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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1882
‘'CORN RAISERS” AGAIN.
an army of happy and
PEROUS FARMERS.
-Seme Mon Answer* to Our Clroular—An Unbroken
Testimony in Favor of Dtvoislfled Crops—Will
the Farmers Heed tills Adviee?—Tbs All-
Cotton Flan a Very Bid One.
The following arc some additional facts re
garding diversified crops:
CONSTANTLY BlILMNd I P.
West Foist. Ua., February 27,1882.—Editors Con
stitution: In reply to your request, 1 herewith give
you the names of several Harris county farmers,
who ere among the most successful farmers, and
•who nil raise their own supplies: T. I.. Davidson,
W. i’oer, L. II. Hutchinson, It. 8. Pattillo, Nat
llutchinson, John E. Williams. .1. T. Burton, John
Booker, J. A. Maddox, John Hlilppy, L. T. C. Love-
lflcc, I)r. B. C. Cook, A. C. Williams.
The above named gentiemeu are building up
constantly, while many around them who do not
produce much except cotton are gradually losing
ground. John Pattillo.
PROM A MOPE:. PARMER.
R<* kmai:t, Folk county, (ia„ February 27, 1882.
—Editors Constitution: tour circular of 22d instant
just received. Allow me to preface, by the state
ment, that, however well the •‘all-cotton” plan may
operate in other sections, it Is emphatically, a most
miserable failure in this county. I do not know a
single man who habitually raise* cotton to buy
meat and corn with, that makes his farm self-sus
taining, nor do I know one of this class who is not
more or less encumbered—some to the ex^ut of a
mortgage on their whole realty. Per contra, 1 hu ve
yet to see the farmer who sells a little meat, corn,
wheat,oats, hay, etc., annually, that is notout of
debt, and has not a small balance set to hts credit.
Had your circular asked for the names of “exten
sive" rather than "successful” farmers, my answer
would have been unite different from what follows.
T. M. Hightower, C. H. Wood, 1). M. Bussell and
James 1 oting are among the most successful far
mers of iny section. They raise tlieir own supplies
and make cotton a surplus crop.
Since I have been farming 1 nave never bought a
pound of meat ora bushel of com. or a pound of
llour, but make a surplus of these articles every
year, which I supply to my “all cotton” neighbors at
remunerative prices. My cotton crop Is clear profit
every year, and I hold it as long as 1 please; have
the bulk of my last year's cotton crop Mill on hand,
and I believe all, orat least most of the gentlemen
named above arc similarly circumstanced; have no
idea that one of them owes u dollar, or if he does,
lie can pay on demand. Wc all raise clover, aud
most of us raise our horses and mules.
My plan is this: Never run an account—pay as
I go—nave not bought on credit since 1 had u fami
ly. 1 exchange sorghum (at fifty cent* per gallon
by the barrel) for sugar ut 9% to ,0 cents, and for
coflee at 12J4 to 15 cents. Can make 2U0 gallons sor
ghum per "acre, and find ready sale. 1 pay iny
store account with flour deposited with merchants
always before the goods are bought: pay day labor
ers in meat, syrup, flour, corn or cash, ns they prefer.
They rarely call for cash. Hell more or less clover
hay every year, the receipts for which, supplement
ed by receipts tor corn, butter, eggs, chickens, tur
keys, etc., supply us with what little cash we need.
1 close by wishing you God -speed iu the noble
work of opening the eyes of the farmers of Geor
gia. I say, without the fear of successful contra
diction, that what is true of individuals Is true of
neighborhoods, counties, stales or nations, to-wit:
the "all cotton” plan of farm lug carries in its wake
nothing but debt, misery, destruction.
Very respectfully, K. W. Everett.
A BATCH OF TI1BIFTY FARMERS.
Forsyth, February 25.—Editors Constitution
Yours of the22nd is at band. Kev. Hiram Phinn-
xee, one of the early settlers of Monroe county, has
never bought com nor meat mid perhaps flour dur
ing over fifty years. On the contrary, has sold
thousands of bushels of corn and much wheat; has
never known “hard times.” lion. J. H. t'hiuazce
makes a supply of corn, wheat, oats and plenty of
meat. Makes good crops of cotton and can hold-it
and sell it when he feels like it. Is thrifty and in
dependent. J. II. Sutton raises plenty of corn,
wlcat, oals, bacon, and averages year after year
over half bag of cotton to the acre on land not
above the average fertility. Ibis abundance of de
licious fruit, such as apples, pears, peityhes, grapes,
Cte. Has a home suggestive of thrift, comfort mid
good living. Has bought this home and made it
wlmt it is with money made mostly by farming
since the war. A. J. Howard commenced life thirty
years ago poor. Has perhaps never bought fifty
bushels of corn, but sells com. fodder, shucks, etc ,
every year raised on upland, much of which has
been'iii cultivation fifty years. Sells every year
mutton, beef, potatoes, wheat, oats, etc. Raises
good crops of cotton. Has made money and has
more than doubled his capital since the war, W.
