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8, DON. McLEOD Editor.
The two would lie rulers of Hayti,
are still hanging away at each other.
They will probably wind up like the kil
kenny cats.
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A bloodless duel between Pat Calhoun
ana J. D. Williamson, is said to have
appeased the godess of honor. What a
queer, capricious old jade she must be!
Tomorrow is the day appointed by
Judge Gustin for Tom Woolfolk to meet
his murdered father, mother, sisters and
brother on the shores of eternity.
Americus has become such a great
railroad centre that t lie citzens have pe
titioned the city council not to allow any
more railroad tracks to cross Jackson
street.
It strikes us that the groomers of gub
natorial racers are trotting out their can
didates rather early, the election for
governer is a long way off yet.
The taxable property of Georgia is
said to be piling up encourageingly, the
returns show an increase over last years
running high up in the millions. Atlan
ta and Columbus, showing the greatest
increase.
If the legislature is to waste the larger
part of each session in quibbling over
the state railroad question, we had bet
ter get rid of the thing as soon as possi
ble. Sell it for what it will bring or
even to give it away would be money
saved to the tax payers.
The editor of the Buena Vista Patriot
rolls out all the Georgia editors on the
rolling business, he claims to have an
old roller that has been rolling since 18-
82 that out rolls all the rollers that have
rolled iu his office since it began to roll.
“Let’er roll” Brother Christopher.
There is nothing small about Ran
dolph county, judging from two large
well gotton up newspapers she supports
(and there is no better way of judging a
county than by its newspapers) Now she
is considering getting up a big county
fair and contesting for the$l,0U0, premi
um at the state fair.
At a big Alliance meeting near Adairs
ville last Friday the wife of Dr. Felton
took the stump, a la Susan B. Anthony,
and made a rousing speech in the defence
of her husband. The Doctor's rather
slippery political positions, needs lots of
defending, and now if the Doctor will go
home, don amotherhubbardand devote
Ms talents to the kitchen and house
keeping the change would no doubt be
beneficial to Georgia politics.
This seems to be an age of monuments,
after erecting monuments all over the
land to the heroes of the present day.
T he American people have gone back to
look after the memories of the heroes of
the past. A two hundred thousand dol
lar monument to perpetuate the ment
or/ of the pilgrim fathers has just been
unveiled at Plymouth landing.
The people of Houston county are so
enthused over the disposition of their
peai'h crop this summer that every avail
a ile acre of within two iniies of Fort
at ev t mt can be bought or leased will
he planted m peach trees this fall, on
account of the enormous peach crop of
t ns year. It is estimated that fully half
a million fruit trees will lie growing
around that town next spring.
A famine is reported in Samoa and we
would not be surprised to hear soon of
the same in Hayti, These little onehorse
governments, that got along shabbily at
best cannot long survive the devastation
of local revolutions. After their people
have worn themselves to a fraz fighting
and starvation stalks in their midst, it
will make precious little difference to
them who enjoys the questionable hon
or of ruling the land.
We thought the railroad commission
was created and maintained for tl»e ex
press purpose of protecting the people
against the impositions, discriminations,
and combinations of large and powerful
railroad corporations. lithe com miss
ion has not sufficient power to do this
and give all the protection that is claim
ed for the Olive bill, the legislature
ought to invest it with more. If it can
not be made strong enough to aceom _
plish the object for which it was creat
ed. then it is a poor thing and ought to
be abolished altogether.
REUNION YESTERDAY.
HUNDREDS OF OLD VETERANS
MEET AND SHAKE HANDS—WIDE
OPEN HOSPITALITY OF AMERICUS.
ELOQUENT AND TOUCHING ADDRESSES
—A MOTHER WHOSE SON CaME BACK NO
MORE-SUMTER, THE GRANDEST COUN
TY ON THE GRANDEST CONTINENT—
Plenty to eat and to leave.—A DOUBLE
REUNION WITH US.—MEETING OLD FRIENDS
AND SCHOOL-MATES OF 25 YEARS AGO—
A REALIZATION OF OUR BRIGHTEST
ANTICIPATIONS.
The Veterans reunion, and big barbe
cue at Americus yesterday was a success.
