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CRAWFORDV!! J ,E DEM?)OR A.T o • By Edward Young k Co. POETRY. WHO IS THY PRIElMDf BT FRANCES FROWN E Who is thy friend ? The man that shares ln banquet thy pleasures, lia.ll or beauty ’s witching ne that*irillrtsnp*wi#h than ** i h 1 ures. And make no reckoning of the squander frtends'that . a.. wluhelp - „„ These are the men to their fall. Who is thy friend? The man that sharres Thme thy hour "pride. of gfory-, ot- thy day of gain; Buj shapes his doctrine as thy humor goes? These are the friends misfortune turns to ‘ <>es ' Who is thy friend? The man that for his To winning power or place hath need of thine or Who wilfinot fear thy risk, or blame the So it sinning, but speed his fortune’s Whose praise is large, whose growing tr<-e; promise larger These are the friends that fail us and forget. W ho is thy friend ? The man of truth and t In gladness near, in sorrow nearer still: To thy faults generous, to thy merits just, ewtynood from every ill. " aumuds^r the worlds hate might make Alas for it I this life hath few such friends. Who is tny friend ? The l>est, the best the least regarded. In faith unfailing, ami in love unchanged Through all the changeful years, though ill. tewarded— Give him thy heart so long and fares Anc . , J™"?* from tlie 4 , broken , reeds , of ^ earth ascend. To seek in heaven thine everlasting Friend, SENDING US OKU. w HATTHI; I’EOFLE UK ADJACENT TOWNS ARE DOING. The News of Neighboring Counties Cull¬ ed Ironi our Exchanges, and W ritten By our Correspondents—Wilkes, War¬ ren, Greene, Oglethorpe, Hancock, Slia ron Etc. BARNETT. [Special Vorretpondence of The Democrat.] Barnett now claims the honor of having the only rock-crusher and more side- tracks and switches than any other station on tlie road. The Georgia railroad company has placed a rock-cruslier at this point. This necessi¬ tated the building of two new side tracks, and the putting in of several new switches The business of crushing rock for the pur pose fi. oulDstinA the roan' wU souu begat and when it is in full operation I will keep The Democrat posted. Cotton is coming in slowly for want of better ginning facilities. Have never known the farmers so backward in getting their cotton to market. The cotton is about all gathered and the farmers are now busy sowing small grain. The corn crop through this section is i»oor. Our little town was enlivened 011 .Satur¬ day last, it being our regular court day, by quite a number of people. Among the at¬ torneys present were Messrs. Brooke and Ilixon of your towu. Judging from the unusual number of lawyers on hand there must have been some money on tlie board as that article is said to attract gentlemen of that profession. WARREN. Court opened in Warronton Tuesday, Hr. James P. Swain is suffering with chills. The Clipper went to the Exposition, Thursday, accompanied by youthful Clip¬ pers. Mr. Willie S. Ivey and Miss Florence Killingsworth were married Thursday evening. Rev. A. I. Hartley had his arm cut off, and it is believed the operation will prove a successful relief. Prof. Howell has been elected princi¬ pal of Brinkley Academy for the ".suving year. j Water was short tn Warrenton Monday, A friend suggests this would not have been the case if the town was not temperance, M’DUFKIE. - | Thomson has a new barber-shop. j Oats are being plantedin largerpuanties than ever before. Mrs Katie Wilson, of Thomson is very ill. Her complaint is consumption. Tramps infest Thomson, and the Jour- 1 nal warns the people and calls for a vag rant act. - Mr. Walter B. Langford, of McDuffie county, was married in Augusta to Miss Mary A. Staples, of that city. The editor of the Journal has been