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Silk Culture.
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with Mr. John Ryle, the veteran Bilk
manufacturer of New Jersey, hascalled
forth inquiries from many sources rel
ative to the best methods of beginning
the industry, the cultivation of worm
food, the purchase of eggs, the hand
ling of the worm itself during the va
rious stages of its life and labor and
the treatment of its productions.
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When one docs his best he can aflord to
take the consequences.
It U tunnv to sec what faces some of the
Northern Republican papers are making
over the dawning suspicion that Grant is
willing to play the “dark horse," or dark
donkey, for that matter, for another term
f<>r himself and "the boys," in the White
House.
Tn* latest from Mr. Tilden is embodied
in this dispatch from Albany, N. Y„ un
der date of the 23d instant: "A party of
leading Democrats and friends of Tilden
who left Qreystone to-day, say that nndcr
n, circumstances will ho be a candidate
for the Presidency, and nndcr no clrcum
stances will he accept if nominated. They
regard this, his last refusal, as final, and
say that the field is now left, so far as
Democratic candidates from this State are
concerned, to Flower and Cleveland. 1
Paor. Wiggins claims that the rccen-
storms and ths earthquake in England are
a fair fulfillment of his March predictions,
The Professor believes the forces which
caused the diaatrona storm last month will
again unite Saturday svening next, and
earthquakes probably occur Friday and
Monday, while there is a serious probabil
ity that Uie eorthquaks In England will re
turn with increased violence aboutthe 20th
of May. O'Donovan Rossa per contra
swears that the disturbance In Faigland
credited to an earthquake was but the ex
plosion of one of his buried dynamite car
tridges. Nothtog short of a commission
ran decide between the claims of these
cranks.
TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAY 2,1884
7
Third Term Talk.
Tlio first suggestion to the effect that
Grant was the dark horse in keep for
l 'hicago, .was denounced by the Repub
lican press as “a vain, wicked and idle
device of the enemy.” It was laughed
at and sneered at, but haa at lost de
manded respectful and serious copaid-
<■ ration. It is recognized fully now,
and the thnnder against a third tenn is
invoked to destroy the chances of the
"old man” and the "old guard” with
the 300 brass medals.
The Philadelphia Prttt gives promi
nent position to this protest from the
Rochester, N. Y. Chronicle.
.' It seem, to be dawning upon the mind, of
many careful observer* that a movement haa
really begun for the nomination of General
Grant at Chicago. It will nottuceced, but It
should be understood. Four yean ago the
movement In ble behalf «ar open am! above
I,, ari. Now St U to be a Hill hunt, and, in the
event of the Inability of the,telegale* to noml
n*t« one of the prominent candidates, the
name of Grant ta to be *prungupon the con
vention and attempted to be rushed through
in a whirlwind of enthttilum. It It further
said that the Grand Army Posts are to be used
to promote the programme. It might succeed
w ere not the people irrevocably ho.rile to the
third tana. There haa not, probably, been a
time In twenty years wben the ex President
was more respected or more popular than he
I, to-day, but this docs not mean that* the
t.drd term has more support than It had In
VoO. Indeed, it has far less, as Its supporters
will find If they try to press the third term to
an editorial column to properly treat
such questions. All the infor
mation needed by persons in
terested in the subject and the
only information worth acting upon,
can be had from people engaged in the
silk business. The free circular of the
Women’s Silk Culture Association, of
Philadelphia, and the Complete Guide
to Silk Culture (25cents), published by
the New York Silk Exchange, 27 Bond
street, will supply all information de
sired.
^ As we have before stated there exists
no good reason why our Southern ladies
who have more leisure than income
should not by means of this industry
devote a portion of the former to in-
reasing the latter. Steadily the
business has been growing in the Unit
ed States for years, until now its per
manent establishment is assured. Sev
eral States have associations to aid
women and children in their efforts to
engage in the industry, notably
South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Califor
nia, Alabama and Louisiana. There is
practically no limit to the demand for
raw silk. The United States alone
buys $30,000,000 worth in foreign mar
kets, while yearly $400,000,000 is sold
throughout the world.
The silk culture of the United States
at present in the hands oi
twelve associations, numerous stock
companies, a colony of Italians in Tex
as, a German colony in North Carolina,
settlement of Norwegians in Georgia,
and several colonies of Menonites in
Kansas. A ready market for every
thing produced—silk, eggs and cocoons
—is found in Philadelphia and New
York.
