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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1882.
GOSHEN.
MODEL FARM IN CHATTAHOO
CHEE’S PINEY WOODS.
PAN Y CAME FROM.
Mr. Ttionu Do Wolfe'* Farm «nd How It 1* Man-
seed—Homemade Fertiliser* v*. Guano—A Mod-
ein Cow Barn—Mannfacturloe the Fer.
tlllicra— Fostom and Persimmon*.
From the Coiambus Times.
Talbotton, March 20.—Yesterday I spent
on my native heath, the home of my youth,
Goshen, located in the piny woods in the
extreme northern part of Chattahoochee
county, the land of the gopher and the sala
mander. At no season of the year does this
section appear to such an advantage as now,
the opening of spring. Through the long leaf
pines the balmy breezes sigh, while the black
jack and the haw trees are taking on their
foliage of green, and beneath the springing
grass furnish a verdant carpet, from which
the woodland violet and thousands of other
wild flowers modestly lift their heads
with here and there' a wild jessamine
having fastened its tendrils about
some sturdy oak laden with its yellow blooms
freight the air with a perfume that the inge
nuity of man lias never yet been able to im
prison. if there lie an elixir ot life, it cer
tainly is in the pure air of a spring day in the
pincy woods. Perhaps,I am not without bias
in their fnvor, for over these bills in my boy
hood days in the stilly evening hour I drove
up the lowing kine, around the persimmon
tree laden with its golden fruit when the full
moon had waned I hunted the festive opos
sum, and as I drink in great draughts of its
life-giving perfume-laden air, my heart swells
with exultation that “This is my own, my
native land.”
At the old home I found the work of pre
paring for a new crop was well under way.
The corn land has been well broken, the cot
ton seed used as a fertilizer bedded in, and
the grain for the most part planted. In many
respects “Goshen” is one of the
MODKI. FARMS
of Georgia, and I trust none will ascribe to
me wrong motives in saying so. It is not
conducted on the Persons-Lamar theories, but
its cribs are filled with corn that will last till
the present cfop ripens, and its smoke house
contains a suflicienoy of meat to “do” at least
the immediate family of its owner, Mr.Tliomas
DeWolf. Its fodder houses are filled to over
flowing, and in its pea house are three or four
hundred bushels of well cleaned peas in ex
cess of the farm’s wants, awaiting a home
market which planting time will create. And
last but not least
THE C.UANO HOUSE.
is filled to thereof with a fertilizer gathered
up in his own horse lot and barn yards, and
manipulated by the owner, which I honestly
believe is superior to that which the silvcry-
tongued agents about Talbotton are selling to
the farmers of this county at a bale of cotton
per ton, to be paid next fall.
Believing it would be interesting to your
readers 1 shall tell you just how this great
hank of fertilizers is gathered up and manip
ulated. It takes just twelve months to make
it, that is lie begins to prepare for next year
as soon as he lets finished manipulating that
intended for this year.- As soon as he has
raked off his horse lot and barnyard or cow
lot, lie again eovers the entire ground with
leaves and litter, which is allowed to remain
till it is thoroughly cut up and decomposed,
it is then raked up and banked, and the
ground again covered with litter from the
woods. From this bank he tills his lugse and
cow stalls, (lie has stalls for both) which great
ly improves it. When it becomes necessary
to remove it from the stalls it is again banked
but protected by shelter from the sun. His
guano house is 24 feet wide and 75 feet long.
In one side of this he makes a vat or box 12
inches deep, six feet wide and sixteen feet
long. Into this vat lie puts 22 wheelbarrow
loads of the Takings from the cow lot, 8 bar-
row loads from his stables, 4 barrow loads of
leached ashes and one bushel of salt-
The whole mass is then thoroughly work,
ed up' or manipulated with a manip
ulating fork, an implement especially
adapted to the use. From this vat it comes a
finely pulverized fertilizer, which is banked
in the house. He now lias a bank 75 feet
long, 12 feet thick and 10 feet high, contain
ing how many tons 1 haven’t the least idea.
Ibis fertilizer is applied to cotton in the same
manner as guano, but w : tli a more generous
hand, as it did not cost a bale of cotton per
ton, but which he thinks is worth more and
we think there are thousands of farmers in
the country who will agree with him when
the agent of the guano king calls for his mas
ter’s tithe next fall.
There are many tilings about this model
farm about which I would like to teli you,
but fear I trespass too heavily on your col
nnins. However, I will give you a descrip
tion of his cow-lmrn, which I think is wot thy
thc attention of farmers throughout the sun
ny south. It is 100 feet long, with a good
shingle roof extending down to within eight
or ten feet of the ground, which forms a ca
pacious loft for the storage of dry forage.
Under the center along its entire length ex
tends a broad trough,madeof very heavy lum-
l»er, just high enough for a cow to eat out of
with ease, along the center of this trough ex
tends a piece of timber into which pine poles
are fitted and fastened in plates in the floor of
the loft forming a rack opening into the loft
above, into which forage for the cows can be
easily thrown. On each side tiiis vast struc
ture*^ partitioned off into stalls, with trough
and rack, protecting the cows from the win
try blasts and furnishing a place in which
they can be easily fed. it is without doubt
the most conveniently arranged structure I
ever saw. and about the only reason every
farm in the country is not supplied with one,
is that the people generally do not know how
easily one can Tie built.
started on their awful and dangerous egress. I C1JTDUP'D TVC PHAIRTFR
For two of three hours they wandered around I Ollir nEiI\U O Llln.lv 1 LAV.
in the midnight darkness and finally came to
the light, as pale as death with the cold sweat WHERE JACOB’S PERUVIAN COM-
standing on their marble brows, thanking the " * ”'' " * ””
Lord that they were once more saved from
the jaws of death.
