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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1884)
I DEMOCHA f^iraew* © Volume 8. THE SOtfTrtEftN FARMER, Special Correspondence Democrat. Aliyfofessiottb, all corporations, all companies, seems to regard the farmer <as their legitimate prey and I really think the Southern farmer likes to be preyed upon. While loving my coun¬ try, above everything, but my religion, and prizing the welfare of my 'feoWV.Wjf Wien. I must say that the average farmei, is improvident, thriftless and careless where his most vital interests are concerned. Une torcible illustra tratioa is our management of the labor system ; another is our criminal neg¬ lect of providing a living at home. Our cribs and smokehouses, are built too far, from where we stay. Any coun¬ try fading in sustainment, is in a poor condition. If you speak with the farmers about this ail important sub tact, they will agree with you,acknowl¬ will edge the justice of all you say, but go right home and plant twenty acres ir. cotton, to one of corn, and give the former the preference, of all the good land, leaving the refuse for a corn crop. Some will argue, that they can raise more than enough cotton, on Does an acre he than would buy th® corn. count the cost of stopping his plows, perliaps worth five dollars per day in bis farm, hitching up a wagon and driving six or eight miles after a (dud «f corn and come back sometimes with n&ue and sometimes with a fortnight’s rations. You may look in this man’s crib, and you will « 6 e not great heaps (of f dder, shucks and corn in ear, no, only * little box, way back in a corner, about half full, and one or two straight sacks WrtXlwg up against the wall and if a friend er neighbor’s horse has to De fed, it is catch Sp a little tub or box, and measure A little pan full, to pour i* and you Can hear it rattle ever so Iwr i; even the good old-fashioned, horse (troughs, have gone out of fashion now. Dou’t need the great wide, long troughs, these days Hold too much ; more than half a month’s supply ; a very small box will do now. Well, at least here is consistency in the fitness h! things. Another instance in which our farm¬ ers, show poor economy is irf the fact, tlmt fctay art selling their cotton rtsed, for a song to these oil mills,to be press¬ ed into the pockets of the oil mill own¬ ers and year aftar year impoverishing the farmer. These very seed thrown upon the land would bring the farmer four-fold the value he received at the mills. They would enrich his land for they are known to be one of the richest Manures and the increase of the next crop would far more than compensate for the pitiful sum received for their sale. But h. stead, our farmers will and sell every bushel of cotton seed tlwn buy guano at the Highest figures, to manure their crops. Any man who farms ought to make his own manures. Hy cohiposting his cotton seed, witii Ins stable manure and leaves and straw, will make him more manure and better manure, than any he can buy aud then lie wilt have it at home and not have to pawn all he lias to get it. It is a well established fact, that the less prop¬ erly a man owns and the less able he is lo meet his liabilities, the higher are the rales forced upon him. Ill plain words, if a man is able to pay only one hundred dollars for guano, tlieil lie is cliaiged one hundred atid fifty and then if another man is able to pay for the guano and no danger of losiUg it, then he is charged Very moderate figures. If a farmer is very Weak, then his gu¬ ano, his corn and his meat in sold to him, at the very highest figures, but if he is very well-to-do and able to pay up promptly, then he can buy. at very rea Bonable rates. It seems strange logic to me if a horse if so poor he cannot draw half a load, for a full load to be put behind him and say he shall pull it whether able or not. It seems enough to dishearten