to tlie Cotton Exposition. Like everyodeelse lie enlarge at g: -at length on the magniture of the ,g sho-.v. The ,ur gets off this : “One of our Thomson yo .ng men is a confirmed som¬ nambulist. Cue night last week he arose from hi? virtuous couch, walked across the room and delibsrateiy sat down in the slop-tub. The girl that marries that ec¬ centric youth is going to have trouble with him.” 1.axcock Mr. Dave Silver of Snarta is ill. Goanty .. ranij court ooun was wa. in in session session Monday .1 aia>. There is but one unoccupied store in Sparta. A larce area of land in hems * plantod P in ■ wheat. The thermometer was down to 22 in Spar ta last Friday. The fane Ishmaelite suugests Srs the raroira of sugar by toe CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1881. Mr. Thos. W, Smith, of this county, died on Tuesday of la.-t week. The Times * Planter is angry at tho non return of a spitttoon borrowed. Mr.J.H.Rogers is now justice of the peace the 10? Militia District of Hancock county. Herschel Turner, a little compositor on ‘he Ishinaelite, who has been ill, is better, and will soon be out again. There is a citizen of Hancock county who has named the eleventh addition to h'sfanr i,y <:ui,oa ’ 1 1Ie «*8 a « t8 tl,at individual as a hero for killing “one more yankee.” Lhmaelite : “There are farmers in Hat sock who do not weigh their cotton as it comes in from the field, and who store it .".y in tii’UK'i that liivv no looks to th, d°° rs > wu, re it remains (or doesn't re main would be truer) uutil they ret ready to have it ginned. Comment isunnecessa ry.” Times & Pla-tor: Mr. David Dickson has recently had a vnult constructed in his y * rd which a gentleman who lias much knowledge of such things assures us is the strongest and safest in the South. There is but on. witiiiu his knowledge that equals and that is the l’. S. treasury vault a‘ Washington. j _____ OIcl.FNE. Mr. and Mrs. E. V Copelan, of Greenes boro, have been xi ting Atlanta this week. , JJr XboBlpsolli lhe 11PW postmaster at Greeneslmro, lias entered upon his official ' duties. I Mss M . Jennie , Luton left Grccm-shoro tins . week for Honda, where she expects to | 1 spend several months. j Mr. M. Markwalter, of Greeneslioro, and Mr. AVm, Armstrong, of Gieshumvile are , ; prosm-eting in Florida. Luther Jackson, col., who was sentenc¬ ed to pay a fine for gaming a short time ago, has been committed for stealing a gold watch from Dr. Bethea’s office. I Mr. John \V\ Gheesling, and Miss Euhi B. Rogers, both of Warren county, were named on 1 the u 1. mst, , , by . Rev. „ J. , _ W. El lington „f I enfield. The Home Journal is one of our most welcome exchanges. Young Knowles, * is clever and polite, and as talented a writer as we have on the Georgia press. We hope the Journal will forever “boom.” Our copy of of the Greenesboto Home Journal looks like the batt le-field of maims sits. Friend Knowles ought not get up so much news or we wouldn't treat his paper s<> ’ Whilst absent from her home on I)r Wal ker’s farm near Greeneshoro, last week, Milly Stokes, an old colored woman had tin misfortune, to have her cabin with .fifing *ti •> > 01*11 •• ' I j h 'PG have been accidental. HILKiiS. Potato crop is good. Late cotton is prolific. Carp is being introduced rapidiy. English sparrows have floated into Wash¬ ington. A gin-house ofS. W. Wynne was burned last Friday. The Methodist church at Washington has been insured for $5,000. Washington has a cotton exchange. It is a good and yet a bad sign. The depot at Washington has received 1,177 bales; against 1,725 last year. Rev. Mr. Barnwell, of the Episcopal ; church, Washington, will shortly remove from that place. There is a pear-tree in Washington, (see