They rested a while, thought the matter
over, and held another conference. No. I
thought it was a long ride all the way back
to town without any liquor. No. 2 thought he
couldn’t live to get there without a chew,and
An Interview With the Lawyer Who Succeeded in
Getting the Document Desired—A Copy of the
Charter—What Colonel Hoge Know*
About Mr. Shipherd.
. , , ,i “Colonel Hoge,” said a Constitution repre-
asg’ui «*■«» -I- *»^
friends that he threw the knife away. The as one of Shipherd’s partners in the Peruvian
three did therefore agree that they would hire I question. Please tell nte something about
a boy to go hack and search for their lost jt? .
property, but as no one conld be found who I ' _ ...... , ..
knew the cave sufficiently to undertake it.the I " e ^> the f^cts relating to my connection
darkness still holds their sacrifices as trophies with the Peruvian company are very easily
of tiieir repentance. and briefly told.
If one of our young merchants should pre 1
maturely become gray, it is the cave that
did it.
STARTLING DISCOVERY.
From the North Georgia Citizen,
Two men who live in the northern part of
Gilmer county, near the Coliuttah range,
made a startling discovery a few days ago.
They had chased a depredating fox to liis
covert, which proved to he an immense hol
low tree trunk, charred and blackened by
forest fires. It was comparatively but a huge
“Last year Mr. Jacob R. Shipherd, of New
York, wrote me asking whether it would be
possible to procure from our legislature a
special charter with omnibus powers for cer
tain capitalists who were planning very con
siderable operations of an international
character. His attention was directed to
Georgia by the circumstance that there was
here no constitutional difficulty in the way of
granting special charters, while nearly all the
*>ther states had general laws regulating the
organization of all corporations and the now
account of all that may hereafter be re
moved.
CALHOUN’S COTTOlS-
The Soeee*«f*l Plantation, of the South Carolina
Statesman’* Sonia
Special to the New York Herald.
Arkansas City, March 18.—Greenville,
Mississippi, is a very thriving center, of over
three thousand inhabitants. At this point
the water lias gone down a foot within the
past three days. Only a small portion of the
immediate back country is still under water,
and the planters are already at work prepar
ing to put in the crops. No suffering existed
NATURAL WHISPERING GALLERY
A Curlout Phenomenon Alleged to IIato Been No
ticed In Albany*
From the Albany News and Advertiser.
[The following has been handed in for pub
lication, and the News and Advertiser will
not vouch for it,]
It is well known that the larger part of
southwestern Georgia is undermined with
caverns, as the many “lime sinks” and un
derground streams testify. A singular corrob
oration of this fact was discovered yesterday.
Mr. B. Martin, the well-known builder, re
siding near the south end of Broad street, was
passing the artesian well on his way home.
stump, being not more than twenty feet high, I ers granted by these general laws were not
evidently having been snapped in twain by such as would cover the scope and variety of
some fierce hurricane whicli had swept that their business transactions. I replied to him
way. The wiley robber of the hennery had tailing attention to the constitutional pro-
entered a small aperture near the base of the vision denying all right to the legislature to
tree and all efforts at smoking him out had grant corporate powers to private companies,
proved futile. As a last resort, one of them except for certain purposes specifically enu-
suggested barring the fox’s mode of entrance, merated. He forwarded then a draft ot the
and then felling the tree, which, owing to its charter desired, and this can be found, I pre-
acred and decayed condition,would be an easy I sume, amongst the papers of tne
task. This plan was adopted and a few vigor-1 last session of the general assembly.
mg iu put m me crops, jno sunenng existed j oiicaiau ** * 4
and but few refugees were in the citv, all 0 f and just after the workmen at the well had
whom have been already relieved by‘the dis- quit work. Stopping a moment, he looked
tribution of the government. The planters down the pipe, and was about turning away,
interviewed expressed full confidence in their when he thought he heard a singular
ability to repair the levees before the June rumbling noise, among which he was
rise, and anticipate a full crop. Greenville certain lie could hear articulate words,
and the whole adjacent country are greatly After listening intently he was able to
excited over a new departure iii the planting clearly hear 1 spoken words, among
system of the south, which it is believed, which were, “Too deep!” “Get water
will work a thorough revolution in I “Time—knock oft !” “Tell Mr. Billings!
