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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION’. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MAY 18, lb8U 11 THROUGHDIXIE WHAT THE SOUTHERN FOLKS ARB SAYING ANO DOING. T*. Southern Eaptlati-A Sketch or the Ooal Tl.Ids Show Ids Its Abundant* and the Oreet prosreee Mode in the Hethode of Proeurtns.lt— She JSIlk of e Had Cow. Xtc. South Carolina. ,, Nestor’ killed Luther Bnrrett In burg Tuesday, Ueetor was whipping hischild. Barrett remonstrated, when Heitor threw a plow iron, itriklug Barrett's head, kllUng him instantly. Arkansas. A dog belonging to A. J. Hsll, a former living near Little Eock, went mad recently and among pie animals which it wounded in its wander ings about the form was a milch cow. The cow showed no signs of being affected by the wound, and it was thought that hydrophobia *otold not result. Later, however, the animal showed the dreaded symptoms, and at the same time the fanner’s two little children, who had been nouriahed with tho eow'a milk, exhibited similar symptoms and are In a criti cal condition, luffering moat terrible agonies. Other members of the family are alao ill, bat there symptoms are not ao alarming as those S! cll ildren, and some hope la expressed that they may recover. West Virginia. Oco. Baum, living with his wife and family a few mills from Volcano, narrowly escaped being lynched recently by a mob of Indig nant neighbor!. Tho cause waetheonira- geona treatment of hit wife and the feeding of her and the children on dog flesh. Mrs. -Baum ia ill with consumption and her physi cian prescribed cod liver oil. Uer husband thereupon killed a dog, rendered tome of its fat and placed it in a bottle and took that and the dressed meat home. His wife took the grease and soon ho- came Tery ill. The dog meat Banm represen ted lo be mutton and made the children eatit. Asa result the children were also taken sick. Satnrday some of the neighbors whoso sus picions bad been excited followed Banm to the woods and saw him kill and dress another dog. Tboy at once captured him. They were on tho point of hanging him when wiser coun sels prevailed and he was placed in jail. Hto wife and children pro here very 111. Florida. Saturday B. W. Campbell, marshal of Bar tow, and a policeman nameddfcCormick, were shot by Dan and Lon Mann. Tho Mann brothers had a difficulty with a merchant. The officers inter- ferred and Dan Mann drew a pistol and shot Campbell through the heart. At tho same instant, Ion Mann And on McCormick, wounding him desperately. The Manns jump ed in a buggy ana drove olf at a fhrious rate. The sheriff and a posse followed, captured and brought them back to town and lodged them safely In jail. Dan and Lon Mann, who murdered Marshal Campbell and wounded Officer McCormick at Bartow Saturday, were lynched late that night. A crowd of two hundred men surrounded tho jail, disarmed the sheriff and took tho keya and took the prisoners to a tree near by. While stringing op Daa Mann Lon got loose and ran. Be waa promptly winged and strung np to tho tamo limb. Tho coroner cut thorn down, and the verdict was rendered of death Virginia. Information was received at Blchmond Wednesday of a dastardly attempt by a negro man to murder tho Bev. W. C. Hall, pastor of tho Four Milo creek Baptist chnrch, in Hcnlco county, and his wife. Itapnoars that Mr. Hall and hit wife had just retired for the night,when some one knoeked at the front door, Mr. Hall aroee, and on opening tho door found a heavy built negro on tho front porch. He asked the man what he wanted, but without replying, the negro aaaanlted Mr. Ball with a club, felling him to tho door. He then entered the chamber and attacked Mrs. nearing some one moving in tho upper part of the house. An alarm waa givanbya little grandchild, and the neighbors found the von- ersblo couple insensible and In a critical con dition.. Mr. Hall ia 73 years old. A posse of citizens are oat searching for the negro, and if found he will be anmmarlly dealt with. Alabama. ’ At Montgomery, the Southern Baptist con vention met In its third day’s session it I) o’clock Tuesday morning. The business in hand waa the report on foreign missions. Different features of tho work, ombraclag Cuban, Mexican, Brazilian, African and China minions were discussed at the morning and afternoon sessions. Missionaries from all these lands were present, and presented the claims of the missions. Great enthusiasm was mani fested, especially over the work In Mexico. Great interest was awakened In the work in Africa, and Dr. Ellis, of Baltimore, made an able speech in behalf of It. Dr. T. P. Craw ford, of China, was earnest in the advocacy of minions on self-sustaining plans. One of the extensive developments of tho new •oath is tho mining ofcoal. In thlsstatosro mines being opened in which the supply is inexhaustible. It is estimated the three coal delds of the . state comprise aggregating SAOO square miles, which Is more than a tenth area of the stated of which the Warrior Hold contains 5,000, and the