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Preparatory to going North for my fall stock, I Will sell, for the next thirty days, my entire stock of summer clothing at. ACTUAL* COST. This, is;
a bona fide closing out sale, as the goods must be sold to make room for fall purchases. This sale will be for the Spot Cash only.
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Down With the Jute Trust.
As the season approaches, and
it is, even now, upon us, no subject is
of more interest to the cotton grower
ot the South, than the one of bagging.
Shall it be jute, or shall it be cotton ?
That is the question. And the planters,
from the Gulf to the most remote cot
ton field westward ; from the Rio Gran
de, to the cotton limit eastward, comes
the chorus: “Down with the jute
trust.” The Atlanta Constitution has
been interviewing Dr. McCume, the
head of the Alliance in the United
States. He says that jute must go,
“Are the farmers going to sustain
you ? ’ Asked the correspondent.
■ With a look of determination, Dr
MeCuuc replied:
“I am qpw just returning from a
trip through Arknusas, Louisiana,
Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. I
find the farmers everywhere settled
upon a fixed purpose of using cotton
bagging. In sections where merchants
have taken in stocks ot jute on com
mission and refuse to order cotton, the
farmers have decided to enclose their
cotton in rail pens, and to hold it
there until cotton bagging can be pro
cured. In other sections the mer
chant will be compelled to secure cotton
bagging in order to cnnblc them to
make collections from the cotton pro
ducers. In many places the wealthy
farmers will furnish funds to enable
those without commercial ci edit to
get their bagging. Let me tell yon
the situation in one sentence : The
farmers have stopped passing resolu
tions to use cotton bagging ‘if they can
get it,’ and now simply' pass resolu
tions expressing their determination
to use cotton bagging and none other.”
The interview is a long and inter
esting one, and it breathes, through
out, a slern determination to fight
the infamous jute trust to the bitter
end. -
The nrticle thus concludes:
This closed -the authorized state
ment made exclusively to the Consti
tution by the president of the Nationul
alliance, and it will bring cheer and
hope to tlio fireside of every farmer
in the south to learn that cool heads
and steady hands have already moved
them into the haven of success. Hut
four weeks more and the cotton fields
of the south will he white. At that
supreme moment the trial of strength
will he made. On the one side is the
trust, with its jute, robbing the farm
ers out of an average of eight pounds
on every hale, besides, the oxtortlon
on the bagging itself. On the other
side is the alliances, representing the
best manhood of the fields with its
cotton bagging, the use of which will
destroy the tare robbers as well as the
jute trust squeezers. On which side
are the men of tlm cotton fields? The
answer comes from evert- hill and
valley that the union of hearts and
hands will remain unbroken, and
that a firm front will he shown the
enemy. When a whole, people move
there is sure to be a revolution. The
tramp of determined men is already
heard, and when the face of nature is
cotton-white in September, the fnrm
ers will stand up ns the’ victors
in a cause both righteous and
patriotic. And the slogan whiidi
shall lead them to victory will be the
resolution passed to-day by the Ala
bama alliance, thus:
Resolved, That the members of the
Farmers’ Alliance of Alabama reiter
ate their determination to use pattoa
bagging for wrapping cotton, and
will under no circumstances use jute,
and that this resolution bo. transmitted
to the convention of the agricultural
commissioners of the southern states,
to meet in the city of Now \tark on
the Uth instant, and by that body he
presented to the New York cotton ex
change.
Knowing something of tho spirit
and determination o| the Alliance
men ol Thomas county, there is Jio
doubt about their standing square up
to the mark. It is a fight of life and
death with cotton groweisof the South.
They are grappling with one of the
most tnfamous combinations of the
day—the jute trust. Let every farm
er stand shoulder to shoulder and they
are certain to whip. There is no
back track for them to take. Let
them burn the bridges belling them
and cnlis* far the tyar agqinst jute.
Victory will crown them in the end.
Ihit it is going to require conceit of
action to achieve victory. An Alliance
man who dodges this issues, is a
burden tq his ortjer. He is too heavy
to carry. It has been said that far
mers cannot combine and agree tor
self-protection Let the Alliance dis
prove'this saying in their fl^t against
the men who taxed them so unmerci
fully last year on jute.
Stand together; in this lies the
secret of success.
The Life Elixir.
The London Telegraph has, be
come convinced that there is niore in
Dr. Ilrown-Sequard’s elixir of life than
skeptics arc willing to concede. It
says that “despite the sarcasm, gener
al and professional, with which the
recent experiments made by M.
ISrown-Scquard were greeted, there
seems to be, after all, some efficacy
in the ugly elixir vitas invented by the
aged and respected physiologist. A
young physician, Dr. Variot, who has
already been successful in removing
tattoo marks from the skins ot several
civilized savages, has been induced to
test the efficacy of M. Brown-Se-
quard’s ‘ life mixture.” He pestled
together portions of the flesh-tissues
of rabbits and guinea pigs; diluted
them with water, and injected the
compound thus obtained into the
bodies of three paupers, aged respect
ively su, 56, and 68. The men bad
never heard of M. BroWn-Seqnard’s
solution, and were merely told that
they were to be injected with
strengthening fluid. We have Dr.
