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I HY E. 13. MUKRA Y & CO. OIK SPARE THUt'K. At tllO (Mut ?il ... ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1881. VOLUME XVII. -NO. 7 UouUerful Advance Possible, ami the 1'oislbillUes I? Store for tho Farmers of | UK- South. // ll'. <.? ?'? the Atlanta Constitution. ATLANTA, August 10. The other ?lay I met Mr. Hailey, who A yisitcd Atlauta upon one of the most important missions that has brought a \oithorn niau south in years. Mr Hailey, an hnglishuiun ot char icicr' and capacity, represents an En rlish company that, with headquarters at Philadelphia, controls most of tho refrig erant" patents of the world. Tbl? enm. ainv lias Hues of refrigerator cars un nany <>f th0 loading roads, just as tho ['ullman company has lines of sleepers, [t also furnishes refrigerators for steam !-Mr lint ey visited Atlanta for thc pur BOse ut" arranging for a lino of tho best cirigerator cars to run next spring from Jcorgia to the eastern and western mar cia. He said: ..\S'c ask no subsidy or bonus from our people or from your railroads. We nly ask that you give na early fruit and (retables to haul, and we will have the ars and make the schedules. There is to business so profitable ns that of truck arming and raising early fruits for tho Northern markets. Tho first peaches that petto New York sell for ??10 to $35 b bushel, and the first strawberries $1.25 'o?- a quart, and vegetables in pronor- i ioii" Now Georgia can get her peaches, i terries and vegetables into New York ix weeks ahead of the Jersey crops, and wo weeks ahead of even the Norfolk rops. Thia two weeks means a great j eal. To illustrate: I believe that a lillion quarts of strawberries raised in i icorgia next year, and carried by our ars, would sell in fulton market at an vcrage wholesale price of thirty-five enls a quart at the lowest. We guar- i titee to land them in New York forty ours after we get them, as fresh as they ame from thc vines, and at about ten cuts a quart. The berries would thus et thc grower twenty-five cents a quart lerhaps more. If you get -1,000 quarts o the acre, not unusual when properly ultivatcd, you would have $1,000 to tho ere-a splendid result. Even with a ocal market, I understand your people verece $150 net to thc acre in strawber Thcrc is no danger of glutting ibo market'.'" .None in thc world. I have seen ten ig strawberry trains move into New i'ork one evening, and the next morning ill were goue. There is not the slight est Jauger of glutting thc markets-espec ially with carly berries. We might send fifty cars a day from Atlanta to New i'ork, and fifty to Chicago, for the whole Reason,and not drop the average price below 2-3 cents a quart. The trouble has Seen in getting your fruit to thc great j Markets,swiftly, in fresh condition, and j lt low prices. Our system furnishes all | khesc. What is true of berries, is true j )f vegetables, peaches and everything Included under the name of truck." There is no bu?ineas so uniformly Profitable as truck farming. In Jersey ir Now Turk a farm of 6 to 10 acres is ill a mau needs. On this he raises tho lost astonishing quantities of celery, sparagtis, cucumbers, tonintocs and terrie*, and gradually though certainly rows into a competence. These men ave all thc disadvantage of being late the market, and getting the lowest (rices, while thesouthern truck farroereget ie cream, lt can bo shown by demon tration that a Georgia truck grower reason of getting into maiketso much inlier, and having thc fancy prices, has lu advantage, transportation considered, |f25 toot) per cent, over tho northern ruck growers. He has the additional Ivautage of using lands that cost bim [rom $0 to$25 an aero, while the northern irmer pays from $250 to $1,000 an lere. Thc southerner can frequently raise wo and three crops on the samo land, rhere tim northern farmer is restricted io {ne crop. If you once get truck farming lirly started in this section, it will rap tly induce immigrants and become a erv important item. If you will only ;ivc us a chance we will have cars sent 1?re to take your berries and vegetables it rates that must pay you handsomely, either eastern or western markets." "Vou will have these cars here next iring?" "Yes. Wc will send on any day you lame a car as an experiment, with a ireful man to make the trip with it from lacon, say, and publish our schedule aud ike berries from the points along tho (ne till re are full, s.-.v with 32,000 uart?. These berries will be carried on rift trains to New York and disposed of itsuch prices as will astonish your poo le. I noticed last year that during thc rae when Georgia berries were ripe the ?ew York price rauged from $1.60 a quart ~ 80 cents. I say that we will send ono (tar-we would prefer to send fifty-but H course can only send so many as are seeded. If you will only induce your pip?e to try this experiment you will do great work for tho state. Fulton conn alone ought to furnish $1,000,000 ?forth of berries and truck in two years rom date. Florida is getting rich on ipso small industries-and even on tho 'irgmia coast, two weeks later thau middle Icorgia, millions are taken in annually ?r truck." Suppose, then, wo take hold of thc latter? <>ur railroads are all in good shape ind arc being built; the cotton exposi tion is moving along finely; thc carp Phones aro established, and why wouldn't we have a "truck" boom? Our politics aro all settled, and it is an judicious time to open tho campaign of po berry and cucumber ! i i hero are few people who will not ?droit that cotton, raised exclusively, is ^ curse to the country. What Georgia |eeds more than anything else is divers' If? i cr(f)n8, After a certain pcrcentago ?' the farm is put in cotton the rest of PC land should bo raised in food crops, tod the nooks and corners of tho jrm filled with fruits and vegetables. ?n farm should bo without its orchard tod pardon; no fenco without its line of fpberry bushes. It is these small "ngs that make tho groat profit in inning, and yet it. is these things that ie; average Geoigia farmer passes by as oddish and unworthy, ile could carry ?em along with his larger crops without ?ra cost and to great profit, and yet nu renard, properly cared for, and a garden '?gilly cultivated, is tho exception in ieorgia, rather than the rule. ?ut aside from ?he rutilar far::;;; what i most needed, and what ismost'profitable re small "truck" patches near the towns ?ai are on tho r .?road lines. Fulton unty ought to have two hundred acres ? strawberries alone by next spring, and trenna0 ncrM 8ho oueht to Bathor ?