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VOLUME XVI.
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McDonough Ga.
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commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gao W. Beta* J W. T. Dickkn.
BBTAB A DICKEN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practioe in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
ef Georgia and the United States Dist-ict
Court. apr27-ly
J AS. H. TURNER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court tf
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-ly
g J. REAGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will p.-actice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Wekkly office.
J F. WALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonouoh, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. oets-’79
•yy A. HKOWN,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
A. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Get 8, 1888
Jno. D. Steu art. | R.T. Daniel.
STEWART A DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
join* l. i'll:.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Practices in the State and Federal Courts.
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M. E GRAY. Sun’t
CENTRAL PARK SQUIRRELS.
The Birds’ Nests Are Few on Ac
count of the Gray Nutcrackers.
Central Park is the great squirrel
seuter of the country. Probably
more of the little rodents are found
to the square acre in this public pleas
ure-ground than in their most favor
ite haunts among the wild nut groves,
says a writer in Harper’s Weekly.
Their exact number has never been
accurately ascertained, but irregular
attempts to take their census have
resulted in the remarkable disclosure
of a population running up into the
thousands.
The gray squirrel coloDy increases
rapidly every year. Ho tame and
lively do they become in early spring
when hunting for food that they will
often approach visitors to the park,
and almost beg for food. If a nut is
thrown to them, they will approach
within half a dozen feet to get it, and
then run away to some tree to nibble
it.
During their breeding season thoy
are very wary and shy. They seldom
approach their nests directly, but run
up neighboring trees, and jump from
branch to branch until they have
completely bewildered those below.
Their antics at such times are of
great interest to all pedestrians.
When the young one 3 are lirst able
so run about, the Park is full of small
families wandering over the fields m
fearch of nuts.
At one time the common gray squir
rels were so abundant in the Eastern
States that they were considered a
scourge by the farmers; aud heavy
premiums weie offered for their de
struction. They destroyed grain
crops as well ns fruit orchards; but
gunners aud sportsmen have long
since reduced their numbers, so that
it is rarely one finds a large colony in
any woods.
It is doubtful if many birds could
breed in the park owing to the
presence of so many squirrels, for the
rodents are passionately fond of eggs.
They will not only eat the eggs in tne
nests, but they will often destroy the
young birds themselves, making it
almost impossible for a brood to
reach maturity. Although the park
is the great resort for song-birds, it is
a strange fact that comparatively few
of them nest there, although they
would not be disturbed by the people
who visit the place. It is very prob
able that there is some connection
between tho presence of the gray
squirrels in tlie park , aud the noted
absence of many birds’ nests.
The gray squirrels are in their nat
ural haunts in this central portion of
the city. Long before the park was
laid out, this whole upper section
of Manhattan Island was the home
and resort of the squirrels and birds.
They were then only distuibeh by
the hunters, but their numbers in
this way were kept down. When the
park was laid out, a few old couples
remained in it, and finally the city
grew around the place so that they
could not retreat further north. They
were then hemmed in on every side;
but as protection was extended to
them by the Park Board their num
bers rapidly increased, until to-day
the colony is about the largest in this
country.
The rodents are great additions to
the park, and their presence is al
ways to be desired. They give an
interest to the scene even in mid
winter, and it would be a great loss to
have them sacrificed to any prejudiced
notion. They do little or no domage
to the trees, and there are no fruits
or grain- fields for them to-destroy.
Potatoes Growing Like Pease.
Wellbaugh and Chemung, in their ex
plorations of the Colombian Andes, have
discovered a species of potato ti e vines
of which were covered with we 1 de
veloped tubers growing in t! e open air
like pease or tomatoes. Each potato is
protected by a thin film or membrane,
not unlike that which en elopes the
‘■ground cherry.” They do not grow iu
clusters, each being given plenty of
space in which to thoroughly mature.
The natives say that during the dry sea
son the membrane surrounding each po
tato is filled with water, which in a mea
sure protects it from the rays of the sun.
—[St. Louis Republic.
