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Eli Vv ijN MARTIN, Proprietor.
Devoted to Home Interests and Culture;
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TWO DOLLARS A Yiear in Advaner,
VOLUME IX.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1879.
SMILE WHENEVER YOU CAN.
Wfcen tblag* don't go to suit yotr.
And die world seems topside down.
Don't waste your time In fretting
But drive away that frown.
Since life is oft perplexing,
"Tls much the wisest plan
To bear all trifles bravely,
And rafrwhenever you can."
Why should you dread to-morrow.
And tipis despoil to-day?
Tor wlien you borrow trouble
Yon slways have to pay;
It is a good oil . maxim,
Which ehoud be often preached;
Don’t cross the bridge before you
Until the bride is reached'.
You might be spared much sighing;
If you would keep In mind
The thought that good and evfl
Are always here combined—
There must bo something waiting.
, And though you roll in wealth
Yon may miss from your casket
The precious Jewel—health.
And thopgh you are strong aud sturdy.
You may have an empty purse—
And earth hM many trials
Which I consider worse-
Biil whether joy or sorrow
Fill up yonr mortal span
It will make your pathway brighter
To smile whene’er you can.
Ex.
KINDERGARTEN.
A garden in which the little slip of
Immunity just taking root in life finds
congenial soil, elimate, and surround
ings, finds also provision made for the
full development of all its nascent ac
tivities UDd all its growing faculties—
this id a child-garden. No tyro, no ad
venturer, no bungler may have anght
to do in this ideal garden, filled with
tender human plants. The hand that
prunes and trains rnnst itself be experi
enced, sympathetic and skillful. Each
individual slip is nurtured, trellissed,
cultivated, and fed with special regard
io its special needs, while all are kept in
perfect harmony with each other.—
Dropping the figure Froebel, the au
thor of “the Kindergarten system of
teaching, would bring together cliil
dren from tbrpe to seven —bring them
together because the family circle does
not afford a sufficient scope for the de
velopment of those activities which in
their combination coustitnte life; would
surround item in the bouse with every
object calculated to awaken inquiry,
foster the love of the beautiful, and fill
the mind with ngree.able images, and
would have connected with the school
room or place of assembly a large gar
den, wherein is every tree or flower, in
sect, bird and mnninl, soi that, the child
should in the playful exercise of its fac
ulties find growth, nutriment, educa
tion. The idea implies a degree of ex
pense which at present the public mind
is not prepared for; bat it will be by
and by.
The idea has prevailed far too widely
and still prevails that money and pains
lavished on the education of little chil
dren are unwisely i-pent, that when onr
hoys ieaeh'the ngisbf lATiud 15 it is
soon enough to pay ont §300 or §100 a
year for their . education, that almost
anybody can teach little children to
spell and; read/ and start them in the
rudiments, of knowledge. Froebel, wise
man that he was, lays the axe at the
loot of ftll snc'.i ideas, and insists that
the beginnings of culture are paramount
iu importance, that tbeie shall never be
any bad habits to . be corrected, anv
wrong impressious to be removed; that
from the first the buddings of the infant
mind shall be carefully and skillfully
nurtured. In bis work ‘"On the Educa
tion of Man” he gives many valuable
hints to ghide the mother, who is Na
ture’s deputy, and helper for the first
three years of her child’s life, after
which he would have the child given
up to the governess of the Kindergar
ten/
Perhaps a description of a Kiudcr-
ten will convey to the mothers, for
whom the article is intended, the best
ides it impossible to give of this mode
of teaching little, -children. In the
large, sunny, well-ventilated room,
wherp'we sat a fevydays since during
morning exfer&ses; there were gathered
25 children between the ages of 3 and
7. A table, low but wide and long,
stood in the; middle of the room. Its
entire surface was divided by grooves
iuto square inches, so that the youngest
child could tell at a glance the exact
length- of its pencil or whatever article
was/inhandr' On either side of the tu
ple the children were seated in chairs
jnst suited- tp their height. The win
dows were filled with, plants, some of
them in bloom; pictures adorned the
vralls, specimens of the children's work
in woven paper, embroidered cqrds,
clay models, and various other occupa
tions were arranged in show cases. The
little ones wore taking their German
lesson when we entered, counting in
concert from one to 50; then they re-
Peited a verse of German poetry, trans-
a tiug each line into English, and the
Pronunciation aud accent in the very
“canning and when they learn to read
c i years, renders the acquisition of
e Gcrinau language perfectly easy.
