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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ^TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1882
A MODEL STOCK FARM.
VISIT TO THE RURAL HOME OF MR.
* JOHN E. TALMADGE.
A N«n who Boards »t Homs and Lives at the Ssxae
Place—The Mild-Eyed Jerseys, Berkshire Hoes
and Plymouth Bock Chickens—Cows Worth
*000 with (300 Calves—Pish Ponds.
From thC'Athens Banner.
Last Sunday was a lovely, spring-like day,
and we were tempted to fulfill a long prem
ised visit and spend the morning with our
especial friend, Mr. John E. Talmagc, better
tanown to his friends as “Pipe.” This gentle
man is one of our livest merchants, and
having made a handsome little fortune deci
ded that ho would gratify his taste by running
a small farm near the city. So a few years
ago he bonglit. about one hundred acres of
land in the beautiful suburban village of
Cobbliam, and has been devoting his leisure
time to improving and adorning
the same, and how well he has
succeeded one must see his beau
tiful place to appreciate. His house sets back
in a cool grove, ami is surrounded by undu
lating fields and pastures, filled with sleek,
well-fed stock. After a short rest we in
timated a wish to be shown over the premises
when our friend kindly consented, and first
led us into his yard, where was grazing on
the blue-gross, beneath the trees, four fine
Jersey calves. They are pure blooded and
registered, with a pedigree that even some of
the English nobility might envy.
“These calves,” said Mr. T. singling out a
herd of young heifers, “could not be bought
for $600. In fact, I was offered $100 for one
of them as soon as ;it was dropped. I will
now show you the mothers of these calves.”
Passing through a gate, we entered a lot
sown in orchard grass and clover, where we
found grazing four of the mild-cyed Jerseys,
about which so much has been said and writ
ten. They were as trim as deer, with eyes
like the gazelle, the picture of bovine health
and happiness.
A GOOD MILKER.
“Bertha Washington there is my best milk
er," explained Mr. Talmadge, “for she yields
three gallons of the richest kind of cream a
day. She was bom on Washington's birth-
da'', and hence the name. I.ady Helen is
also a very line animal, while the other two
are almost as good. In fact, 1 do not think
you could find four belter cows in the south.
Besides supplying my family with all the
milk and butter we use, I last week sold fif
teen pounds at thirty-live cents. This pays
for their feed, and I make the milk and butter
for home consumption, besides the increase,
clear.
FIRST START.
“Where did you first get your start in cat
tle?" we asked.
“I bought them from the most reliable
breeder in Tennessee, apd they are all regis
tered and can trace an unblemished ances
try as far back as the most aristocratic bo
vine in the land. I have other Jerseys,”
continued our friend, “but they are dry
now."
Mr. Talmadge next carried us to his lot
where is kept his famous Berkshire hogs.
“These," he continued, “are of the finest
brood, I having paid $23 apicco for small
pigs to get my start. I have now thirty-
one pigs that will soon be
ready to ship, that I sell for
$3 each very readily. In fact, I have a num
ber of orders now ahead. That hog you see
there is a red Jersey, that cost me about $30,
but it cannot compare with my Berkshire*,
so I shall slaughter it. I have placed a Berk
shire and a razor-back pig of the same age in
pens, fed them alike, and at the end of the
year the Berkshire just doubled tho razor-
back in weight. They are healthy and thrifty,
and the very hogs for this country. I keep
always live brood sows, raising pigs for mar
ket."
We never saw a prettier rural sight than
tlieso largo litters of broad-backed, frisky lit
tie pigs, tip to their sides in sweet, lucious
clover, upon which they fed.
TIIE CHICKENS.
“Now let ir.o show you my chickens. I
raise ofily tho Plymouth Rock, and keep a
few Bramah hens for setting purposes, as the
former breed is too large and heavy to hatch
well. I sell a great many eggs, and occasion
ally a trio of the fowls. It costs no more to
raise them than the "dunghills, while they
grow twice as large, and are equal to any
fowls as an article of food.”
We next inspected the large new barn that
our friend had just erected. It is both roomy
and airy, with plenty of space for forage and
corn, and a stall for every horse, cow and calf
on the place. Pipe allows none of his stock
to bo exposed to the inclemency of the
weather, and says a good shelter saves half
the foed. In his burn, which was designed
by the owner, we found the strango sight of a
big pile of ear-corn, grown on the farm, as
also oats enough to feed the stock until the
next crop ripens. Hr. T. intends to have a
wind-mill built, to furnish wafer for both his
stock and domestic purposes.
FISH PONDS.
We next Sh»r!?‘\ WCr the fevm, and in the
course of our pilgrimage pissed two fish ponds
that aro being built. One is stocked with
ftnd the other beam and perch. They
T»re fed by living springs and so arranged that
a rippling little branch enu be turned into
them if more water is needed.
“I shall set out an avenue of trees from my
house to these ponds, and build a bath house
here—but 1 found so much to do op iny farm
that 1 have not had much time for ornament
ing the place.” We passed through fields of
clover, orchard grass and oats, and although
the land seemed ns thin as earth ever gets to
bo the crops were as fine as our eyes over rest
ed upon. We suggested that a great d*al of
guano must be used.
