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THE WEEKLY COKSTETUTIO^ TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1882
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TURPENTINE.
SOMETHING ABOUT AGREAT GEOR
GIA INDUSTRY.
The Vroaperoum Plae Breton’. Bloh TreMure.—A
lot or Lana, and What It Costs to Boz-The
Yield-Th8 Prult Proflta-Expenaea of the
Plrat Year- Pack me and lipping.
Front the Atncncua Republican.
G real interest is now manifested in the pro
duction of turpentine and naval stores in this
section of the state, and upon investigation it
Will be seen that no one industry in this sec
tion proves o» much. It is destined to make
tiie pine regions prosperous and to add rich
treasures to this grand old commonwealth.
In conversation will a well informed gentle
man on the subject, we gathered a few facts
that may prove of interest to out readers and
we give them for what they are worth: Take
a lot of land well timbered and tbere can be
cut ok it 10,000 turpentine boxes at a cost of
a cent and a half a box, mading $150. These
box«*3 will yield the crude turpentine for four
years when property managed, that is for
eight montlis during each year. The average
yiold j»cr month is twenty-five barrels of
the crude turpentine which sells readily
for $5.00 per barrel. It will cost about $1.00
per barrel to back the trees so that the boxes
will catch tiie best turpentine, and to dip the
boxes will cost about twenty-five cents a bar
rel. In favored located farms, the distillers
'will furnish tire barrels and iiaul them to
•and from the stills without aoost to tiie man
■owning the farm. So we hare tiie following
results showisg the net profit, viz.: 10,000
boxes yielding twenty-five barrels per month,
would make two hundred barrels per year of
eight months, so that we should have one
barrel each year for every year to every fifty
boxes. These fifty boxes cost seventy-five
cents to cut,-so we have as the cost per bar
rel of production: Hacking,iper barrel, $1.00;
dipping, twenty’jive rente; cutting boxes,
seventy-live cents. Total cost, $2.00. 1’rice,
per barrel, showing a net profit of $3.00 per
barrel. Or two hundred barrels we find a
profit above expense 4 of $000.00.
This is the first year’s profit
on u wild lot of pine land that could be
bought for-one or two hundred dollars. Ilut
this farm will yield in the same, proportion
for three or four years, after which the trees
cun again be boxed, with.n slightly decreasing
yield. When the trees have been thoroughly
drained of the turpentine, they are ready for
the sawyer, and when his work is done, we
have the laud left for the farmer. This new
source of 'Wealth is destined to attract capital
and labor, and soon we shall see our,pine for
ests rivaling our white fields of cotton, and in
■ giving to labor remunerative employment.
Georgia.-is indeed nil empire,with liur unrival
led pine'forests in tiie south, her rice fields in
the east, her mountains '^ metals aivl miner
als in the north, and her fertile cotton plan
tations in middle and suutliwcst Georgia,
with her thriving und beautiful cities uttd
towns, v/c have reason to be proud of our
state, and to feel that site is justly termed the
empire state of the south.
ABOUT GOOBERS.
Their Vultfo an Food—IIov They Are
lined hr Cooke.
Mb* Juliet Corson in the New York Tiroes.
We ull cut them, all genders, lie, she and
••if’—ns the Washington gantin dubbed Dr.
Mary Walker, when, after tracking !p?r in
puzzled-amusement along the street, she stop
ped at a nut vendor's stand—even “it eats
peu-nute.’* Generally-as roasted.nuts, pure
and suqple, we elders.consume them, not all
of us hoi.’ig given to surreptitious or open
enjoyment of pea-nut ■ candy. That pea-nuts
may replace coffee at the breakfast-table only
Dixie reminiscences nsvure us. ami that they
enter into the composition of some excellent
Kuropear, chocolates may be a,surprise to us.