Variot's word for it that his Ihrcc
patients, who, before being subjected
to the wonderful remedy, were weak,
worn, emaciated, and melancholy,
suddenly became strong, fresh, and
cheerful; took new views of life, and
altogether felt as if they had received
a new lease of existence. The expe
riment failed, however, on two other
subjects, but the indefatigable M.
Vaiiot is not 10 be defeated, and lie
intends to continue his trials, which
in time, will be communicated in all
their precision of technical detail to
the biological society.”
Longevity is held by philosophers
to be the supreme principle ; by which
is meant that the final end and aim of
all benevolent exertion is to increase
the life-time of every generation bey
ond the one preceding it. If M.
Brown Scquard has discovered an
elixir that can make tile blind sec, the
lame walk, and old age recover the
enthusiasm of its lost youth, lie has
set the world several centuries. When
youth can no longer iread dose upon
the heels ol age, to 'press it into the
grave, age may turn round and plant
kick for kick where it will do the most
good But if men and women get to
living forever— or within a lew years
of it—some other physiologist must
rise up to provide against a too rapid
multiplication of the species—other
wise the globe will become loo dense
ly populated -.-Times Union, Jackson
ville.
Shadows from the Past.
E. M. M., the Thomasville corres
pondent of the Constitution, in an in
teresting letter from St. Simon’s
Island to ^tliat paper, among other
things, says:
There are sonic points of great historical
interest on this island which may have been
alluded to before in the columns of The
Constitution. Just at the rear of the hotel
is a little salt marsh and beyond it a clump
of stunted trees. It is “Bloody Marsh," and
among those trees was fought the battle of
Bloody Marsh, when the traditions ot the
island say the English under Oglethorpe de
feated the Spaniards who had come up from
Femnndina.
The old oak, beneath which John Wesley
is said to hare preached his first sermon in
America, is still pointed out. It is a grand
and sturdy liveoak, afid looks as though it
might stand the storms for many centuries
to come. That was a curious congregation
the immortal Wesley addressed in the shad
ows of the old oak. The larger part of it
was Indians, we are told. There must also
have been present some of those brave En
glish cavaliers who settled on the coast of
Georgia and gave it its early greatness and
glory. Their descendants afterwards, under
the slave system, developed-all this coast
country, and the time was when Glynn
county could have bought out Fulton coun
ty ten times over. Near the Wesley oak,
on the bank of Frederica river are
the nnxs of old fort fhkdkrica.
It was built by Oglethorpe to guard the
month of the Altamaha river. The walls
were made mostly of a concrete formed from
broken oyster shells and oyster shell lime.
This material resembles the coquinia of St.
Augustine, and is as durable. There were
a few brick also used, and sonic of these
ban* wasted away and left the mortar be
tween them Intact, forming little rude rec
tangular cups; still the bricks were of good
quality. The fort was in two sections, one
being n hundred yards farther inland. There
is still there a rusty old gun that tells a won
derful story of endurance and courage of
those old-time pioneers and warriors. Won
der if they could rise from their grave* if
they would know their country. Then
Georgia spread its proud and unexplored do
main Westward even to the hanks of the
Father of Waters. Hum and slavery were
both forbidden. There was no Atlanta, or
Nashville, or Montgomery, or Memphis;
there were no railroads or steamboats or
telegraphs, no matches or cotton gins or
buggies. In those primitive days tin* now
proud city of Savannah, through whose
ports now Hows the commerce of many rich
and populous states, drew its supplies from
Frederica, among whose decayed walls the
fiddlers now piny, and nguin.-t which the
waves break mournfully and desolately.
Who shall sav Amehc.i has no ruins?
DON’T SPIT ON THE FLOOR.
A Philadelphia .statistician says the
.food consumed on one of tho large
steamships from New York to Liver
pool is »>s follows: Nine thousand
five hundred pounds of beef, -1000
pounds of mutton, HOD pounds of
lamb, 250 pounds of void, 1.10 pounds
of pork, U° pounds of pickled leg-of
pork, 000 pounds of corned tongue,
700 pounds of corned beef, 2000
pounds of fresh fish, 0i> pounds of
calves’ {hoi, 1« pounds calves’ heads,
450 fowls, 240 spring chickens, 120
ducks, 50 turkeys, 50 gecso, 000
squabs, .'!O0 tins of sardines, 800 plov
ers, 175 pounds of sausages, 1200
pounds of hum, 500 pounds of bacon,
10,000 eggs, 2000 quarts of milk, 700
pounds of butter, 410 pounds of cof
fee, 87 pounds of tea, 000 pounds
of auger, 100 pounds of rice, 200
pounds of barley, 100 jars of jam and
jelly, 50 bottles of pickles, 50 buttles
of sauces, 20 barrel: of apples, 14
ho403 of leptons, 18 boxes of oranges,
(i tous of potatoes, 24 barrels of flour.
That is a mighty close arrangement
which Col. Hawkins says he has made
with Urn Central. If auv swallowing
is to he done, it is not difficult to guess
which system will perform the gulping
act.
Transmutation of Cotton Seed.
