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The Necessity for OlverslUea Industry
in the South.
If we continue to harp on this theme day
by day, and week by week, it is because we
recognize its importance. The Atlanta Her
ald says it lies at the foundation not only of
our prosperity, but of our very existence as
a free and independent people. So long as
we continue to devote our entire energies to
the cultivation of one staple, and purchase
from abroad everything which enters into its
production, we may expect to grow poor
er each year, until we will even be compelled
to abandon cotton, for the lack of means to
pay for our labor.
The question is frequently asked. Why is
it that the South is always broke? How can
it happen that a section of country, which
makes for export a single crop, with nearly
half the circulating medium of the United
States, never has any circulating medium ?
The reason is very plain. It is quite possi
ble that a farmer may make a bale of cotton
and sell it for $75, and yet lose money in
making it. Nevertheless the world has the
cotton and the world is enriched by handling
it, while the producer gets poorer. He brings
his cotton to market and it pays warehouse
age, dravage, freights, commissions and sam
pling, until it finally reaches the New Eng
land manufacturers. It is then made into
calico, and as one pound of cotton makes
eight yards of calico his hale of cotton comes
back to the South, and is sold to his wife and
daughters for eight times the price he sold it
for. What left him worth $75, comes back
worth SOOO, and tints the world has made
$525 by his labor while lie lost money. The
South makes a crop of four millions of bales.
The North spins one million and ninety four
thousand bales of this cotton and thus makes
a crop of over eight millions bales, while we
make but four millions.
What does it cost us to make this cotton
we have taken the trouble to ascertain, and
we stood amazed at our stupidity. To make
his crop we have abandoned the cultivation
of corn to the amount of 82,000,000 bushels,
worth upwards of $ 100,000,000. Fodder and
and shucks to the amount of over a 1,000,000
tons, worth $30,000,000. Hogs, five and a
half million head, worth $50,000,000. Cow
peas, nine million of bushels; rice, one hun
dred aud eleven million of pounds; horses
and mules over a half million head. Now
take our cotton crop, which sold for $210,-
000,000, deduct the cost of the bagging and
ties, and cost of the guano, which it required
to make it, and we have $220,000,000, the net
receipts from the crop. Add together the
abandoned industries, and it actually leaves
us in debt. This is no fancy picture, but one
I*
....... every thinking tnan in the South
knows to he true. Is it any wonder then that
we are growing poorer each year. Is it any
wonder that more than thirty millions ol
acres of our cultivated lands have been aban
doned, and their owners cither w orking out a
scanty subsistence on a smaller area, or have
gone to some village to “ keep store ”
Southern farmers, you have a wonderful
country, only make yourselves independent,
by raising all your supplies, and your market
crop a surplus product, and you will 'have
capital to enter upon manufacturing and oili
er industries which will bring population,
and consequently enlarge the demand for
your products.
A Patron’* Patron.
The following is tlic report of a fu
enral of n member of the I’atrons of Hus
bandry, with the honors of the Order, which
took place on the 10th inst., in Van Wert,
0., when the remains of Jennie Hook were
consigned to their last resting place with the
funeral pageant of the Grange Burial Service:
Mrs. Hook was a respected member, and
the attendance w T as very large, some 1,000
persons being present. On leaving her resi
dence the hearse was draped in evergreen,
then came the mourners, next came Pleas
and Grange of which she was a member, then
members of the Order present, and then spec
tators. On arriving at the cemetery the pall
bearers, two on each side of the hearse with
white sash and gloves, and wreaths, then came
the male members with mourning badges,
four abreast, near two hundred passing, two
on each side of the hearse, proceeded to the
grave, followed by the clergyman, and then
came pall hearers, next friends and then the
Sisters of the Order, with mourning badges
and garlands of flowers, nearly 150 in num
ber. The coffin was placed on supports by
the side of the grave. The W. M., of Pleas
ant Grange conducted the ceremonies. When
the Brothers and Sisters were assembled at
the grave the Master read from the ritual,
followed by a seloction by the Chaplain, and
then all jointly and solemnly repeated the
Lord’s Prayer. After a hymn was sung by
the Order, the Brothers of the Order then
passed around the open grave and broke in
pieces of boquets of flowers and scattered
them in the bottom of the box. An address
was then read by the Chaplain while the coflln
was lowered into the box, and a beautiful
liymn sung. Then the Sisters passd around
breaking to pieces flowers and evergreens
and dropping them on the coffin: the Master,
at the head of pall bearers on each side,
then broke and scattered their branches of
flowers and evergreens upon the coffin ; then
the box was closed and the Master took up a
handful of dirt thrown from the grave and
sprinkled it on the box saying “Farewell I”
Throughout, the ceremonies were beautiful
and impressive.
