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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MAY 23. 1382.
FRUIT FARMING.
MORE ABOUT THE ORCHARDS
ROUND ABOUT GRIFFIN.
What la Now In Bight-Forty Million Peaches-
Magnificent Fortune—& Strange Boil—6,000 P- ar
frees— A Grand Cherry Tree—Wild Goose
Plumi-Apn os-A New Industry,
ered the finest and most saleable plum that
grows. They sell readily at twenty-live e-uts
a quart,and a good tr«e will hear half a bushel.
However, it is well to estimate the yield at
only a peck to the tree, and the price at
twelve and a half cents a quart. On 1.000
trees, covering only one acre, this will give
le lowest estimate—a pretty little
Special Correspondence of the Constitution.
$1,000 at the
sum in itself.
PEACHES.
Crossing over past the plums,
and going by the carp pond,
„ ,, ,, . „ „ , just completed, and which, by the way, is one
Griffin, Ga., May 18. Georgia will literally I of the finest ponds of the kind in Georgia,
do herself proud in the growth of fruits this covering four acres, we came to one of the
season. I doubt if there was ever such an Pf* ch , orchards. In this one, situated on a
, . . . ., . hillside and covering forty acres, are about
immense yield as is new hanging on the trees 5 000 Amsden-Alexander peach trees. They
in this section. 1 have been taking a view of are now bearing their fullest capacity, the
the surrounding country for several days past, 1 Gees being loaded down until even the green
getting an insight into what we may expect ,ruit man y °* the . to tbe
, ,, , B . . ... „ , . 1 ground. There are a great many Beatrice trees
from the oridiards in this the great fruit grow-1 in this orchard. Mr. Woodruff pulled otfa
ing center ol Georgia, and I confess that I j large peach, nearly ripe, which upon tneas-
■ever saw anything like it. There arc more « r ement proved to be a little over seven inches
than 100,000 bearing trees of peaches alone ’"-When wilTyou have ripe peaches? ’ I
within a radius of five milesof Griffin, besides asked.
a large number of other good paying trees “I expect to commence shipping by the
that will augment the number to a near ap-1 °- f Ma ?- and P 058 ’ 1 ^ 800ner - T,U! id<?a
OUR LOST INDUSTRY-.
A SKETCH OF SILK CULTURE IN
COLONIAL DAYS.
Effort* of the Colon! 1 Trustees-Work of tho Salt*,
bargen—The Record of Self * Century—Present
Status of the Buatness—An Insignificant
Showing—Figures and Statistics.
proach to 150,000 or possibly even more than
this. In previous letters I have given the
number of acres in fruit hereabouts of between
1,500 and 2,000, with the income in dollars
amounting to nearly 500,000, when everything
gives forth a good yield.
what is now in sight.
At present the prospect is that not since the
heavy crops of 1877 and 1878 has so much
been promised. I believe there are now in
sight at me lowest possible estimate, 100,000
bushels of peaches alone, to say nothing of
more than that number of pounds of grapes.
Indeed, the grapes in )>ounds will go to a
with Georgia fruitgrowers is to get the peaches
to market as soon as possible, in order to get
fancy prices.
“However, Georgia growers need not fear
about prices this season as nearly all the
northern and western fruit has been killed by
late frosts and we are bound to get good
prices.”
APri.ES.
Leaving the peaches we went to the large
apple orchard, in which are planted 2,000 or
more trees.
‘‘What apples do you find to thrive best
in the south,” I asked of Mr. Woodruff, as
we walked through.
“Well, I have planted here, the Shockley,
near approach to 750,000, one vineyard alone, I Yates, red Astrncan, Chattahoochee and Hab-
Kelleris, producing500,000 pounds, while Mr. I ersham. Apples, however, do not grow as
Woodrufra ten acres will yield 100,000 pounds, well >*> the south as other fruit, still the above
besides making forty or fifty barrels of wine. I varieties keep very well indeed and it will
This wine is ns good as can be made in Amer- I P a 5 to raise them. 1 ’
icn, and will bring at a low estimate, one dol- ... A s *? industry’.
lnr per gallon, much of it selling at two dol- ‘ 1 w.shjyou would say,” said Mr. Woodruff,
lars per gallon. Now, these are not fancy I Y^en we left the apples, that a new industry
figures by any means, and he who doubts I io , T ^nxe live Georgian to start is the rasing
them need only come here and be convinced I . y e “ ew willow. Come down here and I 11
of their verity.
WHAT CUNNINGHAM IS DOING.
I drove down to ihe biggest peach orchard
in the world Saturday afternoon and saw Mr,
Cunningham. This orchard commences just
four miles southeast of Griffin, covers six hun
dred acres, and runs along the Central railroad
for two miles down u little past Orchard Hill,
the first station below the city. There are
show you some I have had planted several
years." I found, down on a small branch,
two long raws of young willows of the kind
just mentioned. It is the toughest stuff I ever
saw, and will tie like a twine string. I tried
to break off a piece, but had to cut it; it will
not break. “1 use it in place of twine," said
Mr. W., “to tie up my grapes and baskets.