old and accepted methods. Its successful I an( l then the voices ceased. The remarks
projectors are Patrick Calhoun and John C. about Mr. Billings gave Mr. Martin a clue to
Calhoun, Jr., sons of the great South Carolina the mystery, and in ashort time lie had solved
statesman. With the latter gentleman your *t. It is well known that _ Mr. Billings lias
correspondent had a long and interesting in- been digging a well at his mills, winch are
terview. Mr. Derby Wheeler James, partner distant about 2,000 feet from the artesian well,
in a New Pork banking house, and Mr. J. P. and has experienced much trouble in getting
Doche, attorney of the same company, were water, having encountered a large cave about
in company with him. Colonel Calhoun is 8? feet from the surface. The voices Mr. Mar-
a practical nlanter and owner of the Harwood *’ n heard were those of the men at work m
plantation,'twenty-one miles below Green- Billings’s well, proving conclusively that there
ville, in Chicot county, Arkansas. He is a is a direct communication between the two
clear-headed, enterprising gentleman, highly points, the arch forming a perfect “whispering
educated, and bears upon his features and in I gallery. ’ Of course, as soon as Mr. Jackson
his commanding stature unmistakable marks I P'jfs down his casing this communication
ous strokes' of their axes sent the old
shell crashing to the earth, and Reynard, in
endeavoring to make his escape, was sum
marily dispatched with an ax. As they were
last session of the
We became satisfied after further correspon
dence that the charter asked was not such an
one as could constitutionally be granted by
the legislature, blit fell within the exclusive
preparing to take their departure one of the I jurisdiction of the courts. Still a charter
men discerned something white gleaming in from the legislature was deemed essential, be-
the old hollow stump, and upon examination >ng the act of a more august tribunal and
was horrified to behold the bleached bones of one more likely to command confidence
a dismembered human skeleton. The men everywhere.
were considerably started by their strange Knowing that the constitution of 1SG» did
discovery, and on closer inspection a powder not so closely restrict the general assembly as
horn and bullet pouch were brought to light, does the one now-offeree it occurred to me to
together with a few mouldering articles of scan the acts of the legislature lor several
- - years, beginning with ISOS, in hope of find
ing a charter that might be obtained and
made to serve the purpose. In this way
I found the act of October 24, 1870,
of descent from the great nullifies
A GIGANTIC SCHEME.
For the last ten years, Colonel Calhoun told
your correspondent, lie lias been satisfied that
the present system is altogether wrong and
calculated to debase instead of elevate the
negro laborer, and rubious in all respects to
the agriculturalists, who have become as
much the helpless victims of New Orleans fac
tors as they were before the war. His ideas
seem to have been well and thoroughly con
ceived, but the opportunity to put them into
effect was lacking. Just after the war he was
the first to introduce labor from the Atlantic
with stones picked up near Athens. We were
also shown some rough specimens found on a
like the common crystals and pebbles so
together
raiment, but nothing else was found that
would identify as to who the person had been.
Many conjectures have been made as to how
the skeleton came, and bow long it had re-. .
posed, in this strange mausoleum, the affair I entitled An act to incorporate the Contrac-
sissippi valley, and with commensurate sue
cess. Last year the long coveted opportunity
presented itself in the new lines of railroad
projected by the east to tap the valley. He re
ferred particularly to the projected line of the
Illinois Central, from Jackson, Miss., to Ar
kansas City; to a line from the latter city to
Delta, connecting with Little Rock to’ the
Georgia Pacific project, and others. In July
being a profound mystery.
Soon Mated.
From the North Georgia Citizen.
In Houston, Ga., not long ago, a company
of young folks met to enjoy a game of wliist.
There was occasion for one of the young
women to remark that she would never marry
a man so like Oscar Wilde that he should fall
to the esthetic depth of wearing his hair a la
liorse-tail. Her interlocutor bantered the fair
Georgian to marry him, and as much to Ids
surprise as to that of the company, she ac
cepted the offer. The party of the first part
was rather elated than crestfallen, however,
because the party of the second part
happened to be as wise as she was
witty and as rich in purse as she was rare in
personal attractions; Cards were abandoned;
courier was sent with quick heels for a mar- ,
ige license; a judge was summoned as wit- I under ’.he name and style of Tne Contractors' Asso-
ness; a clergyman was hauled from his study; I elation, and under that name may purchase, have,
and will, a quickness that almost took away Sf &
the bride s breath, she found lierseif a wife. I use, let. lease, sell, mortgage, transfer and convey,
As the betrothal took place at 10 o’clock and I and may sue and be sued, plead and be im-
thc marriage at 11, one hour only was con- I pleaded, contract and be contracted with,
lark, daughter of Judge Clark, of Amencus, I necessary or proper for them to have, use, possess,
was wedded to Henry L. bandun, a worthy I exercise, and enjoy, to enable them, as a company,
and well-to-do merchant of Houston county. I to manufacture iron and steel, and any and every
—— -• I other artiele and commodity whatsoever, and also
Smoking Out Negroes. , I to contract for the construction of houses, bridges,
From the Savannah Recorder. railroads, canals, and any other work and improve-
Yesterday morning about two o’clock Po- I m ® u j- public or private; and to do and perform
i whatsoever may be proper for them to do m furth-
1 icemen i\ hue and Corker, who were on duty | emnee of their contracts so made, and to enable
in the magazine ward, heard suspicious noises I them to make their labor available in the proper
in a vacant house on President and Randolph I development of their property and fulfilment of
street and determined to investigate. They I tneir contracts.
discovered three suspicious colored characters I See. 2. Be it further enacted, That the capital
win;.,,,.,. t>„i. i stock ot the company shall consist of shares of ten
named Butler Perry, John Williams and Rob- I ,j 0 u ftrs eac h, and wheu fifty thousand dollars shall
ert Gonrdin in the house creating a disturb- I i )a ve been subscribed and the payment satisfac-
ance and acting suspiciously. They opened I torily secured, the subscribers, in person or bv
the door to arrest them, when the trio sought l proxy, may organize the company by the election
fireid-ice and concealed themselves of ,lve or raore directors, and the directors for the
large "replace, ana conceateajuemseives tlme being may £or aud i n behalf of the company
therein. When the officers approached, the I exere j sei have, and enjoy all-the rights, powers,
trio ascended the chimney, and although the I franchises, aud privileges which are herein
house was a two-story and a half one, yet one I given to said company, and may make by-laws
of the fugitives managed to get np the chim-1 rules and regulations for the management of the
„„„ „ n .i ° llt „ n “f when he was rnmriit 1 business and attairsof the company, and may from
ncj and out on the root, when ne was cau 0 nt 1 t j meto time increase the resources of the company
and held. The other two would not come j by borrowing money on a pledge of their property,
out and a fire was resorted to for the purpose I or without such pledge, or by new subscription,
of smoking them out. The fire was kept up | and the shareholders shall be bound, each for him
DARKNESS AND DANGER.
