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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY APRIL 5 1887
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SKIN I BLOOD
Diseases, from Pimples to Scrofula, Cured
by Ciilleura.
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story: Ijhavebeen*terribleroffi
poisesslon, coplea of
' ll. repeat this
‘ years froi
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humors. bavclmd the b'.ht physician#' havospent
hundredk of doiI«,!>, aud got no relief until I used
theCi:Tj« t : BAltK;iF.i>its, ivnieh have cured me, and
left my fklu aud bic -
* pure as a child s
COVERED WITH SALT RHEUM.
CfTicucA UKiiKiUKi are the greatest medlctuea
On earth. Had the worst case of Salt Rhoitm lu
this couctryJIMy mother had It twenty yeare, and.
In fact, died from It. I believe Citicuha would
hare saved her life. Myurms, breast and head
were covered for threo years, which nothing re
lieved or cured nc‘” ' —* —
VIST internally,
Soap externally.
HEAD, FACE AND DODY RAW.
I commenced to use your Cuti .tra RKNSDir*
last July. My head nud lace, and some parts of my
tody, were almost raw. My head was covered
With scabs and soh n. and my suffering was fearful.
1 had tried everything I bad heard of in the east
and west. My cane was considered u very bad oue.
I have now not a pM tideol Skin Humor about me,
and my case Is considered wonderful.
MRS. S. E. VVHIPPLF.
Decatur, Mich.
cr*A REWF.nnw, of nn old sore, cam
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tirely well—sound as n dollar. He requests me to
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* Gaincsboro, Tenn.
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STORIES OF THE WAR.
OLD MAN
e OJd Man T#Hs an Sxoe«dliigly Interesttrr Story
—How Things Looked Wb»Q Oeerni»a Csmo
Tcrcugh-Bevf rat Oth*r Inter. sUng «*: j-
rlo-A Joknoa 0*m-r*l McLaws.
Written for tho Constitution.
“Just two days 'fore old Shernnn avuu?
orreund here to Jonesboro,” continued old m»u
Blanket, “folks teemed to know there was
trouble cr brewing, and the big roid was full
of people Tcfugeeing,’ and lots of cm had bocu
‘rclugeeing’ from 'way up in Tennessee, mov*
ing on as old Sherman advanced, and theso wero
in a bad fix as sure as you or born. Mo and
my old ’oraan never would turn cm off when
they’d just ax for shelter to keep outon the
ralu, and that haint all, wo fed cm ai long as
wo had anything to feed on; but things got
mighty scarce with ns, and wo hid to hear tho
pcor little ‘rofagccitig' children cry for bread
many n time towards the last without hoing
ablo to givo cm any. War’s a had thing,
s'ranger; war’s a had thing!
“Night come on and it was raining and so
dark you couldn’t see your hand before you,
and we had took the wintin and children in
as long as we had a bed that would hold ouo,
nud plied cm dowu on tho lloor hi
long as wo had a quilt and
me and tho old 'oman was fixin* to go to bed
ourselves, when the dogs . went orrouud tho
house 6amo as they’d cr been artor some wild
vaimint, and when I went oat to soe whit was
the matter, what should I And but oue or the
liveliest young wimin’s as you over laid your
eyes on, and when we got her in tho houso she
told the most pitifuleat talo yon ever hcord,
say in’ she’d started down the road to koep oat
en the way of old Sherman, and had lost her
way in tho dark and couldn’t go no
further. The old ’oman ground somo
wheat what she had parched and mado so ate
coffee, atul 1 got out my bottle of spirits what
was mado ou ten sorghum, and we warmed hor
up and mado her fcol at homo tho bo3t wo
could, and she 'lowed abo’d just set tbero in a
chair till mornin', aud tho old 'oman 'lowed
that would never do, and she said, says she:
“I’d rather for you aud tho old man to——”
and then she scratched her head aud said that
won’t do cither. So 1 says that tho young
stranger should sleep in my bed with tho old
’oman and 1 would sleep up in the loft on somo
broom straw what was up . tlrar. After I seed
tho old ’oman aud tho young straugcr all snug
iu bed I went up the ladder into tho loft and 1
lay down on the broom straw and I had as
good er night’s sleep as I ever had In my life,
for my head was right org'inst the roof and
the rain pattered on tho boards, and tho man
what hunt slept to the sound of rain on a
house top don’t know nothin’ orbont sleep.
