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THEWEEKLY CONSTITUTION. FEBRUARY 21, 13«2.
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THE LUSCIOUS PEACH.
A VISITTO "ORCHARD HILL,'
6RIFFIN.
Oar Correspondent Calls on the Proprietor of a Large
Orchard, Interviews Him, and Obtains His
▼lews on Fruit Culture and Its Proflta.
<jRtFn.v. February 16.—[Special Correspond
ence Constitution]—‘‘Does your train stop at
Orchard Hill?" 1 asked this morning of con
ductor Mike Murphy, who pulls the bell line
oiler the through freight.
“No, I don't stop there,” he replied.
“But can’t you stop just for a favor?"
“Well, I might.”
“Shall I get on, then?”
“Yes, I guess so.”
“That’s clever; much obliged.”
With this remark still hot on my lips, I
hoarded the fast freight ana was soon up in
the gabie end of the house-top cab, and the
next minute we went spinning away down
tho Central railroad at a rate" faster than any
freight trains in America. Twelve minutes
to Orchard Hill—six miles—that isn’t bad for
time, and when you string it out, it just deals
a clever $0 rni.es an hour with twenty cars.
But I aic not to talk of.fast trains now. My
objective point at Orchard Hill was the big
]>cack orchard, and the subjective idea first to
get at was the owner of the orchard. The
gods were destined to let my lines fall in
pleasant places this time, and the very first
face I saw on getting off the cab was that of
Mr. John D. Cunningham, Jr., the young
proprietor of the biggest peach orchard in the
world.
“I have come down, Mr. Cunningbam,” I
said, when we had shaken hands, “to have
you tell me something Ifiis big fruit
farm,of yours. This CGmstitutkin wants to
know about it.”
“Well, come up to the house, and we’ll
take a drive around the place; nothing will
give me a greater pleasure, I assure you.”
And with this latter remark, we commenced
our walk to a pretty little concrete cottage
that nestles cosily on the top of a hill, some
two or three hundred yards away to the north.
When on the hill, look which way I might,
nothinglmt a sea of trees was visible. In two
months they would be hanging and bending
almost to the ground with rich, luscious
fruit over which thousands of lips would
smack in satisfied delight. To the west the
beautiful city of Griffin, with its snow white
spires and rows of handsome brick stores a. d
elegant dwellings, shady walks and
level, pretty streets, appeared
like a lonely mirage in the
distance, so perfectly transparent was the at
mosphere, and so clearly defined were the
houses against the blue horizon beyond. I
could but think of what hnndsome results the
city promised as I stood there waiting for my
host. To the north and west of Griffin were
the rich mines of the Woodruff and Keller
fruit farms, covering some three, hundred
acres in all; to the south, spread oi\t hundreds
of fertile valleys that were teeming with the
best products of the soil, while within her
very borders, shining like a lake of silver in
tho sunlight, was the most noted of all south
ern fish enterprises, Wright's beautiful carp
pond. And here, where I stood, within the
scopo of one’s eye, were 550 acres of Georgia’s
red hills that contained 60,000
peach trees! Did the vino clad
hills of France or the historic
citron groves of.Sieily promise a richer yield
of garth's sweet products? I could not believe
“it Falling into a reverie over the panorama
.and what it suggested would have been quick
work hnd not Mr. Cunningham announced
that his turnout was in readiness.
"I ain going to give you a drive around the
place,” lie said, when we were seated, and the
horse started off in a brisk jog.
“How far is it around all your fields?” I
asked.
“Well, some five or six miles, I guess; but
we wont go over them all. I want to show
you the full scope of the place, though, and
"then you can form your own idea about it.”
“How many acres have you iii all?"
“On the place I have 1,350 acres and nearly
600 acres are in pcachtrees alone. This is the
largest-peach orchard in the south, the largest
in the United States and the largest in the
world. There is one, however, in New Jersey
that is very nearly as large as this, though
not quite. I am thinking of planting out 200
ncres more next fall, and then 1 know I shall
have no rival anywhere.”
“How about the Darnell orchard near West
Point?”
'•That is probably about onc-lialf as large as
mine. I have often heard, myself, that the
Parnell orchard was the largest in the south,
hut l have the figures on all the large orchards
in the country, and what yl tell you is cor-
rect.”
“How many trees have you got planted here
in all?" ,
"In all, something over 60.000. Of these,
50,000 are good bearing trees, the youngest be
ing four years old.”
“Don’t you plant anything but peaches?'’
“Well. tl(pt is mv main crop, though I
have 6,009 apple anil pear trees also. I hardly
count these in comparison with the others.”
“Will you tell me the cost of the entire or
chard, trees and all, and what you now value
it at?”
“Land, you know, is cheap in middle Geor
gia and this cost from eight to.ten dollars
per acre. I firesume that the trees averaged
me ten cents each. There are the 550 acres
in [peaches. I have the cost of land $5,500
and trees $6,000. Altogether I expect the im
provements will run up a total footing of
$15,1X0. I would not take one dollar per tree
for the place as it is. so you can draw your
own inferences.”
“Would $75,000 buy the place?
