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<The (True (Citizen. WAYNESBORO, GA., JUI.Y IA, 1SH3. Kntereitat the I’.O. Wtnjtiexlmru im 'hi elmtx mutter i<r We have driven up our ed itorial space (Ids \v(*ek to a sound, sensible communication upon the all absorbing topic of the fence question, a careful perusal of which we commend to our readers. I*" An exchange in an adjoin ing county begins an editorial by saying “Appearances are deceitful.” Right, my brother; your outside is a patent print, when you wish it to “appear” as if it was all done at home. ' vr lion. E.C. Duliignon, State Senator, of Milledgeville, will deliv er the opening literary address be fore our next Agricultural Fair, November (5th, lSHil. Prof. 11. ('. White, State rhendst and Professor of the State University, will deliver the address, November 7th, These gentlemen are well known, J’rof, White is one of the first scientists of the age, skilled in his profession, and our people may expect a treat. Mr. PuBignon is an orator, and a man full of attainments, ’I'll K BAM, 01*ICNKll, On Thursday merning, lion. P. 1), Cox, of Burke, presented a bill to the House to require the owners of stock in Burke county to keep the same on their own premises, etc., which was read (he first time. This hill it is likely will become a law, which will settle the question at puce. Communicated. Am AtuMMM-ut for the Stork Law. We are glad that the stock law is being agitated. The intelligent, thinking, solid men of the county must support it, and surely if they exert themselves they can shape and mould public opinion. No country or people can or ought to prosper unless the public sentiment of its intelligent, thinking men originate and make its laws. The passage of the stock law has become a pressing necessity. Already hundreds of acres of our most productive lands have been abandoned because of the scarcity of timber, and the con sequent expensiveness of fencing. Year by year this scarcity of timber will increase, and the expense and inconvenience of keeping up our large plantations will be so en hanced as to render their abandon ment inevitable. The statement, no doubt is correct that the yearly expense of keeping up the fences of Burke county will buy every cow and bog and sheep in its limits. There is now not enough timber in the county to supply its legitimate demands, even laying aside the huge item of fencing. There are only two steam saw mills jn the county, and one of them (at Rogers) is furnished with timber brought from Emanuel county. Just pause for a moment and reflect. Every foot of sawed material now con sumed in this once magnificently timbered country is brought by railroad from adjoining counties. All the fuel used by the railroads is brought from other sections. The Central Railroad controls about (50 miles of track within our borders. <>n this (Mi miles are used about 1-4(1,000 cross ties, worth perhaps $00,000, and yet not one of these ties are furnished by the land own ers of Burke county. There are miles of bridges and tressels across our streams, but the material for keeping them all up come from the county of Scriven and Emanuel. These are startling facts and should cause even the most thoughtless to stop and consider, and ask himself “whether are we drifting.” But not only is tin* supply of timber lessen ing every year, but the dwellings, the out buildings, the improvements on dipt plantations, are all going to decay. The handsome dwellings, the substantial barns and gin houses urwgelting to be things of the past, “very few and far between.” Year by year they are rotting down, and are being replaced with cheap, frail structures, and in a very short time unless a riulical halt is made, the plantation Improvements of Burke county will be valueless. But its fences—how can we do Justice