>?W,000\ quarts of strawberries that ?ould bring $200,000 or $1,000 an acre, r-i course this could not bo done until ?o ami was brought to a h ?gb pitch of mivation, but it could bo dono within "reo years. ..,7-?a.rea number ofyouug men in At ninri .u ?f umbition and vigor, who -no their hvos in dry goods stores, and t\?lRZuo\C-?8t WBOO. He haa ?r Kt1 'niprovoraenta for winch ho RS? nn H18 I\IaCC 8 "0W ?'Orth $16, HidoC uh.? ha8. nought ?everal lota b?. Ix. . i ,IIe,ba8 ??ne acre? of cabbage off which ho has sold $4,000 in caMi %nd expects $2,000 moro. * d There i? a contrast that is suggestive do not he eve there is any opening in business or the professions timi prom if csa young man sud) a certain, happy, ir.de pendent living as maning a7ru t "fd truck farm near Atlanta. Let us "o ?Jg* 1,1,3 bc';? J0'* tn Georgia in this The area devoted to fruit and vegetables "increased nearly twenty percent in ho last two year,?. Mr. Parnell, ot Wc-t 1 oint, who baa probably the finest peach orchard in the world has sold peaches in New \or? at $115? bushel, anti in Atlau a for nearly as much. ( icorgia peaches have been in northern markets as early T. J' ?nd this KllUo m'?ut have virtually the monopoly of thc early poach trade. Judge Cunningham, of this city lias over 60,000 trees planted, out bf which over hall are bearing. There are about 00,000 pencil tree*, -1,000 apple, 4,000 nears and 2,000 miscellaneous.1 ibo orchard covers 500 acres, about 1 - 000 acres making up the whole planta tion. An ordinary -op should bo 30, 0(10 crates of peaches, 5,000 crates of ap ples and 4,000 of pears. This will in crease gradually as new trees come iu lu nine years there have been only two failures in the peach crop, and each of those years thc orchard moro than paid expenses. Thc great trouble with thc fruit inter ests of (borgia lias been the lack of transportation at once cheap and speedy Thc ships of the Central line have been largely used, but by this course the ad vantage of early prices is largely lost The fancy prices obtained for tlie first few crates of peaches have led thc rail roads to put their rates too high. Thc reform in transportation, brought about by the new refrigerating cars, will doubt less give au impetus. Mr. George Mcltae, of Lowndes coun ty planted two acres in cucumbers and three in tomatoes. Jle shipped 00D crates of each, for which bc got $2 per crate, or $2,400 for the product of 5 acres. In Mr. Fontaine's admirable book on (.icorgia is the statements that $2,500 net was mndeon four acres of strawberries in thc state. The melon crop of Augusta and vicini ty is immense and profitable. Melons arc being received in New York at thc rate of 100,000 per day and still thc mar ket bold its price. There can bo grown about Atlanta melons of as good quality as thc best Augusta melons -if they are only properly treated. Tho apple crop of north Georgia, which will will give 50 to 75 barrels to tho acre when the trees arc cared for, the barrels bringing$1.50 to $2.00 a barrel, would be a great crop if it was only un derstood. To the right of Atlanta reach ing into Douglas county is a broad ridge on which there has not been a failure in thc apple crop in 25 years, and the fruit produced is delicious. Every foot of this ridge would pay better in apples than iu any other crop that could bc grown. Of course there are fancy and excep tional figures. Hut they show very close ly what can he done and what lins been done without adequate or cheap trans portation. Ily tho lines of the road cen tering in Atlauta which will certainly give low rates and quick transportation to fruits and vegetables grown locally, there eau bc concentered here a supply of truck next spring that will justify at lc the trial of refrigerator cars, and I am satisfied that if trial is once made we shall have added to Georgia industries one of the pleasantest, safest and most profitable in all the rauge of human labor. This fruit could bc put into thc great markets at least two weeks ahead of that grown about Norfolk, and could get cor respondingly better prices. From At lanta the western cities, such as Chicago and Cincinnati, which is even belter than New York, could be reached quickly and cheaply. All that is needed is to furnish enough berries, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery or any "truck" to justify thc sending down of one car ou a trial trip. That carmighs come loaded with fine beef from Hai ti more or game from tho New York mar kets, which :t could bring cheaply rather than cmp' The subject is so thorough ly new to our people that wo had belter get at it by studying the course of those sections in which truck farming lias been made a specialty. I shall, therefore, pre sent in a future letter some points on the truck farms of Norfolk and Nai -onion J. -of Newberne on tho Carolina coast and East Florida. Thcro is in tho history of theso sections some figures more convinc ing than argument. The Karly Fruit that Pleases thc (.'t it leal Taste-An Interesting nud Lus cious Subject Again Taken Up. //. li'. G., in Atlanta Constitution. ATLANTA, August 13.-Touching tho fruit aim vegetable business, of which I wrote a few days since, I have some in teresting figures and facts on the "truck farms of Norfolk, Nansemond and New Berne to oller. It may be premised that wherever tho market gardener has lodged himself ho has prospered, and his kind has increased about him. In "truck" farming an ex periment has always proved an argument. In Norfolk county the fruit and vege table crop brings aa annual income of over $2,500,000, and this has grown from an inconsiderable beginning. Among the items shipped from INor folk iu 1878 were $232,013 wort h of straw berries, $169,166 worth of cabbage, $?7v 000 worth of Irish potatoes and $250.000 worth of swcot potatoes. These arc but a few items of the shipments, and since then tho amount has increased. In 1842 a man by tho name of Bates came hom thc North and planted tho first vegetables for Northern markets. Two years Inter Mr. Richard Cox carno from llurlitigton, New Jersey, and bought a few acres on credit. T.'o had no capi tal but felt that bc had a good thing ahead of him. He is still farming on tho western branch of Elizabeth River, where ho bas a farm of ono hundred acres, on which he has realized $13,o00 profit one year sinco the war, and Irom which he gets all thc time an indepen dent income. Ho has besides this homo f..