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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1882.‘
ADULTERATED COTTON.
ENGLISH COMPLAINTS AGAINST
AMERICAN COTTON.
Tbey Say It U Mixed. Damp, Dusty, Sandy, and Badly
Bailed and Packed-Conaul Sbaw’a Bcport-
BuBBeatlone, Comparlaona and Hem.
ediee.—From Manchester.
recently made several tests to learn the
amount of sand in the cotton they were
twin;?, strictly good and good ordinary Texas
and Orleans. The results varied from 1234 to
25 per cent, and averaged 1734 per cent
of sand, which, in their opinion, liad been
wilfully put into the cotton. They add, “We
consider that our average loss from sand has
When Dr. II. V. M. Miller was in England
in behalf of the cotton exposition he rioted
considerable complaint as to the adulteration
of American cotton.
He explained to Mr. A. D. Shaw, our con
sul at Manchester, that the real facts in the
case should be carefully collected, edited '»nd
put forth in an address to the Aroci lean peo
pie. Mr. Shaw, who Dr. Miller says he found
one of the very best of our consuls abroad,
being active, intelligent and devoted, accept
ed his suggestion, went to work on it and
made the investigation. The result is a pam
phlet of forty pages that is full of interesting
information.
We extract from this book the most impor
tant points for southern readers, and we com
mend what follows to the earnest attention of
every man who raises, buys or handles cotton:
During the past year I have received numer
ous complaints as to the adulteration of cot
ton from the United States with sand, water,
and other fraudulent foreign substances, and
also as to certain defects in the method of
preparing and packing American cotton for
the English market. These complaints were
so widespread and of such a serious character,
endangering, as they do, vital interests of
a large section of our country, tiiat I deemed
it my duty to make a thorough investigation
of the matter.
Inquiries have been made on my behalf in
Ashton- under -Lyne, Bolton, Blackburn,
Burnley, Oldham, Preston, Stockport and
Warrington, and as each of these towns is the
headquarters of a local association of master
cotton spinners, which in eludes the neighbor
ing towns and villages, the information 1 have
now to present is of a most comprehensive
character, and the opinions of my informants
may be taken to represent fullyand fairly the
views of the cotton trade generally, at any
rate in those districts where our cotton is
most largely consumed.
MIXING DIFFERENT KINDS OF COTTON.
Numerous complaints have reached me to
the effect that American cotton in the same
bale is often of different staple or fibre. The
consumers of cotton from the Lnited States
were asked to say whether they attributed
this difference of staple to inefficient sorting
or to intentional mixing of dissimilar kinds
of cotton. Their answers may ue summarized
thus: Where the color of the cotton is uni
form, want of proper sorting or over-ginning
will probably account for cotton of different
staple in the same bale; but when the cotton
is found in layers of different sorts, as is
often the case, the spinners are of opinion that
it is the result of fraudulent admixture of
different kinds of cotton, and does not
uriy from careless sorting. The even grading
of cotton is very important, and there is
room for improvement in tiiis respect in much
of the cotton received from America. Se
rious complaints under this head were ma'Jc
against India cotton some years ago, but at
present this fault does not appear. The plan
of careful inspection by first purchasers,
which .was adopted in India, should be put
into force with us.
DAMP COTTON.
Numerous complaints have likewise been
made of unnatural damp in American cotton,
and the spinners generally do not hesitate to
accuse the packers of infusing steam, and
even of throwing quantities of water into the
cotton during the process of packing, with
the object of augmenting its weight. One of
the most experienced cotton spinners in Lan
cashire says that “all American cotton is
packed with the addition of water, more or
leas. No other cotton imported into England
loses weight like American cotton does, whilst
some kinds actually gain in weight. When
an excessive quantity of water has been used,
I find the middle of the bales caked as hard
as wood, and sometimes mildewed. The tirst
lot of cotton we had of the 1880 crop lost nearly
eight and a half per cent in the process
of drying.” An Oldham spinner says: "A
great number of complaints of damp have
been made by spinners respecting the last crop
of cotton, more especially about the beginning
of 1881. In some cases there was from three
to six per cent of unnatural damp, resulting
in very serious loss to the spinners. Judging
from the appearance of some of the
cotton, the water had been poured
into it in quantity, sometimes dis
coloring the cotton and causing it to cake.
The cotton coming from New Orleans district
is particularly complained of, but cotton
from other districts has been by no means
free from damp." My Stockport informant
says that the amount of damp in American
cotton has gone on increasing, and that lie
been not less than 10 per cent.” That it was could be possible without detection. This
serious no one will deny when the large aver- point, it is believed by practical men, could
age loss of 10 per cent is considered, easily be secured.
