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The Crawford County Herald.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
W. J. McAFKE, Editor and Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR.
Crawford County Farmers.
If there is any class of people among
the citizens of Crawford county, who
merit the good will and appreciation of
those in other avocations, that class is
represented by our agriculturists, the
toiling, self-sacrificing farmers, their
wives and children. If any favors are to
be bestowed upon one portion of our
population in preference to another,
through the channel of legislative enact¬
ment, we would s^v, by all means, let
those who till the "soil become primary
recipients. Through their agency, what¬
ever is required for the sustenance of life,
originates as well as the production or
creation of a circulating medium which
contributes so materially to the profit and
progress of commerce in its varied
branches.
We believe there are as many substan¬
tial and successful farmers in this country?
population and natural resources consid¬
ered, as can be found in any other. We
can justly claim that they are as intelli¬
gent and progressive in their chosen line
of business as others, and that they are
altogether susceptible to increased
knowledge, and its application in their
special field of labor. And, besides, the
farmers of Crawford county, as a class
through their own exertions and often
surrounded by unfavorable circumstances,
have won for themselves a good name and
an enviable reputation among those with
whom they have had business relations.
The assertion has been made by parties in
mercantile circles in reference to the
farmers of Crawford county that they were
more prompt and more exact than others
in the discharge of their business obliga¬
tions. This places them on a high plane
of moral uprightness and integrity of
purpose. By honest endeavor they have
merited the praise, and, in simple justice,
it should be accorded them.
We confidently expect to witness still
greater progress in agricultural pursuits in
our country. The continued introduction
of new ideas and improved methods of
farming, a renewed interest and zeal
manifested by the inmates of our country
homes, teuding toward the improvement
and beautifying of the same, the natural
consequence of which will be to confer
upon all contentment, prosperity and
happiness.
NEGROES FOR MEXICO.
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE TAKES A HAND IN
» TIIEIU COLONIZATION.
A dispatch from Houston, Texas, sayss
W. II. Ellis, colored, who is heading a
big scheme to colonize the negroes from
Texas into the State of Chihauhau, Mex¬
ico, arrived thcie from the City of Mexico
on Monday, on route to New York, where
he will meet the members of a wealthy
English syndicate, with whom lie will
close the sale of the lauds in Mexico,
amounting to several hundred
thousand acres, and containing
gold, .silver and coal mines.
He stated that he had agents at Houston
who would start with two hundred fami¬
lies of negroes for Chihuuhua next mouth,
where they would locate iu two towns
just laid out and now being built, The
above named syndicate is interesting colonists
itself in the movement. The
will be transported by the company uni]
supported for a year, if necessary. He
expects to take several thousand negroes
from tin; South to locate iu Mexico,
where the government has granted two
million acres of land for that uuruose
A COSTLY SMOKE. ,
TOBACCO WAREHOUSES BURNED IN RICH¬
MOND, VA.
Saturday night fire was discovered pro¬
ceeding from the windows of the Durham
Stemming and Tobacco factory at Rich¬
mond, Ya. The fire spread with fright¬
ful rapidity, and the adjoining factories
of Alexander,Cameron & Co., and Came¬
ron & Tver were soon a mass of flames
which the firemen were powerless to sub¬
due until the buildings and contents were
destroyed. The factories burned were all
four story brick buildings. The loss of
Cameron & Tver is estimated at $200,-
000; Durham fertiiizing mills, $20,000,
fully insured.
A NOELE BENEFACTOR.
IIOW MR. CHANTELOUP DISPOSED OF HIS
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
Mr. Chantcloup, the brass founder,
who recently died in Montreal, Canada,
left his entire fortune to his employes,
except a few thousand dollars,
which were lu-queatbed to charity,
The estate is valued at $“00.000. Each
of the 500 workmen receives $400, and
the balance is left to three foremen, who
are to carry on the business with it. Mr.
Chantcloup was a Frenchman, and had
to flee from Paris during the riot there.