Gazette) that has borne two crops of pears this year, ' A negro living on Mr, M. M. Sint’s plan¬ tation caught seventeen opossums one night last week. The Gazette comes to us in an sight, page form. The Gazette must be on a boom, and we are glad to note it. The bridge at Belknap Smith’s is still unfinished. We understand that the con¬ tractor has had a great many difficulties to contend with. A Wa.shingtonite has a turnip that won’t get in a naii-keg. We can’t understand why the Washington gent wants to put his turnips in a nail-keg for, anyhow. The Gazette very titely and wise,y re marks: It is a noticeable fact that per- ■ sons who have chickens, eggs, butter, fresh j meat, &e., rarely bring them in for sale except oa Saturdays, show days and the like. They expect on these big days to get a good market price for these articles ! w *'de it turns out just the reverse, because everybody brings in on those days and j j consequently the market is flooded. If these artH .es were brought in all along through the wee*, they would most always realize a fair n irk *t price. oar.r. . i ioitrE. Lexington is iu great need of young men. j Only four physicians have registered as y ( q_ Mr. J. T. Olive has sold his farm to his brother Mr. F. IE Olive. It is said that a Crawford gentleman will shortly build an cotton-seed oil mill. Mr. Thomas Griffith and Miss nattie Buttler were married near Crawford last Thursday, j „ - , .. . . . . We chronicle with regret the illness of Mr. Pat Race, the efficient treasurer of Oglethorpe. He ha, been para.yzed. Mr. Pace is know to many citizens of Taliaferro, who sincere!v hope he will shortly recover, Plea- Lumpkin, the negro arrested for cutting a man in Crawford, tried to escape fnmthe county jail the other day. The effort.was nnsnccessful, and Pleas still lan vile, ' guishes in durance BkM 133ms, :cna Mrs. M. C. MeDaniei. daughter of cur woi rhy fellow citizen, J. R. Boggs, after an aliseine of 16 years in Xew York, reached Lexington last Saturday morning on a visit to tier old home. Mrs. McDaniel will spend some time in Lexington. - ,osse Howard, George Sims and Judge CoM >- ‘'nee negroes sentenced to the chain gang, at the April term of Oglethorpe Su P** r * ur court 18dO, for 7 years each, for the stabbing of a man named Gallaher at a ne S™ ‘air, have been pardoned by Gov. Cob quitt. The Echo we hold responsible for this “We had a circus in Lexington the other da J'- hut tew k >'"w of it until it was over. J formers, ™ and instead “* * of the »» usual chariot TBCt ‘ twas a foot race and a spiritedly eon* testedono. The spectators ami the , j enjoyed it very much, but to the young la the cow seemed to be toomueli in earn about it for it to be funny. She says *!'“ "^i^!' Vlaya c,rcu * w,th » «>*• * a ’ - Mr. Bob Downer was robbed by a no K ro namp<1 BHI <,oods(m ,a8 ‘ Saturday w "'‘ k ’ M> Downer had allowed Goodson and another negro to ride in liie wagon behind him. He shortly missed his pistol and thinking ™ he had lost it told Goodson 11 "ouU_ g:i . \0 him ©2 t o go and find it. Goo<lso " ** out - 50 m Mr ’ He *«w|H*t«'Hts<mioti»inK and accused the nc ! * T '' ol *' a ' !n " s ‘ ou ' n - <»oodson called hint 1 a d “- ,ar ’ an " > ,ullin « ? ut the l ,Uto1 - made Mr. Downer give the other negro §2 u e then attempted to shoot, hut fail f. , In j„ f attemntimr P ‘ KrU t,, r „ n Mr l) f*" f,.n *"? the negro immediately eovered , him with I the pistol and went through him They got 311. The trial came oil last Eridav. Suffering Women. There is but a very small proportion of the women of this nation that do not suffer from some of tlie diseases for which Kiduej-Wort is specific. When the bowels have become costive, head I ache torments, kidneys out of fix, or j ,,i wonderful )es distress, tonic take and a package, and its "'dl renovating power I Mdc/uilun. cure you and give new life.