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rHE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
By JOE H. REESE
DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL A HD EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST CEORGIA.
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VOL. V
CLEVELAND, WHITE CO., GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1890.
NO. 38
THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
News Notos from the Empire Sta ’ e
of the South,
improvement*, ul fr.|-
r«H, 1 tarns A baa I Thing* Transpiring In
Our Own Urnl gtatn, Iran exchange*
ami ether Benrcal.
Oil Split, 27 Rev. Sum 1*. Jones v
open n crusade against sin ami sin
ners in Columbus.
Macon's water supply is to be in-
ereased by the addition of a new 12-
inch main from the river system.
Almost the entire population of At
lanta Chinese were arrested and put
in the station house Iasi week on the
charge of gaming.
The intense heat has killed several
line horses and mules in Dublin,. The
linn of (Inrbutt it- Co., lost nearly 25
head.
The Americas compress, located on
the Central railroad, started up Mon
day and its work of the season may
be said to have begun.
There is a net increase of about $90,-
600 in the taxable property in Laurens
county over last year. This is quite a
compliment to Laurens county.
.Muscogee’s handsome new court
house is practically completed and
will soon be inspected by the proper
committee.
Josh Johnson, the negro desperado
who attempted to murder Frank Gar-
butt, was tried last week at Dublin,
and sentenced to six years at hard la
bor.
Gwinnett county is now all stock-
law. Suwanee district was the last
to come in; but on the 26th of July,
the law went in force in that dis
trict.
A number of the. crack shots of
Americus have organized the Ameri-
cus Gun Club and have purchased a
full supply of traps, clay pigeons and
other necessary paraphernalia.
- A large rattler was dispatched neur
Dublin Sunday by Joe Fordhnm. He
W*h four feet long, and,measured 12 "“ u "“"r"*. V ..
'* ihefibs ‘in efre>ihiferenee. ii hd LniWJxf '
• ill—.'. J . mnnpnt.lv Til Hired.
rattles and a button.
Col. 0. L. Anderson of Atlanta is
now sole owner of the Fierce quarry,
some two miles out form Conyers. A
force of hands will lie put to work on
this rock yard at an early day.
A one-legged confederate veteran
named Adams is the first man to an
nounce his candidacy for a county‘of-
llce in Laurens. Tie asks for tax re
ceiver. The political pot will now be
gin to simmer.
Dr. Lyman Hall, president of the
Georgia State School of Technology,
has returned from Chattanooga,
where he went to secure the services
of a competent man for the depart
ment of athletics for the college.
Sheriff .1. C. Odom of Balter county
has been running down some timber
^thieves during the last two or three
days, and he now has Ike Horton and
Sambo Keaton, both negroes, in jail
at Newton.
Gov. Atkinson has appointed two
arbitrators on the part of the state
to assess the taxable valuation of the
Macon and Birmingham railroad.
They are Mr. Reeves of Meriwether
county, and Mr. ,T. V. Allen of 1'pson
county.
There will be an elec tion in Colum
bus soon to determine upon the issu
ance of $100,000 of 4'/j per cent bonds
to take up the outstanding bonds
anil of paying the city’s pro rata
share of building and furnishing the
ne.w court house.
The annual conference of the gen
eral secretary and physical directors
of the Voting Men’s Christian Associa
tion of Georgia and South Carolina will
he held at Atlanta, Aug. 19 to 21. The
outlook is that it is going to be the
most interesting meeting ever held
by the association of the two states.
Frof. Shelton Fulmer Sanford of
Mercer 1 niversity, who died recently
in Macon, was a native Georgean. He
was the son of Vincent Sanford, and
1816. His parents were natives of
Loudon county, Virginia, and moved
was bora in Greensboro, Ga., Jan. 23,
to Georgia and settled in Greensboro
in the year 181(1.
A colored man from Washington
county, by the name of Jesse An
drews brought to this office last Fri-
day, a stalk of corn on which were
six ears. He says he has only ten
stalks of that kind of corn, and he in
tends to save them for seed, anil next
year he will have a large crop of that
kind of corn.
