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FARMS AND FARMERS
Short Talks With the Men Who
Guide the Flow.
QUESTIONS ON FARMITOPICS ANSWERED
The Mini tire Pile.
On a well regulated farm, the manure heap
should be looked after every week in the year.
Not a day passes, but something might bo
added to it. For some time, wc have been
having all the refuse and waste matter from
the home of a small family deposit
• ed on one of these piles, and have been struck
with the rapidity of its increase. Ashes, soot
from the stove pipes, trimmings, hulls, etc., of
vegetables, chicken feathers, bones, slops of all
kinds, indiscriminately thrown upon it, are
rapidly building up quite a mass of rich
material. One who has never done it, would
be surprised at the rapid accumulation. And
it will be a pretty concentrated and a very
complete kind of manure. Not an ingredient
needed by plants will be wanting. The urine,
feathers, scraps generally, and soot,
will supply a goodly quantity of
nitrogen The bones will [supply phos
phates, the ashes will furnish potash, and the
vegetable refuse will supply a goodly quantity
of humus to dilute and make available these
varied kinds of plant food. This, supplement
ed with the proceeds of a dry earth closet,
• which every family should have, will manure
highly a family garden. Now, the above illus
trates how much, on this line, can be done on
a farm. The resources of the latter are very
great, compared with that of a family yard and
garden. It has woods, fence or hedge rows,
ditch banks, muck beds, straw piles, barnyards,
stalls, pig styes, cotton seed, all of these to
draw on. If a farmer will make a regular
business of accumulating manure, not regard
it as a secondary off-thing, to be looked after
in wet times when nothing else can bo done,
he will be astonished at the quantity ho can
gather up in a year. Manure making
ought to take precedence of every-
thing else on a farm. The object of
farming is to make goods crops.
Nothing will contribute more to this end than
an abundance of good manure. Everybody
knows this, and yet the majority of farmers
practically act as if they did not believe it.
They let manurial matters about them waste,
are slothful about collecting it, give a few
rainy days, perhaps, to the work, and trust for
results to good seasons, good luck, or some
thing else equally vague and uncertain—and
to commercial fertilizers. Now, if there is
any one thing which the experience of the
last twenty years has clearly demonstrated, it
is that commercial fertilizers are unreliable on
poor land destitute of humus, and nine-tenths
of the land in the older cottrn states is exactly
of that character. Commercial fertilizers to
give good sesults must be associated with hu
mus. If the latter is not present in the soil,
it must be f urnished through the compost heap; .
and furnished liberally. The two can
not be successfully divorced from each
other. More. Big compost heaps will reduce
the quantity of commercial fertilizers needed
on a farm. A little of the latter will go a long :
way, when mixed with plenty of farm manure.
In short, the farmer’s fertilizer bill will bo
greatly reduced.
It is urged, therefore, upon every farmer, >
who has not already done so, to begin at once in
earnest to build up a tremendous manure pile.
Make that the leading business from now until
spring. What is the best plan of procedure 1
First, shall it be under shelter or not ? Where
the materials have to be gathered up slowly
and the pile built up gradually it is better to
have it under shelter; because heavy rains 1
will leach through a pile only a foot or so high.
If materials are so abundant that a pile
put in a pen can be made at once three or four
feet high, there is no need for a shelter. Raiu
will not leach through such a mass, '
but will help rather, by keeping ‘
up a desirable degree of moisture
in it. For a manure heap made of crude, un
decomposed, unfermented material, should
always be moist to allow chemical changes to
develop in it. This moisture, whether sup
plied by rain or poured on by hand, naturally
gravitates downward, taking with it more or
less of the soluble materials in the upper lay
ers. The lower parts should therefore be
largely absorbent material. Dry muck, or
rich earth, half rotted leaves or straw, woods
mold or something similar, should be put at
the bottom of the pen, and six or eight inches
thick. Then the poor and comparatively rich
material should follow in alternate layers, re
serving the richest of all for the upper layers
near the surface. The reason for alternating
thus is, that fermentation is contagious; a rot
ten tooth makes its neighbor rot. Rich ma
nure, like cotton seed or stable manure, when
it ferments, starts fermentation in leaves or
straw, etc., next to it, and thus the whole
mass is eventually leavened. Should ashes
or lime be put in a heap of which
cotton seed and stable manure forma part?
Yes when much crude material like leaves or
straw are also present mingle them.thorouglily
with the leaves and straw, and put the mixture
in the lower part of the heap. Thus managed
there is no danger of their producing loss of
gases and they will themselves be valuable
contributions to the manure. Aside from the
leaching that takes place in open yard, the
waste of urine is the great manurial leakage
on most farms- The urine of animals contains
much the largest portion of nitrogen that is
thrown off from their bodies and most of this
valuable substance is loss because so many
animals are allowed to run in! unsheltered lots
without absorbents, and even when they are
present, rains leach the urine out of them and
carry it off. By all means keep animals in
covered stalls, let them be cheap and rude if
if you please, but have them. Their cost will
be paid back many fold by increased health of
animals in winter, by saving of food and by
saving of manure. W. L. J.
Suitors Constitution: Seeing several queries con
cerning carp culture, I give a few points that 1 have
learned from experience, and hope they may con
vince some that this branch of industry is one of
the most important in which the southern farmer
can engage in.
Select a place where hillside and surplus rain
water can I e turned into a large canal to pass around
the pond. Much depends also on the size of the
Stream; if too large, freshets will break the dam: if
too small, summer heat will evaporate the water
and keep the pond low. The first work is to run
hillside ditches to keep sand and muddy raiu water
out: when this lias been thoroughly completed, cut
the canal 'o guard against freshets. If the stream
is large the canal (annot bo too large.