“I don't know; I'd have to study over even
that offer. Tell yon the truth, I am not at
all anxious to sell. Let me tell you some
thing that Mr. Parnell says: On thirty acres
of his West Point orchard, in a year when
everybody else failed on peaches because of a
bad season, he cleared $7,000 even money. He
had his fruit in a valley, though, and it es
caped the frosts in some strange way that
season. last vear I made a failure, and only
got about 300 bushels in all. These net—■* —
about $1,000.” .
“Do you expect a good yield this year?
“Yes, I think this is my year. All the
signs arc in my favor. The last good fruit
season we hnd, it was preceded by a mild win
ter, and that’s a good sign now. Then, \oo, the
buds are much more backward than they
were last year. These are some of the signs
that make me hopeful for a grand fruit crop.”
“About how many good fruit years will
vou average in five or ten?”
' ‘'Three out of five is a fair estimate,
fruit crop is always more certain than in any
- other section of the country, and some fruits
here have been known never to fail.”
"Will you tell me something of the prices
vou get for peaches?”
“Take the crop through and I will average
two dollars per bushel net. This, of course,
means after deducting every possible expense.
I have a large number of trees that will bear
a full bushel each, but counting them at a
yield of only a peck to a tree, and with my
50,000 bearing trees, I get 12,500 bushels,
$25,000 net. Now,as we only have threegrand
yields in five years, that gives $75,000 for the
total, or an average of $15,000 every year.
This is just 25 per cent profit on the value of
the farm, counting it at $60,000.”
“What do your peaches bring in the north
ern markets?”
“I often get as high as fifteen and twenty
dollars per bushel for extra magnificent fruit,
but these are fancy prices and do not come
often. In New York and Philadelphia I get
about six dollars per bushel on an average
but eight dollars is not high and I often get
that, too. I'll commence to ship in about
three months and a half.”
•'How are rates on fruit?”
“Simply enormous The question sickens
me. Why. there would be an enormous for
tune fti the business right away if it were not
for the frightful express and freight rates. Let
me show you how the express companies get
nearly twice as much as it costa to raise, han
dle and prepare the fruit for market: 'they
charge $3.75 per bushel to New York, where
I get only $6 for it, leaving me $2.25. if the
rales were only lower, you see just what could
be done. The companies seem to base their
rates on a few fancy prices that we get for
fancy fruit. They argue that if the growers
can get $10 a bushel we might as well have
nearly half of it, and without any ceremony
proceed to take it. . Of course we are at their
mercy.”
“Can’t you ship by freight?”
“Yes, but it takes too long, and. unless we
A HISTORIC HOUSE.
THE MURAT MANSION IN FLORIDI
AN GROVES.
Interesting Hemimsconccs of a Home of Historic
Hole, and a Family Ttiat Furnished the Bo.
manceto tho Napoleon e Regime—A Walk
Through the Grounds and Hoaae.
New Orleans Times-Democrat
The recent destruction by fire of what was
known as the Murat House, near Tallahassee,
Fla., has elided an affecting incident relative
to a lady well remembered by many old resi
dents of New Orleans for her many estimable
qualities. This lady was the widow of Napo
leon Achille Charles Louis Murat, the elder
son of Murat and Caroline Bonaparte, for a
brief period kingand queen of Naples. After
the execution of his father as an insurgent
against the restored bourbon dynasty of
that seemed to carry perpetual sunshine with
her. But the darkness of a great sorrow came
upon her. She was then just- seventeen. Her
very virtues had become her enemies, and
deserted by those who should have been her
protectors, she left her home, and before a
year was passed, her memory, was scarcely
recalled by those whom she ha*d been a crea-
ture'of love and joy and beauty.
“A friend of mine,” said* Mr. F., “had
often seen her there—indeed, had known her
well—and as we talked of many things, so we
talked of her. One day Mr. I. and myself
were sent for by a merchant of this city to
investigate a case involving a heavy forgery.
It seemed that a check of his had been pre-,
seuteil and cashed at one of our banks for a
large sum. To us he confided the fact that
the criminal was a woman. He said she had
asked him for a small amount, and not
having it he had signed the check and
told her to fill it up for whatever sum she re
quired.
She had drawn it for many thousandr of
dollars—for all, indeed, he had on deposit—
and immediately lied the country. He gave
U3 a picture of the criminal, but "was careful
could use refrigerator care, the fruit would rot Naples, Achille came to this country and to inform us that he only wished to recover
hurl I on r. >a d TIia nooan lifoamuhtma at nni>n)iaca/1 a nlantatmn in T* low n Wall I lllS DTODGrtV. TIOt tO Dllllisll '
badly on the road. The ocean steamshsps at
Savannah offer to carry my fruit at one dollar
per hundied, and I ship large quantities that
way every year. In fact, I intend shipping
the greater part of my fruit that way in
future. ‘ They have refrigerators on the ships,
and I keep a man in Savannah all the season
to do nothing but attend to the ice and man
age the shipping and packing. Mr. Wadley
has promised to build us some special cars for
the purpose and we may use them this sum
mer. By the way. I wish especially to say
that the Central road has treated me with
most marked courtesy and kindness on all
occasions, and the promptness of the manager
has been a source of great benefit to me. They
have never refused any favor I asked."