Rumble came liome front the war about twenty-one
years of age, worth not fifty dollars in money. He
procured a horse, rented land and commenced
work with his own hands. Raised his com and
meat from the start svith as much cotton as hu.
could. Has nice farm of nearly three hundred
acres paid for, farm when he went in ]>osscssion in
a neglected and dilapidated condition, now in a
lilgli state of cultivation, yielding good crops with
good fences, etc., etc. Intrinsic value of his farm
mote than double what it was ten years ago. C. O.
Goodwvne commenced with nothing iranjedi-
atelv 'after the war. Hus made bfg
-crops of com, cotton, wheat, oats,
etc., etc. Ha* made money tapidly. \V. II. II.
Bush is a very thrifty farmer. Is rapidly accumu
lating property. Is perhaps not altogether as much
•of a grain producer as the other gentlemen named
above. I tnow of no Instance ol “an all-cotton
planter” who can be compared in thrift and hide
peudenco to these grain raisers.
T. G. Scott.
FROM A RAKr.OI.D VETERAN.
Mocntain Gar, Near Rome. March 2.—Editors
■Constitution: As requested in vour circular of 22d
proximo, I bog to hand herewith the names of it
tew of our front rank farmers. Cannot pretend to
give you in detail tlieir vnrious methods. I do
know that they all plant clover and wheat and oats
and corn enough for home use, including raising
mid fattening their pork. Most of them plant some
cotton ns a money crop. May add 1 also know that
they nave been eminently successful, and tlieir
farms are entirely anil emphatically self-sustaining.
I am in bed sick; have not been out of my room
for a month; Ibis is written by my daughter.
' * Me and patri-
' our stale.
seem too much out of place. I may add my own
name, as I believe I am counted one of the most
successful; and i can add my own testimony to
your position, and I have proved it by experience
in practical farming since the war. I have prac
ticed rotation of crops of from three to six years
apart (the same crop on same ground), and have
planted about one-third cotton, one-third oats and
one-third com, except a sufficient number of acres
reserved before tbiniing the land, to plant largely
of sweet potatoes, sugar cane, vegetables, etc. My
land has improved in fertility each year. I have
made and saved some money by farming, stock-
raising, wool growing, etc. I buy aud use some
commercial fertilizers each year in conjunction
wiib iny home-raised manures. I apply from 10 to
100 pounds commercial fertilizers to the acre, and
a small quantity of cotton seed or stable manure
along with this amount, aud raise good crops, im
proving the land at the same time. I am none of
the live-bale-to-tbe-acre farmer, but think I am
doing pretty well to average, on our thin soil, a
bale to two acres each year, and improve land and
save money at the same time. As a further proof
of diversified farming paying best, I will say 1
have got my last year’s cotton crop yet, home-made
corn in tbe ear to do my stock and to spare, sweet
potatoes to do until next fall, and plenty to sell,
and home made meat for my family use, with
plenty of turkeys and chickens—more than we can
use, and which is cheaper and better living than
western bacon. I have my lust year's syrup crop
yet. Bf.nj. Miukin.
THE “CORN-RAISERS" HAPPY AS USUAL.
Hartweu., March 2.—Editors Constitution: I
cheerfully state the following in reply to your re
cent circular to me in reference to the methods
employed by our county farmers:
\\ e have a few farmers, here and there, who buy
a portion of their supplies, that are making some
money, but none who buy very largely but wliat
are growing poorer and poorer every day. By far
the most successful and thrifty are those who have
not bought coin or meat, in any quantity, iu their
lives.
In this list are found the names of William Vick
ery, Captain J. S. Herndon, VY. A. Hilliard, Dozier
Dickenson, Samuel Ilryan, William Pruitt. James
W. Hrison, A. H. Parks, etc., etc., who are promi
nent illustrations of the g.cat privilege of "living
at home and boarding at the same house.”
