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COTTON SAVING.
SOME SUGGESTIONS TO MANUFAC
TURERS BY EDWARD ATKINSON.
A W..K) Of *30.000.000-How Thu Kay be Remedied
with Improved Ginning Honaee-The Buzzard
Win* Pn-n—Opportunities for Worthera
Capital—Sign* of Improvement.
Mr. Edward Atkinson Las prepared a state
ment upon cotton saving to he read at a meet
ing of the New England cotton manufacturers'
association to-day, the substance of which is
as follows:
Since the last meeting of the association a
very exhaustive investigation has been iiiade
to see whether the statement made by me as a
reason for holding the Atlanta cotton exposi
tion could be sustained or not. I alleged as
the motive of that exposition that the cotton
crop of the United States was, on the average,
depreciated at least one cent a pound by bad
handling between the held and the factory.
One cent a ponnd in a crop of 0,(X)0,000 bales
is about 130,000,000, On the whole, the repre
sentatives of the cotton manufacturers of New
England, and the machinists who visited At
lanta and examined the subject in connection
with the exposition, or who have had previ
ous knowledge in regard thereto, have more
than sustained this statement of loss.
Nearly every one consulted has added to
this estimate their testimony that the labor
expended in the present bad method of hand
ling is twice or thrice as much as is needed;
and that if the whole loss to the planters of
the south from waste labor—waste 111 ginning,
waste in baling, waste in transportation, waste
in compressing, waste in the sjore itself by
packing and stealage and waste at every
point -could lie distinctly computed and tab
ulated, it would he nearer two cents a pound,
or $01,0(10,060 a year. It is one thing to suite
this case, however, and quite another thing to
find a remedy. With a view to possible rem
edy and to the probable profit on business in
vestments in altering in some measure these
conditions, two young gentlemen, one a grad
uate of Harvard college, son of an Alabama
cotton planter, the other u graduate of the
Institute of Technology in the department of
mechanical engineering, have devoted several
weeks to the study of the present methods of
■working cotton in Georgia and Alabama.
From their report it is becoming apparent
that the depreciation of the crop is becoming
worse and that litile.if anything, lias yet been
accomplished in remedying the defects.
eiKKWfi ON A RM AM. SCALE.
The process of ginning anil baling in these
states, which are, on the whole, two of the
most progressive states of the south, is con
ducted by one of three methods:
1. Ginneries run by liorse or mule power.
2. Ginneries run by steam.
:t. A very few runny water power.
The latter may be disregarded. The princi
pal part, of the work is done in one of the two
inetlibds first named. Class 1 is the common
est of all, and is universally used where the
farmer does the ginning for himself or for one
or two neighbors. The gin house is usually a
two story building of rough construction.
The cotton is brought from the field in wagons
and carried to the upper story in baskets and
by means of a ladder. Four mules furnish
the motive power. The lint cotton is thrown
by a brush into the lint room which is neither
brushed nor swept from one season to another
nor from one decade to another. Wliat
encouragement can there be for care
ful picking when the cotton is to be
ginned in such a place? The press is the old
“buzzard-wing” press. It stands about fifty
feet from the gin house, and the lint has to be
carried this distance through wind and dirt
and in all weathers. Most of the cotton is
now left lying about wherever it may happen
it after it has
to be most convenient to place
keen pressed, v exposed to rain and wind and
other cause of injury. More crude devices
for the manipulation of cottou, considerin
the importance of the work to be done, couli
not be found in India orin China. The stages
through which ginneries of this class arc pass
ing toward improvement, are interesting to
note. The first thing done away with is the
“buzzard-wing” press, for which an improved
press is being established; the condenser at
tached to the irin makes the lint room unnec
essary, and when steam power is applied the
old running gear is thrown away.
In tlic custom ginneries, operated by steam,
the presses are almost always of an improved
kind, of which there is a great variety.* They
are, however, mostly operated by hand ■ and
not by steam. The buildings axe great im
provements on the old plantation houses.
The machinery is better and more carefully
attended to, and tiie facilities for handling
the cotton are vastly superior to those of the
old style, llut it is a matter of very grave
doubt whether the cotton is turned out in
any better condition tlmn in the primit : vo
way. In faet there is every reason to fear
that it is more injured in these establishments
than in the old fashioned way. During the
ginning season these public ginneries are
always crowded with work—each man desiring
to have his cotton carried through immedi
ately, and to return home; his chief object
being to get the greatest quantity of cotton
from the seed which he can possibly obtain.
The proprietor of the gin is interested in get
ting through the largest number of bales, and
lie works with a view to accommodating his
customers and taking the largest toll rather
than with any idea of turning out good and
uninjured staple which his customers do not
appreciate. He runs his machinery at the
highest possible speed, and works as close as
possible in order to make a large yield of liut.