Coon and Ckhaba Helds, together 600. Besides these ore inisller delds in the otate The first attempt at coal mining In Alabama, according to eminent authority, was on a seam twenty-two inches thick in the vicinity of the state university at Tuscaloosa. In the early period of securing ooal it waa dived for In the waters of the riven which drain the immense deposits. The manner of diving for coal was novel; a flat boat was moored parallel with the Joints end near the edge of the coal; long wedgo shaped crow-bars were driven into the seams by meant of mania han dled by men in the boat, when a ledge of about two feet waa loosened in thisway across tho team three men dived together and lifted the coal bodily to tho surfkoe and placed it In the boat. It la eatimated six hundred tons of coal waa secured from eight to fifteen feet un der the water. The output of the various ooal mine* of the state is nearly eight thousand tons, of which tho output of tho Watts company to 250 tons, Warrior 250, Pi area 150, Hayno 150, Bras# 100, Milner 200, Ooalburg 700, Henry Ellen 300, Stock SO, Helena 400, Blocton, 480, Woodward 650, Montovallo 200; Brlerdold 600, Walker county 700, Pratt company 2,600, Broken Ar row and Ragland 300. The quality of ooal to equal to the best ooal of other sections, and to especially adapted for manufacturing purpose*. It to estimated there are ten thous and minors In the state who average twenty- five rente a ton tor mining coal. The best miners are Scotch who are hard workers and talk little. They are rood eaten and live well, spending nearly all their earnings for food. Their chief diet to rare heefwith t»*r,-of which they drink lots. Theyboltove in chil dren and have loti of them. The Welsh miner is among the best In the world, bat they are few in Alabama. Next to the Scotch miner the English rank and do hard work. Their food consist* of plum padding and the finest of every article of food. They drink much ale when it to to be had and raise lots of children. ’ Fsencb miners lira high and sat href a la mode, girlic,mnahrooms and drink loti of wins. They are good minors and talk a great deal, but are not understood so well. They hare few children. The Irish are hard workersand C od miners. They eat like the English and veplenty of children. They talk a great deal and have always a witty and n ready an swer. The Hungarian miner to not wanted when other labor enn ho second. They hare had reputations as strikers and always gi ve troable. The Gormans are good workota, and hare any qaantity at babies. They are great lover* of music and sour krant. They talk a great deal, bat only to themsdnSL Tho Cornish miner to a si They fi loud one for rock liko Englishmen, talkers and work. They cm a few months, he told one pig for $d 50, »toe lota of I another for *7.20; $8.20 worth of meat, kilted of JI£ ? ood 8n K eri an d like lots and eaved 703 poundis of pork, which netted or moste. Tho American minor to a good per- him $42.18, and at the expiration of oloveu ■lstcnt. — v .„ , u , u olQ „ wli e, T-S ntwo, ^ s .** Itordand has fewer ba- tho negro to indispenslble to the cosl mlnei. They become experts u drivers and Si sf 1 *’ . T " # 1 w <>rk does not require brains, and they do splendidly. Their chief idea of lift u to eat. Their everyday food consists of corn bread and fot bacon, while for Sunday **t the finest canned goods they can bay. The negro does not have as many babies a» the foreigner. Tho atrongeet miner to the Scotch; they are alao the tallest. The English are the shortest built. The American is the most slender. A statement from Carltolc, Fenn., from Norman Porter, that Jefferson Davis said at Montgomery on April 28th or 29th that “ho often prayed God to live to see tho day when Lincoln and Grant were in hell, and as hb prayer hod been granted he was willing to die," is absolutely false. Every word uttered by Davis in his two speeches ho mads here waa telegraphed to the associated press, as many northern correspondents who wore hots will testily. Porter further stated that he waa severely - by a man In the crowd bearing the name of Davis, because ho mid "Davis ought to have been hnng while at Fortress Monroe," to eqnaUy fill so. On tho night ol Davis's arrival, ahont 11 o clock, Porter was very drank In tho bar room, and got into a fight in which he slightly cut. His wound wss received fifteen honnbefore Davis spoke, and the quar to'nothing to do with politics. It was just one drunken man lighting another, and was the only diatnrbanco hero daring the three days of excitement. GEORGIA NEWS. or the Week Suited . irrospondents* Reports. Hr. Emory Blnlon, who lives near Wrights- Jwro, brought to tho office of tho Thomson Journal a bonch of common awamp cans, or reeds, which were loaded with seed or grain, almost precisely like wheat, only much larger. Mr. Blnlon says that there are several acres of this cane, some of which to bent to the ground with the weight of tho heads, and he thinks' that some of it wonld yield as much as a hundred bushels to the aero. Stock, cattle and poultry