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GADSDEN AND KED LINK STEAM
ERS— U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. 11. Elliott. Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Home every Tuesday aad Friday ...8a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. (! a ui
Leave (tadsdon Wednesday and Saturday, ,8 am
Arrive at Homo Thursday and Sunday ...7pm
Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every
Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev
ery Saturday morning.
STEAMER GADSDEN.
F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk.
Leav* Home Mondays and Thursdays .11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays .. 2am
Leave < adsden Tuesdays and, Fridays 9am
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays ...7pm
Office No. 27 Broad street, up-st’airs over the
Cetteu l.xcliange. Telephonic connection.
J. 11. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Gen’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
(UKROKEE RA lLROAI).
On aud after Monday, May 22, IS2, the trains
ea this rtoad will run daily as fellows (Sunday
except'd):
PASSENGER TRAIN—MORNING.
Leave Cartereville 9:15 am
Arrivem stilesboro 9:slam
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:12 aiu
Arrive at Kockmart 10:51 a iu
Arrrivo at Cedar town 11:50 a m
RETURNING.
Leave Cednrtown . 2:05 pin
Arrive at Rock mart 2:58 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 3:33 pm
Arrive at Stilesborp 3:slpm
Arrive at Cartereville 4:25 pm
!• \SSENGKU TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave > artci."‘'ie 4:3opm
Arm ■ .1 Stiles! oro 5:04 p m
Arriv at Taylorsville 6:22 pm
Arrive at Rockiuart 8.00 p m
Arrive at Cedar town 7:00 p in
RETURNING.
Leave Odartown . e 6:40 am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:3lam
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:04 a m
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:lßaui
Arrive at Cartersville 7:45 am
ROME RAILROAD.
The i 'llon ing it the present passenger sched
ule:
no. 1.
Leave Home 6:10 am
▲rrivs at Kiugston, 8:55 a in
NO. 3.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Bo mo 10:25 a m
no. 8.
Leave Koine 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston a. 5:30 pm
NO. 4.
Leave Kingston 6:55 pm
Arrive at Home 6:50 p m
no. 5.
Leave Rome 8:00 am
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
no. 6.
Leuv Kingstou 9:20 am
Arrive at Home 10:10 a m
Nos. i. 2,3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. "■ ami 6 will run Sundays only.
N* will not stop at the junction. Makes
clo.- onuection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chat aoooga.
N .ru , kee connection nt Rome with E. TANARUS.,
Va. k ,a. it. It., for points south.
EBEN HILLY Elt, President.
J. \ -mitii.U. 1. Agent.
W ERX AND ATLANTIC K. R.
•;lowing is the present sched-
NIGHT PASSENGER—CP.
p v ™ta 2:40 pm
, tersville 4 :80 pm
H; Y!P ton 4:55 pm
Lea a lton 6-"4 i m
An at Chattanooga 8:09 n m
NIOUT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Le.. Chattanooga 2:55 pm
fe ■ Hatton 4:32 pm
Leu ■ \ i igston 6:03 pm
Lc! .tersville 6:32 pm
Ar. at Atlanta 8:40 pm
_ DAT PASSENGER—PP.
Lc. \tlanta 7:00 am
Lea ec rtersville . 8:55 am
Leve Kingston 9:21 am
Lea Dalton 10:55 am
Art ve at Chattanooga 12:30 am
, DAT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Lea Chattanooga 8:00 am
Her, -Dalton 9:46 am
Leti • Kingston 11:15am
Lei -1 Cartersville ll:42ara
An: -at Atlanta 1:40 p m
_ . , ROME EXPRESS
Le;. re Atlanta 4:80 p m
An i a at Cartersville 6:31 pm
Ar ve at Kingston 7:00 p m
Lo v.. Kingston 8:06 am
An ive at Cartersville 8:32 am
Arrive at Atlanta 10:37 a m
VOLUME V.
East Tennessee, Virginia aad Georgia
RAILROAD.
GEORGIA DIVISION.
THE NEW SHORT LINE.
