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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTjk. GA.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1887.
THE SOLDI AS IT IS.
A Constitution Correspondent
Travelling Through Dixie.
ABOUT ALABAMA AND ITS PRODUCTS.
Biloxi, Miss,, November fi, 18S7.—[Staff
Correspondence Constitution.]—There arg a
lot of ignorant people in the world, who,
when they hear “Mobile plants ’, talked of.
have suggested to their minds a sort of smooth
trim green shrub, set out along nicely graded
white walks of powdered oyster shells.
Biloxi, the great oyster port of the gulf
coast is reached by rail or sail lifty miles
down the gulf from Mobile.
The town itself is not much to speak of,
though the people are proud of its antiquity,its
origin being claimed to ante date that of New
Orleans by some years. In fact an old village
fisherman who was quaffing with an affecta
tion of intense delight the sulphurous water of
the artesian well that flows steadily and boldly
every second a stream as large as one's arm,
toid me that Biloxi was really intended to
have been Mobile. I had heard somewhere’s
before a remark of a similar nature—where—
and finally 1 located it one Sunday afternoon
at the Oconee White springs, in Hall county,
where P ;rson Reynolds, an ignorant Hardshell
of doubtful orthodoxy, made the same remark
to a daffer young blood from Atlanta, only it
was "you ain't a sayin’ of nothing agin’ that
Charley, for youns and means a come be
ing mighty nigh daddy and son. for your mam
my, as likely a wench as ever Hitched water
on a cow’s teats was powerful in the way of
lovin' of one another in them days!”
But be that as it may.
Forty years ago there was not an oyster on
the gulf eoast anywhere near Biloxi. The*
town itself was a rude summer hamlet where
a few New Orleans families came to spend the
warm months of the year. Today the. sound
and coast are literally swarming with the
bivalves, and the rude village from its humble
origin has become a place of 2,400 souls. Man,
woman and child in Biloxi are engaged in the
oyster trade, the men doing the rough work
connected with the fishing, boating and drag
ging, the women and children attending to the
opening and the canning.
The gulf coast is twenty miles from Biloxi
beach, the waters of the Mississippi sound in
tervening, and the land strip ship island being
the outer shore. The Biloxi beach is covered
with small wharves, boat houses, and piers,
and most of the entire business of the coast is
done here. Os course the preparations re
quired for even an extensive embarkation in
the oyster trade are not very elaborate, but of
late years establishments for the steaming of
oysters and their canning have been erected,
and more employees and better buildings are
required. It is a picturesque sight to see the
Biloxi oyster ilcet in motion. The boats are
one masted luggers, ranging from two to
eight tons carrying capacity, when they set
out,the row is a long one, the faster craft slow,
ly forging into lead, all going swiftly
for while they mostly carry but one sail, they
are made for all sorts of weathers and seas.
The boat’s load when discharged will generally
pan out from two to three hundred tubs. The
oyster captain frequently owns the boat, con
trolling the two or three men forming the
cretv. Others there are who are employed in
various ways; in any one does the compensa
tion amount to very much. The fishermen as
a rule work entirely upon their own chance of
profit, they being entirely a distinct class from
the boatmen. Some of the larger fishermen
have captains whom they supply regularly,
having ready at stated times a certain amount
of the oysters. It frequently so happens
that a captain whose trade is large
and growing has eight or a dozen fishermen
working for him. They sell their oysters at so
much per tub, a tub always being in shell, and
the measure generally a flour or similar barrel
sawed equally in two. The best class of oysters
at the grounds bring from 51.30 to $1.50 per
tub. Os course, the price varies according to
the quality, but the quality is generally de
pendent upon a locality so far as the fisherman
is concerned. Often the captain, on his arri
val at the town, sells oat his entire cargoat
from $1.75 to $2.25 per tub, and the price has
been known to be higher. He makes large
profits in other ways; for instance, rarely, if
ever, docs ho give the same size tub to the
dealer as he received from the fisherman, con
sequently in one cargo the difference in quan
tity may reach eight tubs, which at a fair
profit, would realize him $12.00.
