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GADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM
ERS— U. S. MAIL.
STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH,
(Ben. 11. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.)
Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday. . .8 a m
Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, .fa a m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m
Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday 7 p m
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.
Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m
Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays ... 2am
Leave Gadsden Tuesdays uml Fridays.... 9 a in
Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays .7 p m
Office No. 27 Broad street, up-atairaover the
('ottoil Exchange. Telephonic connection.
J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr.,
Gadsden, Ala.
W. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent,
Rome, Ga.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On awl after Monday, March 19, 1889, the trains
on tins Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
PASSENGER TRAIN.-MOUNING.
L.'.ave Cartersville 9:45 am
Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 a m
Arrive a* Taylorsville 10:83 a m
Arrive at ltock mart 11:10 am
Arrrive at Oedartown 12:05 a m
RETURNING.
LeaveCcdartown ......... 2:05 pm
Arrive at Roekinart 2:58 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville ...... 3:38 pro
Arrive at Stilesboro 8:51 pm
Arrive at Curtersville 4:25 pin
PASSENGER TRAIN.—EVENING.
Leave Gartersville 4:30 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 6:04 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm
Arrive at ltocknsart 6:00 p m
Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m
RETURNING.
Leave Cedartown . . . ... . . . 6:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 am
Arrive at Taylorsville 7:3 a m
Arrive at Stilesboro 7:46 am
Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 am
ROME RAILROAD.
Thp following is the present passenger sched
ule: ,
NO. 1.
Leave Rome 6:10 am
Arrive at Kingston 8:55 a m
NO. 2.
Leave Kingston 9:20 a in
Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m
NO. 3.
Leave Rome 4:15 pm
Arrive at Kingston 5:30 pm
no. 4.
Leave Kingston p m
Arrive at Rome 6:50 pm
NO. 5.
Leave Rome 5 : 92 aui
Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am
NO. 6.
Leave Kingston 9:20 am
Arrive at Rome 10:10 am
Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun
days.
Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only.
No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes
close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and
Chattanooga.
No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T..
Ta. & Ga. R. R.. for noiuts south.
EBEN HILLYER, President.
J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule :
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:40 p m
Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm
Leave Kingston 4:55 pm
Leave Dalton 6:34 pm
Arri ve at Chattauooga 8:00 p m
NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm
Leave Dalton . 4:32 pm
Leave Kingston 6:03 pm
Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
..eave Atlanta 7:00 a m
Leave Cartersville 8:55 am
Leave Kingston 9:2lam
Leave Dalton 10:55 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 am
heave Dalton 9:46 am
Leave Kingston 11:15 a m
Leave Cartersville 11:42 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 p m
ROME EXPRESS
Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm
Arrive at Cartersville 6:3lpm
Arrive at Kingston . 7:00 p m
Leave Kingston 8:06 a m
Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 a in
Arrive at. Atlanta . . ... 10:37 am
Don’t Forget
Tha' you can le suited in a clock at
J. T. Owens.
VOLUME V.
SHILOH’S CATARRH REMEDY—a positive
cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Mouth.
Ask Carry for it. nov23-6m
Pric’sßaking Powder aud flavoring extracts
can be had of Cel Word.
Die most prominent physicians in the city
smoke, and recommend TansilPs Punch se. ci
gar. Cel Word sells them.
Curry has a splendid lot of strictly pure teas
which he is selling cheap.
Wat sworth Martinez A Longman’s paints are
guaranteed strictly' pure and of greater covering
capacity than any other and Curry is selliug
quantities of it.
Alabastine at Word’s drug -tore.
SHILOH’S CURE WILL • immediately relieve
Croup, Whooping cough and Bronchitis. Sold
by Curry.
Good mixed paints at Word's drug store.
Lamps cheap and nice at Words drug store.
S. S. S., the great blood medicine at Word
drug store.
One by one the roses fall, but “Tansill's
Punch” cigar outlives them all, Cel Word’s drug
store.
Purify your blood by using ‘ el Word’s Sarsa
parilla.
Smoke “Tansill’s Punch,” America’s finest sc.
cigar. Cel Word sells them.
The old reliable genuine Brown Windsor soap
so diservidly popular with the ladles. For sale
by D. W. Curry. *
Flower pots from 5 cents up, at Curry’s.