Clear the plat of trees, leaving those that are near
the pond for shade. Leave a few brushes or cane in
• some part of the pond for the carp to lay on and to
protect the young.
If crawfish infest the soil, or If It be soft mud. dig
a ditch two foot deep and about as wide
[along the line of proposed dam, vc
»up!» 6 i: I.] Fill It With Rand or
rod < lay, If these arc not convenient, saw plank
two feet long, s tcl sc together ,n the ditch and
fill on each d ie with dry earth.
Now we n; ready to build the dam, which is
done with win <1 barrows r.r dur. p ■ irts, getting dirt
wh re it is most convenient. If we want the dam
six f-t high we «• irt It tw Ire fe. wide at 1.. t..m,
and pack it s' eutely >.s tire building progresses,
throwing In n.ltbe r.sd;s convenient, bringing it
to u Cbn at four .'e t wide at top.
Bemcmber the dam can bo neither too high nor
to Str g.
Give ed>m a tor-dre-dng of rc > M! and s t
wit i some kind .f gr.ss; bennuda i- t if it can be
kept from ?p: ling to nd,- -ininst flel Is.
Fs like shade as well as the fisherman, fb-t wil
low •pr-.aits around the pond, os close to the water as
no ible, as they are bc-st adapted to marshy land,
nut water-oak, catalpa or ce lar are very pretty.
The pond should be supplied with plenty of fresh
water. This may be accomplished by building a
email, but strong dam of ivga across
THE WETIKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1887.
the old ditch above the pond and I
, •"7 - b.c water thei to the notid
. tPoUarh - 01 ' u s, ‘- ,h ' :s method is ini- |
■p a :< ib.e m some localities, but it miiv be applied
to many. ’ 1
Tee waterway rhonld be made w! ere the water is '
Bhaliow.ifpossiWo.amla wire solve kept across it i
to prevent fish from e.-capiug.
German carp are undoubtedly the best fl«h for
P o,l u cult tire. They can be procured by writing to
me limited States fish commissioner, Washington,
■u. and paying freight on can.
bca.e carp grown and raise faster than leather
carp, wtU weigh four pounds at eighteen months
Olli, and Will lay at two years old. In May or June
iey deposit their eggs on brush, cane, or any thing
that Stands in the pond, and the warm rays of the
sun hatch them.
Carp should be fed regularly to make them grow
as, they will eat almost anything, scraps from the
table, wheat Bran mixed with water and baked, or
corn bread. Care should be taken that no other
is i are allowed to live in the pond with the carp,
as they will destroy the carp eggs. Ducks and geo- e
should be kept from the pond during the summer
months as they are destructive also to fish eggs.
Ise the shotgun freely to clear the pond of moc
casins, herons, kingfishers, etc. April is the best
time to shoot moccasins. An “old fashioned ’fish
basket kept in the pond will six n clear it of moc
casins and terrapins. Any one wishing further in
lormatlon, address, with stamp, J. W. Brandon,
Barnesville, Pike Co., Ga.i
J. B. M., Mount Hebron, Ala.: 1. On what kind
ot soil does the pecan tree do best? 2. How many
trees should be planted to the aero? 3. How soon
do they begin to bear? 4. How much sooner do t hey
bcarif transplanted than if grown from the seed?
o. Are they a sure crop, and jiow much is the aver
age j :eld per tree? 6. Wiiere is the best place to get
plant?
1- O:i rich alluvial soils, but will grow on
any rich soil. The pecan is very closely relat
ed to the hickory and will thrive on soils suit
ed to it.
Plant forty feet each way, or about twen
ty-five trees to an acre.
3. Eight to ten years from seed, varies with
richness of soil. On poor soil would take a
still longer time.
4. Cannot say.
5. Quite sure. A full-grown tree will yield
several bushels, but we cannot give figures.
G. Get some fresh nuts of good quality from
Texas. Do this as soon as the new crop gets
on the market. Bury the nuts in the ground
immediately, and about the first of March
plant them where they are to grow. If oily
nuts are kept out of the ground for a long time
after maturity.tliey are not apt to germinate.
A. M. K., Oxford, Fla.: I have been composting
cotton seed meal and muck together, and find it to
be a good fertilizer, but think perhaps it might bo
Improved by adding Canada ashes to the compost.
Would eiter injure the other by so doing?
No injury wouldjresult from ad ding theashes,
as cotton seed meal ferments very promptly, a
good plan would be to compost muck and ashes
first; and then a short while before using, mix
in the meal. The ashes will be a valuable ad
dition especially for light sandy soils. Eight
or ten bushels might be added to every cord of
muck. It would be well to make the compost
of muck and ashes some months before it is to
be applied—the meal to be Incorporated only a
few weeks before.
F. C. F, Millican, Texas, October 17,1887: I see
something about a grass or clover, called
Laespedeza, Where can I get the seed?
Difficult to gather, and not generally In the
market. Have not seen any advertised
recently.
J. Y. W., Brenham, Washington county. Twas: I
have about fifty tons (1,500 bushels) cow-pen
manure; cattle fed on cotton seed hulls aisd meal.
How, and when must it be applied for cotton- Black
loam land, capacity one-half bale cotton per acre
How would corn do, with one haldful of same to the
hill? If best, would like to put in drill. How much
should be applied to an acre?