When unawares we fill the salad oil bottle of
the caster with pea-nut oil we unconsciously
follow southern war practices. Titer this pure
and diTioate oil gradually replaced both olive-
oil and lard, and the nri-cnkercmainingafter
the oil was extracted by pressure v.ns rousted
and ground to use instead of cotree, making a
very acceptable substitute. That the nuts
may apj ear at the it inner table in any other
guise tliar that of "pure olive oil" may not
have oeaurred to all tuareaders of'the Times'
household. Some novel receipts for their use
will lie found below, tniiich, if carefully fol
lowed, will give pood results. Twenty oi
thirty years ago our peu-mits came cliiefly from
Africa* where they ore largely used as food,
and one .house could handle them;.cow there
are half a dozen or more-wholesale traders in
the city .dealing chiclly in American nuts,
and the hulk of the African product goes to
France, whence the oil he exported its “pure
olive.” The-East Indian crop is divided be
tween France and England. The African
nuts and those grown in tiie Carolicas from
African seed arc smaller and of poorer flavor
than the Virginia nuts. To realize the
value of the American pea-nut crop -it must
be remembered that in addition to the busi
ness done in'tiie nuts in the first instance,
amounting last year to over $3,000,00C, large
quant itieu-of the expressed-oil arc handled by
wholesale druggists, the cuh » is used fin cattle
food, and oven the shells are utilized ns horse
bedding. The yield of oil front tlieimts is
from -10 to.60 per cent; as it keeps sweet
long time .and lets a delicate flavor, it is
good subaUitute for both almond and olive
oils; it is an excellent lubricate, and also
burns with a.clear, bright tluute and with lit
tle smoke. The nuts were first used in the
soul It by the at egro cooks who.came from Af
rica and San Domingo. Old Philadelphians
will remember .with .satisfaction the San Do
mingo groubd-nut cakes which were said at
the street corners by .negro vendors, and trav
.elers in the sixth before war times may recall
the pea-nut sotyt of some ebony culinary .ex
port. Indeed, it is possible to make from Site
nuts dishes quite-suitable to plate upon the
bill of fare for ordinary dinner t-se. For » -
stance:
i’-eft-nvH coup.
• Pen tic: -soup with oysters.
Dreaded chops, with pea-nut crof’iettte.
Ktsa-uut salad.
Pea-nut -son tile.
Yea-nut patties. Pea-nut &vkes.
.San Domingo grouni-nul cates.
Poe.-nut candy. Roosted pea-, nuts,
i’ea-iiutcoilui.
VEx-itlT soty.
To make this dish shell three pounds of
roasted nats, rub off tiie dry, brown skin care
fully, jh'iliiiI the nuts to a smooth paste in a
mortar, gradually adding a tahlespo&uful of
brandy to prevent oiling; pul this paste i- to
a saucepan, .set it over the fire, anil gradually
stir into it two quarts of boiling water; season
it palatably with salt jutd cayenne pepper;
let it simmer gently until it thickens, stirring
it occasionally to prevent burning, and then
serve it hot.
rsx-merr sour vns oyseess.
Prepare three pounds of nuts as directed in
the preceding receipt; mix with them two
tablespoonfuls of flour, smoothly blended
with half a pint of cold water; place this
mixture in a saucepan over the fire, gradually
stir into it a pint and a half of boiling water,
or milk and water, add a small red peuper
and a palatable seasoning of salt, and boil for
fifteen minutes, taking care that the soup
docs not burn; then put in onepintof oysters
from which all bits of shell have been care
fully removed; let the soup boil once, and
serve it immediately.
pea-nut caoguEms.
Shell three pounds of roasted pea-nuts, re
move the brown skins, simmer the nuts
gently in broth or gravy until they are soft
enough to rub through a seive with a po&to
masher. To each pint of tite puree or pea-nuts
thus made add one ounce of batter and a pal
atable seasoning of salt and pepper, and stir
these ingredients over the fire until they are
scalding hot; then place the saucepan where
its contents will keep hot without boiling,
and stir into them the yolks of six raw eggs;
stir this mixture constantly until the yolks
thicken, bat do not let it boil or the eggs will
curdle; cool the puree; slightly wet the hands
with cold water, and form tablespoonfuls of
the cold puree in the shape of tears; roll them
in cracker or bread crumbs, dip them in
beaten egg, roll them again in the crumbs,
and fry them light brown in sufficient
smoking hot fat to cover them; when they are
done take them out of the fat with the skim
mer, Jay them for a moment on coarse brown
pajier to free them from fat, sprinkle a little
salt over them and serve them hot. Prepared
in this manner they may be used with bread
ed chops or with steaks; by boiling them in
milk, omitting the pepper, sweetening them
with sugar, and then finishing them as di
rected above, they become a sweet dish suit
able for dessert; after they are fried they
should be sprinkled with powdered sugar in
stead of salt.
PEA-MTT SALAD.
Shell the nuts, which must be fresh and
thoroughly roasted, and remove the brown
skins; just before serving arrange them on a
bed of white and tender escarole, or small,
white lettuce leaves; escarole is a variety of
cbiccory which has large, tender leaf stalks;
dress the salad with a plain French salad
dressing made by mixing one part of vinegar
with three of oil and a palatable seasoning of
salt and pepper. The salad must be eaten as
soon as it is dressed, or it will lose its crisp
ness and flavor.