Hagan's magnolia halm for the complexion, at
D. W. Curry’s.
Curry has just received a large lot of Luud
borg’a Triple extracts.
Attention Ladies.
Tetlows Swan’s down white and flesh colored
at Currry’s.
Tetlow’s gossamer white aud flesh colored at
Curry’s.
Cigarettes 10 for scts. 20 for 10 cts. at Curry’s
Seltzer Water on draught at Curry’s. Call
and try it.
Sleeplessness is almost always occasioned by
some derangement of the Btomache and can be
cured by taking Curry’s Liver Compound which
aids digestion, quiets the nearvs and thereby
gives refreshing sleep.
Fine cut tobacco at Curry’s.
Allane, Woodward & Co.’s Extra select pow
ders guaranteed strictly pure for sale by Curry.
Toilet soap in endless variety at D. W. Cur
ry’s.
Lemon Elixir cures headache, indigestion,
diziness, etc., for sale by David W. Curry.
Price, 50eents per bottle.
Curry will sell you an insect gun charged with
Persian Insect powders, that will drive off all
sorts of insects from your flowers, vegetable and
melon vines, for 20 cents.
Fruit jars enough for everybody and cheap
enough for anybody at Curry’s.
Why “pot” your beautiful plants in a rickety
old unsightly box or keg when yon can buy
elegant Paulding county Majolica flowerpots, at
Curry’s a3 cheap as dirt.
David W. Curry, Dear Sir: The Persian In
sect powder procured of you has effectually rid
my vegetables and melon vines of insects with
out the least injury to the plants.
Respectfully, etc.,
June 9th 18S3. Jxo. P. Stegall.
Curry has in stock a large quantity of all sorts
of lubricating oils that he is selling very cheap.
A lady who has visited most of the cities north
and south says tiiat Curry’s soda water surpas
ses any she ever drank.
Pure Lard oil the very best tiling for machin
ery for sale by 1). W. Curry.
PILES.
Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, loins and lower part of the
abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has
some affection of the kidneys or neighboring or
gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are
present, as flatulency,uneasiness of the stomach,
etc. A moisture, like perspiration, producing a
very disagreeable itching, particularly at night
after getting warm in bed, is a very common at
tendant. Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles
yield at once to the application of Dr. Bosan
ko’s Pile Remedy, which acts directly upon the
parts aflected, absorbing the tumors, allaying
the intense itching, aud effecting a permanent
cure, where all other remedies have failed. Do
not delay until the drain on the system produces
permanent disability, but try it and be cured,
rice 50 cenis. Sold by D. W. Curry. janlß-l
“IIACKMETACK,” a lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by Curry.
Another lot Wizard Oil, the great “Cure All,”
fust rccoived at Cnrry’s drug store.
Do smoke “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent cigar. Cel
Word’s.
FREE OF COST.
Byicalliug at D. W. Curry’s drug store, you
can get a sample bottle of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough
and Lung Syrup free of cost, which will relieve
the most obstinate Cough or Cold, and show you
what the regular 50 cent size will do. When
troubled with Asthma, Brochitis, Dry, Hacking
Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the
Throat and try a sample bottle of this
medicine. jan!B-ly
Madame Loraine’s sure death to bed bugs.
For sale by D. W. Curry.
If you would rise early take Curry’s Liver
Compound. . W j
Cel Word respectfully calls attention to his
country friends that he can supply them with a
cool glass of soda water when in Cartersville.
Many imitate, none equal, “Tansill’s Punch”
scent cigar. Cel Word sells them.
2,3, and 5 gallon tilting oil cans at Words drug
store.
ARE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow
skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is a positive cure. For
sale by Cmry.
Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure, Warner’# Kid
ney and Liver Cure, Warner’s Nervine, War
ner’s Tonic, and Warner’s Pills, are kept con
stantly in stock and sold wholesale and retail at
Curry’s drug: srorc.
FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you
have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shi
loh’s Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. You can
get it at Curry’s.
Diamond Dyes, only 10 cents per package, a t
Word’s drug store.
