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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1883-
NEWS OF GEORGIA.
The Waynesboro Sic-mid tell* of a prosperous cowful In hog mining
gram, and Mr. GrJilin. beside* belna a practical
business gentlemen, would undoubtedly prove sue-
Burke county farmer named Jamea T. Palmer,
whose aurrcM has been phenomenal. He had la«t
year sixty-five acres planted in ost*. part of it up
land and part of it lying on Brier creek. From tills
he has thnnhed and measured 2,315 bushel*, and
baa had a large quantity, fully seven or eight hun
dred bushel* ground up for stock feed. Thl* make*
the yield from the sixty-five sere* considerably over
3,000 bushel*. One acre of the upland was measured
and weighed out fifty six bushels. Mr. Palmer
thinks thst some of the acres of the low land made
at least 115 buxheht. On his farm he had twelve
acres of corn, which was thought by hi* neighbors
to have made sixty burhel* j*er acre. He also
planted eight arres of upland In cotton. This Ian
was considered old ntfl! worn ou t iw Iona as M r. Palm •
crean remember, but by manuring heavily
compost manures for the past few years, he has
brought it up to the point where ins* year he gath
ered 14 bales of MO pound* each from the eight
acres. Three fifth* of an acre in sugar cane made
the handsome return of 404 gallons of syrup, and
leaves plenty of seed to plant the same piece of
ground. Mr. Palmer Is giving practical proof that
boron can bo profitably raised in Georgia, a* be ha
now three time* a* much meat ns will Ik* needed on
his place for this year. For the oats sold, over two
thousand bushels, he has received net 51 cent* per
bushel. In a word Mr. Paim-r Is living a free, In
dependent life with the ne3js*rloiof life in profit*
ion around him. and owing no riutn.
Athens Banner: A gentleman informed uaye*-
terd»y that In.* has a di>g which brought fouregg*
to the house In hl» mouth without breakl■ g any.
A larger acreage than ever before will he planted
In melon* in the vicinity of |jiwtouviIl<
Milieu.
At the rherlir* rale in Greene couuty, some good
prices were obtained tor the land sold. One tract
of 550 acres brought (2,120. and another of 233 acre*
brought fl 020.
West Point Enterprise: Mr. W. W. Traylor, for
merly of bong Pane w ho died in California, left a
fortune estimated at $125,000, and that it will be di
vided among hi* heirs In Georgia and Alabama.
Mr*. M. M. Davidson, of this place, and » sister at
Oia-Ilka, will get one-third, and Mr. O. I) Traylor's
children, of I/uig Pane, and Mrs. Z. T. Gorham, of
LaGrange, will get the balance.
A. K. Phillips, from ba Grange, while putting on
an overcoat In the odlce of the Chattahoochee
hotel Tuesday, In West Joint, accidentally dis
charged a oiitol Pi hi* pocket, which came near
costing him hi* life. The ball, a large sized one
from a d< ninger pistol, striking a pocket knife in
his vest |K* ket glanced and grazed the skin on his
side. It was rumored that It wa* an attempt at sui
cide, hut such was not the ease.
The Oak drove school, in Barlow county, ha*
forty-five pupils.
Ml** Fannie May Witi, formerly of Atlanta, I*
quite ill in Birmingham, Alabama. j
West Point Enterprise: Alderman T. J. Kady was
forced to the direful necessity the other day
borrowing a ImI>> in imving a picture taken of
house ami family circle.
In Kalb New*: Mr. It. A. Hemphill, of Tine At
fbe night he wa* searching for Hr. JUpe It wa*
dark and cloudy, and not a star could be seen
overhead. But when at the bottom of the chasm
you could look up and see every constellation in
the heaven*. They again disappeared a* he as
cended upward.
Seme one in Athens started the rtyle of wearing
a rabbitt's foot attached to the end of a watch
chain, and now you ran find these chains Jn marly
everjr little town^ln fifty mi lea of our city, says
the Hammond place,
the Banner-Watchman
Mr. M. b. Lofton, Jiving MW|
killed a five foot six Inch rattlesnake the other
day. He wa* just crawling out of his winter quar
ters-a gopher hole—to Inhale the balmy air. and
take a peep at the budding flower*, wh n Mr. L.
sent him to the future snskedoui.
Mr. Joe Butler, of Camilla, has already planted
five barrels of potatoes in hi* home patch Go lone
It J. Bacon h i* twenty-five barrel* for hi* farm and
will plant fifty seres in watermelons. Mr. Beaure
gard Cochran, one of Mitchell's most promising
young men, will run a truck farm with Mr. George
C. Cochran, at Flint. Mr. James Callaway Is
still hunt in the truck line.
pieces to the stalk, throw two furrows on it, and on
each side furrow sow your cotton seed and ashes,
and then cover dp.
Colonel C. \V. Anderson wa* presented in the
name of the First volunteer regiment of Georgia,
by Captain Robert Falllgant, with a handsome
sword. He responded briefly, eloquently and with
true knightly chivalry. He wo* also presented with
a handsome pair of spurs.
The Forsyth Democrat say*: There live* in High
tower district one Mr. James Mashbum, who own*
apiece of heavily wooded land, about one-fourth
of a mile up the river from hi* residence, from
-which he drew hh supply of fuel. To expedite
. -*^ • • • he laid him a tramway, by
small hiclci
of his absent minded fellow-lawyer*, last week s
“VP’ !»>■»« («r 111* ke>w. ..If Uic Mille |,t w
lrll"K them it round hl» Uniter. Hi, kind tvi
' letuire. turnout «ucc„». mid the n
rn with no ke,». when he dl«o.
•n'hi*own lingers he wanted to get
gro bsd to
... ertd the k<
his | {Hmself kicked, but he didn't have time,
: in time to
BW,pkper. Mr. Hemphill | Tl,e W»rnctaro Mtlien my,
Igorpii* talking to do,In order I raid on the Cbiuutn'
Interest of Georgia
o uphill work _ .. ...
lire Milnerlhei. (or -Hit: I ON.-T1TLTI..N, The fc tv hour*«ft. r the
«».—. ~~—— the leading I
l*»|*w U
who live* In the Sixth districted Unit county.own* a
scvcii mouth* • Id puppy that a few night* ago
"treed" eleven ’ponsum*. eight of which weighed
fifty |*oulids. They alMisihtetiiat Mr John Vaughn,
living In the same dl-tr lot, Is the |Mi**e**or of a six-
month* old puppy that weighs one hundred
pounds. Mr. Vaughn ref tinea to take one hundred
dollars for the dog.
