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Ths Press and Banner
IlUWEVILLE. ?.C.
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1887. \
Twelve IPa^es.
Christina* (irccthi^.
With pood-will mid kindly feeling lor all.
and with Ill-will for no living human being,)
Hie IYc.is und lianncr sends a Cti istmas grectin
nnrli mid every reader.
In acknowledging kindly offices from an
innumerable host of friends, there is reason to
be grateful to them all, while there is much
cause for thankfulness to the giver of good
gifts and graces.
l"or more than a quarter of a century we
have endeavored to print a newspaper for this
people.
In that time we have made many mistakes, j
and may have committed some grievous
Kins, lull lor Jill unit uien; i>c?|nv n?>v ?wu
true to us. Under ail the varying scenes and
changing circumstances that have gone to
make up Ihe history of the past, the Press
and Banner ha.s had steadfast friends among
the best and truest people of Abbeville conn,
tv. No man ever had friends who were more
faithful and steadfast, and with a grateful
heart we express the belief that the Press
and Banner has a safe plane in the hearts of
the people of Abbeville county.
Asiiiii extending the congratulations or uie
season, we wish to each reader a merry
Christmas, a happy New Year, and a long
' journey to the River.
CliristmKN.
Refore another issue of the Press ami Iiaix
wcvismade, theannivcrsary of the birth ofour
Savior will be celebrated.
We do not intend to try to preach a sermon
or to assume the duties of preaher, but as an
humble layman, we trust it may not he out of
place to urge upon our people ? respectful and
proper observance of the occasion.
It Is meet and proper that we be happy and
joyous at. that time.
It is well that we iorget all animosities when
?Ui.u>u? ihaMrih nf thn Prin<*f? of Pf>aee.
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l^ct fellowship anil good nature rule supreme,
anil let thankfulness to Almighty
God till our hearts.
Let us not desecrate the sacred anniversary
by drunkenness or gluttony.
Let no man take the time as an occasion
for indulgence in a debauch that is sinful at
any time, but which is shocking to our sense
of nronrietv on tills anniversary of such im
portnnce to christians.
Let scoffers and unbelievers profanethe day,
but let no self-respecting man in this Christian
laml offend by violating tlie decencies
and proprieties of a proper celebration of the
annlveisary of Him who died that we might
live.
Mr. \V. G. Chapman, of our town, was in
<rv.iit.iwwn rerontlv. Havinu read the article
in this paper in- refereuce to tliat town, lie j
says it Is correct.
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THE ETHICS OF 1ITERATUEE.
I.ecture of I>r. W. ?i. (irlcr Before llie
Tiieolosr.nii SiuilenK of Krskiiie
Colle^ei Friday ilvciil>12;. live. 1U.
IHS7.
We marl: ourselves down several notches
higher 111 mental expansion since last night's
liK.vnw :iiul mule a pity for all who
tiiil not have t lie muihi <"!ijoyinenJ. |
Altera titic rendition oi a iieuutifu! anthem
by tlie Associate Keforiui-il l'rcsfo.vtvrian
choir, J?r. <?rier nsiemii-il the rostrum, ami
then for more than an hour held u? spoil
hound list?:iin_- to"The KtlisoBul'ljitenitpiv/'
With won-ienui tact Ik- !ir*t interested the
two colli srcH ijy Umigitig in un exquisite extract
from ;ii?* "Alciiea' of Kmrlpules for the
beueflt of the youus: Juniors, u glowing sentence
from Jjcsnosthenose for the Sophomore*,
and a senumtntal l>it of Tappno, \vun :i nomv 1
thrust which entranced ti;c boys niul Kills, I
and gained their curuest attention till the |
Close.
Dr. Grier*s aim was to show thai no litem-!
ture, no lM;ok. can become immortal unies*
laid on t!io broad foundation of everlasting
lti:;iH, unless an appeal to oui heart and couBcienco.
After touching on tiso Grecian literature, he
fame tlowg to more tno lent times and took
ui> thp mil ins of histor*. . suwtry, and lietiou. j
In tbe iir>t, In- showe":. "that McCaulny and
his works ;iro ueathless, because his hfetory
always litis up Us voice for the "living verities
of truth, justice,the rightsof tiieoppress
od, ami the- siiuctittcs of religion."
A letter from Mcl'au lay's mother to hitn
while In- was yet a school boy. gave us an Infcight
into the training that made the historian
an unconscious preacher of "ethics in all
his writings."
The siteaker theu cited Scott and his greatest
novel, "Heart of Midlothian," as an example
of the ho'.il that moral grandeur ever
has, in whatever language portrayed; and he
impressed the lact most vividly by quoting
?w.i from the storv in ouestion, stir
ring our hearts anew with love for Jeauie
Deans.
Milton and Dante then passed before us:
"take from the moral, the religious, element,
a show of beautiful, glittering words remains
as powerless to stir our interest as an iceberg
to warm our chilled limbs."
And now tlio speaker flashes before us the
point of the whole lecture. He leads us to
that ever living well-spring from which all
abiding literature has been supplied?the DiIrlle.
His peroration in which lie marshaled Carlyle.liunyan,
man after man 0:1 the staije, and
showed how shorn of power each would be,
with the Hible part left out. was as fine a
specimen of eloquence, of felicitous quotations,
of that same liible power of expression
= .voll.lrimu-fi llr
ns we ever iiMciim m, iuc . ..
Htage, wltli his equally well-known lecture,
' The Bible," in our opinion does not equal it.
I>ue West, S. c., Dee. 15, 1W,
SHOOT, LUKE, OR GIVE UP YOUR GUN."
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A CritiH Has been Reached in the
Cumberland <Jnp Rond?Something
imi*t be Doue, and Done Quickly.
