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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA*, TUESDAY JULY 20 1886
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barbed wire. all now. Will sell 170 acres or In sep
arate lots of 100 acres and 70 acres. Land In high
■late ofcultlvatlon. Terms easy. Al*o farms of
S cry character In all parts of Georgia. Address
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DICK TOWNSEND.
Burg at Valdosta-4 ■ Vetch of tbo Oaeptrata Datd
fkat Brought D»atn to e Bravo Sheriff ted Jan
Ratrltutton Upon tko Desperado- ttao. -
tr.fi Xtscwh.r.- Other Crime*.
Valdosta, Ga., July 111.—[Ejk. jtalJ—The
ezccuticn of Dak Townsend, the triple mur*
dcrer, which took place here today, drew an
Immense crowd of people to this city. Town
send was a negro of powerful build, cool and
crafty, and feared alike by white and black,
being insolent t» the one and overbearing to
the other. He appeared In Bradford county,
Florida about four years ago, being nineteen
years of age, and hailing from Lowndes county,
Georgia, where his character was that of a
blood thirsty desperado. About that time he
had a companion named Lowry, with whom
he waa always to be seen. One day Lowry’s
dead body wen found in the woods, covered
with knife wounds. The general belief was
that Townsend was the murderer, but there
was no evidence to maintain the suspicion,
and no legal stepa were taken. From that
time, probably with a sense of immunity be
enjoyed, Townsend became more and more
notorious, lie was at a dance in Coin mbta
county, Florida, one night, when a colored
belle refused to dance with him. He Immedi
ately pulled out his revolver and 11 red, sori*
outly wounding the woman and covering the
astonished dancers, threatening them with
the remaining chargee, and thus affecting hia
escape. Several times since that period he
big made visits to Bradford county and al
ways leaving behind him sorno evidence of his
desperation.
It was about the middle of November when
be made his last appearance there, being in
search of work, ostensibly, brit as the sequel
shows, plunder was his objoct. Mr. D. C.
Colic n hod large contracts for the furnishing
of rsilrosd tics. Jt wss known that Cohen iu
making his trips to tho woods with supplies
for his men, always carried with him large
sums of money. To him, thorefore, Town
send went, and secured employ merit and ac
companied the unauajiecting rnau on his next
trip to the scene of work. Cohen drove a two
mula team, and as the Chrhtmas holidays
were approaching, ho had with him a more
than iihual supply of stores for that occasion.
From that trip Cohen never returned,
for he was found by the
roadside murdered, and Townsend
and the team were missing. Kigbt hundred
dollars were taken from Cohen's pocket. The
‘xcitement which followed was Intense.
Irorgla line In safety with the team, abend-
cned it on the road and took to tho woods,
acruring some of the more valuable articles,
and supplying himself with a liberal quantity
of ammunition. Thus prepared, he was ready
to light to the death, and being intercepted by
Luko McCormick, alto colored, Townsend
shot him down and kept on his way.
Sheriff Kpperson, of Bradford county, one of
tho bravest men In Florida, having got on his
trail of the tripplo murderer, determined to
hunt his game until It was bagged. Kpperson
had learned of Townsend’s haunts in Georgia,
and thither he intendod to purauo him. On
Christmas day E
where he learned
seen during tho morning, that ha had a wifo
on the Braswell plantation, who lived in a
log cabin, some distance off from the Nashville
road, and that ha undoubtedly made his head
quarters them.
“You will And him a hard man to take,’
Ike sheriff was warned.
"J would not hold my office a momont,”
ha replied, "if 1 feared to do my duty.
I will storm tho fort tonight at ail haztreln.”
Kpjwrson secured the services of 1’olicotnan
W. A. Cooper snd a negro snide. Ou going to
tho livery f table he found that there were but
two hones left, and ouo of thoso was so frac
tious that Mr. Nelaou concluded to go aloug
«• driver, being unwilling to risk a stradgor
with tbo animal. As they passed on out
towsrd the Braswell plantation they had to
pass a colored church, where a meeting was in
progress. They elite reel to see if the crimin it
might be there, but he was not. They then
continued on their way until uear tho cabiu,
when they alighted lor tbo attack. The night
was cltarand bright. It was arranged that
tho colored guldo should act as a decoy for tho
purpose of getting Townaeud out, when the
ollicers would wing him.