Mr. Frank Turner’s daughter, a
girl about 10 years of age, was struck
by lightning in Boston, Ga., while
standing near a wire clothes line and
was instantly killed. The electric
force was great enough to melt sev
eral yards of wire.
The. Twenty-third Georgia Regi
ment hod n very delightful reunion
at Marietta on the 5th iust. There
were, about thirty of these old veter
ans present. Mr. R. E. Law lion, the
secretary, had everything in good
shape, and a sumptuous dinner was
served in Hirsch’s old store.
Judge Hansel!, in TliomasvlUe, has
continued Hie hearing of the motion
for a new trial iti the case of the
state vs. .lack Sharp, colored, sen
tenced at the April term of court to
hang next Friday'for the murder of
Mr. T’latt. He, issued a supersedeas
staying the execution until further
order of the court.
An attempt was made on Tuesday
night, to wreck the southbound Cen
tral train, due at Americus at 9:55
o’clock. A few miles out of Macon,
while running at good speed, the en
gineer discovered a large pileofeross
lies on the track and stopped in time
to avoid a wreck. The train consist
ed of twelve coaches, crowded with
excursionists.
The old DuBignon cottage on Jekyl
Island is being removed in order to
allow work to commence ou a new cot
tage to lK- built on the ground on
which it is at present situated. The
new structure when completed will
cost, $.15,900. Besides the, above im
provement the dining room of the club
house will be enlarged and the bicycle
road will be completed, thus making
the island ii regular garden of Eden.
Tim total amount of the cost for the
mprovements contemplated will
amount to about $109,000.
Ulen F. Addison has brought suit
against the exposition cotton mills of
Atlanta for $2,000 damages, in his
petition Addison states he was lor-
merly employed at the mills as a wea
ver. Ou April 10, 1890, he was at work
at his loom when a shuttle .flew out,
and struck him in the fage. Addison
i
nmngntly Tiijnred. ‘ft was (plaifne
the petition that the exposition cotton
mills was negligent in operating de
fective machinery. ^
A serious fire in the brick stables of
Whitehead & Brown Friday has been
•eported. A negro employe, who was
asleep in the loft, was aroused about
midnight by the strong odor of smoke.
When be arose he was surprised to find
the building in a mass of flames. Five
horses perished in the flames. One
animal of blooded stock, the property
of Mr. J. M. Finn, cashier of the Dub
lin bank, and another belonging to Dr.
A. T. Lummerlin, were burnt to death.
The stables liad recently been rented
to Mr. I\. H. Walker. All the new bug
gies, harness, wagons, hay, corn, oats,
anil fodder were destroyed. It is not
known whether the property was in
stiled or not. The loss will amount to
several thousand dollars.
Cyclones seem to be traveling to
ward the south. Monday afternoon a
cyclone passed eight miles east of
Douglas, uprooting trees and demol
ishing crops and fencing. It was
about one-fourth of a mile wide, com
ing from southeast, going northwest.
After leaving the fine plantation of
Daniel Gaskin, Sr., in utter ruin, it
arose anil came to earth again near
Fitzgerald, blowing down the opera
house and a feu small shacks there.
Mr. .1. M. Ashley, of Ashley, Lewis &
Co., was driving in the edge of town
with Mr. .Tosh Dent. They came near
beingkilled byu thunderbolt striking
a tree very near them.
Another murder, the cause of which
is attributed to a negro girl, occurred
recently at Martha, in the vicinity of
Howell’s turpentine distillery. Two
negroes, Alose Finetop and Fat But
ler, were the participants in the af
fair. It. seems that Butler, who was a
farmer, agreed to give a certain wom
an charge of a small farm, cautioning
her to behave and attend to her own
business. Mose became infatuated
with the woman, and frequently vis
ited the house. Butler remonstrated,
but to no avail. He finally had a
peace warrant issued, but Mr. Howell
interfered and desired to have the
matter settled amicably. All proceed
ed to The still. While the party was
endeavoring to effect a compromise,
Finetop walked up, and without a
word, drew a pistol, and shot Butler
twice over Mr. Howell’s shoulders.
