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ETHING IS WRONG.
BUT Arp's Weekly Chat Willi
The People.
No Mcmay law on Cotton 'This
Year.—What Has the Alliance
Done P—Why Cannot Geor¬
gia Support HerselfP
• It seemtitome that there is some!Liugirad¬
ically wrong, in. aur system of farming My
faith in kiog cotton is, weakening, and yetn
don’t see any 1 emedv—none that our far¬
mers seem willing to adopt. They have
made no nwrey on cotton this last year,
i Of course the world has been beneStted by
the low prioe, 1 Lut the cotton plauter has
suffered. There is no, alr profit iu it, W no margin, shall
and we are feeling it eady. hat
the farm r<J>;?
Wo thought that the alliance was going
1 to regulate tie acreage^ but it seems they are
not, and (hi* year there is likely to ho farmers, more
t than last, for th -re are more
, and in the cotton belt they won t plant uny
. thing else. They say that thev can’t, .that
nothing else it a sure money crop, aud the
onerchants wiiLnot advat'ce them supplies:
on an- other product. been in Tennes
■ Well, I have recently up
ssee and Kentucky, where these there is no cotton,
and 1 inquired about advaucos, and
they dideut seetr. to undetrtand me. They
-dident want advances; they dident need sup¬
plies. They raid'd wheat, and oats, and corn
and mules and horses and hay, and a little
further north they rai e tobacco. Any trav -
■eler can tell the difference; you see h in the
beantiful fields of wheat along the railway—
,in the fences aud hedges am), the turnpike
roads and painted (Cottages and farm houses
—in, the grazing cattle and large look flocks of
(Sheep- It is a feast do ths eye to upon
the,farms of middle Tennessee, and the idea
occurs to yon that this is God’s, country and
(everybody is prospering it and land happy—why the is
this difference? Is in the or peo¬
ple? Why does Georgia, much one tribute of.the old Tennes¬ thir¬
teen, .have to pay so to
see, and. buy ber Yes, grain and hay .and mules
every year? even her turkeys and
chickens,grid eggs? Our farmers have got
in the cotton groove and.cnn’t get out.
Wow we know that North .Georgia can
raise anything that Tennessee can, and can
raise cotton nearly as cheaply middle .Georgia as tke cotton
belt. We know that aud
south Gaorgia can beat the world on oats
and bermuue grass and fruit and potatoes,
and if there is any impedimmt in the way
of raising mules, and cattle and sheep wo
don’t know it. But thiy are absorbed in cot¬
ton—a crop that requires about nine months
to grow and harvest and gin aud take to
market; a crop,that does land uot improve any
land, but leaves poor poorer every year,
for it is a well-established xaet that any ot»p
impoverishes land that does not shade it
from the summer's sun.
But I don't propose to teach the farmers
of Georgia. I am only tailing wiiat I saw
on my journey, and ibis causes me to remark
that, compared with Tennessee aud Ken¬
tucky, our public Is that roads in are a land disgrace to ouY
civilization. the or the peo¬
ple, or is king cotton at ilie bottom of it?
With the exception of a few miles in the
suburbs of some of our cities, there is not a
turnpike in Georgia. What is the alliance
goifag to do about it? If they they have have not ab¬ yet
gotten the power iu congress,
solute coutrol of our legislature.
As I traveled northward towards Ken¬
tucky I observed something white shining
upon the ground at every farm—somsthing
aoout twenty or twenty-five feet square, I
and sloping a little towards the sun.
thought that it was glass, and wa» the cov¬
ering of a hotbed, but found on inquiry that
I had reached the tobacco region, and that
what I saw was the white cloth coverings
over the tobacco plants. Not long after¬
wards I reached Clarksville, a beautiful
inland city af 10,COO or 12,000 iuhab.tunts,
largely white. 'J.his is said to be the largest
tobacco market in the United States, and
the second in the world. I saw many far¬
mers gathered in'the town, and they held up
their heads and talked tobacco. Some had
already sold, some ware selling, and|the mon¬
ey did not go to the merchant for advances.