Covington Enterprhe: A gentleman from Con
yers tell* us that a general row took place In that
usually quiet town last -Saturday night. In which
Alfred Smith >hot Benjamin Watkins in the mouth,
making an ugly wound. Smith made hi* escape,
and at Iasi an-ouuta had not been arrested. About
the time of the shooting Westley Mitchell received
a severe cut in the leg from some unknown per
son.
West Point Enterprise: Mr. A. It. Henderson,
one of our moat progressive and wide awake fann
ers, wa* in town the latter part of last week with
fourteen hales of cotton lie lias sold over 2,00a
bushels of oats and 1,000 bushel* of wheat of last
year's crop, and lias plenty to do him.
The Covington Enterprise has a correspondent
Who *ays:
The young man who escorts n lady to church or
panic*, calls to »ee her. keep* her up late, bids her
R ood night, and theiiGI|mtoherhed-r<»nm wind w
> nee her disrobe by pot-plug through la bleu blinds
Is unworthy the name of a gentleman ami is not the
proper person toassociate with any lady. Hitch a
characteroxbt*. and ft will he unwise (or him to
bo Men at uccitsiu place Hgniii. “A word," etc.
Athens Banner: An Oglethor|io fanner wa* per-
•Hided b. a b riant to rent him it t bee of hottotn
laud, which the landlord did, dmiiaudlng as rent
half it made. The tenant p'anud It ill cotton nud
made two hales per acre and sold the cotton for fifty
dollars per bale, making in nil pmbabllliy the
largest rent ever waived by a fanner In this rec
ti tiu.
ladt W. Wright, sherllT of Moi.tg outer) county,
hi* resigned, and I'lill MelUe, ordinary, has or
dered an election to be held on the first Monday in
March,
Sylvanla Telephone: That man outhe Savannah
rl did very good "hooting the other day when
!> . -i!ed tight out of ten d. er, but he wns not far
• ••d.of F-^-, who killed a cat squirrel and only
iHi
too.
Alexander McArthur, an oldcillxen living in
Montgomery comity, within two mlicaof McVUIc,
Georgia, wa* found on Ihu road leading from hia
residence to McVlile on February 3, DW.I, with Ufa
nearly extinct, biipihhhhI to have been caused horn
a fall or kick from hla horse. He oxplrcd In a few
mlnutaaaftcrhc was cunvejid home.
The Hylvauia Telephone says that Mrs. Halllu Uo,
who is now near ni rely years of age, ha* rabed a
large family of children, and lidk lived to see the
ait ono buried. Iii the evening of her life she
•lands widowed and childless, but the consoling
thought of Him who has promised to be with her
always, cheers her lonely, desolate life.
Jonquils, 11mtree* and blue birds are In bloom
In Houston county. Tno small pox qiittranlluo
ha* also been raised so that the lower end of the
fifth district Is now a healthy, as well as a pleasant
place for congressional candidates to visit tho bone
and sinew of the land.
awiiuntt llerali: Wo understand there is a
young lady In this county, now about grown, who
baa never spoken to her father, title converse* with
her mother and her brothers, long as they re
main single, bm a* soon as one of them marries lie
Is a "heathen Chinee," and she never speaks to
him again. If she is in conversation with her
mother and her father or a stranger approaches
she becomes a* dumb a* an oyster. N«» explanation
is given of this stmnge conduct and she decline* to
gtveauy reason for it.
Athens Banner: At Wlntervllle, Cla, lives a
merchant fanner, tiu«astinifng in ways and appear
ance, that has smut as much of the world as many
Our report of the
i lust week, wa* made up
(irrence, when rumors wci
d furious,and it wa* Impossible to get the
facts. Humors are siiil rife and feet* few. The
... . i n,or " ,he Chinamen were badly beaten and
West Point Enterprise: One of our mn«t charm- I tln.fr nmnonv v , r ,.v-..i ..... . , ,
g young ladles wk* the recipient of a cheek for » t,r d« trojed. are positively denied
ru ho wind dollars, on the oenu ion of her birth- | 1 facia admitted are t
, . agnized „
paiwrof tin- state, and is daily increasing it* 1 ready
large clri-ulatl hi. Wo regret being out when Mr.
Hemphill called at
day recently.
Thursday's a Worth Htar says: Katuiday w
these facts in regard tochufas: l.atl ye
that a party did go to the
Chinuttien'istore and ord^rthem to leav
them readily agreed to do so, and wns not further
— stubborn, and
he planted j was taken out with threat* of lym iiing for the pur-
one acre In chufas, In row* tbreu feet apart. Ou I poseof/rihteiiJng him Into measures,he soon weak
this |iatch he made enough with the aid of a few I . . . . ... . .
bushel* of corn, to fatten enough meat to run him u,ul * ,i " ,, , * f,ecd ,0 Uavo * brought back, the
his year, nud forty dollar* worth which ho Mold. I woreaceurely locked, and the Chinamen left on the
He M). Iiogi. will e.t chuUi In tire/eoce lo corn, next iraln. Hopenonal ulmte I, uM to li.ve
pea* or poUtoe*, and that they will fatten quicker ..hi. i . 7,
ou them. On another |»atch of 24 rows, flf-I cu, f c '* affair seem* likely now to blow o
teen steps long, ho made two bushels of chUfa* to I without much further trouble.