PEANUT SOUFFLE,
Line a two-quart tin mold with buttered
pajier, letting the pajter rise two inches above
tiie top of the mold; ntix together in a sauce
pan three ounces of tite puree of peanuts pre
pared as directed above, six ounces of pow
dered sugar, two ounces of flour, a saltsjwon-
ful of salt, and gradually stir in a pint and a
half of ntilk; set the saucejian over the fire
and stir its contents until they have boiled
two minutes; then remove it to the side of the
stove, where they will not boil, and stir for
one minute; separate the yolks of seven eggs
front the whites, and stir tiie yolks one at a
time into the souffle mixture, taking care that
it does not boil; add the whites, beaten to a
stiff frotii, stirring them in very lightly; put
the souffic quickly into the mold and bake it
twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Serve
it hot in the mold as soon as it is done.
PEA NUT PATTIES.
Line two dozen patty pans with puff paste
or flaky pastry. To one pound of roasted pea
nuts, pounded fine in a mortar, add 10 eggs
well beaten, one pound of sugar and half a
pound of butter; put this mixture into the
pans, and bake until tiie pastry is done in a
moderate oven. Dust the patties with pow
dered sugar and use them hot or cold.
PEA-NUT CAKES.
Found one pint of roasted pea-nuts to a
paste in a mortar; mix in one pint of light-
brown sugar and the whites of five eggs beaten
to a stiff broth; put tiie mixture into small
buttered pans, and bake the cakes itglit brown
in a moderate oven. .
PEA-NUTS COE DESSERT.
Shell roasted nuts, remove the skins, heat
them until they are crisp in -a hot oven,
sprinkle them with salt, and serve them hot
with the dessert. Hlierry or mxdeira wine is
usually taken with them.
SAN DOMINGO GROUND-NUT -CAKES.
Put half a cup of cold water in a sugar
boiler; add two jiounds of light brown sugar;
act it over tiie fire and boil it until a little of
it dropped in ueid water becomes brittle.
Meantime, shell roasted pea-nuts sufficient to
make two quarts; when the sugar reaches the
ipoint above indicated, at once remove it from
the fire, stir in the nuts, und drop by the
tablespoonful on-tut oiled or wet marble slab,
slightly flattening each cake with the spoen
Cool and use.
•SEA-NUT CA.W.
The thick pea-nut candy sold by the
confectioners is made by removing the shells
and skins from roasted nuts, putting them an
inch thick in a ixittered tin pan, anil poisrin
over them sufficient sugar-boiled to a caramel
point to hold the nuts together, but EOt to
-cover them; direct !y after sugar lias-reached
-the degree of boiling indicated in the prece
ding receipt. atsUegins to-boro; at this mo
ment the sugar boiler must be taken from the
tire, set at ouoe into a pan of cold water to
•check the boiling, and the caramel, *s the
boiicd sugar it'.cow called, is poured over the
outs; white sugar is to boused in making this
-candy.
iPEA-NtIT CORVEE.
The nuts must be shelled, the brows: skins
-removed, and the kernels-roasted the -second
the rotundity, knows how to hold up a de
cision and lastly, the indispensable body-ser
vant It is of the latter we wish to write; and
will call him Bob Wilson for short. Bobjis of
an uncertain age, is a shouting A. M. E. by
faith, but having been reared under the eyes
of tiie law, as it were, lias an aversion to agri
cultural pursuits. When he is wanted to go
to the farm im Monday, the preparation
made during the previous Sunday is
sufficient to put Bob on the sick list_
by morning, and the state _ board of
health would swear it would impair Bob’s off
leg, which is slightly game, to expose it to
the miasma of the I’ataula swamps His last
venture was only last Sunday. He shouted
himself so hoarse that his voice sounded like
the bark of a dog in a barrel, and he was as
weak as an independent politician. When he
reached home late that evening he was asked,
•‘What’s the matter now, Bob?’’ “Well, boss,
I jes believe i’se cotch de Rosa Lee what chit
lins 'bout here is having.” His case was a
bad one, and the next morning the body-ser
vant was put to footing up the cost bills on
tiie court docket, his feet being wrapped in a
warm buffalo robe and a glass of hot lemonade
sitting beside him.
THE NEW COURT.
THE FINAL PASSA E OF MR. HAM
MOND’S BILL.
How He Engineered It Through the Homae—The
Oeorgi* Delegation, Excepting Speer, Indorse
Ate Coy for the New Judgeship—At,
Kins, the Syndicate Nominee.
Bad Good Samaritans.
From, the Hawkinsville Sun.
Newt Webb is rejoicing in the downfall of
the colored lodge of Good Samaritans at this
place. It seems that this lodge took the
course old brother M.’s preaching used to do
—“commenced in a calm and wound up in a
storm.” The treasurer was accused of mis
appropriating funds, which raised his ire, anil
it is said showed fight. Whereupon he placed
his hand in his pocket as if to draw a
weapon. The head officer called out, “All who
saw a pistol about the'pusson of brother H.
stand up.” Several got up. This insulted
the dignity of that official, and he retired
carrying with hint the change, and it is
claimed that during the night he took posses
sion of the charter, leaving the lodge as a
ship at sea without chart or compass. It
may be added that this institution had
glorious beginning for the few but an unfor
tunate ending for the many. This is a bad
section for Samaritans to keep good.
