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I krtalcle, Eat. 1877. J Ath«u Danner, Bat. 18
ATHENS, GA„ TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 9,1890.—8 PAGES.
HON. A- F- POPE’S BILL.
The bill introduced in the legis
lature by Col. Pope, to give the ne
groes their share of the landscript
fund is a just and equitable meas
ure, aud no fair-minded citizen of
Georgia can dissent from it. It is
not the desire of our white tax-pay
ers of Georgia to take from the
blacks one dollar that is rightfully
and legally theirs,—and this money
vras given this raoe by the general
government, and placed in custody
of the state. The Georgia legisla
tu;e had just as well confiscate the
private property of our colored 'citi-
as to deprive them of this ap
propriation.’ Hence we are sur
prised to see certain papers attack -
ing Co'. Pope on account of his bill.
T .esc editors surely do not want
Georgia to abuse a solemn trust, and
defraud of their rights a certain
class of her population; we say ren
der unto the negro the things that
are the negro’s, ’ and unto the white
the things that are the white’s. We
oppose the taxation of one race to
educate anotuer; but this landscript
fund does not lake one dollar from
the white tax-payers of G orgia or
add a mill to their burden.
It is in the province of the legisla'
ture, however, to appropriate this
iL._eyas will oest advance the men
tal condition of the negro, and *e
very much doubt the wisdom of es
tablishing a classical college with
the funds. Experience has demon
strated the fact that the negro is not
improved by a higher education;
anil besides there are plenty of such
institutions uow in the slate.
What is now Deeded by our color
ed population is a strictly agricul
tural college, where the best modes
of cultivating the laud, aud have in
stilled into them lessons of industry
and honesty. Such an institution
would be of far more benefit to the
negro than a hundred colleges where
the classics are taught.
Reports from Kansas are to the ef
fect that six democrats in the legis
lature will vote for Ingalls Then
is a fatal contradiction here. No
democrat will vote for Ingalls, be-
consciences of the demans that ap
plied the torch to that ballet riddled
and quivering body.
Teddie Goodwin, six y« ars < ld, of
C irnelia, Ga^ is a little her •. The
gown of bis two-yea recoil sister
caught fire, and with commenda! 1
presence of mind, lie tore ofl his
jacket and smothered the flames
Parnell should resigo. To be pure
resigning is an unstalesmanlike act,
, , but lo more so than jumping oat of
cause a man can’t be a democrat and i. ... , ,
. , ] back windows or scaling rear bal
vote for a person ~ — 1
a person who embodies
every antidemocratic principle and
tendency. Calling him-elf a demo
crat would not make him one any
more than calling a turnip a roe
would convert that vegetable into tin
king of flowers.
It is better for our farmers to eat|SPECIALIST FARMERS
blackberries and go bare-fooled tha
give bait they have to some lawyer
o collect a note against them. L t
: the Twitty bill pass.
The sensation at the Na ionai, Al
liance convention today is the report
that the New York Herald is ii-
possession of the secret of the Alii
ance prip and password, and thus
enters the meetings of the order at
pleasure. The republican party is
the only outsider that has the gen
uine Alliance grip, and it has a bad
case of it, too.
A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
The passage of the Wooten bill
through the Georgia legislature,
making all boundary lines a lawful
fence, protects all counties that now
have a stock law, under either legal
or illegal enactment. No election is
necessary.
The Alliance hit the Force bill
hard. This puls the farmers at
Ocala in a square democratic posi
tion- We trust they will stay there.
—Augusta Chronicle.
It’s a pity something can’t put the
Chronicle in a square democratic po
sition, and it would stay.
COLORED ALLIANCEMEN-
The negro Alliance convention
ha? passed resolutions condemning
the while Alliance for opposing the
Force Rill. The best thing the
Ocala convention can do is to Ut
the negroes severely alone. When
they amalgamate the while and col
ored lodges, all the southern Alli-
uncemen will begin to sicken at the
stomach. Biotlierly equality be
tween the two races may. work all
right in the north and west, but
when you cross Mason & Dixon’s
line you had as well try to mix oil
and water. The southern farmers
understand the nigger a great deal
better than do those Kansas Atli-
nncemen. He is happier when be is
made to remain in his proper sphere.