Ice cold soda water aud ginger ale, drawn
from one of Tufts' Arctic Apparatus, can be had
at Cel Word’s drug store.
Cel Word’s Horse and Cattle Powders give
perfect satisfaction. Try them.
Hot weather is coming, aud Cel Word lias put
in operation one of Tuft’s elegant soda water ap
paratus to dispense the cooling beverage.
Old smokers prefer “TansilPa Punch” 5 cent
cigar to most of the 10 centers. Cel V/ord is the
agent.
Pure white lead and linseed oil. Pure mixed
paints in any quantity at Cel Word’s drug store.
THE FREE PRESS.
GONE TO REST.
Death of Hon. Charles J. Jenkins at Ills
Home in Summerville.
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist, 15th
inst.l
Last night, at ten minutes past ten
o’clock, Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, after a
lingering, almost painless illness, depart
ed this life at his residence in Summer
ville near this city. For several weeks
he had been waiting between life and
death, his ailment being entirely nervous
prostration, and for some time his death
had been looked for as an almost hourly
possibility. Ilis last hours were calm,
peaceful, uneventful. Surrounded by
every comfort in his old age, he was at
tended In bis last illness by those of his
family whom Providence had spared to
illumine with affection his closing hours
—and, apparently, without a groan or a
strangle, passed “from the repose of sleep
to the repose of death.” Last summer
Governor Jenkins sustained the misfor
tune of losing Iris wife, and since that
time the venerable old Georgian had re
tired more than ever to privacy, wt ieh
his increasing physical infirmities aided
him in maintaining, and he had seemed
of late to live entirely with the memory
of iris beloved dead, if, indeed, his life
was even animated with memories of its
historic past. The members of his imme
diate family had passed from him and
were at rest. His neices, to whom he
was devotedly attached, had married and
gone out into their own households, and
he seemed to court rather than to lesist
that dissolution which should sunder all
earthly association. At his beautiful
home among the soft shades his life went
out last evening with the quiet tremor of
the winds, with the gentle play of the
lightning in the sky. An aged man has
fallen—a sufferer released from all phys
ical affliction; but upor. his people and
his country the man has left an impress
deeper than the wide racks in the rocks—
brighter than the electrical
upon the midnight cloud.
Charles J. Jenkins was born in the
county of Beaufort, S. C., on January C,
1805. His father moved to Jefferson
county, Ga., in 1816, and Charles, the
son, was educated partly at the Georgia
University and partly at Union College,
Schenectady, N T . Y., where he graduated
in 1824; afterward studied law and open
ed an office in the city of Augusta, Ga.
In 1830 he was elected to the legislature;
in 1831 was elected attorney-general of
the state, which position he resigned be
fore the expiration of his term of office,
and was again returned to the legislature
in 1836, which position he continuously
held from 1836 to 1850, ranking amongst
the ablest and most eloquent of the house
during all that period, end being speaker
thereof whenever his party was in the
majority. In politics he was reared in
the Jeffersonian States Rights school,
but supported Harrison for president in
1840, and Clay in 1844. lie was a mem
ber of the Union convention of the state
in ISSO, and, as chairman of tiie commit
tee on resolutions, was the author of the
the celebrated Georgia platform adopted
by that body. In 1.860 he was appointed
one of the judges of the supreme court of
the state to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of Hon. Linton Stephens.
This position he held until the close of
the war. He was a member of the con
stitutional convention of the state called
under the proclamation of President
Johnson in 1865, in which body he acted
a prominent part, and in the same year
was elected governor of the state without
opposition under the new constitution so
formed. This position he held until he
was superseded by General Thomas H.
Roger, of the United States army, who
was appointed provisional governor in
IS6B under the reconstruction acts of
Congress. He also had been one of the
most active and influential members of
the board of trustees of the state univer
sity since 1839.
THE GREAT SEAL OF STATE.
The crowning honor in the life of this
great Georgian was the presentation to
him by the legislature in behalf of the
people of the state, w ith the fao simile o?
the great seal of the state perpetuated by
him and preserved during the military
usurpation and republican despotism in
Georgia. The following is the olHcial act
of the legislature:
lienoleed, That h s excellency, the governor, be
authorized and instructed to have prepared aud
iu the name of tne people of Georgia to present
to Hon. Charles J. Jenkins a seal to be the fac
simile of the one preserved and restored by him,
except that in addition to the other devices it
shall have this inscription: “Presented*oCharles
J. Jenkins by the State of Georgia;” and this le
ge ?d: “in arduis fldelis.”
