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ROBERT S. HOWARD, } Editor and Publisher. ( VOLUME I. £cgnf jltloeriiscmcuk 1 EOK(iiIA t Jackson County. M hcreas, C. W. Ilood. Executor of Z. S. Hood, deceased, represents to this Court, hy his petition duly filed, that he has fully and completely ad ministered said deceased's estate, and is entitled to a discharge from said administration — This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in September, 1881, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said count}’, why Let ters of Dismission shoflld not be granted the ap plicant from said trust. (iiven under my official signature, this Mav 30. 1881. 11. W. HELL, Ord’y. (1 IIOICI-IA, Jackson County. jr Whereas. -James L. Williamson, Executor on foe estate of John S. Hunter, late of said county, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land belong ing to the estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in August, 18S1, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. (iven under my official signature, this June 28, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Whereas, James L. Williamson, Administrator on the estate of Thomas Dalton, late of said coun ty, dec'd. applies for leave to sell the land belong ing to the estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday in August, 1881, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. (liven under mv official signature, this June 28, 1881. ’ 11. W. HELL, Ord’y. | |i:oicc;ia , Jaekswii County. Whereas, James Greer. Administrator of Win ney Wiliamson, late of said county, deceased, applies forleave to sell the land and real estate belonging to the estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, before the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in August, 1881, why said leave should not he grant ed the applicant. (liven under my official signature, this -June 28, 1881. 11. W. HELL, Ord’y. UlOlUiilA, Jackson County. Whereas. James L. Williamson, Administrator of M. Williamson, late of said county, dec’d, ap plies for leave to sell the land and real estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, lo show cause, if any, before the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in August, 1881, why said leave should not be grant ed the applicant. (liven under my official signature, this June 28, 1881. 11. W. HELL, Ord’y. Whereas, C. M. Wood. Administrator on the estate of A. M. Loggins, late of said county, de ceased, represents to the Court, by his petition duly filed, that he has fully administered said es tate, and is entitled to a discharge— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881, why said applicant should not have Lctteis of Dis mission from his said trust. Given under my official signature this June 28, 1881. 11. W. HELL, Ord’y. | 1 l-'Olt<xlA, .Incksoii County. Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrator on the estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county, deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully administered said estate, and is therefore entitled to betters of Dismission— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881, why said letters should not be granted the appli cant. Given under my official signature, this Junc2S, 1881. 11. \V. 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Boss' is the only patent case with which there is given a written warrant, of which the following is a fac simile : See that you get the guarantee with each case. Ask your jeweler for illustrated catalogue. JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY. JULY S. ISSI. HVA/VA'Y K\XBC‘£lilAOfc\. [From the Thomasville Times. Sound Talk. Thomas County, Ga., June 1, 1881. Mr. Editor :—As our situation is becom ing so deplorable and so desperate, I beg leave to offer through your paper a few thoughts for the reflection and careful con sideration of our people of the South ; not because they are unaware and unconscious of the but because of a sincere desire to stir up their pure minds in the way of re membrance, and to arouse their sleeping en ergies to a more perfect realization of our lamentable affairs : to such a realization as shall work at least some attempt at reforma tion and improvement. Our situation to day is simply deplorable; almost entirely dependent upon the North and Northwest for “ daily bread’’ and rai ment for ourselves and feed for our stock ; bankrupt at home; in short, the poorest set of land owners “on the face of God’s green earth.” By the providence of God, our lots have been cast here in a fertile land, a pleas sant and healthy climate, capable of produc ing almost every article of food and clothing necessary for man and the entire animal crea tion, with all otlx?r advantages of which any people can boast; and yet, notwithstanding all this, we are a splendid, magnificent fail ure. We have, if properly managed, plenty of the best and cheapest labor in the world for the South. We can