“No," was the reply. “Tho only cornmer
cial fertilizer I use is a little acid for compost
ing with cotton seed. I buy all the seed I
can find,paying from ten to twelve and a haif
cents per bushel—anil they are wortli as a
manure twenty cents to any farmer. But I
chiefly depend on stable manure that I pur-
cliaso at seventy-five cents for a two-horse
wagon load. You will soon see how 1 spread
ti on."
And we did. Wc passed through a field un
dergoing this recuperating treatment, and wo
believe there was enough piles dumped about
to make a solid layer over the whole ground.
Even bis bottoms were not neglected.
“That bill side, over there I fertilized last
year, and you ought to see the corn it grew.
I put all my fertilizers on broadcast, and
when l get through with a field it will pro
duce for years without any further manure,
but I always keep it up. My bottoms, which
were but swamps when I bought the place,
have been all blmd-ditched, and are now per
fectly dry.”
“Will yon raise any cotton?” we inquired.
NO COTTON.
“Not at all. I go for something to eat and
to feed my stock on. I can raise a Jersey calf
with far less trouble and expense than a bale
of cotton, and it is worth one hundred dollars
an hour old. I have an acre planted in on
ions and will plant two acres in potatoes, and
Irish, even these crops pay better than cot
ton.”
It is certainly a treat to go over this model
farm. Everything is in its place atad there is
a place for everything. The hillsides have all
been ditched, so as to prevent the land wash
iug, gullies and washes filled up and every
grain planted is sure to return a yield.
Mr. Talmadge ought to lie one Jof the hap
piest men in Georgia. He is surrounded by
alt that goes to make life enjoyable—a beau
tiful home, a devoted wife, a delightful fam
ily of “little responsibilities,” and all the
good things of life fresh from his garden and
fields.
And let us right here say to our farmers, if
you want to purchase fine stock don't send to
a distance for them, as Mr. J. E. Talmadge
can supply yon with as fine oows or hogs as
any ever raised, at less money than you would
have to pay some prominent stock-raiser.
THE CARROLLTON MURDERERS.
Tbtt Sentence and Spcfcica of Moan and IfauTay, Ike
Carrollton 31 nrdercr*.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Carrollton, April 8, 1882.—Moon and Hon-
vey were carried to the court house at 2 o’clock
this evening by Sheriff James M. Hewit and
guard, in order to be re-sentenced. W. L
Moon was first ordered by his honor, Judge
Harris, to stand up. When asked if he had
anything to say why sentence of death should
not be pronounced upon him, he replied that
he wanted twfey a few things, and said that
he bad been convicted by witnesses who had
sworn falsely against him, and that he hated
to die in this way, though he was prepared to
meet his Lord" and Master at any time.
He seemed much excited and considerably
exasperated and showed malice and bad feel
ing towards the witnesses tfiat testified against
him. Moon is about tin rty-four years old and
weighs one hundred and thirty-six pounds,
was neatly attired and looking well, and cer
tainly has been well cared for during his in
carceration in prison.
HANVEY’S SPEECH.
James E. Hanvey was then commanded to
stand up and the death sentence pronounced
upon him, and when asked the question if he
had anything to say why said sentence should
not he pronounced replied that he did not
know tnat he wanted to say anything, but
would say this much, that he wanted the
people to take warning by him an l shun had
company and Rot drink any whisky.
Whisky and bad company had brought
him to .this sad and terrible fate. Be
fore he concluded his few remarks
he repeated his admonition and warning, and
said to the old and young present, take warn
ing by me. Whisky and bad company have
brought me to where I now stand. A more
powerful lecture ou temperance and morality
was never delivered from the tongue of mor
tal man. Hanvey is a young man about 24
years of age, and weighs nearly 200 pounds,
and is really a fine looking man, was also
neatly dressed, and not half so much excited
as Moon, and had nothing to say in regard to
those who testified against him.
THE SENTENCE.
The sentence, as delivered by Judge Harris,
was touching and eloquent, and the judge
was deeply affected in the discharge of this
painful duty. Though the court house was
packed to its utmost capacity, naught dis
turbed the silence that reigned profound.
The execution is to be public and the day
fixed is Friday, June 2d, in the year of our
Lord 18S2.
WHIPPED TO DEATH
A Brutal Colored Man Whips Ills Bon for F
Hours.
From the Albany News and Advertiser, April 9th.
Runners came to town yesterday morning
after Sheriff Edwards and Coroner Wilburn,
who were required at the Cosby .plantation in
east Dougherty, about four miles from Alba
ny, to examine into the cause of the death of
a negro lad, Reuben Crane, who, in the opin
ion of those who sent the runners, had per
ished at the hands of his unnatural father,
Geoxge Crane—who had whipped him to
death. The officers hastily repaired to the
place, where they found the lad laying dead
and his body completely covered with
wounds. The examination of but few wit
nesses was necessary to produce a verdict
from the jury that George Crane had
killed his own child Reuben. Mr.