Chattanooga to Atlanta,
Atlanta to Macon.
—AND—
SHORTEST OF ALL ROUTES.
CHATTANOOG A AND THE WEST.
TO FLORIDA AND THE SOUTHEAST
Condensed Ixx al Pussekger Schedule (on basis
of Ixntisville time by which all
ail trains are run.;
IN r.FKECT NOV EM BBS 12T1I, 18*2.
SOUTHWARD. J /rain
Leave Chattanooga. 6:15 a m
“ Ooltewah j #:su a ml
“ ( obuitah 7:33 aml 3:26pm
“ Dalton .8:2,< am 1 4:35 pm
Arrive Rome , )•:55 aiu 7:lspm
“ Rock mart 11:05 a in
“ Dallas ,12 ;lii pm |
Atlanta 2:ou p in No. 49.
Leave Atlanta 2;4>pni l:3sam
“ McDonough 4:1,. pm 3:4nain
“ Jackson 4:3 pm 4:03 ain
“ Indian Springs 6:12 pm 5:10 am
Arrive Macon 6:44pm 8:00 am
Macon .. ......... ...I k.uopm 9:00 ain
“ Cochran 8:47 p m 11:05 a m
“ Eastman lo:3spni 12:00 m
Arrive Jessup 2:40 a mi 5:20 a in
Leave Jessup 3:0o a in
“ .Sterling 4:66 ain
Arrive Brunswick. 3:35 am]
SOUTHWARD. | j T o ™£
Leave Brunswick 8:30 p mi
Sterling. 8:10 pm.
Arrive Jessup 11:00pm)
Leave Jessup 11:45 p m, 7 :Oo a in
•• Eastman 4:13 a m 1 12:05 p m
“ Cochran 5:03 am 1:25 pm
Arrive at Macon 7:00 am 3:30 pm
Leave Macon 8;15 a m 4:15 pm
“ Indian Spring 9:55 am 6:45 pm
“ Jackson 10:08 am 7:08 pm
“ McDonough 10:53 am 8:24 pm
Arrive Atlanta 12:25pm 10:30 p m
Leave Atlanta 1:20 pm
“ Dallas 3:00 pm Train
“ Rockmart 4:lopm No. 52
“ Rome ... 5;25pm 7:55 am
** Dalton 7:23pm IKOO am
“ Colnittah . B:lspm 12:00 m
Unite wall 8:45 pm!
Arrive Chattanooga 9:2m p nr
Connections—Trains Noe, 53 and 54 connect at
Chattanooga with Memphis and Charleston Di
vision, E. TANARUS., Va, * Ga. It. It., Nashville, Chat
tanooga & St. Louis It. It. and Cin., N. O. AT.
P. Railroad.
trains No3. 51 and 52 connect at Cohutta and
Cleveland with main line E. TANARUS., Va. & Ga. R. R..
aud connect at Rome with Alabama Division E,
TANARUS., Va. A Ga. R. It.
Trains Nos* 49, 50, 53 and 54 codnect at Atlanta
and Macon with all diverging ri/ude, and con
nect at Jessup with S. F. A W. railway for
Florida.
All trains run daily except Nos. 1 and 2, be
tween .Jessup and Macon, which run daily ex
cept Sundays.
Trains to and from Hawkinsville connect at
Cochran.
I. E. MAT,LORY, M. N. BEATTY,
Ass’t Sup’t, Macon. Ass’t: up’t Atlanta,
w. v. McCracken, sup’t., Atlanta.
J. ,J. GFIFFIN. A. POPE,
A. G. P. A., Atlanta. Gen’l. Pass. Ag’t.
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rpilE UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY
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in all respects.
SAMPLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com
panies. fjaultt] L. C. HOSS.
THE FREE PRESS.
LUNATIC ASYLUM.
A Visit to the Institution—A Model Asy
lum for the Insane.
; Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.]
Milledgevillk, Feb- 21.—Entering
the a-yhitn grounds we found groups of
the inmates chattering pleasantly togeth
er enjoying the sunshine and the garden.