-n, ".,/-.?!,or nnttr. ns valuable, ano nu tho comforts of ?fe. Following Cox carno others slowly, thc lack of proper transportation delaying the growth of tho business. After the war truck-farming grew rapidly until all the land on tho western branch was occupied. >nnso mnnd connty-so famous over America for its sweet potatoes-was then invade by thc market-gardener.', ?nd land went u > in value to From $100 to $350 an acre at which price it is now held. Tho land best adapted to vegetables is a sandj loam, with rea clay subsoil. As to tho profits of this sort of farm ing Mr. John T. Griffin, of Norfolk, says : "I have a neighbor who served in tho war aa a private, and has worked since tue war as a laborer on a farm. He went to truck farming a few years ago, and now has a farm of GO acres, for which he paid $12,000, (or $200 an acre), and a dwelling with nice farm houses, which ho built at a cost of $4,000. He is pros perous, contented and Midepcudcnt, and owes it all to truck faradng. "I have another neighbor, a German named Henry Kirn, who after the war was a blacksmith working at his anvil. He took to market-gardeuing, using a steer for his first year's work. He now owns one of tho best and largest farms on the western branch and another of Ono acres on the N'auseuioud Uiver. His property is valued at $150,000, and ho owns country residences in this section. There ure many cases like these, but the most useful lesson taught by truck-farm ing is that those who follow it are uni formly successful. While few make great fortunes, nearly all make a comp? tence." In answer to a question as to what aro thc largest crops made by any one man about Norfolk, Mr. Grifiin says : "The largest crop of strawberries shipped by ono utan was that of J. lt. Voting. I do not know th,- whole value of his crop, but on ono ship, as ono day's gathering, he shipped 1,800 crates ol* -10 quarts each, or 72,000 quarts of straw berries. This is pretty gotsl for one dav 'a shipping from ono berry farm. The same day he made this shipment there were ?150,000 quarts of berries shipped from Norfolk to New York, besides large quantities to Baltimore, Philadelphia and other points. "Another truck farmer sold 10,000 barrels of potatoes one year, another 15,000 bushels of tomatoes, and another 12,000 barrels of cabbages. These aro large crops, and were made mostly on a few acres." In response to a question as to what is thc profit per acre, Mr. Grifiin saya: "Thc profit varies from $100 per acre to $5,000. I have a neighbor who sold 23,000 quarts of strawberries from two acres at an awi age of 50 cents per quart. DI' late years such high prices cannot be obtained for berries. Thc profit in mar ket-gardening in this section though should not fall below $100 per acre. I have known, perfectly authenticated, a profit of $50U per acre on potatoes, $600 per acre on cabbages, and $1,0U0 per acre i>n cucumbers." "What arc thc main crops grown?" "Kale, spinach, asparagus, cabbage, peas, strawberries, snap-beans, potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes and citrou. The fertilizers relied on to produce tho best crops are stable manure and Peruvian guano. This section uses more than one tenth of the Peruvian guano sold in the United s?tate?. Since tho Chilian war several cargoes have been imported from Europe. The stable manure conies mainly from Richmond.. Washington and Baltimore and bv ship load from New York." Such then is thc record of Norfolk and Nansemond truck-farming ! And what arc these rejults? hand increased to $100 to $350 an acre-profits of $5,000 mado on one acre-fortunes made occa sionally, competencies usually, and a good living always-aud over $2,500,000 income brought into thc county. Wouldn't it pay Pulton county farmers Lo try this system? Wouldn't it pay Pulton county clerks, or professionals, or mechanics to get an acre or two of land and try it? At less work and much healthier-with more independence and comfort-it seems to mc they would be sure to get better results. Hut let us look at another point where the market-gardener has estab lished himself, and study tba record he bas made. About 14 years ago there were a few small patches of land about New Herne N. C., devoted to raising early vegetables It was noticed that the profits of these "patches" was more, in many cases, thar thc profits of large farms, and tin "patch" system became very popular Out of thia beginuing came scores of tin best "truck" farms in this country, ant New Herne and its surroundings arc get ting rich. lu 1S7S there were about 350 acre; about New Herne devoted to truck-farm ing. These were divided about equally in "green" peas and potatoes. Thc sue cess attcudiug them was so great that it 187!), the acreage waa increased to 450 still divided between these two vegeta bles. In 1880 tho acreage was devoted ")00 acres to peas, 300 to potatoes and 101 diversified with melons, tomatoes, cu cumbers, etc. In 1S81 thc few acres havi grown to be about 3,000, divided as fol iows: Peas, 1,000 acres; potatoes, OOi acres; radishes, 50 acres; beans, 10' acres; melons, 200 acres; cabbages, 10? acres ; cucumbers, 100 acres ; strawber ries, 100 acres ; beets, 75 acres ; am other vegetables and fruits about 10< acres. In 1880, with about one-fourtl thc acreage of tho present year, 20,00 crates of peas (of five pecks each) am ??,000 barrels of potatoes were shippe from New Herne, bringing a valu? c ?70,000. Thc profits per aero on Hies crops run from $50 to $150 per acre-on farmer clearing $1,000 on seven acres i potatoes. The pea crop is followed by cotton crop, and the potatoes by cottoi corn or sweet potatoes, the season admii Ling of two crops per nnnum on ti esam laud. In 1S81 there had been canned c shipjied about -10,000 crates of peas whe I investigated thc matter, and 20,00 more were expected. Tho shipments < potatoes wero expected to reach 25,0f barrels. Goldsboro, near New Herne, a center of strawberry culture, some ai lonishing resulta being recorded thor Below New Herne, mid on Bogue soum svhere every farm almost has a landinj Lhousauds cf melons, are raised un shipped by the schooner road to Ne York. I give below thc names of sou ?f the leading truck-farmers of Ne Herne and vicinity, and thc sorts of farn Lliev run : Mr. Joseph L. Rhein has 2o0 acre divided as follows : Peas 100, potatoes 9 melons 25, beans 20, tomatoes 10, ca' bages 5. His profit is estimated at aboi ?8,000. Thomas Redman, 100 acres in per beans, tomatoes and potatoes, with profit of $3,500. L. M. Ironmonger, 100 acres, print pally cabbages and cucumbers and slrai berries, on which there is a sure profit ?0,000 in a good year. W. E. Walling has 100 acres in watc melons, W. B. Colburn as many mor and G. F. Jonas another 100 acres in t! same. Thc "truck" crops of thc .New Her section will yield Hrs year nearly quite $500,000, ard tho introduction this system of f.r.r.ing has raised t value of lands lo figures five times high as thoy were when it was COI menccd. It is probable that thebusim will bc increased next year, by thc brir ing of 1,000 addilioual acre:; into t production of fruits and