Cosby _ was in the city yesterday,
and said he had been summoned to the quar
ter Friday night by the report of the occur
rence. The father was in a perfect frenzy and
did not seem to realize what he hud done. “Is
it possible, George, that you have killed your
own child?” Mr. Cosby asked him. “Yes, I
have killed him, but I haven’t conquered
him. He didn’t never give up. He ain’t
conquered yet.” There was a look of niter
madness about him, Mr. Cosby says, and his
air, speech and appearance was of perfect
frenzy. He seemed to be unconscious of what
he had done until Mr. Cosby had given orders
that the body should not he disturbed until
the arrival of the coroner. In a few minutes
he could not be found. Eye-witnesses say
that the boy was whipped first with a whip
and its staff - , then a brush, and finally with a
rope knotted at the end. The beating
lasted four hours. Crane, had sent his
boy on an errand, and he was gone longer
than was probably necessary. Crane accused
the boy of lying, and proceeded to whip him.
After administering a severe castigation the
boy was released and ran. Captured immedi
ately, the whipping was renewed, with the
result above stated. The negroes at the quar
ter, when asked why they did not interfere,
claimed tnat they were afraid of GeorgC, and
that he didn’t have any sense when he was
whipping his children. It is also said by the
negroes that this is not the first child the fiend
has whipped to death, [sheriff Edwards tells
ns that nowhere upon the corpse, from the
head to the heels, could the finger be laid ex
cept upon a gash or bruise. The face was
beaten and much swollen. The authorities
are on the track of the brute, and an out
raged justice and Immunity will hope and
pray for his capture.
BIRDS AND FLOWERS.
A CnartllolUn Reporter Jl»» a Short Talk With a
l’romtnenl Florist.
“Is there much of a demand for sunflower
seed?” asked a Constitution reporter of a
prominent florist yesterday.
“There has been a very heavy demand. I
believe that I am the only seed dealer in town
who has been able to keep a supply.”
“Who buys the seed?”
“Oh. nearly everybody. They buy them
and plant them just tor the novelty of the
thing. 1 don’t think that they buy them be
cause they admire Oscar Wilde, but sunflow
ers are all the rage, you know, and one might,
as well be out of the world as out of the fash
ion. The boom started somewhere, and it
struck Atlanta with about the same effect that
I suppose it had on other places.”
“Then we have no real disciples of Oscar?”
“Not many, unless you include under that
head those who have a weakness for tilings
that are quaint and curious, or odd. I think
the same people who buy sunflower seed are
the ones who buy Japanese ornaments.”
“Barring the sunflower, which are the most
popular flowers?”
“We are having a good run on bedding
plants There is an unprecedented demand
for geraniums, heliotropes, verbenas, fuchsias
and pot roses.”
“Is the general demand for flowers good?”
“Better than I have ever known before, and
1 have been in the business twenty-two
years.”
•"The terracing season is about over, is it
not?”
“No; it will last up to the first of May. You
may say that a considerable amount of work
is being done on hedges in yards and in the
cemetery.”
"‘I see you have some birds here. What are
canaries worth?”
“I can sell you a good singer for five dol
lars.”
“How much for a mocking bird?”
"‘From ten to twenty dollars.”
THOUGHTS OF LOVE-
GEORGIA NEWS.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.
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The Burial of Walter Roundtree, the Murdered Ath
ena Student—A Perjury Sait—A Grist Mill and
Gin Burned—Dalton Planters—Whitfield
County Superior Court Docket.
country as lie went, apparently enjoying the
second heat more than the first.
Struck by Lightning.
From-the Augusta News.
Last Monday evening as John Glenn, a ne-
,gro living between Lexington and Sandy
Cross, in Oglethorpe county, was learing the
field, followed by his daughter and another
negro girl, leading a mule, he was thrown to
the ground by a flash of lightning, he rose
and looked behind him to see the mule on
the ground tiring to get up, and both girls
also down. He ran back ana found the mule
dying; both girls, however, were only stunned,
aud got up. Fe found no signs on the mule
whatever of being struck, and yet being in an
open field it must have been the object struck.
This is the first and only instance on record
where lightling got the best of a Georgia
mule.
ATHENS ON A BOOM.
From the Fori Valley Mirror. ■
Hoc.pskirts are not becoming to the girls.
From the Cochran Enterprise.
“I want to bite yon," said he. “What for," said
she, "Kase I love you,” said he—is a part of a
conversation we overheard a few days ago, by a
couple in our town.
From the Athens Watchman.
The young ladies from the Lucy Cobb made their
appearance on the streets yesterday. Their charm
ing presence was like a shower of sunshineafter the
disturbed condition of our city for the past few
days. And, by the way. the prettiest girls in Geor
gia attend this seminary.
From the Cochran Enterprise.
One of onrsociety young men called on hisj best
girl one night lately and as the room was tut dimly
lighted she mistook him for her father and said,
‘•Papa, did you bring me some candy?” and even
her little brothers repea'ed it several times before
she discovered her error. We would advise that
young man to take them some candy when he calls
there again.
A New Elevator, Cotton Seed Mill and Corn Mill to be
Erected—The New Railroad, Etc.
Judge W. B. Thomas, of Athens, has been
in Atlanta for the past two days upon busi
ness connected with a projected railroad and
some matters of his own. Talking about the
future of Athens, he said:
“Athens is growing steadily and may be
said to be fairly on a boom. We have a large
number of dwellings going up, a new ware
house, a new seed mill and various other en
terprises. Among the most important of
these is a grain elevator with a capacity of
fifty thousand bushels, a cotton seed oil mill
and a corn mill, all to be erected by one com
pany and at one location.”
“What company will build the elevator and
mills?”
