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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MAY 9. 1882.
BILL ARP
THANKS GOODNESS THAT CAR
PETS ARE UP
two hogsheads of good “C” sugar, polarizing
00 per rent,and which cannot be tola from the
best Ribbon or other cane sugar of the same j
grade. This they can do with no other '
treatment than they now employ in
working the old stands of cane.
Amt n.o Boy. c.n Stamp Roond-lfovln* Siy ut ar )’' with a longer working period the juices
will read at least 10 ° B., equal to 1,075 spe
cific gravity and will jiolurize good 12 per.
cent to 16 per cent, which is, if 1 am correctly
informed, fully as well as the Louisiana plan
ters now do. Tiiis juice they can defecate
with lime and sulphur fumes or sulphurous
acid and reduce in vacuum pans as usual or
in open trains. I.et us support these rather
broad assertions by more specific statements.
Ocnrrnl spring Cleaning Up-Tho H.n* Don’t
Bay Ear* Enough—Fixing Dp for Com
pany-Keeping Thioga Clean. Etc.
Thank goodness, the carpets are up at last,
and now 1 reckon me and the boys can
stamp around. It is a great privilege to be
able to pat a foot or twist a chair around or
JUHAN OF MACON.
THE LARGEST RETAIL DRY GOODS
HOUSE OF THE SECTION.
Whe' a Jones Conn.y Man and Another from Craw,
ford Did By doing to Macon-A Walk Through
Johan & Co.’s Bight Barge Storea.-A
Quarter of a Million in Goods.
| let nie forget to mention that we carry, also,
j probably the finest stock of hats in middle
I Georgia, our line being valued at $10,000.”
POINTS.
I was particularly struck with something
! told me Dy one of the members of this im
mense house. Within the past six mouths
they have married off six young men and
three young ladies. C. T. L.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Macon, Ga., April 27,1832.—To see all there
is in Macon would require a full month. I
have been here a week and yet am still unpre
pared to give the resume of her industries,
promised in my last. I see several days still
ahead and must therefore put in another
cu: the pigeon wing or the double shuttle oc- I c - te , , r *- v Cane,’* which
* . . , matures in ninety days, reaching its perfect
casionally when a man has heard good news condition in the latitude of Washington by
or had good luck, and now lie won’t be put the middle of September and maintaining "a
on continual notice about wearing out the I y' -or ^' n S period of two months, or until severe j tiier before presenting to tile world wnat l
carpet. “Go right back and wipe that mud sugar” (after deducting ^LuYlN* perotnt of I <:on ' ;,ler the most remarkable exhibit of re-
off your shoes—you will ruin my carpet." 1 glucose and 3 per cent of solids not sugar), sources ever shown by a southern city of sim-
1 like carpets, but 1 like ’em in the parlor and has produced over .vide areas of the west | ilar size. In the estimate of tue building
and in a church and in a ladies'room. Well canes . P er a ^ re t yielding M® going on hereI stated tliat half a million
- , ... , gallons of juice per ton, and of well-grained ° P, , .. T „...
I like ’em in the family room, too, during sugars from 80 to 100 pounds per ton of stalks wou | d not cover it. I can now state with aiv
the winter, hut that one ought to he made of I and from 20 to 25 gallons of syrup of excellent thority that I missed the figure by at least one
oakum or hemp or buckskin or white oak I < l u .®hty 1 weighing from 11 to 1134 pounds per i hundred and fifty thousand. If fortune is
splto. or something U,.t me the U e.joying .le sMe o<
—«->—i* « ^ - - — ' The yield of seed is from 20 to 30 bushels per tlie c0 <l aeti ng of destiny, quite in contrast to
an excellent grain or stock or hogs, | something I hear to-day. The.,richest man in
Macon is worth about $750,000, and he has a
brother in an adjoining county who toils from
morning till night between the handies of the
E low. There is also another similar instance
ere. In one of the machine factories works
out iw oeuer to icei that way every day, if I an average available cane sugar product of I a nlan a boiler maker, who could not, pos-
possihle. In the country where the men folks percent; it is good here for about two I siWv raiae ten dollars on demand, and vet he
liiivc to work out unit slop around in all sorts I tuousanii pounds per acre of excellent C J jj^s 21 brother in & ntiiiiburing state who is
of weather, its impossible to keep a house or a su K ar - The largest grain I have seen in any undoubtedly a millionaire
carpet clean, and its painful to be always in a I sorghum or cane, was made last year hardlicks outkeacuinu fortune.
