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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, OCTOBER 1, 1883.
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ATI.ANTA, GA., OCTOBER 1, 1882.
WEATHER BULLETIN
In Use Cotton Belt from Hep. 0 to Hep. 81.
Obskiivru’s Office Signal Service, U. 8. A.,
Kimball House, Atlanta, Oa.
Ther.
AvMax Av. Min Jlicit Max Ijow'stMax
Atlanta.
Augusta
Charleston.
Galveston
Mobile
Montgomery.,
Memphis.
Little ltock....
New Orleans.
Vlcksburi
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88 on 18th
01 on 31th
01 on loth
02 on 16th
88 on 16tli
01 nn 17th
in on 18th
ouon lOih
02 on 12th
in on 21st
02 on 14th
01 on 17th
71° on 10th
77 on 0th
76 on Oth
77 onDtb
71 on 10th
n on ioth
71 on Oth
77 oil 23d
78 oil 22d
75 on 22d
72 on 22<1
72 on 22d
September
Vicksburg
Savannah
Wilmington...
Average maximum of cotton belt from
Oth to September 24th—84°.
Average minimum of cotton belt from September
Oth to September 24th—04°.
Note.—Avcrago maximum means beat In the dny;
average minimum, heat before day.
The Swiss colony in Habersham county,
Georgia is gradually increasing its number
by additions trom Switzerland. A large
hotel at New Switzerland is being erected.
Prof. J. M. McBryde has been elected Pres
ident of the University of 8outh Carolina.
This is a high but deserving testimonial to
his worth and ability. We congratulate the
University.
The trade issue of the Atlanta Constitution
was a mammoth affair. It left nothing to be
said on the subject. In fact, the Comtitution
is one of the livest and most progressive
papers in the land.
The old North State is not behind any of
her sister States in prosperity and develop
ment. A “Tobacco Fair’’ to be held at
Durham, N. C., next May is suggested. We
second the motion.
Two songs are likely to have a grand rush
this fall. Defeated candidates for office will
naturally cleave to “Hearts bowed Down”
while successful ones will joyfully sing,
"Happy as a Big Sun Flower.”
The timber lands of Louisiana are esti
mated at 15,000,000 acres, giving a possible
supply of seventy-five billion feet of saw-
log timber. What an immense capital Lou
isiana has in her timber supply.
As an evidenco of the growing prosperity
of the country and consequent increase in
business it is stated that the earnings of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1860 were
$300,000 per month, and in August 1882 it
was $1,850,000.
Arkansas has an editor who is a descend
ant of the immortal Davy Crockett. He
knows how to express himself in vigorous
English, and is not afraid to let the world
know his position. Ho may not bo politic,
but lie is sincere.
Mb. W. J. Camp, of the Colorado Ranch
Dairy at Covington, has returned from an
extensive tour among Eastern and Western
dairy farmers, fully satisfied with his dairy
farm in Georgia and his scrub cows.
Gkn. Robert Toombs said once in an agri
cultural speech, that the making of an ox
cart was one of the lost arts in the South.
It would seem from the character of butter
usually sent to market, that the making of
good butter was also one of the lost arts.
Thi cultivation of the olive in California,
is proving very profitable. The estimated
yield of an acre of 8-year old trees is $1,250.
South Georgia and Florida will grow them
profitably.
Tub Kansas City Price Current, in com
menting upon the corn crop and supply of
hogs in the West says: “We wish to add
that both Kansas and Nebraska can be in
cluded with Minnesota and Wisconsin as
States from which there will be no shortage.
With 100,000 more hogs in Nebraska this
year than last, a shortage there is impossi
ble, and while the returns from Kansas will
not be fully compiled before the first of next
month, we have enough advice from private
sources to bear us out in the assertion that
Kansas will turn out a much larger hog sup
ply the present year. The new West will hold
its own and have, perhaps, a slight surplus,
but there will be a falling off east of the
Mississippi, and it is there where the princi
pal loss will be.”
A Challenge to the World.