These gentlemen arc cotton but only to the ex
tent that it may be a surplus crop. Every attempt
in this comity to raise cotton exclusively, or even
too largely, has resulted iu failure aud ofieu bank
ruptcy. By growing on the farm our own meat and
bread wc may have a good thing in cotton, other
wise we have in it the destroyer of our independ
ence, and that quickly, too. J. F. Cp.aft.
“THE FARMERS WON’T I-EARN.”
Lincoln, February 27.—Editors Constitution: I
cheerfully comply with your request to furnish you
with four or five names of farmers who have made
their calling a success in Lincoln county. Your
ideas ou this subject are well proven by practice.
If you ride by a man's house here, and 'see a few
bales of cotton lying about bis gin house, or yard,
you will be more than apt to find corn in Ills crib,
file cotton man can’t bold hts cotton for better
prices. And the more diversified his erop the safer
the planter is from tbe sheriff s hammer. Middle
Georgia can produce a greater variety of crops than
any other country in the world, and her pop
ulation take lea advantage of it. Our coun
ty, particularly, is a great wheat and oat produc
ing country. Yet two-thirds of her planters do not
mukc enough for home consumption; and I will
venture to say if every man iu this county made
enough oats to last him from year's end to year’s
end the “running me system” would stop. In fur
nishing you the names you request, I shall confine
my self to my immediate neighborhood; other farm
ers than those I name may be equally successful or
more so, but I take the first that come in my mind.
Benjamin Fortson has always raised corn, oats,
Yvheat and meat enough to do his family; owes
nothing, has money at interest, and buys his sup
plies for his hirelings for ca ll. Ills cotton crop will
amount to about five to seven halestotliehor.se;
he is a good cotlou farmer, hut plants a small acre
age. Sanders aims raises mote grain than Mr. Fort-
son am^about the same amount of cotton: buys
laud every two or three years, owes nothing, and is
one of our substantial men. N. W. Stevenson makes
more grain than auy man I know; he makes it a
specialty. He is not lucky in cotton culture aud
don't like it. He plants a small com crop
and works t it well, makes plenty of
meat to do him; uses green pea manure for Ills
wheat crop, which he puts in with a clod-erusher,
or two-horse plow; has better agricultural instru
ments than any man in the county, and is general
ly considered the most enterprising man yvc have,
lie is aboveboard and Yvell to do.
Zuchariah Willingham has a greater varie'y of
crops than the above named men, and has a little
of everything to sell—makes everything at home;
has very little supplies to buy of any kind, and can
always pay cash. He makes fair cotton crops, how
ever, which he can hold for twelve months, if he
choscs to do so.
And, now, Messrs. Editors, though I can go on
and name others as Yvell to do as these, I cannot
name a single instance Yvhcrc the farmer does not
raise the most of his supplies at home. AH
of these men buy gnano, and raise compost. It is
the abuse, but not the use of commercial fertilizers
that hurt. Large crops of cotton require large sup
plies of guano, and when the bacon, com and fer
tilizers haye to be paid for, the cotton can’* fill the
Wir. Fbr this reason, together with tbe fact that
some worthless fertilizers have been on the market,
there is a disposition to condemn the use of fertil
izers altogether—a very unjust conclusion in my
opinion.
In conclusion I trill say, God speed you in im
pressing your views on the minds of our people
THE BIG INDUSTRY.
THE NEW FULTON COTTON SPIN
NING COMPANY’S MILL.
Fall Description of the Buildings About to be Occu
pied—The Spindles, Boilers end Engines—The
Buildings for Operatives and the Kill’s
Surroundings Already at Work.
A doctor at Richmond say- that if peop'e
will take a batli in hot whisky and rock salt
twice a year they will never catch a cold.
Until-somebody has tried this new remedy
we would say:—stick to the old and reliable
Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup.
The wild horses pasturing in the pampas
of the Argentine republic are estimated to number
2,500,000.
“ Bear ye one another’s burdens.”
Out on a hillside just beyond Oakland
_ Health. hoj>e and happiness are restored by
the use of juydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
cemetery, where twenty years ago two mighty ‘ a raisitive cure for all those
armies were using their most strenuous exer- dj seases f rom W hi c h women suffer so much.
tions to tear down and deMistate this countrj, c pn 1 «n Mn t "F FinL'liom •)*».? Wo^tom
there is. to-day. in course of erection and near M
a completion, an industry that will in a short
time more thin remedy all the evils these two | sun ’ »«*. ^&wl t
The Massachusetts house of representatives
is to be lighted by electricity.