Kdgkkiki.k, December 15.?In ISS'J the
town of Kdeefleld issued bonds to the a
mount of twelve thousand dollars to aid in
the construction of the Kdgefield Brunch
Road, extending from Trenton to this place,
l-.ow forming a part of the'Carolina and Cum.
terland (iap 15oad. A first mortirage of the
road-bed was executed to the town council to
ecure the payment of the bonds. A contract
Mas of course entered into on ttie part of the
railroad to build tlio line within u certain
lime and upon certain conditions. These
conditions, it is claimed by the town authori
(IVif, liuvi; Ulllg DIUUC Ull-U uumcu, UIIU mill
has been brought to foreclose the mortgage,
upon which our master has tiled a report,
finding that there is due thereupon upwards
c*i seventeen thousand dollars, for which ajnount
the council are entitled tou decree of
foreclosure.
John Liary Evans, of Aiken, representing i
the present contractors of the Carolina tiap |
I'.oad. has born here for several days, to urge i
the council, upon the consideration of the i
company delivering to them income bonds of
joad to the amount of the mortgage, to release
its lien upon the road bed, As a result of his
lalxjrs a called meeting of the citizens of the
town was lieLU last nigiu wnicu cimuiiiaieu
in t lie passage of a resolution to tbeett'eet that
the council be empowered to sign an agreement
staying the enforcement of the mortgage
lien until March 1, at which time if the road
v as completed to this point and tlie incomc
1 onds delivered the mortgage would be cancelled.
This agreement, all that was asked for by
the road, was signed this morning, and now
itseems that the way is clear for theConstructiou
Company to begin work at once,which
l its head representative, JMr. i'otts, of 2\"c\v
; i'ork, says will he done.
GREENWOOD NOTES.
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( oo<l Wishes fop Former Correspondents?
Sick I'reaclier?I'n tier takers
Celling: Koittlj' Tor Iliisiuess?.MulesOther
.Matters.
(tHKKNM'OOD. S. Pec, 20111,18K7.
we regret to sue that the Frenchman L'in*
coininc, the versatile correspondent from
this place, lias discontinued his weekly interest
inp budget of news to the Pre*s and
Jiamicr, but we arc glad that he has entered a
field of more extended usefulness, and wish
him abundant success.
Ill sending this letter to the Prc.? and Ii'tnner,
we are not proposing to step into the
nine* tie vaeates. or to till the place the ever
watchful ''Mao," of plensant memory to your
readers of u few months ae<>, so acceptably
occupied," but merely to let your readers hear
Irom the "little Atlanta" of Abbeville for
this week. We hope you will soon secure the
services of some good correspondent from
this 'important commercial centre," as some
pleased to call It.
Because of the illness of Rev. \V. T. Mathews,
the pastor, there was no services in the
Presbyterian church last Sabbath. Conso:
qucntly, Mr. Carter preached to a house well
I tilled, and gave bis hearers abundant food
I for after thought and reflection.
I Messrs \V. V. lily the J. H. Wells have
bought out the furniture and undertaking
I litiBiimpnt. of Mr. J. It. J.eavcll. and will
henceforth do business under the lirm name
or Blytbc & Wells. Would it be kind to our
friends to wish them success in the latter
part of the nfore-sald business? We know
that each one hopes that he may in nowise
contribute to this part of their undertaking.
May you sell car-loads of furniture gentlemen.
Mr. John K. Hood, who is principle of the
Troy High School, is spending his Christmas
with us and is clerking for the Charleston
firm of Jervy A Co., He will return to his
school on the first .Monday in January.
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1 WO cur-iouus U1 11 wi siiiu III II. VI II...V
lii-cn sold here tills fall. Why dont each farmer
raise a mule colt, as. I think you once
suggested, and thus save a very considerable
item in thoir yearly expense.
Prof. A. Coke Smith, of Wo fiord College
will lecture next Friday night in the hall of
the Male Academy for the benefit of the
Methodist church ol this place. Go to hear
him, and you will hear something of merit.
Mrs. K. P. Blake leaves to-day for Newberry
to spend Christmas with relatives.
The Christmas deml-John Is receiving his
usual respectful atteution, and John will be
a welcome miest in many a mansion, cottage
and cabin in the next teu days, and receive
I imiff and froouent caresses. Well may you
sing, Oh, lovers of John,
'lis you who makes my friends my foes,
'Tis you who muUes me wear old clothes,"
and brings other and severer curses upon him
who drinks of the "flowing bowl" to intoxication.
L'sther, the beautiful queen, a cantata, will
lie rendered in the hall of the Male school ou
Thursday evening, December 29. This beautiful
drama is under the supervision of Mrs.
W. T. Matthews, which sufficiently guarantees
tbat the public will be highly entertained.
Your presence, Mr. Editor, together with
that of our other Abbeville friends who so recently
acted this, or witnessed It, is earnestly
desired. Come, menus,ana compiuc m? i-??u.
It is nearly lime for all ptople to make new
resolves for the coming year, and regret the
misdeeds of the past. To all who may wish
their friends a glad new year, we suggest I
these lines, which are our wish to your read-1
ers:
"What shall I ask for thee.
When the new year,
Rose-crowned and golden shod,
To thee draws uear:
Wealth, fume, or pleasures rare,
.Surcease of grief and cure,
Wisdom's Increase?
Nay, rather sweet content,
Withal uy neaven seni,
And perfect pence."
I.INDIAN.
Tlip Chickasaw MpiwoiiBcr, a Newspnper
Piiltlifthed at Okolona. Ml**..
Advisrw South Carolina on the
Agricultural CollOKe IlnslnosH.
South Carolina is now being agitated from
- !.? ,Vw, nn,ni?il.
lilt' inoilliciuia |I? tuu I
tiou to establish an Agricultural and Mechanical
CoUrse, copied afier our own pet. humbug.
