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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 4, 1890.
RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.
1)U. C. W. LAME. Ef:TO*.
lUOrthS.
One hundred and twenty One million*
«f dollar*, give IO me Pre-Meet ot the
S nni'nnl Oil Trust C»., the rcpuution of
being ;iie richest rosu iu America. Fm
auel.t itiil we know.be may oe constantly
giving with a princely bam* to nlieve the
w:nii!* of Ha fellow-being*. However ibis
„ ny l»e, the next moment utter thil cnn-
11 »ciine and expanding muiclelu bis left
breast which We call the heart, atop* its
W( ,ik. A sinvle nickel will be !»<•«: than
f,v.- limes greater than what he lueii will
own. “We brought nothing with us iuto
tlie world and it la certain we Can cany
noibing out" Tbc only iovtaluients that
we chii reta'n posseaaioo of forever, are
iliose inude iu doing good to the tile ry of
Ged. »
(}. d’s Standard Ttusl Is not a cold blond-
cd . urtlny ‘cometiine" but a warm mated
hlle-iauce and liust in the Gieal loader
„n i Commander. It glvca the oil of Joy
tor mou ning, the garment of pratae for
the M'irtt of heaviness.
Ur who baa tin# will inherit the un.
(.larcbatib-rich*# which will abide with
fiim nil the eternity t« come. There is
n uch tru'b m -lie rescript iou on a iom»-
Hoiii. “What I kept I have lost, that 1
gave 1 still have. / »/
INJUSTICE TO THE CHURCHES.
From S. Y. Observer.
Mi tlie evangelical demonstrations an-
iniarepreaenlnl. They say the PreabyU-
rihii (Jbuicb i. beves there are iufanta In
1» r.litioii. If you will bring i»e a Prtsby-
teriii'i of good moral# and sound inlnd wUo
will say that lie believe# there ever wan a
biby in the lost world, or ever will be, 1
will make him a de* d to the hou»e 1 live
in and he can take |MwaeMlou to-nioribw.
So tlie Episcopalian church it misrepre
sented by the eneoiitw of evangelism.
They say that Church substitutes form*
uiul ceremonies for heart religion, and i»
all a matter for lituigy and genufli-ction
Ki.lse again. All Episcopalians will trlt
you that tlie forms aud cne.is of then
cliurch are worae than nothing unless the
b<Mil go with tbeui. So also the Baptist
cl.urcii lots been mbrepreseuted. The
enemies of evangrlirm aey the Baptist
Church believe# that unlesa a man Is tm-
meisill lie will never get into heaven.
False again. All the Baptists, close com.
inuinoii and o|m*ii communion, b* lieve that
il a man tu-c pt tin Lmd Je»us Christ he
will be saved, whether he tie baptized by
one drop of water on the forehead, or bi'
plunged into the Ohio or tM»quehanna, al
though immer*i«u is the only gate l»y
winch < r.e enters ibeir eaithiy coiuuiun-
ion. Thu oiemit# of evangelism also
mi>repri'Se»ri the Methodist Church. They
ray the* the Methodist Church believe*
that a man can convert hiuiself, and '.hat
conversion in that church is a temporary
•motion, mid that all a man lias to iiui* to
kneel (town at the altar und feel bad ami
then tn« minister pats him on the back and
reus, “i* is • l> right," and that is nil there
is ot it. Fa s again. The M -tbodist
Church hi HeVea that the Holy Ghost alone
Can cieiverga In art, a* d in that Church
c<>: verson Is an eai thquake of conviction
and a sunburst of paidon. An-1 as to
mere i*i|H»rary emotion," I wish w.- all
had more «>f ihe lemporary emotion which
lasted il shop Janes ami Matthew &iuip*oii
tor a le.lt century, keeping them on fire
for G*mI until their holy enthusiasm con
sumed their bodies.— DeWltt Taluiage.
the religious education of their chil
dren. “The first fiive years of nty life
made me un infidel,” said Tom Paine.
A vessel puts out to sea, and after it
has been five days out there oomes a
cyclone. The vessel springs a leak.
The helm will not work. What is the
matter ? It is uot seaworthy. It never
was seaworthy Can you mend it now.
It is too late. Down she goes with two
hundred ond fifty passengers into a wa
tery grave. What was the time to pre
pare that vessel for the storm ? In the
dry dock. Do not wait until your chil
dren get out into tlie g-eat voyage of
life. It is too late then to mend their
morals and their manners. The dry
dock of the Christian home is the place.
Just look at the character of your chil
dren now and get au intimation of what
they are going to be You can tell by
the way that boy divides the apple,
what his proclivity is. He takes nine-
tenths of it for himself and he gives
one-tenth to his sister. Well, let that
go, and all his life he will want the best
part of everything and lie will be grind
ing and gasping to the day of his death.
CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT.
BEAU riFUL EUONOM Y.
Or. of our religious exchanges boasts of
acc'i .'ii church possessing a lady who
ssvi-s • tic congregation, where she wor-
s!n‘ a, $10,000 a year. A woman <*f wealth
and <d id^iii M-cial culture amt po.ition,
site in-ik'-s it h»-r rule and tlie fashion to
dr*vs fm cliurch in so plain aud inexpeo-
mv- n manner aa to throw the whole so
cial mfl ici.ee of the congregation against
extravagance in dress. If she can over,
throw tn<: cultu# of dress Iu onr modern
churches, and replace it with the worship
of G .il, she lias a mi'sion greater limn that
of Kimball, or Miiody aud Sunkey.—
Christian Observer.