IIIm laAst Done.
Said a sufferer from kiney troubles, when
armies did.
THE BIG INDUSTRY.
It is the Fulton cotton spinning company,
more familiarly known, however, in Atlanta,
as Elsas, May & Co.’s cotton factory. Yester
day a Constitution reporter, while tramping asked to trv Kidney-Wort: “I’ll try it, but it
around in the eastern portion of the city, wil l be my last dose.” The man' got .well,
spied the new smoke-stacA of the building, an( j ; s now recommending the remedy to all.
aud soon found himself m one of the largest, when derangement of the stomach acts
most complete and handsome lactones m t.*e J upon the kidneys and liver bringing disease
so . h , . , , r I and pain, Kidney-Wort is the true remedy.
At the door he was met by Mr. King, the | j[ removes the cause and cures the disease,
gentleman who has been superintending the Liquid (very concentrated) or drv act equally
work since the first spadeiull of dirt was efficiently.—American Cultivator,
thrown up. After a postboard introduction, 1 , tl , r 2 dM.v thur
Mr. King invited the reporter to enter, and -
and this is Yvhat he saw and termed I The first American inscription upon the
a large structure. obelisk, now .standing in Central Park. New
The building as it now stands is 150x203 York, will be, “Use Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup,
feetand has acapacity of 7,000spindles. The | Price 25 cents. '
roof covers just one acre of ground, and at the
same time is one of the most thoroughly con
structed buildings in the south.
The building is two stories high and is ar
ranged with a view to security from accidents
of all kinds. In the lower or basement floor
is all the shafting, and the machinery on the | stautrelitTf*
floor above receives its power from below.
Besides being used for shafting, this basement
floor will be utilized as a storage room, and I San Francisco glories in 804 divorces for the
some future day when the demands upon the last year,
factory are large enough the YveaY-ing depart- I
uient will be brought from above and placed horsewhips acid phosphate
on this floor. In Torpidity or Liver:
the engines and boilees. And extreme gastric irritability, resulting
Half way between these two floors are the j from malarial poison, has given good results,
engine and boiler rooms which are separate.
Sore Throat, Couch*, Cold, and similar trouble*, If
suffered to progress, result in serious pulmo
nary affections, oftentimes incurable.
“Brown’s Bronchial Troches” reach directly
the seat of the disease, and give almost in-
OFFICE: COR. PEACHTREE & WALL STS..UP-STAIRS
A HOME INSTITUTION, with a bona fide membership of over FIVE THOUSAND, and the only
established Mutual Life Association in the South.
Death losses paid promptly and in full. Has paid since organization over
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
To the widows and orphans of its deceased members.
Assessments are calculated from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE TABLE OF MORTALITY. To
insure equity and permanence, they .increase with the age of the members, and are made without dodg- *
ing, flinching or apologizing, as often as necessary to pay death claims promptly.
The membership fees and annual dues charged ’members for expenses are fair and reasonable bnt
sufficient to enable the managers to conduct the business of th-t association in a business Yvay and guar
antee an honest handling of the mortuarv fund.
The People’s does not propose to provide protection at less than cost, but as cheaply as safety and
permanence will permit.
White persons of either sex, under fifty-fiY'e years of age, and of good health and habits, who desire
reliable protection, are iin-ited to call at the office of the People's Mutual Relief Association, or on any
of the following A tlanta members:
T lie motive power is supplied by a Babcock
& Wilcox Yvater tube boiler of the latest
style anti most modern improvement. In
its construction it is so arranged that there
is no possibility of an accident. There are !
two “floors” within. Upon one floor the fuel I
ignited and after being thoroughly fired is J
Fort? Yearn’Experience or au Bid Xirne.
Hes. Winslow’s Soothing ^yp.up is the prescrip
tion of one of the best female physicians and nurses
In the United States, and has beau used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions of
mothers for their children. It relieves the child from
pain, cures dysentery aud diarrhoea, griping in the
- , , , . , ~. „ i bowels and ivind-coli*. By giving health to the child
transferred by a simple tYvist of the ft nst to a it restg mother. Price 25 cents a bottle,
second “door” or grate where it js en-| mar20—dly sat sun wed&wly
tirely consumed, and in its consumption all •
of the carbon disappears. If a railroad man gets thirsty he can find a
Adjoining this room is a fine large Wheel- | bumper on every car.
ock engine which works with safety and ease. _ , . ,. , ,
It is a 150 horse-power anil is a cut-off. non- v ot bowels,
conducting engine. The receiving and ex- | ANGOSTURA. BITTERb will surely cure you.