If the truth were known ail “nepped” or
■overginned cotton could probably be traced
to gins of this sort.
SIGNS or IMPROVEMENT.
The more hopeful side of the question is to
lie found in the fact that a vast deal of in
formation was spread abroad from the Atlan
ta cotton exposition, and the great margin of
profit, which is to be measured by the depre
ciation of one or two cents a po .nd, is begin
ning to work its true results. For instance,
in and around Hogansville. Ga., about two-
thirds of the fanners are now planting se
lect cd seed and ate using all the means within
their information to save it in good condition
and to have it properly prepared. The rep
resentatives of large plantations upon the
Mississippi river, where considerable invest
ments of northern men have been made, are
making their arrangements to establish their
own brand, upon which each grade
of their cotton may be known
and for which they will be responsi
ble, so that it shall be as true to its title in
either grade as the goods from any ot your
factories. The representatives of certain rail
roads, especially in Texas, have sought infor
mation as to the right methods of establisbng
public ginneries, to be equipped with suf
ficient capital to buy cotton in the seed (it
being a more common custom in Texas than
elsewhere to *11 cotton in the seed), and
also to establish tlieir brand by winch their
cotton shall be known. The representatives
of cotton seed oil mills are in many cases
planning to attach cotton gins to their works
and to buy the cotton in the seed. This work
must, however, prooceed slowly, it is so little
tiie custom outside of Texas to sell the
cotton in the seed and < lie hen laws
which subject the farmer and the planter to
the corner shopkeeper render it somewhat
difficult to establish a fair practice of dealing
in seed cotton. It appears that the business
of ginning for toll gives an ample profit, ana
will presently lead to improvement^ as it be
comes apparent that additional profit may be
made by improving the condition of the cot
ton. A model cotton ginning establishment,
with a capacity of handling 3,000 bales of
cotton in a season of 100 days, or thirty bales
a day, can be constructed with all the requi
site buildings for the work and for storage,
with three eighty saw gins for common work
and two roller gins for extra stapje, suitable
cleaners for cleaning dirty cotton in the seed,
an exhaust blower to lift the cotton from
the wagons and distribute it, a cotton seed
linller by which the hulls can be separated
from the kernel, and all other requisite ma
chinery, at a cost (with twenty-five per cent
added for contingencies) of less than $12,000.
In such an establishment the purpose would
be either to gin cotton for toll or to buy cot
ton in the seed; to hull the seed, burning the
hulls for fuel unless it was found that they
were more valuable for other purjxjses; send
ing the kernels to the nearest oil mill for the
oil to be expressed, the cake to be returned lo
be ground at the gin stand and distributed as
cotton seed meal, according to the demand.
There would be one element of profit now-
wasted in such an establishment, to-ivit: the
saving of what are technically termed
“motes'" being immature seed with much
fibre attached. These motes constitute from
one to four per cent of tiie weight of the cot
ton ana are most excellent paper stock.
A CHANCE FOR NORTHERN MEN.
I have never investigated any subject in
which so large a profit appeared io be within
reach on so small an investment as this, and
there is certainly room for northern men who
desire to make a fresii start in a healthy up
land country among the southern farmers to
benefit themselves while benefiting the neigh
borhood. It may be worth your while to
observe how small an investment of capital
would be required to treat the whole cotton
crop in a scientific and skilful way, provided
only a true beginning can be made. I have
said that a model establishment of the ca
pacity ot .'5,000 bales in the season would cost
less than $12,000. Two thousand such estab
lishments scattered over the vast area of the
cotton country—each treating 3.000 bales in
the season—would prepare 0,000.000 bales of
cotton, and would represent a capital of $24,-
000,000. Hut even this amount is not neces
sary. Cotton in tiie seed can be kept, if
properly stored, for an indefinite period
without injury. If arrangements were
made and " the custom introduced
for purchasing cotton in the seed the
ginning season might be extended to cover
two hundred days instead of one hundred.
The establishment named would then work
0,000 bales in the season, and ihe capital re
quired for the treatment of the whole crop
w-ould represent only $12,000,000. It seems
almost absurd and visionary to say that by-
means of such an investment a saving of
nearly $30,000,000 more in waste of labor and
In other ways, might be saved. Yet I think
such is the only legitimate deduction from
the facts disclosed at the Atlanta exposition
and by investigations since made. I can con
ceive of no branch of industry- so likely to be
come very profitable as tiie organization of a
large concern w-itli $500,000 capital, of which
one-half may he invested in twenty model
ginning establishments scattered through the
upland country-, in a healthy climate, among
the progressive farmers who only need the
incentive of personal interest to be’ led in the
right direction; the other half to be used as
the working capital in purchasing and dispos
ing of the cotton.
A COMING NECESSITY.