Good Walking.
From the West Point Jutterprise.
From our correspondent at McDonald, we
learned last week that Messrs. Faison and
Wilkes were carrying the mail between Moul
trie and McDonald on foot, the distance being
18 miles. The regular arrangement was that
one walked from Moultrie half way to Mc
Donald, where the other one took th'e pouch
and carried it on back to the lialf way ground.
But during Colquitt court Mr. Faison had
business in court and felt obliged to remain
there that day, so Mr. Wilkes, who is over 65
years of age, started from Moultrie, walked to
McDonald aud walked back to Moultrie be
fore sun down. He then walked seven miles
more out to his house, making in all 43 miles
that day, and yet was ready to go ahead with
his share of the carrying the next day just as
usual. We call this pretty good for a man of
65 years and more creditable tiian Rowell’s
MX) miles a dav.
A Moonshiner’s Letter.
From the Elbertou New South.
Mr. Editor on The New Souf: I hopes you
will jes let me tell yon a few things bout
whats gwine oh in these here part most ob the
peple am fixin to start ther little craps we is
all pore asyoueberseed any body in de world
doe we trys to make a onest living for our
foks we kin tnake a little cotton and a little
soggutu and a rith smart corn aud if de reve
nue mens dont keep braken up our stills we
can jis bete the world makencora whisky but
they is tarnelly after us jis look at what they
are doin now they are jis taken evrj- body
dent care whether da ever saw a still -or not
cant some ob dis be stopped some way what
g-wine become ob us pork foks I jus wish you
wud tell us some wa we ben votin for Mister
Sper case fee sade he wud make it all rite but
he baintyit now I dont no wfiot to« do plese
tell us whats de best in this case yeur friend
Mooyshiser.
What the Macon and Brunswick Means.
From theTtrunswiek Advertiser.
A half mile of embankment -built out iu
the marsh to Turtle river and broadened as it
vwo wuuuu approaches said river to-500 feetoutd finished
time very dark brown; then, bv crushing orj otl wit.li.aii expensive v.’liarf, dredging iu front
>arsely grieding them- *thev pan h#> hmiM» _ that^viiart itseat>re length to secure uni-
_ „ „ . they can be boiled,
with water, affording a .pleasant beverage.
when used with hot milt: and sugar. The;
tfiuantity of K-cts required to make oeffee-of .
-the desired strength must -be decided by in
dividual taste, but a first-experiment might
he made with .a cupful of nuts to a era art-of
water.
LOST AND FOUND.
Tiireo Day* Mid :\l(hta Wltlu ut Food, Winter .or
Shelter.
From tiie Bmmwrirk Advertiser.
On Sunday -last, Mr. Gkarles Sandys. in-
S ector at St. Jsiumns Mills, on compary-with
rs. H. B. Guo Id and daughter, Miss May
Gould, came 4c Brunswick in a ship’s-boat,
propelled by twe colored oarsmen, to-attend
tho Easter soa-jice at St. Mark’s Episcopal
church. Arriving at Mr. Watkins's lauding,
the party turned over to the oarsutea their
overcoats, cloaks, wraps, etc., with instruc
tions to be ready to return at 2 p. m. The
party failed to ,vut in their appearance at
tiie hour designated, but came at aboutojt.
m..and found the<aegroes nik there an<4 their
boat left high and dry by the tide.
Being informed by .Mr. Watkinc
that their boat could not be gotten off before
high water at midnight, they .returned to the
bote! to wait. About midnight they returned
to tkeir boat, and, .finding nc oarsmen, con
cluded to go without them. Not being fe-
mtlier with the .route, they mistook their
way and went up Covrliorn crack to its head,
and Hi'ere got aground at the highest stage of
the tide, and there .they were left in the
marsh, their friendsau Brunswick supposing
they had reached home in safety, and their
friends at the mills supposing they were stQl
in Brunswick, as one of the missing oarsmen
had gone to the island on the early morning
trip - .of the Ruby and stated
timt the party had remained in B. to
meet so*ue friends who were expected from
Liberty .county. So matters stood until the
owner of ithe boat began to make inquiries,
and after at any messages, telegrams, etc., to
and fro, the facts became known, both in
Brunswick and at the mills. This was
Wednesday noon. Boats .at once se< out from
both placet, and the party was found high
ami dry in -the marsh, as stated, having been
from Sunday night to Wednesday afternoon
without food, water, shelter or 'wraps. On
Wednesday morning a shower came ctp. and
a little water was caught, which refreshed
tliem very roach. They were taken to the
island much exhausted,'and Dr. Masses* sum
moned. At this writing they are improving.
