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Tho Blus Lav/s.
The following arc the old ‘Blue
Laws,•’ so cited, .because (ley were
primed on blue pajjer. They belbogr Col.'Gordon Bays the cotton crop
to Connecticut and will furnish interest
ing reading for our readers who have
not seenjhenf and who arc not gov%
erned by them: \
No one shall be a freeman un!ein
he is converted and a member of oce
q! the churches allowed in the domin
ion.
No dissenter from the > essential
worship Of this dominion shall be
allowed to give a vote - for electing
magistrate or any officer.
No food or lodging shall be oft:red
to a heretic.
No one shall cross the river on the
„• Sabbath except authored clergymen.
No one shall travel, cook victuals,-
mike beds, swe* p houses, cut hair or
shave on the Sabbath day.
No one shall kiss his or her children
on the Sabbath or feasting days.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed
with gold, silver or.bone lace above
one shilling a yard, shall be presented
by the grand jurors, and the selectmen
shall tax their estate 300 pounds.
Whoever brings Cirds or dice into
the dominion shall be.fined 5 pounds.
No one shall eat mince pies, dance,
play cards, or play any instrument of
music except the drum, trumpet or
jewsharp.
No man shall court a maid in per
son or by letter, without the consent
of her parents; 5 pounds penalty for
the first offense, 10 pounds for the
second, and for the third, imprison
meat during the p-easure of the court.
The Cotton Crop.
We quote CoL Gordon, of Savan
nah, troin the News, as follows;
WILD RUSH.
is estimated in New York at between
7,000,000 and 7,500,000 bales. WhUe
tbe price is not expected to reach 10
cents or anything like it, it is belioved
that the demand will be good, and
that prices will be maintained at
about the present figures.
The mills are believed
generally exhausted their atocks, and
will be compelled to boy. Many
mills which have been shut <
starting np again. Tbe milt men will
have to buy irom hand to month for
some time, however, as they have not
the money with which to lay in large
stocks. The tremendous crop of 1891
left a large surplus to be carried over
to the next season, which compelled
the small crop of 1892 to be sold st
low prices.
This surplus docs not exist this
year,' and, consequently, it ia thought
that fair pricea will be realised.
The moat hopeful feature of the
situation, so far as Savannah’s terri
tory is concerned, Col. Gordon
thinks, is that this year’s crop has
been made with very small expen
diture by the farmers, and even with
the present pricea it will net them
more than any .crop for the last sever
al years.
THE GREAT SCRAMBLE FOR
H0ME8.
MANY WERE INJURED AND SOME
killed.
Tho Chrokee Strip Settled In One
Hour:
All the mail matter comiDg out of
Brunswick ia to be fumigated. The
News of yesterday saya:
Dr. Brunner received a telegram
from Surgeon General Wyman last
night, in answer to teb-grams sent
him the day before inquiring about
the disinfection of mails, the opening
ot the camp of detention at Wavnvs-
ville, and other matters relating to
the situation at Brunswick. Tho tel*
egram reads as follows:
Washington, Sept. 1-1, ’93.—W.
F. Brunner, Health Oilier: Have
ordered inspectors at Jcsup and Way*
cross. Have ordered railroad com
panies at Bruuswick to 8*11 no ticktfs
for points south of Atlanta. Have
requested Postmaster General to
cause disinfection of mails from Bruns
wick. Will open camp a- quickly as
Referring to the action of the gov
ernment in connection with the late
out break ot fever in Brunswick,
dispatch from that city says:
The action of Surgeon General
Wyman was prompt and emphatic.
He at once wired Dr. Guiteras to
quarantine and disinfect each of three
localities and ordered Surgeon Mur
ray, of the hospital service to report
there fox duty, and detailed a number
of stewards for the work of caring tor
the sick.
Two physicians are already on the
ground, representing ..the Marine
hospital service. They are Dre.
Guiteras and Faget, both yellow
fever exports.
Word of the out-break was at once
telegraphed to the health officers of all
the southern cities, and active meas
ures begun to prevent the spread of
the plague to other cities.
possible. Murray
ordered to Bt uns wick.