Awful Adventure of Three Young Hen In » Cave
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Not long since a couple of young men from
this city were in Florida and wanted to
visit the cave a few miles distant from
Marianna. The were joined hy a youn
gentleman in Marianna and the three start
ed out on their exploring expedition. They
procured a light ami made the ingress very
satisfactorily. There is immediately in the
pass a dark deep cliasm and can only be
passed bv holding to the notched rocks
above. Not far from tills is a rugged mound
and in climbing it one must he sure of his
footing, for a misstep would precipitate him
below and certain death awaits him. While
the party to whom we • above referred were
between these places the light was suddenly
extinguished and not a match had they
to rekindle it. Horror and despair brooded
o’er the trio. What could they do? To at
tempt to retrace their steps without a light
seemed like madness and to call for aid was
worse than folly, as the nearest house was
two miles away. They dared not hope for
any one to come to the rescue.
Finally they came to a decision. They de
cided to'trust in the Lord and make a venture
for the opening through the dark. They said
their prayers perhaps for the first time in
months.' After the prayer was finished one
of tiiem said;
“Well, boys. I’ve got a pint of whisky and
I’m going to throw it away. If I get killed
in here I don’t want anybody to find me with
whisky, and besides it ain’t right to drink it.
If the’ Lord will let me get out of here alive,
I’ll never touch another drop of whisky.”
“That’s right,” said No. 2. “I don’t think
it’s right to drink, or chew, or swear, and I’ll
never do it again. Here's a piece of tobacco,
and I am going to throw it away,” and with
tills he dashed it into the darkness below.
“I think you are both right,” said No. 3,
“and 1 heartily join you. 1 haven’t got any
whisky or tobacco, but I have got a bran new
knife ’that Scliussler gave me in Columbus,
and I’ll throw that away. It’s all I’ve got to
give up.”
Having thus said their prayers and laid their
sacrifices on the altar of repentance, they
tors’ Association,’ printed in the acts of 1870,
page 236. This was submitted to Mr. Ship-
herd, and after it had been carefully consid
ered by eminent corporative counsel in New
York, and pronounced sufficient for the pur
poses of the company, I went to Dalton, where
all the corporators resided, and, upon terms
mutually agreeable to the corporators and the
parties whom I represented, ettected a transfer
of the franchise to tiiegentlemen whose names
were furnished me by Mr. Shipherd.”
“Havc^-ou a copy of that charter, Colonel?”
“Yes; it reads:
An act to incorporate the Contractors’ Association.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly
of the state oi Georgia, That Duff Green, Charles P.
Gordon, William P. Chester. Benjamin E. Green,
and Matthew R. Bonner, and such other persons as
they may associate with ihcm, and the owners of
the shares herein authorized to be issued, be and
they are hereby made a body politic and corporate
before lea, 1 w *!£I ^eady found in the near vicinity of Athens
before leading capitalists of New York and
Boston. A private banking house took hold
of it, and in October a company was formed
and bonds and stocks were issued. Since
then wide purchases have been made, and to
day the lost payment is being made at the
bank of Greenville, Sunnyside, Ilyners,
Hebron, Fawnwood, Luna, Patrirn and Laj jewelers that he had ^ not brought
in the chimney tor nearly three hours before
the two would give in, when finally they
dropped down and gave themselves up. They
looked like rabbits that were burned out of a
log, and smelled awfully.
self or herself, to pay the sums by them respective
| ly due upon the shares held by them; and the
wnen iimuij i" 1 .' I sums then due or to become due having been paid,
” 1 such shareholders shall not be liable for any further
paymeut on account of such shares.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the by-laws
may prescribe the number of and the manner in
which the directors, officers and agents of the compa
ny shall be appointed,and may prescribe their term
ot service, powers, duties, and compensation, an<
until a further organization is made, the persons
Accidental Drowning.
From the Waycross Reporter.