A neat colored woman knitting at the
entrance to the main building politely
conducted us to the office of the superin
tendent. Twenty years experience, join
ed to varied culture and most winning
kindliness, gives the doctor indisputable
title to the position which lie occupies.
“Get iu my carriage with me,” said he,
‘'and I will show you our new building—
but wait a little. Did you notice the
woman who conducted you? Would you
think her insane?”
“Why, no; I thought she was your
servant. Is she an inmate here?”
“Yes, but she is nearly well now, and
will soon be entirely so. That lady you
see yonder is Mrs. . She is also near
ly cured. Her husband wishes her to
come home now, but she realizes how
important it is that she should remain
until her recovery is complete.”
“What? Do they know their own con
dition?” “Certainly. That is some of
them, and it is a hopeful sign when one
of them does, for that one will then assist
iu his own cure. That old gentleman
feeding the chickens has been here a good
many years. His bantams are his chief
delight.” The doctor pointed out oth
ers of his patients, discoursing learnedlj',
but with kiiitll} r modesty on various
points.
The new building is three and four
stories high, containing 4GO rooms for in
mates besides olfices of every necessity.
It forms three sides of a huge parallelo
gram, opening to the south. It is of
brick, covered with tin, and designed ex
clusively for Urn colored insane.
Dr. Powell said : “You see the spot I
have set aside for the kitchen. It does
look unreasonably distant, but I have
such a horror of fire amongst lunatics
that I will submit to any inconvenience
rather than, endanger the main build
ings.”
The apparatus for protection in case of
fire is very complete, reducing the dan
ger to a minimum. Indeed, it seems an
impossibility that fire should be able to
make any headway at all, so speedily
would it be subjected.
“Doctor, have you any statistics show
ing the various causes of insanity?”
“Well, no. Such figures are not to be
relied on. When you read that such an
one has gone crazy on religion, or dis
appointment, it does not t jllow that reli
gion or disappointment was the predis
posing cause —it was perhaps the occa
sion. Hereditary influences have a great
deal more to do with the matter than is
generally believed. I tell you, my dear
sir, men and women, when they marry
assume a fearful responsibility.”
“You don’t believe in the marriage of
first cousins, doctor?”
“No, nor second cousins, nor third
cousins, if they have similar tempera
ments. First cousins may possibly mar
ry with safety to their children if their
blood and temperament are totally dis
similar, but even then it is a very great
risk. ’ ’
“Doctor, what per centum of your pa
tients recover?”
“The percentage is in direct ratio to
the duration of the disease.”
“That is very striking!”
•‘lt certainly is. When they are
brought here to us, having been afflicted
but a short time, say one or two or three
months, some sixty percent will recover,
and these figures grow alarmingly and
rapidly less, until they dwindle down to
naught, if the friends of the patient neg
lect to secure proper treatment. Time is
almost every thing. Why, sir, I have
frequently found myself wishing that ev
ery new case would be so violent as to
compel the friends of the sufferer to take
measures instantly.
“Now, yonder is a case,” continued
Dr. Powell, “that is a very sad one.”
Here the doctor alighted and approached
a pale, dejected young man who leant
upon the arm of an older gentleman. The
doctor kindly inquired how he felt and
asktd some other questions in a pleasant
way, but never a word did the young
man say, keeping his head bowed and his
eyes on the ground. The older man,
who was the father of the patient, re
plied to the doctor but his English was
very broken and meagre.
The doctor resumed his seat.
“That young man is an Austrian. lie
was educated in Germany and has been
iti this country but a short while. Pos
sibly his father sent him over on account
of the military slavery over there. Any
way he came to Thomasville. Last sum
mer he had a severe sun-stroke which
deprived him of his reason for a time, but
he was in a fair way to recover when an
attack of malarial fever completely undid
every thing and left him in the condition
you see. He has not spoken a word in
twelve weeks. He eats only when fed
hy his father. But, I have Jiopes even
yet ihat we will bring b‘ni through all
right, for no time has been wasted in his
case, and there are. even now some slight
indications of his amendment.”