You do not state whether there is any litter
mixed with the dung, or in what, state of
mechanical division it is. Pure cow dung is
usually close and cheesy, difficult of uniform
distribution, slow in fermenting and yields up
its plant food slowly. That you have ought to
be of good quality, on account of richness of
food; but assuming it to have the qualities
mentioned above, would advise to bulk it in
pens and develop fermentation, both for the
purpose of breaking up its close texture and
making its contents more readily available for
plants. If this is done now, it ought to be
ready for application in drill by March. In
putting in pens, see that it is moistened thor
oughly ; tread it a little as it is thrown in pens,
but not much. A rather open texture is favor
able to fermentation in sluggish masses. On
such land as yours, a ton may be applied to an
acre in the drill early in March. Would be
good for corn; applied round the hill prefer
able to putting in drill. Better results would
follow if you could add ashes to the manure,
but a large quantity would be required, some
200 or more bushels.
L. C., Fairplay, Ark.: B. has bought a township
right for a patent fence. G., in the same township,
wishes to use the same fence on his farm. Can he
do so without first buying of B. a farm right for the
fence?
What has B. bought but the right to coontrl
the use of said fegee in his township? Take
that away, and he is left only a farm right.
L. H. Sunberry, N. C., asks h>w to prevent a colt
fremraaring up. Put on saddle with good pl: th;
attach a ring to middle of girth; hitch reins in ring
and run throu'h rings of bit and use as you would
common reins. To work in harness, use trace chain
with ring in end; throw this across back; run the
other end through ring and pass through rings of
bit. The latter will prevent hone from breaking
lose when tied or grevent kicking.
John W. Chapman.
Okapilco, Ga., October 22, 1887.
B. L. G., East Point, Ga.: L Which is cheapest
for a comjjost heap cotton seed at sl2 per ton, or
cotton-seed meal at S2O per tun? 2. Is sorghum of
any value to fatten hogs with? If so, which variety
is best?
I. Meal is the cheaper of tho two. It takes
nearly three tons of seed to make one of meal,
and, so far as our observation goes, one of
meal, by weight, is equivalent to three of seed,
as manure. 2. Yes, extremely valuable. Let
it mature up to tho period when seed arc in
the dough, then feed stalks and heads to
gether to hogs. The early amber cane is as
good as any wo know.
J. I. W., Haines City, Fla.: Will sweet potatoes or
sweet potato vines hurt a mule? I have been told
they will both give a mule worms. How many
sweet iJOtfttocs would you advise for a feed for a
work animal?
Not if judiciously given. The potato is not
a well balanced food, and ought not, therefore,
to constitute the sole food of an animal. But
as a part of the daily ration it is healthful and
nutritious. Both the vines and roots should be
fed in moderation. Tho former, especially,
like green clover, will, if fed freely before tho
animal gets accustomed to it, tend to produce
colic. There is some danger of their choking
animals. Doth should bo chopped up, would
not give a mule more than a peck of potatoes
a day, and that in two feeds. Some dry forage,
and some grain should be fed in combination
with potatoes.
D. C. 8., Talbotton, Ga.: I filled rny lot Inst Jan
uary with leaves and straw (pine) about eight inches
deep; want to pen this Htt r now so I can make an
other crop of manure by spring. How will it do to
put up’h j manure now in jm?hs with cottonseed,
and p t stand till spring, for cutton; use nothing else
but it alone, or would it be better to put acid phos
phate with It?
I will bed on tho manure, and nl o u«e one hun
dred pound-of guano per acre on the same land
red land which was nown down present year in oats
has a heavy crop of rag weeds and crop grass on it
now. Will turn under in De emLcr with a boy
Dixie plow. How would you mix said manure?
How many cotton seed to each ten rail j c i? Manure
is not fully rotted, yet. Will be by spring, will it
not?
As your land Las a good deal of vegetable
matter on it, and your compost will supply a
good deal more, it is not advisable to use largo
quantities cf cotton seed with the manure. The
tendency would bo to make too much stalk and
too little fruit. Assuming a ten-rail pen to
hold 250 bushels, would not put more than
twenty-five bushels of seed to the pen. A pen
should manure three acres, this would give
eight bushels of cotton seed to the acre. It
Mould pay .you to add some acid phosphate to
the compost —say 300 pounds to each pen. Mix
the seed and phosphate, after dampening the
seed, and mix this mixture with lot manure.
Put in pens moist, and do not- tread it much—
only enough to fill up any cavities in the mass.
Penetration of air is requisite to secure rotting
by spring, but it is doubtful if this
will bo fully completed oven then. Oak leaves
are hard to rot on account of the tanin in them.
But if a part of the material is rotted, that
part will supply the needs of the crop in the
first part of tiie season. The remainder will
rot gradually through the summer, and feed
the crop then. This gradual, consecutive rot
ting of manure in the soil is probably a desira
ble thing in the case of crops, like cotton,
which take a long time to complete their
growth. For rapidly maturing crops, a fully
rotted manure is preferable.
S. IT. J., Lexington, Miss.—-1 have a piece of crock
bottom land that is well sodded withbernuidagrass;
has been in posture for several years. Hogs have
rooted it out in holes, making it very uneven.’ Tho
soil is what we call made land; many years ago was
subject to overflow, is not now; Would make a bale
of cotti nor 30 bushels c<>m per aero w ithout i?1 tll
izing now if the bermudo was eradicated. Will it
pay to level it and smooth it for the purpose of sav
ing hay ? When would bo the proper time and best
implements to do it with? It will require some
thing to cut the turf after plowing; it turns over in
on unbroken turf the length of land. How much
hay will it make per acre? My idea Ls to level and
smooth to use mower if it will pay. Has not been
‘plowed for eight or ten years.