Orleans and Texas are pronounced the most American cotton brokers residing in the
lossy cottons. Many old cotton spinners state southern states do not. apparently, uuder-
tliat the adulteration of American cotton is stand why direct sales cannot more readily be
much greater now than it was before the war. made to*consumers here. If this could be
The explanation is advanced that likely the I largely done, there would be a considerable
increased number of small producers of cot- saving in commissions and charges that now-
ton lias led to frauda to increase the weight of go to “middlemen” in England. The facts
cotton sold by tiiis poorer class.
COMPARISONS—AMERICAN AND OTHER COTTON.
The cotton spinners were invited to say
hether cotton from India, Egypt or else-
here is received in a more satisfactory con
ditioti than American cotton, and, if so, in
hut respect. Replying to this question, a
spinner in the district of Asliton-under-Lyne
said “that the best qualities of cotton from
Esn* better packed and freerer . un iq Ue sa mplJs of articles found in bales of
Iroin damp and sand titan the American eot- A „,‘ ri ^ n £ From the many cases
h?: n dl ? U m I brought before me, the following will give a
it etl f* rtS °. f H 10 ?* good idea of the complaints made about the
engaged in shipping cotton from India to I a dulteration 0I - -
«... 4 I. | i . . I n Illtil lilt DlLLvo Ul UUUllllllHk Ua)C trtuacu IU
b ““ a great improve- the mac hinerv would have been very serious,
with a possibility of setting hre to the mill.
merry macon.
England have been successful in this—that a
great improvement in the cleanliness and
purity of tiie supply lias recently taken place.
It stands our people in hand to 'look sharply
after their own interests by making every
effort to purify the cotton trade, and by some
means stop tli; alleged fraudulent damping
and sanding of cotton at the earliest moment
possible. The hue and cry now raised about
our adulterated cotton proves that great in
terest attaches to this subject here, and that
there is urgent need of wise action on the
part of our producers at home. Within the
ment in the purity of eastern cotton. Loud
complaints were formerly made about adul
teration from sand ami damp, and stringent
laws were passed in Bombay making it a
penal offense to adulterate or sell adulterated
cotton. Inspectors were appointed by the
government, presses were established, and a
lax put upon every bale of cotton to pay the
expenses ot the government regulations.' This
was done in 1863. In 1878 the act of 1863 was
repealed, and some important changes were
made by the new law which was enacted. The
opening up of the interior of India by new
railways, and better methods in
purchasing cotton, brought about a reform in
the whole cotton trade there. In fact, at
present India cotton is noted for its purity,
owing, chiefly, to the inspections of the
large houses engaged in purchasing cotton
from native growers. These pay better prices
for clean cotton, and producers see the ne
cessity of bringing only pure cotton to mar
ket. Government inspection has been de
clared, over and over aguin, to be a delusive
and expensive experiment; and recently the
enforcement of the law was abandoned.
Those best advised inform me that care in
purchasing cotton from lirst hands, on the
part of leading houses in the cotton trade in
iudia, has brought about a much-needed re
form.
BALING OK PACKING COTTON.
“The condition in which bales of American
cotton arrive here,” says a Stockport spinner,
“is very unsatisfactory. The wrappers are of
the poorest stuff, and, from the bales bein
lias seen lots of samples spotted with wet and
discoloured. From Warrington I also learn
that “in numbers of cases the bales give the
appearance of water having been thrown in
during the process of packing, as the center
of the bale is frequently found to bein layers
of caked cotton, very wet, and often highly
discolored. In March last, we made several
tests for damp, in all cases subjecting the cot
ton to a temperature of 120 degrees till dry
and then allowing the cotton to cool for one
hour in the open air. These tests show the
following results: 10.1*4 per cent of water,
15.74 per cent, 10 per cent, and 11 per cent
respectively. In none of the tests was the
caked cotton dried. The cotton tested was
good middling Orleans.”
DUST AND SAND IN COTTON.
Complaints as to the adulteration of Ameri
can cotton, by the addition of dust and sand,
are not only moregeneral than the complaints
in regard to the mixing and damping of cot
ton, but they arc likewise of a far more
serious character. There have been extreme
cases brought to iny attention in both re
spects, and some of these have
been of a shameful • description
In many cases the adulteration is flagrant and
extensive. “Oldham.” I am told, “has to
purchase, at the price af cotton, thousands of
tons of white and red sand every year;” and
sonic concerns, it is said, have been carried
on at a loss in consequence of this grevious
adulteration of the raw material. In some
instances the sand is evidently thrown into
the cotton, during the process of packing, in
shovelfuls, and one of ilie largest consumers
of American cotton in Lancashire—a spinner
in the Ashton-under-Lvne district, whose
supply is mostly from New Or
leans—mentions a rase in which nearly
lOOlbs. of sand was found in one bale of
•cotton. In quite a number of cases that have
been brought to my notice, sand in quantities
varying from twenty to eighty pounds, lias
been found in the middle of bales of cotton.