“You say, doctor, that no time should
be lost when a person begins to lose his
reason. You do not mean that your ac
commodations here are sufficient for
all?”
“Unfortunately they are not, but a
proper appreciation, by the people, of
the measures to be used in such cases
would generate a wonderful influence in
our tehaif here, that would eventuate in
augmenting an institution until it did
fully meet the w ants of all the insane in
Georgia. Delay in these cases is not
dangerous, merely, it is fatal. The pa-
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 8, 1883.
tient must be removed at once from the
surroundings wherein his troubles came
and very frequently this is all ihat is
needed, except the mild treatment and
assistance given in the asylum. No, we
have our hands full. We have 1,012 pa
tients. We have been compelled to doub
le them in a good many rooms. We have
had to reject some 22 j applications, and
we believe there are several hundred
others in the state whose friends would
make application were it not that they
know our condition and think there is no
use to ask. We need help. We need to
secure help that the people should un
derstand the value of time in the cases
of these poor sufferers.”
The doctor’s manner and language
were very impressive, showing that lie
felt deeply for the unfortunate ones who
are deprived of the advantages tlie asy
lum could confer if the people, and
through them their representatives, were
actuated by a more liberal enlighten
ment. B. K. B.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Exposure of the Scheme which is now Be
ing Lobbied Through Congress.
Washington Special to Chicago Tribune.l
A land grant ot 14,000,000 acres valu
ed at $23,000,000, is wortli fighting for if
there be a chance to win it. 'a his is
probably the opinion of Jay Gould and
C. P. Huntington, wlio control the south
ern and middle transcontinental railway
lines. These observations are suggested
by two interesting bills, both favorably
reported, which now await such action
as may be secured in the hurly-burly of
the last days and nights of the Forty
seventh Congress. These bills apparent
ly provide that the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company may consolidate with
other companies under one organization,
so as to form a continuous line from San
Fraucisso to the Mississippi river. The
true history of the birth and growth of
the transcontinental railways contains
material for stories which would aston
ish the world. The rapid growth of eol
losal prixate fortunes, the establisment
of great and oppressive monopolies, the
means used in securing legislation, the
evasion or defiance of law, and the indi
cations of greater schemes to be consum
mated in the near future, are subjects
which invite study and excite wonder
and other emotions. Besides some of the
transactions which have occurred in the
history of these roads, an attempt to cap
ture an unearned land grant valued at
$25,000,000 is a small undertaking. The
Texas Pacific Company secured a land
grant from Texas applying to all the road
which might he built in that State. This
grant amounted to 10,000 acres per mile.
In 1871 the Texas Pacific secured Irom
Congress an additional grant applying to
the road west of Texas. The company
was expected to extend its road through
New Mexico, Arizona, and southern Cal
ifornia to San Diego, on the Pacific coast,
and the land grant was 25,000 acres per
mile in New Mexico and Arizona and
12,000 acres per mile in California. But
the Texas Pacific lias built no road be
/oiul the western boundary of Texas,
and therefore has not earned an acre of
the enormous grant in California and the
Terriotries. Before the Texas Pacific
reached the western boundary of Texas,
the Southern Pacific had rapidly extend
ed its road eastward from southerif Cali
fornia, through New Mexico and Arizo
nia, to El Paso, a point at or near the ex
treme western boundary of Texas. So
vigorously was the construction of this
road pushdd forward that the line had
reached Sierra Blancha, a point in Texas
ninety-two miles east of El Paso, when
the Texas Pacific, extending westward,
met it. In this way the Southern Trans
continental line was completed. But the
part which lies between Sierra Blanca and
southern California was built without a
land grant. The Texas Pacific could
have proceeded with its road and con
structed a line to the Pacific coast paral
lel to the southern Pacific, and thereby
earned its land grant. It aid not do so.
It stopped at Sierra Blanca, and the two
railroad magnates, Jay Gould and C. P.