God grant you sj>ced in your laudable t
Jc eflorts to improve the agriculture of -
otic ,
It is a subject that has been near mv heart, for
tiie last fifteen years, and the dawn of a brighter
era—which 1 most surely see—affords me consola
tion. Yours very truly,
Georue S. Black.
Aimer Echols, Floyd Springs; 1 D Gailliard,
Rome; Doe N Crayton, t'oosaville: Green Cunning-
hum, lave Spring; Radford Kills, Cave Spring:
.James II Camp, Rome; Colonel J II Pressley, Rome:
R P Nixon, Rome; William S Gibbons, Rome;
John lligiu. Cave Spring.
THE WAT TO DO IT.
Griffin, Ga., March 1st, 1882. — Dear
Constitution: In regard to the most suc
cessful fanners of my county I will give you a few
names: J. J. Walker, Marian Patrick, \\. P. Phil
ips. W. H. Boyes, S. II. Wilson and T. W. Manley.
They are all successful lor the mere reason that
they raise all tlieir breadstuffs for their farms and
meat for tlieir families, and a large portion of llieir
meats are raised on the farms for their hands.
J. H. Mitchell,
never knew an “all-cotton man” successful.
Eorroiis Constitution : Yours of the 22d, inquir
ing of four or live of the most successful farmers iu
Coweta, and if they were "all cotton planters.” A
-successful one never yet came under my observa-
tion, and I personally know every farmer in the
county. Neither can one succeed if ho raises alto-
f ether corn, grain, stock and fruits in onr section.
have in an humble wav advocated a diversity of
crops and practice what I preach. Have read with
pleasure, as well as profit, what Titk Constitution
has said on the subject, and especially the encour
agement held out in its pages recently upon sheep
husbandry. 1 nave for a number of years kept the
finest, as tveil as largest, ttoek of sheen in the
county. Could Yvrite by the yard, or talk by the
hour, on sheep, but I see 1 am rambliug too far
from vour question Who are the most successful
fanners? is a hard question to answer, for some
with small moans may have made considerable at
tainments, others with greater attainments, of the
latter class, I mention four or five, as they perhaps
would add greater eclat or influence to The Con
stitution, certainlv to their community as farmers
•and citizens. 1 will add a few words of each. The
lamp kiwi are large planters for Coweta, made
most of their property since the war, became of age
about then. They run farms individually and to
gether. They sow a greater proportion of their
farms in small grain than any in the county: also
raise large quantities of corn; always something to
sell that can be produced in the country. They
will this season make several thousand bushels of
oats and wheat. They also raise big crops ot cot
ton. land being stubble, well adapted for the use of
manures.
William H. Parks, a young man of 32 or S3 years,
lots of vim and energy, not afraid of work, and
making iris own supplies of com and bacon, with
large crops of wheat and oats; he is thriving and
very successful, don’t know anything of hard limes
-and poor credit. He, too, raises cotton.
William T. Stalling, a middle-aged man—a most
■excellent farmer; got rich since the war farming,
by making his own supplies; owns a beautiful
place and fine farm. He knotvs nothing of hard
times, as he now pays cash for his necessaries: also
raises cotton. Post-office Newuan, 12 miles west.
Monroe Walton since the Yvar was a poor man.
but is now a rich poor man, with plenty to eat, large
dishes well filled of all that can be raised in
county: everything around indicates it. Thrift
everywhere there to he seen. Com, wheat, oats
and some cotton. J. B. Goodyvyn.
AN INTERESTING LETTF.R frox one who knows.
Hoi.vesviue. Appling County, Go., February 28,
1882.—Atlanta Constitution: In reply, I send the
folloYving names as the most successful fanners in
this county: E. E. Mims, Baxley, Appling county:
John W. Mayers. Pine Grove, Appling county:
Henry Dean, HolmesviUe, Appling county; G. J
Holton, Baxley, Appling county.
Daniel McEachin,
Pine Grove, Appling county.