Cotton Seed in Days Gaze By.
Front the Mon lex tuna Weekly.
Jucc think of it, Mr. Editor. la 1824, when
I was a plow boy of thirteen years, living
then in Laurens county, six miles west of
Dublin, the capital of that county, which
was the place of sale for the farmers for many
miles around, there were but few wagons and
they carried their cotton to town in horse
carts and sold it iu the seed, and while haul
ing their rotton they would bring back plant
ing seed. The merchants all had gins, and
would have been glad for the formers to haul
off all the seed, as the town authorities forced
the merchants to haul the seed down to the
Oconee and empty them into the river. They
were regarded as a nuisance and were thought
to produce sickness. I think about the year
1825. Mr. H. C. Fuqua, the grandfather of our
village man, H. A. J. Fuqqa, experimented
on cotton seed as a fertilizer, applying them
to a small patch of ground. Then it was that
cotton seed came gradually into use as a fer
tilizer, and to-day is one of th.e most valuable
productions of the farm. But I have said
enough about cotton.
He Had the Rosa Lee.
From the Lumpkin Independent.
Our big chief justice is like the judges of
the United States supreme court in more than
one respect. He has the dignity, the brains,
form depth, building wareheuses, offices,
tracks, etc., on the .-same, now side-tracks,
warehouse, etc., in town, to a>y nothing of
tho now coaches being put on the line, new
steel-Tails on the road bed in.place of the oid
iron ones, in short, .general qpwnrd and oa-
ward' tendency in everything eurely portends
something more than mere child’s play, ttaib
roads don’t invest mosey by the thousands in
boggy marshes stnd. improvements of same
simply for the pleasure of planting their mo
ney.
Captain Livingston’s-Suckers.
Front fee Quitman Free Press.
About fourteen months since Captain^
T. J. Livingston pat forty or fifty youug
carpi in his mill pond, since Which time he has.
not seen them aud had ceased to pay them!
any attention. A few days since, his pond
being low, he concluded to ditch off a portion
of iveatch a quantity of .fish and invito Ins
friends to a fish fry. The -whole thing was
successful, and among the quantities oi fish
caught were fourteen or .fifteen very large
queer looking “suckers.” Four or five,
weighing from three to .five pounds, were
saved for the table, and the balance given to
the negroes. Some of the guests noticed the
tinedlcvor of the “suckers,” and finally, upen
investigation, it turns out that they were
splendid carp.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Washington, April 18.—Colonel Hammond
adroitly engineered through the house to-day
his bill creating a new district court for Geor
gia. It first passed the house, then was
amended in the senate and cante back. It
required very careful management to,get the
bill np again, and Mr. Hamntond has worked
every advantage. He has conducted the bill
with remarkable success. This morning Mr.
Keifer agreed to recognize him early, and he
called it up. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, gave
symptoms of opposition, but Mr. Karson,
who had been foremost against it before,,
arose and said he now agreed to the measure,
and hoped it would pass. Colonel Hammond
very neatly carried it tnrough, and in a few
minutes all obstacles had been overcome.
The bill passed without dissenting voice.
m’kay indorsed for judge.
Immediately a petition was started among
the Georgia congressmen asking that Judge
McCoy be appointed judge of the new dis
trict. Every one readily signed it except
Emory Speer. Of course he was not expected
to sign it, as he is an honorary member of the
Georgia syndicate, and Mr. Atkins is their
man for judge. Very strong pressure is being
brought to bear for McCoy and he has
a fine chance.
AN OLD GEORGIA CLAIM.
W. 0. Tuggle to-day made a strong argu
ment before the house war claims committee
in favor of the bill which has passed the sen
ate paying Georgia twenty-seven thousand dol
lars of money expended in defense of the
frontier in the Indian wars. Mr. Tuggle
thinks the bill will pass the house.
A Startling Confession.
From the Griffin News.
Our readers will doubtless remember the
finding of the body of a white man on the
railroad trackmt Hampton on Christinas day
of the year 1880. From general appearances
at the time, suspicions of foul play were en
tertained by a number of the citizens of
Hampton, the deceased having always been
Known as a strictly 6ober man, and the disap
pearance of a jug, which the deceased had
been seen carrying only a short time previous
to the finding of his mangled remains. That
these suspicions were only too well founded,
is now proven by the cqu&gsi<J.n of one Mon
roe Green, a negro, who, suffering from con
sumption and knowing the fatality of the
disease, and that his days were numbered,
confessed the killing of the man and robbing
of the-body, after which they placed him on
the track so as to make it appear that he had
been killed by tite train. He implicated three
other negroes, with whom he divided th.
spoils of tite crime, some $60, of which he re
tained one-half, the other three getting $10
each. Two of his accomplices have been ar
rested. He died at Hampton on last.Monday.