"Who is dal?” asked a grutt* voice, as the
guide knocked at the door.
"It’s mo, a friend; sorno cullud mens wants
to see you.”
Townsend unbolted the door and peored
out.
"W’at does day want?” he inquired.
The guido found that Townsend waa thor
oughly suspicious aud would neither tslk nor
come onL The room inside was dark, but be
tween the loga of the building were numerous
chinks, through which one on the inside could
see dearly tho movements of those on the
outside. The guide returned to the officers
snd said:
"Hit’s no use; ha won’t come. 1
"Than I’ll go to him,” said Epperson, with
emphasis.
it was in vain that Epperson was shown
the danger of attacking tho desperado uuder
inch disadvantages. Hounded down for
three murders, Townsend would not hesitate
to commit a loutth. By keeping watch on
the building until daylight, when reinforce
ments could be obtained, and the light could
be conducted ou ail equal footing, there
would not be so much danger to life. Hut
F.pperson wss too brave a mau to flinch from
danger, and sending l'olicemna Cooper to the
rear of the building, he boldly advanced to
tho door, Nelson begging him to be careful,
and keeping up with him.
"Let me Iu, Townsend,” exclaimed tho
sheriff.
No response came.
Throwing his shouldsr against the door.
Sheriff Kppertnu gave it a shove. It yielded,
and he stood within. The sharp report of a
pistol from the interior, aud the sheriff fell
forward mortally wouuded. By the dash of
the muidcrons weapon Nelson sent a ball
within, when a ruth was made to the door and
it was slammed in Nelson's face. Hearing
tho two shots almost simultaneously, Police
man Cooper thought both mou were shot
down. He tan around to tho door, and again
l ushing the door open, wm greeted with an
instant shot, which came from the murderer,
who stood at bay in the far corner of the
loom, and enter*d Cooper's shoulder. Town
send's wife set up a shriek that "my old man
Is kilt,” hut the men on the oulsida were ast
ir lied to retire until they could procare help,
being convinced that Eppenon was certaiuly
dead.
When the news reached Valdosta, Marshal
Barnett at ouce organized another posaa and
went to the sheriff's relief. The canin was si
lent with not a sign oflife In it. Daylight had
con. a and with it a better chan.re for obeerva-
tUn. The door waa forced open.
There lay Sheriff Kpperson, not yet
dead, hot in a comatose condition. Ha was
evidently struck unconscious from tha first,
and knew nothing of what had transpired.
Townsend had escaped through tha opan win-
dear in the rear, and tha tracks of himself aud
wifslcdtothe north.
The iherlffk of nil the adjoining eouuti s
were notified and bv night half a dozen post**
wne in punnit of the desperado, in differed
directions. Seme colored men also joined ic
the pnrsnit. but the unwelcome, though not
urusual fact, waa devoloped that he
skidded by his colored friends, who
ciuld only no that a black man
was pursued by white men. The nogrju
ira.de * very effort to mislead the oflleere, aod
afforued the murderer the shelter which ena
bled hint to escape.
The news of this career of murder, the re
ward of ffftoO b«d r» s-hed every r »nnhr fa the
state, and watch/bl men ten an the ala ‘
art. On
the day before New Years a strange negro
made bis appearance in Camilla. Mitchell
county, who gave bis nsmo as Richard Bell.
He wss traced to the tarpentloery of L. M.
Collins, where he had procured employment,
by Josh Docs and Jndson Collins, who were
confident that he was the fugitive. They
came upon him suddenly, and, without giving
him a chance of defense, bound him and took
him btek to Camilla. There ho confossod that
he was Dick TowmenJ^that he had com
mitted the murders charged against him, and
that be had nothing to regret.
ills trial came on shortly after, the charge
against him being the murder of Sheriff Ep
penon. He was duly tried, convicted and sen-
tr m.cd to death. The sentence brought to him
no terror, for ho talked and laughed as
lightly as if nothing was In the balance. His
prhon life has been very annoying to the
Onc/he had 'one of the jailers locked np fn
his ca
avert*
THE END COMES.