raise, on almost every farm in the South, in Georgia, in Thomas count}’, silk, cotton, corn, peas, potatoes, rice, oats, rye, wheat, sugar cane, sorghum, a vari ety of native grasses, almost all manner of vegetables, a large variety of fruits, peaches, apples, pears, figs, plums, oranges, &c,,many different varieties of grapes, with a variety of fruits growing wild in fields and woods; al most all kinds of stock, horses, mules, cows, sheep, goats, hogs, all kinds of domestic fowls, and any variety of dogs. I would not be so tedious in mentioning all these, but for the reason that so many of our planters seem to be convinced that they can raise nothing but cotton, “collat'd greens ,” and dogs. Pause, reader, .and think for only one mo ment. All these things, less the dogs, can and ought to bo raised profitably on almost every farm in the old county of Thomas. We can have something growing both for man and beast from January to January, the entire year round. We seldom have a day too cold or too hot to hinder us from doing a full day’s work. We can wear the cheapest clothing ; can work half the year barefooted, if need be ; can raise all the above mention ed fowls and stock with but little shelter during our coldest winters, and besides they can gather their own living, if you will but raise it for them and put them on it. Such are our advantages by nature, and yet, with plenty of fertile, all-producing land, good labor, freely flowing, never-failing wa ter, abundant timber, railroads, good markets, mills, agricultural machines, factories, prea chers, teachers, lawyers and doctors, wc are notwithstanding poor and bankrupt. Why is it thus? Simply the overproduction of cotton to the neglect of everything else. Our trouble is too much cotton, too much idleness or loss of time, too much credit, too ranch farm, a want of pride and interest in our business, an almost perfect lack of that pub lic, enterprising spirit which keeps a people alive to their immediate interests and neces sities. Now let us make up our minds to be well to-do, thrifty farmers, high minded, honor able gentlemen, the “ bone and sinew” of all other trades and professions, the independent support of our families, and the pride of the nat’on. Let us educate our children equal to any other people, and make our homes the pride of our families. It is not necessary that we be rich to do this; we have only to get “on the right track,” and make schedule time, and that is, “early to bed and early to rise.” go to work, stick to your work, go to toxn only when you have business, have but little to do with politics, never drive an empty wagon to market, always sell more than you buy, pay cash as you go, live within your in come, owe no man, have a surplus of every thing needed about your plantation, make everything not only meet, but lap, don’t try to put on too much land and mules and hire too much laborers, qu't complaining about the merchants’ profits, your doctor bills, law yer fees, railroads, &c., until you get “on the right track” 3'ourselvt-s ; organize just like they have done. Let every plantation be an organization within itself, and then, and not until then, we cau dictate terms to them ; we can then smoke qur cigars, drink lager beer, go to the springs as a summer recreation. Ac. But I must stop this, for fear I will lead you astray, for it is not in your line of busi ness to drink lager beer and seek these sum mer resorts, for you can drink corn and cane beer, and you must be at home during the day and at home during the night, and your wife must be there when you arc there, and there when you are necessarily absent. Well, for the purpose of illustration, we will take up one hard-hearted, desperate, cornless, baconlcss, cotton-sinner, that hath the smell of guano about his person, that knowelh not FOR THE PEOPLE. the ways of the successful farmer, that hath his all mortgaged ; that hath not had a six month rations of home raised provisions in the earliest recollections of his oldest child, that neither fcareth man nor regardeth his own interests, that standeth half dead on his feet, possessed of that evil spirit, king cotton, which keeps him bound in chains and fetters. And his name is Legion. Now let us have this evil spirit cast out, let us have him lifted on his feet again, let us send him on the right track, and let his light shine so that others may see and take heed and do likewise ac cording to the extent of their sin. Since the past cannot be undone, starting then from the first day of June, we will sup pose this old sinner has about 2,000 acres of land, 10 mules, no corn in barn, no bacon, no money, big cotton crop, little corn, but little oats planted, but few hogs, f’ewcows, no but ter, no milk. (Hard is the way of the trans gressor.) Now, friend, from now till the first of January, raise and savejeverything possi ble; do the best yon can with this cotton crop ; start a stock of hogs and cows equal to your necessities; sell otf enough of your