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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & BECK,
Attorneys at Law*.
(OFFICE IN COURT HO RE.)
JACKSON, - - GA.
M. M. MILLS,
Counsellor & Attorney at Law.
Will practice in all the cour 8. Mo ey
loaned <m r. al estata-at lo w rate of inter
*st. Long time granted with small pay
ments. Money obtaine lat once without
dilny.
(OFFICE IN COt'BT HOUSE.)
J)r. 0. H. Cantrell,
DENTIST.
JACKSON, - _ GEORGIA.
Cp stairs over J. If. Bun’s Ro k
Corner.
J. W. LEE, M. D.
JACKSON, GA. '
Will practice medicine in its various
branches.
Office at J. W. Lee & Son’s di ug store.
Hesidt ncc first house west of Mrs
Brad \ V.
JIG TKLS.
DEMPSEY HOUSE.
Mrs, A. E. Wilkinson, Proprietor,
Board reasonab e and tab’e supplied
with the best the market affords.
(COKKKR PUBLIC SqUAUE)
ALMANU * HOUSE
First-Class Hoard at Low
Rates.
MRS. T. B. MOORE, Proper.
STOP AT Tilt;
Morrison House.
EVERY THING NEW AND FIRST
CLASS.
Conveniently Located,
Free Hack to Depot.
MR?. E. MORRISON, Proprietor.
W. It. YANCEY,
SURGEON DENTIST.
JACKSON, OA.
Respectfully solicits the patronage of
the people of Jackson and Butts county.
Office up stairs in Watkins Building,
room formerly occupied by Dr. Key.
SATISFAC riON GUARANTEED.
I’iiit. Brllliuiit, I ‘if i-r.
Authentic living testimonials from dis
tinguisl ed generals ami stitesmeu in fa
vor of llav\ kes’ New Crvstalized Lenses
over all others.
Onr Nrxt IT. S. Senator Says:
Mr. A. K. llawkes—Dear Sir: The
pantiscopic glasses you furnished me
some time since give excellent satisfac
tion. I have tested them by use and
must sav they aie umqualed in clearness
and brilliaucy by any that I have ever
w-rn. Respectfull.v,
John B. Gordon,
* Ex-Governor of Stitc of Georgia.
Rualnros Mait'n Clear Vinton.
New Y<-rk City, April 4, 1888.
Mr. A. K. llawkes —Dear Sr: Your
patent eye glasses reeivd some tims
since, and am very much gratified at the
wonderful change that has come over my
eyesight since I have disc rded my old
glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Agar,
Secretary Stationers Bosid of Irade of
New York City.
All tyes fitted and the fit guaranteed by
W. L CARMICHAEL,
JACKSON, - - - GEORGIA.
THE CONVENTION HALL
At Minneapolis Thrown Opon to the
Public.
The republican convention hall of 1892
at Minneapo'is was opened to the general
public Monday night with an event long
and pleasingly anticipated in local mu
sical circles—a grand concert by a chorus
of 1,000 voices, supported by the second
regiment band of Chicago. The vast
audience, numbering over 12,000 people
and filling every seat far as the eye could
reach, surveyed the inspiring scene which
bids fair to become a memorable political
battle ground. Striking changes have
been made in the interior appearance of
the exposition building, which is the
boast of Minneapolis. Chauncey Depew
was the orator of the evening.
The Debt Statement*
The debt statement for May shows a
decrease in the c ;sh balance in the treas
ury during the month of $5,512,273, the
net cash balance being $36,005,880; ag
gregate of the debt, iuclu ling certifi
cates sad treasury notes, $1,603,440,970;
total cash in the treasury, $795,800,59J5;
gold certificates outstanding, $171,765,-
729; silver certificates outstanding,
$330,904,002; currency certificates out
standing, $84,020,000; treasury notes of
1890 outstanding, $97,391,986.
Convicting Mexicans.
The Uuited States court, in session at
San Antonio, has so secured twenty
convictions of Mexicans who were guilty
°f violating thp neutrality laws during
the late Garza revolutionary affair on the
border.