Townsend expiated bis terrible crime today
upon the gallows. People were here from all
the surrounding counties. They began to
arrive early in the morning, and by 11 o’clock
:i,CG0 anxious spectators bad assembled
around the jail. On yesterday
Townsend made a statement and said he had
only committed two Crimea—the killing of
Epperson and the assassination of Mr. Conan,
in Florida. This morning, about an hour
before bis execution, he told quite a different
tale. He acknowledged that ho had got into
a fight with his brother in south Florida.
”1 shot him down, but don’t know whether
I killed him or not,” said the candidate for the
gallows.
With the utmost nonchalance he continued
giving a history of his crimes.
”1 shot one fellow near Walls Mill, in this
county, five years ago. I shot Jack Stafford
■boot four yearn ago, in Hamilton county, FIs.
1 knocked Wright Martin in the head but he
came to. 1 knocked Cohen lor his money. I
gave him two licks with an ax.”
This morn I rig he talked freely and ration
ally on all subjects. He said be ate the big
gest breakfast today he ever saw.
At 18 o’clock the prisoner, accompanied by
Shi riff Harrell, Mr. J. N. Talley, a colored
preacher and a guard, appeared uear the en-
I * *■ allows, and began his
eft the Jail he asked for
me hour in which to moke his speech. This
wns greeted, but he scarcely spoke
live minutes. His talk was similar
to the speeches delivered on such
occasions, was mixed up with chant songs and
advice to his hearers to tskc warning at his
fate. He said be hod led a bad life, and had
gambled and committed many crimes, but
thank God his election wsa sure and he waa
certain for heaven. His manner was
cool and collected, and he seemed not to re
alize that he was standing on the precipice
that divided time from eternity. The drop
fell at a little after 13 o’clock, and the spirit
of Richard Townsend was before his God.
Kjiiikvki'OIit, La., July 10.—George Karri-
ten. colored, seed twenty-two years, was hang
ed today for the murder of George Allen, aged
sixty. The prisoner was cool and self posaess-
ed to the last and acknowledged the murder.
He said he was ready to be hangsd for the
murder and announced hla willingness to go.
He said he believed he would at once enter
heaven. The drop fell at 3:25 and in nine
minute* the coroner pronounced Harrison
dead. His neck was broken by (befall.
Donaldsoiivillb, 1 a., July 10.—Sampson
Roland and Georgo Solomon, both colored,
were hanged here today for murder. The eon*
demned men were baptized yesterday by Roy.
Thomas Brown, of Mount Olivo Baptist
church. They seemed reconciled to their
doom, and while ascending the gallows walk
ed steadily. They listened calmly to the read
ing of the death warrant Rev. Mr. Butler
thou said the "Lord’s prayer,” aud the prison
ers followed him with calm, firm voices. They
asked their friends to meet them in heaven.
The trap was sprang at 13:7)0 o'clock, and half
an hour later tho bodies were cut down. Th s
coroner cxpreeied the opinion that death re
auHed from rtrangulation in both chmos.
Woodntock, III*., July 10.—Jamos Dauey.
murder*r of Alderman Michael "
Chicago, was banged here at 12:35
made no speech and was moderately composod,
prevent liis making an assault on any of his
attendants
Dace j made a desperato attempt at suicide
j csterday afternoon. Ho hod a pair of largo
shears iu tho mattress of his bod at *
Gu m out. attempted to stab himself,
so violent thnt tho hose had to bo turned on
him before he could bo overpowered. After
this Dicey broke one of tbo lied slats and tried
to brain Deputy Harper, of Chicago. Tho
prisoner was exceedingly violent during tbo
night. Ho drove a priest from his cull with his
club and spent his timo in giving vent to tbo
vilest imprecations. An extra guard wo*
placed over him, but it was afterwards found
urccisary to bind him with leather strap*.