A Preston cotton spinner, who has “worked
every kind of cotton named in the Liverpool
Weekly Cotton Circular, from Sea island t<
Bengal,” and who makes it a practice to ex
amine personally seventy-five per cent, of the
cotton used by his firm, informs me that “the
adulteration of cotton with dust and sand is
pest almost peculiar to American cotton,
This view is likewise held by an Oldham spin
ner, who says that “dust and sand are appa
rently blown into the cotton by some process
at or prior to jlacking.” A spinner in the
Ntocki»ort district states that he purchased a
lot of 100 bales, one quarter of which were
heavily laden with fine red sand, varying
from 0 to 20 per cent of their
weight. A Warrington firm
ton spinners inform me that they
would be furnished by which all frauds could
be readily traced. Then there could be no
question about damp cotton especially.
The record of the number of pounds
originally put in the bale would show whether
there had been any additional weight added
from water. Of course, the cotton should he
so baled that no tampering with it afterwards
are. that owing to the lack of proper safe
guards in handling the cotton, purchasers in
this country doubt the expediency of order
ing tlieir supply direct. The distance is a bar
to quick and easy adjustments of disputes,
and, in the absence of some safe system of
inspection and record of each bale of cotton,
they prefer to deal with the Liverpool cotton
brokers.
1 hare in my office quite a collection of
our cotton. In one there are
the fragments of a toy pistol, broken into
small pieces; in another a stone weighing five
pounds and a half: in a third a lot of cart
ridges; in a fourth a sample of clean white
sand, taken from a bale I saw opeued, which
contained about forty pounds of the same;
and in a fifth a sample of “caked cotton”
weighing many pounds—as bard as a board—
having been pressed when soaked in w-ater.
The fragments of a pistol, it would seem,
must have been put in the bale by accident,
as the weight was trifling; but the damage
which the pieces of iron might have caused to
At Seen bj the Eye* of Fcativc George Alfrgd’Towns
end.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The cotton mills of Macon are its chief in
stitutions, and very successful, resting,I think,
upon the cheapness of the labor, the saving of
fuel to warm the mills, and the supply of cot
ton without middlemen’s charges. Mr. Han
son, one of the proprietors of the two cotton
mills of Macon, told me they ran sixteen
thousand spindles, used ten thousand bales of
cotton a year and employed four hundred
hands, and that in Georgia there were thirty
cotton mills, with over six thousand hands.
Women make sixty cents a day wages, men
seventy-five cents; or say for all Georgia $1.-
750,000 wages per annum for common labor.
At one mill, in Columbus, they ship only
yarn to make carpets in New York
and Pennsylvania, and have orders for
months ahead. The big new wholesale store
of S. T. Coleman, in Macon, just finished at
a cost of §50,000, is five stories high, 150 feet
deep by 55 feet broad, and carries a stock of
§200,000 goods of every description, as seventy-
live thousand pairs of shoes and woodware,
hats, notions, cheap jewelry and dry goods
‘ i proportion only for wholesale. They keep
nine drummers constantly going on the
i - , . , ... - i roads. 8. S. Dunlap, hardware merchant
insufficiently pressed and of such varied sizes, nex t door, keeps nearly as large a stock, and
they are wedged in the holds of the_ vessels I most of their nlows are made in Georaia. The
IN PINEY WOODS.
SCENES IN THE SOUTHWEST SEC
TION OF THE STATE.
Wanderings Through Colquitt. Worth and Berrien
Counties—Turpentine and Tar—Thriving Ty-Ty
—Land Sharks and Title..—Interest
ing Beading for Our People.
with force and violence to prevent their mov
ing in transit; and when unloaded they are
ruthlessly pulled, and the covers torn in re
leasing them from the ship. The condition
and baling of Egyptian and Indian cotton are
very superior and worthy of imitation. A
load of American cotton which I saw passing
along the streets £n Oldham recently looked
as though it might have formed a part of
some fort, and had been repeatedly struck by
cannon shot. Tiiere was hardly a bale
that was not torn, and cotton was
hanging in patches from many of them.
