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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY, JULY 11. 1882.
THhOUGH THE STATE.
SPECIALLY REPOHTSD FOR THE
CONSTITUTION.
Struck by L'EhtBln* Drnz Store Barglmrized—Death
Of a Prominent Han—A Lamented Lady—A
Cue of ClronmttantUI Erloenee-Con-
yera Academy—Sabloncce’e Canal.
A DRUG STORE BURGLARIZED.
Special Correspondence nl The Constitution.
Decatur, July 3.—Several weeks ago two
negroes, McAfee and Parson, had a fight at
this place. McAfee struck Parson on the
head with a rock, and it was thought for sev
eral days he would die from the wound, but
he recovered and has been able to work sev
eral days. McAfee ran away. Last week be
was arrested in Atlanta and brought here
Saturday and placed in jail, after having a
preliminary trial, to remain until September
term of the superior court. He has employed
General Gartrell and Hon. H. C. Jones to de
fend 1dm. The drug store of H. R. Jewett &
Co., of this place, was broken open Saturday
night and twenty-one dollars in money, two
suits of clothes, one overcoat and some to
bacco. cigars, etc., were stolen. Leroy Hudg
ins says that he raised one hundred and fifty
bushels of oats on one and a half acres of
land without nny guano. It was measured
in presence of several witnesses. Dr. A. F.
Pharr raised 400 bushels on six acres. He
made 1,340 on 20 acres. There lias been more
wheat and oats raised in this connty this year
than ever was before in one year.
THE COTTON IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
8pcciat Correspondence of the Constitution.
Hooansvtllf., July 3.—A heavy rain,
accompanied by a rapid wind, completely
prostrating the growing corn, was an unwel
come visitor on 1st instant.
The ‘ Cotton Improvement company,” of
Boston, Massachusetts, have received a part of
the lumber and arc preparing the grounds to
prosecute the work of erecting a ginnery
owned by stockholders of that com
pany and citizens and farmers
of this community The Hogansville agricul
tural soclete, compose 1 of fifty members,
convened at Masonic ball, last Saturday, and
passed resolutions strongly indorsing and
promising to further the .enterprise, consider
ing it of paramount importance that their
cotton should be handled with more profit
accruing to themselves. We hope ere long
that the once proud and thrifty farmers of
the south will burst the dependent fetters that
have lieen galling them so long, and come
forth in the true agricultural independence
of ante-bellum days; then only will prosperity
crown their labors.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Milledgeville, July 2.—We have had co
pious rains throughout the entire county, ac
companied by heavy winds, in some instances
doing considerable damage, blowing down
trees and fences and unrooting occasionally a
cabin. In one of these storms, Saturday,
lightning struck Captain T. H. Latimer’s
dwelling at Midway, doing considerable dam
age hut injuring no one of the family, most
of whom were absent attending the Baptist
Sunday-school picnic, some miles in the
country. On the same day an aged German,
a worthy, inoffensive man, Jacob Dutenhofer,
died. Yesterday Mrs. Dr. Mark Johnston,
was stricken with paralysis. Dr. Hall was
called promptly to her relief, and this morn
ing she is reported decidedly better and prob
ably out of danger.
THOM ASTON TOPICS.
8i>c<T>»l Correspondence ot t he Constitution.
Tiiomabton, July 3.—Last night at the Meth
odist church the Rev. Mr. Bigham, the pre
siding elder of this circuit, preached a very
eloquent sermon from the 5th chapter, 19th
verse Thesalonians: ‘'Quench not the spirit.”
The fruit crops are unusually good; in many
parts of the county loo much for the limbs to
support. A growing shower fell yesterday
evening. Vegetables and vegetation of all
kinds very rank, with all gardens containing
more than can be destroyed. The republicans
of this connty met in the court-house Satur
day and passed resolutions to hold a mass-
meeting the 14th of this month.
DEATH OP A PROMINENT MAN.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
I’almrtto, July 3.—Joseph Hcadden died
about 2:30 o'clock yesterday. He was well
known in Atlanta and one of Palmetto’s most
eminent sons.
DILCEY WILLIAMS'S “ KARRECTER "
Special Cor cspondcncc of The Constitution.
Bainbihdok, June 28.—Captain Richard
Hobbs, of Albany, was in town yesterday
bragging on the artesian wells of his gay city.
He donated enough of his land here to the
Savannah, Florida and Western railroad to
build a passenger depot on. Marion Jones,
an inmate of the poor house, got into a row
with Dilcey Williams, on the 26th, about
some slanderous reports Jones had put in cir
culation regarding her “karrecter.” Dilcey,
who is a colored woman of huge proportions,
and Jones, a mere fragrant of a man, wither
ed by disease, got the best of the fray. In the
struggle both seized- upon Jones’s rifle and
had a furious tussle for its possession. Final
ly, niton the assurance of Janes that it was
unloaded, Dilcey turned it loose and ran
when the treacherous Jones leveled the gun
fired, wounding liis assailant painfully
though not necessarily mortally, in the bul
lock. lie was arrested and committed to jail,
after a hearing, in default of fifty dollars bail
Two newly-fledged lawyers, Messrs George
Gurley and" William Howell, aired their elo
quence over tne case. Big Mose, colored con
vict of Russell & Bryan's camp, upon whom
Dr. S. H. Peacock has been attending for a
month as a very sick man, got away with the
E ittrd and Mr. Bryan, day before yesterday
idly. Rushing frantically out of his quar
tors he plunged down upon the solid earth
on his face, knocking the wine front his nose.