So soon as lie is received in full fel
lowship in the white Alliance con.
vention, it will ruin the negro snd
seriously imperil the success of this
noble organization. The ^negroes
have a ported right to organize any
society they see proper, but it will
r.**ver do to try and mix them with
the whites. This did more than
a trilling else to break down the
Knights of L ibor in the south. .
Our pensions alone now amount to
more than $130,000,000 per annum
and the sum is still growing. This
is almost twice as much as it cos’s
Germany to sustain iis great army
and it is larger than the annual ex
penditure of any Earopean country
for military purposes.
Senator-elect GordoD, at the bat
tle of Seven Pines, received three
bullet wouDds, and at Antielam he
Nathan Crocket May Get Well,
Though he Is NotOut of all Danger-
’The negro man, Nathan Crockett,
who was struck on the head by Jas.
Glass, has taken a turn for thd' better,
and though he cannot be pronounced
out of danger, still bis chances are
much brighter antThe may ultimately
recover. The swelling in the region of
the wound has subsided so much that
Dr. Steedly was able to examine the
skull, and finds that it was not broken
as at first feared. Unless a sudden
and unexpected change for the worse
occurs, the negro will recover. Dr.
Steedly’s skillful treatment was largely
instrumental m bringing about rhi*
state of affairs, and it the negro recov
ers it may be in considerable ineasnre
attributed to him.
Never Been to a Show.—Mr. W. M.
Had-.ock says that he has neyer yet at
tended a theatrical performance ami
never expects to. He punctuated his
remark by saying that he did not attend
shows because he received no money
equivalent, and this was certainly rea
son enough.
*? K . L : A. Gwaltney.—This divine,
iwho in the future will fill the Baptist
pulpit has delivered so ne eloquent and
able sermons. ‘ He fully understands
the strength of the robust saxon tongue,
and his thoughts are couched in sim
ple but forcible language. We con
gratulate the Baptists on securing this
great and good man.
H HUT CUT.
GEORGIA THE EMPIRE STATE
OF THE SOOTH.
TH^ CROPS VE Gil SUCCESSFULLY
PRODUCE.
Middle Georgia for Agriculture and
Stock Raising.
WE MUST GET OUT OF OUR OLD
RUTS
AND EDUCATE THE RISING GEN
ERATION.
A Revolutionary Watch.—Jim
Warner, a negro living up town, has in
his possession a watch of euorinous pro
portions. It Is about three inches in
diameter aud is of very ancient make.
It is thought that the old watch came
through the Revolutionary War, and it
is a great curiosity on account of that
fact.
Show us the man who says there is
no money in Southern farms! Why.
there is not a business to be found that
pays better than tilling the soil and
raising cotton in this section of Georgia,
if a man brings to bear the
same energy; economy and business
tact that the successful prosecution of
any other calling requires. We have
now in mind a score or more of farmers
who started life after the warwithuout
a dollar, aud are today Independent;
while a vast number have accumulated
handsome fortunes. A man cannot
succeed at anything if he fails to work
and exercise good management. If
you spend your lime lounging around
towns, and neglect to work your fields
at the proper time, of course yon will
grow poorer and poorer.
***
As an illustration of this fact, w e have
but to ci’.e the case of Mr. William J.
llale, a farmer of Oglethorge county,
just east of Winterville. At the close of
i lie late war, Mr. Hale started the strug
gle of life without a dollar. He bought
a small tract of land on credit, and began
the up-hill work of payirg for it. By
close attention to business, industry
and good management, he succeeded.
Then year by year he began to add to
his possessions, until today be has one
thousand acres of as good land as this
section affords all paid for, and every
thing necessary to operate it. He uev-
farms as this, now lying idle, and if
utilized for stock-raising purposes,
could be made a source of great profit.
And yet we see our farmers following
the old ruts, and leaving these rich
fields for gain untouched.
