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I FAYETTEVILLE OA
I LBUnggs
HE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION,
VOLUME xrv.
TUESDAY MQKNE5TG, APIILL 24, 1883.
PRICE 5 CENTS
DURING THE WEEK.
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY
AND COUNTRY ARE DOINQ.
H*nttar K lipg* Xodtetfd-A Du*1 With Knivrc-A
Dynamite Explosion-Business Failures for the
Past Week-Conviction of the Pbcsalx
Park Murderers—The Wheat Crop.
Titula;, April 17.
The Mexican government denied tho report that
A me ricai - e -iinot acquire land In that country
/rederick Franz, second grand duke of Mccklenl
burg, died. Twenty thousand dock laborers struck
In Marseilles. Franco The president of the rcich-
etagln Vienna was notified that an attempt would
be made to destroy the parliament building. An
effort was made to effect a renewal of the atrike of
the Irish police In Dublin. Two children were ac
cidentally burned to death In a dry goods box In
'• Fort Worth, Texas. Henry Johnson and James
Donnelly fought a duel with knives in Stockton,
Cal., kilHug each other. Sixty*nine evicted farm*
ora from Ireland reached Philadelphia. The an*
nual election of the Tammany society took place In
Now York. A great meteor fell In Brown county,
Texas, Sunday, killing several cattle. The spring
meeting of the Memphis jockey club began In Mem
phis. Tho five-story building occupied by Brad-
street's commercial agency, the Remington gun
works and Hall's safe and loex comp my in New
York was destroyed by fire. Francis S. Street, one
of the proprietors of the New York Weekly, died In
New York. The annual parade of tne Macon fire
department came off.
IN THE CITY.
The furniture is being placed in tho now court-
houre. The Good Templars will give a picnic on
tho first of May. Police Officer Merritt was dismiss-
«d on the charge of assuming tho authority of a cap
tain. A little negro girl was badly, burned by fall-
♦ ing in a fire. The wall of W. D. Smith’s store, No.
2ft Decatur street, fell; no one was hurt.
Wedat*daj, April IN.
The South Carolina election coses were tempora
rily stopped for waut of money. A son of Senator
Fair, of Nevada, attempted to shoot his father In
fifcn Francisco. Ills estimated that the damage to
the wheat crop in fiftten of tho principal states of
the United States will bo twenty per cent short of
last year's crop. John lunch was horribly mangled
by a clrcufir saw at Addison, Mich. Scheller, who
was charged with burning the Xewhall house at
Milwaukee, was tried and acquitted. A little child,
sleeping between its parents, was klllod by light
ning in Iowa. John Martin, in a row with bis wife
in Chattanooga, broke her arm with a hammer.
The marquis of Lome and Princess Louise, after an
«xtendcd trip through tho United States, returned
to Canada. The city council of Chattanooga dis
charged the negro police of that city. A tremen
dous windstorm visited Petersburg, Va.
IN THE CITY.
The theatrical season is about over. Atlanta will
probably have a Jockey club before long. Maggie
Lofton, a little white girl, was badly gored by a
cow. Sandy Wilson, a white carpenter, fell from a
ccaffoid, fracturing bis right leg. Ned Baxter, a
negro woodcutter, accidentally cut offa portion of
hit left foot. The revival at the First Methodist
church increases In latorest. Tho Central Presby
terian congregation proposes to erect a bandsomo
church. The trial of Henry Johnson, colored,
charged with the murder of Hugh Matthews, col*
ored, was taken up in the snporior court.
Thur*<ta/ ( April IP.
Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, was indicted lu
Washington for connection with tho star route
uhnrimw--.sa-exintnioix or a/utmito occurred in
Carballeno, Spain, killing two persons and wound
Ing several others. A war between Franco and
China is probable. Forty-eight cities and towns In
Illinois voted on tho liquor question, 17 for prohl*
billon and 31 tor license. Curley, who In charged
with connection In the Phienlx park murder, was
found guilty and sentenced to bo huug on the 18th
of May. Two thousand six hundred uerman im
migrants arrived at Locust Point, Md., on their way
to tho west. An engine and eighteen freight cars
on tho Richmond and Danville railroad, near High
Point, X. C., were thrown off the track by running
over a cow. The first veteran organisation of ex*
confederate soldiers was pertcctud In Richmond,
IN THE CITY.
An Atlauta lady owns forty canary birds. There
is a good demand for suburban real estate. Horse
back riding la popular with tho young ladles. At*
lanta gets all the unclaimed mall matter for all the
gulf states. Auothcrmad dog was killed. In a
fightbe tween Willis Lawrence and Anderson Gools
by, two negroes, Lawrence struck Goolsby ou his
head with a shovel, fracturing tho skull.
Friday, April !IO.
Fitzhugh levee, five miles below Helena, Ark.,
gavoway. Two llttl.- girls were brutally outraged
by two tramps In Indiana. Lord Beaconstleld’s
statue was unveiled in PariJamentsqnare, London.
Tho married men among the striking bricklayer* in
■Chicago returned to work. Seven hundred recruits
were sent to the regiments In Arizona and New
Mexico to keep down the Indians. The Southern
press association met in Chattanooga. The annual
meetlug of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Honor of Gcoipla took place in Romo. Up to date
eighteen of the Irish prisoners charged with the
murder of Cavendish and Burke have been con
victed, and of the uumberslx have been condemn
ed to death.
IN THE CITY.
Tho architects and contractors predict a heavy
summer business. Atlanta has four colored mili
tary companies. Two now street car Hues are
spoken of. The public schools are flourishing. Tl|p
Georgia Fruit Growers' association met In the de
partment of agriculture. Tho executive mansion
Is undergoing needed repairs. A party of English
capital!*a organized a fruit canniug factory at East
Point* pear Atlanta. The jury in the Henry John
son esse returned* verdict of guilty of murder and
recommended the pilsoner to the mercy of the
court. The Fulton county Sunday-school conven
tion held its adjourned annual meetlug.
Saturday! Aprlltl.