■ half-hour allotted to this
® was over, brown paper portfolios,
: paper strips of different col-
were distributed to each pupil.—
vjnestions were asked as to the colors,
. whether primary or sec-
ed ^ I* 16 latter, of what compas-
• -Tlron the weaving commenced. A
^pcdle made for the purpose is threaded
' a strip of paper of blue,for exam-
?’ w lncti is woven into a differently
thi° re ^ sbeet <*f paper out into strips
°ngbout its entire surface, except a
i end to keep the strips at
their placets A very great variety of
designs is thus produced, and the in-
inventive powers of teacher and pupil
are are constantly stimulated: The
teacher went first to one, then another,
showing them jnst bow to thread their
needle, to adjust their strips, to get
their woven figures pccnrate, giving
each the particular aid it needed. It
was astonishing, the skill and care with
which these little fingers worked.
This fascinating exercise over, the ba
bies ranged themselves in parallel rows
in another room, and to- the sound of
piano musie went through their calis-
thenic exercise. This is so contrived
that it calls into gentle activity every
mnscle of the body. The effect of so
many little hands and feet keeping per
fect time and going through the various
evolutions in nnison, is to some visitors
quite overpowering; they fangli and cry
as though they had hysterics. When
the half-honr allotted to calisthenics
was over, the little folks were ready to
sit still again. They ranged themselves,
each in its place, on either side of the
low table, and sat with folded bands
waiting for the next gift. The teach
er brought in a bowl of peas that bad
been soaked in water fur six or eight
honrs, and placed one before each
child, who coaid look at it bnt must
not touch it till all are served. One
restless little fellow didn’t touch his,
but blew it away it away into the mid
dle of the table, calling forth a mild re
proof from the teacher. Eneb taking
a pea in hand, examined it carefully,
and gave, one at a time, a good account
of the little globule, l>ow and when and
where it grew, describing the little
tongue shaped germ, the rootlet of the
plunt, and then carefully removed the
inclosing skin, showing the division of
the pea and its point of union in the
germ. Only one or two of the peas
were entirely divided in this delicate
manipulation, showing bow very dainty
and careful was the touch of the little
fingers. TheD a wire three inches long
and another pea was given to each
ebild, aud be was told to put tbe wire
exactly through the pea at right angles
with the germ. Then each child told
what the pea tlins perforated upon loot
ed like—a drum-stick, a lamp-post, a
hitebing-post. Another wire was giv
en to each, which was placed in the
pea, forming an obtuse angle with the
other wire; that looked like tbe roof of
a house or a flail, and a review of in
struction in angles followed.
We Lave been thus minute in describ
ing the exercises of the Kindergarten
that it may be see.n licw admirably per
ception, comparison, neatness, order,
obedience are developed in the child,
and to give mothers who cannot viBit
these Kindergartens, suggestions that
they can carry out in their own home
training. It was Froebel’s idea that
young ladies just before leaving school
should take a thorough training in
teaching after tbe Kindergarten system
in order that they might be more fully
prepared for the pleasant responsibili
ties awaiting them, and certainly Froe
bel was right m that.