The fwriuers of the State are told that the
institution is for their benefit and their sons
will tie taught scientific agricultural, whereby I
they can outstrip their fathers in the preservation
or reclamation of tlici' lands and in
the production of crops, and their class prejudices
are being aroiis*ed to secure their ac-I
live support of the scheme, which if adopted, i
will red. >;;nd to the interest of the professional
classes, the swell planters and theedueated
freotry, who secure employment at the colJC-'O
Mississippi h:ts traveled the road dentil
Carolina is now importuned to try, and It. is a
pity our Palmetto brethren do not seem to be
sufficiently posted to profit by our experience ,
\iiiinst (l*ii 1 v We receive letters from different ;
portions of the Slate siskins for information!
concerning tin? workings of our Agricultural;
and Mechanical College, anil we have, when
wo could, furnished our correspondents with I
a short bioirraphy of ihe Mississippi "Tombs- j
aone Industry," which in t-ixjyears' operations
and after expending &iiT),(M)0, turnstout
two scientific farmers having faith enough
In their theoreiical education to attempt to
put it lo practical utility.
Our school has now entered its eighth year;
lias supported in elegance, luxury and case
since lis opening a small army of well dressi.i.riiiv
cMiinrcii nnonio. unost of whom
never tried farming as a business, and not one
of whom ever made a success as a farmer,)
has expended of the people's money about
$4HO,0.")0, and we defy its officers to Dame ten
of Its graduates who arc to-day engaged In
practical agriculture.
Ten rich countics in the State furnish more
than naif tiie attendance; twenty-one counties
have no representation at. all at the college,
and the assessment rolls of Oktibbeha
county show that the property valuation as
a whole has not Increased iu the immediat
vicinity of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College as it has in other portions of the
State. We assert,andldefy successful contradiction
that the tax rolls show, thatthe land of
a member of the Board of Trustees lying adjacent
to the college farm has depreciated in
value 23 per cent, since the establishment of
thc-collegc in sight of his home.
Wo have had some rich experience, also,
with our munificently paid faculty, who devote
n good portion of tlieir timo traveling
around over the State, holding farmers' Institutes
(?) and keeping the people impressed
with the wonderrm work they are doing and
the great necessity for further and bigger appropriations,
and this too while their piaces
are filled by subs, generally under graduates
of the colleges who are paid out of the Slate
Treasuay.
We flllustrate: Our Professor j of Agrleulturc,
whose last report shows he expends
?12,000 In farm operations and gets back 87,000
worth of products, straddles the hobby:
"Our worn out lands and how to reclaim
orrnvniv tplls our farmers to
"sow cow pens and turn them under in the
full, (.'ontiuue this proces, rotate and diversity
crops, and oar lauds," he, says, " will
bloom and blossom as the rose."
And for this kind of advice our producers
are expected to pay him 2,000 ber annum aud
furnish him a nice house to live in, and
at the same time pay his assistants $600 or $300
to attend to the duties of his department in
the lecture room and on the colledgo farm.
Not. I
The advice and experience of one such farmer
as Dixon, of Georgia, Is of more value to
agriculture than all the colledge faculties in
America, unles others are endowed with
more practicability than ours have ever displayed.
Ours are wonderful theorists, but
practical In nothing except in lobbying big
appropiatlons out of the treasury.
It is amusing to observe in the discussion
of the question in South Curolinu, that the
friends of the co!)cdge insist that they can
establish one and run it, wunoui nuiuuonui
taxation. We thought so, too, at, the outset,
and we in common with other members of
the original Hoard of Trusters urged with
our legislators that if they would appropiate
5!n'),il(Hi to purchase the land and erect the necessary
buildings and then give us the insignificant
sum of Si",000 per annum for three
years we would make the institution selfsustaining
thereafter. But it was so? Let
the SVJO.UUO in State bonds issued two years
ago to defray the expenees of our too numerous
state institutions; The additional levy of
ono mill ad valorem tax and the enounnous
Increase in nrlvaleee taxes answer.
We want" to say to our South Carolina
friends another tlung In this connection and
wo are done. Should they determine to burden
themselves with an Agricultural and
Mechanical College they will llnd it will only
be a beginning, and ere llvo years roll around,
there will be a demand for another Statelnstitution
or two. The elephant must have a
mate. He can forage more successfully. It is
a great deal easier to secure satisfactory appropriations,
when there is a number of
pampered institutions to make common
cause, than when one is compelled to go it
nloue.
THE TALLAPOOSA SWINDLE.
THE WAY OUR DELUDED CITIZENS WALK
THE GOLDEN STREETS OF "THE CITY
OF THE GOLDEN RIVER."
Something of the Land and Something of
the Methods Whloh have Induced Clti
TkATiolria onrt TIIIA
ZtiiiH Ul l>U&UOULUJ'| 1/UUIUUL., ?
West to Depart from their Comfortable
Homes to Live in the Fine Barrens of
Georgia.
How City I,otH are Sold lo Distant InveNtorw?A
Paradise in the Prospeclive,
a Bleak Forrest In Fact.
r Condensed from New York Herald.]
"Tallapoosa, Ga; the City of the Golden
River," Such is the catching headline of a
pretty eight-page paper, which sets forth the
alleged charms of Tallapoosa "as a home,
as; an in vestment, as a place of permanent
employment, as a place of comfort, com
petency and health lor ail, wun roriuues iur
many."
The Garden of Eden was a sterile and poverty
stricken corner of the earth compared
with this "City of the Golden River"?as it is
described in the literature circulated by the
company. Company? Of course? the ' Tallapoosa
Land, Mining and Manufacturing
Company," organized In June last. "Itsaffairs,"
according to the Journal quoted, "are
governed by broad gauge, liberal-minded
men, who have the interests of Tallapoosa at
heart and believe in the vast mineral resources
of the South."
Nothing could be more skillfully constructed
than all this. To the ambitious workman
is held out the aliened certainty of bettering
his condition; to the humane and unselfish
Iinlrnriwn le nffif>rpil t.lie chance to provide for
his family, and the cupidity of all" classes is
invoked by the promise of a rapid rise in the
value of the lots they may buy.
IN SEAKCH OF FACTS.
However, the standing order to nil Herald
men Is to secure facts?facts at no matter what
expenditure of labor and money. The New
York address of the Tallapoosa Company was
set down as No. 179 Broadway, and thither
the reporter went in search of further information.
The home of the company proved
to be in the ofllces of the ".silver Springs
Park Land and Improvement Company."
