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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 18S_*.
GEORGIA NEWS.
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE STAET.
The Cut of Atlanta Merchants la Grifflo—Tho Active
ZnteTpnaoe of Mlddlo O total a—A Propoaad
llallroid—Athn-.a Water Works and
Aristocracy — Artraian Albany.
Ppwial Dispatch to The Constitution.
Griefin, May 23.—In the case of the City
Council ts. Almond and Max a ell, the two
representatives of an Atlanta firm, before the
council this afternoon on appeal from the city
court, the judgment of the city court fining
the aforesaid gentlemen was reversed, upon
the ground that they had violated no law of
the city. Judge F. D. Dismuke was for the
defense—a good lawyer and hard to get away
with.
Gturns, May 22.—The quotation,‘‘There is
a tide in the affaire of men, which, taken at
the flood, leads on to fortune,” very perti
nently applies to Griffin's present pressing
deniand for better facilities with which to
keep pace with tho swelling tide of progress
which is beginning to pour in from every
quarter. Something has held ns ir> the back
ground long cnongh. The spirit of lethargy
no longer pervades our community, fame
and fortune beckons us on. and to simply
say that w- are going on but tamely expresses
it, and if we don't climb the golden stair be
fore Gabriel blows his solo, we’ll see you
later with more fruit and flowers
than ever graced any place but Eden.
Of course everybody in the United States has
beard and is still hearing something about
Griffin, Ga. The name of Griffin is getting to
be a household word even among the Cana
dian", some of whom have bought land
adjacent to the place and will become citi
zens. The fruit growing interest is still ad
vancing, and the fact is developing itself that
this is “the section,” the most successful por-
ion of Georgia or the whole soutiicrn
country, perhaps the United States, in fact
America, to pursue such enterprises. Cun
ningham’s 540 acres of the different varieties
of fruits speaks volumes, and the vincclud
hills of Woodruff’s fruit farm heralds this as
the garden spot of the world. *
John Keller’s sixty acres of solid grape cut
tings, set out last fall, opposite the Woodruff
farm, are growing off beautifully, and in two
years time will be bearingquuntitiosof grapes
second to none in the country. There are
numerous other parties here who are en
gaging in fruit culture ns a business, and let
ters arc received daily, and people are coming
here from different parts of the country to
inquire into this sudden outburst of fortune
with the intention of taking a hand. It is to
be hoped (lint the fruit-growers’ convention
which meets in Atlanta next Thursday will
effect some kind of an arrangement by which
the crop can be moved. Griffin will send a
full delegation, and I think, from the mani
fest interest being taken in this matter that
there will be quite a representative gathering
of the yeomanry of old Georgia. We look
forward with more than usual interest to the
action of this convention.
A PROPOSED RAILROAD.
A communication was published in last
Sunday's Daily News by some enterprising
gentleman touching upon the importance of
the connecting link between Grilun and the
Macon and Brunswick railroad extension.
The question lias been agitated for sometime,
and is now assuming proportions which begin
to look like business. The idea that a place
the sizo of Griffin, possessing attractions sec
ond to none in Georgia, should let the oppor
tunity of building about 13 miles of railroad
which would so materially increase herwealth
and population puss would put us three cen
turies behind the age in point of progress,
hut we are going to build this
road; first, because we can
and second, because we are obliged to if wc
want to continue to improve As fast as the
facts are unearthed in regard to this enter
prise they will be given to the public so that
the vast multitude who are desirous of mak
ing this their future homo may have ample
time to pack their little calico trunks.
Lost Saturday was certainly a red letter in
the history of the spring dry goods trade in
Griffin. The fact that our merchants are un
questionably the leaders in low prices for this
immediate section had been pretty exten
sively advertised by means of circulars and
through the newspapers, which had the de
sired effect of waking up the country people
for miles around. No use in talking, people
are l>ound to go where they can buy goods the
cheapest. The trade was not confined to any
Otle store in particular, but from what I can
learn the patronage was general. So the
noted dry goods war which was recently
waged here turns out to be a blessing in dis
guise for all.
Abel Wright, the most successful German
carp culturist in Georgia, made a shipment
of one thousand young carp by express to
day. He also has large orders to fill for Mich
igan, Texas and Mississippi. This is some
thing of an item itself, when young carp are
bringing twenty dollars a hundred. (It might
be well to note the fact that Mr. Wright is a
resident of Griflin.) H. B. L.
G. W. AWTRY DEAD.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Carrollton, May 22.— The Hon. G. W.
Awtry died at his residence in Villa Kica.Ga.,
on Sunday evening, the 21st instant, after a
long and painful illness, in the 57th year of
his age. lie was a man of great moral worth,
sterling integrity and unblemished character,
and stood deservedly high in all the various
relations of life, lie lmd the honor, on more
than one occasion, of representing the good
pcoi leof Carroll county in their state coun
cils, having been a member of the lower house
of representives at tho last session of our
legislature, acquitting himself with honor
and distinction to his name, and a credit to
his oounU.
He was highly and favorably connected,
being a brother-in-law of the Hon. W. W.
Morrell, of (his place, and also related to the
Cobb and many other good families of Carroll
county. He left a host of friends and rela
tives. scattered throughout the state, to
mourn the loss of a good, true and useful
man.
