Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-28

A Good sherif-Turpentine Industry
sheen Farming. Etc.

Sneep Afui3nks III
Corrsspondenes or tie Morning Bens.
BAILEY. GA. March 24.-For attention
TO business, energy, etc. we would IKE 10
see any county in the State show better
Sheriff than we have. Warrants placed
in his hands for execution never grow
dusty. He sometimes makes raids among
the gamblers of the colored persuasion.
On last Saturday night he visited the
peighborhood Of Mann & 9lelton's turpen-
tine farm. where he came upon shanty
full Of the dusky wards Of the nation, busy
and bOisterous over their pet gambling
game. which they affectionately call skin
game" He succeeded in securing seven,
The balance escaped, but not all OF them
without injury, for there were several pls-
tOl shots fired, and l understand two were
hit. one slightly and the other seriously.
The Sheriff informed me that he had not
more than entered the door Of the shanty
before a mulatto jumped up, exclaiming,
is that YOU, Mr.. Cooksv out with a pis-
t0l and commenced firing straight at him,
whereuDon a general firing commenced on
both sides, but the negroes soon broke,
leaving, as above stated, seven OF their
number, who were brought To this place
the same nig-t and lodged IN jan. II they
are all convicted 1t will swell our county
now hired out by the county at s. 80
per month per hand. The present con-
tract expires in about month from now.
l don't think the county will be able to Sc
cure so good price for them again. The
ehain-gang system tor this county is re-
cent thing, it having been born with the
I County Court, which has been in exist.
/ ence only a few months. The question Of
a County Court was agitated long time
/ before the people could believe that the
/ county would be benefited by it. SO far
/ il has proven a success. and everybody is
I pleased. Judge r. 7. Williams, the pres
4 ent Judge of this court, has given very
I general satisfaction. The grand jury OF
\ the last term of the Superior
I Court recommended that the Judge
| Of the County Court be paid out of
/ the county treasury $50 per month
/ for his services, he hiring and paying his
\ own clerk.
The motion for a new trial in the case
/ Of the State vs.. Stephen Spence, convicted
/ of larceny at the last term OF The superior
/ Court, Of which | spoke in my last, Will
I be argued at the adjourned term OF the
/ Superior Court Tor this county, winch
/ will be held here commencing the fourth
I Monday in May next. The jury convict
/ inc Spence recommended him to the mercy
! of the court.
/ nave been informed that quite
an accident occurred on last Satur-
{ daY upon the tram road Of i. john
son s. Co., near Graham, IN this
county, 1t seems that mule. or team
4 of mules, by the carelessness Of a team
ster got on the track ahead OF one of the
trains that they use for hauling logs, and
\ one or more mules were thrown under the
cars, knocking several Of them of the
track and considerably wrecking them.
+ There was no one hurt seriously, but all
/ hands had to Jump for their lives.
There is an old saying, some extreme
/ follows another" Last fall we had one
Z of the most prOtracted drOughts L ever
saw: now we are having too much rain.
The turpentine men of this section are
repairing their old stills and otherwise
preparing for the turpentine season, but l
don't think, with any hope, of making
much money at present prices. l don't
think there are many engaged at the bust
/ ness now but what would like TO get out
of it. When prices of the stun go up
/ everybody wants to get in the business,
and when it goes down everybody wants
to get out. In a few years the turpentine
and timber business of this section VIII
be a thing of the past, judging from the
I raDid destruction of the forests now going
on. What will the people do then! Some
say 20 to farming. Well, they will have
/ to farm or starye, for there viii be nothing
I else for them to do. There IS plenty gOOd
land in this county and it can be made
to produce as we'll as any in the State.
For raising sheep il is hard to find a
country that will excel this. Hitherto
there has been little or no attention paid
to sheep, they being allowed to roam at
will over the woods at the mercy OF the
thief and the dog.
4 gentleman who owns considerable
flock of sheep told me some time ago, that
notwithstanding the enemies his sheep
had to contend with, they paid him a
I profit on the investment of not less than
I % per cent. per annum. While the land
in this country is not so productive as in
the Mississippi valley, or as in some por-
tions of the West, the people are not liable
to have their farms washed away at any
time by floods, and they can work out
| doors twelve months in the year.
There is one thing the people OF this
| country understand how to do to perfec-
ton. and that is how to attend to their own
business. Ihaye never yet heard desire
expressed to investigate Tewksbury; they
are willing for the people of the North to
manage their own affairs, and would be
1 glad if the NOrtherners would extend them
the same courtesy and promise TO show as
clean a record as they do. ). L. N