both man and beast to be thus so overtaxed right at the be¬ ginning. Are you in a hurry Well, to get rich my farmer friends ? you Can all become independent and that is a great deal better than our present sit¬ uation. I can give you a receipt, that never fails. It is raise a living at home and let cotton be your surplus crop. In five years after adopting this plan, you will be getting more brings money and for one bale than two now be¬ you will be an independent man, “l longing to no one. B-it some say, am forced to plant all cotton, I am a renter and besides, no one will run me, if I do not make a cotton crop.” Yes, but the remedy will apply to even you. Come into it by degrees. Plant a few more acres in wheat, oats, peas and po¬ tatoes and raise your meat. An oat crop, is a clear gift. It is a winter crop, requiring no work outside, the sowing and harvesting, and if the ren¬ ters cannot work a corn crop, they can raise the more oats, and exchange them for corn and meat, besides they Will cut down the horses expenses, by fur¬ nishing food for the animals at home, and no body to pay for it, to the taking of half of your cotton money. Under the present plan, a living, is ail you get and that is a Very hard one, and you are the servant of the man, who sells to you at highest figures, just what you can raise at home, for one third the cost. Now, does it not look very silly to plow hard from year to year and raise » big cotton crop and sell it and pay all the money for corn and meat, when you can make it at home, and you rotten*hearted have the genuine article too 1 No corn, killing mules and horses by the score; no cholera-stricken meat to be paid for and eaten to the detriment of ones health, nay, It even has ones life might be the forfeit. come to the point, where we can neith er deny nor evade the fact, that we are compelled to live at home, or we will teveno home to live at. What more £an we ask of a bountiful giver? Here CRAWTOEDVllIiE, OA., FRIDAY RIL 4th, 1884. Ae have a country Wherein can be rais¬ ed all we need, except our Coffee. We can raise our ftrtadstuffs, We meats, have good mo¬ lasses, sugar a«d salt. average land ; we are blessed with a salubrious climate, railroad facilities, good churches, good make society contented, ; every thing that should us a prosperous people, yet it- is right to the reverse. Our farmers are all bankrupts, tiiose owning lands are heavily embar rassed, barely making buckle and ton gue meet and it is ail our fault. The farmers are by right, just as good, Just as noble, just as intelligent as any other class of people, uuder the canopy of Heaven. Then assert yourselves, use your intelligence, stand up for your rights, instead of being led Change into ieaders. Don’t study any longer how to make any one else rich, but think, “I’ ve been enriching the WorM at my expense, now I am going to enrich my self.” Have you ever thought how few of tne laws made, ever benefit the farmer or touch his condition in regard to building it up ? See how wealthy the many railroad companies, haVe become here of late ! SrcftttS’JSRSUES Were it not this, there would not be perity, form many road, to spring up. Bight to the reverse and our farmers would be richer mentoday, if not one of ^uS.’tSoiV.rffikatal, them lived in twouty miles of a tarn counties, not convenient to depots. They are independent, living at home Maaswrusi. /ito w< B°“ei“S": Wo are more bloosed, all that country, Here w e can raise any other people can and theni raise that which they cannot, lhere art numbers of places, where only one crop or one or two certain things can be grown, but we can grow all we need to live upon and then our cotton Crop tou clear gift above the products of other countries. We ought to be one of the wealthiest people on the g'obe. We can grow what the world is obliged ro of have but instead of being masters the sltuatwn, we let it