are very fond of It. Major Butt, of Galneaville, examined it and stated that it was simply tho old fashion ed cane gone to seed, which is a very rare oc currence. He says that the same thing oc curred in Barbour county, Ala., a number of years afio. If it to poasible to propagate this seed bearing cane It would bo a wonderful benedt to the people. Albany. News: Seme of the darkles were very Indignant at Captain Henry Byrd, of tho Colquitt Guards, ana those of his com pan j who turned ont with the white people to pay their respects to ox-President Jefferson Davu on Saturday afternoon. Upon the other hand, thetr white ftllow-eltlsens appreciated Qls evidence of loyalty and good fooling upon their part. Union soldiers who fought against the southern confederacy toasted Hr. Davto and paid their rcspccti to him daring his re cent tour. Why, then, can’t the eouthern ne groes Join their white fellow-citixensln honor ing the grand old patriot! Carncsvlllo Reporter Several years ago quite a number of fish ponds were started In tbto county and stocked with carp. The most astonishing results were predicted and expect ed. The fish, it wai thought, would multiply by thousands annually, ana grow to the weight of from one to four pounds the first year, and grow still more rapidly in moceedtng years. It was also believed that the carp waa a most ox. collect fish for table use. In all those expecta tion! the carp raisers have been disappointed. The fish neither grow nor multiply very rap idly, neither do they taste well after they at tain considerable size. There may be more than one reason for tho failure of growth and increase, bnt we offer one, that to conclasiro. Tho ponds rarely exoeed, or oven reach one- of an acre in also. The young dsh are estimated by thousands each spring, bat we will cut thorn down to one thousand. These ore expected to grow to tho weight of two pounds each, tho first year, making one ton of solid nutritive flesh pro- dnesd on one fourth an sore in twelve months The production of every pound of dosh would require at least ten pounds of nutritive food. To produce a ton of flesh wonld require ten tons, or 20,000 pounds of food. Where to the food to come from? Does anyone expect ton tons of hugs, flies and worms, to fell into, crawl into, or rear In a fourth sere pond? The food necessary to raise a ten of fish would bo equivalent to 357 bnshols of corn. This esti mate leave* ont all former crops still in the pond—including only one spawn of a thousand fish. A little figuring will show every owner of a carp pond, that his sanguine expectations were obliged to fall. Albany News: The sad Intelligence that M-s. Parish, a woman living in Hungry Town, an Albany snburb, had attempted sulcldo by shoot ing herself, reached the city at ten o’clock on yesterday morning. A reporter repaired to the scene of tho red occurrence and found the rumor to bo true. In a small house, serving thedouble purpose of store and dwelling, the "poor unfortunate’’ was found In a state of unconscious suffering, holding a precarious tenure upon life. A once handsome faco, with traces of past beauty to soften the hard lines with which sin end can bed marred, was lit np with the light of wild, restless eyes. A smell puncture, from which Imt little blood flowed, wss to be seen just above tho left breast, over the heart, made by s bullet from a Smith and Wesson pistol, of No. 32 calibre, fired by tho unhappy woman's own hand. Dr. P. L. Hilsman prob ed the wound end found the ball hod ranged aronnd the heart and probably penetrated the lnng, and could not then predict the probable result oi the serious wound. Hentat aberration to assigned ss the cause of tho nuh act. It was learned from attendants and neighbore that at irregular Intervals, fur about twelvo months post, Mr*. Paris had evinced unmis takable signs of mental derangement, and oneo before had attempted self-destruction by jumping into a well. On yesterday morning oho seemed unusually restless, with the svidenoes of a wandering mind, and by some moans procured tho pistol, unobserved, with which she Inflict ed the probably fatal wound. Mrs. Parish bean the name of* poor bnt honest and re spected farmer, who, dying several years slnoo, left hsr a young and attractive widow. Sho yielded to the Qnportunitlee of oao John Bol ton, and between the pair an unhappy mar riage was consummated, the mutually galling bonds of whlce union the court dissolved by divorce. Five small children, all too young to Tho Washington Chronicle says; "At the Isto prohibition election Taliaferro went dry, hut her barkeeper* are being cured for. Tho town council of Crawfordvilto recently up- pointed Mr. Thomas Akin as town marshal over asveral other candidates. Mr. Akin was one of the barkeepers who had toquittmelne**, At the election for ordinary to sneered Mr. Beasley; lately deceased, Mr. H. H. Flynt, who had formerly been a leading barkeeper, was overwhelmingly elected to the office over Mr. Murden, a popular citiaen of the county.” Covington Star: A prominent merchant of