Our clever young merchant, Mr.
John W. Basken, of this place, met with
a very serious accident on yesterday evening.
Returning home from a visit to his father’s,
five and one-half miles above here, on the
road leading to Villa Kica, near Shady Grove
post-office, his horse became frightened and
unmanageable and ran away, throwing him
self, wife and child out of the buggy. Mr.
B. was seriously though not dangerously
hurt, while his wife and child escaped with
little or no injury.
A petition has been sent up to 1ns excel
lency, Governor A. H. Colquitt, in behalf of
Moon and Haney, praying a commutation of
tlieir death sentence to that of imprisonment
for life, in the chain gang. In a day
or two more they will know their
doom. Next Friday week, the second
day of June, is the time appointed
by the law for their execution, and as the day
approaches we certainly have a very faint
conception of their feelings of anguish and
dread for the future; and if they receive no
pardon here, it is hoped that they will find a
ransom in the blood of a merciful and cruci
fied Savior.
The Rev. T. C. Boykin, Baptist state Sun
dav-schotd evangelist, has been spending
several days with us, in the interest of the
great and good cause which he has so much at
heart. He had large and attentive audiences
during his brief stay here, and said many
beautiful and interesting things upon the
subject of Sunday-schools and advice to
parents in regard to raising up and training
their children in the way they should go. He
is certainly the right man in the right place.
ATHENS WATER WORKS.
Special Correspond'ncc of The Constiiuuon.
Athens, May 22.—Messrs. Yancey and Tal
madge have just returned from Charlotte,
where they went to examine her system of
water works, and are very favorably impressed
with them. They will report back to the
council to accept the proposition of the Hol
ley system, which is to supply the city with
water, allowing forty hydrants, for the annual
rental of $2,000, with the privilege of baying
at tho end of every ten years, the value of
property to be assessed by arbitrators.
Ami still they come. ’Tis but natural,
though, that Atlanta should turn to her dear
old mother, Athens, for rest and tomfort,
and gladly she welconis them. Now it is
Alex K. Jones, of Atlanta, and lady, who
have come to be the guests of Miss Florida
Carr for some days. Mrs. "Welbom Hill has
also c me to join Dr. and Mrs. Johnson in
their visit
I rode through Cobham recently. It caused
a feeling of sadness to see the dissecting hand
of time at work upon the once grand homes
of our departed aristocracy. Many of these
elegant grounds are being divided iniosmaller
lots to meet the demands for “up-town” prop
erty. A pretty cottage has just been built on
a part of Dr. Crawford I<ong’ former lot, and
is now the house of Mr. McKee, one of our
progressive merchants. It was pleasant to see
the lovely home of the late Chief Justice
Lumpkin still standing, a beantiful monu
ment to the refinement and taste of that great
man. So well is it preserved by its present
owner, Colonel A. K. Childs.
NORCROSS NOTES.
Special Correspondence of Tne Constitution.
Noeceoss, May 23.—As a summer resort
Norcross is becoming quite popular, particu
larly for pleasure seekers. The number of
visitors is daily increasing, and the social
pleasure is equal to that of a much larger
town. We have had with us for tho past week
a Virginian, who declares himself so charmed
as to he nnable.to tear himself away. Atlanta
was well represented last Sunday in the
presence of some young men who stopped at
our hotel, and finding it so pleasant resolved
to spend a month later for pure recreation.
Also Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bishop, from south
ern Georgia, have just bidden adieu to our
town after a protracted stay'. The most at
tractive feature in point of social pleasure was
the picnic of last Wednesday out on the
banks-of the Chattahoochee. Norcross is
equally as attractive to invalids, for while the
place affords much pleasure, it is also quiet
and home-like for those seeking comfort and
health.
On Tuesday last Miss Ada E.Pollard.who has
spent the past winter with friends and rela
tives of Ailanta and Norcross, left for her
home in Vermont. Miss P., the daughter of
Hon. J. A. Pollard, of Windsor, Vermont, is
so much delighted with our climate and peo
ple that she will try to induce her parents to
move, to Georgia and make tne south their
future home.
The colered family living near Norcross
have all recovered from the suiall-pox, and as
the time for more cases to be developed has
passed all danger is now passed.
MURDER IN COVINGTON.
Special Correspondence of The ConstituUon.
Covington, May 24.—On Friday night last,
two young men, John McCurdy and a Mr.
Parker, were together and supposed to be
drinking. They lived at the Fork, near Cov
ington. That night they stayed in town and.
it is said, they threw rocks at a negro
woman’s house near a wagon yard.
In the wagon yard sonic men
were spending ' the night.
One of them, named Parsons, was awakened
in his wagon by a negro woman. He pum
melled her well, when McCurdy and Parker
threatened him. He warned them off, and
was answered by the rocks. He then fired,
with the result of the ball taking effect in the
hip of McCurdy, it was supposed that the
ball ranged downward in the leg.
Ho was carried to the Cox
house and died in forty-eight hours. The
doctors have examined him and pronounced
the death resultant from natural causes and
not from the wound. The body was re-ex
amined in Jasper county, where it was carried
and the ball found in the bowels. Parsons
was released. The Covington physicians arc
censured for their failure to locate the ball.