It is not possible for most mothers to
undergo this training now, but there
are books on tbe 6nbject» giving full in
formation and directions, so that those
who are desirous to understand this
most interesting mode of teaching, may
satisfy themselves. The various “gifts 1
as Froebel calls them, and all Kinder
garten material, can be purchased by
tbe dozen or by the single piece from
E. Steiger, a reputable publisher in this
city, who makes of tins material a spe
cialty. Tbe demand for trained teach
ers is continually on the increase, and
young women who have a genuine love
for little children and wish to become
teachers, would find here a field scanti
ly occupied, and very remunerative.—
Mothers’ classes are taught in New
York and Boston. In the latter city
there Kindergartens are connected with
some of the public schools, and it is to
be hoped that this movement w»ll spread
until all onr schools, public and pri
vate, will have a department of this
sort. One beneficent result of tbis
spread of Kindergarten teaching will be
to drive incompetent, unskilled, and in
apt teachers, so abundant in onr prima
ry schools, into fields of labor where
they pan earn a living without training
youthful minds away.—Exchange.
The Chinese lepers, picked up in the
slums of Chinatown, San Francisco,
will be brought east in a few weeks,
exhibited in Boston, New York and
other places, and set down on the steps
of the capital at Washington before
Congress shall have adjourned. Thom
as Bates and Dr. C. C. O'Donnell are
the persons who will thns put the At
lantic coast people through a kinder
garten course in the matter of Chinese
immigrants.
From the British fleet in Eastern wa
ters: A young midshipman went ont
to join his -ship, commanded by a gal-
lact officer, otherwise rather a don.
He was met on deck by the captain,
who said; “Well, youngster, so you’ve
come to join ns. I suppose -it is the
old stoiy—the fool of the family, eh?
Haw, haw!’’ To whioh the middy re
plied, in a sqnaky voice, "O, no, sir;
it’s all changed since your day.” Exit
captain.
THE COOK CASE.
The following case was argued at the
last term and decision reserved;
Jackson, Justice, being disqualified,
Judge McCutchen, of the Cherokee cir
cuit, was designated by the governor to
preside in his place.
J. B. Cook vs. The Commissioners
of Hooston county. Equity from
Houston.
MeCUTCHEN, J.
1’ Where, by order of the chancellor,
a reference of .matters in an equity
cause had been made to a master in
equity, and the master, having failed to
act, the chancellor at a subsequent term
passed an order withdrawing the refer
ence from the master, and referring’ tbe
same matters to a different person
named in the order and styled “master
pro hac vice,’ This latrer order is not
void. The chancellor may in the exer
cise of a sonnd discretion, change a
reference from one master to another,
or from a master to an auditor.
2. Where the chancellor, passing snCh
interlocutory order, did not preside on
the final trial, and no objections to the
passage of the order appears to have
been made at the time, no exceptions
thereto appearing in the record, tbis
tbis coart cannot review such action of
the chancellor.
3. Where the order of reference to
an auditor requires that exceptions to
Ills report shall be filed within twenty
days after notice of the filing of the re
port in the clerk’s office, a party duly
notified cannot file exceptions after tbe
time limited without leave of the court.
4. If a party has been prevented by
good cause from filing his exceptions
within the time limited he shonld ap
ply to tbe court without unreasonable
delay for an extension of time to file bis
exceptions, and upon bis'failure to do
so during four successive terms of the
court- thereafter, without showing any
excuse for the delay this court will not
interfere with the discretion of the
chancellor in refusing the application
and in striking the exceptions on the
gronud that they had been filed without
leave ef the court after the time limited
bad expired, especially where no very
satisfactory excuse is shown why th
exceptions were not filed within the
time limited.
5. Where an auditor’s report has
been received and allowed by the court,
and the report is not excepted to, there
is no issue for the jury to try as to any
matter covered by tha report, and the
chancellor will pronounce judgment
thereon without the intervention of a
jury.
Article VI., section XVIII., para
graph I. of the constitution—which de
clares that “the right of trial by jury,
except when it is otherwise provided in
tbis constitution, shall remain inviolate”
—is not in conflict with the principle
above enunciated.
6. Where the statute of limitations is
pleaded and insisted on at the trial, and
the facts on which it is based, together
with tbe action of the auditor in rela
tion thereto, appears in the report.
The conrt in its final decree may pass
upon the question of law thus raised,
though no written exceptions to the au
ditor’s report be on file. The ruling of
the conrt on the statute of limitations
being excepted to.