“The young stranger was up and gono next
morning by tho timo it was light, and nothin’
strange was thought of it, for iu war timo folks
don’t think strange of many things.
“LcDgup in the day following tho night
the young 'oman slept with my old lady, I was
out in the plaza, and I looked up tho road and
I seed a long lino er blue coated soldiers or
cornin’, and I called up the old ’oman, and I
says wo’r goners—them’s yanks. Brown’s gals
was over at my houso, and they ’lowd It was
on use to run, so we stool thur in tho plaza,
and pretty soon tho soldiers were all out in the
road in front er tho house, and fcKoy stopped,
and no sooner than they atoppod than down
they set on each sido er the, road, aud pretty
soon here come some men on horses down the
read, and the men they’ rise to their feet snd
holler bazar, hyzar, bazar 1 I didn’t like that
holler, and I don’t like it yet Pretty soon I
seed them men what was on horses was ofllcors,
and in a mlnit two of them started toward tho
houeo, Mid rid rite Into tho yard, and then I
says, wo'r goners, slioro. Tho two rid up to
tho well, ono of them was as pretty or yankce
as yon ever laid yonr ores on, and tbo othur
was an old sharp lookin’ cuss, aud they
said that's Gonoral Shormau.’ 1 was gatin’At
’em, for I spectcd cvery.minit to soe the ono
they said wais Sherman rnu his hqnd in his
jacket for a match, hut bo didn’t, aud prolty
floou the young olllcor lookod over at iu and
raffed his cap as purlitoly as auy southern fol
low would er dono and tho old fellow ho s.nil-
od like and they rid off, then thinks I to my
self what in tho thunders the matter with
these hero jaukcca. hut I stod the old follow
call a fellow what had cr sword cr hanging by
his s’tlo to him and ho putted toward tho
houso and pretty soon twolvo so'diers at tried
light lip towards tis aud thou I says no.v I
know wo’r goners. They come right up to us
and ono er them ’lowed:
Wcaro sent hero as guards to you and your
property. You can refit easy, uulhin’ you’ve
got will ho disturbed.
Pretty soon up rides a follow with a^lot er
bundles in his arms, and ho give tho old 'om in
afackagoof cofl'ce and several things what
wu’d not seed any of since tbo war begun, and
then ho turned and handed mo a nolo, and I
called ono cr Brown’s gals and told her to read
it. and she read it, snd here is what it said:
These things are sunt to you by tho voting oJlcct
that drank at your well a bit ago. Plenso accept
“ *■ kindly enter-
F. IL C.
Tlie old ’eman ’lowed well, well, well! and I
’lowed hell, hell, hell! War's a bad thing,
strauger; war’s a bad thing.
It warnt long ’lore the battlo^of Jonesboro
set in, and the big gnns roared and tho little
6 uns rattled, and the yankcei hollered huzzs.
uzza, huzza! and Hardeo’s men hollered same
as ten thousand men after a fox just Toro tho
do«s picks him up, and by jings I got orround
like I never had er touch er rheumatics in my
life, and if the conscript officers could er
seed me they’d er lit onto me like a hungry
duck on er June bug, but thar warnt no con
script ofllcors round thar then.
“When the fight was over,” said old men
Plunket, with a long sigh, “I went over yonder
by them three big trees what you see standing
off to themselves, snd right there was whore
they had what they called a field hospital, and
of all tho eights I over seed it was there. There
was a pile of scraps them as big as your corn
crib—arms, lcgs,skulls. hands, feet,everything,
and layin’ off to one sido was dead moa snd
horses, and me and lirdwn stopped over erniong
’em and what should wo see hut the young offi
cer what I've told you cibout, layin’with his
face turned up to the suu, and wo said right
erway we’d bury him as well as wo could, so
Brown, he went to looaA the collar of tho blue
cost what looked like it was chokin’ him,
aud he jumped back tho 6nmo as he'd cr been
shot, and ’lowed its a woman—and it was a
woman.
