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Newspaper Page TextUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY GAItFlELD’S ESCORT. THE CHEAPEST PAPER IN GEORGIA—ONE DOLLAR A YEAR—IN ADVANCE. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAlTtyORNING, OCTOBER IS, 1881, Number 50 What avails it now to be-an- Ohio man ? OCONEE COUNTY FAIR. palian. Gov. Web, of Louisiana, is dying of consumption. Ohio men may as well retire. New York men are fashionable how. The hotel men in Atlanta are fay ing to get fat off of the' unwary visi- ora to the exposition. The ecumenical conference, of tho Methodists in England, doe* not seem to have amounted to much. Train* ■Wisdom issaid to be one of the ablest and best of the cabinet. If bo^ it-wouM bo a'plty W EWe fiim ' Ibavl? Solomon S. Jones, the postmaster of fiamburg, 8. C., is in jail, charged with robbing the mails. He is a ne gro. Prepared Paint uidtlis loveliest line of buck and coi TBLvris ever shown in Atlanta. We can a Iso show the prettiest line of To Mr. Edmunds, of the Senate— Respected sir : Don’t you find it rath er hard to pull down a Missouri vest ? T- T. WATHHMAN, PROPRIETOR. UATEH OF ADVERW81NG AtWcrtlaeraenta will be Inserted at the rate of One Dollar per Inch for the first insertion, and Flity Cent* for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES: One !nch~.....~.. Twc Inches...... Throe Inches.... Four Inches, Quartet Column Half Column.... One Column....... 1 mo. 2 mo. 8 mo. 6 mo. lyaar *2 50 *4 00 $ ft 00- *7 50 110 00 4 (K! 6 7 OC 10 OG 15 00 5 «.c 7 00 8 5(1 32 5(1 20 00 6 M 8 (HI 10 0(1 15 (41 25 00 7 50 10 00 12 5(1 20 (XI 22 00 10 00 15 ■ 2ii 0(1 M (XJ 50 00 15 00 23 00 ao 00 50 00 90 00 Northeastern Railroad. StTOURTUCDXST e Orricx, I Athene, G*., Sept. IS, 1S81. ( On and after September, ISth, 1881, train, on tlii> road wilt ran v. tallows: Volume LXV. NO. 1. la-ave Athens.... .8:85am Arrive et Lula 7:45 a m Arrive at Atlanta.... 10:80 a m TJO.S. Leave Atlanta Arrive at Lula Arrive at Athena.... . 4:00 a m I . 9:30 a m | ,.13:15 pm 1 NO. S. 8:00 pm 5:55 pm 18:05 om fTO,4T 8:15 pm 7:00 pm 9:10 pm av Train No. I connect* closely at Lula with laat mail trains to Atlanta, making the quick time ot 4 hours and 55 minntea Athena to Atlanta. Train No. 8 connect* et Lula with trains loth east and west on Richmond & Danville Railroad. Tickets on eale at Athena to all points. ILK. BERNARD, Acting Sup’t. W. i. HOUSTON. Gen. Fasa. and Ticket Agent. Georgia Rail Road Company Orriat GunuiiL Manassk, I Auocrr-, OJU, bept. 8,« 1881. ) ('onu'tcneing Rundav^ept. 4th tho following rasaciiffer Schedule will opperate on thin road: Leave ATHENS . »40am 7 80pm Iahvo Mrinterviiltww.wwwwlO.OA4x 7 SI pm ' Lavo Lexington ilO.50 am 815pm Leave Antioch U.17 a x 8 44 p ro Lt tve Maxeys 11.84am a It) pin Leave Woodville 18.10 am 0 40 p n. Arrive Union Point 12.8» am 10 00 p m Arrive Atlanta 5.45 pm. 5 00a m Arrive at Washington 2.55 pm .... Arrive at Milledgevilla.... 4.49 pm .... Arrive Macon 0.45pm .... Arrive Augnvta 4 06 p m 6 30 a ni Leave Augusta 10 80 am 5 80 p 01 Leave Macon 710am .... Leave Milledgeville 9.05 am .... lacuve Washington 11.80 am .... Iscuve Atlanta 8.30 am 8 80 p m Leave Union Point 12.39 pm 5 00 a in Arrive Woodvillc......*.. 2.10pm 5 20am Arrive Maxeya 2.46pm 5 56a m Arrive Antioch S.oS pm 6 18 a m Arrive Lexington 3.80 pm 6 4o a m Arrivo Winterville 4.14 pm 7 24am Arrive Athens ,4.50 pm 8 00am TrulnH run daily—no connection to or from ■W ashington on Sundays. K. R. DOKSKY, «en., Pass,, Agt. JOHN W. GREEN. General Manager. THOMPSON & HEINDEL, Dealer* in Every Description ot Building Material —AND— Supplies. 310 Jackson Street AtraTOTAw «A. WINDOW GLASS. The largest and beat assorted stock Glaaa in the city. PUTTY. In bulk, also in boxes of 1 to 5 lbs. White Leed and Zinc. 4oUt Fun, made by the Kentucky Lead and C A1» ^hPJttSr StSw— Nassau White Leed and im ported French Zinc. Richmond & Danville R.K. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. On and a.tcr June 5th. 1881, Passenger Train Servin' on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line di vision of this road will lie aa follows: The Celebrated Paint, made bv Wadsworth, Martinez & Longman, which we know to be good. Brushes. Affill Una of Paint and Whitewash Brushes. Colors. A large and assorted stock of Colors in OU, Also, Dry Color*. Tarnishes. White Demar, Coach, Copal, Furniture, Japan Asphaltum, Ac. Kalsomine. Johnson's Celebrated Prep&icd Kalsomine, all v«Ch'lotteM -12:80 p. Oa*tonia~ L 1 -1:27 p. >l>arian’g K .. 8:60 p. iu 1 (irocnv'le H .. 5:07 p. ui Seneca.— (1 - 6:51 p. ni Tuccoa^. -F .. 8:01 p. in miwankk accommodation, Sio. 21 .—Leave At lanta 5:00 p. ni. Arrive at Suwanee (D) 7:08 p. m. Si'waskk Accommodation, No. 22.