This Is one of the Florida companies shown
up in the Herald.
The president of the company proved to
be Col. George W. Adair, who is a real estate
dealer of Atlanta. The list of the directors
was headed with the name ol Hon. John B.
Gordon, Governor of Georgia. In the list
was Gurdon W. Hull, also prominent in the
Silver Springs deal, and James H. Plummer,
organizer of the Belmore Florida Land ComI
pany, which was exposed In the Herald in
January, 1880. Oddly enougn, Messrs. nun u.
Dean are set down as of New York, wWereas
their home Is understood to be Walllngford,
Conn; and Mr. Plumtner, who was originally
n newspaper man in Chicago, Is also set down
to New Yora. They probably dub themselves
New Yorkers on the strength of the
office at No. 17W Broadway. Another director.
Col. A. J. McBrlde, a crockery dealer in
Atlanta, is set down as of Tallapoosa. Mr.
Plummer figures as "assistant secretary'* of
the company. It was pretty evident that his
pen, the same which endowed the Florida
prospectus with such wealth of Oriental imflgery,
was now doing a like service for Talla
CATCHING BUYERS BY MAIL.
Several clerks were busy enclosing in wrappers,
for mailing, copies or the prcmpectus,
nicely colored maps of Tallapoosa, circulars
making a "special"' offer of stock of the compHijy
at fifty cents on the dollar?capllal
stock $2,000,000? price list of the lot* remaining
unsold and other literature setting forth
the matchless attractions of "The City of the
Golden River." These papers are widely distributed
through the malls, and It appeared
that many lots were being bought by mail.
The buyers sclect the property from the maps
?on which each lot is numberd?ascertain the
amount asked from the printed price list and
send checK in i>aymenu ud eacu mup were
printed directions as toordering by mall am1
iUiaranteelngsatUfaction to those who bought
in that tv<ty. The map showed streets,
avenues, boulevards, parks and horse cur
routes?a beautiful oily.
AN INVITATION' TO VISIT TIIE CITY ACCEPTED.
A copy of this map, nicely mounted, was
displayed in the otllee, ami on it would-be investors
were shown ties liable lots. "Yes,"
said the attendant who took the Herald man
In charge; "yes, we will sell you u lot which
you may select rlulit here froru the map, but
(Willi a grill) we would rainer nave juu
Tallapoosa and select your lot right on the
ground." This was evidently a stock stateliinnt
and one caiculcleil to give contldence to
halting investors. As the trip would cost
about as much as an average lot the challenge
was not likely to be often accepted In
accordance with the standing order of the
llcraro to always nrocure facts, the reporter,
howi-r, unhesitatingly accepted the Invitation.
It was only a ride of one thousand
miles anyway, and the Piedmont Air I.inc
runs almost straight as an arrow. Tallapoosa
is in Northwestern Georgiu, within a few
miles of the Alabama Stale line and on the
Georgia Pacific Kailroari. The cities of An
ii Is ton and Birmingham. Ala, arc on the name
line, the former atiout forty and the latter
about one hundred mile.s further west. The
reporter lefton the evening train.
A HACK WOODS VILLAGE OK LOO CABINS.
The brakeman called out. "Tallapoosa" on
the afternoon ot the second day, and the reporttr
stepped out upon the platform. It was
a wretched looking plttce. Back from the
road 011 either hand stretched the pine and
oak clad hills through which the train had
been journeying for hours. Near at hand on
either side and parallel with the railroad
struggled a sandy country road, along which
wore scaiuTcu u iui i? uuc-ntui j, ,..,u ...
them uupaliUPd. board structures wltti their
cables to the road. Jt was Just such a backwoods
village as may be found anywhere
among the bills of that reigon, tbc building
of the railroad through it having awakened
it to very little more life. There was no rlv-1
er, golden or otherwise, in view. The structures
referred to were the local habitation of
the "leading business houses located at Tallapoosa,"
as the reporter discovered from tlje
signs.
THE LEADING BUSINESS HOUSES ? A SAW
MILL, A BLACKSMITH SHOP, AND A
tiwsriwrti'.i otwiwit
One of tbeso buildings on this business avenue
was occupied as a dwelllug, as could
plainly be seen by looking through the window
opening?window opening is the phrase,
for there had never been any sashes in itnothing
but a big board shutter wherewith to
close the opening at night or in stormy weather.
This, however, la not an uncommon feature
in Tallapoosa dwellings. A glance at
some of the "lwuling business houses locatcd
in Tallapoosa, On.," named In the prospectus
showed that one is a country blacksmith
shop, another a modest livery stable, another
n tvirtniiin sawmill another a little ono-story I
cottage occupied by a woman who "fixes upT'
bonnets for the wives and daughters of the
village iblk?or at least stands ready to do It.
Judging from general appearaaces she Is not
kept very busy. Another of the "leading
business houses located in Tallapoosa, Oa.,"
on the list is a little board grist mill on a
neighboring creek. The slock in most of the
shops was identical?some hardware, groceries,
domestic sheetings, cheap prints and
"notions;" Just the stock to bo fouud In a
crossroads store in any of the Mlddlo States.
A CITY OK SPECULATORS AND SWINDLERS.
It is easy to believe the statement that
fho nAnnloUnn c\T TilllftOnnSJl.
UlICC ^t'UIOUfjU buv W. - ??
was fllty-six. Now it Is evidently swollen by
real estate agents und the employees and
managers of the company and the visitors attracted
from the surrounding country by Idle
curiosity and widespread advertisements. A
smart carriage and pair waits the arrival of
every train to show visitors over the "city"
and out to the "mines." too, if they are determined
to visit the latter. Jt is the company
which also owns this turnout. It is the
company which also owns the horse and bugcv
11 soil l'or the same purpose, and the horses
on which well dressed men are tiding about? I
llie surveyors iind clerks and managers of
"the company." The hotel which has just
been extended and made to look quite respectable
that, too. is owned by "the company.''
In short, the company is all there is
of Tallapoosa at present.