strain about iL A man is too coarse and dirty I from this variety of sorghum by A. Folger, Several years ago, at Clinton, Jones county,
an animal for a woman, anyhow. She ought <*« Washington, Iowa, a sample of which is a man kept a country store. Bv close appli-
to live in the parlor and be in the kitchen or me as I write. As respects this variety cation to business he worked up a good trade,
some outhouse and have a telephone to com- I cane, the testimony of Coionel Henry B. I and was finally enabled to move to Macon,
muuicute with one another. But pshaw! tlic-f Kichards, of I.aGrange, Fayette county, Tex- about eight years ago, and open up an estab-
women wouldn’t stand that. They’d be mov “ s >very important. He says in a letter lishnient on limited capital. This man was
ingtothe kitchen in less than a week and I *I at<J d April 8, 1882: “Let me tell you about Mr. W. A. Julian. Since his advent here his
say they were afraid, or heard something in I ora nge cane. It is no longer doubtful at I success has been phenomenal. He soon be-
the night. 1 I all but that the orange cane will came a partner in the great house of Iloss,
moving dav. become, in this climate, perenni- Coleman & Co. He remained there some
It's moving day at our house, company is al- I have tested it now for two time, until he and Mr. C. B. Ellis bought out
coming and my folks are cleaning up. They years and am convinced that the stubbles will Koss and Coleman and went in for the entire
have moved everything out of every room stand colder weather and more of it concern on their own hook. Mr. Ellis is a
and the piazzers are all full of tables and | than those of the ribbon cane. My cane | native of Crawford county, and came to Macon
coulden't hurt or deface. I like
nice house and nice things, hut I
don’t like to be afraid of ’em. I always
did love to get a new suit of clothes
and wear em—wear cm every day. Its well
enough to feel like a gentleman on Sunday,
acre,
worth in the north from cents to 75 cents
per bushel.
The “Early Orange” matures in about four |
months, say 117 days, from seed; it has an
average exponent of sugar of 72 X A per cent
some corroding sublimity and other extermi- I authentic testimony we have of any of the ] for greater moral worth than Mr.
nators of camiverous insects. The littlepassel sorghum hearing perennial, and it is of great Kilis, and consequently his integrity has
of plated ware that pretends to be silver-has importance. The very remarkable plasticity give him a position in the hearts of the peo-
to he polished up with whiting— of this species places it in the very first rank .,le positively enviable. He is an'active,
the curtains had to be taken of varibuity, and gives the best possible rea- thorough business man, partaking of the
down and the lops of the windows all brushed soils for believing that new and superior vari- keen sagacity of his partner, Mr. Julian,
and then-is a broken parlor chair to mend. I eties better adapted than any now known Mr. Ellis is a young man, comparatively,
They broke it playing blind man’s buff one I will be evolved by our American expe- being Mr. Julian’s junior by several years,
night and they say they want some new table rience. It is remarkable how much has been I Their handsome business is overlooked en-
knives and just obleegcd to have cm and a | accomplished in this way already. The J tirely by themselves, assisted bv Mr. Charles
] oranges have a working period here of seven- Caldwell, a young man of sterling business
y-nine days. I capacity and attractive character. The suc-
There are half a dozen varieties of sorghum cess of the house is due to the fact that thev
of from live to six months in maturing, which are alwavs at their post, neglecting everything
are substantially alike, requiring 150 to 170 e i sc but their business. It is, therefore, no
days from the seed to full maturity, and giv- wonder that their efforts to rise in wealth
new pan to cook rice in and ui.oihcr howl and
pitcher and we don’t make butter enough for
company and the liens don’t lay eggs enough
and
SPRING CHICKENS HAVEN'T COME CP
yet, and the pantry is as empty
last year’s lur'd nest, and I must 1 ing in this latitude from twenty tosixty days’
send to town right away for some lemons and working periods, but in your" latitude and
a coeounut, and some nutmegs, and a jug of I that of Texas affording probably ninety days’
syrup, and it’s William this and papa that [ working period. These are Honduras, Honey-
until my head swims, and so I took a little Top, Sprangle-Top, Texas Cane, Mammoth,
walk and meandered ’round the potato patch etc. All these have been grown here, but are
to calm my feelings. By the time I had sung very little suited to tiiis latitude. In your I to be the largcstretail" house south of Phila-
tlie first verse of “Hail Columbia Happy*) Louisiana region they will work in perfectly dclphia. Their business is carried on in
Land,” they called me to carry out some of I well with the early maturing varieties, and
and position have been crowned with such
unusual success from the start up to now.
| THE LARGEST RETAILUOUSE SOUTH OF PHILADELPHIA.
It was only by a thorough display of hard
work that gave Julian it Co. their present po-
| sition and to day they stand acknowledged
of Hon- entire store of Waxelbaum & Son at a cost of
acre, as $25,000. Other parties were anxious for it
Tn I nml «« hlirli nq OOO was hid hv one man
of pig iron. Why don’t they sow little rope seven and a halt* ton
handles onto matrnsses, I would like to know. I duras were matured on an , . , .
And about this time another swarm of bees I appears from testimony in my hands. In I and as high as $23,000 was bid by one man
come out, and I bad to worry over that, and I your soil and climate such a yield willproba- I but Juhau cV: Co. walked on with the proper-
saw a limb off, and let it down with a rope I bly be general. In respect of sugar produc- ty. Twelve hours after this* trade was con-
ami one of the plagucy insects stung me I ing capacity we really know* less of the nature sumniated they bought out the whole retail
on the ear, and it’s a hurting yet, and I of these long maturing varieties than we do I stock of Waxelbaum «fc Son the stock was
«o!>ody cared but me, and pretty soon they I of the kinds like the early amber, which are taken and delivered to them in less than 43
hollered to me to come and move the piano in I better suited to our latitude. Hut with you I hours. Of course, with this immense advan-
front of the lire-place, and I had reason to be- I I fully anticipate that results will be attained I tage in location, they are tne recognized lead-
lievc that ended my labors and took an hum-1 which will exceed even those already ob- I ers in the dry goods trade here, and nothing
hie seat on the door-step, when Mrs. Arp she I tained in Kansas. | can keep them from continuing^as such,
pointed out the back yard and the spring lot, I 1 will not weary you with too many de-
•and nirectionately hinted that the old trash tails, of which the number held in reserve is. — .* - ..
