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Gtapshtppers are damaging cotton in
fteonee county.
Mi#? Sidney Moore, of Swainesboro,
died last'Sunday.
A large water spout appeared off Ty-
bee Inland last Friday -
Oats tell at fifty cents, wheat $1
and cetn $1 20 in Baruesville.
Mr. R. H. Lampkin, of Athens, has
a yowfeg bear’preeerved in alcohol.
A yonnjj‘alligator was offered for
sale on the streetg of Macon a few days
ago.
Judge J. T„ Berry, of Hancock coua-
ty, harvested 127 bushels of wheat off
pix acr.es.
„ • George Hainey, a youth about seven
teen years old, was drowned in the canal
a Augusta last Sunday,
The Columbus Iron Works are pre
paring fo east the cylinder for the cot
ton compress at Savannah.
Incessant rains in Brooks county have
i' jnred all kinds of crops, the water
melon crop especially, which the Free
Press says has been cut off fully one-
half.
Nelson Jones was seriously cut in
aeveral places by Eli Whitehead at a
negro dance in Swainesboro last Satur
day night. Too much tangle-leg, says
the Herald.
A difficulty occurred Friday night,
at Toorasboro, on the Central railroad,
in which the Town Marshal shot and
probably fatally wounded a man by the
name of Henry Clay.
Atlanta, June 18.—Last night,
Henry Bugg, colored, while drunk,
went to sleep on the Air Lice railroad
track near this city, and was run over
by a freight train and killed.
Macon Telegraph: Judge Pardee
has given a decree against the Macon
Bank and Trust Company for about
$20,0(X > in favor of the creditors of
Cnbhcdge, Hazel hurst & Co.
In the House on motion of Mr. Rea-
gab, of Texas, the bill; has passed au-'
t ho rising the const ruction of railroad
bridges across the St. Marys, the Sa-
tilla, Little Satilla and’ Crooked rivers
in Georgia and Florida.
Ma on Messenger : Noah Johnson, a
negro and ex United States soldier, to
whom was given the contract for carry
ing the mail from Tennilie to Sanders-
ville, to begin on the 1st prox., has
forwarded his resignation to the de
partment at Washington.
Bavannah News: A water wheel
has been invented by Mr. H. S. Hol
der, of Macon, which will revolution-
General News Paragraphs-
Fortress Monroe is the largegt sin
gle fortress in the world.
Six boys were drowned Monday
near Algiers, La., by capsizing a boat.
Senator Wade Hampton declines to
become a candidate again for Gover
nor of South Carolina.
The commissioner of public works,
New York city, has advanced the
rate of laborers to two dollars per
day.
Veseels arriving at New York, Bos
ton and other Eastern ports from
Europe, continue to report the pres
ence of large icebergs and much drift
ice in the Atlantic.
The Missouri Car and Foundry
Company have increased their work
ing force by the addition ol 100 new
hands. The company are now em
ploying between 350 and 400 hands.
A bill has passed tho House to per
mit the levying of a tax of fifty
cents per head upon emigrants land
ed in this country, such tax to be
paid by Ue vessel carrying such emi
grants.
The cyclone which sw^pt, through
Centra! Iowa Sunday night killed
100 persons and injured 150 others.
The cyclone is reported a* terrific,
destroying more than $600,000 worth
of property.
Three sons of Duncan Taylor, aged
eight, six and four, who were playing
in a stable at Brussels, Ont., Friday
afternoon, went into an o«t bin, the
lid of which closed on them. Later
all were found dead from suffoca
tion.
Joseph Gelerv, while asleep near
Cohoes, New York, had a trade dol
lar placed in his mouth by a five
year-old daughter, and the coin
lodged in his throat. At last accounts
he was suffering great pain, and his
life was in danger.
A Post-Appeal special from Wash
ington. of June 20th, says Judge
Kelley, Chairman of the Committee
on Ways aud Means, has introduced
a bill to repeal tbe law imposing a
tax on all forms of manufHCtured
tobaoco and cigars, to take effect on
the 1st January, 1884.
Mrs. Linquest, near Geneseo, Iff.,
last Saturday, after preparing dinner
for her husband and a friend, and
while they were eating, took her son,
aged five years, to the corn crib
near the house, cut his throat and
then killed herself. No cause is
ize water wheels. It can be placed in known for the act, but the woman
a river, and will run as well twenty feet
under water as only half way out, and
•an also be run in any size stream.