Five Years of Plenty.
From the Hartwell Sun.
Mr. Editor: The five years of war that we
passed, through to keep from freeing the cussed
l&zy niggres were all good crop years, not
withstanding all the able-bodied men who
were iutbued with a spirit of honor and patri
otism were in the service of their country.
There were some civil officers and men who
could borrow—if they did not own—twenty
niggezs, and thus managed to keep out of the
war. There were also a host of preachers
who had mighty sudden calls from tiie Al
mighty t® preadit His everlasting gospel,
who have-done very little in that line of bus-
ness since the war. Now the country is
full-of aisle bodied men and women- and tens
of thousands of stout, healthy yearling boys
who arc able te plow and hoe, and yet the
•oountry is rendered bankrupt by one year’s
failure jr» crops and cannot pay 25 cents on
the dollar. There was not a pound of guano
used during the war and not a pound of
western bacon, corn, or flour to be had, and
yettiKibody suffered. . The women and chil-
-dren worked and fed the arnty aad hud plenty
to eat-at home, much better than- they have
■now. Laziness aiid dishonesty will ¥Um’any
country on earth. X.. Ac tt.y.
found in any section ot Georgia. We are
proud of our school and our teacher.
Geographically dtuated as Andersonville is,
favored as she is with a climate unsurpassed
by that of any section of the south; with flow
ing springs of bright, cold water, chemically
as pure as any to he found in the wholq coun-
try; the day is not far distant when her supe
rior advantages will be recognized and re
garded, and she will shine conspicuously as
the head center-of educational enterprise of
southwest Georgia. You will be, no doubt,
surprised when we tell you that our church
facilities are as fine as most of the larger
cities. Here is heard the doctrine of the
Primitive Baptist, the Missionary Baptist,
the Methodist, the Lutheran and occasionally
the Quakers. And too, these are
sacred grounds. Here slumber in an unbro
ken, eternal hush, sons of almost every na
tionality, children of almost every clime.
Here is the site of tho national cemetery, the
silent city of the nation’s dead! And again,
theseare historic grounds! Here, the cmval-
ric, dashing confederate, arm in arm with the
brave, stem union soldier, come together,
kneel in praise and weep and pray over the
works' of a nation’s folly*. Have you visited
these grounds, historic hills, and thought and
wondered and wept amid their solemn still
ness? Then cornel From their eternal
heights, the stern, uncompromising finger of
time points with sad, mute eloquence at the
bitter evidences of a nation’s disgrace and
trouble over the doings of wrong, of crime
and of death.
Neglected Mail Routes.
Ducktawn Letter In the Ellijay Courier.
A gala the good people of our section are
being.&nnoyed by repeated failures on the
part of the contractor to deliver the mails
over the route from Cleveland to Ducktown.
This.is.xot the first time this thing has hap
pened, ;Kor does it appear that it will be the
last, unless the route is placed in better
hands. Without any warning whatever, the
eon tractor took his horses off the line the fiist
of this month, and we bare had no mail since.
Jt is high time for men who live five hundred
miles away to stop bidding on routes about
which they know nothing. The present con
tractor lives in Kentucky, sad the contractors
of several years past have been men wlto
lived in other states and knew nothing at all
about the route.
A FEW FOWL STORIES.
From the Crsjrfordville Democrat
Mr J. T. Harrison showed us the other dav a
peculiar thing. It was a chicken with two perfect
heads and bills, with- three eyes and onlv one body.
Ur. Stephens took it, aud has it in alcohol.
From the Savannah News.
A gentleman who lives on South Broad street has
several fowls oi choice breeds, which he treats as
pets and prizes very highly. One of his hens dis
appeared nearly a month ago, and he thought it
had been stolen by some enterprising chicken thief,
and eaten long ago, but on Saturday, however, the
hen was discovered in an old dried up well in his
yard, alive and in fair condition after having been
without food or water twenty-six days. She was
gotten out as soon as possible-and given corn and
water, which she ate aud drank voraciously,
ram the Eatoutou Chronicle.
Captain S. R. Lawrence showed us the other day
a curiosity iu the shape of an egg. It was an egg
imperfect from a Plymouth rock hen, with the
usual shape, half size, having a neck about two
inches long, hanging so as to make the whole ap
pear like a sure enough young chicken, and a fine
looking one at that.
On the 15:h of June last, Mr. J. H. Boatwright had
a hen which began to siL A few days afterward,
the eggs were destroyed by a dog or hog—but the
hen couUnued to sit, and sit, and there she sat
until some time in December—about rix mouths.