vegetables. T products of this section aro shipped most entirely by rail. Above New Berne there has been bu \ railroad devoted almost entirely to t transporsation of "truck." It runs fn Washington, North Carolina, to James ville, and is built part of tho way on tramways. It opens up a vast acreage adapted to truck-farming. It is to be continued from tho other side of tho Al bemarle sound, at about Edenton, on to Norfolk. This road will haili groat quantities of vegetables and fruit, and will enrich tho ?ection through which it j passes. Now, wiiy can wc not establish t ruck farming as an industry about Atlanta, ! and along thc lines of road that lead into this city ? Why can wo not have truck farm.s all through the State? We have every advantage that could bc asked. With tho new ft'cilitics for shipping swiftly and cheaply, and with thc great advantage of getting ready for market i two weeks earlier than Norfolk am, and thus getting thc cream of prices-and : the other nuvantage of having the west ern markets at hand when the eastern marketa arc dull, wc should nchievo just aa line results as arc secured at Norlolk. Why caunot our farmers who raise cot- ? ton and corn givo a few acres to small ; fruits and vegetables, and thus load up ' thc refrigerator cars that are promised us for next season? j I dose with quoting from Mr. William ? Dean, of Wilmington, Del., a practical larmer, who visited the South on lour of inspection. Said he: "If I was thirty years younger I would take $2,000 and go South and farm. In ten years I would have $100,000, so great arc tho advantages ol* the South in cheap lauds, carly ripening, long summers, etc., over thc North." | If occasion oilers I will have some- j ihiug to say in a future article about truck-farming in cast Florida aud south Georgia. Il Fulton county can only strike a "mean" between Florida and Norfolk, a^ she can do, it will bc all she want-?. It Did. A bar lender always takes tho opposite view of everything. The other day Mr. I Gallagher was in a Court strct-t saloon and tipped his chair back aud went over and jammed his head into a cuspador and was considerably hurt. Thc inci dent annoyed him, and the bar tender told him ho hadn't ought to swear. Gal lagher said that under thc influence of sudden pain five men out of six would swear. Thc bar tender would uot be lieve it, and the result was a bet. Then, for tho test, Gallagher got an ordinary brick and heated it fearfully hot and ??laced it on the marble bar. Now a \ ' irick doesn't show heat, and therefore it was not surprising that when Mr. Guff |' came iu and saw the brick on the bar ho should pick it up. He, however, showed 1 no disposition to put it in his pocket, or 1 do anything else with it ; he immediately laid it down and made frantic gestures : and said a number of wicked things. 1 Then in came a butcher, who also picked 1 up thc brick and laid it down. He ! looked around savagely, and after freeing 1 his mind of some unholy sentiments, said 1 he shouldn't see anybody laugh, as he preferred not to be under tho necessity , of doing murder. The next victim was a Chinaman, and he spoke every word of : English he knew, and two-thirds of what ' he remarked would be improper iu a : Sunday-school. He joined Mr. Guff and the butcher in sucking his fingers and watching for the next man. "tie caine in thc form of a prominent politician, aud ; as he placed tho brick upon the bar, his language sounded like after election talk. The bar tender began to be nervous, but thc next man merely pranced about and wildly waved his hands without seying a word. It appeared that he was a dumb mau. So thc next man would decide the bet. He was a young man from the lum ber districts of Maine, and didn't look like a talkative chap. Hut when he got hold of that brick his jaws seemed to be come loose, and the way ho blasphemed cveu shocked a parrot, and the butcher said he'd give seventy-five dollars if he could talk like that. Gallagher had won. ! Ho rose up and explained the affair. I The six, beaded by the young man from I Maine, started for him aHono man. They . pulled him all over the place. They I brushed the ceiling with bim, used him I for a foot ball, throw him down tho eel- ' lar, to :.i clothes off and made him \ drink watji. They say they wanted to j see if it would make him swear. It did. * "HYBRID" COTTON-PLANTERS 11K- ! WAKE.-A gcutlemau recently returnod from Western Louisiana, where bc had been on matters connected with the cen sus, informs us of a fraud of which tho ' planters in that locality have becu made j tho victims. A man was offering tho ' seeds of "Worm-Proof Hybrid Cotton," ' claiming that tho seed was from a 1 "hybrid" between thc cotton plant and "a wood which no worm or bug would 1 touch." As our friend is a competent botanist, ho was able to put some aw k ward questions to thc man with thc "hy brid" seeds, who, not liking thc situation, left the town. Tho seeds were sold for 30 cents each, or $3 per dozen seeds, and the vendor claimed to have sold $1.5,000 worth of them last spring in Western Louisiana. Swindlers in seeds, like comets, have erratic orbits, and it is not at all likely that tho "Hybrid Cotton" man will bo heard of again in Louisiana, but our friends in other cotton-growing States should bo on their guard against him. He will bc quite likely to turn up at sonic of the fairs this autumn, and also to make his "house to house" visits du ring the winter. It is a well known fact that cotton or any other plant v-311 not "hybridize" with any plant not of the same family. As none of tho family to which cotton belongs aro known to be poisonous, it is safe to set down this re markable "hybrid" as a poor fraud. American Agriculturist. "AllOLlTION OF TIIK PRESIDENCY." -In tho constitutional convention of 1787 Franklin, Randolph, Mason and several others took stroug grounds against a sir.glo Executivo or President, advocating a Cabinet Executivo in ita place. Randolph said tnat "tho Presi dent would be tho fotus of a king ;" Franklin 6aid that "the Presidency would end in a monarchy ;" and it was only after a four months contest in the con vention that tho single Exocutive or President was adopted, Washington pre siding and voting for it, and it is believed except for his great influence in its favor that a President never would have been created. It is claimed by many that Russian despotism caused tho murder of Alexander the Liberator, who freed 22, 000,000 white slaves. If so, did Ameri can despotism cause the assassination of Lincoln a?d thu ?tl?utpteu assassination of President Garfield? Taking these lacis as a basis, a pamphlet is about to bc published in this city with the title of "Abolition of tho Peesideucy," in which a chango in the Constitution is advo cated, creating a council of State com posed o*f the seven Secretaries or heads of Departments, as thc Executive, to ho elected by Congress, Uko tho Swiss Re public, which lias no President to bo shot.