7. Four years after the accrual of the
jeanse of action is the period of limita
tion within which, in general, a -suit
upon an account mast be brought by a
county to recover money illegally drawn
from its treasury on false acconnts.
Yet where a sheriff, while in office as
such, draws divers snms of money at
different times from the treasurer of the
connty on false and fraudulent- acconnts
and vouchers for insolvent costs claimed
as due him for official services claimed
to hare been rendered, some of the
payments haying been made .to him
within less and others more than fonr
years before suit was commenced, the
statute of limitations does not com
mence to run in favor of the sheriff da
ring his coantinnance in office.
- Judgment affirmed.
Eli Warren; B. M, Davis; W. S.
Wallace; S. Hail, for plaintiff in error.
S. D. Killen; Lanier & Anderson; H.
M. Hcltzclaw for defendants.
MURDER OF MRS. 5URRAT. ] HOW attt. SADDLE HORSES
TRAINED!
Gen. H. W. Slocum, one of the most;
distinguished brigade, division, corps,; The question-is- asked in a former
and grand division commanders of the na “ b ^’„ ^ How ”° ^
, . .... trained? laving m a country where
late war, recently delivered a lecture in j ggj ^ times ^ often
Leadyh,le, Colorado, is now the sur
prising town, of the West. The first
settlements were made only two years
ago, and it now boasts a population of
ten thousand. It has a large, newsy
and well conducted daily newspaper,
some -numbers of which have been sent
to u§. It owes its wonderful growth,
of course, to rich mineral - discoveries.
Bus the Denver TYibime says the rush
to Leadville has been two rapid
Thousands are in the new mining region
without money and nnahle to find work.
All tbe land around Leadville for miles
has been staked ont and prospected^md
and most of it is held for sale. With
out money a man cannot help himself.
It is generally admitted that while the
new region is rich, interested parties
re exaggerated its prospects to stim
ulate a large immigration in the hope
to sell mines or real estate.
Oxe ox the charges on which Talmage
is being tried is that he editorially puffed
Ms own paper extravagantly. If he is
convicted on this charge, a few other
editors will probably become nervous in
their handling of the pencil aud shears,
Brooklyn on events of the great strug
gle, daring the course of wMch be ex
pressed tbe opinion, always held by the
Unton, that Mrs. Surratt was a mur
dered weman. He said:
“I am going to speak to yon one
word about tbe execution of Mrs. Snr-
ratt at the close of the war, for I think
some good lessons can be learned from
the story of her trial and death I be
lieve any people situated as we were
onght to be cautioned against placing
implicit confidence in evidence given at
a time of high excitement. I could
stand here to-night and relate to yon
fifty incidents that would serve to cau
tion everybody against taking evidence
against others when the people are in a
state of intense excitement. There nev
er was a day, there never was an hour,
that I did not believe that. Mrs. Surratt
was as innocent a woman as there is in
this halL [Applause.] She was the
keeper of a boarding-house in Wash
ington. She boarded Wilkes Booth
and half a dozen other rebel sympathiz
ers, and she had a son,-John H. Sur
ratt. Wilkes Booth, was guilty of
shooting Mr. Lincoln, and tbis poor
woman was brought to trial in connec
tion with Wilkes Booth, and through
the excitement of the times her neck
was brought to the halter. Her daugh
ter, a young girl eighteen or nineteen
years of age, on tfle morning of the exe
cution went to the President’s room
and begged to say a few words to him
in behalf of her mother, and a United
States Senator from onr own State, who
acted as door-tender, repulsed her, say-
tog, “No, no, you cannot, go in.” Worse
than that; meaner than that, the poor
girl three or four years afterwards mar
ried a clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment. No charges were brought against
him, but because tbis clerk married the
daughter of Mrs. Surratt he was dis
charged. Let us brag of our achieve
ments, bnt at tbe same time lei ns learn
to look at our [Stilts and errors fairly
and squarely in the face and acknowl
edge them when we have cause to.”