Then, he commenced gnashing his teeth,
biting up mouthfuls of bloody earth and
sand, seemingly to be In a fearful death fit
Bryan thought him dying, ordered his
shackles stricken off, and left him under the
eye of the guard to die. But Mose did not
die worth a cent. Finding himself free from
the heavy shackles, he bounced to his
feet and'commenced darting about like a
chicken with its head cut off, nearing the
gate every step. Guard thought it was an
awful fit, and with dilated eyes gazed at his
fearful capers. Cook understood the deceit-
fnl nnerm ttml Art • “RftM TlifflfPr's
music rendered by the male quartette, con
sisting of Puss Wall. Dosh Rockwell, Judge
Stephenson, Tom Cauthorn and Miss Inez
Hair, as organist, was fine. The Presbyteri
ans are now considering tjie matter of build
ing a new and handsome church edifice, and
as there is considerable means among the
membership of this flourishing congregation,
it is to he hoped they will carry their designs
into effect and erect a building for worship
second to none in the city. The sturdy Cath
olics are negotiating for the oid Bible Chris
tian church, near St. George’s, on the hill. If,
however, these negotiations snould amount
to nothing, I am' informed that they will
ful negro and remarked: “Boss, dat nigger’s
gwine to git.” Just then Mose gyrated
through the gate,got a huge pine between him
and the guard’s gun, shook oft the pretended
fit and uulimbered for the river side, and un
der the waving willow's shade, laughed ‘over
his successful ruse. He was tracked and
hound again yesterday. Bryan don’t believe
a negro’s dying now until he is buried. And
the guard don’t take any more stock in negro
fits.
Decatur country agricultural society will
have a big basket picnic 11th July. Colonel
C. J. Munnnrlyn will deliver an address upon
the “Dignity of Labor.” He is a gifted
speaker and is able to do the subject ample
justice.
griffin's churches.
Special Correspondence of the lv>nstitutlon.
Griffin, July I.—St. George’s Episcopal
Church, situated on ‘'Dow’s Hill,” the most
elevated site in this city.has a recent addition
to its primitive beautv, in the shape of a new
vestibule. While this addition may answer
the purpose for which it was designed, still it
is thought by many if it had been made lar
ger it would have been decidedly more conve-
nient. ...
It was said by Bishop Beckwith that the
Episcopal church of Griffin is one of the
handsomest little churches in the state. No
one is entitled to more credit for -his than
its present rector, Rev. C. Dowe. who has per
sistently hammered away, until he has at last
finished “the little church upon the bill, ’’and
which is beyond question a thing of beauty.
The church is growing in point of member
ship
not
f iretty soon go to work and build a handsome
ittle church, sufficient to accommodate their
membership, with quite a number of extra
pews for the expected increase. The Catho
lics are slow but sure, and generally get in
their work. There arc four colored churches
here in a prosperous condition, numerically
speaking. The African Methodist is the most
flourisliing,and keeps well up their reputation
for bolding services all day Sunday and Sun
day night. By the time they get fully spell
sound its generally about daybreak.
Its nice to live near the - colored
Methodist church in Griffin.
THE CONYERS ACADEMY.
Jpecial Correspondence of The Constitution.
Conyers, July 1.—The closing exercises of
the Conyers academy, presided over by Mrs.
E. H. Stewart and Rev. W. D. Winbum took
place last night at Alniand's hall and though
the night was dark and threatening, the
house was filled to its utmost capacity. The
pupils passed a most creditable examination
during the day and the entertainment at
night was readiu , composition and acting
plays and dialogues, many of which were
original and abounded in humor and good
hits that kept the audience in a roar. The
music was furnished by the pupils assisted by
Mr. A. M. Helms and Miss Allie Lee who
presided at the organ with sweet touch and
perfect time Many visitors present. Among
them Miss Rosa Thompson and Mr. C. R.
Harris, of your city.
HUE daiilonega canal.
jpecial Correspondence of The Constitution.
Dahlonkga. June 29.—The canal is being
dug from the Hamilton dam, on the Yahoo-
la river, and the pier head built to substitute
water jiower fop steam to drive the machinery
of the new Lockhart gold mill. Reliable
news conies tonlay that President Price has
negotiated bonds sufficient to meet expenses
of constructing and equipping the Gainesville
and Daiilonega railroad to the Chestutee river,
and that the road will soon be completed to
that point. Mrs. Susan Bryson, nee Early,
aged 30 years, died suddenly on the 26tb. Mrs.
B. was a highly esteemed Christian lady.
Major Baker returned home to-day from busl
ines* engagements in North Carolina.
A BARNESVILLE BUDGET.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Bakkesville, July 1.—To-day the stock
law goes into effect in Pike county. Mr.
John Edelin, of Virginia, and Miss Nettie
Fryer of this place, were married here on
Wednesday last. Horseback riding is com
ing into favor again with our young people.
I)r. J. L. Fogg and J. C. Porch leave'here for
Texas next Monday. They go to make an in
vestment. Our amateurs are thinking of pre
senting “Pirates of Penzance” to the Forsyth
people tone day next week. Splendid sea
sons, at the heel of a good grain crop, are
making our farmers’ hearts glad at the pros
pect of a glorious harvest.
THOM ASTON POIlriCS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Thomaston, July 1.—The democratic execu
tive committee of this county meets next
Tuesday. One object of the meeting is to
elect delegates to ttie state convention which
meets in Atlanta on the 19th. Tin re will also
be a new committee elected. Major D. K
Walker, a large planter of this county, was in
town yesterday. He is a Jeffersonian demo
crat and a strong Stephens man. Tne far
mers report crops fine, and say they have not
suffered for rain.