Butler died in a few minutes. Pine-
top made good his escape. Mr. How
ell offers a reward for the murder’s
capture, t Tweed item in the Morning
News.
WITH THE WITS.
Things to Laugh at During the Hot
Days,
Flouting; Fun Cunningly Ghronlclatl to
Maka tba Stay-at-Horaai Buttle
A Gooil Idea.
“I intended this poem merely as a
pot-boiler,” said the young man in a
lofty explanation.
“That’s a good idea. Take it right
home and let your folks start the tire
with it.”—Washington Star.
A little four-year-old occupied an
upper berth in the sleeping-car.
Awakening once in the middle of the
night, his mother asked him if he
knew where he was. “Tourse I do,”
he replied, “I’m in the top drawer.”
—Youth’s Companion.
It Was all lUght.
“What did papa say when you
asked him for me?”
“He said he must decline to talk.”
“Didn’t he say anything else?”
“Yes, he said he was in the hands
of His executive committee.”
“Oh, that’s all right. He means
mamma. I’ll tlx her.”—Cleveland
Fliiin Dealer.
8oul of Music.
“L like the old-fashioned songs,”
remarked the man with a bored look
and an ungenial squint.
“Why is that?”
“Nobody sings them.”
A Kural View.
“Well, Uncle Hiram, are you in fa
vor of 16 to 1?
“Land, Henry, yer plumb crazy!
This ain’t no time o’ year to be set-
tin’ liens.”—Chicago Record.
The Widow'* Chance,
“George Washington married n
widow, didn’t he?”
“Yes.”
“What a Rnap n, widow must have
liud with a man who couldn’t tell a
Re!”—Puck.
First Boy: “My papa knows more
than your papa does.” Second Boy:
“I bet he doesn't. Did you ever sec
my papa? His forehead reaches’way
lo the back of bis head.”—Harper’s
Bazar.
Tommy—“1 thought you couldn’t
talk, Mr. Stnylate?”
Mr. Slay late.—“What made you
think so, Tommy?”
Tommy.—“Well, sister says she's
been waiting all winter for you lo
say something.”
A funeral is still regarded ns a very
high festival in Yorkshire, Eng. A
poor woman was lately heard com
plaining of the fare provided at, one
she hail attended. “A paltry con
cern,” she said, scornfully. “Nobbut
cakes and such like. Now I’ve hur
ried live,but I sided ’em all off with
’am!” And this: A man was assist
ing his daughter in the choice of
a dr ess, and seeing her fancy incline
to a blue one, said remonstratingly,
“Nay, lass, take the black one, hap
pen that might have the luck to be
axed to a funeral;” anil bis counsel
prevailed.
“Do you have a telephone in your
house?”
“No; I sometimes have to work at
the oflicc at, night and if I hml a
’phone at home my wife would call
me up every three minutes to see if
I wns there.”—Chicago Record.
“Tty gum! Huldy,” said Uncle Eph
raim Skiner, biting into a luscious
peach, “T like to have them city folks
up here for the summer.” “What fer,
Ephraim?” asked Aunt Huldu. “They
bring such a heap of fresh fruit with
’em,” Chicago Tribune.
“Know all women by these pres
ents,” began a sagacious attorney on
a public proclamation. “Know all
men, etc.,” corrected a fellow lawyer.
“Thxt ’snll right,” explained the first;
“i$the women know it, the men will
sifpn hear pf it.”—Washington Times.
Her, “if your
There's no denying that f nm
I The champion scorcher now.”
* —Washington Star.
Raymond: Papa, yon say Congress
is in session when it is sitting, don’t
yon ?
Papa: Certainly, my boy.
Raymond: Well, then, would it be
wrong for me to say that our old
Plymouth Rock hen is now in ses
sion in the burn?
Miss Maud: They say it changes
the expression of the face to chew
gum a great deal. I don’t believe it.
Do you?
Her Brother. No. It’s impossible.