- Washington Republican. - No gentleman ever defiles a place of worship with tobacco. THE McDOW 1IOAX. A Letter that Profesaos to Kxiilain and Account for lt. OCONKBCOUNTY, M, ISSI. 71? thc Editor of the NetCi and Courier : I saw to day, in your paper of laut night, August 13th, a piece headed "A Mid night Rendezvous," in which 1 see thnt your Reporter kept tho appointment I mndo willi bim. I never waa so surpris ed in my life as when I saw this, for it ii tiic tiret thing I have heard of it. Why in thc world didn't you let me know you was going to send your man. I asked you to do it, and looked ill thu paper Saturday night but didn't seo nothing: of it. Tho paper didn't come Monday night as thu train missed connection somewhere, and everybody?in thia part of tho country WM disappointed. I hnvo been getting my paper from Walhalla, and was hiding pretty close around there, but the placo was so full of reve nue oilicers that I liad to look ehnrp and keep shy or they would have Dabbed me. Tuesday evening they mndo a raid out towards where I was, and I had to go to another place, so I did not see any thing in your paper Saturday night, and when it did not come Monday night, I thought you was not going to pay any attention to it, HO when the reveuuc offi" eera got after me, I had to make myself scarce. I had a man in Walhalla all day Wednesday, to see if yourinan came; but ho didn't see him, so ho carno and told nie that it was uo use lo go, that you iiad not sent anybody to meet me. So I didn't know a thing about your niau coming till to-day tr;hen a friend of mino came to see mo and brought the naper with him. I never was so surprised nod sorry in my life, for I would not have missed seeing him for anything. I nm mighty sorry that your man was put to so much trouble and expense for nothing and if 1 had tho money I would willingly pay you back, but you know I will need all tue money ? can get now, but if I ever get able I will pay you back sure. What hurt me worse than anything else was that you thought it was a hoax. 11 is a hard state of tilings when a fellow can't be believed at all. Well Hint's the way it always is when a fellow gets do wn, the whole world piles on top ol him, ami if he can't get a fresh hold and turn them over and get on top he is gone up. I hear that some of you arc Irish, and my people came from tho tireen Island io tho sea, and as an Irishman always has a heart for the poor aud oppressed, ?ind as an unfortunate and unhappy man I thought I would appeal to you in my sorrow and fiud somebody to take an i li ierest in mo, but since I have fooled you once I am afraid you won't trust mo agaiu ; but Cod knows I didn't mean to fool you, for I would rath r have seen your man where I could talk to him than lo write all this to yon. I w m't appoint nnother place for you to meet me, for I might not be able to come again, and besides the revenue oilicers are watching io close that they might catch me; but they never will find out where lam now, Tor I am in a good hiding place, and ha vo lots of friends. If you publish this in your paper I will tell you something thal will surprise you in my next lettter, but I can't write more now. Pleaso publish Lhis so that tho people of this State won't think that I acted like a dog to you. 1 mean business, and my life depends on you almost, and if you will just publish what I write to you and help me out, I may bo able to clear myself and show the people who was to blame. Mellow, per 1?. D. Q. I will write more in a few days if you ivill publish this, and I well tell you a jecret. McDow. A Curious Story. The staff correspondent of the New ?ork Tribune saya in one ^f ? s letters: *I have been strongly impressed by tho general hardness and unsympathetic teelirg of Northern men living in the South in regard to the negroes. Native Southerners of character and position do lot often appear to me to feel unkindly lowards the negroes, though, of course, they often regard contemptuously and fail to treat them ns they ought. But Northern met. who have gone South since the var almost universally (those ,v h om I have seen) speak of tho negro with great harshness-kind of cold jatred, and what I should call cruelty. r have seen and heard so much of this that vould have appeared incredible before, hat it gives rae sometimes a kind Ol nightmare fear that residence in thc South might transform tho most philan hrophic abolitionist into a tyrnnt of nerciloss severity. Near Vicksburg I found a young ilanter from Minnesota, who works nany negroes. I asked him about their ?uality as laborers, and he replied that hey ar almost worthless, "unless you vhip them well." "IIow do you mean that you whin hem?" I asked. "Do you fight with .hem and whip them because you nrc tho seat man, as white men fight in Minne iota?" "Oh, no," said he, contemptuously, 'go at them with a club, or a heavy ivuip-stock ; knock them down and beat hem aa you would a mule." "Rut I thought the day for that was jver in this country. I should thiuk hey would leave you. Why do they :iot go away, go to some other man, or jut of this region ?" "Oh, well, they do go away to thc ivoods for a day or two- but what ian they do? Their families aro here, ind they don't know where to go. Bo ?ides, I shouldn't let 'em go, if I didn't ivant to. The dogs would soon find em." "Then," I said, "I would kill you." At luis he laughed sneeringly, and re plied : "Mebbe you would, but you ain't a jigger. A nigger's just in his place A lien he fias a white man to drive him, m' they always need knockiu' down oe lasionally." He went on to say that he had found out that only the harsh slaveholders made money in the old times. "An' that's the right way now ; work 'cm to leath an' git more. There's plenty of em." On my expressing ruy abhorrence ho mid : "You wouldn't bc herc a year till you would say tho same things. All North ern men talk just as you do when they first come down hero. I did myself. My father was ? d hot abolitionist." - A kind write! say.