BOW I&AUA KNEW.
Our Dot was flying round so briskly
that wc all knew that something was
going to happen. She dressed the vaoes
with fresh flowers; brought out her
dolls, games and picture books; ran out
and called Tom to pull up tlie croquet
wickets; and was on the piazza, with a
clean white apron on, when grandpa
came out to inquire what was in the
wind.
“There are a whole lot of girls com
ing to spend tlie day with me” an
swered Dot, with importance “’cause
its my birth day; and 1 am going to
have turkey and gingersnaps and lera-
oudrops for dinner. 1 did want chew
ing gum too,” added the little hostess,
regretfully, “but mama said she drew
tlie Hue at chewing gum.”
“1 should say so,” laughed grandpa,
“but whom do you expect?”
“Why all my class; you know them
all except Katie Brown; she is a little
girl from the new house on the hill—
yonder they come now!” and Dot flow
to the gate as Mamie’s carriage drew
up, Lucy came around the corner on
her tricycle and Nellie crossed the street.
Such fun as tlie little girls had! Laugh
ing and; frolicking all day long. But
the brightest there seemed to be Katie
Brown'. She thought Dot’s picture
looked “just beautiful,” and her dolls
“too cute for anything,” yet was con
tented to take the oldest doll to keep
house with. She took her turn last
at the swing, and had the poorest play
ers for her partners at croquet. When
tlie little girls wrn summoned to din
ner, Katie sat quietly, without playing
with her knife, until all were helped,
and folded her napkin nicely when
through eating, she would not put
some of the lemon drops iu ner pocket
till mama told her so.
Evening catne at last, and mama and
I wore in the sitting loom, chatting,
when Dot came in.
“Can you go to call on Mrs. Brown
wifjh me tomorrow 2”tnania> was saying,-
*1 am anxious to meet her, sue must be
lovely woman.”
“Why, mama, how do you know?”
interrupted Dot, “I thought you had
never met her.”
But 1 have seen her little girl,” re
plied mama, “and I feel confident that
the mother of suck an unselfish, lady
like little girl must be a refined Chris
tian lady.”
“Does everybody judge mamas by
their little girls’ behavio •?” asked Dot
soberly.
“Very often, my dear,” said mama,
‘and 1 wonder what people who have
only met my little girl think of me?”
Dot made no reply but looked reflect
ively in tlie fire. Cousin Butty.
GEMS.
From New York Observer ‘
Are our consciences apiinst u#? let us
fly Iron) those things of which our con
sciences are afraid to the mercy of God.
Is the past against us? let us fly from it
now to tlie yet innocent preseut which
lie still allows us; to the happy and
holy future which he yet may enable ua
to attain; to tlie glorious eternity
whereof the golden gates are as yet un
barred and are flung as widely open to
ti e penitents as to the saints.
The bee is onr example, for she builds
a house, but fetches all the material
from abroad, and it is from the flowers
of tl e garden and not from herself that
site procures the honey with which she
stores her cells. True believers get all
substance and sweetness of their hopes
from the flowers of the promises, and
daro not live upon themselves or any
thing that they can do or be.
True reverence for God includes both
fear and love—fear, to ketg him in onr
eye; love, to enthrone him in the heart;
fear, to avoid what may offend; love, to
yield a prompt anT willing service;
fear, to regard God as a witness and
judge; love, to cleave to bint as a friend
ami father; fear, to render ue watchful
ami circumspect; love, to make us ac
tive aud resolute; love, to keep fear
from being servile or distrustful; fear,
to keep love from being forward or se
cure ; and both springing from one root,
a living faith in the infinite and ever-
living God.—Cope.
As a handful of quicksilver flung to
the earth breaks iuto a hundred separate
globules, each globule reflecting * full*
orbed sun, so, though. by disruptions
ami revolutions and reformations the
Church has been broken into S hundred
sects, each sect may hold in the bosom
of its faith a full-orbed Christ.—Bov. A.
L. Gordon.
I)o not with long prayers wear out
your children’s knees. Donat have the
prayer a repulsion. If yon have a pia
no or an orgau, or a tuelodeon in the
bouse, halve it opeft while you are hav
ing prayers. If you say, “( cannot con
struct a prayer; l aid slpyr of speech
and never could construct a prayer,”
then take Matthew Henry’s prayers, or
take the Episcopal Church Prayer-book.
There is nothing better than that. Put
it down on the cWif,' gather yotiT chil
dren about yon and commend them to
God. You say it will- ant amount to
anything. -It will, long idler you are
under the soil. That son will remem
ber father and mother at morning and
evening prayers, and it will he to him
en everlasting help.
Ptrente do not begin early enough In
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
WHY FAltMINODO JSaNO V PAY.
mo. 6.