A clergymnn preaching on the “ Ministry
of Angels ” suddenly observed, “ I hear a
whisper.” The change of the tone startled
one of the deacons, who sat below, from a
drowsy mood, and, springing to his feet, he
cried. “It is the boys in the gallery 1 ”
Barryville Grange, Macon county, ML,
has taken a decided stand in relation to hold
ing aloof from politics, says the Missouri
Fanner: “What we want to know is our
duty and then do it. In this connection it is
the duty of every Grange to hold itself aloof
from politics. No resolutions either of ap
proval or condemnation of any party should
be passed in any Grange—no, not even an
announcement made of any political meet
ing. We should shun even the appearance
of a violation of our obligation.”
An establishment for the manufacture of
agricultural implements and machinery is to
be built at once at Montgomery county, Ind.
A Grange manufacturing company of that
place hold SIOO,OOO for the purpose.
The five Cincinnati Exhibitions closed on
the 3d inst., having continued twenty-eight
days, and being visited by 554,000 persons.
Receipts amounted to $09,000.
A Western paper says of the air in its rela
tions to man : “It kisses and blesses man,
but will not obey him.” Blabbs says that
description suits liis wife exactly.
A company, with large capital, have en
gaged in farming in Colorado and now have
■n a state of cultivation 400,000 acres of
land.
The dry murran is pervading among the
cattle in various locations along the Ten
nessee River.
A $20,00 Grange llouring mill is about to be
built by Grangers of Clinton and DeKalb
Counties, Mo.
Patrons in Hillsdale, Mich., recently enjoy -
a two mile precession, a barbecue of the
old fashioned kind, aud speeches.
OCTOBER.
Oh, haunting dreams of a sweet summer dead !
Ye bring mo heart-aches in your whispers low,
Echoes of song I may not hear again,
Voices whoso tones were silent long ago ;
Visions of orchards crowned with bridal bloom.
Where apple blossoms scent ttie air of May,
And from the sloping hillside comes the sound
Of sweet-voiced children at their happy play.
There is a low, sad rustle in the air,
Among the yellow banners of the com ;
The faded sun-tlower droops her heavy head,
The garden border of its wreath is shorn,
A subtle stillness broods o’er all the scene,
The benediction of the year is como;
The sheaves arc garnered from the fading field,
The husbandman has sung the “Harvest
Home.”
The faded meadows where the partridge trills
His dear loud song to call hie wandering mate.
The Streams are shallow add the grasses brown,
Where scarlet poppies flecked the tieiu L u ’ late,
There is a whisper in the falling stream,
A sigh thro’ all the aisles of forest trees,
A tremulous vibration in the songs
The wild birds pour upon the evening breeze.
’”” sweet, dead days will como to tis no more ;
New Bommors may bring harvests of delight,
Fair days may dawn with eyes of splendid hue—
They can not shine so infinitely bright,
As the sweet vanished hours that we have lost;
Or are they only garnered safe and sure,
To wait for us in some far, future world,
Where summers shall eternally endure V
The rustling leaves dvop Boftly at my feot,
Warm airs caress my cheeks wit.fi loving
No ohill of autumn shivers in the air,
Yet something indefinable I miss.
Oh 1 summer sweet, if never more on earth
I may rejoice in all your beauty rare,
I can not say farewell, for wo shall meet
Where you will bloom more infinitely fair.
“ Missus Snowdrop,” said a gentleman of
color the other afternoon, during a shower,
to a lady of his acquaintance, “as de wedder
is somewhat amphibious, you will do me de
honor to step under my umbrella, an form a
quorum?” “Tank you, Mister Itillups, 1
will. Iu dis wedder an umbrella is radder
cosmopolitan.”
A handsome lady entered a dry goods store
and inquired for a bow. The polite clerk
tlircw himself back and remarked that be
was at her service. “ Yes but I want a buff,
not a green oue,” was the reply. The young
man went on measuring goods.
A romantic girl thought to Maud Muller
ize and “rake the meadows sweet with hay.”