The mnrder of Mrs. Surra* was the
most cruel and cowardly act ever com
mitted in any civilized country. It is a
curious and suggestive fact that all who
were chiefly responsible for the execu
tion of that innocent woman have felt
the unseen hand of the Great Avenger.
Stanton, Secretary of vYar, who was
perhaps the worst of the number, com
mitted snicide in a fit of remorse, al
though the fact was sought to be con
cealed. Preston King, the Senator
from New - York who repulsed Annie
Surratt at Hie President’s door, in like
manner ended his own life by deliber-
ati ly jumping from a ferryboat into the
North river at New York and drowning
himself. Andrew Johnson, who signed
the death warrant and despotically sus
pended the writ of habeas corpus that
bad been granted by the conrt. was
stricken suddenly with death upon his
return to the Senate after he left tbe
Presidency. Judge Advocate Holt,who
condncted tbe prosecution, long ago
disappeared from pnblic view and
whether dead or alive nobody knows
and nobody cares. Aud John A. Bing^
ham, who assisted Holt, was driven
from Congress in disgrace as one of the
Credit Mobilier bribe-takers, and
soaght refnge in Japan, where, we be
lieve, he now is.—Rochester, (V. Y.)
Union.
A Fatal Wave.
An accident most distressing in cir
cumstance, aild cansing the death of
Mrs. Mary Klinkinbeard of Marshfield,
occurred in Coos connty, Oregon.
With a party of friends the lady had
gone to ocean-beach to view the storm
angered waters, and wMle. standing a
little from her cofnpaniens, near an im
mense tree trank stranded on the beach
nearly washed by the waves, whicn fol
lowing each other, came higher and
and higher, she pointed to the sand at
her feet and repeated. “Thus far shalt
thou come and no farther.” The next
billow came with resistiees force, lifted
tbe trank by her side dashed it against
her and killed her. Eer companions
fortunately recovered the body. Mrs.
Klinkinbeard was forty six years of age,
and was one of tbe pioneer women of
Oregon; having reached the State in the
fall qf 1847. She was the mother of
thirteen children, several of them be
ing still young.
The cnltnre of willows for basket
making does not prove a success in
America. Some say labor is too high
to allow any profit. The facts are that
willow shoots of the proper size for
basket-making sre worth only 5 cents
per pound delivered in New York or the
nearest city in which they can be sold.
A large yield of willow shoots is one
and a half to two tons to lhe acre, and
as tbe vehicle, I may throw some light
on the subject. The saddle horse is no
exception to toe buggy horse. The one
is breed from -buggy stock, the other
from saddle stock, but the training does
a great deal. Again the saddle horse
is made, to ride easily by being ridden
by.the best equestrians in the world, as
the buggy horse is driven in New York
and other northern eitiesy by the best
drivers in the world. Your driving
horses are as superior to ours as
our saddle horses are snperior to yoars.
I speak whereof I know, for I lived for
years in New York city, and drove ev
ery few days over “the lane.” We
have no buggy horses here in Georgia,
broken like the northern horses, and I
never saw a northern horse os good un
der saddle as ours. Constant nse makes
tbe saddle horse acquire easy gaits.
He is ridden in company, and receives
his first lessons in trying to walk up
with old saddle horses which walk five
miles an hoar. To encourage him to
walk fast the rider, holding the reins
tightly, moves the hand holding the
reins from side to side iu time with his
steps, pressing alternately each side of
the neck. This movement of tbe retos
teaches tbe horse a fast walk sooner
than anything else. I do not believe
any horse can be made a good saddle
animal without tbe nse of the curb bit.
I certainly would not nse it to train a
horse to trot under saddle nor in races,
but for pleasure riding nothing adds
more to the eojoyroent of the rider.