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The GULLET GIN produces the Finest Sample shown in the
market, and will generally bring from 1-S to 1-4 cent per pound
more thanany other cotton.
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Atlanta Ga.,
JACKSON
Real Estate aid Rentii Apacy.
D. J. THAXTON, Manager.
SUCCESSOR TO
H. O. Benton & Cos.
Farm Lands, Business Lots and
Residence Lots For Sale.
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We Advertise Property in
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GUS without cost to the
owner.
We are the only Real Estate Agents in Jackson, and hive in our hands quite a
number of valuable and desirab’r farms in Butts an l other c unties for sa'e on the
b;st of teriu<.
Also City Property, Residence and
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If you have land te sell, put it. into our hands and we will fiad you a buyer. If
you have houses to rent, we will fiad you a renter. If you wish to buy a home cal
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WE ASK ONLY A TRIAL.
Jackson, Ga., June 9, 1892.
JACKSON. GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 10. 1892.
CYPRESS TANKS,
WIND MILLS,
PUMPS, ETC.
COTTON GINS,
FEEDERS,
CONDENSERS
AND PRESSES.
THROUGH GEORGIA,
Interesting Notes Gathered From Here
and There Oyer the State.
The Grady Hospital in Atlanta has
i>ceo|formaily oDened for the reception of
patients. The building was recently
dedicated and presented to the city with
imposing ceremonies.
* *
The Georgia Bar association met in
Macon last Wednesday morning in their
ninth annual session. Something over
one hundred lawyers were in attendance
from all over the state.
The Southern Travelers’ Association,
at their recent meeting at Indian Springs,
after a discus9ioD, decided to take in as
partners the merchants and manufactur
ers, and to call themselves the Georgia
Shippers and Traveling Men’s Associa
tion.
* * *
Uncle Sam’s red boxes are upon the
corners of the streets of Americus, and
the free delivery postal service is in opera
tion. Americus is happy over this pro
gressive movement, for which she is
largely indebted to the influence and ef
forts of Speaker Crisp.
* * *
The tax equalization law is not very
popular in Newton couaty. It is said
that a petition will be sent to the next
legislature asking for the repeal of the
( qualization and the local registration
law. It is also probable that these two
issues will be brought into the legislative
race in the county.
ac 9fC s)c
The governor has received a lettei from
Judge A. L. Miller strongly urging the
offer of a reward for the arrest of Will
Bell, the negro boy who kii'ed Deputy
Sheriff B. F. Wilder in Macon some
clays ago. The sheriff has personally
offered SSO reward for the capture of the
murderer, and Wilder’s brother has
offered SIOO more. The governor issued
a proclamation offering $250 reward.
This puts S4OO on the murderer’s head.
* * ~*•
There will be no Chautauqua this year.
That has been definitely decided. For
this summer the beautiful Piedmont
Chautauqua grounds will be unaccupied
save for an occasional picnic party or for
such exercises as the visitors at Sweet
water Park may hold there. While this
announcement will create no surprise, it
will be read with regret by very many
people through Georgia. The Chautau
qua has been the means of much pleas
ure and profit to the people of Georgia,
and it is sincerely hoped that another
season will find it continuing its good
work.
*l* T *■
The colored citizens of Atlanta are ar
ranging for a big celebration next July
at Piedmont park. Military companies
from Rome, Macon and other places will
visit the city, and will be reviewed at the
park by Governor Northen. A prize drill
between the companies will be the spe
cial feature of the day, and SSOO will be
given away to mil itary companies alone.
There will also be good horse racing and
a splendid barbecue. It promises to be
a grand success, and no effort will be
spared by the colored people to make it
such.
* * *
The law providing for teachers’ insti
tutes in each county on Saturdays, pro
vided also for institutes to last one week,
to be held at some time in the months of
June, July or August. A large number
will be held in June, and some [of
will be very fine. The attendance of all
the public school teachers of the county
is required by law. The commissioner
is arranging to concentrate the institutes
for four counties at Athens. He has made
arrangements for board at the Rock Col
lege normal school at the rate of $2.50 a
week. This is with the understanding
that teachers will bring pillows and
eheets.