On the face of a guni-chcwer there
isn’t any expression to change.
Johnny—Mamma, I can count all
the way up to twelve? Mamma:
Anil what comes after twelve? John
ny: Recess.
“What is this mental poise that
women talk so much about, nowa
days?” “ft is being able to look at
caterpillars without feeling them
crawling nil over you.”
One Little Girl in the Slums: Wot
yer say she died of? The Other One:
Eating u tuppenny ice on the top of
’ot pudding. The First Arentioiu-d:
Lor! what a jolly death!
Mrs. Sequel: “I understand your
husband can’t meet his creditors.”
.Mrs. Equal: “I don’t believe he
wants to especially.”—Truth.
“Come into the garden, Maud;”
but Maud was much too wise. Said
ulio: “Oh, no; the corn has ears and
the potatoes eyes.” — Tndianapolis
Journal.
Mr. Figg: “Tommy, i hear you
have been telling Res. J never told
lies when T was your age.” Tommy:
“When did you begin, paw?”—In-
diannpolis Journal.
"When did that famous defense of
the pass at Theroinopyflae take
place?” asked a young lvijmnn who
is studying classics.
“I can't say,” her father replied,
“with any precision. I have a bad
memory for dates. But it must have
been since the interstate commerce
commission was established, "—Wash
ington Slur. i
d’h-armacbpelnc IfAtitr ifr will make
Her a new woman!”
1 “You clear out or I’ll set the dog
on yer!” cried Farmer Jones excited
ly. “I’ve heerd of these yerc new
women! My old woman is ns much
ns 1 can manage already, 'ml I ain’t,
ngoin to take no risks.”—Vogue.
A man entered a Little Rock bank
and presented a check which read
“Pay to tlie bearer the sum of $10.”
The cashier took the check, looked at
it and said: “The check is perfectly
good, but you will have to get some
one to identify you.”
What is the use?” the man re
plied. “Don’t you see that it says
‘Pay to bearer.’ ”
“Yes, but you must prove that you
are the bearer.”
’Waiter, can you bring me a nice
youngchieken smothered in onions?”
“No, sali; we doesn’t kill ’em dat,
way, sail. We cuts off d’er beads,”
The Asparagus Beetle.
As several Florida gardeners that, we
know of, and doubtless many others,
have put out asparagus bedB this sum
mer, the following remarks about the
aspargus beetle, one of the greatest pests
of the product, may prove of value. The
article Is by Mr. A. AY. Cheever, and is
clipped from the New England Farmer.
The asparagus beetle was noticed
many years ago in the vioiulty of New
Jersey. It has been working northward
ever Blnoe. It has done much damage
on Long Island and In southern Connec
tiout, but has been followed by a para
sitic enemy that greatly aided farmers
in keeping It under control.
At one time it was hoped that the par
aslte would exterminate, the beetle, but
such Is not the course of nature. Para
sites suppress, but never exterminate.
No war was ever known where nil the
combatants were destroyed. The beetle
has been doing more or less damage in
the vlolnlty of Boston for a half-dozen
years or more.
It is not diflloull to tight in old beds,
as cutting the shoots destroys most of
the eggs that are Uhl during the (jutting
season. The first crop of beetles (grown
the year prevlons) usually gets through
mating, eating and egg-laying by the
middle of June, when peas are ready for
ptcklug. My rule is to cut asparagus
till the last beetle is (lend, then the new
stalks will be free Irom eggs, and I will
have no slugs.
On new beds the case is different.
Cutting here is not allowable, so the eggs
hatch and the young slugs must be de
stroyed. If a oareful gardener has a
oarelcss neighbor, the former will have a
hard light, a: the second oropof beetles,
appearing late in summer, will be sore
to visit him in large numbers.
The best way lo destroy slugs I have
tried is to dust the foliage when wet
with dew with air-slacked lime, using It
quito freely. The slug is a (oft-bodied
thing, and the limeourls him up In short
order. C. W. Prescott, ot Concord, one
of the most successful growers in this
state, writes "The Farm and Home’
that he fights the beetle with chickens.