With it a horse comes easily from a
trot to a gallop, or vice versa, and it
gives one always such perfect control
of the horses head and improves his
carriage-. There is no slipping of reins
through thif hand, a movement of the
hand holding the retos to thi right cau
sing the right rein to press noon the
horses neck moves him instantly to the
right, and so with the other side. Nev
er pull harder on one rein than the oth
er; horses gnide better by pressure on
tbe neck; as for holding the reins; hold
them in any way that is most conveni
ent. If yon have a curb bit, it mat
ters not, only al ways feel the horse’s
month. There will never be any neces
sity of hurting him, for be .at once reali
zes tbe control the bit gives the rider,
end it is easier on tbe month in gentle
hands than the snaffle. I always nse
on ordinary ’curb with no joint in the
mouthpiece, and my choice would be
for the rings to be placed four inches
below tbe mouthpiece, and the bead-
stall to fasten one and a half inches
above the monthpiece, the cnib strap
to ran from tbe latter point. Be -snre
that the montbp i ece be but slightly
crooked or arched above the tongue of
the horse. There is no need of the arch
imitating High bridge. The pieces at
the side of tbe bit should be so shaped
as to set when al Test iu the mouth of
the horse at, say, an angle of twenty
degrees. Let any New Yorker try the
bit I describe on any spirited horse,
and he will find a charm in the saddle
never before realized in the use of the
snaffle. Net er use a curb-chain, except
for a lady riding a hard-mouthed horse,
and then only nntii you can have’ a curb
made with full six inches cf leverage;
then you can hold any horse with a
curb-strap, tbe chain only fretting a
spirited .horse. I wrote to yon about
this subject because I came from among
you, and because I never got any pleas
ure ont of tbe saddle until I went to
live south. I wish some of yonr read
ers conld be with me to morrow morn
ing after the hounds.—Boston Globe.
A Canal Across Florida-
Colonel Fremont, who has in charge
the preliminary survey for a ship canal
across the peninsular of Florida,paid onr
city a short visit last week. The colo
nel was expecting one portion of Ms
parly at St. Marks from their survey
across theconntry from the Sawannee.
At present they seem inclined to the
route from the Atlantic up St. Marys riv
er to some point in the vicinity of Trad
ers’ HiD, thence across toe portion of Co
lumbia connty, passing through Hamil
ton, and connecting with the Alapaha
near its entrance into the Sawannee,con
tinntog down tbe Sawannee some twen
ty-five or thirty miles, and then turning
westward through tbe upper portion of
Lafayette—passing centrely through
Taylor and the southern portion of Jef
ferson to the St. Marks river, at or near
the old town of St Marks.
The Water for the canal from Tra
der’s Hill or vicinity to tbe Alapaha is
expected to be supplied from tbe Okee-
fenokee, swam p. This swamp was par
tially surveyed a month or two ago and
promised an abundant supply of water,
however, being so cold, and the expo-
sore while wading being hazardous to
the health of the party, only a partial
survey was made. 'It will be renewed,
however, as the warm term approaches,
with the confident hope that an abun-
A TOWN DESTROYED
FLOOD.
BY A SHOT DOWN IN A STEAMBOAT
CABIN.
For several days Szegedin, the second
commercial town in Hungary, contain
ing 80,000 inhabitants, had been in im
minent danger of inundation horn the
river Theiss,' which flows through the
place. Several large dykes protecting
the back of the town then depended on
the embankment of the Alfold railway,
to strengthen which all effort were con
centrated. At last however, the water,
aided by a gale, broke through the
embankment, and rushed in broad
streams toward the doomed town.
The scenes that ensued defy descrip
tion, for, to add to the situation, the
tremendous current undermined tbe
foundations of the buildings in which
the inhabitants lived or bad songbt
shelter, and amid shrieks and frantic ap
peals for aid that it was impossible to
render, the strnctnres went crashing in
to the flood, carrying with them the
inmates. Even the synagogue, to
which many people have flown for refi-
age, was not spared by the waters, and
fell in, burying hundreds iu its ruins.