and wornout shoes and brickbats and such I very great. But I will add a few points of the stores, co\ enn 0 ^ e
like were no ornament, and that me and the I greatest importance to be known as essential block being triangular an as 1 tu&tea F ’
little boys could get brush brooms and do a to success in obtaining caue sugar from sor- ter °* three sgreets,tli e >^ 0 ^ ec H 1 ^ nf
licap in a tittle while-wants it raked with a ghuni. . I them all, and an entrance can be effected
line-tooth comb, I reckon, and then sand- | First—The plant should^ be fully ripe be
papered and varnished. It’:
ness, fixing up for company,
preparing for battle
it is all for peace, and love, ana gooa win, i lure mis nmc n«s juitt, a. »i>ii™» muu- ■ —-
and I like iL There is a dignity sands of aualyses, containes less sugar and Caldwell, who is in every waj acquainted
in liospit-ility and in playing the generous j more glucose than at maturity, and of course | with the business, being one of the headmen
liost and hostess and looking after the com- the amount of sugar available is diminished I and a trusted employe. B
fort and pleasure of your guests. I like tosay in proportion. «TTnw mmv «iods do vou sell every vear?
grace over a bountiful table. I like to sit in I Second—The canes should be rolled as soon I . . ^ ~ * *
the piazzo with my friends and talk farming I after cutting as possible—all in the same day 1 1 J5 V *S„ ooo V erv closes but I
and politics and look oil on the green fiehls if possible. It is not important to reserve the " U push ^i,^ very cio^. duw
in front of us and the creek bordered with | leaves; by some evidence .the mineral of the ^a full quarter of ^ a miUio/aUh* C
| est possible estimate. We expect to exceed
[ evcn*these figures this year, as the business is
rapidly increasing.”
•How many men do you employ?
‘About fifty in all. We also have about a
front at least twenty different doors, so that
j leaves appears to be an injury. But the top
willows and . .. - - . .
joe brown’s iron mountains I must be reserved, of course, as well to save |
and nabor Lowry's long rows of cotton and I the seed ns to avoid injury to the juice,
nabor Mumford's oats, all in the bead, and I Third—The juice shows by its density just
then just behind us is nabor Freeman’s valley I what it is worth. It should run from 8° to |
where bis big screw pulveriser that weighs I 12° B, say from 1,000 to 1.0U0 specific gravity,
<1,000 pounds tears up the ground in a ten foot I averaging about 1,075, or 10° B. And it
dozen ladies in the store who have charge of
the millinery department. This, by the way,
span and young Miles Dobbins sits up on it should be bandied without delay, as *t is |- -y-.--,-v. . nt ,
'*■' ’-=” : -“■ *■*— “ •“ 1 more prone tiian Cuba cane juice to chemical « o»io of the lading points^ of our busine-s
changes. But the same rules for acidity, the I a,ul ' vt j are ^2.-l h
^aino treatment bv lime anil bv sulpbur will | Home lad^ to-day a twenty dollar bat, wli c
be fouml available ^ at presLt with your I will show you how our goods are esteemed,”
I must state that, judging from the hand-
| some display of all kinds of fancy and fine
goods I saw," the stock has certainly been se
lected by careful hands, and will compare
most favorably with anything kept by Shillito
in Cincinnati, or Stewart in Xew York. In-
like a king and drives six big mules abreast
and pops his long whip and says “go lang
mules.” Well I tell you it lodks like a sin to
break up land that fast, especially when you
look over in the next field and see a poor fel- I planters.
low scratching along with a six inch furrow Fourth—For the matter_of culture, it is
about three inches deep. One way is like a | sufficient to say that any soil that will raise a
feller fishing all day with a hook and line j good crop of corn will do well for sorghum,
andtheotlier way is catching’em in a seine which is best drilled in with a common drill- , llrK
a gill net or letting off a mill pond and ing machine in rows 3 to -t feet apart, the Mf V ej to see 4ch ad'niav of
raking ’em in by the wagon load. But that is plants to be thinned out to about four inches clLet) ‘ •There
the way to do it. We have all got to follow apart in the row. During the early weeks of magnificent and c«tly fans and 1aces. There
suil and use these labor-saving implements or growth, sorghum is delicate and requires a ''ere fans ^ nfronf one^cent to fortv dollars
get behind. little more care than corn. But once well laces that run from one cent to fortv dollars
Well, the premises arc all right now. Let I under way it requires no extra care. I per jaru 8JUCS AJJD [
the company come. I’m ready and Mrs. Arp 1 send you some of the reports on this sub- „ In laces ‘ a i 0 a e *” said Mr Caldwell
and the children are ready, only she is afraid j e et for your better information, and with an „ k stock valued at $5,000, while our
the children wont behave properly. Never apology for the free use I have made of your I ... r orth sm ooo, the whole dress good
^ j n( J l0( III A ’’I' I* .1 r. r, •«*!« A ItlVV’A IW\t I I MAItlilltl HVVf II A1F OSS* OO AST AS* Vfilirfi I ’ • • a. • *
cliildre
that _ _ , iurmreu..T,i. , —,
] Spanish, Guipure, Torchon, Oriental, and
Found Dead. I others being some of the kinds we keep. Real
Yesterday morning Officer Culbereon, who j ace collars, point lace, I mean, are worth
e children wont behave properly. -Never ajology tor tne tree use l nave made ot your are \ vorlll $io,000, the whole dress goods
ind, let em come. Those who have got name, I remain, my dear sir, as ever, yours d ‘ rtment beingwort h about $25,000. These
lldren themselves know how it is and those very faithfully B. Silliman. , a( » es ar(J inlported and of t i ie tinest quality,
at havent have no room to talk, \oung M ashmgton, D.C. Valenciennes, Mirocourt, Dentelles, Maltese,
man, get a fatuity, live in the country, open
wide your hospitable mansion and be some
body. There is nothing like it in this world.