“The main stock will be held by myself,
Mr. Hope Hull and Mr. Neb. Smith. All
that we do not take can be placed at once.
We should have commenced work on the
elevator by this time except that we wanted
to decide near what depot we would locate
■it.”
“Why do you want a corn mill in Athens?”
“Because Athens ships a large quantity of
meal. There is considerable territory depend
ent on our city for all the meal it uses, and
we have only one corn mill in the city. The
new one we propose to give a capacity of two
car loads of meal per day. This amount can
be easily disposed of within the circuit of
Athens trade.”
“The building of the road to Knoxville
will help Athens very much?”
“Immensely. It will give us, besides a new
territory into which o*ar merchants can send
their goods, competing rates to the west. The
building of the Northeastern gave us equal
rates with Atlanta to the east. The Rich
mond and Danville have guaranteed that
upon the completion of the road to Knoxville
they will give us the same western rates that
Atlanta has. We will then be able to more
than compete with Atlanta in either eastern
or western goods. With this road finished
Athens must become a great city, and there
is no doubt that it will be finished within a
reasonable time. Our population is growing,
property is appreciating in value and our
trade is enlarging year after year. For ex
ample: last year we had 48,000 bales of cot
ton. This year there has been a decrease of
25 per cent in the cotton grown in Athens
territory, and yet we have already received
forty-five thousand bales, or about what we
had last year, making up for the decrease in
crops by the capture of new territory.”
From and Occasional Correspondent.
Quitman, April 8.—The remains of Wajter
J. Reuntree, the murdered university student,
acoompanied by his brother, J. B. Rountree,
who was near him when the black fiend fired
the fatal shot, also his brother, D. W. Roun
tree, who met them at Macon, and a commit
tee of college boys, his Chi Phi brethren, con
sisting of M. A. Pharr, Washington, Ga.; B.
C. Milner, of Birmingham, Ala., T. P. Stan
ley, of Athens, Ga.; W. Dunson, LaGrange,
Ga., arrived here last night at 10 o’clock, and
was carried to the residence of his deep
stricken parents. This morning at 9 o’clock
the tolling bell announced the last sad rites
to be paid to this brilliant and promising
young man. All business was suspended,
the bank and every store was closed, the peo-
S le from the country and town attested their
eep sympathy as they gathered in an im
mense cortege, and followed with sad hearts
the grief stricken family and all that was
mortal of Walter J. Rountree to the cemete
ry. Rev. W. B. Bennet, assisted by Rev. E.
B. Carroll, officiated. A deep gloom is spread
over our beautiful town. All hearts are sad,
for Walter Rountree was universally beloved.
Long will onr people remember his manly
form, his handsome face, his sweet and affa
ble manners. A few short months ago, with
high hopes and happy heart, he and his
brother left us to prepare for life’s great strug
gle. D. L. G.
DALTON PLANTERS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Dalton, April 10.—Colonel W. H. Tibbs
says that the farmers in this section will not
plant more than 66 per cent of the cotton
planted last year, and that about 60 per cent
of the patent fertilizers will be used. The
colonel makes farming pay. He raises on his
farm from from 1,000 to 1,500 bushels of oats;
300 to 1,000 bushels of wheat; 1,000 to 3,000
bushels of com; 50 to 300 bushels of barley;
50 to 200 bushels of rye; 50 to 100 tons of
clover; about the same amout of timothy and
herd grass; 50 to 100 bales of cotton; 1,000
bushels of turnips; kills from 20 to 50 hogs;
sold $100 worth of chickens and turkeys; will
use this year 25 tons compost manure, costing
him abont $1.50 per ton. The criminal docket
of Whitfield superior court was taken up this
week, and is progressing very rapidly. Mr. C.
A. Trevitt, of Rome, and Mr. OscarTrevitt, of
Talladega, Ala., are visiting relatives in this
place. The flying Jennies are in town, and
the average youth is happy.
GRIST MILL AND GIN BURNED.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Albany, April 11.—Wm. J. Reynolds, a
young man about 22 or 23 years of age, a citi
zen of Lee county, formerly of Dougherty,
died at the Bogen house in this city last even
ing of inflammation of the heart. He had
been siqk for some time and had come to Al
bany to consult and be near a physician. The
steam grist mill and gin of Mr. Sara. W. Liv-
i gstone, of Newton, was burned on Sunday
night last. Loss about $3,000. Supposed to
be an incendiary. The country immediate
ly around Albany is still suffering for rain.
Crops, however, are represented as looking
unusually well.
A PERJURY SUIT.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Elberton, April 11.—Henry L. Henper
colored, was before the county court yester
day charged with perjury, committed during
the trial of a criminal case recently, jn the
superior court. He was committed for trial
in the superior court. The purchase of a lot
of land tor a public cemetery in this place, is
being agitated now. A meeting will be held
this week to put the matter in shape. The
prospect is good for a bountiful fruit crop in
Elbert county this year.
Their First Steam Engine.
Lincolntnn Letter in the McDuffie Journal.
