Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — In the Georgia Gold. Mines. [ARTICLE]

In the Georgia Gold. Mines.

There seems to be Terr little confidence among the native -whites in these mines. It may be said"'that they lack knowledge of the business, but I suspect they know that the gold that is, or was, readily available ha« .been exhausted. Few native Georgiansengage in gold-mining Tfottjf iIV&W wageg. But all of them are eager to sell mineral lands. ' IW . Wages here are-exceedingly low,'the regular rate being from 80, cents to $1 per day. The men board themselves. handle. All the 'mem owh what they fondly imagine to be farms, andthey cheerfully throw their tools into the ditch and qnit "-Work at any moment they think thqy have been imposed on, or thdt then: crops nded attention. These men are {unlike the Carolina sandhillers. They are fighters. They are mountain men. They were aipnen Union men during the war, and very generally refused to serve in the Confederate ranks. They are snre to get drunk on corn whisky if they get the chance. If the liquor has been made by moonshiners, it is thought to be sweeter. They are ignorant and wretchedly poor; but there is good staff ia them. —New York Sun. Ann that is human most retrograde if it do not advanoe.— Gibbon. I Don’t Sellers It. for dyspepsia Itstrmi^^the'digestive fox Ann? ■ A*k your drug-