A KORCROSS TURKEY.
Special Correspondence of Tha Constitution.
Nor.ur.oss, July 1.—Mrs. Ivey, of Norcross,
has a turkey hen that hatched twenty-five
turkeys in the spring. As soon as she hatched
the eggs, she began to lay eggs, and has ever
sinee been laving eggs, although caring faith
fully for her brood of twenty-five young tur
keys. The gobbler was sold before the twenty-
five were hatched, but all the eggs that have
since been laid hatched. At least all that
have been tested, and there is no doubt all of
them would.
HAWKINSVILLE FOR A WELL
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Hawkinsvjlle, June 30.—At an election
held yesterday, on the question of taxation
for the purpose of raising funds for. boring an
artesian well, the vote was almost unanimous
in favor of the tax. Our indefatigable mayor
will at once take the necessary steps to cant-
mence the work and if the thing is possible
you mav set it down as a fact that Hawkins-
ville will be supplied with artesion water.
RINGGOLD RaMBLINGS.
Special Correspondence of the Constitution.
Ringgold. June 26.—The crop prospect is
promising as any one could ask. Corn and
cotion are looking well and give promise of a
fine yield. Mr. M. R. Hullender of Wood
station Valley, boasts the first cotton bloom
of the season. He bad a full blown bloom on
the 24th inst. The small grain crop is the
best in ten years, so the farmers say. Unfor
tunately for our people the hog crop is small.
Some say that there will not be half so' many
hogs killed in the county the coming winter
as formerly. There is, however, considerable
bacon on hand at present, more than will
take to do this season, and this will be some
help.
The commencement exercises of the
Ringgold Masonic literary institute
come off last week. The boys
and girls acquitted themselves with
credit and gave evidence of thorough tutorage.
Where all did so well I dare not compliment
any individual. Miss E. J. Martin, a charm
ing Catoosa girl, took the first honor, gold
medal. Mr. T. C. Napier, second; Master
W. H. Carlton,of your city, stood the exami
nation well, by in a contest with a class of
38 boys and gins he proved too young to win
the prize. 1 should have been glad if the
Atlanta boy could have taken first honor for it
may tronble Atlanta to know tbatshehas fall
en behind at one point The school under the
manage 'tent of Professor W. T. Laine has
been a grand success, and the trustees have. I
think, acted wisely in giving him the
buildings and school for a term of five years.
No peliiicsyei! The Stephens boom has not
struck us, but we have no local newspaper (?)
and this may possibly account for our ex
emption from politics and small-pox, etc.; etc.
HARTWELL RAILROAD AND SCHOOL
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Hartwell, J une28.—To day the annual elec
tion of the stockholders of the Hartwell rail
road was held here. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President—Colonel G. J. Foreacre; direc
tors-John B. Benson, G. J. Foreacre, Win.
F. Bowers, A. S. Buford, Joseph Bryan,J. M.
Logan.
This week the commencement exercises of
the Hartwell high school, have been held.
The school here has been a flourishing one,
i umbering over 100 scholars, under the di
rection of Professor M. L. Parker and his ac
complished wife. The commencement ser
mon was preached on Sunday by the Rev.
Mr. Seale, and the week has been devoted to
the examination of the various classes. The
examination closed to-day with an address
delivered by the Hon. H. L. Reid, of Fair-
burn Ga. The house was crowded to over
flowing. and his address was a very able one.
There was a large attendance and the whole
affair was a very pleasant one, and reflects
great credit on our efficient teachers.
GAINESVILLE GOSSIP.
Special Correspondence <>t 'the Constitution.
Gainesville. June 29.—Next Tuesday is the
day appointed for us to elect delegates to the
noutinatiug co ivention for governor, etc.
Our delegation will doubtless go uninstructed.
But you may set it down that old Hall will
vote for tne best men to fill the offices of the
country. Last night was the annual concert
and its financial condition, if at the Gainravilte college. The exercises were
better according *o age, than excellent. To-night the boys will contest fora
anv “other church here. Services last prize in declamation. Our people are justly
ISndav were largely attended. The proud of this, their college, and we congratu
late ourselves on having so able a president as
Rev. J. J. Methoin, while the whole faculty
are worthv and efficient.
A LAMENTED LADY.
£ Dedal Correspondence of The Constitution.
Greensboro, June 29.—Miss Jennie Palmer,
most estimable and lovely young lady
formerly of this place, died in Waynesboro at
the home of her brother, Judge H. E. W.
Palmer, on Tuesday last. Her remains were
brought here and intered in our cemetery on
yesterday. They were escorted by fouryoung
gentlemen, friends of the deceased, from
Waynesboro. Her funeral was preached by
Rev. W. H. LaPrade, of Augusta. Miss Pal
mer was born and raised here and had many
relatives and friends who deeply mourn her
oss. I
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Dawson, June 29.—On yesterday afternoon,
during a heavy rain which fell here, the
lightning struck Mr. Dock Melton's barn, set
ting it on fire amt burning his entire crop of
oats, which were contained in the barn. Pro
fessor B C. Adams has returned to his pative
state, Michigan. Hon. L. C Hoyle will be a
candidate for the judgeship of this circuit be
fore the next legislature.
A CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
Special Correspondence of the Constitution.
Newnan, June 30.—Two years ago, J une 16th,
Newt Page, colored, killed his wife in New
nan and left the country. The governor of
fered a reward of $100 for him, and about
eight months thereafter a man was arrested
as Newt Page and lodged in our jail. He
claimed that he was not the murderer, and
upon the trial of the case six witnesses swore
that he was the murderer, and many others
that he was not. The judge decided that he
was George Spearman and discharged hint.