Os Ilelvellv®, in the county of Cum
berland, England, n monument his just
been erected to the memories of a man
and a dog. The man was killed in 180 f
by falling from one of the high crags on
the ridge that joins Standing Edge tc
the summit. This dog, a little yellow,
rough-haired terrier, was his companion,
and was fou id watching over the re
mains three rnfaiths afterward. She had
given birth to puppies that were found
dead by her side. It is believed that
she maintained life by bits of carrion
sheep not unfrequeutly found on the
hills. The accident was probably caused
by a false step during a hail storm, as the
man. Charles Gough, was returning to
Wy tnburn. where he lodged, from a fish
ing excursion in Patterdale. The dog
died a few years afterward.
M'DONOUGH, GA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1892,
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Interesting Notes Gathered From Here
and There Over the State.
Th i Grady Ifosp : tal in Atlanta has
bcenjformally oDcnod for the reception of
patients. The building was recently
dedicated and presented to the city with
imposing ceremofius.
* V V
The Georgia Bar association met in
Macon last Wednesday morning in their
ninth annual session. Something over
ons hundred lawyers were in attendance
from all over the state.
* * *
The Southern Travelers’ Association,
at their recent meeting at Indian Springs,
after a discussion, decided to lake in as
partners tho merchants and manufactur
ers, and to call themselves the Georgia
Shippers and Traveling Men’s Associa
tion.
* * *
Uncle Satp’s red boxes are upon the
corners of the streets of Americus, and
the free dolivory postal service is in opera
tion. Americus is happy over this pro
gressive movement, for which she is
largely indebted to the influence and ef
forts of Speaker Crisp.
+ * *
The tax equalization law is not very
popular in Newton county. It is said
that a petition will be sent to the next
legislature asking for the repeal of the
(qualization and the local registration
law. It is also probable that these two
issues will be brought into the legislative
race in the county.
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The governor has received a letter from
Judge A. L. Miller strongly urging the
offer of a reward for the arrest of Will
Bell, the negro boy who killed Deputy
Sheriff B. F. Wilder in Macon some
days ago. The sheriff has personally
offered SSO reward for the capture of the
murderer, and Wilder’s brother has
offered SIOO more. The governor issued
a proclamation offering $250 reward.
This puts S4OO on the murderer’s head.
* * *
There will be no chautauqua this year.
That has been definitely decided. For
ihis summer the beautiful Piedmont
Chautauqua grounds will be unoccupied
save for an occasional picnic party or for
such exercises as the visitors at Sweet
water Park may hold there. While this
announcement will create no surprise, it
will be read with regret by very many
people through Georgia. The chautau
qua has been the means of much pleas
ure and profit to tho people of Georgia,
and it is sincerely hoped that another
season will find it continuing its good
work.
Tho colored citizens of Atlanta are ar
ranging for a big celebration next July
at Piedmont park. Military companies
from Rome, Macon and other places will
visit the city, and will be reviewed at the
park by Governor Nortben. A prize drill
between the companies will be the spe
cial feature of the day, and SSOO will be
given away to mil itary companies alone.
There will also be good horse racing and
a splendid barbecue. It promises to be
a grand success, aud no effort will be
spared by tho colored people to make it
such.
* * *
The law providing for teachers’ insti
tutes in each county on Saturdays, pro
vided also for institutes to last one week,
to be held at some time in the months of
June, July or August. A large number
will be held iu June, and some [of them
will be very fine. The attendance of all
the public school teachers of the county
is required by law. The commissioner
is arranging to concentrate the institutes
for four counties at Athens. He has made
arrangements for board at the Rock Col
lege normal school at the rate of $2.50 a
week. This is with the understanding
that teachers will bring pillows and
sheets.
* * *
The comptroller general is sending out
county tax executions against the Cen
tral railroad, the Georgia Southern and
Florida, the Atlanta and Florida, the
Macon and Atlantic, the Macon and Bir
mingham, the Augusta, Gibson and San
dgrsville and the Marietta and North
Georgia. All these roads are in the
hands of receivers, and they have failed
to pay the county tax required under the
recent decision of the supreme court.
The tuxes cannot be collected from re
ceivership roads without an order of
court, hut the comptroller general is
complying with the law in issuing the
executions. The executions are sent out
to the county tax collectors, with in
structions to confer with the county at
torneys, and get them to apply to the
judges for orders on the receivers for the
railroad taxes.