Momtoomkey, Ala., July 13.—[Spccia
News has Just reached here of tho lynching of
Steve Keafroe, tbo notorious Sumter county
outlaw snd desperado. He was captured at
Kutorpine. Miss., yesterday. Today a deputy
ther il waa returning from Enterprise with the
prisoner in his charge, bringing him back to
tho coal mine at Livingston. The sheriff of
Sarntcr county nrrsontod a warrant, duly
is ucd, fur Rcnfroe, aud demanded him
from tho deputy. The deputy
surrender*! the prisoner and he was lodged
in the Jail at Livingston. At nine o’clock to
night ho was taken from the jail by an armed
mob of fifty men, snd lynched. When ho was
found hangiug to a tree,a placard waa pinned
ou his coat bearing tho words, "The fato of a
horse thief"
8con after the war, Rcnfroe was a leader of
the knklnx in Alabama. He has been an out
law a long time, and has stolen no leas thin
ten mules. Ho was well educated and deeps*
ate, and had become to be the terror of west
Alai am a.
Otlicr Crimes.
Baleiou, N. C\. July 12.—Today, in tne
Wake county superior court, Judge Fred Phil
lips eentenced James 8mith aud wm. Gooch,
both young white men, to be hanged here Sep
tember lttb. They were convicted of the
murder of John Cheatham, a merchant of this
city, in June of last year. They were sentenced
to death, but appealed to the supreme court,
which confirmed the decision of the lower
court A petition will be presented to Gover
nor Scales for commutation of their sentence.
This wiU bo aigned by many hundreds of per-
Birmingham. Ala., July 12.—fSoeciaL]—
Mrs Anna Wilcox, of IhU city, became jealous of
h«r hwbatid and concluded that life waa not worth
living. She secured a rope and hung hcr*elf, but
her husband camo upon the scene In lime to cut
trr down be lore life was extinct. She then ob
tained a tsxor and attempted to cut her throat.
Being prevented from doing so she secured a do*e
ol morphine and swallowed it. Medical aid was
summoned and she Is still alive and will recover.
OtARLEsTON, July 14.—On Monday, July
5tb, Bliss Emma Connelly walked into Hun
ter's Chapel church, Barnwell county, while
Sunday school was in i«don, with a cocked
revolver In her hand, and passing into the
pew behind John A. Steedley. she fired her
pistol into Stccdlsy's back. Ho aroae. looked
around, tried td got out hit pistol, and at the
same timo made for tho door. Miss Connelly
snapped her pistol at him again, bat it failed
to go off. Steodley fell at ths door of the church
juit outside aud died in about three min
utes. Mire Connolly surrendered herself
to the authorities. Her only excuse formury
dering Steedlsy, who was her second cousin,
was certain defamatory reports circulated by
him about her, and several obscene letters ad
dressed to her aud her brother by hioi. The
grand jury of Barnwell county found an in
dictment against her for murder on Monday.
The trial came off today and malted in her
acquittal. Since the commission of the mur
der, Miss Connell
whatever. This __
ever tried in Sooth Corolina courts.
Fayetteville, Ark, July II.—News has
reached here of a knife-to-the-hilt ficht be
tween Rev, John Ixrcksy, aided by hit *on.
Ephraim, snd a man by the nams of McClel
land. nesLWest Fork, In this county. Lockey
and McCidUacd dies*reed as to the location
of th* lire between their farm*, and ended in
a Linens quarrel. Lockey seized his gun and
attempted to shoot his antagonist, but the cap
snapped. The father and son again assaulted
McClelland, when the Utter drew his knife
and commenced the work of destruction.
The old man and boy were literally cut to
pieces, and there is no hope for the recovery
of either. McClelland bad his preliminary
trial yesterday, and was acquitted.
Birmingham, Ala., July 14.—[Special.]—
Officer Flatter, of tho police force, today ar
rested Edward M. Carr; an Irish peddler, who
it wanted in Maryland for rape. There is a
reward of *100 for his arrest.
St. Louis. July 14.—Hugh M. Brook, alias
W. II. Lenox Maxwell, convicted of murder
ing Charles Arthur Freller, waa sentenced
this morning to bo hanged August 27th, lwO.