Last Tuesday, while our merchants, doctors^
lawyers, etc., as is usual in dull times, wejJ
sitting around whittling and discussing varP
©us subjects, when suddenly the shrill notes
of a steam whistle broke the stillness of the
air and put a look of surprise on the counte
nances of all. “What does that mean?” asked
one. “Look out for the down passenger!”
said another. “Redemption has come!” ex
claimed another. The surprise had not sub
sided when Mr. N. W. Stevenson’s traction
engine came puffing over the hill. Every eye
was instantly turned in that direction, and by
the time the engine reached the square
it was surrounded, and Mr. Alex. Lev-
orett, the engineer, was answering a tirade of
S i Cations in his affable and courteous manner.
c was conducting the engine to Mr. Steven
son’s saw mill, a mile and a half from Lin-
colnton. When ready to move out, the
writer was given a special reserve seat imme
diately under the smoke stack, and when the
steam was turned on the engine went bound
ing up Main street amid a shout of applause.
We rode a half mile, and. with the exception
of a hole through the brim of our Sunday
hat, burned by a flying spark, fared very
well.
This is the first time ah engine moved en
tirely by steam ever passed through Lincoln'
ton, and it was rather a novel sight.
Floyd County Schools.
From the Rome milletiu.
There were 112 schools opened in the coun
ty the past year—8V white and 31 colored. A
number of these schools accredited to Floyd
county were taught in adjoining counties, but
were attended by scholars from this county.
The whole number of teachers employed, not
counting assistants, 112, of which 81 were
white and 31 colored. The whole number of
children in the county of school age, that is,
from 6 to 18, is 5,776; of these 4,087 are white
and 1,689 are colored. Out of a scholastic
population of 5,776, there were enrolled in
the schools of the county the past year 4,3.89,
with an average attendance of 2,660. Total
number of pupils in the schools of the county
studying spelling, 4,167; reading 3,124; writing
2,016; English grammar 732; geography 920;
arithmetic 1,964. The teachers were paid 4
cents per scholar per day, and the county
school commissioner was paid for 100 days’
services at $3 per day, as allowed by law.
A Short History of Greece.
From the Cochran Enterprise.
On Saturday night last a sneak thief enter
ed the grocery department of the house of D.
Roland, and while the clerks were very busy,
out off a piece of- midling meat and slipped
it off. In a few minutes he came back and
complained to one of the clerks that he had
bought and paid for a piece of meat and some
body had stolen it, and whacking out his
knife sailed into a side of meat, saying he was
determined to have what he had paid for. Mr.
Abe Geddengs interviewed the other clerks
and found that Jim Asbell had bought no meat
and he followed the chap up and captured
him with some of the meat under his coat.
He owned up to stealing about thirty pounds
more than wnat he had about his person. Mr.
Roland kindly agreed if he would return the J From the Washington Gazette,
meat he would release him. Jim readily ‘ ~
agreed and started with Mr. Roland to get it,
but in the bright moonlight, gave him the
grand American skip, and he and the meat
are where the “woodbine twineth.”
Wanting to Move a Town.
One of the new industries of Atlanta is that
of moving houses. A few years ago it was a
rare thing to see even a small house moved
from one part of a lot to another in Atlanta.
Eve.t this was accomplished clumsily, requir
ing large crowds of men and attracting spec
tators. Now the largest of dwelling houses
are moved by patent machinery with only
the slighest trouble and without dam
age to the buildings. Considerable brick
buildings have been moved front one street to
another without damage. Mr. Taylor is the
man who owns the machinery used for this
purpose,and he has a corps of experts in house-
moving. The houses at the barrack3 have
been {licked up and distributed all over
the west end of the city and in as good order
after being transported as they were before
they were touched.
. Upon this point an anecdote is told of
piajur.McCracken, superintendent of construc
tion of the Macon road. A delegation of people
from McDonough called on him and stated
that they had raised—to their honor be it
said—thirty thousand dollars which they
were willing to pay if he would change the
line of railroad so that it would go through
their town instead of leaving it a mile to the
right. Major McCracken replied:
“I don’t see how we can change the line of
road, because it is essential for ns that we
should get the shortest line between Macon
and Atlanta, but the facilities for moving
houses are so perfect under our system that if
you have thirty thousand dollars in cash and
will deposit it subject to my order I will
guarantee that within three months I will
move your town to the line of the road, plac
ing it at whatever point yon may select. I will
move every house without hurting them, and
will allow yon to arrange the new town just
as you please.”
The Bee Tree.
From the Jcsup Sentinel.
A week or so ago a party discovered a bee
tree a short distance from here, and the fol
lowing day returned for the purpose of taking
the honey, carrying with them about half a
dozen buckets, two or three trays, and a num
ber of other vessels in which to bring back
their spoil. Imagine how gratified they must
have felt at the thought of partaking bounti
fully of this palatable article. How eager
they were to come to the tree, and then how
faithfully they labored to cut it tp the ground.
When it had 'fallen, with smoke ready, and
with their vessels, they rushed to the spot
where the bees had been dwelling. But.
alas! To their sorrow they could only find
about half dozen bees still clinging around
the hole where the swarm had been the day
befo-e. With sad hearts and empty buckets
they wound their way homeward, more fully
impressed with the truth of the words,
“Hope’s a star that rises but to set.”
How the P. O. D. Gives Names.
From the Eastman Times.
Service has been ordered on the new mail
route from Lumber City to Clark’s Bluff, on
Oconee river, via the residence of Hon. W.