Nothing more was heard of Newt until a
moiltli ago. Mr. Hackney, of Route, Ga.,
arrested as Newt Page a man who passed by
the name of Charles Jackson and delivered
him to the sheriff of Coweta county. He de
nied being Newt Page, and his attorney sued
out a writ of habeas corpus to have him dis
charged. Upon the trial of the case nineteen
witnesses swore that he was the same Newt
Page who killed his wife, and about forty
swore that he was not. The prisoner then
secured the attendance of some of his old ac
quaintances and proved that he was Charles
Jackson, and that at the time Newt killed Ills
wife the prisoner was in Heard connty. So
the second man was discharged. The* most
remarkable feature in the case was that Newt
had a scar on his forehead, three on iiis face
and one on his foot, made by an ax, which
stiffened liis big toe; he also wore leather
bands on his wrists. All of these scars the
prisoners had, and most of the witnesses
sworn corresponded pre> Lely. He wore bands,
and his big toe was stiff from the cut he had
received on his foot. The case lias been great
ly commented upon, and some are yet of the
opinion that he is Newt.
STAUKVILLE DINES ON TURTLE.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Leesburg, June 29.—Messrs Jesse R. Cox,
W. H. Baldy and E. A. Gilbertcauglit yester
day on a set hook; near Starkville, a logger-
heud turtle of immense size. On bringing it
to the top of the water they discovered it
would be impossible to get it in the boatalive
They therefore shot and killed it—three pistol
shots in the head—and brought it ashore.
It bled profusely in the boat and also on the
way home, notwithstanding which it weighed
sixty-four (64) pounds. Starkville dines on
turtle to-morrow.
ATI.ANTA SPEAKERS AT BARNESVILLE.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Barnesville, June 30.—The tenth com
nienceinent of Gordon institute is at an end.
Altogether it was a successtul one. J. H
Lumpkin, of your city, entertained the audi
ence on Tuesday wit h one of the best addresses
ever made here. General C. A. Evans, also
of Atlanta, delighted his hearers on VVednes
day, with a well delivered, sensible address of
an hour and a half. Wednesday night our
amateurs rendered “Pirates of Penzance” to
crowded house.
GRASS GROWING GEORGIA.
Marietta, July L—Editor Constitution:
read the article J. C. H., on the “Oak Shade
Farm,” in Sunday’s Constitution, and feel
inclined to give your readers, especially, Mr.
Wade, the result of my experiment with Cali
fornia burr-clover. With Mr Wade, I have
lung been satisfied that Georgia is
grass country, and consequently there is no
excuse for poor cattle, exeept laziness, or ig
norance of the capacity of the soil to produce
the finest grass grown anywhere. From a
handful of the Burr clover seed, I saved
enough to sow about one-third of an acre. I
sowed in July, after taking off a crop of pota
toes, without fertilizing; it came up in De
cember, and by the first to the fifteenth of
March, (at least a month or six weeks ahead
of any other grass), it was fit to cut, and I
tli ink all my fellow citizens who saw it will
agree with me that it was the finest crop ever
seen in this section. The next crop matured,
and was cut from the first to the fifteenth of
June, equally heavy. I would not dare to say
.how much forage these two crops produced.
Rich and ju cy and fatteuingmy caitlerapidly;
coming in too, so early. Cattle almost per
ishing for the want of something green I-
saved all the seed I possibly could, to spread
over this county, and it will be extensively
planted. I have prepared the same ground
and top-dressed with 200 pounds of dissolved
bone, and now wait for the natural grass (crab
grass) to make a crop before the clover comes
up, which is in December. Those who desire
a crop for turning under, could sow peas.
The crab grass carefully cured makes excel
lent hay. Now, Mr. Editor,the upshot of the
business is, if Georgians don't stop eating
Tennessee beef and oleomargarine butter,
when their soil will produce such crops as I
have tried to describe, and as Mr. Wade has
shown his visitors, then they ought to perish
with hunger and he fenced off trout the rest
Of the world. The fact is, the farmers can get
as rich as cream, if they will try the virtue
there is in grass and not depend so much on
cotton. I forgot to mention that the clover
seeds itself at the second crop abundantly.
If you think your readers would be benefited
you can publish, if not, slip in waste basket.
Thomas Freeman,
a new town.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Dallas, July 3.—Dallas, the county site of
Paulding, is 35 miles from Atlanta and 36
from Rome, and on the Cincinnati and Geor
gia railroad now in process of construction.
The town was located in 1852 and soon be
came a flourishing country town, but as it
was in the line of ^‘Sherman’s march to the
sea,” it suffered seriously from the torch—
front which it has not fully recovered. Since
the war until now, it has remained nearly the
same—neither increasing nor diminishing.
But since the location of the Cincinnati and
Georgia railroad by the town it is beginning
to take on a new appearance. The hammer
and saw is heard on every band and houses
go up like magic. Quite a number of both
business houses and dwellings have just been
completed and many more are under way.
Two brick store rooms on Rome street, near
the entrance to the court bouse square—one
by J. B. Foute & Co., the other by Roberts &
McLarin. Dallas has 13 dry goods and grocery
stores, 4 churches, 1 high school, 1 bakery, 1
dentist, I jeweler, 1 barber, 2 blacksmith
shops, 1 shoe and harness shop, 2 doctors, 6
lawyers, 1 livery stable, 1 hotel, owned by J.