Mr. John A. Mock, an old citizen of this _
place, father of Messrs. Michel, Marion and J named in section l”shall be a hoard of directors, a
Jack Mock, was accidentally drowned last majority of whom are hereby authorized to act
Monday afternoon under the following cir- WtvUr
cumstnnces: Mr. Mock had been in the habit C8 Sec . 4 . Be it further enacted, T^iatfiie said com
of fishing with a gill net in Lott’s mill pond. I pany shall have an office in this state, and the di
On the evening above mentioned he left the rectors from time to time may organize and estab
house of his son. Jack Mock, where he was l 1 * local or branch associations In this stata and
fi,,-,. „ v |inthe otherstates and in Europe and elsewhere,
liv in„, for the purpose of \ isitin„ bio net as I H , 1(4 ma y j rom jjme to time enact by-laws and regu-
usual; not returning that evening nor all the 1 i a tions for the management of the business of the
next dav, his absence excited alarm, and I local or branch associations, and prescribe the
search was made for him. The boat which he j number of their officers and agents, and designate
user) WHS found adrift and his walking cane I their Powers, duties, and compenssuou. And the
used was louna aarni, ana ms vvaiKing cant, i p - incipal assoe i ;lt ; 0 „ and each local or branch asso-
lay m the bottom, upon tnese suspicious evi- I ,.; a ti 011 shall be under the management of directors
deuces the null pond was draeged and the I chosen by the shareholders of such associations
body brought to the surface. All the circum- respectively, aud shall have like powers, franchises,
stances point to the fact that Mr. Mock fell »»«• privileges as are herein granted to the
*1* i„„ t .,,.,1 drowned while ot- pnncipal association, subject to the limita
from the boat and was arovvnea wnite at | t j on and resuictions prescribed by the
tempting to fish Ins net. He was seventy-1 directors of the principal assoei-
four years old and well known in this com- | ation. And the profits accruing on the business o
liinnitv I the several associations shall be divided among thej
* | shareholders of the association in which suen
An Abduction,
From the Savannah Recorder. . I And the principal‘association and each local or
A lady named Mrs. J. Kelly, living on Hall I branch association shall be responsible for and
street, in the southern section of the city, ap- I bound to pay the sums due upon the obligations
plied to the police barracks for assistance in and contracts by them respectively eutered into,
i,„ child whom she snv* was I but neither tlie pnncipal association nor any of
recovering her child, nnom sne saj., was ij^ loCft i or branch associations shall be liable for
stolen from her y ard \\ here the little one a as I or bound to pay the sums due upon the obligations
playing. The child was playing in a yard I or contracts of any other association, unless by
surrounded by a fence, the gate of which was j contract they shall have, agreed to become liable
locked and into which an entrance could not I therefor.
be effected except through the house. Mrs. | See. 5. Be it further enacted. That this act shall
i».n_ la *i., Lii.. —i V +1*,* ..c
returned to the house where she was occupied
with her domestic duties for a few minutes.
When she looked out the child was missing
and every place where it was possible for the
lost one to go or hide was thoroughly searched,
but to no purpose. The distracted parent had
the neighborhood searched, but with no
success.
He Thonght Morning was Night.
Amerieus Recorder.
Americus has a blind negro wood sawer
that has been a walking wonder to us since
sage for thirty years and until it shall thereafter he
modified or repealed, and acts and parts of acts
conflicting with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
R. L. McWhorter,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
John J. Newton,
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Benjamin Conley,
President of the Senate.
J. G W. Mills,
Secretary of the senate.
Approved October 24,1870.
Rufus B. Bullock.
“But,” continued the colonel, “the claim
we came here. He can walk the sidewalks as I of the Peruvian company against the gov-
straight as anybody, and even follow the j ernment of Peru is unquestionably a just
slightest deviation of the walk; can tell you I one, though some of the efforts for itsenforce-
at any time on what street he is on, and I ment may be amenable to criticism. Con-
wliose residence he is passing, and what time gress thought it just, for in February', 1880,
of the day it is. But on Friday night the old I a joint resolution was passed granting the
man got sold out badly, as at two o’clock in I kind offices of the president and secre-
tlie morning he was found sawing wood for ! tary of state of the tUnited States to aid
Mr. J. L. Price. When asked what he was I in the settlement of this claim. Briefly stated
doing"there at that hour he answered that he i it is this: In 1833 the government of Pern
thought it was about supper time. Mr. Price by published decree promised to every dis-
heard him sawing, but supposed it was some coverer of valuable deposits of guano upon
will be shut off, and no trouble is anticipated.
PRECIOUS STONES.
A Discovery Made In Clarke and Oconee That Will
Prove a New Source of Wealth.
From the Athens Banner-Watchman.
A few issues since we mentioned the dis
covery of some valuable stones in this and
Oconee counties. Since that time we have
examined some beautiful jewelry that Mr. B.
K. Reaves had made in Now York and set
common in this part of the state, and
for years were looked upon by our farmers as
an impediment in the way of the plow. Lit
tle did they know that these rocks had a value
far exceedingjthe^cropsjgrown on the soil, and
that these crystal mines will some day be ea
gerly sought after by capitalists as a new field
tor investment, Among the valuable stones
lie WU1 Still Continue to Manufacture aud Sell Them
Covington, Ga., March 20.—Editors Consti
tution: Yonr reporter, C. T. L., in Sunday’s
paper, says that I propose to buy steam en-
f ines no longer, but will build them here,
’lease correct that statement. I am selling
the world renowned “Eclipse" engine, which
has been awarded the highest premium at the
Cincinnati industrial exposition, and of which
the judges at the United States centennial,
after eight days severe test in competition
with the best portable engines built in Amer
ica and Europe, said of the Eclipse; “This
engine gives the best results of any tested.”
And at the international exposition at Mel
bourne. Australia, in competition with twen-
ty-two dt the very best English engines, and
with an English committee, the Eclipse was
awarded the highest premium, a handsome
gold medal, the only like compliment ever
paid an American engine by an English com
mittee. Therefore, I declare that the Eclipse
leads the world for reliable excellence, and I
should deem it an insult to the people of
Georgia to offer them any other portable en
gine; and I expect to sell it as long as it
maintains its present standard of excellence.