Huntington, joined hands and entered
into an agreement, the terms of which
are not generally know n. This agree
ment provided that the ninety-two miles
ot track between Sierra Blanch and El
Paso should be iointly used by the two
companies; that through business should
be done pro rata; that Huntington might
continue his road to the Gulf of Mexico
upon condition that the seaboard busi
ness should he equally divided between
this continuation and the Texas Pacific:
and that, in consideration for the privi
leges given on the Pacific coast, the Tex
as Pacific should relinquish to the South
ern Pacific its claim to land grant, right
of way, and other franchises in the Ter
ritories and California. The question
has been how to get it and how to induce
the United States to authorize the trans
fer. There are now pending in Congress,
as has been said, two favorably reported
bills, one in each House, authorizing the
Southern Pacific to consolidate with the
Texas Pacific. They were reported re
cently, and an attempt made two or three
weeks ago to fix a day for the considera
tion of the House hill seemed to show
that the majority would support that bill.
The Senate bill has the same title. It is
expected an attempt will be made to pass
the consolidated bills in the last week of
the session.
An employe of the telegraph company
at Manila had a narrow escape recently,
having taken sugar of lead in mistake for
ammonia. He telegraphed to Hong Kong
for a doctor, who came to the office and
sent him advice by cable, which resulted
in his recovery. The distance is about
555 miles. Probably this is the first time
that a doctor has prescribed for a patient
555 miles away.
THE SOUTHERN PROBLEM.
Upon Which Maj. I>* n t Give* hi* View*
in the New York Sun.
To the Editor of the Sum— Sir: Having
been a southern farmer for fortv-eight
years, and now about planting my forty
ninth crop, thirty-one years the owner
and planting with slaves, and seventeen
years farming with free negroes, gives
me some knowledge and experience of
the negro character, as a slave and as a
freeman. I have read Mr. Frank Wilke
son’s letters with great interest, particu
larly his letter written from Fiowrence
Plantation, Arkansas, Feb. 7. There is
a great deal of truth in what Mr. Wilke
sou eavs. In most communities there are
such men or planters to be found as he
met with, and describes as a “bright
suappy man,” who has no use for
“thrifty niggers;” also are to be found
many sueli men as he describes J. C.
Calhoun to be.
I have managed negroes without any
intermission for forty-eight years as a
farmer, and my experience has taught
me that whether they he the most igno-
rant or most intelligent, they are influ
enced more by caprice than by any rea
soning or calculations of their own. I
have witnessed too many instances since
they have been freed men where they
left the services of men who delt honest
ly by them, and where they were doing
well and accumulating property, and
went to others, where they soon lost all
they had made, and were reduced to pau
pers; and, strange to say, men, who de
fraud them most and cheat them of all
they have made have more influence
over them and can retain them longer in
their employment than those who deal
justly by them. And why is it so? Be
cause they can be influenced by sweet
talk and exaggerated promises.
Ask them this question, which I have
often done: “When you lived and work
ed for Mr. A. did he not treat you well
and settle honestly with you, and were
you not doing well and getting ahead in
the world?” They replied: “Yes.”
“Why. then, did you leave Mr. A. if you
found him an honest man, and you were
doing well?” The answer generally is:
“Idunno.” Incase like that of Mr.
Calhoun, they are retained in his em
ployment more by the influence of some
influential negroes in his service who are
in his confidence than by their prosper
ous circumstances. Let one of the most
influential negroes in Mr. Calhoun’s ser
vice have a falling out with him, and he
could induce every negro to quit him at
his will.
I hey do better and are more intelli
gent where the fewest of them live
among the whites.
It is rare that you can keep young men
over one*year. They are restless, capri
cious, and fond of change, and save
nothing in their eaiyiings—perfect spend
thrifts. I farm on a small scale, and di
versify toy crops, and instill on the ne
groes that making their own food sup
plies in abundance is more profitable
than to raise all cotton and buy their
provisions; and this we have done ever
since the war. They have found this to
he good advice and profitable. The
young negroes go in for all cotton—mon
ey is their object—and depend on their
employers to furnish them with their
food supplies, which is done at exorbi
tant prices and takes from them most of
the money coming from their cotton
crops, resulting in dissatisfaction, and
oftentimes trouble. Give the negro an
education, so-called, and you will make
Idm a conceited, worthless nuisance.