Ccnyeis to authority for saying that If the quretlon of local option coaid he submitted to the white people of Bockdale county to morrow leaving the colored vote out), prohi bition wonld bo defeeted by a handsome ma jority. He to a chnrch member, a prominent and influential merchant a good citizen, tad did as much as any man In Rockdale to carry prohibition ia that county when it wu voted upon by tho people uomo yean ago. Hu further says he would hove given one hundred dollars to have carried prohibition in Nuwton county, ut onr late election, If it could not havu been carried without it This to the business view he takes of the matter, and says ho expects now to get back tho trado ha had lost and which Covington has been getting lor soma yean past. , $42.18, and at tho expiration months had thirteen shotes on hand, worth $') each—$38. The total cost of feeding and keeping wss $25. This subtracted, with the drstcost, leaves a net profit of $54.58, On the 25th lust., Cobb county will vote on tho ftneo or no fence question. Tho mutter to attracting considerable attention. Blanton Brown, living near Caraosvillo. sheared twcnty.ono pounds of wool from four owes this soring. Three of the ewes are one- fourth merino, and the other to of the com mon scrub stock of the country. Ur. Brown's success seems to meet tho argument that sheep will not do well in a pasture. Ho hre kept his for a long time in a small pasture. They have been free from disease, and the yield of wool to certainly most satisfactory. P. C. Holbrook, n near neighbor to Ur. Brown, baa twenty sheep, eight of whioh are one- lourth merino, end twelve ere scrub*. They have been as well feed and cared for aa Ur. Brown’s, except they ran at lane. They yielded' forty pounds of wool this spring- twenty pound* was sheared from the eight qoartor merinos, and twenty pounds from the twelve scrubs. A lively fight occurred In Baldwin connty on Satnrday, between two fiunlUre, Hogan end Freeman, in which ono of the Freemans wu quite dangerously out and thu other shot. Two of thu Hogan family were also badly beaten, one with a mattox and the other with a pistol. The fight began on the public road, where two of tho Hogan boys attackod Morgan Freeman, wnlch resulted In Freeman receiv ing a dangerous wound In tho eido, indicted with a knife. On learning this the Freeman family gathered a crowd and attacked tho Hogans at their home, when a general fight ensued, in whioh pistols, grabhlnghore tnd wagon standards were freely used. In this fight snothor one of the Freeman boys re ceived a pistol shot In the leg, and two of tho Bogani were badly beaten with pistols and hoes. Morgan Freeman lies In a dangerous condition from tho stab in the side, and three of the party are in jail with six others under bond, charged with assault with intent to mur- der. A few nights since Will Bryant, of Leo county, heard a commotion among his dogs, end seizing a pistol, he hurried to thu ucono. On hto arrival he found hto dogs badly whip ped, hut hto appearance gave thorn fresh cour age, ud they went for a strange animal that wu, seemingly, a Uttle larger than either of the dogs. They were quickly whipped hack, and Will Urea at It The thing than rushed an him, and he tried to shoot again, bat the pistol foiled, and in an Instant hto hand was terribly lacerated by the bout The dogs ran in again, and the beast run them off, and u it leaped the fence wu followed by another •hot from the pistol in Mr. Bryant's hands. Previous to visiting hto place it had whipped out all the dop for a neighbor a short dis tance off. From the Qaltman, G*, Free Press. G. W. Hooker hu two cows, native stock, guinea tribe, that give five gallons of milk per day and furnishes his finally, nine in number, with more butter than they can consume. The result hu been brought elmut by good atten tion and high feeding. Wu know another man who hu over a dozen milkers, feeds scanty during thu winter, none at ill at other seasons, and hto frmlly only hu milk and butter three or four mouths durii to scttlo tho cow que: In MUton county one of Judge Nesblt’s boo blvee produced six pounds of honey In a single nay tost weak. Ha weighed the hive In the morning before the boos hud gone out and again ut night after they were all In, and found tho increased weight or the hive to be olght pounds. Hu weighed It again next morning found the weight only six pounds greater than the morning before. Ho lays tho two pounds lost in thu night wu due to evaporation, tho honey when first made being quite watery. Tbs Gwinnett Herald soys that Oeoi Brown, eon of Mr. Gilbert Brown, went out In tho woods, near hto homo, to try hb pistol. He snapped It to see If it would fire; u no re port came, he conolndod to look down tho bar rel to see If it wu loaded, and it was. Just u begot the barrel In range of hto eye, it fired, and the ball struck between tho right eye and nose, and glanced, coming ont in toe corner of bia eye. Tho wound shocked him very much, and a gentleman putlog along hoard hto groans and went to hto relief. He ilu