As to your reporter’s statement about
the manufacture of saw mills, cotton.
gins, feeders, condensers, separators, etc., he
is right, and simply misunderstood me as to
the engine. I said to him that I had just put
in an order for 150 engines, which would
supply niy trade but a short time, when I
should have to order more. Thanking yon
for the many beautiful compliments paid me
in the article, I remain very truly,
Thomas Camp.
Governor Plaisted, of Maine, lias appointed April
4th as a day of fasting and prayer iu that state.
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having hid placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of a simple veg
etable remedy for the speedy and permanent
cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh,
Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Affections,
also a positive and radical cure for Nervous
Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative powers
in thousands of cases, lias felt it iris duty to
make it known to his suffering fellows. Ac
tuated by this motive and a desire to relieve
human suffering, I will send iree of ciuirge to
all who desire it, this recipe, in German,
French or English, with full directions for
preparing and using. Sent hy mail by ad
dressing with stamp, naming this paper, W.
A, Noyes, 149 Power’s Block, Rochester, N.
we will mention first a brilliant gem that
northern experts pronounce the nearest a dia
mond to any substance yet discovered. They
also affirm that no stone has ever been found
to equal this in brilliancy, it surpassing even
the Brazilian pebble. Mr. Reaves says it
took him some time to convince the
trobe, and most fertile plantations in uuicoi i „i_„ mw'in
coaat Z< With «„ f~j*. MiAiwI^^gru^y.tKSWi
acres, have been purchased for §230,000 cash;
§50,000 has already been invested in agricul
tural implements, and an additional large
amount will be devoted to supplies. The
lands are to be leased to the laborers at a
rental of 100 pounds of lint cotton or §10 cash
per acre. The company is already negotia
ting for the purchase of 20,000 additional
acres on five other well known plantations on
the opposite hank, and the negotiation has
every prospect of reaching a satisfactory con
clusion.
Colonel Calhoun’s ideas as expressed are
broad and somewhat statesmanlike, but too
elaborate for discussion here. He lias opened
successfully and the plan seems destined to
be extensively followed throughout the south.
It embraces the advantages of buying land,
selling it to the ^laborer at the very lowest
rates. Corporate capi tal can command means
of wiping out the heavy exactions of the fac
tors and merchants in the way of exorbitant
discounts and interest. It also embraces a
sort of commercial and co-operative ser
vice idea, and in its execu
tion, the elevation of the negro laborer
is the aim most looked forward to. Schools
and churches are to be built and a sort of pa
triarchal protection is to be extended over the
negro in order to fit him for the duties of cit
izenship and raise him out of the questiona
ble position he has occupied since the war.
How far these objects will be attained re
mains to be seen; but one thing is certain
the purchase has already raised the demanded
price of property in the vicinity fully twenty
per cent, and it is the prominent topic of con
versation in every locality visited by your
correspondent since leaving Vicksburg. It
are thought to have a high commercial value,
as they retain a polish and sparkle in the
darkness. There are vast, and inexhaustible
mines of this crystal, and it is said to be unu
sually abundant in Oconee. Next on the list
comes the emerald, which is a small, dark
stone, about the size and shape of a pea, al
though larger specimens are sometimes found.
Then we-will add the amathyst, topaz and a
beautiful crystal, not yet defined, streaked
with all the colors of the rainbow. Besides
these are gems with clearly-defined clouds
floating within them, as also of every shade
and hue.
“OLD SI” HOMESICK.
Jacksonville Times.
Old Si was around early this morning to put oil
in the lamps and empty the spring poetry out of
the waste-basket. Suddenly he remarked:
‘I got awful homesick dis mornin’—de fust time
sence I bin down hyar!”
What made you feel so?”
Only dat 1 Tun acrostde fust Georgy mule dat
I’se seed in Fluridy! He wuz er thurrer-hred, too,
an’ hadn’t got ’climatid yit!”
“What was he doing so extraordinary?”
“He wam’t doin’ nuftin dat wuz ’strordinary fur
er Georgy mule, hut hit ’peared like cr earfquake
had sot down in de san’ on Forsyth street in front
of dat stable.”
“Did they have much trouble with him?”
“Well, dev look’d like dey warntid te<- hab sum
scusshun wid him, but not seein’ no Georgy nig
ger in de ga ng he jess tuck de ilo’ on his own mo-
shun. By de time he’d dubbled up one darkey like
„„ de letter Van’ flung anudder ober a red ’spress
seems to have already added a new and un- I wagKin <lere didu’t no m °’ d’zire fer ter inter-
familiar impetus to those usually apathetic | “Did he finally getaway from the crowd?”
people.
Rather Singular.
From the Irwinton Southerner.
Bob Taylor, the famous mail line horse,
tried to make it appear yesterday that he
wanted to run away with his wagon and have
a little frolic on the common—all to himself
without the accustomed presence of “Boss”
Ike. With a hop, skip and jump, he lit out,
but in executing the jump part of the im
promptu runaway, he tried to countersink
the nail heads in Gus Beall’s new fence, but
instead of secreting the nail s he upset the
wagon body, which put a quietus to Robert’s
circus performance. Colonel Ike, who was at
Rutland’s carriage shop at the time Bob was
carrying on so, noticed his antics and he tore
away from the shop, yelling at the top of his
voice, “Whoa! Bo$, whoa!!” and Bob
wlioa’d. ’
Mr. Spengler’s Vipws.