*•***« •
“\Vhat:ver Plunket says you can depen 1 on,
stranger,” »a'd old man Brown, ashosottlod
ha* k in his chair.
“I ’bleved when the war first started that I
could whip the best three yankees that could
be fotchod before me. and crlong in secession
times when we all had these here cockades
pinned on our costs 1 talked accordin’.
“After the war bad run erlong about cr year
I thought maybe I couldn’t back up all I'd
said and believed erbout being able to lick the
three best yankees snd I decided that maybe
in order to be certain I'd better fall ono and
make it two and so I talked accordin’.
“I was dead shore I conld whip twoer the
rascals the best day they ever seed till the war
bad gone erlong for over two years, and then I
I bad er talk with the old ’oman and the gals
and I decided I’ll fill one more—that would
put it man to man, and I'd er swore to that,
and I talked accordin’.
“After a while the conscript law was mak-
in' things mighty squaly and seemed to sorter
throw er damper on things generally,
and I had come to the conclusion that
a man as old as me was mor’n
apt to be mistaken erbout bisself, so I de tided
that if I could call baek erbout twenty years I
knowed I could stand my hand with one er
them, but I couldn't call the years back, to I
talked accordin'.
“When the yankees did come I didn’t hive
time to do any fightin’, and I don’t know till
this day how Pd er come out if it had er been
convenient for me to tackle ’em
I was kept busy kcepfn’ what little I had
ont’en the way or the soldiers, and I did'ntdo
that for one side er the other got it alL
‘Our own folks had mighty strange ways of
a a federal icoat.
doing things. They had cr law that wouldn't ah
low a fellow to go aud give in hi* tax, and then
pay them with money, hut you bad to givo
one-tenth of every tarnell thing you made, and
haul it to tho quartermaster, aud then
tho dinged quartermasters would find out
where you lived In spito of all you could do,
and they’d roino to your house and “pre:
balance and give you a darned little old picco
er paper with tonio printin' ou it that warnt
worth a fivo cent confederate shinphiatcr er
wagin load. When Shcrnnn's gang como
erlong I didn't have a tarncl thing loft but
three old hens, an old rnm and ono old goose.
When I herd tho yankees was comlu
I dug me out a holo in do
ground dowu in tho woods back or the lot and
put tho liens and the old zander In it and then
covered it with rails and loaves and I’d er
sworo I’d or kept them, but I didn't. WTion
the Yankees como they went dowu to the lot
/aroinin erround and what should tliootd gan
der do but work his head up through the rails
and leaves aud when ho herd tho Yankoea ho
let in to bollerin quo, qua, qua, and the Yan
kees lit out down thar and caught allofetn
hut ono old hon and thev took after her
and she How up in the tree whar I’d hid what
little meat I bad by hangin’ it on tho limbs
way up in tho top, and tbo yaukoes sighten
erround after tho old hon, found it, and then
phot tho old hen and went away with tho
wholo business. It tickled them, but wo
rouldn't sea nothin’ funny erbout it. 8inca
then I’vo bad to rustle for or liviu’, and I’m
mighty careful what I say—and so I talk
accordin’. Sabor.