Bibb Arc.
was on duty in the first ward, was informed f r0IU $2.50 to $100.
that a horrible smell was emanating from an cloves and hosiery.
old building in the rear of Stewart's wagon “I suppose vve keep as fine a line of gloves and
yard, on Peters street, and was requested to hosiery as can be found anywhere, the com-
| investigate the same. Proceeding in the di- | bined stock of both being no less than $10,000.
SORGHUM SUGAR.
rnlcmr Mllmni Tell* the B»tc»t Improvement* In
Making Sugur.
From the New York Tribune.
During the past three or four years the _
Migar-produeing capacity of the Chinese sugar traded the attention of those who had made quitaires. .
cane so-called, and more familiarly known as the complaint to him, and upon entering it I ings is high, but vve have to keep them. Ours
sorghum, has been the subject of the most he found that the terrible odor was caused by j s the only house in Georgia that keeps a large
careful and painstaking cxi>erimental investi- a dead body. In the room upon 1 millinery establishment in connection with
cations at the department of agriculture in a bed was the body which sickened all who the general business: No house in Atlanta
Washington, under the direction of Dr. Peter came near it; while in the middle of the floor J does one-half the trade in tiiis one line that
Collier, the chemist of that department. His 1 sat an old negro woninn who, upon inquiry, I we do. Our milliner}* sales are enormous,
published results for the vearsr 1873. ’7!l and was found to be blind. An investigation of We also run a dressmaking establishment, sc
’80 have been widely distributed in the vari- the case by the oflicer developed the fact that I that no lady can come here without getting
©us reports of the agricultural departmenL j the dead body was the son of the old woman, I every possible article needed. We have a _ „
Those lor 1881 exist at present only in MM8., and that his name was Mack Curtis. About | handsome suite of ladies parlors up stairs with northerners.
THE CROPS.
BELLAMY’S.
THE CELEBRATED GEORGIA PLAN
TATION SO NAMED.
A Sixteen Thousand-Acre Farm with Six Thousand
Under Cultivation—Over One Thousand Ne
groes. with Churches. Schools. Dance
Houses and Separate Cottages. Sto.
Cottml*»loncr Hcn<ler*ou Tell* a Gratifying Story ot
the Crops Around Augusta and Elsewhere.
“I have just returned from Oatiand,” re
marked Judge Henderson yesterday, as a
Constitution reporter entered the rooms of
the department of agriculture.
“Pray tell me where is Oatiand?” returned
the reporter.
“Oatiand is near Augusta,” replied the com
missioner. “At the last agricultural conven
tion a resolution was passed requesting me to
appoint a committee to examine and report
on some of the agricnlmral implements ex
hibited at the late cotton exposition. Colonel
Newman and I went down to Augusta in ac
cordance with the resolutiou to see the imple
ments and machines in practical opera
tion, aud the result of our in
vestigations will be published in the regular
monthly report of the department, which
will he issued now in a few days. We saw
and examined a number of machines, among
them some reapers, mowers, binders, pulver-
izsrs, seed drills and cultivators. Our report
is already written out. The trial of the ma
chines took place on the farm of Colonel
Capers, which is inside the corporate limits of
Augusta. While we were there we went out
look at several large farms, notably the
Eve plantation, which is controlled by Mr. J.
B. Campbell. On this plantation there are
500 acr. s in oats in one field, and sixty in
wheat. One hundred and twenty acres
ill be planted in corn. In the judgment of
men who are well informed on the subject,’
this place will produce from fifty to sixty
bushels of oats to the acre. It is certainly a
fine place. The wheat will make from twen
ty to twenty-five bushels per acre. There is
no evidence of disease of any sort with the
crops, nor did I hear any complaint of rust
during our stay in Richmond county. We
were in sight of but did not visit a number of
other crops, all of which were very fine, but
none of them in my judgment were equal to
the wheat and oat crops on the Eve planta
tion.”
‘How is the soil?!’
‘It is wonderful to see the fertility of the
soil on the place. It, has been brought to a
high state of richness by the planting of peas
and turning under of the vines. It showed
conclusively the value of the pea stubble as a
fertilizer, and was the most gratifying evi
dence of the effect of the pea vine that I ever
saw. The plantation is about two miles and
half from Augusta.”
“What other places did you vsit?”
“I was also at the Moore plantation, which
about a mile from Augusta. It is managed
by gMr. W. H. Warren, who succeeded Mr.