Two men—one at each end—take a
board, ten to twelve feet long, and, carry
ing It in tront of them, brush the beetles
from the foliage in the early morning,
while they are In a semi-dormant state.
•w battle of Chioksostaught to- follow,-aud they -the top point.. .Measure, around...this to
Old I.ady—Poor fellow! I suppose
your blindness is incurable. Have
you ever been treated? Blind Man-
Yes, mum, but not often. ’Tain’t
many as like to lie seen going into a
barroom with a blind beggar.—Hart
ford Times.
Nervous Old I.ady (in saloon of
steamer)—Oh, steward, where do I
sleep?”
Steward—What is Hie number of
your berth, ma’am?”
Nervous Old Lady—I don’t see what
that lias to do with it; but if you
must know, it is the third; there
were a brother anil a sister born be
fore me.- Tid-Bits.
‘“Weren't you surprised when
proposed V”
“No; why should I be?”
Life.
he
piok up most of the beetles. Mr. Pres
cott's ohlef trouble is with neighbors’
beetles, propagated In Helds that are
badly neglected. It would seem but just
that any one hiving such a nursery of
mischief should be compelled to abate it
or suffer the consequences.
Poultry do not eat the slugs, so these
must be killed by poison or by knooking
off to die on the hot ground. Mr. Pres-
cott says he has seen them dead In less
than sixty seeonds after falling on sand
in the heat of a sunny day. Paris green
will destroy the slugs beetles if it can
be made to slick to the foliage. Adding
gluoose or molasses to the water will
help the matter somewhat.
Of all the remedies I have tried, lime
dust Is the cheapest and most easily ap
plied. One can throw a handful over
quite & space and oover every leaf when
wet with dew ou a still morning,
How to Measure Hay.
In answer to a number of inquiries
we again publish a few simple rules for
determining the amount of hay in stack
or mow, when It Is not convenient to
weigh It. Helling by measurement is
not nl ways the most satisfactory method,
but it sometimes Is most convenient.
Sellers are disposed to insiBt that
a cube of seven feet is a ton. This
is entirely too small, and will not weigh
out. How many cutic feet will make a
ton depends on so many conditions
that no certain rule can be given. 11 de
pends on the kind of hay, whether
limothv, alfalfa, or prairie; on the
character of the hay, whether line or
coarse: on the condition in which it was
put in the stack, and particularly on the
si/.!, especially the depth of the stuck
or mow. In a very large mow, well
settled, -100 cubic feet of alfalfa or
timothy may average a ton, says Orange
Judd Farmer, but on top of the mow or
lu a small stack, It requires 500 to 512
oubic feel: sometimes even more. Ills
not safe for (he buyer lo Ilgore on less
than 500 cubic feel: but ilia well-filled
mow, In selling we would rather weigh
than s"ll at that measurem ut.
To lind the number of tons in a barn
mow or liny shed, multiply the length,
depth and breadth together and divide
by the number of cubic feel you think,
considering the quality of hay and the
condition in which it was put up, will
make a ton. To measure a cone shaped
stack, (lnd the area of the base by multi
plying the square of the circumference
in feet by the decimal .07958 and multi
ply the product thus obtained by one-
third of the height in feet, and then
divide as before, cutting off five right-
hand figures. The correctness of this
will depend somewhat on the approxi
mation of the staok to a regular cone,
and if the stack bulges out It makes the
product too small. The better way is
to estimate the area of stack up to point
of tapering In and apply above rule to
cone-shaped tops.
The best way lo weigh. The experi
ence of weighing a few stacks will
nable anyone to judge qui te accurately.
Another approximate rule for measur
ing a round staok is this. Select a place
whioh is as noar as possible to what the
axerage size would be If the stack were
of uniform diameter from the ground to
get the.circumference. Add four ciphers
0000) to the circumference at the right
and divide the whole by 31,450 to get
the diameter. Now multiply half of
the diameter by half of the circum
ference, and you have the feet of the
circular area. Multiply by the number
of feet the stack Is high, and you will
have the solid or oubic feet In the whole.
