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July 7, 1881.
GEORGIA RELIGION.-Tho Hartwell1
Sun hos tho following to soy of tho be
havior in oburoh of thc people in that vil
lage. Wo grievo to seo such u sud state of
morals:
"Thero ?rc so culled Christians who go
to God's house ond spit toboe?o juico over
tho floor so that fl decent man cannot kneel
for prayer. If you wcro to go to tho resi
dence of ono of th o.-o tobacco nain ts und
spit puddles of filthy ambicr upon thc floor
he would put you out of his houso ond set
tho dog on you. Bo theno filthy fellows
think they would bo admitted into Heaven
with their pockets full of toba<-oo. und bo
allowed to squirt thc filthy fluid ovor tho
jppur . . / ?.. n >-I>I . rsi* If they
ennnot spend ono hour without it in wor
ship on earth, how will they puss endless
egos without it? It would bo for moro
genteel to pull out a flail: of whiskey in
elim<'h nd take ii pull. Any man or boy
who - "s tobacco on tho floor of a church
s'no d .. kicked out of the house by some
.itaur mail who woora No. 10 heavy boots,
and such a kioker should bo appointed ot
ho'h tho Baptist and Methodist churches
iii Hartwell.
An efTcetual romedy for milk turning in
summer timo consists in ndding to cooli
quart fifteen grains' of biearbonoto of .'oda.
This docs not affect the taste of the milk,
while it facilitate:? tile digestion.
. incut Henry O. Klipper tho colored
West Pointor who graduated in 1877 BM
proved to be ns big a fraud aa o'idet W'hlt
loiter, tho other "nigger " Ho . hat* hc"?B
urrostcd for stealing ?Sfi.OOO of thc OtiVkfflit
ment money which ho had coneWed on
his person und was about to run aw*'/.
lflau's Fidelity.
AH t auid good-byo at thc station
lu a little country town,
And kisso I tiwuy tho tear drops,
While her hair full bewitchingly down
And alic looked nt mo so sweetly,
And said: "You will not forgot-"
I sworo to her I'd bo faithful,
And culled her a door little pot.
Thou tho train boro mo back to tho oity
To busily toil coch dsy;
Thcro wussouroely time to remember
My girl ao far away.
But whon tho day was ended,
And I Rut in oilcnoe alono,
Thon 1 thought of tho littlo daisy
I should oluim somo day ns my own.
Three nights I bore up bravely,
As I thought of the timo to annie;
Three nights 1 tried to bc cheerful,
But was onh silent ?md grutn,
And then upon tho fourth bight
i gave my moustache u twirl,
Put on my killin?? necktie
And-culled on another girl.
I'^triuiBig' In 9)ul*ot;i.
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS' WORTH OP
WHEAT FROM A FIFTY FIVE THOU
SAND DOLLAR KAUM
FARGO, DAKOTA. AuttUft 15 -What is
. known us ibo Raymond firm is declared
tu he pt-rfootion in crop, equipment and
uinnngctoent. lt lies twelves miles North
west of Fargo and contains about G.OOO
acres. It is managed by John li. Ray
mond. Unit d Stales Marshal, "ono of the
men God maur," as they say up here, und
is owned by hun und Mr. Greene, a bunker
of Jackson, iMi.-s Mr Raymond is un
Illinoisan, und went to (hu war as u mem
ber of General Logan's old regiment, tho
Thirty Mrat Illinois enlisted at Pekin. 11 o
was one ol thoV'boy veterans," ontcriug tho
war nt tho tige of IO. and serving with
honor until (ho dissolution of the annies.
When ho settled in Mississippi Mr. Raymond
is welt known as the last man who spoke lo
General M o Phot son before tho latter's
death He was only a fe? feet fruin the
G ?'ll em I whet; tie feb. ?nd w >.-> taken priso
ner hy ihc squad tim killed hun. Tho
I o ilion! revolution in Mississippi, and tho
overthrow of the Republican party there,
ny lim imf touch mont and leutiuation of Go
vernor Ames, destroyed his business, and
ho concluded lo go where tho despised
oarpot baguer wa? welcome Ho sou ?bt
tho office of United S'atrs Marshal of Da
kola, in order to seeur? a foothold, and
lifter scouring tho appointment anti looking
the Territory over, concluded lo settle in
Fargo and become a land owner In com
pany with Mr. Greene, un old Mississippi
friend, he bought, in Autrust, 1870, ll
sections ol land, oom pr ?si IIB 8.000 acres.