He settled in Canada and built up a large
business.
The Anti-Slavery Society of Great
Britain is organizing an armed expedi¬
tion to proceed to L ike Tanganyika,
in Central Africa. The objict is to
police the lake and prevent the passage
of slave’caravans. The country to the
Vest of Tanganyika has for y#ars bc.-i
the chief source of slaves. Cardinal
Livigerie an 1 Commander Cameron are
in favor of fighting the slave trade ia
this way.
A veritable battle has been going on
over John Gardner ani his family in
New York. Gardner is an able and
energetic carpenter, with a wife and six
children, whom the Emigration Com¬
missioners kept virtually a prisoner on
Ward’s Islaud for threp months, be¬
cause of sorao notion that he was likely
to become a pauper. The collector of
the port insisted that he should be lib¬
erated, and the Commissioners refused
to give him up.
A student at Ilelsingborg, Germany,
recently sued a physician there for hav¬
ing hypnotized him against Im will.
At the hearing of the case the various
witnesses fur the plaintiff kchaved in a
most extraordinary manner—their testi¬
mony, in fact, being utterly nonsensi¬
cal. The court became quite bewil¬
dered, and great confusion prevailed
until it became apparent that the wit¬
nesses were being hypnotized by one of
the counsel engagod in the case, who
made them say whatever he liked.
The affair has caused considerable sen¬
sation.
The execution some weeks since of a
man for murder in Andalusia, Spain,
twenty-four hours after a reprieve had
been actually signed by the Queen and
forwarded, has occasioned so much ex¬
citement in that country that the gov¬
ernment ha9 drawn up a bill to give to
a telegraphic message in. such cases the
force of a formil written order, In
this case the authorities charged with
the execution were notified by telegraph
that the reprieve had been signed and
was then on its way, but they insisted
that they were powerless to delay the
execution in the absenco of formal doc¬
uments.
They do not intend to encourage the
enterprise of foreigners in Sweden. A
new law provides that any foreigner
who has not paid taxes for tho current
year to the Swedish government, who
travels about the country, either on his
own account or that of another, to sell
foreign wares, for future delivery,
must, on entering the country, send a
written declaration to the nearest col¬
lector of taxes, slating liow long he in¬
tends to remain and inclosing the sum
of $27—for each month or part of a
month which he intends to remain. The
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tax is cxuc’el for the privilege of car-
rying on business.
D vorces, according to the report of
tho Unite! Stales Commissioner of
Labor, have been granted in this coun¬
try for tho following curious causes:
‘•One woman was granted a divorco be¬
cause her husband persisted in coming
home at 10 o'clock at night and keeping
her awake talking. This sho called
mental crueltr, and the court agreed
with her. Another woman secured a
dkrorce because her liuibaud cut off her
bangs by force, and still another be¬
cause her spouse refused to cut his tee
nails. Oae wife’s feelings were lacera¬
ted to the point of legal separation be¬
cause her husband would not wash him¬
self, thus cruising her mental anguish.
The sensibilities of another wife were
outraged past cure because her husband
said her sister was a thief. One man
got a divorco because his wife didn’t
sew on his butt-ms ”
Breaking Into Safes.
The favorite method iif modern burg¬
lars is absolute breaking of a safe.
This is done by the application of pow¬
er, ul lever:. Tue burglars have
learned the lesson of Archimedes, who
said that if he could only find a place
to rest his lever he would move the
world. The safe itself supplies to the
skillful burglar the most solid fu’crum,
and the combination or sectional “jim¬
my” a tool whose power is almost un¬
limited. The d.fferent sections of this
“jimmy” are adjustable, so that a burg¬
lar may carry in his pocket enough
sections to make a lever twenty feet
fong if need be. Such a tool inserted
in a crack or a hole made for tne pur¬
pose, or a fissure in the framework of a
safe, will tear the stoutest iron as easily
asawemm tears a strip of cloth.—
2feio York Sun.