Col. James M. Smilh, Oglethorpe’s
great farmer, has established the fact
that as fine cattle can he raised in oar
section as on the western prairies, and
at as mnch profit. This gentleman now
has a herd of over 600 head, and every
year be places on the market as large
aud fat steers as are slaughtered in the
Kansas City stock-yards. He is cross
ing our common cattle with Holstein
and other improved breeds, ti ns in- h rep l nished. their stock this
creasing their weight and milking qm. r- 1
ities. We have a cheap and splendid
winter food for cattle in the cotton
S eu hulls, and every southern
farmer raises enough to keep a good
fix d herd. There is nothing more prof
itable on a farm than rattle. Besides
the milk, butter and increase, you can
s ive during the year a large quantity of
manure, superior to anything you can
buy in the way of guano. If all of our
farmers would devote more attention to
cattle raising, they would find it a new
source of profit, and the money would
come iu at the dull seasons.
Effects of Gum Chewing.—A prom
inent physician says that the constant
chewing of gum has produced weak
minds in fourteen cases of girls now un-
. der treatment, the constant movement
got two bullets in the leg, one in the j Q f the m0 uth causing too great a strain
arm, one in the shoulder and one in < on the head.
the right cheek. He also had a CoTroN Still Rolling in.—The cot-
hoise killed under Him, tbe butt of ton crop is evidently very large for
_ - , .. . . _ every dav the roads are lined with wa-
his pistol smashed, his canteen pier- j, ong bearing into the city laige nuoi-
ced and his coat torn with hnllets. hers of bales of the fleecy staple. A
Banner reporter stood on Prince ave
nue yesterday and in fifteen minutes
Hon. Gazaway Hartridge, who was counted over forty bales as they passed
, Vi i xr . . hv in wagons. The receipts of Athens
the groomer for Col. Norwood in the , ver y | ur g e and will go upward
late Senatorial campaign, is deliver- i of one hundred thousand bales.
The Rise
er fails to make money on his farm, and
there is not a more substantial or reli
able man in Georgia than Bill Hale.
He had but few educational advantages
but- was endowed with sound, Tmmtnon
sense and fine business qualifications.
Mr. O’Shea, of Jackson county, is au
thority on hog raising. He not only
makes enough money to run his farm,
but every season sells a number of as
fine porkers as tbe drovers bring us.
He has killed hogs at a year old weigh
ing 600 pounds. The day of the old-
fashioned “razor back” is past, and
our farmers now find that by getting
improved breeds they can raise 600
pounds of meat with as little expense
as 125 pounds. There is no profi* in onr
farmers fattening hogs altogether on
corn. But we must adopt the Tennes
see methods. Sow clover patches, and
other crops that don’t require much
work and -will produce large
quantities of food suitable for
swine. We can raise as fine
clover in Geprgia as in Kentucky, and
it is the very thing for hogs. It keeps
thtyu healthy and fat. If our Georgia
farmers will sow a few acres in clover,
ring the noses of their hogs and turn
them in the pasture to graze, they can
raise their meat at home just as cheap as
it can be bought in the West.
***
i We are glad to see that a number of
our farmers are now turning their at
tention to tobacco, sugar cane and other
s mallcropa. These two crops grow
successfully here as in Virginia
Florida, aud there is no reason why our
people should send off for articles that
they can produce on their own lands.
It is these multitudinous little outlays
that so quickly eat up our cotton crops
If every .diddle Georgia farmer would
reduce liis area in cotton oue-half, and
devote the same land and tima
to raising everything he needs at home
—and which can be done with the sin
gle exception of coffee -you wonlj, in
a few years, see our farmers the happi
est and most prosperous people on the
globe. Their cotton would then be a
surplus crop, and they could hold it as
Qlxrit
COMING!
Another week nearer Christmas
and a greater rnsh than ever at the at-
irmt ve stores that display beautiful
lines of Holiday Go> d ♦. Conspicuous
among these is the bouse of M. Myers
Jb Co. who have shown excellent taste
in their selection of things that are
bound to please everybody. They
ing a lecture entitled,
and Fall-off of tbe Alliance.” This
sarca-tic subject will go a long ways
toward reconciling the farmers to
the defeat of Norwood.