drive us. There ought to be a law passed prohibiting a man from planting ohly so many acres in cotton and then if we only had our meat and bread at home eur cotton would pay us 4 for our| trouble. There would l-e agents who would buy it at our gin houses and haul it them selves and give us our figures too in* stead of ourha Viagtotake tne ire. But we jiust started backwards that is all, but ( Uiere is one thing sure i-if We 1 do not'change oUr way of living and that in the near future, we will Hot have a rood of ground, to call our own . nd the couutry will be owued by capitalists and then if We work it, we will pay for it too. If we have to pay the rent that the English and Irish tenants have to give which is so exorbitant, that the family only haVe one very small piece of meat onoC a week. We Will look back and and bewail bewail our our follv rouy. If you are traveling a pathway and know tliat Mid way therein is a iiornble yawiling abj#s, and if you keep straight on you surely wiii ^rish therein,would you not turn aside 7 Certainly yod would. Any sane man or womad would. Now the precipice in all its hideous darkness is just 011 ahead of you. Will you turn aside, or will you walk blindly on and be engulsed in Viuktte. its tarrlble depths ? SEWS ITEMS. “The price of 1 irtussin girls has lately dropped to about $000 or the lowest figure ever known.” But this doesn’t do people iu tins part of the world any good. An English traveler says that the chief characteristic of New York peo¬ ple is that they look one way while walking another, and that others have great trouble in dodging them. Probably the largest and fines perfect plate glass ever made in this country has j ust been finished in Jef¬ fersonville, Ky, It contains 154 squats feet and measures 104x216 inches. One Chicago pawnshop man has loaned money on 2,200 revolvers with¬ in the last 8 months. Si ung-shots are now the stylish weapon in that town, and the citizens have no use for revol¬ vers, Philadelphia has a molasses pipe line. It runs from a wharf to tiie so-called “smear house.” The molasses is heat¬ ed by steam to thin it aud then is Con¬ ducted through the pipe a distance of 1,000 feet. The saving in oartage is considerable. Laura Johnson, a Milwaukee gitl,be¬ came so indignant on reading a letter from hef betrothed, in whidh he ex¬ pressed the desire to break of their en¬ gagement, that she tried to soatcb the engagement ridg from her finger, but it was so firmly fixed that she could not remove it. Seeing * hatchet near, by she then deliberately chopped the finger off and sent it, with the ring attached, to the faithless loVer. A LOW condition of health is ®om mon With many whe alioW themselves to worry. Mental anguish Causes bod jj y sufferings. Anxieto and care has br0 keh down many constitutions. A lrain of disorders usually fcfilow Men tal stress. Heart affections, ner vousness, sleeplessoes, dysyepeia, liter complaint, kidney troubles, etc., are amoD g the list. A sure sure remedy fOT relieving all mental and physical distre88 is Brown’s lion Bitters, itat once strengthens every part and of the body making work a pleasure care known. WASHINGTON GOSSIP, Special CorrespondeMe Dtmoemk. Washington,D. U.March ffi 18S4.— xbe Democrats of MM House in caucus 0 n Tuesday oignt, and as W% bttV e predicted jail along dominant there was party hot on j y no rupture of the j D t j, e popular branch of Congress, but a practically unanimous determination tttat there must be a reduction of war taxation. The caucus gave the beat of reasons not only why the Democratic party should live, hut why it should be placed in entire and complete control of the administrative affairs of the nation, T%e people demand relief from HiibeC pessary and inequitable burdens of tax Alion ^ and the Democratic is the Ortly party that iu disposed to give eat to their cry, and has the boldness to say td monopolists and the moneyed postal- < Back 1 You have trenched upon gfOUndS not your Own. Wat mean not v-to ruin or huit the industries of the Country-, or any one of them, but We are deter and ^ \ tb Sagj ^5saEawwsae SggftgSS H 143 » young robin would gulp aoWu cher wbu.H-.jt. blbbim to* »“»wgOammrato ic.