She is the champion sitting hen, in fact she re
mained to long on the nest that she was well set ia
her way.
From the Dalton Citizen.
Early county is in debt only 8159.
Hog stealing Is on the increase in Early county.
Free vaccination has been administered to one
thousand and ninety-one poor*persons in Chatham
county.
A fine Durham cow, belonging to Mr. R. C.
McIntosh, of Quitman, was killed by a kick from a
horse last Saturday.
Jonesville.
From the Hincsville Gazette.
The .village of Jonesville is peculiar in its
location and commands the respect if not the
love of a large portion of the people of the
counties of McIntosh and Liberty. The pecu
liarity consists in its being half in Liberty
and half in McIntosh, the county line run
ning through its center. There is in this lit
tle burg two little unpretending groceries
which are quite a convenience to the neigh
borhood and the people of the village; on
either side of the burg are several very dark
swamps through whiett the road to the village
pass. Nearly all the people of this neighbor
hood get their supplies from No. 4 Walthour-
ville, Liberty county, and send and sell their
produce in that direction, these little unpre
tending stores included. McIntosh county is
noted for her bad roads; Liberty is honored
for her good reads. To approach Jonesville
from McIntosh, yon must cross two swamps
of considerable magnitude and two branches,
ten bridges and, strange to say, you can get
there from that side without "risk of life or
limb. That side of the road is kept up, and
while it is not macademised yon can get to
market that far night or day, feeling safe on
your journey. Not so on the Liberty side,
no one having eompassion for his beast of
burdetl or respect Tor his vehicle will travel
that road, and still there is no other without
going from seven to ten miles out of the way
The Cherokee Rose.
Frtun the Meriwether Vindicator.
. The legend of the Cherokee rose is as pretty
as the flower itself. An Indian chief of tite
Seminole tribe was taken prisoner by his ene
mies,the Cherokees.and doomed to torture,but
became so seriously ill that it became necessary
to wait for his restoration to health before
committing 'hint to tite fire. And as he lay
prostrate by disease in the cabin of the Cher
okee ivarrior, the daughter of the latter, a
young j dark faced maid, was his nurse. She
fell in love with the young chieftain, and
wishing to save his life, urged him to escapt
but he would not do so unless
she Would flee with him. She con
sen ted. Yet before she had gone far, im
pelled by soft regret ot leaving home, she
asked permission of her lover to .return home
for the purpose of bearing away some me
mento; of it. So. retracing her footsteps, she
broke a twig from the while rose which
climbed up the poles of her father’s tent. 'and
preserved it during her flight through the
wilderness, and planted it by the door of her
new home in the laud of the Seminoles. And
from that day this beautiful flower has a'J
ways bieen known between the capes of Flor
ida and throughout the sontbern states by
the name of Cherokee rose.
flfojor S. B. Wight’* Illness.
•Fram the Albany News.
Major. S. B. Wight, was taken sick on
‘Friday, last, but his family and friends, were
■not at all planned about him. -until Sunday
morning when he was stricken with, apo
plexy. Since that time his condition lias
been vpry precarious, and there has been but
little hops of bis recovery. His physicians
•reported him more comfortable yesterday,
•than throughout the day and night previous,
however, and we cannot but hope that his
life willyet b )» pared to his family and the
community. He is not at all hopeful himself,
however, and we are informed that he told
his son, Captain E. L. Wight, only a few
minutes before the stroke of apoplexy came,
that he felt like he was going to die soon, and
that he would die with apoplexy. Mrs.
Wight, who has been in New ‘Orleans, for
■several weeks past on a visit to her brother,
was telegraphed for and was expected to ar-
riveyesterday afternoon, but missed connec
tion somewhere on the route, and will, there
fore, not reach her husband until this after
noon. Their children from Atlanta all arriv
ed yesterday afternoon.
Why Mr. Smaw is a Trump,
From the Americus Reeo-der.
Saturday morning, just about the time a
man's appetite begins to bother him, our
gonial friend of the Bonanza smilingly brought
into our sanctum a big silver tray full of de
licious drinks, comprising a Runt Cooler, Wide
Awake Punch, Claret Punch, Sherry Cobbler,
St. Oltarles Punch, Lemonade and Aqua Pura,
a favorite temperance drink. The “boys”
were called in, and with wonder-stricken
eyes they gazed on the delicacies, but not for
long. Each man had soon “downed” his
favorite, and from grateful hearts came the
following declaration:
Resolved, that the thanks of the Recorder
force are hereby tendered to Mr. Henry
Smaw, of the Bonanza saloon, for never
before-tasted delicacies. We hereby vote him
a trump, and recommend Him and the Bo
nanza to thirstv thinkers.
Auraria.
From the Mining Review.