Savannas, Ga., July 10.—Information was
recti vtd here today that Jake Brad well, a ne
gro, woi lynched at noon yesterday near Flat
Ford, Bolloch county. Brad well had ravished
and horribly mutilated Dolly Woods, a six*
year-old girl, while on her way to school. She
identified him. after his capture and he then
confessed, saying that be would have killed
the child, but thought her dead when he left
her. He was caught within threo hours after
the afieult. A crowd of one hundred whites
and blacks held a conference and gave Brad-
well the choice of being burned or hangiog
himself. He chose hanging, and climbed up a
troe, fastened the rope around hia own neck
and a limb of the tree, but then refused to
{amp off. A negro climbed up and tied Brad*
well’s hands and tho crowd pushed him off
with a pole. HU body waa riddled with bul
lets. The child U not expected to live.
Waycrow, Ga., July 1C.—[Special].—Infor
mation reached here today that a negro at
tempted to rape the person of a whito lady at
Stockton, Ga., thirty miles from this place.
Failing to accomplish his purpose, and fearing
that he would be arrested, he repaired to the
woods, and was noon followed by seven armed
men,who overtook him and brought him to the
lady for identification, after which bo confessed^
A preliminary trial was granted him, and a
verdict binding him over to the superior court
of Clinch county was the result of tho same.
He is ioJailat Homer villc, but it is thought he
will be lynched.
ONB OF THE WORST.
ftketch of the Career of the Alabama Jesse
•fames.
From the Birmingham Age.
Steve Rcnfroe, the notorious ontlaw and
thief, who was lynched at Livingston lost Tuesday
evening, has a history worthy tho basis of a yellow-
backed novel.
He was born in the mountains ol Georgia, where
his father wm a highly respected citizen, and one
financially well to-do. Very llttlo can be ascer
tained m to his son’s chafscter, habits and disposi
tion during his boyhood, except that he was fore
most In all boyish sports, and was always a good
ouo in a fight.
When about twenty one yean of age no married
the daughter of a prosperous farmer of north
Georgia, who proved to be a most estimable little
lady.aud did much to restrain her husband's reck-
1th* disposition.
In iK-s sieve arrived In Sumter county, Ala .and
lived for a ."good many months in almost hidden
seeluMon with an uncle, an ex-probate Judge of
Sumter. It waa reported, and circumstantial evi
dence wss strong against him, that he was fleeing
Lorn justice in Georgia—that be had killed a man
iu bi> native section, and wm hiding to escapo the
clutches of the law.
"1 shall never forget the first time that I saw
him," said the reporter's informant. "It wm lust
about three months alter ho arrived at hi* nncle's,
and having been confined, for secrecy, ho wa* as
fair aud dclicato looking as a girl. He wm Just
about twenty-three yearn old, and wm dressed in
what I thought at the time was tho prettiest salt
or clothes I had ever seen-a homemade
check, handsomely worked and bound
with silk braid. He wm a hand-
seme, tidy young fellow, and his delicate fea
tures, fair taco and neat attlro contrasted striking
ly with the tawny, coarsely dressed ex-soldier* of
tho dark days of the war. After he had remained
with his uncle several months, hla wire joined
him. and they lived Iji Sumter,apparently happily
until her death, which occurred in a abort time
after her arrival. Her remains were Interred in
the burial ground of the Baptist church of that
place.
About a year after the death of his wifo Rcnfroe
became marked iu his attentions to a daughter of
Dr. Hledge, a highly irspcctablo citizen of that
county, and gaining her aflociiou, married her.
Tiny lived togcthertlve or six years, at tho end of
c< meter).and erected a handsome marble monu
ment to the memory of the two.
Afterwards Rcnfroe married a Miss Stone, of
Livingston, aud lived with her until after ho was
first charged with embezzlement, after which she
left him, and is now living in Meridian, Ml**.
Krnfroe was always looked on m a leader tn all
kuklux or other desperate or dnrlug undertakings,
and there Is no doubt as lo his having had a grea’.
amount of reckless courage and being a quick
man on tbe trigaer.
In 1674, wheu the republicans camo into power
in that county, ho was arrested on the charge of
the murder of a man named Hillings, and lay in
prhon five months. He proved ao alibi, however,
and was discharged.