—Leave 8u- wanre (I>) at 5:40 a. m. Arrive at Atlanta 8:00 a m. CONNECTIONS. A with arriving trains of Georgia Central and A. A W. P. Railroads. B with arriving trains of Georgia Central, A. A W P. and W. A A. Railroad*. C with arriving trains of Georgia Rail Road. D with Lawrenceville Branch to and from Law- reneeville, Ga. K with Northeastern Railroad of Georgia to and rrom Athens, Ga. F with ElbertOD Air-Line to and from Elberton, Georgia. G with Columbia and Greenville to and from Col umbia and Charleston, 8. C. H with Columbia sod Greenvillo to and from Col umbia and Charleston, 8. C. K with Spartanburg and Aahville, and Spartan burg, Union and Columbia to and from Hen derson and Ashville, and Alston and Colum bia. I. with Chester and Lenoir Narrow Guage to and from Dallas and Chester. M with C. C.»% A- C. C.—R. A D. and A. T. A O. for all points West, North and East. Btr I n liman Sleeping Car Service on trains Noe. 47 and 48, daily, without change, between Atlanta nd New York. A. POPE, tt General Passenger A vent. Oil. Linsood Oil, Raw and Boilod. Builders’ Hardware. A largo variety of Locke, Kim and Mortice Lock*, Surface and Mortice Blind Hinge*, All *ixe* and style* of Door Butt*, Inside Blind Butts (bras, and iron.) A fine line ol Padlocks, Yale Store Door Locks, Yale Night Latches, Screws in any quantity and evory sixe. And everything yon want in the Hardware line. Doors, Sash and Blinds. The largest stock in Augusta, at bottom figures. Send for prioe list. BALUSTERS, BRACKETS AND MANTLES, And almost anything that can be made out of wood, we arc prepared to make it. Yellow Pine Lumber. In anv quantity, rough or dressed. We pack ana deliver all of oar goods free of chargo. Thompson & Heindel. 1)15. 810 JACKSON STREET. Cincinnati Southern Rail’y l*cave Athens via Northeastern R. R— 4.40 a. m •• ** ** •» ...... 8.50 p. m •* •• •* Georgia Railroad....— 8.45 a. m •• '• •' « " .....«« 7.00 p. m ” Union Depot Atlanta.....*.......—. 8.00 a. m •• " *• " 2.50 p. m • • Dalton ....—HHMHMHMmMmlL15 p. m «• *• 6.40 p. m Arrive Boyce Cincinnati Jc —1.20 p. m •• •• " 7.55 p. m LEAVE CINCINNATI VIA O. AND X. B. R. Leave O. A 51. Depot—....- •• O. AM. •• Arrive St. l.oiii«......— VIA VANDALIA LINE. Leave Plum Street Depots—....— Arrive St. Lonia—..——— Are now Opening np NEW AND BffififnjL STOCK Fall and Winter Goods. OUR DRESS GOODS STOGI Fraxigo, «Jot and Stool and Black and colored Silk Fringes ever ope tied in this city. Call and see for vonrself. You will be convince STOCK. i* full of all the latest novelties and popular prices prevail throughout. HOSIERY We carry an immense stock end can certainly e you in p. ice. ... 7.20 p. m ..... 7.43*. m 7.20 p. m 7,28 p. m . 7.02 p.m . 8.00a. m . 8.00 p. m . 0.15 p. os leave Plum Street Depot Arrive St. Louie.... VIA KAKKAKBX US*. Leave Plum Street Depot.—...— — 7.00 p. m ... 8.00 a. m ... 7.00 a. m 7.25 p- m MO SECOND-HAND MACHINERY. THRESHERS, HORSE-POWERS, FAN MILLS, COTTON PRESSES SEPARATORS, Jet Pumps, Saw Mills with Screw or Ratchet Head Blocks. 4 H. F. Bookwelter portable engine in good order. 8 H. P. Wood. Taber & Morse portable en gine in good order. 10 H. P. Washington Iron Works portable igine in good order. V. P. Sterbuck Bros, portable engine in r i order. P. Stationery engine in good order. 80 inch Georgia water wheel in good order. 17 1-2 inch' Joe. Letfel wheel in good order. 15 inch Eclipse wheel good ee new. 10 inch Thoe. Letfel wheel. Johnson Smutler, new. 4 Spindle Drill. 15 inch Iron Lathes 6 ft shears. 40 inch Fen Blower. Shafting, Gearing, Pulleys, etc. ATHENS FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS, Athens, Georgia Leave C. II. A D. Depot..... “ C. II. A D. Depot Arrive Chicago — . 7.80p.m . 7.40a. m . 7.10 a. in . 7.25 P. m H. H • CARLTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THEVS, G • .FFICE on Brood street, up stairs. Entrance _l next door above Long’s Drug Store. Will attend promptly to ell business entrusted to he fcer. o 1 Leave C. H. A D. Depot— O. H. A D. Depot... Arrive New York- — 9.20 p. m ....12.40 p. . 8.50 s. . 9.25 p. m Leave L. M. Depot— '• L. M. Depot..., Arrive Baltimore— Philadelphia... New York...... VIA *. AMD O. X. X. Leave Hum Street Depot Arrive Psrkerahuv* * Cumberland— ..... “ Harper 1 ! Ferry ——■ Washington——-—- “ Baltimore— - Philadelphia New York.— l* emm eocTBXxa bailwat. AJ»P- m 2.45 p.m .10.80 p. m Arrlv. *«. York ^ZAtLSO * m VIA OXXAT WXXTXXlf BAILWAT, Leave C. H. AD. Depot——— s> •• C. 11. AD. " ,t«M» Arrive New York 10.00p.m Leave Atlanta 12 - 7 H. M. COTTINGHAM, Gen’l Southern Agent, AtUnte. K. P. WILSON, Gtitl Pi.s*Vr and Tiek’t Ag’t, Cincinnati. k % J. BURNEY. Traveling Agent, Atlanta • Atlanta12 p.m. Sleeper open stop. m. opportunity io peas over entire line of rued time. For further Information addreta I ATHENS, GSOZIGXa. YOUNG L. O. HARRIS, Praaidnnt KTLVhNH THOM 58, Serve lory. drum iaaeta, April 1,1*77, - • *784,581 U Resident Dirootors. Toms L. O. Haxxo, 8txtxxs Tbohao Joss U. hums, Kuxrm L. Nowtos. 