“How do southern peaches compare with
that from other markets?”
"Well, that is the most important point you
have asked me, and 1 am glad it came. You
may say that nowhere in the world will
peaches grow like they will here. In fact,
this is the only place in the world where a
perfect peach dun be raised. From Marietta
to Forsyth, on that ridge, is without doubt
the finest spot for peaches in the country any
where. Another thing, no peaches in the
world have as fine a Uavor as these we grow
here. They raise good fruit in Maryland and
Deleware, but they haven’t the same delicacy
of flavor that ours have. Everybody ackuowl-
purebased a plantation in Florida. Well
educated, of an inquiring and literary
turn, he devoted himself to the study
of our institutions and laws, and wrote several
able papers on political and legal questions
and on the resources aud peculiarities of
America, which were highly commended in
literary circles in France, where tliey T were
published. Whether before or after purchas
ing his Florida plantation we are not in
formed, but for a few years he took up his
residence in this city and engaged in the
practice of law. His name will be found in
our reports as of counsel in several important
suits. Finally, however, he returned to his
plantation in Jefferson county, Fla., and there
established his permanent residence. His
death occurred in 1317. On his first visit to
Florida, Achille Murat, mingling in the then
gay and refined society of Tallahassee, was
captured by the charming, accomplished and
high-born Miss Bettie Willis, whom he mar
ried. MissBettie was the daughter of Colonel
Byrd Willis, who was a notable personage in
his day; notable for his high lineage, his re
lationship to the Washington, Lee and Curtis
families, for his lavish hospitality, his wit,
edges this that know anything at all about jj Un j 0I . an d great corpulency. Me was
peaches. Now, these are two points that the „ at j ve 0 f Fredericksburg, Virginia. The
public, and especially Georgians, would do f aII1 jiy niausion of the Willis’s crowned
well,to remember. the hill overlooking Fredericksburg, anil is
l.j this time we had driven pa. t the station now t j le s i te of the federal cemetery which
and on up the Centra road for seme three or ; j tbe remaiua o{ 13i ooo union soldiers,
four miles out and around the big fields of kiUed jn tbe varioU3 battles . arolmd that his l
peaches. i otnng Jbut Jie^ thoj^sol tori d ancient town. During those fierce
and destructive campaigus, this eminence
was designated Lee’s hill. It was from this
high elevation the confederate artillery hurl
ed its terrific cannonade upon the advancing
brown trees, and millions of brown twigs,
and tens of millions of buds, could be seen
anywbcrc. Mr. Cunningham lmd talked
peaches tome; told me of the beautiful pros-
liis property, not to punish the offender.
It was a singular _ face the artist had paint
ed; a strange, weird face; heavy masses of
bronze hair shaded a broad, white forehead
that seemed to shadow dark, fathomless eyes,
instinct with fire and intelligence. Even'the
picture grew strangely attractive as you look
ed upon it. The beautiful mouth was sunny
with the smile that nestled on the lips, while
the flush that seemed to fever on the cheek
had the tint of the rose. It wassuch a face as
man would want to love and cherish, or die
that it might know no sorrow.
I could not believe that this strangely
beautiful woman had committed suclr a
crime, and as 1 sat in my office I spent hours
in looking upon it. Indeed, I had begun to
think of but little else, and one night my
friend earn in while I was looking at it.
I handed it to him with the remark:
“Is she not beautiful?" •
•‘My God! it is Laura Ellison!”
“Who?”
-“The young lady of whom you have often
heard me speak.”
“Not she who so suddenly disappeared?”
“Yes; but when did you get this?”
And I told him all I knew of the case.
“You will never get her,” he said as the
picture was handed back to me.
“Why?”
“She is far too smart.”
“Why she looks as innocent as an angel.”
“You will find her subtle enough.”
And-So the conversation ended. I adopted
every possible means to find her in vain. From
the moment she disappeared from the city, all
trace of her was lost.
After months of useless search we surren
dered the case and took no more interest in
it
It was several years afterward that I met my
friend on his return from Washington. There
was a strange, humorous smile on his face as
he asked me if I had ever heard of my fair
IT Was his wife.
pectshe almost saw in sight, until I fell to 7?..M 1,e a3kcd nie if I had ever heard of my fair
^ n »w b y all Georgia didn’t go U»_ ,nds- scitetS heights and break through | 1 ~ ^ " Ch
“Not a word.”
“Will you use any information I may give
you about her?”
»,,d pluck licit i„ making Ucm-ia ^ICSSStSTl ft* 'Sn“BWKS '
buried the members of the Willis iamily for
generations back, our own Washington ar
tillery, which did such gallant service in the
defense of this hill, interred their dead in the
same grave-yard of the Willis family.
More than three-quarters of a century ago
the mansion wai burned, and only a few
remnants of the foundation of the
"Ti5T ’UTk. ? tempts to scale the heights and break through
ing fruit for the world. What a grand old (j eliera j Lee’s lines in their on want march on
commonwealth we have, anyhow! Spindles Riclimond . There are still vestiges of theold
ahead of all our sisters; factories, industries wuifa establishment. Outside the walls of
anil government buoyant with the hum of t j un j on ceuieterv is the old family grave-
ltcrpnse and pluck that is making Georma - - - - - * J £
power in the land!