carried homo, and a physician sent for, who dressed the wound. About 2 o'clock lut night the boaotifol end raluabi# bores of Mr. John A. Smith wu sto len. A negro boy sleeping in the barn heard the thief, bnt st the time supposed It wu Mr. Smith himself, but after awhile decided to in- veatigato tho matter. H* trow and soon gave tho alarm, About 3 o’clock Marshal Tom Hanlo and Hr. John Martin, gathering all tho information poasible, started in hot pursuit down tho LtwnnceviUa road, which leads to 2 wards Atlanta. After a ride of 30 miles over a very rough country, and by the exercise of fine detective skill in tricking ths horse, and from inquiring ut many places, they came on the thief ud hto prize about ten miles below here. He wu walking, leading tho hom and dubed into tho woods u toon bo uw Hants and Martin. They followed, and succeeded In csptnring him, and brought him Into town •bout 11 o'clock with a pistol ball in hto loft shoulder and otherwise badly braised. Wednesday at Woodbnry, in Moriwather county, Jams* Cartwright shot and killed Bad Johnson. They were sitting on a fence talk ing when, without warning, Cartwright shot Johnson through thu head, instantly kllUng him. Cartwright says that he wu told by God to kill Johnson. Ho hu boon under s religious craze for several days, but poblls opinion to divided u to his innnlty. Hu Is now in jail at Greenville. Young cotton to dying ont near Athens, and Ignat many formers are planting over. DEATHS IN GEORGIA. Mr. Charles Johnson, Colquitt county ......Muter Fraest High, Atlanta Mrs. Y. M. Klyca, Atlanta. Mr. Jamsa HcGarrah, Marion county Mrs. 1L T.HolUi, Marlon county. ...Mrs. D. Cant, Colum bus....Master Harry Ware, Macon .Timothy Murphy, Atlanta Master Archie Cobb. Athena __Mrt. Gut Hertz. Fort Gaines Mr. Wylie Jtckion, Taliaferro county—Mr. P. B. Gillespie, Atlsnts....Mr.Pickens Tate,Cobb county .Mr. Elam Johnson, Atlanta....Mr. Charles Bsngtri. Atlanta MARRiAOBS IN GEOROfA. Captain Young Garrett and Mtoa Jennlo Quit- lira. Atlanta.'.... Dr. W. M. Powell and Miss lizzie Washburn, Atlanta. . .Mr. William W. White and Mlsa Ella Clements, Monroe Mr. Bridges Hmllh end Miss Katrina Goto, Macon Mr. James Carter and Miss Buena Lenear, Atlanta Lady Anne Blunt, the granddaughter of Byron, to considered one of the cleverest women in alt England. 8he to an author, accomplished in mu sic and painting, a student ol oriental politics, a senator capable of writing to her Ceylon mends in tbelr own language, ths capable manager of her besntimi horns, Crabbet park, and the teacher of her only daughter. LEMON 1LLXIB. A Christian Editor'* Experience. Bev. G. B. Lynch, publisher of the Alabama Christian Advocate, Birmingham, writes: I travel all over ths State: my triads say they find Dr. Mosley’s Lemon Elixir a moat exesllrat Medicine. My bookkeeper and foreman both use ft in placa of calomel, pill* etc. A Prominent Minister Writes. — . . —OZLKY- lu tiering from; ■saxyipqf pratnttoii kidneys end constipation. I bare been cured by four bottleeof your Lemon Elixir, and am now* well man. Bxv. C. C. Dans. Ell. M. E Chnrch, Booth. No. 2* Tatnall fit., Atlanta, Ua. MAY CROP REPORT. CONDITION OF FIELD PRODUCTS IN GBOROIA. Coratnlaaloner Hendenon’a Report Show* That tha Itoapaet la Hopef*l-L*ri» Aom|« in Oorn- Fall-Sown Oats a Failure-rha Outlook for the Fruit Crop Good, Its, ate. BoMbj DroggijtSy 60 cents andJl.<5o per bottle. Pre| e Mosley. Atlanta, Ga. Won Id Ton Arold the rocks and quicksands which hare proved Mr. Means, who to forming on Mfc J. A. I the ruin of a great multitude getting out on Riley’s plantation, about three mile* south of tho voyage ofllfo? I/so, loee ao tiaue ia pro perly bought, eleven months ago, a sow and | curing the “Selene* of Life." Commissioner of Agriculture J. T. Hender son received tbo proof sheets of the May crop report, yeaterday afternoon. The extract* here given will be found, on the whole, to be encouraging. The crop re ported to be in tho wont condition to fall-sown osts. cobn. Tho acreage la reported above tho average of five years in all parts of tho state, except in southeast Georgia This is dns largely to the winter-killed condition of tbo foil-sown oats; much of the urea that could nut be reseeded in the raring having bean given to this crop. In north Georgia, where there to hut a limited are* in foil oat*, the increaae In the acreago in corn to reported at one per oent, and in south east Georgia, whore tho oat crop was not ser iously damaged, the aereage waa about three per cent below the average. In the other sec tions, and where the damage was greatest, there to an Increase of from throe to dm per oent, and in some counties a* much as twelve per cat. Tho condition ud prospect on the 1st of May to reported in north Garni* 04, in middlo Georgia 03, in southwest Georgia 02, iu oast Georgia 07, and southeast Georgia 80. OATS. The acreage in this crop, compared to an avengo of dve years in tha whole state, to 77. In north Georgia 08, in middle Georgia 88, in southwest Georgia 75, In east Georgia 63, and in southeast