While it is true that tho culture of
silk will furnish our ladies and many
children with an easy and re
munerative employment for a short
time each year, it must not
be supposed that the methods are al
together simple and rules unimportant-
The business calls for intelligence and
care for the fifty days of the season.
And not only these, but unlimited pa
tience.
Tito remuneration, considering the
short time required each year, is fair.
The cocoons, as likely to be pro
duced in Georgia, will bring about $1
per pound and tlio eggs $2.50 per ounce,
so that any woman combining in her
labor the necessary elements of intelli
gence and patience and having at hand
the necessary worm food, can clear
from $200 *to $400 from one
ounce of eggs. The equipments
are inexpensive and can readily bo con
structed by any man who ha» a fancy
for tools. When tho industry has so
developed as to justify the establish
ment of filatures for reeling tlio silk
the profits will be very much larger.
The TsLEGBArn, however, agrees with
the gentleman whose views It recently
expressed; tho best plan at present for
Southerners who desire to engnge in
tho business, is to raise only the pierced
cocoons and eggs for the market while
educating themselves. In the mean
time the planted trees will be growing.
When the conditions are favorable for
a higher grade of productions those
who have followed this rule will find
themselves equipped for securing the
larger profits.
to week. If they were driven to the
wall in a discussion, they sought to ex
tricate themselves by crying “Bour
bon.” If they weredetectcd in a piece
of particularly dirty work, they resort
ed to the strategy of the flying thief,
and cried all the louder against dip
"Bourbons.”
But we shall hear no more of this
parrot cry from Mahonc and fipeer,
and their allies, the “commercial
Democrats.” The battle has been
whipped in Virginia as it has been
whipped in Georgia. Ttio “commer
cial" wing cf the party has managed,
by the aid of the Republican and ne
gro vote, to keep their iicads above
water, but this they will find it
impracticable to do hereafter, even
with tlie lavish use of “checks" and
money. In a square, open trial of
strength, the clean Democrats
would be found to out
number the unclean by two to
one. No one knows this better than
the leaders of the latter faction. The
strength displayed by Mr. Bacon in
his contest last year, without patron
age and with the use of only legitimate
means and methods, was a revclationjto
them. The party is stronger to-day
than it was then, and there is no office
within the gift of the people which it
might not bear off, if it chose to make
the effort.
Henceforth “bourbon” will be
classed among the obsolete words in
Georgia.
Agricultural Prospect*.
The weather conld not have been
more unfavorable for fanners, truck
growers and gardeners, than it has
been during the past two months. The
storms and beating rains, followed by
high winds, have done great damog.,
and to these must be added the low
temperature which lias prevailed for
many weeks throughout the State.
These causes have conspired to retard
all agricultural and horticultural work,
and to seriously interfere with the
planting of crops of every kind.
This loss of time, though unfortunate
lias not been so serious as tlio injury
done to lands by the frequent and
unprecedented freshets. Ground
recently plowed lias been badly wash
ed, and in many parts of the State the
-*7—
Emory Spesr, li not bavins a very downy bed,
and 1* working blinielf luto a condition tor a
tint , la.-- small aenaatlon at no distant day. He
now but one friend to where he did have
ten. Hut of him anon. The cases against Joe
Nall, formerly assistant postmaster, and Ben
jamin Conley, formerly postmaster of Atlanta,
were continued until the next term of the
United States District Court. This, lu effect,
slgnlllet that this Is the last of ft, only so far
as the esse between the two Is coueerned.
Conley claims money of Nall aud Ur. Nall
claims that Conley Is due him money. This
question will be settled betwoen them In Ful
ton Superior Court.
The general public is not at all inter
ested in Emory Speer further than that
lie shall perform liis official duty. The
public mind has long since been settled
as to the certain ignominious close of
his career.
sions need be indulged no longer. Tho
general coiimuut of tlio bar is that he
is an admirable judge, quick in his
perceptions, ready in his application of
the law, upright, able and impartial.
It is not known whether there will
be any opposition to the re-election of
Judge Blandford. It is hoped there
will not be. He has not been on the
beneli a yoar yet, but his short torm of
service lias sufficed to show that he
possesses tho qualifications of a safe
and conscientious judicial officer,
But the people of Georgia are inter
ested in the administration of justice
young crops and the fertilizers put un- and law by the Federal courts.
r of
Seventh Congressional District.