As we were passing around the fields after
the prices and values of fruit had been dis
cussed, I asked Mr. C’unningham what variety
of peach he found to be the hardiest and best
growing variety.
“I expect,” said he, “that the Beatrice is
about the best, thougli the Amsden-Alcxander
»also a favorite variety of mme. There is biuli be traced. It was in this
an orchard over there beyond the railroad b ‘ ‘ ‘ U, for „ th bei?inmn<- of the nresent
containing about fifty acres of the Beatrice, »
7,500 trees in all. It takes richer giound for! gallant Light Horse Harr> Lee
them than some, but they are hardier. The
Amsden-Alexander will thrive equally as well
on rich or poor ground, and grows as
well on a red hill os in a rich bottom.
These are all early varieties, of course, and
are consequently my most valuable friiit. The
Chinese cling and early Crawford are later
ledches and better fruit for general purposes,
rot not so valuable in a money point of view
bebause they are late. I consider the Chinese
cling the finest peach in the world. It ripens
in July, and is the best fruit lor general do
mestic purposes that grows. They can be
shipped with safety any distance, and seldom
rot, no matter how badly bruised. I have
hail 'somoi magnificent specimens, and last
year secured a number of them that weighed
from twelve to sixteen ounces each.”
Mr. Cunningham says the young peach
trees can be bought by the car load from such
representative and honest firms as W.D. Rob
inson aud Cole & Co., of Atlanta, at an aver
age of ten or twelve cents each, every tree
guaranteed.
It is generally understood that the orchard
belongs to Judge John D. Cunningham, of
Atlanta. His son informs me that the judge
lias nothing to do with the orchard whatever.
In all the 60,000 or more trees planted, Mr.
Cunningham has not had any to die.
Peach trees to thrive well must be trained
so as to give the branches plenty of sun-light.
To do this, the center limbs are clipped out,
which makes the branches spread.
It must be a good-sized task to “worm”
GO,000 trees. This is done by raking away the
dirt around the roots. Wherever there is a
worm it leaves a biaek streak, and by follow
ing this with a knife the worm is caught.
The roots are then washed with Randolph
Peters’ wash, said to be the best made.
The Cunningham orchards cover a space of . . ,
country spread over several miles area. They princess.^ But, while from reduced circum-
are not at all exactly together.
When travelers on the Central want to get
a glimpse of the biggest peach orchard in the
world, they can commence to look out the
windows about three miles south of Griffin
going towards Macon. Coming towards At
lanta. the first and original orchard is seen on
the right several hundred yards below Orchard
Hill.
Nothing but budded trees are planted at
Orchard Hill.
Mr. Cunningham never allowed a drop of
brandy to be made from his refuse peaches.
He says he will allow them to make bogs of
pigs, but not hogs of men.
There are many interesting facts to be
gleamed from a visit to Orchard Hill which
cannot be embodied in a letter. Go down
and see for yourselt. C. T. L.
took refuge when pursued by his creditors and
placed by judgments within prison bounds,
which were designated as the limits of the
county of Spottsylvania. From this asylum,
so hospitably extended to him by the father
ofColonel Byrd Willis, Harry Lee dated let
ters to his old friend, Robert Morris, of Phila
delphia, the great financial minister of the
continental congress, asking for a small loan
to rescue him from the grasp of the law and
his creditors. To which letters came the
humiliating response that the ex-financier,
who raised the funds to conduct our revolu
tionary struggle, was in a worse straight than
his friend, the gallant commander of
the Light Horse of the Continental army, and
the hero of so many of the most glorious
battles of our warof independence. He, too,
was in the grasp of his creditor, who had held
him in prison for six months, and only re
leased him when over sixty years of age, to
recommence commercial liie in the faint ex-
uectation of re-establishing his credit and se
curing a small quota at least of tneir claims
from the accumulations of his mercantile en
terprise and skill. Alas! these hopes were
never realized. Mr. Morris could do nothing
for his friend, Light Horse Harry, who had to
serve out his term of imprisonment under
the shelter and hospitable protection of his
old friend Colonel Willis. It was after sueh
service that Harry Lee was called by Presi
dent Washington to the command of the
army sent to Pennsylvania to suppress the
whisky insurrection.
In the Willis mansion was bom Colonel
Byrd Willis, and probably his daughter,
Bettie Willis, who married the oldest son of
the king of Naples and nephew of the great
Napoleon I. When Louis Napoleon entered
upon his scheme of reviving the glories of the
Napoleonic dynasty, some years after her hus
band's death, Mine. Achille Murat was in
vited to Paris and regularly introduced into
the Napoleon family and entitled a princess,
as her husband’s mother had been queen and
“No; the case is now out of my hands.”
“And you will receive in confidence what I
now tell you?”
“Yes.’
“Well, then I have just left her in New
York, and had the pleasure a week since of
attending her wedding.”
“Her wedding?”
“Yes.”