Messrs. G. W. and H. C. Randall, of Marion
Junction, Ain., challenges the world on the
hoy question. They say that they will
“agree to meet any nnmber of competitors
at any fair to be held this fall near half way
grounds with one or half a dozen bales of
hay, each one bearing the freight to the
place of exhibit on his hay and let the party
exhibiting the best bale of bay take ail
on exhibit, and then $5 from each party as
a premium to the party exhibiting said hay,
for the most hay mowed off of one acre in
the year 1882 and the hay exhibited shall be
a sample of tfaatliay raised on one acre attest
ed by three respectable witnesses. Recollect
tiiis challenge comes from the South where
grass cannot be grown profitably (so said)
but all interested parties come along and
put your names down and money ($5) up
and my word for it we shall pay the
money to bo deposited with the President of
the fair at which we exhibit the hay; noth
ing to be said by exhibitor; fair impartial
judges; and if they shall disagree let horses
or mules decide by offering them so much
hay of each kind. What hay stays last
which we will call worst or any other way
the judges mug choose and after the decision
all exhibitors agree to be satisfied (if possi
ble.)
“Wo will take Johnson grass as our hay to
exhibit.”
RAINFALL.
Atlant*..................3.(il I n.great'si (ul 12.26 on Sep. 10th
Apgusta 2.101m. •• " l.M on •*: loth
Charleston 2.IC! In. “ “ 1.06 on •• 10th
Galveston 1.61 In. “ “ 1.26 on •• loth
Mobile 48 Id. • ..Won “ 0th
Montgomery 2.88 In. • •• 1.M on “ loth
Mempbla l.m In. “ •< .«u oil “ 2let
LltUe Rock.....—1.40 In. •• •• .ss on •• 15th
Newoneone 72 In. •• •• A3 on •• 15th
Vicksburg 37 In. •• •• .27 on •• oth
Savannah .86 n. •• .63 on •• 2lnt
Wilmington 2.34 In. •• “ 1.66 on ■' loth
19.21
Total rain fall In cotton belt 10.21 Inches.
Greatest (all at one place—Atlanta-8.01 Inches.
Greatest fall ono dny—.September 10th—10.27 Inches.
CKAUACTKH Ok WKATHKIt—NUMB EH Ok DAYS.
CUtes. ttear. Omuly. luir.
Atlanta ..... 12 2 1
Augusta 0 4 2
Galveston— 7 4 4
Indlanola 0 0 6
Kay West..... 0 4 2
Rootle 10 2 s
Montgomery 7 3 6
New Orleans. 0 4
Pensacola 8 8 4
Palestine 8 4 3
Savannah... ............ 10 2 1
The Atkins (Ark.) News spells the name
of its State thus: Arkansaw. It don't like
sas.
Tub Fair season is fully upon us. Those
that have already been held, have been very
successful.
The illustrated article on the fourth and
fifth pages on “Clock and Watch Land” la
Instructive and interesting.
A Chinese teacher wrote a poem on a sin
gle grain of Rice. That is the most palata
ble way to take poetry now.
A family in Terrell, Texas, makes $10 per
day picking cotton. Either the family or
the yield of cotton, is extra large.
Texas is a progressive State. In addition
to building 1400 miles of railway this year,
she raised $97,380,558 worth of produce.
Just now public attention is divided be
tween the comet and the candidate and it is
uncertain which ono is most dreaded.
Tkh years ago the whole country was filled
with rose-colored views of a grand scheme
called the Atlantic and Great Western Canal,
to connect the waters of the Mississippi and
the Atlantic. It waa claimed that this canal
would give the country cheap transporta
tion. And now where is it ?
The address on “Agricultural Education”
delivered at Anderson, 8. C., by Prof. J. M.
McBryde was furnished by the author to the
Southern Wobld, in which paper it was
first published. Wo regret to see some of
our exchanges guilty of the discourtesy of
publishing in without giving the Southern
World credit for it
Indications points a largo attendance at
the State Fair of Arkansas, and session of
the Cotton Planters’ Convention at Little
Rock, Arkansas, on the 10th. Capt. Thos.