In giving above n imes asked for. if it does not
UUVH w intcil Uil uiia OUUJCVL uui iituu ftuuu iioa
cornu of It. Even Franklin’s doctrine, that a fool
learns only by experience, has been a fallacy among
cotton planters. Respectfully vours, ,
N. A. Crayvfop.d,
Liucolnton, Ga.
FROM A BANNER FARMER IN A BANNER COUNTY.
Thomasville, March 1.—Editors Constitution:
Below- is the names of fanners of this (Thomas)
county Yvho are prosperous planters and have been
noted many years for always being provision sel
lers. This list could be extended into an hundred
or more. But you only asK for four or five names.
I give you names that annually sell cotton, corn,
syrup, sugar, potatoes, peas, bacon, lard, chickens,
eggs and butter, and who are exclusively farmers.
You will notice three women ou the list who attend
to their farms themselves.
Their method of farming is to plant large provi
sion crops, so ns to sell provisions, and endeavor to
make them pay all expenses as lar as possible, and
make cotton the money crop.
John J Parker, J R Battle, G W Parker, Othniel
Collier, J T Hnrvin. B F Walker, W R James, N R
Springier. Isaac Alderman, PS lleith, J A Bullock,
Joseph Singletary, It B McCord, Van Zeigler, N E
. urner, W B Ilambleton, Ft L Neil, Joshua Carroll,
Mrs Jane A Mitchell, Mrs Nancy Taylor, Mrs Sarah
Evcritt.
Sonic of the above names sell thousands of dol
iarsof provisions annually. R. H. Kardayvay.
We shall continue to print letters on this
subject until we have run through the roll.
We have many letters vet on hand, and they
give a list of prosperous farmers that are the
prjdo of the state.
Ham* Classed as Cotton Roods.
New York Herald.
For making an ass of itself in respect to classifica
tion of imported goods the customs service of the
United Stares lias hitherto been without a rival
among similar departments in Europe, but suddenly
its proud pre-eminence becomes a thing of the past,
and Germany snatches the long-eared champion
ship. Hereafter, it is said, American hams packed
iu canvas and sent to Germany are to be regarded
and taxed as cotton goods: that they are not classi
fied as 3.000 ton screw steamers, inasmuch as they
are packed also in these, is probably due only to the
fact that America is not allowed to make such ca
sings in which to export her hams.
register
affair. It is a combination of a clock,a steam
guage and a counter, by which the number
of revolutions made in a day, week, month A New Yorker lias traded $10,500 worth of
or year can be easily ascertained. The drive | whisky for land in Florida
heel has a thirty inch belt and is twenty *
feet in diameter. I “Jluehupnlba'
Just outside of tliisengine room, and within New,quick, complete cure 4 days, urinary affec-
water tower fiftv hong, smarting, frequent or difficult urination, kid-
few feet, 18 an Huineme water tower mty ncy disease . |i. D rU ggi,ts. Depot, Lamar, Rank-
feet high with a capacity for 20,000 gallons of | in ^ x.s.nsr, Atlanta,
water.
the second floor
The floor upon which the machinery is lo- Genius finds new ideas, wit ridicules them
cated is 150x203 feet and is 17 feet liigh. The | and common sense adopts them,
roof is a truss roof with monitor lights, and
there are 50,000 feet of glass in the one room. I Monroe, Mich., Sept. 25, 1875.
One_large room on this floor is^ used for re- Sirs—I have been taking Hop Bitters for
cciving and mixing cotton. Next to tiiis inflammation of kidneys and bladder. It has
room is one occupied by tlie picker. They done for hie what four doctors failed to do.
are liotli supplied with automatic sprinklers The effect of Hop Bitters seemed like magic
connected with the water tank, and m one of | to me. W. L. Carter,
them is a Babcock fire extinguisher, besides
an abundance of hose.
In the large room are two sections of nine! 'It has cost twice as much to take care of
cards with two railway heads. The two rail- I he criminals as to educate the children of
way heads take ill both sections of the cards, j Nevada.
There, are twcnty-tYvo. spinning .frames and
looms, etc., in abundance. I TIie Gon “ Theory and Small-Pox.
Near this main building, which will even-I The value of Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid in
tually be made 105x406, are thirty-one neat, destroying and counteracting the effects of
pretty one-story cottages for the employes, contagious diseases can scarcely be estimated,
Seven of them are intended for the bosses I as small-pox and the like are caused by cer-
and twenty-six for the operatives. They are tain germs gaining a place in the human
32x38 feet and have four and five rooms each. body. The Fluid successfully combat? and
Every portion of the building is connected destroys the germs before they fully develop,
with the water tank, and the automatic thereby divesting them of all power to harm,
sprinklers are abundant. The building is Thoroughly disinfect your houses and every
lighted by electricity. | place with the Fluid.
