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f WM 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 INDISTINCT PRINT