When General Meade removed him
from his position and detailed an officer
of his staff to act as governor because Mr.
Jenkins refused to surrender the key of the
treasury to a convention irregularly call
ed and unlawfully assembled, there was
no reason to believe that Georgia would
ever again be a free and independent
state. Unawed, however, by the gloomy
prospect before him, undaunted by the
threats of power, unintimidated by the
bayonet force which held the state in
thrall, Governor Jenkins refused to sur
render the sacred charge entrusted to his
keeping. He refused to give up the pub
lic Funds, or to disclose their whereabouts,
but applied them to the liquidation of the
just debts of the state. He refused to al
low the archives of the state to pass into
hands not authorized to receive them, or
to leave
THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE
to attest the acts of robbers and usurpers,
, but keep them until the voice of the peo
| pie was again heard, when they were de
| livered to the rightful successor —the true
j governor of Georgia. Said a noted chron
icler of the day: “He kept the treasury
from speculation; preserved the great
seal from desecration—and this at the
risk of suffering personal indignity, or
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 28. 1883.
arbitrary arrest, or Imprisonment which
might have terminated in death. But af
ter years of waiting, time brought vindi
cation and compensation. The loug night
passed away and the morning dawned,
bringing hope and consolation to many
a weary watcher for its coming. The
heavy hand of oppression was lifted front
the state, her shackles were broken and
cast from her limbs, aud Georgia was
again free. When this great work was
accomplished, the first man in the affec
tion of the people was the governor who
had performed his duty so fearlessly, so
nobly, so well. In drduis rtdelis. And
among the first acts of the first legal leg
islature which had assembled in six years
was a recognition of the fidelity, the in
trepidity, the heroism of Charles J. Jen
kins. Well do we remember the day on
which these resolutions—so brief, and
yet so comprehensive and solicitous—
passed the house of represenatives. Well
do we remember the effect upon the house
when the speaker, lion. Joseph B. Gum
ming, descended from his chair and read
the resolutions which he had framed—
the unanimity with which they were
passed—even the Republican members
allowing their admiration of the man to
obliterate party lines and sink party bit
terness —and the thunders of applause
which sh&ok the capitol upon the an
nouncement of the vote. The medal
which Major Cumming presented to Gov
ernor Jenkins, in the name of the state
of Georgians the fruit of those lesolu
tions, and when he received it, the latter
might well say that his ‘cup was full to
overflowing.’
IHS LAST PUBLIC SERVICES.
The last appearance of Hon. Charles J.
Jenkins in public life was in 1877, when
he was chosen president of the state con
stitutional convention. No man could
more appropriately occupy the presiding
officer’s chair over a body of men called
to revise the organic law of his state now
fully redeemed from misrule and corrup
tion, and no man could nave discharged
the onerous duties of that position with
more dignity, breadth and power. His
grasp of parliamentary method, his con
ception of the duties and limits of the
convention, and Iris open advocacy of
general principles of organic law are lu
minous points in the history of that mem
orable body. Three times did Governor
Jenkins descend from the chair to dis
cuss public questions. Once against the
proposed ordinance to place the election
of judges with the people; onoe against
the ordinance of General foombs, form
ulated upon the theory of state regulation
of railroads, and again, favoring the pay
ment by the state of the Herring bonds
which lie had considered binding upon
the people and the treasury. His last ap
pearance in public life is thus pictured in
the closing hours of the constitutional
convention, just after Governor Jenkins’
farewell address.
AN AFFECTING SCENE.
“The scene now was most affecting.
Generals Warner and Toombs were visi
bly moved, and not a dry eye was in the
hall. For several seconds no sound could
be detected, everything seemed to be cov
ered and overcome by the wave ot deep
emotion, which welled up on all sides,
and which did not subside until long af
the speaker’s voice bad ceased. Mr.