property to pay your debts and save enough money to run you at least six months of the year on a casli basis; turn out from one to two acres of your worthless land for each cow to broomsedge, from one to two acres of weeds to each hog; set apart enough land for ground peas, chufas and potatoes to do your hogs from the first of September to March or April; feed a little corn with your weeds till the oats are ready, which, with a patch of sorghum or peas, will last until your ground peas are ready ; give a little salt and ashes occasionally, and you will have plenty of good bacon at a cost of from C to 8 cents, unless the cholera gets among the bogs; if that be the case, try it again. Be sure to raise enough for all in your employment, or have them to do it, for they must be fed and clothed, whether you get pay for it or not. Sow from 10 to 20 acres of oats to the horse, which should be done in the fall; plant in corn enough land to make at least 200 bush els to the horse ; plant enough sugar cane to make an ample supply of sugar and syrup ; raise your flour, if you can; grow all the fruit that will grow around you profitably, together with a large variety of vegetables. And now you are ready for cotton ; plant about \ or I of what you generally plant, and in a short time you will get 20 cents for cot ton, and do it with half the labor we do it now. Manage to raise all the manure you can on your farm ; buy fertilizers, if you are satisfied it pays you ; plow in green vegetable matter ; rest your land ; stock your corn land with “beggar weed,” which will improve it 10 percent, annually; for early oats, if you don’t wish to plant cotton land, plant a weed field in peas in summer and follow with oats in the fall. The raising of sheep doubtless is profitable in many sections, according to the surroundings, though I never tried it. Goats arc profitable, if you can keep them from mischief. As to cows, keep as many as can be profitably raised. As to the labor question, we have plenty of the very best for our use; if 3-011 don't think so, turn out more of your old land. The negro is the laborer for the South ; let 11s train him and educate him the best we can ; he is able, health}’, cheecrful, and contented, and can be fed, clothed, and housed very cheaply; and as for integrity and moral and social worth, that we pass over lightly ; try to make enough to feed and clothe him ; look to his interest as well as to yours, if you don’t some morning you will awake and find him gone west of the Mississippi, and I will say, “ I told you so.” Then I say, hire the negro, rise with him, go with him, stay with him, watch him, carry your own keys, do your own duty, and sec that he does his. Follow the plans above laid down, and my word for it, success will crown your efforts ; and in three years, we will get 20 cts. for cotton, and will have a land abounding in all the necessaries of life ; and every farmer of any industry will be a money lender, and there will be no use for banks, except to put our money in for safe keeping, because no one will want to borrow it, and if there should be no bank convenient, we can have a bank of our own by building up our Colleges, and building us factories. Now, Mr. Editor, desperate cases require dcsperac remedies, and therefore I move that we, the people of the South, meet in solemn convention on the fourth day of July next, at every connty site,' town, and place of meeting in the South, in Georgia, more especially in Thomas county, and declare our independence again and forever of King Cotton, making our ‘‘ Declara tion of Independence,” in resolutions, to the following effect: Resolved 1 st, That we, the farmers of Thomas county, from this, the 4th day cf July, 1881, declare our independence of King Cotton and of the North and West for our daily rations; that we will, for the next 99 years, or during our natural life, try, by the help of Almighty God, to raise plenty of the necessaries of life for our families and county* and our beasts and all creeping things in old Thoma3 county ; that we will henceforth and forever plant only one-half the cotton we have been planting, ad, furthermore, we bind our j heirs and executors and administrators to the same course. Resolved 2nd , That wc, the farmers of I’homas county, in convention assembled request the merchants, more especially those of this place, and all others friendly to the cause of independence of King Cotton and the North, on and after one year from this date, neither to aid or abet in any wav, any man, without regard to either race, color, or previous condition, in the over-production of cotton. Resolved 3rd, That our county papers publish these proceedings, requesting all papers friendly to the welfare of mankind to copy. P- S. —Mr. Editor, I thought I had finished ; but I have become • bilious’ on this subject. Some, who have never tried the plaus, which I have suggested, may think them extravagant. Not so ; for I positively have followed them, in