CALHOUN CHIPS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Calhoun, May 22.—Mr. J. E. Parrott, of
this place, on returning from Atlanta a few
days since, fell from the car while in motion
and was seriously injured. Mr. Parrott is
subject to spells of dizziness or vertigo, and
he thinks that while passing from one coach
to another he was thus attacked, and was un
consciously picked from the train. His con
dition is somewhat improved, und his friends
hope to soon see him out again. Mr. H. C.
Hunt has a field of wheat, about three miles
off Calhoun of front sixty to eighty acres,
from which he expects to harvest from twelve
to sixteen hundred bushels, which would
make liis entire crop yield from fifteen to
twenty bushels per acre. Mr. H. F. Fergu
son is erecting a handsome two story brick
building, which will be an ornament to the
town, and when filled with goods, quite an
acquisition to its business interests. Mr. B.
M. llarlan is building a neat and beautiful
residence. Miss Jessie McLean, from Atlan
ta, is visiting friends in Calhoun.
A DALTON AFFRAY.
Special Corresponience'of The Constitution.
Dalton, May 24.—Mr. Thomas A. Berry
happened to a very painful accident a few
days ago by an accidental discharge of a pis
tol, the ball lacerating his left hand. He was
showing the pistol to a lady customer, when
by carelessness it went off, having been laid
in the case loaded.
Almost a serious cutting affray occurred
near here yesterday. Peter Ridge and Henry
Arington, two employes of Johnson’s ax
handle factory, went out to the creek above
town a fishing. "While returning to the city
in the evening they got into a quarrel, when
Peter Ridge stabbed Arington three or four
times with a knife, inflicting very painful
wounds—one near the heart. The wounded
man will recover. Ridge has been arrested
and bound over to court under bond of $150.
Miss Mamie Pittman, a young lady of Ris
ing Fawn, Ga., is visiting friends in this city.
ROME RAMBLINGS.
Special Correspondence of The ConstituUon.
Rome, May 23 —One million and two hun
dred thousand shad were placed in our rivers
yesterday by Mr. Quinn, of the fish commis
sion. Rome has the base ball fever. There
are several match games every week. The
Israelites of this city will celebrate the festi
val of Penticost to-morrow. Several deaths
have occurred in this county within the last
two days. Among these are Mrs. B. H. Craig,
and Rev. Kinchin Rantbo, one of the oldest
settlers. He was eighty-two years of age,
and a higblv esteemed citizen. Rome expects
to have a first-class Fourth of July celebra
tion. Delegations from other cities will be
present, and a lively time is expected.
JOHN A. SMITH & CO.
Special Correspondence of The ConsUtuUon.
Gainesville, Ga., May 23.—In the letter of
C. T. L. in to-day’s Constitution, entitled
“Gainesville,” the firm referred to as John A.
Davis & Co., should have been John A. Smith
& Co. Colonel J. B. Estes and wife. Miss
Georgia Long. Mrs. A. Whelchei, Mr. Willie
Whelchel and Glen Bend left this morning as
delegates to the state Sabbath school conven
tion, which meets in Savannah on Thursday
next.
CONVICTED OF MURDER.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Macon. May 24.—Carrie Massey was to day
convicted of the murder of William
Evans, at Sumraerfield, six miles from
Macon, on the 14tli of last March. .The
jury was out only hardly an hour and returned
a verdict of guilty. The sentence will prob
ably be pronounced on Saturday. Carrie is a
black woman, about seventeen years old; she
had a bad character. The testimony was over
whelmingly against her.
GAINESVILLE.
RISING RAILROAD CENTER OF
GEORGIA.
How Galnrsnlle Hu Grown—Property Inorcsstrg
Ds!ly— A Great Railroad Center—The Roads to
DahloneEa and Dalton Branches—Gaines.
Title Schools—A Samm-.r Resort,
Special Correspondence ol The Constitutloa.
Gainesville, Ga., May 20.—Gainesville is
the biggest little town I ever saw. She is five
years ahead of herself and is on a regular
spread. I speak knowingly on this point, for
a two days tour of observation hereabouts has
given tue an opportunity of getting at bottom
facts. Time and time again 1 have passed by
here, but could never screw up my courage to
the sticking point when I resolved to get off
This time, however, a strange god smiled and
I was landed into the bosom of one of the
liveliest little cities not only in Georgia but
of the south. When the war ended Gaines
ville was only Gainesville in name, for the
town was scarcely a town—only 00 or 300
people living here then. In 1870* e popula
tion footed up, on a squeeze, jus 480 people.
To-day the number has gone eyond 3,000
and is constantly increasing. heard a gen
tleman say to-day that there were not less
than 3,800 inhabitants here but it will be
safer to call it an even 3,0 j, which makes
the increase since 1870 just 625 per cent.