T. McArthur. Bill is the name of the post-
office at the bluff. As the curiosity of some
may be excited in reference to the nomencla
ture employed by the post-office department
in designating the first named office, we
learn that after several names had been
suggested to the department, the name of
Bill’s Bluff—the name by which this bluff
was formerly known—was returned, with
the exclusion of the word “bluff”—thus
rendering the name of the post-office “Bill.”
The Private Purse.
From the Fort Gaines Tribune.
We learn that the board of commissioners
at their meeting last Monday contributed
forty dollars from their private purses for the
benefit of the sufferers from the cyclone.
WHAT THE SEASON BRINGS.
The Herse Rides and the Man Pulls.
From the Augusta News
An unusual spectacle was to be witnessed
the other day on the road between Ellenton
and Augusta. A negro man and his wife had
been to this city and invested the sum of six
teen dollars in a horse. The pair mounted
the animal and tested his speed for some six
teen miles on their way home. After nlaking
this distance the old horse broke down; the
now uy happy owner secured a wagon and
team and with some assistance lifted his
charger into the wagon and continued his
journey homeward. The horse looked game
as he passed along, head up, viewing the
Bees arc swarming.
From the Fort Valley Mirror.
Flies are getting troublesome.
From the Cochran Enterprise.
Spring fights have opened in Shorterville.
From the Cochran Enterprise.
The forests are now clothed in their spring suits.
The woods abound with fragrant flowers.
From the Jackson Herald.
Just such weather as this makes the youthful
American shed his shoes, shave his head and go on
a prospecting tour along the creek banks in quest of
a wash hole.
From the Fort Gaines Tribune.
Tne season for ice cream is at hand, and the small
red rag can be seen hanging out at an occasional
door to remind the passer by that this delicacy can
be found within.
This spring's lap is so dadgasted hot that winter
darsen’t Unger in it.
The spring gardens of this city have never been
better at this season of the year than they are now.
Albany has a number of excellent gardeners, too.
JACKSON,
THE BUTTS COUNTY TOWN, ON A
BOOM.
Tho rounder of the Town—The PI ret Hanging—'She
Oldest Living Inhabitant—Inorease in Values—
Atlanta - ! Interests—The Building of the
First House — Personal Pc lata.
Special Correspondence of the Constitution.
Jackson, Butts County, Ga.,April 8,18S2.—
“Yes, sir, I am the oldest living inhabitant of
this place. It was in 1S26 that I came here,
and here have my fortunes been cast ever
since. I remember well when the Indians
had been here, and when I came they had
only been gone a few years.”
The speaker was Mr. John W. McCord, an
old man whose silvered locks told the tale of
probably eighty winters that had passed over
his head. He is now the only one living of
the first settlers of Jackson, and though his
step does not possess the elasticity of his ear
lier manhood, the old man is quite spry for
one of his years, and bids fair to outlive even
another generation. I had calledtm him at
his house while en route to Indian Spring,and
found him in the front yard by the
old gate that probably 'had held on
its worn hinges, the young lovers of several
f enerations wlp> had grown up around his
ecaying years. Continuing, he said: “It-
was on the 12th of April, 1826, that a few
aien gathered here one day to sell lots for the
town of Jackson. My father was among the
number, and 1 was then a young man. Fifty-
six years is a long time, but here 1 have lin
gered since then, constantly hoping that
something would bring ns better means for
growing and developing into a city; but it
would not come until now I am ready to
drop into the grave.”
“Do you remember any of the noted men
who used to visit this section?” I asked.
“Yes, I used to know them all, but my
memory is failing now, and their identity is
gradually slipping away. But I can recall
the time when William C. Dawson and
Charles Dougherty, Judge Longstreet, Mr.
Stephens, the Crawfords and others used to
come this way to attend court. The first
court-house was built in 1827, and was burnt
some years later. Then another was built,
which Sherman destroyed on his march to the
sea. The present court house is the third one
since the town was founded, and was built
since the war.”
“Did Sherman do much damage through
here?”
_ “Well, he simply ruined the country for a
time, that’s all. Everything I had was taken
by his soldiers, and all the stores of the town
were burned by the torch of his men. His
main army passed Jackson, and it took three
days to go through.”
“When did he enter?”
“On Thursday, the 17th of November, 1864.
All that day, Friday and Saturday following
the array went through and seemed never to
have an end. He burnt the jail, also, with
the courthouse and stores, besides taking all
the supplies within roach.”
“Who was the founder of the town?”
“A Mr. Bobinet. He sold the lots from his
estate, expecting a lively town to spring up
in after years, but we lacked facilities and the
town has never amounted to a great deal.
This was all Henry county in those days.”
a desperate prisoner.
“I remember when the first hanging occurred
here in 1828. It was intended to be a double
hanging, but one of the doomed men resisted
in his cell and only one of them swung then.
Lud Watts and Tom Leverett were the men,
and they were hung right out there in that
field before you,” pointing to a field in front
of his house. “Both of them were murderers
of the^ deepest type, but when the sheriff went
for Watts, he made a fight with weapons
he had concealed in his cell, and it became
so desperate and lasted so tang that the legal
hour passed, and he had to be resentenced by
the judge, who, by the way, was C. J. McDon
ald. Watts was hung the following Monday,
and I believe that is the first man ever hung
on any day but Friday in the United States."
JACKSON ON A BOOM.