— j GRAVY KORDVILEE. 'Yhat is Thought ol the Place ami Peo¬ ple By Others. The Augusta Chronicle , under the head of “Ip the Georgia Hoad,” has the fob j lowing to say of our town, —Several well-known business men of Augusta are now conducting stores iu i Crawfordville. --Grawfordviile now has two hotels and he. it line*, fie- * nt. >tai;ibi ; *,») t i- >n ; .f-vW- J* * , ! —lion. John A. Stephens, ot Taliaferro, I is one of the most prominent men in Mid ; ! die Georgia, and his reputation is growing every day. In the persons of Sheriff Googcr and Clerk of Court, Hammack, Taliaferro coun¬ ty has two of the most ellieient and popu¬ lar officers in the Eighth District. —Considerable anxiety was felt In (Tnw fordeitle Friday over Mr. Stephens’s sick¬ ness, hut it was relieved by the special pub¬ lished in the Chronicle Saturday morning. Tlie Commoner is the corner stone of Tal¬ iaferro county. —Over one thousand words were feie- 8 ra P llod fr,,,n tllc Barnett office Friday evening about tlie Armor execution. All which tlie accomplished operator did speedily, accurately and well. —The Ckawfokdvtlli-. Demouat is one of the most interesting- papers published on the line of the Georgia Road. Mr. John M. Graham, the accomplished stenogra¬ pher, and Mr. Ed. Young, a practical jour¬ nalist, are building up their paper with rapidity. Graham keeps tilings lively from Atlanta, Washington and the Court grounds, while Young is displaying great ability as an editor and business manager. What it Does. Kidney-Wort moves tho bowels reg- 1 ularlv.c’.eanses the blood, ami radically cures kinney disease, gravel, piles, bil- 10118 bcuduclie. and pains which aie Z "curedSy shonld you not try jt 9 Y, )llr druggist wi!1 tel) you th . lt jt is one of the most successful medicines ever known. It is sold in both Dry anil livnid form, Ini : and its action is jiositive and sure either form.—Dallas, Texas Herald. - -- ■ — Ayers’ Newspaper Annual. 1 ! We are, in receipt of N. W. Ayers’ News- , paper Annual for tiiis vear. It is a splon- , cli(i hook> handsomely prin^d and bound, - and shows great caiv has been taken in its compilation. IDs a complete d.rcctopr of . newspaper published in the 1 nited States. : The most we can say of it—and we can say this justly—Is that it is perfect Mv Good Woman Why are you so out Of sorts, never able to tell folks that you are well V Ten to one it’s ail caused in the first place by habitual constipation, which no doubt finally caused derang' d kid neys and liver, i ne sure cure for con stipation is tne oeleDratea specific remedy ividn^y- fog Wort. It is also a ——_ . ----— —The hank examine'has completed his examination -f tin -ih.tr. M ,, the 1. T , ific bank of Boston, Mass, nis report will not be given out for several days, but it is an thoritatively stated that the condition of thebank is >o unfavorable that the United States comptroller hast requested the a sociated bank to nominate a receiver and wind up its affair.. OUSERAL NEWS. AS (JliKthKl) KKO.U TI I,f.'CK.i«.« and l.m ri.Hs. Being U.e l.atcst luturiuatiou as Cou doused from the Newvpapera—A Uriel Review ,.f tv hat t!ia Caautrj ta At. Culled lor the Readers ot tha Demo ' erat. _p, Vw . r . m , ‘ _ Tt , ( , rf srR 100W Wcyclc rU , trs jn thl . eit y of L ^jnerieus Vlon -The Recorder has changed | m nds. _Mr. Tavlor ' late ’ nostnmster ’ ’ at ' —Tisor* .t Carter, of Lrssburg, have m a ,le sn (fib went. The fN- . ecu..tor At.a ita is nearing C oinj»leti<®a —It sal: mid that, new postmaster has been app • it -it at Elber ton. -X. U ^'nrfem, of.Social Cilele, ha« fall ed. Li* .1 Tic Sn.oou. — .Uhu.', jiolico are rapidly securing the ^toca * ! —The ui.