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___-GIVE THE- [ JOURNAL JOB OFFICE! JOttN HODGES, Proprietor, Devoted to Hdme interests and Culture. TWO DOEIiAiSS A Year in Advance. -A. TRIAL. Vt)Lv XIX'. YGffKGlA,TinJJiSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1889. —y - NO. 31: BeeisfU;]}- prepared to do a»jj\ kind of Commercial job work that C ' 5yf ' • • T . • S . . ‘ ’ ; » . — nay be needed. All .nicely pad ded, and at prices that .will coa^~ pete with any city. Call and leek at our samples and get our. prices* and you tfill^eaye your orders. OXS»i ; gett&S WitijSS V. ifetGE, G&W^ C> N FA a T O H, MlObN, GA: d a 1 its. IS CD © •SS-r 1*** ts e-K- H. GO d a & i m o d 05 CD P, CD 1 3. & B* B 1 is © t © GO GO. ' © s BS GO vA © © GO M* hi © H-1 & m i P I o t a © 3 * a S3 M 0 3 1 «■ p CD © d » 55 .3 ‘TO'iiOOYM OdLOVa N XO 0 NOJAOa/' Frniisc Houston County’s Great Detrion- onstration, ■0 Atlanta Constiintlon, July 31. , The peach crop of Georgia has practically been marketed. The ‘oldest inhabitant remembers no crop that equalled it, and the youhgest will never see it exceed ed. . , The peach crop for five years has been a failure, blit the im mense yield this year has More than made up the deficit to the growers of thp five years’ loss. “This crop,” said Mr. James, one of the largest growers in Geor gia, “has been the finest the coun try has ever seen or ever will see. We have made a great deal of money, and would have made more could we have gotten sufficient Cars and crates, but it will have the effect of hurting somebody, for when the people find oiit tlie enor mous amount of money we grow ers have made, everybody will want to go into the business, and then somebody is going to get hurt. .. “If a man is going into the friiit business be must have plenty of money to withstand years of fail ure and loss, or else he must make a surplus crop. This is the first year I have made a cent since I started in the business five years ago- , ! , “But., you have coined it this Season?” “Yes, I have Made ijtiite a good thing out b£ itj although,, I lost hi,If My crop on account of being unable to secure cars and crates.” All the growers, like Mr. James, have been unable to market their full crops on acijaant of a lack of crates and refrigerator cars. Mi. Si S. BttMph; the fruit king of Georgia, at the beginning of the season purchased $12,000 worth of crating material, which he thought would be enbiigh for him self and the growers around him, but the supply fell very far short, and Mr. Bumph himself lost about one-fourth of his crop on account of this shortage. Then they were nnable to get enough refrigerator cars, and even when they had the, cars were una ble to get sufficient ice. Two weeks ago they had to* haul three cars of ice hll the way from Chat tanooga, being nnable to secure it either iii Atlanta; Macon dr other near places, however, the refrig erator car has been the salvation of the fruit grower, for without them it would haie been impossi ble to market the fruit in first-class condition, and the prices would havb ranged very low. Then there would have heed great loss by the friiit rotting on the way. As it was there was only one car out of more than two hundred shipped from Fort Valley and Marshallville; wKicli was material ly damaged, and that was on ac count of a wash-out which delayed tiie car on the road and prevented it from being re-iced; Accompanied by Mr; James I drove out to. Mr. S. H. Bumph’s “Willow Lake Nursery and Fruit Orchard.” this’ afternoon, jp Mr.' Bninph is the largest fruit grower in Georgia, and perhaps in the south. Immediately around his house are 600 acres in peaches, apples, pears and plums. Of this amount Mr. Bumph and his part ners own 360 acres, his interest amounting to about two-thirds,- Nearly two hundred acres of the total acreage is in peaches. There are 193 tress to the acre, and a tree four years old will avenge about four bushels of fruit However, a large portion of these orchards are in young trees. Nevertheless, Mr. Bumph has ifiade quite asudg for tune from the sale of his peaches. The Siberia is the favorite* and commands tKd' fugnest price of any peach on the market. it is the of an ordinary orange, of a hue, very juicy,’ add a clear “I have a few acres of these El-! “Mr. L. A. Bumph and myself,’ berta trees,” said Mr. Bumph, i spud .Mr- Moore, “own the ‘Georgia “that are four and five years old,! Friiit Farm,’, of sixty-five acres, and from these I gathered about 1 We have 1,000 of Elbertas