Reese’s motion now, at twenty-one min
utes past 11 a. in., to adjourn sine die, was
renewed and carried. Governor Jenkins,
after making his bow, retained his posi
tion in the aisle, where hundreds of dele
gates and visitors lingered around to
press the noble Roman’s trembling hand.
It was a grand, consummating hour—if
such ’twould prove to be—to a life well
spent indeed.”
gov. jenkin’s order of ability.
Governor Jenkins was a close and con
sistent reasoner; a solid, convincing
speaker, who carried with his argument
so much earnestness, and at times illu
mined his efforts with so much fire that
he was almost resistless before a delibera
tive assembly. Governor Jenkins was
distinctly a Georgian. He never held of
fice outside the state, and seemed to have
no ambition beyond serving the common
wealth. So dear had he become to the
people of Georgia, who had learned to
trust his gigantic honesty and unswerv
ing patriotism, and to admire his splen
did abilities, in which shone no trace of
the demagogue or double-dealer, that he
was universally spoken of in this state as
“the noblest Roman of them all.”
RELATIONS IN AUGUSTA.
Governor Jenkins was at one time—
just after the war—President of the
Planters Loan and Savings Bank. He
was a large stockholder in the Augusta
factory, of which institution lie was for
a short time president. lie was a trustee
of the Augusta Orphan Asylum, and was
at the time of his death a vestryman in
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of this city.
Governor Jenlyns was a gentleman of
the old school; a Jeffersonian democrat;
an uncompromising lover of libert}’, and
in intellect and heart was a pure patri
cian—while his whole life stamps him in
eft'aeeably as one of Nature’s noblemen.
Governor Jenkins’ immediate family
consists of three neices—Mrs. J. Gardner
Montgomery, and Mrs. Walter M. Jack
son, of Augusta, and Mrs. William W.
Thomas, of Athens.
McCormick
Harvesting machines, the best in
America. Mowers also at
Norris & Jones
For nearly twenty years there has
scarcely been a crime committed in Cen
terville district, but the past few weeks
have broken this excellent record. Four
negroes are now in jail for crimes com
mitted in that district, one for murder
i and three for assault with intent to mur
der.
THE TRUTH ABOUT PALESTINE.
The Country Safe, Fertile, and Relative
ly Very Prosperous—Jewish Farmers.
From the New York Sum]
Haifa, May 16. —Considering the
number of tourists, both American at\d
English, Mho annually visit the Holy
Land, I have been much struck with the
erroneous impression which still contin
ues to prevail in regard to its availability
as a field of colinizatiou, and as an open
ing for foreign enterprise and capital.
For some time past a discussion has
been taking place in the Jewish papers
on both sides of the Atlantic, in which
the merits of Palestine from this point of
view have been canvassed, and I can on
lj’ account for the extraordinary inaccu
racies which have characterized the ar
guments of the disputants by the suppo
sition that they have derived their infor
mation from sources which, owing to the
changes which have taken place in the
country during the last few years, may
now be considered obsolete. A remark
able illustration of this has just come to
my notice In the account which Dr.
Thompson gives of the Plain of Esdrae
lon in his well known work, “The Land
and the Book,” which tally deserves the
high reputation It enjoys, and which
when it was published, twenty-three
years ago, presented a most faithful pic
ture of the Holy Land and its inhabi
tants. That anybody who now took this
work as an authority upon the actual
condition of many parts of the country
would be most wofully misled, may best
be judged of from a short extract of what
he says of the Plain of Esdraelon, on the
borders of which I have been living for
the last six months, and comparing it
with tiie results of my own observation.