* * *
The comptroller general is sending out
county tax executions against the Cen
tral railroad, the Georgia Southern and
Florida, the Atlanta and Florida, the
Macon and Atlantic, the Macon and Bir
mingham, the Angusta, Gibson and San
dersville and the Marietta and North
Georgia. All these roads are in the
hands of reaeivers, and they have failed
to pay the county tax required under the
recent decision of the supreme court.
The taxes cannot be collected from re
ceivership roads without an order of
court, but the comptroller general is
complying with the law in issuing the
executions. The executions are sent out
to the county tax collectors, with in
structions to confer with the county at
torneys, and get them to apply to the
judges for orders on the receivers for the
railroad taxes.
* * *,
The Georgia railroad has declined to
pay the Richmond county school tax of
23 cents on the hundred dollars. This
tax is levied on all property in Richmond
county under the act of 1372, authorizing
such a levy. When the railroad county
tax act was passed in 1889, it provided a
separate arrangement for taxing railroads
by counties. The comptroller general
was in some doubt at firßt whether he
should include the railroads in the school
levy, but Attorney General Anderson ex
amined the ques'ion and said the Rich
mond school tax was clearly a county tax,
and the railroads would have it to pay.
Since then the tax has been held up by
the case in court. Now they decline to
pay it, saying that they are under a sep
arate arrangement. They also object to
paying 7 per cent, interest on deferred
payments of taxes.
* * *
The Georgia Editors in Texas.
Texas is going to show the Georgia
editors such hospitality as Texans can
alone show when the press gang from
this state goes westward on its annual
tour. Within a fortnight the Georgia
Weekly Press Association will meet at
Rome in annual convention assembled.
After transacting such business as may
come before the editors, they will leave
to take quite an extensive tour through
the southwest. Their transportation has
been secured over the states of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, and they will go further up into
the “big tree” region# of Lower Cali*
foruia. While in Texas the Georgia
editors will live upon the “fat of the
land.” The city of Dallas has extended
them an invitation to stop over and en
joy an entertainment.
* * *
Spencer Exonorated.
Just as everyoody at all familiar with
the case expected, Mr. R. L. Spencer, the
vice president of tne Merchants’ and
Miners’ bank, of Tallapoosa, arrested for
high misdemeanor, ha* been tried a’id
found not guilty. Mr. Spencer was ar
rested when the bank failed, charged
with having borrowed too much money
from the bank. There is a law making
it a high misdemeanor for any bank offi
cer to lend to one man more than 10 per
cent of its capital stock. Mr. Spencer
was not an active officer of the bank.
Moreover, he had papers showing that
the money he had borrowed from tin
bank was borrowed from another com
pauy and borrowed for the Georgia-Ala
bami Investment and Development com
pany, and further, that the notes were
bought by the bank when chartered.
Nobody ever believed Mr. Spencer guilty.
He was tried several days ago, and was
of course, released and fully exonorated
* * *
Georgia Melon Outlook.
Georgia’s watermelons are ripening
rapidly under these summer suns, aud
within a week the first carload will start
from the melon fields for the north or
west. The acreage is estimated to be
25 per cent, short this year, but the out
look for the yield is splendid uuless the
present drouth continues. Mr. J. L.
Hand, of Pelham, will probably be the
heaviest shipper from Georgia. He has
600 acres planted. By June 25th the
season will be at its height. The Nash
ville, Chatanooga and St. Louis has made
more thorough preparations to handle the
Crop this year than ever before, and that
line is said to be paying more attention
to the melon business thau any other line
eutside the melon-growing territory.
The vegetable crop on the coast is im
mense. Chatham county has thousands
of bushels of potatoes ready to ship.
One farmer, who has 100 acres planted
in potatoes, expect to ship 6,000 barrels.
Several carloads have already been for
warded to Cincinnati and Chicago.
* *
An Important Decision by the School Com.
missioner.