I am informed that similar charges are sel
dom, if ever, made to purchasers of eastern
cotton; and this fact, taken in connection
most of their plows are made in Georgia. The
cotton mill corporation aforesaid began in
1876, with $200,000 capital, and has a surplus
ccumulated of §160,000. The chief men of
the firm were of the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger, a very good paper, edited
by Albert Lamar, said to be the
same man who had the slave yacht
Wanderer. It is for a protective tariff and
the whole country and progressive ideas. I
went to see the material piled up on the edge
of Macon for the use of Cole’s new railroad
lienee to Atlanta and Itome. About fifty
acres of ground are strewn with bridge
strings, rails, ties, switches, station material,
kegs of spikes, bed plates, etc., the whole
. -.. . , ... i making the biggest mess of railroad stuff I
with the far greater distanpe the cotton is , have ever seen in ode place. The road ffeses
freighted proves that the material used m under the railroad to Augusta and keeps
haling cotton is of an enfenor quality. along the bank of the Ocmulgee under the
suggested remedies AND general remarks. I beautiful forest Cemetery which belongs to
The suggestions as to needful remedies for tli e city. In the negro appendage of this
the causes of complaint are remarkably uni- cemetery my attention was culled to the china
form, and coming from practical men of long tea-pots, cologne bottles, hits of glass and
and varied experience in the cotton trade, other ornaments strewn around or placed
they are worthy of the most caretul consider- I upon the graves. About two-fifths of the
ation. An Oldham spinner says that perhaps I town of Macon are negroes,
a remedy may be found when the perpetra
tors of the mischief have -been discovered; I Mulberry and willow Growing,
and to facilitate their discovery, he suggests I Columbus Tunes,
that it should be made compulsory to stamp 1 Dr. F. A. Stanford received from a friend
the names of the planter and packer inside in Connecticut a lot of basket willow cuttings,
and outside every bale; a plan, lie says, which | which he will put out on his Billy Brooks
is voluntarily adopted to some extent. He
also thinks it necessary to cause such 1 When the nurserv gets well underway it will
accounts to be kept as will render every furnish material to give work to numbers of
transaction easily traceable. Another spin- I girls and boys in basket niakin;
tier, of close upon forty years’ standing. The doctor is also putting out a number of
makes a similar suggestion, lie says it would the morus mulicaulus mulberry, with a view
be a great help to both spinners and mer-1 to the encouragement of silk culture. This
chants in recovering for adulterated cotton, is an industry that we believe will in a few
if the names and addresses of the planter and years assume large proportions in this section,
packer were stamped both inside and outside and is one that can be entirely conducted by
of the covers; and it would also give great I women and children. This is one of the
assistance to the spinners if the tickets on great needs of the southAwe do not have
the samples contained the same information, money producing employments for those
as experience would soon tell the trade whose delicate physiology unfit them for the
which firms are trustworthy and which were heavier burdens of life, and yet who do not
not. A Mossley spinner said: “1 think the
dan ter and paeker should be compelled by
aw to place their names inside every bale of
cotton. In making claims it is generally im
possible to trace the shipping and planters’
marks on the wrappers satisfactorily, as such
marks become illegible, and are obliterated
through the rough usage which the cotton
suffers.”
The strongest expression of opinion that I
have received is from a cotton spinner at I’res-
ton, who, to repeat ' his own
words, “lias worked every kind
of cotton named in the Liverpool Weekly
Cotton Circular, from Sea island to Bengal,”
and who makes it a practice to examine per
sonally 75 per cent of the cotton used by his
firm. Iiis statement is as follows:
As to remedies, let the_Americans pack their cot-
desire to remain idle.
A Knoxville Gander.
Monroe Advertiser Correspondence.
A pet gander in our town, familiarly
known as Richard, is a wonder. In
the days of goslinghood he was aban
doned by Ins mother goose, taken
into the house of its present owner, Mrs, W.
H Dent, and raised a pet. Some days since
a hen on the premises of Mr. Dent hatched
five chicks, and cruelly subjected them to
that experienced by Richard in the days of
his early life, whereupon Richard kindly as
sumed the office of a mother, and now cares
for the five little chickens as attentively as
any hen ever cared for its brood. Richard is
boss of the poultry yard, and will deliberate
ly drive from it any strange fowl of any kind
ton without adding to it sand and water, and let | whatever—be it eoose turkev hawk or anv-
their government make fraudulent packing penal. 4* natever oe it goose, turkej, nawk or anj
Some years ago Surat cotton used to ne adulterated I thing else. He will not suffer any hog to go
to an enormous extent, but after the passing of “the about the yard except a pig belonging to Mr.
cotton frauds act,” that cotton has come forward in I Deut.
such improved condition that the better qualities
of Broach aud Dhollerah are preferred to middling
uplands. It is our custom to compare every six
mouths the weight of yarn and waste sold with the
weight of cottou bought, and our experience has
been that whenever we use Egyptian, Brazilian, or
Sural cotton, we can uccouul for every pound of
cotton bought either in yarn or waste. When we
use American cottou there is nlways a very heavy
weigh: of cotton unrepresented by either yarn or
A Stewart County Bigamist.
Lumpkin Independent.
Sometime last year there appeared in this
county a young white man named John Ty
ler who, after a brief acquaintance, addressed
Miss Ardelia Price, daughter of Mr. John
Price, an industrious citizen of our county.