SlfSS."IT? w111ln ln
chufas for seed. Mr. Ifolluiisworth 1* of the opin-1 ' aB<-*y the coming season.
ion that no other crop will take the place of chufas ( J. M. Gray, of Fort V'uiiey, fired Imth barrel* of
of * V° n al btad,b, " i, ‘ ud
The elm fa will make well by transplanting the m 1 c '8nty-one last week,
from the seed, and require* very little cultivating. I Governor l.ittleflcld, of Uhodn Island, in a letter
As meat is iii<U»pcu*atjlc to the ■uucesaof the farm- I in the msoul centennial amlmrliiiw
cm, we hope Uiey will give tho elm fa subject due .k., « 1 * authorities, said. I regret
consideration I that my engagement* with the general assembly,
Mr. John M. Flitch, ol Nashville, happened to a which I* now in session, prevent my attendance
very *erloti* accident oil Thuisdayof last week. He I unon thla verv inio-n.iinv i. . ...
wa* having a large mulberry tree dug up, «od when ”7" 1 wr f 1 occ " , ° l * « would give
it Mi one of tho limb* struck him ou mo v *ry great pleasure U» meet tho distinguished
Uio back of lire neck. crushing him gentlemen who will gather at that lime from the
"VhS *«“.“”liJ t ?l2ju l r!. 1 ""i?."? 1- Wo uiitlonland ’“' e ,f our <*'* ««<l
that an ell-irl will l»« niudu to establisli a bulge, of I •l*tcrstate*of tho union. It would bo especially
the Knight* of Honor at thi* place next week, interesting in vIjw of tho tics which united Georgia
there we** bulgevaiitbllahedat II,ntiKWlck, on the I nu ,i nhfxfo r*u.wf ^., r i„„ , , ,
first Distant, by Mr. K. A^Varuedoe, *|ieclal deputy I * n<l a«nug the struggle for lude-
for the state, 'ilio K. nrll. I* a k«hh1 safe, and I dependence, and of which the monument to Gcn-
chcap life insurance company, and affords more I oral Nathaniel Greene, in your city of *avitiuiah I*
_m r l«r»i« ■(«., ol (hu^wwitunliy, lu in.lto an | „bMutifulhh.| cxprc»lveii mwaorM."
fleven nr elKbt n.v ii liol.r. wero enrolled >t ,b.
Lumpkin high school. Hi a week.
wtipciu «d fj.iHH in (avor of tin Ir wive* and
children, Miiicli, in the event of llivii death, tive
to help out, thq rtipsurc, of dear ones for wiiu
‘"cy toil dally, Mr. Vurnodoe, will be hen
IK»les for a track, he constructed himself
ear, by sawing from a large log trucks •
blocks for whcc-is. On this f»r he can carry, witi
quiet fhoMicli pleasant way, expecting, perhap
other ri-sourcea from id* farm than that which came
in response to hi* well-directed efforts to make the
soil yield its bounty. But last week he conceived
the idea that »* his neighbors on either side of bun
were finding valuable gold mine*, that he might
possibly find one, (for be It known that he lives on
the direct line betwten the f'harles gold mine, re
cently sold to an English company, and the
Franklin mines now being operated by
—. u ... „ t „ Rn< i aboil* *
ie his surprii.-.
.rein about six feet
itndderable d* pth of genuine gold
ring ore. Some of this he carried
stamp mill to have it te*ted
POLITICAL NOTES.
ohm el
Colonel M.
being absent Captain llam, who for several year*
past has been operating the Franklin mines, made
the test of the ore carded by Mr. Mashburn, and
declares that they will yield even better than the
ones of the Franklin mines. The prospecting will
he continued until the extent # of this
vein is approximated. There is directly or txMsite
to the mine* a fine shoal on the river with sufficient
water power to drive a one hundred stamp mill.
We learn llmi parties are soon to examine this
mining property with a view to negotiating for it.
We bej*e Mr. Mashburn may realize more than his
wildest fatiele* of the wonderful disclosure* of
Alladin'* lamp.
’t he Hiuc&ville Gazette says: The warm days of the
past week have left an iumressioii on the fruit trees
and many of the shade trees. The peach and the
plumtrecxnrc i" bloom and give evidence of coming
fruit. The ciinsaiMl maple*are putting on leaves.
To lookout on the street arid yard* one la almost
cheap d into the belief that "spring I*
The Savannah Time* thus describes the beau tie*
of the monument to General W. W. Gordon, which
a* erected on Tuesday:
Colonel J. J. Neely ha* a fine fish pond
pond. It was constructed at consiaerubie expense,
as the dam in high and long and a long line of
di'clie* are opeu ou cither side to carry off the hill
side washing.
Mr. J. H. Bent, of Newnan. has in his posses*!...
valuable heirloom which has been in the family
xiut one hum-red r**- 1 **-'-*
..jg horn which l* pi _ ...
by silver baud*, and on the broad baud at the large
nd Is written "Henry Bent, near Fort Tobacco,
Vd*r Grov-." lit* Dent lived in i'rince George
county, Mervlaiid, and the horn was a present from
Me; d in old England.
Mr. John 1’ye, one of the hest farmers In Talbot
’ountv, killed this season sixteen hogs, and put up
torn them in solid meet three thousand and nine
hundred pounds. Mr. I'ye has aho recently rived
“,000 boards from ono tree ou his place.
One yf the ino*t tipted housekeepers in Ta'.bottoa
iis not bought a i*oun»l of store-lard in forty-five
Wciiiie.-drtv, and we hope they Who have the matter I ihiMSw^J*^i»r!SiKfi»if f>f
In hand will bu ready wilh at least twenty charier I JJ «IL-5 c i u ! ,lc ! ,,evu, n | p ! |, ‘
iiu iubi r> tooruat.lze a haltru I of farmt rs, we would be plcase-t to have them
illinium io organize a naigu. score one for our fe ow townsman. Mr.W. B.Watt*
In the front y*nl of the residence of Mr. G. M. Hav
in Amorlcu*. 1* a cork tree, one of a very few to be
found in thl* country. It is an evergreen
measure* around the trunk eighteen or tv
fi!:;d a pine tree, he broke lor liberty. Mr. McCall i
einpiicii hi* plNtol at Hie retreadng criininal, saw
him fall twice, and thinks he was seriously wound-
• d Nob-Jug ha* been JmmJ of him since hi* es
cape.
A family of Gypsies, consisting of ail old man, 111* ■ ,,
WHO, ditughttr «..d.on ln-l,»v. went .o Wri.hu- n nllltT, ’J^'l "dMhi.TJS l,”r"
vlllo the last week In December last, and remained | i* of a brown color, and very much resemble ’
about two weeks, when the municipal authoritie »—-•*
found that they were violating the tiabbath by pre
young elephant In appiamiice.