The article# I have written on this sub
ject up to date have been, lor the most
part, composed on Friday nights for pub
lication next day. They have, therefore,
been disposed of very hurriedly without
much system or form. I am almost sorry
that 1 didn’t get down to business more
systematically. The more 1 write the
more Impressed I become with the impor
tance aud magnitude of tbe subject. If 1
was nut afraid of being tedious I would
venture os a little beyond my threatkn-
bd eight columns, but I am admouished by
my better judgment not to run any such
risk and will stop when I get to tbe end of
my letter. After ibis I shall change the
subject a little and talk some, l don't know
bow much, on “How farming can be made
to pay.”
THE TENANT SYSTEM.
With a few exceptions, here and there,
this 8. stem, *a it is practiced, brings a
curse to labor, a blight tu our lauds and
poverty to the Und owners. Seven thrift
less tenants on one plantation Can very
reasonably be likeneu unto the fr-veu
plasues of hgypt. Wbeie much is siren
much la expected. You do not expect .any
valuable returns from locusts and frees
and they are toot likely to come up on th-
blind aide of a planter. But when you
put yonr property into a man’s bands that
be may make something tor himself and ai
heart, a little for you, you are, at best, a
little kinder disappointed when you re
ceive no income whatever, and have to
lake back your property in a tw*-fold
worse condition than when it was deliver
ed to his keeping. There are hundreds,
perhaps thousands of tenants throughout
the laud that do not produce more firm
product# than is barely requisite to pay
back the amount of supplies c- -nsumed by
themselves and families. Many, many of
them not so much as that but go in deeper
and deeper into your willing pocket year
by year until at last by shear desperation
)ou throw off tbe dead weight of a deader
beat from your already heavy ladened
shoulders and when this is done in some
instances (though they are rare I am glad
to say) they will turn about like serpents
wanned iu friendly bosoms and strike the
generous band# that have fed tliem.
Now lets make n f* w figures by way of
illustration and see if 9 land owners out
of 10 cannot say that accords with my ex
perience.
Tenant’s account with land owner:
Dr.
To rent of 80 acres, 1,800 lbs lint. $100.00
“ “ 44 mule.................. 25.00
“ 50 bushels corn to feed mule. 80.00
“ 1000 bundles fodder 7.00
44 Farm tools 6 00
'* 40 bushels planting seed..... 6.50
“ 2 tons guano. 50 00
“ Dry goods 12 00
“ Snot s, checks etc 10.00
44 250 lbs bacon 17.50
** 80 Bushelspieal 18.00
“ 20 Gulons syrup.. . 800
’* Flour tor Sunday 12 00
“ 15 Urn* tobacco.... ... 600
“ Suear, coffee, salt etc 5 00
“ Circus money 8.50
“ Medical account ... 15.00
" enudiha 10 00
“ Bugging and tie* fur 10 bales 12.60
Can't afford to buy bay to feed Bucb a
thing as a cow on. Got no time to haul
in leaves or pine straw to make liarn yard
manure, if he bad it takes too long to put
it out iuto tbe field. Don’t pay to fool
with it when you can buy ikalrendy s ick
ed up and put it in so fast with a j. -anna-
bnrn. Don't talk about fooling away time
with a vegetable garden when the grass is
growing every where exo-pt in a place
where the cow can get to it. Triee|n$covt r
up every vestige of it with the poor old
cow lowing for it thiouuh the crack of the
fence. Wmks nard 12 months iu the ye«r
trying to produce that one thing, cotton,
that at last only brings about oral of pio-
uuctioi.Js ai have already shown.
In tbe beginning of the year be talks
about rny merchant, Dec. 1st. Merchants
talk about my cotton and in about three
years the uierchaul talks about my land.
Then the small farmer becomes a tenant
of Ids merchant and sets in to abuse mo
nopolists. trusts, combines and middb-
ineu as though old Hatch kept him from
planting whi-at, and Armour A Co., killed
hi# poor old cow with the hollow-norn.
Geo. T. M.
TIIE WEATHER ON THE COAST-
TREES SHOOTING FORTH-
ORANGE TREES IN DAN
GER-TEXT BOOKS, &c.
JOHN AND BYRON.
John was a negro boy, full of fun and
and frolic. Byron was a large, white
horse Both lived anil worked ou
Grandma Hudson’s farm.
Johu had a habit that Byron disliked.
While ho was eating hi# supper of
sweet hay and golden corn, John would
stand in front ot the stall aud tease him,
by making all sorts of ugly grimace#.
John thought it fine fun to see Byron
get angry, and try to bite him through
the bars of the stall.
Uncle George has often reproved John
for his naughty habit, telling bim the
horse would hurt him sometime, if he
continued his insults.
Guo day, when Uncle George was
away, John went into the stable to bri
dle Byron, and lead him to the well.
But as he was reaching up to take hold
of his mane, Byron opened bis thick,
curly hair, lifted him from the llcor.
aud walked leisurely iuto the barnyard,
Grandma heard a loud scream,.and
ran to the kitchen door to see what was
the matter. There was Bryon, with
Johu hanging from his mouth, march
ing across tbe yard; be was not trying
to nurt tbe boy, but only giving him u
vigorous shake now aud then, to show
bim what he could do if he had a mind
to. When he had punished him suffi
ciently, be dropped him on the ground
and trotted away to the well, in this
novel way, John was taught to abandon
the cruel and dangerous habit of teas
ing animals. We all thought Bryou’s
trick a very smart one for a horse.