Ever since the war Jackson has been pro
gressing with little or no rapidity. Cut off
from the outside world, with Griffin as tho
nearest railroad station, some twenty miles
distant, she has dragged lierslowlengtii along
quietly and silently, almost asleep. When
the Griffin, Monticello and Madison railroad
vras graded to Jackson, property looked up a
little, but soon fell back to former values
when the scheme fell through. Now, how
ever, the times have changed, and as the
Brunswick extension passes right through the
town the prospects’are that the boom already
started will continue. It is estimated that
the population, which is now about 300. will
thribble itself within twelve months, and as a
consequence property is going up at a bound.
.“You would be astonished,” said Captain
L. D. Watson, the clerk of the superior court,
“to know bow things have changed hero
within a few months' past.”
“What has been the increase in real es
tate values you suppose?”
“I can hardly say, but fully $15,000 or
$20,000 worth of properly has changed hands
since the new railroad was an assured thing.
New houses are going up every day, and wc
think we see the light of day dawning at
last.”
“What can you buy good town lots at
now?”
“Well, there isn’t a single lot left on the
square, but lots that could be bought a few
months ago for twenty-five dollars are now
selling for two hundred and fifty dollars.
This will give you an idea of how the thing is
moving, and 1 am sure the values are notin
creasing on an inflation basis.”
Captain Watson seemed thoroughly alive to
the interests of Jackson, and feels sure that
the town will be a little qity in a short while:
“Why,” said he, “we have one of the finest
sections in the cotton belt to back us, besides
as fine a grain growing country as is to be
found in middle Georgia. The farmers
around here are not deeply in debt, and the
present boom is on a solid foundation to start
with. Business men of sagacity are waking
up to this fact, and are coming in very fast.
Since the boom started, everything has had
an upward tendency. Colonel George W.
Adair, of Atlanta, has bought a number of
tats around the depot here, and will offer any
one a bargain who desires to come here and
invest.”
The prospects are that the business will
gradually work towards the depot, of course,
but that will not injure the general value of
other town property in the least.
The fact that the railroad
is here is quite enough to put a spirit of en
terprise into the people which will keep the
thing going. I am very glad to see these evi
dences of Jacitson’s prosperity, and as the
clever citizens are pulling together, no fear
Is entertained that the growth of the place
will be retarded. Already men of means
here are talking of manufacturing enterprises,
and ere long it may be confidently expected
that the “music of the spindies” will charm
the ear of the Jackson nians.
POINTS.
Colonel Van McKibben is one of the ruling
as well as the shining lights of Jackson. He
is a property owner to a considerable extent,
and is* aLo building a number of houses.
Colonel McKibben is a member of the legisla
ture, and is one of tho ablest men in this sec
tion of the. state. His fame as a lawyer here
abouts is second to none. He speaks hope
fully of his town.
Jackson’s live young mayor, Mr. G. A
Wright, is satisfied that the town will have
1,500 inhabitants in less than two years.
Editor Harp, of the Jackson News, is pub
lishing a lively paper. He came here less
than a year ago, and is working like a Trojan
in the interest of Jackson. His newspaper
office is an unique affair, aud is also somewhat
of a curiosity. I went in to see him and
found him in a small cottage near the square.
His pretty young wife was assuring to set
rype while he was doing a similar work with
nprolled sleeves. The News has a good circu
lation I am glad to state.
Land that was worth $20 per acre five years
ago is worth $300 now.
There is an ordinance recently enacted bjr
the town council that no more frame stores
are to be erected. Hereafter nothing but
brick licuses will be allowed. C. T. L.
OUR INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.
Everything: Morins Rapidly—'Tho New Cotton Milt
and the Cotton Seed Mill*—The Compress Etc.
It is understood that contracts will be closed
to-day for the purchase of a complete outfit
of ten thousand spindles for the Cotton Expo
sition mills. The executive committee, in
whose hands the making of the contract has
been placed, have been consulting with prom
inent machine men for several days. The
contract will probably he closed, 'the mill
filled with machinery at once and the mill in
operation before fall.
Myself and my partner, Mr. Post,” said Mr
Grant Wilkins, on yesterday, as he sat at the
circus watching the trick horses,” have just
bought the six acres on which this tent is
pitched.”
“What are you going to do with it?”
“We are going to put tip shops to carry on,
our work of bridge making. We do several
hundred thousand dollars worth of work
yearly and we need large shops at which to
prepare our material. We will build on this
six acres, at once, shops that will give em
ploy ment to from 250 to 300 men. At present
we arc working a large force at our shops,
near the site of the old rolling mill, but we
have bought now and we will
build our own shops and enlarge our works.”
Messrs. Wilkins & Post are the most prom
inent' bridge builders in the southern country
and there are few firms in' America that
handle larger contracts or have a better repu
tation for efficient work, and their {tutting up
large shops here will add a very important
industry.
The machinery for the new hundred thous
and dollar cotton seed oil mill has already
been purchased from a firm in Dayton,
Ohio, and is being ' prepared
and shipped. The specification for the
building are now in the hands of the contrac
tors. The plans were drawn by Messrs. Bruce
it Morgan, who made the plans for the Nash
ville mill. As soon as the bids are all in the
work will be started, and the mill will be
ready for the fall business.
The ground lias been broken by Messrs.