A Good One on Gonoral McLawa*
Mr. D. S. Jonos, of Bound Pond, Alabama,
tells a good story on Gonoral McLaws. He
cays it happened near Loosbnrg, Va., while his
division waa resting, preparatory to tho first in
vasion of Maryland. Tho march from Itfch
mond had been a long and tiresome; ono tho
commissary, by somo moans, as was often tho
cwo. was behind with rations and tho hungry,
tired men wero getting rcatloss. Tlioro was
large field of corn near by in that interesting
Btsto known to tho soldier as tho roasting oar
state. 8o ono after another of tho hungry
beys began to invalo that field and proceodod
to “draw rations.” Tho owner thereof did his
best to stop such proceedings, aud finding his
e Hurts of no avail, appealed to Gonerftl M<
Laws, wlTo soon had tiio field surrouaded by
guard sufllcent to capturo all whu woro instdo,
and each one, as ho camo out with his arms
full of corn, was marchod up to General Me-
Laws, who proceeded to administer justfeo in
this whe: “What command do you belong to?”
wss asked tho culprit, who stood tremhMag,
witfPkho evidenco of his guilt still in his arms;
his reply would ho tho lfith, 18th, or Gobb'd
Legion, or 24th Georgia, as the cabo might bo,
for the division was mostly Georgians.
“Well,” wonld continuo tho genoral, “what
arc you going to do with that corn?”
Then tbo poor, discomfited rob would sot up
tho idea:
“General, I am mighty hungry and I thought
I would get a few ears to oat”
Then would como tho soutonco:
“Throw down th^t corn there and rqjoin
your command immodlately.”
£o ono after anothor the questions woro
asked and tho samo replies given till it
finally camo tho tarn of a wag
who belonged to the lfith Georgia. He had
heard tho proceeding in tho casos just before
his tarn camo.
“What command do you belong to?” asked
tho goneral.
“To the 10th Georgia.”
“What are you going to do with that corn?”
“1 am going to throw it down on this pile,
general, and rejoin my command immediately!”
Tho reply so pleased tho general that he dis
missed all tho rest, sent for tho old genUoman
who owned the corn and had it bought and
issued to his men.
The Story Hat Straight.
Editohs Cobbtxtution : Iu your Sunday's
Imuo of March 20th, last, was a beautifully
willlen crticlo under the head of “Stories of
tho War-A Beautiful Bride Kiilod by a 8hoU.'
A tad mul tragic event was narrated of “tho
marriage and death of Annie, oldost doalightcr
of (Governor Phkens, of South Carolina,” In
Charleston on April 22,18U.T. Friends had as-
ambled to witness tho marriage to Lioutcuaue
I.o Kocbello. As tho bridegroom nnd brldo
appeared boforo tho minister, a shell from the
c-mn.y s gttnsburnted in tho midst of tho rnar-
i iage sccno. tho waiting bride receiving n fatal
wound in tho left temple—no other person
•i jured. Her agonized lover prayed thnt,ovon
in death, she would become his wife. Tho
ceremony was performed in a fowr words,
tho “yes ’ was murmured in ft dying whispor
beneath tho husband's kiss. In a momout all
was over—a little struggle and sho was dead.
But tho truth is, it was a pure fiction of tho
so-called historian. There is no fact for its
foundation.
1 was intimate with Governor Tiekons and
ono of his attendants at his socond marriage.
By his first marriage, with Miss .Simpkins,
he had four children living when I became ac
quainted w ith him; tho oldost, Susan, who
m&nicd Mr. Lipscomb, of No wherry, S. C.; two
- Eliza and Mariah—twins; Eliza was married
to Mr. Coles, of Virginia; Moriah marriod Sena
tor Ilutlcr, of South Carolina; Uobece* mar
ried Mr. Bacon, of South Carolina.
By his accoud marriage, with Miss Bearing,
he had ono daughter—Jeannle, who matriod
Mr. Whaley, of South Carolina.
Ills third marriage was with Miss Holcombe.
By this marriage a daughter was born unto
them at St. Petersburg, Uussia, when he was
minister plenipotentiary to the Russian court,
Doucheks. She is tho wifoof I)r. G. Ddgar,
M. 1)., of Augusta, Ga.
No son. But six girls, all grew to lovely and
accomplished womanhood. All married; hut no
tragic scene marred tho ceromonial.
B. C, Y.urcxv.
March 31, 1657.