Wyman, Sarp
Gc-ddi:
Dr, Brunner said that if the Bruns
wick mails arc not or;
by the Postmaster Go
not be allowed to talc
disinfected
th:*y will
state
Mayor Land' imvi
Governor NcrtK a for
ernor leplies as foil » .v ;
Hon. T. JP. frMtit, Mu
Jtrutmvicl•, Oft
Dear Sir—I have j
regret the news of the
ingkuowatbo sf-p.-
yellow fever in y.-.ui m
I deplore the Let
has not not prev; Id :
ty upon which 1 could
you service. Further,
not supplied me with i
which I could draw
the sick or for f he con:
ease. I am, therefore p.-n-.vik-iw to
aid you in this way.
If you can suggest to me anything,
within my power, for the uid of your
people and help in this emergency,
either officially or personally, I will
gladly render the eervicc.
Very truly, eto,
VV. J. Northen.
Governor.
An exchange says: An enterpris
ing professor in New York has cast
the horoscope of the little daughter of
President and Mrs. Cleveland. It is in
teresting to knok from this that the
little one will be active, witty, ingeni
ous, studious, fond of literature and
music and somewhat reserved, just,
kind, merciiul and disposed to acts of
benevolence, fond of amusements and.
pleasures. She will not be without
temper, as is shown by the near prox
imity of Mercury to the warlike Mars,
but will be of a very forgiving nature.
The professor also asserts that she will
marry between twenty-one andtwen
ty-two. The husband will be tall,
slender, dark complexioned and of a
kind and generous disposition.
care ot
e dis-
Referring to the unjust and uncon
stitutional cotton tax levied on the
south just after the war, a dispatch
from Washington says:
Mr. Enloed of Tennessee introduced
a bill to refund the tax collected on
raw cotton during the years 18G3,
1801, 1865, 1866, 1867 and 1868.
This old bill comes up at every con
gress', but there does not seem
more prospect of passing it now than
there was a first, if indeed there is ss
much. The cotton tax was as un<
righteous a levy as ever was made ox
a helpless people, but there seems lit
tle probability that justice will ever
be done to the oppressed people wLo
had to submit to it.
Every one has been speculating
about what Col. Blount’s intentions
are. The following sent tr-un Macon
to tb© Constitution is, perhaps,
about as correct a diagnosis of tbe
ease as has yet been made:
Now that Colonel James H. Blount
has returned from Washington, specu
lation as to tho future jvo'itical inten
tions is very lively. A gentleman
who had a conversation this morning
with bitu says that Mr Blount’s am
bition is, beyond all doubt, to suc
ceed Senator Colquitt in tbe United
8tates Senate. He says Mr. Blount
has no special de>?re to be governor
and would only contest for it with a
view of stepping from .the guberna
torial chair into the cenate. Mr.
Blount has come home to look over
the political field. It is not reason
able to suppose that a man of Mr.
Blount’s ago and reputation would be
willing to retire to private life just
yet.
Senator Stewart spoke for three
days on the silver question. Wind,
tjxy name is Stewart, tersely remarks
the Times-Union of Jacksonville.
And here is another item frem the
same paper: There are 80.000 women
doctors in the United States. Put
your tongue out just a little bit
further, please.
Lieutenant Totten hasn’t named
day when all earthly things will be
wound up for two or three weeks.
Hurry up Totten, if the day of judge'
ment is near at hand let the people
know it. There would be one conso
lation in the information, we would
know when the debate in the senate
would close.""
Arkansas City, Sana., Sept, 16.—
Onehundred thousand people settled
upon the .Cherokee strip to-day.. At
noon the start was a hazardous oue.
Horsemen were ot the title ot the
land from tbe United States govern
ment to the boomers and a race such
as never will be seen again, was be
gun. On tbe lines in the vicinity of
the various border towns the boomers
had gathered in great numbers. As
far as the eye could reach in either
direction could be seen men mounted
and in wagons and afoot closely
packed together making a solid col*
umn 200 feet or more in the middle
and,tapering away to a mere streak
of black in the distance.
The scene when the column broke
at the firing of tbe signal gun, and
each individual entered to contend
for a common prize, can be imagined
better than described. Confusion
reigned everywhere. So closely
the contestants packed together that
the start was a hazardous one. Horse
men were unseated, wagons
thrown and pedestrians prostrated in
the mad rush to be off. The cries of
angered men, the shoots of the racers,
the clattering of hoofs, the rattling of
wagons and the shrieking of locomo
tives combined in a roar similar to
that accompanying the progress of a
tornado.
In the race many men were injured
and some killed. Of the latter
met death by accident and two
murdered. The details of the crimes
are not known, but the dead bodies—
one stabbed and the other shot
tbrrngh the head—tell the manner of
death. Many dead horses have been
found on tho prarie. Some died of
over exertion, some were killed by
falling in tha race, and others received
broken limbs in the rough praiie,
were shot by their owners.
four roruLOUS TOWNS.
