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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, SEPTEMBER 15, 1882.
Published on tlso lat and lSUtofeaelt Montli
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ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 16, 1882.
WEATHER BULLETIN
la the Cotton Belt from Aug. 23 to Sep. 0.
Observer's Ovfick Signal Service, V. S. A.,
Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.
AvAfax Av. Min HigttMax Low'ttMax
Charleston....,
Galveston
Mobile
Montgomery.
Memphis
87
no
83 on 25th
93 an 25th
92 on 2d
an 4th
90 on 25th
91 on 3d
90 on 5th
91 on30ih
76 on 8th
82 on 8th
77 on 30
87 on 28th
77 on 30th
82 on 28th
84 on 8tb
85 on 27
Mon 28th83on8th
91 on 27th]8S on 2d
92 an 27tb;77on 7th
89 on 27tb{78 on 3d
Average maximum of cotton belt from August 25th
to September 9th—87°.
Average minimum of cotton belt from August 25tb
to September 9th—72°.
Note.—Average maximum means heat In the day;
average minimum, heat before day.
rainfall.
Atlanta 2.89 ln.greateet fall .60 on
Augusta..,
...4.92 in.
Charleston 2.55 In.
Galveston 3.41 In.
Mobile 3.55 in.
Montgomery....... .3.70 In.
Memphis 2.43 In.
Little Rock 3.98 in.
New Orleans 8.78 In.
Vicksburg. 4.21 In.
Savannah 3.28 In.
Wilmington .2.65 In.
L30on
" .54 on
" .78 on
“ 1.18 on
1.69 on
" .67 on
" ,81 on
“ 1.49 on
•' 1.25 on
" 1.13 on
" .67 on
Aug. 29th
•• 27th
" 28th
Sep. 7th
Aug. 26tb
" 28th
“ 26th
Sep. 8th
•• 7th
Aug. 25th
41.13
Total rain fall In cotton belt 41.33 Inches.
Greatest fall at one place—Augusta—4.92 Inches.
Greatest fall one day—August 26th—5.85 Inches.
CHARACTER OF WEATHER—NUMBER OF DAYS.
Offer. Cltar. Cloudy, ibfr.
Atlanta 6 9 l
Augusta 4 7 4
Galveston....... 5 7 2
Indlanola 8 2 7
Key West 7 3 5
Mobile 9 2 4
Montgomery...,. 8 4 6
New Orleans 8 4 8
Pensacola...» 6 4 5
Palestine. 7 1 6
Savannah 5 5 4
The South should develop her “small in
dustries.” _
The South needs small farms instead of
small farmers.
Weeping Water is the poetical name of a
town in Nebraska. Buying and selling bogs
is the chief pursuit of Its testhetic inhabi
tants.
Some one has discovered that flowers may
be kept a long time by putting them into an
air-tlgbt glass jar, with a morsel of quick
lime wrapped in oil-silk at the bottom. In
this way they may be indefinitely preserved,
if the jar is opened from time to time.
The foreign production of sugar for this
year is estimated at 1,765,000 tons, divided
as follows: Germany 600,000 tons; Aus
tria 405,000 tons; France 390,000; Russia
270,000 tons; Belgium 70,001 tons; and Hol
land 30,000 tons. Everything leads to the
belief that the production for 1882-3 will be
considerable.
The increased yield of wheat and corn and
the larger production of provisions will, ac
cording to careful calculations, save the
South fully $100,000,000 this year as com
pared with what was paid to the West last
year for these foodstuffs. The prospect is
certainly cheering, and the outlook for the
South could scarcely be more promising.—
Baltimore Journal of Commerce.
It is clear that the South can invite popu
lation for decades to come and still have
room to spare. She can invite it with as
surance, because she has the most munifi
cent inducements to offer. Her lands are
cheap, her soil yields the richest products,
her forest are vast, her mines are exhaustless
treasuries, and her climate is unsurpassed.—
N. Y. South.
There are in the United States more than
eighty public libraries, each containing
books to the number of 25,000. The total
number of volumes in them is about 6,500,-
000. When we reflect upon this and then
remember the hundreds of libraries of small
er dimensions in cities and towns and vil
lages, to say nothing of the innumerable
private ones, we get some idea of the extent
to which literature is cultivated by the citi
zens.
The want of the South is not so much
capital as'diversified crops and improved
implements of husbandry.
The drying of the Southern sweet potato
crop would be an immense saving in freight
as well as in the supply of potatoes.
The unprecedented crops of this year
should stimulate the people of the South to
diversify their crops for another year.
There are 252 cotton mills in the South,
with 1,237,409 spindles, 20,009 looms, 1,931
sets of cards, and $41,241,450 capital.
Poultry raising is not one of the small in
dustries it was once thought to be. The
census of 1880, showed the United States
produced $50,000,000 worth of poultry, or
$65,000,000 more than the cotton and wheat
products. France produces over $100,000,000.