We had,supposed that there would
no Democratic opposition to the
nomination and rc-clectien of 51 r.
foments to Congress from the seventh
district. A rumor reaches us, however,
^jiitt the present incumbent will have
t.-. ,!o battle, if he would retain his seat.
Our information is that Hon. L. N
•tfawimell is An aspirant for Congrc
ai-.uel honors, and that he will contest
tlie nomination with Mr. Clements.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Trammell secured the nomination
,-::ee before, and that he entered ac
tively upon the canvass, but retired
from the race soon thereafter. 51 r.
Dabney was nominated as his sue-
reasor, but was beaten by Dr. Felton.
The letter of Dr. Felton, announcing
i.is purpose not to become a candidate
ti n year, has simplified the political
:; nation in the seventh district. Had
d- - ided to renew the contest, it is
iv.t probable that 5Ir. Clements would
have had any opposition to hia nomina
tion.
Southern Bourbons,
The resolutions adopted by the Re-
adjuster convention in Virginia on
Wednesday are significant and impor
tant. They were reported by General
Malione himself, and adopted with
great unanimity and enthusiasm
Tho first resolution declares “that
from and after this day our party shall
be know-nos tho Republican party
Virginia.”
'hie sixth declaration is a long ar
raignment nml denunciation of Bonr-
bonism for its hostility to the most
sacred rights and dearest interests of
tho people.” Such is tlie language of
the dispatch.
That Gen. 5hthonc and his followers
should have finally landed in the Re
publican party, is what all flsoughttul
persons have foreseen and predicted.
Rapid as his movement lias been, he
was preceded by 5Ir. Emory Speer of
Georgis, who some time since gave in
his adhesion to the Republican organi
zation.
It was the custom of the Virginia
apostate to denounce the white men of
his State, who opposed his political
methods and aspirations, as “Demo
cratic Bourbons,” and even now, as
he takes formal leave of the
party he betrayed, he letsfly a Parthian
arrow feathered wfth the same insult
ing device. The true men of that grand
old State can well afford to despise the
renegade, and to laugh at his epithets,
just as the honest people of Georgia
have regarded, and still regard 5fr.
Speer and his abuse.
But the speakers and newspaper or
gans of the “commercial Democracy”
in Georgia were also wont to fling this
hateful epithet in the. faces of the
clean-banded Democracy who opposed
their methods and arraigned their
wrong-doing. This journal came in
for its foil share of such
impotent abuse. Even such a
man as the senirr Senator from Geor
gia who, whatever may be thought of
his ways, is known to be shrewd and
able, descended to this kind of tactics.
Nothing better could be expected of
Colquitt and the “commercial" organs,
big and Uttle, that yelped the Mine
strain from day to day and from week
A Misdirected Charity,
On this memorable day, devoted to
the memories of the dead heroes of a
great war, it may not be an inappropri
ate occasion to refer to the movement
recently inaugurated in behalf of the
survivors of that struggle.
The women of Richtnond, Virginia,
(and the women of the South have
never forgotten, their dead or living
kin,) sometime since proposed to give
fair, the proceeds of wiiich were to
be devoted to tlie establishment of a
homo for poor and disabled Confeder
ate soldiers.
Sundry Southern men have appro
priated the suggestion, and propose to
enlarge tlio plan by appealing to the
people of the North for aid. It may
be said to the credit ol our Northern
brethren, particularly those who par
ticipated in tlie war, that the
appeal has reached eager ears,
generous hearts and lavish hands. Al
ready contributions arc flowing in, and
to-day in the city of New York, the
metropolis of the nation and tlie most
cosmopolitan city on the continent, the
dramatic profession will do its part by
a grand performance. The response
has been so quick, the sympathy so
universal, that it is now proposed to
raise $1,000,000 and to erect two homes
in place of one.
To those whose pity is stirred by tlie
appeal from tender women in behalf of
bravo and suffering men, any criticism
upon the proposed plan must at first
seem harsh. Wo arc fully aware of
this fact, and would gladly avoidatask
that does not carry with it that pleas
ure, which is said always to accompany
the discharge of a duty.
