The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-29


All! says the Macon Telegraph, one
need but study and contrast figures to
see how poor Georgia is and why she
is poor. With a largely increased pop
ulation our products have diminished
in far greater ratio, until we have
ceased to feed ourselves, and now
spend our cotton product in buying
sustenance, which the population
(speaking of it as whole) are too in
dolent to raise by their own labor. 1t
is bad showing, and never will be
permanently improved, until the stern
fiat Of God Almighty is brought, by
necessity-the operation of public
opinion, and laws and police embody-
ing the same--to every mans door,
and white and black are made to feel
that they must work or starve.
And these figures also tell US what
our so-called big corn crops in Geor-
gia now amount to. We consume say
about forty million bushels of corn,
and this year, perhaps, we will raise
fifteen million bushels, leaving US
twenty five million bushels to buy at
a cost of twenty five million dollars
more but not less. Well. we will raise
say $50, 900 bales of cotton at a net of
fifty dollars to the bag, bringing us,
say $27 500, 900, and when we settle
the corn bills we shall have balance
of 50, ,5OO,O 900 in hand wherewith to
pay our meat and guano bills and
square dry goods accounts.
And if these figures are little or
good deal too round, still we have the
modification Of feeling that they squint
at actual facts quite too directly, and
that is the real reason why we are all
broken, and never can be otherwise
till we cease to buy our bre; and
meat and learn to produce it every
year out of the ground.
| Now this will be another year when
planters will raise enough corn to do
them,' and miss it by fifty per cent.
The foundation Of pecuniary ease and
Independence must be laid in abund-
ance of all sorts-in general fitness
of supply in which we need go abroad
for nothing to eat, either for man or
beast. When our farms abound not
only in corn, but in all that abund-
ance which corn produces-in fat poul-
try, mutton and pigs, and no man
thinks of selling his cotton to supply
his larder.-Savannah Advertiser.
A mirage" occurred on the Cd inst,
in front of the Catskill Mountain
house, on which occasion the hotel
was perfectly reflected in the sur
rounding clouds, and individuals
standing on the porches could see
themselves expanded to Brobdigna-
gian size and enyeloped in halo of
glory.
The writer witnessed similar mi
rage in Matagorda bay, while in camp
on Decrow's point. He was aston
: ished one morning about sunrise in
looking over the Passe, to see a row
/ of houses, a wharf, and people moving
, about on the other side This was
{ the town of Indianola, fourteen miles
| further up the Passe The reflected
| image was not distorted-everythins
) looked as natural as the real towr
l looked when he saw it afterwards from
the steam tug on his first visit to In
S dianola.
5 The outlines of the Kent',cky hills
0 and houses on the banks ois.-he rive1
are often, in cold clear winter weather
: reflected on the surface of the rive
near the Indiana side very clearly ant
t sharply. We have witnessed this fre
: quently from Broadway. The mirag
: is an optical illusion due to unequa
: densities and refracting powers of ad
o iacent strata of the air. usually 0
n those close to the land or sea.
n Farmer ''ReaPs the Bearded GrafI
, and tho Flowers that Grow BE
a tween.''
d On Monday last, Mr.. - Perkins
i residing three or four miles north o
It Emporia, was engaged in reaping oats
O when his little daughter, between tw
e and three years of age, bright, beau
h tiful child, probably to find her fathe,
II wandered into the harvest field, and
n is supposed sat down in the oats
T. which were very thick and high, an
was not observed by her father unit
her piercing shrek and raised arm
arrested his eye and Mortified hi
heart. The sickle had struck III
child and completely severed her lei
arm at the elbow, and just broke tn
skin on her side and breast. Anothe
~ step of the horse and the little one
s. body would have been divided by til
7. sickle. Mrs. DIR. Lawrence responde
n ie Immediately to the summons for SUI
~ gical aid, and arrested the hemo1
u, rhage until Drs. J. S. Lawrence an
III J. Moore reached the scene. when til
! latter, assisted by the two former, an
D. putated the arm. At last account
e the child was doing as we'll as coul
ne he be expected.-Emporia (Kan.D Ledl
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