A CITY WITHOUT HOUSES,
r.ut where arc the boulevards, avenues,
streets, parks? In.short, where is the city?
Lanes newly cut through the denso forest on
the north and cast of the railroad tell the
whole story. In each of these openings is a
biir siifti bcarine the name of the "street" or
"avenue" in which it stands. The fallen trees
lying across the "thoroughfares" make them
rather dilllcult to traverse, and the stumps do
not tend to make it easier.
One of the men engaged in digging stumps
out of the principal avenue confides to the
visitor the fact that the trees were cut down
, so as to make a show before the public nuc
| lion sale of lots which was hckl lata month.
The sale lasted three days and was largely
attended, notwithstanding It rained, for it
I had been very widely advertised. The managers
give out tliut they sold some $50,000
worth ol lots on that occasion, and that they
hope to be more successful at a second sale,
to be held next, month, provided they should
not be able lo dispose of their enormous holdings
at private sale or on mail orders before
that time.
AIT ADVEHT1SMENT.
Seated upon a fallen log, and with the si
lence broken only by the twittering of birds
in the leafless trees, the Ile.vuld man read the
: following from the page of the prospectus:
I "WVirkmkn Wanted.?Necessarily they
will be, and very much so. Not only those
directly lu the varlou* 'building trades,' but
men who are capable of doing anything whatever
in the way of working will be wanted iu
Tallapoosa. There is nlready a brisk demand
there for everything oi utility, and this will
rapidly Increase. There is every sort of consi
ruction to Le done? hence there will be too
few rather than too many to do it."
However, there were a dozen pages filled
with figures and statements about the wonderful
mineral resources of the South, the
suddenness with which cities like Birmingham
hail sprung Into existence and no end of
paragraphs giving manes of men who had
"grown up with the country" and accumulated
vast fortunes in a few months or years
at Birmingham or Annlston, All this is skill
fully con til vcd so an to create the impression
tlulthestiiteineiitHoriiilner.il weultli apply
as weh to Tallapoosa, anil that there will be a
Klmllar boom and equally great fortunes
made there.
GLITTERING PROMISES.
With this object, too, the wonderful advance
In the price of the stock of the Elyton Land
Company, which tounded the town of Hirmlnuham.
Is told at length. The land back In
IK71 cost the company $2T>,0i)0. I<ast summer
the company had p.ilii SI,320.0:)0 In cash divl
(lends, besides selling asiue an Kuunmiu?
nerve fund and in venting 8750,000 in improve- J
rnents. "Who would not like some of it?"
asks the Tallapoona prospectus. '-Well, the
only way to gel it is to put up the money at
these prohibitory figures or to repeat its successes
elsewhere, which Is exactly what we
propose to do and shall do."
' Wo intend to build here a great, rich and
beautiful city," adds the prospectus, and as
the basis of this ciiy It refers to the "soil,
splendid forests, fine climate and an Immense
quantity of xold, silver, iron, copper, gurnet,
sulphur and marble." Then the question, I
"Does mining pay?" is asked and answered
by Instancing the fortunes of the Bonanza
kings. It did not occur to the writer of the
yrospcctus that anybody should ask the
question, "How much of all these precious
products have you got, and how much of
*' * ? tuhv Hnn'fc VIM
mem mkvo juu uus u^>, ?
dig up more quick ?" At any rate, he does
not go into that matter, but tells about big
gold and copper mines of the world and the
wealth they have yielded.
WHAT THEY AHE BASED ON.
Well, Aw to the soli, nothing Is said; the climate
is ail right; the forests are In doubt.
The saw mill which stands right in the heart
of the proposed city does not belong to the
company, but to some pushing Michigan
lumbermen, who bought the timber before
the marvellous Tallapoosa company was organized.
They could have had the land
thrown In with ttie lumber for little or nothing
extra, but they didn't want it. They have
done a prosperous business turning the trees
Into shingles aud boards, nnd shipping them
to Birmingham. There has been no demand
"
in me "oity ui wc uuiucu ?>>v>.
LAND SKLLINO AT ONE DOLLAR AN ACHE
SAID TO BK WORTH MILLIONS.
A? to the value of land In the vicinity. It Is
a lact that the limber on a large tract in the
vicinity was sold the other day to the owner
Of another saw mill ercuteil ri^ht by the railroad
Irach. After the bargain was struck the
man offered to Rell the land, too, for one dollar
per acre more. And this in the presence
of the "hurrah" gotten up by the Tallapoosa
Company and the magnificent value it sets
i imnn ik h.nilfL Here is the company's own
estimate:
"Our gold assays from $25 to $300 to the ton I
finest free milling ore. The 'Cross' mine, or
Tallapoosa, Is reported to have yielded over
83U0.UU0 and it lias recontly been capitalized at
#1.000,000. With our gold alone as a basis,
even it wo had not another attraction to
show, bow could Tallapoosa possibly fall to
develop? Has abundant and easily gotten
gold ever been neulooted since the world had
a history? We estimate the town land for
building purposes as worth over $2,SOO,OUO; the
Hold mines as worth 52,000,000; the silver
mines as worth nearly $1,000,000; the marble
as worth SI,*>00,000 ; ih.j Iron as worth $1,250.000;
the copper, sulphur and garnet as worth
Sl.000,000, using even numbers for ail these.
'I'lin mini is over S'J.OOO.OOO."
jTili; WAY VISITORS AltK SHOCK KD ANI)
SWINDLED.
Many of the visitors are so shocked by the
| appearance of the plaec that they moan to
wait only lor the next train; but then the
"boomers" show iliein the sites of the facto
rie.s and expatiate on the miraculous growth
of other places and show them samples of the
gold, iron and silver ores and dwell on the
fact that the Governor of the state, (?en. .1.15.
I ?1-... I... .Ii^in,. nf i lift fiim rin n v. and l>e
j i.iiruuii, i* ? ? ,
I fore they arc brought back to the hotel the
chances are thnt they will have been talked
Into buying several corner lots.