and fivfcjrandred bushels per acre this 17,000 of other peaches and plums. I received from five to : From this we have already receiv- He Didn’t Go Up. New York Snn. ,. * - IU . ;. ijm* Heroism at Homo* Marietta Journal. IS tree s to nine dollars H the fruit of one 000. six dollars a bushel for them. That would be putting it, at the lowest figure, five dollars a bushel, $2,500 an acre on a portion of bis orchard. ■** ... . “Hbweverj” continued Mr. Bumph, “much of my orchard is in yOung trees. Now, I have 10,- 000 Elberta trees in my orchard, but; as I said before, many of them are very young, and I don’t suppose they ,feear more than an average of a bushel to the tree, or 10,000 bushels.” “Then at $5 per bushel you re ceived $50,000 net for yotif Elber tas alone?” “No, I didn’t say that. I told you I lost considerable by not hav ing sufficient crates and cars.” “Well, you must have netted at least $30,000 on your Elbertas?” “I did make a great deal of money out of them, but I can’t tell you the exact amount, for I haven’t counted it up; and then; to tell you the truth; itiwould do you no good for me to tell you what I have made, for it has been so much that the people would not believe it, and would say I. told these big stories to sell trees from my nur sery.” , , . , ... s “Well, what is the highest price you have netted on a car-load of your peaches?” “I sold one car as high as $1,600. Here is a telegram I received this morning.” It was. from a NeW York. com mission house announcing that he had j’ust mailed him a check for $1,24Q, which was the amount he netted on a car-load of Elbertas, exclusive of freight and bom mis sions. ^ , t . “Here is another thing I can tell you,” continued . Mr. Bumph. “From seven-eighths of an acre I shipped four hundred cases of El bertas which netted me $4 a case (not quite three-fourths of a bush el )j or $1;600 as my receipts from seven-eights of an acre. But don’t misunderstand me. I did not make that much proportionately on my crop.” How much will you make on your entire .crop?” “I don’t know yet,' for I have not received account sales for all my shipments.” , “But you know-how much you have received* and about how much more you will get?” “Yes, but as I told ybu before, people would not believe it if I were to tell you. Here is all I am going to tell. Here are nay cer T tificates of deposit for the past three days;’’ They were from Macon banks, and were $3,902, $1,630 and $1,514, or a total of $7,047.' Mr. Bumph ships frdm Mar shallville, and from that point one hundred and two cars have , been shipped. More than half of these were from Mr. Bumph, and one of his partners informed me that he had already shipped friiit which would net him at least $60*000, and that from the sales of his ap ples and pears and the products, of hisrnursery he would receive not less than $95,000 or $100^000 . this season. Of coure the' labor is to be paid from this,' but that will not amount to much. Immediately adjoining the # or chard of Mr. Bumphj is the f “El- berta fruit farm,” the property of Mr. B. T. Moore and Mr^.Bumph, who are ecfual owners. It covers one hundred acres. There are nineteen thousand trees in the or chard, bnt five thousand of them are very young. Adjoining it are fifty acres owned by Bumph alone. They shipped together, and from the 150 acres thirty-two' cars were shipped. These cars sold at from $800 to $1;300 each. Putting the average at a thousand dollar a car, which is about correct, the net proceeds-from 150 acres was 832,- ed checks to the amount of $10, 600 for, if I remember correctly, about eight ears; and we have six dr seven cars out now from this orchard from which we have not yet received account sales.” - “Then you will make at the lowest calculation fully $17,000 from your sixty-five acres?” “I can’t tell yet, as I don’t know how my last shipments Will turn out. However; I would have made much more had I been able to se cure sufficient crates. I lost at least 2,000 bushels for want of crates and transportations There are three things;” .he. continued, “we want here, and we are going to have them before the next fruit season. They are, first a crate factory, next an ice factory and thirdly a canning factory.” Every friiit grower iii Houston county has made money, . and a great deal of it. Consequently they are happy, and upon every face is a smile of contentment. A great deal of friiit was lost on ac count of the short supply operates; but no one seems to be grieving over it, for every one has