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*' BTnm? j |{j[S-8 2 A YEAR, 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