Albany. February 26.—[Special.]—Having
occasion to make a trip, by private convey-v
ance during the past week, through the in
terior portions of Colquitt, Worth and Berrien
counties, I send you the following random
notes, to be used at your discretion.
Being on a wild land hunt, my route lay
through a section which, until recently, was
not often visited by outsiders, but is now ,
being traversed almost daily in every direction
by parties who have raked up their long neg
lected titles to these vast and heretofore poor
ly esteemed stretches of barren pine lands,
with their no longer hidden stores of wealth
in turpentine and timber.
My first day’s trip brought me up at Moul
trie, the county site of Colquitt, which, as a
town, is not much to speak of, but as a re
mote and inaccessible location, can doubtless
bear off the palm over any other in the state.
It is distant from Albany, .in a southeast
course, about 40 miles; from Thomasville, 28
miles; from Valdosta, 48, and from Ty-Ty, on
the Brunswick and Albany railroad, about 26
miles. Its mail facilities, however, are
abundant, and might serve to illustrate some
of the beauties of the star route system. It
enjoys a tri-weekly mail from Thomasville,
a semi-weekly mail from Albany, while from
Ty Ty, its nearest railroad station, it gets a
mail only once a week. My host for the
night in Moultrie was the postmaster, and he
reminded me of Mark Twain’s “highly
concentrated” inhabitant, being like
wise clerk of tlie supreme court, deputy
ordinary, ex-officio tax receiver, besides being
landlord and general land and real estate
agent, and enjoying an extensive justice court
practice in the country around. The cares of
official position, • however, appeared to sit
lightly upon him, aud he did not seem to be
greatly pressed for time. After supper the
mail carrier came around for the Albany mail,
and was handed an empty United States mail
sack, with not a solitary letter, document or
ackage in it. In reply to an admiring query,
was informed that this was of frequent oc
currence—in fact, the rule, rather than the
exception. I suggested to tlie carrier that he
might utilize the capacious mail sack by fill
ing it with a few bushels of choice Colquitt
county yams for the Albany market, and he
earnestly inquired if I thought it would be
agin the law. It seemed to hurt his official
dignity to have to haul an empty mail sack
over his route. I notice, hoWever, that four
copies of the ubifuitous Constitution were
distributed at this office.
TIMBER AND TURPENTINE.
Tlie timber and turpentine interests along
the line of the Brunswick and Albany rail
road have greatly enhanced the value of these
pine lands within the past two or three years,
and greatly stimulated inquiry after them.
Along tlie line of tlie railroad the lands have
long since been bought up by the timber and
turpentine men, and as these become ex
hausted they are reaching out further Into
the interior every year. To these encroach
ments, however, the stock men oppose a reso
lute front, and all who are able, are endeav
oring to secure titles to all the unoccupied
land, to keep the turpentine men back. In
this contest very little concern is felt by either
side for the true title, the object of both being
to secure the first possession under any sort of
writing that will warrant occupancy. As a
necessary consequence, a world of litigation
will be opened up for the future. Both sides
appear to be equally reckless and unscrupu
lous in asserting their claims. The timber
and turpentine men only want the use of the
land, or rather, the timber, for two or three
years at most, and the stock men say that
cutting tlie timber and “boxing” the trees
destroys the range for stock.
Tlie'road from Moultrie to Ty-Ty, in Worth
county, passes along through an unbroken,
monotonous 'pine-struck forest, waste and
bare.” The .zoods were being burned off by
the stock raisers, an annual Bustom witti
them, and the amount of wood and timber
destroyed in every one of these burnings is
sad to contemplate.
Between these two classes just mentioned—
the turpentine and stock men—it looks as
though a sort of Gog and Magog war against
nature was being waged ail over this section
of country. One class destroys its value as
land for agricultural purposes by annually
burning off’ the pine straw and wire grass,
while the other denudes it of its magnificent
timber. What the future has in store for it
would be difficult to forecast with any accu
racy. One thing it has thus far accomplished:
it lias developed a large, self-sustaining local
traffic for tlie Brunswick and Albany railroad
little dreamed of by its projectors. The
amount of freight, in turpentine and timber
alone hauled over this line, has reached im
mense proportions,' and is increasing every
ear.
LAND SHARKS AND TITLES.
The records of the court in Moultrie, viz
The registry of deeds, and the tax digests,
would be interesting reading to a great many
at a distance who fancy they hold the genuine
titles to many of the Wild lots in this section,
and are resting quietly under that impression.
The ravenous land shark has been actively at
work, leaving his marks everywhere, and as a
consequence, titles are getting badly mixed.
The number of bogus titles scattered around
and on record, is almost incredible.