* * *
The Georgia railroad has declined to
pay the Richmond county school tax of
23 cents on the hundred dollars. This
tax is levied on all property in Richmond
county under the act of 1872, authorizing
such a levy. When the railroad county
tax act was passed in 1889, it provided a
separate arraogement for taxing railroads
by counties. The comptroller general
was in come doubt at first whether he
should include the rvilrovds in the school
levy, but Attorney General Anderson ex
amined the qties ion and said the Rich
mond school tax was clearly a county tax,
and the railroads would have it to pay.
Since then the tax has been held up by
the case in court. Now they decline to
pay it, saying that they are under a sep
arate arrangement. They also object to
paying 7 par cent, interest on deferred
payments of taxes.
* * *
The Georgia Editor* In Texas.
Texas is going to show the Georgia
editors such hospitality as Texans can
iloue show when the press gang from
this state goes westward on its annual
lour. Within a fortnight the Georgia
Weekly Press Association will meet at
Rome in annual convention assembled.
After transacting such business as may
come before the editors, they will leave
to take quite an extensive tour through
the southwest. Their transportation ha<
been secured over the states of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, and they will go further up into
the “big tree” regions of Lower Cali-
foraia. While in Texas tho Georgia
editors will live upon the “fat of the
land.” The city of Dallas has extended
them an invitation to stop over and on
joy an entertainment.
* » *
Just as everyoody at all familiar with
the case expected, Mr. R. L. Speucor, the
vice president of tne Merchants’ and
Miners’ bank, of Tallapoosa, arrested for
high misdemeanor, has been tried and
found not guilty. Mr. Spencer was ar
rested when the bank failed, charged
with having borrowed too much money
from the bank. There is a law making
it a high misdemeanor for any bank ofii
cer to lend to one man more than 10 ptr
cent of its capital stock Mr. Spencer
was not an active officer of the bank.
Moreover, he had papers showing that
tho money he had borrowed from tin
bank was borrowed from another com
pany and borrowed for the Georgia-Ala
bamn Investment and Development com
pany, and further, that the notes were
bought by the bauk when chartered.
Nobody ever believed Mr Spencer guilty,
lie was tried several days ago, and was
of course, released Und fully exonora'ed
* » *
(irorila Melon Outlook.
Georgia’s watermelons are ripening
rapidly under these s-,corner suns, and
within a week the first carload will stait
from the melon fields for the north or
west. Tho acreage is estimated to be
25 per cent, short this year, but the out
look for the yield is splendid unless the
present drouth continues. Mr. J. L.
Hand, of Pelham, will probably lie th -
heaviest shipper from Georgia. Ho has
000 acres planted. By June 25th the
season will be at its height. The Nash
ville, Chatanooga and St. Louis has m ide
more thorough preparations to haudle the
crop this year than ever before, and that
line is said to be paying more attention
to the melon business than any other line
outside the melon-growing territory.
The vegetable crop on the coast is im
men9e. Chatham county has thousands
of bushels of potatoes ready to ship.
One farmer, who has 100 acres planted
in potatoes, expect to ship 6,000 barrels.
Several carloads have already been for
warded to Cincinnati and Chicago.
* * *
An Important Decision by tlie School Com.
mUsioner.
The state school commissioner has de
cided an appeal case which involved an
important point, and one of vu-y general
application. It turn* upon the right of
a county school hoard to use its discre
tion iu apportioning the school fund
among different Bchools in a school dis
trict. The Stephens High school, of
Orawfordville, has received, heretofore,
SSOO a year from the school fund. That
was the whole of the amount allotted to
that school district. This year the coun
ty board of education saw fit to give
$125 of this money to school.
The management of the Stephens High
school objected to this, and appealed
from the decision of the county school
board to the state school commissioner.
He says the law is very plain. It re
quires that there shall bo at least one
school in each district, and there may be
more, if the board of education thinks
the interests of educatiou demand it.
The matter is in the discretion of the
local board, and the state 'school com
missioner will not interfere.
AAA
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It nil road ItllDlblilla*.