The state school commissioner has de
cided an appeal case which involved an
important poirft, and one of ve>-y general
application. It turns upon the right of
a county school board to use its discre
tion in apportioning the school fund
among different schools in a school dis
trict. The Stephens High school, of
Orawfordville, has received, heretofore,
SSOO a year from the school fund. That
was the whole of the amount allotted to
that school district. This year the coun
ty Hoard of eduoatluu saw fit to give
$125 of this money to another school.
The management of the Stephens High
school objected to this, and appealed
from the decision of the county school
board to the state school commissioner.
He says the law is very plain. It re
quires that there shall be at least one
school in each district, and there may be
more, if the board of education thinks
the interests of education demand it.
The matter is in the discretion of the
local board, and the state school com
missioner will not interfere.
* * *
Kailroud Hum blinds.
The deepest interest is taken by all con
cerned in railroads in this inspection trip
which Samuel Spencer is making over the
Richmond Terminal’s properties. Drexel,
Morgan & Cos., are approaching the work
of reorganization in a mauner so differ
ent from that of their predecessors in the
undertaking, that it demands attention.
Their very first move is to send their fi
nancial and railroad expert out over the
systems to examine their physical condi
tions, and to form a general idea of their
earning capacities. The Olcott commit
tee may have obtained official reports
from the general managers and traffic
mauagers and treasurers of the systems,
but the public is not aware of it.
Mr. Spencer’s report will contain inter
esting reading every one believes, and
both the Danville and the East
Tennessee officials are wondering
if he will have much to tay about
consolidation. Plenty of guessing is
going on as to how the 42,000 shares
of Central stock will figure in the reor
ganization. Mr. Olcott’s committee put
down $220,000 of Central stock as owned
outrignt by the Terminal, and 4,000,000
controlled “through the ownership of
the Georgia company’s collateral bonds
and stock.” Some think that the Ter
minal will make a deal and wash its
hands of the Central stock. Others pre
dict the opposite, and expect to see the
Terminal route that majority block of
stock.
THE DANVILLE VICTORIOUS
In One of Its Legal Bouts with the
Centrai.
Judge Speer, at MacoD, Ga., Monday,
rendered a most important decision in the
Central-Danville litigation, and the
Richmond and Danville, in practical re
sults, drew the first blood. A claim was
presented of $25,000 for crossties against
the Centrai. Judge Nottingham, the
master, held that the Richmond an Dan
ville was a necessary party defendant,
because it bought the ties while operat
ing the Central. The Central’s attorneys
claimed that the Richmond and Danville,
should be made to pay for the ties. Coun
sel for the Danville had bought the ties,
yet the receivers of the Central had used
them, and should therefore pay for them.
This position was fully sustained by
Judge Speer, and he signed an order
striking the Richmond and Danville
from the record as a party defendant to
this intervention. The effect of this de
cision is to relieve the Danville from
liability for more than $250,000 of sup
posed claims against it.
North Carolina’s Crop.
The North Carolina state department
of agriculture prepared, on Monday, its
crop report up to June Ist. It is as fol
lows, showing percentages of the condi
tion, and is based on reports of 1,200 cor
respondents: Wheat 93, oats 69, rye 89,
rice 84, cotton 81, corn 93, tobacco 94,
sweet potatoes 94,clover 92, fruit 60. The
quality of farm labor is reported at 80 per
cent
THE SOOTH IN BRIEF
The Hews of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OK HAPPEN
INGS DF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The confederate Memorial Day was ob
served at Norfolk, Friday, with a bril
!ant military and civil parade.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
State Auditor Heggic died Saturday
morning at hs home in Marion, Ala.,
aft:r an illness which has extended over
the past year. He was elected first in
I3ttß, and was just finishing his second
term.
Near South Carrollton, Ivy., Monday,
a regular north-bound passenger train on
the Nashville and Owensboro railroad
collided ,vith an excursion train filled
with negroes. Hugh Barely, fireman of
the excursion train and three negro< s were
killed and twenty-five injured, several
dangerously.