Garcia 61. About HI per cent of tho crop now standing wu sown in tho foil. Tho condition and prospect, compared to an avenge of five years, for tho state to 76, in north Georgia 03, in middle Garcia 83, In southwest Georgia 7ft In oast Georgia 73, and in south cut Georgia 69. The acreago of the crop hu boa greatly re duced by the effid winter, a large part or the crop being entirely deutroyed by freezing out in January. Some of this wu resown in tho spring, bnt a large part of this area in southorn Georgia hu boa punted in am and cotton. From present indications not more than three- fourths of a crop can bo expected. WHEAT. The acreage, compared to an average In north Gargto, to 84; In middlo Gargto, 85; in anthweat Gargia, 60; In east Georgia, 76, and in southeast Gsorgla, 100. The audi tion and prospect in tho respective sections 70,57,76, 74 ud 110. Tho acreago for tho whole state to.78, ud tbo audition and pro*- Pect71. Than hu ban a gradual decrease In the aereage of this crop since 1882. The reports of the present year show a discount off of about 28 per ant from tho average of five years. Unfavorable reports of tha audition and prospect have ban received from most of tho aunties. The crop has been badly winter- sillad, ud the disparaging audition of tho crop; u reported at thto date, to largoly duo to this cause. COTTON. The acreage to reported in north and south west Gargia 07, in middle Gargia 06, in out Gargia 100, in autheut Georgia 98, ud in the wholo state 98. Tho tlmo of piutlng to later thu usual in all parte of th* state. This, in north Gargia, to reported three days later, in middle ud east Gargia eight days, in southwest Georgia twelve days, ud In out Gargia thlrteu days—making tha piutlng in the whole state about nlno day* later thu the avenge of five years. The proportion ot the crop that wu np on tho first or May to reported 18 por ant In north Gargia, 24 In middlo Gargia, 58 In southwest Gargia, 52 In east Gargia, 61 in southeut Gargia, ud 43 in tho wholo state. The stand of tho stand whore up on tho'lst of May, In ampartoon with a good stand In north Gargis, to 87, In middle Gargia 88, in southwest Georgia 74, In out Gargia 89, ud in southeast Gargia 91. The cradltlon ud prospect of the crop, In ampartoon with dve years in north Gargia, is 100, middlo Gargia 85, east Gargto 02, autheut Georgia 90, ud in tho wholo state 92. »DIT. Peaches.—The por ant of a foil crop of peaches that hu reaped frat is reported by arroepondent* in north Gargia 70, in middle Gargia 83, in southwest Georgia 07, in east Gargto 88, and in autheast Georgia 82. An entire folluro of tho crop to reported only in a limited ora, embracing two or thra countla in the northeutem part of tho state. Apples.— 1 Tho per ant of a full crop of applos that hu “set” in north Gargle to reported 71, In middle Gargto, 84, In authwut Gargle 83, in cut Georgia 68, and in autheut Geor gia 87. Pesra.—The per. ant of t full crop of pare g is thu "at” in north Gargia (16, in middle oorgls 85, In uuthweat Georgia 80, in out Gargle 63, ud in autheut Georgia 88. Grapes.—The grip* prospect, umpired to u avengo of five years iu north Gargto, to 96, In middlo Gargia 77, In uuthwest Gargia 94, in cut Gargia 97, In autheast Gargia 98, ud tho average for the whole state 97. MISCELLANEOUS CROPS. Sugar Cue.—The acreage In middlo Gar- f lats 86, southwest Gargia 83, out Gargia Land in autheast Georgia 64. The stud in middlo Gargia to 83, eouth- wist Gargia 00, rest Gargia 88, ud southeut Gargia 70. Bia.—Tha average In authwut Gargia is 85, east Georgia 03, ud in southeast Gargia Sorghum.—Tbo aereage in north Gargia is 00, middle Georgia 95, authwest Georgia 97, east Gargia 85, and in autheast Gargia 125. Clovtr ud Grasse*.—The acreage In north Gargia to 104, middlo Gargia 105, east Gar- gto 95, and southeut Gargia 100. The audition end prospect in north Gargle to 97, middle Gargto 100, cart Georgia 79, and in southeast Georgia 75. SUPPLIES, The par ant of a foil supply of am on hud on the first of Mty in north Gargto Is 87, in middle Gargia 65, in lonthwut Gargia 70, In out Gargia 75, in autheut Gargia 64, ud in ths whole state 74. The per ant of e Adi apply of hey in the state to 75. _____ The National Crop Be port. Washington, May 10.—Tho Hay cropre- THE STATE CAMPAIGN. it CURED HIS COUGH* [Continued from Tenth Page.] As to the general’* merits, it doe* not nece-warily follow that, because he made a good soldier, ho will make a good governor. But General Cordon hss given eminent proof of hit ability both as a soldier and a statesman. A word about bis military record. It Is spotless. It stands out as a thing of grandeur. Inspiring the highest meed of praise ana the nrofoundest grati tude and respect on the part or his countrymen, No man has ever stood up to Impeach It. Even hli ad vet caries admit Its greatness. But. they say, we are not called upon to HU tho ofllco of general, bnt of governor, very true. Wo believe that we voice the sentiment of tbo people of Georgia when we say that, aa in this case, other things being