The people are a simple minded, honest peo
ple. Though they sell their cargoes every day,
and deal with any and every one, dishonesty
is unknown. One peculiarity of their dealing
is that there is no “jewing down” the price.
A fisherman sets his price on his tubs, if the
luggerman or captain does not care to take it,
he says so, and that is the end of the business,
the tub being allowed to wait for the next
boat. Nearly all the people engaged in the
trade at Biloxi and on the coast are foreigners,
and we are so often accustomed to associate
dishonesty and trickery with this class. Yet
nothing is farther from the truth. The oldest
man in Biloxi—one who was there before the
oysters came—told me he had never known of
an incident, and had only heard of but one.
The courts have nothing to do with these men;
they live their simple life, and drink their
abominable drink with a complacency and a
contentment worthier a higher and a better
calling. The fishermen live in small houses
or sheds on land convenient to the
fishing grounds, and rarely leave to
visit the town; the lugger boat as it comes for
its load brings them the provender that is their
daily fare. They drink to some extent, but
not inteinperately, the manner of their life
and the exposure subsequent thereto making
this in a great measure indispensable. Aus
trians, Hungarians, Greeks, and Italians pre
dominate among them.
All the pierposts about Biloxi are covered
with oysters more than half way up their sides.
The bivalves will cling to anything, an old
shoe, a bottle, a stick, or a plank will in a
short time start an oyster bed. At
low watc< the beach at Biloxi is liter
ally covered with oysters, some having been
thrown therc-because too young, and others
for good reasons. Year by year these increase
in size and succulency, and frequently some of
the finest oysters found are just on the beach.
The excellence of an oyster depends, by no
means, upon its size. If this were otherwise,
the Biloxi oyster, the largest to be found,
would be the very best; but its excellence is
altogether tiie result of its treatment, and the
peculiar, yet simple, treatment given them by
the Biloxi fishermen, accounts for its alleged
superiority.
Oysters taken from the very same bed differ
in size and in quality. This is looked after in
loading the boats, the poorer ones being put in
first, the second best next, leaving the best on
top. I suppose it will bo observed that the
best in every basket is found on top—a very
trite and true observation. The first dealer
who gets a chance at the cargo gets frequently
the very best, while the last man gets the
poorest, but each buyer endeavors to purchase
according to the quality of his custom, and he
will oftentimes refuse at all to buy, for the
reason that he cannot get what his patrons
want. It so happens that the captain has to
throw over a lot, or the fisher at the
grounds finds on his hands a quality he can't
sell. He treats these judicially; taking them
to a reef where the depth of water is condu
cive to superior growth, he throws them ever
board and waits until next season. The poor
est then have very apt become the best, an
application, if you please, of the last being the
The product of Biloxi does not go to Mobile,
that city being supplied by equally as fine
plants from a place higher up the coast.
Neither does it go to Naw Orleans, the Creoles
netting theirs from bayous lower down still.
Tie y .0 to the great cities of the west and
north by thousands of barrels, and find, doubt
-I<warm and overweening hospitality.
So much can be written of this quaint old
sea town that it is a pitv to close forever a
letter from this point. It is waking np from
it • gulf le’li t:y . fifty years, t:.king on new
life, and by nr .. ;s of its >uaguilic> nt water
communie.iti ms Imp' s some day to be famous
fors mctiiing Ix-.idesits bivalves. And it is
within the range of probability in this w m
drons speeding ay, that the half-waked dark
eyed andhai/v'd children shoveling sand on the
beach yesterday may see before the sun has set
upon their lives stately steamships in its quiet
harbor; and if day comes in time, pieg
nantin its meaning and results,making an open
shipway for the tonnage of the world through
the Alabama rii er to the rich meadow and
mineral lands of the north, the sleepy Biloxi (
, tavern keeper as lie pictured the vision in Lis
; provokingly certain uay will have realized tiie
| dream.