The deepest interest is taken by all con
cerned in railroads in this inspection trip
which Samuel Spencer is making over the
Richmond Terminal’s properties. Drexel,
Morgan & Co., are approaching the work
of reorganization in a manner so differ
ent from that of their predecessors in the
undertaking, that it demands attention.
Their very first move is to send their fi
nancial and railroad expert out over the
systems to examine their physical condi
tions, aud to form a general idea of their
earning capacities. The Olcott commit
tee may have obtained official reports
from the general managers and traffic
managers and treasurers of the systems,
but the public is not aware of it.
Mr. Spencer’s report will contain inter
esting reading every one believes, and
both the t Danville and the East
Tennessee ’ officials are wondering
if he will have much to tay about
consolidation. Plenty of guessing is
going on as to how the 42,000 shares
of Central stock will figure in tho reor
ganization. Mr. Olcott’a committee put
down $220,000 of Central stock as owned
outrignt by the Terminal, and 4,000,000
controlled “through the ownership of
the Georgia company’s collateral bonds
and stock.” Some think that the»Ter
minal will make a deal and wash its
hands of the Central stock. Others pre
dict the opposite, and expect to see the
Terminal route that majority block of
stock.
THE DANVILLE VICTORIOUS
In One of Its Legal Bouts with the
Central.
Judge Speer, nt Macon, Ga , Monday,
rendered a most important decision in the
G'entral-Danville litigation, and the
Richmoud and Danville, in practical re
sults, drew the first blood. A claim was
presented of 825.000 for crossties against
the Central. Judge Nottingham, the
master, held that the Richmond an Dan
ville was a necessary party defendant,
because it bought the ties while operat
ing the Central. The Central’s attorneys
claimed that the Richmond and Danville,
should be made to pay for the ties. Coun
sel for the Dinville had bought the ties,
yet the receivers of the Central had used
them, and should therefore pay for them.
This position was fully sustained by
Judge Speer, and he signed an order
striking the Richmond aod Danville
from the record aa a party defendant to
this intervention. The effect of this de
cision is to relieve the Danville from
liability for more than $250,000 of sup
posed claims against it.
North Carolina’s Crop.
The North Carolina state department
of agriculture prepared, on Monday, its
crop report up to June Ist. It is as fol
lows. showing percentages of the condi
tion, and is based on reports of 1,200 cor
respondents: Wheat 93, oats 69, rye 89,
rice 84, cotton 81, corn 93, tobacco 94.
sweet potatoes 94,clover 92,fruit60. The
quality of farm labor is reported at 80 per
cent.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
lit lews ol Her Progress Portrayed In
Pithy and Points!! Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN- I
INQS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The confederate Memorial Day was ob
served tU Norfolk, Friday, with a bril
lant military and civil parade.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
State Auditor Heggie died Saturday
morning at h s home in Marion, Ala.,
aft.T an illness which has extended over
the past year. He was elected first in
18»8, and was just finishing his second
term.
Near South Carrollton, Ivy., Monday,
a regular north-bound passenger train on
the Nashville and Owensboro railroad
collided .\ith an excursion train filled
with negroes. Hugh Barely, fireman of
the excursion train and three negrois were
killed and twenty-five injured, several
dangerously.
The fourteenth annual session of the
Woman’s Board of Missions, Methodist
Episcopal church, south, began at Lex
ington, Ivy., Tuesday morning. The
venerable president, Mrs. Juliana Hayes,
of Baltimore, Md., [residing. Delegates
were present from all the eastern, -western
and southern states. It is a fiue body of
women and matters of interest to the
whole church will be legislated upon.
The Augusta, Ga., Cotton Seed Oil
company has received an order for 100,-
000 tons of cotton seed meal to be
shipped to Russia. This meal will bo
reground, so as to render it of a fine
grade. The order is placed for this pro
duct to be used in supplying food for the
people in the famine-stricken districts of
Russia. The company will ship thestull
as rapidly as it is able to start it from the
mill.
A Knoxville, Teun., dispatch says:
Frank J. Ifoyle has bceu appointed re
ceiver of tho Morristown aud Cumber
land Gap roa 1, through the orders of
Judge Key, of the United States circuit
court. A bill was filled Saturday by
Johu Coleman, of Louisville versus the
Morristown and Cumberland Gap road
and Allison, Shutter & Co., contrac
tors, asking for the appointment of
the receiver.