Whether or not such ail undertaking shall
be begun depends upon others, and not upon
myself My function in the matter has been
to make a complete investigation and to re
port upon the lasts. The facts will be sub
mitted to the gentlemen atwhose’eost the re
cent investigation has been made, hut who
only contemplated a little work on their own
account, being individual manufacturcrs.who
did not contemplate this larger- undertaking.
I think the time may conic • within a short
period when it will cease to be a matter of
choice 011 the part of northern manufacturers
whether or not they will establish branches of
their own factories to gin and prepare their
own cotton. The present tendency to worse
depreciation and to more bad cotton than lias
ever been seen will go on for several years
longer. There is reason to suppose that the
very sandy and falsely packed bales, of which
we have heard so much in Consul
Shaw’s report and in other ways,
are not to he attributed to any intentional
fraud or even to the adverse conditions of a
bad season, but that they are the necessary
result of the present method of treating the
farmer's cottou which' has been exposed for
weeks to the rain and mud. In general it
may be said that the improvement of the cot-
PROMISES OF THE CROPS.
BOUNTIFUL HARVESTS ASSURED
* IN ALL SECTIONS.
Few Exception* to ihe Bole of Inert seed or Average
Yield —Damage by Flood and Frost Less than
Was Feared—Cotton. Sugar Cane and
Tobacco Doing WeU, Eic., Etc.
ton crop—except it be undertaken by special
enterprise or special methods indicated in
tltis report—can only proceed with the gen
eral improvement in the conditions of society
in the southern states. How rapid or how
slow that improvement may be you can judge
as well as myself, there are already- very-
large planters with whom northern manufac
turers could, if they chose, enter into con-
tracis for the delivery of cotton of a givey
quality, prepared in any manner which then
choose to pay for. On the other band, the
cultivation of cotton in Texas and in upland
regions of thfe south is steadily workingin the
direction of sinallfarms,iu which cotton will be
the surplus or money- crop. This will be ginned
' 11 nclglibooi ‘
irhood gins, and the improvement
in the”quality will proceed in just the meas
ure of the increase of intelligence and the
means of communication between the farmer
and the manufacturer, The ultimate contest
for supremacy In the production of cotton
will be between these two systems. My own
judgment is that in the long run the small
farmer will lekd, as he will subsist himself on
other crops, and it will be difficult to say that
It will be his surplus or whatever it brings,
his cotton costs one year more tiian another.
Each of these processes will take a considera
ble period to work themselves out, and in the
meantime there is reason to expect consist
ent, regular and increasing depreciation of
the greater part of the cotton crop. The
very manner in which saw gins are of
fered is a proof of, this statement. The
merits held out by the principal makers of the
saw gin are that an eighty saw gin will work
sixteen bales of cotton in a day, and will take
all the lint oil" the seed, both of these recom
mendations being absolute faults. The ut
most that any eighty-saw gin can properly
work in a day, without injury to the staple,
is ten bales; and the gin which is set so close
as to remove the fluff or hair from the seed, as
well as the true staple, is a mischievous and
unfit machine. If the cotton states were ex
posed to a healthy competition elsewhere and
lad not a practical monopoly this tendency
to depreciation would be speediy checked, or
else the goose would be killed that lays the
golden egg. Under the present direction it is
difficult to see how the mills, which need
good middling to fair cotton of even staple
for fine work or for hosiery, can make sure of
an even and regular supply unless they estab
lish ginning departments of their own fac
tories at suitable iioints in the southern
states.
From the New York Times.
Floods, frosts, and a backward spring have
! worked to the injury of the crops this
but the comprehensive statement of
their present condition, which The Times
v.v lays before its readers, will show that,
despite these influences, the general condi
tion-, with few exceptions, promises an abun
dant harvest throughout the country. From
states and 4 territories—nearly all except
those whose agricultural products are of no
importance—the most trustworthy informa
tion Las been obtained. From 120 different
places, covering over 1.500 centres of agricul
tural work, persons whose business and inter
est it lias been to secure accurate knowledge
of the crops have sent the result of their in
vestigations to the Times.
The small grains, despite bad spring weath
er. promise well. Winter wheat will give an
increased yield in nearly every state except
Indiana, Ohio and New York. Tiie last
named only will produce much less than tlie
average. Spring wheat is much more llattcr-
ing in its promise. In the great grain states
west of the Mississippi the increase is
pecially marked, in some cases as
uch as 50 per cent. In some of
the old grain states, other grains are replacing
wheat—barley, oats and rye especially. In
all these a large increase in acreage is report
ed and promise a large crop. Insects ami rust
are reported In some places, but only in Ten
nessee is much alarm leit. Corn sho ws a very
large increase in nearly every state where it
cultivated at all. Iq the north it shares to
some extent in the displacement of winter
iieat, and in the south it is replacing cotton
to sonic extent. Emigration and the pushing
of railroad construction are prominent factors
in the increase of the grain fields.