B. Foute, who’ wishes to rent it out The
population of Dallas is rapidly increasing,
numbering several hundred now.
inducements.
Dallas presents the very finest inducements
to anyone seeking a location for almost any
pursuit. Located, as if is. in the center of
Paulding county, it has a large scope of terri
tory as well suited to agriculture as any coun
ty in the state, yielding well of com, wheat,
oats, cotton, vegetables of all kinds, clover
and grass. Mr. Brazwell, of Dallas, harvested
five tons of red clover hay from one acre last
year, andit is equally as good this. Mr. J.
L. Clay purchased a small piece of land for
$200 on credit in 1868. He now owns 900
acres. His cotton crop last year was ninety-
five bales, besides hnndreds of bushels of com,
wheat and oats. Mr. Clay has made it all
himself farming, never having received any
help from any one. Mr. Clay has all the
time made com to sell.
PAULDING COUNTY'S CHANCES.
Paulding county offers fair inducements to
the miner in her rich deposits of gold, iron,
copper, usbestus and garnets which are said
to exist in great quantities. To the manu
facturer she offers her numerous streams rip-
ling over splendid shoals sufficient to accorn
miniate many factories. There is great
abundance of timber of the best quality. To
the pleasure and health seeker there is no bet
ter place in Georgia than Dallas. Situated, as
it is, on the high dividing ridge between At
lanta and Rome, several hundred feet above
the city of Atlanta, it is high and healthy,
has pure air and water; the scenery is pic
turesque in the highest degree, and as it will
soon be connected by railroad with the out
side world, it will certainly ‘become a favora
ble resort for our southern friends during the
summer months.
For the fruit grower there is, perhaps, no
better region in Georgia. Many of the high
ridges are above the frost line in spring—
insuring a crop of peacltes and other fruits
every season. And to illustrate the adapta-
hility of the soil to peaches, there is a peach
tree five miles southwest of Dallas, on the
Jeff Land farm, that measures' four feet
four inches in circumference. The tree is of
an October variety, is full of fruit now and is
in healthy condition. The market facilities
will be the very best with direct line of rail
road to Atlanta, on the fouth, an J Cincinnati,
by the C. & Ga. R. R. on the north.
'The cars are now running to within four
miles of Dallas, and will reach the town by
the 8th or 10th inst. The citizens of Dallas
would be pleased to see their many friends of
Atlanta on the first excursion that rnns out
to Dallaf. Town lots for business or for
dwelling houses can be had at reasonable
prices. Farming lands range from $2 to $50
per acre, owing to situation, quality and iut
provements.
MILLEDGEVILLE MATTERS
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
MitLEDGKViLLE. July 3.—From seventeen
to thirty ounce tomatoes have been exhibited
on our streets, while peaches, watermelons,
cantaloupes are plentiful in our market. The
fourth will be observed in a private way by
many of our citizens and the cadets of our
college will fire a national salute. Being your
correspondent’s birthday, he will indulge in
the luxury of a chicken pie, which lie pro
poses to share with his numerous offspring,
kev. J. W. Burke, of Macon, tilled the Metho
dist pulpit, the stated pastor being abseut on
a visit ‘.o New York. Quite a number of
young ladies from a distance, are in our city,
being the advance guard of the large number
who expect to attend. our commencement
next week.
BROOKS’S STATION. *
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Brooks’ Station. July 5.—The Fourth of
Ju ly was celebrated at County Line church
by a'bout fifteen hundred or two thousand
people who gather there annually on that
occasion to commemorate Thomas Waller,
who was a great singer, and died during the
late war. Judge Whathe was bitten by an
adder snake on the hand, which was thought
dangerous at first, but since, by proper treat
ment, is improving. The young folks met
lust night at the academy and played Twist-
itication, a Wild Irishman, etc.
THOM ASTON MATTERS.
Special Correspondence oi The Constitution.
Thomaston. July 4.—After several weeks of
severe illness. Mr. H. B. Smith, the deputy
sheriff of this county, died yesterday morn
ing. He was a strict member of the Metho
dist church and much liked by all who knew
him His remains were interred in the
Thoniusion cemetery to-day with Masonic
honors.
Colonel Geo. P. Swift, of Columbus, Louis
Hamburger, and J. A. Hunt, of Barnesville,
were in town this morning. Mrs. J. W. Fact
ler is on a visit to Henderson, North Carolina.
Miss Annie Harwell is visiting relatives in
Jonesboro.
canton crops.
8pecial Correspondence of The Constitution.
Canton, July 3 - We are now so connected
with Hie outside world that we can converse
witb£ur frieuds in Marietta by means of the
bell telephone. The Marietta and North
Georgia railroad company has erected a line
from Manetra to Jasper by way of tills place.
Rains have been pretty general all over the
county for the past few days. A very heavy
rain fell here yesterday. The com and cotton
crops are now in an excellent condition and
promises a fair yield. Cotton lias begun to
bloom. The oat and wheat crops are turning
out very well, and with as good corn and cot
ton crops we may expect better times in north
Georgia this fall.*
A F racas
From the Oconee'County, Ga., Monitor.
A fight occurred here last Friday between
J. T. Anderson and Edmund Thrasher, both
lawyers, of this place. The weapons used
were a knife and a chair The difficulty
came very near being of a serious character,
but friends interfered and prevented it. In
the midst of the fracas our friend, Dan Brad
ford, suddenly found that he had business
round the corner. We have not seen Dait
since. Charlie Duggan started around the
court bouse fence, about the same time, and
suppose must have looked back and saw Mr.
