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TIIOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, '880
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THE MELON SEASON CLOSING.
The Shipments North Dwindling Very
Rapidly Now.
The Georgia melon crop 1ms about
all gone north; that is, the bulk of it
and as much as can be profitably ship
ped, ns the Georgia melons arc now-
brought into competition with fruit
grown closer to the northern markets.
The very choicest melons in the New
York market now would not com
mand to exceed §18 per hundred, and
they ranged as low during the past
week as $8.
.Close observers of the local melon
market could not have failed to no
tice last week, as the northern market
began to slack, a larger and finer
variety of melons were put on the
retail market and melons that would
have cost from 40 to 75 cents apiece
two weeks ago have been retailing
here the last week at from 10 to 15
cents, in fact one could have a pick
fronn the largest melons from some
wagons and street corners for 10 cents,
and 15 cents was about the highest
figure asked. The market was glut
ted Saturday, and toward the closing
hours of the market 5 cents would
buy a melon as large as a man could
conveniently carry off.
The Morning News lias published
from day to day, for the past month,
the movement of Georgia melons by
rail, as approximately correct as the
nature things would permit, but
the railroad? from which the infor
mation - had to be obtained were not
as particular and prompt as they
might have been to secure greater
accuracy. The Savannah, Florida
and Western railway was more
prompt in its reports, but during the
month ending Aug. 10 it missed some
day*. ^Froni the published reporpof
the'past month- it iir credited with
moving 750 car loads of melons.
The Central has reported the move
ments of melons over its lines for but
three days in August, although for
the month ending last Saturday night,
by a summary of its daily reports to
the Morning News, it handled 1,888
carloads of the fruit.
The receipts of the Georgia South
ern and Florida, the Southwestern,
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, and one or two shorter lines
foot up 1,171 carloads, making a to
tal of If,.'107 cars of Georgia melons
handled during the month ending
Aug. 10, which cannot bn set n
ns the entire out put of the Gcortria
crop, for the season stated.
The heaviest shipments reported to
the Morning News during the period
under review, were jnadc on July 17,
wh^i the receipts were .‘504 car loads,
and on July 18 when 410 cars were
shipped. There has been a heavy
falling oil since Aug. 1, as the entire
icceipts’rcported fbr August thus far
amounts to but 271 ears, and while a
few shipments may Ire made, the sea
son is practically over, and Georgia
planterswill now begin to look after
their cotton harvest, which is rapidly
approaching, and the railroads will
begin to hustle to get the empty cars
back, ready to hnndle the cotton crop,
which promises to.be one of the best,
and which, if it meets with no ex
tremes of weather, will be of excel
lent quality.—.Savannah News.
llriT.u.o, N. Y., Aug. 12.—Mrs.
Lavinia Atwell Fillmore, relict of
the late Jlev. Clemen Fillmore, who
^as first cousin of the late ex-I’resi-
dent Millard Fillmore, will celebrate
her 102nd birthday to morrow at her
home in Clarence, this county. Mrs.
Fillmore is without doubt the oldest
person in Western New York, and
retains her faculties to a remarkable
degree. She was born Aug. 15, 1787;
aiid was married 1° the pioneer Meth
odist preacher, Gler.cn Fillmore, Sept.
20, 1800; She has lived in Clareucc
ever since her husband died, in 1875.
Dr. Hammond says he has received
numerous letters, relative to the
Brown-,Scqunrd Elixir, which shows
a remarkable state of popular idiocy.
MRS. CANFIELD
Proves to be Simply an Untraveled No
body.
TorEKA, Kan., August 8.-—Editor
Constitution : Mrs. James H. Can-
field’s criticism on the south, publish
ed in the Topeka Capital, was too
silly to meet but a passing notice, and
rebuke, by the Kansas people and
press.
To tell the truth nine hundred and
ninety-nine persons out of every thou
sand, in Kansas, did not know the
distinguished professor was married,
till the publication of that ridiculous
batch of nonsense, signed by Mrs.
Canfield.
The lady, in question, is not in so
ciety, nor 1ms she figured prominently
in any way in Kansas that any one
can remember. She is simply the
wife of a learned professor, inexper
ienced and untraveled—naturally un
able to reason from cause. to eflect—
prouc to look upon mole bills as
mountains, and thus incapable of ap
preciating the genuine, noble liospi-.
tality of true southern ladies.
If Mr. or Mrs. Canfield received
any reception upon their arrival
home—or that they have yet arrived
—local histoiv fails to state. They
are, however, probably located, at
this time, in the dull, quiet, little uni
versity town of Lawrence, where Mrs.
Canfield lias, doubtless, entered upon
her domestic duties, which she never
should have abandoned.
She is not the sister ot John James
Ingalls, the caustic senator of Kansas,
the probability ol relationship only
being conjectured by some on account
of the numerous bad breaks of both
with tlie“pcu.”
The truth, and the whole truth,
fljiout Mii.,C|UVfi§ld’s|amuus (?>- let
ter is, that it fell very flat here in the
west.