To night, the strip which twelve
hours ago was wholly deserted, is a
populous country. Four of the new
town sites have populations estimated
at 5,000 each. Others boast popula
tions ranging from 1,000 to 3,000.
Every desirable claim has at least one
claimant and may have two or four.
Contests will, of course, be numerous.
Guthrie, O.T., September 16.—The
scenes that were enacted here to day
beggared all descriptions. People
fought like wild animals to get aboard
the trains to get into the Cherokee
strip and hundreds were injured,
some fatally.
Men forgot their manhood and
women lost their self-respect in tbe
wild struggle for advantage.
During the terrible struggle to get
upon the train, one man had his
shoulder broken, one a dislocated leg,
and a woman an arm broken. ~
ty others were badly trampled
A mighty shout went op as the
first train moved out over the prarie,
lollowed by a second, third, fourth
and filth. The run to the town site
of Perry was made in forty minutes,
but when the train came i fright of
the town two-thirds of the beat lots
were taken by “sooners.” Horsemen
were pouring in down over a bluff to
the east at the rate of fifty a minute.
Those on the first train secured some
business lots and those on the second
some residence lots in the outskirts,
but the 7,000 in the other trains got
nothing. It was a wild and exciting
race all the way between the trains
and horsemen, with the odds in favor
of tbe horses.
W. C. Ramsey, of Eldorado, Kan.,
was the first horseman to arrive from
south line, and he staked a fine comer
lot at 1,228. He says a large portion
of the town site was taken by “soon-
era, who were walking leisurely into
the town from the west when he ar
rived,
Carl Craig, of Guthrie, made tbe
run in twenty five minutes and wss
the fira^ man to file, securing a
claim adjoining the townsite north,
worth $5,000.
An' Indian who stood upon a .hill
and viewed the whole race expi
the entire situation in tbe folk
terse way:
“White man heap fool; train no
good; horse beat train; man on foot
who comes sneak beat horse. Ugh!”
How to Spoil the Boy.
If you want your gray hairs dif-
honored by a spoiled and ruined son
adopt the following directions:
1. Let him have phnty of speeding
money. ’ i
2. Permit him to choose bis own
companions without restraint or di
rection.
3. Give him a latch-key and allow
him to return home late in the even
ings. i -
4. Make no inquiry .as where
and with whom he spend* his leisure
momenta
5 Give him to understand that
manners make a good substitute for
morality. _
6. Teach him to expect pay for
every act of helpfulness to others.
7. Allow him to occupy a seat in
chnrch with the hoys rather than the
pew with his parents.
8. Permit him to regard the Sun
day school unsuitably for a boy on
the verge of young manhood.'
K*
a big
City, Sept.-17.—Tin re was j
u. .Ii.-»p|,n;i,t*a jiC-'l-O I
Irom tin: (JbcrokvH.- \t»* r d*v. j
The Saula Fe brought in thm*»-|«c)-tl
train loads this morning, and ibo
Rock Island two. All the regular
trains on both these roads were crowd
od with men and women who left the
strip last night, and who were glad
enough to get Juick to civilization.
A whole party of people from Illinois,
who had planned to estob’isli a colony
of their own in the strip, came back
on the Santa" Fe. >
They ware the most forlorn looking
party that the official* of the nuion
depot had ever seen They were dust
begrimed and weary. They made
the run on foot fr in the* lino north
of Orlando, Oklahoma, and g« k noth
ing a ter having stood in line fur four
days at the registration .booth, s’eep-
i»g on the ground and e-xisting ou
mddy water and dry bread. N
HIS MONTHLY TALK WITH THE
GEORGIA FARMERS
morop
been mad ,
heretofore. Under usual conditions,
these facts -would place tho fanner on
this vantage ground, that he could uso
On Subjects of General-Interest Per
taining to tbe Farm and
Garden-Good Advice.
me one baa atolen 8134,000
h of gold bullion belonging to
the government from the Philadel-
mint Tbe vault in which the
gold ia shirt had, when it .was
d in 1887 816.000,000 in gold
bullion. D. M. Fox was superinten
dent of the mint at that time, and
O. C. Boebyshell succeeded him in
November, 1889, receipting for the
sled vault without weighing it.
The ehortage waa discovered only
Tuesday, when the vault was opened
for the purpose of coining the bullion.
