The National tribune., 1908-09-10
H. T. vARNDELL FARM SCENE.

iHoltzendorf, w. r. Pauik, Fred J. Clark
w. r. Bowen, George Kicker, B. c
Mosher, H. M. Warren, I. Gelders, Wad
ley Garbutt, E. K. Farmer, E. S. Fuller
1t would be a romance of dollars II
narrate the number of men who hay'
made comfortable little fortunes BY
trading in town lots. One will answer
the purpose, A young man In 1895 IN
vested 5000 in lots, five years after sell
ing out for $4,000, reinvested hi!
money. and not long since he refused
$4,000 for his holdings.
One other instance: The Episcopa
Church was given corner lot in the be
ginning. 1t afterwards sold the lot foi
$4,000, and bought outside the business
| limits. The colony farm tracts hav'
grown into valuable properties. 1t !!
claimed that a dollar has never beeI
| lost in real estate investment in thu
| colony limits. The impetus il invest
ment in Fitzgerald has just fairly be
| gun. 1t is q city of much confidence II
itself, and in all community affairs there
| is solid, aggressive, enthusiastic co
| operation manifested now in the worl
| of the Business League, the motto O
| which is, "Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull
| Out"
The County of Ben Hill.
Ben Hill County, Ca, the latest borr
| and fairest of all of the Empire States
many subdivisions. Ben Hill will moi
be found on any map more than yeal
or SO old. To easily locate the Magic
City" on maps published during or prior
to 1906, find Brunswick, Ga, on the
sea, and then follow up northwesterly
the line of the Atlanta, Birmingham &
Atlantic Railroad until you come to r.
Nt-ts tl.xv
of Fitzgerald; or follow up the lire of
the same road from Themasyille down
close to the Florida boundary. FitZ-
gerald is in the south central part of
the State.
Under an amendment to the Consti-
tuition, in 1894, the organization of eight
new Counties was ordered. There were
"a applicants, among them the people
of Fitzgerald, who desired a County
named for Gov. Northen, who had been
active in promoting the interests of the
colony. The bill for Northen County
failed by one vote. The main oppOsi-
ton was against using the name of a
living individual In 1905 the Legisla-
ture was again approached, with Ben
Hill as the name for the County, and 1t
passed.
Benjamin Harvey Hill was one of
Georgia's great men. He served the
state in both branches of the Legisla-
ture and of Congress, in the latter meet
ing in debate Blaine and Conkling and
other of the orators of that day. He
was also a member of the Confederate
Congress. In 1856 Mr.. Hill, who was
Whig, had a joint debate with Alex
H. Stephens, a Democrat. The latter
took offense at some remark, and sent
Mr.. Hill challenge to fight duel, this,
too, after he had given Mr.. Stephens a
written explanation of his remarks as
he remembered them.
Altho the code duello was not held
in such aversion as 1t is to-day, Mr.. Hill
was warmly commended everywhere for
his manly refusal to engage in such an
encounter. Mr.. Hilfs letter practically
closing the correspondence, except some
newspaper articles which followed, is
an interesting document:
La Grange, Ga, Dec. 6, 1856. Dear
Sir: Your letter OF Nov. 20 was handed
to me a few moments since by Hon.
Thomas w. Watson. You say that my
letter of the cath ultimo has in it much,
both in tone and manner, personally
offensive in itself, and. without specify
ing anything which you designate as
offensive. you proceed TO ask of me that
satisfaction which is usual between gen.
tlemen in such cases. 1t might be some
satisfaction for you to shoot me, tho /
should entertain no great fear of being
hit; but candor requires me to say, with
my present feelings, / could not de-
liberately shoot at you, and for many
reasons, a few only of which 1 now
give:
First. might possibly Kill, you. ard
tho you may not consider your life
valuable. yet to take it would be great
annoyance to me ever afterwards. The
ceaseless accusations of my conscience
that / was a murderer would be the
bane of my future happiness.
Second. / am not conscious of hav-
ing given you any just ground of Of
fense. In my letter of the Gath / au-
thorized you to construe my remarks by
the meaning of our own charge, to
which the remarks We're intended as
reply. If the reply then was offensive,
it only proves that you so intended your
charge. and in that view you are en-
titled to no satisfaction, and am satis-
fled with the reply. Further than this,
| distinctly disclaimed any personal al
fusion or unkindliness, and, notwith-
standing your 'bcllfgerent message feel
nQRe now.
. Third. If the invitation to mortal
combat is extended as a mere formal