Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. X.
WASHINGTON, D. C. I
FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT
MEN AND THINGS.
Whnt Our National Law Makers are Doing
—Departmental Uossip—Movements
President and Mrs. Cleveland.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, Mr. Edmunds, from the
;ommittee on foreign relations, reported
a bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal
Company of Nicaragua, and said he would
move to take it up as early next week as
he could get the floor. Mr. Manderson,
from the committee on printing, reported
a joint resolution for the disposition of
undistributed copies of records of the
late War, reports of the tenth census and
reports of the public lands commission.
The Senate bill appropriationg $50,000
additional for a public building at Pen¬
sacola, was taken up and became the text
for a general discussion as to the erection
of public buildings.... In the House, the JM r.
Belmont, of New York, from com¬
mittee on foreign affairs, reported a joint
resolution for an international conference
to secure greater safety at sea. Referred
to committee on the whole. Mr. Hill,of
Illinois, from the same committee, re¬
ported a bill to fix the charge for pass¬
ports at one dollar. Placed on the House
calendar. The bill to prevent the selling
and advertising of lottery tickets in the
District of Columbia, came up in regular
order on the calendar, but was postponed. affecting
After a good deal the of bill legislation reached
local interests, was subsidized rail¬ on
the calendar requiring
roads to maintain and operate separate
telegraph lines (directed against the Pa¬
cific remainder railroads). Its discussion occupied and it
the of the day’s session,
went over.
In the Senate the bill was passed thousand ap¬
propriating twelve hundred
dollars for a public building in Kansas
City. The bill for the relief of importers
of animals for breeding purposes in cer¬
tain cases was taken up and passed. objected Air.
Riddieberger took the floor and
to the consideration of any matter, to
which objection could be made, during
the time assigned for morning business,
until he could have action on the resolu¬
tion offered by him some weeks since to
have the British extradition treaty con¬
sidered in open session. After he had
been speaking for ten or fifteen minutes,
he was ruled out of order and directed to
take his seat. The Senate then, at 2:10,
took up unfinished business—the Blair
educational bill. The Senate then voted
43 to 9 to proceed to executive business,
Riddieberger voting in the affirmative. A
dramatic, though momentary, scene fol¬
lowed. Air. Riddieberger arose as the
chair announced the vote and attempted
During to speak, and created quite a House row ...
the morning hour, the re¬
sumed consideration of the bill making
bills of lading conclusive evidence in cer¬
tain cases, and it was passed. Following
is the bill: “That, whenever any com¬
mon carrier by land or water, or its agent
authorized to execute and deliver bills of
lading, signs and delivers any bill of
lading or instrument in the nature there¬
of, purporting to be for goods, wares, or
merchandise received by such carrier for
transportation from one state to another
within the United States or to any for¬
eign country, such bill of lading or in¬
strument in the nature thereof, in the
hands of any bona fide holder for valua¬
ble consideration, w ho acquired the same
in the usual course of trade without any
notice of any defect therein, shall be con¬
clusive evidence that the goods described
therein were actually received by such
carrier in the manner and for the pur¬
pose as therein stated.” The Speaker
announced the appointment of the fol¬
lowing members of the special committee
to in investigate Pennsylvania: the existing labor troubles of
Messrs. Tillman
South Carolina, Stone of Alissouri, Chip
man of Michigan, Anderson of Kansas,
and Parker of New' Y’ork.
In the Senate, Air. Frye offered a reso¬
lution, the which was adopted, instructing
committee on commerce to inquire
into the right and expediency of Con
gresstassuming control of the erection cf
bridges over navigable waters within
state limits. The Senate resumed con¬
sideration of the resolution to refer the
President’s Alessage, and Air. Platt said
that the President’s Alessage meant the
absolute and final destruction of the pro¬
tective system and that it could result in
nothing the else than the entire downfall of
protective system of the country....
In the House, Air. Seney, of Ohio, from
the committee on judiciary', reported ad¬
versely a joint resolution proposing a
constitutional amendment in relation to
the manufacture, importation, transpor¬
tation, liquors. exportation and sale of alcoholic
Air. Springer, from the commit¬
tee on territories, reported a bill to or¬
ganize the territory of Oklahoma. Re¬
ferred to committee of the whole. Air.