Rather Dubious,
Nearly everybody In the lower part of Dc-
Kalb county remembers Downsoy Brown, who
was noted for his innocent drollory. When
tho fcdcmls, after tro capturo of Atlanta, be
gan to explore tho country louud about they
paid Downsoy a visit. Some of his neighbors
meeting him soon afterward asked him how
he fared with tho visitors. Downsey, in his
peculiar way, began to toll about his losses,
making a doleful account of it. When somo
ono suggested that as ho was a good union
msn ho would likely got pay for all tho things
taken.
"Pay h—II," ho exclaimed. “They never
even to much as axed the price of ’om.”
A Klory of C'tiarlsy Porter,
Charley Porter waa police ssrgcant at Fort
Delaware, aud for his sly ways in hatching up
with tho boys waa called “Old Fox.” When
tbo nows of Lee’s surrender reached the fort
great was the rejoicing among the foderals.
old Fox came in to tell the news and sell the
newspapers containing the account. “Now,” he
said, “pojs,” (Fox was a Datchman), “you vill
all soon go homo an ve’ll all pc fronts. You'll
pe goot as wo is. Ve’ll pe g*)t as you is, nn
py tam, do nigger vill pe as goot as bote of us.”
In large sections of the country physicians
find most of their work In fighting Malaria,
hecanse nearly every disorder of the system
has its beginning in the presence of this sibtle
poison in tbo blood. Dr. Shallenherger's Pills
never (Ml to eradicate every vestige of it, and
never do harm. Use them and save time, much
suff ering and a doctor’s bill.
AwrnEwCAR.vr/;rR waa welcomed borne by
2 r*o employes w hen the Pacific express 'reached
Bo-'xmer station on Thursday. The crowd cheer,
erf him heartily, and all the locomotive and other
whittles lu the place were blown.
Why don’t you try Carter’s Little Liver
Pills ? They are a positive cure for sick head*
ache, and all the ills prodaced by disordered
Liver. Only one pill adoso.
Kaffir Corn for Bale,
Price V> 00 per peck. True toname. (J aar-
an teed! H. L. Johnston, Palmetto, Ga.
mch22wky4t
GEORGIA AGRICULTURE.
TERSE STATEMENT OF ITS CONDI
TION AND ITS NEEDS,
Xrapovtaot Project Proposed by Jadgo Henderson-
an interstate Convention of Cotton Qtatea for
tfcc Exchange cf Views and Experlenoe-
£omo recta of Internet, Sio., Etc.
Judge J. T. Henderson, state commissioner of
agriculture, issued, o% yesterday, a call for a
meeting of gentlemen interested iu agricultu
ral matters, to ho held in this city on Friday,
the lfith instant. Letters to this effect havo
bocn sent to prominent gontlemen in different
parts of the btato, aud a general invitation to
he present is also extended to all who fool so
inclined.
In theso lottora. and in the goneral invita
tion, Judge Henderson states that on the 23d
of March he addressed, with tho approval of tho
governor, lotters to a number of tho farmers
snd prominent citizens of Georgia, rouuostiug
their opinion of the expediency of calliug an
interstate convention of suitable roprosonta-
live men from certain of the cotton states to
consider tho conditions and wanta of our agri
cultural interests. The lotter also suggested
an advisory preliminary conference of thoso
addressed to meet in this city. Tho replies to
those lettersbeiog'almoat unanimously in favor
of tho proposed convention,and also lhe|prelim-
inary conference, Judge Ilenderion.at the sug
gestion of tho governor, has issued tho call for
tho preliminary conference to bo held.asstated
above, at the capital in this city, at 10 o'clock
In tbo morning of tho lfith instant.
“This call has been issued for sovoral rcsona,”
said Judge Henderson to a Constitution ro*
porter last evening. “Lost year tho Columbus
convection passed a resolution calling upon
me to issue n call for an encampment of repre
sentative men from somo of our neighboring
states to consider, with representative
Georgians, the subject of the agricultural con
ditions of tho cotton states. I was to issuo this
call if, after consultation with othors,
1 deemed such a step practicable.