.Sceptical visitors, or those who want to see
for themselves the wonderful mineral
wealth," are mounted on the company's
horses and couuucted out ot the hotel and
among the mountains. The guide Is .1
shrewd, stalwart fellow, credited by old residents
with knowing the spots where the
moonshine corn whiskey is made. Ills name
is Handy Crew, and he Is the "prospector" of
the company. They do say that If one gave
.Sandy an order to to out 011 the company's
imuls and find Camoniuert cneese. ue wuuiu
be gone overnight and return In the morning
with specimeus of It obtained from a true
tl.?sure vein.
However this may be, Sandy is not a bad
talker, either, as he proved to a "personally
oonducted party,', of which the Herald man
was one, on tho way up the mountains, and
through apparently trackless woods to the
mines. Mr. Spencer informed the visitors
that a blast furnace would be erected, to go
into operat ion in the spring to smell some of
I the extraordinarily high grado iron ore lound
on the lands. No, the con tract for its erection
had not yet been made: no, it had not been
i i ?i t.k.iui ii mnniH li? Inrfited.
actucu niioiv n iivu.u ~
AN IKON MINK AS JBIG AS A CELLEKY PATCH.
"Now, here's one of our iron mines," said
Mr. .Spencer, as they party emerged into a little
open space in the wood6. The top soil
here was composed of decayed leaves and
other vegetable matter. The "mine" proved
to bean opening some fourteen feet long and
about ns wide and deep us a farmer's celery
" " 1 * I. rvnt thlu
| trcncn, in mereu ciuj uuunu
were a few pieces of ore about as large ordinary
polatoes. Sandy und Mr. Spencer picked
ui> some of these and exchanged comments
on the wonderful richness in iron.
Their conversation was carried on in a stage
whisper. As they made this trip several
times a day it's surprising that they should
Jiavc to exchange these little confidences as If
..? ,w>m ?n th? I'l'min d for the first
Hiej IT VI c mm v..
time.
A VEIN OK IRON" AS THICK AS A HOMEMADE
PIE.
As there is nothing here to retain the attention
of strangers, the party Is conducted to
the biggest mine, the "card" of the company.
This is a perpendicular cut made into the foot
of a hill?such a cut as would be made by half
a dozen laborer? in a day or two. There was
exposed the edge of a horizontal vein of ore
about as thick as a home made pie. The visitors
w:ere led into the hole and assured that
when that cut should be continued the vein
would show up thicker, and, in fact, Mr. Spen
i.(hot \rlinlp hill was ft solid
mass of Iron. This was the burden of another
stage-whispered conversation between
himself and the versatile Sandy.
A GOLD MINE AS DIG AS A BUSHEL HASKET*
Then the golden mines were visited. Ono
consisted of a hole as big as a busheJ basket,
scooped out of the marly bank of a little
mountain brook. The marl is Interspersed
with bits of quartz and is asserted to contain
gold. That this is no new discovery is shown
by the remains close by of u crude cradle
which must have been used in washing away
back in the war times. In short, this mine i
looks like any one of a thousand that may be
IOU11U 111 nil! ui'urjjin iiiuuiiuiiui, .......v.
natives, when there Is no other work to be
had, contrive tomake enough to buy whiskey
ami tobaceo by washing for goiit.
CONNECTICUT YANKEE SWINDLERS AND ATLANTA
CHEATS COMBINE?ONE SET 1't'lSNISI
IRS THE WORTHLESS LAND?THE
nwirLMf TW-fcEM '1*1 f ! ? T.YIVfJ.
"I'll tell you the deal," said a disgusted purchaser
or lots who could nol lind a buyer to
take them oil'his hands. This Tallapoosa
scheme is the result of a combination between
Dean, Hill and those other Connecticut landowners
on the one side aud some Atlauta people
on the other.
Having exploited their Florida lands, these
people came looking for a good opening near
iiimiiugham or Aunistoii, believing thai ou
the legitimate boom those places were enjoying
it would be easy to get up an excitement
any where In the same section. Col. Adair, of
Atlanta, as a real estate man, was right lu
their line, and he was acquainted with Col.
McBridc, a crockery merchant of his owncity.
Mellrlde hail a bi? tract of this almost worthless
land hero. As I understand it. McBride
contributed the land, the Yankees agreed to
organize the company and pay for the printer's
Ink to "boom" the "city."
THE WIIOLE 4,(XK) ACUES OF TIIK CITY IS
WOHTH ABOUT 810,000.
"Before starting they wont about the country
here and for a mere song bought options
on the wilderness and on cultivated lands. \s
you have seen tbe lands are poor and the
houses on the plantations are mostly mere
inrr hnie Porh.tns 81. or sav 81. an acre would
be a fair average for the whole 4,000 acres the
company claims to own or control. However,
suppose It Is worth So, then the property Is
worth, say 820,000, barring the great "mines"
discovered on it. That's a long way Irom
SO.fKiQ,'00. at which they estimate theproperty,
isn't it?"
ONK MILLION DOLLARS FOR TWENTY THOUSAND.
The company has 52,000,000 of stock, and is
selling or trying to sell It at fifty cents on the
dollar. With the prospectus and other
printed matter being disturbed through the
mails there Is sent out a special circular trying
to Induce people to buy shares. It is not
easy to know the "inslde"'dctails of such a
???/i ??/? tTn-nlf1 Infnrmont. nmv lif?
BUIICUIC, ilHU IUV ilCflim >?<w ??..?
mistaken as to his figures and as to some of
the details of the deal. It it is assumed that
he is practically correct, then the company
would make a good thing by selling ?20,1X10
worth of property for Sl.OOO.OOD.
INTERESTING DISCUSSION IN THE SENATE.
The Hill to Nnbmit the Question of
License to the People of Abbeville
and Cireeiiville will Become a Law.
j The bill to provide for the submission
I to the qualified electors of Abbeville,
Gronville and Oconee Counties of the
question of "license" or''no license" in
the incorporated cities, towns and villages
in said Counties at special elections, and
which came up as an unfavorable committoe
report, brought on a small sized
tight on prohibition, and found a divided
Senate on the general merits of the quesI
tirvnu r>nti nnft afi with tllfl hill.