I doubt if any other place in the entire
union can show as great an increase per cent
in the same length of time. If the popula
tion be truly 3.800. then the increase bas been
825 per cent, and if tiie population were rated
as low as 2,000, the increase would show 460
per cent, or 100 per cent more than Hawkins-
ville, the next town in point of increased per
centagc in Georgia next to Gainesville. I
presume, though, that 3.000 is about the cor
rect figures, and this is certainly a very grati
fying showing. To toy a little way with the
figures. Gainesville first donbled herself in a
decade, doubled again and is now doubling
for the third time in a decade. This is a
feather of large proportion in the cap of
R eorgia’s prosperity, 1 and the tale that
tells of the enterprise of the
Gainesvillian3 is obviously plain and
consequently needs no embellishment at nty
bands. As a Georgian, I am really proud of
the town, and I delight to honor such a mag
nificent show of thrift and energy ns is every
where visible here. I have already said that-
the town was full five years ahead of herself
and I hope to prove it before 1 have left off
this running screed of her industries and busi
ness. Said a gentleman here to-day, “I be
lieve I can name five hundred people who
have conte here to locate within the past
eighteen months, and more are Coining every
day.”
The boom which has struck Gainesville is
not on an inflation basis by any means, and
every lick struck thus far has been for the
weal of the city, for a rapidly growing city
it is. I saw a small lot this morning in a
side street which sold one month ago for two
hundred dollars; to-day the owner refused
six hundred for it. I speak of this small item
only to show just how values are increasing.
I do not wish to convey the idea at all that
property is higher here than it ought to be,
for it is not. The prices are reasonable enough
but everything is in demand. The country
surrounding the city is as good as Georgia
lands will average and on the suburbs good
S laces can be secured at from eight to ten
ollars an aCre. In the city, of course, values
are higher, and I have heard of several lots
recently bringing $300 an acre, and others
demanding as high as live dollars per front
foot. It has been remarked in my presence
that general values here have increased 100
per cent in two years, a fact I do not pretend
to dispute, because I believe it is true.
AS A tytlLEOAD CENTRE. V
Being only fifty miles front Atlanta, it.
would scarcely be expected that Gainesville
could become of much importance as a rail
road centre, but this idea is erroneous. Gov
ernor Brown has twice said that this would
be the second railroad centre in Georgia, by
reason of its natural advantages. At present
the railroad boom is lively. The Richmond
and Danville folks have taken a commendable,
pride in the future of the place, and are. helji-
ing all they can to keep up the now growing
interest. There are three new roads now in
process of construction from this point,
which would seem to indicate that Senator
Brown’s ideas were not far from right.
Two of these roads arc being worked, while
the chart-r is already obta ; ned for the third.
The Gainesville and Jefferson isalready doing
a healthy business, and runs out some twelve
or fifteen miles into the rich belt through
which will come a world of wealth into the
lap of Gainesville. It will go to Jefferson in
Jackson county, and will, probably, tap the
Georgia road at Covington or Madison. Hon.
A. D. Candler is president of this model nar
row gauge, and his name is sufficient guaran
tee that it will be a successful corporation.
No man here, probably, has done as much
towards the prosperity of Gainesville as Col
onel Candler, and he continues to keep the
good work in motion. He has the energy of
a steam engine and the train to back it. I
used to go to school to him when a stripling,
and I delight to honor his career since he used
to nuzzle me in the hard passages of Ctesar
and Homer, at Griffin.
The road to Dahlonega is being as rapidly
pushed forward as money and men can do it,
and a short while will, see the great gold belt
of Georgia tapped by Gainesville’s energy. This
promises to be one of the most important en
terprises ever undertaken in the state,
and the wonder is that it has
not been attempted before. People who are
competent judges claim- that California does
not contain richer deposits of gold than does
Georgia, and the opening of this road will
give the gold fields a new name and an in
creased fame. M.v word for it, when this road
is finished capitalists interested in gold mining
will flock here as they once did to the Black
Hills and California. Recently some rich
veins have been struck, and the dredging
machine in the Cliestatee river lus made
some wonderful hauls. The latest railroad
fever here is the road to Dalton. As already
stated, the charter is ready, and I understand
the work will be rapidly pushed forward.
Gainesville is in earnest, Dalton is solid for
the road, while the people along the route
are responding liberally enough. I should
not be surprised if a twelve month did not
see this road sounding its whistle through
Dawsou, Pickens, Gilmer, Murrray and Whit
field counties. The building of these roads
has caused
A BONDED DEBT
to be floated, but this in no wise disables the
town. Indeed, Gainesvslle is all the better
off by it. The debt is only $53,000, drawing
interest at 6 per cent and none of the bonds
are on the market. They are rated above par
with none offering. A few thousand were
sold the other day at auction, bringing one
hundred and two, which shows how the credit
of tlie city stands. These bonds were floated
for the purpose of building railroads and
schools. There are few cities in Georgia able
to boast of a finer system of schools than
Gainesville. There are three large colleges
here, having an attendance of over three
hundred pupils. The Georgia Baptist
seminary is a female school, well
attended and is presided overby Professor
W. C. Wilkes, who is rapidly pushing the
college into repute. The Methodist college is
also well patronized, has one hundred pupils.
Colonel C. B. Lallate being president. The
other school is the Gainesville colloge,
built by the city, growing rapidly and in
charge of President J. J. Methville. These
last two colleges are mixed schools, while
all three are the pride of Gainesville and
have done as mnch towards building up the
good name of the city as any institutions in
it. In this work the schools stand next to
the railroads a3 developers of material pros
perity.
THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY.
There are three churches, Methodist, Bap
tist and Presbyterian, and another congrega ?
tion which has not as yet a house of worship
There are also good colored churches here
The merchants do a heavy trade in all the ad
joining counties, and in addition to the retail
business, a very creditable jobbing trade has
been established. The entire trade of Gaines
ville in merchandise last year was $1,000,000
and this year it will go even higher than that,
probably reaching a million and a half, on
account of these, new railroads. There are
two houses here doing over $150,000 each an
nually, one of them doing a cotton business
outside amounting to $100,000 more. There
is a large foundry and machine shop here
doing a fine business and is so overrun with
work that the owners have been compelled to
double its capacity, which will bo done at
once.
The cotton receipts here vary from 8.000 to
10,000. but when all these new railroads are
completed these figures will swell to 20,000. I
had a talk with Sir. John A. Davis this morn
ing on this point, and was assured that cotton
was yet to be one of the biggest items in the
business of Gainesville. Sir. Davis, by the
way, is the head of the firm of John A. Davis
& Co., who do probably as large a business as
any bouse in all this section. They occupy
four large stores, three of them fronting 80
feet on the square and running back about
425 feet. The other store is of large dimen
sions, situated in the rear of the three men
tioned, and is connected with them. The
floor space occupied is over 12,000 square feet,
and the business done amounts to $150,000.
Besides this, Mr. Davis does a cotton business
of $100,000.
“Are you satisfied with Gainesville’s pros
pects?” I asked, when I had been shown
through the establishment.
* 0, yes. Everybody in Gainesville are sat
isfied that the town is growing rapidly.”
“Where does your trade extend.”
“We sell goods all through Hall, Haber
sham, White, Lumpkin, Dawson, Jackson,
Forsyth, Union and Towns. We even go as
far as western North Carolina, seventy-five
miles away.”
“Do you job any goods?”
“Yes, our jobbing trade alone amounts to
$40,000 per annum. We deal in almost every
thing from dry goods and groceries up to steam
engines. We also sell presses, threshers and
"all kinds of machinery to order.”
Altogether Davis & Co. do one of the hand
somest trades I lia re known anywhere, and
their enterprise is a credit to the city and
themselves. At another time I may mention
more of the business in detail of Gainesville.
I have only mentioned this one house to show
just how solid the business of the town really
is.
The hotels here are an honor, as well as or
nament, to the town. There are already three
first-class hotels finished and another fine one
being built. The finest of t hem all, probably,
is the Arlington, kept by French & Cook, it
is a magnificent brick structure, three stories
high, and is away ahead of the town. It cost
$40,000, and is fitted up with all modern im
provements. Colonel A. D. Candler is the
owner. I was really surprised to see such a
fine hotel in a place this size. Gainesville is
a noted summer resort, and is surrounded by
numerous fine mineral springs that have long
been known for their curative properties.
Every summer people flock here by hundreds,
and during the sultry months the hotels are
constantly crowded. At another time I shall
speak of some of the springs in detail, espe
cially New Holland, which is to be run tnis
summer by Hon. W. A. Huff, of the Mark
ham. The elevation here above tide water is
1,400 feet, and in the summer months the cli
mate is as balmy and cool as that of Italy.
POINTS.
Gainesville has a fire department, consist
ing of a good company. They use a hand
engine.
The Gainesville street railway i3 a success,
and the only one in the state paying a divi
dend of 20 per cent.
I am indebted to Colonel Claude Estes for
mgny courtesies during my stay, among them
g a drive to all the points of interest
md the city. Colonel Estes is a lawyer of
ablRtyand is rapidly rising in lxis profes
sion.
There are two good -weekly newspapers
here. The Eagle, run by Mr. II. W. J. Ham,
the inevitable, and the Southron, edited by
Mr. P. F. Laws'ne. The former sheet is dem
ocratic in polities, and is organized. The'lat
ter, also, is democratic, but is not organized.
Both; of> them, however, are reiiabie, well
edited journals, and are working hard in the
interests of Gainesville. C. T. L.
Two Cases of Conjuring.
From the Atnerieus, on., Republican.
An old negro woman was made happy on
last Thursday as she was passing in front of
the Ruby bar where several gentlemen were
sitting. Just as she got in front of them a
large red headed sebrpion dropped from some
part of her clothing, and, it is said, iji Haw
kins killed it. The old woman raised her
hand exclaiming: “Bress de good Lord; l’se
glad of dat. Dat sing has been boddering
me in de leg for de las’ fo’ yers, and now its
ded.” In reply to some question she said she
had been conjured and a scorpion put in her
leg. It is thought that the thing scented the
good liquor in the Ruby, and came out to get
a drink, or the old woman might, never have
been relieved of its crawling around in her
leg.
From the Columbus, Ga, Times.