to the subject. To-day there are thousands of miles of rail fences in Burke county, and we doubt if there are live places within its en tire, limits which can lay claim to having a legal fence. Each year a change for the worse is being made more manifest in this particular. The yearly damage done to grow ing crops by vicious stock encour aged as they are by bad fences would buy every cow and hog in the county; and the quarrels and feuds and dissensions engendered thereby give rise to expensive prosecutions and endless litiga tions. Stock allowed to run at large are but highway robbers, preying and preyed upon, barren llgtrees, useless cumberers of the earth. Not one in ten are id - any service. They rove here and there and every where, seeking what they can de vour, and if one of them by chance picks up enough llesh to cover their bones, they soon disappear from the face of tlu> earth, having been ap propriated for the use uf the va grant throng which infest every community. The writer, who owned in a adjoining county a place of a,(ion acres, about two years ago, had the panneis of fencing counted and to his surprise discovered that there were 21 miles of fences. The plan tation that year raised four hogs and supported about Hi head of cattle from which the owner never got a pound of butter or a gallon of milk. If Burke county, or Georgia ever becomes truly prosperous in an agricultural point of view, the large plantation system must be abol ished, and tin* tillers of the soil should be its owners. We hear much as coming from the ignorant, that the stock law will benefit the land owners, but will injure the laborer. As a class, how can the labor, the hone and sinew of the country ever own their homes as long as the fence law prevails. A poor man cannot buy a large place, but ho might buy bis IP’ty or hun dred acres. Its impossible to take any of our largo places and cut them up into small ones as Jong gs the present system prevails. When the stock law is passed then the owners of what we term plantations, can subdivide them into farms, and sell then) to their tenants at remunera tive prices, TJlG difference between rent and interest would ulmu> In seven years buy a farm. The tenant who rents his land can have no home attachments, takes no abiding Inter est in tbe place, feels no love for his surroundings; In' is here to-day and there to-morrow; a rolling stone gathering PO l)U>ss. The conse quence is, he is kept poor, and the land but keeps him company. The one goes down, down, and the other follows him. The ignorant is told that the stock law would raise the rent, llow can this be ? Every sensible man knows that If fences be abolished that there can be and will be thrown into cul tivation thousands of productive acres of land. If then, every plan tation will have more land for cul tivation, will not each land owner have to bid against bis neighbor for laborers, and there being no corres ponding increase of labor, how can renters apprehend any Increase of rent? Owners of land could then afford to rent for less and the de mand for labor would force them to do it. With improved, labor-saving agricultural ynpliments, and time saved from fencing, the tenant can make more manure, and cultivate more land, lie can then not only plant as much land in corn and cotton as he does now, hut in the fall and winter he will have abun dant time for planting oats and other small grain. Our present system of agriculture is nothing more or less than land* butchery. We take everything from it and give it back nothing in return. During the spring we plant corn or 'cotton; in the fall of the year as soon as the crop is gathered, the fields are thrown open and swarms of predatory cattle roam over them trampling the soil and eating off every sprig of vegetation, so that when the next