Newspaper Page Text
THE 'WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, MARCH 28,1882
THE CONSTITUTION
Entered at the Atlanta Port-office as. second-das
mail matter, November 11.1878.
Weekly Cmrtltatlea, price tlUMpcruam.
Clubs of twenty, $20, and a oopy to the getter op
tbe club.
WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS,$1.00.
ATLANTA, GA.. MARCH 2S. 1882.
Over 50,000 people now read
THE WEEKLY CONSTITU
TION.
Our aim is to have it go to
every fireside in the state.
Do you take it ? If not, send
in your name at once. Don’t
force your family to borrow it.
The more readers we get, the
better we can make the paper,
We promise that it shall be bet
ter, brighter and fuller than ever
before this year. Send in your
name.
which has been inaugurated by tbe Ca’lioun
brothers—Mr. Patrick Calhoun being well
known to the citizens of Atlanta. From all
that can be learned, the project not only
promises well, but is working successfully in
its initial stages. The plan is to attack by co
operation wbat the planters have been lighting
in detail. The capital behind tbe projectors
is said to be ample, and it is to be devoted to
draining and reclaiming overflowed lands
and to improvements in farming methods.
The aim of the projectors is to make the
laborer a part owner of tbe land
and to free him from the restraints and imposi
tions which the present unhappy system of
cotton planting has forced upon him.
The project can hardly be regarded as an
experiment, since no risks have been taken
in the preliminary calculations, but it is an
enterprise which will be watched with the
greatest anxiety by all thoughtful persons—
with the certainty that some new method of
tbe end of it will be that these defendants
will he “protected.” It is certainly a sad com
mentary on the times. Here is a case of cold
blooded brutal murder; and yet there is more
stress in the efforts of those who should
further the punishment of the murderers to
protect them than to punish them. Can’t
this “strong government” protect its officers
and punish crime too? The lif^ of the
humblest citizen is entitled to as much pro
tection as the enforcement of the law to col
lect the tax on a gallon of whisky.
The grand jury of the county of Gwinnett
will find the bill and then the case will be
transferred to be tried by a court which holds
that marshals must be “protected;” by jurors
who are drawn because they believe that it is
better to “protect” the marshals than to pro
tect life and liberty. The prosecuting crime
of the court who are expected to lay before
the jury the evidence of this heinous officer,
will be the officers who have labored for three
THE “FAT AUD SAUCY"
FARMERS WHO RAISE THEIR OWN
PROVISION CROPS.
As other Batch of Corn-Ralsera—Some Letters From
the People About the People—The True Hoad
to Happiness and to Glory—Some Pithy
Answers Concern Inc the Crops.
raising cotton will have to be devised in order days to keep them from being tried where the
Now Georgia aad its mines of wealth are
described by an enthusiastic correspondent of
the Courier-Journal, which is reprinted in an
other column. The correspondent is none
too enthusiastic, however.
Tiik news of the sad death of Colonel W,
T. Thompson conies so late and is so iincx-
jtooted, that it is impossible to do more than
voice the profound regret which will be ex
pressed on hearing that tbe veteran is no
more. •
■ -o
Alexander H. Stephens, in a note ad
dressed to the Boston Post, shows that John
P. King, of Augusta, began bis senatorial du
ties earlier than any other man now living.
He served from December 2, 1833 to Novem
ber!, 1837. _
Cannibalism 'and the cotton crop are the
eliicf topics of the flood now. It is dreadful
to think that the horrid state of cannibalism
is perhaps existing in the flooded valley,
though many may think that the reports of a
half crop of cotton are worse.
Attounev-Geneiia 1, Anderson’s opinion on
redistricting the state is given elsewhere. The
substance lias already been printed in The Con
stitution. and now he says again that there is
no legal obstacle in the way of electing a con
gressman from the state at large.
A bright correspondent of the our esteemed
0011 temporary, the Columbus Times, gives so
good an account of the success of a farm
which produces its own fertilizers that w,e re
produce it for the benefit of those farmers who
onglitto see how pleasant is a truthful picture
of a farm which diversifies its crops.
Siiipherd, the irrepressible, is discussed
with no smooth tongue by an Atlanta man
who knows whereof he speaks. It appears
that the now notorious* speculator has
been a “reverend,” an abolitionist; and, as
our informant says, “an oily villain,” all of
which is interesting in view of the revela
tions of recent date.
Tares of travel have the fascination of fic
tion and the interest of history. Arctic
travel especially, with its manifold dangers is
peculiarly attractive to most readers; and to
to such persons Lieutenant Melville’s report
will prove most interesting. He writes clearly
and well and shows better than has been done
wliat the condition and position of the Jean
nette survivors has been. '
low a wants better roads, and so does nearly
every other state; but Iowa appreciates the
weight of the tax that bad roads impose upon
the farmers, and is endeavoring to devise a
system that will lead to roads upon which a
full load can be drawn even in bad weather
The penalty for neglected highways is a heavy
one, and no one feels it more than the Geor
gia farmer who lives a few miles from rai
road station.
“A penny a day’s a groat a year” is a good
old English proverb, the meaning of which is
obvious. Yet the south has hitherto neglect
ed to save that penny. One of the most
sensible movements yet started in Atlanta is
that for “penny change.” It is a constant
surprise and annoyance to northern people to
discover that the smallest current coin in the
south is the “nickel,” or five cent piece, and
makes us subject to the just charge of ex
travagance.