“With whom?”
“One of the most distinguished persons in
the country.”
“Impossible!”
“True! She went from . here to her home,
and by her family was sent to some relatives
in Maryland. Here she formed the ac
quaintance of her present husband; and,
being introduced into fashionable society,
has reigned the acknowledged belle in the
gayest city in the union.
“I met her in the street and was recognized
by her. She communicated freely ill her
past history, £nd asked if I lmd-heard of her
career in New Orleans. I replied in the affir
mative, and told her all I knew, and espe
cially of the interest you took in her pieture.
“She said that picture had come near work
ing her ruin, for it was sent to Washington,
and would have procured her arrest, but that
she was able to buy off the detective. I con
gratulated her on her success, and expressed
the hope that her adventures were done.
“ ‘Yes,’ she said; ‘I will make a good wife
if I can.’"
She has kept her promise, and no one now
who sees the elegant lady of one of the first
gentlemen in the land would ever imagine
it possible for ber to lmve been an adventur
ess. Loving and beloved, the atmosphere of
her home is bright with the sunshine of love
—children have grown'up around her, and
the promise of her g.rlliood is realized in age.
The roses of her life received a blight in their
young spring time, but the withered petals
yet retain the odor of their bloom.
A* “O’er True Tale**—-How a Man Fell la Lore the
Second Time*
A noted music teacher of New York City
relates the following incident from real life,
which contains a moral worth recognition by
wives:
A year ago last fall a card was brought into
my music-room, bearing the name of a well-
known and fashionable married lady. When
she was ushered in I was surprised to see so
young a looking woman, though, to be sure,
she is not yet forty, and a fair complexion
and clear blue eyes make her look youngi r.
She seemed a little embarrassed, but ask d
me to try her voice. I did so, and found u
uncultivated, but was singularly fresh and
sweet; in quality a light soprano,* I told ber
so, and lier face flushed eagerly as she
asked: “Professor, could you teach me to
sing?” “Yes,” I replied, “if you choose to
apply yourself earnestly.”
“I will, and if you can manage it so that I
need not be seen, ind that no one knows of
it, 1 will take a lesson every day.” Wc made
the best arrangements we could, and the laily
never failed to appear promptly at the hour.
She was so anxious anil so persevering that
she made the most extraordinary progress,
and, wheu spring came, her voice had so
strengthened anil developed as to be almost
beyond recognition.
During the summer I heard nothing of her
beyond mention in the society papers of her
being at Saratoga, but about a month ago she
culled upoh me, and, taking both my hands
in hers, shook them earnestly, as she said:
“Professor, I have come to thank you for
making me the happiest woman alive.” She
then told me that her husband, to whom she
was deeply attached, was passionately fond of
vocal music, and had always regretted that
she could not sing to him.
She had never cultivated her voice before
marriage, and afterward the coming of chil
dren and the claims of society had prevented
her attempting it; but the unlucky day came
when Mr. K. made the acquaintance of a
charming widow with a charming voice, who
was always ready and willing to sing sweet
songs to him, and he gradually fell into the
way of spending many of his evenings with
her.
At heart devoted to his wife, he was uncon
scious of his gradual neglect of her, and would
have been astonished hud she resented his en
joyment of these musical tete-a-tetes. About
the widow I am uot prepared to speak. Mrs.
R., like a nice woman, did not resent it. but
undermined the enemy, as you will see. Her
music lessons she kept a profound secret from
her family. In the summer they went, as
usual, to .Saratoga, and took possession of one
of the pretty cottages at the United States
hotel.
The morning after their arrival the local
newspaper contained a notice that the leading
soprano of the Episcopal church was ill with
a throat affection, and the congregation was
asked to make due allowance for the disabled
choir. The next morning, Sunday, Mr. R.,
with two of the children, wendeil liis way to
the church of h s belief, Mrs. R. having ex
cused herself on the plea of headache.
After the opening service, the minister an
nounced that “a lady from New York had
kindly volunteered to sing in place of the
sick soprano, and in consequence the musical
service would be the same as usual.” A few
moments later a clear, sweet voice ran.
through the church aud touched the heartspf
the people, perhaps, even more through the
exquisite expression and feeling which the
music was rendered than the qualities of the
voice itself. Mr. R. was fascinated, delighted,
and inwardly made comparisons between it
and the witching widow not flattering to the
latter. After the services were over lie eager
ly sought the minister to ascertain the name
of the charming soprano, whose face he had
not been able to see from liis seat,
‘Come with me, and I will introduce vou,'
said the minister, who knew Mr. R. by repu
tation. They entered the choir together and
the good man began, “Miss Brown, permit
me to introduce—" when he was interrupted
by Mr. R. ejaculating, “Great heavens, it is
my wife!” And, place and company not
withstanding, he gave a hearty embrace, in
his delight and surprise. To cut the story
short, he fell in love with her all over again,
the singing siren was forgotten, and I don’t
believe you could find a happier couple in
New York.
nUtutcvtantA are Absolutely
especially in cases of Diphtheria, Scarlet. Ty-
>hoid, Yellow and Malarial Fevers. Darby’s
Prophylactic Fluid is the great disinfectant
and purifier. It affords protection from con
tagion, it is a relief and cure in the sick room,
will purify the air and destroy vile odors with
out creating another. As a household remedy
it is invaluable.