The better plan is to teach him to labor
and support himself, and when he feels
the want of an education he will go to
school and learn as much as will answer
his necessities. As for a compulsory ed
ucation, it can never be beat into them.
Jno. H. Dkxt,
Cave Springs, Ga.
AN UNFORTUNATE ERROR.
Some time ago Mr. VY r . A. MeAdoo,
proprietor of the popular MeAdoo house,
pi Greensboro, Ga., wanted a plate ot
glass in size 22x32 inches, and wrote to a
New York house to send it, to him, and
draw on him at sight tor the pay. Now,
it might have been all right, but Mr.
MeAdoo wrote “feet” instead of “inch
es.” The New York firm, on receiving
this extraordinary order, the glass
wanted being described as fine French
plate, concluded that there must
be some mistake, and telegraphed
to Mr. MeAdoo in substance about as
follows:
“llavn’t you made a mistake? In all
our 30 years experience we have never
received an order of this sort.”-
Mi. MeAdoo, confident that he was cor
rect telegraphed that lie “wanted what
he ordered,” and for them to send it
along. The firm, not yet satisfied, wrote
him a letter, stating that they would not
be able to fill the order unless they were
to import the glass, and to this Mr. Mc-
Adoo replied, “go ahead and import.”
In the course of time Mr. MeAdoo was
astonished at receiving a bill of lading
for a piece of French plate glass one inch
thick, thirty-two feet wide, shipped on
steamer from France to Norfolk. The
immense piece of glass, carefully boxed,
was carried across the ocean on the
steamer’s deck and laid on the wharf at
Norfolk, where it now remains. There
is no possible way of transporting it
overland by rail, as it would not pass
through the cuts along the road, nor could
it go through the covered bridges. No
doubt if Mr. MeAdoo could get it to
Greensboro he would find some use for
it, hut how to get it there is the question.
In the meantime the glass is on the
wharf at Norfolk awaiting his order. It
cost him $3,100.
Wizard Oil in 50c bottles a tCurry’e.
POKEK IX WASHINGTON.
rrom the Brooklyn Eagle.]
“Senator i'otn Bowen ot Colorado Is
the best poker player we have in town.
Why, the second night he was here,
Plumb oi Kansas and Jones oi Nevada
sat down with him to a little game, and I
am told that he scooped the party to the
extent of two or three thousand in half
an hour. But Bowen has lost more than
he has won during the List tew years.”
“Who arc the poker players in Con
gress?”
“ 1 here are very tew who have seats
in the Senate. Old Lapham plays occa
sionally, and so do Hide and Vest, but
as to the others it would disgrace the
game to say they played at all. These
are not the times we used to have when
Grant was President.”
“Is Arthur much of a player?”
“Well, yes; and I guess he is übout as
‘cagey’ as any of them. He will set up
all night over a game of poker, when
nothing else in the world will hold his
attention. Chandler is a sharp one, too,
and I understand that he and Congress
man ‘Dick’ Crowley are about the most
expert of that set.”
“What set ?”
“Why, the White House set. They
tell me that they play it ‘blind’ in defer
ence to Arthur’s wishes, and I under
stand this has been the most popular way
of running the game here this season.
In the ‘draw’ game there is a little chance
for skill, but ‘blind’ poker, in which you
don t draw at all, is the most outrageous
form oi gambling. But, of course, you
know all about it.”
“W r ho are the best poker players in the
House?”
“Joe Blackburn can deal the paste
boards with as much grace and celerity
as any man I know of, and will back his
hand to almost any limit. Young Wal
ker of Pennsylvania is what is common
ly known as a ‘daisy cutter,’ and Sprin
ger of Illinois Bwears by the jack bf clubs
The Western men are by far the best card
players. I think Tom Young of Cincin
nati and ex-Goveruor of Ohio is about as
smart a one as ever set his foot in Wash
ington, and the man who can bluff him
out of a hand has to get up pretty early
in the morning. But the poker playing
here just now is nothing to what it was
at Alban}' when Boss Tweed ruled the
deck.”