John never ventured to play any
tricks upon him again, and there was
no further trouble between them. All
that Bryon wanted was to be treated
with proper respect.—Lillian M. D., in
“Our Dumb Animals.”
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
uling
and thunder novel. Right in the midst
of it he said to himself: “Now, this
will nev«-r do. I get too much excited
over it. I can’t study so well after it.
So here it goes!” and he flung the
book out into the river. lie was Fichte,
the great German philosopher.—Ob
server
Fatal Ending of a Joke.
ChAbumtk, N. C., Feb. 1.—[Spe
cial.]—Particulars have been received
of the death of Morrison Avery, son of
Jurtiee Avery, of the Supreme Bench of
tliis State, which occurred at Washing
ton last week. Avery was taking a
preparation of whisky and quinine as
medicine;, and also had a bottle of car-
bolic addin his room. Two compan
ions palylully stole the whisky from his
room, not dreaming of how fatally the
ioke would end. Next morking Awry
the carbolic
joke would eud
got up and drank some of the
acid, thinking it was his medicine
He lived only a few minutes. JOie
young men who removed the whisky
»ro said to bo almost cr- y with grief,
Total
Cr. by 1013 lbs L. C.... $350.00
“ “ 225 bushels seed. 36.00
$354.00
Total $389.00
To ain't tenant's credit $32.00
This cstiniate is based upon the expen
ditures of a colored family. For a white
faintly add $00 more to expense 1 account,
oilier word# take $60 trein $32 aud see
w much yon have gained by the opera
tion. You have gained a mule, that K if
you are sure he is in your stable, worth
$20 less '.ban the ooe you had this time last
year and all the land that baa not run
away iuto gullies down tbe bill into tbe
musical rippling brook.
Now if tuis is not a life like photograph
of tbe one-horse tenant system, niy
brother farmer please call for another sil
ting. If you waut tbe figures op a 2
4-iu>rse tenant, multiply by 2 oi 4 and you
have the s>ze of it.
It you will persist in Mting out your
land after this plan, for Heaven’s sake get
into some other business as speedily as
possible jso that you can gel
money to keep up your plantation and
keep about a mile and a half ahead of the
sheriff.
About one-lislf of the land owners make
about one-half of the thriftless tenants
aud a vast minority of the land owners
unnecessarily encourage the thriftlcssm s;
in their tenants by requiring them to piaul
all or nearly all of tbe best land they rent
iu cotton. A great many tenants cannot
obtain credit from the land owners or
merchants unless they obligate themselves
to do this. Well, what is the result? A)
the winding up of the year tbe tenant has
no oatr; wbeai,corn, pork, potatoes, no'li-
ing but a few blue stem collards in a much
negl- cted garden spot and a bundle of
provision hill receipts in bis ragged
bieeches pocket. i .
Brother farmer bow ranch longer will
you continue in this ruinous polic)? Ru
inous to you and alike disastrous to those
who work your land. Hiiw long will such
foil..’ abide with you?. Will not my peo
ple'insider.
Il has been often remarked that tbe
farming interests will be greatly enhanced
by catting up the larger farms and sell out
to small farmers so that each farmer can
own the soil he tills. Tbeoreticcally
speaking this is good sense, but tlie mode#
practiced by a Urge number of our small
farmers would make it unwise. Why?
B -cause as long as you continue tp have
your smoke house in Cincinnati, your
c-Tn crib in St. Louis aud your haystack
in Kentucky, you bad better let the Urge
Und owner go after it for you, for with all
bis land it is as much os he cao do to
hold up under thestrain...
Now let me draw a little pen picture of
a small farmer and see if somebody don’t
thinks I am getting personal. John Smith
buys 50 acres of land (I use that name be
cause there are several of tbempn the conn
try and each one will think I am pretty
hard on tbe other one about two miles and
a half down the rosd and will hot feel un
der obligation to make a pesonal assault
upon roe for telling the truth.) And for
the sake of peace we will say he has paid
for it. He makes arrangements with hit
ii erchsnl to run him.. His credit Is boun
ded by 50 seres, beginning on a mule for a
cornerstone, thence U* the blhcr mule,
thence to the old muly beaded milch' cow
thence to a 2-horse wagon and some farm
ing implements thence to tbe beginning
mule as aforesaid. Tbe Hoes are all drawn,
on a certain waiver note that leins on tbe
National Bank Counter for sale keeping.
He has but one ides in bis brad that te to
make cotton to pay off bis merchant, has
no time to fool with wheat, oato. or rye;
except that kind ot rye that comet In m
bottle. He has eot tune to build s shelter
for the'eow or wagon. Milks the cow in a
c»rner of the fence sod the children ride
on the wagon tongue standing out in the
horse lot, Tbs cow fares sumptuously
every day on Poor Dick and bnacb water.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Franklin will hold a county fair next
year.
There was a collision of trains near
Fore Valley, but no one hurt.
Mrs. Rebeoca Culver, of Sparta, is
dead.
Rev. James Crumpler was taken with
a fit in the court-house of Twiggs coun
ty and died instantly.
There are several counties in Georgia
whose taxes won’t psy the salary of
their representatives in the legislature.
Mrs. Mary Baldwin, of Brunswick,
who was divorced in 1865, will wed her
husband.