You could not devote tho land to a more prof
itable crop than bennuda, if good hay has any
value in your locality. The yield would vary,
of course, with the seasons, but you might
safely count upon an average of four to six
tons a year. In some localities in Middle
Georgia as much as ton tons are claimed to
have been taken from an acre of Bermuda.
For preparing land use a heavy turn plow,
with good coulter. A revolving one is best.
A good sulky plow is best, because it will not
lose its furrow. Lost furrows make the sur
face uneven. Plow only about four inches deep.
After plowing, go over it repeatedly with disc
harrow, and finish off with a smoothing har
row, followed by a drag. This work should be
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done in March. This plowing and harrowing
will have to be repeated every three or four
years, to insure good yields.
8. Z. 8., Gum Creek, Dooly county, Ga.: Ist. Can
you tell me the cause of aj pies becoming full of rot
ten specks and falling off before maturity—and
what is the best preventative; my trees are on high
sandy land; they did well the first two or three
years after they begun to bear. 2nd. My grapes are
all dying; is it bust to cut them back? 3rd. I have a
fine lot of pine straw which I have been penning
cows on all the year. I think of composting it with
cotton seed, salt and potash. Please tell me how
much potash and salt to put to the acre on sandy
land for cotton. I want to use as little commercial
manures as 1 can. 4th. W!a do you think would
be best to mix with my lot manure to bring the best
results?
1. It is generally supposed that rot in apples
is caused by fungus, similar to that which pro
duces rot in grapes and peaches. No very
certain remedy has as yet been discovered.
Keeping the trees strong and healthy enables
them to resist attacks letter. On light soils
like yours apple trees call for liberal applica
tions every winter of lime and potash, the List
in form of ashes. A compost of vegetable
mold arid slaked lime would supply the first in
good si ape.
2. Yes; grapes should be pruned every
winter. If not they exhaust themselves by
overproduction of vines and fruit. As a rule,
a vine should not be allowed to bear more than
fifteen to twenty pounds of grapes.
3. Would suggest acid phosphate and kainit
for mixing with your lot starif. Fifty
pounds of phosphate and 100 pounds of kainit
to as much litter as you put on an acre; or 75
pounds of bone meal might take the place of
the acid phosphate to advantage on your light
soil. The kainit will supply salt enough with
out adding more. It contains potash, and is
perhaps tho cheapest form in which that sdi
stance can be had at present, all things consid
ered.
H. H. 8., Hammond, Ijl.: In coming to this coun
try from the uoit .weri, Nebraska, i find that tiie
Foil here requires to be fertilized well Inordcrto pio
duce paying crops;. I have but a few head of stock,
and am not able to buy commercial fertilizer’. 1
am wivin'.'and making comfioßt hea[>s wherever I
can. I want to know tow it will do to mix lime,
co-ton feed and pine Rlrawwlth barnyard orstablo
manure, how to mix, what proportions, for best re
sults. I think potash it required largely. Iwlh to
Use Some g x>d fertilizer for cariy Irish potatoes find
cucumbers for the north< rn markets; will the above
do? 'Do lend of my pla e is Mgh, rolling, well
drain d, plney woods noil, quite r andy in place#,
with au <1 clay!u >soil.
It yicms here to Lc the home of ‘h - blackberry.
Would you not advise to plant the cultivated varie
ties for market. The apple has not been tested, but
penrs, peach u and quinces do well.
Our market facilities here are quite good, being
a the line of the Illinois Central railroad, between
Chicago arid New Orleans.
You will find that land, especially light land,
in the south will not bearheayy liming. Some
of that substance may be used, however, for
reducing coarse maU rials in composts. You
might nrix lime with pine straw, and when the
latter ta well reduced, mix it with the other
things named. But ashes would bo greatly
preferable to limo. Mix 5 bushels of quick
lime, or 10 bushels of ashes, with a cord of pine
straw (supposing it well tramped); mix the two
thoroughly, and have tho mass moist enough
to insure decomposition. If you cannot get
ashes, reduce the straw with lime, and get
some kainit to supply tho needed potash. Tho
following proportions of ingredients are sug
gested: Reduced straw, one cord; stable ma
nure, the same; cotton seed, 100 bushels;
kainit, 400 pounds. Mix all thoroughly to
gether, moisten and put in pens, tramping it
well and tilling to a height of about four feet,
covering the top with a layer of rich dirt a
few inches thick. Do this two or three mouths
before it is to be applied to tho soil.
Early vegetables and quick growing crops of
all kinds call for thoroughly rotted manure.
They cannot wait for slow decomposition to fur
nish what they need. If you can get the
above well rotted in time it will answer very
well for tho vegetables named. It would bo
improved by the addition of some ground bone
or acid phosphate—say one to two hundred
pounds to the aere. Ground bones are prefera
ble to acid phosphates on light sandy soils.
Experience would be tho host guide about
planting blackberries. You might try it on a
small scale.
Anl si’ril er, Gaylesville, \la.: Isthcrca machine
for hulling cow peas? If so. where cm it be" ob
tained and at what cost? If not, can you give the
best method of hulling and cleaning them?
Have heard of such a machine, but recollec
tion is not distinct. Think it was like a grain
thresher, with fewer spikes in drum, and made
to revolve more slowly. Possibly the ordinary
grain thresh might bo made to do tho work if
not run too rapidly. Liability to break the
grains of peas is tho trouble. Can any one
throw light on this matter? After threshing
they can ho cleaned nicely in tho old-fash
ioned grain fan, worked by hand.
C, B. N., Brooksville, Ala.: I have amnio that
has a swollen ankle; it is a little lame at times
I'lcase give me some remedy. A friend lias a mare
that has rotten hoofs; the hoof cracks open so that
one can not keep shoos on her. Please give him a
remedy.