-riean Public Health Associa . j t j on j^jj, ,^i, m „t Savannah. -Jack> , . mi unears, of , Daldom-ga, ,, died the J other.lay —Ex-Speaker a. tlie Randall a lvan.vd promises age of the eighty. wait, iue millio is t|aiew rglumting bill, —Thera #ere oyer six Imudred converts at a recent revival in CaUcUshurg, Ky • -Black bears are reported to ho umie '»"> _- „i,.,>r u n„ m n,,. thoCatskd. i-aio-ii- rog.ou ,■no tins . 1 —Captain K 11. l’aiue, formerly propvio to of the Markham house, Atlanta, died in Louisville, Ky., (Sunday last. —A net 'o woman who cook's for \V. R. Leonard, *?iilbottoii, was burned up the other day. —l)r. I t . Norwood, was burned up the other day i t Columbus. His house caught fire and Ptsemibl not escape. —Prof. -J. )!, Huff, a respectable citizen of Colmtt’-us w as found dead in his bed tlie other day. —Betsy Braekson, of Macon, fell iu (he tire tne o day, ami burned to death, to¬ gether wi h a young child. No iusmtanee. —The ll"e stock interests of Texas ag¬ gregate md.far from SI,000,000,(100as in¬ vested ot al. —The a- toruey general of Indiana has decided that mayors of cities cannot legal¬ ly marry ji ople. —Mr. -Vihtam Rnshton, one of the oldest and mos J respected citizens of Atlanta,died Sunday 1 v. He had been in the employ of the Geov ,11 railroad thirty-eight years. —A t«. ,'« accident oecurredon tlieCen tral Siivannah Hie otlier day. v 1 ’gj,’ ^'"hevs wounded' * —In Meriw. Uier .'ounty the other day John Tigher. colored, shot Nathan Gilles¬ pie. It grew out of Tigncr's intimacy with tho wife of Gillespie. — A shrvey of the new licit railway began last Monday at Atlanta. It is intended to run the road entirely around tho city ami will he used by freight tsains only in con¬ veying ears to the main depot. —A hank at Caldwell,Kansas, failed the other day and the depositors are wrathy. They swear that if tho cashier, one Dun ford, don’t settle he must die. It's a plain problem, sugar or shot. —The latest curiosity is a trotting steer. This bovine lias always been inclined t.r wards the trotting ring. He was trained, and now, at the age of three years, he can get over a mile in four minutes. New 1 ork furnishes the sensation, —Charles Cam, charged with assault with Intent to murder has been arrested I 11 Atlan¬ ta. Cam is a colored man am! is the person wno brutally assaulted and knifed Mayor English’s son about one year ago. —The Russian Jew* are rapidly emi¬ grating to this fair land of promise. A large number of this persecuted race land¬ ed at New York the other fiav. —An accident occured on the Macon A Brunswick road, Macon, the other tiny and Benton Austin, a conductor was kill ed. —The Meriwether Vindicator reports a corktree in Greenville six feet long and four feet in diameter. It grew in a citizens yard. —TI 10 eastern counties of Mississippi P r,MluC(,, l iWfirtto hales on 338,0(10 acres—an average of one-thinl of a bale to the a '1 e. Suits have been begun in the New Jer courts against tlie Nugents, who are involved in the Mechanics Bank failure, —the cashier of ! lince Edward Island bank lias absconded, lie made very heavy, unauthorized advances, reaching, report ***%* - . ’ . rl fnnriMn or fifteen chartered Hebrew congregations, ^ a m! , jorit of the Jew’. ,!i residents are member; —A negro man and a white woman were convicted in riiv-nvlle, .Smith Carolina, 7"*’ uml u> lbe t'.u> tntermftniing. , —»*• ■«>« Mrs. Gt orgL m<->'-iiiimv» cn ten d suit at NewOrleaiis against the Gou Seville & Nashville road for g 100,OW, dam ages to the scion of their house, aged nine teen —In one year, Huntsville, Ala-, has put U n a cotton factory, cotton seed oil mill, 1 ’*....... ’ ............ night winch was ariendeq „y of t - 1 . becalm- drum: and buiG-iou .nl Jlivu 1 - 1 • - .. ■ - r <>,<• row . .. J* 1 ‘ 1 h " lln " 1 wh.-n t. • gun vro- di-'-lirog.-d and tin- we wan wa-ir,d;uitl-.’k.h- e —A u< gio n.an - ■ . “ - ' of il, . < <-w; and chno. »:• ‘be Thomasvilpr jut! on Saturday nifihfc He ’ xa ww *ujw wem » 1 m - m a , i . .2 an ol penitentiary convict arid h« i = urdcrous countenance. The evidence is strong against him. —Willis Weils, a negro, living near Ta’ botton, was killed by Lewis Anderson the other day. Weils was lieating Anderson’s wife when the husband took up an axe and split o|«en Well's head. The act was sideivd justifiable. —D. J. Pipkin, of Williamsburg, S. C , gathered this year ,3,500 bushels of corn from fifty acres of old swamp rice lands> which lie had drained. —A suit has been brought iu the l'hited States court at Paducah, Ky.„ to test the constitutionality of Iheii-Adtfd And com mon school law of tho state —A convention of the most prominent men of the country is in session in N'cw Turk. Their object is Hu- perfe. lion of a s y Sti ,, n of protective tariff and opposition to free trade. -Twenty-two Russian soldiers under took to strangle as many officers the other day at St. Petersburg. They failed and now languish indurance vile, w ith the com forting prospect of being shortly that useful appendage, ahead. -At a meeting of woo! growers Held the other day at the Metropolitan hotel New Vl , rk< wiUl Uon . c„, llmlius iu Uu . it was 1V solved,to g-k the National tariff convention now meeting at Cooper’s j institute, to appoint mt its various tem- 1 , mlttees representatives of the wool grow lug interest. —The Japanese telegraph system, esiab" ; Halted ten years ago, lias now over 3,000 ! niiit-s of line and lO.htfi miles of wire. I Twenty words are sent sixty miles for less than two cents. Inst year the number of messages transmitted was l,27ti,T.V>. There are 3Is Morse instruments lit use, 20 nee¬ dle-blocks and 23 Bell telephones. * —The deaths in tie- Peabody building in London, calculated upon sixteen years’ experience, have been at die rate of only lii '-10 per 1,000 per annum, while the gen oral dentil rate for the metropolis during the same period has beeft 23 310. The death late ill crowded districts summnd big the lmiltfihfs may be taken at 30 or to to the thousand. —W. S. Ramsey, a school teacher and agent for a patent desk, who had his otth e in U, W. Hart’s drug store, In Springfield, Illinois, was the other day discovered pil¬ fering money from tlie cash drawer. He confessed to taking S1.000, but it, is believed lie has taken $3,000. He has been carrying it on for a year, taking from $2 to if Iu dally. He promises to make resti¬ tution. —A dispatch from Revision, Me., says ; Six members of a French family named Saimlen, at ,U, lam,hav.e been sick for sev¬ eral days. t.m di inlay one filed, and un otWr win ■j.ri,|r.mtjtu.cs u ,vitc. T'huoit;k ness Is supposed to have been caused by some rhea ■ green tea, piirchiiseil of a ped¬ dler, the coloring matter of which is be¬ lieved to contain poison. —A man In Norwich, N. V., lias gone into a new enterprise. During the sum¬ mer lie purchased and carefully stored away live thousand barrels of eggs. He now sells them at a high price as “fresh iaid.” He has done ducks fin; same way. A stock company will lie formed to he known as the “Egg Preservation and. Prompt Winter Delivery Company.” Au¬ thorized capacity 10,000,000,000 dozens of eggs. A brave American lias just escaped having it duel in Rome, Italy- Captain George Blitter is his name,and,is a painter by profession. The facts are