Anybody who will can grow this willow to
50,000 hearing peach trees, 6,000'pcar and ap- I perfection here and make money by it. It
pie trees, besides others not yet bearing that I commands a good price at the basket
will run the numbers up to nearly 70,0001 factories north, and would be worth
trees, hut it will do well to keep Georgia’s re- considerably more if made into baskets right
sources prominently liefore the world. | here.
A MAGNIFICENT PICTURE. 1 A PRESSING NEED.
I think one of the most wonderful pictures what we need, especially right here at
I ever saw is the peaches as they now hang Griffin, is a basket factory—not a willow bas-
npon the trees. The last time I had a taik ket factory especially, but a place to manu-
with Mr. Cunningham he stated that his rule facture these split baskets that we buy in the
was to estimate the yield per tree at one peck. I north at five and seven cents each. 1 buy
It has already been shown how peaches prop- every season from 1,000 to 2,000 ten-pound
erly handled will net two dollars a bushel, baskets alone. When we get all these con-
whlch rcndilv gives the Cunningham orchard veniences and necessities we can turn ‘ideal
an income of about $25,000 a season. I asked into action,’ and soon see the fruits of real
him Saturday what would buy the crop as it I southern enterprise and industry,
stands now on the tiees.
From the Census Report Just Published.
Georgia, which had been part of the “fertile
Carolinas,” was made by royal charter a sepa
rate province in 1732and placed in control of
a board of trustees. This event became the
occasion of an urgent pressure in favor of silk
culture. The trustees themselves heartily
favored the project, and fixed upon silk and
wine as the leading staples Jo be raised forex-
port, silk being chief in their esteem. Sir
Thomas Lombe wrote a forcible letter on the
subject to the trustees, declaring that silk
culture “appears to me as beneficial to the
kingdom, attended with as little hazard or
difficulty, as much wanted, and which may
soon be brought to perfection in a proper
climate, as any undertaking so considerable
in itself that I ever heard of.” The trustees
at their meeting in June, 1732, adopted a
rule requiring settlers to plant a cer
tain proportion of mulberry trees. In their
respective grants ten years were allowed for
the cultivation of the soil,and 100 white mul
berry trees were to be planted on every ten
acres when cleared. Power was vested in the
trustees to enter upon lands that remained un
cultivated. A colonial seal was ordered, con
taining on one side a representation of silk
worms, some beginning and others having fin
ished their webs,with the motto: Nonsibi.sed
allis.” This, says one historian, was “a very
proper problem, signifying that neither the
first trustees nor their successors could have
any views to their own interest.” It does not
seem to have been meant, by the use of this
motto, to suggest that the colonists, in rais
ing silk for British manufacturers, were labor
ing not for themselves but for others.
Late in 1732, a man in Piedmont was sent
out by the trustees to teach the colonists the
art of reeling. Several public writers urged
the enterprise on various grounds of economy
and profit. An estimate in 1733(basedon the
assumption that the yearly import of raw silk
by Great Britain from Piedmont amounted to
£300,000 in value), set forth that the success
ful raising of silk in Georgia would save the
mother county £100,000perannum. Another
estimate in the same year made the annual
import by Great Britain of thrown silk alone
(excluding raw silk), 300,000 pounds, equal to
£300,000 in value. It was therefore
occasion of much congratulation
1734-’35, when General Oglethorpe took
witli bins to England.eight pounds of colonial
silk, and showed it to the trustees, who pre
sented it to Queen Caroline. Under royal
instructions Sir Thomas Lombe took charge
of the precious consignment, and had it
thrown and woven at his factory, so that in
735, upon the king’s birthday, the queen
the province by the trustees, charged with the
duty of promoting the iudustry.
THE HIGHEST DEVELOPMENT.
We are now approaching the period when
silk culture in the colonies attained its high
est development. An exaggerated notion of
the results has been formed by several of the
writers who have recorded them. This is
chiefly due to neglect in discriminating be
tween cocoons and raw silk. The records,
from 1757 to 1708, are mostly of the produc
tion of cocoons; and of these articles, when
fresh or not specially dried, ten or twelve to
fourteen pounds ai e required to furnish one
pound of reeled or raw silk. The following
statements of Georgia production or export
are believed to be authentic:
1750—0,300 ponnds cocoons received at fila
ture.
1750 to 1751, inclusive—Value of raw silk ex
ported, $8,800.
1756— Amount of raw silk exported, 268
pounds.
1757— 1,052 pounds cocoons received at fila
ture.
175S—7,0-10 pounds cocoons received at fila
ture.
1750—Considerably over 10,000 pounds co
coons received at Savannah.
1764—15.2U0 pounds cocoons produced.
1760—20.0U0 pounds cocoons produced.
1768—1,084 pounds raw silk sent to Eng
land.
1758— 1703, inclusive—Nearly 100,000 pounds
cocoons received at filature.
1770— 201 pounds raw silk produced at Eb-
enezer; none elsewhere.
1771— 133 pounds raw silk produced at Eb-
enezer; shipped to England.
1772— 485 pounds raw silk produced at Eb-
enezer; shipped to England.
1775-1772. inclusive—Amount of raw silk
exported, 8,S29 pounds.
A careful examination of the foregoing
figures will show that they do not involve any
contradiction in themselves. They indicate
a varying produet which culminated in 1766,
furnishing fiom 1750 to 1772, an export aver
aging 500 pounds of taw silk per annum, and
rarely exceeding 1,000 pounds in a single year.