equal, we are always ready to cast our vote for thatman whodefended his country In war, who brought home the scare of battle, and who plucked tame out of the smoke and from amidst the bullets by reason of his courage,tact and bravery. A man's defense of hla country^* not an act to be lightly mentioned and then forgotten, and such has not been the case In the history of America. Some of • taken from the “ ^ reeling of gnu 1- uJhas’l _ trie young man hood. who join with maturer years In according to General Gordon the love and admiration that hero richly deserves. No more gallant aoldler his breast to the enemies' guns. No braver beert responded country' responded In patriotism . to the '■ aril. Where ^he battle raged most fleroely, there was Gordon to bo found. BomMhells and mlnnle-balls held i terror for .him. Those who fought under him llTtett —* • „ r _ and content to serve the •ottth in whatever way he could—how, In his al- mostsuperhuman courage and jlsun tleaa_&c al, Jio ti f Do these things odunt ‘ if men ii " but a privilege to vote him into any. position oi 1 honor that he may desire. When Gordon, the sol* dler, the statesman, grand in war aad great In peace* Is again elected governor of Georgia, there will bo no military satrap on hand to count him can't manage. His canvass for the governorship against Bullock was scarcely less brave and brilliant than his conduct in war. Our state was at tho mercy of tho radicals and tho negroes. We were passing through reconstruction. Young Gordon rose up and es sayed to bring hla people out of darkness Into light. Bullock and bis crowd laughed at him. To them It wu the height of folly and the aomo of humor for any man to try ana snatch Georgia from their grasp. They laughed until their sides ached. It was the uagest Joke of the reason. But they forgot one . thing. They forgot that in Georgia lived Geor gians! In the ftce of personal danger Gordon made an open canvass. Had he been moved merely by personal ambition ho . would never nave entered a campaign from which, If he came forth alive, he wu given to understand that he might expect nothing Imt defeat and trampling under foot la such action es this to be forgutteuf Bnt he won—the people won. Yea, ho won by ten thousand votes, and today some of the old Bullock regime will tell you that ho beat them fairly and sir against tremendous odds, and that they cd bun out But he won’t be oountodout lore I »men who followed Lee will do so still. In the town and oounty, bnt their name not le gion. If matters go on as indicated at this tlmo Gordon will carry Putnam county by a practical ly unanimous vote." Tho Thomsston Times wants ths people to have a chance as well as the town politiclnna. It says: “We ihall oppoao all corrupt methods used in ss* covri fnstr i wfllot the people, no matter who It may affect, finch methods as a hand foil town pollttcans meeting . In the irthouse town and electing and iructing the delegatee in advanoe of the meet ing of the state executive oommlttee. Such meth od! are, to aay the least, calculated to defeat tho will of a large majority of the people and do* and awi lnsvllle: Since Ihi arge majority of tho j mf disrupt the party. • from Lee hu reached 1 icws fro veil km lown citlxen writes this from Uawk* the announcement of General Gordon u a And It Will Cure Any ody'a Cough* Bead the following testimonial of a prominent Booth Carolinian ahont Taylor's Sweet Gum and w enn eld, B.G., March 4.—Dr. Walter A. Taylor* Dear Sir. I wu attacked during the month of November with ,'e severe cold and cough. After using everything without success, I wu recom mended a bottle of your Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein. After using one Ibottlo and a half of the same I am almost entirely cured: and X should advise any one laboring under "the cough' i to use it at once. Thanking you for this remedy, X remain very respectfully, j. H. Daxbt. TAYLOR’S CHEROKEE REMEDY Of Iweet Gam end Mullein. The nreetzaiB, u lathered from * tree eft! same name, crowIn* along the small streams In tl Bontbera suites, contains a stimulating principle that loosens Mtriv morning cough, • r off thejaise membrane In croup and wh< combined with the healing i le In the Mullein plant ol TMobe Colton and Com Planter Fertilizer Distributor. Highest award at in ternational Cotton ex hibition, Atlanta, a, the Arkansas State fair, the Na tional Gotten Flan- lcn'association, th* tolled In any contest, hss twin still further Improjj ed.and tonow fully tainted to any character of all rad tho most unskilled labor, two stylos and It to thonSSlTd'orohio planter made, and will Save! Its Cost Three Times Over IN A SINGLE SEASON m-jRawv acre, and open, drops, distributes fortlitoea end arers at one operation, taring TWO HANDS AND ONE TEAM. : GLOBE PLANTER M»FG. CO., 228 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. Mcntlln thto paper. port of the department of agriculture Indicate* ■n improvement in what, daring April, of two pouts, with e general avenge of audition at 95. There to no marked change