Hundred of old confederates poured in
from all the surrounding counties. The
tide began Tuesday and continued stead
ily until late yesterday morning. The
surviving defenders of the lost cause
found the doors of every house in Amer
icus thrown wide open to them, ‘•No
hotel bills for old veterans,” was the or
der of the day. At 8 o’clock yesterday
A. M. all met at the old court house and
badges bearing the names of the regi
ment or batalion and the battles in
which it had been engaged, were distrib
uted to the respective commands.
A piece of artillery in the grove near
the depot began at 9 o’clock to boom the
national salute, and enlivening strains
of martial music floated from the band
stand on the public square. The ad
dress of welcome by Hon. C. F. Crisp,
began at 10,30, Replete with patriotic
sentiment and eloquent pathos, it touched
a responsive chord in the heart of every
one present.
Out a few paces from the rostrum we
noticed sitting in a carriage, an aged
mother. As her form, now bent by age
and sorrow, leaned forward to catch the
words of the speaker we, could see the si
lent tear drops steal from her eye and
trickled down her withered cheek. The
cause for those silent tears; we need not
ask. Too well do we remember, when a
blithesome, manly son, was the hope,
the pride and the idol of that poor old
mother’s heart, and when the thunders
of canon announced the approach of an
invading foe, sorrowfully she arrayed
her only son in the paraphanalia of war,
and impressing upon his boyish brow a
mother s fondest kiss, bid him, “Go my
son an d do your duty!” Like a true
Southern son, he did his duty, but alas!
^iss was the last Impress of a moth
er ’ s hps. To-day, the blood-stained sod
"Virginia's immortal battle fields cov
ers the gallant form of her idolized boy,
wbde the gentle breezes raurmer a sad
requiem over his unmarked grave, and
whispers hopes of that glorious reunion,
beyond the mysterious portals of a God
promised eternity.
Over the speaker’s stand, gently tos-i
ed by the passing zephers, floated one
of the bullet ridden battle flags of Catts’
Artillery. Baptised in the heart’s-blood
of some of Sumter’s most gallant sons,
and hedewed with the tears of her fair
es f daughters, this old banner had wav
ed in the midst of battles most furious
clamor, and was lowered only after the
ech ^ 8 of last gu n bad died away on
6 13taut - 11 M Mrginia and its gal
, an e en ^ rs ou * : numbered,
* o\ er
J wered and almost annihilated, had
down their arms and accepted the
stern . arbitrament of war. The unfurl
ing of this tattered emblem of Southern
devotion, was greeted by an out-burst
of most enthusiastic applause from
those who had followed it on many a
crimson battle fields.
The speakers were introduced by Col
A . 8. Cutts, whose old command, com
prised as gallant a hand of heroes as ever
marched in battle array. The touch 0 f
time has frosted his locks and lurrowed
his cheeks, but his form is as erect and
voice as clear as when seen and heard,
giving commands above the din and
clatter of battle’s fearful carnage. In
introducing Henry W. Grady, Esq., the
silvery-tongued orator of Georgia, he rc
fered to him as the worthy son of a gal
lant old confederate soldier, entitled to
all the courtesies due to an old soldier
himself.
Mr. Grady delivered one of his charac
teristic soul-stiring addresses, heaping
eulogiums upon the valor and heroism
of the southern soldiers, the highest en
comiums upon the sacrificing fidelity
and patient devotion of the southern
women, and winding up, it is said by
some of the farmers present, with a
mwt * xce,le nt alliance speech. Hisdis
course was leaned . to with the utmost
P ‘tience and greeted oft-times by en
Uuisla8t,c applause,
At tbe conclusion of Mr. Grady’s ad
dr «S8, the old veterans formed in line
and n,ar ched to the cotton warehouse
and com press sheds of the S. A. M. R. R.
cornm a ! ided by Col. Cutts, marshal of
* be da T* Under the compress sheds
were barrels of ice-cold water and a
o° unt ®ous supply of most delicious lem
which flawed as freely as the
glistening dew-drops from the starry
vaults of Heaven.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
A ft e/jesting and cooling off, the old
veteraris were urshered into the long and
spacious warehouse, where long lines of
tables stood laden with two hundred of
the fatest beeves, pigs, muttons, and
kids that Sumter count/ could afford,
nicely barbecued and the etcaetera to go
with it. With that generous welcome pe
culiar to the people of Sumter, the old
vets, and all their kith and kin were in
vited to help themselves and they did
it with a hearty good will.