Compton,.from the committee on labor,
reported of letter a bill to limit the hours of labor
carriers. Placed on the House
calendar. Air. Oates called up and the
lHouse passed, the bill regulating the ju
insdiction of the United States district
■judges nudge ia Alabama. It provides that the
of the southern district shall have
■jurisdiction throughout the middle dis
l. nct - The House passed the bill amend
ling existing law, so that the death
f P ena *ty shall not be inflicted for casting
| an ay a vessel upon the high seas unless a
! loss of life results from such act, but
I providing tor life the penalty of imprisonment
! or for a term of years with a fine.
GOSSIP.
official Commissioner Colman has received an
Secretary request from the office of the Chief
of Queensland, to recommend
to the government in the colony, a suit-
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1888.
able person for employment as an instruc¬
tor in agriculture.
Representative Lee, of Virginia, pre¬
sented the petition of the General As¬
sembly of Virginia asking establish for an in appro¬ Alex¬
andria priation of $100,000 the to manufacture of
a factory for school where
sugar from sorghum, and a
the process of manufacture could, bo
taught.
The McDuftie-Davidson, contested
election case of Alabama, was taken up by
the elections committee. The committee
reserved their report, which will probably
not be made in some days. It appears
that the committee will send to the dis¬
trict, and have the election figures thor¬
oughly investigated before reporting.
A. E. Thornton, president of the cot¬
ton seed oil mill in Atlanta, Ga., is in
Wa shington, to appear before the com¬
mittee in opposition to the bill regulating bill
the manufacture of lard. If such a
should pass it would affect, to a Southern large ex¬
tent, Southernindustries. The
members of Congress are universally
apposed to it.
An epidemic of measles prevails among pub¬
the school children who attend the
lic schools. The schools worst attacked
were the fourth grade in the Carberry
building, and the third grade in the Pea¬
body. Over half of the fourth-grade
pupils in the Carberry were sick with the
measles, and ten days Peabody ago about third twenty- grade.
live were sick in the
The Secretary of War transmitted to
Congress a tabular statement of the mil
ilia force of the United States, which
shows that at the last returns there were
8,210 commissioned officers. There were
18,331 no a-commissioned officers, 2,900
musicians and 71,396 privates, making in
all 92,027 enlisted men and ft grand total
(officers and men) for the militia force of
100,837 men. The number of men
available for military duty (unorganized)
: s set down at 7.920.768.
DANGERS OF THE DEEP.
"Tlic Mlzznn Mast Gave Way and tlie 8bl»
Opened and Let us All Into the Sea-”
A dispatch from Olympia, W. T., gives
particulars in regard to tne wreck of the
Abercorn, which occurred near the mouth
of the Columbia river. The w'eather was
foggy, not stormy, as previously stated.
Immediately after striking, all hands went
into the cabin, as the sea was breaking
badly forward. While they w'ere there
the foremost and mainmast broke and the
deck split. In the afternoon a heavy sea
broke into the cabin, drowning several
inmates. Three survivors escaped from the
cabin and ascended the rigging of
mizzenmast. They saw Pilot Johnston
as he came out of the cabin, which was
fille.1 with water. Just as he appeared, a
wave struck him. He tried to grasp a
bar of the com pan ion way, but missed it,
Just at that moment, a second wave struck
him and carried him into the ocean. He
kept afloat for some time, but kept look¬
ing back at the vessel and swimming
parrallel with the coast. Soon he sank
to rise no more. One of the survivors
says: ‘A little later the mizzenmast gave
way and the ship opened and let us all
into the sea. As the mast was going 1
jumped to the clear side of the ship, and
was under the -water for some time. As
I came up the second time I saw near me
a plank about thirteen feet long, which I
seized and steered for the shore.” The
next survivor, a man about twenty-five
years af age, came ashore with a piece of
plank under each arm. Both men were
in the water half an hour. A boy who
was saved is an orphan, and was one of
the five boys from the training ship, all
of whom were making their first voyage.
He came ashore with two pieces of plank,
and was the last to reach the shore, hav¬
ing been about an hour in the water, and
having drifted two miles up the coast
from where the others landed. He -was
conscious when found by white men and
Indians. The hoy says he saw several
persons in the water after he left the
wreck and that he was the last to see
the captain alive. At one time the cap¬
tain was within fifteen feet of him, and
told him to hang to his plank and not to
be scared, and he would reaeh the shore
all right. Then a heavy wave struck
them and that was the last he saw of the
captain or any of the ship’s crew. Shortly
after they reached the shore, a body was
seen floating a short distance from land,
but it sank immediately on being sighted. includ¬
Sixteen bodies are reported found,
ing those of Pilot Johnston and the cap
tafu, the former book found having in been ‘.his pocket. recognized All
by a bodies note found sixteen to nine¬
the were There still
teen miles up the coast. are
six bodies unheard from.