Nunan, the active passenger agent of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad in this
city, can handle large crowds very success
fully. He is working vigorously in the mat
ter of expediting a largo attendance from
this section.
Thi admirable address of Judge F. C. Fur
man, of MilledgeviUe, on “Intensive Farm
ing," delivered before the State Agricultu
ral Society of Georgia at Marietta, and re
peated before the Agricultural Club of Put
nam county, on September 20th, has been
furnished the Soutrkrn World for publica
tion by the gifted speaker. It is eminently
sound and practical. It will appear in our
next Issue.
Good BondN.
The St. Martinville, (La.) Observer in giv
ing place to our remarks on “Road Laws"
says: “It is thought by many that imprac
tical roads more than any other cause has
kept our parish at a standstill. Good roads
combined with our natural resources, should
start this parish on the high road to prosper
ity ; and in a few years hence, we would
see every foot of our arable land in culti
vation."
That excellent journal also chronicles the
following suggestive item: “Mr. Uiger
Webre,. a man of energetic enterprise,
gathered around him a week or so ago about
50 men near his house, and by the way
nearly all planters, and In a short time put
in thorough.conditlon the public road lead
ing from his plantation to the town of
Breaux-Bridge. And when it is considered
that this was done by voluntary aid and not
under the compulsory road duty, it is all the
more commendable."
A Disputed Point.
The subject of the seeding of Bermuda
grass is still being discussed throughout the
country, Many strongly maintain that it
docs seed, though not in this conntry. Dr.
J. P. Stclle, of Mobile, Ala., in a letter to
the Journal of Agriculture says:
“I had all along been led to believe that
our seasons were too short for Bermuda
gross, and that it would mature its seed
only in tropical countries. But now I find
that it is not the shortness of the season so
much as the fall droughts that blast the
seed. On my place is a dry valley opening
into a piece of marshy land. Several years
ago the upper portion of the valley were set
with the roots of this grass, which worked
their way down, year by year, towards the
marsh. Noticing that It seemed to grow
with unusual luxuriance there, and that
the stalks seemed larger than nsual, I exam
ined them, and to my surprise, found them
to contain a goodly quantity of perfect
seed—the seed In about one-half tho pods
being good. A subsequent examination of
that on the higher ground led to the discovery
that nearly all the seed were blasted—there be
ing but one seed out of a hundred that was
good. From this I concluded that, with us,
Bermuda grass will mature its seed only in
damp situations, and that we might, at
least, appropriate such situation to the plant
with profit in raising for the seed alone.
That Bermuda will mature its seed as far
north as Jackson, Tenn., the writer refers to
a letter from that place, stating that ‘it not
only thrives there, but that it seeds abun
dantly when not pastured by stock.”
There are others who affirm that it does
not seed in the South, though it may possi
bly do so in its native clime.
Mr. F. P. Rice, of Atlanta, Go., informs
us that Col. W. H. Sparks before his death
stated to him that this grass was Imported
from Africa by the captain of a slave trader
named, Copt. Permudy, who brought it to
Charleston and it was named after him, but
finally degenerated into Bermuda. It is
possible that if this be Its histoiy, this grass
may seed in Africa. As yet, no ono in this
section, has ever been able to see any of tho
seed of this grass.
OUR ROUND TABLE.
Poems and Essays, by Charles W. Bnbner. New
York: Brown A Derby, publishers, No. 21 Park
Place.
Mr. Charles W. Hubner is one.of the
South’s most modest and meritorious au
thors. As the author of "Souvenirs of Lu
ther “Wild Flowers;” “Cinderella, a Lyr
ic Drama;” and “Modern Communism,” he
has achieved a wide-spread reputation. His
“Poems and Essays” has established his
standing in the front rank of our literati.
The veteran JohnG. Whittier says: “Among
the poems I have been most impressed and
pleased with the “Tide of Time," “Willie,”
“Necropolis,” and "“Deaf, Dumb ane Blind"
—these are excellent. I have read the Es
says with great satisfaction. They are wise
in thought and admirable in diction." And
this tribute is just
Elfin Land and Othei Works. New York: G.