“The Bedouins resort here,” he re
marks, “with their lloeks and camels,
and the whole of Esdraelon will be
shortly abandoned to them. Their sys
tem of desolation is worked "out in this
fashion: they pitch their tents in the
vicinity of a village and in such numbers
as to bid defiance to the inhabitants. Of
course, their camels and flocks roam over
the unfenced plain, and devour a large
part of the grain, while growing; and
when it is ripe, they either steal 't or
compel the farmers to present them with
a heavy percentage as the price of their
protection. From the village itself
chickens, eggs, sheep, cows, and even
horses disappear and can never he re
covered. Many of the inhabitants soon
move off to escape from their annoyanc
es, and the villages being thereby weak
ened, the A mbs provoke a quarrel, some
one is wounded or killed, and the place
is sacked or burned. The end aimed at
is now reached, and the laud belongs
henceforth to the lawless Ishmaelite. In
ten years there will not be an inhabited
village in Esdraelon unless this wretched
work is checked, and even now it. is un
safe to traverse this noble plain in any
direction, and everybody goes armed and
prepared to repel force by force. But a
small portion of the plain is under culti
vation. The lower end is not more than
six miles wide, and most of it is too wet
and flat for cultivation, but the Arabs
delight in it, particularly in winter, and
it is even now dotted over with their
tabernacles. Overgrown with thistles
and long grass it is the favorite haunt of
the gazelle,” and so forth.
Your readers will be surprised to
learn in the face of this description, that
almost every acre of the plain ot Esdrae
lon is at this moment in the highest state
of cultivation; that it is perleetly safe to
ride across it unarmed in any direction,
as I can testify; that so far from plun
dering and despoiling villages, the few
Bedouins, whose “black tabernacles”
are now comfined to the southern- mar
gin of the plain, have, in their turn, be
come the plunderer and despoiler, for
they are all reduced to the position of be
ing subjeet to inexorable landlords who
charge them exorbitantly for the land
which they occupy, and tor which they
pay inJiard cash, under penalty of in
stant ejection ,which is ruthlessly en
forced, so that the inhabitants of the vil
lages, with which the plain is now dot
ted, live in perfect security, though
more than twenty years have elapsed
since it was predicted that “in ten years
more there would not be an inhabited
village in Esdrealou.” It looks to-day
like a huge green lake of waving wheat,
with its village-crowned mounds rising
from it like islands; and it presents one
of the most striking pictures of lux
uriant fertility which it is possible to
conceive.
When, therefore, I read the other day,
as an argument why colonies should not
be established in this part of a
description of the dangers which would
attend any such experiment, I was
amazed at the temerity of the assertion,
until i recognized some of the phrases
above quoted, which must be my excuse
for making the extract. But as so much
attention is just now devoted to the con
sideration of the agricultural capabilities
©f Palestine, I think it only right that
the delusions which evidently continue
to exist on the subject should be dissi
pated with as little delay as possible.
The fact is that nearly the whole plain
of Esdrealon is divided between two
great proprietors, the Sultan himself,
who has recently acquired a great part
of the eastern portion of it, and the Sur
socks, the richest bankers in Syria, who
are resident in Beyront, and who own
nearly all the villages extending from
the foot of the Nazereth hills to the sea.
Some idea of the amount of the grain
which is annually grown on their por
tion of the plain of Esdrealon alone may
be gathered from the fact that Mr. Sur
sock himself told me a few weeks ago
that the cost of transporting his last
year’s crop to Haifa and Acre amounted
to $50,000. This was said as illustrating
i the necessity of a rail way across the
plain, with a view of cheapening the
cost to transport, as, owing to the Sultan
having property here, it had become de
sirable iu his Majesty's interest. A“con
cession has recently been granted to
these Beyrout capitalists for the purpose
of constructing a line which shall con
nect the bay of Acre and the two ports
upon it with the great grain-growing
province to the east of the Jordan called
the flauran, from which region thous
ands of camels loaded with cereals come
annually to Acre and Haifa.
As I write the engineers are starting to
commence the surveys of tills liae, which
will run right through to the centre of
the Plain of Esdraelon, and open up a
great extent of new country lying in the
hills behind it, which will now find an
easier access to the sea, while the whole
of Galilee will benefit from so import-
means of coin mu meat ion. Indeed,
it is a remarkable fact that while every
proviuce in Turkey has been steadily
retrograding during the last few years,
Palestine alone has been rapidly develop
ing in agricultural and material prosperi
ty. In Haifa, and its neighborhood,land
has risen threefold in value during the
last five years, while the export aud im
port trade has increased with a remark
able rapidity, and the population has
doubled within ten years. Indeed, the
population of the whole of Palestine
shows an increase during that period,
more particularly owing lo immigration
within the last year or two. The conse
quence is that although, so far as security
for life and property is concerned, there
is still much to be desired, great progress
has been made, and with a more energet
ic government the country might be
rendered as safe as any in the world.