He was elected sheriff in about tho year ls-O, de-
vcloi ed luto quite a politician, and il is Mid that
he sided much toward relieving that couuty from
republican domination.
Later on he wm accused of embezzlement and
put In Jai.', but broke out aud went out west. Af
ter "painting the westert countries rod" ho again
returned and lived around Living-ton, occasion
ally stealing In and taking off* horse with him.
At last he wm caught and jailed, but a Mr. Little
went hia l*ond and tho next day tho rascal stole
Mr. Little’s* horse and left again. Ho
wm recaptured after a while, aud jailed,
but tried to break out again, and
was taken to the Tuscaloosa Jail for safe keeping.
Hi re ho lorcdahoic through tho floor of his cell
and erenped through it He was recaptured, tried
for grand larceny and sent during last October, to
Frau mines for bve years. He remained there tl vc
weeks and escaped by climbing tho sidoofihe
shaft. Blood hounds were put on hh track, but
he pat them off his track by wading iu a creek for
five or six miles.
Fear Kutaw he met a tramp and chummed with
him; but one day the tramp gave him away*, and a
l*i go crowd of citizens came up with him and one
hut drrd shots were fired at him, but he dodged
away in the swamp*unhurt.
A few days since a mule WMitolen in Linder-
ho resisted and attempted to shoot, when one of
his pursuers unhorsed him with a load of squirrel
shot tv ben tho latter wm asked why he didn't
use buckshot, he replied: "That wm a skeer gun; I
ws* coin' to git him next time with buckshot."
When the Hunter county posse attempted to
handcuff Renfroe at KnterprDohe fought desper
ately and threw his captors from him Mlf they
were to many children.
A Young Journalist llaa a lllg ficanp.
Among three who were fortunate ensagb *o
win a prize in the hut drawing of Tno
Louisiana State Lottery was W. E. .Seymour,
the sen of the well known journalist, IV. J.
Seymour, of tbe New Orleans States. He pur.
chucd one-tenth of ticket No. 21,40% which
drew the eecond capital prise of $50 000. The
Bank of Commerce of Memphis, Tenn., a'-.o
held for collection one fifth of aaid tioken
onf-tenth of aame ticket was held and col
lected by the People’e Bank of this city.—N«w
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Min latere, Lawyers, Teachers, and others
whose occupation gives bat little exercise,
should nse Carter's Little Liver Pills for torpid
Liver and biliousness. One is a dose.
Rope without ection is a broken staff. We
should always hope for things that are poMible
and probable. B
lilmn’ Sue Gin Booth Wuh Dontitriee.
M.rrtc (to h.r Mipruhn. wfc. I, rerj populu
with the children!—1 wlihyoa had tree, tan
when our fkth.r wu alire. Yon would tarn liked
"Maud Hnrrt. Tobacco -
ilk your iserch.nl tor "Mind RartaThhMM."
lib longh and wur. pan, rich and ripe. Jndge.
mnonne li Ik. m fcr th. bout on ih. aontb-
*m market. Don't tomtt th. brud. "band kUr-
rt» Tn .cjfc" Try II. Trejlur Tot*coo On., Reid.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
Tlse Vales ef a Fra VmsCrcp-HowtoSow Them and
Bow to Caro tho V|b«»-A Boom Tull of CXll-
drrn-Tbe frobibitloa Qaration-Otbs*
r.tmsrki From ths Philosopher.
Sow peas«now. It is not too late for a
forage crop. I sm not ranch of a farmer, but
I do know tbe value of a pea vine crop. It
makes the best forego in the world aud the
most of it. I don’t sow for tbe pea*, bat for
tbo vines, and I mow tBem while the peas are
in the dough. Tbe leaves will not fall off
then and they are easily cured. It takes
three or four day* to cure them, but rain will
not hurt them if they are forked over to dry
again. I have had it to rain on them every
day for three days after cutting and thought
they would certainly mildew and spoil, but
they did not. A man can mow down two
acres in a day with a common scythe, and it is
the sweeteat work in the world. When they
are put away in the barn take notice and see
if they are moulding and if so then fork over
and tots them to the other side. Air is all
they want. The milch cows like them better
then any other food, and they make the milk
rich and creamy. Let the farmers
sow an acre if no more. 8*w on the
stubble land and it will keep the
land rich and mellow. Tbe best upland corn I
have seen is where I had peas Ust year end
mewed them. Some folks think they must
be turned under to enrich the land, but that is
a mistake. It is the shade they give to the
land that enriches it. Shade pto luces am
monia. I don’t believe in turning under a
green crop of any kind. Better let the grass
and weeds decay on top and then turn under.
