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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1882. STATE HEWS. EVENTS OF THE DAY THROUGH OUT GEORGIA. - The Extent andlGrowth of Oeorci>;Ouldn>lnins—An Important Cue tn Ltnoolnton Coar x-Erent* In Elberton—Dawaon’a Militia—A Weat Point Conflagration—All Over the State. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Dahlonega, April 23.—Gold has been rained in this state fifty years, and yet comparatively few persons are aware of the extensive nature of onr auriferions deposits. It is probably no less surprising, that of the twenty millions of money owned and controlled by Atlanta, not even twenty-two thousand is invested in the gold belt. The two or three millions used now in working the gold fields has been furnished by eastern and western cap italist. But, however this may be,the day is not distant when the resources of the state S I I receive the attention and enlist the capi- of her citizens. A visit at this season of the year is more than usually pleasant, and certainly no de scription, however graphic, can adequately convey the attractions of- the mining and mountainous section. The drive from Gainesville to Dahlonega is usually made in five hours. The route lies through a very undulating and. picturesque country, and as you round a curve, a mile away, Dahlonega is seen nestled in the bosom of the hiils and in the very shadow of the blue ridge. The sight witnessed just before sunset is grandly beautiful. The long, lengthening shadows of the mountains falling in waves of different shades, broken here and there by a learn of sunlight, form a picture of rare beauty and grandeur. But it is our intention to speak of the‘mining interests rather than of the scenery, believing the former to be -of more interest to the general reader. We first visited the Keystone mine, on the Cites tatcc river. This is a deposit mine, the gold being washed from the old river bed, over which the stream flowed probably five hundred years ago. In places this river gravel (s found twenty to thirty feet beneath the soil, while at another place the ancient bed of the river is several hundred yards away, and from one to two hundred feet higher than the present level. This river gravel bears gold wherever found, and we learn that the man agers ot the Keystone property have saved as much as $250 per week, with the labor of only two or three men. We next visited the Vacuum Dredge of the Georgia river mining company. We found the boat at work a mile below the Keystone mine, and about four miles south of Dah lonega. Our party, numbering about ten, crossed in a bateau to the middle of the river, and were soon on board the boat. We were cordially welcomed by Captain Noble, the superintendent, who ex plained the operation of the dredge. The working principle is atmospheric pressure. The principal parts of the machinery are a vacuum chamber and an 18-inch draught pipe, which extends from the chamber into the bed of the stream. When a “lift” is made the vacuum chamber and pipe are charged with steam; this is easily condensed, the re sult is a vacuum is created, and the sand, gravel, etc., rushes up the pipe with great force and in large quantity. It is aston i dling to see how rapidly and with what ease the bed-of the river is raised on deck of the boat. The gravel is wasiicd down a sluice which runs along the center of the boat, and the gold saved in the ordinary way, by means of quicksilver riffles, blankets, etc. The dredge works day and night, and lifts, in 24 hours, from 200 to 300 tons, at a cost of only $12 to $lf>. The work is effective, for pins, shot, fine gold and even rocks weighing one hundred pounds are brought up. The yield of gold is very grati fying, and we were informed that the boat is making money. As much as $5 to $C in gold has been saved in a single lift, and as the river is known to be rich, the dredge is liable any day to strike a "‘pot hole” or “streak” that may yield $500 or$1,000..The prospective value of the machine is great, and we may confidentially look for greater developments in river dredging. MININ'*; NEW'S. From tho Dahlonega Mountain Signal. The refreshing spring showers have cnli vened and pushed forward not only the veg etation of the country, and made happy the industrious farmer, but the miner is more vigorous in his efforts to extract from the ground the hidden treasure that awaits him. In visiting the different mines we find everything in good shape, and from all accounts and appearances, the yield is as much as usual At present there isn’t a suf ficient amount of labor to do the mines jus tice; this is owing to those who have gone home to plant their crops. There is labor for at least one hundred men more than we have. This lack will last only for a few days. On last Saturday at the Lockhart, work was com menced in cutting the canal leading from Ynhoola river to the new steam mill. When this, and all connected with it, is complete, all the machinery will run by water power. The little water mill here, which was being repaired last week, began to crush ore again on the first ef this week. At the Singleton they are sinking a shaft on the re cently discovered voin. It is tlieir intention to work it below water level, or as deep as it continues anything like as rich as at present. The Bast cut is being extended northeast back towards the Findley mine. The ore at this end is as good as in the south west end. At the Ivey, the deposit below tlie Martin cut is paying well. The clean up last week was better than usual. Everything here is moving along splendidly. The Bar- low is one of those mines that work every day with good results. Captain Huff is going to begin at the lower end of the cut and take up a new through on the belt. Work is going on smoothly at the Columbia. The mill will be ready for action before the first of June. Satisfactory pros- i*cting has been done on the different leads. The last developments were on the upper or principal belt, which proves to be about 30 feet in width, containing quite a number of veins that prospect well. This belt is very soft, and will be easily mined. The superin tendent is satisfied that the ore will pay. We have just seen a telephonic message from Mr. II. B. Smith, dated April 24th, 1882, which stales that a new and astonishing discovery of geld has been made on the Taylor creek property, about three miles nearly east of Dawsonville, in the county of Dawson. LINCOLN COURT. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Lincolnton, April 28.—The superior court of Lincoln county is in session tins week-; the Hon. E. H. Pottfe, presiding. The able so licitor-general, Hon. George F. Tierce, Jr., of Sparta, is also on hand, dispatching the crim inal business of the court with his usual great ability. The attendance of visiting lawyers is quite large, some of whom are the Hon, Wm. M. Reese, Hon. M. P. Reese, Hon. Frank H. Colley, General D. M. DaBose, and Hon. John A. Stephens, of Wilkes, Hon. W, D. Tutt, and Thomas E. Watson, of Thomp son, Hon. Seaborn Reese, from Sparta. Lincoln being a small county, and the popu lation being a very industrious and peaceable one, there is comparatively a small amount of business on the dockets of the court. There was not one civil case on the dockets, and the whole week has been consumed in the tnalof criminals. During the past winter there have been throe or four burnings in the county. The principal case has been the indictment of •seven negroes and one white man, Mr. R. A. Blanchard, for an attempt to commit arson on the dwelling of Mr. Pleasant A. Cox. Mr. Cox is one of the best and most substantial citizens of the county, and lives in 3V£ miles of Lincolnton. His family consisting of a wife and three dauchters, the ouiigcst of which is 13 years <mi. On the night of the 16th of January last, between 10 and 11 •’clock, he was awakened by the furi ous barking of his dogs, and he got up, and on looking out'of the window saw a fire near his front gate and a man fanning it up. He ran out but saw no one and' stamped the fire out. He awoke his wife and they saw a tar ball of fire thrown on top of the house, which lodged on the comb of the roof, which ignit ing, the house commenced burning rapidly. He ran up stairs (it being a two-story house) and hurst through the roof, and his wife and daughters carried him water and he finally succeeded in {tutting out the fire. Another ball was thrown on the barn, bat did not set it on fire. After investigation by himself and neigh bors, the guilty parties were supposed to be seven negroes living in the neighborhood. They were arrested and three of them made confessions of their conspiracy to murder and rob and burn Mr. Cox, and in their confes sion implicated the other negroes and Mr. R. \V. Blanchard, a citizen of this town. The negroes who confessed were named Har ry Kennedy, John Flemming and Henry Wright. On Tuesday Asa Blackburn another one of them was put on trial, which resulted in his acquittal as there was not suf ficient corroboration of the confession of the negroes. The trial of Mr. Blanchaid com mences to-day. There is great excitement in the county over this outrage, and a large Crowd of citizens in attendance all the week. An old negro, Allen Eubanks, plead guilty to the burning of Mr. Lockhart’s flour mill, gin and saw mill, and lie was sentenced to the penitentiary for 15 years. Lincoln county is in a flourishing and pros perous condition. The farmers have fine crops of wheat and oats, and apparently make plenty to eat for man and beast—they being so far from market, they are in a much better condition than other counties where the rail road brings their provisions to their doors, and where they raise all cotton. SWEETWATER SCENES. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Salt Springs, May 1.—After watching sever- ai years the cars have made their appearance in "our county. They moved across Sweet water creek last. Wednesday and moved into Douulas county last Friday, on the Georgia Pacific railroad, two and a half rniies west of Sweetwater creek. New life seems to take hold of our people at once. Sweetwater creek is one of the best streams in any section of this state for mills and factories. Coming from your city to Douglasville by the Talla poosa road, you will enter Douglas county at Love's * bridge, and will pass through the farm of Colonel D. K. Love, which has been in cultivation many years. Indeed no small part of it was culti vated by the Indians. You rarely see a tree or stump on the plantation, and the land is still good and produces well. Back of the residence of Colonel Love in a pine orchard old Sweetwater, the chief of the Cherokee In dians, is buried. Sweetwater creek takes its name from him. Near the grave of this In dian during the war a Texas ranger stood and shot down a yankce by the side of General Kilpatrick on the opposite side of the creek. The headquarters of Kilpatrick, on the farm of Colonel Love, were also the headquarters of Sweetwater. The next farm you pass is that of Judge J. C. Bowden, which is a splen did place, containing several hundred acres. On this place you will find the Salt springs. You can take the water and boil it down to salt. The mine has never been worked to any extent. Denmead and Johnstone leased it and