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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1899)
< & o. STATE NEWS. ! %Jo ' “A lUght A. C. Elder’s large ° nTU n at WatkiusviUe was carriage ry borned ' H Cartledge, a prominent ReT ^Harmony ' -on'divine, of Franklin county, Grove Wednesday died morning- iohts of Pythias will hold a The tr K '!,mon the giaiid couu at Bainbridge on tins , t jj_ * Every elaboratear lSthof . made tQ make ifc a ^Qgemeut is » s W. J- T Bryan» Brr an addressed the Cha Hon. Barueo\ on . „ ta tiqna, at - Clark Howell introduced by Hon. ffa- Constitution and P 0 f t he speech, _ nropriate Carnival will begin Au Elbertou’s big Some 2 ist and continue five days. Lminent 1 speakers and lecturers will be hand, including Gen. Joe Wheeler on Id Bryan W. J- . Atlanta Poultry, Pigeon and Pet The held enthusiastic j. Association an St0C i^ the office °f the State Fair «ee t in arranged the de dav last week and 2 0 { the association’s fair. forthcoming ex Mbit at the state W M Scott, state entomologist, is vis d inspecting the nurseries around itmg au n etime at the f Unfits ^ g e g p ent som nursery and visited Mr. Stone’s , rI1U finding the nurseries jiursery. He is tliere in very good shape. A new p ostoffice has been established Worth county. It is located about ; n and will be Ve! i miles north of Poulan, a Ga. W M Perryman 1 known as Kelvin, I been appointed postmaster. The of has supplied by star routefrom Ace will be a Poulan. Tifton Gazette : As an object lesson, a Tifton shipper packed a car of melons ! week, weighing from twenty-one to thirtv-five pounds. The melons brought 1200 on the market. Of thin, the grower and shipper got #49; the railroads and ■ commi-sion men got the rest. Ex-Gov. W. J- Northen has been ap- 1 and notify the pointed to go to Boston fev Dr, Mullins of his election to the logical Seminary and to prevail upon him to accept this high position. Gov. Northen left for Boston last week for this purpose, The board sincerely hope that Ms mission will be successful. W&ycross Herald: Express Agent Har¬ ris yesterday received a large cage of homing or carrier pigeons from Wash¬ ington. They will be kept here a few days, and when the word arrives from headquarters will be liberated, Observ ations and notes will be made of their speed, etc., and the time required to re¬ turn to their homes. There is now a runaway orphan from Montgomery being cared for at the At¬ lanta police headquarters. Some one had pictnred Atlanta to him as the greatest place on earth, and as his home in Mont¬ gomery was unpleasant, he concluded to run agay and go to Atlanta. His disap¬ pointment was so great after a few days stay there that he told his troubles to the police. As soon as the State fair was secured for Atlanta, this association took a vital interest in the poultry and pet stock de¬ partment, and it was largely through its instrumentality that the executive com¬ mittee of the fair decided to offer $1,500 in premiums for poultry and pet stock. In addition to this, the association secur¬ ed some $300 worth of valuable premiums in the way of cups and other articles. Several days ago the little child of Mr. P. M. Smith, who lives near Boston, got a watermelon seed lodged in his wind¬ pipe. The little fellow suffered intense¬ ly until taken to town, where a physi¬ cian cut into his throat and removed the seed, which had gone into the bronchial tubes. The doctor pronounced his little Patient out of danger, and his mother ^turned home with him. Me. T. Jones, who has undertaken the work of raising stock subscriptions to Imild a tourist hotel in Macon reports that the work is progressing satisfacto¬ ry* and that he is meeting with encour agement wherever he goes. It is thought that when the people of Macon have shown sufficient confidence in the un dertaking to subscribe *20 or &25.000 the reft 01 the capital will reedily be forth¬ coming. The Wealth of Poverty 1)1 the center of George Vanderbilt’s , hud estate of nine thousand acres of ^ed near Asheville, there is a little plot by an old neg> o, which no money J® h °t^, bll y. Within sight of the palatial the old f e>'e-'K Sl! V SU| us lor hi., io„ Ii*. Vitold. r,he sa me reply. “Now, look here, . all my jif e i’ ge beg,} bothered with “^“eighbors. Dey comes home drunk audde smashes me fence, and dey steals neats Now, Goiouoi George, here, he square. He leaves me bacon ^ U| l he don't abdueklate no chick <ais. A 1 I’s Roiua ' &e got a good neighbor, • - riel o him!”—Ex. ^ rs : find s ill f ? of ivss goods of the season a n gh>rd & dons’. FOURTH IN LIBBY IN 1868. The Federal Captives Rejoiced Over the Fall of Vicksburg. The most remarkable if not the most pleasant Fourth of July I have known was spent in Libby orison in Richmond in 1868. Acting as war correspondent of the New \ ork Tribune, I had been captured while trying to mn the batteries of Vicksburg . The whole expedition was destroyed, and I as one of the survivors was sent te Libby. As I was very young then, of very vig orous constitution and in excellent health, I had hope of surviving, but I ex pected to escape and did so after two 5 rears confinement. I should have succumbed in a short time had I not contrived to get money surreptitiously, with which j bonght eatable food and other creature comforts. Money was then existence. How well i recall that Fourth! I was quartered with the army officers, 1,200 to 1,500 of them, many of whom I had known iu the field The prison was a horrid place, excessively hot, the air mephitic, almost poisonous. I wonder how I breathed it