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(oiuinMMicaiflt!, CI.AEF.vi L?, Trks., .Inn. 5. 1889. Mr. Editor;—Tbinkhg that • *hort aermnt o' h pleurae t : p l tk a d.iiingjiln hclidsys. might he of ia u.f’at i<> -ome, ut lanat, uf th* Ob aM>'er’K reed®**, 1 an constrained to far it. ■ la ftirpiov with my friet'd Mr pi.iodumr. 1 left ('lgrk'vii I<*. D-C.2*, f : H< n<• r<m, J£v . t'eyir w hich M<. G rxipi n f-xb-K W hti to •nr over 7 *•<<*> I < nr-* 'O' tbrie, mii ad place on lire jiue between Twines see am! Kentucky, where tlu? road from Nashville to Sf.. Louis cross es l'!:c toad from Louisville to Mem phis, though both roads a*e con trolled by the same company. After leaving Guthrie the first important station is. Hopkinsville. r pleasant little city of perhaps •ome four or live thousa and inhabi tints, and also the location of the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. For perhaps forty or fifty miles in this section the road runs through aflat rolling country, which doesn’t ap pear to be very fertile—seems to have been settled for quite a long while and has a worn out appear ance! The next town I mention is Darlington, which is important from its coal mines, which are ex pensively worked. Jladisonville is a thriving town, and the last, 1 mention till we reach Henderson It is a grnviug city of 10,000 population, situat'd on the south side of the Ohio; there is a large cotton manufactory here, and also tobacco factories Tobacco in this sect ion holds about tli© same place in tha farmer's iealo of crops, a cotton does in Georgia. It is the principal motl ey crop. The most i it crest mg obje't per haps is the L. *& N It. 11. com party's bridge across the Ohio. It is byilt of iron and was couepieted in 1884 at a cost of $3,000 000. So I was informed. The middle span is something over 500 feet, lone, which was the longest, oilier than su|pension bridges, in the world, till the new bridge was built at Cincinnati, whose main span is some feet linger. My friend’s home, where ] spnr most of my time, is six miles HMst of Henderson, near the jane tion of Green river with th* Ohio Though so near by land, the dis lance on the river is twenty miles from Henderson to mouth of the Gie m Twelve miles above Henderson, ©n the north bank of the Ohio is 4the thriving city of Evansville, one of the most flourishing cities in Indiana. YY'e boarded the steam er Kate Adams at the mouth of Green river and in an hour were landed at Evansville, the distance down the river being nine miles Evansville is a city of some 35,000 or -iO.OOO population. It has rath cr undid appearance. I saw no buddings there which equal in size and finish, some in Nashville and Atlanta, A great many important streets are not paved, and as it was raining the day I was there, they vero exceedingly muddy. I also visited and spent a night at Now--' burg, a little town fifteen miles w J , above Evansville, on the Indiana sd#. It is a pleasant little town ■of 1500 inhabitants Detween the Ohio nnd Green rivers is a vast si retch of bot tom land, where corn is raised almost exclusively It overflows at times and many of the buildings are put on pots several feet above tho ground. At tho mouth of Green river I saw them loading a corn barge, which car ried 10 090 bushels to be shipped down to Louisiana. A man told me that a few days before they had tilled one of 30.000 bushels capaci tv. Corn is worth 35 cents, he told rue. < i recti river is 300 or *IOO yards wide at its mouth, and takes it's •name from the color of the water, which is u beautiful, greenish cast, vtitry different from the rather mud dy Ohio. The boats run as far as Howling Green. It is said to be the deepest river in Kent ucky, and this together with the fact that it is narrow an 1 protected from the winds, makes it a harbor for the boats in the winter when the Ohio freezes so they can not run. The soil, generally along the Ohio is very rich, but much of it is quite low and marshy, especially is litis true around Henderson and along the railroad for many miles Ibis side. They raise forty to fifty bushels of c >rn per acre and an av erAge of 709 lbs. of tobacco, which is worth from four to five cents per lb. Thus they realize an average of from S3O to $35 per acre on their tobacco, though I was told that some of the heal farmers dou bled or trebled tha! amount. 1 made many very pleasant ac quaintances Some of whom I sh ill not soon forgeL It seemed to me that the moral t mush'd in the county (outsitin of tiie towns of which I sav nothin*;) where 1 was, is very low I was at a social galheriiig where there Were considerable evidences ol Linking, while card-playing was nearly all the evening. They composed of the best people 'of the neighborhood. While you, in Banks,are much further removed from any large town, yet for cul ture, intelligence, refinement and morality, you are far superior to he comma any l visited. But, lest L consume too maeb ol your vpatble space, I wiil cle*e by - yiegthst tve returned to Clarksville h v ng ben %<y a we-k. fe lia* bat it bad been pla'*an*l v and profit* ibly epent. R R Ti.Lroeo. Trsvein g on tiis Trank. Gold w i c'ter lbt never keep time vsv* long been * favorite inaaH of ee suing transportation; but the Amefi nn trunk is new coming into fashion is a iiitdium of railroad octntnumoa don. The padlock critic of the Indi r.spol's Journal eays: : ‘-Do you know that if a man has o navy trunk he ova sorumimes travel i longdistance on a railroad without ricket or my money?