Shave hair from lump, and blister with oint
ment of one part of biniodide of mercury to
eight of lard. Rub it in eight or ten minutes
with hand. Halter mule so it cannot roach
tho ointment with mouth. Next day wash off
and grease with lard; grease daily until tho
blister gets well. If lameness is not relieved,
repeat blister in two weeks.
Sometimes, as in a horse which has been
foundered, a defective hoof Ih ever after se
creted. For this there is no remedy. In
horses, also, that arc kept constantly shod, the
hoof gets and tender. Relievo by going
unshod as much as possible; running on past
ure and kept off hard roads. Sometimes the
hoof is very brittle from lack of moisture, and
cracks badly. For tho last, apply several times
a week a mixture of tar ami oil well rubbed
on, and put damp sawdust in stall.
I see in Constitution, parties making inquiry
nl out the Spanish g< olkt pua; I have 30 bushels that
I gathered from one half aere, and fanners that
want them can got them from incut $2.00 per bush
el, 28 pounds to bushel. One bushel is enough to
plant one acre. Poor, sandy land, a little gravidy,
is the most suitable. Prepare as for cotton with P.O
pounds of guano to the acre, rows twenty inches
apart with one pea in a hill, and hills from ten to
twelve inches in drill.
D >n’t cover vines as we do the old Georgia goob
er. The yi. ld will thirty-five to fifty bush
eles per acre. W. T. Nix.
Trip, Gwinnett county, Georgia.
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papers, Address The Constitution, Atlanta, Ga,
A Pleasant Incident*
From the Montgomery DispaUdi.
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis and their two
daughters, Miss Winnie and Mrs. Hayes, passed
through tHo city yesterday enroute for Macon,
wi.eie they go as guests of tliat city to attend the
fair. On their arrival iu this city they were given
quite an ovation, cannons were fired and hundreds
of people turned out to pay their rcffpccts the dis
tingiiishe 1 party. One of the most pleasant inci
dents of the occask n was that which occurred
during the firing of the cannon. An old, gray
haired v< tcran upp cache I Captain Clisby, ami
asked; “Captain, what are you firing these guns
for.'” “In honor of the arrival of ex President
Davis, of the late •outhi rn confederacy,” req lied
Captain Clisby. “Well, captain, I was a gunner in
the Twenty-fifth Indiana infantry, and I arn one of
those who realize that the war Is over, and If you
have no u’.»Jc'Ction I would like to fire one white my
x ls. ’ Captain CPsM readily gave his con eut for
the obi northern soldier, who believed the dc>*d
past should bury It: de id, to fire a salute in honor
of the cx-pi'.’ ident of the lost cause, and he <ll<l It
like an old gunner an 1 a true patriot.
When asked hta name, he pulled out his note
book and wrote, "James S. Smith, Twenty-filth hi
diana battery.”
Tin- Decraaed Was Sincere.
From the Lincoln Journal.
A Moral Parent “Do yon overplay card*?”
“No, and I never will.” “Why?” “The last requeit
of my dying father was that I would never gamble
in any way.” “He rmut Have been a g/xxl man.”
“Yes, and he bad just lost a form on a game of
poker two day* before he died.”
DURING TIIE WEEK.
The Week’s Synopsis of General
and Local News
CONDENSED FOR OUR WEEKLY FRIENDS
Tuesday, October 25.—A fire occurred at Petro
loum, W. \a, destroying S. Wiolward’s valuable
oil plant, causing a considerable lass The Manis
tee Lumber company, on the east side of Manistee
hike, Michigan, was destroyed by lire, together with
four million feet of lumber, entailing a loss of $160,-
Twenty-three new eases and two deaths from
yellow fiver occurred in Tampt. The weather is
warm and very unfavorable for any abatement in
the ravage sos the diseaseA dispatch from Bal
moral castle announces that Princess Beatrice, wife
oi Prince Henry of Battenburg, has given birth to a
daughter\ll the wires in the offices of the Balti
more and Ohio Telegraph company have been
taken out, and the lines of the Baltimore and Ohio
company have ceased to dot u-dnessThe sate in
tho Oxana hotel was robbed of s4ooAugusta has
received 79,9011 bales of cotton to date, tho largest
amount ever received before up to this time.
In the City—A street car driver named Powers
was quite seriously hurt while attempting to step
from one ear to another while they were in motion.
Ho was picked up in an unconscious condition, and
it wa found that Ids collar bone and two ribs were
broken'l he boys’ high s diool building, situated
on the corner of Mitel oil and Washington streets,
was discovered to ba on fire, and tho alarm was
turned in and responded to by tho fire department,
which succeeded in putting out the fire; not, how
ever, before consider:.bio damajje was done to the
building. Under one corner of the house a torch of
pine was found, which showed it to be the work of
an incendiary Governor Gordon has arrived at a
•incision in the convict lense case, but is not yet
ready to make It public, but it is !-ai 1 th it he will
do so i i a tew daysA man named Malone, who
runs a wino room on Alabama s rcet, had eighty
dollars stolen from his money drawer by two little
negro boys whom ho had employ. lEdward
Ford, who lives at No. 102 l air street, so .nd a young
baby on his doorstep in a market basket The
gang of pickpot k jts who were arrested in AH nta
during the Piedmont exposition under the leader
ship of the notorious John Cannon, have been
released from cu tely. Chief Connolly had their
photographs taken lor future reference. In the jmis
session of one of them was found tho diamond pin
stolen from the Richmond, Ind., gentleman.