Cotton is expected to give at least an aver
go crop. The area devoted to it is much
smuller, floods, a partial abandonment of the
“all cotton” system, and the inability of
planters to obtain sufficient supplies work to-
;etOer to this result. The free use of fertilizers,
tiowever, is expected to keep the yield up to
the average. The planters throughout the
south have been much hampered, also, by
the difficulty in obtaining laborers. The
ugur cane crop is looking splendidly, except
in a few cases, in some of the flooded districts,
where it has been killed. The cultivation of
rice is receiving more attention, and probably
the average crop will be secured. Tobacco
docs not show much change; and increased
acreage will be planted in some of the middle
and northern states. Hay and grass crops
imve been much injured throughout
the country, and generally a light yield
expected. The high ’ price of pota
toes lias led farmers to devote an in
creased acreage to that vegetable this year.
The fruit crops have been the chief sufferers.
Frosts have about destroyed peaches and
small fruit in Virginia, Maryland and Dela
ware ami the Hudson valley. Other fruits
will give an average yield, except perhaps
terries. The dairy interests in the north
and east are receiving more attention, and,
with fruit-raising, replacing the cultivation of
grain. The great cattle growing interests of
he west arc most flourishing, the mild win
ter on the plains having been favorable.
The condition of the crops in each state is
shown by the following recapitulation:
Alabama—Cotton, although the decrease
in iand cultivated is marked, is expected to
yield an average crop. The acreage of corn
and oats has been increased.
Arkansas—Winter wheat, with a very large
increase in acreage, will soon be harvested.
Corn and oats also show large increase. Cot
ton planting is going on, with perhaps a
slightly decreased area.
California—the largest increase is in the
acreage devoted to vines and barley, which
are thriving. Wheat and oats will he about
as last year.
Colorado—The wheat acreage lias been in
creased one-third, with promise of a corre
sponding yield. Crops in southern Colorado
give way ’to the eattle interest, which is in
fine condition.
Connecticut—The kitchen-garden, the dai
ry, and the orchard are gradual!}* leading to
smaller grain crops. These interests are in a
good condition. Much land will be devoted
to potatoes.
Dakota—This great grain-growing state
promises an increase in its yield of wheat and
oats of 25 per cent. Barley is also being
planted.
Delaware—The farmers’ work is very back
ward. The crops of corn and wheat will be
about the average. The peach and small fruit
crop has been badly damaged, if not de
stroyed,
Florida—The cotton crop, through the use
of fertilizers, is expected to yield ten or fif
teen per cent increase. A good crop of oats
and a large yield of corn are expected.
Georgia—Various causes have led to a slight
decrease in eotton acreage, with a large in
erease in food crops, principally com and
oats. Ilice and sugar-cane are about the av-
The Stars He Saw.
From the Dawson, Go., Journal.
Doctor Lamar says a man never gets too old
to play the “dam fool.” A few days ago he
concluded, in order to quicken the pace of
that handsome Texas pony he rides, to put
011 a pair of long range Texas spurs. Once
astride the little “injun,” sock went the
purs. The next thing the doctor saw, as he
lav humped up 011 the ground, was about
fourteen millions of infinitessiinal stars. Mor
al: Old men should be carefnl how they ride
Texas ponies with spurs.
The Death of a Good Woman.
Mrs. H. A. Fuller died in Atlanta on
Thursday. She had been sick for some time
and her death was not unexpected by her
family and friends. Mrs. Fuller had every
thing around her to make her want to live,
kind and gentle husband, loving children, all
happy and prosperous. She was beloved by
all her neighbors, and was a zealous member
of the Presbyterian church. Her death was
great loss to her family, friends and neigh
bors. One thought can’console them.tliat she
lives in a better world, and will be there
meet those who come after her.
Snuill grains show an increase aiul good
condition. Hogs and cattle have wintered
well.
New Hampshire—The season is backward
and very little plowing lias been done. Large
crops of hay a d potatoes are expected. Some
disposition is shown to increase the acreage of
wheat.
New Jersey—Hay and clover have general
ly been much injured. A' light increase in
wheat, rye, oats and corn, and a decrease in
tobacco arc reported. A good crop of fruit is
evpected.
New York—"Winter wheat will show a short
crop. More oats and about the same barley
have been planted. Dairy industry is ex
tending. Hops have been injured 10 per
cent. The Hudson Valley peach crop is a
failure; other fruits, exceut cherries, promise
well.
North Carolina—The cotton, with the use
of fertilizers, will probably be an average
crop. There is a large increase in the area
devoted to corn. The rice acreage has been
doubled. Fruit prospec;s are good.