worked a short time during the war, but were driven off by th enemy before they had worked to any extent. It is thought there is a good salt mine here. The next place is the farm of H. P. Howell. On this place Mr. Howell and Colonel Love have a cane mill and cotton gin and a sup ply of water power enough to run four times the machinery they have. The next place, going south, is the farm of J. A. Watson, one of your most successful merchants. He has just purchased this place, containing one thousand acres, lying on both sides of Sweetwater creek, and from the way he moves things around, it ap- S ears he v ill make as good a farmer as he oes a merchant. He has five hundred acres sown in oats, which are looking, line. Going on down Sweetwater you pass the splendid farms of Cooper, White and Columbus Blair, who has one of the best places in our county, and is one of its most successful farmers. Af ter leaving Blair’s, the next place is the famt of Angus Fergerson. On this place the shoals properly begin. Mr. Fergerson owns a fine mill on this place and water power to run a large factory. One mile below this mill is the old site of the new Manchester factory. This factory was owned principally by ex Governor Charles J. McDonald and was in successful operation up to and during the war, until a few weeks before Atlanta was taken and was burnt by order of General Sherman, which was a great loss to this sec tion of country. The old brick walls are still standing. The property has been sold and is now owned by A. C. McHantosh, of Powder Springs, and S. N. Dorset! of Douglasville, and is for sale. From this place to Aderhold’s ferry there is 190 feet of fall and water plenty to run six or seven factories as largo as the old New Man chester factory. This is a field for persons wishing to run cotton mills by water power. This is a good county for capitalists. It is un developed. About two thirds of our land is original forest. With railroad facilities we are bound to prosper. Laud is cheap and plenty for sale. ROME'S PROGRESS. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Rome, May 1.—Rome is rapidly progressing towards the"position of a first-class manufac turing town. Last week the ice factory of Morgan and Griffin commenced operations, and is now making five tons of ice per day. It is sold at the rate of seventy-five cents per hundred pounds. Next week the icc factory of Mr. T. W. H. Harris will be opened. The cotton factory company has been incorpo rated, and work will be commenced in a very short time. The cotton seed oil mill is rap idly nearing completion, and will probably be in full blast in July or August. And now application has been made for a charter for the “new Car-Coupler and Buffer manufac turing company,” which will commence busi ness in this city in a short time. The outlook for Rome is certainly very bright and prom ising. Floyd superior court has adjourned after a five weeks’ session. Mr: Kennon Williams, of Round Mountain, Alabama, was married to Miss Lila Ingram, of this city on the 27th instant. Mr. Mcore F. Govan a promising youth, son of Mr. M. F. Govan of this city, died of typhoid fever Friday and was buried to-day. The Central hotel changed hands to day. Stanley and Rawlins retiring, and J. H Kipps, of Virginia, taking charge, Oscar Wilde is booked forJune 3. The Romans do not “take stock” in Oscar, but curiosity raay draw a good audience. The annual meeting of the Young Men’s library associa tion, will take place on Thursday evening. May 1L The past year has been a very pros perous one for the association. Six thousand books have been in circulation, five hundred new volumes have been purchased, and the rolls show nearly three hundred and fifty members, with twenty-five hundred books on the shelves. ELBERTON EVENTS. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Elberton, April 29.—Allen Blackwell, who was convicted of murder at the last term of our superior court and sentenced to the peni tentiary for life, is still in jail here at the county’s expense. The county authorities are complaining at the loose management of the state officials, as they were informed of his sentence immediately after his conviction. Mr. E. B. Tate, of this place, has com tas sels, the first ever known in this section in April. Professor A. W. Matthews, of Banks connty, is on a visit to relatives and friends here." PALMETTO POINTS. Special Correspondence of The Consatution. Palmetto, May 1.—Business here is quiet. Wheat and oats are looking fine. There are good stands of cotton up. Miss Nina Horna- dy and Miss Neter Walker, of Atlanta, are visiting here. Mr. A. Hutchinson, C. B. Moseley and H. Zellens, left for New York last Friday. DORSEY’S DAIRY. HOW AN ENTERPRISING ATHEN IAN STARTED HIS FARM. A Succession of Red Hills and Gullies Hade Into Pine Bermuda Grass Pastures—Only Good Country Cows Improved on tlie Barm—How They are Selected-Feeding tho Herd. From the Athens Banner-Watchman. Recently, in company with several friends, we paid a long-promised visit to Mr. Dock Dorsey, and although we found our genial friend on crutches, he managed to hop around and show ns over his premises. A few years ago tnis gentleman purchased a part of the old Carr place, near the Georgia depot, for the purpose of establishing a dairy farm—an insti tution then unknown to Athens. The farm selected was nothing but a succession.of red hills and gnllies—the last locality we wonld select for this purpose. The first thing Mr. Dorsey did was to erect a neat cottage and gather around him a few first-class country cows. His land was all unclosed, and of course he had to begin on a small scale, and improve by