North Carolina has inaugurated a new
thing in holding a Wheat Fair, at Salem,
North Carolina. There were twenty-six
specimens of wheat on exhibition, of the
finest varieties and best qualities. The Fair
was well attended and a decided success.
We give on our first page a striking view
of Cinderella, as she sita in front of the
hearth in the kitchen, in ragged garments
and disheveled hair loosely covered by a
kerchief. Her posture shows humilia
tion and despondency. Her hands are
clasped on her lap and her eyes are appar
ently fixed on vacancy. Her position is
caught by the artist a moment before the
chorus of the faries and the advent of Fen-
clla, Cinderella’s fairy god mother.
Mr. A Pope, lately general passenger agent
of the Richmond & Danville System, has
been appointed general passenger agent of
the Shenandoah Valley, Norfolk & Western
and East Tennessee & Georgia Railroads,
with head quarters at Lynchburg, Va. He
is a live and vigorous official. Mr. J. J.
Griffin, Passenger agent of the Macon and
Brunswick division of this system has re
moved his office to Atlanta. Mr. Griffin is
a courteous gentleman and a popular offi-
At a recent meeting of the Physical Soci
ety, Berlin, Prof. Christian! exhibited as
samples of a new method of preservation, a
series of organic bodies coated galvanoplas-
tically. A mulberry leaf, a crab, a butterfly,
a beetle, the brain of a rabbit, a rosebud, and
other objects, were plated with silver, gold
or copper, and showed all details of their
outer form, down to the finest shadings. As
to the process, it was stated that the objects
to he preserved, being put into a solution of
silver nitrate in alcohol, then dried and
treated with sulphuretted and phosphoretted
hydrogen, form good conductors, which,
brought in the usual way into galvanoplastic
bath, can be coated with any desired thick'
ness of a metallic deposit.
The Baltimore Journal of Commerce in its
issue of September 2nd, publishes a valuable
statistical paper on the subject of cotton
manufacturing in the South. Georgia leads
the van with $18,000,000 invested in cotton
mills. The Jonmal of Commerce says: "While
cotton manufacturing in the South is now
attracting so much attention, it is quite cer.
tain that it will develop still greater interest
in the near future. There are even now
ma.iy new projects under way which will
doubtless result in adding a large number of
new mills to the 252 already in operation, so
that within a comparatively few years we
think it perfectly safe to say that the South
will have $100,000,000 invested in cotton
mills, with 2,500,0000 spindles and fully
100,000 operatives, and in the not very distant
future even these figures will be surpassed.”
Employment for Females.
Tux Southern World is an earnest advo
cate of widening the avenues of useful em
ployment for the ladies, and for giving them
just compensation for their labor. It bails
therefore with delight any new employment
by which they may be enabled to support
themselves and add to the wealth of the
body politic. For this reason we have given
prominence to all information attainable
upon the subject of silk-culture. This is an
industry that is light and pleasant and re
quires but little outlay of capital. Its great
advantage lies in the fact that while a large
institution on a grand scale will not pay, a
thousand small ones will.
One of the greatest needs in ourtowns and
villages as well as'country homes is, remun
erative labor for women; this need is met
by this industry.
We are glad to note that the ladies of
Cotton Gin Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
of Cotton Gin, Texas, are agitating the es
tablishment of a “Silk Culture Association”
like their sisters in Mississippi and other
states. We bid them God speed and call their
attention to the letter of Miss Nellie Lincoln
Rossiter in another column on this subject.
Each one of the Southern States should have
a “Silk Culture Association.”
A Cotton Syndicate.
S. R. Cockrill, of Pine Bluff, Ark., vice
President of the Cotton Planters’ Associa
tion and of the Farmers’ Congress, through
the columns of the Baltimore Journal of
Commerce suggests the building of cheap one-
story spinning mills on the railroads, and
with steam power to make yarns, and double
the value of our cotton. Instead of paying
A, B and C as middle-men, amounting to
millions of dollars on every crop, we pro
pose to pay everything as toll to the spin
ning mills, and make yarn to send to the
European mills, instead of lint cotton.
We are not able at present to furnish ma
chinery for our spinning mills. We can
furnish the ground and buildings, and pro
pose to the owners'of the great factories at
Manchester to send us the .machinery from
their machine shops for these mills, and
take pay in stock in our mills, and we guar
antee a dividend of eight or ten per cent, on
their stook by mortgage on cotton planta
tions. The important results to us as plant
ers are: 1st, we-sell our bales of yarn at 16
to 20 cents per pound, making $75 the price
of a cotton bale, instead of $45 now.
Our spinning mills in our climate will not
coat one-third of what they do in the city
of Manchester;' hence, the chances for large
dividends, as the sum will be less to pay on.
We propose to guarantee ten per cent, divi
dends on their stocks. They are therefore
at par from the beginning. A correspond
ence is now going on through the American
consuls at Manchester, Liverpool, London
and Bradford, preparing for the “cotton
syndicate.”
ROAD LAWS.
The economic advantages and elevating
influences upon civilization of good roads
cannot be gain-said. The question of good
roads comes home directly to every one.