Prince Krspolklne, recently convicted At Lyons
of socialistic crime, la seriously 111. The steamers
which left Liverpool for the United States and Cau
oda carried nearly three thousand immigrants. In
Sacramento, Cal., the roof of a burning bouse fell
in burying several persons in the ruins. John Lilly
obtained a verdict of >15,100 damages against (he
New York Central railroad for the loss of his legs in
New York. The cigar makers of Steubenville, O.,
contemplate a* strike for hither wages. McCready
A Co.'s paper mill at Catawfva, Penn., was de
stroyed by fire. A company was formed in Louis
ville, Ky„ for the purpose of exporting wbifky to
Bermuda. The A merles u express agents of Mil
waukee, Wls., discovered a package of dynamite in
their freight. The carpenters of New York were
successful in their strike. The business failures in
the United States for the past week number 205.
Kate Kane, a female lawyer la Milwaukee, Wls,
threw a glass of water In Judge Mallor/’s face and
was fined $50.
m THE CITY.
General Diaz is expected In Atlanta soon. Real
estate transactions daring the past week were
heavy. There are about 250 telephones in use in
Atlanta. New vegetable* In Abundance. 8ef Har
ris, a negro boy, cut half of his right foot off while
chopping wood. The trial of Young O'Neal, col
ored, charged with the murder of Abe Daniel, also (
colored, was commenced in the superior court,
lasts/, April 22:
President Arthur and party left Savannah for
Washington City. The striking cowboy* of Texas
are becoming more violent A fire at Aurelia,
Iowa, destroyed twenty-five business houses.
Thomas H. Paul Jc Son, locomotive builders,of Bal
timore, made an assignment. Ninety-five herds ot
cattle, averaging 125 each, will be driven out of
Texas this spring. The stockholder* of tho Western
Union telegraph company met in New York and
ratified the lease of the Mutual Union telegraph
company's line.
IN THE CITY.
Mr. J. Henley Smith comes to the front with the
first English peas. The Merchant's bank foreclosed
a mortgage against Holman, Coffin A Co., book sell
ers. A race for 1100 a side is arranged between two
fast Atlanta trotter*. Twenty in torments were made
in Oakland cemetery the post week. . Young
O’Neal, on trial for the murder of Abe Daniel, was
acquitted.
TRUCK FARMING N GEORGIA.
Planter* Gala* ta far iho Ual»lng af Matter* Other
than Cut ton.
Cor. New York Sun.
Albany, Oa., April 12.—Riding in from the cotton
fields and truck farms yesterday, I met a gray-
haired darkey placidly eating goobers on a load of
guano on his way out He had very Intelligent
ideas about farming matters, though not up in sta
tistics, and ho drove off after a talk, sayiug:
‘Dere’s a heap too much 'Joanna' used in Georgia,
an' dat's a fack."
And so, indeed, it would seem. Unscientific cnl
tlvation for years has impoverished large portions
of tho soil, and actually in some places the value
of the guano put on tho land exceeds what the land
would sell for. But there is a large amount of fer
tile soil still left, particularly In southwestern Geor
gia, and a change has gradually taken place In peo
ple’s ideas.
Five years ago truck farming was unknown In
Georgia. Cotton was all fa all, and every foot of
ground was devoted to it. But cotton planting
lgw not paid for years, and though it was higher
toned to be a planter than to be a farmer aud raise
corn, oats, truck and cattle, planters got very tired
of seeing, as each year rolled around and brought
their crop and settling day, that they were poorer
than the year before. Cotton and guano gavo tho
soil no chance, and they grow tired of whipping
exhausted horse to draw too heavy load. Small ex
periments, however. In the last two or throo years
have proved so successful that a regular boom in
truck farming has taken place all over Ibis section
of the country, aud prosperity bids fair to atteud
tho new departure, it would Indeed scorn auab-
surdity to raise cotton at 8 cents aud pay 75 cents or
more for corn and 16 cents for bacon. Home planters
i*y 5 cefits a pound In order to be trusted for bacon
from March to September, the end of the cottou
year, and equally usurious Mtes for com and other
necessaries. Truck farming is being encqui * ’
the railroads and tho press, and agrlcuTtu
fruit growers’ associations are starling iu various
directions.
The> do Georgia injustice who Judge it by the
swamp lands of tho coast or ihe arid pine lands
which stretch back for softie distance therefrom.
Dougherty county, of which Albany Is the county
seat, has certainly largo areas of good farming
lands, requiring only tho ordinary nse of compost
of home manufacture. All around me vegetation
is luxuriant. As 1 write there comes floating
through my open windows the delicious perfume
of over fifty varieties of roses alone from the beau
tiful lawn below. Down in tho garden are green
peas, asparagus, lettuce, strawberries, and all sorts
of garden truck. Feachtrees aud grapeviues
also give forth good indications of crops. Our
neighbors in some cases are doing even better. Sev
eral have had strawberries for a month. Not far off
oats which were planted In February will be ready
for harvesting by the middle of May. These are no
signs of an exhausted soil. Grass und cotton are
bitter enemies; hence the planter stamps out every
blade oi the former, and the cattle bavo nothing
but tho coarse wire grass of the. woods
to feed upon. This accounts for
poor beef and mutton hereabouts: aud
fact, all through the south It Is hatd to get a steak,
chop or roast equal to those served iu tho north
Similarly, tho razor backed J paajif t hadlr si
pork, though wild cnougu ttfTAbae nuiiu/ig hull
good sport. Home of the fox hunters of New York
FIFTY THOUSAND.
THE OFT OF SENATOR DROWN TO
THE STATE UNVERSTY.
The Bond Made And Daly Signed, Sealed and X>*11*
cr*d —H w ti B*d*-Wt*t the rrustoeaof Its
Institution \F»il iL*r l)li t ti Si U
in Jai/~fl*n*tor Brown'* Plan, E.c.
beef or mutton lsuuaUsina*
can eke out a men
wild and tamo
India,
blc, tno
ger diet .
keys, ducks, chickens, partridge (quail
up north,) robins and doves. A few miles on he can
knock oversn occasional deer, and if he has loot a
bear he can find him again if ho goes deep etiough
into the woods. But good beef and mutton are only
a question of lime, for down near Valdosta a fann
er named Meltee 1* putting a wire fence around
6,003 acres for a sheep and csttlo posture, and lu
Walton, glazing lands are being prepared.