™ to «— diffaranca UVlff in Congress aBto the methods of revision—-or, as it may be otherwise termed revenue-reform—the vote in the .»■ . 0 °Tom a to,ajgtto■* piactiCally ,«mb?.; agree Upon ” the rtEX‘iSMWKJf!SS!il5: fact. ..... ___ ... thu arrrBrsrksraa they oSnto'rSSaTbofMtSt'l'L' in Convention in eVery D emocrftMe party and in lt6 | fc Na gUto ta the Union tt9 tio(ial (jon^Hon pledged itself to this acti and to havedone otherwise than bag be0n done ^tald have been set gown QOt on | y M the most stupendous exhibition ^ blunder> the made greatest „ V et by a poUtical l A ^ !g of thu De^joc^tic 1 e position »f the Uongwue majority party In on this bUe9tton is sustUlhed HCt only by the ^ “® majority ^ * Of the party in the ua* the tio bu a r ty , atgb minority in tte p ^ ubbcan p ar ty also entertained alike vje It is true, for consistency’s sake a(]d ^ mak8 a lowing against the Democratic BepiibllCaha pattV W tiie uext will campaign, be fouud if any but 3uAuiniag this bill, iu private eon yersation, strong, earnest leader- in tiie ^ IiepublicitI1 ranks declare thal they are ^ to u|fc ., e¥en feWnita-rnf^. a more *”? gtail iu yaVUr of fchialW^taV ., SSf>rr that 11 sucCeSsftli ve«toi> „ exl R eP £ ij lit lean (joiigres# will Si.eciaed.'/i [ , ' the -uiiou.lt tueMornson , (U i n When ftupObllfians getib-spoii.lH ge. extravagant regard and Democrats l to tiie approaiMihiql resuienttai 11 test, it would be hrell f,If them to look ell at the facts And fiifhres Meml.v Ptaseot ed »« 'he two list hatmnal cattillAigiis. I„ 1876 the DeindeHitiT vote in tile na t|(||| WHg 4 315 ^ 1 . Die KepuhliCatl Vote ^7,- 4 votes Mr ail Mhhf partinl . majority inajoftty of W6.703 oVer t( ie Bep<ib1icans, and oVCf All 357 Tiideu votes, Wilile an inhiest Cdilnt gave Mr. ft majority bf 23 elefi total votes. In iS «0 til# ttepublican Vote was Greenback, 4.442,050, Democratic, 306.807. A 4.449,035, majority^ over tHe| Deilid itepubiican 915, and minority iu the crats of only 305,952. a It will alsd be tiie nation of majority seen that Garfield received a of 59 electoral votes of New York and Ohio. majori¬ To-day we haVe a surety or a almost ty df the popular Vdte With an certainty of tiie electdtal Votes of Cali¬ fornia and New York, Connecticut, Ohio fttifi tiididuna, needs What the Democratic party more than anything else at this time is Cdufage } courage, confidence, audaci¬ ty, leadership. df 4 situation il A careful reVieW the _ presents the following of fts essentially re¬ liable as to the status th# electoral vote by sutes; Certainly jUrteeratie. itepilblican. Alftbaifla < • . . 10 Colorado . . . . Sio Afkansas. , .. 1 Illinois .... Delaware . . . , « Wffft , . . w Florida . . . . . 4 Kansas . . . . • Georgia . • 4 » . 12 Main# < ... .6 Kentucky 4 < . 13 Massachusetts Michigan . 14 Louisiana 4 4 4 , 3 ... 13 arylafid . , 1 , 8 Minnesota ... 7 isSlMlppi , , , . 9 Nebraska ... 5 issotl n ,,(i i . Ifi NeW Hampshire 4 orth Carolina 11 Oregon < s , 1 30 3 Sduth Carolina .,9 Pennsylv a nia Tennesee . .... 12 Rhod Texas .......13 Vermont . . , 4 Virginia . , . , . 12 Wisconsirt 4 I lr W «* Virgin.. • ± ToU1 . , , fc Total.....153 Doubtful, California , , . .itii.it 8 Connecticut . ... it .t.t 6 Indiana . . . • • ..tilt it* 15 Nevada . . . • • • • 4 4 4 • • / 4 3 New Jersey a , , 0 New York . . l i i 9 • 4 t t • . J , 35 Ohio . . • 4 4s4®4444®«®4 23 . Total 4 4 4 • • • . too r 401 ^ V . . . gni From « wir^oe tha„ theta to rtrtta than Ml own snow forsocCess in November, if the party will Mt come squally H .