Tuesday evening a neighborhood in the
lower part of the city was thrown into a state
of excitement by a negro woman in the em
ploy of Mrs. Coleman, on Oglethorpe street,
who claimed to have been conjured. The
woman, Kate Morrison, was in a terrible state
of nervous excitement, with occasional con
vulsions, and, in the intervals of quietude,
gave the following account of her trouble: A
few days ago she said that she had a fight with
a woman named Jane Petty, in which the
latter came out second best. Jane, to avenge
herself, had employed an Indian doctor named
Charlie to conjure her. To accomplish his
devilish work, Katie says Charlie called on
her and, by some mystic mumbling-, put a
spell on her. He then gave her a charm which
he bade her hold in her hand a few minutes
and then made her smell of it. As soon as
she put it: to her nose she dropped into a
trance, that for a time she was powerless to
loosen her gnp on the charm, but after
Charlie left she threw it in the yard, where
it lay till picked up by a policeman, though
fifty’negroes had assembled, all of whom gave
the charm a wide berth. All efforts to quiet
the woman were in vain. At the instigation
of one of the negroes, Officers Burrus and Mc
Daniel arrested Charlie, the conjurer, and
carried him to the victim of his black art.
He denied conjuring her, and claimed that
he had only given her a luck charm. He
took the charm, which consisted of three folds
of red flannel, in which was neatly wrapped
a piece of green root of some kind, and in the
presence of the sufferer unfolded it and biting
off a piece of the root, chewed it up, which
action at once removed the spell.”
“Rough’* Brown.
From the Hartwell. Ga., Sun.
Did you ever notice a man who comes to
Hartwell with a one-ox wagon laden with big
yam potatoes and other things to sell? Did
you ever notice his wooden leg? He plows
that ox and makes a good living on poor land.
He went to the war a poor boy and did his
duty faithfully. He was elected county trea
surer at the last election and made a good
officer. He is a quiet, modest gentleman.
If old Georgia had enough such men she
would blossom as the rose and peace and plen-
tv would fill the waste places that laziness and
western corn and bacon have bankrupted. This
man is called “Rough” Brown, and from the
looks of his leg he don’t care a continental
for his rough appearance. When his leg
wears oat he goes to the wood-pile with his
ax and chops out another. His clothes are
made e.t home and not bought on credit with
no prospect of ever paying for them, as many
of the finely dressed men in town and county-
do. There’was a. great deal said during the
war about the attention and care that would
be taken of our one-armed and one-legged
soldiers. A heap of it was sa:d by men who
had bomb-proof offices at home and the boys
that kept out of the war under the “twenty
nigger” act.
MONEY IN HONEY.
THE BUSY BEE W]
GATHERS IT.
How tie Improves Esch Shining Hour—Hie Ways
and Hte Manners—An Industry Which Onr
People Should Cultivate — The Sue.
ceae of a Monroa County Man.
From the Monroe. Ga.. Advertiser.
Having bad the evidence of three senses—
sight, hearing and taste—that Mr. F. N.
Wilder is engaged in the honey business, and
knowing that bee culture is a most interesting
business, and albeit one little understood and
little thought of by people generally, we
sought an interview with Mr. Wilder. He
is enthusiastically devoted to the business,
and so is everyone we ever knew who has
given much attention to it.
“I want to see your apiary,” said the Ad
vertiser editor. “And I want you to tell me
something about bees, their habits and how
they make honey. Will you do it!”
“Certainly. You know we raise bees and
honey in the same hive. Here is one of the
hives—a ‘Simplicity’ hive with what are
known as the Laugstroth frames. When
the bees are ready to hive, I induce them
to go in. They fill these frames, as you
see, with their honey and their brood. I
do not get my honey yacld from these
frames. Around the edges and ends of the
inside of these frames—there arc ten in a hive
—they make honey, while the central, and by
far the larger part, is used for laying the eggs
and rearing the brood. I have an upper story
to gather honey from, which l will show you
directly. I cover the top of this lower story
of the hive, so that they cannot ascend to the
other, and watch them until it is filled with
the brood and the subsistence honey. This
takes them usually about a week or ten days,
if the honey How* is good. Then when this
work is done, I remove the covering which
keeps the little workers in the lower story*,
and give them access to the other.
“This upper story, as you see, will hold
twenty-eight little square frames, which 1 can
remove and replace, with perfect ease, at any
time. These frames are made just exactly
the right size to hold a pound of honey each.
The sides of this upper part of the hive, you
see, are piade of glass, so that I can watch
what is going on within. When tho outside
boxes, or frames, are filled, I know the others
are. for the bees always work from the middle
of the hive outward. ’ Then I slip out one side
of this top part of the hive, brush the bees off
gently with a feather, and remove the frames
of honey. I put new frames into the hive,
and the work goes on.”
“How often can you rob them?”
“I am doing it now with the extractor once
a week, though the box honey requires two
weeks. But so far, this has been an excep
tionally good year. The bees began their
spring work with more honey titan I ever
knew before, the past winter being so mild
that they did not consume all the honey I left
with them for a winter supply.”
“How much is that?”