The Hon. E. B. AVashburne had been stay
ing at the Hot Springs, Arkansas, several
weeks, when informed of his appointment on
the advisory commission of the trunk line
railroads._ He was considerably surprised at
his selection, as he has been regarded ais an.
“anti-monopolist.” When in congress he op-
josctl the system of land grants to railroads,
dr. Washbtirne has recently received from
France a very fine portrait of Ganibetta. He
says the French republic grows stronger every
year.
Write to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, No. 233
Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for pamphlets
relative to the curative properties of her Veg
etable Compound in all female complaints.
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The police detectives of Philadelpeia are
accused of collusion wtth thieves, and so
much evidence is brought forward, chiefly Jby
persons who have been robbed, that there is a
probability that some of the worst of the gang
will be turned out of office. In one flagrant
case the officers refused to arrest two tliieyes
who had stolen $5,000 worth of jewelry, anil
the owner holds the confession of a dying
accomplice that the immunity was paid for
at a high price.
See Were.
Yon are sick; well, there is just one remedy that
will cure you beyond possibility of doubt If it’s
Liver or Kidney trouble. Consumption, Dyspepsia,
Debilitv, "Wells’s Health Renewer” Is your hope.
SI. Druggists. Depot, Lamar, Rankin & Lamar.
Atlanta.
There is now in Brooklyn a human mon
strosity, whose deformed and misshapen limbs
compel him to adopt the ambling gait of %
bear. His custodian claims to have brougl#.
him from Canada for the purpose of exhibi
tion, and tells a story of liis mother being
frightened by the sight of his father killing a
bear in her presence. The dwarf, though ap
parently idiotic, speaks English fluently and
seems to enjoy the situation. He has six fin
gers on each hand, and has flat splay-feet.
Hayesville, Ohio February 11,1880.
I am very glad to say I have tried Hop Bitn
ters, and never took any tiling that did me as
much good. I only took two bottles, and I
would not take $100 for the good they did me.
I recommend them to my patients, and get
the best results from their use.
C. B. Mercer, M.D.
I
Cedartown Advertiser.
Through a gentleman connected with the
work on the Georgia Pacific and entirely
trustworthy, we gain information in regard to
the cases of small-pox in Dunn's camp near
Oxford, Alabama, so that we are able to give
our readers what we believe the true facts in
regard to the matter. There have been three
actual cases of small-pox in the
camps as stated. They were ne
groes from Virginia, and are sup
posed to have contracted the disease as they
came through Richmond, where some quar
ters of the city are little better than a pest
house. Shortly jfter the negroes were taken
sick the physician attending them pronounced
their disease small-pox, when a panic was at
once created and about two hundred and
forty hands seized scanty hag and baggage and
scattered to the four winds. The negroes were
at once put under close quarantine and the
physician attending them would not permit
himself to see his own family. One of
the negroes is said to be dead
and the other two not expected to live. As
twelve days is the limit in which the disease
makes it appearance after exposure, and as
over twenty days have elapsed since the panic
at the camps and no known cases having re
sulted. ana the strictest quarantine having
been kept up over the cases of the negroes
affected, no special danger of the disease now
stances, not insensible to or ungrateful for the
accompanying benefits of her admsssion into
the then prosperous imperial dynasty of
France, she sighed for restoration to* her
loved native land, and was never happy or
contented until she could regain the scenes
of her married life in beautiful Florida. But,
alas! after the death of her husband their fine
establishment in Jefferson county had be
come a desolate waste and wilderness.
Then she purchased a modest lot and
erected a small cottage near Tallahas
see, where she could enjoy t u e society of
her old friends^ and pass the remnant
of her life far away from all the excitements
and disturbing associations of fashionable and
aristocratic society and political intrigue and
contention. When she perceived the ap
proach of the inevitable termination of all
human careers, and the shadows of approach/
ing dissolution began to gather over her. she
insisted upon being borne to the old planta
tion house, and to the chamber wherein she
had closed her Achille's eyes. Thus vanished
from this world of trouble the proud and pure
spirit of the Virginia maiden, who in her days
of girlish susceptibilitj^nd youthful roman
ticism, had allied hersfls to the son of an ex-
king—who, even when endowed with the
titles, honors and emoluments of a princess
of the most brilliant court in Europe, never
surrendered, and finally reclaimed the still
higher and prouder title of a Virginia lady
and cltizeune of this great republic, and the
even higher title conveyed in the last manifes
tation of moral and intellectual consciousness
of an ever faithful and devoted wife.
The “Princess” Murat left no descendants.
Of her collateral relatives there are many yet
living who are scattered through the southern
states.
The Hartford Post tells us of an essential
element in the making of good states. One
reason why Massachusetts is “a pretty decent
sort of a state,” it says, is because 20,174 na
tives of Connecticut are living in it. Contra-
wise, Delaware isn’t much of a state, there be
ing only 210 Connecticuters in its population.