Ohio—Injury to winter despite in
creased acreage, will prevent mure than an
average crop. Oats ami potatoes show some
increase. Meadows have been injured. Dairy
aud fruit interests iin.k well
Oregon—Fall wheat averages better than
1841. Spring wheat ami oats will be about the
same. The sheep increase is large. Railroad
c instruction is increasing the general acre
age.
Pennsylvania—Notwithstanding an increase
in general acreage, it is believed that grain
and hay will not give average returns. Corn,
oats, potatoes and tobacco are more extensive
ly planted.
Rhode Island-—Corn and potatoes show an
increase in acreage. Grass is looking well.
Farm labor is scarce.
South Carolina—Cotton looks well, with a
slightly diminished acreage. Winter wheat
and oats show a very large increase. Rice
promises not more than half tiie usual crop.
Tennessee—The planting of cotton is in
creasing. The prospects of winter wheat are
endangered by by and rust. Fruit prospects
are flattering. Grass is above the average.
Texa.;—Wheat promises a yield over that of
last year. Corn and oats look well, and the
acreage has been extended. Cotton is in good
condition. Stock-raising interests are pros
perous.
West Virginia—-Winter wheat, with the
same acreage, will show double the yield of
1881. Corn and oats are more generally
planted. Fruits have been much damaged. *
Wisconsin—This state is losing ground as a
wheat producer. Barley is the main crop
this year, and a very large crop is expected.
Spring wheat shows' some increase, with good
prospects. Stock-raising is attracting atten
tion. .
Wyoming—Emigration has increased the
area devoted to spring wheat, rye, and barley.
The mild winter favored cattle, and a large
increase in the herds is reported.
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THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
Do Canes Bloom.
From the DeKalb County, Ga., News.
The question is being agitated in some sec
tions whether cane blooms or not. Any of
the inhabitants in the vicinity of Snap Finger
bottoms can testify tliat they do. when ten or
fifteen feet high or taller, and then die after
blooming.
Winter wheat has not been dam
aged as much as was feared, and the average
yield is promised. A large corn crop is prom
ised. An increased acreage in rye and oats is
under cultivation.
Indiana—The winter wheat generally was
badly injured by frost, and a short crop is ex
pected. Barley is also injured. Corn and
oats show an increase. Fruit, except apples,
will give a small yield.
Iowa—The wheat yield will be about the
average, but this crop* is giving way to com.
oats, barley, flax and hay, which promise
large returns. Cattle and hog raising are at
tracting much attention.
Kansas—The outlook for all grain has never
been better. Tiie acreageof winterandspring
wheat, com and rye has increased from 30 to
100 per cent. Sheep-raising is a growing in
terest.
Kentucky—Winter wheat shows a larger
acreage; crop in good condition. Corn and
oats will be planted more than last year. To
bacco lemains as last year. There will be a
fair crop of peaches.
Louisiana—Cotton planting has been re
tarded; the acreage will probably not change
much. The sugarcane, except in overflowed
places, is generally in very good condition,
with the usual acreage. Corn will show some
increase.
Maine—Snow and ice have not permitted
farmers to do much yet. Hay and potatoes
are expected to yield largely. Oats and wheat
will be sown to some extent.
Maryland—More than the average crop of
wheat and corn is promised. Tobacco will
remain about the same. The fruit crop has
been nearly destroyed by frost.
Massachusetts—Grains generally are prom
ised about the average. Hay, jxitatoes and
tobacco show a slight increase. The dairy in
terests are being extended
Michigan—Wheat, oats, com, rye and bar
ley. witli about the same acreage, are looking
well. The forest fires cleared much laud,
making farming somewhat easier,and the suf
ferers were plentifully supplied with seed.
Minnesota—Large crops are expected, with
an increased acreage of 15 per cent, in wheat
and 5 per cent, each in com and amber cane.
Mississippi—The yield of cotton is expected
to be as large as the big crop of 1881. Seven-
eighths nearly of the flooded districts will be
planted. The prospects for corn and oats are
unusually flattering, with an increased acre
age.
Missourr—Winter wheat is unusually ad
vanced, with largely increased acreage, and in
good condition. Oats, com and potatoes were
never more promising.
Nebraska—Com promises the largest in-
estimated by some at 50 per cent.
Two Good Lies.
From the Hawkinsville, Ga., News. .