Four hogs were penned in a freight
car .in Atlanta for ten days without
food, as there was no owner for them.
J. M. Lyons, the only negro lawyer
in Augusta, married Jane Hook, a
teacher.
The Macon merchant^ threaten to sue
the railroads, for their delay in moving
goods.
Rufus Jones, an Atlanta carpenter
attempted suicide.
There is only one case of small pox at
Suthervllle.
North Carolina parties will establish
factory at Sparta, having bought the
old Morton mills.
The Miher murderers, at Perry, at
tempted to escape from jail while eat
ing their dinners; but were intercept
ed.
The grand jury of Fulton county
made a presentment against the filthy
condition of the jail.
Mrs. John Bracket, a second Marv
Hart, from Murray county, ran some
Revenue officers off with a gun while
they were raidiug her husband’s still.
Mrs. Dr. 1. N. Cheney and daughter,
May, have been arrested for burning the
hotel at Bremen.
District Attorney Darnell says that
the wives of moonshiners are .damping
ownership to stills so as to save their
husbands.
_ Major Campbell Wallace says he re
signed because he did not have enough
clerical help, and the legislature would
not give it.
A special term of nail Superior court
will be held, commencing on the 13th of
February, for the purpose of trying Mr.
John Coffee for the murder of Mr. J.
. Merritt.
The preachers of Augusta are making
war on cheap liquor and nud« shows.
Josie Ilall, a young woman of Atlan
ta. attempted to commit suicide because
she was crossed in love.
GENERAL MEWS.
Powderlyjwill be a candidate for Gov
ernor on the Deinociatic ticket in Penn
sylvania.
Tlw. eldest daughter of Secretary
Blaine is critically ill in Washington.
A bank cashier at Wichita, Kan.,
was roughly treated, aud probably
kicked to death by a mob.
The L. & N. System is looking to the
purchase of the S. C. railroad.
One Sheriff in Arkansas has exceeded
83 years.
In the last nine years ninety-one per
sons in coming from Cuba have been
kidnaped.
Ann Devine aged one hundred and
five, had $300 stolen from her in New
ark, N. J.—her entire savings.
Dud T. Smith, of Dublin, went to
Chicago for niedica. treatment. He was
given nitrate of silver which completely
changed his color.
It is said that Buck has promised
Harrison a solid Georgia delegation if
he will appoint Mat Davis, colored,
^lost-master at Athens.
At Lexington, S. C., a negro made
an attempt to crimnatly assault a young
lady.
A goat in Tenn., died of grief from
losing its young master.
A good many options on phosphate
lands in southern Florida have been
surrendered because the phosphates
didn't materialize.
Brigandage is now dead in Greece, <>r
will be when the last of the notorious
Lyngos family, who is now in prison,
has mien executed.
Tho Lancet says that the human body
can be embalmed so as to insure identi
fication three thousand years after death.
That may be so, but who is to do tbe
identification ?
Eight prominent farmers of Heals-
burg, L T.. have been arrested for
lynching an old man last November,
The principal witnesses are said to be
notorious thieves, who did the lynching
themselves.
Congressman Carlton shook his fin
ger in Speaker Reed’s face, and gave
him some pretty plain talk. It is to be
hoped the stenographer took down the
doctor’s remarks. He can be very elo
quent when he is in earnest.
Lige Moore, who was to have been
hanged, on Friday escaped jail at
Greensboro, N. C. He procured an
iron bar, with which be opened bis cell
and fastened in the jailor who was at
work on the gallows on the third floor,
Gage Go#s,(Post-master at Blackbery
S. C., was arrested for riffling letters.
, Two of the present railroad commiss
ioners declined nominations to con
gress—lion. A. 8. Emin in ihe Ninth
and Col. J. W Robertson in the Sev
enth. At that lime it. was not believed
that Emory Speer or Dr. Felton could
be beaten. Allen Chandler and Jud
Clements agreed to make the race,
however, and they are still in Congress
—Augusta Chronicle.
A FINE LETTER.
It JLIl tllvUl* jjwhi j
“They won’t parade Lee
ms did their captives, I
Intrrcatlns War Bemlniaaenees.
Darien, Ga., Jan. 30,1890.
Editor Banner:—The papers all
over the country, and the people, too,
are speaking of the unseasonable
weather. From F oricia to British Co
lumbia, it is the great theme—the un
usual winter. Not only have last year’s
leaves clung here ami there, but this
year’s dress is half grown on some
shrubs. Mulberry leaves as large os a
man’s band, pomegranate bunhea warm
with the brownish crimson of young
life, the spirals in bud, yellow jessa
mine in full bloom, and young peaches
on the trees everywhere. And it is so
dry—no good rain since the 2nd day of
last September—1 am afraid the orange
crop will be hurt. My trees dropped
the fruit last June from drought. The
foliage is much curled now from tbe
same cause. Cattle suffer since the
90ols and weather swamps are dry, and
nhere are no water courses near to
which they can have access, as in the
up-country; besides, they live much in
.hvays salt, so
that this dearth of water is hard on
them. It is the weather that rice plant-
rslve, obnt 1 think it is too early for
planting even rice. Do you remember
tlie picture in one of the Readers of a
man in a little canoe going up a branch
to the tune of the rice bird?