Moore. There is nothing grown on the plan
tation but hay which is baled on a Dederick
press, and put upon the market as you see it
in the smad bales. It is a beautiful business,
and the owner of the plantation seems to be
making money. When I was there he was
harvesting his first crop of vetch. He will
gather from the same land during the season
three crops of Guinea grass and other sorts of
hay.”
’’Is the plantation level?”
The ground is as level as a billiard table,
and nothing but improved machinery is used
in the harvesting of the hay. Improved ma
chinery is very generally used about Augusta,
and this fact 1 regard as one of the strongest
evidences of the prosperity of the people.
They ali seem to have good agricultural ma
chinery and are apparently in a prosperous
condition, with fine prospects of good crops.”
“Where else did you go?”
“I went over into S outh Carolina as far as
the Edisto river, which is seventy miles from
Augusta. The crops through that part of
South Carolina are promising, You may say
that the wheat between here and Conyers is
looking better than it is beyond that point
before Augusta is reached.”
* A CORNER IN GOURDS.
From the Quitman Free Press.
We were so fortunate as to make one of a
select party which on Sunday last assembled
at the beautiful country home of Major B. W.
Bellamy, sixteen miles south west of Quitman.
His house is situated in the center of a plan
tation of ten thousand acres, upon a beautiful
rising ground, surrounded by grand old oaks
and cedars, and was built in the olden time.
This is evidenced by the wide halls, the spa
cious rooms, the broad piazzas and the lux
uriant furniture, which shows an entire dis
regard for expense, and tells a tale of wealth'
refinementand luxury.
THE CELEBRATED BELLAMY 1‘LAGE.
contains about ten thousand acres in a body,'
and is as fine cotton and corn land as can be
found in Georgfa or Florida. About six
thousand acres are in cultivation, and a view
of these broad fields front the major’s front
piazza is truly grand.
Over one thousand negroes live and move
and eat their rations on the plantation. They
have their churches, their dance houses and
every other convenience necessary for their
temporal and spiritual welfare and amuse
ment. Their cottages are not only comforta
ble, but many of them ere well arranged and
neat. Each "dwelling has its garden, fruit
orchard and potato patch attached and looks
homelike and cosy.
A WONDERFUL TALENT.
In the control and management of this
family of a thousand souls Major Bellamy,
who is comparatively a young man, displays
a talent and tact which is truly wonderful.
He knows the names of all his working
hands, and as a rule remembers the names of
the women and children. He never meets
any of his tenants without a pleasant wprd
or an inquiry after their crops, and in conse
quence is idolized by them ail. He encour
ages their schools aud helps to pay their
preachers. He gives them good advice and
requires them to comply strictly with all con
tracts. He never deceives them in auything,
and in consequence has their confidence.
Many pf them are his old slaves and arc vir
tually as fully controlled as in foniter days.
EIGHT HUNDRED BALES OF COTTON
are raised upon the plantation. This is hauled
to the large steam gin near the major’s resi
dence, where it is ginned, packed aud weigh
ed. When sold the major deducts his rent
and advances, ard pays balance to the tenant.
He never has any trouble, for the reason that
he rents for so much cotton and com and
not for a part of the crop. This is without
doubt the largest farm and the greatest nuiu-
bei of negroes in a body, under the control
of one man, in Georgia or Florida, and Major
Bellamy is the only man we ever knew who
could manage such a machine.
We had been invited to dine, and at 2
o’clock we met the dinner and the guests.
The repast was served in the old style by the
major’s old family servants, once liis slaves,
and was sumptuous and elegant. The old
fashioned chicken pie, baked in a ten gallon
vessel, and the huge round of baked beef re
minded us of ante belluni times.
FULTON COUNTY BARROOMS.
pay the license, and we will thus he rid of the
vile places.”
Mr. Wallace said:
glad, for there is more
woods than in town.”
And s i endless quotations varying as widely
as the above might be given.
‘I can’t say that I am
fun in a drunk in the
Wanted to See His Wedding Certificate.
From the Home Bulletin.
A few days since. Ferry Smith, a gentleman
of the colored persuasion, went into the ordi
nary’s office, and, with smiling face and hap
py countenance, procured license to marry
Rosa Miller, a dusky damsel. But, alasl he is
now minus $1.50, and issad to know that Rosa
fooled him, for whom he made known his in
tentions, she hacked out and refused to marry
him. lie called on Ordinary Henry J. John
son yesterday and said: “Boss, ef yer’U jiat
took his weddin’ ’stificate back and detund
me de motley I liad to.pay fer dem, de good
Lord knows I’ll gib de ’women de dirty
shake. ’ But the honorable oruinary could
not accommodate him.
Liver disease, headache and constipation,
caused by bad digestion, quickly cured by
Brown’s Iron Bitters. may2 d&wlt
Only about one out of fifteen of the American
girls who ko abroad to become g-cat singers or
painters arc ever heard ofjifter returning home.
__ Fortv Tear*’ Experience or an Old Kane,
Mrs. \\ ixsLovr’s Soothing Syrup Is the presort**
tlon of one of the best female physicians aud nurse*
la the United States, and has been used for forty
years with never-failing success by millions of
mothers for their children. It relieves the child from
K in, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, griping tn the
wels and wind-coue. By giving health to the child
it rests the mother. Frice 25 cents a bottle,
marts—dlv nu sun wed&wly
A Span ieh altar cloth, believed to be 500 years old.
was used for the first time ou Easter day at the
Church of St. Stephen’s. Cvnn. Mass.