1>b. nsasY hiu, Funusn Peisiar Aura P. Dbaxiico, Px. J. a. Hoxxicnrr Con. Boxxxt Thomas. Jojim w. Nichoiaoji msvXt-vlv Table Lira eras TOWELS, Doylies, Napkins, Counterpanes and Bed spreads in an endless variety and cheaper than any other house in the city will offer you. ilankets, Blankets Th«largest stock ever offered by ally retail house in Atlanta and prieee lower. We osn sell yon a good Wool Blanket from $2.25 a pair up to $18 00. Union Blsnkete$l 50up. KNIT GOODS. By fir the moet complete stock of these goods ever offered by any house in the south. Ladies' Vesta from 25 cents up. rtl THE LATEST AND MOST WONDERFUL INVENTION I EDISON’S INSTANTANEOUS GUIDE TO THE FIA2TO or OB.C.&2T By which any Child or Person can play any of the Popular Aire et ones without »tmr, rnxvi- ocs practice, or even Musical Talent. The Company will roxrxrr $1,000 if any Child ten year* old flails to play amt oxx of our Popular Tunes on the pxaxo, oboaw or xxaodxom with in oxx noun alter receiving the Mimic end In structiona, provided said child can count, with the figures before it, from 1 to a 100 correctly. 7 PIECES OF MUSIC WITH INSTRUCTORS, Mailed to any address on receipt of $1,00. En el ose one- cent postage stamp for Catalogue of Tunes. Agents wanted in every State end County in the Unisn. Edison Music Co* 216 & 217 Wnlnut street, Philsa.,P a. *ep20-wlm. A Lecture to Young Men on tho Loss of MANHOOD A Lecture on the Nature. Treatment, and ipotency, Impedimenta to Marriage generally; Consump tion, Epilepsy, end Fit*: Mental am' ' Incapacity, etc.—By ROBERT J. 1 WELL, It. D„ at thor of the •Green: The world-renowned author, in th ble Lecture, clearly proves from his own expo rience that the ewfnl oonovquencva of Self-Abuse may ha effectually removod without dangerous utigioel opeietione, bougies, instruments, rings, ” ' ’ ■' ontemodeol cure at once which every sufferer, no _ ition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. tgjThia lecture will proves boon to thoue- ■liii* thOOMOdl. Sent under seal, in e plain env.lope, to any cordial*; p luting ooi rtan and effectual, by ittarwhat his condil mself cheaply, privsti 3J~Thi» lecture will ids and thousands. Sent under seed, in a. _ ... , address poet-psld, on receipt of six centx or two oostage stamps. \\'i have also a sou ouxx vox Tap* Woxm. Address THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO Ann St. INaw York. N. Y*., 1 ’. 0. hex, 4585 The Post-Appeal doesn’t brag mnch on the Exposition, Neveitbe* leas, we shall continue to spell it with a big E. Somebody proposes to make Grant tbe candidate of tbe great temperance movement that is now agitating the country. Wouldn’t that make the General amile? Tub Eatonton Messenger has some vague remarks aoont “the calibre of a Congressman.” Does tbe Messenger expect a Congressman to be hollow down to hia heels ? SUCCESSFUL FARUKG. • ; A-Troup County Former tells how bedoeo tt. .On yesterday there entered the Constitution otfice a sturdy, propper- ous looking larmer who is doing more for Georgia in a practical way than perhaps the entire legislature did daring its last session. We refer to Maj. J F Jones of Troup county, who lives Lear Hogansville, and is one pf the best farmers that the state has ever had. Mr. Jones will make an exhibit at the exposition that will go very far towards redeeming the fail ure of the legislature to provide for an exhibit. He has honey, chufas, ground nuts, wgar cane that is 16 feet high, wheat, data, corn that is 19J feet high, cot ton in the seed,as lint and in the bale <rpwn on his own place and of the ality. - k sixe of grains ana height of"' corn will compare favorably with, if it does not surpass anything shown by Kansas or Colorado. We do not believe that there is a single exhibit that will attract so much attention as the individual exhibit made by this Georgia farmer who runs a three horse farm. The success that has attended Maj. Jones’ farming of late, and the ndi- cal reform that he has brought about in bis neighborhood, will have so mnch interest that wagive a short interview hid with him. He said: ‘The whole secret of success in Geor gia tanning is to cultivate less land and cultivate it better. There ia noth ing that can be raised on any land that we cannot raise successfully and profitably in middle Georgia if we only cultivate it right. Our farmers have always believed it was their du ty to plow every acre of land that they had cleared. As a consequence they have cultivated loosely, waatefolly and That is a gay story we publish to>- day about Garfield’s ghostly escort. Angels “ dancing mournfully,” are certainly a novelty on this earth; and so is the ‘sound of unheard commands.’ The latter can find a parallel only in the “ unkissed kisses,” told of by the poet. “Thb Atlanta Constitution,” said Hon. Emory Speer, in a conversation the other day, “ is truly a great pa* per. It is an honor to Georgia, and I cm prond ot tho way in which it represents onr State abroad.” To which opinion the Banner gave a modest but unqualified assent. Harhis,' off~-rtnm*8x«, says of Arthur: “ He iaa bold, frank man of decided opinions, and has courage enough to act upon his con victions. He i* an nltra Republican who will administer the government up-in republican principles, but will mislead or deceive no one by any act or utterance of bis. The great inter ests of the country are and will be as safe under his administration as they could be under the administra tion of any Republican.” with poor results. Whenever they reduce tbe amount of land and inten sify the cultivation the state will be enriched as few men believe to be possible.’ ‘Have you done this yourself ?’ ‘Yes, sir, and I am willing to give my own experience in order that you may see how it works. After the war I had some money and considerable propertyand hired every negro that I could get my hands on; bongbt stock and commenced farming on a grand scale, cultivating every acre that I had and doing everything loosely. In a few years I had nothing but my land and was seven thousand dollars in debt. I then went to Dr. Moreland told him iny condition and said I must have seven thousand dollars. He agreed to lend it to me and advised me to buy more mules and hire more labor and cultivate more land. But I had seen the folly of my ways, and changed my farm from a twenty-five horse farm to a two horse farm and determined to cultivate what I did cul tivate what I did cultivate iu the very *~Hl Itilln . T flMMU-ygamtar. five acres in cotton and made :t aver age over a bale to the acre. 1 corn- board waa worth, outside of this 836 or 108 for the three. Tbe total cost of the crop, therefore on the Jl acres was 8531. Off of this land I gather* ed 14,404 -pounds of cotton, or 28 baleB ot 518 pounds each, making the cost of cultivation 2f cents per pound. I held this cotton until the spring and sold at 10 cents a pound to B. G. Swanson, of LaGrange, making 81,- 448 or 8917 net profit, or about 845 per acre. Besides this the hands that cultivated the cotton made 190 bush els of wheat of which (I sold 100 at 81.25, 300 bushels of corn and about 3,500 pounds of fodder, 500 bushels of oats, t hired some labor to har vest these crops.’ ‘Has your example been followed among your neighbors ?* ‘Yes; quite largely. Experience is the_only teacher that farmers listen to. A^soon as I was satisfied that we had all been .making a mistake,,’! tried a new rale ot tbe small farm, well tilled and raising my own pro visions and making my cotton crop a surplus one, and there were others who followed.’ •What has been the result?’ \ Just as it has been with me. know of some cases where they have beaten my figures, and I can give you the names of numbers of men who raise 3,000 bushels of corn besides the 1,000 pounds ot cotton per acre on from two to three horse farms and make bigger crops at better prices than they formerly made on th9 twelve and eighteen horse farms. Mr. W. J. Hicks, who formerly ran twenty- five horses, now runs two and makes thirty-five bales of cotton. He makes a bale per acre. He raises all his corn and provisions, and is making money. Mr. Henry Brazell, who ran twenty-five horses, now runs six and and makes 112 bale* of cotton, and over a bale an acre and plenty of pro 1 visions. Mr. W. W. Covin, who ran CLOTHING. We carry one of the beat and moat stylish lines oi Clothing, embracing all the Nobbiest Styles and Cut to be foani] in any Clothing House. -OUR- Gents’ Furnishing Stock is filled with the goods end at] prieee below all others. -ON SHOES are srahesdqnartera.es we make Men’s, Ladies Misses end Children’s Shoes a specialty. Cel end aeens. . On shoes see out geode end hear onr priore end yon will see etoneethet we con S'AVE YOU. MONEY. Splendid line of Men’s and Boys* HATS & CAPS At Attractive Prices. Please call and see Our Goods and Prices before Buying. Hook & Smith, 53 PEACHTREE ST„ octM. ATLANTA, GA. AS ISHH AEUTISH DUN. There are many ways of dnnning people; bnt onr friend Lewis, of the Sparta Ishmaelite, takes tbe bine rib bon in that line. He used to teach school in Perry, and in the last issue of tbe Percy Journal we find the fol lowing dun, which we confidently pro nounce without a parallel: A LAST APPEAL. Tbe Houston county people; who still owe me for tuition bills, ought either to pay me, or quit praying in public. It will be easier to pay this money now, than to work it out in the Eternal Tropics. Sidney Lew is. Spaita, Ga. JOHN