In fact, comparatively little of
the land appears _ to be held under
the proper, genuine title. As an instance of
how things are being fixed up, one gentleman
in Savannah, somewhat notorious throughout
southwest Georgia for his reckless dealings in
wild land, has on record a deed from anothei-
party equally notorious in this line, convey
ing to mm more than 160 wild lots, of 490
acres each, in the 8th and 9th districts of Col
quitt. They say he never hesitates to make
and execute a warranty deed to any of these
lots to any one who applies to him and on
almost any consideration, and has according-
ly made a great number. His so-called titles
of Worth appear to be much divided in opin
ion on this question, and several places in the
county are struggling to obtain it, with tlie
chances about evenly balanced between them.
That it must come to some point on the rail
road, however, seems to be conceded.
On the subject of the unoccupied wild
lands in all this section of country, much
will no doubt be done at an early day towards
fixing aud establishing titles,' by the act'
passed at the last session of the legislature,
requiring the owners to return them for taxa
tion in the county where located, instead of,
as heretofore, in tlie county of tlieir resi
dence. While this will undoubtedly provoke
a great deal of fierce litigation for a'time, the
best interests of all parties concerned will be
promoted in the end. It will tend to check
the lawless spirit of trespass and encroach
ment on private rights, now too prevalent
throughout the country around, and to fix
the titles to property on a secure foundation.
The insatiate land shark lias already reaped a
rich harvest, in this extensive field for his
'abors, but the sigfts are that his reign is com-
i be
wasc\ varying from three to five percent. For this Xvler succeeded in inducing the young lady
reason 1 have tor some years depreciated American t - ,- j ™ r pmnnv was dul-v
cotton as compared with other kinds, from Vi. to ° ““L ura ; “A** 1 ®
/ 2 d. per pound when making my purchases. There I performed- A few months alterw ard it
is no cotton so easy or pleasant to spin as American transpired that Tyler had a wife and per
cotton, but so much fraud] * * “
that it loses thereby -much
would otherwise obtain.
There is doubt about tlie fact that both
sand and water are added to American cotton,
to a greater or less extent, before or during
the process of baling, to increase its weight.
Of this there ran be no question. Who
the gailtv parties are it is, under
present conditions, hard to determine.
And yet tlie frauds which are perpetrated are
far too numerous aud inexcusable, and a rem
edy for existing evils should be vigorously
sought at once.
The importance of this subject cannot well
d prevails in its packing 1 haps some children in some* other section of
- h oi the preference it | t |,j s state . xhe father of his victim hearing
of this fact, drove the scoundrel from his
home. He went to Alabama, and we under
stand repeated his offense and passed himself
off as still single, married the third time, and
is now living with his third victim. A suit
for divorce has been instituted in behalf of
Mrs. Ardelia Tyler.
Fence and No Fenre.
Pike County News.
We have just returned from a short trip into
t Henry county, where the “no fence” law went
be overestimated. The great cotton-producing into active operation on the first of January
states are deeply interested in their staple last To an untravelled Georgian it is quite c
crop. Both the good name and profits of I novel sight to see small grain growing on un
producers now suffer, in a sense, through the | inclosed land, and to see farmers removing
frauds 1 have described in this report. A I their fences and plowing through where the
remedy should be found for the correction of old worm-fence with its necessary appendage
these abuses, and the sooner this is done the 1 of brush and briar stood. The people of
better it will be in the interests of fair play I Henry seem elated with the prospect of being
and common honesty. The system of pack-1 able to cultivate the richest spots of their
ing cotton needs to be improved. If a large I land without the toil, trouble and expense of
card could be placed in the center of each 1 fencing. They are using their rails in making
bale, with the name of the producer, the 1 pastures for the hitherto uncared for cattle, —“ ‘iia-?Q V ...Klo 'the rmnlifiod
tueir number of pounds in the bale, the date when I and the crops seemingly unprotected are more j act passed in 1*9 to , . . ,,
of cot- packed, and a duplicate record kept to be j secure than they were twelve months ago, j J 0 }® 13 k nn — The neoula
ey have sent with the cotton when sold, a check • under the eight or ten rotten-railed fence. J lot on the site of a court o — peop
iug to a close, to be followed by the execra
tions of ejected tenants and swindled occu
pants.
Attempted Aft«ns»lnatlnn.
Lumpkin Independent.
On Saturday night last, shortly after dark,
the town was* thrown into a state of excite
ment by the report that Mr. Bascom Everett
had been shot while sitting at the supper
table. Mr. Everett lives not quite a mile
from town, and in a few moments his house
was crowded with anxious friends desiring to
learn the result of his wounds. Soon after
the arrival of Dr. J. E. Carter he pronounced
the wounds not necessarily fatal While Air.