The fourteenth annual session of the
Woman’s Board of Missions, Methodist
Episcopal church, south, began at Lex
ington, Ky., Tuesday morning. The
venerable president, Mrs. Juliana Hayes,
of Baltimore, Md., p r esiding. Delegates
were present from all the eastern, western
and southern states. It is a fine body of
women and matters of interest to the
whole church will be legislated upon.
The Augusta, Gn., Cotton Seed Oil
company has received an order for 100,-
000 tons of cotton seed meal to be
shipped to Russia. This meal will be
reground, so as to renderit of a fine
grade. The order is placed for this pro
duct to be used in supplying food for the
people in the famine-stricken districts of
Russia. The company will ship the stuff
as rapidly as it is able to start it from the
mill.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says:
Frank J. Hoyle has been appointed re
ceiver of the Morristown and Cumber
land Gap roaJ, through the orders of
Judge Key, of the United States circuit
court. A bill was filled Saturday by
John Coleman, of Louisville versus the
Morristown and Cumberland Gap road
and Allison, Shaffer & Cos., contrac
tors, asking for the appointment of
the receiver.
A special of Tuesday from Cleburne,
Texas, says: On Sunday night a cyclone,
struck this place, demolishing forty-two
houses. The wiud was accompanied by
a drenching rain. Dr. Frescott and his
wife were fatally injured, being crushed
by their falling house. Several other
persons were injured. Crops of all kinds
sro Kndly (Lmsjjw). Mineral Well and
Lewisville were also visited by a storm
and considerable damage was done.
Alliance President Polk has a leading
editorial in the latest issue of the Pro
gressive Farmer , accompanying his letter
withdrawing that paper as the organ of
t h e alliance. He says that he withdraws
because the executive committee of ths
state alliance did not like his advocacy
of the third party. He declares him-elf
unreservedly for the third or people’s
party. He declares further that nine
teuthfc of he alliancemen in North
Carolina will support the third party.
A Jackson, Miss., special of Saturday
says: A glance at the list of delegates elect
ed to the state democratic convention, to
meet on the 18th, shows that the repre
sentative men of the party took a lively
interest in the primaries to select dele
gates. The alliancemen as a rule took
part in the primaries, an 1 are steadfastly
standing by the democracy. In only one
county did the Ocalaites capture the
meeting and vote down resolutions pledg
ing the support of the meeting to the
Chicago nominee.
SEVEN BILLIONS INCREASE
l.n Valuation of Property in the United
States Baring Ten Years.
The census bureau on Friday i-sued a
bulletin on the subject of assessed valua
tion of property in the United States in
1890. The bulletin sh'>ws that the as
sessed value of all property, excluding
railroad property, excepting certain
specified states, has increased from $lO,-
902,993,543 in 1880 lo $24,651,585,465
in 1890, an increase during the tie
cade of $7,748,591,922, or 45 84
per cent. Should it be found upon the
completion of the inqu ry in relation to
the true value of all property in the
United States that the same rela'ions ex
ists in 1890 between the assessed valua
tion and true valuation as existed in
1880, the absolute wealth of the United
States according to the eleventh census,
may be estimated at $68,648,000,000 or
more than SI,OOO per capita, as against
$514 per capita in 1860, S7BO per capita
in 1870, and SB7O per capita in 1880.
Owing, however, to th-* fact that in some
states, properly is assessed at its full
value and in others at only a fraction of
its value, comparisons of the wealth of
states is quite impossible. L'sts of all
kinds of taxable property vary greatly in
different states.
A RECEIVER DEPOSED.
Judge Speer’s Injunction Dissolved by
the Court of Appeals.
The United Suites circuit court of ap
peals, at New Orleans, on Tuesday, ren
dered a decision deposing Receiver Plant,
and Atlanta will soon get back the con
trol of the Atlanta and Florida railroad.
An official copy of the decision will be
carried to Macon and the usual motion
will be made to make it the jugment of
Judge Speer’s court. Then Captain Gar
rett will be the receiver. He was ap
pointed by Judge Marshall Clarke.