New Jersey is a good deal potter off, for 5,934
of them have gone there to live, anil Rhode
Island is truly happy because 7,555 of hi-.r
people can say, “We were born in Connecti
cut.”
FortvYean’Experience of an OI4 None,
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is the prescrip
tion of one of the belt female physicians and nurses
in the United States, and has been used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions ol
mothers for their children. It relieves the child from
pain, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, griping in the
bowels and wind-colic. By giving health to the chilli
it rests the mother. Price 25 cents a bottle.
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AN ADVENTURESS.
A Sad Story.
Augustta News.
A very sad accident and a terrible death oc
curred last night at Forrest, sixteen miles up
the Georgia road from Augusta A young
man, David V. Neal, left the city on tiie even
ing passenger about 6 o’clock, got oft' at For
rest, went into a store and then went out
alone. He was under the influence of liquor
while in Augusta yesterday afternoon, and it
is supposed that he wandered on the railroad
track end fell asleep. The night freight
train passed Forrest about half past
eight o’clock, and while rushing around
a curve in a deep cut, ran over young Neal,
severing his head completely from his body
and also cutting off his left foot. On account
of the very dark night and the curving track,
the insensible man was not seen till too late,
and when the train was stopped, the dead and
mangled body of the young mail was found
lying across the track. No blame could pos
sibly attach to the engineer, aud the verdict
after the inquest held by Justice C. J. Clif
ford was to this effect and in accordance with
the facts stated. Investigation showed the
name of the young man, and an ainbrotvpe
picture of his father was found in bis pocket.
He was a son of Major George V. Neal, who
died a few weeks since near the spot where
his son met his terrible death. Major Neal was
before thq war one of the wealthiest citizens
of Warren county, and in his youth the state
contained no more brilliant or promising son
than George V. Neal. He died a few weeks
back, the wreck of his former self, leaving
several sons in different parts of the state.
The mother of these young men was a. won
derful woman, and lived an experience" such
as few women ever knew, and which writers
paint with weird imagination. Beautiful,
gifted and admired, she was in youth an
Heiress, and her early married life a romance
of happiness and brilliant promise. Sons
and daughters blessed her home, and honor
and prosperity surrounded the name and
landed estates of Major Neal of the grand
old county- of Warren. A change came.
The old, sad story of a broken heart,
and the wite of a once gifted lawyer strug
gled, and worked, and almost starved by the
side of a wreck of manhood. At last, neg
lected, and in a distant part of the state, she
died, her gray hairs nnsmoothed by the hand
of affection, and her heart gone to ashes—the
sad memory of a love burned out and buried.
The reminiscence is recalled by the death of
A mat is wiser. for his learning, and the
sooner he learns that the only proper way to
cure a Cough or Cold, is to 'use Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup, the better he is off.
“Brown** ISronchlul Truchlea,” wheu allowed to
dissolve in the mouth, have a direct influence
on the inflamed parts, allaying Pulmonary
Irritation, and giving relief in Coughs, Colds,
and the,various Tnroat i roubles to which
Singers and Public Speakers are liable.
Ten years ago Hiram Studding, of EiLvards-
burg, Mich., was bitten by a rattlesnake, but
survived the injury. His present condition
is thus described by a local reporter: He has
regularly recurring spasms, during which he
crawls on the floor, wriggles like a snake, darts
out bis tongue, and snaps at whatever conies
near him, "acting in all respects as nearly
like a serpent as possible.” Mr. Studding
was vaccinated recently, and his physicians
hold the theory that “the virus roused to ac
tion the poison with which he was inoculated
ten years ago, and which has lain dormant all
this time.’
ANGOSTURA BITTERS, the world re
nowned appetizer and invigorator. LTsed now
over the whole civilized world. Try it, but
beware of imitations. Ask your grocer or
druggist for the genuine article, manufactur
ed by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons.
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a story Told by a umpire I » son of Major and Mrs. Neal and while not
M - -i - . • lintended as a chapter on the reversed tor-
It is said that evil invariab.y works out its tunes q{ a well-known family, it may furnish
reward. Bat it is not always so, as some one
will readily perceive in tracing the adventures
of one of the most remarkable women I have
ever met. •
She grew from childhood in an inland town
of Virginia, under the shadow of the great
There are persons in the city
, . _ _ Bine Ridge.
spreading is apprehended if proper caution is j who remember her then as a beautiful child,
still observed. We again utge all our people j wild aud way ward as the wind, a laughing,
who have not taken such precaution, to no | black-eyed creature, whom everybody loved,
longer delay the important duty of vaccina- There was music in her voice—a charm none
ion. could resist in the spoilt, impulsive beauty,
an instructive moral in the lesson of life.
The young man was a printer, and only yes
terday was in the office of the Evening News.
When a boy he was well known to those of
us familiar with home scenes in old Warren,
and this fact* partly explains the interest
which this story may bear.
Deal! of Mrs. llsaett.
Richmond, February 18.—Mrs. D. 8. Daggett,
widow of the late Bishop D. 6. Daggett, of the
Methodist church south, died here to-day, aged 03
years.
V.