THE GUACH0S.
Dashing Cowboys of the Argen¬
tine Republic.
Their Picturesque Costumes
and Desperate Combats.
The Guachos of the Argentine Re¬
public, says the New Aork Sun, are
the children of Spanish adventurers and
the native Guarani Indian women.
These are the nomads of the pampas.
They are a unioue comb.nation of the
most chivalric and treacherous qualities.
Indolent and a: the same time of the
most intense activity, half their lives is
spent in the saddle, and in horseman¬
ship they are unexcelled. They despise
work, vet many of them are forced to
hive out to the more wealthy Irishmen
because, like the North American
Indian, the enormous immigration dur¬
ing the past decade has force 1 them to
labor for subsistence A few of them
own ranches, but, a? a rule, they roam
the open pampas as free and unfettered
as the air they breathe, The Guachos
at maturity are from 5 feet C to C feet
6 in height, and are posvcrfully built.
They wear sombreros and poncho
blankets, valued at from $10 to $50.
Tho legs are covered with cotton
drawers mide in the United States, and
the lower leg, from the ankle to the
knee, is thrust into the skin taken from
the fore'eg of a young horse. On the
feet are worn sandals made of woven
rope and canvas. Many of the more
prosperous Guachos w r ear top-boots
ornamented with unique devices, like
the cavaliers of old.
The soles of these sandals are about
half an inch in thickness. They are
valued at 50 cents per pair. As a rule
the Guacho has silver enough on his
horse to buy an ordinary house and lot.
The stirrups, bit and bridle are often
of solid silver. The Guacho standing
is measured iii thecamp3 by the amount
of silver on his horse and on person.
This dashing cavalier defends himself
only with a knife. This is short and
shaped much like a s mall butcher knife.
The blade is about six or eight inches
in length. They fight frequently
among them-elve3. These battles urn-
ally originate at a pul peri l, or drink¬
ing place. The fire-water which causes
the combat is called cana. and is dis¬
tilled from sugar cane in much the
same manner as your own whiskey is
made. It is a very pleasant liquor of
about one-half the strength of Ameri¬
can tanglefoot. It costs about 41 cents
a quart. This liquor is curried in glass
or leather- c ivered bottles. At first the
Guachos are as friend y as brothers,
but as soon as the liq.nr begins to take
hold one will challenge the other to
mortal combak The fight takes place
in tho open air, and there is always a
large and interdict crowd looking on.
The Guacho prepares himself for the
battle by wrapping his left ha id in his
poncho. lie folds it around his flish,
covering up the left hand an l the arm
up to the body. A3 it is made usually
of tho very finest material, this poncho
furnishes a shield which is rarely cut
through by the knife. All the prelim¬
inaries are settled in the most punctili¬
ous manner, anl no unfair advantage
is taken by cither.
Nobody interferes. When each has
arranged liis curious shield to his liking
the left arms aro thrust in front of the
body, the light foot is advanced, the
gleaming knives are raised over their
heads and with a mutual cry of
“Ancar!” (look out) they spring at each
other. After the fight is begun it usu¬
ally means death to one or both mon.
Agile and wily as panthers, those cruel
blades are driven through muscl4 and
bone until a vital spot is reached.
Sometimes the battle endtinuus for half
an hour so expert are they in* parrying
the deadly timr-f with their poncho-
covered left nr ns.
Historic Mansions in Washington.
A uumber of the Senators live ia his
toric quarters, writes Frank G. Carpen¬
ter in a Washington letter to the New
York World. Senator Cameron paid
$67,000 some years ago for the old
Ogle Tayloa mansion on Lafayette
Square. It is a three-story brick of a
dirty yellow, with an iron portico run¬
ning along the second story above an
English basement. The front door is
painted olive grccu and the lower story
contains the office of the Senator
his reception-room. The parlors are on
the second floor, and the house is nicely
furnished. Ia this house Ifcive been en-
tertained all of the Presidents since the
days of Andrew Jackson, and Winfield
Scott and Martin Van Buran have often
put their legs under the mahogany in
its dining-room. One day when Geueral
Scott was dining here a violent hail¬
storm occurred, smashing the windows
and bringing down lumps of ice the
size of hickory nuts. These hailstones
were brought to the table, and Scott,
as he dropped one of them into his
wineglass, said:
‘ Ladies, we will cool our champagne
with celestial ice.”