I inqui red whether there was anything pe¬
culiar about thes il that gave teat region
the advantage, and they said no—that to¬
bacco would grow any where from Connecti¬
cut to Cuba. It will grow in North Geor¬
gia, we kn ow, for it has been tried but
was no market near where they could
sell it in the leaf, and not enough grown to
supply a factorv, an'd so they quit. I don’t
believe that tobacco is of any great necessi¬
ty to mankind, but it is here to stay, I reck¬
it Winstofi is. In a great manufacturing buildings areoccupbd town like
the immense
bv negroes who manipulate the leaf and
stem it and cull out the rotton leaves, and
throw all the refuse in piles on the long
floors, and these piles are their spittoons, and
when they get big enough and juicy enough and
they ftl'O cleaned up
shipped to Durham, where they are dried
and ground up and spread out on a floor and
sprinkled with New .England rum, aud then
made into cigarettes for the boys. A man
from Key West told me that there were Most 16,
000 Cubans there making cigars. of
them curl the leaf to a point spittle and from make their it
stick with a little clean
mouths, but the old, fat, greasy ones use the
nice, clean perspiration that runs down the
creasts of their neck and faces. This saves
them the use of pocket handkerchiefs. No¬
body smokes a cigar over here without cut¬
ting off the point and mouth piece.
Clarksville has a university that is of high
grade, and turns out scholars that are schol¬
ars. I mingled with their young men freeh¬
and was impressed with their manners and
their menhood. They have self-respect and
bold themselves above the usual mischief
and devilment of college boys. The faculty
deem it no let-down trorn their dignity to
make companionship with the students just
like a good, sensible father makes of his son.
While I was there, I was elected an honora¬
ry member of one of their societies and with
appropriate humility I accepted tin honor
and thought that was all of it, but in a brief
time I was conducted to a room and locked
up and made to ride a goat backwards, and
horseback, and suffer other mysterious aud
humiliating proceedings, all of which they
said were meant for my good, and to pre¬
pare me for the great battle of life that they
said I h«d to fight, Good gracious! I have
beeh fighting it for titty years, and thought
1 was most done, but I suppose I must fight
another now. God bless the boys and deal
gently I with them.
As journeyed home I passed toe National
cemetery, not far from Murfreesboro. This
home of the federal dead is beautiful—so
beau til ul that it made me sad. Not far
away is a crumbling pi'c of weaiher-»tained
stones that once were in s ape and were
erected into a mausoleum as a memorial to
our confederate dead. Look on this picture
and then on that. We furnish the soil and
protect the graves of our northern brethj
ren who fell in battle. We pay our share of
the tax that keeps them fresh and green and
make no complaint, aud yet our enemies
not happy. In last week’s Tribune there ill
letter from a Nashville mtffi denouncing
legislature of Tennessee for appiiLori
*25 to each maimed confederate soldier liv»
ing in that state. He declares it a s mthern
outrage upon northern men who, like him
self, have moved into the state, and that it ,
is a tax upon loyal men to reward traitors
who are-guilty of treaso '. 11-t ca’)s upon
northern people to come down at once and
settle in Ter-nes eeand wrest the government
from these BnurWms, and says that only a
few more thousands are needed to do it.
May th“ good Lord help us to read such
things and still be calm and serene.
Bill Aup.
TOBACCO FIGURES.
Interesting Statistics Showing
the Progress of its Culture.