anywhere bnt e slight advena noted in th* Ohio Teller, Missouri, Texas, Tenneewe, Carolina,, Vir ginia and Maryland. The May avenge laat year was 70. The saeaa he* been fovombln and the crop more advanced than usual. The avenge in principal state* an: New York, 96; Pennsylvania, 05; Ohio, 97; Michigan, 91; In- dtone,66; Illinois,02; Hiiiouri, 101; Kansas, 67. The condition of rye avtrsgse 90; barley 97. Cotton planting hte been dalayed by aid fine on the Atlantic eoaet end by overflows on theGnlfcoait. The proportion to be planted In May svermgee 20 per cent. In average yean the proportion doe* not exceed 14 or 15 per rent. The stand to neceaarily detective on wet tree., bnt replanting to rapidly filling the gape. The proportion!already planted one* follows: North Caroline, 73: 8<mth Caroline, 82; Georgia, 83; Florida, 04; Alabama, 80; Mis sissippi, 76; Louisiana, 77; Texae, 84; Arkansas 75;Ttnn«*ee, 77. While the season bee been more edrenad then ninal north of thirty-seventh parallel, the heavy snows of early April In the west, end en excess of nla prior to April 15th have retarded epring plowing. It to somewhat more advanced than usual Tn the states between Heine ud North Carolina, and in Wiseoneln and Minnesota. Etoswere-in th* eonth. cen tral treat, Missouri valley, and on th* Pacific coast—it to below on avenge. In am grow ing states the preparation for leading to later than In regions where enroll grains predomi nate. It Keetimated that 72 per cent, to done. In average years, 75 per cent is the proportion MBA WDIHLOWfl SOOTHDIO BTBUF fee Chil dren teething, softens the rnms, reduces tnfsmiaa- tmmutoyeeilpeta end ernes wind ecu*, A MOM will he f ho next governor. Colonel Woods, of tho DIspetCT, to of this opinion, rad sen this county stands about four to three In favor or Cordon. Tho vote will he more favor*: Cordon', old soldiersdwto barefooted thirty miles to say often when tick and footsore In the army be dismounted and made them ride his horse to fet rested while ho footed it, A gentleman lolls the following suggest! vo thing about Columbus: In the Norwood-Colqultt cam paign the lawyer* stood twenty-nina for Norwood and five for Colquitt. They were polled this week and stood twcniy-two for Gordon,six or seven non committal and five for Bacon. Tho gentleman added: "Gordon has undoubtedly milled the leaders of both wlnga of the party on himself," The following friends or General Gordon in Stewart county have petitioned him to make the IrSiri F. Howe* clerk eu- ^icrlor court; it. Harrison, editor imfopendent; dohKvareti 1 F. Clarke. “ Gregory.J Hlnger, F. a fllngar, J. A. Thornton, Jr., 8. A. Solomon, William * Abbott, M. M. Griffis, W. II. Grims, J. B. Grimy, Tray Hal iVllmot, W. J. Maddox, W. K. Perkins, M. I 0. Miller, J. P. Trammell, W. W. mokes, J. 1 Gerier, J. O. Patterson, h,. o ii. esnar, a. i. ron, q, r, iiisn, o. drier, B. O, IteAilnson, J.A. Fort, J.T. Joiner. General Gordon has raalvod * letter sign- "— Newton make * General Gordon’* Friends. General Gordon urges hto friends In every aunty to Me to It at ono* that he to not tricked or manipulated ont of a fair hearing and a fair fight. Find out at once when your connty will act end how, end be rare and be on nud. General Gordon to for primary elections. Mgjor Bacon’, friend, oppoM It. General Gordon to tho nun for the paple, for tho rail- rad commission, end against monopolism Baa that he has a fitlr hearing In your eoonty. Not PtovjngD Fob—A few dsy, ago Henry J. Butts, an bx-anfedtrato soldier of Bsldwin connty, applied to Governor McDaniel for an artificial arm. Bntta had the first, aecond, and third finger, of hto left hud shot oil during tho war. In reply to tho application. Gover nor McDaniel wrote that tha law had made no S ovtolon for such n case, and that ha regretted a necessity of declining to order the pay ment of an amount sufficient to purchase an artificial arm for the applicant. JAWfSPYLE’S PupNE BE8T COMPOUND BVBR INVENTED FOB WA8HINC and CLEANING Q| SARD OR SOFT, HOT OB COLD WATER Without Harm to rJLBBlO at BAXDt. 0 Jk w#Min LABOR and B°A* wains to homickSSnl'mfdfy BoroK tea UTICLArad ALWAYS Isoaro Uiewsl JAMIE PYLE. New Vortu mart*—dir thar sat owe wheo w Urg •etu-wkyut sew flEORQIA. FAYETTE COONTY.-J. W. HPKEIt UT administrator of Harriet A. email wood, applies for dismission. Thto to to ett* all persons con ed |o show cause why said administrator id not bo dlschnrted from his sdmlnistrsti/m Do You Know It? DobllllrU ll ao uofiled fljMdSffi Kem.rty. mr BB •CHS AMO fill Mention this pspsr. mart—wkyly sow net “ft,!. UBESSBE PblUdelpblft, I r 4 wkylSi ’ ms 11 on J. 48 He Delswsro Remo this paper. MCinensna TbU 8chool is tbs best la A merles. The mom practical conns of {•traction sod tho moal Imminent faculty. Idorsed bybuelnen homes. For drcoUra and Btedinens of Fen* manaslp, address . EillEiLUl.ftll. IU ALUHiiWA* : J. H. Whitlock h«s In duo form ..polled to the undesigned for permanent letter* of adminiRtratiou on the estate of J. A, Mhltlock, Utto day of May? teed.' *W^a!|5|“* wklyltlme* * Old ary