made much more than he expected. Mr. E. B. Baldwin* of Marshdll 7 ville, sold from seven hundred trees .oh hot„ quite four acres, $2,000 ivorib of fruits exclusive of freights and commissions. Major George T. Jones after making one shipment from an eight-aere«rchard, on account of being unable to secure thore crates, sold the remainder of his fruit as it stood on the trees for $800 to Mr. Joseph Deitson, of Chattanoo ga, a crate manufacturer, and Mr. Deitson cleared $1,000 oil tile trade. A dozen such instances could be cited! Everybody made money. The remarkable phase of the crop was the high prices which have ranged throughout the sea- soflt The Elbertas have not sold for less than $3.50*a crate; which is a. ,bout two-thirds of a bushel. There have been about 240 cars of peaches shipped this season from Fort Talley and Marshall- ville, and about that! many thou sand dollars,deceived in Houston county foy them.i§ This enormous amount of money from peacHeS alone has had the effect of making almost every one in this section of the state ambitious to go into the business, consequently Mr. Bumph has already received many niore orders for trees than he can sup ply from his nursery. He sells them at fifty dollars pel thousand, and having only one hundred thousand Elbertas, has already re ceived more orders than he can fill. Altogether he has'about a million trees of different) varieties in Ids nursery, from which, if he sells them at fifty dollars a thou sand, he will receive $50,000. However, the expenses of a nur sery, the budding and grafting and so forth; are very heavy. Houston is indeed a blooming county, and were there fifty more such in the state, Georgia would rank far ahead of what she does to-day. Y . E. W. B. Fort Talley, Ga. Persons who have ;a supersti tious dread of Friday will be pleased to learn that thiS is a year of Fridays. It came in on Friday and will go out on Friday, and will have 53 of the ill-omened days. There are four months in this year that have five Fridays each, and the longest and the shortest days of the year fall on Friday. It will be remembered that the greatest of all American disasters, the Johnstown hoffor, occurred on Friday. Ireland has 200,000 women lace- makers. COXSUMPTIOX SURELY CURED. There was tpHea.balloon assen- sion in a Connecticut town, and the professor bad offered to let any one 'accompany him on his trip to the clouds who had the nerve to go. A yonng farmer about twenty years old stepped forward as-a can didate, but while the crowd was ’cheering him a voice called, put: “Hey, Bill!” I want to speak to you a minit.” ^ It was^his father, and L him to the outskirts of the cro 1 be baited and asked: . “Bill, d’ye know ivHat ye doin’?” “I am a-'goin’ up in that balloon, dad” “Expect to git down alive?” “I due;” j| . “Wall, ye never will.” “Why?” , f “When you left home this morn- in’ you had 60 cents in clean cash. I wanted you to leave it home;-but you wouldh’f,” . , . “I’ve got yi|; dad, a-lackin’ three How useless our lives seem to ns ft sometimes!. Hqw„- ne, long for an opportunity to perform some grqat action! ..We become tired of tiie Routine of home life, and imagine We, would be happiei^rip other scenes, We think of .life’s great battlefield and wish to' bo heroes. We think.-of the good we might do if our lot had been cost amid other scenes. We forget that the world bestows no such title as noble as father, mother,-sister or brother. In the sacred precincts i of home 4 we have many chances of heroism. Tlie daily acts of self denial for the good of a loved one,, tfie ,gentle word of soothing for another’s toubles, the, care fo.r tfie sick,, may all seem as nothing, yet who carf tell the good they may have accom- that por- fessor knows it. That’s why he’s encouragin’ .you to go. When you git up thar among the clouds he’s goin’ to rob you.” “Shux, dad! I’d have him took up when I got down.” . “Not much Bill. After he robs you he’ll throw you overboard, and ns who are lookin’ up will see. come sailin’ down tike an old gan der skimmin’ over a hoss pond. Ye’ll strike somewhar’ oven in Sheppard’s pastur lot, and ye’ll go into the sile about eighteen inches before ye bring up!” “Honest Injun, dad?’’, “Bill, did I ever lie; to ye? I may be able to fish but one o’ yer shaiiE bones to take home, and when I band it to your mother and tell her that’s all that’s.,left of William Acford MoseS SiiSmer- horn, whaf s sfie goin* to say and how’s she goin* to feel?” “Shall I back water, dad?” “I would Biil}4| Sartainly