“When the first frost comes in the fall, y*ou
know the flowers are killed and the bees must
stop gathering and lay themselves away for
the winter. I at once go with scabs and
weigh each hive. If the hive, bees and all
weigh more than forty pounds, I take out the
surplus honey*; if less, I add enough to make
the total weight forty, and then leave them
for the winter. They will not need more
than that. The past winter being mild, they*
did not consume that, hence, as I said, they
started with more. Another good feature
about the present season is that the
spring opened so soon and hits been so favora
ble to the growth of flowers, that they have
made honey with more ease than usual;
hence I am gathering rather more honey than
in an aVerage season.”
A HUNDRED rOUND3 A HIVE.
“How long do they work in a year, and how
much will an average hive raise?”
“I don’t have average hives. I keep mine
up to the.standard of first-class. An average
yield for a hive, in a year, however, would he
about a hundred pounds; though with proper
management they can be made to yield much
more than that, tinless drought or something
cuts off the flowers. They begin storing
honey about the tittle our fruit trees ulo-som,
hut. for some weeks all they make, ought to he
left them for their own use while breeding.
Then, when the jxqdars bines jm—say about
the first of April—1 can l>egin to rob them.
After the poplar, the peiMiumon bloom
gives them the most honey; and by the
time that that is gnue they have clover.
Clover lasts them ut.’ll the cotton blossoms
come, and from these a great deal of the
honey is made. The weed known as golden
rod is a favorite with them, and it makes the
brightest honey of all. Extracted from the
comb, it is absolutely beautiful. The cotton
bloom, however, makes—according to my
taste—the best honey*, and it is in the greatest
demand in the market. It has a suspicion of
acid in the taste, which makes it a favorite
with purchasers generally, although it is not
as light---oloTeil as some other kinds. H. K.
& B.p’\ Thurber & Co., the famous wholesale
grocers of Nevr York, take all I make, and I
have no doubt I could ship them a hundred
barrels to-day if I had it.”
“How about buckwheat? That is the
favorite blossom for bees in Kentucky, I be
lievin’’
‘•Yes. but it is not good in Georgia. In
Kentucky it blooms in the fall, at the time
when bees in Georgia are feasting on cotton
blooms. In Georgia it blooms in the spring,
when it is not much needed, and it does not
give much honey*. I have tried it, and it is
not worth planting. The bees go to it about
eight in the morning, and by eleven they are
done with it. Clover is the best thing for
them. If there was only enough clover in
this country there is no telling how much
honey could be made. But 1 have a plant
which, beats any tiling I ever saw. It is called
the spider plant, and it furnishes more honey
than anything, although it doesn’t open till
about sunset, and remains open only an hour
or so in the morning. But you can almost
take the honey out with a s;>oon.”
“Tell me how the bees get the honey and
transport it to their hives?”
“They extract it from flowers with their
tongues, and stuff it into the back part of
their bodies, which is hollow. The organs of
the bee are in the front and central parts of
his body. The oblong back part contains
nothing but the sting and the receptacle for
honey. When he gets this filled he goes to
bis hive and make3 a deposit. I have seen
them sometimes so full that they looked
bloated.”
“What change does the honey undergo
after being extracted from the flower?”
“None, except that the water in it is
evaporated and it becomes thicker and sweeter
than in its primary state. The evaporation
is carried on in the hives. There are always
enough bees in there—including the young—
to cause a beat that will evaporate all the
water. Sometimes I rob the hive before this
process is completed, and I evaporate it my
self, by placing it to large-mouthed vessels
and tying thin gauze over the top.”
BEARING THE BEES.
“Tell me about the rearing of bees?”
“Well, you know that there must be a
queen in every hive. This queen visits every
cell, one after another—not missing a single
one—and sticks her head in. If there is no
egg or young bee in it, she tarns round imme
diately and deposits an egg in the cell, ar.d
goes to the next. From one to another she
goes until each has an egg in it She lays from
1,500 to 3,000 eggs a day.”
“Whew!”
“Fact. Every hive contains from forty to
sixty thousand bees, and as the working bees
live only about six weeks in the working sea
son, you may imagine that the mother of
them all must get about right lively to keep
up a supply. Her natural life is three or
four years; but I kill mine after they become
three years old, as they are then worthless."
l‘Then bow do you supply their places?”
i “Raise them. As soon as the working bees
discover that there is no queen among them
they become possessed of a desire to’create
one. They* enlarge and lengthen a cell until
it is an inch or so long and large in propor
tion, and raise one in that.’ So far as is
known the queen is hatched front the same
kind of egg as the ordinary worker; but the
cell is enlarged and it is supposed that the
food and treatment given to the young one
must be different from those given to ordi
nary bees. So eager are the workers to have
a queen, that they generally raise several in a
hive. I have taken as many as twenty out of
a single hive. I never leave but one in a
hive, but take the others out and put them
into new hives.”
“Is there any difference, besides the color
between the Italian and the black bee?”
“Yes; there is one important difference.
The Italian bee has a much longer tongue
than the black, and hence can get at honey
front flowers that the black cannot reacll.
For instance, red clover is useless to a black
bee, but it is a rich pastureage for the Ital
ian.”
“Did you ever see a kind of bees so averse
to stinging that they can even be placed in a
person’s mouth without stinging him?”
“No. but I have heard of them. I don’t
like that sort, however. I want bees that
will sting when necessary. It is often im
portant that bees should defend their hives
from tobbers, and I don't wunt mine to be
too tame. But conte out into my apiary, and
see them at work.”