ANGOSTURA BITTr.RS are the best remedy for
removing indigestion and ail diseases originating
from the dige-tive organs. Beware of counterfeits.
Ask ynur groceror druggist for the genuine article,
manufantuTcd by Dr J G B Siegertik Sons.
may-t—dlw Iri sun wed Awl w
A Michigan soap factory has b-en swept away bV
fire. Soap is no bar to the fire tieud when ho wants
to mike a clean sweep.
The seeds of sickness and of death
In a disordered month are sown;
When bad the teeth or foul the breath.
Both soul and body lose their tone.
Till SOZODONT’S brought into play.
And sweeps those dire defects away.
may7 dlw sun tues thurssfttAwTw
“I’ve been heron bad thUigsnbontyon," said one
big bird to another. “Let’s stork about something
else,” was he response.
iiGRSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE
la ^Convalescence.
I have prescribed Hereford's Acid Phosphate in
the convalescing stage of typho-mal&rial fever, and
A Debilitated Industry to be Revived by an Atlanta
Syndicate.
There can be no doubt of tlie fact that an
effort is being made in Atlanta to get up a
corner in gourds. The gentlemen who have
formed a coalition with such an end in • view
are making an effort to keep the matter quiet,
but, through accident, a Constitution report
er yesterday became acquainted with a gen
eral outline of the proposed scheme for man
aging tlie corner. It is well known that the
important indnstiy of gourd raising lias been
well-nigh abandoned in Georgia and through
out the south, while the demand has of late
been greatly stimulated. It has
been pretty well settled that the
late respected cotton exposition had
much to do with creating this new demand
for gourds, and it is hinted that tiie bonanza
which lies in a corner was first discovered by
a prominent member of tlie gourd committee
of the late exposition. It is said that almost
fabulous sums were offered by northern visit
ors for the few specimens that were on exhi
bition, although the gourds were of no unu
sual size. The largest gourd, probably, in
Georgia, if not in the south, is owned by an
Atlanta gentleman, the Rev. Mr. Crumley.
It was grown in the year in which he was
born, and is therefore quite an ancient
;ourd. It holds a bushel and a
half and a quart, and if it had been ex
hibited at the exposition would have been a
big advertisement for the south, aud might
have been sold with great benefit to its owner.
It is proper to say, however, that Mr. Crumley
has nothing to do with the proposed corner in
gourds.
Y'esterday a Constitution reporter called on
a high state official who is believed to be in
the syndicate, but he refused to be interviewed
on the subject, giving as his reason therefor
that no official should engage in such a
scheme and then let his constituents hear of
it All the members of the syndicate are
equally reticent, hut enough has
been learned to enable The Constitu
tion to give its readers the benefit of
an outline of the scheme. It is proposed to
buy a thousand acres of sandy land in south
ern Georgia and to plant the entire tract in
gourds. It is believed l^y • the syndicate that
ten thousand gourds can be raised on ah acre
and if such is true ten million gourds will he
turned out as the production of the thousand
acres. It is proposed to raise a general line of
gourds of various sorts and sizes and to. ship
them to Atlanta where they can be sold in
the raw or manufactured into powder gourds,
shot gourds, drinking gourds, soap gouids
sugar gourds, etc. These gourds will then be
shipped north where it is known they cannot
be raised, and there put upon the market.
They are, it i3 said, very much sought for by
The syndicate believes tliat
planters
subject demands,
oil tiiis subject
ity, because it
A He Hen.
I am' l> abie n< to "speak I near by^not"only "failed but°refused to give j ness,” I putin; “I am getting interested
with some author- them any aid. Mortification finally set in “Well, another important item is our shoe , From the jj cDuffie 5a Journal,
been mv duty and day before yesterday the boy died. The trade. \\ e carry a stock of $10,000 m shoes,
Inspecting the Turtle.
keep nothing but the best work, Zeigler's,
Miles’s and Bayden's being some of the works
^ we carry. We carry as tine a line of carpets
for some ti'ioe'rerta^nlv not in scasoiTto be of I From the Franklin, Ga., News. | as can be found in Georgia, our stock ranging
TomranteraYil*thisemewnev, and I Two gentlemen went out in a boat the other from $7,000 to $10,000 in value. Our sample
can withont^viftlAtini? r/mfideiice coiunniiii-1 day to investigate a ftsK basket. Returning, I business is enormous. We send samples every-
can without \ioIating confidence coinmuin | fh j v Ai9COXer £ ou tlie bank of the river what Khere, and sell goods from Macon to East
near point, Covington, Albany, Brunswick, Amer-
, . _ one icus. two-thirds of way to Savannah, and all
of our friends took up a box, which happened the towns and cities "in middle and lower
to be in the boat, and, reaching forward. | Georgia."
clapped it down over the turtle, when in an nearly four acres of Flooring.
instant the scene changes; the boat has shot I “What is your floor space here?”
out into the river ten or more feet from the | “Well, .we occupy, I said just now, eight
by Dr. Collier, to make a careful study of the day
whole ground. The report of that committee 1
has lieen rendered, but will not be published
cate such data
the right understanding
perhaps enable them to secure a crop
season, whenever there is land open toiiuiue-
diate use for the growth of sorghum.