And Biloxi will be a great city then?
Vnd Alabama, already mighty as imperial
France in i:< indusirial development, willhave
won what she now stubbornly claims. “ Empire
State of the South.” ” H. U. P.
THROUGH DIXIE.
GEORGIA,
From the Early County. Ga., News.
Mr. L. I». Gay, familiarly known as “Pat
‘.lay.'' is certainly entitled to tiie sobriquet ot the
I champion farmer of Early county. From what we
I deem reliable authority we learn he has this year
I raised on his farm something near one hundred
i bales of eottou, bestdesan immense quantity ofcoru,
I and from this production w ill clear above allex
i peases near fifty bales of cotton. "Pat,’’ though
young in years, with such licks as this, is destined
to be one of the weuithy planters of our county.
Front the Leary. Go., Courier.
It is refreshing to note the growing interest of
our tanners in stock raising. There ate probably now
more coils iu Otihoun countv than ever before
known in its history. Colonel‘L. D Monroe, who
has now seven pretty eolts of his own raising on
band, is tiie lender in this industry.
The County Alliance of Schley county, at a
meeting, elected delegates to the meeting to
i be held in Americus on the 16th instant, to or
ganize a State Farmers’ Alliance.
Mrs. McNeil committed suicide at Prestcn
by drowning. George McNeil, her husband is
miller for S. Bell, who lives some four miles
north of Preston. The family arose early, Mc-
Neil having to come to Preston to meet Mrs.
McNeil’s sister, who would arrive on the 6:55
a. m. train. As soon as ho got up he took a
boat and went up into the pond to fish bis
nets, bringing back with him a string of fish.
He took them in the house and laid them on
the hearth in the cook room. His wife became
angry, and began to abuse him, saying she
could not keep anything clean for him. He,
in reply, began cursing. She said she would
drown herself, and he, told her that he didn't
care a d—n if she did. She immediately ran
out of the house and jumped into the pond
where the waterwas ten feet deep. McNeil and
his wife’s sister both saw her when she jumped
in. McNeil can't swim, but he and wife’s sis
ter made efforts to save her by handing her a
long pole. Either from a determination to
commit suicide or exhaustion, she made no ef
fort to catch hold. She was fished out in a
very short time by some of the neighbors who
arrived. The unfortionate woman’s sister,
Miss Carrie Thornton, who was present, says
that she is satisfied that she did not intend
drowning herself, butjthought she would be
rescued by her husband. They had not been
getting along very agreeably; were continually
having little spats, and she had threatened to
drown herself several times before, when at
last she repeated her threat no attention was
paid to it.
From the Americus, Ga., Recorder.
More grass, more stock and less cotton,
would increase tiie prosperity of Georgia farmers.
Maggie Galloway,a notoiious Macon woman,
was arrested Tuesdy night for being drunk and
disorderly, and was placed in the barracks.
Wednesday she had sobered up a good deal,
when she talked through the bars of her cell.
She told a remarkable tale about Cook, the
ex-sheriff of .Tones county, whose dead body
was found in the Ocmulgee river Sunday af
ternoon.
Maggie Galloway says ho was murdered by
two white men last Sunday night, near the
house where Sophia Thompson;|livcd, close by
the park, and a short distance be
low tie Central railroad bridge,
and his dead body was then thrown into
the river, not far from where Will Bass found
a hat, which, it was claimed, belonged to Cook.