The gas works Laving been.submerged,
people were left at the mercy of the
torrent, unable to perceive what fresh
danger threatened them, and in a state
of prostration from which death would
have been a relief. At daybreak the
town was many feet.deep in water, and
the inhabitants had begun to realize
the extent af their calamity. Here
and there a house, less, substantial than
its neighbors, tottered and fell witli a
crash; and it frequently happened that
at the moment a boat was neanng a
window from which half distracted peo
ple were appealing for aid, the whole
edifice would succumb to the torrent,
amid the piteons shrieks of the inmales.
Such of the inhabitants as were so
fortunate as to be able to do so fled
to New Szegedin and more elevated
parts of the town, hnrriedly crossing the
bridge of boats which separates the
new. city from the old. As the day wore
on whole rows of houses fell, and the
flood gained such a headway that it
submerged fully two-thirds of the town,
inclnding the citadel and the post and
telegraph offices. Besides the syna
gogue, tbe orphanage sneenmbed, bu
rying its inmates in the mips, and two
manufactories were discovered to be in
flames. No excesses were observable,
however, cn the part cf the inhabi
tants, precautiary measures having been
taken for the protection of property.
During the afternoon the dams were
cut in several places to allow the water
to rnn off; the flood was still rushing
with an awful roar over the city, and
the practical destruction of the town
was complete. Happily however, while
there was mnch excitement there was’
no disorder, and such of the inhabi
tants as'could be removed were convey
ed to a place -of safety by men who
seemed to retain their presence of
mind to a greater degree than might
have been expected.
Sixty thousand persons were without
a roof to cover them. The upper floors
of all Mgh houses were crammed with
spectators in momentary fear of death.
One hundred square miles in the vi
cinity of Szegedin were flooded and
the crops in that district are totally
rained.
there are many expenses wMch accom
pany their culture. Probably the chief j “apply of water will be found,
cause of the general discouragement! Colonel Freemont is thoroughly alive
eorceming willow cultivation is the fact-1 work, and one of these pushing
that an insect or bug frequently rava- j an ^ energetic men that make no
in a decidedlv^ time. His headquarters will for
wholesale manner. ' * while be in Savannahs
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Another Revolution.
The Oglethorpe Echo relates another
southern outrage: Several years ago
Mr. James T. Finly, a gentleman living
near Maxey’s, in this connty, sold an old
negro man named Kitt Bngg a tract of
land at a very reasonable price for toe
times. Kit was an industrious honest
old darkey, and as fast as he made a lit
tle money he paid it upon the note.
His payments being small and frequent,
tbe back of Ms paper was at length filled
with credits, and last week when the
old negro came to make another pay
ment of fifty dollars no room conld be
found on tbe note to place the credit.
Mr. Finly calculated np the note, and
fonnd that Kit bad paid two thirds of
principal, and that $600 were yet doe,
which sum Ms debtor said would be
paid as fast as he could make the mon
ey. Mr. F. then told the old darkey
that since he sold him tbe land proper
ty had depreciated in value, and as he
knew he (Kit) had worked faithfully to
to meet his payments, and fairly earned
toe farm, it shoaid now be bis unincum
bered. So drawing up a deed be band
ed it, together with the note, to Kit—
he thns voluntarily relinquishing his
claim to $600,every cent of which be
conld have collected. Now, bow many
northern philanthropists would have-
done this for the “poor, oppressed ne
gro.” Was there ever a more clearly
defined case of bulldozing?
Another bloody killing oecured on tbs-
steamboat Vigo, Thursday, at Grdiz, on
the Kentucky river.- At Lockport four
miles above, a young man named Newt
Abrams took passage, intending to go
to Carrollton-on the Ohio riven. At
Gratz, Ky., toe boat was boarded by an
oldman named George Hubert3, witbt
his brother and nephew. Au old feud
existed, between Roberts and Abrams;
which bad once caused a shocking af
fray. As soon as Roberts, who was- n
stout, wiry man, able for any one .de
spite bis sixty years, saw Abrams,; her
announced his intention of whipping
him forthwith. With this intention he
caught Abrams, and attempted to
throw him down. Abrams backed into
a corner, placed his Lead against Rob
erts’ breast, and poshing him back,, at
tempted to draw a pistol from his hip
poke*. Roberts divined his purpose
and canght his arm, and the pair went
around and aronnd the cabin in. their
effort to get toe best of each other.