I consulted a number of gontloinon whom 1
knew to ho greatly interested in tho suhjoct,
among them the principal supporters of tho
resolution mentioned, and the opinion of almost
all was that such a stop would bo prodnetivo of
little or no good, nnd that tho host thing I
could do would be to disregard tbo resolution.
Despite this almost unanimous opinion, the
idea that an encampmontof this kina would bo
a good thing took firm possession of mo, and
I gnvo it a good deal of thought. Ono day not
long ago I mentioned tho subject to Uovoraor
Gordon. Ho was very much impressed with
the- idea and expressed tho opinion that tho
picjcct was an excellent ono. llo was so much
struck with tho idea that upon soveral occa
sions ho broached tho snbject, asking me why
1 did not issuo a call for such a convention or
encampment,
‘Tho condition of agrlculturo In Georgia is a
suhjoct which should bo thoroughly and care
fully considered by every person having the
good of tho state at heart. The necessity of
seme improvement in agriculture and in the
condition of the agricultural population is pat
ent to every persou making any sort of an ex
amination into tho agricultural situation. 1
havo certainly dono everything In my power to
aid in bringing about a better state or affairs,
talking and consulting with formers ev
erywhere. advising them to the best
of my ability and assisting them to tho extent
of my ability.
“After frequent oonsultatious with Governor
Gordon, J decided to take him at his sugges
tion and see wnat wonld he the chanoes of get
ting up an inter-state convention. I did
not fool like taking all the responsibility upon
my own shouldirs, ant havo lakon no stops
without bis approval. I thought it
the best plan to consult fifty
or sixty of tho leading agrienltnrlsts
and gentlemen prominent in othor walks of
life. Letters woro sent out on the 23d of
nlishcs something. There should ho a general
iuterchango of views and oxpcrieuce* and a
thorough discussion of all questions of interest.
Tho project is to hold tho convention some
where iu tills state, probably at or near At! an
ta. snd to havo tho gathering in tho nature of
an encampment, tents being provided for tho
accommodation of delegates. Tho project has
tho hearty approval of Governor Gordon, aud
will doubtless havo tho support of the most
pi eminent people of Georgia.
PERSONS AND THINGS.
did not heartily favor the plan, and one of
these said that In hla opinion tuo state agri
cultural convention wns tho proper body to take
action upon tho subject.”
“3fy Jdw,” lontlnned Judge Hendorson, “Is
__ call together representatives from tho
states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
North Carolina and South Carolina. Goorgia
Is tho natural center of this district and our
lnterc8ta aro almost identical. Almost tho
ramo condition of affairs provails in oacli of
these six states. Our interests are identical,
and wo must work out our salvation in our
own way. It has been suggested by sovoral,
among them, Hon. “Jim” Blount, that wo
make tho convention national and havo rep-
sent stives from tho different states
the union. Tbo objections
that plan are obvious. There wonld
lo a clashing of interests and tho timo would
bo consumed in tho discussion of tho tariff and
other questions of that naturo, and nothing of
any valuo would hoaccomplishhd.”
“What do you thluk of Georgia's future
an agricultural state?” Judgo llondorson was
asked.
“That Is • very difficult question to answor.
The soil of Georgia is excollont for goneral ag
ricultural purposes if properly proparod, hut
tbero is no doubt hnt the In
tensive system of high manurning must ho
adopted in order to produce the host results.
Georgia is tho third, possibly tho socond, of tho
cotton producing states. But wo must got oat
of the cotton rut. While I do not think cot
ton particularly taxing to the soil, the history
of Georgia shows that It is taxing to tho agri
cultural classes. Tho manufacturers seem
to havo ascertained just how much it
cotta t> ra’as a ponud of cotton, and
tho result Is that they will pay no morothan
tho actual cost of production. That moans
simply a hand-to-mouth existence on tho part
of the producer. In fact it has boon a serious
question with me for some timo whothsr thoro
was not an actual loss to the producer upon
every pound of cotton raisod. Tho natural
result you sec in tho condition of the agricul
tural closes. Their condition Is absolutely
deplorable. Tlicro must bo improvement
in tho condition of tho laboring
tenant classes or wo shall sco them crowded
out of their hcritago and a different civs of
people will take their places. Largo numbor-i
of theso people aro In debt to money corpora-
tious which will eventually get control of
the Ir property unless they are able to do some
thing to mako their businoss profitable.”