A special of Tuesday from Cleburne,
Texas, says: On Sunday uight a cyclone
slruck this place, demolishing forty-two
houses. The wind was accompanied by
a drenching raiu. Dr. Prescott and his
wife were fatally injured, being crushed
by their falling house. Several other
persons were injured. Crops of all kinds
are badly damaged. Mineral Well and
Lewisville were also visite 1 by a storm
and considerable damage w r as done.
Alliance President Polk has a leading
editorial in the latest issue of the Pro
yressive Farmer , accompanying his letter
withdrawing that paper as the organ of
t K e alliance. He says that he withdraws
because the executive committee of tin
state alliance did not like his advocacy
of the third party. He declares him elf
unreservedly for tho third or people’s
purty. He declares further that nino
t-enths of the alhanccmen in North
Caroliua will support the third party.
A Jackson, Miss., special of Saturday
says: A glance at the list of delegates elect
ed to the stale democratic convention, to
meet on the 18th, shows that the repre
sentative men of the party took a lively
interest in the primaries to select dele
gates. The alliancemen ns a rule took
purt in the primaries, and are steadfastly
standing by the democracy. In only one
county did the Ocalaites capture the
meeting and vote down resolutions pledg
ing the support of the meeting to tho
Chicago nominee.
SEVEN BILLIONS INCREASE
in Valuation of Property in the United
States During Ten Years.
The census bureau on Friday i-sued a
bulletin on the subject of assessed valua
tion of property in the United States in
1890. The bulletin shows that the as
sessed value of all prouerty, excluding
railroad property, excepting certain
specified states, has increased from $lO,-
903,093,543 in 1880 to $24,651,585,405
in 1890, an increase during the de-’
cade of $7,748,591,922, or 45 84
per cent. Should it be found upon the
completion of the inqu ry in relation to
the true vain- of all property in the
Uniti d States that the same relations ex
ists in 1890 between the assessed valua
tion and true valuation as existed in
1880, the absolute wealth of the Unite!
States according to the eleventh census,
may be estimated at $03,648,000,000 or
more than SI,OOO per capita, as against
$514 per capita in 1860, S7BO per capita
in 1870, and SB7O per capita in 1880.
Owing, however, to the fact that in some
states, properly is assessed at its full
value and in others at only a fraction of
its value, comparisons of the wealth of
states is quite impossible. I/sts of all
kinds of taxable property vary greatly in
different states.
A RECEIVER DEPOSED.
Judge Speer’s Injunction Dissolved by
the Court of Appeals.
The United States circuit court of ap
peals, at New Orleans, on Tuesday, ren
dered a decision deposing Receiver Plant,
and Atlanta will soon g;t back the con
trol of the Atlanta and Florida railroad.
An official copy of the decision will be
carried to Mucon and the usual motion
will be made to make it the jugment of
Judge Speer’s court. Then Captain Gar
rett will be the receiver. He was ap
pointed by Judge Marshall Clarke.
Judge Speer had appointed Mr. Plant
before, but the first bill for a receiver
was the one presented to Judge Clarke.
Want of jurisdicti n was the ground
upon which the appeal was sustained.
Cholera Ravages.
Cable dispatches of Tuesday from Cal
cutta, India, report chat, since May 7th,
there have I een 2,460 deaths Ism ohol
era at Serinagur, in the vals sf Oahmere.
AH Europeans in the plaee bcoame alarm
ed s' me t'nr- ago at the fearful ravages
ol the disease, and left the city.
THREE-CERT (OTIOR.
THE EVIL EFFECTS OF COMMISSIONER NFfl-
BITT’S STATI’MF.NT pointed out by
F.X-COMMISSIONER HKSDEUBON.
r fo the Fa pm &RS or UEonorA r
Having . ntered the ra< e for Cwptol sioner
of Agriculture, I propose in this letter to lay
bef< ie tho farmers of Georg.a, my view *in re
gard to a matter of vital importune* to them.