To come right 5owm to business, without I clapped it down over the turtle, when m an
circumlocution, I think I may safely say
that your planters can secure a crop from
the seed of say half a dozen sorts of rorghum,
which will fully mature in periods of from
three months to six months from date of
sowing, and which will produce from one to
bank, and our fisherman is left standing up I large stores, the entire space being over 40,000
to his waist in water. When he came out anu I feet, or uqgrly one acre on one floor. As we
inspected that turtle and found it but an I occupy four floors, yon can readily see we have
emptv shell, he felt sad. 1 about four acres of space altogether. Don’t
A few months ago our friend Mr. Ben
Waller, of this county, had a family of chick
ens numbering fifty-five, embracing the usual
proportions of male, female and neuter gend
ers. In less than two months an epidemic of
cholera reduced the flock to five, all of which
were hens. The oldest of these, a speckled
matron of fifteen seasons, as soon as she realiz
ed the gravity of the situation discarded her
sex and took charge of the four widowed pul
lets. Her spurs, comb and wattles grew out
in a. single night, and her voice changed to
the regulation tone. She now bosses the barn
yard with all the arrogance of a genuine ban
tarn, crows lustily, ana rigidly observes all the
fashionable duties peculiar to a masculinehen
Some Facts and Figure* on the Retailing of Spirit*
Outwit!e of Atlanta
Since the commissioners of roads and reve
nues passed their order increasing the license
fee for the retailing of spirituous liquor in the
county of Fulton, outside of the city, there
has been much discussion as to the result, and
in order to ascertain the exact heat of the
public pulse, a Constitution representative
yesterday took the streets.
First, he went to the office of the commis
sioners’ secretary, Mr. Tyler Cooper, whom
he asked:
“How many barrooms are there in Fulton
couuty outside of the city?"
“Wait a second and I will see” replied Mr.
Cooper, and he reached Jor his record book.
“There is one,” he contlhued as he turned
the leaves, “at Buckliead. It is run by J. F.
Irby, and his license empires on the 12th of
December. 18827 Then there is another at
Tight Squeeze; Smith & Co., are tlie propri
etors. Their license is up on the 1‘Jth of De
cember, 1882. M. P. Brown has one near the
Fair grounds out on Marietta street. J. T.
Reese has a license for Edwurdsville, and
Wm. M. McKee is located on the Flat Shoals
road.”
“Is tliat all?”
“Yes.' :Five saloons are all the coun
ty lias outside of the city, and
the probability is that there will he fewer as
their present permits to sell expire.”
“Wliat right have the Commissioners to
pass this order?”
“Why, every right. On'page 160, section 11,
of the acts of 1880 you will see, besides other
rights they have, they may legislate ‘in regu
lating peddling and fixing the license for sell
ing liquors.’ Isn’t that enough right?”
Then the cedar shover again took the streets,
and the first man he met was Mr. Carl Wein-
meister, who in response to a question said:
“Yes. 1 have read tne action of the board. I
think it amounts to prohibition outside of
town, but if their object is to stop tiie sale of
liquor, tiiey won’t succeed. People who
want whisky will have it despite laws and law
makers. Why, look at Kansas; whisky is
shipped about tiiere in boxes like dry goods.
I really think the order an unwise ope. Be
fore its passage the county got a revenue of
$25; now she will get nothing; whisky will
be sold anyhow.”
Next the scribe met Major Howard, of the
firm of Howard,’Wood & Co. He said: “The
law is a good one and lam glad the commis-
missioners have had the nerve to pass it.
They should have done so long ago.”
Then Mr. Ed. Mercer said: “More whisky
will be sold than ever before and the county
won’t get a cent.”
“Leaving Mr. Mercer, the reporter next vis
ited Mr. Dodd, one of the commissioners. Mr.
l)odd was ready and willingto talk find said:
“Yes, thatorder is our child, and whether you
like it or not, we are proud of it. Only a few
days ago I had occasion to drive out into the.
country, and in doing so I passed one of those
low, trilling groggeries. Why, would you be
lieve me when I saj* there were about a dozen
able-bodied men sitting around it, all in va
rious stages of intoxication, when they should
have been at home helping to make cotton or
corn. No, sir, we have made the license more
th°n their business will justify, and have
killed the liquor traffic dead.”
Just as Mr. Dodd had finished his remarks
the faberite saw Captain Flynn, of the West
ern and Atlantic railroad, passing, and
a a sedond he had grappled him
So,” said the captain, stopping to get his
breath, “You want my views on tiie increase,
do you? Well, then I think the order alto
gether wrong. It mnst break up the traffic
in ardent spirits, as they call it. Then a high
license is not fair. It drives all tlie busi
ness into tiie hands of one man who happens
to have tlie eash, and breaks others.”
Presently tiie scribe met Mr. J. C. Kim
ball, who said: “There will be plenty of bars
even at that high price. High license is the
only way to close up these disgraceful whis
ky ‘ shops. It will wipe ’em out, surely. I
am in full sympathy with the commissioners.”
Entering Dr. Wilson’s drug store the re
porter put the usual inquiry, which elicited
answers from Drs. Wilson and Drake aud
Mr. Alex. Wallace.