“Is it your idea to havo tbo formers pay less
attention to cotton and more to other products
which you think will ho more profitable?”
“Exactly. I have, for instance been trying
to stimulate tho growth of cotton. I don't
think 1 havo mado as much headway as I hod
Loped, though thcro havo been many calls for
tobacco seed. Our people are too conservative.
I have been trying to get them to toko hol l of
buckwheat, hut do not make any material
headway. Another industry, which
was broached to me by a northern man living
iu Greene county, is the raising of hops. It is
stated that the hop districts of the north are
infested with an insect which is destroying the
hops everywhere. There is a fair chance of
transferring that bosincM to the south, and it
is certainly a profitable one. I expect to givo
tbe hops and buckwheat projects my energetic
io hops and buckwheat projects my
tention during ths coming year.”
“In my opinion, Georgia will, in time, be*
come quite prominent as a stock-growing
country. If tbe people in tho regions whore
grass is grown would go into the stock basi
nets, they wonld find it, in my opinion, vastly
more profitable than cotton. You soe the fact
is that Georgia is not able to compete, as a cot
ton country, with the alluvial lands of Milalist-
ippl, Louisiana, Arkansas and other cotton-
growing states. When compared to those
regions, our lend is badly impoverished. For
a long time the impremion prevailed
that grassea wonld not grow in Georgia, but
that belief baa been effectually dispelled. Re
cent experiments show that orchard grass and
clover will grow at as high perfection In Geor
gia as auy place In the world. Bight in De-
Kalb county we sec this demonstrated.”
“There is no donbt,” continued Judge Hen-
derton. “that Georgia will prove one of
the best agricultural states If we
go at it properly. I hope for good
mulls from tho proposed conference and inter
state convention, and hope the convention, if
held, will continue in session until it accom-
Of the three daughters whom Longfellow ini
moriuli^cd iu that Uautlfiil poem. "The Twilight
Hour," Alice alone remains munarric<l. Sho lives
In tie olit • (Tnfglo house" at Cambridge with hor
bachelor uncle, the Rev. Samuel Longfellow.
Kdith Ixtiigfeilow married Richard II. Dana. Anna
Alli grn Lough-How, tho youngest daughter, about
two year* ago, married Joseph ft. Thorpe, Jr., a
young Boston lawyer and brother or Hr*. Ole Bull.
G. T. Nelson, of Chester, III., owns a Scotch
terrier which has for aevoral yean been nldietod
to the mo of malt beverages. Whenever he gets a
ch»nee he visits tho slop trough under tho beer
faucet in the city saloons, laps tho beer with evi
dent satisfaction null! drunk, aud then goes stag
gering off as silly m any sot.
Tin: fact has just como to light that soon
after her marriage Mrs. Cleveland whs tendered hr
thesultanidTurkcrthcorderot the caliplute. The
sultan made the odor In a graceful way, but Mrs.
Cleveland, through the president and the stato de
partment, declined tho proffered honor. "C-tllph-
ute" means the "commander of the f»ithful," and
the order Is frequently bestowed ou the wives of
distinguished men. Its Insignia Is a sash.
A conftKSTONDKNT who attended an experi
ence meeting In a colored church in Virginia says
that a new convert arose to tell his experience. Uo
told the brethren and sisters all the eiusof his life,
and more, too, with all their nggravullous. Ho con
fessed to every crime known to the statutes and
evirysin known to the decalogue. When bo pained
for breath, gasping at his own wickedness, n
brother in tho nailery shouted solomnly: "Put out
dal lump!” "Why fort” asked tho p.istor. "Coz,”
said the solemn brother, "dc vilcs' slnuer done re
turn.'*
When tho famous Vanderbilt fancy dress
ball was occupying tho attention of all New York
there was mm fi dncuralon lu Wall street as to the
appropriate costumes, and so forth. A hald-hoided
broker asked Mr. W. It. Travers to clve. him an Idea
for a character. "I \
most rerloiui tone,
ap-p-plll.”