Just below this house of Cameron’s is
the home of Secretary Blaine. He rents
the house, but he has refurnished and
repainted it. You enter the ground
floor from the street through an olive-
green doorway and you find the parlors
on the second floor. The drawing¬
room is furnished in salmon tint and
the woodwork aird mantels are of pearl-
white. The dining-room is on the
ground floor an i its walls are hung
with crimson tapestry and the chairs
are upholstero l in red leather. The
sideboard is of oil oak anl the whole
house is adorned with the pic:ures and
bric-a-brac which Secretary Blaine
picked up in E irope. This house and
lot is worth now at least $100, 000 and
the lot would bring $51,000 under the
hammer. Still it was once sold for a
jackass and it was Henry Clay who sold
it. It is just across the street from the
White house and Clay had often re¬
fused to sell it. O le day, however, old
Commodore Roge;s came home from
the Mediterranean with his naval vessel
full of live stock which he had picked
up abroad. One of day’s hobbies was
stock farming, and Rogers’s cargo in¬
cluded one fiao Andalusian jackass.
Clay saw it and wanted it. The Com¬
modore refused to sell, but at last said
laughingly:
“You can have him for your lot op¬
posite the White house.”
“Done,’’ said Clay, and the animal
was shipped off to Kentucky. Commo¬
dore Rogers built a big four-story brick
on the ground, and this brick has been
the scene of many a Washington festiv¬
ity. In it Blaine will entertain this
winter, and in it Seward dined the di¬
plomats when he was secretary oi
state.
The “Runner” and the Policeman
The saying that one-half of the world
doe3 not know how the other half lives
is verified every day in this great city
to a person of an observant turn of
mind. Perhaps, however, there is less
known about the curious ways of mak¬
ing a living out of the crowds of immi¬
grants who surge through Castle Garden
than almost any other of t ie peculiar
vocations in winch metropolitan life
abounds. Tins fact was brought home
to the writer forcibly the other day as
he observed a transaction which took
place between a “runner” for an immi¬
grant boarding-house an l a gray-coated
policeman who was stationed in Battery
Park, close to the Castle Garden walls.
The business of the boarding-house
“runner” is to “drum” up all the trade
he can for the particular establishment
he represents, nnd he is not over-nice in
lii3 way of doing it. Under the rules
he is excluded from the interior of the
garden, if it is supposed that he is
going there to solicit trade. ' Now, a
friendly pol'ceman can help him a great
deal, and it was the procest of eithe
making or keeping one frieully tint
the writer observed with great interest
the other day.
The scope of the incident was at one
of the little houses, or sentry-boxes,
where the park policeman is wont to
seek re it an l seclusion. Up came the
“runner,” and, observing that the door
was shut, he folded a greenback into an
exceedingly small wad and stuck it in
the keyhole. Tiiea he sought the po-
lic min, who was close at hand and
snid: “Someone has been stopping up
your keyhole; yon had better go and
see about it at oacc.” The officer did
so, and had the money out of the aper -
ture quicker than one could shut up a
jackknife. Of course he could not tell
where it came from and therefore*could
not return it. The “runner” figured
merely as the opportune discoverer. It
is shrewdly suspected, however, that if
any immigrant family should ask that
officer to direct them to a good board¬
ing place, he would not forget that of
his friend, unless his recollection be¬
came confuted. This might possibly
happen if a competing “runner” should
come along pretty quick and discover
that the keyhole had been stopped up
again with a more expensive bit of
wadding. —-Y ?ic York Tribune.
CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
BY-AND-BY.
There's a little mischief-making
E'fin, who is ever nigh,
Thwarting every undertaking,
And his name is By-and-by.
What we ought to do this minute
“Will be better done,” he’ll cry,
If tomorrow we begin it,
“Put it off,” says By-and-by.
Those who heed his treacherous wooing
Will his faithless guidance rue;
What we always put off doing,
Clearly we shall never do;
We shall reach what we endeavor
If on Now we more rely;
But unto the realms of Never,
Leads the pilot By-and-by.
WELL-TRAINED MONKEYS AND RATS.
An Italian with two remarkably well-
trained monkeys and a family of trained
white rats is coining money on the
streets of this city. So well trained
are the monkeys and rats that at the
word of command one of the monkeys
takes a rat in his arms in the same man¬
ner a mother would hold a baby. The
other monkey plays the doctor, and not
only does lie look at the rat’s tongue,
but he pours wa'.er from a bottls into a
tiny spoon and gives his patient a dose
of medicine.
Both monkeys dress themselves with¬
out any assistance from their master in
complete suits of clothes, even to the
stockings and shoes, lacing up the lat¬
ter and tying the strings neatly and se.
curely. To prove the thoroughness of
their training, the reporter was told to
pick up the coat belonging to one of
the monkeys and, unobserved by the ani-
mal, turn one of the sleeves inside out.
This was done and the coat placed
back again. The monkey after several
attempts to put the coat on, took it en¬
tirely off, discovered and righted the
turned sleeve and then angrily chatter-
ing at being interfered with, slipped on
the garment and went on with his part
of the show .—San Franc sco Examiner.
uncle piiil’s story.
“Toll us a 3tory, Uncle Phil,” said
Rob and Archie, running to him.
“What about! 1 sa:d Uncle Pail, as
Rob clirabel oa his right knee and
Archie on his left.
‘Oh, about something that happened
to y o a,” said Rob.
“Something when you were a little
boy,” said Archie.
“Once when I was a little boy,”
said Uncle Phil, ‘Tasked my mother
to let Roy and myself go and play by
the river. ’’
“Was Roy your brother?” asked
Rob.
4 4 No; but he was very fond of play¬
ing with me. My mother said yes; so
we went ani lmd a good deal of sport.
“After a wliile I took a shingle for a
boat and sailed it along the bank. At
last it began to get into deep water,
where I couldn’t reach it with a stick.
Then I told II >y to go and bring it to
me.
“He almost always did what I told
him, but this time he did not. I be-
gan scolding him and he rax towards
home.
“Then I wa3 very angry. I picked
up a stone and threw it at him as hard
as I could.”
“O Uncle Phil!” said Archie.
“Just then Roy turned hi s heal and
it struck him right over his eye.”
“O Uncle Puil!” cr.e 1 li>b.
“Yes, it made him slugger. He gave
a little cry and lay down on the
ground. '
“But I was still angry with him. #1
did not go to him, but waded into the
water for my boat.
“But it was deeper than I thought.
Before 1 knew it I was in a strong cur-
rent. I screamed as it carried me down
stream; but no men were near to help
me.
“Bu*, as I went down under the deep
waters, something took hold of mo and
dragged me towards shore. And when
I was-safe on the bank I saw it was
Roy. He had saved my life.”
“Good fellow! Was he your cousin?”
asked Rob. t
“What did you say to him?” asked
Archie.
“I put my arms around the dear fel¬
low’s neck and cried, and asked him to
forgive me.”
“What did he say?” asked Rob.
“He sail ‘Bow, wow, wow!”
“Why, who was Roy, anyway?”
asked Archie, in great astonishment.
“He was my dog,” said Uncle Phil—
“the best dog I ever saw. I hav«
never been unkind to a dog or to any
other animal since, and I hope you
never wii! be.”— Our L ttle Onet.