The inspiration of this charity is no
ble, but there Is reason to apprehend
that this, like other great public char
ities, is likely to bo misdirected; that
zeal in behalf of a delayed and neg
lected duty is likely to overlook tlio
cold business calculations, absolutely
necessary to make it a success.
The Soldiers’ Home at Washington
City, after which all others are mod
eled, was founded by Gen .’Scott, from
the money taken from the government
of 5fexlco. It is suj?portcd by a fund
raised from tho pay of soldiers while
in active service, twelve, cents per
month being deducted from each pay
roll.
Like the Hotel ties Invalid#* in Paris,
and tlie Soldiers Hospital at Woolwich
England, it is placed under tlie super
vision of the government, the war de
partment taking immediate control
Here soldiers are allowed to come and
find food, clothing and sleeping room
when disabled from farther service.
The men who go there are generally
without families, money or relatives
for comparatively few men enlist in the.
ranks of tlie regular army, who have
not from bad fortune or evil habits lost
their hold upon society.
But even in this retreat, watched
over by tlie government, they are not all
happy or contented. Many scandals
have originated here, and hut
a year since a Congressional committee
unearthed the fact that officers were
living upon the funds provided for tlie
soldiers, and that the flowers and deli
cacies from the garden of tlie estali-
lishment went to load the tables and
grace tlie houses of government offi
cials in Washington. Anil yet this
house is the model in this country.
Nearly twenty years have elapsed
since tlie last Confederate soldier
turned his bronzed face towards his
homo and began Ids weary tramp, with
little baggage beyond a broken heart,
to tlie loved ones and familiar scenes.
Death has mode sad havoc with
the old and disabled of
this last roster of tlie war,
The younger ones have been swallowed
up in tlie various departments of
active life, many are prosperous and
many still making a brave struggle for
the necessaries and comforts of life.
They are scattered over the continent.
Would they consent to lie gathered to
gether under a single roof 7 Coming
years will rapidly reduce the roster
already referred to, and the Confederate
soldier will have no place save in the
hearts of his people and the pages of
history. What, then, shall become of
the costly home erected by the offer
ings of s brave and generous people?
These considerations should be
weighed before any derided direction
is given to the moneys now being gath
ered. It is not within our province to
der them for their support have been
swept away, leaving the planter no
choice but to begin work anew, or to
abandon nil hope of a crop. In many
counties, and especially in North
Georgia, nearly all the bridges and
water mills have been carried away,
and with them all fencing within the
high water mark. Even lands sown to
small grain and tho grasses have been
greatly injured.
' Notwithstanding these drawbacks,
the work of planting cotton and corn
lias been accomplished in tho south-
on, and Boutnwesteru counties, and is
under full headway in the section north
of 5tacon. Many ^planters lack the
means to purchase another supply of
commercial fertilizers, and their own
necessities and the demand of tho oil
mills have left them but little if any
cotton seed for replanting or ma
nuring.
And this justifies the expression of a
doubt whether the establishment of oil
mills will in the end prove beneficial to
planters. The best use that can prob
ably be made of cotton seed is to com
post and put them in tbo ground. The
sale of them to the oil mills would be
well enough, it the planters would
carry tho meal back home with them,
and feed it to their stock or use it as a
fertilizer; but this they are not likely
to do, particularly if they happen to
need a little money. 5Iany—perhaps a
majority of them—will he tempted to
sell the meal and buy later on commer
cial manures at credit prices.
l’asturage is still poor, and gardens
arc very backward, but the prospect
for an abundant yield of fruit is be
lieved to be excellent. A late spring is
generally followed by a bountiful fruit
crop.
Wo have no opinions to express as
to tlie guilt or innocence of Conley and
Nall, further than that Conley is known
to be a very hard man,and Nall a weak
one. But a grand jury, upon proof
furnished by government officers, has
charged them witli a heinous offense.
If they are guilty they should be
promptly tried, convicted and punish
ed. If they are innocent, it should be
promptly established.
It is a mockery of law and justice
that by a process of huggermuggery
they should be permitted to settle their
financial differences, while hundreds of
poor and ignorant moonshiners are
hunted down, imprisoned and robbed
by spies and detectives, under the
forms of law.
5tr. Springer’s committeb is still in
session, and it is submitted to the dele
gation from Georgia that this matter
is ripe for vigorous probing.