"Por four sections," said Mr. Raymond,
whom I asked for a hi>tory of his lavin
"which had been cultivated one year, wi?
ti .id SS 50 an note; for the new land wo
P'id 80 1111 acre to the railroad cou. pu nv
We ?lld three sections ol' tho new land
to Marshall Field, of Chicago, und have
sbnul G.OOO acres in our farm."
"When did you get your first crop?"
"This your. List fall we broke three
sections, 2.000 acres, for seeding, and pul
Ut? our buildings."
'.What is your crop going to he?"
'.We will have an HVOrSgo of twenty-five
bushels lo tho acre, or about 50,000 bush?
el* of wheat "
"What what was your entire invest
ment?"
"Hoforo wo reeeivo n return from om
oi'op wo will have invested ?55,000. Thal
includes the pundi ase of our land, the
erection nf five birns, a d wolli njr-houso
an elevator capable of holding 100.DOC
bushels of whoat and oats, all tho stock
and mnchineiy necessary to run tho farm
and all (he cost of breaking I he lund, phot
ing and roaping the orop and delivering il
nt tho market, but you must rcmeiuhet
that we have owned our farm two years,
and (hut the first year it was idlo, HO that
wc lost ?ho interest on our molloy by not
cultivating it Wc have 2.000 uorcs in
wheat nod chough oats (o keep our stock,
Wo will yet about twensy-fivo bushel?
to tho aorc, which will be 50.000 bushels
from the ont if o place. Wc will save out
our Seed wheat for next year, and omi then
sell the crop for about 850,000.?'
"That is your dividend upon n 855,
000 investment?"
''Yes, a two years' dividend; about 90
por cent tor two years, or 45 per cent, for
one, If wo had worked tho farm lunt year
wo should havo mudo us largo n crop nnd
perh .ps largor, for that wno u better year "
"Iluve you floured up what your first
crop lins oost you, outsido nf what may be
considered pormnucnt improvements?"
"Yes, I oun tell very neatly. It cost
usjust about, an even 010 an nore to make
the first ere p. I( will cost tess to mnko tho
second, because thcro is one less plouuhing.
It takes from #7 to $8 nu nero to got off n
crop, with prudent management."
"How many hands nnd horses do you
work?"
"Fifty mules and horses and nbout forty
five men."
"What do you do with them in tho win
ter?"
"Send them nil to (ho pineries, the lum
ber regions of Minnesota, under my fore
man, who gocn alone losco (hut they are
woll treated. Wo got. $12.50 a month for
??oh Ultim for six mouths in the year, thai
ls $75 nod his keeping-about one-half thc
Coat of .ibo nounal-during that time, ond
thc rest of (Ito year wo work him our
selves'' .
>lt tfrecne, of Jackson, Mississippi, a
native Southerner, but one of tho liberal
kind, ounio up hero tho oilier doy to sec
tho farm, of VT biol) hu is part owner, for
the ?rst limo. Mr. Raymond made up a
party of Indica and gentlemen, soino resi- |
dcnt9 and aomo guests, and wc diovo twelvo j
miles across thu pruirio, golden with yellow
grain, to tho Raymond (urm-houses. Thero
were no fonocs on tho way; nothing to di
vido farm from farra except o strip of un
ploughed turf that marks a section lino
and whiuh, under tho law, must bo ro
8crvcd for a highway, but thc miles after
miles of wuving grain strucbed before us,
? restless with a soft aud undulating motion
j as tho gentle breeze swept over it. A
j green lawn is charming in June, but there
is nothing in trituro so quietly beautiful as
a ripened harvest held.
.'How far docs your land go?" some one
asked of Mr. Raymond when wc roached
his boundary lino.
?'lt runs six milos that way,'' he replied,
with a motion, "and four miles tho other.
Thero uro some jogs io it, and tight ia tho
centre, only a stone's throw from our house,
an old Boldier Ins a pro-eruption claim
wliioli ho is working. Wu tried to buy
him out, but he thinks too much of a good
I thing."
The farm house wis reached just as
forty-live sun-burned, hard handed tuen
were coming out from their dinner. They
had boen nt work sine; ti o'clock in tho
I morning, and had laid low thirteen strips ol
grain, each four miles long. MoBt of them
were Swedes. Many were "homesteaders.'
who had one hundred and sixty ?ere fa rmi
somewhere in the neighbor))) udt and wert
trying to carn enough to build a house anti
barn, or buy n team, so as to sot up or
their own hook next year. They went tt
the barns-long, low-roofed, but substantia
buildings und brought out thc horses nm
mules, which wcro drawn up before tilt
house in military lino for inspection um
thou sent to thc Held where tho th ?noel
harvesters had been left, two miles away.
i Cor. Chicago Inter - Ocean.