the main, for the last fifteen years with regular success up to date, and though I have not made a fortune, I have made an in dependent living. Neither have I attained to that degree of a farmer and high-toned country gentleman that I desire the farmer to be, and for which, there is no good reason why thev should not be. For the sake of proving up my position, I will state that I have been farming with from 10 to 40 plows—say an average of 20—over}’ year since the war (pardon me for mentioning the number of plows; I do so simply to show what can be done on any size farm); that I have raised on an average an ample supply of corn, bacon, oats, sugar, syrup, and other farm products, too tedious to mention, for laborers under my employment ; that I have been raising about as much cotton as my neighbors. But, “in the course of human events,” it has become necessary for me to make a change, an*l I want the farmers all to join me in the good work before it is everlastingly too late. It is necessary to make a change for these reasons : the oat crop for the last few years has been very uncertain, my corn land isgetting poorer; less than two years ago the cholera killed nearly all ray stock hogs, the price of bacon and cotton has become so unhealthy that I can not make “ schedule time” much longer. Now I propose to make the connection by putting off half cotton and substituting more corn, oats and weeds for my hogs, rest more land, raise more hogs, have more time for ol her things, feed fewer mules, feed and pay fewer laborers, cultivate better land, and let my neighbors have more land and labor. Brother farmers, let us all put our “ shoulders to the wheel,” make a hard push, strong pull, and pull altogether, and soon we shall have plenty 6 cts. bacon, 20 cts. cotton, and plenty of money; then shall wc be on the road to success, and then shall wc be able to make “schedule time.” John I. Parker. Arp’s Crop. They say that heat expands things and I reckon it must be so for the corn rows in our low ground are right smart. longer than ever I knew them. We have just finished laying by one field of twelve acres and it was to thin out and dress off after the culti vator and the rows arc nearly a quarter of a mile long and the corn is well up to a man’s shoulders, and the ground was hot and the air dry and sultry, and nary a tree at either end and no way to dodge— no gentle breeze, no shade, no unbcrell. It’s pull up and chop, and pull up and chop till the horn blows for dinner, and the same thing after dinner and the days are as long as the corn rows and by sundown a feller is wet all over and dusty and dirty and tired, but it wont do to let down or cave in and so after a good bath and a change of clothes he feels renewed and can talk big and the boys and young folks have a musical sworrec mostevery night, and last night they all cut out to a sociable country dance and got back about two o’clock in the morning and they left the baby with me and Mrs. Arp or Mrs. Arp and me to tend to and the little thing woke up as usual about the wrong time and wanted its mamma and she was gone and Mrs. Arp couldent do any. thing with it, and I had to walk it and walk it and sing to it and trot it on my knee and rub its little back and elsewhere until away after midnight, when wc both give it up and went to sleep together. Its been along time since I played that part in the comedy of life, and I had sorter lost the lick and forgot some of the old songs, but they all came back to me very natural—” Julianna Johnson” and “ Way Down in Shinbone Alley” and all, and when I get too old to do anything else I reckon I can make a living nursing my grand children, but my wife, Mrs. Arp, she says she has done her share and her children must look after their own young ones, though she is willing to oversec-the business and tell how it ought to be done. I like overseeing, its a stately, dignified sort of a business. Mrs. Arp makes a queenly overseer, and can see over as much in a day as anybody. She can see grease spots, and fly specks, and cob webs, and dirty clothes all about when nobtd j else can. When she goes off on a visit wc let things run their own way until the day before she comes back, and then there is a general cleaning up, and we make believe the house and yard has been that wav a]ljime. TLicit \ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO for Six Months. is nothing like a household having a good overseer. Wei!, wc have laid by a good part of tho corn crop and its done with until fodder pulling. No hard work in July and its not recorded that we will pull any fodder in August. It hurts the corn sonic and wc can buy it at 90 cents a hundred in the fall and sell it to the cotton growers next spring for $2.50, and we've got a barn full of clover and there's more to come from the second crop, and the crab grass will be numerous and can be mowed with the mower, and the oats will fill up everything, and so I reckon the corn crop will soon be all