Th? prohibitionists scored the first
point, and had the unfavorable report
rejected by a vote of 16 to 9.
Senator Biernann then moved to strike
out "Oconee," and succeeding in his
motion was correspondingly happy.
Senator Izlar offered an amendment
providing that the question of license or
no license should not be submitted to the
voters of Greenville County under the
terms of the Act, unless a majority of the
real estate owners of the city of Greenville
first petitioned for such election.
Senator Austin moved to table the
. ... j.w. ! rm matiaii nitocaSlorl Ktt q
HUIUIIUlIlt'UU 1UIO 111UUUII pcmiiou %jj u
voto of 16 to 9, i
Senator Smith moved to reconsider the
vote striking out "Oconee" from the bill,
and on tins called the yeas and nays.
This motion disturbed the equanimity
of the Senator from Oconee, and renewed
his anxiety concerning the bill; but its
opponents"under the skillful leadership of
Senator Smythe closed ranks and fought
it out to the bitter end. Senator iSmy the
at once moved to table the matter to reconsider.
On thiv fhnrA was n tie vote, and the
Chair votccl nay; so the motion to lay on
the table was lost.
Senator Smythe said that he* trusted
that the Senate would not restore Oconee
to the bill. Out of courtesy to tho Senators
from Greenville and Abbeville, who
wanted this bill for their County, the
Seuate was willing to pass the bill so far
as it related only to those two Counties.
Ho thought that the Senator frotn Oconee
was as mucli entitled to tue courtesy 01;
I the Senate as tbe others' were, and as ho
was against the bill applying to bis County,
he ought to be sustained.
Senator Field said that it was well
known that the people of Oconee wanted
this question submitted to them.
Senator Biemann .said that the people
of Oconee were by no means unanimous
011 the subject. A very large number of
them were opposed to any further agitation
on the subject. It would only split
them all to pieces and foment discord.
Senator Khame said, as ttio goou taini
of the friends of the bill seemed (o he
imputed, lie wanted to pay he had heard
of no reason why it should not pass.
Senator Howell said that he hail always
voted for prohibition. He had even voted
for the Anderson blue law, and he
would now votditor this bill as far as it
related to Greenville and Abbeville, but
he could not for Oconee, when there was
no potition or memorial for it from that
county, so far as the Senator knew, and
the Senator from Oconee was protesting
against it.
Senator Hemphill said that the bill had
originated for the benefit of Abbeville I
County, which had asked for it. Greenville
and Oconee bad been tacked on it
(the latter county under protest.) He
could not consent to its being so overloaded.
Senator Izlar said that there was no use
for the bill anyhow; the counties of
Greenville and Oconee were already dry,
and the towns of those counties had
rights under the local option law which
could give them all they needed. The
bill was simply an attempt of those out
- ?i.. 1
side or tuc towns io uiciuit; men- 1ut.u111.11
management.
Senator Patterson said that it was but
just that theffacts of the case should be
presented to the Senate. Oconee County
had been fully represented before the
Judiciary Committee, and the statements
of her prominent and distinguished citizens
showed that this question was a
burning question. It decided elections,
and men's general fitness for office was
lost sight of; their sentiments for or
against prohibition made the test. For
this reason, among many others, he wanted
the bill passed and the question taken
out of politics.
Senator McMasler said that he thought
that the local option laws now of force
were amply sufficient. There was such a
thing as intemperance in temperance,
and lie deprecated the constant agitation
of the subject.
Senator Smythe said that tho debt of
Walhalla had been alluded to in the
course of the debate, and it was an important
question?one that he hoped Senators
would consider carefully.
Sianntnr Mnnriv s:uri that Marion had UO
revenue from whiskey, and Marion was
prospering and her taxes decreasing.
The people of Oconee would abide the result
of the election and they ought to
have the privilege they ask for.
After some further sparring between
Senators, the vote was taken on the motion
to restore Oconee to the bill and it
failed by a vote of ll> 10 10.
.Senator Moist; then moved to indefinitely
postpone the whole matter, and
get in a shot or two at prohibition and its
failures. On motion of Senator Murray,
the motion was tabled. Senator M(.-Master
endeavored to amend by striking out
words incorportcd cities in the bill, and
this also failed.
The Senate then took a recess.
Tlio Houso bill providing for the
submission of the question of "license"
or "no license'' to the voters of Abbeville
and Greenville counties came up
for its final reading. The abolition ol'the
liquor license In Greenville would decrcaso
the revenuo of the city ?ti,000 a
year. The charter of the city only allow- i
ed a tax of .s mills, but with no revenue
from liquor the city could not get along
with less than 11 mills. Jn order to provide
that 110 injustico should be douo to J
those citizens of Greenville who had to
pay its taxes, he offered an amendment
providing that before the election could
be ordered one-half of the owners of real
estate in Greenville city must petition for
it.
Senator Austin characterized the argnments
of the Senator from York as ridiculous,
and moved to table his amendment.
Yeas?Austin, Alcxaudcr. Bell, Crews,
Edwards, Field, Howell, Hemphillj
Moody, Murray, Sligh, Smith, Talbert
and Woodward?14.
_ Nays?Black, Buist, Byrd^ Erwin,
Izlar, JMunro, Mcuan, ivxoiso, jratterson,
Rhame, Reynolds and Wofford?12.
So the amendment was defeated.
Senator Black olfered another amendment
requiring as a pre-requisite to the
ordering of the election the signing of a
petition by one-half the real estate owners
in the county. Tabled?16 to 11.
Senator Buist moved to exempt Greenville
city from the operation of the law.
Tabled?16 to 10.
Senator Izlar offered an amendment
leaving it optional with the county com?
!?s * a
uiiKsiuuura iu uruurnu vievuuu. juuiou?
17 to 13.
Senator Buist moved to recommit the
bill. Tabled?18 to 9.