Thomssville. some sixty miles due south of Alba
ny, has been shipping thousands of boskets of
strawberries for a month past. In thlsoectiou, by
tho way, the bulk of the shipments of fruit and
vegetables this season will be to tho west, the north
being supplied from Florida and along the Atlan
tic seaboard. Perhaps the greatest boom will bo in
watermelon culture, in consequence of its having
paid so well lan season, and the*
is danger that melons may be over-
J United. Last year ouo man cleared
5,000 on a 100-acre lot. selling his melons at 175 to
1 100a car load, averaging 1,200 in a car Down iu
(rooks county a man planted 27 acres In melons,
ratting about 11 car loads, which netted him 11.100.
Other instances of a similar kiud started a regular
furor, and now there is a sectional warfare waging
as to the relative superiority of the Augusta "rat
tlesnake" aud the pure green "walennll-
lioit” of the southwest. The raltlcsnako
melon Is so called, of course, from lu black
stripes. In Leo, Dougherty, Mitchell, Terrell and
Richmond counties alone It was reported at the
Truck Fanners' association, which met at Albany a
few days ago, that 1,700 acres will be put In melons.
In these counties there will be a largely increased
acreage in Irish potato*-.*, oats, wheat, coni, green
j>ca*k cabbage, cucumbers, and all sorU of small
Ktiough, however, of statistics. I am writing of
only half a doxon counties, and there are over a
hundred In Georgia in which an enormous ares U
suitable for farming If the tlred-out laud gets a
chance by a change from cotton to something which
will rest the soli for a year or so. To those who
think of emigrating to this section of the south, an
old planter’s remarks to me may prove of benefit,
lie said: “A stranger with small means can come
down here and mako a good living more
easily than elsewhere. He must not expect to
grow rich raising cotton, for that’s a speculation
even with the most experienced planters. All that
he can grow north, however, and more besides, be
? row here, and fl id a market for. Hboes and
Ing are higher than at the north, but all
».wund living, including hired labor, is cheaper
It’s as healthy here as anywhere in the south. Good
land coil be bought or routed cheap. Good health,
Induslrioushabtu, aud hone sense he must bring
with him."
QBOROIA CROP ITEMS.
Peach crop promising about Union Point.
Cotton plautlng going on in Schley county.
The peach and cherry crop of Dawson is safe.
The stands of corn are good In Talbot county.
Wheat and oaU look well down about Griffin.
A Dooly county man has four tbourand sheep.
Crops are doing beautifully In Monroe county.
Wheat and oats are looking finely about Tilton.
Catoosa county will have an abundant fruit
crop.
A fine crop of wheat Is growing in Whitfield
county.
Oats are looking exceedingly fine in Jefferson
county.
A bounteous yield of fruit is counted on in Clarke
county.
The wheat and oat outlook In Catoosa county is
very good.
There will be a fair crop of peaches and apples in
Talbot count/.
Judge Thornton has’.the most promising wheat in
Greene connty.
Mr. Coggins, of Coweta county, has cotton up and
growing finely.
Primus Jones, of Baker connty, has ICO acres of
cotton chopped out
The fruit crop (a end around Tunnel Hill prem
ises a pretty fair yield.
Colonel John C. Nicholls, of Pierce connty, ex
hibits the first corn tassel. '
A Whitfield county man has planted fifteen bar
rels in early Irish potatoes.
Good crops In Upson county. A larger acreage
in wneataudoat* than usual.
The prospect for apples and peaches In the upper
port of Liberty county is very good.
Several hundred acres of land will (be planted in
watermelons in Taylor connty this year.
James Hawkins, of Catoosa connty, has a prom
ise of fifty bnshels of oat* per acre.
Mr. P. M. Osbnro, of Catooea county, is putting
out two thousand grape vines this spring.
At last the Brown university fund Is a fixed fact.
Yesterday evenlttg. about half-past five o’clock,
Colonel I. W. Aver)’, one of tho secretaries I- the
execctive office, might have been *.*cu
leaning with characteristic grace over
an immense piece of parchment, nearly
two feet square. The crisp parchment was
held firmly down by weights at tho comers, while
on the broad surface the colonel was writing iu that
bold regular hand of .Ills. Line by line tho w >rds
were written, aud ever aud anou ho would glance
back over the lines and see If all was right. A last
the sheet was filled and looked like %n Impres
sion from a steel plate. The colonel arose,
glanced half admlrlugly at the yJere
of work. Then he called tho governor and thsriall
and graceful Boynton appeared. Colonel Avery
offered his chair, the governor took it and picking
up a steel pen dipped it In the Ink. He gUnced
over the parchment, balanced his pen and wrote
Uis name at the bottom. He smiled slightly ax he
did so, while Colonel Avery stood behind his chair
with a strictly business expression on his face.
"That slguature makes that parchment worth just
fifty thousand dollars," remarked the colonel.
"Why, so?" asked a Constitution man, who had
been an Indifferent witness to the proceedicg.^
"Because It completes it and makes it a bttu^'of
the state of Georgia for fifty thouraod dollirs."
"Snug sum; what is it for?"
Colonel Avery handed the reporter tho bond and
the scribe read as follows:
United States of America, state of Georgia—The
state of Georgia hereby acknowledges hersclt In
debted to the trustees of the University of Gcoraia,
and to them only, In the sum r.f fifty thousand dol
lars lawful money of the United Bute*of America,
which sum she promises to pay to
said trustees at the treasury of said.state on d<-
maud on and after the 1st day of April, 1033, with
Interest thereon at the rate of 7 per cent per snimm
payable semi-annually at said treasury on the first
«ln vs of January and July tach and every year un
til the payment of the principal sum. This obli
gation is not subject to be callej in for rcdetnpUou
by >nld state before the first day of April, 1033, nor
to be negotiated or transferred by raid trustees, It
being Issued lu lieu of fifty valid matured
of aald (state for the principal
one thousand dollars each, Issued under an
act of the general assembly, entitled "an act au
thorizing tne Issue of bond* for the payment of
post due Interest for the redemption of past due
bonds, and for such bonds as may fall due widiln
the next three years." Approved February loth.