It is estimated that about 10.000 people,
big, little, young and old. male and fe
male, partook of the dinner’ yet there
were many baskets full left.
After many hand shakings, mutual
congratulations and thrilling recitals
of war-time experience the visiting vet
erans departed for their respective
homes, favorably impressed with the
energy and enterprise of the growing
little city of Americus which is rapidly
becoming the metropolis of southwest
Georgia, and pleased with the open
handed hospitality extended them by the
people of Sumter, the grandest county
in the grandest state in the grandest re
public, on the grandest continent under
the sun.
To the editor of the Nrws, the occa
sion was a double reunion. Besides
shaking, for the first time since, the
hand of many an old soldier, whose de
parture from Americus in all the pomp
and circumstance of war, we had watch
ed with the adulation of boyish pride,
and whose dangers and hardships we
shared in Sherman’s front, ere the cruel
struggle had ended, we met again,
most of the playmates of our early days.
To again meet in Sumter county, after
he lapse of a quarter of a cenrury. the
friends of our youth and playmates of
our first school days, was the culmina
tionof our most cheerished anticipa
tions. There, were the boys with whom
we had played town ball and bull pen
in the old field near the old school house,
shot pop guns and rolled marbles, under
the broad spreading china trees that bor
dered the long lane in front, played deer
and dog, through the thickly wooded
forest near by, chased the passer-by, who
dared to halloo, “School butter!” There
were the bright-eyed little girls of yore,
for whom we gathered the wild flowers
and climbed the trees for luscious fruits
There too, was the demure little maiden
whose sweet girlish face haunted our
earliest dre ams of love and whose smile
of appro; ation used to swell our boyish
heart like the leaven in a big apple
dumpling. But O! what changes the
mutable touch of time has wrought!
In the sedate matron of to-day. bearing
a name, to us entirely unfamiliar, ad
dressed by great strapping boys and
grown up girls, by the endearing title
of mother, we woukl never, never have
detected the identity of our little girlish
! sweet-heart of long, long ago. Nor in
! the faces of the bearded men and elder
j ly ladies presented yesterday, could we
trace a single feature of our early friends
j until the old familiar nam -of each was
j called; then, like the pages of a musty
j record book, on memory’s blotted tablet
rolled back the entervening years, and
again stood before us the boys and' girls
of yore. God bless them! It fills our
heart replete with joy to shake their
j hand once more. Oft-times during these
long years that our pathway in life has
| diverged far away from their’s, have
we longed for the glorious reunion of
yesterday and long, long will the recol
lection of the 14th of August 1889, make
one of the brightest spots on our mem
ory,s record book.
Representative Gilbert being asked
the other day what his branch of the
legislature was doing, replied; “Well,
! we are stiU on the Western and Atlantic
bil1 We have been on it for the past
8everal da vs, and I think it will take
two weeks more before we are through
witb The discussion on the eighth
8ection will be nearly long as the third,
tlie eighth section being the expediency
(d leasing the Western and Atlantic to
the West Point Terminal Company or
roads controlled by them.”
From this it would seem that owning
a railroad is pretty expensive business
for a state, The running expenses of
the legislature is about one thousand dol
lars a day and when that august body
devotes fifteen or twenty days to a bill
to lease the road, it means just that
many thousand dollars frittered away
in doing what one man of fair business
capacity could and would do in one or
two days. Better swap off the State
road for a bob-tail dog and kill the dog.
It was our good fortune while at
tending the veterans reunion in Ameri
cus, to be entertained by Mr. Hunting
ton, of the enterprising and widely
known, hardware firm of J. W. Shef
field – Co. Mr- H. and his most estima
ble wife, were formerly Floridians and
in their luxurious home and manner of
entertaining, one is reminded of the
cultured homes and most excellent
pie of Florida’s hospitable capital.
