Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-30
LETTER FROM CHATTAHOOCHEE.
The Weather-EffOrts at a storm
The Crops, Caterpillar
COlOred LabOrers OF for the Rail-
rOads-The Bottom Knocked Ous
of the Credit SysGem-The Coming
District Conference.-The Comet.

CHATTAHoocHEE, FLA, June 27.-Editor
MoyntnQ Nesos: It is so seldom that an inter-
esting or sensational event occurs in our quiet
community that it is like saving off log
with hammer to get up q readable
article for a paper. But as this is a time
Of year when people can stand almost any
thing, and are ever on the alert for informa-
tion concerning crops and the general welfare
Of remote sections from their own, suppose
your many readers might as well go to sleep
over prosy letter from this as well as from
any other section.
For the past few days there has been great
effort. apparently on the part of the elements,
to get up shower to cool the parched earth
and revive the whitening crops and vegetation.
The clouds have lowered and thickened and
passed away. Thunder and lightning have
flashed and pealed and muttered in the dis
tance for many days past The winds have
shifted and blown from all points of the COM
pass, and on Wednesday last about a tenth-rate
cyclone pounced upon us and made things
lively for whi.e. blowing down fences and
trees, but it did not extend over a mile, and
lasted but few minutes, yet we have had no
rain except light, local showers, passing
around, which, though very partial have done
much good 10 the farms that were so fortunate
as to lie in their way.
Crops, especially corn, are beginning to suffer
very much, but are generally in good condi-
ton and more promi, ing than could be ex-
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early seasons good supply Of corn viii be
made.
The caterpillar has made his appearance in
cotton, as is usual about this season. and with
a wet July, as some predict, will play havoc
with the cotton. The acreage in cotton is not
so much as heretofore. yet the dry weather
has been favorable to the plant, and up to now
is very promising.
Many colored people have left the farms and
gone to work at the mills and timber camps
along the river and at Apalachicola. while
many more have been induced to emigrate to
Louisiana and Mississippi to work on railroads
with promise of 81 so per day, six pounds
of meat and one half bushel of meal week.
But, nevertheless, their labor has not been
much missed from the farms, as the hardness
drawn out much labor from the women and
children, who heretofore did no farm work.
Their fathers and husbands were able to run
credic" at some OF the stores and give good
lien" then, but this year it ha- cen a ground
hog case. Merchants, farmers and all have
busted" on last years cotton crop, or run
short in finances, and the credit system has
collapsed, which will no doubt result favorably
to the farming interests in this and other sec
tionS.
The appro aching Methodist District Confer
ence is now the absorbing topic of the day. 1t
will convene at Mount Pleasant six miles east
of Cnattahoochee. on the 9TH of July. Mount
Pleasant has never been blessed with q district
conference, notwithst ,nding her good people
have been hungering and thirsting for con-
membership Of that church is small and the
community sparsely settled, yet they are fully
alive and sufficient for the occasion. IL is
hoped that there will be good time and great
refreshing. To this end should we pray. The
church needs 1t. the people desire it, and siu-
ners are dying for it, Oh, may the
windows and fioodgates of heaven be
opened. and the tender compassion of
Jehovah touched and kndled into pity, and
a mighty outp ouring of the Holy Spirit be
manifest to the children of men, May it sweep
and garnish the church, the hills, the hedges
and highways, till the last vestise of sin is
swept away. For sin and saian and infidelity.
and unbelief and corruption in high places
and low places, with revisions of the scrip
lures, are sweeping over the land like mighty
tornado, and unless the church, or the few
righteous that are left, do cry nightly unto
the Lord, the whole fabric will totter and
crumble into perdition.
The new comet has been seen by only few
of our citizens owing to the cloudy weather,
and the question is asked. What war can it
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