From ihe Thomas ville Enterprise.
In conversation with Mr. N. R. Spengler,
one of the best fanners in the county, last
week, we learned that he has been steadily
preparing his land for the use of improved
implements by removing the stumps. He
has some forty or fifty acres already clear of
stumps. He' says also that he has satisfied
himself by actual experiment for several
years that land cannot be permanently im-
E ' roved by the use of commercial fertilizers,
ut that it can be by the use of compost made
almost exclusively of home raised manures.
This is a matter that should afford ample food
for thought and cause others to test the mat
ter for their own information and satisfaction.
“Well, dat’s de mos’ uselessness queschln what
me! I tho’t you kno’d dat er Geor-
you eber axed me!
■when he
CAMP’S PORTABLE ENGINES.
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A Small-Por Preventive.
A correspondent sends in the following: "There
is no better or surer protection from small-pox than
Daiby’s Prophylactic Fluid (as unfailing as Fate),
a wonderful healing remedy and most powerful
disinfectant that will effectually eradicate the germ
of disease, preveut its spreading and effect a cure,
and is perfectly safe to use. it is indorsed and
recommended by eminent physicians and chemists.
When we asked our girl to marry us she said slio
didn’t mind—and we have since found out that
she didn’t
A pure strengthening tonic, free from whisky and
' ' s dyspepsia and similar diseases. It
alcohol, cures
has never been equalled,
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Brown’s Iron Bitters.
l-'orlr Year*’ Experience or on Old Norse.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syruf is the prescrip
tion of one of the best female physicians and nurses
in the United States, and has been used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions of
mothers for their children. It relieves the child from
pain, cures dysentery and diarrhea, griping in tho
Dowels and wind-eolic. By giving health to the child
it rests the mother. Price 25 cents a bottle.
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At Senator Fair’s dinner party in Washington the
Other night the ice cream came in bricks io repre
sent silver, and on each were stamped the initials
of the guest to whom it was served. Champagne
was poured from pitchers of genuine ice. Tne din
ner is said to have cost nearly SL0O0.
ANGOSTURA BITTERS is known as the great
regulator of the digestive organs all over tne world.
Have it in your houses. Ask your grocer or drug-
5 ist for the genuine article, manufactured by Dr.
. G. B. Siegert & Sons.
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The prince and princess of Wales cele
brated, on the 10th instant, the 19th anniversary of
their wedding day.
HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE
In Nervous Exhaustion.
I have used llorsford’s Acid Phosphate in nerv
ous exhaustion, and in nervous disturbances con
nected with an overworked braiu, and am satified
that it is a remedy of great service in many forms of
exhaustion. S. T. NEWMAN, M. D.
St. Louis, Mo.
S mule wuz like er nigger pollytishun-
nt hab his own way no udder way, he jess
up befo’ an’ kicks up behine, an’ fore ycr kin tell
which eend ob ’im is in de a’r dar aint nuffin lef’
in sight hut a cloud ob dus’ ’way down de big
rode!”
Which idea so tickled the old man that he forgot
his homesickness and went out whistling gaily.
A cold is unlike most visitors—if you want togei
rid of it, you must give it a warm reception with
Dr. Bull’s'Cough Syrup, the standard cough rem
edy of our age. For sale by all druggists ut twenty-
five cents a bottle,
According to Herr Richard Andree there are
0,139,000 Jews in the world. Five-sixths live in
Europe. Asia has 182,847,
All persons who anticipate buying a Cham
pion Reaper or Mower send in your orders at
once, as the sales are larger than ever before
and the supply may fall short and yonr or
ders be too late. AKERS <fe BROS.
mar28—wit
The duke of Cambridge likes his bill of fare in
plain English.
It seems impossible that a remedy made of such
common, simple plants as Hops, Buchu, Mandrake.
Dandelion, <fcc., should make so many and such
great cures as Hop Bitters do; but when old aud
young, rich and p oor, pastor and doctor, lawyer
and editor, all testify to having been cured by thenq
you must believe and try
doubt no longer.
It is reported that John M. Francis, editor
of the Troy Times, who has been minister to
Greece, is booked for the Belgian mission.
—Thousands of ladies have found sudden relief
from all their woes by the use of Lydia E. I’ink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound, the great remedy for
diseases peculiar to females. -Send to Mrs. Lydia
E. Pinkhar:, 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Moss., for
pamphlets. mnr2f> dlw sun wed fri&wlw
Virginia epicures claim that the roots of the com
mon blue thistle properly cooked make a very pal
atable dish.
•• B«eku j»a!ba'*
New,quick, complete cure 4 days, urinary affec
tions, smarting, frequent or difficult urination, kid
ney disease. 81. Druggists. Depot, Lamar, RanlA
in & Lamar, Atlanta.
One hundred and fifty-five one dollar bills just
weigh as much as five twenty dollar gold pieces.
A Royal Gilt of a 81,000,000.
The celebrated Charity Hospital will engage the
attention ol the many visitors who will throng to
New Orleans this summer to the bi-centennial land
ing of La Salle at New Orleans. It is a historical
institution, and has by the Divine blessing saved
the lives ot innumerable thousands of maimed,
wounded, injured, and sick sufferers—of all na-
. tionalities and religions, races and colors. It is now
and has been, supported by the roval gift of $1,000-
Mu' -Cats and Carp.