Dr. Wilson said: “It is right, but will be hard
on drug business as we will have to hire addi
tional clerks to sell the liquor usually sold by
the couuty bars. The country people say
that we are trying to drive all the trade iuto
town, and I am glad the commissioners are
Let the comniis-
whenever an acid la indicated, nothing has been
found equal to it. J. H. Wilson, M. D., Plymouth
’udiana.
Qnincy, Florida, is to have a baby carriage parade
May 1st
The ladies who sometime since were unable to so
out, having taken Lydia K Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound are quite recovered, aud have gone ou
their way rejoicing.
may7 dlw suu wed friifcwtt
The Montgomery. Alabama, iron works have been
opened for business.
ladiesT
For $3 we will send tlie Dressmakers’ Magic
Scale and Instruction Book by which you can
cut ladies’ and children's clotliingof all kinds
to a perfect fit without trying on or niaking
any changes. If not satisfactory return it and
get your money, except 50 cents retained to
pay expense and trouble. Garments of all
kinds cut and made to order. Agents wanted.
Send for circular. G. K. Woodward & Co.,
6534 Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga.
fH5apr25-sun&w-tf
Northeast Mississippi Is planting a good many
mulberry trees
-‘Unchupalba*’
. Quick, complete cure, alt annoying Kidney, Blad
der and UjriHary Ddiseases. 81. Druggists. Depot,
Lamar, Itankin & Lamar. Atlanta.
A Hart county,Kentucky,cow yields six gallons of
milk daily. . Ur
The Montgomery Adycrtt*er
says: ••Simmons Liver Regulator ’Has secured a
reputation in every part of the United State*
solely on account of its extraordinary merits a* a‘
medicine for the liver, stomach and kidneys,”
A four-legged chicken has been hatched in Tam
pa, Florida. i - •
A bottle of Dr. Fuller’s Pocket Injection with
syringe combined cures wi’hout namcons medi
cines. 81. Dr. Fuller's Youthful Vigor Pills cure
nervous debility, impotence and nocturnal emis
sions. S2. By mail. All druggists. Depot 429 Ca-
street, New York.
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The wool trade of central Alabama has fairly
opened.
There is hardly an adult person living but is
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.
The population of Tennessee has increased in two
years 283,874.
The President, Supreme court Judges and Mem
bers of Congress use German C >m Remover. 25c.
marSl—d&w3m 7
The leading hotels of Jacksonville, Florida, have
enjoyed a very successful season.
The Lucky Man Cusicrntulateil.
The announcement that ticket.No. 75,111 in the
March drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery had
drawn the capital prize of $30,000, and that half of
the ticket had been told in Savannah created ton- >
siderahle excitement; and many were inclined to
think that there was some mistake. Weare pleased
to’state, however, that there was no mistake, and
tliat' tlie luckv person was our well-toipwii towns
man, Mr. EugdUe 15. Philpot. ot the flritt of John
bnlfivan & Co. During the day Mr. uhilpot re
ceived the congratulations of numerous friends,
who were rejoiced to hear of his good luek. It was
a big return on the Investment of 81.—Savannah
News, March 1C. . ■
He sent to M A. Dauphm, New Orleans, I-a. The
next drawing will take place on May 9th.
iuay2 d&wlt
Within tl»e last four years the'attendance upon
the public schools of Arkansas has Increased from
33,744 to 99.744, and the school revenue raised from
8170,335 to 3710,401.
To Ladle* Only.
The wish to be beautiful is predominant in every
woman, and none can sayshedoes not care whether
she is beautiful or not. Dr T. F. Gouraud's Orien
tal Cream, or Magical Beautitier elicits* clear trans
parent complexion, free from Tan, Freckles, or
Moth Patches, and so closely imitating nature as to
defy .detection. It has the highest medical testi
mony as well as professional celebrities, and on its
own merits it has become o ic of the largest and a
popular speciality in the trade. Mme M. B.. T.
Gouraud, Sole Proprietor, 48 Bond • Street, New
York. For sale by all druggists and fancy goods
dealers throughout the Cniied States, Canadas and
Europe. may:i—d&wlt
The people of Charlotte, North Carolina, cele
brate the 307th anniversary of the Mecklenburg
declaration of independence 20th of May.
“Improvement lias Been Wonderful.”
A gentleman makei the lollb'.vi.q^ report of
his wife’s case: "Mra. J ’s improvement
fans been wonderful since she commenced
taking the Oxygen Treatment. Her digestion
and -appetite are good, and her strength very
much restored; so much so tliat she has,fur
the past month been going down a. flight of
steps to tlie dining-room to her meals, aud she
seemed revitalized and brighter and more
cheerful than I have seen her for years.” Our
Treatise on Compound Oxygen, containing
large reports of cases and full information,
sent free. Drs. Starkey <k Paten, llOUand 111:
Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa.
North Ca-olina is the twentieth state in the pro
duction of iron.
Mr. Waller is much perplexed in mind at'this
singular freak of nature, and appeals to the j verifying their statement,
readers of the Journal for all information and I sioners give us a fence law, if they have the
any explanation they may be able to offer on I power, and we will be all o. k.”
the subject. * Dr. Drake said: “No one will be able to
can. now gr.
a tomtfiv. U>
wort.li $10sc-n.i iVe-j. ''Ki*j|iiR"p>ruca! ic-'A I,
dress K. f>. Rideout & Go., 10 ttSclav aOiA.
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