All the mines here have done better anp
taken out more gold the past week
than was ever taken out in six
days’ work before. The Auraria mine
is several hundred dollars ahead on the
month’s run, with ore enough in sight to run
a hundred stamps for years. The Chicago
and Georgia mine has in the past month taken
out $4 to every dollar’s expense, and have got
the cut in splendid working shape for a better
month's work. The uplands of the state of
Georgia embraee 3,500,000 acres of gold-bear
ing grounds, and this area carries underneath
it mineral wealth consisting of fully 165 differ
ent minerals.
Fair Andersonville.
From the Montezuma Weekly.
Andersonville. from which point we write,
is a busy little city of one hundred inhabit
ants, romantically located midway between
Montezuma and Americus, on a range of sand
hills noted for health, good water and pretty
girls. The stranger as he passes along with
out time to bestow but a hasty glance at her
surrounding, does not realize the fact that
this town is supported by a fine agricultural
country as can be found in southwest Geor
gia; that in iter own bosom and aronnd about
her may be found as intelligent, refined and
f rosperous a people as can be seen anywhere,
[ere too is in successful progress one of the
’ best and most flourishing schools that can ba
A Strange Freak of Nature.
From the Butler Herald.
Ope of the most wonderful of the many
strange freaks of nature occurred in the lower
part ofjthis county on the 0th instant. For
obvious reasons we withhold the names of the
parties; except that of the attending physician
Dr. George Gostin.
The doctor informs us that a lady, on
the day mentioned gave birth to twins. Qne
Of the twins from the waist down was a perfect
child, but froin that point upward, was in the
language of the doctor, “a perfect bull frog.*
The otper child was born with a “hare-lip,
two front upper teeth, the right leg badly de
formed, and the bowels, liver, and in short,
all the intestines, except*the heart and lungs,
were found growing on the outside of the
• body of the child. These remarkable twins
Dr. Gostin has preserved in alcohol, and they
uiay be seen any day by any one who will
call in the doctor’s office.
Looking for a Moonshiner.
Pleasant Hill, Ga., April 11th, 1882.
Editors Columbus Times: A very, temperate
and nice gentleman, not many miles from
this place, had a negro out, not long since,
from early morn until late at night searching
the pine mountains of Talbot and Meriwether
comities crying to get his little brown jug
filled with that good old moonshine whisky.
After a hard day’s travel over mountains and
rocks, the darkey returned with his little
brown jug empty, and told the gentleman
that he could not find any moonshine whisky
worth a cent in dem dar mountains. Boss,
we will have to give dem dar blocade stills
up, de moonshiners are too sharp for dis nig
ger; truth man!
Farming progressing finely, oats looking
finely-, wheat sorry, cotton planting going on
generally. Wild Bill
A Good Showing.
From the Columbus Times.
Yesterday morning Mr. J. H. Brooks, had
set out in his garden on Bull cteek eight
thousand yarn potato plants. We learn he
has twenty-seven thousand head of cabbage
that will ‘measure from one and a half to
two and a half feet across the top. He is
running a market garden, aud brings loads
of vegetables to market every day. Truck
farming has grown to quite large propor
tions in the past few years, and those who
engage in it find it a profitable business.
t APRIL SHOWERS.
Wild March win Js, across the moorlands,
Swept at their own bitter will;
Wild March winds against the forelands
Walled mid wave crash, keen and shrill;
April showers
To the flowers
Whispered slowly, mid the strife,
“We are come with warmth and life. ”
Sliding down the south wind’s pinions,
Glimmering ’neath the glimmering skies,
As the tears aud smiles of welcome,
Meeting, shine in loving eyes,
April showers,
Soft, sweet showers,
Call to hill and glen and plain,
“Spring and we are hack again!”
And the east wind, black and sullen.
Shrinks before her balmy breath;
Crouches in his gloomy cavern,
Fierce as hate and cold as death.
April showers.
Bright Hoick showers.
Gem the grasses, feed the buds,
; leaflets i
Free the J
i in the woods.
And the mourner's heavy eyelids
Lift to meet the genial ray;
And the dull black frost of sorrow
Melts beneath its smile away.
April showers,
Wakening showers.
Typing God’s dear promise given—
1 hat hearts laid waste, and pure ties riven,
Live and love, and wait in heaven.
—Tinsley’s Magazine.
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Keeps off all chills, fevers,
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New Bedford, Mass.
T HE SI MMER TERM OF THI8 SCHOOL FOR
both sexes will begin Monday, April
English preparatory course; academy graduating
course boys fitted for scientific schools and yonlg
ladies for teaching: experienced teachers; thorough
instruction; home ac-ommedaticns foreightpuplls
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MARY E. SAVERY, Principal,
Conn tv fit. School. New Bedford Mass.
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