The superintendent of the mint at
Philadelphia is under bond of $100,
000, and some of tin wealthiest men
of the city, mc’uding George W.
Childs, are on it. A thorough ex
amination is being made to fix the
guilt
Io few branches of human effort
have there been greater changes
than in teaching. The old idea that a
child’s brain was an tmpy receptacle
that was to be crowded full ot facts
and theories in a limited space oi time,
without any regard for the eternal fit
ness of things, has happily died out in
great measure. Our young boys and
girls are being wisely fitted for the ins
evitable conflict of lfc. We have
learned, by sad experience, that
sound body and mind well grounded
the rudiments is infinitely prcferabl
to the old stuffing process, which gave
to the pupil mainly a store of at-cient
and medieval lore.—Ex.
Raleigh, N. C. Sept. 14 —A spe
cial to the News and Observer Chron
icle say*-: After suspension little over
two months ago, the F.rtt National
Bank of Winston will resume business
next Monday. J.C Bux'wn, who has
had charge of the institution as bank
examiner, is elected president; John
G. Miller, late of Danville, cashier.
The bank is rcorganiz d. 1 h • People’s
Bank, winch suspended a few weeks
ago, will reopen before Oct. 1st.
Tunis. Sept. 13.—Of 9,000 pil
grims who went to Mecca from here
on May 4, 500 perished in the holy
land of cholera and other diseases.
The survivors have just returned, and
say that on June 24 over 100,000
Mussulmans, Arabs, Turks and In
dians gathered on the Sacred moun
tain, when cholera broke out among
them, causing terrible havoc.
Washington, Sept. 14 —Secretary
Gresham has received the following
cablegram from Minister Thompson,
at Rio: *>
“At 11 o’clock this morning the
revolutionary forces bombarded the
forts commanding tho entrance to the
harbor, also the arsenal on the wharf
in the center of the city. A few
shells were fired into the city and a
woman was kitted iu her residence.’
A Boston newspaper calls for the
organization ot a society fur the sup
pression of people who have been to
the World’s Fair, in the interest of
the three remaining great classes of
the community—those who have
been to the fair, but intend to go;
those who have not beeo and are not
going because they cannot go, and
those who have not been because
they do not want to go. It is frankly
admitted that these three classes ag
gregated are in the minority.
Waynesboro, Ga., Sept. 13.—
Ttioe. E. Watson, the great populist
leader, addressed quite a crowd of his
followers near Waynesboro today.
The assemblage was various’)' estimab
ed from 2.500 to 3,000 people, two-
thirdsof them being negros. His speech
was the same old story against the
democrats and democratic measures.
A negro brass band failed to awake
the usual enthusiasm.
The situation is grow.ng serious.
The yellow fever has struck us again
on the Atlantic coast, the Chinese arc
pouring into Texas from the southwest,
the train robbers are getiiug iu their
work on the Pacific slope, Jersey is
threatened with cholera, Mrs. Lease
has broken loose again in Kansas,
the Senate is still talking iu us sleep
and the price of whiskey has g ioe up
to Kentucky. Let the cal unity howl,
ers give e strong howl, a long howl
and a howl altogether.—Way cross
Herald. .
Fort Worth, Tex , Sept.—Con
ductors of Pullmans on the Rock
D’aod train coming 13 h.re yesterday
report that in passing through the
Cherokee strip the cars wire attacked
and, despite detp?:ate resistance,
thirsty strppcrs robbed the cars ot all
the ice and water. I he men were
frenzied with thirst, and tue triin crew
bear marks of fierce fightiDg.
New York, Sept 17.—Senator A
P. Gorman of Maryland arrived at
ilie Fifth Avenue hotel to-day from
Washington. He said that he came
here on personal business only. Re
gardiog the silver repeal bill he said
he felt confident that it would
pass the senate by the last of this
week or the first of next, surely by
Oct. 1 at the latest.
Augusta Chronicle: With the money
stringency over once, and a definite
financial policy settled upon for this
country, there is every promise of
season of unprecedented prosperity
and business development.
“The alleged desire of Kansas to
saw itself off from the rest of the
Union,” says the New York Sun,
“cannot be gratified. The United
States needs Kansas for a crank res
ervation.”
Hancock, Mich., Sept. 15—A
train ot the Mineral Range railroad
was held up between hers and Calu>
met by three masked men, this morn
ing, and robbtd of $7.1,000 ot Calm
met and Ilecla mine money. Every
thing is in a turmoil There was no
bloodshed.