The extraordinary exploit ot Guess and
Flora, related by the Dispatch of last week,
has called tothe* minds of some of our oldest
citizens many reminiscences of tiie dogs that
lived in those days. Of the many of those
which have come to our ears, we give the fol
lowing as worthy of preservation:
About the time mentioned, and even later,
there lived hereabouts an individual whose
name was Simon Sutton. Everybody knew
Simon, and moreover, they knew that while
Simon’s character for veracity might not have
been altogether as good as that of G. W., yet,
when uncontradicted, Simon's statements
were to be believed. Upon the authority cf
Simon, it is stated that upon one occa
sion he was the fortunate possessor
of two bull pups. Simon doted on his pups
and they, in time, fully appreciated the many
tokens of kindness on the part of their mas
ter. They lived and thrived, and frolicked
and played and were happy with each other,
and Simon was happy in the possession of two
such promising canines. How often in this
sad world does it happen that our most pleas
ant dreams of temporal felicity are met with
a sudden and dis:istrous termination. One
morning, just as Simon had seated himself
for breakfast, the two dogs—for they had now
fully emerged from the happy state of puppy-
hood—for something or for nothing, became
angered with each other and a fight was
imminent, indeed tiie fight had already
commenced. It was their first fight and
Simon, thinking little of it, continued his
repast while the dogs continued to fight.
Simon was not a man to hurry through with
anything, so he continued to eat and ihe dogs
continued to fight. Finally, the end camej
that is, Simon was through eating his break
fast. He picked his teeth a bit, took a drink
of water, lit his pipe and walked ont to see
how tiie dogs were making it, “and, men,”
says he, “you may believe it or not, but I’il
eat the devil if them two dogs hadn’t eat one
another clean up except tlieir tails, and they
was still at it, twisting around one another
like two yeath worms.”
Still another, from a different source comes
to us, of a dog once noted for his fieetness of
foot. He had no ancestry to boast of, being a
sort of a cross with wolf, cur and grey-hound.
His name was Nimrod, and, like his illustri
ous namesake, lie was a great hunter. Many
Slid wonderful were tiie stories told of his ex
ploits in the chase, and many and many were
the “varmints" that had succumbed to hint
in the race for dear life. “But,” said our
informant, “he died before his time come.”
All! How did that happen? we asked.
“Well, you see,.lie was arter a big old buck
and the way lie got over ground you could
see nothing but a streak of yaller dog bout a
mile and a half long. A big poplar stood
plum in his way until he struck it square in
the face.”
And killed him? we queried.
“Yaas, killed him too dead to skin, and the
shock was so sudden, his toenails kept right
on and rattled through the undergrowth like
a load of duckshot. Fact, sir, fact.”
Prohibitory Order from the Trctutury—Americans and
Chinese Forbidden to Import the l>ri?cr*
San Francisco, April 27.—The people of the
Pacific coast have been so closely watching
the efforts made to carry into effect the clauses
of the new Chinese immigration treaty tha
they have almost entirely lost sight of the
benefits conferred by tiie commerce treaty,
which was negotiated and ratified at the same
time. The latter stipulated tliat “the govern
ments of China and of the United Stales mu
tually agree and undertake tliat Chinese sub
jects shall not be permitted to import opium
into any of the ports of the United States,and
that citizens of the United States shall not be
permitted to import opium into any of theopen
ports of China, or to transport from one open
port to any oi lier open port or to buy and sell
opium in any of the open ports of" China.”
This absolute prohibition extends to the ves-
els owned by the citizens or subjects of either
power, to foreign vessels employed by them
or to vessels owned by the citizens or subjects
of either power and employed by other per
sons for the transportation’of opium. It is
provided that these provisions shall be en
forced by appropriate legislation on tiie part
of China and of the United States, and tliat
the benefits of the favored claims in existing
treaties shall not be claimed by the citizens
or subjects of either power as against the pro
visions of this article.
A TREASURY ORDER.
Although the treaty has now been ratified
for over a year, no measure had been taken
by our government io stop the opium traffic
until last week, when an order was issued by
the secretary of the treasury, directing the
collector of customs to enforce the provisions
of this article of the treaty. The order went
into force on April 16, and since then not an
ounce of Chinese opium lias been permitted
to pass through the custom house. The order
has-produced greet excitement aud consterna
tion among the Chinese. There are a number
of firms who were in some manner advised in
advance of the secretary’s orders, for they
have not, permitted any of the opium im
ported by them to remain in bond any longer
than was absolutely necessary, and when the
treasury order went into effect on Monday
the United States bonded warehouse held
only an aggregate of about 200 boxes of forty-
one pounds each, the total value'of which is
about $150,000, duty paid, the imports being
$0 per pound, or $240 per box.
the Manitoban floods.
HOSTKTTER’S STOMACH BITTERS.
Among the medicinal means of arresting disease
Hostetler s Stomach hitters are pre eminent. It
cheeks the further progress of all disorders of the
stomach, liver and bowels, revives the vital stam
ina, pjevents and remedies chills and fever, in
creases the activity of the kidneys, counteracts a
tendency to rheumatism, and is a genuine stay amt
solace to aged, infirm and nervous persons.
For sale by Druggists and Dealers generally.
