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VOLUME XVI. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report DrAAI Baking l\ j&ssm® Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PROFESSIONAL CARDS. T\R. 6. P. CAMPBELL, DENTIST. McDonough Ga. Any one desiring work done can ho ac 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. THE *|j| }sM t v *° *s• '* j ‘<■ iVV™* • .aiwwWs "■ ■- i ’ *t» East Tem, Virginia and Georgia Ry, IS THE ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAR S FISEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BETWEEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITIIOI I CHA.'XCJr. Direct Connections at Chat TANOOGA WITH THROUGH TRAINS AND PULLMAN SLEEP ERS TO Memphis end the West, at Knoxville with Pullimtn Sleepers for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. r©R FCKTBER UfPORtSATIOX ADT>RKM, B.W. WRENN, CHAS. N. KIOH7 (Mai. Pan. Ag'., A.G.T. A. KSOITOLI. ATLAXTA THE HENRY (lINTY WEEKLY Georgia Bldl.mil A Gulf It. Ki. SOUTH. Leave McDonough 7:#o a. m. Arrive Greenwood 7.27 “ “ Lowell a 7:25 “ “ Griffin 8:05 “ NORTH. Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m. Arrive Louell* * 4:40 “ “ Greenwood 4:48 “ “ McDonough 5:05 '• 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. V * ♦ 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 T * 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. ©»,