Bradford retreating, perhaps, thought Dan
was after him and made tracks. He,
however, returned in about two
hours. The village blacksmith was missing
for some time, but suddenly appeared in the
crowd and did not seent to care a whit. Our
idea is that he was not scared, but found him
self very thirsty when the row commenced,
and quietly retired amid the confusion to get
water. The gentlemen cooled off, made
friends, treated about fifty men to lemonade
and went heme good friends. These are both
high toned gentlemen and very quiet citizens.
This difficulty did not result from the use of
bug juice, as such things usually do, tor they
are both strictly sober men. They asked u
not to publish this little onple^santness, and
ot course we’ll not. Some people say an edi
tor can’t keep such things, hut we can.
A Burglary in Goldsboro..
From the Haskinsville, Ga., bisuaich.
On Tuesday night, while Mr. James Hinson
and his wife were asleep in their home at
Goldsboro, this county, a thief entered their
room and stole Mr. H>nsoi:’s watch and
money. The night being warm they had left
their back door open and windows up, and it
was an easy matter for the villian to gain an
entrance. He secured all the money that was
in the pantaloons of Mr. Hinson—between
thirty and forty dollars—and also his watch,
which was bangingon the wall. Mrs. Hinson
awoke while the burglar was in the building.
The first thing that aroused her
to a sense of danger or that
something was wrong, was the fact that the
little lamp left burning on the hearth had
gone out or had been extinguished. Presently
she heard-the light footsteps of the burglar,
when she spoke. At the sound of her voice
the thief ran out at the back door and made
his escape. Of tlje money stolen there were
ten-dollar bill, a ten-dollar gold piece, and
the balance in silver. Of the silver coins was
an old-fashioned dollar with a hole in it. The
watch was silver, double-case. Mr. Hinson
had left bis hat with some papers in it on the
front piazza. The thief carried off these pa
pers and burned them in the road nearSalem
church, about two miles this side of Mr. Hin
son’s, on the road to Cochran.
A Horse Goes for a Pre.-cription.
From the Rome, Ga . nbuue
Yesterday a. poor old horse whose master
had neglected’ him, and who was suffering
from a lame joint, hobbled into King & Bro’-
grocery store, and discovering that he was
the wrong pew. as quick as his feeble strength
would carry him went into the next door,
Dabney & Fenner’s drug store, and showed
by his actions and quiet waiting that he
w'anted something for his lame leg. Dr.
Fenner, although taken somewhat by sur
prise. quickly saw the raised fore-leg and
going to the gentle beast discovered his ail
ment and applied to it suitable remedies.
The horse nodded his head as a token of
thankfulness and quietly went on bis way.
The doctor thinks he will come again for
another application. Who will say after this
that a horse has no sense?
GEORGIA FRUIT.
M. QUAD'S GLOWINO DESCRIPTION
OF THEM.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Where do our first strawberries come
front?”
You will answer from Florida, but such is
not the case. The southern counties of Geor
gia have ripe strawberries long enough before
they are seen in Florida. Nine-tenths of the
early shipments this year came from Georgia,
and she is still shipping. Thomasvillc is the
great strawberry center. It is from that sta
tion that the earliest, largest, best and most
berries are shipped. It is in that neighbor
hood that men put small fortunes into straw
berry farms and amass large ones.. It is from
Thomasville that Chicago. Detroit, Cincinnati
and other northern and western cities are su{>-
Idied with the luscious fruit, packed in re-
I rigerator cars.
a strawberry farm.
An acre of strawberries will yield from 1,200
to 2,000 quarts. The yield will never be less,
and it is often much more. In a fair season
an acre of strawberry farm will pay a net profit.
Strawberry 'Farm—Harveet Time—Vegetable*—
Bvma Mcoatera—about Peaohea-Tba LeConte
Pear—Grapes-More Honey la Ten Acres
of Pratt Than Forty of Cottoo.
of $150 to $175 per acre. The first berries
command a re dy market at $1 per quart, but
at an average of ten cents per quart from first
to last, the farm will pay double what it
would in cotton. Twenty acres of straw
berries at Thomasville had brought in $1,300
in cash before the 12th of April, or before
the northern fruit-raiser had taken off
his winter overcoat. At that date the sea
son had only begun. That is, the price was
down to thirty cents per quart and com
mission houses were beginning to send in
orders. Speculators this year offered ten
cents per quart for all the berries on the
vines. This would have paid the owner of
the land a profit of $100 per acre without
lifting a hand. The question has been
asked how fruit growing paid in Georgia,
and this is the answer: The Georgian can
make more clean cash from one acre than
the northern roan can front three.
HARVEST TIME.
“When do they harvest wheat in Georgia?”
In Pickens and other counties wheat was
cat on the 28th and 29th of April this year,
and most of the harvesting iu the state was
finished by the loth of May. In southern
Georgia oats are ready to cut by the lstof May.
In north Georgia they are a week later The
first haying begins about the 25tli of April.
It will thus be observed that the farm work
which conies in the very hottest days of the
year in the north is mainly over in the south
before hot weather begins. By the time wheat
and oats are out of the way corn is tasseling
out and needs no further attention, and the
first crop of potatoes is about ready to dig.
Therefore, unless one is running a cotton
plantation, he is not exposed to much Held
work during the scorching days of summer.
When it is asserted that white labor cannot
stand the hot weather of the southern sum
mer, it is well to remember that most of the
crop work is done before and after the scorch
ing period.
vegetables.
“What can be dune with vegetables?”