FAHMEKS INSTITUTES
There a bill is before the legislature pro
viding that as soon as practicable, the
board of directors of Georgia experi
mental station shall organsize and have
conducted throughout the state, each
during the season most convenient to
agriculturists, a series of Farmers’ In
stitutes for the instruction of citizens of
this state in the better methods of
agriculture in its various branches.
These institutes shall be held at such
time and at such places as said board
may direct, The said board shall make
such rules and regulations as it may
deem proper, for'organizing and con
ducting such institutes. The boardmay
in theirjdiscretion, employ a lecturer or
lecturers, preference, in this matter, be
ing given to pratical and successful far
mers possessing apitude for the work.
Section two appropriate $15,000, or
so much as may be needed, forjthe support
of said institutes for 1889 and the same
for 1890, and the same for all subsequent
years, the money to be paid from the
state’s income arising from the ispection
of fertilizers, these appropriations tohave
prec edence of all appropriation what so
ever from that fund next after that for
the salary of the commissioner of agri
culture and that of his clerk, and that
for the support of the experiment sta
tion, the money to be drawn upon order
of the board of directors of the experi
ment station. The said board shall
have authority to issue annually,{through
the department of agriculture, a bulletin
which shall contain the proceedings of
each of said institutes.
If this fifteen thousand dollar out-lay
can be made to elevate the standard of
farming and increase the profiits on
this leading industry in proportion to
the out- lay, then the money will be
well spent. If there is any occupation
under the sun that needs fostering and
encouraging it is agriculture. Whether
this much desired result can be brought
about by the passage of the above billl
is a question for our law makers to care
fully consider, before voting.
HE SCOOPED THE CAMP-MEETING.
The cold wave that swept over Florida
a few winters ago killed the orange trees
of an enterprising yankee who had in
vested all his earthly possessions in an
orange grove and was just looking for
ward to a profitable crop of the golden
f ant. L fft i i a s range land with an empty
purse and a dead orange grove would
have discouraged most men, but not so
with this Florida yankee. He did not
sit down and wait for something to turn
up, but immediately set about to turn up
something, going to Brooksville one
day, he suddenly came upon a negro
camp meeting in full blast, lie had of
ten read of the Southern negro but never
until then had seen him in all his glory
‘Great Scott!” exclaimed the surprised
yankee, ,,here is a chance to get back my
lost money, if I had this thing up North
it would be woith a dozen Florida or
ange groves. Guess I’ll hire it.” Calling
the leader aside, at the conclusion of the
services the man from New England, in
troduced himself and made the parson
a proposition.
“Wat you mean, put usall inacircus”
exclaimed the amazed colored parson.
No suh, I’sea minister oh de gospel, hi re’s
my credunshuls,” (taking from his vest
pocket a well worn and dirtv looking
strip of’paper and holding it up) and I'll
lib an’ die in de sarbise of de Lawd, I
wudn't sell my ligion fur all de money
in Fluridy!”
“That’s all right, old man. that’s all
right! I don't want one of you to renounce
your religion or to go into a circus,” put
in the busted orange grower, ‘you just
get a dozen or two of your members to go
with you and I will take you up north,
where the people fought bled and died
for your freedom, and will rent you a
house and pay all your expenses and give
you more money than your little farm
can ever matte, and you can carry on
your camp meeting just as you are doing
here* The Lord will be served just as
well and you can come back home with
your pockets full of money.”
This must have struck the “minister
ob de Gospel” favorably for in less than
three weeks, the frost bitten orange
grove had been mortgaged for $500 and
the camp meeting was on its way to the
bustling cities of the great North.
Commenting on the refusal of the
Georgia Senate to endorse Blairs, educa
tional hill the Monroe advertiser very
truthfully remarks! It matters not
whence nor from whom such proffers of
aid to our educational intere.it, by the
general government ,comes, behind it
lies the principle of taxation and trans
fer of paternal rights to the national
government touching the education
of our children. The states in their sov
ereign capacity are able to educate their
children, and they neither need nor
want aid from the general government
in this direction.
SCHLEY COUNTY.