Then divide by 500 to 512, according to
its size and compactness, which will
give the number of tons in the staok.—
Industrial Amerloan.
Fnir Patient,—“Is there no way of
telling exactly what is the matter
with me?"
Dr. Emdee—“Only a post-mortem
examination would reveal that.”
Fair Patient—“Then, for heaven’s
sake, make one. I don’t see why I
should be squeamish ut. suchatimens
this.”—Pick-Me-Up.
He—“Don’t you ever tire of talk
ing?”
She (quickly)
Who is talking.”
“It depends upon
Vogue.
Condition of Cotton,
The August returns to the statistician
of the Department of Agriculture show
a reduction In the condition of cotton
during July from 92 5 to 80.1, or 12.4
points. The condition of t“c same last
year was 77.0, whioh was the lowest
average for August ever given. The
averages of the states are: Virginia, 80;
North Carolina, 93; South Carolina, 88,
Georgia, 92; Florida, 84; Alabama, 93,
Mississippi, 78; Louisiana, 70; Texas, 09;
Arkansas, 05; Tennessee, 89 Heavy
rains in July damaged the crop, espec
ially on bottom lands in Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Florida, and some
portions or Georgia. Over a largo area
lo Georgia the crop is in tine condition,
and promises a fine yield. A drouth
that extended over Alabama, Missis
sippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas
for several weeks caused more or less
damage, and in many counties com
plaints are made of rapid shedding and
premature ripening and blooming ut the
top. Some counties in Mississippi and
Arkansas report that the crop Is irrepar
ably damaged from drouth and exces
sive heat. Sime oouoties in Texas re
port the crop in good condition, fruiting
we l and promising an average yield;
but over the drouth-strioken dlstriot
where the rains have fallen they have
come too late to be of benefit. The con
tinued drouth and hot, dry winds have
done considerable damage in some
counties. There is oomplaint, of too
much dry weather in Tennessee, other
wise the crop is doing fairly weli. The
crop over almost theeutire cotton belt
is maturing rapidly, and is earlier than
for many years, partly from early plant
ing and partly from premature ripening.
Tarpon are now being caught, with
east, nets in creeks near Tampa.
A New Industry.
A new industry has been started at
south Jacksonville, whioh the project
ors are working hard to make a success,
it is the growing and manufacture of
broom oorn. The projectors are I.oil
man Brothers. They have brought a
quantity of broom corn to the Btate,
from which they have taken the seed.
This is being distributed among the
farmers of south Jacksonville, and ex
periments that have so far been made
have resulted favorably. In fact, Messrs.
Lehman say that there is no reason why
the corn should not be grown as well In
Florida ns elr.ewhere, and that If the
farmers will devote a small acreage to
It, the leturns will pay them better than
anything else. What seed they do not
wish to replant can be fed to the chick
ens, for which It is excellent, and the
corn can be sold at a good price for
manufacture Into brooms. Lohmau
Brothers will be glad to hear from farm
ers In regard to methods of cultivation
and other matters pertaining to the in
dustry.—Citizen.
Vegetable Matter for "Dead Soil".
Growers in this state are frequently
annoyed by a spot or two of “dead soil”
in an otherwise tine grove or garden—
that is, a small spot where, on acoount
of hardpan, quicksand or some poison
ous acid in the soil or subsoil, generally
ferric acid, or oxide of Iron, trees will
not nourish, but are continually troubled
with dieback. We have in mind suoh a
grove—a handsome property for the
most part, but deformed by two or three
such places—the owner of whioh worked
faithfully for seven years and at last
overcame the trouble. He carted in
vegetable matter by the ton, wire graas,
broom grass, briers, palmetto, etc , and
when It rotted down be had it spaded in
or hoed in at the extremities of the
roots. Muck was spaded in; ashes and
potash were sprinkled on. Finally, a
sweet and wholesome soil was created
and the trees took on a -healthy foliage
and a good crop of fruit when right
across the fence an orange tree would
die in six weeks.—Citizen.