The Barnesville Gazette promulgates
this item, which is suggestive : “Out of
a voting population of between three
huudred and three hundred and fifty,
there is said to be only about twenty
who do not use liquor, tobacco, or other
itim ilants. Of these, six are of one
family , and three are of another.
Macon Telegraph : Mr. Michael, of
Upson county, states that he threshed
from 1,000 to 1,500 bushels of oats at
m^ny plantations ou his route. One
man thinks he will make 7,000 bushels.
Oats are now offered at 25 cents per
bushel and we are happy to say find no
purchasers. Plenty of wheat to donate
ijt lew bushels to the poor and needy.
Augusta News: A pair of mules
belonging to Mr. Absalom Rhodes, * f
this obuuty, were struck by lightning
a Saturday afternoon and killed. This
atasirophe occurred about thirteen
miles from Augusta, near the Chew
pi oe, and the strange part of tho affair
is that two other mules of a four mule
hi.Were uninjured behind their fallen
ws. The four mules were drawing
m eugire to Mr. A. W. Rhodes
se, near Hophaibab, wlkft the lead-
off tii3 team were struck by the
is believed to have been iusane.
In the House, on Monday, Mr.
Smith, of Illinois, under instructions
from the committee on banking and
currency, moved to suspend the
rules and pass the bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury, until
the 1st of July, 1884, to receive
trade dollars upon the presentation
and give in exchange fur them stand
ard silver dollars, and repealing all
law» authorizing the coinage of trade
dollars. Agreed to.
A special to the Chattanot^a Times,
of June 19th, from Winchester,
Teun., reports that Henry Huddes-
ton, colored, made an assault on Mrs.
Mat Vaughn, white lady, a resident
of Winchester, on Saturday night.
He was pursued and caught five
miles from town, brought back and
placed under a guard. During Sun
day night a company of unknown
men demanded admittance to the
room. Upon being refused, they
broke down the door and dragged out
the u*gro. Tiffs morning the body
of Huddeston whs found dangling
from a tree in the court house yard,
with the following inscription pinned
to his clothes: “Whenever a man
becomes tired of life, let him follow
tho example of the deceased and
secure death. “Lynch.”
HIS TOR r or THE SAD DESTITUTION IN A
PART OF VIRGINIA.
Danville Correspondence Baltimore Day.
The average reader not familiar with the his
tory and topography of the Buffering county of
Patrick might well ask, why is it that there hap
pens to be so much destitution in our county,
while its neighbors are rolling in wealth and
plenty, and why does this wail come from Pat-
rlok so suddenly and all at once ? In the first
place, Patrick’s neighbors are not rolling in
plenty. They, too, have suffered from last
year’s drought, but not so seriously, and then
they are favored with better transportation
faoUities and were able te bring from a distance [
surplus necessary to make up the deficit in last J
year’s crops. Patrick county has 13,800 inhabi
tants, composed of strictly agricultural people.
They always make their own bread, cure their
own meat, spin, weave and make their own
clothes in the olden style, and have ever been
free, independent, and heroic people, hedged
in from the outside world by the rugged peaks
of the Blue Ridge Mountain*. There is no rail
road nearer to Patrick than Burned Chimneys,
in Henry oounty, forty-five miles distant, to
which point the Danville and New River Narrow
Gauge has reoently been completed. These
people have ever lived in their mountain county
almost to themselves, being entirely indepen
dent of the balance of the world, and having the
least possible intercourse with t. So notorious
is this fact that the county has from time im
memorial enjoyed the soubriquet of “The Free
State of Patrick.’’ There are no strictly wealthy
people in Patrick, and.heretofore but few really
poor were known there. All were well-to-do,
independent farmers, making ample for home
consumption, and caring for ni more. The
crops of PatricK are grain and fruit. Some
tobacco is cultivated in certain portions of the
oounty. In 1879 the largest grain crops ever
known were raised in the county, and everybody
had wheat and corn to sell, but there were no
buyers. Being destitute of railroad facilities,
and the cost of transportation bv wagon across
tho mountains being more than the surplus grain
would bring when taken to market, the people
carried over to the next year enormous quanti
ties of oorn, wheat, etc. The year 1880 then
found them with nearly enough old grain to
carry them through the twelve months. They
had no way to get it to market lienee there was
no inducement to the farmer to pitch a crop.