It remains to be explained why an assertion
has so frequently found place and comment
in histories and essajs, that in the year 1759,
10,000 pounds of raw silk were exported from
Georgia to England. The discrepancy be
tween this statement and that of the total ex
port front 1755 to 1772, (which was furnished
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More than half of the eiglity-slx suicides in St.
Louis the past year were Germans. This would
seem to indicate that rationalism and beer are not
conducive to contentment.
A bottle of Dr. Fuller’s Pocket Injee'iou wlin
syringe combined cures wi'hont nau«eous medi
cines. SI. Dr. Fuller’s Youthful Vigor Pills cure
nervous debility. Impotence and nocturnal emis
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all druggists.
apr 11 d&wly tues thnr sat
“Well,” said he, “if a man were to haul
here in a cart $25,000 in gold, he would have
to carry it back, for that sum would not buy
these green peaches.”
It is iny opinion that not a tree in the Cun
ningham ore-hard will bear less than one
bushel, and some of them will certainly yield
two bushels. I really never saw such a pro
fusion of peaches. There were peaches to I
right of me, peaches to left of me in such
a iinutitics ns to bedazzle my understanding at j
leir numbers
•10,W0,000 PEACHES.
There arc about three or four hundred
peaches to a bushel. I suppose, so it is an easy
calculation to see that tncre must he growing
now on Cunningham’s trees about 40,000,000
peaches, or nearly one ]>eiich for every man,
woman and child in the United States. 1 ant
satisfied that with what is now in sight, the
yield will be much larger than we have ever
seen in Georgia before in one year, if indeed
the end of the season does
not so far surpass all expectations and branch
right along into figures that will double any
year in the history of the state.
the woodruff farm in detail.
This morning I paid another visit to the
famous Woodruff’ farm, about two miles
above Griffin, immediately on the line of the
Central railroad. I consider Mr. Woodruff's
place the model of its kind in Georgia. I
have heretofore alluded to him as the pion
fruit grower of (he
richly deserves. I doubt
THE NORTHERNERS COMING.
“What do you think of people coming here
to settle from the north?”
Think of it? Why, I know they
are c-ming. There is a man
here to day from New Hampshire, and
another expected to-morrow, both looking
for places to grow fruit. Besides these, 1 am
now in correspondence with twelve men at
the north who are coming right to Griffin to
settle. There can be no doubt about this
being the great fruit centre of Georgia and
it is rapidiy increasing in wealth and popula
tion. The northerners say they must get
away from the lakes and come to more genial
climes.”
POINTS.
I regret that I am unable to give a more ex
tended notice of the Woodruff place. In all
he has about two hundred acres in fruit,
some 20,000 trees and 10,000 or more grape
vines.
The carp pond -will be a beauty when com
pleted. Dr. Cary was here the other day and
pronounced it one of the finest ponds he had
yet seen in the state. It will be stocked from
Wright’s famous pond. Mr. Woodruff intends
soon to have all the small berries growing in
profusion, and will market the finest of many
varieties to be grown. 0. T. L.
Mr. Paul'sjackass.
From the McDuffie, Ga., Journal.
Mr. Paul, a few days a;
*o io nun as me pioneer i s ; n f u | newspaper that a donkey couldn’tbray
state, a title which he I without raising his tail, and accordingly a
- . 'I 1 !!, 1 If : I bright idea struck him. He penned his fa-
states has done ns much in a general waj I nious jackass up in a corner of the stable, and
towards the interest of fruit-growing as he. I c jj n ,hjng up in the trough, above the dead-
Cotnmencing my tour at the vineyard, I ]j ne 0 f t j, e an j nia i’ s heels, he attached a
1 beheld about ten acres regularly staked out, I brick with three feet of clothes line to his
containing some 10,000 or mere vines, each I (the jack s) uil . xhen he opened the door,
•ne bushy with a thousand leaves and literal- I sm jj e( j audibly, and waited developments,
covered with grapes in embryo. Half a X [ ie an ; niu { walked into the lot, and backed
zen hands were busy tying the vines to the bis ears for a yel , but it was
stakes to prevent them from running on the no His ^ onl ' ra5sed tbe brick
ground, a very simple process accomplished high enough to hit him on the
by gathering the entire vine in encircled s | lan ks. Then he whirled around and the
arms and tying them after a sharp liug to the I donil j c k struck him in the side. Then he
stake. In this way the vine soon
to the stake and the fruit is savei
t it ” I l* 1 on the small ofhis back and drove him to
Mr W^drutf? “but everyone who lias’ eaten I **«*•. He clinled over the « atc a ? d dashed
any of these Concord grapes pronounces them
read in some
through the field in the direction of Augusta,
Sf fin“ better flavor tfiananythey ever «%££**££
.A, 1 with the brick lodged in a crack of the fence!
not account for it unless it be caused from the
soil. I know of nothing else to produce the
result alluded to. My grapesare richerin flavor,
larger and more juicy than any I have ever
seen in Georgia." Besides the Concord, there
are in this vineyard huge numbers of Salem,
Hartford, Delaware, Morton’s Virginia, Twig
Seedlings, and other varieties.
5,000 TEAR TREES.