degrees. His success from the first was assured. He found custom ers for all his milk. at remunera tive Drices, and gradually built up a splendid business. At the present time he owns 150 acres of land—either cleared or well set in Bermuda grass for pasturage—and has the finest lot of cows we have seen in a long time. His cattle are kept stabled in bad weather, and every care given them. He pur chases only good country cows—paying for same from $20 to $50—and by liberal feeding brings them up to their best. Hq don’t be lieve much in imported stock, although he has a full-blooded Ayershire bull, by which he improves his breed. A few days" after a calf is d.upped, Mr. Dorsey sells it toa butcher, so as to secure all the milk for market, except a few very choice ones that he raises. He has now ten young calves thus turned out. “How do you select your cows?” we in quired. “Entirely by their build. You must not place too much dependence in the size of the bag, as that is not alwdjs a sure index. If I find a cow shaped like a wedge, sloping for ward, you may rest assured that-she will make a fine milker if not spoiled. I prefer buying young heifers, so as I can train them myself.” “Do you milk yourself ?” “()li, yes; I have several hands employed for the purpose, but can milk three cows" to any one’s two I ever saw. I always begin milking my cows before the calf is born, as this keeps down all inflammation in the bag.” “Upon what do you feed this large herd?” “Well, on all sorts of food. My bran bill averages $150 a month, besides the hay and other roughness. I boil all the slops, as food goes much further when cooked and the cat tle thrive better, too. Then I plant about five acres in vegetables for them, besides sowing a big patch of rutabaga turpips in the fall. This is the best cow food I know. I will plant this year nearly an acre in beets, which are good, as also a large cabbage patch. Carrots and my other smaller veg etables come in weli. I try to have some kind of green food or vegetables the year round for my cattle, as it keeps them healthy and makes the milk richer.” Some negro men were milking while we were inspecting the farm, so we had an op portunity to see how it was handled. It is strained three times, into large cans, so that not a particle of dirt can get in. Besides his sweet milk, this gentleman sells a great deal of butter, and the specimens he showed us were as yellow as gold. A LAWRENCEVILLE MURDER. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Lawrenceville, May 2.—This morning An drew M. Nash, who is charged with killing William C. \arbrough, in this esuntv, in De cember. 1870, came up and voluntarily sur rendered himself to William J. ,Bom, who turned him over to Sheriff Patterson and he was immediately confined in jail. Hi ‘ ‘ JBfing of is re liably reported that he admits thf-, Yarbrough, but claims that it was don*T in self-defense. There was a reward of three hundred dollars for him, which Mr. Born will doubtless get. Nash has a wife and six chil dren who have been with hint in his absence, but he declines to state where they are. From the Gwinnett Herald. Something of a sensation was produced in town on Tuesday morning by the announcement that Andrew M. Nash, charged with the crime of mur der, and who had teen a fugitive since December, 1876, had voluntarily returned and surrendered himself to W. J. Bom. who immediately delivered him to Sheriff Patterson. On hearing the report we immediately weut to the jail to ascertain the truth. We found several citizens, in company with the sheriff and Nash standing in front of the jail. Nash seemed perfectly willing to talk, and we gathered from him the fol lowing account of his wanderings: On the night of the difficulty at the still house, he and W. C. Yarbrough, who was under tile influ ence of liquor, t;ot into a difficulty. Nash attempted to leave, hut was followed by Yarbrough, who threatened to kill him. and when he overtook him the fight began. Both parties used their knives, Nash was cut in the arm and Yarbrough in a num ber of places, from which he died. As soon as Nash found that he was dead he left the country and went to East Tennessee. A hill of indictment was found against him and J. W. Todd for the murder a,t the next term of the court. Todd was acquitted. Nash says Todd was innocent, as he had no connection with the killing. The indictment stands open against Nash, and a reward of two hun dred dollars was offered by the governor for his arrest. Nash remained in Tennessee avoiding the officers and keeping his identity concealed as best he conld for these long years. Harrowed with the idea of being hunted down and continually on the dodge from the officers he has frequently thought of returning to stand his trial. Last week he made up his mind to start to Georgia, and on Tuesday morning he left and landed here on Monday night. Next morning he delivered himself to W. J. Bom and expects to meet the charge, let the consequences be what they may. He claims to have done the act strictly in self-defense and expects to be able to show it in the trial. He is now in jail where he will probably re main until court. DAWSON’S MILITIA. Special Correspondence of the Constitution. Dawson, April 30.—A military company has been organized by the students of the college here, and by virtue of an order from the governor an election for captain was held last Friday, resulting in the selection of Pro fessor B. C. Adams. The Sabbalb-sehools of our city will enjoy their annual May picnic on next Friday in the grove north of the depot. A “general meeting” of the Friendship association of the Baptist church has been in session here since last Thursday. The attendance of delegates is not as large as was expected. LIFE IN BARNESVILLE- Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Barxesville, Ga., May 1.