At Centreville, Ark., where there is no
Bergh society, a wager was made as to the
endurance of a certain tough mule. The
trial drew a crowd, and the betting was heavy
The tread-mill of a threshing machine was
used, the mule being fastened in it and com
pelled to whlk without rest. ' Whenever he
was inclined to stop he was goaded to keep
him moving. He was not allowed food or
water. For ov.er three days the beast walked,
and when he finally fell down it was to die.
Uonford’* Acid PtuMphate
Is the solvent, if you must take quinine. Dis
solve the quinine in one-half a teaspoonful of
Acid Phosphate, then mingle in half a turn
bier of water.
A western genius has invented a contriv
ance whereby the escape steam and hot water
may be thrown out at the point of the cow
catcher of a locomotive, and not at the sides,
as now. Thus he expects to frighten cattle
from the track.
Eductited Women.
Refined anil educated women will some
times suffer in silence for years from kidney
diseases, or constipation and piles, which
could easily Lo cured by a package of Kidney-
Wort. There is hardly a woman to be fonnd
that does not at some time suffer from some
of the diseases for which this great remedy is
a specific. It is put lip in liquid and dry
forms, equally efficient.—Springfield Union.
So does
The early bird catches the worm
White’s Cream Vermifuge.
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A “faith eyre” is described in the British
Medical Journal. An ignorant and super
stitious English woman, troubled with palsy
the lower extremities, was taken to :i
French hospital for treatment. The consul
tation over her case being entirely in the
French language, she imagined the words to
be intended as a sort of incantation. AtafL
events,the doctors were soon afterward greatly
surprised to see her moving around the room
The Kostbcrn Oiltiviitoraiid Dixie Farmer.
The February number ol this splendid and de-
s-rvedly popular farm, plantation and family jour
nal is before us. For many years the leading agri-
cnjtural journal in the south, it notonly maintains
its former high reputation under the new manage
ment, but augments it with every successive num
ber. A glance at the broad, beautifully printed
und illustrated pages, its numerous and harmoni
ously arranged departments, and its choice original
and selected rending, will convince any one that
the south has at last a truly representative agricul
tural periodical of which our people may well feel
proud. Dr. W. L. Jones, the veteran editor and
writer, continues tooccupy the editorial chair, ably
assisted by Dr. J. S. Lawton and a host of prominent
writers in every department, among whom we no
tice in this number. Professor Wm. Browne, of the
university of Georgia; Professor Allan Curr, of
Scotland; Colonel D. T. T. Moore, founder of the
Kural New Yorker, nnd the inimitable “Bill Arp ”
who isa regular contributor. Rcully no intelligent
and progressive farmer or planter in the south can
do without the Southern Cultivator withoutserious
harm to his own interests. Subscribe for it at once.
The price Isonly $1.50 a year. James P. Harrison A
Co.. Atlanta, Georgia, are the publishers.
Club with exchanges, $1.25,
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Consumption Cured.
Since 1870, Dr. Shcmr-has each year sent from this
office the means ofirelief and cure to thousands af
flicted wiih disease. The correspondence necessi
tated by this work becoming too heavy for him,' I
came to his aid. lie now feels constrained to relin
quish it entirely, and has placed in my hanila the
formula of that simple vegetable remedy discovered
by an East India missionary, and found so effective
for the speedy and permanent cure of Consump
tion, Bronchitis, Catairh, Asthma and all Throat and
Lung Diseases: also a positive and radical cure for
Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints. Its
remarkable curative powers have been proven in
many thousand eases, and, actuated by the desire
to relieve suffering humanity, I gladly assume the
duty of making it known to-others. Address me,
witli stamp, naming this paper, and 1 will mail you,
free of charge, the recipe of this wonderful reme
dy. with full direction for its preparation and use,
S rinted in German, rrench or English. W. K.
oYEs, 149 Power’s Block, Rochester, N. Y.
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A new grain, yielding 40 to 80 bushels per
acre, and one that proves not to be affected by
dry weather, and promises to be of great ben
efit to this country, is the Doura Rice, or
Egyptian Corn, just introduced by the United
States agricultural department. It makes a
sweet but dark flour, and can also be eaten
like rice. It makes an excellent meal for fat
tening stock, and the stalk and leaf make g<]oik
fodder. If cut down soon after the corn fifls
out. a second crop will grow from t.ie same
planting, making a large and multitudinous
fodder crop where sown broadcast. It is cuL
tivated like sorghum. This will soon be a very
valuable cereal in the south. Sample package
sent postpaid for lOeents, or 25 cents per pint,
40 cents per quart. Address “The Glade
Farms,” The Glades, Hall county, Ga.
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COTTON PREMIUMS
$2,500.00.
THE 0ZIER LONG STAPLE SILK COTTON
H as no equal in merits, the above
premiums are ottered by him on his Coltui*
for 1882. Will sell or let to busine-ss men as agent-.
Send for pamphlet. J' o. OZIER.
Corinth, Miss.
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The two friends were talking about then
ters. “How wide is the stage opening at mu
sic ball?” asked one. “Well. I don’t know
exactly," said the other, “but it is just the
width of a Gainsborough hat on the seat in
front.”—Lowell Citizen.
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