Leaving the grapes. I was shown through a
and his backbone pulled out till his ears had
disappeared under his skin. Mr. Paul says
that that kind of treatment may prevent the
coarsest of the noise from escaping, but it will
demoralize the best jackass on earth.
Just a Common Liar.
From the Hartwell J-la , Sun.
“Old B” says that some years ago, in a
„ „ . . Carolina town, a crazy mail was brought be-
gate which led into the famous Woodruff I fore an examining board to settle the ques-
’ * “ * *' 1 ’ ’ ' ’ should be sent
Al ter the doetor
_ o one of the
ield will not be as large os was expected. J committee, an old farmer, said:
’My friend, did you ever borrow any bags
pear orchard. At present there are about I tion as to whether or not he siioti
a,000 trees in the orchard.but the frost nipped I to the asylum in Columbia. After
a great many in the bud this year, and the I got, through with bis examination, <
yield _
They are Bartlett ami Duchess, principally.
These trees will yield a bushel each, and
about half of them are bearing, but all of
them will not ripen.
THE BLIGHT.
“Why is this?” 1 asked.
“Why, that’s what is bothering
science, and I cannot answer
yon. I wish I could. There are in sight of
iis here fully 3,500 pear trees, with the blight
coming on them.”
“Will it kill that many trees?”
“No, it roav not kill a single one of them,
but it may kill every young pear now grow-
Then again these black spots you see
or jigs
“Yes, lots of them.
“Did you ever borrow your neighbor's
newspaper?”
“Yes, many a time.”
“Well, now, what became of the jugs, bags
and newspapers?”
“Why, I carried them all back.
The old farmer gave a blow almost as loud
as “Nancy Hart’s” whistle, and said:
“Gentlemen, he’s no lunatic! Just simply
common liar, and all the asylums in the
world won’t cure a man of lying."
ing. „—
now all over the trees among the leaves, may | Rare Fruit,
stop and the fruit vet be saved. That’s the From the Irwinton, Ga., Appeal,
trouble; we never know when to expect the W e were shown the other day a rare speei-
hliffht or what Dranks it will play. It is I nien of the fruit Kingdom, in the shape of
ti, g ronebl^fickle P ” mulberries. The berries as we saw them grew
“What are vour nears worth’” on a twig taken from a tree which grows on
“i got from^x to^endo^rs per bushel for the premises of Mr. W. W. Miler who resides
and if tliev were a certain crop, I’d be I the ihli s twrj road, in this county. The
the richest man 'in Georgia in a few years.” foliage resembled the while or non-bearing
the richest * mulberry, but the shape and general appear-
Adjoining the pear orchard are the cherries ance of the fruit were the remarkable points.
“There’s a tree ” said Mr. Woodruff, “the fin- It was round, shape like unto a strawberry,
est probablv in Georgia. It is the Washing- with indentations the same, though larger
ton cherrv,* and nothing grows any liner/’ I than the ordinary strawberry. They were of
Looking up, I saw it loaded with the richest a pale green color. \V hen they get npe we
looking vellow and orange colored cherries hope Mr. Miller will do ns the kindness to
I ever beheld. I climed into the tree, ate a send us over a few, and then we will tell our
full quart and came down again. I readers more about them.
What are they worth? v t I Another Factory Settlement.
Two dollars a quart in New lork but Yrom the Augusta, Ga., News,
you needn’t pay anything for those yon ate. Contracts were given out yesterday by Pres-
By the by/' he continued, **I neglected to tell I w\ C. Sibley, of the Sibley mills, for the
jiu just now of a I erection of other tenement houses for opera-
NEW naTARTVTRE IN CTT-TURK- tives, to meet increasing demands. This will
I have recently planted 500 Bartlett pears | t ^ e p resent settlement, and in fact
grafted on LeContes and I believe I b**\e I ma j. eft new town of itself on the west side,
struck the foundation for the huest i new houses will compose rows of brick
pear ever grown. If these 500 gnited tows jmd wooden buildings, and number about 360
succeed, vou may look out for a revolution m | The contracts for the brick rows
pear culture.” Jiave been awarded to Messrs. Parker & Me
Next to the £a“,^d adjoining the cber-1 Kcnrie. «.d for the wooden buildings to
ries, ore 1,000 wild goose plum trees, consid- Messrs. Perkins & Bnnso .
honored’ the colony by appearing at a levee in
dress said to be entirely made of Georgia
silk. But even this neat little episode has
suffered by the breatli of detraction. A cer
tain Dr. Patrick Tailfer and others, who per
haps bore no good will to General Oglethorpe,
have stated in a spiteful way that most, if not
all of this silk, was raised in Soutli Carolina.
In 1736 a plot of ground was laid out at one
end of the town of Savannah, and was planted
with vines and mulberry trees at public ex
pense. The “trustees’ garden,” as the plot
was termed, proved to have been ill-located,
the soil being sandy and arid; though on this
and similar points authorities vary. It is cer
tain that the trustees requested the selection
of some other spot of ground, but their wishes
were not fulfilled. The site was on the bank
of the river within view of the ocean.