This year be will make 20 bales of
cotton to the plow, besides provisions
to run his farm. He is not ab exten
sive planter—running only three plows
himself, and renting out the rest of Ids
land. Mr. Hale says there is more
clear money in ten^acres, well tilled,
than a hundred partially neglected.
Last year, as poor as the seasons were,
he made fifteen bales to the plow. Mr.
Hale sets a good example to his neigh
boring farmers,that they would do well
to emulate. He never neglects his bus- j
iness for anything. Buys at the closest
prices, but when account is due pays it
at auy cat ritice. A g«>od credit is the
best possible investment that a farmer
week by late shipments direct from
the importing houses of New York,
and will be ready to»morrow to out
do all their competitors in lancy
waies. For your sister or your wife
they have mauicuie seta and brush
and comb sets in handsome plush
oases, all sorts of vases, water sets,
flower baskets, embroidered pin
cusbi( ns and some of the prettiest
China Silk Embroidered Hoods you
ever saw. For your husband or
brother they can suit you to a T, in
embroidered Japanese Smoking
Jackets (beauties, too,) Smoking
Sets, Shaving Sets in lovely cases
and Silk Handkerchiefs. For your
artistic friend they have pictures,ea-
Si Is, pastels and a thousand and one
beautiful things that will delight
their I earls. For some one who is
matter-of-fact, you will have to find
something that is useful and at no
place will yon have an easier task
than at M. Myers & Go’s.—they
cave the pick ui all ii.c factories to
Cups and Saucers, finely decorated
in attractive designs, plates for fruit,
Japanese trays for cards and bread,
Japanese tables, in fact evety-
thing to suit everybody. As to
prices you know M. Myers A Co’s,
regular scale—they have no leaders
They buy right, which is half the
battle, and they bay in such im
mense quantities that they can get
under most everybody else. They
have cheap goods (in price, none in
quality,) and they have some of
the handsomest that ever graced
a store-room in Athens. A word as
to tbe time of your shopping. Next
week the rush will be uucomfortable
—the last week is
SOLID ICE BLOCKS
All River Navigation in tha
Upper Mississippi Closed,
And All Winter Crafts Have
Been Put in Quarters.
The Cold Weather in Ini
Lumber Company to Shut Up Shop.
Minnesota White with Know—In Ver
mont the Beutlfsl Snow Is
Inches Deep.
Burlington, la., Dec. A—Very cold
weather lias closed up all river traffic,
and now the Mississippi is one mass of
ice blocks. •
All crafts that were not in winter
quarters have beenr placed there. The
Burlington Lumber company, the last
plant to close down, have just closed
their big sawmills. A heavy snowstorm
has been prevailing over southeastern
Iowa.
Minneapolis, Dec. A—Reports from
nearly all parts of Minnesota and North
and South Dakota report snow falling.
There are threo inches of snow on the
ground in Minne^pnlia and it is still
falling.
Linden ville, Vu, Dep. A—Fifteen
inches of snow is on the ground. Rail
way traffic is somewhat impeded, all
trams reaching here being from three to
four hours l&te.
AS AN ALL1ANCEMAN.
General Gordon to be Initiated Into
The Order.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 6.—[Special.]—
A decided sensation was created today
by the announcement that General Gor
don is to be initiated in the Alliance.
The announcement is authoritative.
General Gordon was to have been ini
tiated into Edgewood Alliance last
night, but for some reason it was post
poned until Tuesday next. The mem
bers of the legislature are making a
strong effort to induce Edgew( od Alh-
a ice to conduct the exerc sen of initia
tion in the Agricultural committee-room
at the capitol as they all want to takes
hand. It looks as if Gordon has cap
tured the whole Alliance. They are
all for him now.
STAGE-STRUCK MAIDENS.
Their Wanderings Over The United
States Within A Year.
8peeial by News Telegram Association.