When half way down the cabin Abrams
succeeded in getting bis .pistol, opt of
his pocket, and placing its muzzle un
der Ms adversaries ear, he discharged
the contents of one of its chambers into
iiis head- Roberts dropped, and os he
was falling Abrams fired another cham
ber of bis weapon, but the ball went
wide of its mark, owing to Roberts rol
ling over on the floor. A moment later
Abrams came forward to where tbe ter
ror stricken passengers of the boat
were huddled, smoke still curling from
the muzzle of his pistol, and said as he
replaced the weapon in bis pocket:
Gentlemen I am sorry, but tMs is
sometMng that I had to do sooner or
later.” No attqpipt was made to ar
rest him as he hxd acted in self-defense.
A doctor was summoned from the
town, who examined too wounded
man’s iDjnries, and pronounced them
fatal. Abrams then consulted with the
officers und passengers of the boat,
asking their advice as to whether or
not he shonld give himself up to the
officers of the law. He was advised to
return immediately home and await re
sults. He took their advice and walked
home. -Roberts lived on a farm a little
way back from the river, about a mile
below the towr. When the boat ar
rived at his landing he was placed on a
a cot and carried to Ms honse, where ho
died soon after. The doctor who at
tended the dying man remarked to
some passengers, as ho pointed to' a
knoll back of the town: “Over behind 1
that hill lie twelve men who died with
their boots on in fights with the Rob
erts family.” Abrams has not yet beea-
arrested.
Tho Big Farms Of Dakota.
The Germans are beginning to aban
don the old GotMc characters, and to at two hundred aud fifty
lars. Disp3ti
nse the regular Roman type or modem
English letters, which are universally the fruit crop
used by all other countries in Ei
and in America.
rained, though
injured, ’-Che
Ak Alamo monument assoeialion has ai! over
to
Who Mi
brated iu
Twenty-seven miles north of Fargo,-
writes a correspondent in Dakota Terri
tory, is tbe world-renowned. Grondin
farm. It covers about 40.0Q0 'acres,
embracing both railroad and govern
ment land, and is close to the Red riv
er. The farm is divided into four parts
and has dwellings, granaries, black
smith shops, elevators, etc., and has a
stabling capacity for 200 horses and
a granary capacity for 1,000,000 bush
els. In addition to the wheat farm
there is a stock farm of 20,000 acres.
Daring the seeding season they em
ploy abont seventy men, and in harvest
time as many as 200 men are busily en
gaged. Seeding commences abont the
9th of April and ends the 1st of May.
The work is done very systematically,
th8 machines following each other about
the field four rods apart. Cutting com
mences about the 8th of August and
ends the fore part of September; then
comes threshing, which is done by
eight steam threshers. After thresh
ing the stubble ground is plowed with
gang plows that cut two furrows, drawn
by three horses, and this work contin
ues until it “freezeup,” wMch ia abont.
the 1st of November.
The largest cultivated wheat farm in
the world having been described, I will
take the reader to Casselton, twenty
miles west, of Fargo, passing by hun
dreds of small sixty-acre farms worked
by the homesteaders- It has something
about 100 families, three hotels and sev
eral large stores, all of wMch do a large
business. In tbis vicinity may be' seen
some very large farms run on the same-
scale as tbe Grondin farm tkev are Al
ton, Case Cheeny and Smith-Dodge.
To describe these farms would be to re
peat the description of too'Grondin, on
ly on a some what .smaller scale. The-
suiface of the land here is nearly ievel,
and the soil is rich and black. 'The.
yield of one field of 2,315 acres, as giv
en by elevator weight (57,283 bushels),
shows an aggregate of twenty-five bush
els to the acre.
The late hard freeze has seriously in
jured the early vegetable crops in tbo
vicinity of Charleston. The loss to
track farmers around that city is