Plants and trees, native and foreign, in
great variety, including- the fig, orange,
pomegranite, olive, coffee, cocoa and cot
ton, were set out; but chief attention
was given to the mulberry. Every planter
wanting mulberry trees was supplied with
them, gratis, from this nursery. The
The promise to supply these trees was a
feature and condition of land grants to col
onists. One writer describing the garden in
glowing terms of praise, declares the soil ex
cellent and the situation “delightful.” Others
hold a totally opposite opinion and say that
the place was “one of the most barren spots
of land in the colony, being only a hill of dry
sand; great sums of money were thrown
away upon it from year to year to no pur
pose.”
Several Italians of both sexes were brought
in 1736 at the trustees’ expense from Piedmont
in charge of a Mr. Amatis. The foreigners
were proficient in the arts of silk culture and
reeling; the men were ordered to teach male
English colonists to raise mulberry trees, the
women to take English girls as apprentices in
rearing worms and reeling from cocoons. “In
Italy and in the south of France, young girls
rry the eggs in their bosom, and batch them
by their natural heat. In other countries this
is done by means of manure or hot houses.
It is not specified which of these processes was
taught to the English girls. Some of the
Italians behaved badly; one of them stole the
reels, broke the copper pans, spoiled all the
eggs he could not steal, and fled to South
Carolina; but a little seed and a few faithful
Piedmontese were left.
THE SALZBURGERS.
Meanwhile a number of Protestants, driven
out of their home in the valley of the Salza,
Bavaria, had emigrated to Georgia and found
ed a town, which they called Ebenezer, about
twenty-five miles above Savannah, near to,
but not quite on the river. They brought
with them several useful arts, and soon accom
plished more in the business of raising silk,
with far less fnss, than their neighbors at
Savannah. They co-operated with the trus
tees, and before long had two reels busy.
Tiiere are notices at this period of a scheme
for interesting the Chickasaw Indians in the
work of silk culture. English writers were
again urging the need of the mother country,
and the annual expenditure for silk from
Piedmont was estimated at £500,000. Even
the muse was invoked to stir the lagging col
onists, and a poem on the return of General
Oglethorpe to Georgia in 1736, winds np—
Nor less the care
Of thy you hr province to oblige the fair;
U1 LU » >UU11«C JIIUUUVC Ml UUllgC vAAvJ A<11A *
Here tend the silkworm in the verdant shade
The frugal matron and the blooming maid.
But as to the export of raw silk, it was ad
mitted in 1740 that “no great entries have
been seen of any yet in the custom house;”
statements verified ’by oath declare that “the
quantity of silk hitherto mads has not been
great;” the small portion exported “was pro
duced by an Italian family settled in Savan
nah.” Another informant sums up the
situation with the remark, “there are not as
many mulberry trees in the whole province
as many a one of the Carolina planters have,
nor so'much silk as many a one of them
makes.” In fact, the colony of Georgia was
at this time in a very weak and impoverished
condition, and scarcely able to produce enough
of the necessaries of life for its own suste
nance. Despite the poverty of the province,
the trustees firmly adhered to the line of
policy they had marked out: wine
and silk were to be cultivated in preference to
ail other staples. “The tracts of land which
had been planted with mulberry trees scarcely-
retained the vestiges of cultivation” in 1744,
but the new bounties were offered for silk;
filature was built at Savannah, and the imple
ments for reeling were ordered to be furnished.
The premiums were afterward fixed at two
shillings pet pound for first Quality of cocoons,
one shilling for second, ana eight pence for
thirl. Bounties were also offered in 1749 for
proficiency in the art of reeling, and the trus
tees supplied the requisite apparatus to com
petitors. In the followingyear fourteen young
women claimed the bounty and were given
permanent employment at the filature, which
by this time bad an outfit of tools and imple
ments. Special commissioners were sent to
■ is not the right way to say it now
‘ bio ’• “ - ~
ionable.
frt thing.
To “suffer
To be “thirsty
that technical terms are fi
from polydipsia” is the coi
Father Is Gettlnc Well.
Mv daughters say. “How much better lather is
siuce he used Hop Bitters. He is getting well after
his long suffering from a disease declared incurable,
and we are so glad that he used your Bitters.—A
lady of Rochester, S. Y.
trunks are way off now. No young lady
can possibly visit a summer resort and be fashiona
ble without a Jumbo trunk. That is the latest
size.—Oil City Derrick.
Hcalthfulneu Preserved
in malarial districts by the powerful tonic and al
terative effects of a daily dose of Simmons Li
Regulator, the true malarial antidote.
Hon. Henry L. Pierce bought two Jersey cows at
the great saif in New York last Friday, for one of
which $2,525 and for the other $2,000.