It did not even create a ripple of
excitement.
Kansas and her people arc broad-
gmigcd ; thousands of Kansans have
traveled all over the south, and
know the actual conditions of affairs
iu that portion of the United States.
The writer of this was in Nashville
himself, the recipient of that un
bounded, open-handed hospitality of
which the south and only the soutli
can boast.
He as well as all Kansas can see
the coming events that are already
casting their shadows before—that
the south, in nnotlier decade, will
hnvc outstripped all sections of our
common country Jn material pro
gress ; that the south to-day has a
larger per cent of actual Americans
than in any other section ; that in
educational and religious matters the
south stands on a par with New Eng
land.
Kansas glories iu the progress of
Jlic south, and wishes her untold
prosperity,
Sirs, Canfield's letter represented
the opinions of nobody in the west,
not even those of Mrs. Canfield her
self, for, since that dear lady retracts
everything she wrote, wo can charit
ably suppose she never had any. Re-
spectfully,
C. K. Hoi.i.iday, Jit.,
Editor Kansas Democrat.
That was a touching incident
which took place in Fort Valley dur
ing the reunion of. the Third Georgia
Regiment. It seems that at Sharps-
burg when the battle storm eleared,
and the dead and the dying were re
moved from the field, there were two
brothers found among the Union
army’s dead, who had been slain near
the old brick wall by the Third Geor
gia Regiment. They had both gone
to the froqt side hy-side and died
heart to heart. The mother of these
two brave hearts sent to the Third
Geoigia at Fort Valley the other
day, a piece of the old stone wall ta
ken from the spot where her boys,
had fallen.
— - —
The legislature is still pegging away
at the lease and betterment question.
Georgia Mirrored.
Col. A. K. McClure, of Philadelphia,
in his article on “The South,Industrial
and Political,” thus refers to Georgia:
“With forty cotton factories and the
ceaseless hum of nearly two (nearer
four) hundred thousand spindles, and
with nearly one hundred furnaces and
iron mills to diversify industry and
open up new markets for the farmers,
there must be progress. The factory
and the school are the great civilizers
of the age in the south, and they are
now doing a good work in Georgia.
* * With the impulse given to the
spindle and the loom it is not an ex
travagant assumption to say that the
growth of cotton will be doubled in
Georgia in the next ten years, and
Georgia spindles will double the value
of the Georgia product. * # Now
that peace has come with all its benefi
cent fruits, the hum ot thousands of
spindles and the clank of hundreds of
loom; declare how Georgia is aiding
in the creation of the new south.”
In closing what is termed in the
pamphlet an "Imperfect outline of
Georgia’s great resources and advan
tages” the compiler will say:
“With a territory covering five de
grees ol latitude, embracing a varied
and extraordinary topography, ranging
from ocean level to five thousand feet
altitude’on the northern border, (and
also eight of the nine temperatures
science assigns to the vast and varied
expanse) and a consequent diversity,
salubrity and healthfulncss of climate
unsurpassed on the globe; with a soil
of exceeding general fertility adapted
to all the grains and vegetable pro
ductions and fruits not strictly tropical;
with a variety and extent of mineral
resources without a parallel on any
other equally compact territorial area
anywhere; with 58,000 square miles of
territory traversed by numerous large,
full and constant streams (which
neither freeze over in winter or go dry
m summer) besides hundreds ot small
er water courses (lowing to all points
of the compass, possessing in the
aggregate illimitable water powers;
with superior (and increasing) railway
and other transportation facilities; and
With a commanding (it might be said
controlling) geographical position,
(wedged in, as it were, between the
Atlantic and the gulf, in the southeast
ern part of the union) with an Atlantic
coast line of nearly one hundred and
filly miles, having on it one of the
largest, best and safest harbors on the
globe, and nearly touching the gulf on
the west—continued and rapid growth
are assured, and designate Georgia as
a field of the richest promise to every
department ol human endeavor. Ad
apted to the production oi sea island
and upland cotton, rice, corn, sugar,
and si.mi-tropical fruits in the low
lands: of corn, cotton and all fruits not
scnu-tropical, and stupendous water
power in the midlands; and all the
grains, grasses, stock and all Hie hardy
fruits, and iron, coal, copper, granite,
slate, marble, gold, gems, and sublime
scenery in the mountain highlands—
no state in the union presents a more
inviting field for enterprise with more
promising prospects'—no matter what
the enterprise or pursuit—to the north
ern : cttler or foreign immigtant, for
permanent settlement, or to the capital
ist seeking to make safe and remuner
ative investments.”
Prophesying Calamity.
In the Scientific American of July 0
appeared a paragraph in which J. E.
Thick ton expresses similar apprehen
sion in respect to drilling the earth and
exhausting the natural gas as expressed
by the following professors in a recent
issue of the Popular Science Monthly.