Any vegetable which can be raised in
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana or Illinois can he
raised in Georgia, but the Georgia vegetable
will be six weeks earlier and from twice to
four times as large. Some days before Michi
gan had planted a potato Georgia, was eating
new ones. We plant in May and dig in
September and October. They plant,
in March or April and dig in June
and July. The first crop is more
than equal to ours in yield end quality. The
second, planted in July and dug in October,
will double ours and not half try. It is the
same with turnips, radishes, beets, etc. Where
Michigan produces a beat as large us a man's
arm, Georgia will grow one as large as a man's
leg Where Ohio will grow a turnip as large
as a saucer, Georgia will grow one as large us
a two-quart basin.
• The sA-eet potato is simply immense! and it
is only within the last five years that Georgia
people have come to realize how much money
can be made in that crop. At Smitliville i
met a man front Chicago who told me that his
business in the south was to offer sweet po
tato farmers from three to four dollars per
barrel for the crops in the ground, but lie had
not found half a dozen men who cared tosell
at that figure. At Columbus, in what the
neighbors called a mere garden, were 8,250
sweet potato plants. If the yield is up to
the average the owner will make more money
off that one crop than any northern farmer
will realize on ten acres of land
some monsters.
Iu the same “garden” were 27,000 heads of
cabbage. Do you know what a head of cab
bage is in Georgia? Well, it means consider
ably more than two bites for a small cow. It
means a-head as solid as a pine knot, and
measuring from twenty to thirty inches across
the top. Take a tape-line and measure the
largest tobacco pail you can find, and then
you will get a better idea. Any northern
titan wiio thinks I was looking through a
telescope at those cabbage-heads has only to
drop a line to Mr. J. H. Brooks, owner of the
ground referred to, to learn that my figures
are hardly up to the actual measurements.
ABOUT PEACHES.
Georgia put peaches into, market on May
20, and New York paid seventy-live cents a
piece for the first crate. .That one crate, the
product of two or three limbs of a peach tree,
brought the owner more money than an acre
of the best cotton. Peaches will grow any
where in the state. One finds the trees along
the roads, off in the fields and even in the
woods, and they hang full. This year the
yield is beyond anything ever seen, and the
railroads and steamboats have made rates
which will put Georgia fruit into all the
northern markets. Tne largest peach orchard
in the south, if not in the world, is located
near Griffin. It contains 59,000 trees and
covers aimost-600 acres. On the same farm
are 4,000 grafted apple trees and 5,000 fine pear
trees. The income this year will exceed that
of auy 2,000 acre wheat farm or cotton planta
tion.
THE LE CONTE PEAK.
Georgia is wild over the Le Conte pear 1 . It
is the equal of the California in size, and sur
passes it in flavor. Home thirty years ago
Mr. Le Conte, being in a New York nursery,
was given a seedling. He took it home to
Georgia, gave it a place in the ground with
out caring much whether it lived ordieJ, and
he himself died before the tree matured.
War spared it, and the immense yield and
fine flavor attracted attention. The neigh
bors begged cuttings, and in a few years the
Le Come was established in two or three
counties, but it is only in the last few years
that it lias made a reputation away from
home. Ttie tree is one of unusual vigor. The
fruit has never been known to bligtit. Cut
off a twig and stick it in the earth and it will
take root. The pears are of great size,
the flavor is exquisite, and a full-sized
tree will yield from twenty to twen
ty-five bushels. Men have cleared as high as
$2,000 iroiu seventy-five trees, and there is not
one tree in a hundred which will not yield at
least fifteen bunbels. The first of the season
sell at about $12 per bushel, and the nrice
never go«-s below $4. Some of those'who
started in first have made a great deal by sell
ing cuttings, and orders are now received from
almost every locality in America. The ship
ments began with ten bushels, and this year
will be over 10 000. In three years from this
he shipments will probably count up 25,000
bushels, and the price may come down to a
dollar, but even at this figure the. growers
would make a profit of $1,000 to the acre, ft
is the only variety of pear ever known which
bears each season and has never shown the
slightest signs-of blight.
GRAPES AND PLUMS.
Georgia is putting out a vineyard for almost
every other cornfield, and its grapes may be
in market six weeks before those around th
shores of Lake Erie. The Concord; Salem
Delaware, Hartford and all other varieties
yield splendidly, and bring such prices as
make farmers look wild.
Georgians as cerlain of a big yield of plums
each year as the farmer is of potatoes or corn.
It is rare that worms or blight fall upon them,
and the fruit is of extraordinary size and ex
cellent flavor. Ten plum trees w II bring in
about as rnurlt money as anacre of cotto n
ajid the only expense is the picking.
Sum up the fruitsof Georgia and Unmounts
to saying that site can raise any variety in the
utmost profusion. Ten years hence she will
raise more peacltes, pears, plums, grajtes and
strawberries that* any other state in the union.
Her fruit growers are now muking more
money from ten acres than any cotton or
cereal farmer is from forty. Her boom is not
a speculation, but has been brought about by
hard work, good planning and common se
investments. ■ M. Quad.
A Brilliant Imagination.
From the Daiilonega, Ga., Mountain Signal.
A very extraordinary circumstance lias
been related to us of an individual who
wished to join the Free Masons. This gen
tleman was given to joke and playing pranks;
so when he made liis application for member
ship the lodge though they would have some
fun by giving him, what they-made him be
lieve to be the first degree. He was told that
this degree consisted of undergoing a surgical
operation that would almost bleed him to
dearii; but that never lmd a man lost liis
life by it since the foundation of masonry.