Woman’s^primimitive beauty and vigor,
which has been lost, can be restored and re
tained by the action of certain constitutional
agents. These agents necessarily regulate,
build up, fortify and antagonize all existing
female irregularities and excesses, or opstruc-
tions which produce the ill health. The
remedy must unload the locked up secre
tions, add iron to blood strength to system
and vitality to nerves. Such a remedy is
found in the use of English Female Bitters.
mav20 dim sat tues thur&wlm
For sprains, stiffness of the joints and kindred
complaint, use Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused Plas
ters, which you can get at Pinson A Dozier’s,
marls w3m
v the collector of customs at Savannah) has
been -noticed by some of the more careful
writers; others have ignored it; none have
traced the error to its origin. It arose in an
ambiguous, not to say erroneous, publication
from Charleston. South Carolina, which Adam
Anderson has fortunately quoted in full. He
says:
“We had public advices, in this year 1759
from Charlestown in South Carolina, of a very
hopeful prospect in that province of the graa-
ual and considerable progress and increase of
production of raw silk there and in the ad
joining province of Georgia, viz.: ‘In the year
1757, 1,052 pound weight of raw silk balls were
received at the filature in Georgia; and the
next year produced no less than 7,040 pound
weight thereof. And that in this year 1759,
there has been received at Savannah, the cap
ital of Georgia, considerably above 10,000 _
>und weight of raw silk, although the sea- i
on has not been favorable. This great in- ‘
crease of that rich, new and valuable produc
tion in these provinces is owing to the in
creased number of hands in raising the
same.’ ”
RAW AND REELED.
It will be seen that the foregoing treats of
production, not of ex-port; and, therefore, pre
sumptively of cocoons, not of ree.ed silk. At
all events the facts were so understood by the
Rev. Jared Eliot, of Kiliingsworth, Connecti
cut, (grandson of John Eliot, the “apostle of
the North American Indians”), who wrote as
follows:
By a late account front Georgia it appears
that the silk manufactory is in a flourishing
way. In the year 1757, the weight of silks
received at the filature was only 1,052, last
year produced 7,040, and this year already
above 10,000, and it is very remarkable that
the raw silk exported from Georgia sells at
London from two to three shillings a pound
more than that from any other part of the
world.”
This seems quite correct, except in calling
the business a “silk manufactory.” On the
other hand, the complete error appears in,
and has no doubt been mostly propagated
among later writers through the account
given in 1816 by Major McCall, which ’turns
the cocoons into raw silk and the production
into export, as follows:
In the year 1757 1,050 pounds of raw silk
were received at the filature in Savannah. In
175S the silk house was consumed by fire,
with a quantity of silk 7.040 pounds of
cocoons or silk balls. In 1759 the colony ex
ported upward of ten thousand weight of raw
silk, which sold two or three shillings per
pound higher in London than that of any
other country.”
Great as was the mistake which ascribed to
one year as large an export as was reached in
twenty, it was surpassed in error by a subse
quent writer, who says:
“In 1776 more than twenty thousand
pounds of raw silk were imported into Eng
land from Georgia.”
This statement was probably based on the
production of 1766, and though brief, had
the misfortune to be incorrect in every par
ticular.
The policy of- raising silk by means of
bounties was pushed to its extreme ; n 1751,
when the trustees of Georgia established -the
following scale of premiums, which has cer
tainly never been surpassed:]
For first quality cocoons, 2s. per pound; if
delivered at filature, 2s. 6d.
For second quality cocoons, Is. 3d. per
ponnd; if delivered at filature, Is. 8d.
For third quailty cocoons, 6d. per pound;
if delivered at filature. Is. Id.
THE SILK COLONIES.
This was at least two or three times what
the cocoons were worth, and is “truly aston
ishing.” The patent of the trustees expired
in 1752, and with it all the chartered privi
leges of the colony, which then became a
roval province directly dependent upon the
crown for government. Acts of parliament
of almost equal liberality soon replaced the
measures of the trustees for spurring the silk
industry. These acts were various, and the
encouragement they gave was fluctuating.
One of them, in 1749, admitted raw sik from
the American plantations free of duty, and
provided that Georgia and South Carolina
should thereafter “have the honor of being
denominated silk colonies.” In the
same vein of sweetness, George II.,
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While other Baking Powders are largely
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has been kept unchanged in all its original
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its having received the highest testimoni-
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United States, who have analyzed it, from
its introduction to the present time. No
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true test—the TEST OF THE OVEN. .
IT IS A PUffE FRUIT ACID BAKING POWDER
-MADS BY-
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TUTT’S PILLS.
Lieutenant De Long’s wife said she was as anx
ious to have him brave the dangers of the Arctic
seas for the honor he might win as he was to go
himself.
Unless the breath is like a!
Unless the teeth gleam like the driven snow,
There is no dazzling smile or tender tale,
Grateful to woman’s eye or ear, we know.
The tale would lose its charms—the smile be gaunt.
Till brought within the spell of SOZODONT.
may’ll a4t sun tnes.thur.sat
The Cincinnati Commercial says that “There are
9,000 saloons in New York. If placed side by side
in a direct line, they would extend a distance of
forty-five miles.”
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ,the
great medicine for the cure jf all female complaints,
is the greatest strengtheaer of the back, s.omach,
nerves, kidneys, urinary aud genital organs of man
and woman ever known. Send for circulars to
Lydia E. Piukham, Lyun, Mass.
ma21—d3i sun.wed.iriifcwlt
Count Von Moltke, the great field-marshal of
Germany, repre-euts a small borough in the reich-
stag, aud is so conscientious in his attenliou to liis
duties as a deputy that he never misses a sitting
without a reason of the most urgent nature.
Fortr Years’ Experience of an 8U Norse.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is the prescrip
tion of one of the best female physicians and liursca
in the United States, and has been used for forty
years with never-falling success by millions ol
mothers for their children. It relieves the child from
pain, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, griping in the
bowels and wind-colic. By giving health to the child
it rests the mother. Price 25 cents * bottle.
marts—dlv sat cun wed&wly
If you want a certain remedy for rheumatism, get
a Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused Plaster at Pinson &
Dozier’s. maria \v3m
Cotton and corn never better in Laurens county.