1873, presented at the said treaaury for redemption
by the trumocaof said university as tho property of
said uuivvnity; said fifty bonds numbered re*"C«-
tively: 2,3. 6. 7. ft, 12.13,14,15, IS, 17. 18,10, 20.21,
22, 23, 34. 28,29, 30, #3, 31, .13, 80, 97, .19. 40, 41, 42, 43,
44, 50,51, 52, 61, 62. 63, 64,66. 70. 71, 72, 74. 74, 78, 80.
81 8.1,94. This obligation Is made and Issued lu
pursuance of an act of the general assembly of raid
state, entitled "an act to make permanent the In-
comcofthe univendty of Georgia, and for t(her
purposes," approved September 30th, 1881, and ',ub-
cot to the provisions of said act.
In wltncts whereof, the governor of the itRto of
Georgia, ba* hereunto set his hand and canted, to
bo affixed, the great teal of said state, thlslSUt of
April, A.D., 1883.
James 8. Boynton, Govern tr.
N. C. Barnett, Secretary of State.
The demand for the bond was accompanied by
the following certificate:
Atlanta, Ga., April ICtli, 1883.—The under-
signed, John G. Gresham, president, aud Lamar
Cobb, secretary and treasurer of the board of
that the accompanying fifty valid H
state of Georgia, of one thousand dollar* cot. due
Ion the first day of April Inst., and bearing l irt
f sald^unlven^tyl
Forty-eight of raid bonds were the property of the I
■said university before they fell due. Two of the said
bonds were obtained ou tho second day of April,
■■nt. by exchanging therefor two seven per cent
■H due In 18S6 for the same amount. By order
of the board of trustees of tho said university three
bonds to tho sum of >50,100 are hearwitb pru-euUd
to be funded undor tho act of 1881.
John J. Gresham, President.
Lamar Coon, Secretary and Treasurer.
|" i hat." said tho reporter, "Li the gift of Senator
rown, is it not?"
P"Yea.” responded Colonel Avery, "that is tho
bond for tho Charles McDonald Brown fund.
Under tho certificate of the president and the sec
retary and treasurer of the board of trustees, the
^ governor, under the law, bad uo alternative, even
■ he had been Inclined, except to issue the bonds.
pThst vm the official evidence that
the bonds were tho property of the university
and In confoimity with the law of 18a!, It was abso
lutely imperative upon the governor to refund the
boud* and to issue a new one for fifty yean at seven
percent."
Aa Major Lamar Cobb took tho bond the reporter
aaked:
"Now what will follow? Can young men goto
col lego at once on that?"
"No, not yet. My young friend, this is a matter
that is to last for a long time,
and It cannot be done hastily,
however much we would like to <lo so. But we
must arrange all this matter the first thing we do.
In July the board will meet, and In July wo will
get the first payjnent of lutcreHt, just one-fourth the
entire amouut The annual Interest will be 13,500.
I In July we will get the flret quarter's interest only,
and that will be the only money from that source
available for the fall term. There have been about
sixtyapplicatlona already for the benefit* of Ihe fuud
I but we could not accommodate more than half
Ithat number. Senator Brown stipulate* that the
fund must be as neatly as possible evenly divided
out over the state. In July the board will decide
I upon a plan for carrying out that and the other
IprovPduus, and will also arrange any other matters
of detail. Until that is done why of course noth
ing cau be done with tho money, un the
ifiret of Jauuary we will receive
a fall six months Interest amounting
to seventeen hundred and fifty dollars. Jt may bo
Ithat the board will decldo that young men may
borrow money from private sources and start In and
pay it back on receipt of their quota of the fund. 1
do uot mean to say that they will, they may do It.
The ffitereat will amount to <3 500. and ft is de
signed to let each youug man bare 9200 or lea per
annum as be requires to go through college. Home
may not need that much. The fund will be divided
ibeiwcen the Dahlonega and Atbenscollegesandthe
benefit* will be even extended to pupils who may
desire to attend the medical college at Augusta."
"Will 9200 pay a boy’s expenses for a year at
Athens?"
"Yes. He can board for$12.50 per month, and his
tuition will be free. Hu uniforms will cost only
from 918 to 929 penult."
The governor investigated the matter fully, and
received the opinion of the attorney general, and
finding that rail the authority was In favor of the
I omul, he mado it. Ho that the whole matter may be
considered settled finally^
I THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA.
deposited the fruits of his movement through Ken
lucky, after the battle of Ferry ville. The war at
tracted attentions to the place and ineu from tho
northern and Houthern army met together there
when the strife ended and began to build
‘ . a city in earnest.
The populatieu of Chattanooga is mado up of
people from ovary state in the union,
and a few nights since at a banquet
given to the Southern Press association whete fif
ty citizens were present—there was not a
Bald General J. T. Wilder to The Constitution,
while standing on top of Common's hi)!, an eleva
tion inside the corporate limit* of the city, 350 feet
higher than tho valley ou which U is bum: "There
is thirteen hundred miles of
THE FINEST IRON ORE IN THE WORLD."
In-one hundred mile* of the place there Js coal
enough alongside of It to smelt it, and thou leave
nougb coat for fuel—to last the United States two
hundred years. 1 came here commanding a brigade
during the war from Indiana. 1 rode all over these
enucu, i seuicd up my ausmera at my old name
and come there to try ray fortune among • the poo
S le I had been fighting. I havo been living here
fteen years, and I have brought mai y of my
filetids and neighbors here. 1 have always been
treated with klud consideration by southern men.
aud If ever a word has been spoken by one of them
to wound my feelings because I was In tho federal
army I never heard it. 1 was Induced to come here
by what 1 saw iu the surrounding country. Wlieu
I caino there were but few meu with money here.