She stood over a yellow jackets nest as she
swung her little rake. First jump from the
score, eleven feet; distance to the house half
a mile ; time, two minutes.
To MnalnesH men.
We respectfully call attention to the value of
The Georgia Ghanoe eh an advertising medium.
Its circulation is oiieatbr than any saver pcb
ijshkd in the State. It circulates in every
county in the State, and doubtloss comes
under tho eyes of a hundred thousand persons. A
business man wants something more than to see
ing his advertisement in print, ho wants circcla
tion to make it pav. Those who wish to make
their business known, should avail themselves
of our columns. Our prices for advertising will
compare favorably with those of any hrst-class
newspaper in the country.
To Secretaries of Subordinate Gra Hires
An organization as compact and as influential
as the I’atrous of Husbandry should have somo
organ devoted to their interest, and conducted
with a view of oxtending their influence and pro
pagating then' principles. Believing, as we do,
that tho Order ih destined to work a permanent
reform among the agricultural and producing
classes in legislation, in the social structure, and
in the uplifting of tho tillers of the soil from a
position of inferiority to one of permant superi
ority, we shall labor earnestly, vigorously and
sincerely to bring about such results sh will be
most beneiicial to tho fanners in their individual
and corporate capacities. And in order to do
this work wo wish your hearty and earnest aid not
only in procuring subscribers, but inducing each
member to write his views and experiences, his
success and failures, his hopeful desires, for the
columns of The Grange. By having a largo cir
culation we can expend a larger amount in all
desirable improvements, and thus publish a pa
per that will fully represent all the great inter
ests of our section. We want it to be unsur
passed by any agricultural paper in the Union.
It should have a subscription largo enough to
place it upon a solid footing, and large enough
to make it what we desire. Is it asking too much
of each Grange in the State to Bond ns a largo
club of now subscribers ? A number have al
ready responded to our printed circular to send
us a club, and pay the subscription price in No
vombor, and wo trust that every Grange in tho
State will boo the importance of doing this with
out delay. Our proposition to send the paper
now and allow time for payment—until Novem
ber—places it in reach of "every F&tron in the
State. Address
Georgia Grange Pcni.tstiiNG Company,
Atlanta, Ga.
Home Railroad—Change or Scliednie;
ON and after Sunday, August 2, 1374, trains
on this road will run as follows :
DAY PASSENOEK TRAIN.
Leaves Home at 8.15 am
Arrives at Romo at 1.40 pm
ACCOMMODATION—EVERY SATURDAY.
Leaves Rome at 5.30 em
Arrives at Rome 10.00 pm
Eaeh train will make close connections at
Kingston with Western aud Atlantic Railroad
trains bound for Chattanooga and Atlanta.
C. M. PENNINGTON,
septl. Gen. Supt.
Interesting to PLANTERS,
W 5 offer at very low pricos LIME for fer
tilizing purposes. Practical experience and sci
entific reports demonstrate that it has no supe
rior as a fertilizer, while its cheapness places it
far ahead of all others in the market. Use in
Fall or Spring. Prices delivered on cars and rate
of freight to different points furnished.
Address C. W. KRAY A. CO.,
Catoosa Lime Works, Gravsville, Ga.
Bept3-8m
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JL Weekly, to be published in Atlanta, Georgia,
commencing between the Ist and 15th of October
next. A Repository of Southern genius. The
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Divines, Lawyers, Doctors, Educators and Agri
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the Southern Literati , well contribute to its col
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the first or second issue. That queen of female
writers, Mary E. Bryan, will have personal
charge of one department. Several thrilling
Stories, by the most popular story-writers of the
age, will begin in the initial number. This is
the beginning of a now era in Southern Litera
ture, and will doubtless bo the grandest success
ever achieved in Southern Journalism. The
sheet will be a largo, handsome, quarto-folio of
eight pages, and printed in the most superior
style of the art. It will bo an honor to the South,
and just such a Journal as our people have long
desired to see. They will be proud of it, aud will
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OF
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
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Hammock, Col. G. \V. Adair, Col. X It. Wallace,
leading citizens, who superintended our first dis
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All standard sizes of Iron for Plantation uso
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The best Flour, tho pure product of the
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The Annual Fair of the State Agricultural Society for
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ATLANTA, GA.,
BEGINNING OCTOBER 19, AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK.
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Send for illustrated Catalogue containing the
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