“That man Blaine” lias^ come to the front
again. Poor old Frelinghuysen must fairly
shiver in his chair on reading Mr. Blaine's
indictment of his imbecility and stupidity.
Blaine’s talk is a challenge to the administra
tion and a hitter denunciation of the shilly
shally methods in vogue, which will receive
hearty praise. Mr. Blaine makes out a clear
case and a true one. The present administra
tion has sacrificed the opportunity of a cen
tury, and the commercial interests of this
country will not for many years, if ever,
recover what was lost and gain what might
have been gained. •
The issue between J udge Ezzard and Colo*
nel Nash as to who “has the age,” is settled in
favor of tbe judge by a year. But “the re
turns” are not all in. We have yet to hear
from Mark A. Cooper, Wm. B. Fleming, Wm.
Tracy Gould, Charles J. Jenkins, Junius Kill-
yer, John M. Clark, and perhaps others. Ii
we were to venture an opinion, it would be
that Judge Ezzard will remain elected after
“the returns” are all received, unless Colonel
Cooper or Judge Gould should come in a little
ahead. J udge Hillyer is the youngest of those
named. Since the matter is up, let it be set
tled who is the Nestor of the Georgia bar.
to compete with the coolie labor of India and
Egypt. _ .
GAINING HER INDEPENDENCE.
It is now settled beyond dispute that Geor
gia has planted more oats and wheat this
season than ever before in twenty years. It
is equally certain that she will have more
wheat and com planted this spring than be
fore in twenty years.
By this course she is gaining her practical
independence. We may have conventions,
or fight wars, but as long as we buy all we eat
from the west and everything we wear or use
from tbe east, we will be hewers of wood
and drawers of water. We are learning rap
idly enough to manufacture the clothes we
wear, the furniture and the incidentals we
use, and in a few more years we will be inde
pendent of the east. It rests with the farm
ers to say whether or not we shall remain in
vassalage to the west. The honest yeomanry
of the state would bare their breasts to battle
before they would see Georgia bound to the
wheel of any alien power. And yet they
have refused to vary tlieir formula of plant
ing, when their present course leaves us abso
lutely dependent on the west, and brings cer
tain ruin to every man interested.
The day is breaking at last, however, and
we call attention to the long list of men,
printed elsewhere, who have prospered by
already adopting the course their neighbors
are now urged to adopt. Read it and ponder
on it
AWAITING THEIR DOOM.
Since the passage of the act of the legisla
ture a year or two since allowing juries to
recommend imprisonment for life in capital
cases, many have predicted a practical aboli
tion of capital punishment in Georgia,
This idea, however, has just received
striking negative. In Carroll coun
ty James E. Hanvey and one
Moon—both said to he well connected and
with strong family influence to aid them—
have lately been convicted and sentenced to
be lmng. They each moved for a new trial,
and upon its refusal carried their cases to the
supreme court. The Judgments were there
affirmed on yesterday, as will be seen from
the head-notes published elsewhere in this is
sue. Another interesting feature of these
cases is that in each the defendant relied up
on drunkenness at the time of the killing as
an excuse, and upon threatening words as a
justification. The supreme court in their
decision announce in unmistakable terms
that voluntary drunkenness cannot serve as a
shelter for criminals, and that mere words, or
even menaces, will not justify a homicide.
These men, awaiting their doom at the hands
of the executioner, furnish a powerful illus
tration of the prevailing sentiment in Geor
gia to let offenders know that punishment
must inevitably follow the commission of
crime,
crime was committed, because they think
they ought to be “protected.” And even the
marshal, who will have them in custody,
will hold them with unrevoked commissions
in their pockets because he sees the need of
“protection.” The verdict will be rendered
to “protect” them, and these men will go out
again (they were in the Red Oak murder),
and they will hunt for another case that
needs “protection,” hut just as certain as fate
they will strike slate some of these days.
We print tins morning another list of letters
from our farmer correspondents, who tell of
the career of a score or more of neighbors
who have made their farms pay.
It is hardly necessary to say that these are
without a single exception men who raise tlieir
own provisions, and who do not buy com and
meat on credit to raise cotton with. We in
vite the attention of the people to this show
ing. It is simply irresistible in favor of
“corn-raising,” and demonstrates the inexora
ble rain that waits on the fanner who plants
all cotton” or anything like it. Read the
letters.
FROM GOOD OLD FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Erastus, March 13.—To the Atlanta Constitution:
I have very recently removed from Dowoy to my
plantation in Franklin county, near Erastus, Banks
county.
1. John \V Seymour, ol Dowdy, Madison county,
Ga., raises considerable cotton, but always raises
sufficient corn for home consumption, including
raising meat, also wheat, etc., while he has many,
in fact most all of his neighbors raise cotton prin
cipally, and are always behind and in debt, while
he makes money.
2. William Smith, near Planter. Madison county,
raises mostly corn and small grains, raises his own
meat and is thrifty, has plenty oi money, while his
neighbors are behind and in debt from raising all
cotton.