Operators are now emplowed in tiie build-
The “Fly" In the Crop*.
Talbotton Register and Standard.
The "fly” is playing havoc Yvith the wheat in Tal
bot valley.
Dawson Journal.
The oat crop iu this section has received a very
decisive check in the past ten days. It seems to be
burning up, about iu spots. It is evidently not
rutt. and yet it is ditlieult to find any one who ean
properly diagnose the ease. Some think the trouble
is caused by a fly, while others attribute this condi
tion to the wet weather. There are objections, how
ever, to both of these latter theories which cannot
be explained. Explanations are now in order. Let
us hear from our Lumpkin friends.
LONG AGO.
n. H. BROWNELL
When I sit even alone,
Thinking on the past and gone,
While the clock, with drowsy finger,
Marks how long the minutes linger;
And the embers dimply burning,
Teil of life to dust returning;
Then my lonely chair around,
With a quiet mournful sound.
With a murmur soft and low,
Come the ghosts of long ago.
One by one I count them o’er.
Voices that are heard no more:
Tears that loving cheeks have wet.
Words YVhose music lingers yet;
Holy faces, pale and fair, •
Shadowy ha-ks of waving hair:
Happy sighs and whispers dear,
Songs forgotten many a year:
Lips of dewy frazrance: eyes
Brighter, bluet than the skies.
Odors breathed from Paradise.
And the gentle shadows glide
softly murmuring at my side.
Till the long unfriendly day,
AU forgotten, fades away.
Thus, when I am all alone.
Dreaming o’er the past and gone.
All round me, sad and slow.
Come the ghosts of long ago.
ing, but the full capacity of the factory will
not be tlisted until the first of April, when
the Fulton Cotton Spinning company will
begin com’erting the fleecy staple into cotton
cloth. .
A Turkey Chase.
Washington Gazette.
Monday morning last Mr. John Dyson and
Mit Roberts flushed four wild turkey'gobblers
within a few hundred yards of Mr. John Pal
mer’s lioase. The turkeys ran together a short
It is believed there will be between 1,200
and 1,500 private bills, or rather “cases,” on the
eongressianal calender June 1, aud over 2,000 July
X, if the session continues until then.
Agents ean now grasp a fortune. Outfit
I Yvorth $10 sent free. For full particulars ad-
| dress E. G. Rideout & Co., 10 Barclay st.,N.Y
oct25—wly
We have always thought the quotation
should read; “The boy stewed ou the burning
distance, when one of the gobblers got sepa- | deck.”—N. Y. News,
rated from the other three, and the dogs took
ifter him, Messrs. Dyson and Roberts follow- I Consumption Cured,
on horses. The turkey ran across tbe old An old physician, retired from practice,
Palmer plantation into Mr. M. G. Roberts’s having hid placed in his hands by an East
place, crossed the road at Pompey’s chapel, India missionary the formula of a simple veg-
took across a big new ground, ran through the etable remedy for the speedy and permanent
Lanefourmileplantation,downthroughBoyce I cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh,
Ficklen’s place to tiie railroad, and crossing I Asthma, and all Throat and Lung A flections
tbrongh Dr. Hunter’s plantation, went over also a positive and radical cure for Nervous
into Mr. T. C. Green’s place, where tiie dogs Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after
caught him. The total run made by the tur- I having tested its wonderful curative powers
key was seven or eight miles, and _ne ran al- in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to
most the entire distance, only flying over a make it known to his suffering fellows. Ac-
short space. j tuated by this motive and a desire to relicv
~T * t human suffering. I will send tree •>!' charge to
a Hunt i is.it- all who desire it, this recipe, in German
Americus Republican. _ French or English, with full (Erections for
On Monday last at Mr. Sheppard’s place, in preparing and using. Sent by mail by ad-
tlie eastern suburbs of Americus, occurred dressing with stamp, naming this paper, W
ometbing in the way of a fight. A monster | a. Noyes, 149 Power’s Block, Rochester, N
hawk stopped in the grove in front of Mr.