FROM ATLANTA.
The Otlrtin Cotton Fuctcr»-The Buno
and Machlnory—OtherJEnterprise*" 1 *
Crlffln Politics—Concrnl notes.
The Situation In Ceora'n.
There is but little change to note in
the political situation in Georgia.
In the seventh Congressional district
Dr. Felton has made formal announce
ment of the fact that he is not A candi
date for his old seat in the House of
Representatives. This, it is conjec
tured, will lie a great relief to a number
of aspirants in the famous seventh,
who are willing to contest the Demo
cratic nomination with Mr. Clcmonts,
the present Incumbent, but yet are not
anxious to measure strength with tho
doughty Doctor before the people. Now
that tlie latter is out oi the way, it 1b
not improbable that Mr. Cloments will
soon find it necessary to imitate 5Ir.
Nicltolls, and return to Georgia to at
tend to some "Important private busi
ness.”
The contests in the seventh district
have been the most spirited and inter
esting within our tuter history. For
six years, Dr. Felton, while adher
ing to tho principles of tlio national
Democracy, dolled Us local organi
zation and methods, and held Ids
own with masterful ability against all
comers, though reinforced by the
ablest and most eloquent men In the
party. His friends at home havo been
hoping to induce him to stand for the
Legislature, but thus far their efforts
have proved unavailing.
There is somewhat of a lull in the
fifth district. Captain Jackson is still
prosecuting his canvass vigorously, in
the absence of 5!r. Hammond, and this
fact, like a two-edged sword is cutting
both ways. It is reported that very
lively times may be expected os soon os
Mr. Hammond can quit his post of duty
nt Washington. He and his friends
will then, we are told, enter at once
upon an active and determined canvass,
and will “carry the war into Africa,”
possibly overhaul some records and
make things lively generally Tlie con
test, we trust, will be conducted decor
ously and in good temper. Buccess on
any other terms would be neither cred
itable nor desirable.
There will lie three candidates for
the nomination, according to report,
in the first district—Mr. Meidrim of
Savannah, Judge Mention of Bruns
wick, and Mr. Nicbolls, the sitting
member, of Blacksbear. We are not
advised as to tbeir relative strength
before the people. It Jadge Mention
is a candidate or intends to be, he
would only be doing his duty to forth
with resign his seat on the bench. A
presiding judge has no business run
ning for a political office.
Ths Now York Herald,
Since the latter days of the Hancock
campaign, has been rated as one of the
leading Republican organs of the coun
try. Under the elder Bennett, it was
content to bo considered ns a barome
ter of public opinion. The younger
Bennett seems determined to make it a
powerful aud active factor in politics.
In its evening tender, the Telegram,
it has raised the names of Arthur and
Lincoln, for President and Vice Presi
dent, and will support these gentlemen
for the nomination. In event of their
failure, it will support tlie nominees
of the Chicago convention, and Upon
any platform that may be promul
gated.
The Herald has a perfect right to
take whatever course may seem best
to it, and to advocate the selection of
candidates that, in its judgment, are
best calculated to win.
But it will be remcmbored.thatit was
the aciivo supporter of the Carlisle
combination in its free trade crusade.
It has counselled and supported this
gentleman and his followers in all of
tho unwise and foolish talk and action
that has divided the Democratic party,
It has counselled and maintained
them in an effort to force upon the
Democratic party free trado candidates
and a free trade platform. Having in
volved them In difficulties that seem to
secure Democratic defeat and humilia
tion, It now proposes to leave them and
to support a party whose platform and
candidates wjll both be, pronounced in
favor of the doctrine of protection. -
Whatever the Herald may lack in
ability, it more titan makes up in the
subtlety of its political tactics, and the
Republican party way well rejoice that
it liecomcs at last an active leader,
rather than a well-disposed ally.
As To a Soldiers' Home.
A recent report to Congress upon tho
soldiers’ home says the homo is adm-
mirably managed and conducted, but
“notwithstanding that tho old soldiers
of the army are aware of tho comforts
furnished to tho inmates of tlio home,
they have n great aversion, and it
wight bo called a dread, of tlie home.
The great dislike to it by those broken
down with age and honorable service,
who are eligiblo and have a right to on
ter it, Is tho known lack here of all oc
cupation or recreation.” The report
states that the majority of old soldiers
do not like reading, and are too old to
acquire the habit, and knowing they
will have literally nothing to do but sit
round and smoke, they dread tlie place.