SHERMAN. It has not been a very great while since Chester A, Arthur was clubbed out of the New York custom house by the secretary of the Treasury, the Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. The Honorable John acted in this matter so as to leave the impression on the public mind that Mr. Arthor was turned out for dishonesty. The peo ple of tbe oountrv well remember this, and so does Mr. Arthur. It happens, by an unexpected turn the wheel of fortune, that the victim cf the Honorable Jolin’e machinations is now President of the United States, It it said by those who are supposed to be best acquainted with the inten tions of the new prendret, that he ie going to'appoint a new secretary of tbe Treasury, whose especial duty it will be to go through and investigate the administration of the Honorable John—which, by tbe way, is said by some to be not entirely tree from the suspicion ot crookedness. Tne Utica Observer, good authority, says: “ The man .who succeeds Window in tbe Trea-ury Department will be a man whom no Ohio influence can reach, who is not afraid of or indebt ed to anv Ohio political circle, and who will be fitted both by ability and record to do tbe work for which he was primarily appointed. And that work w ! ll be to expose, brand, smite hip and thigh, destroy, consume John Sherman.’’ This matter promires to lie very lively, and not less interesting to the Democrats than to those immediately concerned. May tbe right prevail menced raising my own corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., and improving the lit tle land I had reserved.’ ‘What was the result of this ?’ ‘It was that in three years instead of losing money, as heretofore, I had improved my place and had paid back almost the whole ot the 87,000 that I had borrowed. This is my fith crop since I reduced my farm and I am now entirely out of debt, have im- ; >roved my home and buildings and : arm and when this crop is marketed will have a comfortable surplus. There is no trouble in making money in Georgia if the farmer will only work intelligently.’ ‘You may say that you averaged more than a bale of cotton to tbe acre ?’ Yes, my entire crop averaged that. Last year I made within two bales of a bale and a half to the acre. This year I will averaged nearly a bale and a half to the acre. Here is a certificate from two responsible gentleman showing that on three aores of land I have this year raised eight bales of cotton, and gathered in their presence 2,502 ponuds of cotton per acre, and bad already gathered 1,600 pounds per acre, making up to date 4,102 pounds. This ootton was weighed with not even dew on it, and I have got 250 pounds ot top cot ton per acre, as they estimate, in ad dition to what I have gathered, and could make every acre that I have planted in cotton this year yield the same amount per acre as this patch of three acres. I was not able to give it all the same cultivatfon but shall increase my intensive farming over more aores every year.’’ ‘Your cotton then must cost you much less than nine cents a pound, which it is estimated it costs to raise cotton in Georgia?’ It costa me less then three cents a pound. Comptroller-General Golds smith and some gentlemen took the figures of my crop .of threo years ago and estimated the coet. I am satis fied that I have not raised any cotton since I reduced ray farm that coet me over three cents a pound.’ ‘We should like to have all the de tails by which this is done.’ ‘Welt, the crop of last year was based on tweuty-one acres. The la bor used was three boys valued re-, spectively at seventy-fit e dollars a year and board for one and forty dollars a year and board for each of the oilier two, together with seventeen dollars worth ot day labor— two ol the boy* bring too young to do good plowing. The total cash dost of labor waa 8172. This includes the labor of my two sons. The land waa manured with a ton and a half ot Eli wan dissolved bone composted with dome-tic ma nures and cotton seed. The coet of the dissolved bone was 890, of tbe cottou seed which were used at the rate of 30 bushels to the acre, 863 , tbe compost nothing, making a total expense tor manure ot 8153. Borides the labor in making the crop, I had to pay for picking half of it at the rate of wren dollars per bale, amounting to 898. The three boys did extra jobs about the house, did the milking apd it may be estimated that their tbiity-five horses, now runs eight, and averages a bale of cotton to the acre. These men, as well as myself, nsed to make on the same land, from a quar ter to a third of a bale per acre, and lost money at it.’ ‘ What has been done with he sur plus land ?’ ‘It has been rented to small crop pers or sold off We organized a tew years ago a grain club, and determin ed to raise our own grain and corn. This club has done more for oar neighborhood than all the political clubs ever organized. If tbe farmers ot Georgia will only reduce their farms from tweive or fifteen horses to two or three, cultivate thoroughly, use the best seed and raise their own provisions, instead of barely holding their own, as they do now, they will soon be rich and prosperous. My farm is called ‘Farm Independent.’ and I want the name to signity that I can raise on it everything that is need 1 ed for rny comfort and furnish food and clothing for many a man beside.’ This talk of Major Jones presents wmo atarttlng/auto anUrte—mjntr the consideration of every farmer in the state of Georgia. It is on the line that the Constitution has been urging for years. One farmer like Major Jones, however, can do more to bring about this reform than a hun dred newspapers, even if they are as earnest and sincere in their efforts as the Constitution. We shall have more to say of Major Jones’ exhibit as soon as the building is ready and it is unpacked and pntiir position. 500 Entries. Large Atcend- ii Rao.-.g. A Grand Success. We^ received the following news from the Fair which is progressing at Watkinsville yesterday evening, but too late for insertion in tbe paper: “The Fair opened very favorably. There have been five hundred entries in all departments, up to 9 o’clock, this (Tuesday) morning. There is the best display et stock ever seen at any of onr fair*. Kimball Jackson, the celebrated ‘Georgia, raised,’ will be here this evening. His time is mnch under 2.40. He is said to b6 the prettiest. horse on the Georgia turf. A splendid programme • for Wednesday,.--Thursday' and, Friday has been arranged. The latter two will be tho big days. There will be four races ou Thursday and five on Friday. Those interested in fine stock should be here certain. There were more people here to day than on the first day of any pre vious fair. A fine band of music is iu attendance and keeps everything moving harmoniously. Oconee being the offspring of Clarke expects the people ot tbe latter to turn out in force and help swell the crowd. later, 2| p. M. “The 3£ minute horses arc on the track. Chieftain driven by W. S. Holman has just run the first heat. The racing is very exciting. Slow- go, a beautiful stallion seems to be the favorite.” Peninsular People See the Late [President Surrounded by Koillers in the Sky. Wilmington (Del.) News. Peninsular people have been sec* ing ghosts and supernatural objects with alarming frequency during the last three weeks. The first instance of things heavenly having been seen comes from Royal Oak, .Maryland. A little girl, some three weeks ago, living in the village, saw after night • fall, before tbe moon was fairly np above the)*horizon f whole platoons of angels slowly marching ana coun termarching to and fro in the clouds, their white robes and helmets glis- witha wierd light At in tervals the heavenly visitors would dance monrnfully, as if to the sound of unseen music and oertaioly unheard mnric. She rnshed in to her parents and declared that the heavens had been spread and betrayed to her vis ion rights somewhat premature, as time, and then sank down in affright. Her father, to. satisfy his doubting.mind, went out and was rewarded with a sight of the unearthly spectacle. The news of thej mystery quickly spread from mouth to mouth, from house to house, and in nn in credibly short apace of time the in habitants were out in masses gazing in ' opened -mouthed astonishment, while the white-robed boats, seeming- From Thursday's Dally. Our bulletin from the Fair at Wat- kinsville came in last night. The crowd yesterday was large and prom ised to increase greatly tooday and to-morrow. Everybody is pleased. The exhibition itself is most credita ble. The main Hall is filled with all the artistic articles known to South ern girls, while the farm products are quite numerous. The races yesterday were very ex citing and held the crowd moat of the day. At 10 o’clock tbe half mile running race came off and waa won by McDonald’s horse, of Rockdale county. The pacing race was won by ‘ Little Giant,’ driven by W. S. Hol man, ot Athens. At 2$ p. m., a run ning race ot great interest took place, and was won by Pendergrass’ horse * Helirn,’ Thurmond'a — ‘Stamper’ second. To-morrow is the closing day and will be the biggest of all. A FRIGHTFUL DISEASE. Horrifying reports como from Platte county, Kansas, and tbe vicin- ty of Parkville and Waldron and inter venting country, regarding a scourge which, it is reported, has recently broken out there. At first it was thought smallpox, but it is developing symptoms of even more aggravated character than this disease. Mr. Threlkeld, a farmer living near Park- ville, reported that although the dis ease has been raging five days, eleven