would. I know it would be sighin’ to brag of if ye got down alive,’ but ye never would.” “If I back water kin Ldependon them fifty-seve,n cents?” . “Wallj fiioslfciyji Hut not quite, all. S’posen ye buy s cokernut apd ci gar, and PH kinder help eat and smoke as we jog along home, and save the rest for a rainy day. Times is goin’, to be awful tight this fall, Bill” “Yes, I guess. Wall, it’s a go, dad, and you jist don’t worry no more. Youjlpn go back and watch the'balloon, and I’ll kinder aige round to’rds a grocery. I’ve been tastin’ cokernut "for the last five minutes.” plished? Our slightest word may have an inflheMce dtel another for good or evil. We are daily sowing the.seed which Trill ^ bring forth some sort of Harvest. . Well will it be for us if the harvest will be one we will be proud to garner. If some; one. in that deft: home can look back in after yeafs^ and as he tenderly utters our name,, say; Her words and example prepared, me for a life of usefulness, to her I owe my present happiness,” we may all say: “I Have Hot lifced ’in vain." More than . 15,000,600 railroad cross-ties are Used annually in the United Stales, to furnish which requires the destruction of nearly 200,000 acres of forest. This fact illustrates the necessity of tree planting and the preservation of our forests from wanton destruc tion. About 18,500,000 phrsoiis; if is estimated, pursue the fleheme of study laid down by the interna tional Sunday-school lesson com mittee. i — —pr?-: > A SOtlVB lEGAIi OPINION. lowever;. even putting it at bSOO, t he net receipts J ,jy ¥RKE to any ol jour readers who have cor; '"r something over; «napa°n i£ they To the Editok—Flease inform vonr read- era that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands ol hopeless cases have been permanently cured. . 5 I shall be glad to send two bottles of my reme- E. Bainbridge Munday, Esq,', County Atty., Clay Co., Tex., says: “Have used Eleetric Bitters with most happy results. My brother also was very low with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but was cored by timely use of this- medicine. ^ Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved his life. . , Mr: D. L Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave, Ey., adds a like testimony, saying: He positively believes he would h ave died, had it not been for Electric Bitters. . This great remedy will ward-off,’ as well as cure all.Malarial Dis eases, and tor all Kidney, Liver and Stomach Disorders stand's un- equaled. Price 50c. and $] L.00. at Holtzclaw & Gilbert’s Drugstore. ndme theii delay m' ?ow Undersold tlie Owner, ‘Your reference to the banter ing style of doing buisness calls .many funny reminiscences^” said an pld merchant to, a , Utica Observer man. “I most tell yon of one occurrence that took place in a neighboring. Qpnntjry store.’ The proprietor was noted for be- . smart young man. buy a dress pat was 75 cents, and. after a long tal^ the clerk closed the bargain at 70 cents., While the clerk was select^ ing trimmings, etc., in ( another part of the store the genial propri etor came, along rubbing his hands, inquired after the family of the customer, praised-her taste in se lecting that particular. piece of goods, and as a special favor to a good customer let her have it for 68 ( pentsper yapL . ’ The clerk relumed an a thejlady told of the reduction the proprie- told had made. The clerk was fu rious, Hut not in the least discon certed. ,, He saw that, if the tomers thought that he was se higher than others in the they would avoid him and his dis charge would follow. So he says: “I just looked*at the bill Snd can sell you that piece at 65 cents a |L yard *” 4 * When the deal was’ complete the. proprietor was angry * at the clerk. . “Do. you know that I made the price 68 cents,” said the proprir t°r, “Yes,” said the clerk,’ want you to, . understand t man can undersell me : store.”. He kept his job. - cus- ;,Tery few of the editors of t New York papers live at home. James Gordon Bennett, of t Herald, spends his time in Eui ’ Joseph Pulitzer, of the Wc ‘ * Albert Pulitzer, of Journal,’alkt-liye in Eure the time. Whitelaw Beic Tribune, has taken up ] dence in France, an d Mr.' Da in.Europe nearly .all, the Bobert Porter, of the Pre cbiefiy engaged in ceus George Jones,' of the very little editing. The volving upon Charlef a whole, the great editor New York papers do very wor£ Man.unknown to fame do most of the writing.—Columbus Enquirer. And those < Xram care ore A.** j Iffic Person* DOTY G [ben