We went; but. first wc inspected a hive with
a swarm at work in it, in Mr. Wilder’s house.
Actually in his house, right by the head of
Mr. Early Wilder's bed. The opening of the
hive is at a window, and the window-sash is
raised a little so that the bees enter tiie hive
from out-doors, through a crack in the win
dow. The crack is so arranged, however,
that the bees cannot get into the room.
The apiary has forty hives in it, arranged
in rows. Beside each hive, Mr. Wilder has
planted a grape-vine to siiade the hives; and
we suppose that the bees may get some honey
from the grapes.
Let it be understood that Mr. Wilder's bees
make honey in two ways. One is to have it
made in little square frames or boxes—an
even pound to the box; and the other is in
larger frames—or sections as they are called
about 14 by 12 inches. The honey in the
small boxes is sold in the comb, just as it is
made, and that in the sections is extracted.
The latter process is very interesting. The
top of the hive is taken off and the sections
examined to see if tney are full. When found
so they are taken out,two at a time, carried to
the little house built for the purpose, where
the extractor is. the caps of the comb are very
carefully cut off the sectious arc put into the
extractor and whirled round und round till
the honey is all thrown out by centifrugal
force. It runs down and gal hers on the bot
tom of the extractor, from whence it is drawn
through a faucet.
We saw the honey extracted from two sec
tions, and it made live or six pounds, and
there were twelve more sections in the same
hive. At the same rate this hive would have
made—and doubtless it punned out that way
—thirty live or forty pounds of beautiful
strained honey; and this was only a week’s
work of that hive.
What is tiie difference,” we asked,‘‘between
your honey and the dark-looking, bad-flav
ored honey made in the old fashioned way?”
“One difference is that mine sells readily at
twenty cents a pound, while the other brings
about twelve und a half. But you mean what
makes the difference in quality. Well, it is
simply because of the kind of hive I use. In
the old style of hive the honey and the brood
and the bee-bread are frequently so mixed
that they can’t well be separated. And even
when the bets in tiie common hives deposit
their honey above the brood it is all in the
same apartment; and the heat of a swarm at
work, together with the pollen and foe
young bees, impregnates the honey with the
bad flavor you speak of. in the ‘Simplicity’
hive, on the other iiand, the bees
place their brood and the bee bread, and when
1 find that "this is done, I lift off the top of
the hive, and add another story to it, in which
is made all the honey that i take out. Thus,
you see, the honey which 1 take out for use
is made in a different apartment altogether
iront Uic brood and the bitter pollen which
constitutes bee-bread. Another advantage is
that tiie honey can be removed from the ‘Sim
plicity’ hive every few days, and so it doesn't
have time to become infected with the odor of
bees, as honey does which remains for weeks
or longer in the hive.”
TRUTH IS MIGHTY.
From the Detroit Free Press.
••This is the third time you have offered me a
half-dollar with a hole in ltl” indignantly ex
claimed a Michigan avenue saloon keeper to a man
who had called for beer.
“Wrong—entirely wrong!” sighed the stranger as
he replaced the mouey in his pocket. “On the lirst
occasion I offered you a trade dollar. On the next
it was a quarter with a hole in it. In this present
instance you have just refused a fifty-ceut piece
which I spent over an hour iu plugging up. I like
to see a man tell the truth once in a while, even u
his beer is bad.”
THE DEAD POET.
IN UEMORIAM HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
Voices that wander by day.
And voices that haunt the night,
Call, and are calling for aj e:
“Poet! Opoet! write;”
“Beauty, and splendor, and fire,
And wisdom of heavenly things,
Are thine, and tiie magical lyre
Moving the world with its strings;
“Thine are the eye and the ear.
Perfect, clairvoyant and fine,
Wherewith to see and to hear
Music and \ Lions divine;
“Thou dost thS universe scan
With wise interpreting look,
And readest iu the heart of man.
As one who reads a book.
“Out of the infinite skies,
Out of the fathomless sea.
Out of the moment that Cies,
Out of the time yet to be,
“Call we, from night unto day,
Call we, from day unto night—
Hearken to us and obey—
Poet! O poet! write!”
Voices that wander by* day!
And voices that haunt the night!
Calling and calling for aye:
“Poet! O poet! write”—
He,"the Immortal, who gave
Heed unto you best of all.
Speech to the star and the wave,
Voice to the sparrow’s fall.
He, of the laurel-crowned head,
And the spirit undefiled.
Whose mighty god’s brain was wed
W’ith the heart of a child,
He, our beloved and best.
Honored in hut and in hall.
How can he heed your behest?
How can he answer your call?
Ashes the splendor and fire
Flashed from his soul's white wings!
Silent the magical lyre
That moved the world with its strings!
And yet. while Nature shall live,
And seasons wither and bloom.
While hearts shall be glad or grieve
In glory or in gloom,
No tone of his peerless lyre,
h o song of his shall be lost:
In the ashes still lives the fire.
The seed in the sacred dust;
For us, and the ages, again
His deathless Spirit will write—
You called not your poet in vain,
0 Voices of Day and Night!
—Charles W. Hubs
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