without asphyxia. Our sole food—it was the very best had, the authorities said—was half spoiled bacon and wretched com bread, yet we man aged to swallow it, we were so desper ately hungry. We slept on the floor or ou rough boards, and we lived—that is, Ke Pt health in our bodies—bouyed up by **» hope of getting out. We talked in the morning of celebrat¬ ing the day,” but how could we with nothing to eat and nothing to drink save very warm hydrant water that came up from the turbid James river? So with empty stomachs and soiled face and hands—it was impossible to be clean there—we thought we would celebrate orally—that is, by talking patriotism even more than usual, which was cer tainly difficult. Consequently, we got together in groups and narrated to one another the most exciting experiences that each of us had in the field. Many of tho narratives were very interesting, coming as they did from the actors them¬ selves. If they could have been taken down as they fell from our lips, they would be impressive reading even at this late day. The officers warmed with their subjects, living over again the scenes they had recounted Some of them got so flushed and generally stirred that they looked as if they had been drinking. On my commenting on this several of them said that they really felt as if they had swallowed a dozen glasses) of cham¬ pagne. They added that patriotism was an excellent substitute for wines and li¬ quors and that they never hurt anybody, which could not be said of liquor stimu¬ lants, particularly in armies. All the prisoners in Libby and doubt¬ less in the whole sonth generally were inspired with patriotism on that day, be¬ cause Vicksburg, then beseigeft by Grant, as we had learned from the newspapers which we bought regularly, cherished sanguine hopes of relief from General Joseph E. Johnston, who was menacing Grant in the rear. This we knew to be a dangerous situation and it naturally made us very anxious. The Vicksburg journals declared that Grant wa* in a trap from which he could hot possibly extricate himself and that they hourly expected to hear of his surrender. We had faith in Grant, but still we were ap¬ prehensive of the result. One of the officers said that inasmuch as talking had had the effect of drinking on the talkers we might try the effect of talking of eating on our rapacious appe¬ tites. Thereupon he began to tell what he would order as soon as he gained his freedom. He described a most appetiz¬ ing meal that made our mouths water. Others followed him until many cried out that they could bear the theme no longer; that through their imagination they were starving. None of us could help thinking, say what we might, about Vicksburg and how the siege was going. Some one expressed this thought, which was widely echoed, and most of us be¬ gan at once discussing Vicksburg as we had done scores of times before. Only a few minutes had passed when a colored barber, whom I had always The Monarch of Strength is LION i i •• i ■ CM © f; 1 It3 age* is sealed at L.e «ti . f , Incomparable | StEfiSofry c ou3 of an. I within the reacn s ®‘ r ^ nb Premi J ist in every package. , n . Cut out your Lion’s Head and get vaiua-.e p. en. ums^f ^ bgT(i I1on rtore< | Jf ii: yOUf Urn UfOl**— rpf “VSS^oTsPICE CO.. Toledo. OKlo. thought, by a strange anomaly, to be in sympathy with the sonth (he had been coming for weeks into the officers’ quar¬ ters to shave them), slipped up to me and with overflowing joy whispered in my ear that Vicksburg had fallen. I knew he was telling the truth when he said that he had heal'd a dispatch read downstairs in the office announcing the fact. I immediately repeated the tion in a loud voice, and it was receiver! with a roar of applause. Then followed “John Brown’s Bo ly,” “Hail Colum bia,” “Star Spangled Banner” and oth er patriotic airs shouted rather than sung in stentorian tones. Is not this incident enough to make that Fourth of July rememberahle? We had our cele bration after all. General Grant fur nished it. And a glorious celebration it was for us. Junius Henri Browne. THE PRINTER’S BURDEN. Take up the printer’s burden— It is an awful hard load, And gathers weight the further He travels do vn the road; Bills payable iu plenty, Subscribers in arrears— The troubles that brest him, Would drive a bust to tears. Take up the printer’s burden— A form knocked into pi, The editor arrested For publisning a lie; A type full of bug-juice, The foreman far away. Upon some big excursion— The devil to pay. Take up the printer’s burden— At last the paper’s out;— John Smith s wife has a baby; Two rowdies had a bout; Brown’s children have the measles, Miss Phillippy’s dog is dead, Miss Tate had a quilting, And not a word was said. Take up the printer’s burden— He puffs the old dead town; He calls the women beauties, And lies just like a clown, He lands the city fathers And prints tneir pedigrees; To pay him back for cutting. His publication fees. Take up the printer’s burden— Give him a little rest; With all his imperfections He doubtless does his best; About his knowish neighbors He tells not half thats true, Believing that the devil Will sometimes get his due. —Sheffield Reaper LIKES THE AMERICAN COMPANYS PRESS. An Arkansas Firm Used u Last Season With Great Satisfaction. From the Commercial Aappeal, Mem¬ phis, Tenu. A. J. Clements, of the firm of Clem¬ ents <fc Daniel, cotton ginners of Lonoke, Aik., was in the city yesterday. Mr. Clements was seen by a Commercial Ap¬ peal representative in the office of the American Cotton Company, in the Con¬ tinental building, and lie