The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER rs. 1881

beast In human form concluded tina
it would not be healthy to do any
thing or say any more, and put hi
vile carcass out of the way. The i'm
migrants had letter to that nobl
and high-minded gentleman, MI
Elias LOwenstein, Of Memphis, ant
will be properly cared for when the,
reach that place. They had goot
faces and belonged to the better clas
of the working people of thei
country. When given food, the littl,
! ones were so OverjOyed that they rush
ed up to their new friends aud kisset
their hands several times while tn,
poor mother looked thousand bless
ings out of her eyes. This Is writer
in no spirit Of exageration, and IL q
plain and unvarnished fact. Judge
Robt. J. AlcOrn of Jackson, Miss, Il
one of the men who striyed to relieve
the sufferers; another Is young man
by the name of Numan, employed by
Col. Ed Richardson, and the third i
the editor of the World. whose name
is given only to let the public know
that we are not informed by rumol
or report, but by observing the awful
things themselves. Brutes in the
shape of human beings are never SO
happy as when oppresssing the wea k
and the helpless, and vile, stOny-hear T.
ed wolves of the Gold Dust seemed to
be in one of their most joyful moods.
In 1867 planter Of this county, liv-
ing twelve miles from this city, con-
oeived that the cotton plant properly
cared for could be made to bear
for more than one year. He believed
that the vitality of the plant was de-
stroyed by frost and frost only. The
result of his experience, which we
will give I'm his own words, is of UNI
speakable importance to the material
interests Of the cotton growing cOun-
try, placing us above and beyond the
necessities and annoyances of our
present system of labor.
His account of his success, which Is
far beyond his most sanguine expecta-
tions, is largely vouched for, ana Is as
follows.
81 lost a large amount of money in
in 1866, the year succeeding the sur
render, In my farming operations, and
despaired, almost, of the future Of the
cotton section, in the many sleepless
nights passed thinking over my own
affairs. and what the future had in
store for myself and neighbors, whose
dependence for existence rested solely
upon agricultural productions of which
the culture OF cotton is the chiefest,
the main stay, In fact Of the cotton
States, the foundation upon which
was built all they enjoyed Of prosperity
in manufacturing, In banking, In mer-
chandizing In all that went tomake up
the sum of their varied industries and
interests, threatened as these interests
seemed to be, about to suffer extinction
by system Of labor that made the
cost OF production of the cotton crop
greater than the value of the article
produced. BY inspiration, for 1t could
ha We been nothing else, II occurred to
me that could the annual killing of the
plant by frost be prevented, the plant
might become troe-a fruitful, ever
tree.
"Success has exceeded my most sah-
guine expectations, my widest dreams.
/ will tell you exactly how proceeded,
and describe the result. In the spring
about forty feet square, planted In the
center cotton seed, tended IL care
fully; in September built about 1t
pen some eight feet square and covered
Il with glass, kept a thermometer in
It. and by the aid Of small stove
kept life and grosoth In the plant until
May Of 1868, at which time 1 removed
the pen. During the summer of 1868
my plant grew until 1t became small
tree. In the fall of that year picked
800 pounds of seed cotton from It, and
built another pen on the same plan,
but larger than the first; followed the
same process through the winter, and
again removed my pen In the spring
Df 1869. That year picked from what
was then a tree, cotton that made O
bale of 476 pounds. The tree had
now grown so large that deemed 1t
safe from the frost, and In the winter
Of 1869 and 1870 left II unprotected.
In the spring of 1870 it bloomed at the
same time with the peach tree and In
the fall / made from II l, ,293 pounds of
int cotton. At this writing the tree |
o In full bloom and promises at least |
three bales of cotton, and is the won-
Ter Of allwho see 1t.
ut Is some twenty or twenty-five
Wv IA uCikht, nltacdANo st sAsS oess Il
nineteen inches In diameter, shows no |
,ign of decay, and will probably live
and bear fruit for years to come. III
his statement does not settle the labor
question, nothing will. 1 have en-
ieavored 10 describe succintly the re-
'ult Of my experiment; 10 have en-
cred fully into all the minutia would
nave occupied volume, but IL this
hort article shall turn the attention
" planters 10 the following up Of this
progress, my purpose will
,aye been answered"
Don't talk about cotton fields any
Give us q cotton grove Of q
trees, and we will be satisfied
md acknowledge that the white robed
yrant 10 still king.-Demopolis, Ala, ]
Exponent. 1