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—44TH—
POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING OF THE
In the city of Louisville, on
Wednesday, May 31st, 1882.
These drawing occur monthly
The Red and the Amdnubolne Rivera OrcrOoivIns
their Bank..
Winnepeg, Manitoba, April 26.—The Red
river and its tributaries are still rising. The
Assinaboine is breaking up and causing much
trouble. A rise at the rate of an inch and a
half hourly is reported from Niverville, Man
itoba, where the water is the highest known
for twenty-one years. Some houses on the
river bank are completely submerged.
TRANSPORTING PASSENGERS.
About 1,200 delayed passengers arrived at
Winnipeg last night. They were transferred
two miles south of St, Vincent to the steam
ers which took them and the mails directly
across the prairie to the station on the Canada
Pacific road,whence they proceeded by special
train. This method of transportation will
continue until the flood at Emerson sub
sides. It is still rising there. The Air-Line
between here and Portage is submerged, and
traffic is again delinitely interrupted. Pro-
visions had to be sent last night 10 the relief i Whole Tickets $2.
of the passengers detained about thirty miles j 27 Tickets, $50.
west of this city, and who are in from two to 1 ~
three feet of water.
. ■ , _ - monthly (Sundays excepted,
under provisions of an Act of the General Assembly
of Kentucky.
The United States Circuit Court ou March 81st,
rendered the following decisions:
1st—That the Commonwealth Distribution Com
pany is legal.
2d—Its lira wings are fair.
N. B.—The Company has now on hand a large
reserve fund. Read the list of prizes for the
MAY DRAWING.
J Fnze £30,000
1 Prize
1 Prize 7*7,;
10 Prizes, Si ,000 each
20 Prizes 500 each
100 Prizes 100 Ouch
200 Prizes 50 each
<500 Prizes 20 each
1000 Prizes 10 each
9 Prizes $300 each. Approximation Prizes
9 Prizes 200 each
9 Prizes 100 each
10,000
5.000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
12.000
10,000
2,700
1,800
900
1,960 Prizes..
— 8112,400
Half Tickets $1.
55 Tickets, $100.
BOARD-
MAN, Courier-Joamal building, Louisville, Kv„ or
1309 Broadway, Neiv York.
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J OHN D. CUNNINGHAM.
Attorney at Law.
Pipe* By the Million.
From the Providence Journal.
Tiie red clay pipe is made in this city at the j
rate of about two million a year, worth five |
or ten cenls apiece, or ten or twenty thousand j , .
dollars. The clay comes from Martha’s Vine- offices over the Atlanta National fllmk, wTla
yard, Governor s island, N. 1., and Lake bama street. 137 aprl wly
Michigan. Three hundred tons are used in a
year. The three kinds of clay are mixed or i 1AAYETTE COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALEH—tVII.L
ground together. A workman* with a pile of i
clay beside him makes from it single rolls of Tuesday in July next, between the legal hours of
clay, eacii large enough to make a pipe. The
next worker places the clay m a pipe
mould, runs a wire into the stem part, puts
under a lever and makes the bowl. Fifteen
hundred a day arc moulded by one man. The
moulds may be of various designs to form the
decorated bowl. The latest is the “Land i
League,"representing eviction on one side aud
prison life on the other. In pipes, as in other !
things, novelties must be given the smoking I.
public, and as those interested in landieagues j
sale, the following described property to-wit: Forty-
live acres of land lot No. 231, in the" 13th district of
Fayette county, as the properly of VV S Millncr, to
satisfy a morrgage li fa issued from Fayette Superior
Court in favor of \V H Brotherton vsWfi Millner.
Property pointed out in said mortgage and sold to
satisfy the same W S Millner notified of said lew
on the 29th of Mae, 1879.
•I. M. CARLILE,
Sheriff of Fayette County. Ga.
21 ap-30 w4\vks
are fair smokers this pipe will be bought for j MOTHERS! pains’ and dangers of '(Jhilih
use and patriotism. I 9 birth, send stamp to Dr.
Afterthe moulding process thepipesaielaid; I *?** rl f 0 ;3, Atlanta .
away to dry or drain until the water is well I RESCUED | Mothers” fo1
crease,
Two Attempts to Commit Suicide.
From the Marietta, Ga., Journal.
A white man by the name of Ashland N.
Cook, who was arrested recently in DeKalb
county for stealing some clothing from Mr.
Glore, in this county, and who was placed in
jail at this place, has made two attempts in
the last few days to commit suicide. When
he made his first attempt, he had a companion
in his iron cage by the name of Johnson.
Cook told Johnson that he intended to hang
himself. Johnson replied: “All right, go
ahead.” Cook then took his coat and'fas-
tened one sleeve around his neck and the
other to a bar of the iron cage an J swung oil'.