A few i* *" *•—** *
who hi
counted up sixty-two men who were now worth
over fifty thousand dollar*, who have made all of It
Inside of fifteen year*. 1 do not know a man lu the
city," continued the general, "who is attending to
lit* business and who is engaged in a legitimate
business that is not making money and doing
well."
Turning from the city to the river front that
sweeps along the foot of Onineron hill, tho general
called attention to the east bauk of tbn river along
the city front, and miles above it lined with rafts
of hugh saw logs—"These," said.the general, "camo
from up the Tennessee river, and its tributaries
they are floated down iu Immeuse quantities, and
are turned Into lumber by tho saw mills you see
along the bank at the base of this hill. The rolllug
mill Just below us ou the bank of the river belongs
to the Roane Iron company. It baa a million dollar*
capital, they own and mine their own oro and coal,
and make the best iron and steel rails lu the world.
It commenced thirteen years ago, aud Is really
THE PIoNKER MILL
in tho aouth. 81nce that mill started hero I have
seen seventy-two manufacturing onterpiists start up
machinery lu thi* city, employing three million
four hundred thousand dollars worth of capital,
and keeping busy four thousand two hundred em
ployes. the tannery Just below the mill Is the
largest of the kind in the world. It has
eleven hundred double vats, and tans six
hundred hides a day. It Is owned by
IU I’rtfRM, Thrift sad PMalbllltks-Ths Motor/ »X
•he City.
Chattanooga has not been regarded by those who
live outside of the city os a place of much impor
tance. This is a mistake. There are few cities In
the United States that can show such rapid Im
provement. It* manufacturing enterprises are on a
grand scale and increasing each year In number as
well as variety. But two cities In Tennessee
Have more population than Chattanooga, and they
are Nashville and Memphis. In the census of 1870
the city was classed with Jackson,Tenncssee.and In
1860 was so Insiiroiflcsnt that twenty towns !n the
state had more people, and more business. In 1870
6,093 was the population, in 1880, 12,173, and now
they claim from fifteen to twenty thousand. Be
fore the war but few of Its citizens ever thought
much of the future of Chattanooga. It was then of
not much more importance than when the old In
dian chief, John Ross, left It, It was
AKATUBALTRADIXG POINT,
but nothing was done to push it, and there seemed
to be no desire among the people who lived
there then to make It more than a large
village. The war came, and during its progress
Chattanooga became an Important strategic point
for the operation in Tenueaaee and Georgia. It waa
first the base of supplies for tbe confederate tarrnj
while occupying Port Donaldson aud Fort Henry.
Afterward* ft became the base of supplies for the
federal army in Georgia and East Tennessee. It
was at this place that General Hbermaa massed his
supplies In large quantity when he left Atlanta for
his march to the tea. J t was here that General Bragg,
tinned, aud will continue, as you see now founda
tions to tho left, they are going to enlarge this year.
Tney ship tho hide* here from New York, selecting
the best, aud make bill leather, became they ray
the ooze out of tho barks here I* stronger and makes
better leather. They ran my the Height oil tiio
hide* from New York to tbN place and pay the
freight ou iho leather back aud tnako a profit. The
mill below the tannery la tbe South Tredegar iron
wbrks, and theynio now making
NINE HUNDRED K EOS OP NAUR.
thirty tons of railroad spikes, aud thirty tons of
splice-bars daily."
TOMLINSON FORT'S V1F.WS.
Bald Mr. Tomlinson Fort to The Constitution
the next day, a* they rode to the top of Lookout
mountain: "Wegained lu population from 1870 to
1880 a larger percentage in Increase than any city
east of tho Mliwljudppi river. Our lucruano In trade
ba* been more rapid than our Increase In popula
tion. When we K*'t the obstruction removed at
Mnsclo Shoals wo will have advantage* in trade and
commerce In which no city lu the United States
can excel us. Chattanooga," he continued, "is the
best advertised city of Its alze iu Amcnc i. We have
kept It before tho people. They have kald some
hard things about us, but It ha*helped lu the end.
Wear* beyAnd any coithngencynmv, a.id no mis
take* will hurt u*. I expect toseo the day when we
will hsvo oue hundred thousand inhabitant*
nestled In thero between Lookout raeuntalii and
Missionary ridge. J expect," said he, "to stand
here and nee that valley lighted up with an hun
for tho world.
There Is no mistaking Iho fact that Mr. Fort be
lieve* cveiy word ho says, and hn will inako any
body cIm).except a Knoxville man believe it If they
will hear him out.
IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Chattanooga will reaumo a new Impetus by the
completion of the government works at Muscle
shoal*. This shoal blocks thn navigation of Hie
Ten ncfkscc river about fifty mlloi txriow tho city.
Tho government has boon building immense blocks
there lor year*, aud they are nearly completed.
One more appropriation will complete iho work-
only enough Is needed to build gate* for tbe locks
ami then the water can be turned Into them. Thou
boat* sixty feet wide and three huudred feet long,
cau come from New Orleans to Chattanooga aud
then go two hundred miles higher up
if they want . to. Tho wholo Mira
l*»dppi valley can bo reached from
lTttsburg to Dakota territory. It will aid In giving
a cheap line for tho manufactured goods of tho
place, and will give It advantages ss
A DISTRIBUTING rolNT
equal to any city in tho south. The people of
Chattanooga are thoroughly In love with this placo
—they believe In It, and don’t hesitate to talk
about It. They differ In politics and million about
a* much as any city In the country, but all agree
wheu they come to talk about the city. They pro
mote a man in local politic* according to hU utili
ty to help the city, and they dishonor a citizen who
dou't come to time wheu it needs praise. Tbl* fact,
connected with the fact that it la surrounded a* we
have shown, by Immense field* of coal aud iron,
will certainly make It a large city. . . ..
When Atlanta gets a huudred thousand Inhabi
tant* Chattanooga will have half a* much. The
two cities will be connected with a street railroad,
and wc will wake up the world blowlug our horns,
and don’t you forget 1L
.NEWS OF GEORGIA-
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAVING
AND DOING.