—Mr. Thos. B. Lyon, of the Lyon house, was married yester day to Mrs. Anna Cooke, at the residence of the bride’s father, near Zebulon. A series of meetings have been started at the Methodist church. The Cat-fish clnb leave Thursday for Satilla river. Our mar shals have donned a uniform. Several of onr citizens have got the Texas sheep fever. A CONYERS MARRIAGE. Special Correspondence of The Constitation. Conyers, May 3.—Mr. Joseph A. Mc Clain, of Ringgold. Georgia, was married this morning at 5M o’clock to Miss Bobbie Jones,of this place, by Rev. J. L. Stewart, the bride’s grandfather." The bride was one of onr most accomplished young ladies. The city of Ringgold may be proud to add to its society such an estimable lady. The groom is a rising young merchant of Ringgold. The happv couple left on the accom modal ion at 6 o’clock for Ringgold, their home. They carry the congratulations of their acquaintances and friends. Professor R. H. Randall, assisted by his accomplished lady, is- giving lessons in vocal music to a class of about sixty-five nightly, at the Presbyterian church, at this place. JAIL DELIVERY. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Washington*. May 3.—We had a jail deliv ery here last night. Two negroes were con victed yesterday for cattle stealing—one was sentenced to the penitentiary and t tlie other to the county chain gang. When the jailer went to give them breakfast this morning he found the jail broken open and the convicts gone. Appearances indicate that the door was broken open with a crowbar by outside parties. A terrible accident happened to a little 12- year old son of Mr. W. P. Combs this morn ing just outside the town limits. The horse he was riding fell upon him and injured him to such an extent that he is not exi»ected to live. a storm's Ravages. Special Correspondence of the Constitution. Good Hope, April 29.—There was a very destructive bail storm passsed through our connty on the 22d instant. Entering the county above Social Circle, passing rather westat first, then gradually northwest, thence east to one mile east of Good Hope, where it gave out. The length of the storm was some fifteen miles breadth or width, one mile wide. It destroyed nearly half of the wheat’crop and fruit crop in its main path. The cloud that brought forth the hail resembled a regu lar tornado, lacking tlie funal-slmped center. The roaring resembled a continous bombard ment of a great many pieces of distant ar tillery. The hail fell for five mi utes as large as a hen’s egg; some pieces were as large as goose eggs. Thestorm brokeout22 lights forMrs.Lucitida Starks, four out of Dr. Long’s office window, and live out of Mrs. Carlton's window. We learn it also broke out thirteen double pane glass out of the passenger coach on the Walton railroad from Social Circle to Monroe, near Pleasant valley, while on its return trip to Monroe about 4 o’clock p. m. Mr. Thomas Cleg and son has one hundred acres in wheat that has scarcely a head left standing. With the exceptions of this storm's track the small grain crop never vas more promising. I hear of no rust in wheat yet. Mr. John M. Peters and W. J. Malcolm have some Jones’s oats that have the rust so bad that they will probably lose every head. Mrs. Lucinda Starks lias recently been stricken with a se vere stroke of paralysis and lies in a critical condition at her home in this vicinity. PICNIC ON THE SUWANEE. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Lawrenceville, May 1.—Last Saturday was the day selected by the Metho’dist Sunday- school to have a picnic. Suwanee river was selected as the place to assemble, and other schools were invited to unite in the festivities of the occasion. In consequence of the in clement weather a majority of the school failed to attend. A small party determined to go and, boarding the train managed by the courteous Captain Herd and skilled en gineer, Mr. Brown, were soon safely landed one the banks of Suwanee—which, in Indiun vernacular, is “lovely river.” The day was bright and beautiful. The sweet blue sky peeped through the fleecy clouds, and rays of golden sunshine fell upon the verdant fields and the silvery foamed crest of the racing waves. At noon the well filled baskets were well emptied and greatly en joyed. The day passed pleasantly, and coming years will send back rosy memories to cluster around it. In the evening, when the last lingering rays of crimson sunlight was gilding the lonely summits of far distant hills, we resigned the enchanting loveliness of tlie forest, and reluctantly returned to our homes. FIRE IN WEST POINT. Special Correspondence of Tho ConsUtutiou. West Point, May 1.—The residence of Col onel George Huguiey, about seven miles from this city, was completely destroyed by fire last night. The origin of the'lire is yet un known, but it is supposed to have been acci dental, as the fire was discovered in the sec ond story. Insurance, $1.800. Georgia Pensioners. Ill a report of the secretary of the interior on the p*ensioners of the United States it ap pears that in the state of Georgia the following amounts are paid annually on account of pen sions by counties: PULASKI POINTS. HAWKINSVILLE AND THE COUN TRY ROUNDABOUT. An Increase of Over 300 Per Cent in Population from 1670 to IS80-rhe Situation, tne Trade and Manufacture!—Some Striking Stati tics— German Wine-Makers-Fointa.Ese. Charlton $ 124: Baldwin $ Bibb.. 376 504 248 .... 1,008 Glynn 536 Newton., .... 1,476 760 .... 