3. Elba Collins, of Madison county, raises home
cessful farmers in our county are H. <~_ Parris ,
Robert Moon, T. E. Middlebrook, George Thur
mond and J. i. Branch, with a few others, ari com
raisers. Wishing vou God speed in your noble un
dertaking, I am yiurs respectfully.^ ^ pi , JCE _
A WORD FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
Jasper, Ga., March 11, 1882.—Atlanta U° n f 4 "' 4 '
tion: I received your circular asking about our
successful farmers, etc. 1 give you my own method
of farming. My principal crop is corn and wheat.
I raise some oats and clover for my own use. The
present year I made about 3,000 bushels of corn, 800
bushels ol wheat, and 15 bales of cotton. I am sat
isfied that the profits upon fanning are made only
by those who raise their own supplies, and the pres
ent year the profits are to those who raised gram
last 'year.
EW Allred, mostly corn and wheat: Wm Pool,
mostly corn and wheat; James Faulkner, mostly
com and wheat: James Richards, altogether corn
and wheat; William Thompson, corn, wheat and
cotton; Leonard Bearden, mostly corn and wheat;
C H Taylor, mostly corn and wheat; William fate.
meal etc. _
The most of the above fanners, except Burlison,
raise some hay, oats aud cotton.
I could give you the names of several other good
farmers who raise not only their own supplies, but
considerable quantities for sale.
Yours respectfully. S. C. Tate,
another line from franklin.
Bold Spring, Ga., March 9, 1882.—Editors Con
stitution : The old saying, “still water runs deep,
is applicable to Franklin county in regard to agri
culture. Most every county in this state, I believe,
sent vou some information about its interest.
Franklin, in the meanwhile, has observed the
maxim of Zoroaster who, of all virtues, chose that
of silence. We now propose to say a little about
our county and ourselves, and perhaps if tins
should uot be doomed, more auon.
Our young yeomen are healthy, enterprising and
thrifty. Our females fair, modest aud industrious.
We'use more thought aud less muscle than we
did in the ante helium days, and find itpaysbet-
Jeffreys claimed the right to protect his offi- , - ——- .— . . „ . ...
1, , , ,, .. supplies 01 corn and small grain and prospers,
cers, ana lie did it fora while, but the time I 4 The plantation of Captain John If. Montgomery
came when he needed protection quite as | SE’Sun!
much as did the miserable creatures
have committed countless crimes, but none
more lienious than the killing of poor old
Hicks.
THE HISTORY OF A YARN MILL.
Mr. J. R. Scofield, a young man of practical edu- I
cation and energy has established a most promising
enterprise in south Georgia. He put up a short
ime ago a Clement at'acmeut, with a view of spin
ning yarns from seed cotton. A few months ago he
enlarged his mill, put aside the Clement attach
ment and is now spinning yarn from bale cotton,
He said:
“The Clement attachment did all that was claim
ed for it, as X ascertained it would do before I
bought it, but there are certain economic objections
to it that led me to abaudon it. While it will do
for small enterprises, it will not do, in my opinion,
for large ones.”
“How many spindles have you at work now?”
‘I have about 1,400 spindles. I am making a
specialty of soft knitting yarns that I pack in pound
boxes made In Atlanta, and sell to merchants. This
yam readily commands twenty-four cents, and is in
great demand. It is possible that I shall add a new
machine to my factory. I now make about one
thousand pounds of yams per day and will increase
this yield steadily.”
“Is yam making very profitable?”
“It is more profitable than anything requiring
moderate capital that I know of. Take the history
of Mr. Hanson’s factory at Macon. He started
about ten years ago with 1600 spindles aud thirty
thousand dollars capital, making yarns. Shortly
afterwards he Increased this to 2600 spindles, and
then bought out of his profits the Macon mill, with
ten thousand spindles and looms to match. A
short time ago he built another yam mill
now has a total capacity in the three mills of 16,500
spindles. On the first of January he had property
representing a capital of $200,000 with $136,000 sur
plus. This is the history in brief of a Georgia yam
mill, or rather what grew out of one. X do not
think its record can be beaten anywhere in the
country. The most profitable course open to our
people is the manufacturing of coarse yams. Of
course from tills -will come the manufacture of
finer goods. At present, however, nothing gives so
good a profit as yams, say eights and tens.”
, diversifying of crops principally, making the plan-
who | tatiou self-sustaining, which is very successful.
5. Captain Henry F. David, of Franklin county,
has alwavs raised all of his corn, wheat, oats and
meat, and has made money ever since 1 was a small
boy, and I am 43 years old.
6. Dr. John K. Sewell, of Erastus, Banks county,
raises diversity of crops, corn, wheat, oats and meat,
and is successful.
7. Rev. William T. Bruck, of Banks county, raises
hiscoriii wheat, oats and meat, and is successful.
8. William K. Alexander, near Fort Lamar, raises
a sutficiency of com, wheat, oats and meat for home
consumption, and is successful.
All of the above raise some cotton. You will see
that I have taken In my report a portion of three
counties, aud in all of that territory I find two men,
to-wit: \V. B. aud John H. Sheets, that have made
money by raising cotton, and they raise a consider
able amount of wheat and oats, which may be the
secret of their success. So, if they may be called
such, I know of other persons that have succeeded
in making clear money, or even getting along easily
who do not raise their own com, etc.