True yellow fever is on the coast
but we sbonld be thankful that the
base ball season is over. But then
the Georgia legislature will soon
meet This appears to be a year of
calamities.
New York, Sept. 15 —R. G. Dun
& Co’s, weekly review will say: Re
turns from every part of the country
show decided improvemen*. A hope
ful feeling prevails, money grows
abundant at speculative centers and
somewhat easier for commercial pur
poses.
Editors and proachers are alike in
that they look after the public weK
fares, and are in turn pounded by the
public for eo doing. A great differ-
enoe*exists,(however, in the character
of the pouudiug. The preacher is
built up and strengthened while the
editor is knocked down and shatter
ed. Bo a preacher, young man —
Lithonm New Era.
Says the Memphis Appeal Ava
lanche: “No matter whether cotton
brings s or 10 cents a pound, the
people of this country most dig half
a million dollars a day out of the
ground for pension grabbers, besides
supporting themselves, their families
and their government.”
Senator Colquitt has undertaken a
big contract when he attempts to
cmcile bis vote against tbe repeal of
the Sherman law, with the Democrat
ic platform which declares the Sher
man law a cowardly makeshift.—
Baiabridge Democrat.
Dividing up Texas is not popular
in that State. A Texas editor breaks
out as follows:
“Ho .v would you divide the memo
ries of Goliad and the Almo* How
would you divide tbe glorious d-*eds
of the brave heroes of San Jacinto?
They belong to Texas—all Texas,
one aud indivisible. How would you
divide her grandest State House lathe
Union? This talk of division is non
sense. Texas, as it is, with her glori
ous history, and as she will be, with
her unparellelled development*, will
remain one State, indivisible forever.”
It will require all the strength of
Jack Frost to raiso the quarantine
agonist Brunswick next time. Let
us hope that J. Frost will put in an
appearance very soon.
Chicago, Sep*. 15.—After a con
ference with a number of foreign coin
missioners, the World’s Fair directors
have cared a meeting for Monday
night to discuss the feasibility of ex
tending the exposition until Januaiy
1st next.
mixta anff ftiiS cotton has f
anoro economically than
his discretion in selling; his cotton, and
not sacrifice it at a ruinously low price.
Bat later, when his obligations mature,
if there is no improvement in, the
^Department op Agriculture,
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1,1893.
COTTON.
Tho mouth just passed has carried out
the same weather conditions as that
■which preceded it. In some localities
there has been too much rain for the
proper development of the fruit or cot
ton, although there is redundant weed
growth. Where these conditions exist*
the fields, to a superficial observer, pro-
sent a most promising appearance, but a
closer inspection reveals the fact that
there are' more leaves than bolls or
forms. In other sections, which suffered
from a long continued drouth, the rains
have caused a most marked improve
ment, and plant growth and develop
ment have been rapid. In all the drouth
regyras, however, barring exceptionally
early plantings, the crop is backward,
and its ultimate size anil yield will de
pend on the lateness of tho fall.
RUST
is also making its appearance, showing
the want of a proper distribution of tho
elements of planet growth. Sometimes,
however, after a long drouth, heavy aiyl
repeated rains seem to produce a scald
ed condition of tho j)lant, causing it to
shfed its leaves aid young bolls, and this
condition is fr jquently mistaken for
rust. Again, a highly nitrogenous ma
nure, not properly distributed, and com
ing in contact with the roots will]|pro
duce the same result. But the expe
rienced farmer can detect the difference
between these conditions and the fungus
growth of 'genuine rust. As explained
in last month’s report, the most effective
preventive of this destructive disease in
cotton has been found to be a judicious
rotation; that is, planting other crops,
which offer no encouragement for the
production of the fungous growth, nota
bly, grains and grasses.
It has also been demonstrated that tho
application of fertilizers running high on
potash has accomplished good results in
checking the disease. Fanners should
study these questions and in a small way
experiment for themselves, watcliin;
each result carefully. For the next two
months almost our entire time will bo
devoted to tho
PICKING
of this great money crop of the
Every energy and every moment, when
the weather permits, should be devoted
to the housing of the staple, the produc
tion of which has cost ns so many
months of hard and continuous labor,
and upon tbe successful marketing of
which rest the hopes of not only
ricnltnral population, but of the people
at large.
ITS WIDE INFLUENCE.