Maggio says she had gone to Sophie Thomp
son’s to see her, not knowing that she had
moved, and her attention was attracted by one
of the mon calling Cook a hard name. One of
the men was quite large and the other rather
smaller, and the small one accosted his com
panion by the name of “Jack,” and the larger
one called him “Bob.” She saw the faces of
all the men by the light of the matches they
constantly struck to examine the money and
other articles they took from Cook. She heard
Cook say, *‘Gentlemen I will give you every
thing T have got rather than have a fuss or be
hurt. There is two dollars and some odd cents
in my pocket you have not taken yet.” As
soon as he uttered these words Maggie says
she saw one of the strangers raise his hand and
in it glittered some kind of a bright sharp
looking weapon, and it was plunged seemingly
right in the big man’s|body and he fell down to
the ground with a groan. 'The men then picked
up his body, carried it to the river near
by and threw it in. Maggie says she started to
Walk off, hoping to get away in the darkness
unobserved, but the two men saw her and
commenced to pursue her and called her to
stop, but she only ran faster. The race was
kept np until she had reached the depot of the
East Tennessee railroad, when her pursuers
stopped and wont off in another direction. She
states that the killing of Cook occurred on
Saturday night of the fair, and his hat was
found in the river by Will Bass on Thursday
of the week previous.
A Knoxville correspondent, speaking of the
Mathews boiler explosion, says:
Not a sign of the engine or boiler was left where it
stood. Mr. Forest J. Mathews, the proprietor of the
mil), and one of Crawlord's best young men, was
torn into atoms; he was thrown seventy-five yards
through the tops of trees. Every bone in him was
broken; half of his head was torn off and all of his
brains were gone. All of his clothing were torn off
of him. He presented a ghastly and horrible sight.
Hamp Richardson, a negro, was thrown fifty yards
and torn all to pieces. No two portions of his
body was found together and his heal has not been
found'yet. _
Henry Filter, colored, was killed, his brains was
knocked out.
Eli Colbert, who is fatally injured, was thrownup
twenty feet into the air, and fell through the top
of tiie an oak tree, all of his clothing were torn off
of him.
The machinery was 1 lown in every direction. A
piece of the boiler that would weight 1.'.00 pounds
was thrown fifty yards, it struck a pine in a few
feetof tiie mill that inches in diameter
knocked it up by the roots,broke it into small pieces
and through a piece twenty feet long forty yards.
The crown was thrown yards feet in another
direction, struck a wagon and tore it all to pieces.
At the breakingout of tiie war Bryant James,
of Eufaula, Alabama, left, fur the front as first
lieutenant of Colt’s artillery. As he bade
farewell to his young wife he placed upon her
finger a plain gold ring, bidding her remember
him. At one of tiie terrible engagements
around Petersburg while shelling a federal
battery, a shell from the enemy carried off the
lieutenant’s right arm, taking away as a sacri
fice to the cause the hand that had so tenderly
placed the ring upon the fair hand of his wife.
This invested the ring with a tender pathos,
and though now after nearly a quarter of a
century’s wear the ring has worn to a slender
band of gold, it has never been taken from
her linger, and Mrs. James says that it never
shall.
Saturday was the biggest day Randolph
has seen in a long time. It was the occasion
of the colt show, which had been industriously
advertised under the auspices of tiie Randolph
County Agricultural society, and appropriate
premiums offered for the best displays. Early
in tiie day tiie farmers began to arrive from
every quarter, bringing with them colts of
every ago, color and size.
Stock raising is a comparatively new indus
try in this section, but those who are familiar
with other sections where it is the chief oc
cupation of the people, say that tiie exhibit
here was very flattering. The enclosed circle
of about one acre, where formerly stood the
courthouse, was selected as the most appro
priate place to show the stock, and into this
they were led as fast as they arrived in town.
By eleven o'clock the show was a magnificent
one. The enclosure was full to overflowing
with as pretty colts, varying in age from two
years to six months old, as any county in tlin
state could show.
Farmers old and young thronged around the
fence in an ecstacy of delight. Tim rivalry
was warm and unusually strong. Between a
number of colts, competent critics differed as
to which should wear the blue ribbons. Home
home raised horses three yean old and up,
were also led around the enclosure, and their
stylo and qualities challenged the admiration
of all. It was the unanimous verdict that the
best draft combination and fancy itor-ei in tiie
‘ county were those ra sed within her borders.