W. Harlan & Co.
In their fall publications, Messrs. G. W.
Harlan & Co. include an exquisite colored
book for children, entitled “Elfin Land.”
The verses are by Josephine Pollard, the de
signs by Walter Satterlee. Mary D. Brine
is again represented by a volume of child
poems, entitled “Christmas Rhymes and
New Year’s Chimes.” This book is profusely
illustrated with fine wobd-cuts from designs
by Jessie Curtis Shepherd, Jessie McDer
mott, Miss C. A. Northern, and D. Clinton
Peters. Large editions of both these books
have been ordered for England. They will
also issue fresh editions of “My Boy and I,”
(the most widely discussed of all lost year’s
holiday books), “Tutti-Frutti,” and “Last
Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York,"
Their recently inaugurated “Kaaterskill Se
ries” of novels is a great success. A treat is
in store for the literary public in tho second
volume of this series, entitled “The Modern
Hagar.” It will soon be ready.
Popular Science Monthly. New York: D. Ap
pleton A Co., Nos. 1,3 and 5 Rond street—(5 p ir an
num.
This periodical can justly lay claim to its
title of popular. Its merits fully entitle it
to make the claim. The Monthly is now in
its manhood, having past its twenty-first
year, and is clearly a fixed institution. The
October number is on our table, well laden
with choice matter, os the following table of
contents show: “Massage, its Mode of Ap
plication and Effects,’’ by Douglass Graham,-'
M. D.; “Literatureand Science,” by Matthew
Arnold ; “What are Clouds?” by C. Morfit;
"The Past and Present of Cuttle-fishes,” by
Dr. Andrew Wilson; "Mozley in Evolu
tion," by Herbert Spencer; “Explosions and
Explosives,” by Allen D. Brown; “ThoUtil
ity of Drunkenness,” by W. Mattieu Will
iams; “Delusions of Doubt,” by M. B. Bill;
“Progress of American Mineralogy,” by
Prof. G. J. Brush; “Industrial Education in
our Public Schools,’’ by Prof. H. H. Straight;
“Physiognomic Curiosities,” by Felix L.
Oswald, M. D.; “Formation of Saline Min
eral Waters,” by M. Dreulafait; "The Part
nership of Animal and Plant Life,” by K.
Brandt; “Sketch of Prof. Rudolf Kirchow,
with portrait,” etc.
Tub Ambbican Aoricultuiuht. Orange Judd A
Co ,761 Broadway, N. Y. *1.50 per annum.
The American Agriculturist is entering upon
the forty-first year of its existence and gives
evidence of increased popularity and use
fulness. The Agriculturist is a progressive
journal and justly merits its popularity and
success.
The Monumental City, Itr Part History and
• Pbehent Resources. Geo. W. Howard, M West
Fayette street, Baltimore, Md., Svo. cloth and gilt,
000 pages-price *5.
Mr. Howard has set forth the advantages
and resources of the Monumental City in
a complete and handsone work. It will be
found an invaluable contribution to the his
tory of tho times.
The Southern Planter. Richmond, Vn., W. C.
Knight, Editor. 11.60 per annum.
The October number of tho Southern Plan
ter is replete with valuable and interesting
reading for the farmer. It is conducted with
marked ability and we are pleased to note
its prosperity.
Tub Gbowino World, sn Illustrated Monthly Mag-
aslne, devoted to Nature-animate and Inanimate.
John Coryell, Conductor, us Fulton street, N. Y.
(1 perannnm.
The Growing World is the only magazine
of its kind published any where in the world.
It is pure in tone, interesting in manner, in
structive and pleasing and worthy of a place
in every household.
Bilos and Enbilaob. A record of Practical Taste
Id several States and Canada.
Report upon the Condition of Oom and Cotton, Po
tatoes and Fruits; also 11 eight rates of transporta
tion companies. September, 1882.
We are indebted to the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, D. C., for copies
of these publications. They contain matter
I of practical interest.