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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 THE SOUTH AS IT IS. We print this week Correspondence from Alabama giving the status of things in that state. This is written by Mr. Phinizy, of The Constitution staff, and is the first of a series of letters that will cover every Southern State. Members of our staff will be sent into every State to talk with the Governor, the agricultural commissioner, and others as to the social, political and industrial condition of the peo ple. These letters will cover descriptions of the famous horse-breeding farms of Kentucky and Tennessee; the oyster and terrapin farms of Mo bile ; the corn farms cf Arkansas ; the sugar plant ations of Louisiana; the sheep and cattle ranches of Texas ; the great cotton plantations of the Mis sissippi valley, and the unique and special groves of Florida. We shall print about three of the let ters each week, and they will give such accurate and picturesque pictures of life in the south as have never before been printed. Everything will be ta ken from official sources or from actual observa tion. Four Constitution men will be put on the work, and the result will be of greatest interest to readers north or south. No such letters as these were ever printed on the south. 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. The Very Best Offer Made. J’or 5U.65 think of can get The Week )y Constitution and “The Southern Fann,” Ixith one year. You know Tiie Constitution! “The Southern Farm” is the new farmer's magazine printed by H. W. Grady and edited by Dr. VV. L. Jones. No magazine ever had su< h success. Fifty pages every month For SI.OS, a small sum. You get both pajiers one year, and you need NO MORE READING MATTER! Ilember HI 1.65 gets both one year. Every issue of tiie Southern Farm Is worth a years sub- Boriptlon. Rend $1.65 at once and get both these 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. 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