J. W. Sewell, M. D.
FROM A RARE OLD VETERAN WHO KNOWS
March 7,1882.—In answer to a circular from The
Constitution, dated the 22d ult., you will suffer
me to give my own experience in farming, for the
last fifty-three years. 1 came to Fayette county,
Georgia, at the close of 1828; made my first ctop in
’29; my entire means w ere one horse, one small
and wearing apparel. I gave my horse and note
for £25 for 160 acres of land: bought another horse
on time; went to work; I have from then till tne
present diversified my crops, raising my own stock
and provisions on my farm—cotton as a surplus
crop, never having to buy corn, meat or flour till
overrun by the federal army, that destroyed my
growing crop, took all my stock of all kinds. In
1865 I bonded for corn, when I paid the cotton for
it; it cost me S3.30 per bushel; tnat satisfied me that
bonding for provisions would not pay. I restocked
my farm ana ran the same schedule, raising my
own supplies, and with hired labor have made be
tween eight and ten thousand dollars, the most of
which I have given to my children, and have a
sufficiency for myself and old lady. I owe no man
anything but good will. £0 you see farming will
pay, if a man will raise his supplies on the farm
and pay as he goes. 1 know of no farmer that
makes cotton his principal crop and buys his pro
vision, but what has lost money.
On the other hand, I know of no farmer that raises
his own supplies but what has made money. Oh,
how long before farmers will learn wisdom?
I refer you to Messrs. Haiper, Fairburn; Bastion,
Fairburn, and T. E. Dodd, East Point, etc. I high
ly appreciate the advice you give farmers to diver
sify their crops. Ail farmers would do themselves
a favor to subscribe for aud read The Constitution,
the best political paper published in the state.
Fraternally, J. S. Dodd.
A SENSIBLE LETTER.
High Shoals, Ga., March 8, 1882.—Editors Consti
tution: I cannot speak for the whole county, but
will give you the names of a few'in my community.
Mr. A ~ ‘ *
autumn, make more and feed better than ever be
fore.
Everybody is hoping that the white Russian oats
will average fifty bushels per acre. If such a yield
should be realized this year by those who have
sown them, X am of the opinion that in a few’ years
they will supersede cotton as a staple crop. Fall
oats and wheat look very promi-ing in this section,
Romeo.
SOME MIXED CROP MEN.
Red Clay, March 7,1882.—Editors Constitution:
In reply to your inquiry I take pleasure in giving
you the names of Kev. W. C. Richardson, W. W.
Cooksey, Dr. J. F. Graves and Major T. II. Pitner.
These are successful farmers. They grow all the
grasses, clover and grain of all kinds, potatoes, tur
nips, etc , and some cotton. These all grow well in
our county (Whitfield) and the farmer who plants
these and keeps up his lands with a plentiful
amount of ciover with which to keep his lauds well
fertilized, makes a success. He who uses a great
deal of heating fertilizers to raise cotton will sooner
or later exhaust his lands aud find that he has
made a great mistake. Respectfully.
James H. Huff.
“not one cotton man successful.”
Ccthbert, Ga., March 11,18S2.—Editors Constitu
tion: 1 will answer your questions as briefly as
possible. There is not a farmer in Randolph county
who has succeeded who has raised “ail cotton.”
But where they have half and the one-third system
they have made money and are independent. We
must make our own supplies, and a fanner who
does not is a bastard to his race. Farmers who have
succeeded: W. G. Laekett, John I’eaK, J. F.
Trippe, D. R. Stewart, J. W. Nichols, R. A. Perry,
id many others. Yours very truly.
Charles Stubbs.
THEY TAKE A LITTLE OF BOTH AND ARE HAPPY.
Haddock Station. M. <Ss A. R. K„ March 9,1882.
—Dear Sir: You will fiud below the names of live
of the most successful planters in this county so far
as my knowledge extends. They are corn makers
as well as producers of cotton; Joseph Glawsou,
Clinton: Augustus Pitts, Haddock; Green Roberts,
Clinton: W. T. Morton, Gray; William Roberts
Griswoldvilie. Respectfully, David W. Lest eu.
PARDONED AT LAST.
INVENTIONS IN THE SOUTH.
The changes wrought hy the war are be-
gining to be felt in every department of hu
man industry in this country; especially
in the sixteen southern states that witnessed
a revolution in labor, are these changes most
marked and interesting. Take the matter of
inventions. Before the war the need of labor-
saving implements was not felt in the south,
there being a supply of labor, ready and trust
worthy, always at hand. The amount of
labor corresponded to the available capital,
and the people jogged along in a comfortable
and contented way, caring very little about
the machinery of other states or the march of
improvement generally. ,The war swept away
the labor system, and then was awakened for
the first time the inventive power of the
southern people. The brain power that had
either been wasted or turned in other
directions then began to consider the indus
trial situation and to devise means for bring
ing it out of the great disaster which had be
fallen it. The increase in inventions in the
south is an illustration of this change, and to
show how great it has been we add a table,
compiled in the patent office, that covers the
decade before the war and the first complete
decade after the war, leaving the figures of
the war decade out altogether:
Between Mr. Hammond and Mr. Blount
Georgia is not by any means a state without a
voice in the house of representatives. These
two members are always attentively listened
to, because they never talk unless they have
something to say, and it seems to follow that
neither has any difficulty in getting the floor.