He was in a fair way of choking himself to
death, when Johnson concluded it would be
best to relieve him of his perilous position.
His second attempt was wxien he was in his
cage alone. He tore a strip from his blanket
and fastened one end to an iron bar and tiie
other to his neck and swung off. He did
considerable kicking and this violent process
snapped the blanket asunder and he fell to
the floor apparetly insensible, with eyes pro
truding and a swollen neck. Cook is a young
white man abont twenty-five years old, and it
is said he is of a respectable family. He is
either crazy, a mighty big fool, or a regular
harper. It is believed that he is playing a
part.
Yelping for Turkeys.
From the Montezma, Ga., Weekly.
A few mornings ago Mr. J. H. McKenzie
went on a turkey hunt. He arrived at his
destination at an early hour, and was soon
yelping for liis turkey. An answering yelp
made the heart of the gentleman beat fast
with excitement and anticipation. _ He im
agined tliat he would soon be bearing home
an immense gobbler. The more he yelped
the more he was answered, but that was all,
for the hidden turkey did not seem to desire a
mate. He momentarily expected to bag his
game, but no game appeared. After several
hours calling he could endure the suspense
no longer, and went in search of his game.
Not a turkey was found, but another hunter,
Mr. N. J. Thicker, who was likewise fooled.
It was lucky that neither of them were shot
out of them. They are then put in fire-clay
receivers, one hundred and ninety in each, 1
and placed 111 the furnace or kiln to be burnt.
The oven holds seventy thousand pipes.
They are then heated to a white heat. The
red clay pipe has a wooden stem and a silver
band. The stems are made from maple by
machinery designed for the purpose. They
are made black by the process of enameling.
The band is made from a circular piece of
brass, that is to say, a circular piece of brass
without break or seam is tamed into a cylin
der about an inch in length. Some of the
pipes are stained, while others are left in the
color of the clay to be stained or colored by
the smoker. .
. A Precocious Boy.
From the Montezuma, Ga., Weekly.
Dooly county can boast of the youngest
mathematician in the country. He lives near
Eureka, is scarcely five years old, and can
add, subtract, multiply and divide with won
derful accuracy. The little fellow does not
know one letter of the alphabet from another,
but seems to have a remarkable adaptability
to numbers. We should have stated that he
knows nothing of figures but gives the correct
answers to all mathematical questions, with
but little hesitation.
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he best Family Knit-
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stockings, with HEEL and TOE complete, in
20 minutes. It will also knit a great variety of fancy-
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There is hardly an adult person living but ii
sometimes troubled with kidney difficulty, which
is the most prolific and dangerous cause of all dis
ease. There is no sort of need to have any form
of kidney or urinary trouble if Hop Bitters are
taken occasionally.
NOT QUITE THE SAME.
Not quite the same the springtime seems to me
Since that sad season when in separate ways
Our paths diverged. There are no more such days
As da-.vued for us in that last time when we
Dwelt in the realm of dreams, illusive dreams,
■Spring mav be just as fair now. but it seems
Not quite tiie same.
Not quite the same Is life since we two parted.
Knowing it best to go our ways alone.
Fair measures of success we both have known.
And pleasant hours, and yet something departed
which gold, nor fame, nor anything we win,
Can all replace. And either life tias been
Not quite the same.
I.ove is not quite the same, although each heart
Has formed netv ties that are both sweet an a true;
But that wild rapture which of old we knew
Seems to have been a something set apart
With that last dream. There is no passion, now.
Mixed with this latter love, which seems, somehow.
Not quite the same.
Not quite the same am L My inner being
Reasons and knows that all is for the best.
But oh! the unstilled yearning in my breast,
As my soul's eyes turn ever backward, seeing
The vanished self, that ever more must be,
This side of what we call eternity,
Not quite the same.
Ella Wheeler in the Boston Transcript.
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agementof farm or garden of any size; good
florist and nurseryman: twelve years' experience
in the south: acquainted with stock and any variety
of soil. Address D Pulaski, Constitution office.
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F OR SALE-STEAM ENGINES, SEPARATORS,
saw mills, wagons, cotton gins, presses, belt
ing. etc. Write for prices and terms to Perkins-
Brothers, Atlanta, Ga. 127 aprl30 d&wlt
W ANTED BY MARION FEMALE SEMINARY.
—The President of the above named institu
tion having resigned his position, will retire at the
close of the present session on the 29ih of June
next. The trustees desirous of securing a compe
tent and working successor, will receive applica
tions for the next six weeks for the situation. The
seminary is one of the oldest female institutions in
the state and lias hosts of friends. For particulars
address F. A. Bates, M. D„ President Beard of Trus
tees. Marion, Ala., April 21,1832.
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CARDS half eaehr name on, IOC- 1-4
packs $1.00. $50 given to the best
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25
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