Wednesday, October 2(l.—Jasper Duncan, 'a
murderer confined in jail in Hol Springs, Ark., was
shot and instantly killed by tho sheriff W Idle trying
to efleut an escape George Deburger, a street car
driver in Indianapolis, was assaulted by two men
and received two severe cuts on ids head, from
which he died in a few hours Mrs. Lizzie Adams
was killed by an Italian in Pittsburg while the man
was attempting to thrash agartg of hoodlums who
were tormenting him. lie whipped out his knife
and made a murderous blow at one of the boys
when Mrs. Adams camo along, just In time to re
ceive tlie thrust intended for the boy, and died in a
few moments Mi’s. John Dally, a bride of two
weeks, committed suicide in McCook, Nebraska, by
shooting herself w h a revolverAt Ironton,
Ohio, a battery of sixteen boilers in tho Lawrence
iron works exploded, k ; Hing four mon and wound
ing twenty persons. Parts of the boilers were blown
half a mile nwnyTwo-thirds of tho town of
Spencer, Roane county, W. Vft., was destroyed by
fireThirteen new cases and three deaths from
yellow fever occurred nt Tampa Henry L. Jones,
a farmer, of Isle ot Wight county, Va., shot and
instantly killed William Saddler, a while farm band
employed by him, over a trifling mutterA thresh
ing engine exploded while at work m ar Ellendale,
Dakota, killing two men outright and fatally injur
ing three others The French steamer IHndoostun
bunud, together with three thousand tons of mer
chandise which she had on boardStaunton, Ya.,
was visited by a severe snow storm Judge J. N.
Frazier, of Nashville, died at tho residence of his
son, J. B. Frazier, in Chattanooga, f. »m pneumonia.
He was criminal judge of the, Nashville district iu
1867, at which time ti e independent republicans
ai.d democrats deserted the Brownlow legislature.
The legislators were am Hied, but sued out a writ of
habeas corpus before Judge Frazier, who released
them. He was impeached for this act.
In the City—Rev. Bam Jones is having his gospel
tent enlarged, so that it will hold two thousand
more people than it now does Mr. Wils in and
Mr. Dykeman, who. were injured in the Air-Line
railroad accident, have returned to the city, having
sufficiently recovered from their injuries ns to be
moved Mr. Walk r, Woolfolk’s lawyer, siys that
iiis client’s trial will occur next monthTwo
negroes became engaged in a row on the corner of
Calhoun and Baker streets, in which one of the
belligerents, William Griffin, used bls knife with
serious results on the person of his adversary. It Is
thought that he cannot live Maggie Tate, a negro
woman, dropped dead while preparing supper for
the family she cooked for on West Harris street.
She was apparently in her usual good health a few
minutes before she died. The coroner rendered a
verdict of heart disease John Cannon, the leader
of the gang of pickpockets who were arrested, pho
tographed and turned loose, was arrested before he
had a chance of leaving the city, on a telegram from
the chief of police of Nashville, Tenn. He is wanted
in Nashville for “lifting” aline go]<l watch from a
gentleman in that city Colonel 'Join Howard,
one of the best known men in Georgia, is lying at
the joint of death from tho effbets of a stroke of
paralysis. Colonel Howard Ilves in Kirkwood, and
on Sunday evening was sitting in his room talking
with his wife, when he told that lady that he felt a
peculiar numbness in hi left hand, which wis the
forerunner of the i aralytic stroke which struck him
a few moments later. He is powcriess ami speech
less from the shock, and although the best medical
aid that can be secured is attendant upon him, it Is
extremely doubtful if he survives the attack, owing,
in a great men. tire to his extreme age, being now in
his seventy second year. This is the second attack
from paralysis that C< lonel Howard hrs received,
and he has thousands of friends in Georgia who
sincerely trust that he may recover from his present
precarious condition.
Thursday, October '47. ■■ Charles L. Baldwin,
aged 45, was accidentally shot and instantly killed
in Kokoma, JmL, by his son while out quail hunt
ing Hog chol-ra is raging in Hpcnccrville, Ohio,
a farmer named Adam Hirn losing five hundred
dollars’ worth of his finest hogs in one weekA
brakeman on the Cleveland »n<l Pittsburg railroad
was caught between two hi.uber t-nr while trying
to couple them and hud l.is head literally torn from
his shoulders, cau-ing death instantly. ..A tightly
corked bottle was pb ked up near Handy Neck
Beach, Mass., conbdnh ga fitter bearing the date
of September 19, i'-'H), alng for ]•< Jp j ,r passengers
on board the steamer Sidney Wright, which was
suffering from a brok n crank-pin. The bottle had
been on the waves of the ocean a little over sev< n
years when picked upThe vote on the prohibi
tion question in Madison county resulted in a vic
tory for the anti-probibitioiilEts'J he trestle over
the canal in Augusta gave way while u freight train
was passing over It, and two freightcars foil through
Into tho canalA schoolt<’i.Cher in Summerville,
8. was fluid ten dollars and cost ami sentenced
to twenty days in jail for unmercifully boating one
of his boy pupils for some trivial oilensc, , The saw
and lumber mills of ( . c. Ix>omis, near Little Jtoek,
Ark., were destroyed by fire, causing u loss of
000.