* issue, lo 1876 Ur.’T ^ n 8 PgPgj" WrRf ™a ^arer^^^ P t S ^ publican ^ 300,000, The eondttfoot ha » changed onljr Democratic party, «MI necessary for an earnest, igeous fight to be made to l than one-half the doubtful lies, ao<l victory will be as natlon of Minister Sargent, St. !in, Petersburg for the positiou the death made Vacant ----- at SWVA fifint by of m N in by the Presi YeduedAay, WAs A surprise President to V f, except perhaps the The Sen¬ and bera of his Cabinet. ate i«DtWn»di«tely took up the nomina¬ tion and unanimously confirmed it. Secretary Frelingliuysen in a note to Minister Sargent President infofttiing him of the auction of the and Senate, tCWk occasion to assure him that his Course in the Lasker matter was entire¬ ty approved, as he had done thW nothihg Goveril- but OMtey the instructions of his tttont therein; and also to Bay that nomination aS Minister to St. Peters buryr-tas made for the reason that the President thought it would be agreea¬ ble to him. This action of the State Department meets with unqualified en¬ dorsement On All hands. It is general¬ ly viewed as a masterly piece of diplo¬ macy Cn the part of our Government. It Is likely that the Gernlan mission will be allowed to fCnlaitl vacaut for a while. One of the most important measures having relations to Indian affairs that has been before Congress for years, is the bill passed by the Senate on Wed¬ nesday, to proVIde for the allotment of land in sevetulty to Indians on the sev¬ eral reservations, atld tU extend the protection or the lftffs of the Slates and Territories over the thdiahs. This is looked upon as the longest single stride in the direction of Indian civilisation that has ever been taken by Congress; One of the prettiest and most telling short speeches of the present Congress-, was made by Ellis, of Louisiana, on ’Wednesday, in favor of ills resolution fw/ppropriatiug|ttie sum of 18125,000 not expended, for the relief of suffers by the flood of the Mississippi river. While all agreed to the appropriation upon tiie snore of mercy, some ottered constitu¬ tional objections, winch Mr. Ellis an¬ swered in a most convincing manner by cHitt# precedents fin the action he ctlll ip d for. He metilioued the relief ottwr Sd by the United States iu 1812 to the Suffers by earthquake iu Cafaceas, Venezuela, and the people of the Island of TPWWtilf, one Of the Canaries, been visited which by bad th the same year swarms of locusts that- had eaten up the crops. The resolution 1 for the relief of tug people of these countries was otter¬ ed by Nathaniel Macon, of North Car¬ olina, “the strict cditatructfouiSt;” and (although contemplatin'* au appropria¬ niiUhm tion of 830,000 It was, on of Joign C. ChIIioiiij, of South CarifHwti a relified stickler for the letter of the (Jon Stitdtlon increased that to 850 Mr'.y JJQfri Will*' It is tmneCl'sshry to say mo¬ tion wa* agreed exiersioh, t". . what is The .bonded w.iisky or bill, better known as the w.is overwhelmingly defeated >n the llouse ysterday, the voi< being, ayes, ISO; Hies. Hi. I’ne fr n ;s of file hill arc greatly chop-fallen, -hough not by any means without hope that some meas¬ ure, giving at least partial i chef will lie passed during the session. A Gill was introduced some time ago by Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky;} Winking to a reorganization of the internal Revenue system, which contains a provision for an extension of the period during which the tax on whisky may be paid. This bill, it is said, will be taken up and pressed for pasage. After the whisky bill was disposed of yesterday, the bill for the retirement of the trade dollar was taken up iu the House and discussed. It is likely that the bill will beCome a law. Inventors throughout the country are loudly protesting against affecting the many Measures before Congress the patent lawsi S. 11 . -u»~---- An amusing incident occurred a Week or so ago in a school house in Sa¬ co, Me. A lad of 9 years, the sou of a