'• I see o’er tbe swamp the planter floats.
As he scatter# the seed from his little boat;
And circling in many an airy ring,
A# I follow ids progress, I sing, sing."
Don’t the planters wish they could
scatter the seed from the little boat, in
stead of all the plowing, hoeing, drill
ing and drudgery of preparation, and
getting a good stand? As for the song
of the riee bird, he takes it out as
Oriole—somewhere else! Here he gets
too fat, ami too much of a “swell,” to
sing in public. Riee planting pays. The
best article sells right here for $4.80
per bushel; second quality, $400;
while in Vancouver, B. C.. the best
India rice sells for 5 cents per pound.
Provisions of all kinds sell high here,
for eash; yet the soil, though light, is
quite productive, and yields a good re
turn for industrious effort. Some of
tlie finest headed lettuce and cauli
flower to bo seen anywhere, are grown
right here, and a garden begun in Jan
uary always succeeds.
The oldest inhabitant, as personified
in my old wood cutter, says: “Thur
n uver was seed seeli a season fur gyar-
dinin’.” Daddy Felix, of course, is
not posted scientifically, but he truces
“effect” bank to tbe time when more
than the Gulf stream left their beds,
and says: “Dey tells mu, but I dunns
wliuthur hits so er no, that ther nuver
was sech wutlmr but wonst before, and
dat wus jes befoe dat ar yuthquake and
all dat shakin’ up. So, lookout! dai’s
all I got ter say. Lbokout! 1 tiumtbin’
nuther’s contiu’ slio’!” Aud tbit old
‘Firgininn,” as he calls himself, began,
with a grunt of satisfaction, to split up
the log before him.
Apropos of Mr. Davis’ article in Bel-
ford’s Magazine, I have a mite of cor
roboration to cont ribute, as o the cruel
policy of the Federal authorities in re
fusing to exchange prisoners of war, so
that the Confederates could the sooner
be started out:
My aunt and sister were on the same
train with a large number of prisoners,
on their way to Richmond from Colum
bia. They were in the best of spirits,
talking hop- fully of the speedy reunion
with tlieir loved ones, and more
than one poor fellow amused
himself in attracting the atten
tion of iny sister’s baby girl
As they neared Richmond, thanking
the mother tor her kindness !in encour
aging the diversion, they bade her and
the little one “goodbye” with the hope
of meeting again, some day ’mid more
peaceful scenes. Alas! before the la-
dies,even, had got off the ears, the crual
order was received, that sent thc-e home
sick men back to their prisons ;again.
My sister said some burst into tears and
site could not keep her own bask for
sympathy
When Mrs. Davis’ book is finished,
some historian, who lias the truth at
heart, shoutd take hold of the .whole
work for the sake of ;the children of the
South. The actors are rapidly going off
the stage; and, so far, there have not
been proper efforts made to preuent our
children from imbibing error. North
ern histories, full of perverted accounts
Of causes and conditions and often guil
ty of absolute falsehood, are used in our
schools: Periodicals of the most bitter
tone, largely patronized: Readers and
even Georgraphies, all follow tbe same
lead—a desire, it seems, to escape the
dispassionate judgment of the coming
man, by confessing bis sense of right
and wrong and blinding him, as far as
possible, to the original cause of dissen
sion. Mr. Stephens is fearless and
truthful in his record of the facts; but,
strange to say, parents, who admit tbe
truth, of tlie reasoning, and deplore the
consequences to our youug folks, in the
next breath, will say:. “But Stephens’
is very bard and dry to children, and
Swinton is easier to remember.” Ah I
yes, indeed it is; and so,as of old,South
ern dollars continue to line the pockets
of those, who hate us so, (that not will
ingly, would they do us the justice even
of publishing our side as written—some
thing must be retracted or eliminated
No wonder that, in view of the nearness
of those awful portals, beyond which
all shall be as clear as day, Judge Holt,
and others of his ilk,shoal plead for ex
emption from tbeir share in such trag
edies as the hanging of an innocent,
helpless women, with less than two
days notice: suppressing t o, the “re
commendation to mercy, signed by five
members of tlie military commission*'
that condemned her.
John T. Ford’s evidence is a lonj
time in coming; but it lifts the fogs an
clears away the nmts and mysteries
from one of the most uncalled for, spite
ful and barbarous abuses of power
bnown to civilized history. I well re
member the time, and although “tbe
printed record of the trial was not issued
from the press, until seventy-five days
after Mm. Suratt was strangled;’* it con-
•ained no mention of the “lecouimenda-
tion to mercy.” Mr. Ford says Booth’s
plan sectns to have been to abduct Mr.
Dincolu, “to force, if successful, an ex
change of prisoners.”
In another place he says: “The as
sassination was the Brutus impulse,and
it came to bim only on the day of ite
performance, and after he learned of
an opportunity, as may be seen by what
followed bis arrival at the theatre. Let
ters from other pities were waiting for
read them in front of the building. He
was pleasantly taun ed by some of bis
Union friends there with the informa
tion that the President and General
Grant would both b.- at the theatre
that evening,and one added: “General
Lee will be with them.” Booth quickly
responded:
as the Romans
hope.”
The remark about Lee’s coining was
withdrawn, but the efiect of the infor
mation as to Presidents Lincoln and
Geneaal Grant was apparent.