. . Where U tho preJit of raising cotton at 12 cent*
tending to tell fortune*, ordered them to leavo. I it at 0. ask* the Lumpkin In4epciid-
They went about two and a half miles up tho Ten* I
nlllo mad .ad .truck emu., where the,- nu,rained km^nlno'’fl.VieyTIf SSSrJ^SSf SSL,duo
for a day or two, tUI one of thefr tent* caught ou I **»««••••*»- -J*
Are and wa* comunind. Leaving that camp they [
wont over Into Lauren* county on (ho premise* of | fanner*, who made onough provisions to last him
Dr. A. i. Maine*. Tire old woman, who claimed tol t'o present year, ami proposes to keep up that
l*e the fortune teller, went over to tho doctor's In I "racket." The Waynesboro Citizen say*: "He pic-
hi* absence, boiled right Into hi* wife'* room anil I sen ted u* with a sample of syrup which he made
began to talk as If she could tell her (Mr*. I last year from ribbon cane, which we foun! to be
llaincs) something that she did not know. Thl* I very flue. Allen has saved Nome money, and wa*
t undue! frightened Mr*. Haines, and she ordered I In Iowa this week for thepurpose of buying himself
her to leave the house, which she did. When the I a small farm. What acommcut thi* I* upon 'the all
doctor reached homo and learned the behavior of I c.itton policy* of our large white farmer*, who have
the unwelcome vidtor, and that Uio tribe wa* on | not saved a dollar in five years!
his land, he at once went over and commanded I The Mayncsboro True Citizen vays: "The lively
them to leave his premise* at once, or he would I Interest which is Just now being manifested In the
have them taken with a warrant. Leaving there I manufacture of cotton seed oil in various section*
they crossed over Into Washington county, and I of the state, reminds us that there i* not atnanu-
were In the act of hanging up, when they heard | factoring establishment of any kind In this
that the bailiff had a warrant for them, ami waa to I county. And as the cotton seed oil budnesa has
execute It the next morning. They left "between I proved piofltablo wherevc
has „
ear*. She ulso has never failed to plant her Irish
H»taio crop during the dark night* of February In
orty-flve years, and thi* yotr is the first year lu
iort* -flvc that she* ha* failed to put hog hair ou her
potatoes, tihu maintains that nothing help* Irish
potatoes like a small bunch of hog hair nut oil top
ol each seed potato placed ln the ground.
bull.ock.'s barn.
What If a* Become of toe Ex-CI*vcrn#r*a Attempt to
Kan a Ntoek Farm.
Yesterday a Constitution reporter tore himself
away from the busy haunts of the great manufac
turing metropolis of the sweet sunny touih and
took a run up tho Marietta and North Georgia rail
road. A* the little narrow guage train pulled out
from Marietta and went scurrying around the
curves, over the hills aud down across tiie brandies
the reporter turned to a grizzly bearded old Chero
kee Georgian aud remarked:
"Good thing for you all, this road?"
"Hey?"
"The road! I say It's a good thing for you all.
You can go to town ou it."
"The road? Oh, yes, >es; very good thing."
"It's paying, 1 hear." remarked the reporter.
‘‘so they tell me. It's going to nuke somebody
rich *otne day."
"How so?"
There'* such a lot of stuff to be hauled out
these mountains, and there never cau be any com
petition. You ucver saw such a section as this road
The Milwaukee Sentinel wants the demo
crats to nominate Jerry Black in 1884.
The relatives of Archbishop McCabe, have
been summoned to hi* death-bed.
Senator Lamar’s utterances were solid
chunks of wisdom, says the Boston Star of his tariff
speech.
A strong civil service bill is before the
California legislature with good prospects of a final
passage.
Tiie Terry Home Journal thinks congress
man Blount would exactly fill the bill c* governor
of Georgia.
Michigan democrats have a convention
March ? to nominate supreme oourt Judges aud uni
erslty regents.
Congressman Beltzhoover, of Ohio, ought
to have his name changed to Beltzhazen, i* the
witty remark of the Boston Globe.
John Kelly is making ready to wage war
on Governo. Cleveland l:r showing no favor
Tammany po.iiidan»iu hi* appointment*.
A hill bef jre the legislature of Wisconsin
provide* that every city, town and village govern-
eminent iu the stat-’ shall appoint a board of health
Vukhwkst Arthur insist begin to wish that
lie had appointed a tariff commission for revision
and reduction. Instead of to construct a tub for the
whale.
The most masterly speech yet made on the
tariff question in congress, in the opinion of the
New York Uera d, was delivered iu the senate by
Mr. Lamar.
Senator-elect Sarin, of Minnesota, it
understood, will not undertake to remove any of
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
Window's friends from federal offices In that state,
lie and Wlndom are friend*.
The New Jersey house has passed a bill
prohibiting the employment in factories or work
shop* of children under twelve frear*, aud children
under fourteen without two yean schooling.
The Chicago Tribune urges the Illinois leg
islature to pass a bill tor the protection of primary
meetings which passed the senate of that state in
18*/?, and wa* stolen from the files of the house.
Judge Lonoworth, of the Ohio Supreme
court Is about to resign. IU* namo is intimately
associated with the republican nomination for gov■
emor, and hi* retirement from the ben:h is re
garded as significant of an active canvas*.
Only two months remain before the annual
state election in Hhode Island occurs, and yet no
state conventions have been held, no canvass is
under way, and no candidates are suddenly discov
ering how black a record they have unknowingly
l the men who own it then will be mude
rich. First, because it don’t cost much to
build It. aud second, because it will pay
old men. 1 his goiitb man, Mr. John Winter, wa*
born In Germanv, reared mi a farm until sixteen
year* of age, when lie enlisted mi a man of-war
and went to the Black sea to engage In the Crimean
war. where ho wa» engaged In transporting troop*
iititfl tho end of the war. While
the war was iu progrou ho had
ample opportunities to observe the ways and
plans of farming In Turkey and ftim/da. When the
war wa* over no remained upon the water, visiting
Cuba, tioutb America, North America and other
countries. In \m he carac to this country, lauding
at Charleston, H, c. After a short stay he came *
the then six mile station, near our city, which plat
ha* since been naiiu-d for him. Ho arrived with
limbing bm a large stock of counigo and an In
doinltable will, aud set to work for the Georgia rati
road, larmiug lu a small way when hi* buslnim
would give him oppo.tuuity. After the war be
tween the states, ho engaged In mervhaudlritiR
and fanning, buying laud ami Improving it,
until be ha* now several thousand ocrvi
that brfn* him a largo revenue. After experiment
Itig lu different ways, ho has eorac to tho cmiclu
Mon that oat acreage Is too great; that a lew aervi
highly fertilised and well tilled, after the Kuro
peon pi iii, is tho way, and that nau are the salva
lion of the south, lie give* as his optn'mi tho
statement that mi an acre of laud that will pro
•lure nu bushels of earn you can make thirty t.
forty bushels of cats, worth, after paling all ex
peitaes, $15 to $17 jn-r acre, wl>t-rv»* tbe cost to
inaketbeteu bushels of eomlsf.H. Furthermore,
the land iu com will be exhausted, while that iu
uat* w 11 t*o Improved, If not |«*smnd. Mr.