I re. or to the cost of raising cotton to the av
erage farmer,and to the Imd policy (to give it
no worse a name) of promulgating to th” world
erroneous view* as to the root of laiwing the
tie cy s a pie.
In h s interview of March 18th, published
broadcast through the land, Commissioner
Nesbitt states in effect, th it cotton can Ih‘
nvsed in Georgia at u cost of from 3 to 8 1-2
cents p r pound.
These astounding statements, widely copied
uml ijuo'ed, caused comment and discussion
a 1 over tlie state, and not only in the state,
but over the United States and the world in
all cotton ciro’e* Here comes the nfibial us) -
oultur il head of tlie greatest cotton growing
state in tile south, and -ays that Georgians
can ami do raise cotton at 8 1-2 cents per pound,
leaving in it,even at present unpr cedentedly
low prices, the handsome profit of 100 per cent,
to tlie grower.
Had such a s ! element < ome from a ring of
speculators on the Cotton Exchange inWall
street, bent on “bearing” the market so as to
make a profitable devl for themselves, tin*
world would have understood their motives
and laughed at tho'r statements; but,coming
from the Com miss'oner of Agriculture of
Georgia, the wor d is hound to hear with
respect and credit th* statement; credit It,
ye , the speculators will cred t it, the spinners
and manufacturers of New and Old England
will credit it; 1 hoy are eager and anxious to
credit It; it means largely in leased profit*
| and handsome dividends to them- Hut w.ll
the farmer of Georgia credit it '/
He who counts In his humble home the cost
of ids cotton finds, that after denying him
self and family all luxuries and many neces
sities, that lie is still heavily in debt, and the
mortgage is still upon his farm, his hous«, his
mule, Ids cow and the meagre furniture In bis
cottage. Pathetic words those, when one com
prehends the whole situation—“the cost of a
pound of cotton.”
But not only does tho farmer take alarm
when he hears the words of ill-omen come
from the Department created by h in and for
bis protection, but our publ e-spirited mer
chants and cotton men raise a note of alarm
ns soon as the unfortunate statement comes
to their ears. As soon as he hears of it, Mr.
Samuel M. Inman, the well-known ai.d suc
cessful cotton buyer—ldentified with cotton
into lestß all of Ids business life, an honored
citizen of whom Ids city, his state and section
are proud, he wiltea a letter io Mr. Nesbitt
and tells him that this statement, coming as
it does fiotn one in ids important position,
“carries a weight and responsibility that is of
vast importance.” It wi 1 he telegraphed to
every important cotton market in Europe and
America, and tiaid in cotton cl retrain and re
ports. It w ill be a ‘bear’ argument for still
further lowering the price, and W'.ll be quoted
as an authority for years to come.”
It is hard to calculate the damage done the
farmers of Georgia, the merchants and others
holding cotton, hy lids ill-advised assertion of
the Commissioner, this season; but the end is
not yet, it will he used hy the spinners and
speculators to bear down the price of tho grow
ing crop about which tlie hopes of the toiling
masses now cling. Ha has” build ed better
than he thought,” If It was Ids purpose to kill
off the only money crop of his people, but I
ha vo the charity to believe that lie knew not
what he was doing.
Mr. Inman then asks Mr. Nesbitt for the fig
ures on which he bases tho remarkable state
ment ho hail made. When ended to “taw” by
Mr.lnman, Mr. Ntsbitt begins to lay strews
upon the fact that It will require years of < are
ful preparation of the soil, of intensive farm
ing and heavy fertilizing, boforo 3 1-2 cents
cotton can bo raised. He then gives the figures
of the State Experiment Station on a little
garden plot highly manured and backed by all
the wealth and resources of tho nation. He
also gives the figures and experieuo of Cap
tain Corput. a wealthy farmer, who cash
for everything he needs, who h is by Intou-ivo
farming brought up hi* land to a high state of
fertility, and inconsequence makes a fine crop
and a hawl-tom > profit. Co’ouel Nesbitt i*
telling the farmers of Georgia nothing new
when lie te 1h them that big crops can be raised
by tho intensive system of culture. Itlnsbeen
“ding-donged” into ids ears in season and out
of reason hy the agricultural Journa’sand so
cieties, by tho general press and by tlie De
partment of Agriculture under my adminis
tration, for many ye ir« pant.