Can it be wondered then that the people of
“The Free State of Patrick” made the year 1880
a kind of holiday and gave their usual avoca
tions but little attention ?
It is said daring that year these people in a
great number of instances attempted no crop at
all, and yet there was plenty in the land. Then
came 1881 with its great drought. The usual
large crops were pitched that year, but the yield
did not pay back the seed used in planting.—
Why it was that the strip of fertile land along
the mountains which makes up Patrick county
should have been dryer than any other part of
Virginia, cannot be explained, but such is the
truth. It is a fact, and one that will never be
forgotten by the now wretched and famishing
people, that from the 19th day of April, 1881, to
the 3d day of October of the same year, there
did not fall in the county enough rain to wet a
linen duster. Nothing like it was ever known
in that region before. Streams, springs and
wells dried up, and people had to depend upon
the larger creeks and rivers for drinking water,
and it became the custom for neighborhoods to
olnb in, gather np all the barrels, casks, etc., to
be found, put their teams together and haul
water from the rivers to a common rendezvous,
where the participants in the enterprise would
repair for water. These trips to the river were
made once a week and oftener if necessary.
Some neighborhoods had to haul water fifteen
and twenty miles. Some wheat was raised, but,
corn withered upon the hill, and even t£e stalk
and root died. Fruit was a total failure ftlso,
and none was saved. •
Last fall the Board of Supervisors of the coun
ty purchased a quantity of oorn to be sold at
prime cost to the needy. ? hese brave and he
roic people, who had never dreamed of coming
to want, did not relish the idea of becoming
beggais before the world, and they fondly hoped
;hat with the aid the county government was
offering they might hold out until the crops of
this year should be gathered ; but they did not
know their own situation, for such was their
pride that neighbor would keep from neighbor
his true condition. But hunger forced them be
fore the world, and hence six weeks ago, when
the county treasury was exhausted; when it
was discovered that there was no corn in tfte
county; that those who had some had divided
with those who had not tiU all was gone; that
five thousand men, women and children were
upon the eve of starvation and nothing in the
county to feed them upon—the wail from Pat
rick which has gone all over the lund, was heard.
Men were starving almost before they kuew it.
A man with u famiiy in one section, not know
ing the extent of the destitution himself, thought
he would economize to the last and try to make
out without exposing his poverty, but if he
should come to the bottom of his scanty barrel,
ho would be as quiet as possible about t and
borrow a little from his neighbor on the next
section to him. When his bread was all gone
and he started to borrow from his neighbor, lie
met thut neighbor on the road with parched
11ns, shrunken cheeks and hollow eyes, the very
picture of woe and hunger, coming on the same
errand—to borrow of him. Thus It happened
that the count y was aroused almost in a night to
a realization of the fact that the people wero
starviug and there was no bread to appeasj
their hunger.
Such in brief is a true history of the famine.
The cry for help has been heard by noble peo
ple every where Danville has contributed largely;
Richmond lias taken prompt and vigorous ac
tion ; Lynchburg has contributed, and Balti
more, as si e always does, acted nobly. It is im
possible now to say whether the danger Is
jmst. There are f>,000 or more destitute people
to be fed until the wheat, is harvested the last
of July. The question, will the wheat crop now
standing supply the county with bread until
the standing oorn crop is available? is a de
batable and a serious question. The BupplieB
which Baltimore and other cities aro sending
reaoh Patrick slowly, as they have to be hauled
by wagons forty-five miles.
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FLIPPER'S FLOP.
The N. Y. Express thus alludes to tho final ro-
suli in the ease of the colored Lieutenant Flip
per : "President Arthur bus approved the find
ings of tho court-martial in the ease of Lieuten
ant Flipper, charged with embezzlement and
conduct unbecoming an otUoer, and that inte
resting young colored person will be dismissed
from the army. Somehow the colored brethren
do not pan out very well as army othcers. "Tho
colored troops fought nobly" was a common
dispatch during the war times, but it does no.
appear to bo possible to Mtcoessfully place the
negro in any position ot military trust— The
cases of Flipper aud Whittaker demonstiJfe the
inability of tho average negro to resist tumpta
tlon, and show how readily he nmy fall, bend
lag these young men to West Point was more a
matter of bravado than anything else, for it Is
not in the natural order of events that the color
ed mall should he placed as a commander of his
white: brullm n. Whittaker’s rars and Flip, er’s
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