The census returns of the production
of tobaoso have been completed. They
are iu tfce rough, but are of yreat im¬
portance, as showing the shifting that
has taken place iu the lines of tobacco
■ culture flaring the last ten years. The
northwest, it is predicted, will eventu
ally become a great tobacco grow
injr mg region rc 0 ion. a A remarkable reuiarKaote decrease Decrease is is
-shown iu the New Lnglaud states,
which were once large producers of to
haceo. This is accounted for by the fact
ithat the importation of Sumatra wrappers
has practically driven the seed leaf grow
ers out of the business, aud compelled
the abandonment of so many farms as to
cause general that alarin. Su]>erintendent
Porter predicts since the pre-eut high
.duty on Sumatra leaf, since the McKiniey
bill went into effect, the growers ol that
■section have felt much encouraged, and
Ahat the crop in that section this year
will be a pheuominal one. The increase
it- IE Now New r lork ft ,i, and U tscousu;, •
■formerly heavy producers of seed leaf, is
due to the fact that the planters were
driven into growing the export variety,
the Sumatra havistg compelled them to
abastdon the seed leaf. One pound of
Sumatra will wrap four times as many
■cigars as the American seed leaf. The
■most (remarkable increase durinir the past
ten yesrs has occurred in Florida, where
the mi caber of pounds produced has in
creased from 21,000 to almost 500,000
pounds. Norl hern capital has poured
into the date, syndicates have purchased
large txaats of what was supposed to be
worthless land, factories have been erected
aud a general era of prosperity has set in.
A FEARFUL SMASH-UP.
Six Postal Clerks and Two Engi¬
neers Killed Outright.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio says;
A frightful wreck occurred on the Lake
Shore railroad at Kipton station, about
forty miles west of Cleveland, early Sat¬
urday evening, in which six postal clerks,
two engineers and a fireman were killed.
The fast mail No, 14, bound east, col¬
as the latter train was about to pull on a
Biding to let the fast mail pass. The
fast .mail was running at full speed, and
the force of the collision was so great
that both engines, three mail cars aud
one baggage Car were complete ly wrecked.
HORRIBLY mutilated.
The injured, all but one, were
beyond human assistance as soon
the collision occurred, The
bodies were all horribly crushed
mutilated, arms and legs being torn
and the corpse were beyond recogni¬
The engineer of the fast mail re¬
bravely at liis post and was found
his hand upon the throttle. Ilis
aud face were so badly scalded
the blackened flesh dropped from
bones when his body was taken out.
poor postal clerks had no chance to
telescoping 'i’bey were caged like rats, and
of cars crushed the life
of them without a momen’s warning.
passengers of the two trains were
bruised up, but none are
killed. It is difficult to locate
b^larue for dead. the accident, It is said, as both however, en¬
are
No. 31 was ordered to stop at
but weut ou to Kipton, which is
miles further west, and had not.
time to make the station.
L0, THE POOR INDIAN.
The Grip Getting in Its Work of
Extermination.
grippe Dispatches of Saturday report that la
in the is rapidly decimating the Indians
vicinity of Washington. At White
Bluffs nine died in one day, and at Moses
and Yakima reservations the death rate
is large. It is not so much the disease as
the treatment that causes the great mor¬
tality. When afflicted, the Indians go
into sweat boxes, and from there jump
into a cold stream of water, which results
iu pneumonia.
THE DEATH RATE IN NEW YORK.
Mortality for the twenty-four hours
ending at noon Saturday was 181. Total
for the week was 1,347, the largest num
nLnber for any week this year. Of th e
lam day’s deaths 20 were from grip and
complications. The total number of
deaths from grip to date is 350.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION
Of Relics Presented to Johns
Hopkins University.
The Johns Hopkins university has re
ceived from Colonel J. Thomas Seharff,
the Maryland historian, one of the most
valuable private collections of Ameri¬
cana in this country. The collection in¬
cludes a great number of books, more
than 50,000 pamphlets aud several hun
dr ublished manuscripts. It in
cj Mable Lthe unpublished manuscripts,
Kes southern confederacy, of
D. McCabe, and part of
Bf the late Henry B. Daw^L
^Mhistory ^Aon in this cxistence.^l is the
Bf the gift lies, bfl
of valuable
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Too much can't be said in praise of
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two bottles before confinement, and was
In labor only twenty minutes. She is doing
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