As it is, the Arabs are for the most
part pushed east of the Jordan, and it is
now becoming more and more rare for
an Arab encampment to be seen in the
neighborhood of the more settled and
prosperous part of the country. There
are, ot course, villages where the inhab
itants have a bad repudation, and, as a
rule in the establishment of new colonies,
proximity to these should be avoided;
but, fertile lands, near peaceable villages,
removed from all risk of Arab incursion,
and which can be purchased at a low
price, abound; and I know of no more
profitable investment of money, whether
by Jew or Gentile, than is furnished by
a judiciously selected tract of this des
cription. In proof of which may be cit
ed the extraordinary wealth which has
been accumulated by the Surseeks alone,
who now own thousands of acres of the
finest land in Palestine, and who pur
chase numerous new villages every year.
At the same time it must be admitted
that, practically, the purchase of land in
this country is attended with many diffi -
culties. It is either held by villages in a
communal manner or in very small patch
es, many of which have several own
ern. In the first case the whole village,
jvith its lands, must be purchased, an
operation involving many official formal
ities, or the co-proprietors of the small
patches have to agree upon the amount of
the purchase money, and then to show a
clear title and the payment-of all arrears
of taxes. Asa rule the purchase of any
consirable extent of laud involves nego
tiations extending o\er several months,
and strangers unused to the ways of the
country and the-methods by which offici
al routine may he expedited and obstacles
removed are apt to meet w ith many dis
appointments. On the other hand, ow
ing to official corruption, immense tracts
of land fit for cultivation, but which are
unoccupied owing to the sparseness of
the population generally, may, through
favoritism and backsheesh, be obtained at
an almost nominal price.
The same erroneous impression pre
vails in regard to the barrenness of the
country, as in regard to its insecurity.
Few travellers see more than the beaten
routes, where the hills happen to be un
usually stony and barren ; but the extent
of the population which once inhabited
the country, furnishes the best evidence j
©f what it is capable of surporting, and
its capacities in this respect have been j
most forcibly dwelt-upon by the officers
engaged in the survey of the country for
the Palestine exploration fund, who have
enjoyed unequalled opportunities of judg
ing upon the question. The fact that
the resident Jewish agricultural popula
tion of Galilee alone amounts to over a
thousand souls, is probably one which
will astonish Western Jews more than
any one else; but I have verified it by
actually visiting myself the localities in
which they are engaged in their farming
operations, and am not giving the num
bers without having arrived at it upon
sure data.
There are three prejudices which have
operated againskthe colonization of Pales
tine by Jews and which are all absolute
ly unsound, and these are, first, that the
Jew cannot become an agriculturist;
secondly, that the country is barren, and
thirdly that it is unsafe. The real ob
stacle in the way to Paslestine coliniza
tion does not lie in any of these direc
tions, but in the fact the government is
most determinedly opposed to It.
Olives are successfully cultivated on
Simon’s Island, and oil made from
hem has been pronounced by competent
judges not interior to the best production
of France or Spain. The experiment in
olive trees has been successfully made,
:iad trees have yielded regular crops sincfe
1835. The oil crops from these islands
ire annually sold at from $6 to $8 per
gallon.
A twelve-year old girl in Forsyth coun
ty makes up sll the clothing for herself
and four older brothers, besides attending
to her domestic duties.
NUMBER 19.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
Perambulating Pioiniscuoualy Among
Pungent Paragraphers.
A man threatens to sue the city of
Athens for $5,000 damages because the
police tore his coat while making an ar
rest.
Joseph Mi Williams, of Putnam coun
ty, makes about 100 pounds of butter per
week. This he ships and gets for it thir
ty-five cents per pound.
In a difficulty in the upper part of
Thomas county Sunday night, Curtis
Newsome shot a negro .named Frank
Woodal, killing him almost instantly.
In a fight over a woman William Wil
son, an Atlanta colored man, was stabbed
through the lung by another colored man
named Frost. Death is expected.
Thomas Gibbs, a notorious counter
feiter, who has Hooded North Georgia
and Alabama with spurious coin, has
been captured and lodged in jail in At
lanta.