"• *•>'• if a man |*a\* hands flUO i*
fear and plants corn o ily, ho will lose $50p<
hand; that on u I* the on l v crop we inn successful
*y ‘“I*' L*r stock feed, wt h which to make a cheap
cotton crop. Mr i\u,n. r |« enthusiastic over this
section, and sajrs lu no portt-m of Uod'a grv-u
earth will you find a» many different crops grown
!r.* ‘ h hls Georgia, and no other
w‘Jw|i^P i roducaoau that wilt w*tgh & pound-
the siiiii" and have not been heard of sluce. I been tried, and a* our farmer* can be induced
There were one hundred and fifty of those vagrant* I ralso little else than cotton-tho county producing
at DavJfthoro In one camp last week, and that there I between »».<*» amt id.UX) bate* j*er annum
wero to be seventy-live at tiaudorsvillol**t Tuesday, | would our moneyed men not find
I'eamm 1* on a regular boom. Car bind after car I a safe
and
vmuncratlvo investment
load of material, guano, brick, luml*vr and ma-|forlh«lr surplus capital lu tho erection of a cotton
■blurry are unloaded there.
I seed oil mill? The erection of tho mill and tho
per bushel, and that no other crop but cotton will
stana the rains and storms ami *.*ll (or a* much
money. If Mr. W. lives a lew yean longer ho will
make a laige sactiou around WinterviUa blowom a*
tbe ruse.
The Coweta Advertiser goes boldly into the rail
road buslncM*. aud adviaos Uie building of at
line direct from Newnan to Birmingham, so a* to
get all tne advantage of choap coal in the coming
factoriea of the former town. Georgia ambition whl
yet make her a busy line of Industry.
Total taxable property lu Murray county for
amounts to $l.l«,425. |*jU tax $1,427.
l FrelsJtben. of West Point, has a cow that
had twin calve* Wednesday morning.
tiewt-il II. McClung, of Gwinnett county, now
about eighty years old. acts a h rrt* as squarely an d
straight as a boy and ba* not now or never did Uav
a gray hair iu bis head. He ha* l*een auctioneerin
that couuty for forty or fifty year* aud ha* ted an
active life.
A little boy, aged about four year*, of Mr James
Atkinson, who live* about two miles from Eastman,
waa accidentally burned to death one day last
week.
*Mttn*n Times: Mr. F. D. C.tiffin tells us of some
weighty purkt-r* which tu-jmnUllyrwN'.l last year.
TOev wereuf the Berkshire breed, and when quite
OBaU be sol.l one to Mr. John June*, living near
anaat the age of about two ’cars this "pig."
when kflh-d. u*t< bed the beam at 414 po.imi*. Mr.
“ ““dheroue of the pig* to Mr. George
"• Walker, of ihu couuty, aud when "porked." at
mge G»e first ncDtioue), it
weighed 8S0 pounds. Mr. G. sold three other pigs
Hurrah for the Georgia watermelon, erica the I neceaaary machinery would cost a comparatively
Detroit Free Frets. Now we are after the yankces I small sum, probably not more than fiu.uoo, and
in kimmI earnest. Keep it up Uro. I'erhaut; there's I there are gentlemen of this county who could fur-
nothing Uko the Georgia watermelon, ami "the I Utah all the capital m-eded. We have In our mlm
yankeca" won’t haan him even If ho does come I a m«M,t eligible site for the establishment of auch an
I cnlcrpriiH*, and there is no disputing the fact that
Ou Tuesday last Mr. Thomas II. GiguiUlat, of I it would pay. We refer to Mr. K. Newton
Darien, made two fine shot* with hi* Winchester I Palmer's mill, near Mcllcan station. Thl* mill 1*
rifle. The heavy freshet, a* is always the csw, had I located not more than 73 yard* from the railroad,
driven the deer from the depths of tho river swamps I on a stream which always affords an ample supply
to the more open highland*; am! while out hunting I of water, with plenty of fall for the driving of the
with a party several deer were run out upon him. I machinery, and we know thi* property could be
He tired, killing the first standing aud the second I bought at rveaonable figures. The cotton raised in the
running, which i« regarded a* fair shooting for that i county Would furnish nearly I(ri.000.000 bustle’s of
fart of tho country. The Messrs. .\tw»H»,l killed | reed, liesldc* the seed that would bo furnished by the
three fine deer In the Hudson tn-lghborhood
Saturday last. It U thought that they were driv
iu that direction bv the freshet.
The Darien Timber Gazette is fuf«
gro entered the warehouse at Johnston stalk vul , uurv ,,
.hK«v5.l ‘ 1 ' , f 1 m r nu , ,0,h * >'»'> -merpn
hi* life. Ilclpcame in a few tnuiuh sand the negro I which lui* for a long time come under our observi
r**' idf into the w«hnU, hut was warn captured am! I tioii.
Jriled. Thla negro nroant business anil w hom he I Th „ Konoih Advei-ilser k*v,
* hs tn'fore the court for trial ho will find out that » - T|,t A over riser m>i
•tm-hody else mean* hiisituss. thi* scoundrel
adjacent territory •»! Uiclituoud. nil of which
he bought at easy rates ami brought to the mill
with lUtlc tremble ami expense. Altogether.
