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66 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [January,.
SOUTHERN HUMORISTS'.
Mary Washington.
Article No. 1.
Judge Augustus Baldwin Longstreet,
of Georgia, is, I believe, the earliest
of our Southern humorists. He was
born in Augusta, Ga., September 22,
1790. He graduated at Yale College
in 1813, studied law in Connecticut,
and was admitted to the bar of
Georgia . In 182i he was elected to
the Legislature, and in 1822 he was
made Circuit Judge. He resigned, on
moving to Augusta, soon afterwards.
In 1838 he entered the Methodist Episcopal
ministry, and in 1839 he wa*
made President of Emory College,
Oxford, Ga. After nine years' successful
administration of this office,
he was called to the presidency of the
Centenary College, Louisiana, and
soon afterwards to the University of
Mississippi. In 1857 he accepted the
presidency of the South Carolina College,
but returned to the University of
Mississippi in 1861, and remained
there until his death in 1870.
He had an extremely varied career,
being by turns lawyer, judge, legislator,
preacher, author, pamphleteer,
educator, and president of various colleges.
He is best known, however, as
the author of a richly humorous work
entitled "Georgia Scenes," which was
published in 1840, and which enjoyed
so wide a popularity that you could
find a copy of it in almost every
Southern home, prior to the war. A
revised edition of it also appeared in
1867. Many of the characters were
so racy and life-like that they became
household words. Judge Longstreet
afterwards wrote another humorous
work entitled "Master William Mitten,"
but it did not possess the freshness
and vigor of "Georgia Scenes."
Another of our ante-bellum humorists
is Dr| George Washington Bagby,
who was born in Buckingham county,
Virginia, on the 13th of August, 1828,
and who died in Richmond on the
29th of November, 1883. His father
was a native of Lynchburg. Dr.
Bagby was eucated at Princeton, N. J.,
and graduated in medicine from the
University of Pennsylvania, after
which he started to practice his profession
in Lynchburg, where his
father lived. He soon, however,
abandoned medicine for the profession
of letters. He first wrote for the
"Lynchburg-Virginian," then edited by
Mr. James McDonald, and many of his
sketches were published in its columns;
as, for instance, "The Sacred
Furniture Warehouse," "Blue Eyes,"
and others. Early in 'the fifties, he
and his friend, Capt. George Latham,
owned and edited the "Lynchburg Express,"
which only ran a short time.
Afterwards Dr. Bagby went to Washington
City as correspondent of the
"N. O. Crescent." Whilst in that city
he not only wrote for "The Crescent,"
but for the "Charleston Mercury,"
"Richmond Dispatch," "Atlantic
Monthly," and "Southern Literary
Silver Herd
Spring of t
SHORT HORNS.
ROBERT R. SMITH, PROPRIETOR,
Chariestown, W. Va.
Jefferson Co. -OR- WickUfle, Va,
Clarke Co.
Farm In the best bluegrass section of each State; cattle out all the year,
therefore hardy and healthy. Herd numbers 76; calves by a son of Choice
Goods, out of dams by a son of Gay Monarch, also by the Scotch bull, Minn'*
Secret. Five 1-Year Bulls for sale, also a number of younger Bulls and
Heifers at reasonable prices.
Short Horns are equally the most profitable breed of cattle, as they ar»
the most popular, as a glance at the sale averages for the past five, ten or
twenty years will show.
NbW YEAR'S
remembrances to The Southern Planter
family by
BURKE'S GARDEN CATTLE CO.
* IN A SPECIAL DISCOUNT
on WIN HcG. 38431, by Bay McGregor; dam's sire (Stoutwood) by Nutwood 60S,
SHORT HORNS, HAMPSHIREDOWNS, SOUTHOOWNS.
Either Sex, Any Number, Both, No Akin.
Mammoth Bronze and White Holland Turkeys, Pekin Docks, White an*
Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes, Black Langshans, Brown ami
White Leghorns.
Our special prices will make this stock look like bargains. Not good
after February 1st.
Lower rates and better express service, thanks to H. C. S., of Virginia
Corporation Commission.
BURKE'S GARDEN CATTLE COMPANY, TAZEWELL, VA.
side Herefords
OWNED BY S. W. ANDERSON, BLAKER MILLS,
GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA.
A choice lot of Bulls, Cows and Heifers for sale; also,.
a few Polled Hereford Bulls, recorded in the National
Polled Hereford Record.
Write for Catalogue and Prices.
FARM NEAR ALDERSON, W. VA.
Telephone and Telegraph, Alderson.
THE HOLLINS HERD
—OF—
HOLSTEiNS
Only the first four daughters of Paul Clyde have been tested. They alE
made fine A. R. O. records.
No daughters of Sir Henry Netherland of Hollins have been officially
tested, but private records of his pure-bred and grade heifers have beencarefully
kept.' Eleven heifers, with first calf, averaged over 9,000 pounds
of milk in one year.
Pontiac Areas Is a young sire of great promise. He is a son of the great
Hengerveldt DeKol, sire of seventy-seven A. R. O. daughters.
Fine Bull Calves, from 2 to 8 months old, from the above sires for sal*
this month.
JOSEPH A .
TURNER, GENERAL MANAGER,
Hollins Institute, Hollins, Va.
LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER.
I offer my services as a Stock Salesman to the breeders of the East In doing M,
I will eay that I have equipped myself both by haying taken a course at the JW«
National School of Auctioneering, and by year* of breeding and selling Pedigreed Stock.
I make a specialty of Pedigreed Sales.
If I may be permitted to say it, I will suggest that I believe I can render
Breeders better service than salesmen residing in remote parts of the country, as I an:
thoroughly familiar with conditions obtaining in this section. Then, too, I win
probably not be quite as expensive as to railroad fare, etc., and besides, I must give
satisfaction or I make no charge for my services.
Write me or 'phone me via Winchester over Sontfeern Bell Phene for data*.
Prompt attention assured.
Roy P. Duvall,
: g : Stephenson, 1/a.