!KV j
quart bottle tuli
ot«, and yet you ‘
lunate man committed auicldo?
Wilt owi—Yes, sir.
Kctitueky Coroner—Well, If you think that any
body would commit suicide with a murt of whisky
In Ids pocket, you must be a persou of very low In
telligence.—New York Suu.
Mr. T. AdolphuhTroi.lopk, when actingai
tbciftallan correspondent of a London paper, onoo
wanted to telegraph that a minister in answering a
parliamentary queatlon had lied. Hut tiio censor
ship wonld not allow such n dispatch to pass. Do
he simply telegraphed that "tho statement ot tho
minister waa so entirely at variance with tho facts
that It is incredible he could have uttered It.” Thia
wns allowed to pass, of eoui so; and tho folks
at the Loudon end or tho wire unde~*tood it and
translated it into emphatic form.
Acouri.Kofrazcali nro swindling the farmors
of Greene county, Pennsylvania, in an ingenious
manner. They read the local newspapers care
fully, aud when a farmer publishes au ostray no
tice, No. 1 calls to look at tlm animal. The farmer
shows the beast, and tho fellow decides it is not
hla; then he returns to his partner aud describes It
minutely to him. No. 2 goes to tho farmer an l,
after proving by a thorough description that ho is
tho owner ortho animal, nays ho cannot take It
away, art1 offers to sell it at a bargain. The farm
er buys it, and In n few days tho rightful j owner
comes aud claims tho animal.
Onr of tho most occontrlo rich men (a thia
City is the vcnerablo benjamin Richardson. Ho is
said to be worth 12,000,000 or more, but lives In a
~ all tumble-down house in Harlem, lie holds
ho lets cut whenever thoro Is a dernaud tor thia
revolutionary relic.—New York World.
Tkxah men havo dlsoovorcd that tho hides
the leather.
A nn a reman o.» tho Lebanon Yalloy rail
road Is koepitigan account of the nmnlior of tramps
ho sees walking on tho railroad each day. His
recent khows over :KX> persons on foot botwoou Leb
anon and Reading during tlm month of February.
I'p to the 2Gth of March nearly tho same number
have been noted, and many of these lumped on tho
trains whonevor they had a good ctrauco to do so.
-A freight car opened lu Lebanon had twenty tramps
in it. At Fomo points flfiecti lo twenty tramps
were seen traveling together, aud ,n ono lcggod
man was seen leading a blind one.
Thomas O'Shea, of Danbury, Conn, owuol
two hens nnd a roobter. Karly lliLt kj>i in™ the lum<
wanted to set and he let them ret. One diet ou the
nwt, and Thomas dHcovcrlhg it txfforo the eggs
were cold, put them In a basket nml put tho rooatcr
oti the eggs nud fastened him x thcro. He fed and
watered him without letting him quit theno.it, and
In due time from tho fifteen eggn thirteen chicks
appeared. Their father neems proud of them, and
tuki a good enro of hla family.
Bon Ford, the slayer of Josio James, has
spent nil tho money that ho may havo recolved for
dollig the deed, and also all that ho mado by ex-
hibtitng bJujM'Jf Jn dime museums, nnd is now a
waiter In a rertauraut at Hauta Fe, N. M.
Recently tho head of a great Bordeaux
wine homo called on Prince Hbmarck. who for
yearn has purchuxcd most of his wines from that
house. Tho man of blood andllron gave an order
for a large consignment of wines, and then tho
Frenchman dhcrcctly fished for sn opinion as to
tho probability of war. "Tut, tut,” exclaimed the
prince, "what pulwar Into your hood? Ho you
Hippote I would order wine] of you if I expected
war? No, no; 1 wonld como and get it myHoif.”
One Thousand Dnlhira Would not Balance
Ilia Honellt.
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