these : The noble captain was out walking in Rome with a friend. Signor Musso, an Italian, accosted liis friend Butler said : “Do not answer him, lie is tipsy, ” and immedi¬ ately received a slap in the face. (Jlmllcnges passed. Tli oy met. Giiplain llutlcr wounded his antagonist between the eyes. Tlie affair was finally settled. A woman was tlie caum tie fu/hlo. —A dispatch from .St. Petersburg, of dife of last Saturday, says : A youth,un¬ der pretence of urgent state business, ob¬ tained an audience to day at the ministry of the interior with General Tcherevine, who was presiding over the commission for mitigating the sentences of exiles. As soon as lie was admitted he fired a revol v<*r at the general, but tlie ball pa-v-ed harmlessly between his arm and ode. The general leeured and <1:-.armed tlie youth, who efifi lie win. merely the in- lutinmt of another person. 'I lie young man was a Polish Jew, Another man who was vvait ing out side was also arrested. —Tlie petition for ailgntting to probate the will of tlie late George the Law, the mil¬ lionaire, has been filed in surrogate’s court in New York. Tobht wife lie leaves ?25,ono cash and $ 100,000 iu United (states bonds the use of his house fit New York and liis country seat at .Jackson, Washing¬ ton comity. He leaves her all liis furni¬ ture and directs that she lie paid $25,000 per \ear. To ! -on *• nu<-l he giv.- **!«, 000 p.-r year in- re t ot Ids property be mge teaily. .d. d n.: .-» b.seh,l..re„, p!-i ■ Mat rod' A Wri fid........ Tie -hr,- roil . .....of tdx eonvM who*.'- 1-rn.n ,j|,q ■ • i - < V-• -\u,”..i -"[ I -iV ' ., wbo a'i"ior lm* ; V7 - ei . - "i r v , : J<«- 'boti- of ll-i . II. j Imrgiary and hi triple larceny: Stwwfiuan 1 Ja<‘k. <4 Richmond emuify, 'three year ■ ....... ■ ..... io \f. i ,, -,-r T ,„ -i.:. P'lOl-. n.- i.it-l :iit-> ti.e 1 ■;, 1 - l,\ tl - ,l,:v *» Imv.- ............ twfor- f-.i 1 to ri; State b; Hu-ban: rod m < nt I •! ; u / i« :. u ..id*: -ut to t e ,,.-i: i ' •; ’ - D'-ne - Ron!-' 'rod Viro! u’-i'i.'S 'ri’-i ? ' ' , ih-- - .- • fi,-- Mr. J-. u Bevnohl-., t-u ro ... ...... t.. i,.. r .„| . to the State as a preferred - -htor 1 Col. 5.—No. 48. » ..RHUNTUX. A Trip to our Nelgbtwrtag Towu_Crop* on the »V ay—A Picfc-up Kor tit. Kar m ’ ,r »—Kidding tliolr Ulta ot a Had TIiLiij llit C.; ■ .*-_lSutiue*a—I'll* Mar ctianta. l odttorial ( orretpondMm Democrat J IV aRuisntox, Nov. 2*—I go: her# this moraiug. if l must he candid the cliena, together with the hope of esUKtlag t few dollars from that Christian invention, was the sole inducement offered me. I had made an engagement with several Craw* fordville jfentlemeii to attend the circus, and l hurried back from the Gate City—a ' place 1 am always loathe to leave—amt at , o'clock this morning set out with Messrs, Darraeot t, Hal Fiynt, amj CArey •Imics. behind a pair of sparking horses t,n t,l ‘‘ festal scene. Along the line uf 1 he road, i had a splendid opportunity of view ing the condition of the late cotton, *" Taliaferro, this did not look very prom 'slug, but In Warren, the fields Were I WHITE WITH THE STAPLE, I am, of coin- , 0 not ver.-* t in cotton ne , j jean seemed 1 judge anyways accurately but it to me that the stalks were loaded. Nome of the fields seemed to warrant tho assertion that more remained in them than bail been gathered. I do not think tho farmer*,of Warren have* right to com phuii of'shoi t (Top*. 