WRECK. ON THE OEOlUilA. It. U.
An accident occurred at Bonesville, on
the Georgia railroad, 33 miles from Augus¬
ta, in which three freight trains were in¬
volved. Train No. 36 was on the side¬
track at Bonesville. Trains No. 6, way
freight from Augusta to Atlanta, was
just about to enter the side-track, also,
and had a minute and a half in which to
do so, on schedule time, when No. 14,
the second section or train No. 36, came
thundering down the main track and
collided with No. 6. Both engines were
badlv demolished, and the cars were
piled up in the greatest confusion, some
of the boxes of No. 14 being thrown
against the train on the side track and
badly crushing the tender of engine No.
36. The train hands and engineers all
escaped injury, except Engineer Simon
Berry, of No. 14, who sprained his ankle
in jumping from the engine. The injury
to the rolling stock will amount to thous¬
and-i of dollars.
MONEY FLOWING IN.
Bishops Ireland and Keane report thnt
subscriptions raised by them in Wash¬
ington and Baltimore for the new Catho¬
lic University in Washington amount tc
$150,000,
SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS.
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FOB
BUSY PEOPLE.
Tbo Social. Religion* and Temperance
World—Projected Enterprises—Mar¬
riages, Fires. Deaths. Etc.
The pottery of Charles H. Hartung,
near Baltimore, Md., was destroyed by
fire, together with two horses and a mule.
Damage, $15,000; insurance, $8,000.
Albert Little, sheriff of Gonzales coun¬
ty, Texas, was killed recently by a negro
desperado named Jackson. riddled A posse with over¬ bul¬
took Jackson and him
lets.
On account of proceedings praying before for
Judge Gustin at Macon, Ga.,
a new trial for Tom Woolfolk, the mur¬
derer, his execution did not occur Feb¬
ruary 10 th.
The steam launch Irene, at New Or¬
leans, La., blew out a flue head recently
resulting in the drowning of William
Meade, engineer, and the fatal scalding
of two boys.
Seven Indian Territory murderers were
sentenced by Judge Parker in the United
States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., to be
hanged Friday, April 27. Five are and ne¬
groes. one is a Cherokee Indian, one
is white.
Henry Marshall deliberately killed
William Mason, at Soddy, Tenn., by
shooting him with a gun. Marshall was
placed on trial for murder in the first de¬
gree, and the jury found him guilty as
indicted.
Rev. Wm. C. Stacy, who for years has
been pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Jonesboro, N. C., has received a call to
Lawinburg church, the pastorate of which
is vacant by reason of the death of Rev.
J. H. Cable.
The schooner Adventure, Whitehurst.,
master, from Charleston, S. C., bound
to Washington with guano, is stuck in
Oregon Inlet, N. C., and is a total loss.
Cargo insured.
Col. Charles E. R. Drayton, editor and
proprietor of the Aiken, S. C., Recorder,
and one of the most forcible writers on
the state press, died of pneumonia, aftei
an illness of ten days.
The United States government has now
18 new buildings ready for occupancy at
the new military reservation near Atlanta,
Ga., and five companies will occupy them
in June. It has caused quite an advance
in real estate in the neighborhood of the
post.
A passenger coach on the Rome express
for Atlanta, Ga., left the track two miles
from Rome, and turned over. Fortunate¬
ly, no one was seriously hurt. A good
many were bruised, and all badly shaken
up. The accident was due to a rail spread¬
ing.
Burglars entered the jewelry store of
Chapman & Gale, on Main street, in Nor¬
folk, Va., through the skylight, took the
door off the safe and stole all the dia¬
monds. gold watches and valuable jewel¬
ry in the stock of the firm. Loss $30,000.
David Webb, a well known citizen oi
Portsmouth, Vn., was arrested with his
wife, son and daughter, for counterfeit¬ and circu¬
ing ten and five cent pieces,
lating them among shops in their searched, neigh¬
borhood. When the house was
dies for molding small silver coin were
found.