spring comes on naught but the bare land is left, and the plow comes along and turns over on I// Hand; the depredating cattle have already paten up and carried away every sprig of vegeta tion, such as grass, peavines, shucks, leaves, limbs and pods of cotton. There is now a society for the pre vention of cruelty to animals, ought there not to be a law to punish the robber of the soil, the deseerater of our old mother earth. Tbe productiveness of the lands of Burke county could be doubled in live years if after the crops are gathered the weeds and grasses are turned under and allowed to decay, thus giving back to the soil not only all, but more than what has been taken from it. If then our lands are made twice as productive, is not the owner of the la ml correspond ingly benefited, and tbe cropper is not his share increased, and the renter does he not make twice as much with which to pay for his rent and advances? When the land is improved and made productive, every living being who comes in contact with it is the gainer, reap ing Ills corresponding share of its benefits. Stock when allowed to roam at large are almost worthless, the de stroyers and the destroyed. One caw, enclosed and fed will yield more milk and butter than a dozen allowed to roam at will, and if its stall or pen Is kept well littered, enough manure can be made to pay all the food it eats. Even the land alone taken up by fences if planted would produce enough to feed all the stock needed on that place. The The experience of the world teaches, and reiterates the fact, that only the raising of improved stock pays and that only when enclosed and cared for. Nine-tenths of the bacon used in Burke county is brought from the West, but a small propor tion of its population raises its milk and butter; we buy all our mules and horses, This is therefore not a stock country. Wo dig our living out of the laud, and yet we hold the land secondary as it were to tbe stock. If a land owner or his ten ant needs advances of money or provisions when he goes to his mer chant or factor, docs ho mot satisfy him by promises to pay in corn and cotton; does he even stipulate' to pay in cows or hogs? ought not then the source from which we draw our living be the prime object of our care and attention. Ts it the part of wisdom to kill the hen that lays the egg ? Years ago a number of counties in North Carolina tried the stock law, and its people are unanimous in extolling its benefits. South Carolina has tried it and we get from her only encouraging accounts. A number of the most enlightened and progressive coun ties in Georgia have adopted it and they tell in unmistakable language that a n<‘w era of prosperity has dawned upon them, and bids us God speed in emulating them. Why then stand we clinging to the worn out usages of the past. Burke is a grand old county; vjohi *to her soil, fertile in her production. The God of tlu> harvest has smiled on her, and in days gone by have tilled her lap with plenty. Here and there may be seen a wrinkle on her brow, or m silvered bnir timid imv locks, but there Is life in the «*lcl land yet. Every valley and hillside teems with untold wealth. If we will but foster and nurture her, the returns will be ample and the yield unend ing. No Kknok, Our Job Department. We take pleasure in announc ing tp thi*|mbjjc, tlint WO have just furnished our Job Depart ment with a full and complete outfit of new and bpantillil mate rial, comprising all new styles of type, and "are now prepared to do all kinds of Hook and Job Work—great or small—prompt ly, in tlm best stylo of the art, at Augusta prices. Indeed, we have the only complete printing office which ever was in Waynes boro capable of supplying the public demand. And as there is now no good reason for sending away from home any work ol any kind, we