Everett was sitting at the supper table with
Mr. B. J. Boynton, Mrs. Everett and his four
year old child, a sudden report was heard
and Mr. Everett dropped his head upon his
hand thinking the lamp had exploded, while
Mr Boynton immediately arose and hurried
Mrs. Everett and the child from the room, an
ticipating another shot from the gnu. It was
not until another room was reached that they
knew'what was the matter when Mr. Everett
walked in with blood streaming from his head
and saying, “I am shot.” After summoning
Dr. Cutter, who hastened to the spot and
made an examination, it was found that about
twenty No. 6 shot had struck Mr. Everett
upon the right side of his head, none of them
penetrating thbrain. As soon as Mr. Everett
was cared for, immediate inquiry was institu
ted as to the shooting. It appears that a negro
named Isliam Harvy, alias Isham Ball, had
been living with Mr. Everett’s cook, a negro
woman named Anna 1‘rince, whom he moved
away from Mr. Everett’s. He threatened to
kill anyone who would carry Anna back,
and the result shows that he did not wait long
to attempt to carry out his threat. Anna
was moved back to Mr. Everett’s on Saturday
evening. Isham having procured his shot
jun repaired to Mr. Everett’s, and while tlie
amily were eating supper Isham took delib
erate aim at Mr. Everett’s head through an
en door and fired. Very fortunately for
r. Everett eighty of the shot struck the
door facing, while twenty struck him and
twenty-one were lodged in the wall of 'the
diningroom. Isham immediately fled forparts
unknown. A number of gentlemen at once
instituted a search for the would-be-assassin,
but up to the present time of writing lie has
not been apprehended. Messrs Mark and
Sam Everett issued circulars offering a reward
of one hundred dollars for the culprit, and
strong hopes are entertained of his final cap
ture. Ishatn is a noted thief and of bad
character generally, and is well acquainted
with tlie woods and swamps where most
likely he took refuge. Mr. Everett, we are
jlad to say, is rapidly improving aud was able
to be upon the streets yesterday.
Particular Notice.
All the drawings will hereafter be under the ex-
elusive supervision and control of GENERALS G.
BEAUREGARD andJUBAL A. EARnY.
SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOR
TUNE. THIRD GRAND DISTRIBUTION, CLASS
AT NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, MARCH
1832—142d Monthly Drawing. ,
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
Incorporated in 1868, for 25 years by the Leglsla-
tre for Educational and Charitable purposes—with
- capital of Sl.OOO.OCO—to which a reserve fund of
over 8550,000 has siuce oeen added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
■as made a part of the present State Constitution
idopted December 2d, A. D.. 1879.
IT.-, GRAND SIN GLK NUMBER DRAWINGS WILL
take place monthly.
It never scales or postpones.
Look at the following distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE 830.000.
100,000 TICKETS AT TWO DOLLARS EACH. HALF
TICKETS, ONE DOLLAR.
list or:
1857 Prizes, amounting to $110,400
Responsible corresponding agents wanted at all
ter or Money Order by mall, addressed only to
M. A. DAUPHIN
New Orleans, La.
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
127 La Salle street, Chicago, Ills.,
The New York Office is removed to Chicago, 111.
N. B.—Orders addressed to New Orleans will re
ceive prompt attention.
The particular attention of the Public Is called
to the fact that the entire number of the Tickets
for each Monthly Drawing is sold, and consequent
ly all the prizes in each drawing are sold and
drawn and paid. feb!4—d&w4w nx rd mat
ALL OVER THE STATE.
or claims to this immense area of land origi
nated with the tax fi. fas. issued and sold
under the Goldsmith regime. Failing,
however, in his efforts to get a sheriff to bring
them to sale, it is said, he resorted to the de
vice of making a deed to them to a confeder
ate, and then receiving back a deed from him,
so as to start some sort of paper title, which,
under our lax system in ejectment suits,
might be admirable in court as color of title.
Our penal code is sadly deficient, if it con
tains no provision for reaching cases of this
kind. Of course, the Goldsmith tax titles,
even where sales were regularly advertised
and made under them, have all been pro
nounced null and void, but the ways of the
land-shark are infinite, and frequently past
finding out, until too late.
THRIVING TY TY.
Ty Ty, in the heart of a large turpentine
district, is one of the most thriving little
towns on tlie line of the road between Albany
and Brunswick. Although indebted for its
start mainly to the large turpentine interests
immediately around it, there are evidences
that it will survive the decline of these and
continue to be a point of some importance.
Located in the south comer of Worth, and
not tor from where Worth comers with Irwin
and Berrien, its merchants do a thrivin;
trade with all three of these counties, ani
with Colquitt. It has now rbout 300 inhabi
tants, ana new building-t are going up contin
ually. A strong effort wiil be made to have
the court house located at Ty Ty, under the
table
Preston has two excellent schools.
Waycross has a professional bootblack.
Americus is ravaged by the Hessian fly.
The Hessian fly is reported in Putnam.
Thirty-two boys applied for one Macon sit
uation.
Washington county farmers report rust in
wheat.