OlinWcsfoii'g AtiBiual Ke
vic w.
_
[News and Courier 1st instant.]
Tho trade <if Charleston, during thc cou
un'roia! year whieh closed yesterday, wit
satisfactory in must respects and in ot lu
i respects W is decidedly encouraging As
j market fur the chief staples Chhrlusto
I has never stood higher. The receipts f<
. cotton for the year were 538 187 bale
. which is inure than was received in ur
j provuus year, und l??.oOO bales moro th?
, in 1879-80 Tho receipts of Sea Lalor.
I cotton were about 17.-17 bales. Rico w
I depressed in consequence of the inorcasi
growth, in Louisiana in pirti cn lar, and tl
decline in pri?es would havo been sorioi
had the factors been less judicious in su?
I flying the market The receipts wc
! 53,871 tierces, against 55,000 tioreca t
j year before. Ln naval stures there was
fair business. The receipts were 51.01
casks ul spirit? ol turpentine against 6(
000 hst yen-, and '231.417 barrels nf roi
ag mist 250,000 in the year previous.
In phosphate rock und enmmerc
fertilizers a vast business was done. T
receipts of crude phosphnto amounted
110,000 tons, and of commercial forlili/.i
lt) 100,000 tons. This trade, already
important, is only in its i ninney.
In local manufactures thura is a murk
improromcnt. Tho v-iluo of the artie
produced in tho year just closed was ?1
j 045.000 During the present. yo>?r I
! advance will be more marked, ns I
Charleston Cotton Mill will go into npei
timi, together with two dditional phospl)
mills and tho cntiuu seed oil factories
oilier kinds
' Tho wholesale nnd retail trade of I
1 city is in a healthy condition, lite estim?t
i in the faco of careful revision, showing
! increase iu companion with the returns
1870-80
Charleston has not yet been injured
thc combinations which have been made
railroad syndicates during tho lust yu
nnd thc expectation grows strong that
will not bo to the interest of un y exist?
combinations to discrimin?lo against t
port Cliark'Stun now hus two route?
Augusta and in u mouth or two will hi
two rout Od to Colutnuia. Tho oom men
aooumiuodatioiis of the port, aro being r
idly increased. New wharves und dop
aro in course of construction, and tho ol
wharves have been repaired and enlarg
The South Carolina Railroad has som
part of tho way to the water un tho Con]
River, tho Northeastern Railroad has o
largcd its iiocotumudations there, and
quay of tho Charleston Canal will in
course of a week or two furnish a wharf
Ashley Uiver ono thousand feet in lem
md wide enough for double railroad trac
Work on the National Jetties progr?s
favoiably and in u comparatively nhort ti
thero will be twenty-five feet of water
morn on tho bar, unless operations bc
larded hy the unwise niggardliness of
government in making appropriate
These foots justify tho belief thut tho
vantages of Charleston BS n shipping]
will cnntintM' to increase aud that even s
dientes which havo boon deemed unfrien
will And it moro advantageous to al
irado to force it out uf its course. Char
ton, in flue, otnnds on its mon't) and hat
foara for tho futuro . There is confide
everywhere that what changes and dove
mcnts luke placo will he for thc better.
Thc people havo indeed good reason
bo hopeful. Thero is a largo I ncr east
tho amount, of exports and imports, wi
is a token of " Charlestons growing siren
and thero has buen during tho your a
table improvement ,in tho valuo of
estate and in tho prices of local securith
A .Vi j y i ..JA
How to Bohavo at Church
It is rather late in thc day for tho discus- j
sion of such a subject; but rccoot develop I
uicuts bttvc shown that a 1 it'lo odvioo will
not bc out of piuco,
Now, by "at Churoh'' in our heading,
wo do not mean "in Church" only, but out
side and around about generally. Wc have
an ?dca that ofter ooo determines to go to
Churoh, tho beet thing for him to do is to
go; then after ho gets there thc next best
tiling is to go insideuud take a scut.
