Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-31

Sense and Nonsense Pleasantly Mingled.
C0,.resDondencs of the Nornta0 Rsaos.

sense anu y Onsense RleAsauLly 0lnkAGUs
Correspondence of the Morning Bsl0s.
CAMBRIDGE, March 2S.-Our town is
not a dead community by any means.
We are rubbing the winters sleep from
our eyes, and are gradually awaking to
the blessed privilege Of buying bacon on
credit at 16 cents a pound, and corn and
hay at CORRESPONDENCE high prices. And
all this, too, in the finest ''hog and hominy'
country that ever sprolited an acorn or
grew blade Of grass Thriftless farm
ing has well nigh brought to our doors a
fulhllment of Ben. HIPS prophecy, "That
Southwest Georg ia would soon become
bowling wilderness unless the people
began raising their home supplies" We
have, however, as Mrs. Partlngton would
sey, ''paregorically speaking" rather got
the ''edge" whatever that may mean on
the West this year, as our season for
planting has been exceptionally fine, and
the husbandmen have not withheld their
hands. SO, with continuing good sea-
sons, and nothing more serious than the
impending political campaign to de-
moralze the labor Of the country, we
shall be better situated next year, and
will JOIN the balance of the world in "a
gO-as-you-please" race for plenty and
prosperity.
THE ARTESIAN WELL.
1t was Gen. TOombs, believe, who used
to say, in those grand old days which are
still luminous with the lingering flashes
of his wit and eloquence, that ''the RO-
man God Terminus was a progressive
deity"
Now, we are not sufficiently In love
with our artesian we'll to defy it, but, if
we were, there could not be ascribed to it
those progressive qualities which char
Fr of
don't progress worth a cent. Right there
it sticks and stays and laughs at US
throughout the whole length of its enOr-
nous sixty feet. Ii every sigh, which
Mayor HarreH has heard, and every
grOan he has grunted over hopes disap-
pointed IN this well business, were COM
pressed into a funnel-shaped cyclone of
the regulation Georgia pattern, and
aimed square down the hole of our well,
there would soon be an end to the whole
business. Such force as that would drill
a hole through any substance, and might
even make an impression on the hardened
conscience Of the average Republican
Congressman. Mayor Harrell has, fought
n0bly" for artesian water, and deserves
the thanks of the community for the en-
ergy and perseverance which mark his
conduct in this behalf. We may give
him a public baptism--by sprinkling. of
GEN. ToOMBs.
The preceding reference to this cold
man eloquent" reminds me of his apOs-
trophe to liberty which has never found
its way into print. 1t was "thrOwn OFF,
in his speech delivered before the Legisla-
ture advocating the call for a constitu-
tiOnal convention. StresSing the TACT
that in all ages of the worlds history
mankind had been forced to battle for
their dearest rights and privileges, he
concluded in his grandest style with this
magnificent Outburst: 80, Liberty, thou
art not a fair-haired maid, with wavy
ringlets clustering around a neck of ala
baster; but thou art strong giantess
with a shield in one hand and a sword in
the other; with a brow, erect and lofty.
and wearing the wounds of Olden wars"
The electric effect of that perOratiOn
finds an equal only in Ben HIPS famous
roll calP' conclusion and the soldiers
who kept watch at AndersOnville San
swering'' to the vindication of his char
acter.
A LAW CASE.
An interesting case is in court a this
place, and comes up for hearing before
Judge Bower at chambers next Monday.
1t is a bill for account and settlement
which has been granted by Judge Bower
on complaint Of Mr.. Isaac Loeb against
his late partner, Mr.. L. G. Jones. The
Judge granted temporary injunction
and appointed Mr.. l.. o. Jackson receiver,
who will have quasi control of the bust
ness until the hearing Monday.
LOCAL SHORTS.
Messrs. Dan Hecht and l. NJ. ROsenfeld
together with Mr.. Henry Smith, three
commercial evangelists, are scattering
seeds Of kindness in this place, and each
Of them selling goods cheaper than any
house in the world
The woods are full not of timber, but
timbermen. This county has apparently
gone crazy on the subject of round and
square timber. Swindell Bros. and Num-
70, ClarY & Co., are the heaviest operators
in that line.
Mr.. Dod Emanuel, who lives in this
county, made seven bales of cotton on
fourteen acres of land last year, and
worked his entire crop from beginning to
end with one OK. ''DOd" says he wouldn't
| feed the best horse in Georgia for what
work he could get out Of him. He says
his land on swamp Creek is like the soil
in Australia: "Tickle it with hoe and
! it laughs with a harvest"
The NEWS has an efficient agent at this
| place in the person of Mr.. j. R.GraVes. He
and Col. Gentry will stick to man until
| the ''leas leave him" unless he at once
| subscribes for the NEWS. AS Col. Gentry
eloquently remarks, "There's nothing
like it, ali little sugar in mine, if you
| please" /. WILL.