Was there ever such a history as
that of the cotton seed 7 For seventy
years despised as a nuisance, and
burned or dumped as garbage ; then
lisenvered to be the very food for
which the soil was hungering, and re
luctantly admitted to the rank of util
ities ; shortly after win'd found to be
nutritious food for beast as well as for
soil, and thereupon treated with some-
tiling like respect. Oiieo admitted to
the circle of farm industries, it is
found to hold thirty-five gallons of
pure oil to the ton ; worth in its crude
sftte 814 to the toil; or 840,000,000
for the whole crop of seed. But then
a system was devised for refining the
oil up to a value of 81 a gallon, and
the frugal Italians placed a cask of it
at the root of ever olive tree and thru
defied the Iiorenn breath of the Alps.
! And then experience showed that the
ton of cotton seed was a better fertili
zer and a better stock food when
robbed of its thirty-five gallons of oil
than before; and that the bulls of the
seed made the best of fuel for feeding
the oil mill engine; and that the
ashes of the hulls scooped from the
engine’s draft had the highest com
mercial value as potash ; and that the
“refuse” of the whole made the best
and purest soap stock, to cany to the
toilet the perfumes of Lubiu or C'ol-
"ato,—Banker’s Monthly.
Mrs. Bunnett’s novel, “That l-ass
o' Lowry’s,” suggests to the Atlanta
Constitution the dubbing of Sullivan
‘‘That Lad o’ Lowry’s”
Nero made his horse a consul, and
Texas has a iiogg for an attorney-gen
eral. ilesidesj there are ever so
many asses in office.—-Ex.
Tho Marble Whiteness of the New Capitol
Defiled.
The once immaculate whiteness of
the marble floors in the corridors of
the new capital is no more.
The tobacco fiend has gotten in his
work, causing the erst while snowy
pavement to assume a variegated
browny-ycllow, pied-poison, mottled
leprous look, which 1ms called forth
frequent remark.
The unerring aim with which the
average Georgia legislator levels his
mouth, in an emergency, and pulls
the deadly string, is proverbial; but
in this instance he has received able
assistance from the general public in
successfully avoidiug nr ignoring the
calm but reproachful eye of the sen
sitive cuspidor.
Surveying the general wreck and
ruin, somebody—the proper authori
ties, it is to be presumed—somebody
has prepared a number of fresh look
ing labels attacking the time honored
prerogative of the said legislature
amt general public after this fashion.
I.EfiENIlS FOK I.EOISI.ATIVE EYES.
• “If you expect to rate as gentlemen
do not expectorate on tiie flooc”
“Don’t spit on the floor or steps.”
“Spit only in the spittoons.”
“Please observe the rules aud do
not spit on the floors or stairways.”
As one steps in at the Washington
street entrance, on his right hand and
on bis left, he is confronted by notices
pasted on the columns, which read
thus:
“The marble floors were not made
to spit on. Use the big black things
called spittoons.”
“Parties seen spitting upon s thi
marble floors v>r stalfWays 'wU
turned out of the building.”
This unique legend stares members
of the House in the face as they enter
their chamber:
“.Swallow your tobacco juice until
you get out doors.”
Just below some one lias written,
‘ ‘ 1 ’ats! ”—Macon Telegraph.
A proper question for candidates
for the legislature to answer in future:
Do you chew tobacco?
A New Use for Watermelons.
The watermelon crop of Carolina,
Georgia and Florida is rapidly getting
too large—more tlum the market re
quires. Col. Win. Duncan, ot South
Carolina, lias therefore made a sug
gestion which has received the approv
al of a number of Carolina newspapers
and melon growers, this is the manu
facture of syrup from the watermelon.
Colonel Duncan insists that the melon
can be more easily and more generally
raised than the sugar cane, and as it
gro vs above ground it is more con
veniently cultivated than the beet. He
has experimented in the manufacture
of syrup irom melons, and finds it
excellent, more like preserves than
cane syrup, he says it is likely to
become popular with every one who
tries it. 1 He made the syrup and sold
it, and found no difficulty in getting
a good price for it.
Annexed.—Farmer’s boy (Illi
nois)—Pop! Pop! The praire wolves
are killing the stock ag’iu. Where’s
the gun ?
Old Farmer (sadly;—My son, it’s
ng’in the law to shoot guns in the
city limits. We’re in Chicago now.
Tramp—Will your ladyship help a
poor man who is afflicted with a ter
rible disease which prevents him from
working? Lady—Poor man, here's a
quaitcr. What, is your disease?
Tramp (pocketing the money)—Lazi
ness, mum, laziness.
A woman has been arrested in New
Jersey for “Jawing.” That is a clear
abridgement of woman's constitutional
rights. Let justice be done, though
—Jawing goes on.
Last 'month 24,710 emigrants
landed at Castle Garden, against 28,-
000 -,n July, 188,8. Every month
this year has been marked by a grad
ual decliue in European immigration.
Our Mi*. Levy is now
in New York making
Fall purchases, and
he has sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods, and make
room for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from now on, all
Spring and Summer
goods go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.”
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
Levys
Drj Goods House
Mitchell House Corner.