Jx tiie City—Cannon, tho pfekj»ocket, ha? been
again r-dcased, i<n I has “hit the grit’'.... Tiie prol i
bltion oontefct which takes place on November 26th
Is wax ng warm, and both sides are holding nightly
nicetings and organizing clubs for the fray
Eleven cases were booked by detectives against
seven wine room men for violating the prohibition
Inw during the exposition Deputy W. W. Cofipiitt
and Ag< nis Johnson and Rowe, of the revenue de
partment, captund John McAlpin, of Haralson
county, together with tne still he win u ing in
making illicit whisky. MoAljiu Is now in Fulton
county jail .... J'iftcennr twenty en cs were disposed
of In the United States court against j-eisons wlio
have been violating the revenue laws. Three or
four wen dD'dmrgid, while ai ,v received light
fines and scnn-ncc , and the others re< <dvcd the
extreme penalty of the lawA brilliant wedding
took pliv » ; !. Pliilip s o'-undi, the J irii co .tout-
ing parties being Mr. Hugh Ha/an, of Richmond,
and Mi s Sail:- Cobb -fi h son, of this . ity. The
chun h w».s <u< wd' ’ to lt« utmost cup'" ity and was
profusely de ora'cd with ch f.ov. cnj and ever
greens. '1 n< bridal p Ity left the next morning for
Richmond, t .uir future home.
Friday, October 2S. -Arzmnent in the Jacob
Sharp c.G-e c mmeiiced hi Albany, N> w York, Oral
argument was rim ted to two hours on cacl. side
UnrJeHnnhiu a representative in Canada now, as
well M some other banks of the* country. The man
who Is now In the land where company Is plentiful
is Henry Jackson, paying teller in the nub-treaffur
in New York, who “borrowed” an oven ten thou
sand dollara ami skippd. The treasury officials
arc astontailed that tho 'gentleman ’ did nut take
mere, which was at fits dispr,«,‘J, if ho hn.d been so
(I to net the “hog.” .icckson was not under’
bond, so Mr. C;tndn, the treasurer, will have to bear
tJle loss Tl io were eleven new css s and fo’ l
*’.<at: ?; fi. in y* il.»w finer in Tampa, y torday- :.nd
th rc are nineteen cas. s in the hospital.
.... A notorious desparado, named Owing
J .annul.’, who is scrviui’. a term in the penitentiary,*
V;’.ssh.>l am] instantly killed by < ne of the guards,
w.ii’.e : yin;! H e:\- ( t an c. i ape by s itling the fenco
around the pt nbvntiaiy, n* ar Raleigh, N. CTino
bills have b -. n found a. ainst Jay Gould and Russell
Higo .or g ami larceny, brought by the bondholders
of |the Kansas I’a.dfie Railroad company Tho
steamer Jn.bq *. n i. nt. from Mediterranean ports,!
which touched nt l l alennon cholera infected port, 1
brought Io New York over four hundred steerago
passengers and scatte: < d them abroad throughout
the country. There .a ’ been no siekrn ss c>n board
during 11 c pasage of tv.aniy two days The prcsi-l
dent granted a panh n in the cuseof W. F. Jones]
convicted in the district of Alabama, of resisting at
United states officer, and sentenced May sth” to|
nine months imprisonment.
In tiie City.—Mr. Martin F. Amorous, a well*;
known and highly suecossful business man, of At
lanta, was married to Mi.s.s J mma Kate Williams, al
reigning belle, of Montgomery, Ala. The eoupijj
were married twice in the same day. Fintby;g
Unthollo priest and then by a Bap-.i : minister* oi
tins city. 'I h ■ reason of this was that Mr. Am J
rous was a devout Catholic and his charming brida
a strict protestant, ami they decided that they!
would bp united in both faiths Governor Gordota
left for Ohio, where he has been invited by tha
democracy of that stalo to make several speeches i’3
the apt reaching gubernatorial campidgn. He wi fi
sp.'ak against G ivernor Fonik tThe legist ration;
toi the prohibition election in Novembo is progres s
ing slowly....Two y.mn- men had a right lively!
fig’t on Whitehall street, .but nothing serious io
suited. One of them was arre. I d.
Sutunlay, October 2!).—Sixteen new cases ot
yellow fever are reported from Tampa, and fotry
deathsA num by tho name of Gyso
was arrested in Savannah, who had
followed «. woman from Philadelphia,
the purpose ot killing her\ man named Duncan
attempted to suicide in Rome, by taking laudanum,
nml was only saved l»y the prompt and untireing 1
etlorts of a physician Mr. John G. Smith, near
Bloodworth,Ga., went out ’pcssnm hunt.n ; taking
with him Ils two little daughters and two uvigh
bor s children. He cut a tree in which a ’pos’inn
was “treed” and one of his little girls was caught
under th<j falling trunk and killed instantlyA
verdict of murder in the first degree with no recom
mendation, was returned in Birmingham against
Nathan Uo’lins, Tom Wil-on and George Williams,
three negro convicts, who murdered a fellow
viet at Pratt mines last spring A negro named
Sam Brooks had his left arm torn oil’ and his fac®
and head horribly maiigfi d in a cotton gin nead
AcworthSam Jones, colored, was shot and in*
stantly killed by a gun set to “catch” burglars in
the store of Perry ( ochrano, In Oconee county. Hd
was burglarizing the store and touched the string
that wils attached to the gun. which caused it to
discharge, with the above result The boilers in
the fire brick works at Mineral Poin’t, Ohio, ex
ploded, fatally scalding four persons and seriously
injuring five others.
In the City—Bully Artemus, the negro who
killed Grillin page, at a negro ball on RondolpU
street last Christmas, was sentenced to tiie pmilten
tiary for life Georgia Wash, a negro “lady” who
was attending the Mit hell street s» hool, was finc<|
sls an cost in tiie recorders court for pushing a HHlo
white girl from the sidewalk. She went to the roc.K
pile in default of the necessary fifteenWilu
Hardwi k ,a small negro boy, met a hoirible death'
at the Pendleton Guano works, a few mi e from
the ciiy. He was playing with tiie belt on one ol
the driving pulleys, when he suddenly liccame enJ
tangled ami was literally la hed and torn to piecenj
by being carried arouml the fast revolving
wheelS'me of the exhibits have not yet been
removed from the exposit <«n grounds’l ho latest
news from the 4ck bedside of Colonel Tom Howard
is to the etloet that he is resting easily without an/
marked improvement or change lor worse in his
condition.