Covington, Ky., Dee. 3.—Just a
year ago 13-year-old Octava Wheeling
and 16-year-old Nellie Crumpton left
always so—the I their homes at Winston, N. C„ and
Xu^unlver^ Vv« Pe inteu!lL?w , Sn I stock, loo, will be depleted by the I dropped out of sight. Both were hand
He gave us out soil and climate, that it | 8a i e8 of this week. Why not then I 80me an “ we *‘ developed. They were
come this week? The clerks will
have more lime and your visit will
be much more satisfactory to your
self and to the firm. Come at once.
should be restricted to the production
of only cotton and corn.
We see that ail of tbe Chambers
of Commerce are passing resolutions
against the Twitty ten per cent, col
lection bill. This , should Dei ve the
arm of every Alliancemao in the
Senate to vote lor this great measure
of relief.
A Crew of Them.—A farmer cams
to town yesterday with fourteen ’pos
sums, which he raid he caught in one
night some days since, aiiont seven
miles from Atheos. ’Possums seem to
be unusually abundant at this time of
the year and any one hunting them may
expect to be' richly rewarded for his
toil.
A HUMAN ROAST.
The blood of every human man
curdles when he reads of the horri
ble fate ol Henry Johnson, who as*
vaulted Mrs. Walters near Gret-n
'ville, S. C. I lie fiend was arrested,
riddled with bulleta,and left for dead.
He afterwards recovered and crawl-
e l away from the place of the execu*
lion, and was left to live in bis ag
ony, there in the woods, for two days
while vainly begging for water. At
last a fire was built aronnd the sufr
fering wretch, and his body burned
to ashes—it is said even before life
was extioct.
There is an unwrit on law in the
In his recent annual report Post
master General Wanainuker says
that there is a postoffiee to evey 1..C00
people. Earlier in his administra
tion Harrisoo used to believe that
there were 1.000 people after every
post office.
An oflhdal statement of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the fed
eral government during No
vember shows that the receipt* were
$28 986,124 and expenditures $42,-
570, 022. Of this enormons expen
niture $21,511,161. or more that
one*half, went for the payment
pensions.
Wreck on N. E. R. R.—There was a
small wreck on the N. E. R. R. Thurs
day night which did some damage and
caused the mails to he detained at Lula.
The freight train had two boxes derailed
in a deep cut just beyond G.illsviHe, in
juring the boxes somewhat but fortu
nately no loss of life or limb occurred.
Tiie wreckage has been cleared and the
regular schedule has been resumed.
Georgia is called the “Empire State
of the South”—a distinction given it
because we can produce in our owu bor
ders any and everything necessary for
the upbuilding of a great country. We |
are not dependent on the outside world
for any article necessary to sustain life, I
or even to live in affluence. Our soil
will successfully produce every I
crop known to this hemisphere— |
outside of the tropics—either in fruits
AN OBJECT OF CHARITY
A Crippled School Boy of Our City In
Need of Assistance.
About one year ago last September
there came to Athens from Madison
then get the best . or cer «Mi w « have in our l orders nearly L-ounty, a deformed and orphan boy,
latever he buys, every known mineral; we have water- | wll0 wa8 desirous of attending the city
can make, for lie can _
possible terms on whatever he buys. , . .
Mr. Hale’s policy is to always keep close. Pavers to propel machinery, and an
to shore, and never contracts an obliga- entarprising and intelligent popula
tion until he sees liis way clear to meet t,on - lhere tsjio e-trihly reason why
• - our people should not prosper and grow
* j rich, and the rural districts of Georgia
j be made one vast Arcadia. Our people
other example of a small and successful 1 must arouse, and begin to utilize their
farmer, only he devotes bis attention advantages. First let us make ur
to the cultivation of fruits, farms self-sustaining, and cease being
schools, but had no means or source ot
sustenance while here. Prof. Branson
met him,. and admiring the spirit ol
ambition that prompted him, and his
quick perception- and eagerness to
learn, admitted him to one of the lower I many points.
daughters of rich parents and left homes
of luxury. Miss Welling had $900
to her credit in a bank at
the time she left, but drew out only
$200 of it.
Miss Crumpton raised about $500.
