of common salt, 15 per cent,
of moisture and slight traces of
other mineral. The amount of
pure potash contained in it is
about 12 per cent. From 300 to
400 pounds is a fair application for
an acre of land.
The New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat’s special boat, which is ex
ploring the Chattahoochee, Flint
and Apalachicola rivers, is ex
pected up this way soon.—Eujav.h
Times.
How to Foretell the Weather.
We reproduce the following
simple rules, because any one with
a slight effort can memorize them,
and will find them interesting and
perhaps a great profit:
The Farmer's Club of the
American Institute has issued the
following rules for foretelling the
weather. If farmers and others
whose bossiness is out doors and
depends upon the weather,
will study them closely
they will be able to guess the
weather more accurately than
Wiggins or Vennor.
1. When the temperature falls
suddenly there is a storm form
ing south of you.
2. When the temperature rises
suddunly there is a storm foiming
south of you.
4. The wind always blows from
a region of fair weather toward
a region where a storm is forming.
4. Cirrus clouds always move
from a region where a storm is in
progress to a region of fair weath
er.
>. Cumulus clouds always
Professional Cards.
DANIEL McGILL,
Attorney and Counsellor at K
BA1NBIUDUF., GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Courts of the Albaay
Circuit inJ elsewhere by speciil contrast.
July 28, 1883.—ly
MAST0H O’NEAL,
Attorney at La
EAINOKIDG*, GA.
Will practice in the Courts of
Albany t ircuit aud elsewhere by special
agreement.
July 26, 1SS3—ly.
CHARLES C. BUSH,
Attorney at Law,
COLQUITT, GA.
Prompt attention fivea to all business en
trusted le me.
JKO. E. DGMALSON,
Attorney and Counselor at Law;
move from a region of fair weath
er to a region where a storm is
forming.
6. Where cirrus clouds arc-
moving rapidly from the north or
northeast there will be rain inside
of twenty-four hours, no :■ • alter
how cold it is.
7 When cirrus eIon.> are
moving rapidly from the south or
southeast there will* be a cold
rain storm on the morrow, if it be
in summer, and if it be m winter
there will be a snow storm.
8. The wind always blows in a
circle around a storm, and when
it blows from the north the
heaviest rain is east of you; if it
blows from tbe south the heaviest
rain is west of you ; if it blows
from the east the heaviest rain is
south; if it blows from tbe west the
heaviest rain is nort h of you.
9. The wind never blows uuleas
rain or snow is falling within one
thousand miles of you.
10. Whenever a heavy white
frost occurs a storm is forming
within one thousand miles north
or northwest of vou.
A Steam Barge For Low Water.
Columbus Enquirer.
Just at this season of the year
the Chattahoochee river usually
runs so lowth2t it is next to an
impossibility for the steamers to
navigate it farther north than
Eufaula. It is in this condition
at present and the People’s Line
Steamers has been tied up and the
Rebecca Everingham, of the Cen
tral Line, does not venture farth
er up the river than Eufaula.
This slate of affairs often continues
several weeks and causes great
complaint among the busines men
and people along the river.
The officers of the Central Line
have determined, however, to do
the river business th s summer if
possible, and have decided to
purchree a steam barge to ply be
tween this city und Eufaula, mak
ing two trips a week, and connect
ing there with the Rebecca Ever
ingham. Captain George White-
side who has recently been com
manding the steamer Chatta
hoochee on the St John’s river
left this city yesterday for Mem
phis, where he expects to purchase
barge. This will be cheering
news to the merchants of this city'
and others who are interested.
The above aiticle contains a
valuable suggestion to Bainbridge
Albany and intermedia!e pomis.
The shoalv condition of Flint river
from this place to Albany is s It
that makes its constant navigation
impracticable by steamboats, but
steam barges might be run suci
cessfuily the year round. The
cost ot a steam barge would be
nominal, and we throw out the
suggestion for the consideration
f the thoughtful.
What dc Albany and Newton
say of the steam La -_*e ~ ■’gestion?
Offiee orer Ilintl’R stor«. Will pr«etie#
in Decatur &n<l aSjoininp countie*, ’U(
cUenhern bv special contract.
Feby 16,'l8S3.