Where I sow peai on galded spots for fertilizing
I do not cut them, but let them die on the
land. It will not pay to harvest them on such
spots. But on good land the vines will sprout
•gain after mowing, and will cover the ground
in a few days, and make more shade, which is
more ammonia, which is more corn or wheat
or cotton. Farmers, sow peM. I have four
ac*es up now on my oat stubbie, and they have
almcst hid the ground. I turned the stubble
with an Oliver chill ono-horse
plow. Then harrowed iu the peas
with a roller disc harrow; then rolled with a
home made roller, which last is the best im-
S tlementona farm except the plough. Any
aimer can make one. Make in two sections,
each three feet long, and as near three feet in
diameter as yon can get. Poplar is the best
timber. Bore through with a two inch augur;
that is. bore half way from each end. and if a
man baa a good eye he can bit the hole. Jf
he mtuts it a little, the iron spindlo will burn
four inches. Put a washer between
ere. Build a frame round, and let the end of
tho spindle support it. Bolt the corners of
the frame together. Bolt two upright stand
ards at each end for a plank seat to rest upon,
aud fMten tbe seat securely to the cross
piccrs. Then bolt and brace a good tongae
to tbe front of tho frame, and use your
wagon doubletree. Then get aboard aud nop
your whip and ride. It is splendid riding.
Ctrl does all my rolling, and Jessie rides with
him sometimes. A roller beats any harrow in
the world! for pulverizing. In fact, I havo
never seen a harrow that would pnlverizo
much. This spring my land broke up very
cloddy, but I planted corn and covered it
with the clods and then rolled it, and it w as
M txncoth as s parlor floor, and every hilt
camo up. I cowed my turnip seed Saturday,
and rolled them in, and they came up before
breakfMt Monday morning. Roll your wheat.
Roll your clover seed. Roll everything you
can. As Byron says, "Roll on.” The weather
is all right now, and we are breaking the
middles out of the cum. The corn is lathe
silk and is big and strong, and I thought it
waa laid by, but the middles look
so bad I thought it Lest to ’’bust era.” It is
tbe first good corn I ever saw that nover
bad any plowing but a ' run round.” Wo have
to plow very shallow now to keep abovo the
rect*. The children’s crops are doing fine—
the watermelons and goobbors and popcorn.
Thcee children aro getting nppity and blgoty
and monopolize my attention and keep Aire.
Arp busy. She is making aomo homespun
bathing suits for them now. There are six
little boys out bore, and somo girls, and rhoy
have to bathe everv evening. Its grandm* f
grandma, ail tho day long, and they levied ou
me to build the darn higher so th «t tho water
would be deep enough for them tn jump off
tho spring board. They call it n wash hole,
and are learning to swim. 1 worked hard nod
raized tho dam, und as I was going to tho
house to rest I heard a llttlo rascal say: "He's
a mighty good old man, ain't he.” But I get
even with them; I make tbom work before I
let them play. I made them pull every blade
of grars out of the sweet potato vines, for
neither tho plow nor the hoe would get it all.