** said a ji.naa man yesterday, who had recent iy mad* his way back to Texas with ho a f*.w dollars. “When l reached St LbC is I ha a bat five cents in niy puek et, and I did not know ft uian there 1 cot Id 2'k f;r a loan. 1 went to t'h* t cki t *’f:it aud making kaowu n< cot’ottioti, acki'ii him how I could g t to lid anspoha. ‘Hive you a t unk' 1 he asked. 1 toid him i ha*’, au-i he said be world introdneo mo to the con Inctor, When the coodue'er cam-- np I wes introduced, and he a*do! tn° for mv cheek to uiy trank, wlioh I gave him, emr be thm gave m* p smaller t*’ck%t, width he R id *oii get rnv truck ra I.idi<n*p<di*. I < ••- el him how tuaoh the trunk won! co-t me when I went to get it out ■uid be taiii tpver, i'olUi*. Well, i pot through nil rip!*', when 1 jre- HMited tietekot f< r the ttutik it eo 1 00* nine dollars instead of revcti. 1 have b-en womfring ever sn■ who pot the money; hut I didn’t cure, fo< l •< gia<t to pet buck >0 (rdiioapn it*, evea on th-* terms.** Tho SollOtl< t^UeftlluQ. One of the liveliest d.scnstdou* tha 1 the Georgia Semue has aver tmd, took place over tie public school bill. Tbt hill provided for the use of text hooks throughout tho state, with an an,end meet o the effect that, ail things be ing rqtnl, the preference should fi r e< he given Georgia’s authors, arid thet. to Southern authors. Senator oihba wanted to strike out the clause “all tilings being equal, ’’ and leave it com pnlsory with the state ir.hool conimie sio". to usa nothing Uut t< xt honks by southern authors without regard to tlm difl’etemo in price and men it of such bo-.'ks and those offered by northern au'hnr* He -aid in the course ot ISi. speech that there was no* a book pnt 1 fstied north ot the Wasonnad l) xun’- line that "-a- not fttli of teeiiona i-m Abet crfiei'lpiable.diKCKH-ioii, Seriatio Hairia off*ied Mrilhati'u'r prov and ng theta preference should be givm 1 1 • < tit lie •it !>••' k, atol that, it it wa • li-U'ot necrs'ai v to | meha-e any north it to <k, the si h- ol eomiii'-s on -I,all e to it that they c ni'am toi'h mg ot a H'-c ioit tl nature. Ttre etueuo 111 oi p>' vil V n** *• L id n >e </ V *rk City. Th • total TK US'imi and( rrn' A'.*c i il. c; . -t N w Y'rk in 188 t §1 20a.y41.Hi5. in 1887. *>f Itil 334 In'* Ot iei estate, $1 2tJ4 491,8^1)—• liw * ir an inciea e m ( .in ;eu ot 50 550 784 dollars But a* be at sensed is hs< than two thirds o' he market value, the whole is not .vi nO less than two billion ddlar* IGal and persona! property within th* municipality has grown ihnmgicn 'he past decade more than foity mil lion per anontu. The books in the ..fries of tbo commirsioner of taxer and assessments state tbo amount of tx> paid by real estate holder at t!> rate of-two dollars aad sixteen cents on every haadred of tbe saaeesed V ila ation. Bit these figure* do not son. stitnt* a trustworthy standard in the dnei miration ut market values, for •he asserted reason that some assess* ui?o j s in down town wards are of more than market value; ia other wards of only oi> third, other* one- Kalf, and atiil other* two-thirds, cant lots are asnossed at from 20 to 36 per runt, improved property from 58 to 70 per cent. i real value. Icrquit able an the assessment* are, it i yet trnt>, as a firmed by ax Mayor Wil lim It. Grace, tht “upon theiptcies of ptorerfcy can taxes he levied with more rq;*litv as to value nor with tie* let eosncee oi speedy a; and tq’iita! h codec in tbau Upon real property The valuation p seed npoa personal aUato from ail sourer* i rot more ihau nine'ecu per cent, of tbe valua tion placed upon real property and the taxes from this source are most diftieoit of colledkoß. Of the annual city budget, whiah gencrallr annuals to irons 3.1.00*0,000 to 34 OuO.OOi) dol lars, the taxation impose J a pda real estate supplies more than lour-fifthe. Hardman & Comp’y, • HARMONY GROVE, DEALERS IS HardwarE & CutlcrY. Our L’ne of Stoves. Tinware, Agriculsnral Impleiu tats, E 0., cm n>t b * .it •hand in better Qiality nd DnrnSihty. elsewhere. Wo also k-ep good linn ofgons for the F *ll trsdo. Call and examine nnr slock and piice p . !!♦ Consult your Interests by Buying your DRUGs AND MEDICINES FROM Wade And Sledge, ATHENS, GEORGIA. We eell at th lowest possible ptitta and gnrantee every r <• < *u b- abso lutely Pure, O'der* I v Mad will reraive prompt ti'tpntion. TANARUS, n-nuhtd* It# name an and place.—WADE & SLEDGE, Druggists and I’haimacist*. Between ILtdgson Bros., and Tolmadge Bros,, Clsyto i W. A. Ouillian & Cos, Harmon Y GRovE, dealers in GENERAL MERCHANDISE And Plantation Supplies- Our stock of D v Goods. Cl'othiu < tl us, Bim and Slue# "au not bo aut passed in Durability a*d l r > u P*w W keep in k all tat the fa:mor needs. Onr Lute of staple groceries m We keep a fail line ol Fancy groceries, DOtior.e, etc. Also Baggng, Ties aad unos. Country Pioda'e taken in exchange for good*. Call sad examine onr aonda. 1® Athens Music House, 114 Claytoa Street, Next Door to Poetoflioe, Athena, Georgia. Haselton & Dozier, Proprietors. And all kind* of Mnaioal Instruments at the very lowest pticoe for C**K or on tho Installment plan. Written gnrantee n all inetramoate sold, fipeeial reduced rates to ebohreb re and Bnnday school*. # Piotnrcs and Pietnr* Frame* o enceielty. All eises and rty!e| of Frames mads to order at abort notice. Bay from ns and *ave egeote’ cotamissisos. Keeps alwtys on hand the nest makee of VIOLINS AND BANJOS