done except the gather ing, but these poor cotton makers have got to work and sweat and grunt all the summer long, and on until Christmas, and be in an everlasting strain and stew all the time. Then the}' will sell for about what it cost to mako it, or perhaps less, and if there is an\* profit at all the speculator will get it. It would seem a great calamity for cotton to get down to 7 or 8 cents next fall, but I reckon it would be the best thing for our people, for its better, to break all over at once than to be breaking, little I)}- little all the time. It wauhj teach ’em a lesson that nothing else will. We will reap our oats next week, and then comes the thrashing business in general, and that is a big frolic of a day, for.,the traveling thrash slips in on us by sunrise and does its wqfk in a hurry and is gone... It takes up its tent, . like an Arab, and silently steals awa3 r . Then the children frolic and turn summersets in the hig straw pile. Hut our straw is not going to be thrown around loose this 3 T car., Wo have built a rack pf.piop .polps, all skinned, a big one, and it is in,the shape of the letter W, only there arc twQ, of’them together, and they arc bracyd and supported by long posts in the ground, and when filled, with straw the cattle can, take shelter under neath it and cat between the poles all muter. On the whole I think wq are getting along pretty well in this sublunary world, consider ing that we haven't got any bank or railroad or manganese mine and I don’t belong to no syndicMe nor the republican party. Wc arc living pretty high now. Yesterday we had blackberries, and dewberries, and mulberries, and huckleberries and rasberries all pt ono time, besides cherries and plums and all sorts of vegetables. You see it was my birthday and Mrs. Arp she will put on culinary airs, on a family birthday especially mine. Spring chickens and pies and custard, ct cetera and so forth, and there is a power of birthda\’s in this famil3’, counting children,,, and grandchildren, and cver3 r one of era must , be a little extra, and if wc perish between times wc revive again on a birthday, so I j reckon it’s all right, for if wc had big dinners every day we would soon cease to enjoy cm. There is one thing wc are enjoying now ap well as we can, though I’m prepared to say there’s tilings in nature I .enjoy more than red bugs. It keeps me busy loqking for em on the children and greasing etp.with salti, butter; but I tell em they are a healthy insect, for the3’ keep the pores of the skin open and save doctor's bills. I never knew anybody to die while red bugs were lotting em—and it's better to save life t>3 r a scratch than not, save it at all. Bill Aup. The Old or the New., Just as the church bells were ringing their nine o'clock chime yesterday, Mr. .Smiley remarked to Hannah, “ Pass me the l>ook.” “ Which will yon have, Ichabod, the old or the new version ?” and she brushed the,, crumbs from her apron and reached for the mantle piece. ‘‘Hannah, as long as I live I shall read from that old leather covered Hible. The first thing I|remembcr about my grandfather was his reading the parable of the foolish virgins from that very book. I was a wco little boy then, but I remember I cried, and asked grandma If she couldn’t spare some oil. for those who were left outside. And then, Hannah, I’ve heard my father read from that very same hook thousands of times. That book,” and he patted the open pages lovingly, •‘that book is old, the leaves are yellow with time, but it is sacred in this house. It has been in service at every wedding and birth and funeral in the family for nigh on to a hundred years, and every morning and ever}* evening has some good truth been read from it. No, Hannah, the new version may do for the young folks, but you and 1, with the gates of heaven just turning their hinges for us, have no time to fo.>l witli it. I will read this morning the last chapter of Revelation, and let the glory of the future shine upon us and do our hearts good.” And as he -turned his. eyes to the printed page there was a thick mist on bis glasses. —Nevj Haven Register. In Self Defense. .According to the Georgetown (Del.) In quirer, the old salts who live down at Hen lopen are a pitiless, not to say hard, crowd. That paper says : Some seaman wandering along the Rehobotli beach last winter found a drowned man. They took the corpse up, carried it to Captain Tredendick’s bar-room, stood it up at the corner of the bar and went out and told Tredendick a friend wanted to treat the crowd. The crowd drank and left. To Tredwick's surprise he could get neither money nor answer from the corpse, and be coming enraged struck him. lie fell to the floor with a thud. liecoming scared he called on the man’s friends, and each solemnly de clared the fellow was dead. Tredendick, white as a sheet and with trembling voice, was at first dumbfounded, but at last he ex. clai Dcd : “ NVell. I did it in self-defense; he dn wji kjiiCa. '- ■ 7 ‘ - 1 1 ' NUMBER 20.