-,. "You can trust a man who loves a horso or a dog." A livery stable man says ho has tried it, and finds there ?B no money in it. - "Wcro you drunk?"' asked His Honor at the Central Station of a pris oner who had been found in a gutter. "Were I drunk?" "Yes." "Well, tho last thing I remember was seeing thc City Hall tower leaning over within a foot of my head, and 1 squatted to get out of the way. If tho tower is down I was sober ; if it's up thcro yet, I'll admit that I came awful near having an attack of tho vertigo." THE LIEN LAW. Homo Mentons wliy lt should not ho Itc l>calc<l. Tito Edgefield Monitor naya: "While the lieu law tuny conduce somewhat to oxttnvngauco it works no compulsion. IC a man can arrange to obtain bis sup plies without giving a lien so much the better. Hut repeal the law and there arc thousands of poor white people who, in stead of being at thc mercy of tho mer chants as under thc lien system, would bo at the mercy of tho few land-owners who might bc abb; to furnish supplies for such tenants as they might need. Re peal tho lieu law now and there are thousands of land owners who would not bo able to obtain supplies with which to cultivate their own lands, for it must be remembered that thc homestead act renders a small farm valueless as a basis of credit. If a man is compelled to mort gage his farm to obtain supplies be is not better nfl* than if he gave a lien, but rather he is worse off, inasmuch as tho cost of recording a mortgage is greater than that of a lien. While, therefore, we cannot see how, under tho circum stances, it would be practicable to do away with tho lion law during the com ing year, yet wc think there arc some modifications timi might bc made and which would work advantageously to all concerned. We would have it modified so as to cover only actual necessaries corn, bacon and hay. Flour and molas ses, perhaps, should also bo included. Whatever else the merchant might ?ell the cropper, let him understand that he takes the risk without security. In this way the supply bills would bc considera bly lesscucd, lor economy would become a necessity, but nil occasion for actual suffering would bc removed. Our posi tion thou is that the continuance of tho lien law for at least another year is an absolute necessity, but let it be modified in tho manner wc have suggested." The Abbeville /Vfw ?n<7 /immer says: "Thc farmers of this county owe perhaps half a million dollars on thc present crop anti without that credit we would have starved and now had almost no crop al all. Poor people and improvident landowners arc obliged to have credit, and il is a mero wasle. ol' breath to talk ubotit denying il to them. Stop their credit, ami labor and values of every kind would bu disturbed. Tho re sult would bc that hundreds of our peo ple would be broke, and thousands would be compelled to seek other homes." Tho Abbeville Meditan says : Wo may look for au effort at thc next Legis lature to abolish thc law. Thc farmers , aro in a majority in that body aud can pass any law thoy may desire. They will no doubt vote solidly on this qucs- , tion as they did once before. When they shall have dono so they will find that this law bas not been thc source of all their woes and that its repeal will not be ? a cure nil for their troubles. If the law | is abolished it must bo dono gradually ( and not at once or serious consequences , will follow. A little common sense will bo in place when action is tala n on this ? important question." Met n Violeut Dentil. \ The shooting of tho President recalls , the fact that thc firsUFourth of July orator i this country ever produced died in a simi- | lar manner. In 1778, just two yenni after ( independence had been declared, the day was celebrated in Charleston, S. C., and ( au oration was delivered by Dr. David j Ramsay. Thc latter was an able author, | as well as a physician, and published the . first bistoty of America. Ho married < thc daughter of Henry Laurens, the dis- | tinguisbed patriot, who was for a time ? imprisoned in the Tower of London for | his devotion to his country. It is a cu- \ rious fact that this very David Ramsay \ was shot in broad daylight by a lunatic, < this being nt the timo a now feature in j crime. Tuc weapon was a pistol and the { wound was immediately fatal. Dr. Ram- [ say was a member of thc first Congress. It j convened in this city in 1781), aud in- t eluded a remarkable representation of , thc talent and patriotism of tho couutry. ( He was tho first instance of assassination j among our public men. Thc patriots of l the. Revolution indeed, as a class, have cs- ^ caped violent death, the exceptions be- fi ing found in Janies Otis, who was killed j by lightning, and also in Huttou Gwin nett and Alexander Hamilton, both of i whom were victims of duelling. ? lu addition to this interesting sketch ? it may bc well to state to our younger t readers that Dr. David Ramsay was t called on professionally to examine his assassin, and pronounced bim a lunatic. For some reason thc man was released . from confiner..cut and shot Dr. Ramsay * on the streets of Charleston. i During the late war, David Ramsay, j a grandson of thc old Doctor, was severely t wounded near Charleston, and when ho ? was brought to the city ho was carried to tho same room to which bis grand father was carried after he was shot. Ho j remarked this when he entered, and said : t "I bono that it is not symbolical of the fate that awaits mc." Hut in a fow days thc graudson followed thc grand father, and from thc same room.-Aile Yurt; Correspondence Rochester Democrat. Language of thc Hair. Each ol' our features is supposed to have a language-eye?, nose and mouth. Hut thc language of the bair has becu formulated, in thc following manner : Straight, lauk, stringy-looking hair in dicates weakness and cowardice. Curly hair denotes a quick temper. Frizzy bair denotes a quick temper. Curly hair set on one's head as if each individual hair were ready to fight ita neighbor, de notes coarseness. Black hair indicates persistent resolution in accorepliRbintjan object, also a strong predisposition to avenge wrongs and insul ts real or fancied. Brown bair denotes fondness for life, ? friendly disposition, ambition, earnest ness of purpose, capacity for business, re liability in friendship in proportion as tho hair is fine. Very fine hair indicates an even disposition, a readiness to forgive, with a desire to add to the happiness of others. Persons with very fino light brown or nuburn hair, inclined to curl or frizz, are quick-tempered, n^d ard given to resentment and revenge, leight brown bair inclined to redness, with a freckled skin, is a certain indication of deceit, troachery, aud a disposition to do some thing mean lo a friend who eau no lon ger be used to advantage. Wo givo tho information as wo find it, and it is about as true ns such things generally aro. - "Herc's a tty in my soup, waiter?" "Yes, sir; very sorry,- r ; but you can throw away the Hy and eat thc soup, enn't you ?" "Of course I can ; you didn't expect mo to throw away the soup and cat trie fly, did you ?" - When a woman burns her finger she cries a little over it, and