Somo pernod? aro duli of hearing, or
havo not very noute ond nervous sensibili
ties and oro not easily disturbed during
divine service; but others of us aro so
constituted that u prattling child inside, or
a low mumbling talk outside upsets our
truin of thought and no benefit ?8 conferred
by tho sorviuo. This being so, it seems
that tho irreverent should respect our feel
ings and inulto it a point uovcr to do any
thing in vioiution of religious propriety.
Thcro uro other pluoee where perseus may
congrrgato for talking without having to
repair to the Church steps, and we hope
this gentle and purely impersonul reminder
tuny accomplish soiuo good In tho direction
referred to.
Just as wo had finished tho abovo wc
cuino across thc following in un exchange
which tallies exactly tilth our idea. Bc
good enough to read it:
cuuitcn MANNF.Ua.
l?e on timo. Noone Iiu3 o right to dis-'
turd u congregation or a preacher by being
tardy,
Never look around to seo who is coming
in when tho door opens. lt diverts your
own and others' uttontiou from thu exercises
und is dlsuourteous to thc leader.
Never tp.lk or whisper in church, cs.?
pccially after thc exercises ave opened.
Never pull out your watch to eec what
time it is when tho text is announced, or
during thc sermon. Better feed ou a ser
mon than to time it.
Never lean your bcd on the pew rail
before you us though you were indifferent to
the preacher
Conform, if possible, in cooscieuoc, to
thc usages of the church in which you
worship - kneel, stand, bosv accordingly.
Never manifest your disapprobation of
what is heine said ny unpleasant sounds,
nr sinus, or t.y hastily leaving.
Do not fidget, as though thc service were
a weariness, lie quiet and decorous to tho
very end
Do not put on your overcoat or adjust
your wrappings till after thc benediction.
No gentleman ever defiles a place of
worship with tobacco.
Never be one of n st.-tring crowd about
the door or in thc vestibule, before or after
eervice.
Do nothing out of keeping with thc
timi', place und purpose of a religions as
sembly.
. - i- ?*>- - -.
DETROIT, MICH , September 7.-Re
ports ure beginning lo arrive from the North
ern and Northeastern portions of the State,
(showing a terrible condition of affairs Thc
long continued drought has rendered every
thing as dry us tinder, and numerous "flash*
inga," or partly oloarcd traots of hud cov
ered with brash, decayed timber and other
iullimiuublo materials, afford thc best pcs
sinle medium fur thc rapid spread of flames,
carried by thc high winds, which havo
been prevailing. In Sanilao and Huron
counties are the soencs of grcatcct destruo
lion, which is growing positively uppallling
in chancer. Hundreds of farms have
already been reduced tu blackened ashes
Stuck crops, farm buildings and fences all
have been swept away. Mon, womou and
children have neon overtaken hy tho finn >8
and several lives aro known to have boen
lust It is feared tlint when full accounts
are received that tho loss of lifo will provo
terrible. Tho little hamlets1 of Anderson,
Richmond and Charlestun, in S mibe coun
ty, ?rc all reported to havo hoon wiped out,
while Purl hope, Verona Mills and Budao, in
Huron county, ure reported wholly or partly
burned up.
People uro flocking to tho shores of Lake
Huron fruin the interior of these oounties
HP their only refuge during thc fiamos.
Some wore overtaken by tho spreading Gre.
Not less than twenty deaths uro already re
ported, hut it is hoped thut these statements
in iy provo incorrect. In Tuscaloosa, in
thc next tier of counties back fruin Lake
Huron and South of Saginaw fires aro also
raging, hut with loss severity. Tho losses
uro ovorsltadowod by tho moro tcrrihlo
condition of things in the adjoining ooun
ties. Thu samo state of affairs exists in
La Pore county und tho wholo country
around S agi now aud Bay City is in a
blitze.
A Sad and Sudden Doath
QRBKN.VILTJE, September 8.-James P
Monro, li sq., who waa lust night reported to
have been two days absent from tho city,
was found nhout 8 P. M. yesterday con
cealed in his burn near bio dwolling, Upon
the advico of friends ho .went into his
dwelling ubout 9 or 10 o'chok, and after
taking coffee retired to his room, undressed
and went to bed UB Into ns ll o'clock.
Mille in bcd. ho conversed with several
motubers of his family and appeared to bo
perfectly rational, and in his usuul health,
(tut in a highly wrought nervous condition,
Mrs. Mooro retired h tor, and sho did not
get well to sleep till n vory . luto hedi.