Hut now conn-- Kir Oracle, amt with the air
of a man promulgating a new amt important
fact, Informs tin- world that from a hale to a
balo ami a half per acre can be raised in Geor
gia, and at a cost not cxniei iiino thiikjs and
A HAI.F OFNTS l‘Kll POUND.
Statistics In compiling the “Common
wealth of Georgia," as far hack as 188. i, I pur
posely refrained from giving the cost of pro
duction of cot lon then selling at about cents
perp und. I had ilgured tlieeosta' that timeat
annul 81-2 cents per pound,hut refrained from
giving it, believing it, would li re an injur, ous
effect on prices. (Key Commonwealth of Geor
gia, page fliiO). At the same time I used every
effort to show Ihe farmer that the intensive
system would pay handsomely. See in the
name hook, pages .'Hit to 385, Instances of heavy
returns on farm crops of every descript'on
from ail parts of the state, under a system of
high culture, tee also on page Mi 7 ihe report
of Ihe committee of which I was chairman, in
awarding the prizes in the contest for
tlie best, acres of corn and cotton offered
by the Geo. \V. Scott Company. In
that contest the higfaes y.eld was .7 1-2 bales
per acre, the lowest 1 balo per n< re, the high
est yield or corn being UO 1-2 hush Is per acre,
the average b illl 81 bushels. Whilst the com
mittee commented on ths handsome profit In
he derived from such high culture and urg d
it upon the farmers, they took care at the same
time to show that the furmers throughout tlie
stats* only raised a bale to It 1-2 aer h. No. Mr.
Editor, tie farmers of Georgia know these
facts Just ns w 11 os the lion. Cfoinmbs'oner
hlmse f; lie is not telling I lie farmer anything
he did not know before; but that farmer is
doing the best he can under the severe coudi
t'onsof life upon him, under tie* burden of
time prices for everything that he needs to
make his crop; usurious Interest charges add
ed to the unjust burd en of the robber tariff
make It Impossible tm him,strain every nerve
ns he may, to change his method or to make
more than one-third of a bale to Ihe acre, or
to make It at a less cost than * 1-2 cents per'
pound. Shepperson, the great cotton statisti
cian, writing in Nov. 1891, stated that cotton
selling at that time for altout 8 1-2 cents was
undoubtedly below the cost of production.
No, the average farmer of ttie country cannot
raise it for less, and God forbid that tho -e who
should befriend nod protect him. should try
to b -at down and cheapen tlie products of his
labor by putting the world on notice that he
can raise for 31-3 .cuts what costs him 8 1-2
cents. I (in hirdly believe that this great
wrong ag dnst the farmer of Georgia is inten
tional on the part of the Hon. Commissioner,
but if not intentional it is surely a blunder,
which is little less than a crime.
Respectfully, .lons T. Hr.NDKttsoN.
A Railroad for Sale.
The Illinois Central has an option un
til June 18th on the Louisville, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific. President Fish
lias called his stockholders together to
decide whether they shall buy. He says
that the system can be bought on a baa s
of paying for all securities, $5,000,000 iu
money, $20,000,000 of Illinois Central 4
per cent bonds, being part of an issue by
a pledge of the purchased securities.
The remaining $5,000,000 of lionds to be
leta'ncd bv the Illin is Central
Always advertise your goo a , ana tout
business will increase.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of the Day Called from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUB
OWN COUNTRY, ANI) NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
At New York Saturday afternoon two
thousand people assembled iu Broadway
at Slain street to witness the start of
Frank J. Lenz. an amateur bicyclist on
his trip around the world on a pneumatic
safety bicyclo. The start was made fiom
the city hall at precisely 3 o’clock.
In the democratic primaries in Cincin
nati and Hamilton county, Monday night,
the anti-Cleveland men carried every -
thing, not more than four friends of the
ex- president being elected out of sixty -
live delegates to the state convention.