They work very well at tho start but soon
they begin to grunt and talk about bow hot
tbe cun is, atd they want to go to tho spring
every little while. They aro good quarter
nags, bnt haven’t got bottom tor tt four mile
heat. They like to work with me when I do
the most of it. It is their vacation, and a
lay 1 * idea of vacation is unalloyed, undis
turbed, uninterrupted frolic aud felicity. It
is a mixture of fishing in the branch and
baseball in the meadow and marbles in tbe
frontyard and breaking the bull calf uu 1 go
ing in a washing in tho afternoon and tamo-
thing to eat moat every time of day. There
are no evening naps now to do any good, for
its “voice your roundauce and lose ground-
ancc and fat and stick and fat and go last nail
dubs and man in and kicks and xiugance und
J on fudged, yon fudged, it's my go,” aud I
on’t know what all. Might os well try to
sleep in a lunatic asylum. At night they
sleep on a pallet in the parlor and scratch and
kick round and roll over and aro
all over tho floor by morning.
I'd rather ratio four girls than two boys,
except daring a war, bnt I feel more concern
about the girls after they are grown. They
get aoloncfomeintheeauntry and want to
go to Atlanta. Bat thry are very busy now,
for I am crowding them with blackberries—
splendid fceirics-and they are making wine
and acid and jam and jelly. Tho boys pick
about a peck a day, and could pick a bushel if
we wanted them. It takes most as
many Jogs and bottles as the Atlanta prohibi
tionists used on the last wet day. Ia Atlanta
dry yet? 8sm Jones says he tried to find out
when he came tbroogb, and the way thepeo-
pie talked reminded him of a feller he saw
one nigbt bugging a lamp post, and the feller
•aid: "Mister, could yon told me which aro
the oppoeita side of thieetreet?” "Why, of
course, my friend; that side over yonder is the
oppoeite aide.” "Why, I wm over there jnet
now, said be, and a feller told me this were
the oppoeite side.” Sam eaya the Atlanta
people talk eirter forked and quote Scripture
like the old nigger preacher who said:
"He that !a not for ue, aint
aginua thank the Lord.” But I think the
antics out to tote fair and give tho law a fair
trial tortwo yean. If it is a bod law time will
tell and then it can bo repaaled, or amended.
Folks have been trying for fifty years to settle
this liqeor question but it won’t stay settled.
1 understand we are to have a candidate for
tbe legialataro who will ran on a repeal of the
law in thfa county. I don’fthink he can be
elected. Oar people are satisfied with the
P rohibition. Thoeowho are obliged to have
quor can get it at Romo. Rome is very wet.
Rat onr crop# are so poor this year we can't
afford to boy whisky and coffee too and so we
will go it on coffee for tho sake of the women.
I’m sorry for the solicitor-general and the
lawyers for they get no criminal practice in
enr county now. Baft oar taxes will be re
duced snd that will help everybody. So let
the l*w stand awhile longer. Bill Arp.
Typhoid Fever.
Charles Hartford, of Now Castle, Westchester
county, N. Y., suffered with tyoheid fever, and
w*t given np to die. He waa restored to health
in < ne week by taking five Brandreth Pille
ever/ night and drinking plentifully of ont
me a 1 gnul. A few doeee of Brandreth'e Fill
will invariably core aay kind of fever.
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W Erenan has In due form applied to ibe under
signed for permanent letter, of administration,
cum testamento aunexlo. on the estate of Hugn
Drenan, late of raid county, deoeawd, and I will
5 *r. upon .aid implication onVIhe first *fon-
*v In Antnst, Given under my hand ana
t-flieial .innslure till. July 1st, 1886.
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to the court, in her petition duly filed for letter* ol
dlraiual from uld administration, sold applloa*
tlon will be beard on the flret Monday In 8epteo&i
ber, 1886. This May 29. ISM
juncl wky 8 m P. M. FRANKLIN, Ordinary.
Ailintnltotrator'. Halo.
G eorgia, faykttk .county-by virtue
of an order of the court of ordinary of sold
county, will be rold before tbe courthouse door Us
Fayetteville, raid county, within tho legal hours
of sale, on tbe first Tut-«l«y In August next, twen
ty live acre* of land, mote i-r lew. In thcRouthweet
corner of lot of land No. 252. In tne fifth district ol
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,uppo,trrointboo.utrortbedeoeued. itald .(>•
prauere have mods- a ret urn of their appraisement
to my office, end I will pa** upon the sane on UM
firet Monday In Anru*t. 1886. Givn under my
hand and cffictal sirrm* ru'»- *bU July 1st, Ih4.
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