Much of the corn is laid by. Sweet potato crop
very promising.
ANGOSTURA BITTERS are the best remedy for
removing indigestion and all diseases originating
from the digestive organs. Beware of counterfeits.
Ask your groceror druggist for the genuine article,
manufactured by Dr J G B Slegcrt ■& Sons,
may 18—dlw fn sun wed &wlw
Sir. John Nash, of Lincoln county, sowed 1.300
bushels of grain, and expects to gather 15,000
bushels.
Thai Uunhand or Mine.
1b three;times the man he was before he began using
•V'ells’Health Renewer.” $b Druggists. Depot
Kumar, Rankin & Lamar, Atlanta, Ga.
If you are afflicted with spiue or hip troubles, get
n Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused Plaster at Pinson Jc
Dozier’s. marl3 w3m
A larger crop of oais has never before been sown
inj Randolph county and they have never looked
be l ter. _
Two great evils—headache and constipation,
afflicting nearly all humanity, are relieved by
Bailey’s Saline Aperient.
nmy20 dim sat tues thurs&wlm
Mr. Selman, of Walton county, has a Jersey cow
thirty-seven months old, and is a grandmother.
If you come home late bring your wife a bottle of
German Com Remower. Result: happiness.
marlil—dAw3m 9
Senator Judiilna’a Extra Appropriation.
State Senate J B Judkins spent one dollar and
drew five thousand dollars in the April drawing of
the Louisiana State Lottery. In answer to a ques
tion Sena'or Judkins said: “I have received every
cent of the money less the commission of the bank,
.which would of course have been taken from any
“sum consequent upon commercial transaction. Q-
Yon are convinced, then, that the Louisiana State
Lottery is conducted upon principles of fairness?
A—Yes, sir. So far as 1 know the bussincss is per
fectly square. I have more than doubled the
amount I have invested in the next drawing/
This takes place June 13th, when Generals G T
Beauregard of Louisiana, and Jubal A Early of Vir
ginia, will solely superiuicnd the distribution of
one-balf million of dollars, the particular., of which
can be had from M A Dauphin, New Orleans, La.,
and which may prove a princely beon to the reader.
—Little Rock. Arkansas, Gazette, April 25th.
may 16 d&wlt
The wheat and oat crops of Whitfield county
are as promising as could be asked for.
If you want a sure cure for pain in the side, get a
Pomeroy’s Petroline Poroused J”
June 21, 1754, directed a silver seal to be
made for Georgia, bearing on one side a figure
representing the genius of the colony offering
a skein of silk to the king, with the motto:
Hinc laudem sperate coloni. For awhile the
parliamentary bounties were three shillings
per pound; in 1766 they were reduced one-
half; in 1769 they were applied to raw silk
exported, giving £25 for every £100 in value
The last named rate was to continue for seven
years, when it was to be reduced to 20 per
cent, and again for seven years more at 15
per cent, the political occurrences of 1776 be
ing evidently not anticipated.
The silk produce roee while the bounties for
delivery at Savannah were most liberal, but
sank with marvelous rapidity shortly after
their redaction, falling to 290 pounds in 1770.
Throughout the entire period of silk culture in
Georgia the Satzburgers of Ebenezer were
among the largest producers, and were almost
the only ones in the years immediately pre
ceding the war of the revolution who prepared
raw silk for export. Daring the war the
French settlers at New Bordeaux, seventy
miles above Augusta, are said to have sup
plied “much of the high country” with sew
ing-silk make from cocoons of their own rais
ing. The industry ceased, however, to at
tract the attention; the last parcel of raw silk
offered for sale in Georgia during the cen
tury being in the year 1790, when over two
hundred-weight was purchased for export
at prices ranging from 18 to 26 shilling per
pound.
When your wife’s health is bad, when your
children are sickly, when you feel worn out,
use Brown’s Iron Bitters. may 16 d&wlw
Dozier’s.
Plaster at Pinson A
maria w3m
Connamptlon Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed.in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of a simple veg
etable remedy for the speedy and permanent
care for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh,
Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Affections,
also a positive and radical cure for Nervous
Debility find all Nervous Complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative powers
in thousands of cases, has felt u his duty to
make it known to his suffering fellows. Ac
tuated by this motive and a desire to relieve
human suffering, I will send tree of charge to
all who desire it, this recipe, in German,
French or English,-with full'directions for
preparing and using. Sent by mail by ad
dressing with stamp, naming this paper, W,
A. Noyes, 149 Power’s Block, Rochester, N,
Y.
dec6—weow 13w pn rd mat
" LADIES,
‘For $3 we will send the Dressmakers' Magic
Scale and Instruction Book by which yon can
cat ladies’ and children’s clothing of all kinds
to a perfect fit without trying on or makin
any changes. If not satisfactory return it am
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.
65K Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga.
945apr25-sun&w-tf
Mr. T. W. Powell, of Scull ehoals, has 1,200 acres
in the finest oats he has ever seen.