Booth grew abstracted and thought
ful and soon departed, with the first
possible information he could have had
of the presidents intention to visit the
theatre that night.
Poor Mrs. Surretl how could she be a
party to tbe conspiracy when there was
noue. “Even the Priest was constrain
ed to promise that she should not com
municate with the outside _ world, and
when she begged that she might tell the
people that she “was innocent” he told
»ei “the church was only permitted to
prepare her soul for eternity; that sho
was dead to all else.”
Who will find the article in the North
Amercan Review for April 1889, and it
is well worth reading and remember
ing. We honor Mr. Rice for giving it
to the world, although he denied the
same privilege ot communication, full
and free, to the noble martyr to princi
ple who has lately fallen asleep because
the section that condemned him dared
not bring him to trial, anJ so denied to
him the right that the humblest citizen
can claim. The celebratedQuiutette club
of Boston, gives a concert in town at
Wilcox’s hall to-night. It will be large
ly patronized, and the ring of the coin
be truer, we hope, than the remarks
made by a professional from another
city, who has, himself, enjoyed a share
of Darian’s free handed hospitality and
latronage from time time, that there
‘was no talent in Darien capable of ap
preciating” the coming artists.
At all events, they appreciated to the
full, a venture from another sister city,
under a management that should guard
against all depreciation of an audiance
that, not only did not demand their
money buck, but sat the thing out from
“pure dislike of hurting any one's feel
ings.” Yet, we hear that his manager
bad the same opinion of us. as bis Sarh
brother. Our people are ouly asleep on
public demonstration out here; we
don’t have celebrations and big speech-
on great occdsions as in ye. olden
time, and as in all other places. There
may be good reasous why, but we con
fess to a taste for a bit of bunting and a
modicum of patriotic enthusiasm on
jropor occasions. There wasno mourn-
ng emblem that we know of, displaped
for Mr. Davis nor for Mr. Grady, and
jesterday the school chiliiren begged
holiday as it was General Lee’s birth
day, but there was no other observance
that we could see. It is a pity wc are
so cut off. They say tho short line will
soon be finished, but it is as weary
waiting though not hopeless.
There is much more interest felt in
the agricultural progress of this section
ever since tbe county’s success at tbe
8tate Fair. No wonder.
Ten minutes to nine o’clock, and tlie
thermometer at Jt degrees. Good night.
We have everytuing you have except
big buff apples, growing—Oh! We
have no chestnuts either, of anv kind.
H.S. B.
OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES
WALTON COUNTY.
The Farmer’s Alliance store at Lo-
gansville is opening up with a good
trade
Mr. W. J. Nunnally, formerly of this
county, has formed a law partnership
in Rome.
Prof. A. S Florence, Logansville’s ef
ficient school teacher, opened up bis
school with about forty scholars.
Mr. J. L. Moore,of Logansville killed,
two of tbe largest pork hogs last week
on record; one weighed 532 pounds,
and tho other 475 pounds—net weight.
Mr. W. O. Felker has formed a part
nership with Hr. Hosch in the saw-mill
business.
A little negro,Charley Adsykes, alias
Charlie Daws, was jailed here Tuesday
for petty theft. He had on his person a
collection of keys that, it was evident,
he used to ransack people’s privaie
drawers and bouses. He has already
served a term in tbe penitentiary.
of coni and cotton seed, last Thursday
night, by his barn burning down.
Several prominent gentlemen in tlie
city have undertaken the job of getting
up an Allinnce ball, to be given in this
city early in March.
On Wednesday, Jan. 22,- at the borne
of the bride’s parents in Putnam coun
ty, Mr. Geo. Y. Brown, of Columbus
Miss., and Miss Hannah Howard, were
united in marriage.
HAST COUNTY.
Hartwell has been blest with over
two hundred cases of measles. The ep
idemic is about over.
Some wicked boys put a lighted match
to a bonfire in rear of J. W. Holbrook’s
new residence one night last week at
Bowcrsville.
Mr. Asa Smith, died this morning,
Tuesday 2Sth, at two o’clock.
A co-operative store, to be run by
Alliancemen and managed by S. T.
Fleming, will begin o]>e rations
about the 1st of February in Bowers-
ville.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
There will be another large store
opened in Woodstock next fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Gotheimer attend
ed the marriage of a relative in Athens
Wednesday night.
Another important meeting of the
County Alliance will be held here Wed
nesday next.
One Oglethorpe farmer has a hundred
head of sheep, about as many as the
balance of the county combined.
Representative O. il. Arnold positive
ly declares that he lias enough of Legis
lative honors and will not offer for re-
election.
Messrs. Ed Clark and R. M. Bacon,
the bay raisers of this county, have re
cently mad*' several large shipments of
hay from this place.
We interviewed Col. Hamitou Mc-
Whrter the other day in reference to the
proposed telephone line to Athens. He
assures us that the project is by no
means dead, but sieepeth only because
other mnttcas have claimed his time to
suclt an extent that he has not been able
to give it attention. In the near fu
ture he will go earnestly to work upon
it and is confident of being success
ful.
OCONEE COUNTY.
Mr. J. O. Adair, of Athens, has moved
his saw mill to Oceola.