talked very en¬ thusiastically of that company’s Round lap bale press, which he has been oper¬ ating at his gin the past season. He compressed about 4,000 bales on his Roundlap bale press, and the cotton was all sold at the press at Memqhis prices. Mr. Clements says that a Roundlaq bale trom the American Company’s press will net from $2.50 to $8.00 more than from the old press. In fact, a farmer a lew months ago, made a test of the matter, bringing the exact number of pounds of the same quality to Mr. Clements that he did to a square bale press, without let¬ ting either giu know he was making the test, and the Roundlap bale netted just $3.75 more tnan the square bale. Mr. Clements says that one season has satisfied him of the merits of the Amer¬ ican Company’s Roundlap bale press. It is a good thing he says, both for the gin ner and the farmer, and his firm -will continue its use and abandon its press entirely. D alton’s mills best patent flour, Capitola, Atlanta mills, at Plun ket’s. • ■ ; THE VALUE OF PEAS. Interesting Arcicit* 011 This Crop With PrH^tlosl Suggestions For Flout¬ ing and Cultivation. Much has been written in succas sive years concerning the preservation a»d npbuilding of the farming lands of the south. Necessarily this question ; is one of great importance, as we kave for years been growing cotton to j the exclusion of other useful crops— ! paying so much attention to what is called "the moneyed crop of the south” 411(1 giving hardly any attention to the Wear 411(1 tear ot our lauds. Of neoessity , tlle cultivation of a cotton crop is one of ! clean cultu: , which lets the summer’s sun and winter’s rains bleach our lands of the dements of plant food that is necessary to the preservation of the land thus cultivated. The best informed and the most scientific farmers understand that to preserve their lauds they must fur¬ nish such quantities of plant food as will replace that which bas been taken from them by the crops grown during the year. It has been a favorite method to try to repair the drain upon the land by furnishing to the crops an artificial plant food 00 m* monly known as “Commercial Fertil¬ izers. ” We are willing to admit that the use of these “Commercial Fertil¬ izers” benefits the growing orops, but as above stated, the clean culture lets the summer’s sun and winter’s rains bleaoh out the remainder, so that we are obliged to depend upon artificial means to give onr crops the supply of plant food necessary for succeeding crops. Each year requires more and more fer¬ tilizer per acre iu order to supply the demand made by nature. The question arises how can we hope to keep our lands in a high state of cul¬ tivation; how can we give in return more than we have taken away? Year by year our land degenerates, and as a consequence we become poorer. Wkat^heuld we do to remedy this evil and fill our barns? The only answer is, save what you al¬ ready have and lay by something for posterity. This can be done on the farm to far better advantage than iu most any other profession. ’ This question mnst be looked squarely in the faoe, aa any other business profession. My advioe to the farmers at this sea¬ son of the year is to plant peaa, not only for fooding purposes, but as a ren¬ ovator of their lands. Plant enough peas in yonr corn for seed for another year and sow the rest of yonr corn, oat and wheat lands broadcast for manuring purposes. Onr common peas are mostly au air plant. They absorb the nitrogen f*«m the air and deposit the same in their roots, so that they furbish ammonia for another season. The vines or woody matter furnish potash and loam, as well as prevent the washing of the soil already made. Years of ex¬ perience shows that this plant not only renovates the land, but is an excellent forage crop. Now as to the cultivation of this val¬ uable crop I would suggest, for the pur¬ pose of raising seed for another season, that peas be planted in, the middle of the rows when you lay by your corn at the third plowing. When the peas are about 6 inches high take a short scooter or ripper with an 18 inch sweep and run on either side, thus giving the peas one plowing, which will be sufficient, as the corn will shade the grotfhd so as to pre¬ vent the grass from growing too freely. Or if you desire not to molest your corn, then when you cut off your grain plant your peaa in 8-foot rows and cul¬ tivate as you do corn or cotton. Two plowings will make them, Gather them and let your vines rot on the ground, thus building up your land and gathering enough to plant another year and for feeding purposes. For manuring purposes sow broadcast in the corn when you lay by, also over yne small grain lands, thoroughly break lug same. Sow from 3 pecks to 1 bushel per acre. Allow the peas to get thor oughly ripe and turn same under during the late falL If you desire to out them for hay it should be done when the pea-pods be gin to ripen. I will write an article later concern¬ ing curing pea hay, as this article is in¬ tended only to urge the farmers to zee the necessity of bringing up their lauds and at the same time filling their barns. If we will only use the means we have at hand and work with energy and patience we can truly make this the garden spot of the world. I advize the use of the following peas: The Unknown, the Olay, Red Ripper and Whippoorwill. Again let me urge every farmer tc plant largely, and if be can procure the seed sow every foot of available land in this (nature’s) subaoiler.— State Ag¬ ricultural Department. DOORS AND WINDOWS! 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