Remarkable for overcoming diseases caused
by impure water, decaying vegetation, etc., is
Brown’s Iron Bitters. mayl6 d&wlw
If you want* sure cure for backache, get a Pome
roy’s Petmliae Poroused Plaster at Ilnsou&Dozier’
mar 13 w3m
PILLS
A DISORDERED LIVER
IS THE BANE ^
Of the present generation. It isafor the
Cure of this disease and its attendants,
BiCK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS. DYS
PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that
T'JTT’S PILLS have gained a world^wido
reputation. No Remedy has ever been
discovered that acta so gently on tho
digestive or gaps, giying them vigor to aa-
aimilate foed. As a natural result, tho
Nervous System is Braced, the Muscles
ere Developed, and the Body Robust.
Ol3.il!H3 and. X’“o’wor.
E. RIVAL, aPlanteivat Bayou Sara. La.,saya:
My plantation is in a malarial district. For
several years I could not make fc&Vr a crop on
account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
nearly diScoura&*od*whcn I began tho use of
TUTT’S PiaLS. Tho result was marvelous:
my laborers coon became hearty and robust,
I have had no farther trouble.
They relievo Ute encargpd Over, CScausa
Che Mood from polsonaos humon,«oul
cuu9C ttie bowel» to act naturally, wltla-
out which no one can feel well. •
Try th|i»emedy fairly, and you trill train
a healtiiyDlscfft Ion, Vigorous Uody.Fnre
Blood, Ktrone Nerves, aud a bound Liver,
fric<»25Ceatis Olltee, 35 Marray N. Y.
TUTT’S HJUi
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to aGlossy
Black by a single applienMon of this Dye. It
Imparts a natural color, and acis instantaneously.
Sold by Druggists, or sent by’express on receipt
of One Dollar.
Office, 3B Murray Street, New York.
/TDr. Tii'TTS MhXUAlj of FufuatitcV
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MEDICAL.
, you teem
to b« a little ‘off.’ What ails you f”
Bio Bead—'“Well, yes; yon see I was ouS
-with the boys last night, and got kinder mixed.’*
Stranger— “It appears so from tho looks ol
your head.’’
Big Bead—" It don’t feel exsrtlr like my head;
'pears to be kinder • swelled np,’ and as if it had a
notion to ‘ bust,’ and the pain is terrible.”
Stranger- “ If you will get s bottle of Bailey’s
Saline Aperient, one or two aoees will * put a head
on you,’ tbAt your friends would recognize.”
r Bead—" I’ll do any thing to get rid of all
i marvelous remedy cures those lemble head
aches, cleanses the stomach, unloads the bowels,
unlocks the liver, relieves constipation at once, Slid
gives the bile a chance to go. It has become tbs
popular aud standard remedy for constipation, bil
iousness, sick headache, heartburn, acid stomach,
and oil diseases requiring a real nice and pleasant
purgative or physic.
It never nauseates nor gripes, sets In one or two
hours, and Is just so delightful arid refreshing a
drink, that everybody lites it.
It unclonda and cools the brifin, quiets the nerves,
and is a sin* qua tun for the headache of ladies.
It mitfgates the pangs of rheumatism and gouP,
relieves kidney ana urinary troubles, and psin fa
has no equal
highly recommended
merchant
Ik BUVO lUtC s* MUSUU1. <U1U
constipated hahit. It fi
ou are troubled with a
_ „ 9 loti of appetite or gen
eral sluggishness, Bailey’s Saline Aperient will cure
and torpid bowels. If to
coated tongue, foul breath,
{ ileasant and palatable, and is much cheaper, in m
t is a regular family medicine cheat within itself.
It sparkle# and foams just like a glass of soda
water, and is just as pleasant. 60 cents and told
evory-where. J. F. Dxoxooolk & Co.,
Proprietors, Louisville, Hy.
A WOMAN’S REMEDY.
At certain ages snd periods oJ woman’s life, then
come&’certain troubles, aches, pains and sufferings.
These complaints ana irregularities jeopardise toe
girl’c life at sixteen, and follow np and hannt the
married woman until after the *' turn cf life.”
Bonae have headaches, swimming of the head,
cental and nervons prostration, blanched cheeks,
bloodless lips, lifeless syes, clouded brain: while
others suffer with painful irregularities, uterine dis
placements and ulcers, hysterical spasms, physical
prostration, chronic leucorrhoes, chlorosis, suppres
sions, loss of appetite, ovarian diseases, kidney affec
tions, etc., which in numerous cases end in epileptic
fits, convulsion-*, insanity and death. These are
generally the result of inattention. All female#
know the class of complaints we allude to. How,
ladies, all these troubles can be averted and cured.
We have proof from thousands.
Dr. Dromgoolc’s English Female Bitters will curb
sound and well—will make yon healthy and
-will make you feel like a new woman i
us take. Sold by all Druggists at $1.00. Send
your address for a copy of Dr. Dromgoole’s Family
Medical Adviser, free to the afflicted.
J. F. Dromgoole A Co.,
oprietore, Louisville, Ej.
Southern Telegraphic College,
37% PEACHTREE STREET. ATLANTA, GA.
M ale axd female students received
at any time. KoriurtherLiformatiun A4<lr s-,
VVm W. CHAMP.
37% Peat-litree Struct, Allanta, Ga.
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