ADVICE TO COTTON PLANTERS.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 27.—Twenty
leading cotton factors of this city, em
bracing the principal officers of the cot
ton exchange, publish an address to mer
chants, farmers and tenants of the cot
ton belt, in which they advise some radi
cal changes in the manner of farming and
doing business in the south. The chief
cause of the lack of prosperity in the
southern states, they say, are: First, the
present credit system, which forces plan
ters and tenants tp pay extravjgant
prices for supplies and to rush tneir
crops to market in such quantities as to
break prices, oftentimes, below cost of
production; and. second, the over-pro
duction ot cotton. This they think the
keynote of the whole situation, and they
strongly urge everybody interested in
southern prosperity to discourage plant
ing a large acreage of cotton this year.
Food products, they say, are what
southern planters most need, and they
advise, tirst of all,.the raising of grain,
cattle and hogs, and give the remainder
of their time, if the}' have any, to grow
ing cotton. They show that the present
price of cotton is 15 per cent, below the
average of the past tive years, and that
corn is 30 and provisions 50 per cent,
above the average, thus cuusing the mere
cotton-raifer to lose largely ir. two ways.
They contend that a decrease iu the, pro
duction of cotton, and an increase in the
production of bread, meat and other
kinds of food will bring about* a more
prosperous condition of the south, and
they ask merchants and planters to call a
convention and agitate the question
throughout the cotton belt.
An outburst of southern feeling was
overtaken by the closeitig sentence or
an address delivered by General Jubal
A. Early before the association of the
Maryland Line in Baltimore on the eve
ning of Washington's birthday, and by
the spirit in w’hieh it was received. “I
trust, ’ said General Early, “that evrey
faithful soldier of the army of Northern
Virginia is ready to exclaim with me:
If I ever disown, repudiate or apologize
for the eaune for which Lee fought and
Jackson died, let the lightnings ot Heav
en blast me, and the scorn of all good
men And true women be my portion.”
The Bdtiuore San rem irked that at
this sentiment “the hall roared with at
4 wild cheers, which, coming largely from
his former comrades in arms, reminded
the hearer of that inarticulate battle cry
with which the Confederates were wont
to ad vance to the charge a score of years
ago. General Wade Hampton was on
the stage, and mention of his name was
loudly applauded.”
After all, money made by farming is
the cleanest, best money in the world.
It is made in acbordanee with God’s first
law. under honest and genial influences,
a way from the taint of trade or the fierce
heat of speculation. It fills the pockets
of the farmer at the expense of no other
man. His gain is no man’s loss, but the
more he makes the better for the world
at large. Prosperous farmers make pros
perous people. Whatever benefits our
agriculture benefits the commonwealth.
I People who cannot spend the season of
! winds and cold rains in sunny Florida
should keep Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup in
the house. It is the best remedy for
Colds and Coughs and will relieve suf
ferers at once.
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IHI NKKNNKSS No EXCISE YOU
CRIME.
| San Krauciaco Examiner.]
The supreme court in banoe yesterday
affirmed the judgement and order of the
i superior court of Lake county in the case
of the People against William Jones.
Defendant was convicted of murder In
the first degree for the killing of Henry
Leug on the 7th of May, 18S2, and sen
tenced to be hanged. For the opinion
filed to appears that “insanity from the
long continuous use of intoxicants was
the only defence unde- In substance
the court charged the jury that “insan
ity produced by intoxication would not
destroy responsibility when the party
when sane and responsible made himself
voluntarily intoxicated, and that drunk
enness was no ext use for crime, but it
was a circumstances for the considera
tion of the jury in determining the de.
gree of crime.” The homicide was com
mitted on Sunday, about 1 o’clock, p. in.
and the evidence given on behind of
defendant proved that he had bought a
pint of pure Ucohol ou the Friday prec
eding and drank it without water
through tiie next day. This evidence
certaiiily tended to prove voluntaly in
toxication, an I the charge on the subject
was relevunt. There is no error in the
record prejudicial to the defendant.”