62S McIntosh 124 Rockdale 1,008 880 .... 504 Brooks 124! Bartow .... 1,792 Clay 536! Chattooga .... 1,948 37G .... HftO 612 Cobb .... 3,176 376 .... 568 124 2,076 Lowndes 376 Gordon 2,340 Miller 8-6 .... 756 Mitchell .... 1,008 504 S80 6S1 Polk .... 504 660 1,93*2 764 3,080 288 .... 628 62S 12 3 6 .... 1.132 124 .... 1,008 .... 628 12i .... 124 SS4 .... 504 252 248 Telfair. 424 Oglethorpe 376 28S Campbell 1.13* 376 1,256 2,144 .... 628 252 Wilkes 252 .... 916 1,132 1.256 1,068 756 ..... 4,108 Muscogee 1,320 Forsyth 1,068 1,380 756 1,384 2,264 Clayton 62S Gwinnett 1,866 Cniw ford... ........ DeKalb 2,572 Hall l,t>68 l’l32 ’8S0 .... 1,640 756 ... 252 628 504 Milton 1,132 2,352 1,516 596 Oconee 252 owns 832 Pike 1,252 1,792 Spalding 1,516 White L228 It is thus shown that tlie total amount paid in tlie state of Georgia on account of pensions is $41,838 annually. Modest Candidate. Colquitt Correspondent Early County News. The writer, Sam Morton, is a candidate for the legislature. I do not want to be elected so much for the good I can do the coantr y but for the good the country can do me. My opponents are all clever men. So am I. think a great deal of them; hut not as much as I do of myself. My opponents are all men of means, for I heard "a man say that one of them was the meanest man in the county. Consequently they are able to get beat, and then have something left to fall back on, while I will have nothing but my good name. Now. gentlemen, voters of Miller, elect me, and let my only son proudly boast that his old daddy"is the representative of the pions old county of Miller. Yon will hear from me again "on this subject. For the present, in conclusion, will say to my friends in Mil ler, vote for Morton and save your country. a (ged Mule and Mare. Turkey Creek letter in the nawklnivillc Dispatch. There is in this settlement a mule thirty- five years old. It is the property of J. A. Forehand, and can still do tolerably good work. Also Mr. T. J. Mason owns a mare in her twenty-ninth year, and she is the dam of eight colts. She can do good work, either in the plow or wagon. The aggregate ages of these two animals is sixty-four years. Who can beat it, or where ean it be beaten ? Special Correspondence of the Constitution. Hawkinsville, Aj.ril 29.—Hawkinsville is one of the most important trade centers in lower Georgia. I ran down here this morn ing from Macon in the most accidental man ner imaginable, but am truly glad now that I did so. I had never been here before, and I know I never spent an happier or more pro fitable day anywhere. I had often heard of the place, and fully expected to find a dull, thriftless sort of town with lazy, listless peo ple filling the highways. But I am glad to say my hasty .and care 1 ess£conc 1 usions were based on fancy alone, for, instead of a dry, heavy going town, 1 find one of the pleasant est as well as lively little cities I have ever seen. Indeed, I was truly taken aback at my own ignorance of such a vast deal of pluck and enterprise that I should have known be fore. THE TOWN’S PHENOMENAL GROWTH. In 1870—according to the census returns— Hawkinsville had only about 800 inhabitants. To-day the population* numbers 2,500, show ing the remarkable increase, in ten years, of over 300 per cent. There are few towns ii» tiie union that can make a bigger shoeing than this. This increase has been steady, and is still kept up at nearly or quite tlie same ratio. It is easy to be seen, therefore, that the future of Hawkinsville is by no means uninviting or unpromising. THE SITUATION. It is tii e county seat of Pulaski county and lies on tlie west side of.the Ocnnilgee river, at the head of navigation and the shipping facil ities of the place will always enable her to hold her own. Thic is tlie distributing point for a large section of territory on both sides of the river, even around and beyond Perry, Montezuma, Eastman, Cochran and near Americus, Albany and Macon. And should the Florida Southern railroad reach here, Hawkinsville wholesale trade will soon grow to large proportions. TIIE TRADE OP HAWKINSVILLE. There are two good banks here representing a capital of several hundred thousand dollars. Besides these, there are several nien of capi tal, and seventy-six business houses doing a trade of over a million a year. The capital here will control the greater portion of the cotton and wool along fifty miles around. About 22,000 bales of the staple are shipped from here every year with these receipts constantly growing. The wool market is also an important item in the traffic of the town, about 100,000 pounds being brought here annually. I am told that with a proper increase of capital and railroad facilities this can be made tiie great wool market of Georgia, being conveniently situ ated to the wool territory. Her reputation already as a wool market lias been the means of shipping wool here from even beyond and through Macon. A large amount of freights and travel from the north and west is received here, the freights and travel amounting to $170,000 annually. THE MANUFACTURING INTERESTS. Hawkinsville bids fair to develop consider able importance as a manufacturing town. A company with a capital of $30,000 has recently been organized for the purpose of building "a cotton seed oil mill. The money is all paid in and the mill will be in operation by Octo ber next, The contracts are already awarded for the buildings, and the ground will be formally broken next week. A fine steam grist mill and a steam saw mill and variety works are now in operation, which show another way in which Georgia is developing herwonderful resources. It is thought that Hawkinsville will eventually control a