keeps the burn in good condition to show ber hus band when ho comes home, and get sym pathy. A man in thc same- condition will stick his digit in his mouth, kick over thc office stool, swear at tho boy . >.d forget all about it. Ono is thc effect of love ; thc other of business. Dying- of Hydrophobia, James C. Kavanagh, a bright boy of twelve, whoso parents livo at 205 West Twenty-ninth street,died in the New York Hospital Tuesday afternoon of what tho hospital physicians say was genuine hy drophobia. He was bitten on April 15 by a large black and white spotted dog. Thc Kavanaghs lived at that time at 545 Hast Sixteenth street. The dog carno skulking down the street sniffing in the gutter for food. A number of boys set upon it and tormented it. It passed young Kavanagh, who was taking no part in the chase, and snapping at his right hand, set its tooth in the palm just below thc forefinger. The tooth mot in the llesh of tho palin, and the boy was compelled to beat tho dog on the" head with his other hand before it would let go. It ran up tho street out of sight. Thc boy ran to his mother, who, fear- j ing that tho dog was mad, hurried her son oil'to Dr. McDouough, at Fifteenth street and avenue A. Dr. McDouough cauterized tho wound carefully, dressed it with liniment, and put thc arm in a sling. There w;is no evidence that the dog was mad, and Dr. McDouough j thought there was no danger of hydro phobia. Thc wounds wore very painful mr throe weeks, and then healed up very j slowly, but nicely, leaving slight scars. On Sunday night last his mother no- j ticed that James was restless in h?8 bed, but attributed his restlessness to thc heat. Karly in the morning she HCIII him for a pitcher of milk. As Tic roached thc side walk ho. was seized with a spasm of thc throat, lt passed quickly, and he did his errand. When ho carno back bc had another spasm, which greatly alarmed his mother. At the breakfast table he could oat little, and manifested an aver sion to water. The scars in tho hand looked healthy, but thc boy complained of a dull pain in thc ann. A friend went to the family doctor, Dr. McLaury, of 244 West Forty-second street, and de scribed the boy's symptoms. Dr. Mc I.aury visited the patient, and recog nized the signs of hydrophobia. He proscribed sonic remedios, and advised the father, who is a hackman, to have thc boy removed to the hospital at once. Mcauwhilc thc spasms of the throat became more frequent and more violent. There were periods of rest, and during one of these tho boy got into his father's cab and was driven to thc New York Hospital. The. attending physicians say that when he arrived ho had a wild look, which they attributed to thc great terror he felt at his condition, and that he teemed to fully recognize his danger. He was offered a glass of water. He turned his head away with evident dis gust, and tho muscles of his throat con tracted. Then ho said: "Wait a minute; I will take it then." He snatched at the glass and hurried it to his lips, lie took a mouthful and tried to swallow it. Next moment it was ejected violently, and ho fell back in convulsions. Ho was put in one of tho wards, he became worse so rapidly that it was necessary to remove him to a pri vate room, so that other patients should not bo disturbed. His fright increased avery moment, and ho kept repeating that he was suro that lie was going to lie. Spasm followed spa*ni, and he Jttered cries which tho doctors say very much resembled tho whinning of a young log. Ho was treated with the South American arrow poison curare. Thc loctors say they administered it because t is the only drug that has ever been cnown to cure genuino hydrophobia. It ?cerned to have no curativo effect in this ?ase, but it sf oped all pain. The boy repeatedly said he suffered no pain, '.'though he writhed in spasms so violent hat it was necessary to hold him in the jed. He hud a brief interval of quiet ictwccn midnight and 2 a. m. Tuesday, md then thc spasms recommenced, frothing saliva, tinged red, came from ii;; lips. His wide open eyes were jloodshot, and his cries of terror were fitiful. The doctors say that his terror indoubledly hastened his death. He vaB always conscious, and recognized his allier and relatives up to within a bnlf 'cur of his death. At 5:25 o'clock p DI. lia heart ceased beating. No inquest vas thought necessary, and the doctors igncd a certificate of death from hydro ihobia. The body was removed yesterday lo he home of thc parents The coffin was : traped in black. A black banner bear ng a large white cross hung over it on bc wall, and six wax candles were at behead.-Alfie York Sun, Aug. ll. THE DOUN GOLD MINE*.-A correa ?otident a Longmirc's, Edgefield County, vites that "about the first of this year Hr. Nesbitt, who minded so success fully br Mr. Dorn, came back to the old nines to sec if he could not renew mili ng operations lhere, and he hassuccecd ;d admirably. He has shipped ore that vas worth three hundred and forty dol ars per ton. Sinco then he has found md opened another vein much richer. Ic thinks it is worth one thousand dol ar.- per ton. Thc old mine belongs to \\r. C. H. McCormick, of Chicago, III., ind I do not think ho would sell it ex :cpt for a very high figure. Mr. Nesbitt s now putting up new machinery, and viii soon have his mill in operation. I viii tiien report the results." In "Reports upon tho Mineral Hcsour :os of thc United States," published by lUthority of thc Government, in I8G7, we ind thc following in reference to these nines: "Mines of Mr. William Dorn, n the Abbeville and Edgefield Districts, ridded gold of the value of ?300, jOO in iftccn months preceding July, 1853. The oro was highly ferruginous and vas found among tho layers of tho rein in streaks and pockets of extra ordinary richness."-S. C- Agricultural RepottJar Augutl. CA IT. MILLS' FARM.