They discuss or inquire into nearly every
matter that conics before the house, not ex
cepting bills relating to the District of Colum
bia. Mr. Hammond has come to be regarded
as one of the best lawyers in congress, and
Mr. Blount has achieved a reputation and In
fluence that comparatively few have enjoyed
in the house.
CO-OPERATIVE COTTON RAISING.
We prim elsewhere a statement from the
>~ew York Herald in regard to an enterprise
A COTTON SEED OIL REFINERY.
It is an established fact that a cotton seed-oil
mill will be erected during the summer, in Atlan
ta, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars,
in Rome with a capital of fifty-five thousand dol
lars, in Athens with the same capital and in Colum
bus with about fifty thousand dollars. There is al
ready a seed oil mill in operation at Augusta. This
mill, with those that are to be built this summer,
will produce about 500 barrels per day within a
territory of which Atlanta is the practi
cal center. This territoiv is not occupied by an oil
refinery-
Throughout the rest of the south the cotton seed
oil mills are divided by agreement and a refinery
has been established at some central point to
handle the crude oil of each section. There is one
at Montgomery, two at Memphis, one at New Or
leans, and probably others elsewhere. They do
not encroach upon each other’s territory, each re
finery taking the product of the mills that have
been assigned to it. There must be a refining es
tablishment somewhere to handle the product of
the mills going up in Georgia aud Carolina. At
lanta is the natural point for such a refinery. It is
the geographical centre of the new territory, it pos
sesses better shipping advantages than any other
point, has heavier capital and more general ad
vantages.
The profits of a refinery are established beyond
dispute. The crude oil costs 35 to 45 cents per gal
lon. When refined it brings from 65 cents to $1 per
gallon. Here is a large margin for expense and
profit The refineries established already have
prospered and declared large dividends, the de
mand for the oil is increasing and every gallon
that can be turned out is taken. A refinery of
the proper capacity tor this place would cost one
hundred thousand dollars and would add 50 per
cent to the value of cotton seed oil made in Geor
gia. We hope to see a refinery established in At
lanta and invite the attention of capitalists to the
advantage it offers for investment.
rreet, Mr. Wagnon, H. Adams, Dick Jones and
Stovall, all ot whom are self-sustaining farmers,
planting about one-third cotton and the other two-
thirds in corn, oats and wheat. I farm pretty much
011 the same system, planting SO acres to the mule,
beside my grain crop, about 20 in corn and 10 in
cotton, thereby making it a self-sustaining farm.
I will give you my manner of preparing my land.
We usually have un abundance of rain during the
months of March and April. If the soil has pre
viously been well broken the water from these
rains, instead of converting two or three inches of
the soil into mud aud the greater part plowing
away, will sink into the deeply plowed land aud
store itself in the deep subsoil below out of the
reach of the drying winds aad heat of the sun.
Tbe tiroken soil acts as a sponge, and will, in itself,
Kate So them Km-lven the Governor** DnrJon itttil Is
u Free Woman.
The readers of The Constitution are all familiar
with the story of Kate Sothern, who killed Narcissa
Cowart, her rival In the affections of her husband,
in Dickens county, some years ago. She was
sentenced to death for the killing.
The governor, in response to petitions from
every state in the union in view of the justice of the
case commuted the death sentence to ten years im
prisonment. O11 yesterday he granted her a full
pardon, and she is this morning a free woman. The
pardon was written out about 4 o’clock and was
hauded to her about 6 o’clock by Dr. Thomas
Raines, the physician of the penitentiary. Kate
has been living for some time as a domes
tic in the house of Colonel Chess Howard.
It Is understood that she and her husband will no
return to Pickens county but will make their home
elsewhere. Thus ends one of the most noted cases
ever in the courts of Georgia; one that created per
haps more interest aud excitemeut than any ever
known in the state.
absorb a much larger quantity than if left compact
and unbroken. Thus deep plowing in the spring
provides airectly against the effects of drougth in
summer, as really as ponds and cisterns filled in |
winter provide drinking water in the summer.
A deeply plowed soil permits the roots of plants
Augusta’s Opportunity.
From the Augusta News.
\There is now at the Globe hotel in Augusta
a New York capitalist, Mr. R. B. Hall, who is
traveling in this section of the south for
Ills health, and during a brief stay lie has
been most favorably impressed with Augusta
and particularly witlj-the sand hills. Indeed
lie is so well pleased"that lie is thinking of
investing about fifty thousand dollars in a
... . . . hotel on the hill if terms can be agreed
to Penetrate every portion of the mass, searching upon for an available site and the proper
out their appropriate nourishment, and in tune of I * i_,i v...
drouth sinking deeper to still abundant moisture. I encouragement is extended by our citizens.