AlUb.Lc.dlnK Crime., c.au.Hle., .nd Oib.r Xv.Dt.
—How tb. Crop. TbrouKboat tb. S .t. si nd—
T.lk. About rolltlo. .nd Bu.ln... Matters
of Oon.rnl Iot.rr.1 to tbe Public.
RELIOIOUS NOTES.
Tilr. Catholics of Spain number 18,000,000,
and hare 10,000 ni.Rniacent churches.
Morocco, peopled by llie finest Moslem
race In tbe world. Is wholly clurcd to ChrbUsntty
8av notliinR of yourself, either good, bad,
orlndHTonint; nothing good, forthst is sanity;
nothing bad, lor that Is affectation; nothing Indlf-
ferent, for that Is tllly.
The number ot students in tbe Treabylerlan
theological seminaries durlsg the past year Is os
follows: Princeton, 12S: Union, 129; Allegheny, U;
Auburn, 42; Lane.M; Chicago, 27; Danville, 7; Ban
Francisco, G; making a total ot 449.
Next year, 1884, will be the centennial
year ot American Methodism. Not tbit Methodism
was Introduced hero that year, the first society
being lormed In 170G, but In 1784 tho MelhodDt
Eplwopal church was organised, and now the dif
ferent branches of tho church are preparing to cele
brate Ihe event.
Bishop Whipple, on a recent visit to tbe
Indian department of his missionary diocese, ad
ministered the communion to 247 Chippewa Indians.
Fifteen yeus ago there was scarcely one commuul-
esnt among them. There ora now eight churches
In Chippewa mladon, and one now building will
costflO.UOO.
Oeseual Booth has just publisher! a year-
book, of which the following ban extract: "During
the year Ut2, 600 ol our soldiers (the salvation
army) to our knowledge, have been knocked down,
kicked or otherwise brutally OMaulled, 2ol beitlg
women and 23 children under 1A, No lew than »
of the buildliigi used by us have been allocked,
nearly all of Ure window! being broken in many
coses, and to many others even more.erlout dam
age being doue. Meeting! have sometime, been
broken up by stouts crashing through window or
root."
Bar. W. C. Van Meter writes from Koine,
under date of March s, that his adult schools-for
men and women, also for working boys and girl—
in connection whh the orsUcan mh.iou, number
222 pupils, with live teachers. At ihe Ghetto ml.
slon, which ure Rev, Dr.Tsylor has restored lo him,
but rtlaloe It as a preaching station, the school,
number 137, under three teaefiem-making a tout
In day and night ttcboola of 367. Thcso an Bible
Kboott, though elementary secular In.tructlou Is
also given. cuUl suitable apartment, can be ss-
cured fer the Vatican schools, Urey ate accommoda
ted In rooms of the ItslJaa Frtt church.
MiLt.EDOEVtLLi, April 17.—We were eure
mad dogs had about disappeared, but such Is
not the ense around here. Mr. W. It. Ennis
of our county, lias lost forty sheep. Most o
them were known to bare been bitten, and
all showed unmistakable signs of rabies. Two
nigs which wero bitten were put in a pen.
They both died within ten days, baring been
perfectly wild. I hear of another ntad dog
In town this morning. If this thing is kept
up or allowed to go on, what must wo expect
before tbe summer is ended?
Valdosta, April 18.—The farmers of this
section are now jtusily engaged with their
farming operations, honco tliA,- tnko littlo
Interest in politics. They ore perfectly satis-
lied with the action ot the oonrenlion.
ColdMitus, April 18.—A handsome subscrip,
lion lias been taken up among tho citizens
for the widow of II. L. Palmer, parser of the
sank steamer. Tltreo hundred und elghly-two
dollars were raised to-day, anil ’much more
will he raised to-morrow. A liberal sub
scription lias also been given Mrs. Rivers.
InniAN Si'ititro, April 18.—At 8 o'clock this
morning the store of II. J. Lamar, In front
ot tbe Collier House, caught Are and despite
the titan fill ell'orts of a large crowd, who soon
gathered, the building was soon entirely
covered In Humes. Tho Collier house next
Ignited from the intense heat, which, together
with the Lsmar store, in less than two hoars,
was entirely destroyed. The vacant store of
Mrs. Wright led the llamcs from Lamar's to that
of Hammers A Lawson, both of which burned.
The bar and billiard saloon of Oeorge Collier,
tbe vacant store of K. K. Pound, together
with another small building south of Collier's
was burned also. Maunders A Lawson
saved about all their goods. Perhaps about
ten per cent of the Collier houso furniture
was saved. The postofllce with roost of Its
fixtures wero destroyed. None, except II J.
lottuar hold any insurance—he about ono-lialf.
The Are has been stopped and no further
damega expected. The total loss is estimated
at $.10,000. The people struggled nobly to
save tho property but had no appliances for
doing so unu their only available efforts were
those made to extricate goods from Ihe burn-
ing buildings. The lire was incendiary.
LaOrakor, April 18—Henry Robertson,
alias Hodge, who waa arrested Item about ten
days sgo on the charge of burglary, was on
Montlay demanded from the sherlir by a
United Htutrs deputy marshal, who claims
that he is wanted In laiiiisvlllo fur the crime
of counterfeiting uud passing counterfeit
money in that city. The sheriff refuted to
deliver him, whereupon tho deputy marshal
b rut: it red a writ of habeas corpus from the
nited Htatcs circuit court sitting at Atlanta,
and, returning to LaOrange, received
Ills prisoner. Tito burglary committed was a
bold deed—the blowlug open of John N.
Cooper's safe—and out citizens are nnzlotts
that be should be tried and convicted for tlml
offenso. It seems lhatTtobertson was impris
oned in Tennessee, charged with the crime for
which he is now wanted In Louisville, but
escaped from jail, liberating gve ollur pris
oners.
Attoi'HTA, April 10.—'Tito annual meeting
of the Uruuiteville factory was held to-day.
The sitiie officer) were circled as last year.