Awaking about daylight this morning sho
discovered that Mr. Mouto was not breath
log? A physioian was - immediately sum
moned, but too late.. Lifo was oxtinot., ,
, Coroner Molico. summoned a jury of in
quest, which rendered a -verdict that the
lice nsed carno to his death fruin tho effects
of n :?ody oe? ti d mi ni-. ten d by himself,
whether with tho intention to ti;ko his lifo
tiiey woro undeoided. Ho wus a member
of tiin Knights of Honor aud insured with
?orno Northern .company for,82,000. His
romuitis wero iutcrrcd nt G o'olook this
evening. Great sympathy is manifested
for his family by tho cutirc community.
WISE WORDS
Gaming is the child ot avarice,
but the parent of prodigality.
Applause is the spur of noble
minds, the end and aim of weak
ones.
Act well at thc moment, and,
you have performed a good action
to all eternity. i
True benevolence is to love all
men: Recompense injury with
justice, and unkindliness with
kindness.
Flowers sweeten the air, re
joice the air, link us with nature
and innocence, and arc something
to love.
The firmest friends have been
formed in mutual adversity, as
iron is most strongly united by
thc fiercest Hame.
This above all-to thine own self
bo tl'UCj
And it must follow, as the night
thc day, ,
Thou canst not then bc false to
tiny man.
Shakespeare.
It is by what we ourselves have,
done and not what others have
done for us that wc shall bo re
membered.
To pronounce a man happy
merely because he is rich, is just
as absurd afi to pronounce a man
healthy because he has enough to
eat.
Right habit is like thc thread
on which westring precious pearls.
The thread perhaps is of no great
value, but, if it be broken, the
pearls are lost.
Tf'cre we as eloquent as angels,
yet should wo picase some men,
some women and thorne children
much more by listening than by
talking.
TFhcrcver thc slanderer is
found, there humanity is arrayed
against itself, and there thc honey,
and balm of life aro turned to
gall and nettles,
Thero aro 311 towns iu this oountry
having over 7,500 populatiou, and a recent
ObUAun bulletin presents on unalysis of tho
bonded debts of these towns. Forty ono
of theso towns oro in thc South proper,
which docs not inoludo Delaware, Maryland
and Missouri. Tho 311 owe 8GS2,09iMG0'.
- mostly on account of water works, streets,
railroad aid, parks, war expenses, public
buildings, sewers, bridges, water improve
ments, schools and libruricB, fire dopartmeris
and cemeteries, in tho otd r named. Soma
thing over six million of this indcbtodnctis
bears ten per cent., of which amount At
lanta furnishes a full proportion. Ten per
cent is thc highest rate paid, und thr*cc and
a half per cent, the lowest. Six per ocnt,
is the rate paid on nearly half of tho entire
debt. Thc por oopita debt varies grcBtly,
from 82.G2 in Colorado to 8141.84 in tho
District, where less than 1GU,OOO popula
tion owe 822,386,709, with a sinking fund
of 8211,310. Tho heaviest burdened
Stato io tho South by thia rule is South,
Carolina, 883,04; next ts Louisiana, 881.22;
next Georgia, 878.39. Noxt to thc Dis
trict of Columbi? is Mnino, indebted 898.
78 per enpitn. These figures represent tho
indebtedness of tho oitics and towns, but
not tho local debts of oountico or other
divisions. Counties nnd even sohool dis-,
triots have been reckless horrowors in somo
States.-A (lan?a Const i tul ion ;
No wiso woman who has flowers in her,
houso or garden will throw awny her soap
suds They arc a most valuable fertilizer
for flowers, and especially for tho verbena.
If this floral favorite is plentifully watered
with ?oapsuda and its soed vessels pioked off
it will flower profusely Soapsuds aro
good for vines and currant bushos and fruit
trees. Indeed they aro good for plants,
corresponding to milk fur animals, and it
is very wasteful to throw thom away if,
thero oro p'nnts anywhere within reach that
may bo benefited by them.
A negro, ono night at a mooting, prayed,
earnestly that ho and hi;; brethren might bo1
preserved from what ho oallod their "up-,
settin' eins." "Br?ddcr," said one of his
friends, "you ain't got do hang ob dat
word, lt's besottin, not upsottin." "IJrud*-.
der," Toplicd ho, "if dat'e so,, ile1 s6'. ...?iU?
T was prnyin' do Lord nevo us from do hin
of 'toxicolion, nn' if dat ain't a upHOtlili'
stu I dunno what it am."
. Squirrels in Arkansas, being deprived of
their ordinary food, pro quiting .open many
colton bolla and outing j he eeacte,