5Iany, too, object to sundering domes
tic ties, in order to enter the home.
Our people will do well to think of
this before it is concluded to build a
home for Confederate soldiore. It is
now proposed to take the Soldiers
Home near Washington for the Agri
cultural Department, and to put the
old and disabled veterans away in some
place far removed from beer saloons
and the temptations of a large city with
an idle anil vicious population.
Memorial Dar.
Nineteen years havo passed since tho
Southern armies laid down their
weapons, and its worn and weary
veterans began their long marclt home
ward.
Over the hills, through the valleys,
across tlie plains they csine, some
dropping by tlie way after having
braved thb horrors of a four years
war, never more to look upon homo
faces; some to stagger grief stricken
about the ruins of their old homes; some
to stand over the graves in the neglect
ed burying grounds and feel al! hard
ships, trials, sorrows fade out in tlie
presence of their sad memorials; some
to lie down at the end of the long jour
ney and tlie’longer absence, and pass
over the river with the new found joy
smiling upon their lips. Ragged, worn,
bare-headed, bare-footed, their path
way through ruin, with tlie past black
behind them and tho future blacker
before, came tho broken armies, the
saddest panorama of tho nineteenth
century.
There is a sweep of utter desolation
in the picture seen nowhere else in the
history of a great people. Even tlie
Tartar tribe, after its long flight across
Asia, found a safe haven in the Celes
tial Kingdom. Tlie Jews in tlie deHert
were tenderly cared for and brought
into the land flowing’with milk and
honey. The armies of the world, fsr
hundreds of years, have generally dis
persed after defeat and retired to unde
vastated homes. But not 60 with the
armies of tho Confederacy. When to
their old haunts of peace, the surviving
soldiers were joined, it was a union of
physical rain and the jetsam of a per
ished prosperity. Practically they
stood empty handed and unclothed in
the presence of Nature. But not des
pairing.
Yesterday throughout tho hills and
valleys where tho feet of tho wear)'
host had pressed, flowers were
gathered and laid upon the
wanderers' graves. A simple memorial
it was to tho spirit whichmade possible
tho Confederate soldier. Nineteen
times has the season rolled in upon us,
but tlie flowers ore sweeter and skies
brighter upon each return. The rem
nant of the great armies, the tattered
veterans empty handed, homeless,
whom nothing but fate could check,
has wrung success at last from fate and
brought the South, crowned with pros
perity, smiling abreast tho age.
The scientists tell us that the impal
pable dust of a distant volcano floating
evenly balanced in tho upper air, tem
pers the fierce white rays of tho even
ing sun and crowns our western slojies
with unapproachable glories. . So,
through tho vanished moments, tlie
impalpable dust of the ages that floats in
eternity, as History lilts her lamp, does
tho light Strike and fall In silent
splendor, not alone upon the hillside
grave, but on' the wan faces which
looked out from beneath the old gray
caps over the South's desolation, and
then turned bravely to the future.
IsriciAL cor.nrai-uxueucx.1
Atlanta. April 21.—Your correspondent
made a run down to Griffin to-day and [ell
into tho hands pf a number of citizens who
besides treating him with the well-known
hospitality oi the town, showed him the
various industries, old and new, which ar
so creditable to t| 1B city, and are bound tl
mak u,. 1 in the future prosperous anS
wealthy. Since the visit oi M.Quad ota.
Free Prett, and his graphic letter
Griffin, there is oi coiirse little* lefttSu
said, and I shr.il not, therefore atb>m«?
anything at length. ' attcm P‘
Tills morning. In company with W j
Kincaid and Hon. 8. Grantland, presidm!
and treasurer of the Griffin cotton factor,
and Col. Glessner, of the Newt, I rode on!
now
factory, which
nearly completed. The factory
handsome building, snnnouutsd
by a tall tower, on the track’of theCenbst
railroad within the city limits, and on tS
front of the prettiest eight-acre lot in Snald
ing county. The building proper is
feet long and 52 wide, ana is a most solid
and substantial structure. The machinery
is now being put in place, and the plaoe «
already taking on the air of a cotton far
tory. The factory will have 4,180 spindle,
with 128 looms, which it is expected will i*
Iv -
largely increased at an early day The
building is constructed witli all the modern
improvements, including steam heatinx
apparatus, automatic sprinklers oil every
floor, perfectly fire proof, and will be light
ed with the improved electric 1 ght. The
company will erect on tlie grounds a num
her of tenement houses for its employes
Tlie water used in tho factory will be forced
from Wright’s pond, about 200 yards off
into a tank in the tower, of a capacity oi
12,000 gallons. The plant when completed
and in operation will cost $125,000.