There seemed to be nothing on which
to base a guess as to why tbe girls left
or where they went.
Their bodies were sought for on the
theory of murder, then an elopement
was looked into unsuccessfully. At
last a clew was obtained by accident at
Charleston, S. C., tben began a chase
that reached every principal city in the
United States east of Omaha.
Indefinite clews were obtained at
At St. Louis it was
gthdes of the city schools. As soon as
Mr. Branson mentioned tbe case to 1 . ,
the school childreu and the circumstan-1 some traveling show anu were
I learned the girls were -- with
MrriBaileyisa'ii'atTve'ofMat ne'and came I dependent upon the west, or made vie- I ces attending it they came to his rescue I probably in Chicago. A trip to New
to Oglethorpe county, buying one of the! tims to the speculators and. extortion- j at once with liberal contributions every | York followed without result, and the
Marriage in Spartanburg - Rev
Mr. Burnett, father of Capt. W. B.
Burnett of Athens, was married some
days since to one of Asheville’s loveliest
young ladies. Mr. Burnt tt is well
known in Athens, having Bpent some
davs here a month or so back. We ten
der him and his fair bride the Banner’s
heartiest congratulations and wish
them a pleasant pilgrimage through
life.
South that wc endorse, i. e., when &
The Georgia railroad’s earnings
are already $100,000 in excess «
Barnett Shoals.—Mr. R. L. Bloom
field is at work in earnest again at tb$
Shoals. He has three or four masons
at work on the walls of the ell of the
factory, and he expects to get it up
next week if the weather continues to
be good. All of the machinery is up
and just as soon as they can get trained
up they will commence to make thread.
The factory will be lighted up with
electricity. The battery will be put up
just as soon as the wheel starts.—En
terprise.
negro lays tbe hand of violence upon
a virtuous*white lady,aspeedy dea«h
is liis portion, and withour tecourse
to law. This lustful, black brute
merited liis fate and it wa9 right to
mete it to him. But the * horrible
torture to which he v*s afterwards
subjected was barbarous, and a dis
grace to our age and land. It mat
ters not how black be a man’s crime,
bis lile-blood should be the extreme
ire a ally, and satisfy even the most raUway sus ^. DS jon bridge that w
hardened heart. Bat to let a human
being remain for two days riddled
what they were the same time la>- t
ill clear tbei t
year. The lessees
rewtal and make a handsome surpli
besides.
There is a rumor afloat in Gttha-i
that Pulitzer has sold the World ’«
a syndicate of republicans for $
000,000.
New Jersey is soon to be joined t*
New York by a monster double-spn
erst $50000,000.
with bullets and pleading for a drink
of water, and finally perish through
U>c slow torture of fire, is
m>re like savages than the in-
hshitants of a Christian country.
^ bile we can but pity the suffering
w retch, we had rather be inJiis place
to-day than carry through life the
burden that must rest upon the
Dr. Koch, the discoverer of tl,*
core for consumption, is said to
dying of that disease hiwse»
Physician, heal thyself.
A Mrs. Smart, of Texas, is n> «•
living with her ninth husband. M:
Smart must have some feline bloo
in her veins.
A Sad and Sudden Death.—On
Sunday evening last, while all the fam
ily ol Mr. Thos. J. Brice, who resides
near Wooley’s Ford, Dawson county,
were away from home, except his six-
teen year-old son, Daniel, the youth for
some reason or other went up into a
fodder loft on the premises and was
there found dead by those who went to
the bam, after the return of the family
to get feed for the stock.—Eagle.
Andrew Jackson’s Duelling Pis
tols.—A gentleman in this city, resid
ing on Prince avenue, has in his pos
session a brace of pistols, which bear
with them historical interest. They
are the pistols used in tbe celebrated
duel between Andrew Jackson and
Dickinson. He prizes the pistols very
much.
poorest places to be had. But be went
to work and filled up the gullies, ter- j
raced the hillsides, and gradually icn- ■
proved his land. There was only a
small tract—less than 100 acres. But
for years past he has made more clear
money than any farmer around him.
