The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-28
BULLOCK AND HER PEOPLE.
"A. ssTAUNCH OLD COUNTY WITH A
GREAT RECORD BEHIND HER.

Now One of the Leading Towns of
This srctfen--Both Town and
County Have Largely Increased in
Popu1ntfon-The People of BuIIoch
Have Always Maintained the Clos
with Savannah.
The delegates to the First District Con-
greesional convention were handsomely
entertained yesterday by the citizens of
statesboro. The entertainment included
dinner at Jaeckers Hotel, the Drum
credit to any hotel in the country. The
Savannah delegation went up by the
Georgia and Alabama and the
Savannah and Statesboro Railroad
and returned by the Central of
Georgia and the Dover and States
bero, all of which, with the Bruton
and Pineora Railroad, traverse the ancient
c9unty4of Bullock. The route going and
coming is through well-kept farms indi-
cative of the energy and thrift of the
original Cracker county" The people are
prosperous for they farm their own lands
and what. there Is to be made is made by
them, and Is theirs. Their property is
notable on every side at home and is well
known abroad. A hundre,: thousand dol
lars stands to the credit Of the people of
Bulloch In the Bank of Statesboro, and
probably ten times as much is deposited
In banks in other places. Bulloch county
was laid off in 1896, and was named after
Gov. Archibald Bulloch of Savannah, who
was one of the statess executives during
the revolutionary period, when the execu-
tive was a dangerous office 10 hold and
who doubtless DID, like one of the early
., cabinet officers of the .Confederacy is said
20 have done, carried the archives of
the state in his hat
The early settlers of the land, part of
which is now Bulloch county, were the
descendants of Scotch and Scotch-Irish
who settled In North and South Carolina
and who moved across the Ogeechee
when the Creek Indians still roamed the
forest, and the names of a majority
OF those who make up the
citizens Of the county bear testimony
that the sons love the country of their
fathers too well to leave it, 1t is said that
IS per cent OF the people are descendants
of the original settlers. This does not
mean that the population Is not increas-
sus shows that in 1880 the population was
$500; In, 1880 it was about 14O00, and from
4, the number of voters and school children
u ,is now estimated al $1,000. If these
figures are borne out by the present CEN
aus, BuHoch county will be entitled to
another member in the general assembly
AS 1t has always been the banner Demo-
cratic county, it should get all that it is
entitled to. Before the advent of saw
I'M fla
had but few negroes within Its boundaries
these industries added to It's population
and also to Its criminal annals. They are
however, leaving the county for the fresh
timber lands of Alabama and florida in
large numbers. and in another year only
those who are thrifty and law-abiding
will remain
In religion the Bullochites are "muchly'
Baptist, the Primitive Baptist holding the
lead. with the. Methodists next in num-
:; ber. They, as their forefathers followed
the faith. OF the stern .dissenters of t, e
old country, so many OF the good peo>l
of Buliech to-day Keep strict within the
otd behef and Customs. 1t is, said that
there rs more real od-fashioned religion
IN bulioch and around the edges of other
counties that join 1t than in all the BAL
ance Of the state put together. OF course
there is quite sprinking of the men OF
this ancient and honorable subdivision
OF the state that can keep pace with any
sn Georgia and sing a Hot Time
In The Old Town Tonight" ard have 1t too
that Is when they are in Savannah or
some other town
All this Is about the county of Bullocb
and now about its thriving county
site, the little city Of Statesb ro 1t is fif-
ty-two miles from Savannah by way Of
Cuyler and sixty by way of Do err
and fifty miles by the dirt road 1t has
population OF about 1000 three-fourtns
OF which ere white people. The town is
neatly laid out and has several blocks
of handsome stores land more are being
builD. stately churches, a handsome court
house, a. better one than Savannah had a
few years ago and numbers of com 'ort-
able residences. 1t has recently issued
sl0,0O0 worth of bonds with which to build
new school house, which, by the way
were readily taken by the Citizens Bank
Of Savannah at something over pr
This s,smenttoned incidentally to s ow
the good credit of the town and the peo-
pie as we'll as their interest in eiuca ion.
OF course in these days one can pick cut
hundreds of towns in Georg that ex-
coed Statesboro in size, but the mpari-
ron is of no consequence when 1t is known
that though Statesboro HIS bee the
county site for more than hundred yea
and had a big dot, just as big as ary
town in the world, to repre- ent IFS geo
graphical position on the maps, it's pop -
>lation twenty years ago would only
count two dozen, and the only thing to
mark the spot from other Lonely places
In the woods were an old rickety COR;
house and a few houses for boarders who
came occasionally to the courts, as judge,
lawyers and liigants or the more unfor-
tunate .jurymcn or witnesses.
StatesDoro revels in news papers; ii has
three and they are well edii ed and nea ~
printed journals. 1t is difficult to under
stand how they all do well, which they
must Go. judging from the apeparance o.
their editors. The Bulloch Times is edit
ed by Mr. T. A. McGregor; the Bulloch
Herald is looked after by Mr.. David b.
Turner, and the Ststesboro Star is pre-
sided over by Mr.. ]. r. Miller.
Statesbofo has merchants. lawyers,
ministers, doctors and others whose
names are not unknown to fame
or to Sav9nnahians, but the list
would be too To- to be publisr ed in this
sk;t h. The Savannah del gaticn will re-
member Them, and will tie f. next
convention to be he'd at Ststesboro.
Bulloch county has been known Sa-
vann0biars SO far back hat the memory
of man runneth not TO the contrary. Be
fore the days of railroads, even b fore
the Central was built, long lines of agons
came to Savannah tr0m Buloch and the