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V7 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. v EVENTS OF THE DAY THROUGH OUT THE STATE. >» 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.