Eggs are fifteen cents a dozen in Berrien
county.
All the Forsyth lawyers are organized dein
ocrats.
Sandersville schools •celebrated Longfellow’s
birthday.
More schools and better schools are asked
for in Augusta.
A marriage took place in the public road in
Walker county last week.
The Chattahoochee channel at Woolfolks
has shifted to the opposite side.
There are twenty prisoners in the Albany
jail. All insignificant cases, save one.
There were twelve persons baptized at the
Albany Baptist church Sunday night.
Mr. James Hunter, of Darien, shipped
nearly 350,000 feet of timber to England on
Saturday.
Mr. W. R. Colquitt is a surveyor of timber
for Reppard & Walter’s new mammoth mill
atWaltertown.
George Proctor, 13 years old, of South Rome,
swallowed a fish bone on Friday, and is ex
pected to die from inflammation.
G. W. M. Tatum has assumed control of the
editorial columns of the Dade County Gazette,
heretofore edited by T. J. Lumpkin.
The Georgia wine company of Cuthbert ha
increased its capital to $50,000, and is to issue
$15,000 new stock on subscription.
Rev. Henry Thompson, a citizen of Ware
county, aged 76 years, split 200 rails the other
day. He did not pick the trees either.
The sale of malt or spirituous liquors has
been prohibited in Upson county, outside of
Thomaston, by the board of county coiumis
sioners.
Jacob Harrell, Decatur county’s tax collec
tor, has skipped with four thousand dollats of
jublic money. So we learn from the Bain
jridge Democrat
Mr. William McCleskey of Jackson, be
lieves in the adaptability of the razor-back
hog to Georgia soil. He'has raised and killed
six hogs weighing over 1,500 pounds total.
Mr. H. B. Everett, while sitting at supper
in his own house at Lumpkin, was shot by a:
assassin on the outside and painfully wounded,
He was struck'by twenty number six shots.
Mr. Lastinger, of Berrien county News, says
he has cared for four head of cattle during
the winter, and had milk and butter all the
while, and the cost has not been §5 per head
The artesian water is still used by Albany,
It is brought a distance of over three hundred
feet by a pump running down about twenty
feet. It possesses mineral qualities and ought
to be analyzed.
The LaFayette Messenger tells of a diffi
culty between Toby Young and a boy of 14,
originating in the former persisting in riding
a mule which was in charge of the latter’s
father. Young Norman cut Young in the
abdomen with his knife, and though his
bowels protruded, it was thought that he
would recover.
Mr. J. G. Smith, of Johnson county, while
walking through his fields aiscovered two very
large hawks, and returning to the house pro
cured some strychnine and baited for them,
On Monday he went back to the place where
he had baited and fonnd them both dead.
One measured four feet and eight inches, and
the other four feet six inches, from Jip to tip,
Mr. Neal McQuaig, an old and respected
citizen of this, Ware, county, died at his resi
dence near Glenmore last Saturday, and was
buried at Kettle Creek with Masonic honors
on Monday last. Mr. McQuaig was a native
of Wilkerson county but removed here about
thirty years ago with other members of his
familv. He became a useful and respected
citizen of Ware and thoroughly identified
with its interests. He was a brother of our
fellow townsman Mr. Joe McQuaig. He was
al out 59 years of age.
LOTTERIES.
} Prize .530,000
XCapital Prize rjS
2 Prizes of 82,500 5000
5 Prizes of 1,000 5 000
20 Pitzes Of 500 10,000
100 Prizes of 100 10 000
200 Prizes of 50 ™ 10.100
500 Prizes of 20 10.OOO
,,000 Prizes of 10 10.OOO
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
Approximation Prizes of 8300
Approximation Prizes of 200.........
Approximation Prizes of 100
—42 D—
POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING OF THE
In the city of Louisville, on
Friday, March 31st, 1872.
These drawing occur monthly (Sundays excepted,
under provisions of an Act of the General Assembly
of Kentucky.
The United States Circuit Court on March Slst,
rendered the following decisions:
1st—That the Commonwealth Distribution Com
pany is.legal.
2d—Its drawings are fair.
N. B.—The Company has now on hand a large
reserve fund. Read the list of prizes for the
MARCH DRAWING.
1 Prize
-830,000
1 Prize
1 Prize
10 Prizes, 81,000 each
20 Prizes 500 each
100 Prizes 100 each
200 Prizes 50 each
600 Prizes 20 each
1000 Prizes 10 each..
10,000
5.000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
12.000
L 10,000
9 Prizes 8300 each, Approximation Prizes 2,700
9 Prizes 200 each, 1,800
9 Prizes 100 each 900
,960 Prices
Whole Tickets $2.
27 Tickets, $50.
8112,400
Half Tickets $1.
55 Tickets, $100.
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