solicit the patron age ofall who wish any pvinU ing done. SULLIVAN BROS., Printers and Publishers. BLACK SMITH! N G IN Alii. ITS BRANCHES. Horseshoeing a Sped nil//. CARRIAGES, BUCKS I KB AND WAGONS Repaired at Kliort Notice and In the best style. The undcrsimicd liens leave to inform the imhlielhal he is prepared to do hlucksmll hllig in all Its branches, at his shoe opposite Mr. s. A. Gray’s stable, anil asks a sham of llit 1 pub lic patronage. lie makes Iloi'seshoclng a Specially, anil iloes his work promptly ami well, lie has seen roil the services of a com pe tent carriage maker anil Wheelwright, and Is prepared lo nmke your broken or worn Cur- rhigos’ Bunnies and Wannns as nond as new. 1‘rlces to suit the times. Give him n trial. api-JS’S’Jif J. O’BYRNS, 3 CO r#» CD p; c/> 1-5 si 3 H 0 c l m w zr Co “1 \ s a ta 5* ce (A w n UH a p ft Z> g M M O 2! cr 0 3 a S -Tj N Uo, Ck a 7s 7 3 *1 li p. Boilers, A L_J A k-H 2 S * w ^ r- ^ Pr Q. >■ 0) —i £ n a ~ * 8 N t . •t rs* 3 0 ? 7 3? 0 0) a O s. Cc CS (J c 3 H 3* 7 ie Mills % ti 35 I* 3 y. c/> r'j 0 3 V- < sm 7T ?! 3E CO a W ■ Advertise in Tun Citizen. Geo. R. Lombard & Co., Foundry and Machine and Boiler Works. Near the Water Tower, 1014 Eon Wick St., Augusta, Ga. Saw .Mills, Grist Mills, ('ane Mills, Plantation Maehin- ery, Engines, and Boilers, Co-ton Screws,'Shaft inns, I ‘111 leys, 11 miners, Journal Itoxes, Mill Gear bur, (11n(neons, Turbine Water Wheels, (IIn (tearing, Juilsim’s (lover mini, 1 fission's circular Saws, ami Glimmers and Files, llellinn and Ituhbltt Metal anil brass Kit I Inn Globe anil Cheek Valves, Whistles Glumes, Ac., Iron 11 nil I trass Cast Inns nml Gin 1(1 hs mill 1 njerlors. Hepalrinn promptly Unite at l.owest I’rlees. We easi every (lay both Iron and Brass, having greatly Increased our capacity with lat est Improveil tools. We are riinnliin fall time with inn hands, which enables us lo III! orders promptly al lowest prices. Gives usa trial before seiuunn elsewhere. A neats for (ieornhi and South ('a ml Inn for KOUTI Nil's I' N IV K RSA E I N .1 EC "Id lit, the best Holler Out. Works wllh one lever. Will work warm or cold water, anil will lift water. - Warranted lo nlve sallsfael Ion. Send for circulars before you buy any other. They are bel ter than n pump. Jun22’8!iby o <$><$> 0 0 <$><$> <$> <$>000000 . 0 0 0 0 0 & 0 0 0; 0 0 0 0 0000 0 0 00 * I 1 ► • rH £ H o fH l HH H ril OS £ O „ G s’D Z a ^ • i—< ^ ^ C r-i S O ^ © o S S o Z ° 3Z £ cs ^ o a: iwnsmr CO CC ^ ^ ^ eS Ah 3 S c i * 75 •— 1 o fti aT r ^ © 2 o •-* <-* ~ rj o — c © ■ . ' I I— Si d £ O ■H o K r~il ft <3> <c> <•><•> O <3> <$> <$>. <$> <$> O O <3> O <$» <$> o <$> o o 0: Office and Drug Store. Li] >ei*ty Street. Just received a fresh suppl.v of Insect powder, and keep on hand meiHeines lor the profession nml the people. I have a sample fruit press which every fam ily will find useful ilurlnn the sum mer to express thejulecs of grapes and Indeed nil kinds of fruits. Just (lie tIdnn for the prudent housewife. I shall soon have o fresh lot of Hutahana and Kbit Dutch Turnip seeds, and only I liese, as every merchant I believe keep all others In stock. I have pure III. ('nrb Soda for medicinal and culinary purpo ses and id the price asked II is far cheaper than soda put up for nook Inn- npi’O'S.'Uf l>. I‘. DUNCAN. Utterly si, Waynesboro, Ga. PEANUTS. I have a large stock of pcnnuls ofall kinds, Handpicked Virginia Temiesse and North (''arolina. Hither for Seed or Uetalllnn. Oranges. I am well supplied with Florida, Messena and Valencia Granges. Lemons. I keep on hand always the I,nrnest Slock of Demons, and defy competition as to price and quality. Always on hand a full line of Confectionery mid Fancy Groceries, FOR SALE. ] liayo mi hnntl ibr Sale a line lot of nice COUNTRY HAMS. Now is your time lo get some thing nice. Call early