Good roads are of practical utility to the
farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer, the
professional man, the laborer and the man
of leisure. It would seem then that a mat
ter of so much importance to all classes
would receive instant attention and secure
from the best minds in the country, a plan
that would result in the best kind of roads.
But it is not true. Year after year the same
old system is kept up in the South. Just
before a court convenes the farmers and
laboring men are summoned from their
farm and labor to throw away from three
to five days in “ working the roads." The
boss of the section, and the county road com
missioners have little practical knowledge of
making a good road. The point to be attain
ed is simply to put the road in such a condi
tion that the Grand Jury will not present it.
The first rain afterwards the road is almost
impassable. The people are taxed to but very
little profit. What is needed is a law that
will makx good roads instead of half way
patching up old ones very near impassable.
It woul be far better to levy a tax sufficient
to have good roads made under the direction
of a competent engineer. The fault is with
the people at last. They quietly sleep on
without taking action. The season of the
assembling of legislatures is at hand, and
the people should be moving in the matter
of securing good roads. If a general law can
not be had, get one for your county. The
people of Putnam county, Georgia, are a
progressive people. They have perfected a
road law for themselves which they will ask
the next General Assembly to pass. The
provisions of the alt are: The election of a
road inspector by the Grand Jury, to serve
for one year, receiving a salary of $260 per
annum, giving bond in the sum of $500 for
the faithful discharge of his duty. He in
spects the roads and bridges of the county
and notifies the Road Commissioners to have
the roads worked when they require it. This
is a step in the right direction, but it does
not go far enough. An entire change of the
present road law is needed. We will never
have good roads until the system is changed.
THOROUGH EDUCATION.
While nearly every educational institu
tion in the land announce that they give
thorough instruction it is yet a debateable
question -whether any institution does give
a thorough education. It is obvious that a
large majority cannot do it. Their curricu
lum may be full and the course thorough,
as far as it goes, and yet, not reach the true
definition of thorough education. Much of
the education is superficial. We do not
blame the professors and principals of these
institutions for this, as our present systems
are due mainly to the demands of society.
Mnch that is learned at school is never put
into practical use, but for this the teacher is
not to blame. The fault lies in the fact that
children are not educated thoroughly for
their profession or calling. If they receive
a superficial education that will enable them
to shine in society that is deemed sufficient.
No reference is had in their instruction to
their life-work. If we would have trained
thinkers and trained workers, they must he
thoroughly trained to think and thoroughly
trained to work while young. It is gratify
ing to know that more of our young men
are being trained up os workers than in pre
vious years. There is hope for the country
in this. The logic of events points with pro
phetic skill to the learning of trades in the
future, as a part of the education of our
youth. Intelligent, skilled and trained labor
is the hope of the land. The education of
our girls and boys is not complete or thor
ough without the knowledge of some trade.
These views are suggested by the excellent
and timely address of Prof. J. M. McBryde
on Agricultural Education. Pre-eminently
is it Importan t that he who expects to devote
his life and energies to the cultivation of
the soil, should he thoroughly prepared for
his high and noble calling. “Many are
called, but few are chosen ” to he farmers.
The range of knowledge to be attained by
a farmer is far wider than that of any other
calling or pursuit. Others may shine out
with more seeming brilliancy, but they are
but stars while farming is the grand central
sun around which all these stars revolve.
We invite special attention to the views of
Prof. McBryde. They are strong and are
presented with much ability.
Road Righto.
There has been considerable controversey
in regard to the rights of the road and we
are glad to be able to give a few points in
reference thereto. They are as follows: If
a farm-deed is bounded by, on or upon a
road it usually extends to the middle of the
roadway. There are few exceptional cases,
but ordinarily the farmer owns the soil of
half the road and may use the grass, trees,
stones, gravel, sand, or anything of value to
him, either on the land or beneath the sur
face, subject only to the superior rights of
the public to travel over the road, and that
of the highway surveyor or other similar
officer to use such materials for the repair of
the road; and these materials he may cart
away and use elsewhere on the road, yet he
has no right to use them for bis own private
purposes. No other man has a right to feed
his cattle there or to cut the grass or trees,
much less to deposit his wood, old carts,
wagons and other things thereon. The
owner of a drove of cattle which stops to
feed in front of your land, or a drove of pigs
which root up the soil, is responsible to you
by such law as much os if they did the same
things inside the fence. No one has a legal
right to pick up the apples under your trees,
although the same stand wholly outside the
fence. No traveler can hitch his horse to
your trees on the sidewalk, without being
liable if he gnaws the bark or otherwise in
jures them. You may untie the horse and
remove him to some other place. If your
well stands partly on your land and partly
outside the fence, no neighbor can use it ex
cept by your permission. No man has a
right to stand in front of your land and
whittle or deface your fence, throw stones at
your dog, or insult you with abusive lan
guage, without being liable to you for tres
passing on your laud. He has a right to
pass and re pass in an orderly manner—a
right to use the road but not to abuse it.—At.