Parrott, Inman, Turner and others for a new
cotton compress and building of the same
size of the one now owned and operated by
these gentlemen. The building will be fin
ished and the press put in position as rapidly
as possible.
Passengers going out on the Georgia rail
road at night note several large buildings lit
with electric light, on the right hand side of
the track, beyond the cemetery. This is the
new cotton factory of Elsas, May <fc Co. The
spindles are now turning aud several hundred;
hands are at work. The buildings for the
operatives and the factory buildings them
selves make quite a little village.
BUSINESS FAILURES.
BradttrccCft Report* of th» Uwcral State of Affaire of
the I*UHt Week.
There were 119 failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreet’s during the past week,
a decrease of 11 from the preceding week,,.and
4 less during the same week last year. Among
the failures of interest were those of William
P. Tuttle & Co., bankers and brokers, New
York city; Louis Schillinger, wholesale hard
ware, Syracuse, N. Y.; Horace Stone it Co.,
wholesale boots and shoes, St. Louis; Ingalls
& Co., wholesale boots and shoes, Louisville,
Ky.; the Franklin pottery company,
of Franklin, Ohio; and MeOuat <fc
May, car-wlieel founders, Indianapolis,
Indiana. The middle states had 31 fail
ures, an increase of 3; New England states
22, a decrease of 1; southern states 27, a de
crease of 8; wesrern states 33. an increase of
4; California and the territories 0, a decrease
of 8; CanadaS, a decrease of 8. In the prin
cipal trades they were as follows: General
traders 28; grocers 16; manufacturers 8; drugs
6; liquors 6* produce and provisions 5; tobac
co and cigars 4; shoes 3; fancy goods 3; fur
niture 3; gents’furnishing goods 3; clothing
2; dry goods2; hardware 2; confectioners 2;
butchers 2.
Below is printed a list of failures for the
states of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North
Carolina and South Carol ina for the past week:
GEORGIA.
Darien.—Morris Prag, general Btore, has
been closed by the sheriff.
Macon.—Tarver <fc Co., general store, owe
$3,683; assets, $2,000; preferred claims, $1,436.
They offer 25 cents.
Wilkes County Gold Mine.
From the Washington Gazette.
This mine has not been operated for two or
three years. The men who opened the mine
operated it for a time very profitably and then
sold it to some northern capitalists for forty-
ei.ht hundre t dollars. Half of which amount
was paid down, the purchasers agreeing to
forfeit this in case they did not pay the bal
ance within one year. The balance has never
been paid, so the property lias reverted to ite
former owners. It is thought that the pur
chasers never intended to work the mine, but
•that they tried to incorporate it, and sell the
shares. The richest ore taken out assayed one
hundred and nine dollars per ton.
Turpentine and Timber.
From tho Wiregrass Watchman.
Turpentine and timber men are booming.
There afe more turpentine farms and steam
saw mills in Dodge than any other county in
Georgia, and they all seem to be doing well.
They keep afloat a large amount of monev
for the Eastman nierchlfcts to tuk*in, and it
makes trade lively at almieasons of the year.
Old Cotton.
From the Hamilton Journal.
The Hamilton warehouse received last week
two bales of cotton raised before the war, and
held ever since by an old resident of this
county.
ODD INCIDENTS.
Carious Ilnpocnlnui Murine tho Recent Storm In the
State.
From the Cuthbert Enterprise.
A two weeks old babe of Mr. Columbns Bridges
was blown out of the house and between two logs
without being hurt or even waked up.
One house ou the Bob Gamble place, owned by
Mr. S. B. Trapp, held seven darkies when it was
blown down, and not one was hart save a slight
scratch or two.
When the storm came Mr. Dancer’s babe was
asleep in a crib. The house fell down and the babe
fell out unhurt, while the crib was blown nearly
half a mile away.
When the house of Mr. Jones fell It was blown
some little distance with the family in it, and as
the timbers were settling down upon tjiem another
S uff of wind came,removing the heavy timbers and
berating the family.
We hear that when Mr. Dancer 1 * house blew
down one of his little boys crawled under the floor
that was left, and when help came to lift up the
timbers so they could all get out. the little fellow
cried out. “Look out, men, don’t vou crowd me.”
A whole load of shingles was tom off the surround
ing houses and forced through the window into a
room occupied by Mr. Robert Gamble and his
family, while some of the lumber from the gin
house was driven through the weather-boarding
and ceiling of the residence.
A hen ai Judge Knowles’s was retting in a barrel
in the back yard. The bRrrel was removed from its
place, whirled around promiscuously aud violently
and finally settled down in the frontyard, with
the old hen still at her ;>ost, and seemingly undis
turbed by the fury of the storm.
There were 22,000 shingles on the bam and sheds
at Mr. J. E. Bridges’s place, and when the storm
was over, we were told that not one shingle was to
be found on the premises—all had been blown over
Into the pauper farm where they lay so thick that
they had to be hauled out-- before any plowing
could be done.
Mr. Ross Wilson and wife rose from their bed as
the storm came to secure some fastenings about
the house, leaving their babe In the middle of the
bed. In a moment the crash came, tearing down
the house and throwing two heavy timbers up and
down the bed in the very places they had been
occupying. The babe was unhurt, but there is no
doubt of their being killed If they hid not been up-
at the time.