D r
KED1CAL CARD.
E . J . M o r | • I
Kav rfiroovci liis effien to tbe dn(itiri;
formerly occupied by I>r, Harrell. Beai-
4e*ce on West street, south of Shotwall,
irhers calls at night will reach him.
J . c
DENTISTRY.
Curry, D
0. t.,
Can ho found daily at his office on Baatk
Broad siree*. up glairs, in £. JoltnaanV
bailding, where be is ready to attend to tho
want* of the public at reasonable rates.
dec-6-7R
DOCTOR M. L. BATTLE/
Dentist.
Office over Hinds Store, Weit aid*
ceert house. Has fine dental engine, an*
his
will h»Te everything to make his office
flrst-class. Terms cash. Office hours •
a. m. t« 4 p. ra. jan.lfitf
DR. L. H. PEACOCKj
Respectfully tenders his professional serf*
ices to the people of Bainbridge and rioiai-
tj.
Office over store of W. G. Broom k Co.'
Residence on West end of Broagktttt
street, where be can be found at night.
April C, 1881—
J nr. d. taj.bmt.
WJf. M. BAMtaLU
TALBERT & HARRELL
AttsrRey8 and Counselors at Law'/
BAINBRIDGE, QA.
Tho above have formed a coparti)arshilt
sader the firm name of Talbert k Harraif
fer the practice of law. Wit! practice id
all the courts of the Albany Circuit. QMck
aver Barnett’s atort.
August 14,1882.
ALBERT WINTER,
Real Estate and Collecting Agaaf;
BAINBRIDGB, GSORGIA.
I will be gl»4 to receive the patrsaagaaf
all wbe have property to eeU or raat, raf
collecting to make. All busiacss placed isi
nj hands will receivn prompt attention. 1
will look after wild lands, investigate fittea;
pay taxes and protect from tresspaosOra.
I propose to mak* ihe collection Of bad
claims a specialty. The worse the elaiaf
tbs more atiention I will give it.
Cerrcspondenca solicited.
Aag.l, 1882.
J S. CHAMBERLINE & CO.
Wholesale Fruit and Prodvc#
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
No. 6 Market St. and No. 5 CRaten St.,
BOSTOir, MACS.
Georgia Melons made a Speck ft y..
REFEHENCF3 :—Bichardros x Bwaerd,
^»ts., Boston and Savannah S. 5. O.,
Savannah, Gat J. C. Wisenhaker, Veldfsie,.
Ga ; J. A. Ously, Onsly, Ga ; T. F. HlacJt-
sbear, Tbomasville, Ga; J: H. Daniels;
Iliilen, Ga.
6ESTLEMEVS BARBER MJOQR,
SHARON HOUSE BLOCK,
BAINBIUDGZ, > . ; — OlQMlL
Eteps ihsrp rai'-, «. clean towels, elegaal
room, first-clays sober barbers. A sheet,'
shampoo or hair cut it here a laxary iUM
coats you no more than at a seeoaJ-Olaa4
shop.
S2IFF5S <St nz*.vsreai,
7 I'ropn ten.
LOANS OH IMPROVED LAX ft
We are prepared to undertake the
tiation of applications for loans fore terse
or, i of years 8ecared b J first mortgagn ea im-’
un C.op | proved lands in Decatur ccnnty Georgia ifll
The estimate of the e
of 1882-’83 places the v.eid P,t 7,- ' •n'^ats not exceeding one tkird efthai^
100,000 more bales ttrf was pro- j S|.
duced the preceding year. This j j^-aii applicant* must exhibit deed* t*
estimate is made in spite of the I ^ P r °P* rt J offered as security.
fact that the acreage of this year’s ! McGILL k O’NFAtL
plant is 1. 55 less than that of the j ******* f
year before. Tiffs comes in a Dissolution Notice,
great measure from breaking up Tbe law partnership b retofore
_ _
tbe plantation system, dividing “ n £ e V. ha la’of ifiwi
B (FXeal ih tnis day dissnWed by aatual'am;
sect. Either partner will attend t«i
Ihe large tracts into small farms,
where they are much better culti
vated.-
isbed business
July 11th, I8te.
DANIEL McHlL
M ASTON vwiSL