I F,om the W1 sT:n; ton, <,» , Gazette.
i Tho neighboring little c?y of Lincolnton
was startled Thursday evening at 8 o’clock by
I t ' o sharp report of a p.'.stol, coming from the
■ direction of the postofhee. It was found that
1 J.lf. B. Mathews (commonly known us Boots
■ Mathews) had shot and killed Mr. Is. C. Sncl-
■ sun, a highly respected citizen of that place.
It seems that Boots Matbows had bee n gin
, ning for Hudson, and while there borrowed
■ some planks from him. On Thursday
I Mathews finished ginning, and removed lus
. mar binary. That evening the two men met in
| Lincolnton, when Sndson said to him:
| ''Matbtws did you return that plank you
borrowed from me?”
Mathews replied, “No.”
Snelson then said: “You arc going to return
them ain’t you?”
Mathews said, “No.”
’’\\ ell then,’’ said Snelson, “you are guiltv
of a rascally trick.”
’A hereupon Mathews pulled out a 38 calibre
bnuth iS; Wesson pistol and shot him just be
low the left temple,
Snelson fell on the floor mortally wounded
and lived only a few minutes.
From the Gwinnett, Ga., Herald.
There is the finest crop of acorns this fall
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The
hogs of the country arc getting fat in the woods and
this will be a great saving in corn. We are informed
that bushels of them could be raked up iu the
woods, and the trees are yet Ml. x~S!
VIRGINIA.
An encounter took place in Richmond Tues
day between Congressman George D.
AVise and William H. Muller, editor of the
Labor Herald (weekly) and the Evening Her
ald (daily), resulting In both being arrested
and bailed to appear before the police court.
Air. Wise says he had been informed
that Muller had been making lying statements
in reference to himself, and determined to
whip him for doing so. FindingMullor, in the
afternoon, he proceeded to assault him, but
was caught and held, and while being held
Muller struck him in the face and then ran off,
Wise chasing him for some distance.
A dynamite cartridge was exploded in the
gutter alongside the resldenceof .lacob Wise, a re
tired capitalist in Wheeling, West Virginia last
night. The force of the explosion tore out the
paving stones of the gutter. The miscreants are
unknown.
LOOKING SERIOUS.
THE PRESENCE OF AMMONIA
IN THE ORDAINED FOOD
OF MAN.
Its Detection Publicly Claimed by the Ohio
State Food Commissioners.
“The Ohio State Dairy and Food Commis
sioner, General S. 11. Hurst, has made public
(Circular No. 6) the results of the Commis
sion’s investigation of baking powder. This
commission was formed by the legislature,
with instructions to make an examination of
the food supply of the state, and to give a
report of such examination to the public. The
examination of the baking powders was made
by Prof. 11. A. Weber, State Chemist, and,
relating as it does to an article of daily use
in the food of almost every one, is of particu
larinterest.”
The startling fact is brought out by the re
port that the “Royal” baking powder con
tains carbonate of ammonia—a powerful but
unclean gas generating substance originally
derived from animal excrement. It is but
fair to say that the Commissioners found Dr.
Price’s Cream Baking Powder free from this
poisonous drug and that it is recommended by
Government Chemists, the heads of tho Groat
Universities and Public Food Analysts as tho
purest, strongest and most healthful, for gen
eral family use.
As health is paramount to all other consid
erations wo would advise all housekeepers, for
tho detection of concealed Ammonia and
other deleterious drugs as well as to determine
the purity of any Baking Powder, to make
this simple test: Mix in a tin cup a heaping
teaspoonful of the powder with two teaspoons
ful of cold water, place it over the fire, stirring
constantly and allow it to boil, then smell. If
adulterated, that unspeakable odor|proving tho
source of Ammonia will bo plainly detected.
The presence of Ammonia in most cases in
dicates that Alum is used, as nearly all tho
Alum of commerce contains ammonia. Pure
Baking Powder will not give tho faintest
Ammoniacal odor.