Deputy Revenue Collector Colquitt
captured in Randolph county, them owned Ala., and five
illicit distilleries, one of
operated by the Haley brothers, known
as bold and desperate moonshiners. A
large amount of whiskey was destroyed,
but after a lively chase the moonshiners
escaped to the mountains.
The committee of citizens appointed devising tc
co-operate with the ladies in
plans and means for the establishment oi
a home for orphan boys in Columbus,
Ga., met, and the question was fully dis¬
cussed and sub-committees were appoint¬
ed to solicit subscriptions for the home.
John Blackmore heads the list with
$ 1 , 000 .
Fred W. Watkins, late a prominent
member of the Young Men’s Christian
Association at Birmingham, leaving Ala., has
left for parts unknown, several
warrants and creditors behind. He
forged, it is alleged,the and names leading of a prom¬
inent business man a lawyer
to a $490 note, and borrowed money on
the paper.
About, one hundred Scotchmen, mem¬
bers of the Paving Cutter’s union of Li
thonia, Ga., and Stone Alountain, struck
against Venable Bros. & Foster. The
cause of the strike is because Venable
Bros. & Foster had about twenty negroes,
block breakers, to arrive from Virginia
to go to work at their quarry at Stone
Alountain.
The Alississippi Senate passed first by a two
thirds vote a resolution on its read¬
ing, looking to submitting to a vote of the
people a constitutional amendment re¬
stricting the tenure of the governor to
one term of four years. Also, making
the judiciary elective by the people, in
ste ad of provided. being appointed by the governor,
as now
As a mixed train on the Ea t and West
road was approaching Starksville, Ga., a
freight ear that had been changed from
a broad guage to a narrow gunge truck
began to rock, and finally turned over.
Five freight cars and a passenger coach
were ditched and badly wrecked. Six
passengers were hurt, some of their injuries
being quite serious.
Tom Ellis, editor of the Birmingham,
Ala., Hornet, who was shot by Detective
A. J. Sullivan, died. How lie lived so
long after being shot was a mystery even
to physicians. His pulse ceased to beat
thirteen honrs before he died, and three
hours before he stopped breathing his
limbs were cold and rigid. W. B. Moore,
business manager of the Hornet announced
his intention of shooting Sullivan at
sight.
Capt. Fletcher Barnes, of Mount Pleas¬
ant, Maury county, Tenn., fell dead in
the baggage car on the accommodation
train on the Floreiice railroad. He took
passage on that train with the intention
of going to Nashville. lie ran some dis¬
tance to catch the train, but when he got
ion seemed perfectly well and unusually
jolly. He walked through the passenger
coach into the. baggage ear, where lie
talked pleasantly to the baggage master
and postal agent for a few minutes.
These two officials were busy with their
work,but suddenly they heard something
fall, and looking around saw him lying
on the floor dead, Capt. Barnes served
through the Confederate War as captain
in Riffle’s regiment and Forrest’s com¬
mand, and was a gallant soldier.
FLORIDA ITEMS. •'
The second grand concert, by the col¬
ored people, was given at the Exposition
in Jacksonville. The programme was an
entire change from that of their first con¬
cert, and contained many features which
were of particular interest to white citi¬
zens and Northern vistors, as well as to
the colored people themselves.... The
funeral services of Airs. Julia V. Mc¬
Laughlin, the universally loved wile of
Major R- McLaughlin, took place from
the St. John’s Episcopal Church, at Jack¬
sonville, the services being conducted by
Rev. R. II. Weller, D. I)., rector of the
church... .While the ditchers were en¬
gaged on the sewerage work iu Pensacola,
they found, about two feet under the
earth, two human skeletons about 200
feet apart. With one of them was found
two Spanish silver dollars, bearing, dates
respectively of 1776 and 1778. It is sup¬
posed that these skeletons were of
soldiers who fell during the battle fought
there in 1781, by the Spanish and French
against the English, in which the former
were victorious.... The benefit tendered
by Miss Adelaide Randall and her come¬
dy company, for the Immigration Fund,
was the attraction, recently, at Park
Opera House, Jacksonville... .The Jack¬
sonville Baseball and Athletic Association
has purchased an entire block adjoining
Springfield. A large force of hands will
be immediately put to work to put the
grouuds in first-class condition, and the
accommodations for visitors to witness
games played will be immediately built.