Besides those actually engaged
production and marketing, this crop fur
nishes employment to thousands of
others, clothes tho world, and is of more
or less interest to every civilized nation
on the globe. The magnitude of its
fiuence can scarcely be appreciated by
those who have not studied the various
reciprocal relations, which control am
direct the intricate machinery of tli*
business world. Within the narrow-
bounds of our own state we produce
000,000 worth of tho staple, and this
crop, though of late years made at ar
actual loss to the producer, yet throws
life and activity into every enterprise
conducted within our own borders—an.’
extends out into the busy marts of otho
nations. Tbe eager eyes of the world
are now turned to the south, anxiously
awaiting tiding of the coming crop.
To say that above all others
unbearable. His cot
ton will be ready for market, but unless
times brighten there will bo no money to
move it; or, if ho owes, his debts will
have to be settled on a basis of five or six
ton with his merchant.
tect and maintain the .
And then let him join his votee with
millions whoan '
unjust financial
few n
money
few money lenders to “corner” the
of tiie
country, the south and
victims, while the shy-
of the cost grow fat from their ne
cessities and sufferings.
SAVING SEED FOR PLANTING.
In gcihr.Iag t*.x cotton crop care
should be taken to"savo only the l*st
•seed for planting. If the farmer.cannot
do this linnself, let him select a careful
hand, who will go through the crop and
select the best bolls from the stalks,
those from the middle crop are the
desirable, as the top crop is
d top crop is not usually
well matured and the bottom crop is
generally more or less injured, although
good seed saved from the bottom or first
crop generally mature earlier. The ut
most care wust.be taken in drying the
seed and securing them against all uiju-
1 influences.,
©seed com should be selected in the
same manner, taking only well devel
oped, full ears from healthy, vigorous
stalks, storing! these carefully, and at
producing tliis great staple, is but to
state a fact, which has been fully demon
strated. In Egypt, at one time consid
ered a formidable rival, the area 01:
which cotton can be produced is limited,
and tho same land is never planted
succession, although this land is rich and
labor cheap, . 10 cents a day being th
standard price. The excuses of prepa:
ation and irrigation are such that
the crop is of inferior grade, the
staple short, and although labor is cheap
ana the plant perennial, the cotton bears
no comparison with that of American
r wth. Our principal aim now should
to cheapen the cost of production to
ourselves, and tlins drive out these for
eign competitors. We know that wc
can produce it at a cost of less than 10
cents, and each point that we gain in
cheapening its production but strength
ens onr position as masters of the situa
tion. If, but 10 years ago, we had do-
voted to this question the study wo
giving to it to-day, how different onr _
ation before the world! If, by a judi
cious rotation of crops and systematic
manuring were our lands now stored
with humus; if we had studied the ques
tion of home supplies and its influence
gn onr money crop; in other words, if
?ve had learned to raise our own provi
sions and make our cotton cheaper, tho
farmer iB a fellow i
Of other employment - from the present
FINANCIAL ea
The Senate will end the debate
some da>; and so will Christmas come
along after a while. All things come
to those, who wait. But the waiting
is wearisome.
Fort Monroe, Va, Sept. 14.—
United States Cruiser Detioit, after
adjusting her compasses at 7:30 this
morning, sailed for Rio der Janeiro,
Brazil, under orders to protect Amer
ican interests.
The citizens of Brunswick, all who
possibly can, should move out to
Camp Haines. Take the material
away and the fever will have nothing
to feed on.
Absenteeism is telling in congress.
The democrats failed to get up -an
important bill a day or two since
because of absentees. This state of
*9unga should not exist. Stay in your
plice^ gentlemen.
In the past ten years crematories
have been establish^! in 15 cities, and
it is asserted that in that time their
business has increased 50 per cent,
showing a steady growth of sentiment
ia favor of that method of disposing
o { . the dead.
Seme dead beats who are drawing
pensions threaten to assassinate Mr.
Cleveland and Hoke Smith because of-
their efiorts 10 purge the pension, foils.
Mr. Gladstone is 84 years old. Will
he live to see the home rule bill be
come a Jai? It is doubtful.
-The Atlanta Herald says:
•‘A fumigation station has been es
tablished by the railway mail service
at Waynesville. Friday Mr. Ed P.
King left for Jesup in tbe interest of
the department, and yesterday tele
graphed Superintendent Terrell that
the work of, fumigation bod been be*
gun at the point mentioned. Mr.