Eight thousand persons assembled in front
of Tuihunore jail, Ireland, Sunday evening, and
serenaded Mr. O Brien. He appeared at one of the
windows and waved Ids handkerchief.
Terracing Levels.
Tiie most ingenious arrangement, and something
all wide awake fanners should use In preserving his
lands, is the Universal Gravity L :vel, luanufactnred
a. d sold by John R. Wilkinson, 37 South Broad
street, Atlanta, Ga.
This Level is scientifically made, of brass and iron,
easily manipulated, very simple in construction,
last always, good builder's tool, combining square,
trisquare, two-foot measure and plumb. For ter
racing there is no Level made to equal it, for the
small amount invested. (All complete, with target,
for 85.) 'The Gravity Level captures all the premi
ums at fairs wherever exhibited. More of t hem sold
and better satisfaction given than any Level made.
Thousands of testimonials from leading farmers
throughout the states testify tolls merit. When one
goes into a community ft sells others sure. Never
has failed. Write for circulars and agents' commis
sions. Instruction in ditching, draining ami terrac
ing accompany each lx>vel. wkyeowtf
FIRST-CLASS AND EMIGRANT RATES
Reduced to Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Missouri,
and California points, via the Georgia Pacific Rail
way. Address,
ALEX. B. THWEATT,
General Traveling Passenger Agent,
Atlanta, Ga.
General Lord Wolseley
Who took part in the siege and relief of Luck
now, and was severely wounded at Sebastopol,
and who has been at the head of the British
army in Ashantee and Zululnnd, has written a
paper on “Young Men in Battle,” for the
Youth’s Companion, giving instancesof daring
and fidelity which he has seen among youthful
soldiers in his various campaigns. The article
is full of thrilling incidents.
Consumption Surely Cured.
To the Editor:
i'lease Inform your readers Hint I hove a positive
remedy for tiie alxeve named disease. By its timely
use thousands of boneless coses have been perma
nently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of
my remedy FREE to any of your readers who have
consumption if they will send their express and
postotlicc address. Respectfully,
T. A. SLOCUM. M. C„ ISI i’oirl st., New York.
For Women’s Colleges
AND
Young Ladies’ Schools and Seminaries.
LaudamuS. A Hymnal. Compiled by J
It. Kendrick, D. D., and F. L. Ititer, Mus.
Doc., and Director; both of Vassar College-
I’rice, Cloth *1.23; Boards *I.OO.
The compilers’ aim In this new book has been “to
admit only such hymns as approve themselves to a
fa r critical Judgment, wldle they < ultlvatejthe spirit
of devotion.” The tunes are arrang'd for three
part singing, (female voices), with a base port for
the convenience of tl>e organist or pianist; and they
comprise tho beat of those already familiar to Amer
lean congregations, besides a gn at number of fine
melodies from English, German and other sources.
“Laudamus” is the most important work ofthc kind
yet published, and should be examined by all ladles’
schools and seminaries.
OTHER NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Marchesi’s Method of Sinaina. By
Mutlldu Marches], Op. 41. in two parts, price—
Part 1,81.50; Part 2,81.75. Complete two partain
one volume, 83. Theoretical and practical, ele
mentary and progressive oxerclses. Should be
examined by all teachers of voice culture.
United Voice-;. New public school sing
ing book, by L. O. Emerson. Price 50 cents.
Oliver, Ditson & Co., Boston.
C. If. DITSON & CO., 907 Brou'lwoy, New York.
Wkyaug 15-tf3p fol rm
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ZA We will be oppose*! by ninnii a' furrrw dealers and T|
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Dl)Rsl2 DOUBLE BARRELLED BREECH LOADER
A few weeks sgo we offered our readers as a premium a double barrelled breech loading‘sun. This
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we have determined to print a picture of ft and give It more prominence, it Is th# last 812 gun ever offered
iu America, and la better than most of the (25 guns. Hero Is the picture of It.
This gnn Is a double barrelled brecoh loader, of handsome finish; with oiled walnut stock plstolgrin
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10. It Is always reliable.
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