Tlie people of Griffin are enthusiastic
about (heir factory,and there isnodouotas
o its success. To W. J. Kincaid, the
president of tlie company, is largely due
tlie credit of this enterprise, and I under
stand he is moving, with several other
K rominent citizens of Griffin, to establish
i that city other manufacturing enter
itises. Among these is a bagging factory
nvoiving an investment of $50,000, whica
a already assured, and a knitting mills, an
iron foundry, etc. A
The movement toward the establishment
ot these manufacturing industries speaks
well for Griffin, and it an example worthy
of imitation by other cities ot Georgia.
There is unemployed capital to-day in
Griffin, and in other towns, to successfully
inaugurate all such enterprises, and there
Is no doubt, with good management, they
could be made to pay handsomely on the
investment.
NO POLITICS.
After getting through with tlie cottcn i
factory I^made* a tour” along Hill street
. .... - . . Hill strr ‘ E
looking np the celebrated' ‘Hill street poli
ticians.” but I failed to find them. Nobody -
seemed in a mood to talk politics although
• " gj
there was no dearth of candidates.
course Spalding will send a Stewprt dele
gation to tlie Congressional convention,
although there is not much talk of his can-
iliilacy. The prospect is the county will
have a lively season In the election for the
Legislature. The present outlook Is that
the whisky question will be an issue, al-
i hough there is an effort being made to
keep that out of politics.
The TzLEoaAFH has a host of friends in
Griffin and daring mg abort vMt
the paper received many compliments. I
went down on tlie train with W. W.t Wood
ruff. the live proprietor of the weU knows
Woodruff fruit farm. He spoke very hope
fully of the fruit prospects ol tlie year, and
very confidently of tlie outlook on his
own place. At a future day I hope to make
a run through his orchards, and write
them up for tlio Tzlzor.mil
Mr. Woodruffis a member of tlie Young
Farmers' Club, and will go to Holton on
the first, and probably read an interesting
paper at that convo nflon.
Do You Douot It.
Mr. Franlsaofe. Jefl* r-..u Pln<*■. Bahi-
nore, heard eo much of Harman's Neutral-
ting Cordial that he purchased a little
for Himself and another to icml to his fain*
ily. He has never had aunt to ferret bis
purchase. Reader, if von doubt the effi
cacy of Norman’s Cordial, tr
tie.. Ii docs not cost much.
TT A T T >0 VEGETABLE
uxilili S3 SICILIAN
Hair Renewer.
Tho Dost 1* tlsc Cl
of Good
Federal Court Methods In Ceorgla.
It will lie remembered that after
Conley and Nall were indicted for cm-
bezling the funda of the government in
the post-office at Atlanta, and while
tlie Banks county prisoners were await
ing argument upon their motion for a
new trial, Attorney-General Brewster
sent District-Attorney Speer to prose
cute sundry gentleman in South Caro
lina. How disastrously tlie mission
ended for all save the accused, is a mat
ter of history, tlie prosecutions having
been recently abandoned by orders
Washington.
The Federal Court is again in session
in Atlanta, and of the important cases
before that tribunal the correspondent
of the Augusta Evening Nem has this
tossy:
The Catted Sulss District Attorney Here I our highest court.
Justice Blandford.
Hon. 5lark II. Blandford, associate
justice of the Supreme Court, passed
through the city yesterday cn route to
his home in Columbus, the court hav
ing completed tho work of the term,
except to announce its derisions in a
few important cases. The court will
reassemble on the 13th of Slay for the
purpose of disjiosing of those
after which it will adjourn for the
term.
We are informed tlwt Justice
Blandford In dispensing justice has
Who dispensed with bis well-known
and well-worn felt hat, and in lieu
thereof has mounted a modern beaver.