He was carried into a side room and blind
folded, his sleeve pushed up and a pin scratch
made on liis arm and immediately warm wa
ter applied and allowed to run freely until
two or three quarts were used. The supposed
wound was bandaged by the surgeons anil lie
was told that lie had taken the first degree of
masonry and to go home and spend the night
in sleep. He was quite exhausted ilnd left the
hall to comply with their request. He tried
to sleep, but all to no effect. lift mind was
troubled for fear that tile wound would break
out and bleed him to death. He imagined
that the bandage had slipped, so he called his
wife from her slumber and said, “get up and
rebandage nty arm for I can bear this pain no
longer.” She arose and removed lie cloths
anti to her astonishment no mark could be
found. She exclaimed to him that there was
nothing the matter with his arm. He was
greatly surprised and remarked that the fel
lows had fooled him. This was related as a
fact, but we do not know as to its truth; but
we da know by observation and. experience
the imagination lias a great deal to do with
the body. Many people in the world think
themselves to be unwe’l until finally they die
from no other cause than imagination. Of
course imagination does not kill them, but it
brings on disease that dobs.
About Lake Okeechobee.
From the Amerious, Ua.. Republican.
In an interview with a gentleman, who
lives in the southern part of Florida, and
who is a northerner by birth, and who asked
us many questions relative to A uteri etts, Sum
ter county and south west Georgia, we learned
much to interest us about the southern part
of Florida. This gentleman told us that the
successful drainage of the Florida everglades
would be an accomplished fact. That the
amount of land to he redeemed is nearly as
large as the state of South Carolina. That
the climate of that section was equal to the
climate of the West Indies, tropical in its
character, that in this wild region still exists
a remnant of the Seminole Indians,
numbering between three and five
hundred, among them are some who
participated in the war of ’36 and
who took part in the memorable Dade’s
massacre. They live by their little patches of
corn and vegetables, and by the game and fish
that are found in large 'quantities in tliis
weird region of our favored and much loved
south. Florida everglades have long been the
theme of the historians and poet, and one
reaches nature’s heart through the beautiful
little islands covered with jungles of vines
and trees that dot the surface of the many
lakes that are found in this beautiful
region- The high gfass that grows
the water and waves in the wind
presents a grotesque appearance and
resembles in its movements the billows of the
ocean. In this region is lake Okcechobe,
about forty miles long by thirty miles wide,
its depth from six to twelve feet. The con
stant desire to know something about this
favored section of our country, has prompted
us to give this information and We present to
the tourist as well as to the emigrant—to
every one who desires a home in a laud most
fa/ored of heaven, to come to this section
and take part with us in its rich develop
ments—developments that will if properly
worked up add much to the social beauties of
life as well as add pecuniarily to all inter
ested.
Mr. H^pleiter's Wheat.
from the Gritlin, Ga., Sun.
We saw our friend Mr. William R. Hanlei-
ter a few days siuce sitting under a tree
deeply cogitating, and,upon approaching hint
and inquiring the cause of his serious coun
tenance, lie informed us that he was “figur
ing up the amount his wheat had cost him.”
He had two acres sown in wheat, the plow
ing, rent, seed wheat, guano, harvesting and
threshing of which had cost him tweuty-five
dollars, and from which lie made six bushels
of wheat, making it cost him four dollars,
sixteen and two-third cents per bushel' It
is very evident, that our friend Hanleiter is
a much better editor than farmer,
judging from his wheat expert
ment. By-the-way, speaking of wheat,
we were talking a few days ago with
a prominent merchant and farmer,
and a man well jiosted as to the crops of
this and surrounding counties, and he 8avs
that the farmers are badly disappointed 'in
the yield of their wheat, and that the crop
will not average more than two-thirds of
what was expected. He estimates that if
the entire wheat crop of Georgia was divi
ded out equally among the Hour eating fam
ilies of the state that the crop would be ex
hausted in two months. He is a careful
watcher of grain, and his opinion is worth
considering. The reports as published from
over the state do not bear hint out in his es
timates, but if we have failed this year to
make enough bread for home consumption,
it will be well for our people to continue
the.rigid economy practiced thus far if they
desire to make buckle and tongue meet at the
end of the year.
_ An Imposter.
From the Rome, Ga., Courier.
A man calling himself E. D. Attaway came
to b loyd county, about two yearseinue. He
was a man of good education and pleasing
address. In June, 1880, he married Mrs. 3. A.
! ullcr. nee Teat, of this county. Some two
months since he left home, saying lie would
rqturn in a few days, but has not been beard
of since. Inquiries have been made into his
history, and information 'deemed reliable has
been received that he. under the name of
Benj. Robinson, married, in September, 1868,
Mrs. Martha Richards, in Cherokee county.
Ga., who is still living. He is reported to
have still another living wife in Atlan
ta. He is about fifty years old, six feet high,
has a bald head and pretends to be verv relig
ious. ” &
A Five-Bar Rest.
*crom the Eastman, Ga.. Times.
A tramp entered Eastman a few days ago
from the direction of Chauncey, and in pass
ing down County road he “smiled ” in each
“drug store ’ (?) on his way, and upon reach-
lng the last one he “smiled” again, and seated
himself in front of the establishment in a
rather semi-unconscious state. He was aroused
by a policeman, who inquired, “what are
you doing here?” The tramp replied: “I’ve
-hie-—got a ‘horn’—hie—and am making a
five-bar rest* ”—meaning the five bar rooms
he had visited in town.
To the Surviving Members of the Macon Light
Artiilery.
If the surviving members will send me their ad
dress I will inform them how th**y can procure a
complete history of the company from its organiza
tion ;o the surrender, embracing a period of four
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