water power that will run an irnlihiited amount of machinery, situated as she is, on a large, bold stream, which has considerable fall and well adapted in tlie way of canal, or otherwise, to large cotton factories. Tnere are three large fire proof cotton warehouses here, five churches, good schools and good water. SOME GOOD STATISTICS. Talking with a prominent citizen here to day, I was enabled to get the following statis tical information about Hawkinsville, which will be of much interest to all Georgians who take a pride in the development of tlie state: Population 2,500 Value of real ami personal proper.y $1,000,000 Cotton receipts annually, bales 22,000 Wool receipts annually, pounds 100,000 Amount paid Macon and Brunswick rail road for freights annually 150,000 Amount pa&enger travel 20,000 Court house, bra k, cost $25,000 Buggy and wagon manulacturingesmblish- ments 2 Hotels, 2 brick, 2 wood 4 Engine house, briek l Warehouses, 2 brick, 1 rock 3 Theatrical hall, brick • l Odd Fellows’ hall, brick l Banks, brick 2 Store houses, 86 brick, 40 wood 76 I.ivery and sale stables 4 Tan yard 1 Schools, 4 white, 2 colored 6 Churches, 8 white, 2 colored 5 Public Library 1 Newspapers, 2, circulation 1,000 and 1.800... 2 Fire department. 1 steamer 1 Secret Societies, 2 Odd Fellows (1 white and 1 colored), 1 Masonic, 1 Royal Arcanum and 1 Legion of Honor •. 5 Mills. I steam grist aud 1 steam saw and variety 2 Iron bridge over river; cost $15,000 This bridge, by the way, is one of the few iron bridges for ordinary road travel in tlie state, and is the only one between here and Savannah. It is a beautiful structure, owned by tho county, and is free. The county is free from debt, and has money in the treas ury and pays everything in cash. The town is equally well off, and has no bonded and no outstanding debts of anything but trifling importance. The new court house is a very handsome structure and a credit to the good sense of its builders. THE GERMAN WINE-MAKERS. Hawkinsville can boast of the finest vine yard in Georgia. It. is owned by Messrs. Schneider & Starowski and is called “Pine Level Vineyard.” I had tlie pleasure of a visit to the plate this morning, and I unhesi tatingly pronounce it one of the most inter esting as well as valuable enterprises I have •seen. These gentlemen make probably tlie finest wines in the entire south, and I was glad to hear them speak so hopefully of it. “Do you intend making the business per manent?” I asked Mr. Schneider, who carried me out. “O, yes,” he andswered, “it is paying U3 handsomely already, and we will keep adding to our vineyard until its size is many times larger than now.” “Do you find any demand for your wines?” “Demand? Well, sir, I am refusing orders every day of tlie world. I could sell one hundred times as much as I do now. We make the finest wines probably in America. This is no bragging remark as is evidenced from the testimony of the members of the State agricultural society which met here some time ago. Mr. Woodruff, of Griffin, Mr. lierckman, o fAugusta, Dr.Samuel Hape, of Atlanta, all said they had never tasted wine like this. We have resolved to make nothing but the highest standard wines, and, as we make it after the old German way, we know we can win a reputation that will profit us.” “How will our American wines compare with imported wines?” “I consider them as fine as any I ever tasted in the old country, when properly- made. The great trouble with our wine makers is their lack of knowledge in making good wine. I tell you honestly that Georgia is the best grape.producing state in the entire union. We can make far better wine than can be produced in California—at least better than any I hare ever seen come from there. I firmly believe that Georgia promises to lead the world in grape culture.” TH E WIN E CELL A RS. I took a walk through the large wine cel lars at the vineyard. Tiie cellars are con structed exactly like they are in Germany and France, and I thought I had been aud- dcnlv transported to that part of tlie world when I went down anil took a look around. Tiie great, huge casks of oval shape presented their solid fronts in phalanx fashion, suggest ing by their ancient looks the old wine cel lars I have read of on the continent that have stood for centuries. “This,” said I, “is the only real wine cellar I ever saw.” “Well,” replied Mr. Schneider, “I do not think there is another one like it in the south. By the way. we have just employed Mr. H. Vogel, of Atlanta, a German cooper, who is here to make us a number of barrels and casks. -He is now making a number of five hundred gallon casks which will be finished in a short while. Mr. Vogel says our white oaks down here will make as tine casks as lie ever saw in the old country.” “What grapes do you plant?” “Principally Delaware and Concord, though we have other varieties. We find that, these suit tills climate best. I failed to tell you that all our wines net us nearly two dollars per gallon. We can can sell every gallon we produce to a Macon wholesale merchant at a dollar and seventy-five cents pergallon, which shows liow our wine is appreciated. Indeed, they tell us that they can get nothing from California like ours.” IIAWKISSVILLE’S MODEL NEWSPAPERS. Hawkinsville boasts of two model newspa pers, both of which are thriving. The Dis patch is ably edited and owned by Colonel George 1‘. Woods. The News is run by Mr. J. R Beverly, and was only started last year. It has now about 1,000 subscribers. The Dis patch has enriched is proprietor. Colonel Woods took the Dispatch in 1870. and I am told that to-day he is worth $30,000. made en tirely from his paper as a basis. He has ful