This insures the election of four Hill or
anti-Cleveland delegates to the national
convention in the Cincinnati districts.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: A special meeting of the Tennes
see Coal and Iren Company has been
called for June 16th, in compliance with
threats made by the stockholders to se
cure an injunction against the consolida
tion with the Debardeleben company if
it was not again considered. The con
solidation had already been ratified by
the stockholders.
Advices of Saturday from Guthrie.
Oklahoma, state that it is declared
positively thnt the Dalton gang, which
held up the Santa Fo express at lied
Hock, 1. T., last Wednesday, secured
from the Wells Fargo safo |IO,OOO which
was being forwarded from the treasury
department at Washington to the agent
of the Sac and Fox Indians in part pay
ment for lands recently purchased by the
government.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Warsaw
states that the police authorities have for
some time past been making visits to the
homes of persons in Poland suspected of
being nihilists, in search of explosives or
incriminating documents. Two thousand
persons have been arrested in the differ
ent provinces of Poland. Most of these
are men under thirty years of age. One
hundred of them have beon exiled to
Siberia.
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo.,
says: Terms of agreement looking to a
fusion of the democratic and people’s
parties in Kansas were made public Sat
urday. They provide that the Demo
crats he given the candidates in two of
the seven congressional districts, the con
gressmen at large, the attorney general
and a judge of the supreme court. All
the other nominations on the congression
al, state and electoral tickets were con
cod®! to the people’s party.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Nearly
a thousand men resumed work Monday
morning at tho large Spreckles sugar re
fineries hero nftor a shut-dowu of nearly
three months. General Manager Peter
son said to a reporter: “By Wednesday
morning wo shall have over one thousand
men at work, and on Thursday we shall
put our sugar on the market again at
such prices as wo deem remunerative
without any reference to such prices as
nny trust may bo disposed to dictate.”
A SEA OF WATER
Caused by the Breaking of a Levee -A
Fertile District Inundated.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Quincy,
111., says; Hunt levee has given away
under the enormous pressure of the flood,
and Avhat was a fertile district twenty
milts long, by four wide, is now a sea of
water from six to fifteen feet deep. The
district extends from Warsaw south, where
it Connie's with Indian Grave levee,
eighteen miles north of Quincv, and most
of it was under cultivation. The crevasse
occurre 1 at n point known as Otter bay,
twenty-four miles north of Quincy and
water is now pouring through the break
in a solid volume 200 feet wide and
twenty feet deep, ca'rying everything
before it. The rush of water is heard for
miles and Ihe current is rapidly widen
ing the crevasse. No less of life has oc
curred so far uh reported, as the peoplo
had been expecting a break for several
day* and were prepared to flee to the
bluffs ut a moment's wiruiniz.
BIG DAY IN ROCHESTER.
Ilarrlsen and Flower Make Speeches *
250,000 People Present.
Mouday will ever be a memorable day
in the history of Richester, N. Y. Never
before has the city been so crowded and
never before has it entertained such dis
tinguished company. Public and private
busine‘B was suspended and everybody
took a holiday. It is estimated that fully
250,000 people took an active part in
the various demonstrations. Of this
number fully 100,000 came from the sur
rounding ountry. The president was en
thusiastically received everywhere and
whs compelled to how his acknowledge
ments to almost continuous cheering.
Tho weather whs bright and fair. The
feature of the day was the dedication of
the handsome monument in Washington
square i > honor of the soldiers and sail
ors of Monroe county who died in de
fense of their country. Speeches were
made by President Harrison and Gover
nor Flower.
NURSERYMEN MEET.
An Enthusiastic Convention Held in
Atlauta.
The American Association of Nursery
men met in the house of representative
at Atlanta Wednesday, and, af'er tho
usual addresses of welcome and the usual
response, went at once into the discussii n
of nursery questions. In the absence of
the president, Mr. J. Van Lind ey, of
North Carolina, Colonel N. H. Albaugh,
of Tadmer, 0., presited. The associa
tion is a fine body of men, leprcrenting
all parts of the country, from New Eng
lana to California. One of them, Mr.
Fell, is from England. Others were from
Canada and the northwest, and a gre it
many were from the middle states. The
president, Colonel N. H. Albaugh, is the
president of the Alhaugh-Georgia Com
pany, which has headquarters at Fort
Valley. ©»,