deaths had occurred and thirty per sons were sick. Of these only one man had shown symptoms of recovery, and he was not yet out of danger. The disease had broken out between Parkville and Waldron, on the Couni cil Bluffs road, the latter only nine miles from this place. It was brought here by a tramp laborer who went from Kansas City seeking work, and was taken sick and died. This was ten days ago. He said all who aV tended the funeral of the patient have been s’ncken. The bodies were covered with the most horrible sores, and fairly rot and fester before death ensues. Mr. Threlkheld is re ported to have said that a person who had died with the disease cannot be lifted iuto the coffin. The flesh falls from the bones and the bones them selves crumble and break when han dled. Many of tbe old citizens think it is the old black smallpox, a very virulent form ot the disease, in which the body is covered with black erup tions, and few who aro taken sur vive. Olliers who have seen it think it is nothing more nor lei* than the terrible black scourge which devasta ted the countries ot the east in the fourteenth century. -4 ’ Widowers ut Washington. Widowers will be in the ascendency in Washington this season, as the President is a widower, the new Brit ish minister is also, and so is Mr. Al len, the Hawaiian minister, now the dean of the diplomatic corps. Tbeie •re also several widowers in each House ot Congress. Among the Sen-’ atonal widowers are Anthony, David Davis, and Jones, of Florida.— Wash ngton Star. Dr Glenn, the California wheat grower,.is unfortunate this year, his crop amounting to only 100,000 sacks, this would satisfy ir ost formers, either in that or other states, but when tbe further tacts are mentioned that he will have to keep 36,0^0 sacks merely for seed next year, and that his last crop before this was 400,000 sacks, it is evideut that the year ia likely to prove a losing one to the doctor. It cosfo a large amount of money to run his 50,000 acre farm and the hundreds of men and horses employed ou it GET READY FOR IT 1 Twenty Trained Elephants—Fifteen Hundred Wild Beasts—Great Circus in Two Rings -Twenty-Two Performing Stallions —A Human Bring Blown From a Cannon—!Magnificent Free Public Procession. Adam Forepangh’s great show, which is the largest as it is the best in the world, is to exhibit, .Thursday, Oct. 27, afternoon and evening, at Athens. Arrangements have been completed for reduced rates on all lines of travel to and from Athens, on the day the Forepangh show is to be there. Tbe grand streeet pageant will take place about ten o’clock on the forenoon of exhibition day. In this great spectacular demonstration, there will appear twenty huge ele phants, hundreds of magnibceDt horses, a mile ot gorgeons chariots, three full bauds of musio, twenty dess ert dromedaries ; and there will also be represented the beautiful Orieutal romance of the departure of Lalla Rookh from Delhi, iu which is to be seen the famous ten thousand dollar beauty, whom Forepaugh has secured to personify Lalla Rookh, and for whose services he paya the sum of ten thousand. The circus is exhibited in two sep arate rings, and this is what a neighs borhood exchange says concerning tha great show: “As between Barnnm and Fore paugh we have no hesitancy in assert ing, without fear of contradiction, that Forepaugh’s colossal combination is the superior to Barnum’s in both magnitude and merit. There never has been an exhibition brought here that has presented such a wonderful array of novelties as Forepaugh’s. It is an absolute fact, and all -who visit the exhibition will see, a human be ing blown from a cannon which is loaded with powder and fired in full view of the audienot; so, loo, the visitor will see the wonder-moving performances of the g*eat herd of twenty hugo elephants, and twenty- two blooded stallions and trick boraes. And then there is the won derful act of the famous Freueh eq uilibrist, Madame Zuila, who rides backward and forward over a f inch wire, stretched one hundred feet from the ground, and wheels her babe over the same high wire. Nowhere, ex cept in Forepaugh’s great show, can be seen the miraculous performances of the Selbini & Villion Troupe ot Bicyclers. These wonderful perform- ert form pyramids, engage in. lint- spinning, stand each upon theolbcis’ heads, and, in fact, do nearly every acts that is performed upon a horse, or upon the ground in a circus ring, upon the modern steel bicycle, while it is dashing around tbe arena at twen ty miles an hour. The menagerie contains, in addition to the trained lions, tigers, giraffes, etc., a monster hippopotamus, rhinocerous, sea lions, and, in fact, it is n veritable Noah’s *rk.” We bespeak a liberal patronage for tho great show from our town, and assure our readers wbo contemplated