His strawberry patch alone is a source
of large income, while he successfully
raises for market all manner of fruits.
But he also raises some cotton and corn,
and one year made about 50 bushels of ;
« heat to the acre. He farms on the in
tensive system, and never fails to reap
a nandsome profit. A few years ago
Mr. Bailey decided to enlarge his farm,
and bought a tract of land adjoining
him; but after a couple of years be sold
it off, and fell back on bis original pos
sessions, as he lost money.
***
Mr. T. F. Hudson, of Clarke county,
came out of the war and found only a
poor tract of land and a blue, pipe-clay
swamp to start life anew on. The
swamp was so wet that all efforts to
dear and cultivate it bad proved
futile. But with his indomitable ener
gy Mr. Hudson started to work. He
ditched the land, felled the timber, duj
ud stumps, and picked up tbe stone,
and knots. It took him several year
Xo get the bottoms in a profitable stat
of cultivation, but success at last crown
ed his eflorts, and he has to-day th
finest grass farm in Georgia. His hot
toms comprise over 100 acres, and pro
duce successfully all the cultivate
grasses; and they yield as profitablj
too, as the best lands of the West. Mi
Hudson has show*n to our farmers the
it is folly for them to import their hay
for enough can be grown on swamp?
now lying idle—if they were only prop
erly prepared—to supply the country
There is more money in grasses tha
anything our Georgia farmers no'
raise.
ers.
We want to see the rising generation
of yonng farmers educated so that they
ran take advantage of the great re
sources of their country. Georgia j
should be dotted with agn- 1
month, in addition to those from the
teachers and others. From that time
to the present he has been sustained by
such contributions and the kindness of
Prof. Bramou.
Since entering the schools his progress
has been unusually rapid. At the be- 1
cultural colleges, and our I giuninghe knew nothing at all, but by
friends of the girls returned home
when an anonymous letter infermed
them that the girls were in this city.
Saturday they were located >t the Lato-
nia Hotel, but the find was kept secret
until today, when friends of the wan-
School of Technology liberally sus- study, appliance and great energy he derers arrived. The young ladies were
A Tremendous Rat.—A. rodent was
killed yesterday in an old barn in Uobh-
liam, that was colossal fellow. His
girtli was some twelve inches, and he
measured 19 inches from the tip of his
tail to the culminating point of his
He was a whopper and
tained, as also every institution of learn
ing. We need trained farmers and
skilled mechanics. Our boys must be
taken out of the old ruts travelled by
their forefathers, and lifted up op a
higher and more intelligent plane. If
it talcfes half the property of Georgia to
complete this work, it will lie the best
heritage we can leave to onr children.
Teach them how to scientifically culti
vate their fields, and one acre would be
has made useful and marked attain
ments, and has mastered in one year t! e |
work laid du»n in two grades. By the
contributions of the school children,
teacners and others, he x has been en
abled to pay for his board, books,
clothes, etc.
On account of recent sickness, he has
incurred a considerable doctors bill, the
payment of which is perplexing him
very much. He has been a special sub
worth as much to tuem as ten are today. I wt G f deformitv and affliction, and is
There is just as much advance in agri- cer tainly an object of charity. He
culture as in medical appliances. Our
southern farmers are asleep. They
must be aroused, and if the present gen
eration is too old to learn new and im
proved methods, we must teach the
children who will take our places.
T. L. G.
boards with a Mr. Elder, on Oconee
frantic with joy at the prospect of go
ing home. They said they had become
stage struck and went first to Atlanta,
then to Athens and Charleston. They
had a few weeks’ regular employment
only, but often got wrork in spectaculars.
In fact, they followed one company
some time to sign for a regular engage- -
ment. They had decided to go home
and reached Covington when their
money became scarce and they stopped
RUMORED SALE.
The C. & M. Probably Sold—The R. A
D. the Purchasers.
street, near the river, who makes him here. They sought vainly for worlf and
*■. , comfortable as circumstances j had a hp n t made up their minds to corn-
will admit. We only call aiten- ..... . , , .
tion to his case with the mit suicide when found. There is every
hope that our citizens will I reason to believe tbe girls have behaved
make some ontribntion in order that I themselves while away, and there is no
“m.urj, h .ta ££! •» them <* »„»£***.