It remains to be seen whether his
friends and neighbors will recognize
him under his new headgear, flow
ever this may be, we trust that bis per
ennial wit and humor have not been
dismissed along with his ancient tile.
Jesting azide, the friends of Justice
Blandford felt some apprehensions,
when he went on the trench, lest he
might not sustain bis reputation as s
lawyer. It was s new position, aiul it
wns not known whether he possessed
the judicial mind and temper to me-
jqoit himself successfully as a juJge of
These arprehen-
Mr. Springer Will Plonso Tnka tho Stand
51r. Springer has devoted whatever
timo he could spare from putting the
thumbscrews to Benjamin Brewster
anil hlsTinilerlingH, to the expression
of tho very crude views ho entertains
upon the tariff.
Tho St. Louis Globe-Democrat Invites
him to come forward and unravel
knotty inquiry. It says:
"Mr. Springer Is asked to step forward
where he ean be eesily hoard aud explain
how it comes if. as be says, "consumers
this country pay a tax of IS per cent,
wood and wnodenwaro,” that wo ship such
products to nearly every nation oa tbo earth,
and make money at It. Does he wish us
believe that if we had free trade we could
buy from other countries at a saving of U
tier cent, tlie very things which these coun
tries now buy from us at remunerative
price.? Mr. Sprinter is obviously not good at
agurea."
Perhaps 5Ir. Springer may yet he too
busy to devote hit powerful mind to
1 ft he solution of the problem given. In
that event perhaps some of his free
trade admirers and supporters In Geor
gia would not object to taking the job
off Ids hands.
The Savannah jV’ew’s, tho Albany
New* nml Adtertieer, the Fort Valley
Uirrort the HiomasqUlc Enterji
the Monroe Adcertieer and. the Federal
Union, of 5tillcdgevfUc, are advanced
advocates of the views held by
5Ir. Springer. Wo should be pleasd
if any one or ail of them would favor us
with a solution of the rebus quoted
above.
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BMUltetlt
ThcM qualities are of prime importance In the
•election of a preparation for the balr. Douot
experiment with new remedlei which may do
harm rather than good; hut profit by the ex
perience of others. Buy and use with perfect
confidence an article which everybody kuowi
to bo good. * .‘all's ILaw Bzxrwwi wBl not
CUappotnt yon.
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It. P.Hall & Co., Nashua, N. II.
Bold by all DrnsgUta.
i- j Ask your CiriH ■ r farl.» v-
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t*i, bwitg Ht"i oi Mtoaea* 4
tlfrXlM. Thw Mto
tlonaUiL
Representative Hammond has invest!-
K ted the delay in payment of tobacco ro
tes. and discover* from the Third Audi
tor of the Treasury that lie Is paying off at
the rate of one thousand persons a day.
and tiiat ail will be paid in less than atx
weeks. 1 understand that claim agents |
WOMAN.
and lawyers here have sent oat circulars to
the tobacro men offering to ezpedite this
matter. I advise, at Mr. Hammond'a sug
gestion, that our people pay no attention
to these sharks, who cannot hasten pay
ment a tingle hour, although they may
profess to do
cordingly.
> to and charge their dupes ac-
PREMIUM8 FOR CLUBS.
We will send the Weekly Tele-
r.BArn axo 5Iessenoer for one year,
free, to any one who will get’np a club
of five snbacriliers for it at one dollar
and twenty-five cents each per year;
or to any one who will get up a clnb of
ten subscribers to it at one dollar each
per year. This is an easy way to sc- r«"'' r “*u'li
core without coot tlie best weekly pa
per published in Georgia. Give it a
trial.
Her Health and Happiness are- Mat
ters of Great Concwn to
all Mankind.
"■Si 1
uurtTA, Oa.
„ht • fertile ol Dr. J.
uUtor, and uted t
_ Mtiifactfcm. I have
recommended it to three lemilie*. ami they
found U to be Just what 1c claimed for IL The
female* who nave used It are now taper!’**:
health and able to attend to thefr hotueboM
dutfea. Hit. H. it. juuKaor.
fiTAT* OF Geo AG! a. Troon County.
I have examined the recipe of Dr. Jo*Uh
Bradlald, and pronounce tt to be i
of mMicineaof treat merit In the ..
m* nt of all diw'iti'toffui .Itv f.»r which h
W. J*. 1UA-LEY.
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cican mailed i
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