going that they will surely see every featuro advertised. Iy offended at the immense amount of genuine.astonishment and wonder they were unearthing, slowly faded from sight, leaving Royal Oak a firm believer, from the little girl who waa first on the spot to the ’Squire in his little office behind the church, in ghosts and winged goblins. But the phenomena seem to have been espe cially manifest in Sussex county, Dels aware, i Monday night two weeks ago W il- liam West, a farmer living near Georgetown, the county seat, raw at a time almost identical with the ap pearance of the vision at Royal Oak, thousands of soldiers of great size,equip ped in dazzling uniforms, their mus ket steels quivering and shimmering in the pale, wieid light that seemed to be everywhere, marching with mil itary precision up and down unseen avenues and presenting arms at the sound of unheard commands. The vision was of startliug distinctness and lasted long enough to be seen by a number of West’s neighbors, who, after the unearthly military had taken its departure and been swallowed up in the air, retailed the strange story to their eager friends, who had not been so fortunate as they. But strangest of all, a man named Cover- dale, who was driving through the conntry along the lonely road at the same time, being then several miles away from West’s house and in an en tirely different direction, saw to his astonishment and alarm the same band of soldiers in their faultless uni forms. Many people living near Laur el, many miles away, situated in the lower end of the Peninsula, saw the same extraordinary phenomena at the same time. A few go as far as to say in spite of the ridicule of their asso ciates, that they distinctly saw in the midst of the soldiers, and conspicu oils by reason of his size and com manding presence, the hero President himself, pale, but with' his every fea ture distinctly and vividly portrayed. there were manv who thought they saw Garfield in the clouds. In Tal bot county tbe illusion was seen by numbers. A farmer living near Jlara's Point on going out into bis yard after dark saw, as he related it afterwards to his neighbors, angels and soldiers marching tide by side in the clouds, wheeling and going through every evolution with military precision and absolutely life-like and natural. A Warning to Silly Girls. During a recent engagement of the Mapleson Company, in Chicago, the young daughter ot a well known phy.. silian ot that city became violently smitten with the handsome baritone, and wrote lum a number of notes finally sending him her photograph. As she was very pretty, the singer naturally requested an interview, which, she declined, fearing to dis close her real identity, whereupon he visited the photographer who had taken the picture, and obtaining the real name and address of tbe original wrote to her snymg that if she did not give him 8200 in exchange for her picture and notes that he would publish the photograph in the Police Gazette. This threat had the desired effect, and tbe frightened girl sent him every cent of money she had and her jewelry. Royal Presents. Augusta News. Among the bridal presents at the wedding of Miss Dnuschka Pickens, of Edgefield, and Dr. Geo, C. Dugas, of Augusta, was a set of elegant dia monds from the C'z ir of Russia. Miss ‘Uouschka’was born in Su Peters burg while her distinguished father was Minister to the court cf Russia, The Czar was her God father, and she was named for the Empress ot Russia, Frances Eugenia Olga Neva, the pre fix, ‘Douschka,’ being a pet name and, translated, means ‘Darling.’ Dr. and Mrs Dugas will make a trip North and then make their home in Augusta. It is estimated by accurate calcula tors that it costs more annually to repair the fences and build others necessary, in Georgia, than it does to pay the entire coat of the government. Al-o, that the fences in Georgia cost more than all tne cattle, horses, hogs and sheep in the state are worth, and all to enable some poor hogs and mules to pick np a scanty subsistence in the fence corners and along the public roads. The first official Sunday school con us in the United.. Slates is nows being taken by the government. Cir culars containing questions are sent to every superintendent. These cover the number of teachers and children, the ages of scholars, the number, value, and character ot books In libraries,' the property owned, the money collected, and Lite increase in attendance since 1870. The weignt ot a cask of water pulled out the teeth of the “Man with the Iron Ja\v,’ t while he w as perform ing at the Indiana State fair, and fell on his breast, crushing liiip to death.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern weekly banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1881-1882, October 18, 1881, Image 1