1 that a tie-1 cotton seed oil mill, with the ad vantages offered by
thealwve nieniloneil location, holds out more in
g«*. s iH'iore tnecourt lor trial tie will find out that in naMnHtnr thi*
Himi'bpdir ol- mcMM bu.lam. Ihu Knun.lrel'. I i'. 1 . PK!"!"!- 1 ?.",.JT*”
Iniuiitlon. wrrtf tu km ihu kkciii »n 1 rob tho ' nuK *"■ 1,111 lj I"
l "‘' ne ' lro,hot^, rm„k Wrf«ht..colonM rlllwn
* U,,K naii-aoaen tunes, i
We always take
. oreling the progress and success of
l hence we like to publish such items
_ . _ of thlscounty.for-
merly the slave of Kev Armiuius Wright, ran three
plows last year, one of which he managed himself,
lie made M hales of cotton averaging 473 |siutids
He killed 10 hog* which averaged ISO
K muds each. He old not use much guano, lie
ts seven kale* of eottou which he ts holding as
times.
In a letter to the editor of the Darien Timber
Gazette in answer to a correspondent's stricture*,
Hon. J. A. Dart, of Brunswick, says; i
• The memorial which 1 had the honor to introduce | ®* n S r j
In the last legislature, ami which was passed with-
out a dt>»enting vote, was confined strictly to facts | he doesnot need the money. He owns a farm of
and figures am! not one foot of lumber or timber * ‘ *
was taken from Darien shipment* to makeup the l
great total of llO.*J43,t47 »hip|»ed from this port] A gentleman of Athens is making money raising
during U82, nor was one of the 137,50K barrels of I RtmeehU-keus. A short time since, ln one day. he
naval stores takeu from Darien to swell that amount I ►hIf»P»-*d off over $NW worth of the fowls, while he
*»" says "In reading over the memorial it will be I bj ^ *!»•>•» orders ahead tor al! he ran raise. It Is
* Iced that Brunswick Is supposed to have ship- uothlug unusual to get $23 for a single cock.
ped over 115,OiW.iWO feet of Umber lu one year."
"B" certainly failed to read the memorial or
tailed to quote it correctly.
place does it claim that much,
does it say Umber but lumber. Taking "B'a
statement of Darien's export of timber, W.COO.OW,
and had the meworaiist desired to detract from I ***wts of Athens.
Mite posts to Athens have been put up on the
Northeastern extension.
The Dahlonega railroad will be completed to
Price's station next week.
There U a largec rrk tree growing in Athens.
The boys frequently get up a rabbit hunt in the
Darien's business and add to Brunswick, a* he
claims wa* done, the great total would have been]
W,NS,191 feet of timber and lumber. Darien cer-
Gnu at Tallulah falls, beneath Diana's
the opposite side of the river, a get: tletnan
told the Athens Banner th»t he couuted twelve
tainly was not overlooked as her importance a» a I different varieties of fern* growing In the greatest
shipping |>ort, by myself, while at Washington, for I lusuriar.ee. Tbe floral catalogue* never report
stated to the committee ou public buildings and mote lhmn different kinds, and they sell at
groutt ?s of both the senate and hou«e, 'that th« I ^ nMa lwt uty to fifty cents each. Here l* a chance
gw
IOL
it are fuinlshed by tho state free of charge, aud
arc doing must of the work, and in iny opinion tho
state could not do a better thing than to put all tbe
convict* to building railroad*, that is to say, to fur
nish them to companies for that purpose, on the
same terms as the Marietta and North Georgia rail
road gets It* convicts now. This road has had
cotisidextbie amount of trouble, aud ha* required _
very large amount of energy, but It 4as worried
through to Jasper, a distance of flft^mllcs, aid
trains rtiu to that point. Much work fia* been done
t>cyoiid Jasper, aud the road will
completed to hllijay by spriug. I think then
lath'll is to reach kliljay by May. It 1* intended to
run the road io Murphy, N. C. When that Is done
the road will be about a hundred and teu or twelve
miles long, and will Ire one of the most valuable
pieces of work t h-t l Georgia convicts have ever done.
There Is no gnewing the value of the country that
the road will develop. It Is tine for agriculture aud
mineral*. Iu some places tiie cross ties are laid up
on the most valuable marble, while the hills are
rich iu minimi wealth. 2 don't kuowhowit wil
(•ay as an investment, but it will pay the people of
North Georgia a* a developer."
at that moment the train went rattling down a
steep grade and close beside an immense framed
Miucturc, built upon a style of architecture such as
tiie reporter had uever seen before, it was two aud
a half stories high, with numerous glass window*,
ami ou top were three cupolas. At ihu front etui
was a big double door, 'to one side rati out a sin
gle story part of the building. The whole wa* in-
closed iu a high rustic fence of small poles Diag
onally across the big road was a large farm house.
^"What ln kingdom come Is that?" a»k«.d the
K-ribe.
"That," said the old mountaiuocr, with a sly
wink, "ts Buliock'* barn."
Ther |H>rterat once became very deeply Inter-
sled and pressed hi* companion fora talk about
the house that 1 oked so lonesome aud out of place
ny otl' ny itself among the hills.
■\cs, sir: 1 wa* here when that
out fourteen >cars ago. The hi
iugly well constructed atul i* fitted up iu the most
convenient aud ex|»ei.*lv»* style, with a place for
everything, caitirnn troughs aud racks, water in
every stall, elevators for handling grain, and iu fact
—rythiug that money and euthu*ia*m could »«■-
e. Governor Bullock Intended to have a model
farm for breeding flue horses; cat le, etc. He in
tended to plant gnts'c* aud Improve the plate, at d
wo* confident that he could make money out of it.
Hut it all fell through."
What did it cost?"
'Sixteen or seventeen thousand dollars. Bullock
had two tract* of land, four hundred seres in each,
-Ight hundred tu all, and his scheme v as to raise
tock. He bought a lot of fine mares and a stallion,
nud put them on the place. I don’t drink he paid
shipment* from lUricu, which wa* In the Bruns
wick dl'trtct. about equaled our own." No, "B,
Brunswick wisnea to take nothing from Darien
for some one to reap a rich harvest gathering these
[ wild fern* for sale.
v’ulonel T. R. Lunwleu of the Talbot county agrl
hieh Ju»tly belong* to her, but wl*li her every I oulxurwl society, ts of the opinion cane should be
prosperity aud business success, and would only planted cUweljr, as wide setting causes the plant to
■ay.tf you at any time should have more timber
lumber than you cau handle, send it over here aud
Brunswick merchants will see that it t« shipped
tiller. The rows should be four feet apart, the beat
fertilizer he ever uwd being cotton seed aud ashes.