ly 1,800 subscribers at two dollars each. * “Do they all pay promptly, colonel?” “Yes, remarkably so, 1 think. I have cal culated on this point closely, and think that I will not lose three per cent of my subscribers a year, while they are steadily increasing ta tlie rate of ten per cent. I have found, by long experience, that the only permanent thing about a weekly newspaper is the sub scription. I commence*! with only one hun dred subscribers, lint close attention soon swelled the list, until now I think I have one of the most prosperous weeklies in tlie state. I used to charge three dollars for the Dispatch, but had to cut it down to two.” roiSTS. Summing up ali tlie facts I have stated about Hawkinsville I find her prosperity all results from zealous, co-operative labor on the part of her citizens. The town and its rapid growth is a lesson to Georgians of tlie right sort. There are more truly beautiful women here than I ever saw in a place this size. During the fireman’s parade, I was positively bedazzled by the array of beauty l saw every- where oil the thickly-crowded streets. No wonder young men are immigrating here in such large numbers. I am tempted to pull up stakes and settle down here myself. There is a fine brass and reed hand here under the leadership of Professor Jacoby, who was all through the late war as a musician. If I have not told the half of what I wanted to say, attribute it to tlie lateness of the hour at which these lines are penciled. Pulaski county is one of the finest grain producing districts in the state. I saw to-dav a field of oats containing over one hundred acres, which, by actual measurement, were six feet one inch high. The oats were of the Horn variety, and will yield forty or fifty bushels to the acre. I really never saw any thing quite so fine. Mr. James Laidler is the owner. Much bus been said of a very early variety of wheat sown hereabouts. I saw to-day Mr. John II. Whitsett, of Dooley county, who in formed me that on Monday, 24th, lie had harvested his crop of Rainy wheat. It was planted December 23*1. This wheat is not any better than ordinary wheat, I atu told, except that it matures two or three weeks earlier. C. T. I*. Lacerated by a Dog. ——■w Monday morning Master Harry Guzzard, who resides with his father at 103 Windsor street, was badly bitten by a bull dog. It seems that the dog, a vio’ous brute, which belonged to Mr. Guzzard, and which was usually kept chained in the yard, managed to slip his collar and was roaming about tlie yard when Master Harry caught him, and was in the act of tying him when he grabbed the little fellow by tlie hand and tore the flesh terribly. In defending himself, master Henry angered the brute and a terri ble fight ensued, in whicn lie was badly bit ten by tho brute. Savannah Truck. From the Savannah, Ga., Times. The present season lias been unusually fa vorable in Savannah for most of the crops generally grown by truckers, and witii good prices, their profits have been larger for vege tables already shipped than can be counted upon as a general rule. Savannah lias in the aggregate about fifty truck farms under cultivation, valued at about $5,000 to $3,000 a farm, making from $250,000 to $-100,000 capital invested in this one industry. Most of the farms comprise about forty to fifty acres, on the average, really more. The shipments of vegetables from this port last year by the Ocean steamship company, local and otherwise, from the 1st of 1st of September, 1880, to the 1st of September, 1881, by one steamer for one month, was as follows:. Steamship Gate City—22,703 crates, 24,552 barrels. Steamship City of Macon—21,782 crates; 2,802 barrels. Steamship City of Columbus—23,420 crates; 1,586 barrels. Steamship City of Savannah, running only from July to "August—737 crates; 52 bar rels. Steamship City of Augusta, running only from November to September—14,843 crates'; 3,373 barrels. Supposing the season to last three months, we have, oil an average, a shipment from this port by one steamer of 00,009 crates alone, not including packages and barrels, and for the four steamers say, at a low average, a ship ment of 200,000 crates for the season, which averaged at a low figure of $2 per crate, we have then as a source of revenue, from this one industry alone, $400,000. A Setting Turkey Gobbler. From the Elberton Ga. New South. There is a lady living in Summertown who is the owner of five turkeys—four hens and a gobbler. $ome time ago she set the four tur key hens, and last week they came off with a fine brood of young gos—no, young turkeys. Animated by her success and good luck, s'ho determined to set the remaining turkey— which wasn’t a hen turkey—on 100 eggs. She made a comfortable nest in the smoke-house, pl.t 100 eggs therein and shut his turkeyship up in the building, with a complacent and self-satisfied air. He hasn’t come off yel, but she is confident and is still waiting the ad vent of the little turkeys. He Stopped. From the Oglethorge, Ga., Echo. One night not very long since, at a colored people’s church near Lexington, one of the good brothers became so violent in his shout ing that it created quite a panic among the female portion of the congregation, who, with cries of “hold him,” broke for the door. The shouter continued his antics— the brethren unable to hold him—until an old sinner, a big rough African, who hap pened to be passing timt way, and hearing the disturbance came running in and crying, emphasizing it with an oath, “I can hold him.” He grasped the enthused brother around the waist, threw him down and choked him almost to death, refusing to allow him to get up until he promised to leave quietly.