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State News Paragr&phs- 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. 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