In a conversation with Mr. Hall this morn
ing, he expressed his satisfaction and
pleasure at the prospects of such a
plan and his belief that a hotel on the hill
would draw crowds of northern visitors and
pay lietter than Aiken. If he decides to in
vest in a hotel he prefers to build with his
own capital, but if the company, which is al
ready incorporated, should approach him
properly, we believe a company might he
formed' which could build a hotel worth
$100,000 on the hill. Mr. Hall is a retired
merchant and has spent much of his time in
traveling, and unhesitatingly gives a pref
erence to the sand hills over any place he has
visited. His ideas or plans, though not yet
settled, favor the building of a pretty hotel,
constructed with balconies and pleasure
grounds, which would give invalids and pleas
ure seekers abundant opportunity to enjoy
our dry and delightful atmosphere.
States.
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas .7.
Virginia
West Virginia
Totals..
1871 to
1880.
1:
19
52!
19
202
192
209
423
117
270
72
71
103
69
301
2.244
438
228
300
108
699
1,4:56
833
2,248
475
3,178
475
336
AS TO SENATOR B. H. HILL.
A report has been circulating In the papers to the
effect First, That Senator Hill had said to a friend
he had given up all hope of recovery; and, second,
That a brother and - sister of the senator had
died ol eanceraud that it was hereditary.
We have the very best authority for denying both
of these statements. Mr. Hill has never given up
hope oi his recovery and was never so hopeful and
confident as he is at present He never had either
a sister or brother to die of cancer, or to have can-
[ eer or anything like it, and there has never been on
either side of his family,as far he can remember.any
sort of cancerous taint- These are facts that the
drouth sinking deeper to still abundant moisture.
For fear of worrying your patience 1 will close
by saying that 1 will write you a letter semi
monthly, giving you my plan of cultivation if
agreeable. Yours truly,
W. N. Robertson,
some good men in a good county.
Brownsville, Daulding County, Ga„ March 9th,
1882—Editors Constitution—We, or a majority of us,
are already convinced that one crop farming will
not do, and the consequence is our county is out of
debt, which 1 suppose should be attribuied to our
county officers. But her citizens, withjfew excep
tions, are out of debt—I mean the farmers I know
—a few who hare tried nil cotton, and they failed,
and 1 know some who tried raising all corn to Day
debts. They soon found they could not pay debts
fast raising all com. I will send you the names of
a few of our prosperous farmers who only raise cot
ton as a surplus—I mean they raise all‘the cotton
they can after making sure of grain to supply their
farm and generally raise meats not only for their
own family, but a sufficiency to supply their ser
vants, and sometimes have meat and com to sell
oft'their farm; Mr. Jasper Clay is quite a prosper
ous farmer, aud you would think so if you knew
how he began and what he is now. Also M. J.
Florence, J. G. Clouts, J. B. Derris, Thomas Varner,
A. B. Clouts, all are variety farmers and contented
to remain farmers. Some of the above men could
say they had not bought a bushel of corn in ten
years and are all out of debt aud some of them
are lending money. 1 am of opinion that there
will be less cotton planted this year in this county
than for several years past, and less guano used.
The farmers have sowed pretty largely in wheat
and oats, and they are looking healthy, though
generally small for so warm a winter.
Yours, etc., H. C. Errcu.
FROM A VALUED VOLUNTEER.
Thomson, Ga., March 17, 1882.—Editor Atlanta
Constitution—Dear Sir: I have noticed from time
to time letters from various parts of the state, giv
ing the names of those farmers who are prosperous,
aud that they invariably are those who raise corn,
oats, etc., sufficient for home use. I think this a
I very commendable course, for it will no doubt act
| as a stimulus to others to “go and do likewise.” I
send you the names of several of the farmers of
our county who raise corn and oats sufficient to run
their farms: J. J. Morris, M. W. Dunn, C. H. El
lington, W. H. Stone, John H. Hobbs, T. R. Burn
side, J. H. Boyd, N. L. Evans, J. E. Smith, L. C.
A Veteran Fireman
From the Savannah Recorder.
Mr. James Kearney, the driver of the Bar
tow hose carriage, is the oldest member of the
Savannah fire department now living, and
lias an experience, moreover, that is the most
interesting of any member connected with
the entire organization. He joined the
Washington fire company on May 14th, 1854,
and has been continuously with The depart
ment since that time. In all the long period
that intervened between then and now, he
has not lost a single day’s duty, except on one
instance, when he was laid up with acute
neuralgia. He has attended every fire that
has occurred in the city since 1854. when the
company he was attached to was called out,
with the exception of three, and he was inca
pacitated from being present at those fires by
absence from the city, and next by illness.
Mr. Kearney lias a wonderful memory for
Smith and others. These men have certainly reduced 1 fi re particulars and incidents, and can, with
judiciously, remarkable accuracy, give place and time of
BILL’S BLOOMS.
MR ar^lament&the frost nip.
PING OF HIS PEACHES.
Also Continues Hie Lamentations and Talk.
Wh£r Than Canal—He Tells Some Good
Series. Too. About Judeea Lochrane.
Banger and tho Independent
Written for The Constitution.
Nipped in the bud. It looks like there is
no security from anything. Ours was no
second-hand orchard; we planted it and
the blooms have for three years looken so
sweet and promising, and now this is the
third year the fruit has been killed. I sup
pose we could have built little fires all about,
but who knows when to build ’em. It is poor
comfort to build ’em when there is no danger,,
and it is hard to tell when there is danger.
Reckon we will just have to keep the orchard
for the flowers, like we do a crab apple-
tree. for they arc mighty pretty.