Judge Speer had appointed Mr. Plant
before, but the first bill for a receiver
was the one presented to Judge Clarke.
Want of jurisdiction was the ground
upon which the appeal was sustained.
Cholera Ravages.
Cable dispatches of Tuesday from Cal
cutta, India, report that, since May 7th,
there have been 2,460 deaths from chol
era at Serinagur, in the vale of Cashmere.
All Europeans in the place beeame alarm
ed s< me tim i ago at the fearful ravages
ol the disease, and left the city.
NUMBER 23.
THREE-CENT COTION.
TDK EVIL EFFECTS OF COMMISSIONER NIS
UITT'S STATEMENT POINTED OUT BY
EX -COMMISSIONER BENDER BON.
To the Farmers of C eoroia:
Having < utered the race for Comnn-siencr
of Agr’culture, I propone in this letter to lay
be ft ic the farmers of Georg.a, my views in re
gard to a matter of vital importance to them.
I refer to the cost of mis ing cotton to the av
erage farmer,and to the bad policy (to give It
uo worse a name) of promulgating to th world
erroneous views as to the cost of raising the
fle cy staple.
In lvs interview of March 13th, published
broadcast through the laud. Commissioner
Nesbitt states in effect, thru cotton c tn ho
raised in Georgia at a cost of from 3 t 0.3 1-3
cents p r pound.
These astounding statements, widely copied
and quoted, caused comment and discussion
a 1 over the state, and not only in the state,
but over the United States and the world in
all otton circles. Here comes the official agr -
cultur il head of the greatest cotton growing
state in the south, and says that Georgians
can and do raise cotton at 3 1-2 cents per pound,
leaving in it,even at present unprecedentedly
low prices, the handsome profit of 100 per cent,
to the grower.
Had such a statement come -from a ring of
speculators on the Cotton Exc ham e in Wall
street, bent on “ bearing ” the market f3o as to
make a profitable dexl for themselves, the
world would have understood their motives
and laughed at their statements; but,coming
from the Commissioner of Agriculture of
Georgia, the world is bound to hear with
respect and credit th > statement; credit it,
ye , the speculators will cred t it, the spinners
and manufacturers of New and Old England
will credit it; they are eager and anxious to
credit it; it means largely in Teased profit*
and handsome dividends to them* Hut wll
the farmer of Georgia credit it?
Ho who counts in his humble home the cost
of his cotton finds, that after denying him
self and family all luxuries and many neces
sities, that ho is still heavily in deb*, and the
mortgage is still upon his farm, bis house, his
mule, his cow and the meagre furniture in his
cottage. Pathetic words those, when one com
prehends the whole situation—“the cost of a
pound of cotton.”
But not only does the farmer take alarm
when he hears the words of ill-omen come
from the Department created by h*m and for
h s protection, but our public-spirited mer
chants and cotton men raise a note of alarm
as soon as the unfortunate statement comes
to their ears. As soon os he hears of it, Mr.
Samuel M. Inman, the well-known aid suc
cessful cotton buyer—identified with cotton
interests all of h's business life, an honored
citizen of whom his city, his statu and section
are proud,—he writes a letter to Mr. Nesbitt
and tells him that this statement, comiug as
it does fiom one in his important position,
“carries a weight and responsibility that is of
vast important” It wi l be telegraphed to
every important cotton market in Europe and
America, and used in cotton circu are and re
ports. It will be a ‘bear’ argument for still
further lowering the price, and Will lo quoted
as n authority for years to come.”
Itds hard to calculate the damage done the
farmers of Georgia, the merchants and others
holding cotton, by this ill-advised assertion of
the Commissioner, this season; but the end is
not yet, it will be used by the spinners and
speculators to bear down the price of the grow
ing crop about which the hopes of the toiling
masses now cling. He has “btiilded better
thn bo thought,” If It w is his purpose to kill
off the only money crop of his people, but I,
have the charity to believe that lie knew not
what he was doing.