lumberman living a considerable dis¬ tance from the town, bedtime a pupil in the school. As usual in all schools, the larger and older scholars began to chaff him, and among other things told him that he was "too fresh and tiad better dip himself in a pork barrel.” The bewildered lad, immediately on ar. riving home, disappeared into the cei ler, and when found two hours after wHfds was industriously engaged in washing his clothes in brine of his fa¬ ther’s pork barrel. In the new School of Medicine now being erecteu in Paris it is pr"|toned to keep a registry of all the legally recog¬ nized physicians throughout the world. A prelemlnary investigation has shown that such a list would comprise about 193.000 names, namely, 65,000 in th# United States, 26/000 in Frauce, 32,000 in Germany and Austria, 35 000, in Great Britain and Colonies, 10,000 in Italy, 5,000. in Spain. in advertising is The newest thing 200,000 promi the payment df $ by a ne.it Broadway dry goods firm for the grivileges of a Philadelphia juvenile publication edited by a clergjrman. The firm taken 108,OJ<J|# .pies of the publi. a tion and intend to distribute it at cost price among some 35,000 of their cus¬ tomers. Their advertisement is on the cover of the book, and through that channel thejr expect to recoup them¬ selves for the heavy outlay. The German town of Furstenfleld thinks it has th# oldest tree in the world. It is a linden standing in the chWrchytt'd afflOng the torn!* of centu¬ ries has a trunk fully fifteen feet in diameter and twisted branches which seem to stretch out all over the ioclo sere, and is supposed to be 1.000 years old. Daniel Buie. Laston, Oa., say#: “Brown’s Iron Bitters relieved me of ■ever# suffering from dyspepsia.” Number 14 18'83 ££84 —:o: The Georgia Chemical Works 2 :r - a w- ?%: w* ■ s'Ci", ' ■ JS-, -SFF*S ■ftl Ml ;; HTT! finvj ; ( T- .. — XT-- as ' v ; ... mm*, BgggM 5— Again offer to the, CrMsiumers of Guano their well known and reliable brtjui MASTODON GUANO! LOWE’S GEORGIA FORMULA ACID FHOSPnAll IP Witf h ob wtf ttdtrt potash. PLASTER, Alsrt, RATNJY of odr own importation. COTTONSEED PURE GROUND MEAL BCfNE.lJkK, ALL Fl»^ NITRATE OF SODA, and TILIIltNG AfATElttALS. Correspondence solicited rmni all who want firer daks Gliar.oS. Special Brahds made wheri desired. AdditsS Gbokoia C'fihuf icAfa W bilks, STOVALL* Treasurer, M. A. jau 25 ora Augusta, G». mmmm Cheapest Carpets in Augusts OCK LARGER AND ERIUeIs LOWER THAN EVM BEFORE. Pules, Oatitou and Cocoa Mattings, Chroiuos. Write for wimples. James G. Bailie & bons. ( Sept. 14, ’89. jy. 713 BROAD STIVER**. RUFUS CARTER & CO stTcc’Ksstrtfli tn SmItk A CahsTbA. Wholesale Tobaceom'sfx, JtfHf.AltY BUILDING, AUGUSTA, GA. TOBACCO KkCldmiVELY AT 1 WttbliESfUinOXLr; W<- are the only tobacco merchants in flic city of August*. W» represent tfie lending fnctories In Virginia and Ndrth Carolina and can Mill direct frou» factory when orders arc large enough In Justify. We guarantee all our goodtRo glvo •itwifc** l„„ v 1 ar.' pcf-onally acquainted with nearly all the maniifnctorlen ta North 11 .i an l Southern part of Virginia and are hole agents forStultz'*4a. T. W. L’OsKKHll, ^resident. J. T. NEWBERRY) CifchlWx Planters Loan & Savings Bank* Aughstd, Georgia, (JAl'ITOL, rtll paid lip «# $ 100 , 000 . (jolifcfitlon# Carefully Attended to and Promptly Remitted for. Dotffts m* »<’ parts of the world for sale. Interest Allowed on Deposits in the Savings Department, DiukcTOM, T. •COaKERY, OUSt. YOLGBIt, J - A .. A. VVfJLAKK, JOltAf. MlLL*tf f. R. WR1GUT, ftSSift., W.M JOKUA™’ % -THE- Great Furniture I’alace of Augusta. Writ# forcatalogiie at criil and see us. J. L. BDW^LD3&03. 840 Broad Sreet,Augus'a, 6a 4 w. b« ®ara» CVawfbrdville* - - a « Ga, -DEALER IN— Fine Wines LiqUot*S, CigafS* I'obaccoaiy • 9 * 1 have attached to fty saloon a splendiu mT X N’S.5 ace e<l to come forward auu cattle. a-a. ssagsgi W. I kKlf.