... St. Augustine is agitating department.... the ques¬
tion of a paid fire
Kissimee has been chosen, by a large
majority, as the permanent county seat of
Osceola county.... Frans Johanson, a
sailor on the schooner Annie P. Chase, at
Fernandina, fell from the mast while in
a fit and died from his injuries. He was
native of Rauma, Finland.... Maj.
Gen. J. M. Schofield, and wife and son,
B. M. Schofield, are in Jacksonville again
after a short absence.... Constables Ste¬
phens and Robbins arrested a negro
named William Johnson, about two miles
east of Mandarin. Johnson is about 20
years of age, and says he formerly lived
at Ocala, and on his person were found a
diamond ling, two emerald rings, Col.
Magill’s watch chain, valuable cuff but¬
tons and other jewelry... .The Jackson¬
ville Street Railway Company has just
received five new cars of equipped the Stephenson with the
build. These cars are
Demorest automatic register and all the
latest improvements in street cars....
During the past ten days $50,000 worth
of government laud was sold through the
United States Land Office at Gainesville.
This amount of money paid for over cigars 37,
000 acres... .The exportation increasing, of last
from Key West is slowly
week’s shipment amounting to 2,000,000,
mostly to New Y’ork .. A despicable fire
bug is terrorizing the people of Live
Oak, and he will be severely dealt with
if captured.
YELLOWSTONE KIT.
Ufa Admirers In Montgomery, Ala..Threat¬
en an Editor mnl (iet flocked Up
The Afontgomery, Ala., Hem/d, a pa
per edited by colored men, has stirred
up another sensation. Last Summer, Jesse
Duke, the former editor, offended the
white people of that city and had to make
a hasty departure to escape the anathemas
of the irate community. Rev. A. N.
McEwen, the present editor, has given
offense to a certain element of his own
race, and many colored peop'e have risen
up in arms against him. It seems that
Yellowstone Kit,of patent medicine fame,
who has been holding forth there some
weeks, is the real cause of the trouble
that has brought about the strife and con¬
flict among the colored population.
An article appeared in the Herald bitterly
denouncing Kit for his peculiar means the
and method of getting money from
ignorant and credulous class of negroes.
That evening a number of Kit’s worship the
pers addressed a letter to MeEwen,
editor, giving him warning to leave the
city within twenty-four hours. AIcEwen
remained, and Kit’s gang made loud
threats, saying they would ku-klux him
before day* At a late the hour police in station the night to
McEwen went to
avoid trouble, and ask;*d protection. colored
Warrants were issued, and and four made
men, who signed the note tin
threats, were arrested. They were tried
before the recorder and fined $56 in each
case. Great excitement prevails among is
the colored people, and further trouble
anticipated. _______
SHOULD MOVE SOUTH.
There is a fierce war being Springfield, waged Ill. be¬
tween the laundries of
It was begun a few days ago, and they
are now washing collars and cuffs at the
rate of two dozen for one cent, and shirts
for two cents each. The Chinese bum
dries have refused to cut rates so tar, and
declare that they will quit rather than
work for nothing.
THE BUSY WORLD
PHOTOGBAPHEI) BY THE EVEB
PRESENT NEWSPAPER MA Y.
The European Powers Preparing for n
fireat JSiriigglo-Irlsh Allairi-Storta’is
Railroad Accidents, .Suicides, etc.
The proposal to form a trust among
stove manufacturers does not find many
supporters among Chicago, Ill., stove
men.
Geu. Boulanger attended a perfoi mnnee
at theatre Ducliattelet, in Paris, and was
greeted with tumultuous shouts of “Yivi
Boulanger.”
A rubber goods trust is being organized millions
at New Y’ork; its capital is fifty
of be dollars, and the price of rubber will
advanced.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor
General of Canada, will succeed the Earl
of Dufferin as the Governor-General of
India at the end of the present year.
Richard K. Fox, the proprietor of the
New Y’ork Police Gazette, was arrested by
Inspector ing Williams, charged encouraging with violat¬ prize
the penal code by
lighting.
The jury in the case of the United
States vs. Benjamin Hopkins, late assist¬
ant cashier of the Fidelity National verdict Bank, of
at Cincinnati, Ohio, reuirned a
guilty, as indicted.
The absorption of the Whitney Arms
Company by the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, of New Haven, Conn.,
is believed to be the beginning of a series
of such combinations resulting in a tire
arms trust.