Ills plan of setting is—open the rows wilh a shovel,
Conductor Luke John sou told Lary Gantt that **$*•*“ the cane, being cut in from two to three
otganized a small-sized Arctdia. Soon
ter the crash came with him, ami the
whole tiring went for a song. Some of
the mare* lmd died, and the other* were
trot in good condition. Bullock arid the place to a
man named Fayne, who kept it several years, atul,
itissrid, lost about five thousand dollars. It wa*
Hold again a few days ago to two men, named Fow
ler, the whole place briuging $8,6oo. I don’t think
that the place ha* made enough in the fourteen
years to till the barn if It wa* all put tu there at
one time."
"How far to Canton?" asked the reporter as the
old gent clambered out of the car at Woodstock.
•Twelve miles."
How far to Marietta?"
Twelve miles. It's twelve mile* anywhere you
want to go from this town—twelve miles to Canton,
twelve mile* to Marietta, twelve mile* to Acworth,
twelve miles to Alpharetta, twelve miles to Ros
well—anywhere from here is twelve miles."
As the train moved off with the reporter the old
fellow hollered: . ,
"Just before you get to Canton look out at the
bottom ou the left and you will see the field tn
which Joe Brown wasUeing wheat when they Horn*
lusted him for governor."^
List Honey in a Soap Oourd.
From the Cochran, Ua., Banner.
Meeting with a gentleman a few days since,
and soliciting his subscription to the Banner,
he replied that it was "too small; he could
read it over in live minutes.’ We made no
reply, but as we sat and calmly viewed the
external pore ion of that knowledge box we
tried to fathom the purpose of our Creator in
disguising his best works, and wound up our
reverie not till we were carried back to a war
incident wherein a fellow peddled out honey
from a soap gourd.
The Omaha Uee is pushing a vigorous fight
agninst the railroads of Nebraska for their evasiou
of the tax law*, and cite* one county, Douglas, iu
which there are fully -‘WO miles of branches and
switches, none of which have been returned for
taxation.
Congressman Bel ford’s idea, is to provide a
market for the great product of his stale, but it
would give the Cincinnati Time* Star more satis
faction if he would melt it tip into watch cases and
teaspoons and the Times Htar retna ks, the dollar
of otirdaduiesdld very well for a political issue,
but it 1* too burdensome for the pocket.
Jt is stupid folly or worse for the southern
state legislatures to lease out convicts and put
power in tho hand* of any set of men to destroy the
legitimate business of a manufacturer or miner
ho employs free labor. The southern convicts ate
humanely treuted ns convicts anywhere, bm
that Is not the question. Free tabor should have u
living chance aud the convicts should be employed
in road building and other public works.
PERSONAL IN rELLIO&NCE.
Ex-Governor Wm. K. Smith, of Wisconsin,
died last night.
Field Marshal Hauhlao, of the Austrian
army, is dead.
Anthony Trollope left his family $125,000
and a copyright of fifty novel*.
Ex Senator McDonald, of Indiana is otic
tho most popular men ln Washington.
Bismarck is a great eater, but then lie only
eats once a day—al six o'clock In the evening.
Peter CoorER has been a working hatter,
brick maker, coach maker, machinist and gl.te ma
ker.
The Latest News Abaat the Seatti aari Its FaK* Cm
deaaad fcr Tie CaaatifbUm.
Florida.
Jacksonville has the largest number of
northern visitors, and is the gayest and most ani
mated of all winter re»orts in Florida.
Arkansas.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, now reached
by railroad*, is preparing to becomes formidable
rival to Hot Spring* next summer.
Louisiana.
Cotton picking is still going on in Louisiana.
Agricultural societies are springing up in
Lou j-Jana.
Report* from planters indicate that a large
planting of sugar cane will be made this spring.
The same may be said of all other agricultural pro
ducts.—Thibodaux, Louisiana, Sentinel.
Norf It C'i*roll nu.
North Carolina is preparing to build a
maurion for her governor.
Raleigh, North Carolina, comes to the
front with a youth eighteen years old, and six feet
seven and a quarter inclies high.
The stock law is creeping along in North
Carolina. Lenoir and Greene counties were Inclu
ded the other day by legislative enactment. The
law will not bo submitted to the people.
Texas.
One physician In San Antonio Texas, has
over eighty cases of pneumonia under treatment.
A bin containing 3,000 bushels of cotton
seed at Lancaster, Texas, exploded from the gen
eration of gases. The report could bo heard two
miles, and was of terrific force.
Austin, Texas, will soon have a university,
with an endowment from public lands of $5,00(1,000.
The cap!tol in Austin, the foundations of which are
just laid, will cost $1,000,000, and will be one of the
handsomest buildings in the country.
Virginia.: “
Planquettk, the author of "Lea Cloches
Coruevllle" and other operas, 1* only thirty
year* of age.
The Emperor William of Germany drove
out on Sunday for the first time nco his late '
disposition.
A memorial statue of Ralph Waldo Emer
son I* to be placed in tho public library yard at Con
cord, Mas*.
The enumeration of school children In Con
necticut show* a total of 140,202, au increase
!,471 ovor 1881.
Recently, 1,400,000 pounds of lraddo<
were taken to Boston ln a single day. They weigh
ed them in scales.
Westminster A bury towers Jiave been
dwarfed in effect by tbe tall new houses near tho
church, say* Hamerton.
Bowie knives, razors, loaded pistols and
cans of dynamite were discovered among packagi
ent by United States mall last year.
At the age of ninety years "Grandfather’
Prescott, of Iowa, set* type every working day
the composing-room of the Corning Gazette.
The czar has ordered his coronation throne,
It will be made of black oak, carved in antique
Slavonic patterns and It will cost over fs,000.
Mis* Ella Wheeler, the poetes*, is
gaged, but will not be married until after tw
years, devoting herself In the meantime to literary
work.
Du. J. P. Wallace, of Bellefontaine, Ohio,
report* that the brain of the late Dr. E. II. Knight,
author of the Mechanical Dictionary, wclghtd fit
ounce*.
Mr. Perry H. Smith, a well-known Chica
go capitalist, and Tilden'* western adviser In J*7t>,
has lost his mind. HU frleuds hope for hi* re
covery.
The Bessemer process is being applied to
the reduction of copper ore* In France. Thl* mean*
that copper can be secured iu one process Instead of
by a do/, n a* now.