The Prohibition Senators would not
concede an inch, and several of the
"Antis" voted with them on the policy of
"Senatorial courtesy."
Senators Kennedy and McMaster, Pro
and Anti respectively, were paired with
Senators Smyth and Sinkler throughout
the tight.
Tim Hill naoanrl iinH wn? rntnrnod to the
House with the Senate amendment excluding
Oconee County from its provisions.
PROBABLE MURDER OF DE. MAITLY.
A Distinguished Baptist Divine As
Maul tea ana rernapa rniauji ?
Jnrcd.
Louisville, Ky, December 16.?The Rev'
Dr. Bmll Manly, professor In the BaptistTheo
logical Seminary of this city.und one of the
most prominent Baptist divines In the8outh,
was assaulted by two masked men, In the
suburbs, at dusk yesterday, and probably
fatally injured. The purpose of the men was
probably robbery.
Greenville, December 17.?"Manly seriously
but not dangerously hurt. Mind perfectly
clear. Very cheerful and will be out in
a few days."
A Point Well Taken.
T Irani in n?tor m v nrntPRt flP.llnst the STOW
ins: and slovenly habit of wilting "Xmas" for
"Chrisinas."?To swy nothing of the Impropriety
of writing down the greatest festival
ot the western world as If it were the celebration
of the birth of the algebraic unknown
quantity, the habit Is In baa ta*te, and shows
a carelessness and thoughtlessness which can
not be too highly condemned. The worst instances
I have seen of this vulgarity were,
first, a list of newspapers upon the name
Ctiristlan Register," was written "Xtion Register,"
and secondly, letter In a Boston newspaper
from a preacher, signed "Youre, for
X's sake!" Ir not from reverence, then at
least from the considerations oi good taste, do
refrain from tbis shiftless and vulgar subterfuge.
Cease sending a "Merry Xmas," or an
"Xmas Greeting" to your friends, and take
time to write out the whole beautiful word
Christmas.
The Cumberland (Jap.
Edgefield Chronicle.
Capt. Kirk is surveying and relocating the
route from Aiken to a point some ten miles,
this side. When we any ten miles, we mean
that some six or eight miles of the present
gradlne bearing out towards Shaw's Creek, is
to be abandoned by the N. Y. Construction
Company. This will shorten tho distance between
Aiken and Edcefleld, and save the<Company,
it is said, some 828,001). Capt. Kirk is
actually at this work. We understand that
??-. Ti-.'.,. i? ?vno/.ln.l In A 1 Iron (in WpdnesdaV
j or Thursday of" this week.
i Macon. Ga., Dec. IS?The NVoolfolk trial
was concludcd to-day. The Judge charged
the jury al leugtn, concluding at 12:5.5, at
which time the Jury retired. It remained
out only fifteen minutes, bringing in a verdict
of murder, unaccompanied by any recomendatlon.
Itiiad no visible effect on Woolfolk,
who paled sll^htjy, but did not move a
muscle. After the lapse of a short time
Judge Gustin pronounced sentence on the
prisoner, naming Friday, February the 10th,
as the day for the execution. The verdict
has eiven general satisfaction.
In Ills statement before sentence wooiioik
asserted his innocence before heaven, and
said the witnesses had sworn falsely. He
seems to be absolutely without nerre. A
motion for a new trial will be made at once by ,
his counsel.
Bells Across the Snow.
O Christmas, merry Christmas!
Is it really come again,
With Its memories and greetings.
With its joys and with its pain?
There's a minor in the carol.
And a shadow in the light,
And a spray of cypress twining
With the holly-wreath to-nisjht;
And (he hush Is never broken
t>y luuguivr jikwiAs
we listen in thestarlight
To the "bells across the snow."
O Christmas, merry Christmas!
Tis not so very long
Since other voices blended
With ltie carol and the sons.
If we could but hear them singing
As they pre singing now;
If we could but see the radiance
Of the crown on each dear browThere
would be nosiah to smother,
Ko hidden tear to flow,
As we listen in the starlight
To the ' bells across the snow."
O Christmas, merry Christmas!
This nevermore can be ;
We cannot brliiK again the days
Of our unshadowed glpe.
But Christinas, happy Christmas,
Sweet herald of good-will,
With holy songs of ?slory
" t-_l? f * til .
rsriuKs noi^ uuiuiiv.i9<-?...
For peace and hope may brighten,
And patient love may glow,
As we listen In the starlight
To the "bells across the snow."
[/ "'. R. Havergal.
Nolhlnsr to Do.
"Nothing to do," In this world of ours,
Where the weeds grow tip with the fairest
flowers,
,*rl ?rtnlr o tltfnl nlav.
\v uere smiicn ii??c , ? ,
Where hearts are breaking every day ?
"Nothing to do!" thou Christian soul,
Wrapping thee round in thy selfish stole?
Off with the garments of sloth and sin,
Christ, thy Lordj hath a kingdom to win.
"Nothing to do!" There arc prayers to lay
On the altar o*f incense, day by day;
There are foes to meet within and without,
There is error to conquer, strong and stout.
"Nothing to do!" There are minds to teach
The simplest form of Christian speech;
* - - ? ? Inuincr will*.
mere are new is u> imc ,
From the grlmest haunts of sin's defile.
"Nothing todo!" There are lam Iks to feed,
The precious hopes of the church's need;
Strength to be borne to the weak and faint,
Vigils to keep with the doubting saint.
'Nothing to do!'' and thy Saviour said,
'Follow thou me in the path I tread,"
Lord, lend Thy help the journey through,
Lest, faint, we cry, "So much to do."
It is, doubtless, :i question which
nntv well give pause to the moralist,
whether the current opinions of manMOTr/i
tr? thfi flutv of SClf-de
JV1UU ill w ^
fense, do not stand related to- the custom
of war, with all its horrors, precisely
as did, a few years since, the
general sentiment in respect to moderate
drinking to the habit of intemper
auce?? Gcorrjc jjus/i.
Keep faith with the children as
much as with strangers.
I