A YOUTH KILLER.
The cigarette is such. It is made gen
erally of refuse tobacco, rolled in a pre
pared paper. The paper is injurious, if
not poisonous, and the smoke, of a large
quantity of it, would produce dangerous,
if not fatal, illness.
The paper is filled with tobacco, made
from the odds and ends ot the cigar
manufacturers, the stumps of cigars
picked up in the street, and fished out of
the sewers, old quids, and dried leaves,
with which cigars are more or lesa com
pounded.
The other day we saw a very dirty,
ragged old man, with his hat half full of
the stumps of cigars and half chewed
quids of tobacco, which he had picked
up in the halls, bar-rooms, and Am the
sidewalks, and out of the gutters. Iu
reply to our question, what he intended
doing with these loathsome things,
“Sell’em, sir. They make cigarettes
ot them things.” These cigarettes are
sold at very low prices, and are bought
mostly by boys.— Exchange.
AN IMPORTANT RESOLUTION.
One of the most important resolutions
offered during the recent session of the
Georgia state agricultural society was
that of Mr. G- E. Thomas, Jr., delegate
from Muscogee county, relative to the
duty of the farmer to plant an increased
acreage of graio the ensuing season, ow
ing to the fact that grain is advancing iu
price and cotton is not. It would be a
benefit to the farmer if he would adopt
this resolution iu practice as well as by
vote. The cotton crop will not pay for
supplies of last year, and with bread
stuff'advancing in price where will the
planter be who pledged his cotton to ob
tain bread. This is a serious and all im
portant question to the farmer and is a
matter to which the planter should give
particular attention.
Macon Telegraph: It is to be hoped that
no young Georgian with common Intel
ligence and willingness to work will bo
inveigled by Colquitt’s advice to go to
Mexico. Georgia is inviting men of
brain and brawn to come to her, and
proudly points to her fine soil and climste
and her as yet undeveloped resources.
She needs the services of every one of
her worthy sons at home, and bolds out
to them a future of honor and usefulness,
ft might suit Colquitt to have young
Georgians run off to Mexico anrl leave
him and the negroes here, but it would
be a calamity to Georgia not to be estim
ated by figures or words. Suppose the
young Georgians stay at borne and let
Colquitt and the negroes go to Mexico.
Georgia would be the gainer by this ex
odus.
The Detroit Free Press says down in
Georgia die other day a cow seized her
owner by the coat tail, and was
gradually drawing him Into her tripe
apartment, when with great presence of
mind, he seized the top rail of the
fence and held on desperately until his
wife came to liis rescue. His neighbor,
who owus a mill and finds business dull,
has resolved to draw oft the water in his
mill-pond for the first time in fourteen
years. He has established a stoe com
pany with 200 shares at $1 a share, the
holder to be entitled to fish two days
after the water is drawn off. Georgia it
developing some very able men.
Judge Ilendesou, state commissioner ot
Agriculture, states, in i recent circular
that the following counties of Georgift
have adopted the “no fence” or stock
law, viz- Campbell, Clayton. Coweta,
Henry, Houston, Merriwether, Monroe,
Morgan, Pike, Putnam, Rockdale,
Spalding and Troup, and districts in
Fulton, Elbert Scriven and other coun
ties. Not a single protest or objection
has been offered against the law after
being put into practical operation. The
real question is fencing stock or fencing
spots, and “no fence” means the farmer.
It requires better, stronger fences, but
not so many of them, though every
fanner can have as many as he pleases.
The gold lot known as 515, in the fif
teenth district of Spalding county, has
been sold for $5,000 to a capitalist from
the north, who will at ouce put up the
proper machinery to work the mine.
This mine is on the old Bailey Field’s
rich lead. Major Buffington was the
owner and made the sale. Some very
rich quai tz mines are now being opened
near tow n on 10 and 4 and other lots oa
which a sale will be made ia a few days.