Thounuuurrcport showed the proilts ot the
two,mills, the UranitevIBe and the Vauclute,
to lie $1731,000, notwithstanding the unfavor
able year just past. The company nmdo 21
per cent net on the capital, after paying all
nccciaary expenses and $21,000 Interest.
llAiKiiaiiKic, April 10.—A horrible accident
took jiluce in tho northern portion of our
town on ycaterday. Mrs. Wyatt Otlflln, slater
of our auperlor court clerk, John T, Wim
berly, waa making a put of snap In tier yard,
when her dress caught Arc,and Defore It could
ho extinguished she waa horribly burned
about the legs, hands and abdomen. Very
little hopes are entertained ot
her recovery. Her two daughters, aged
Afteen and nine years, were badly
though not fatally, bullied in tlielr efforts lo
tear the dollies from their mother and put
out the Are.
Aliiaky, April 10.—Several Texans have
been buying up cattle In the wiregrass region
uruund here for several weeks for shipment
to l'ort Worth, Texas. It Is said they have
thus far procured about four thousand head
at an average of seven dollars and Ally cents
per head. The rales of shipment will be
eighty dollnrs per car-load.
Talbottok. April 20.—I wroto you r day or
two since telling you of tho mishap ot T. H.
Mahone, of Uellevlew, Talbot county, Oa., ho
having been bitten by a mad dog. I)r. W. 11.
1'lillpot amputated Ills thumb tho morning
he waa bltlen. To-day he leaves for the cele
brated loadstone In Mississippi. Ills friends
nil over Ihe stale will be glad to bear from
him. ne is doing well, hut intends to try
every means to prevent hydrophobia.
Oeaysvilli, April 20.—It was an error that
the wife and soven children of Mr. Westbrook
was dcat|, and had died of some mysterious
disease. No far there has been only four
deathe In tbe family, and one of them (lied
this morning, and another one of tbe family
is dying, of pneumonia fever.
ilASTWKLL, April 20.—The cat that bit
James K. Vickery and his little daughter last
week, also hit one of bis dogs which bss gone
mail.
Aliiary, April 21.—Tbe superior court ad
journed yesterduy, having been In session
three weeks. The preseut week is devoted lo
the criminal docket. Some eighteen verdicts
and picas of guilty were entered, leaving a
number still untried. The general present
ments of tbe grand jury sre highly Important.
Among other recommendations ore llie pur
chase of Tift’s bridge by the county at thirty
thousand dollars and its conversion Into a free
bridge. Tbe cltlsena have refused heretofore
to do this by a popular vote and this action is
in virtue of u special act of the legislature ob
tained since. The county commissiencra have
atill to acton the matter, spec s! attention
is called lo the condition of the track and
road bed of the Southwestern rood extension,
from Albany toBlakely, and the South Florida
and Western, from Albany to Thomasville,
and a solemn protest entered against these
companies being allowed lo run trains over
sold roads In their present condit
ion, end our representatives are
asked lo secure a law providing for
a board of inspectors in the same manner as
convict camp* sre now required to be Inspec
ted; a standard Iron to be used, and other ap
purtenances to be regulated by law. Tbe
presentments against these two roods are
particularly strong, and tbe attention of tbe
railroad communion is specially called there
to.
U Columbus, April 21.—Memorial day will
i celebrated with greater poinp and ceremo
ny in this cily on the 20th than erer before.
Tbe cadets front Auburn, Alabama, and a
military company from Hamilton, will par
ticipate. O. K. Thomas, Jr., has been se
lected as orator of tbe dajr.
Amioicus, April 21.—The superior court
has now been In session about two weeks, but
will probably adjourn Saturday night. Last
week's session was dull, os many of the law
yers bad been excused, and J udge Fort was
disqualiAcd in many cases. Lost week's
grand jury found 18 true bills. This grand
jury of this week found a true bill against
Mr. J M. Simmons, for larceny after trust,
and be has been bouad over. The grand jury
of lost week’s court recommended to Judge
Ford about twenty road overseers to be Aned
for neglect of duty, but also recommended
that the Ane be waived in case the roads
were property worked before October court.
Among the tfames presented wero many of
our most prosperous farmers.
CitATTAitoooA, April 21.—While working in
the coal mines near Warrior, Ala., yesterday,
l'utrick Dougherty was killed by a slate tail
ing in on him. He was alone at the. time of
the accident, and was dead when found.
Dougherty was formerly a resident of Coal
ufo j'«^ l!, ! neMeC- ^e is tho second man
Killed in the same mines within a few years
Augusta, April 21.—The grand jury re
turned forty-two true bills to-day, principally
misdemeanors. No action was taken in re
gard to the Illegal voting. It is believed that
the grand jury will recommend tho passage
of a general registration law by the legislature.
Rome, April 21.—The farmers are hard nt
work in this section. Your correspondent
traveled a day and a half on the public road
through a thickly settled country and met
but one person. A larger acreage of cotton
is being planted than lost year.
OBOROlA’ OOSSIP.
Sheri Talks IVIth the Oerlhee erthe Ceeetr l*reee-A
Flatting Fart/.
A 950,000 cotton factory Is to be erected at Antho
ny Shoal.*, Wilkes county.
A Washington merchant one day recently bought
500 bushels of peas f|t>m a Wilkes farmer.
Fishing and hunting still engages the attention of
the people around Blackshcar.
Tronp Jolce, colored, living in Montgomery coun
ty# dropped dead, while whipping his boy.
According to the Enterprise, Tatnall county is
financially, In a healthy condition—money in the
treasury and no debts standing against the county.
Cherokee Advance: On Wednesday (the 4th.) C.
M. kecter shot and killed a flnj deer, four miles
west of Canton, on Btamp creek. Tho deer was run
fifteen miles by 12 oi Mr Ward abounds before ho
was caught up with. Messrs. Kcotcr, Pope and
others were iu the chase. After tbe deer was killed,
the party, having borrowed tho dogs, cut off tho
deer’s ears and tied thorn round one of the hound’s
neck, aud sent them back to the owner of the dogs.