1 noticed also Hint rite rood and fields were almost FltEE of hocks. The cause of this is apparent. It la the in¬ tention of the Georgia railroad, the man¬ agement of which have always in view tin- c unfurl and safety of its patrons,to bal hud. the track with atone. Far this pur pose they uttered to the farmers fifty cents |st square yard for the i-rk they would pick irons Itiuir laud and place in piles along the line of tli e road. This was an inducement to them. I luring the summer after their crop was laid by-the plantar pul. In good time ami mmi 0 some I by having their hands money OATHEH AM. TH* HOCKS, large and sumll, from the land and haul thorn to the railroad. This was a splendid thing. They were not only making a little spare money, hut were ridding their land ol what- before has been a bane to them Mr. Joe Darraeot* tells me lie knuw -tillinga a ne¬ gro small faim—wholu thl* wav enough to J I’AT THE EXPENSES OF HIS PAllM for the year, ami the proceeds of his was clear. Of crop course, any clear-headed man will see 1 1 hat this was a regula “boom” loi our farmers. About half past seven we reached tho house of Mrs. Holden, tho mother of esteemed follow-townsman, our JUr. W F.Itol •It-jq AH4 I'oaolved ft cordial Invitation to in oak fast. We were joined here by Mes¬ srs Bus lliid nml John Holden After spending a short while very pleasantly and partaking of a splendid breakfast, set out for Wnrrenton, wo and arrived here sit nbout tell oVlsck* Wa,renton is a beautiful little town.The streets are broad and level, lined with large shade trees. Tlie dwellings are, «sa general thing, handsome. But as Will 1 e.-l. said of Atlanta—after bis return from a vistit to the Exposition—1 couldn't sen rim town for the people. The streets were limal with wugoa-:, buggies and ox-carts, tin side walks thronged with busy, push "T- h’azhu;, people. | got there too late to see the procession of the circus, As I ciime up the main street, the musical eat jope was just then disappearing behind tic- white tents, and the mournful screech of the tame leopard wns borne to my dls appointed cars. 1 must confess that 1 like Warrenton. 1 met some very ole ver gentleman hors— among them Mr. A. Lesser, one of the most prominent merchants of this place. Shortly after my {arrival 1 took 11 stroll up to the Clipper office, and met Mr. Shiv¬ ers Hie editor. He made my stay with Him pleasant, Court,is to assemble to-morrow and 1 fciiw on the street this morning that most agreeable of all our attorneys, Hon. Sea home Reese of Sparta. Bv-the-way onr pcnpiy think a great deal of Mr. Roase" and some havo told ine that whan our own great commoner resigns or gives up ‘ the position, Mr. Iteuso will stand an ex celleut chanee for Congressman from tbis district. However this may be, f never have met a more agreeable companion,nor a more perfect gentleman. And those who know ay he is one of the most brilliant attorneys on the Georgia bar. 1 met too Hon. W. J> Tutt, of Thomson Hum whom no better man was ever made’ Mr. Tint is a fcuries and conscientious lawyer, a tine writer and argumentative debater, lie i, an honor to the legal pro¬ fession. Among the. lawyers X mot this morning comes last but by no means least Him T|l0 , lia . ( , Wa , H(mi , lf Thomson! I like Mr. W. -on. II- is a true representative of the young talent, of our State A toll¬ banta. tr- ly orator,—witty, poliahfld— fill-in a' keen in an argumentative fl , rresistfbly carries aiilmfora Mr. Walter Scott, rite depot agent 1.- an e -ell.-nt. gentleman. li« treat *d m»* nicely. the circus waajerjsjssca: Di molhat. resolved to '. are a little en , , n’ a nfi t lierefor- went, to the circus. (neome.l <1 fr<-- tickets The Ciri-n* w -tali.-ir.n -s are. 1 saw a lot ot spin ;.e i bir hack riders and trapeze pcn»*rm.M or,.'* ho a ling tigers and lions oc* i-g -fi -.v,t., ib..„-.ua: jam of such "‘i u -t. lb” Tl-o-.- - 'f'e pe.ipic " h''me | ^rtly ^ml'trith r.--r have p.car.^JT met (tikcaml ! i 1,..,. u.-i wj.j my again not tne place. E. Y.