King himself is at preseot directing
it The precaution was deemed ad
visable acd every letter leaving tbe
fever stricken city will be submitted to
the process. ; '
And so they ore going to call the
latest arrival at the white house
ier. A very pretty name, at
fit companion one for big sister Rutb,
Hammond, Ind , Sept. 17.—
Lakeside Nail mills, which have been
closed since July, will start up Mon
day with, a full force of 250 men.
The company will Boon increase the
force to 400 men.
Train robbers held np a train in
Michigan on v Friday. Their booty
amounted to $75,000. They did not
molest the pamengers.
Berlin, Sept. 15.—Private, tele
grams received in this city from Kiss*
ingen state the condition of Prince
Blsmark becomes worse.
Tt Is likely that the road from Savau
nah to Tybee will be repaired and
ruo by electricity.
New York, Sept. 15.—Four cases
of smallpox were discovered by the
health officers in Madison street this
morning.
Surgeons and nurses are cn their
way to Brunswick, ~
Washington, Sept. 4— President
Cleveland has decided; that baby
Ruth’s sister's name shell be Esther.
1‘ilESSURB.
But the careful farmer, who by judi
cious management and wise forethought
has made provision for ample homo sup
plies, whifef he may pot escape ithe busi
ness depression, is, perhaps, today the
most independent man in tho union. He
may read of the stringency of the money
market; of the heavy burdens pressing
upon the laboring men of other classes,
ho may realize that there is a cry going
np from the masses, not for bread, but
“for work—work to help the countless
women and children, and give them
food; be may be told that men owning
thousands worth of property and with
— . eserumors, reaching
his quiet lome, excite his-sympathy, and
may cause a feeling of apprehension,
but they do not affect his personal se
curity. He has his. home, no has bis
provisions secured; his cotton has been
made at reasonable cost, and although
he may not live in luxury, ho
business world.
tion of t
ancy, awaiting telegrams from the
ness centres, hoping for some improve
ment in the financial situation; the mer
chant sees his trade diminished and dc-
1; the artisan and the mechanic sit
tory operative is
idleness; every citizen of our state, be h©
preacher, lawyer, doctor, merchant,
farmer, mechanic, artisan or day la-
boror, feels the effect of ouj financial
condition.
fariner’a lot is a happy one" when' cc
pated with that ofthe thousands „
workingmen in cities, now thrown out
of employment. Of course there are ex
ceptional cases, Some sections of tho
state have been visited by severe and de
structive storim, and over a large por
tion of North Carolina a protracted
drouth has cat off tho yield of com; but,
asa rule, the fcraincropg are gogd t hogs
the s
the perfect grains from the butt
the middle of the ear, rejecting the
ends. In storing away the com crop,
good plan is to sprinkle each layer, as
put iu the bam, with salt water; this
a preventive of weavils, often so de
structive in the lower part of the state,
and also renders the shucks more palata
ble for feeding. •
FALL CROPS.
I would again urge, at the risk of be
ing considered tedious, that full crops of
grain, grass and clover be put iu as '
. practicable.
September is the month for getting in
a stand for winter oats. Rye and bar
ley should also bo sown, ana if we would
the time to put them in.
ever is attempted on this line should be
done thoroughly. To succeed properly
the land should be naturally good, or
should bo made so by proper fertiliza
tion, and the work should be thorough.
We only court disappointment when at
the end of the fall we “scratch” in a few
seed on our poorest land. I again re
peat, that this is one cause of the usual
failure of our fall sown grains. Neces
sarily this work comes at an inconvenient
time, when we are absorbed in saving
the cotton, but the man who has fully
made up his mind to lay the foundation
for diversified crops and improved lands,
will find some plan for carrying out his
intention. There will be many days
when the* cotton is not in condition to be
gathered. These can be used in turning
under the pea vines and in sowing these
fall crops. Of course the
most of lus farm in cotton is debarred
from these improved methods, for it will
be too late, when the cotton is finally
gathered, to attempt them with profit,
which is' but another plea for concentrat-
cotton crop and reducing the area
and intensifiying its preparation, fertil
ization and cultivation.