Sheppard’s, and seeing a hen with her brood,
pounced down among them, gathering one in
his talons. The terrified brood sought shelter
wherever it proved most promising, and two
chickens found it under the hawk’s wings. A
negro woman ran out, but the hawk backed up
to a wall and offered fight. The woman
squalled for help, when Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard
came to lieraid, and with sticks, pistols, hand
spikes, boards, and other weapons likely to
produce death, set upon aud broke the hawk’s
neck aud liberated the old hen’s chickens.
Tbe Lone Fast of a Virginia Turkey.
Clarke Courier.
A few days ago a turkey was found in the
cellar beneath S, F. Baugman’s store room in
a sorry plight, owing to the long fast it had
undergone. This bird, with others of its kind,
bad been purchased about five weeks previous
by Mr. Richardson for shipment to a north
ern market, but was overlooked and remained
in its dark confinement up to the time it was
found, without food or drink. Dr. Tanner
was supplied with water, if not with bread
pills, during his long fast, but this poor bird
was without so much as a drop of water.
When rescued it could barely stand upon its
feet, but it was fed, and now'gives promise^ of
a rapid recovery from its long fast of live
Yveeks.
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F AYKTl'K COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE.—WILL
be sold before tbe courthouse door, in the town
of Fayetteville, Ga., between tbe leg*) hours of
sale on the first Tuesday in April, 18S2, the follow
ing property, to-wit: One-teuth undivided interest
in east half of lot of land No. 139. in originally the
seventh now the upper seventh district of Layette
county, Ga., the interest herein advertised for sale
being the fee simple, one-tenth undivided interest
in said east half of lot of land No. 139; the same
levied upon by virtue of a fi. fa., which issued
from the justice court of the 519th district, G.M., of
Fayette couuty, Georgia, in favor of U. A. McCurrv
vs. F. M. Handley, as tiie property of said F. M.
Handley. Properly pointed out by plaintiff.
Tenants in posscs-ion notified. Levy made by con
stable and turned over to the sheriff for advertise
ment and sale. Tiiis the 28th day of February. 1882.
J. M. CARLILE,
mch-j w4w Sheriff of Fayette county. Georgia.
F AY-TTE COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALES—WILL
he sold before tiie court house door in the town
ol Fayetteville, Fayette county. Georgia, between
the legal hours of sale, on -he li st Tuesday in
April, the following property, lo-wit:
50 acres of land out «»f the northwest comer of
lot number 50 in the lower seventh district of said
county, as the properly of W V Mitchell, to satisfy
a fi fa issued from the justice court of the C21th
district, G M, of Favettecounty, in favor rf Simes
A Blalock vs W V Mitchell; levy made by Allen
Chandler. I. C. and turned over to me, this Febrn-
arv the 28lh, 1882.
mch3 w4w J M CARLILE, Sheriff.
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, „ ..... some two Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters isthe great household
nules northwest of \ ilia Rica, on tiie seventh medicine of the American people, and is taken
dav of last month, near his residence, cap- everywhere as a safeguard against epidemics and
tnfed a beaver weighing fortv-five pounds, endemics, as a remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness
xti- \ t„>r,.rv»»b;A «--U my ids bn-rt-v when he and irregularities of the bowels, as a cure for chills
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discovered said beater, which was passing I norvous esses, and as a general invigorant and
over the ridge between the Tallapoosa river I restorative.
Catching a Beaver.
Ciirroll County Times.
Mr. J. H. Abercrombie, living
to Sweetwater creek. He gave chase, and |
after running some distance he overtook him, :
the beaver showing fight when caught up
with, but after a few licks from a stick, sur- |
rendered.
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E3E Killed a llecr With LI~htwood Knot*.
Florida Times.
Horace Humphries and Master Robbie
Knicktueyer ran down a large deer a short
distance from Apalachicola several days ago. __
They were on horses, anct coming np with the 1 p,™ Perkins Brothers, 32 and 34 West Mitchell S»„
deer dispatched it with lightwood knots. Atlanta, Ga. 201 mch5 UAw
E ok sale—ENGINES AND SAW MILLS. Sow
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poYrer Horizontal Engine, on YY-heels; also, two 12
H. P. Traction or Road Engines; also, one 10 and
one 20-horse poYver Horizontal Engine on skids.
We also have in stock one Eagle and two Paxton
Saw Mills complete; also, one car load of one and
wo-horse farm wagons. Coll and examine onr
mrnense stock or write for prices before purchas-
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Carrots. Beets, Parsnips, Pumpkins.
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