One of my nabors lives right
under the western slope of a mountain
and his fruit is never killed. He had plenty
last vear but the sun don’t rise at lus house
till 'its about two hours high and that
wouldn’t suit my folks at all. 'Veil, it
might suit the folks but it wouldu t suit my
business. It would be dinner time before
breakfast. The peach crop is very uncertain
among these Cherokee hills, but most every
body can have a few trees around the house
where they are protected. We can’t expect
to have all the good things in our place. My
Irish potatoes were killed down the other
morning and that hurt my feelings for I was
a little proud that I was ahead of
my nabors. But they will come
out again and so there is some
comfort left and a good deal of hope. Hope
savs the peaches are not all killed for a man
can’t examine all the blooms and maybe
there will be enough for the children. That
is the main thing after all; enough for the
children is what the world is working for;
enough money, or land, or food and clothing;
enough pleasure and happiness. How we do
love ’em and worry over ’em by night and by
day. If we had no children I think I would
just quit work and toil right suddenly and—ga
a fishing. But there is not much time to frolic
on a farm at this season of the year, for my
almanac says, “About this time plant cora,’ r
and we are doing it all around these-
parts. I can sit on my pazzer and look
into five farms and see the darkeys
and the mules and hear em, too, and its gee
and haw, and git along Pete, and whar you
gwine Nell, come round dar, I tell you; and
theres no end to this kind of affectionate, one
sided discourse until the horn blows for din
ner, and then tlic most knowing mules give a
bray all round. Its astonishing liow much
they do know and can be made to understand.
I had a big mule who would never give but
one pull at a root unless the darkey who
plowed him hollered out, “Rotten root, I tell
you!” and then lie would break that root or
something else, for he had confidence
in the nigger. It always did seem
like there was a kind of confidential
relation between niggers and mules, a sort of
a treaty of peace and equality, for there is no-
other animal can stand the darkey and
there’s no other human can get along in
peace with a mule. When they are alone
together in a big field with long rows the dar
key talks to him all along the line and the
mule listens in respectful silence but if two
darkies are plowing together they talk to one
another and the mules are snubbed. There
is a power of corn being planted this spring
and not much more than halfa cropof cotton
so far as my observation goes. I hope we will
make enough food for the country for we can
do with lees clothing better than be stinted in-
vittels. There is a power of folks dependent
upon the farmers and a great responsibil
ity upon us. Politics raises a mighty rumpus
and takes up a sight of room in the newspa
pers, but when you compare it with farming
at all seems sorter like a monkey show that is
going on for amusement, and the farmers feel
like doing like Judge Stewart’sTexan Ranger,
who went to see an amateur musical perform
ance in Rome one night during the war. He
was a rough specimen about six feet and two
inches, and a liat like an umbrella and Ijoots
like stove pipes, and .spurs that jingled like
trace chains, and a couple of navy pistols to
set off his heard, and he paid his half a dollar
and took a stand behind an empty bench in
the rear and looked on with a lofty contempt
and whenever the performers closed a piece
and the cheering began the ranger rattled the
old bench most alarmingly and exclaimed,
souy, souy, souy,” like he was driving hogs
-and he kept it up until he monopolized the
show and had it all to himself. These prema
ture candidates for governor and so forth re-
mined me of Judge Lochrane’s story of the
Irishman who thought he had a fast horse-
and so he put him in the races and bet on
him. He run pretty well, but seemed to run
better behind than before and the Irishman
clapped his hands with delight and ex
claimed, “faith andjSt. Patrick, just look liow-
lie drives ’em.” But its all right. I’m glad,
to sec the independents waking up. Its all
for the good of the people and will keep the-
old democracy on its good behavior. There’s-
nothing like having sentinels on the watch
towers. Sometimes the party goes too fast
and these independents act like a balance
wheel, a regulator, a brake—sorter like Tinny
Rucker’s yearlin, for they say when Tinny
was a hoy lie tried for an hour to drive a
yearlin out of the pasture and finally he got
him by the tail and they run and run and
bellowed and run until somebody hollowed
to him and said: “Tinny, you can’t hold that
yearlin; what are you trying to do?” “I know
I can’t hold him,” said Tinny, “but I can
make him go slow.”
Jesso. That is all these independents are-
after. They don’t expect office, but they have
more "abounding patriotism than anybody,
and are holding on to the tail of the concern
just to make it go slow. Some of ’em I reckon,
arc a Jittle disappointed because the train
went off and left ’em, and it don’t do any
good to laugh at ’em no matter whether they
dident run fast enough or started too late.
Let’s he tender with ’em, for maybe their
turn will come after while and they will be
tender with us. There are a power of ups and
downs in this world, and in politics they are
mostly downs—especially down south.
Bill Am*.
i mS I 501104 cancerous taint- These are facts that the farming to a science. They use guano judiciously, remarkable accuracy, give place and time of
j*rir senator’s friends and the public may rely on abso- 1 making use of their cotton seed as far as they will these fires, the deaths of members of the fire
, * L - 1 department and everything of interest con-
1.026
471
14,440
THE HABEAS CORPUS DECISION.