as they are going fast. W. McCATUURN, InnH'Wf CARPETS. Carpets and House Furnishing Goods. The Largest Stock South of Baltimore. Mouuel. Brussels, 3-Ply & Ingrain Carpets, Rugs, Mals. & Crumh Cloths, Window Shades, Wall Papers, Borders, Lace Curtains, Cornices k Poles, Cocoa & Canton Mattings, Upholstery, Engra vings, Cliromos, Picture Frames. Write for Samples and Prices. GEO. A. BAILIE.Masonic Building, Augusta, Ga Jnnl.VS.’lby, Arlington House Barber Shop. I have now nsHoehited myself with u llrxl- clasw Harbor, and will coin lime our Shop un der the tirm name of Drown & Thuse, and will do In the latest sl\ Ic IIAlH CUTTING, DYKING, SHAVING, SIIAMl'l tOING and everything Hint can he done In u llrsl- clnsx HarhcrSImp. Give us a trial and we guarantee sallsfael Ion. A. 1IHOWN, Harnett House, Savannah, Ga. ANNO IE CONDrCTFJh • I UST AH GOOD AHTHGSK THATCI.AIM lo lie llrst-clasM and charge I wire as much. Connected by si rcet cars, wllh all the depots. Coin! this out to your neighbors. Don’t pay 41.DO per day or even 4:1.1m, when*i ou can get the same or better aeeommodatlon for 41 -AO per day. The undersigned respectfully liifni'iux those who desire a thorough course in Music, that lie Is prcimrcd lo give Instructions upon the Violin, I’lniio mid Organ. Piinlls, for Flute and Guitar can also cider the class. Ills pri ces arc I'l'iismuililc, II>■■/)“' For rates and further pui'ttciilnrx ap ply lo ell AS. .1. WA Id.Al'K, mrTSJUf. Waynesboro, Ga. E. F. Lawson, A tt Or n e // - at- La ie, WAYNKHUGIIO, GA. Will promptly al lend to all bust ness 1111 rust ed to Ids care, mid give special nllcutloii lo Hie practice III the Court of Ordinary, oillee next door lo Arlington Hotel, no\lu'sjhy Subscriptions arc positively cash J. I! Keenly, Cor, Bay and Whitaker Streets, deel.VSJliy. SAVANNAH, QA. New Attractions AT The Music House of the South. IAN0S, ORGANS, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. G. H. U.—E. 1.0. M.—L. P. Q. S An extended visit among the principal I’lano and organ factories has enabled us to make I lie 11 nest select Ion of 1 list rumen Is ever brought lo A iigusta. Ourstock, which will lie replenished weekly from the best liiniiufitcliirerx, will lie the larg est and most iplcte til the South. Our prices 1 lie lowest amt terms of payment the easiest ever olt'ered. sheet music mid music hooks—large ills- count from publisher's prices. Best Itnllnn Strings, and everything desired la the line of music. Save money by visiting or corres ponding wit h <I. o. ttoHINSON & co. tsll Ilroad Street, Augusta, Ga. NI'K'CIM. AOTI(•/■:. From this dale the services of Mr. C. It. Taylor, as 1 imer and ivnnlrer for u> terminate. All orders for same will receive the prompt al I on I Ion of M r, T. II airy (biles, who guaran tees enI Ire sal tsl'ael toil. (I. o. Itoltl NSON .St Co. Augusta, Ga., October :t, ltWJ, oetaO'S,- Chronicle & Constitutionalist. A II G U S T A, G A. Tile Chronicle A- Coiisllllllloiiullst Is the oldest newspaper In the South, having been established In ITXo, The Chronicle is progressive and liberal In all things and Is essenliully a fair representa tive of Southern opinions and a persistent ex ponent of Southern Industries. While l'|ve free from sensallonallsm mid Immorality, II is In 110 way behind Ihe best of its contempo raries nxn purveyor of the news. The Morning Chronicle A ConstIItilI0111111st Is mi eight page paper of IS columns. I’rtee 4in per year; six mimtlis4.'> Tue Kvcidng Chronicle A Constitutionalist Is Hie Slime size as the morning paper. The price Is 411 per year; six monllix ft. This makes 11 ihe largest and cheapest eight page paper In the Hnulli. The Sunday Chronicle Is a very luteresllng paper. 