The post-ofiice Delano in Dark Cor
ner has been discontinued.
Mr. Joe Stone, a clever representative
of the Banner, has been with us this
week.
Dr. T. N. Bingham and wife have
moved to Watkinsville, and will make
our town their future home.
Mr. Kincannon, the depot agent at
Bishop, who left last week to take
charge of office at Madison, we learn is
very much dissatisfied and is expected
back soon.
The engine pulling.an extra train on
theC. & M. road on Monday night last
broke down on the Reaves plantation
this side of the Oconee river and the
heavy train loaded with cotton remain
ed on the main lino all night.
BANK 8 COUNTY.
•No candidates heard of yet.
It is now an assured fact that Rav.
Thad Pickett will again enter the race
for Congress in this district. |
Last Friday Dr. Underwood’s little
two year old sou fell from the steps of
his residence in Maysville, and .broke
his thigh.
Dr. Newton, of Maysville, brought
over the returns from Anderson district
Thursday. ;The people will vote; for
“stock-law.”
This district will vote on the “Fence
or no Fence” law in February. What
the result will be the Journal is not
prepared to say.
Robinson ahd Smith, two men from
South Carolina, were arrested here Sat
urday night Robinson was charged
with choking his wife and Smith was
charged with stealing Robinson’s coir
and selling it.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
JACKSON COUNTY.
has
The wheat crop in this section
been badly damaged by the fly.
The young ladies of the Institute have
organized a literary seciety.
A haunt some distance below Jeffer
son is now disturbing tbe serenity of
the colored population.
A thought-to-be panther is creating a
great deal of excitement in our neigh
borhood.
Willie Montgomery, aged 14, was
fooling with a gun which he was sure
wasn’t loaded. It went off, however,
and lodged a charge of small shot iu the
side of bis brother Joe.
Recently a young lawyer from Ath
ens arrived here and asked how far it
was to Clarksborougb. We infer trom
his inquiry that he .had tanglefoot.
Rev. Mr. Stone, of Athens, preached
quite a lengthy sermon at Prospect last
Sunday on Bible knowledge, inter-
sperced with anecdotes and flowered
with roses.
GAINESVILLE NOTES.
The church at Bold Springs will be
torn down this spring, and a commo
dious, ;new edifice will take it# place.
Joseph H. Jones, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of the
county, died on Thursday morning at
4 o’clock.
The school at the academy in Carnes-
ville is in a flourishing condition, and
promises to be the best school in Carnes-
ville for many years.
The lumber for building the Presby
terian church is already on the ground,
and we suppose the work will begin
soon.
Our farmers seem to have received a
fresh stock of self-reliance and energy.
They are better prepared for making a
crop than ever before, and we expect
1890 to be a prosperous year.
There has been only 62 deaths in
GainesviUe the past year.
Married on Sunday 19th inst., Mr.
Daniel Strickland to Miss Lessie Coop
er. : -
At New Bridge BaptiBt church, on
Sunday, the-26th inst., Mr. William
PAtton to Miss Sally jQ’Shields.
Mr. \Vftrren .A. Brown has been se
lected by the grand jury to fill tbe
place on the board of county commis
sioners.
Mr. J. Estin Welch el, of this city,
who has been for some time a member
of tbe Sophomore class of the State
University has been appointed by Con-
man Chandler to the Military
my at West Point. He will go in
short time to stand an examination
for admission. Estin is one of the nost
promising young men, and if he does
not succeed in, not only entering, but
passing through the rigid ordeal to
whjch West Point students are sub
jected, then we will be very much dis
appointed:
XARISON, MORGAN COUNTY.
There are over thirty houses now
being built in Madison, and real estate
is on a botftn *, i - ~ -
Mr. Henly Harris lost several hun-
A PROPHETS PREDICTION.
He Says the World Will Turn Over oath*
28th Instant.
Mr. Pullain, the genial drummer for
Julius Cohen & Co., has just returned
from a trip over in Franklin oounty,
and gives a most thrilling account of a
rather loonish individual of that county
who calls himself a prophet of the Lord.
The man, among other ridiculous and
insane speeches, declares that the world
will turn over on one side on the 28th
of this month, and will cause a great
consternation in the camps of mankind
nps <
that
ters from other ;emes were waiting for A
WwtUarej that day. He received and ^wd bundles of fodder, aiao a mvo lot the city.
generally. He predicts that many men
who have not made it all right with
their Maker, will tumble over into the
Atlantic ocean, and receive the same
fate that Jonah didin ihe days when
the world was young. Those who can
imb the highest summits of the Blue
tdge Mountains, will find a safe rest
ing place from the great catastrophe.
A11 in all, he is ajp-eat character, and
is the curiosity of Franklin county. He
professes tq be a great prophet that has
been sent by God Almighty into the
world to guide the footsteps of erring
souls and warn them of impending dan
gers, and is not backward in the fulfill
ment of his duty, if such ishisvoestion.
He introduces himself to every stranger
be meets by presenting bis card, upon
which are printed some of the most lu
dicrous and most Benseless statements ,
to be seen or heard.
Whether the prophet will stop short
of the Milledgeville lunatie asylum, is
a question that is just now agitating the
mind of the Ordinary of Franklin
oounty.
Several now stores are going up oyer