We print in another column the decision
of the United States district court in the case
of the State of Georgia vs Robert Bolton and
Robert Freeland for killing J. J. Hicks in
Gwinnett county. We think when Dr. Fel
ton reads this decision he will think it was de
livered by Andrew Clark.
It will be seen that it is a matter of little
concern to the court what crimes the deputy
United States marshals commit. They must
be protected. Because there is an illicit dis
tiller in Gwinnett county the people
cannot be trusted to try one of these
electable officers who brutally murders one of
the citizens of the county. The county can
find a true bill, and then send it to a court
where every influence about the court is
warped to protect the murderer. Of course
lutely.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Washington, March 25.—Letters from Senator
Hill state that the surgeons have made a thorough
examination and report that they do not see any
trace of the disease remaining in his mouth or in
the glands of the neck. They made an incision to
allow pus to escape. The patient feels much relief.
The prospect is that the wound will nowheal
steadily and faster than before.
Philadelphia. March 25.—Senator Hill, of Geor
gia, who had an operation performed on his tongue
at Jefferson hospital, in this city, has again re
turned for treatment.
The physicians at the hospital state that the
wound caused by the former operation has been
allowed to heal, when it should have been
kept open. A collection of pus N»d
formed in the throat, which was relieved
upon his arrival here be the opening of the healed
wound. There was a free discharge, and the phy
sicians say there is no apprehension of a serious
result, and that there will be no necessity for an
other operation. The present condition of the sen
ator would permit his leaving, bnt he desires to re
main until satisfied that his relief is permanent.
go.
Mr J J Morris brought into onr town last week 150
bushels of sweet potatoes which, for size, flavor and
beauty, were hard to excel. In my judgment the
150 bushels would average three and a half pounds
to the potato. He sold them, readily to one of our
merchants at 85 cents per bushel. He savs he can
make 1,000 bushels sweet potatoes to the acre, and
proposes to do it this year. If he does, will Mr.
Grady not give our grand old state such a boom on
this score that our old red hills will besought after
as a better investment than an orange grove?
J. F. S.
“HE'S TRIED IT AND KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING
ABOUT.”
Farmington, Oconee County, Ga., March 21.—
Editora Constitution: The great interest you
manifest toward the farmers is most highly
appreciated by the oeoplo of our county.
We have always considered that our noble state
owed a good deal oi its success to your valuable
columns, but we are satisfied that nothing you have
done can be of more value than the advice you are
now giving us, if we will only accept it. From
your humble correspondent’s sad experience he is
satisfied that the all-cotton plan will bankrupt any
one who adopts it. Those of our people who have
raised their own com and meat are in a prosperous
and thriving condition—the rest of us are in a de
plorable condition financially. This, the present
year, there is more grain and less cotton- being
planted than ever before since the war, and I hope
and believe that another year will find us in a bet
ter contrition. The intere.-t felt in this will almost
doable your subscribers in Oconee. The most suc-
nected with it. He will be sixty-two years in
a few months and is hale and hearty. Prior
to coming to Savannah he served six years
with the “Old Fourteens,” of New York.
A Salamander Cat.
An eve witness tells The Constitution a
most curious story of the burning of Mrs. A.
J. Howell’s residence day before yesterday in
Gwinnett county. When Mrs. Howell left
the house the day of the fire she locked a
valued and plethoric cat in the house. When
the fire came this was the only living being
in the burning house. When the fire was
over it was supposed that the cat had, of
course, been burned to death, when suddenly
she emerged from the second-story flue of the
chimney badly singed, but still in the ring.
She jumped from the flue into the bed of hot
ashes, uttered a fearful squawk and flew into
the woods. She has since been seem and is
as well as could be expected, having suffered
no serious injury. Persons who saw the fire
say that the flames swept through tbe chim
ney to a height of ten feet above the opening
anti that the bricks were intensely heated
clear to the outside. The question is how did
she “stand the racket""
How a Cow Lost Milk.
From the Fort Valley Mirror.
For the past few weeks Colonel W. E. Col
lier has noticed that the supply of milk and
home-made butter at his house has been rather
limited, and as lie is the owjier of a very fine
cow, was at a loss to understand the state of
affairs. He fed his cow on corn, and fodder
and meal, sweet potatoes and pumpkins,
turned her on liis rye and oat patches, and
still the supply of milk was not increased-
The cow’s calf was taken from her when it
was several weeks old, and the cow, which,
only a short time ago was furnishing a boun
tiful supply of milk, was now furnishing
scarcely enough for tea and coffee. Things
went on in this way for some time, and
finally the mystery was solved. While walk
ing over his premises a few days ago. Colonel
Collier discovered that a colt which he owns
and which is also allowed to feed on the oat
patch, had taken the place cf the calf and was
actually sucking the cow. They have been
separated now, and the usual supply of milk,
is the result.
A Third Fracture.
From the Henry County Weekly.
Mr. Joseph W. Kimbell, living at Locust 1
Grove, met with a serious and rather singlar
accident on last Monday evening. As he was -
passing through Mr. Arch Brown’s stable one 1
of the mules backed out of the stall and push- 1
ed against him with such force as to knock
him down, producing a severe fracture of the
thigh. This is the third accident of the kind
that has happened to this gentleman, and as
he is now quite old and feeble, it is doubtful
if he will ever fully recover the use of his
injured limb. 1