The bulls, Asliantee and Gold Coast,
that brought respectively $5,600 and
$2,200 at auction in May, were half
brothers to Rexie, owned by Mr. Hunt,
of Eaton ton.
Social Circle is to have a cotton seed
oil mill. J. O. Shepherd and J. W. Hin
ton are the proprietors. The brick ware
house near the depot will be used for the
mill.
A plaintift named Gray is suing, m
Macon, for the discharge of his guardian,
George S. Obear. Gray is thirty-five
years old. Obear charges that the plain
tift' has been an idiot since childhood.
The estate is valued at $60,000.
Thomasville has already subscribed
$20,000 towards the erection of the new
hotel. Eleven thousand dollars more will
give the tow n a half ownership in the
structure. The balance of the money is
to come from the north.
The Central and East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia Railroads will carry
the surviving members of the First Regi
ment Georgia Volunteers over their lines
to attend the reunion on the 4th day of
July, at Gainesville, for one fare the
round trip. -
Colonel C. M. Dickerson, of Jleniy
county, wTiile beaver hunting recentty,
tired at a black object which he saw mov
ing through the eanebrake a few r yards
ahead. A yell of pain brought the hunter
to the side of an aged colored woman, who
received the charge of shot in her cheek.
The injury, while serious, is not danger
ous.
A Ilavvkinsville tiog was bitten by a
rattlesnake week before last. A quantity
of whisky was poured down his throat
after he was taken home, lie swelled up
to twice his natural size, and it was
thought he was bound to die, but the
next morning he appealed promptly at
breakfast as spry as ever and ready to go
hunting. The whisky saved him.
Floyd Foster, a negro about 17 years
of age, accidentally killed himself in
Crawford lasj Saturday. He was sitting
on a fence loading a gun, when in some
way it was accidentally discharged. The
load entered just below the eye, ranging
upward, tearing his brain with it. He
fell forward, and betore his father, who
was distant only a few paces, could reach
him, he w*as dead.
The Albany barrel factory appears to
hang fire. Its originators went so far as
to purchase three acres of ground on
North street, on which to erect buildings
and machinery, aud also about 750 acres
bf timbered land, near Walker’s station,
in the oaky woods. It is said, however,
that Macon contends for the enterprise,
and as most of the capital was looked for
from that quarter, nothing can done un
til on understanding is arrived at with
the Macon investors.
There is a lady now living in Athens
who distinctly remembers the time when
the British vessels sailed up the Penob
scot river, although she was a child at
the time. Her family were driven from
home by the artillery, and the greatest
excitement prevailed. So fearful were
the owners of farm houses that they
would be discovered and their property
burned that even the roosters were coop
ed up and sent off lest their crowing
would attract the attention of the enemy.
The Lumpkin Independent says: An
other one of the Roanoke survivors turns
up in Florence in the person of an old ne
gro man named Dick Lee, formerly own
el by Felix Gibson. Dick says that he
was the original courier that brought the
news of the fight from Roanoke to Lump
kin, making the trip in one hour and a
half. He says that upon his arrival his
story was not believed, and that he was
put in jail for bringing a false report, nor
was he released until the arrival of Mr.
Turner, who confirmed the news. Dick
is now about eighty years of age.
The Americas Recorder says: One of.
the first remarks we made upon seeing
the yellow pine timber of Georgia
was that it was the finest for finishing we
had ever seen, and that it would, as soon
as its qualities were known, command a
handsome price from the manufacturers
of the north. Our prediction is being
verified, for within the past few months
large orders have been received from
Ohio and Indiana, taxing the big mills to
their utmost to fill them, and in many
cases they are unable to - supply the de
mand. The opening of the new market
must bring an increased value to our
lumber, and will in a short time appre
ciate greatly the value of timber lands.
Georgia has a mine of wealth in its yel
low pines, and it will not be long tefoie
a large amount of money will be flowing
in from the north in exchange for them.
But it would be better if this lumber was
manufactured into useful and ornamental
articles at home, and then all the profit
would be kept here.
If you want a first class lot of brick,
enquire of Harris Best. 1 * tf.