Certainly everyone will take a delight I Their parents have spent $5,000 and
in helping him and thereby encourage I traveled many miles in search of the
It was rumored on the streets yesitor-
day that the C. A M. had been scooped
by tbe Richmond A Danville syndicate.
These rumors are very probably authen-
an ambitions and energetic cripple.
Make your contribution to Prof. Sim
mons or any of the city school teachers.
Let all come forward with some pit- ]
tance, even though it be small.
runaways.
morning.
They start for home in the
Miss Pauline Mason, of Westminster,
tic, as concurrent circumstances go to J s. C., is visiting Mrs. Will Dobbs on
fortify them. If such be the case, it | Lumpkin street.
will insure a through system from Lula |
to Macon, which will necessitate better I
track and better rolling stock.
WHO WAS HIS ASSASSIN?
nasal organs. .. , -
would furnish a weeks rations for a vert- j browsing on the
table feline gorn.a d. Mlitns can’t he Reaves A Carlton
beat on rats, and some gentlemen were that it is folly for onr farmers
discussing the feasibility of enlarging pend on Kentucky or Tennessee
Messrs. Reaves A Carlton are exatr
pies of successful stock raising.^ A fe
years ago these gentleme
bought a large farm near Skull SLoal
in Greene county. There wei
broad belts of bottom land, sodded
benmtda gras?, but subject to overflow
A portion <>t this land was turned int
pastures, wiiile other fields were pri *
pared for harvesting. They the hough i
a large ftumber of fine brood mare? an '
began the experiments of stock-raisin)
Their venture was a success from i i
start. Not a prettier sight is seen thsr.
tbe large droves of colts, of i ll size- ,
pastures, Messi-
have demon8trat<
to d-.
ft*
- . I U1S lieu 1UI a WCCA «u €* UIUI3, aim waa
I have a car U> id, 60,001) I only roused when his wife sent his ne-
1 j m nnn gro valet to bathe him by force of arms,
oranges; a car load, lUjUUU Throughout the operation he would
cocoanute; 100 bunches ba-1 rXVSS "wW n' W
A Florida Prince.
From the Epoch.
Prince Marat himself lives in Florida
tradition as the man who was too lazy
to wash his face. So unconquerable
was bis indolence that he often lay 4n
bis bed for a week at a time, and was
was
"■rsglZXVTiSSrSZivMM* 6,000 pounds t*aajte;^uu^h”?L’S2 , “jKSS
I candy, 40 togs cider, 2,-
St. Louis, Dec. 4.—Dr. Julius Stie- 01)0 pOlinOS pCaHQtS, 3:,~ | gold snuff box, or the box itself, if by
pd whowasmysterioosiyshot on die 000 pOUIlds mixed IIUt8, I “^f^Mo^toa^^uch^ake L*
night of Nov. 21st, died at his home to- - .-inn ■nonndR Catawba sti,i cherished there in memory of the
day. v l.UUU pOUIlUS^ vauiwud, 1 mart^r^ who explained that the
Dr. Stiepei stated to the police that graDCS, 60,000 ClffSTS, prize troubles of his life came from just two
ou the night of the shooting he was *200 boxes fire thlng8— " de wom * n and the water ’”
driving along Jefferson avenue, near ’ I -1
LaFayetto, when he heard a report anu cratkefb RUd
the breed in
?(xas mole.
ord r to* supplant the either their tuules or horses. Tliisse
tiou is dotted with just sm li Bermu
You can buy more Christmas goods at
- .... | u«,uci U1C the Ten Cent Store for $1 than you
He drove tathe police station wd ei- WO^S, Hlld & great Variety The
te£. h ' b “ i 1 of Christmas goods. Come j J* ^, d t £* n J
The police havebein hard at work on I ggg jjjg
the case, but cannot fathom the mys- 1 *
tery. It has been discovered that Stie
pei carried about $70,090 life insurance.
,'4
W, A.. Jester.