Dr. William M. Baker, the novelist, has
resigned the pastoral charge of the South Presby
terian church. Philadelphia. HU resignation Is
owing to continued ill-healih.
Mrs. Roxecrans, who was stricken with
paralysis on Saturday, and received the last rite* of
the Catholic church iu the expcctaUon that death
would ensue, has rallied slightly.
Representative Heraer, of Pennsylvania,
as member of the committee on Pacific railroads
acquired such knowledge of mineral wealth ln the
territories aud used U so well that he is now rapid
ly becoming a bonanza king.
Bronson Howard, the leading American
playwright. Is a short middle-aged man who, like
several of hU cogenen, wears eye-glasses and ha*
the air of a prosperous stockbroker or lawyer. He
1* a remarkably courteous and polite gentleman.
Curiously malformed twin* were born on
Christmas day ln Sheffield. England. One of them
had no eyes at all, and the other was armless. They
only lived a few hours, and the mother was so over
come with fright when she saw the monstrosities
that she went Tntp spasms, and at last accounts was
iu a state bordering on insanity.
John Richard Green, the author of the
"Short History of the Eng’Uh People," lies at the
point of deatn iu England. He is one of the ablest
followers of Macaulay’s third chapter—where the
Idea wa* first in modem hbtory proclaimed that
human advance was the true object of the hi* tori-
Lord Lone, in his speech from the throne,
said while passing through the United State* he
was rejoiced to observe many evidences of regard
to the empire of which this country forms so Urge
a portion. wi*hlng the friendship which is so fulty
returned by u» to be as endearing as it is natural
and advauugou* to the mutual interest* of both
great nations.
A student from Brazil has recently entered
tho University of Virginia.
A number of new industries have lately
sprung up in Petersburg, Ya.|
The Lynchburg (Va.) council have appro
priated $17,000 for a colored school house.
There were 1,268 inmates in tbe national
Soldiers’ home, near Hampton, Va., on the first
day of January.
Over 52,000,000 cans of tomatoes were
packed last year. Nearly half of It was done in
Maryland and Virginia.
IMIftftlNNlppl.
Mississippi lost $5,000,000 on her last cotton
crop.
Aberdeen, Mississippi is to have a cotton
mitt.
Vicksburg, Mississippi, is having a big mad
og scare.
Gin burnings are Retting to be quite nu
merous throughout Mi-vds Ippl.
Wolves are very plentiful and are destroy
ing stock Iii Panola couuty, Misslxrippl.
The Grand Royal Arch Chapter meets In
Jackson, Mf*d^lnpl, on the 12th instant.
The First National bank of Columbus,
*!ppl, is now iti operation. It is the only national
bank iu the state,
Alnbnmn.
Uniontown, Alabama, has expended $40-
000 for mules within the last far mouths.
There are now over 1,700 pupils registered
on the roll* of the public schools of Montgomery,
Alabama.
Revenue ofllcers say that a good deal of
illicit whisky I* manufactured in the country about.
Huntsville, Alabama.
Mr*. Forrester, aged one hundred yean r
five month* otid twenty-five day*, died recently In
Tuscaloosa county, Alabama.
Mardi-c.bas in Selma, Ala., a few days ago,,
wa* a success, both In the display* made and in the:
large crowd* pro ent to wltne** It.
Five or six ladies have ran tad. a /arm ire
Sumtcrcounty, Alabama. Tho same ladies made,
last year, 13 bales of cotton and several hundred,
bushels of corn, besides other product*.
The little old atone church at Sun Antonio
Texas, which has become famous in American
history as the Alalmo, is now used os a grocery
store.
Trnnr**ee,
The Tennessee river is booming.
A college of bishops meets in Nashville in
May.
Mr. W. J. Harper, of Tiptonville, Tennes
see, hs* a white coon.
Geserkl Fitehuou Lee will lecture In
Knoxville, Tenn., 20th.
Maryville, Tennessee, college has nearly
three hundred student*.
Knolisu sparrows are complained of in
some part* of Tennessee. •
The railroad between Memphis and Holly
Springs, will be completed by the 1st of March.
An old farmer of East Tennessee says that
the signs are favorable for an abundant peach crop
this year.
Maryville, Tennessee, woolen mills are
runulng on full time and doing more work
than ever before.
Farmers in Lake county, Tennessee, are
offering $1.25 per hundred for picking cotton, and
cannot get hand*.
Tiie grand lodge of Tennessee, Knights of
Pythias, will aucmble in annual session at Lcban-
t, Tuesday, 13th Inst.
Kentucky.
It costs Kentucky $76,000 a year to run the
lunatic asylum at Lexington.
It costs Kentucky about $350,000 a year to
it her three lunatic asylums.
The annual meeting of the Kentucky His
torical wxriety take* place at Frankfort February 22.
A new Presbyterian church has just been
finished lu L'ortngton, Kentucky, at a cost of
S JO,000.
The Boyd county, Kentucky, grand jury
recently Indicted some ladies for haviug a raffle at
church festival.
Crittenden county, Kentucky, dogs have
killed nearly all the sheep iu the county, and now
aher the poultry.
IIenperwx, Kentucky, has a population of
.000, and there are 3» drinking saloons, one for
every 200 inhabitants.
Thebe are one-fourth as many saloons in
Henderson, Ky., as there are budness houses of
ery other description put together.
The Knights of Honor, of LouUville, Ken
tucky, have determined to erect a lodge building
o co«t $100,000. The central lodge of the order, it
said, will be located at Louisville.
Nonlb Carolina.
There are 5,517 members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, in Sumter district, South
Carolina.
Mad dogs are on the rampage at Gaffney
City, South Carolina. More than a dozen have been
killed recently.
A dog war has begun In Greenville, South
Carolina, and the slayers are out in force, and go
for every canine without the protecting collar.
Mr. J. T. Roberts, of Anderson county.
South Carolina, has sold his pack of twelve fox
hounds to a party in Mlvouri, receiving for them
one hundred and thirty dollars.
Land at Gaffney City, Spartanburg county,
South Carolina, which was worth about $2 an acre
fifttea yean ago, now find ready sale at
from $20 to $50.
Major A. D. Hrrr, who, in ante-bellum
days was one of the largest eottou bu~ers In Co
lumbia, South Carolina, and po*se**ed a fortune
estimated at $200,600. died in the almehoure of that
city on .Saturday last, aged 7S. lie was never mar-