The failure of Bensley Brothers, of the
Chicago, Ill., Board of Trade, a firm of
thirty years’ standing, was announced.
The general impression on the Board of
Trade was that the liabilities would reach
$300,000 to $350,000.
A terrific natural gas explosion At. Norton, oc¬
curred at the residence of T.
at Anderson, Ind., blowing out tin* front
of the house and killing Fenton 0. Ro¬
gers, a Cincinnati book-keeper, who was
sleeping in a front room.
Cutting is again fast and furious in
western freight rates at Chicago, and
nobody knows what rates actually are,
for they hardly have time to become sta¬
tionary before a new cut is made. All
western roads nre involved.
A special from Seward, Nebraska, says
that Aliss Etta Shattuck, the school teach¬
er who was so severely frozen Omaha during the
recent blizzard, died. The Pet
fund for her benefit, amounting to $3,570,
will probably be turned over to her pa
rents.
The German Reichstag recently passed
the military loan bill without debate.
Three members (social Democrats) op¬
posed the measure, The Reichstag com
mittee has rejected the clause of the
anti-socialist bill relative to the expatri¬
ation of socialist leaders.
The United States revenue cutter Al¬
bert Gallatin collided with the revenue
cutter Dexter in Woods Hull, Alass., har¬
bor. The Gallatin had been down the
Sound, and on h<*r return struck the bow
of the Dexter with considerable force.
The Gallatin received the worst damage.
The British steamships Algatha, Gap
tain Ourwi.se, Lufra, Captain Grim stead,
and Darien, Captain Mokee, all under
charter to go to Philadelphia with miss¬ iron
ore for Messrs. Naylor & Co., are
ing, and their crews, numbering in all
eighty souls, are believed to have been
lost.
Austria and Turkey have been visited
by violent snow storms. In Turkey the
storm All traffic is the by worst anci experienced land is suspended, since 1874.
sea
and telegraphic communication is inter
mpted. At Constantinople the snow is
three feet deep, and business is at a
standstill.
An epidemic of suddenly typhoid fever (lie has
broken out quite in State
Industrial home for girls in Adrian,
Mich., and thirteen or fourteen cases are
already reported. The attacks so far are
comparatively mild, but a change may
occur at any time, and every precaution disease.
is being taken to meet the dread
John 8. Hayes, a well-known farmer
of Broadbend, Ill., had just built a corn
mill and was making a test of the ma¬
chinery. The stones were run at a high
rate of speed, and flying becoming all heated,
buret, the fragments in direc¬
tions. John S. Hayes and his sou, An¬
drew, were instantly killed. Henry But¬
ler, engineer, and AV. O., Burtner, a car¬
penter, were seriously injured.
The Assembly chamber, in (he vacated. Capitol
at Albany, N. Y., is about to be
The authorities have discovered many
serious movements of stone in the grand
arch, all of the main ribs of the vault
split, and many of the stones cracked
dear through. The whole ceiling is de¬
clared to be in a dangerous conditio*.
The time must come soon, they say, when,
without warning, the whole ceiling will
fall, and recommend that the whole As¬
sembly wing of the capitol be vacated at
once.
STRANGE ACC IDENT.
An orderly of Rossviile hospital, New
York, was instructed to move a patient, second
named Charles AlcClane. fiom the
floor of the hospital to the third, where
the doctors were about to perform raised an
operation on AlcClane. The orderly
the elevator to the second floor and went
for the patient. Having placed AlcClane
on a folding cot, the orderly moved him
to the shaft, re-opened the door, and
without looking to see if the elevator was
there, rolled the cot forward. During
the orderly's absence to prepare the
patient, the elevator had been lent up s
-J*.ry, and AlcClane was precipitated
through the shaft clear down the eellai.
vid wax killed.
NO. 51.
SPRING FARM NOTES.
WHAT THE SOUTHERN FARMER'S
THOUGHTS ABE TURNING TO.
Intensive Farming tlie Older of Ihn Dny
Wbat Progressive Women Are Doing -
About Etta*, nutter, Tobacco. Etc.
GOLDEN WORDS.
There are many farms in the South
yielding cerned, a scanty living for all con¬
where it would be wise to sell
one-lialf the mules, one-half the plows
and other implements, one-half the land
(or let it rest), dispense with half the
labor, and invest the money saved improved in fer¬
tilizers, improved stock and
implements, and such appliances as may
he needed to reduce loss and waste. The
farmer who confines his best efforts and
skill to a small portion of his farm and
still continues the whole area in cultiva¬
tion has practically only reduced area
without reducing expenses .—Southern
Cultivator.