MARRIED IN GEORGIA.
In Augusta Mr. Frank B. Schofield to Mbs Annet
Knowlton.
in Washington—Dr. Zounds to Miss Mattie Bar
nett.
In AGanta --Mr. Hoeh Hngwn to Mj'hh SalJ’e C.
John « n Mr. Martin F. Am irons to Miss Emma'
Kate Williams.
DEATHS IN GEORGIA.
In Powder Springs Mr. F.etcher McGhee.
In Cox Springs -Mrs. Elizabeth Riley.
In Columbus--Mr. K. A. Allen.
In Schley county Mrs. Calvin Owen.
In Toombsl oro—Dr. D. L’. Fluker.
In Atlanta —Miss Sallio Ewell.
In Lawrenceville—Mr. Joi n B. Coflfee.
In Hawkinsville Mr. Hugh L. Barnes.
In Dublin—Dr. T. T. Williams.
In Sumter Mr. A. B. Raiford.
In Barnesville—Mr. W. Fleming.
In Blue Ridge Mrs. Mary Green.
OUR OWN GOLffl.
A Very Sensible Merchant*
Mr. James J. Hill, of Bronwood, Ga., writes us ae»
follows:
1 am a merchant and have taken subscribers foi
The Co;? iitution. Thia did not conillrt with my
regular busin«<H in the hj«Mt. My customers w ord
de I,’htrd that they ooufi.i subscribe for 'liieCoN
sthi tion by simply pajLig a dollar and taking a
io ;eipt without the exj enso of remitting. On Jaut
nary Ist 1 received a check for filly dollais which 1
got ent of the present box of Tin: Constitution foi
sending In subscriber . Tin. Consi itu i ion is a good
agricultural paper and no farmer should be without
it. Its liberal terms a: d low price ought to get
250,090 subsc Übers.
In January we will give SSOO as the first pie ent to
subscrib’.-s, and S2(O as the second. Ev< ry men
chant, in the south ought to I e an agent for Till
Cos ii'iotion. It phases your customers and if
helps you. Mr. Hill kept his commissions, which
more than paid him for Ids trouble, and got fifty
dollars as a present. Become an avent at oncei
Bend in a club, and you. may get the five hundred
dollars to be given away in January.
Tiie following letter s.howi what our Premium
Gun will do; it never fails to give satisfaction. Any
of our subscribe)s who contemplate buying a gud
Would do well to try ours:
J. T. Neal, Thomson, Ga.: The shotgun sent td
Mr. Gcorj'r H Arrington through n y md.jr glve|
entire satHa.'< tion. lie informs me he shut through
a tobacco box 45 yards.
Willie T. McElroy, Pelzer, Anderson county, S. C.j
I am in receipt of the Waterbury watch t.cui me, fol
which 1 uni thankful.
We thank Mr. Brown for the following. A lotted
like this from purchase:s of the watch and
oftl e pu|H r will help a great deal:
J. ey Brown; I received the watch from yous
Heptemb' r Present Box al) O. K. I would navO
written jomer, but I wanted to try it awhile, it is
it splendid tiine-ke' i <*r; keeps ns good time as my
lilgn priced watch. Please accept my thanks. Yuui
pap' i is one of the best and is ail you chitin for It. I
will mhl in a < lub soon. Many good wishes fo|
your paper and yourself.
John H. Smith, Agency, Mo.: Tho machine that I
ordered on ti e 12th came through in good order and
in good shape. Is giving the best of satisfaction, and
I would recommend the Premium Machine to any
one that wants one and will advise all of my friends
that want a go si machine to get the High Arm 1|
they want to get the worth of their money.
Bettie, Texas, Octob n 22,1557.- Editors Conmtitw
tion. Dear sirs. —I l ave delayed some time lu
writing to you in r< ar t totlio premium high arm
sewing machine. We have tested it thoroughly on
nil kinds of Hewing and it is as good us we want.
It is all that is claimed Ibr it, and every one who
has seen and examined it, pronounce it the best lor
the m<n«y thay ever saw. it is a in and good
machine. W. F. Hays.
Cordell, A bi., Octob' r 25, 1887.-- Editor’ Con.stt*
ti"fion . lam pie s d with my machine. It is Ji st
what you recommenced it to lx* and gives |K.rfet
Futisfuction. Tlicre is n> I otter In my < p idon.
Vi ry truly,
M.ucMRET E. Rice.
Fur 4 <’<nt* L’cnlly Worth ttl.OO.
Jor t ,'.o 2 '’cut st unp> (I« e its) we will send No*
•,< c . u of 'inc Soii'l ern Farm, Mr. Grady’g
and Dr. Jones’s farmers’ um/azine.
l ids is the best fanners’ magazine In the world.
The Nov ember issue w HI contain one article worth
fib to any farmer. It i « i.y B. F. Brown, of Ander
son county, H. on new methods of composting
fertilizers at home. Mr. Brown claims that hta
meihodsare approved by exp.-rkn'r, and he givea
it In detail. Every fanner in tne south should see
it. H< nd 4 cents t< r November Issue, out Novcmbty
15th.
The Southern Fann and ConstiTctioM one yeit
tot f 1.86. The two bent pepert printed.
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