A RECENT TRIP
through some of the most flourishing
countits of the state proved to me most
conclusively the great change which is
daily progressing in the minds of our
farmers in regard to the diversity of
crops aud the importance of closer atten-
•tE
ere 1
:est desire to
raise more; care is being shown in the
selection of sires; the question of judi
cious rotation of crop8,is being more cla
ly studied. Humus is greatly needed
most of our soils, and intelligent farmers
arc beginning to realize that one of the
most important’subjects for study is as
to the cheapest and most practical meth
ods of storing it thore. Unquestionably
peas and clover are the great nitTog*
depositors and humus manntn
turers, but if auy farmer will take the
trouble to turn under in the fall, even
the growth of natural gras*, he will be
surprised ;:t the inorei:s«*d yield of the
succeeding crops grown on this land over
those where the land lets been in clean
culture, thus denuded ot every particle
of vegitable matter, and then hastily
prepared in the spring for another crop.
It is hv such exi-orim nts that we dem
onstrate the con*rtaess of the assertion
that our lauds almost without exception
need vegetable matter. Farmers gener
ally are beginning to realize this impor
tant truth, and to one who travels
through the state and studies its agricul
tural conditio’is. the fact is patent, that
an era of better methods lias already
dawned. R. J. Nesbitt,
Commmlssioucr.
TnoMA&VILLE, GA.
CURES ALL5KIN
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REDUCTION OF RATES:
FOX OUR
FRIENDS AND PATRONS
the present stringency iu money
nad in older to aid the ennse of education at
Thoinssvii!e, tie rates formerly published
hare been reduced, as follows:
Collegiate Department, per month $3 00
Academic Department, per month 2 50
Primary Depa tment, per month 3 00
Music Department, pi r month 3 00
French, German, Spanish, per month- 2 0C
Latin, Greek, tree
Elocution and I’Ljf-ical Culture, free.
Fall sos.ioa opens Wednesdaj, September
13th, 1803. J. COLTON LYNES,
3tawd-w tl. 1 President.
AKE YOU GOING TO PAINT?
It you arc, wc want to say a few
words to you about paints in general,
and the Avcrill Paint ro particular.
Our long hot seasons arc pcculiary
trying on paint. Cheap paints are
worthless, and
will “chalk otr
A paint tliat will give a satisfactory
wear here must be especially adapted
to our climatic conditions.
The Avcrill is just such a paint. It
has been largely used in this state for
over 25 years, aud Ins always given
iii8faclion.
Wc can show you houses painted
that i
with it nearly 10 years ago that are
still in {.ood condition. U he Avcrill
Paint Is guaranteed to give satisfac
tion after time sufficient lias elapsed
to thoroughly test it, and wo arc au
thorized to protect this guarantee.
Please call at our sloie for color
cards, (froe| and examine book of 20
for house painting.
L. F. Thompson, & Co.
6 10 <1 k w4m
Empty Barrels.
We liuve 2QO first-clau empty. whtskj
barrel, tor rale cheap. See u, before boy
ioi: your ayrttp barrel,.
Thomasvillo Manufacturing Co.,
wtf Madison Street,
A POSITIVE AND SABSOLUTE CURE
AND PROSTATIC IRRITATION.
PAIN
■OPERATION
LOSS OF TIME
’DANGER
.FAILURE
A HOME TREATMENT.
PAETICU r.AIiS FHEIC.
MENTALINE'
CURB FOR loss ol Manhood, Itnpotency
Seminal and Femato Weakness, Night
gmtortOM, Undeveloped and Inactive
tan* eexuai 'excess.*^Frio^l.oo^Sen^
••curely packed In plain wrapper, c
oelptof price. Full particulars for starapT
AU correspondence strlcUy confidential
ACME MEDICINE COMPANY,
ATLANTA, GA.
For Sale at a Bargain.
We will sell at a bargain a com
paratively new 11 Hone Power Lew
is Vapor and Gas Engine, which we
have been working about 12 months.
It is the beat thing of the kind ever
made and is especially suited for gin
bouse purposes, os there are no bparks
and no danger of explosion. The
engine can be run at a cost of $100
per day and no fireman or engineer ii
required. You ^ simply Btart it off
and it runs until you stop it. It is
the best gas engine made. Cali and
it at the office oi the
Thomasville-Manufacturing Co.,
Madison Street,
W. L. DOUGLAS
*3 SHOE NoTfe.
WJJB wear them 7 When next In need try* pah
Best In the world.
,♦5.00,
tf J.«ni ,«» DRESS SHOE no* In the latest
p,y $6 to$8,by my *3, $3.50, $4.00or
$5 IMS, They fit equal to custom mads and look am!
wrnrSiwdT. If yoa wish to economizs !n your footwear,
ebsthf purchasing W. L, Douglas Shoes. Nam* and
prjosiainped on the bottom, look for It when yon buy,
wait.DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mm*. Sold by
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