A WOMAN'S WORK.
“I have raised ever so many chickens,”
says a lady in St. Alary’s Parish, La., “and
been very successful. Aly chiclccn eggs
alone some months bring me $12 or $15,
and during grinding season I have made
from $75 to $100 easily. My chicken
sales keep my pockets amply supplied
with cash.” So mote it he in thousands
of country homes all over our de-ir old
poverty stricken Southland. We ask
what able-bodied white man or able
negro is making as much money planting
cotton? Echo answers none, and this is
being done with only u lady’s spare time.
What is here said of the women of Lou¬
isiana is also true of the women of many
other Southern States.— Exchange.
TOBACCO.
The best soil for growing the “Black
Wrapper” is a dark, rich loam. Black
loam is inclined to make dark tobacco.
The manure should he well rotted, if any
can be had. Fresh manure inclines to
fire it up and “head in,” and should not
be used. If a fertilizer is used it should
not be put immediately in the hill, it will
do better to scatter it around the hill.
The soil should be broken deep and well
pulverized. If a good freeze comes better, after it
the first breaking so much the
will clear the soil of cut worms.
PECAN TREES.
The pecan belongs to the same genus
with the hickory, and is equally difficult
to transplant, it will not grow from cut¬
tings, and requires considerable cure to
transplant it. The nuts should be care¬
fully gathered from the tree, and buried
under some loose earth and trash, ro that
they will they be will kept cool be disturbed and moist, by an<)
where not ver¬
min. Then plant them as you would
peach-stones, say in February or March,
or just as they begiu to sprout. In othel
words, manage about us peach-stones.
It is better to plant the nuts just where
you wish the trees to permanently grow. off
But if not convenient to do this, cut
the tap root the next fall, and transplant
again, and so on until ready to set them
permanently, transplanting, or re-setting
every fall until finally located. The trees,
if well cultivated, will commence to beat
a few nuts in eight or ten years, and the
yield will rapidly increase annually, as
the trees become larger.
TO MAKE GOOD HAMS.
The Westphalia hams are made as fol¬
lows: Well rubbed with dry salt and left
to drain twenty-four hours. Take two
quarts of salt; tw T o quarts of bag (rock)
salt; three pounds of brown sugar; one
pound of saltpetre four ounces of sal
prunelle, and four ounces juniper berries,
well mixed and boiled in six quarts of
water. The brine is then cooled and
skimmed. The hums are then taken
from the salt and wiped dry, and the
cold pickle poured over them and rubbed
in. There should be enough brine to
cover the meat. Turn the meat every
second day for three weeks, then take
them out, wipe dry, and a mixture of
ground pepper, salt and bran is thor¬
oughly rubbed in, filling nil cracks and
openings. They arc then smoked a little
every day for three months or more, until
completely dry, when they will keep and
improve in flavor for years. Pyroligne¬ animalcu¬
ous acid will keep off flies and
les of all kinds, and improve the flavor of
the meat.
EGOS AND HOTTER.
A lady in Water Valley, Miss., writes
to a Southern farm journal; “As I wrote
you what I was doing in the Summer
with our ‘scrub stock,’I will now tell you
what I have made clear of expenses in
one year. Have sold 1,016 used pounds home, of but¬
ler, besides what we at at
twenty-five cents per pound, worth making of
$254. Also twelve dollars eggs
and seven dollars worth of turkeys. So
ypu see that fanners’ wives can do some¬
thing to help their husbands if they will
only try. I have not been running a
‘dairy,’ but simply selling the surplus
butter from the cows we kept to supply
the family table.”
BLACKBERRIES.
The .9 a lay more
_________ o w * ~ berries,
roots and herbs than the inhabitants of
iny other Southern state. During the
last blackberry season a single farm in
Greensboro shipped in one day 18,000
pounds of dried blackberries. This is
the kind of work for women and child
,-en, as well as the gathering of herbs and
roots, of which we shall soon have some¬
thing practical to give to our female
readers.
THE RIGHT SORT.
The young ladies of Auburn, Ala., have
organized a flourishing cooking club. As
there is an agricultural and mechanical
college at that place, the young men will
know where to find domestic wives when
they gaaduate,