Mr. Ward acknowledged the receipt by mail. Bo alt
patties were made glad.
Berrien News: Sheriff Rutherford returned from
Millcdguville Thursday, where he hod been to take
thn tbreopartly demented children. John, Jeasoand
Solomon Tucker, who are so well known to our
citizens and those who visit our town.
A colored inmate of the Dougherty poorhouse,
Anthony Gllmor, has died at the ago of one huu
dred year*.
One boy In Berrien has found twenty-three gooso
nest* this season,
Dahlonegs Signal: Thero is a student attending
to h. G. A. C. who was a major dutiug tno last
ear of the clril war.
Lumpkin Independent: On Wednesday night
last while Mr. Cowart, who keep* store for Mr. J.
J. Matthews, at Johnston's mill, was at supper, tho
hack door of tue store was broken open by burglars.
When Mr. Cowart toturned from supper he found
that the back door had been prized open with an
ax and tho cash drawer robbed of about twelve
dollar* in money. No goods were stolen, as tho
thieve* were probably frlghtonwl off by Mr.
Cowart'* approach. After making a thorough
search of the store and finding no
one, Mr. Cowart began to look around
the premises. In passing by a pllo of lumber Mr.
Cowm a*w some one lying down on Iho ground,
who Jumped up aud ran. Cowari fired hi* pistol
at tho retreating negro, who fell at tbo crock of tho
pistol but quickly jumped upand continued to run.
jumping behind a tree to avoid two other pistol
ball* that were sout wbhxmg after him. Tho uegro
hi* falling looks as if the firstsbotmight bavo taken
effect.
Monroe Advertiser: Last Thursday night somo
ouo in Forsyth was guilty of dhgiaccful conduct,
thcllke of which has not heou known In tho town
In many year*. A bullet wo* ffred'luio the front
«!<• -:>'t Mr. « \ M. ilitmN th*« ghi>.sof the Imii-
aom over Bramhlett «k Bro’s front door was broken,
anfl one of tho large plate-glans windows of J. J.
Cater «b Co. waa smashed. Tho perpetrator of this
daMardly act should bo ferreted out by all means,
and we nope It will bo dono.
Milfedgevllle Union: Joe Dallas shot and killed
a strange water fowl near town a day or two ago.
It was nearly as large as a tamo turkey.
It was black, with whito spots on bark aud wlogi,
breast perfectly whits; it was webfooted. It re
sembled a penguin more than any other bird wo
oversaw. It Is evidently a marine bird, and had
got out of its element.
Over 930,(00 worth of whale oil has been shipped
from Brunswick tb^i year, and it promises to be-
ome an Important and flourishing business in that
locality.
The Coweta Advertiser’s Hcnola correspondent
says that the guano season is over, and the records
at tho railroad depot show that to this dato Oil toes
of fertilizers have been received thorp during the
season Just past; while 1,177 tons wero received
thore during tho season of If 82, showing a differ
once of 296 tuna These 296 tons represent 296 bales
of Liverpool middling lint cotton, worth at least
forty dollars per bale. Thcso facts, therefore, show
that about twelve thousand dollars iu clcun coin
will remain there next fall that left tho year before
pay for fertilizers; that is, if as
many bales of cotton are made this
year aa in 1882, and tho probability 1«. there will bo
more. If cnly throo fouths of the fertilizers sold at
Benola are paid for, then every yc*r between
thirty-five and forty thousand dollar* worth of
cotton is shipped from Renola to pay for fertilizers.
The best farmors in Goorgia ray that a discreet me
of fertilizers pays, but these figures mako It very
problematical whether or not our farmersaro using
It discreetly. Despite allot this, bonw^tt fli to*
to resting to learn that not ax much as
fifty buihul* of corn have been shipped
here since tho first day of last January, and
there would not have been any perhaps but for the
fact that the sawmill men had been trading lumber
for corn. Until very recently corn in almost any
quantity could be bought there for sixty cents per
bushel, and good fodder was seventy-five cents per
hundred. It will also be an interesting fact to learn
that there are now stored in tho warehouses about
one hundred and fifty bales of cotton belonging to
tho farmers.
Mr. R. A. Harrell, of Dodge county, wax|biiten
on the band by a ground-raUltsnako on Sunday
last, and ia almost blind from tho effect.
Telfair county boasts a snake with six fang-.
Up till Monday last the cotton receipts of Sanders-
ville were 6,836 bales.
Waynesboro Herald: Girls that are fond of green
plums will be sorry to learn that tbo cold has in
jured the plum more than any other fruit.
J. L. Knglish, who lives on the lino of Dodge and
PuUukl county, has fifty acres in corn which Is
from four to twelve Inches high. Also ono hun
dred acres of cotton which is now np and to a good
stand.
West Point Enterprire: A Sunday or two ago a
,oung man with measles called on a young l*dy,
stidthf folloftinghubdayshealso had them. Moml:
Young men with measle* should not go visit
ing.
Kastman Times: Wc learn through Rev. R. D.
Gentry, of McK«e, of the death of a lovely yuiing
lady of Telfair county, a mi** r<*wcii, while wait
ing in the woods, where tho grass wo* on fire, she
wus enveloped in tbe llames, imd so badly burned
that she died therefrom on the 7th Instant. 8ho
survived but a few day*. We learn that M 1m Powell
was engaged to be married lo a worthy young gen
tleman Just one week from the occurrence of the
fatal accident
Hamilton Journal: Mr. O. c,\ Ba«s presented us
last week with a curious car of corn that had four
fiti* • lu-tcfud Hr>>utid it. All grow u iu the
raaic shuck from oue stem. It grew on the planta
tion of Mr. William Copeland, in Valley Plain* dis
trict.*
Rising Fawn Is to have an Ice cream festival.
Itev. J. M. Calloway, of West Point, ho* a six Inch
twig with eleren well developed young patches
on It.
Captain Z. M. Mitchell, of Greene, ha* a rooate
only five months old welghiog five and a half
pounds: and a pullet from the same brood aud of
thesame age, has laid too litters of eggs, and 1* now
actio* ca them.