Schley County is composed of teritory cut
off from Sumter, Marlon and Macon counties
It was organized in 1859, and named for one f
the old Colonial Governors of Georgia; 0
Schley. Go v
ernor
Its location is Southwest-Central. Area 180
square miles. General features, hilly, i n t er
.
spersed with level plateax. The soil i s very
fertile fill oyer the county, but varies in color
some sticky places in being et weather, red elay, some dark brown'
very w some pebbly and
some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
toes, pumkins, melons, rice, wheat, rye, .prunes* bur
ly, peanuts and chul’as; peaches, ixsirs
pomegranates, cherries, plums, mulberries, apples, apricots, quin’
ces, grapes, strawberries
raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage, en
cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and oth
er Held, orchard and garden products, t?ruw
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old field
and forest, abound in all kinds of wild fruit
such ns blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries
whortleberries, May haws, black haws, plums
cherries, crab applcs.persiminons, fox grapes,
Winter hickory nuts grapes, and chestnuts. muscadines, chinquepins!
Besides the native crab, crowfoot and other
grasses, many of the best varieties of import
ed grasses do well here, especially Bannuda,
herds, blue and orchard grass.
The no fence law prevails in the county, y c t
stock raising is rapidly becoming one of the
leading industries of the county some of the
finest horses in the South are raised here, and
the rich golden butter mid sweet country hams
that are daily brought to market by the far
mers of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere.
Cotton is the money crop of the county, but
happily the day has past and forevevr gene
when the people of Schley depended on other
sections for their meat and bread. Nearly ev
ery farmer in the county makes plenty of corn
and bacon for home consumptions and many
of them make a surplus to sell. No particular
attent’on is given to poultry raising, yct the
people have all the 7 want for home use and
one man with ahorse and wagon keeps busy
the year round hauling chickens and eggs from
Schley county to Americus.
The health of the county is excellent, the av
erage elevation being near two thousand feet
above sea level and drainage is generally good
an epidemic of any diseases, was never known
here.
The farming people of Schley are inteligent
cultivated ami refined as any agricultured peo
ple in the world. The county is dotted with
school houses and churches, and a half grown
person who cannot read and write is seldom,
if ever met with, and of the negro race most
of them since freedom can read and write.
PIEDMONT EXPOSITION.
Events of the day admonish us that the
Piedmont Exposition of 1889 will attract
the largest number of capitalists, invest
ors, agriculturists, manufacturers, and
practical men general'}’, that ever attend
ed a Southern Exposition, who will vis
it Atlanta during October of the present
year. For this reason it behooves every
county and county alliance to be repre
sented at this great Exposition, which
will be a material factor in adding to the
prosperity of the South. It is the earn
est request and desire of the Exposition
Company, that the material resources of
your section be advantageously display
ed at our Exposition. We appeal to you
on the ground of local pride, State fealty
and Southern prosperity, to gather the
best samples of your products, and pre
sent them here in creditable form. We
know it will require time and money,
but the results will more than compen
sate you for your trouble.
What we offer to county or county
farmers’ alliance and individual displays;
To the county or county farmers’ alli
ance making the largest and best display
of products, grown or produced by resi
dents of the county, $1200.
To the county or county farmers’ alli
ance making the second best display as
above, $700.
To the county or county farmers’ alli
anee raaking the third best display as
above, $300.
To the individual making the largest
and best display of products grown or
produced by him or her, or under his or
her direction, $500.
To the individual making the second
best display as above, $250.
lo the individual making the third
best display es above, $150.
Single exhibits contesting for prem
iums in any of the other groups may be
included in either of the displays of this
group, and individual displays may also
form a part of county or county farmers’
alliance displays.
The whole of this department is limit
ed to articles produced in States of the
Piedmont section, viz: Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Ala
bama and Tennessee, and all articles ex
hibited must be grown or made by the
exhibitor.
For information, see page 26. premium
list.
The management of the Piedmont Ex
position will extend every facility to
Alliances or counties desiring to make
exhibits.
1 rusting that we will receive vour ap
plication for space at an earlv date, we
desire to call your attention to the fact
that this is not a Statt*, county, or local
exposition, but will be national in its aim
and results. Yours respectfully,
Piedmont Exposition Co.
Atlanta, Ga.
It is reported that hundreds of Chinese
are evading the Anti-Chinese inngra
tion laws by landing in Mexico and cross
ing to Americatetitory,