Prof. Joseph F. Jones assumes the
earth to be a hollow sphere filled with
a gaseous substance, called by us nat
ural gas, and lie thinks it is that which
is escaping, He compares the earth
to a balloon lloated and kept distended
by the gas in the interior, which, it
exhausted, will cause the crust to col
lapse, affect (he motion of the earth in
its orbit, cause it to lose its place
among the heavenly bodies, and fall in
pieces.
Another writer thinks drilling should
be prohibited by stringent laws. lie,
too, thinks there is a possibility of an
explosion, though from another cause.
Should such a disaster occur, "the
country along the gas licit from Toledo
through Qliio, Indiana and Kentucky
will be ripped up to the depth ot 1,30a
or 1,500 feet and flopped over like a
pancake, leaving a chasm through
w liich the waters of Lake Erie will
come down, filling the Ohio and Mis-
sippi valleys, and blotting them out
forever.”
Still another theorist has investigat
ed the gas wells with telephones ami
delicate thermometers, and he announc
es startling, discoveries. He distin
guished sounds like the boiling
rocks, and estimated that a mile and
one-half or so beneath the Ohio and
Indiana gas field the temperature of
the earth is 3,500 degrees.
The scientists says an immense cav
ity exists,, and that here the gas is
stored; that a mile below the bottom
of the cavity is a mass of roaring,
seething flame, which is gradually
eating into the rock floor of the cavern
and thinning it. Eventually the flames
will reach the gas, and a terrific ex
plosion will ensue.—Scientific Ameri
can.
These fellows Will keep on monkey
ing with gas, petroleum and other sub
stances,which now, according to scien
tists, support the crust ot the earth,
until something will happen. We tell
you, things are getting mighty shaky
on this earth.
The Last Duel at Sand Bar Ferry.
From the Chronicle.
The last duel at Sand Bar Ferry,
the famous fighting ground on the
Savannah river, just three miles from
Augusta, was a fatal one. Though
many meetings have been arranged
since its time, that were to take place
at the noted grounds, none have oc
curred. Charles D. Tilley, a hand
some, dashing looking Irishman of
thirty, was lionized in Augusta. No
less popular was George E. RatclifFc,
though he was not of such prepossess
ing appearance as Tilley. Tilley
heard of rumors detrimental to his
character repeated by Ratcliffe, and a
retraction was demanded. The reply
that the talk was current rumor was
followed by the refusal to retract, and
the duel was arranged.
The report in the Augusta Chroni
cle of the meeting was full as regards
the shooting, meagre as to the cause.
Fourteen years ago next December
the men faced each other. The meet
ing was strictly business like. Be
sides the seconds, each principal had
invited four friends to bo present.
There were, however, twenty persons
present. The trip to the ground was
made in carriages. Ratclifie was the
'first to arrive. He sprang lightly
from his vehicle, threw oil his over
coat, lighted a cigar and remained
quiet for a little while. Presently he
remarked, “Those fellows are slow
getting hero.” Just as the words were
uttered the Tilley party drove up.
Tilley, wearing a button-hole boquet,
sprang lightly from his carriage and
coolly rolled and lighted a cigarette.
“I see Ratcliffe wears a Derby.
Tilley will wear a silk cap. lie has
brought two, aud invites your friend
to wear this one,” said Tilley’s friend,
addressing Ratcliffc’s second. “Tell
him I will wear my own hat,” was
Ratcliffc’s response. “Ready,” both
announced. Tilley lifted his hat to
his antagonist. Ratclifie smiled sar
castically and bowed very low. Pis
tols were handed them. They were to
lie given the command, “Fire, one,
two, throe, stop,” shots to be tired be
tween “lire” and “stop.” Ratcliffe
shot first. Tilley’s pistol was heard
fully a second afterward. Both men
stood motionless. Then Tilley reeled
a little. “Demand another shot!”
commanded the latter’s second. “I
can’t; I am done for.” He was hit in
the abdomen and died next day. Rat-
clill’e was not hit.
It was the saddest of duels. When
seconds, principals and friends stood
on tlie ground there were congregated
a pirty of intimate friends—the prin
cipals, for the time, excepted—men
who in social aud business life met
each other every day. Excepting the
principals, all of the parties are alive
to day and are well known business
and professional men of Augusta.
Ratcliffe met all charges against him
in court, exhonerated himself aud
went west. I-atcr lie went to Mexico.
Returning to Sau Francisco a few
years after ho died of consumption.
Such was the last meeting under the
code at Sand Bar Ferry.
Smith—“Robinson told 1110 that
his wife had been run over by a coach
and seriously injured.”
John—“You can’t believe what
Robinson says, he is such a braggart.
I’ll bet it was only a delivery wagon.”
Knocked Dow
PRICES!
KNOCKED 10WH PRICES
—AT—?
LEVY’S
Our Mr. Levy is now
in New York'making
Fall purchases, and
lie lias sent' us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods, and make
rbom for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from; now.' on, all
Spring aud Snmmer
goods go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.”
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
Levys
Dry Soils fa
Mitchell House Corner.