Mr. Inman then asks Mr. Nesbitt for the fig
ures on which he bases the remarkable state
ment he had made. When called to “taw” by
Mr. Inman, Mr. Ntsbitt begins lo lay stress
upon the fact that it will require years of i are
ful preparation of the soil, of intensive f arm
ing and heavy fertilizing, before 3 1-2 cents
cotton can bera’sed. He then gives the figures
of the State Experiment Station on a little
garden plot highly manured and backed by ail
the wealth and resources of the nation. He
also gives the figures and experience of Cap
tain Corput, a wealthy farmer, who pays cash
for everything he needs, who has by intensive
farming brought up his land to a high state of
fertility, and in consequence makes a fine crop
and a handsome profit. Co'onel Nesbitt is
telling the farmers of Georgia nothing new
when he te Is them that big crops can be raised
by the intensive system of culture. It has been
“ding-donged ” into his ears in season and out
of season by the agricultural journa’s and so
cieties, by the general press and by (he De
partment of Agriculture under my adminis
tration, for many years past.
But now comes Sir Oracle, and with the air
of a man promulgating anew and important
fact, informs the world that from a bale to a
bale and a hal* per acre can be raised in Geor
gia, and at a cost not exce idinq three and
A HALF cents per pound.
Statistics.— ln compiling the “Common
wealth of Georgia,” as far back as 1885, I pur
posely retrained from giving the cost of pro
duction of col ton then selling at about 10 cents
perp und- I had figured thecof-t a‘ that time at
about 8 1-2 cents per pound, but refrained from
giving it, believing it would h wean injurious
effect on prices. (Sei Commonwealth of Geor
gia, page 360). At the same time I used every
effort to show the farmer that the intensive
system would pay handsomely. See in the
same book, page3 361 to 365, instances of heavy
returns on farm crops of every descript'on
from all parts of the state, under a system of
high culture. See also on p 'ge 167 the report
of the committee of which I was chairman, in
awarding the prizes in the contest for
the best acres of corn and cotton offered
by the Geo. W. Scott Company. In
that contest the highest yield was 3 1-2 bales
per acre, the lowest 1 bale per ar re, the high
est yield of corn being 116 1-2 bush' Is per acre,
the average b in? 81 bushels. Whilst the com
mittee commented on the handsome profit to
be derived from such high culture and urgsd
it upon the farmers, they took care at the same
time to show that the farmers hroughout the
state only raised a bale to 3 1-2 acr s. No, Mr.
Editor, the farmers of Georgia k now these
facts just as w 11 as the Hon. Commissioner
himse (\ he is not telling the farmer anything
he did not know before; but that farmer is
doing the best he can under the severe condi
tions of life upon him, under the burden of
time prices for everything that he needs to
make bis crop; usurious interest charges add
ed to the unjust bnrd-ns of the robber tariff
make it impossible for him, strain every nerve
as he may, to change his method or to make
more than one-third of a bale to the acre, or
to make R at a less cost than 8 1-2 cents per
pound. Shepperson, the groat cotton statisti
cian, writing in Nov. 1831, stated that cotton
selling at tbat time for about 8 1-2 cents was
undoubtedly below the cost of production.
No, the average farmer of the country cannot
ra ; se it for less, and God forbid that tho e who
should befriend and protect him, should try
to beat down and cheapen the products of his
labor by putting the world on notice that he
can raise for 3 1-2 cents what costs him 8 1-2
cents. I can hardly believe that tha great
wrong ag inst the farmer of Georgia is inten
tional on th 9 part of the Hon. Commissioner,
but if not intentional it is surely a blunder,
which is little less than a crime.
Respectfully, John T. Hbkdkrson,
A Railroad for Sale.
The Illinois Central has an option un
til June 18th on the Louisville, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific. President Fish
has called his stockholders together to
decide whether they shall buy. He says
tbat the system can be bought on a bas s
of paying for all securities, $5,000,000 in
money, $20,000,000 of Illinois Central 4
per cent bonds, being part of an issue by
a pledge of the purchased securities.
The remaining $5,000,000 of bonds to >,o
retained bv the Illinois Central
Always advertise your gooa , ana jour
business will increase.