11 is mi eight page llft.v-slx column paper. I’rlee 4- per year, The Weekly Chronicle A Constitutionalist is one of the largest papers III Ihe South, j I is ten pages and eontallis seventy columns of matter, l'rlee per .Tear; 41 for six mouths. Specimen copies sent free. Address C it 110N1 in, k A Con ht it it I on a i.iht, myiVHJ Augusta, Ga. T. D. 0 I i v e i\ A 11 o r n e // -at- L a w, WAYNKNltOHO, GA. Will praellee in the Align da, Kasteru and Middle Circuits. Sn.ielal Uileiitlon given to Justice Court practlne, myO’tUhy SHKBTTAN, 1025 Greene Street, ----- Augusta Ga, Pure Soda Wider, Sarsaparilla and Ginger Ale manufactured Horn Fresh and Kirst-1 n jnalerjal. I.arger Beer In kegs mid bottles always on hand. Orders solicited uinl tilled. 1WI J N o Tee of Good Quality and Just Weight sill pptd to my customers al Hie Mm, • Price’ fehll’SIc , “ GRAND CLEARANCE SALE Handsome Carpets and Rugs, Sale Continued for Thirty days. We wish lo clear out and make room for other goods now on the way. Bargains will I* given In the following goods: Body Brussels Carpets, new Designs mid Colorings. Tapestry Brussels, new designs. Scotch Carpellng, Beautiful Designs mat Colorings. Venetian Carpets and it-Ply (’arpets, new goods. Hearth (tugs.’ Beautiful Patterns and Colors. Cheap Hemp and Common Cotton Carpets. Door Sluts and Crumh Clot lis, nice goods, it,<100 Window Shades, new styles Just opened. 1,000 Window Cornices, 30 styles to select from. Pole Cornices, Brass and Walnut. 1,000 Pair Window Curtains, Nottingham Dace, now goods. Floor 1 HI Clot lis, nice goods. Wall Papers, 10,000 rolls new Wall Papers. Cant on Mailings, fresh new goods, iii d I He rent patters, •'.">0 rolls, all new patterns. Dad™ and Borders, all nice fresh goods. Newest patterns! Hoincmhpr Big Bargains. JAMES G. BAILIE & SONS. Old Store James G. Bailie A Bro. ; 713 I’.ItOA D STKKKT, AUGUSTA, (I A. lnylO’Saiiy. Iron, Steel, Cutlery, Guns, Pistols, Saddlery, and Bridles, Wheels, Hubs, Spokes, Rims, Axles, Fte., Kle., Fie. AT LOWEST PRICES. GreiieiNil Awnt For- Eclipse Steam Engine, Duplex Harrow, Winshlp Gin, Walter A. Wood, Manure Spreader, Mower, Reaper Oliver Chilled Plow and Binder. HENRY P. MOORE, sept22’82hy 800 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. r. ' •; That the Best is Cheapest,- And especially is this true in Furniture. JUST SEE SOME OF OUR PRICES : Parlor Sets in Hair Cloth, Walnut Frame from 4:0 to 400 The ties! Raw Silk Sel for 40o i'Vi r olfeivd. Nice Walnut Chmnhcr Sets, Marble Top, JV. The best Warble Top Set ill the market for 4ll.'i. We defy Competition from Every Quarter. We Acknowledge no Superior, And Few Equals, in the South. Wlw ever heard of Cane Seat Chairs for seventy-five cents. Extension Tables one iM' lar per loot. We guaranfee satlsfaetlon In every ease. Ourstoek of Mattresses and Sal’iik Reds is enmplele. Steam Dresseil Feathers always on hand. All goods packed and shlpi»’“ free of charge, rphnlstcrlng done in all Its brunches. Illustrated Catalogues and Price 1,1st may lie had hv calling at Ibis oillee. J. L. Bowles & Co.. sept l.VSJhy. 717 and 8:l!t BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. W. I. Uelpli, 831 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, 6«.| W HOI,ESA I,E AND ltETA! I. DEADER IN Tinware, &c. In stock u very full llnoof Ihe Celebrated Excelsior Cooking Stoves. The lu'Ht in the market. Sixteen illiferent hI/ck and ftlmlM. HU sizes with euaiaeknl n* s erVi»lrs. Atlopled to all tviiulivmcnl s ami prli’cil to sail all purse*. I BAD IMG FKATUBES: e Wood Doors, Patent Wood Grille, Adjustable Damper, Inlerohaugeahh' Oi rtf, Broiling Door, Swinging llemth-Plale, Swinging Flue-Top, Revels hie '• I,ong Cross Piece, Double Short Centres, llimuiuated Fire Doors, Nickel t' 111 Double miilie Shelf, Burning Kong C Nickel Panels, etc. I'liequulled in Material, III Finish and In D|H'ratlon. mrtfl'aiby. W. I. DKKPI1,801 Broad Htroel, Augusta, Ga.