From the Talbotton Register.
Mr. Gideon Goodwin, living about nine
rpiles west of Talbotton, has a carp pond, into
whose limpid waters he turned twenty-one
nimble carps about twelve months ago. One „„„ ^ b „ v
day last week he cleaned out liis pond and 000 made by the Louisiana’ State Lottery Company
only found 7 of the aforesaid carps in good in quarterly payments. For all information about
order. A nimble mud-cat had masticated the Hospital or the Lottery Drawing, write before the
balance of the brood. Those found were 1 ! lext °? e on A P nl llth to - 1 - A - Dauphin, New Or-
twelve inches in length and weighed two
pounds each. One of the number was served I The members of secret societies in American col
on the family table and proved to be alto- | leges are increasing in numbers,
gether delicious and quite toothsome.
cats in the yard.
The Mule.
From the Covington Star.
A mule attached to a wagon ran away, one
dav last week, and went sweeping across the
south side of the square at a fearful speed,
and it looked as though he would smash
things to pieces generally. But the further
he ran the slower became his speed, until he
slackened into a dog trot, and t-en finally
stopped, of his own accord, on the west side,
where he awaited bis driyerto come np and
assume charge of the reins. There is some
thing refreshing in the instincts of the mule
when left to his own resources.
the public domain a premium of one-third
of tne discovery. Two Frenchmen, Cochet
and Landrean, spent their lives and ample
fortunes in explorations and made many
valuable discoveries that were duly recog
nized.
From the deposits discovered by them the
government has exported guano for many
years without accounting to them for the
one-third to which they are entitled. The
claims of Cochet and Landreau are now held
by the Peruvian company. It asks Peru to
account for one-third of the guano taken
from the deposits discovered by them and to
allow a representative of the company to take
An Obliging P. M.
From the Rome Bulletin.
“Where’s your mail?” asked a mail rider
as be stopped at a small post-office on his
route in our neighboring county of Polk.
“Oh, never mind,” said the postmaster, as he
pulled at his pipe, “there ain’t but four or
five letters, and we won’t trouble about them
to-day.” We wonder if he is not the same
Agents can now grasp a fortune. Outfit
worth §10 sent free. For full particulars ad
dress E. G. Rideout & Co., 10 Barclay st.,N. Y.
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It always saddens an old caw to look over the
fence at an oleomargarine factaiy.—New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
Rheumatic Disease*.
_ _____ _ The^e ailments follow from torpid liver and cos-
P. M.’who gnnnbiinglv complained at the I bowels; theskin, bowelsand kidneys failingin
f^r 1 ‘aIt their pioper work, an acrid poison is formed ia tne
extravagant use of postage stamps tor ail | u-hii-h ihi,n-sui/in
sorts of foolishness, as it costs me a heap of
money to buy stamps for yon people.”
Ownerless Land.
From the Athens Banner.
There is on College avenue a valuable strip
of land absolutely without an owner. The
lot lies between Mr. William McDowell’s store
and Mr. Vonderlieth’s. The lot measures
about 30x100 feet and is claimed by Mr. Bloom
field. wh* owns property in the rear of it, and
also by Mr. McDowell and Mr. Vonderlieth,
but none of them have a shadow of a title.
Why don’t the city take charge of it and
make something out of it?
blood, which is the occasion of these acute diseases.
Kidney-Wort produces healthy action of all secre
tive organs, and throws off the rheumatic poison.
EqnaUy efficient in liquid or dry form.—Inter-
Ocean.
An authority says that much of the terrapin stew
obtained at restaurants is artificial.
What a Pity
that the otherwise beautiful girl should have such
bad teeth. And all because she did not use
SOZODONT. It costs so little to buy it consider
ing the good it does, and its benefits stretch out
into her future life. Poor girl!
924 mch26 dly sup tues tliur sat iwly
F OR SALE-JERSEY BULL, MARQUIS OF
Bute, No. 3502, solid dark lemon fawn, black
joints, three years old, and a remarkably fine and
landsome animal. He is gentle, is haudled with
the ha] ter aud is sold because I do not need him.
He was imported from the Island of Jersey in his
dam, Beautv of Belle View, No. 0953. John L.
Hopkins, Atlanta, Ga. mar21\v2t
C ASH! CASH!!—WE WILL PAY TWO CENTS
a pound for baled countiy cotton rags, guar
anteed to contain not more than three per cent of
refuse, delivered in depot in Atlanta. For wools or
jeans in excess of three per cent we will pav one
half cent per pound. Glendale Manufacturing Co.,
Atlanta, Ga. 674—marl9 d*wlu«
F OR SALE—STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS,
separators, cotton gins, presses, wagons,
shingle and planing machines, engine fittings,
belting and machinery oil, etc. Write for prices to
Perkins Brothers, 32 and 34 West Mitchell street,
Atlanta, Ga.1021 sun&wky—It
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Mail to him fullbistoryof ymiratfiiciion statement
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WILBOR’S COD LIVER OIL.
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I PURE COD LIVER
OIL AND LIME.
To °ae and AIl.-Are yon sutrorinc from uCunxh,
Cold, Asthma, JHronclutis, or any of the various
pulmonary troubles that so often end in Consninp-
don? If so. use “Wilbor’s Peru Cod-Liver-Oil
and Lime,’* a safe and sure remedy Thi-* is uo
quack preparation, but Is regularly prescribed bv
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