-WC rode over he well-cultivated farm of Capt. Mills, jf Greenville, recently, and were im pressed with what can be accomplished jy energy, economy and judgment. Japt. Mills owns tho farm occupied for fears by tho late Capt. Brooks. Tho alter owned largo slave and real estate interests in Alabama, and valued his Jrcenvillo placo moro aa a delightful lumtner homo than as a farm, hardly making enough on it to feed his horse md fox hounds. Capt. Mills has mado tl most a garden farm of it, haviug litched a branch bottom on it. Ho has over twenty acres on which ho will mako forty bushels of corn to the acre ; ho has fifty acres in cotton on which will yield I from one thousand to fiftron hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre. Capt. Si ills is no strong advocate of rotating iands; bc prefers, after harvesting his wheat and oats, to plant peas and again sow in grain. He SOWB Iiis cotton lauds at iast plowing iu rye, pastures his cattle upon the rye during tho winter months, aud in tho spriug there is sufficient rye left to mako a handsome manure for h?? cotton, to which he also applies bono dust, cotton seed and lot scrapings. Saluda Argus. - Thc quickest way fora man to provo himself insane is to make a will that doesn't suit his relatives. News and Gossip. - lu Texas 2,000 miles of new??ra?l road havo been completed since'Llbe pring of 1880. - There 100 men in New York worth *3,000,000 each, and over 500,000;men who are not worth a cent. - .Some $1,000,000 have been added U> thc wealth of tho nation by the mines f North Carolina within tim past live year?. - The real and personal property in the United States is valued at $70,000, 000,000. It don't look like verv much on paper. - ti lass eyes lor horses arc now made with such perfection that even thc ani mals themselves cannot ?re through thc deception. - Our magnificent navy has 7,200 men and 1,81)8 officers. Most of them are now ashore for want of good vessels to lako them io sea. - The grand jury of Edgefield have recommended, by a vote of twelve to one, the adoption of thc stock law in that county. - Mr?. Garfield has almost entirely recovered. Sbo sleeps throughout tho night, has a good appetite, an is strong enough to drive every morning. - A ?reicht train on thc Memphis aud Charleston road ran over three negroes asleep on the track, killing two of tho number and severely wounding tho third. - General elections this Eall are to take place in New York, Ohio, Pennsyl vania. Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. The latter State leads off on the <?Lil September. - Norfolk, Va., is one of the growing cities of tho South. It is impossible to obtain enough mechanics and laborers to press forward all tho improvements con templated there this season. --It having been remarked that cigar cits smoking'.is killing thousands of young men, thc Chicago Tribune savagely says that the kiud of young men w ho smoke cigarettes can all bc spared. Thc fittest would still survive. - Senator Hen H. Hill, ol'Georgia, was able to respond to a serenade in Virginia last Thursday uigbt, and mildly ?aid that thc Coalition party of that State is composed of corrupt politicians mid ignorant negroes. - It look thc Government a long time and much money to find out that Whitta ker was a liar and had mutilated himself. How funny all of those indignant speech es of Republican Senators read just now, in thc light of historic truth ! - Sitting Hull's home is to bc located in Dacota, where bc will chew reserva tion beef and bc treated in all respects like a common Iiidiuu. It would be a pity to kill him, and yet it would bc cheaper than keeping him. Hut, then, if wo keep Guiteau it Would be a burn ing shame lo kill an "Ingun." - The chairman of thc North Caroli na State Prohibition Campaign Commit leo says: "Wo shall not dissolve our committees. The license lawa should bo made moro stringent, and local option should be given in those localities where thc people desire it. Ono thing is evi dent: the people are not prepared for absoluto prohibition." - At a meeting of ex-Con federates at Dallas, Texn?, the other day, Colonel Grigsby made some nonsensical remarks about tho government, aud thc Union. Next day the association adopted resolu tions condemning Grigsby's speech and declaring its love for the Union now and for all tinte. Grigsby was the only mem ber who voted in the uegative. - A bill submitting tho question of prohibition to a popular voto has been offered in tho Georgia Legislature, and there is every prospect of it passing both branches. Tho peoplo will voto on it in October. The prohibitionists, in view of their late defeat in North Carolina, aro not very hopeful of success, but will make an earnest canvass and do their beat. - At Danville, Ky., on the loth, John Hright, in answer to calls from his two sisters, who were out at a cistern getting water, went to the door of bia house with a double-barrelled shot gun and saw a negro between his sisters and thc door. Hright immediately discharged the con tents of bia gun iuto the negro's body, killing bim. His name was Reuben, and he hailed from Tennessee. - A number of young men in Charles ton have associated to pay into a com mon fund $1 a month for every share in thc fuud held by each, the money event ually to be invested in real estate, which at tho end of ten yeo ra is to be sold, when tho proceeds will bo divided. Hy this means they will savo their spare dollars, lay up something that would otherwise go for "light expenses," and feel an intereat in tho general propperity of the city. -- Thc ups and downs of lifo aro well illustrated in thc caso of tho late Orville Grant. When his brother Ulysses left the regular army with apparently a very dark future beforo him, it was Orville, then a rich man, who took him in charge. In the ChicHgo Gro Orville lost his all, and that aflectad his reason. For years beforo his confinement in an insane asylum bo traded upon the reputation of bia famous brother. When all were children Orville was regarded as tho flower of the Grant family. - "Suppose, instead of going to church next Sunday to criticise your minister, you co with tim direct purpose of receiving all tho benefit you can from thc services. Suppose you pray for ycur pastor this week, instead of wondering that his sermona are so dull. Suppose, in your Sunday-school work, you put asido tho stereotype excuses, and instead bo promptly in your appointed place. Suppose you riso as early as on other days on thc coming Sunday, and devote an hour before church to secret prayer and Bible study. Suppose we all do this, everywhere. May we not hope that the blessing of God would be poured out upon us in manifest showers?" - Col. Corbin, Master of Ceremonies nt tho Yorktown centennial, has issued a circular regarding tho arrangements for the celebration, which is to take place October 18, 10, 20 and 21. Tho prosont advices promise military representations from every State io Ibu union. Moro than 10,000 troops havo already signified their intention of being present, and it is believed tho militia to take part in the celebration will exceed 30,000. Many States will send full regiments. The Governors of most States will also attend, accompanied by their statis. For tho reception and proper comfort of tho latter a building is to bo erected. Ad jutant Generals of States and command ing officers of troops intending to partic ipate arc requested to call for any infor mation concerning the celebration that may in any manner aid in rendering tho occasion worthy of the great event it is to commemorate.