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Tl!!;c INSTITUTION PUB. CO
ATLANTA, GEOltGIA, FOR THE WEEK ENDING
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OUShTITUTION,
ao. 4U, volume X
f^nae and trouble that he can raise 1 feet on the attending crowd ; that it
Jay Gori.o an 1 Judge Fuiiert*.
make a *;.«rlc>rg '**m.
id Wells are still faith-
Tutu fraud t»t
grow in irU^.— H
Tbe ham rom
crying on*, "If ■ «
If begin* to to >i
ontinues
r >n ad vane
|>4prra will now be
* ar** von Hayes?”
a to lo >k ua if they were go
mg to have Trouble in Europe. Haying
oroken all of Gladstone's window.-,
the British r mgh is g**ong restive.
7 Wo fiifour AMT MILLS.
Mr. Siephtne is the bur eat man in
congreos. On Monday of this week lie
l>r* sen ted two important measure*,
both of which are beiug freely dis
eased by r e press. The first provides
for An investment of savings at a low
rite of interest. He proposes that the
United States shall issue postoffie
bonds of the denominations of $J, |5
IIO, $35 $50 and $IOO, to be printed or
bank note paper, and to l e redeemable
•t any poatofiice of the United States
having funds for the purpose, or any
sub-treasury, when presented in de
nominations of $10 or over. These
bonds «re to bear interest at the rate of
3 05 100, and the interest to be paid
every three monthsatthe rateof ninety
cents on every $100. The hill was re
ferred to the committee on banking and
currency.
The other is a bill lo increase the su
preme court to fifteen members.
While it is plain that the business
of this court demands some relief,
yet it is asking altogether too much of
a democratic house to pa-s a bill that
would let Air Hayes put six more
HurUnnon the bench, finch a measure
w’i d lx* an eminently just one after
1880; for n that way the grossly par
tisan nature of the court could be
ameliorated. Mr. h.ephena’s bill should
lie over until the fourth of March, 1881
TtU! DEAF AX It It lxUS ASYLUM.
We call especial attention to the let
ter of Hon. A J. K ng, concerning the
deaf ami dumb asyiu n, which appear^
in another column. Mr K l ng occupies
a per nliar posiuon ss will be seen from
hie card, and his (i terances, const:
qu-ntly, have great weight.
It irt a matter of regret that so mag
nificent a charity should not he utilized
more thoroughly than this one appears
to lie. With six hundred deaf mutes
in the state, there were not forty in
attendance upon the institute last year
That the n mber ia increased to seven
ty-one Ilia year, is a matter of con
gratulation, hut it should be speedily
pushed up to two or three hundred. I
would cot the at ate very little more t«.
support twice the nuiuOer that ere now
at the institute. It the parents o!
those nnfortunatca who are not at tin
irihiitute, would only visit Cave Spring
and see how the condition of the chil
dren there is improved, and how hap
py and contented they are, he would
no: hesitate a moment about entering
his chi I '. No maa is too poor to send
his child. Even if he depends on It for
the w ork it may do about the huise, i
will he economy to send it to the tusy-
|ym : forma few years the child will
come hack, pr ii dent in a trade am
able to read, write and improve him
self. We trust that the report will b*-
n»d by everyone.
thirty buthels of corn, and can buy
twice as much with it. The introduc
tion t S cotton as a money err p in North
Georgia, has elevated the farmers of
that section, and gone very far towards
enriching them. The successful for
mula for farming in the south, it ape
pi-ars, would be, first to raise on the
farm all needed farm supplies; second,
1 to put all the surplus energies into cot
ton as a money crop; and third, to
carefully husband all the small re
sources of the farm. This last item is
a very important one, and one that the
southern farmer has seldom regarded.
I' means the saving of the fruit and
berry crop, attention to the poultry
walks, the farm-yard, the sheep-fold,
die apiary and the truck garden. With
these points carefully guarded success
is certain, and a competency assured.
It must lie remembered, though—and
years of experience only emphasize
this trj;h—that, on all the farms from
Maryland to Texas, cotton rears its
white and kir.gly head, monarch by
concurring rights, and all other indus
tries are grouped around it as accesso
ries and incidents.
• WANT OF I'A IRON AGE:
; phlll.'
ml agtii
f.tC
Under this caption the Atlanta Tri
tme of yesterday morning announces
a own suspension in these words:
Alters pAtiu .t If not a brave itrugg'e for a
pctetUon in the jou-naUntfc world, the fii&ur* it
'hi* morning forced to join the long proc'a<‘.on
o' Atlanta'* d-ad newspaper*. The manag-
treat of the IriibuM brought to the fight expert-
et.c\ prudence, and economy, and jet tbejare
> oinpeiied to accept the fate that aeemi to await
all a ho endeavor lo eatabliah another paper in
Atlanta. The effi t waa. we regret to itate, a
thorough one. The evening Tfifjvne waa rue-
need* d by a morning Tribune. and both have
gone to the wall for want of support.
We di-1 no*, iqu mder money in “grand jour
nalutlc enterpriseswe sought rather to win
ftur*?j*« by aenaible, prudent method*. We
garnered the new* faithfully, and practiced
very possible economy. In order that we might
fiiml-h a paper within the mean* of the poor-
it citizen. The effort haa resulted in the le-
-raai of our fondest hope*.
The truth 1* there is not room enough in At
laula for two papers. All the patronage that
Atl nia i.«»*:»a.-s is needed to auateln suen a
pip^.raa the city ■ tould have. How near our
NU(C'*n:oi c-mlcinporary comes to the standard
do not care »o ray We only dealra to ray
of our experience, there 1* not a city of At-
tn’aiuin America that furnlahea less ad-
vurtbii.g patrouage. Its merchants are enter-
prtaiug and pro*perou«. buv they uae drummer*
instead of m-w-piper loflaence We have no
dir(>4xiiii>in to a. old mu ."ho ly Ibis morning, an'
are raUrfli-l with tho»tt »rt we have made. We
h ive diMMTi-ie 1 the d.fferenoe between the
promlaea and th- p-rformancas of those who
noimly clamor for "another paper ”
The i Ucc we have fl led will be vacant after
thi* morning, and 1* open to all com rn, hut we
wU eoui-cil any from claiming it We apeak
from i.o theoretical atandpdnt, but from kuow-
.odge Kcqo re 1 In the business
The c .inpioy that control and own the Tri-
fruasare uuwllliug to spend more money in a
vatu t-lTort to c.#*Z tie people to aurutu it.
There is no little truib in the an
nouncement of our late contemporary ;
but the situation in nevertheless not
wholly, or at leas: not plainly, present
ed Let us add our experience to that
of the Tribune for the benefit of ah
concerned.
Owing to the demands of this grow
ing city, the weekly expenses of an
A'lunta morning paper are steadily in
creasing, in spite of all judicious efforts
to the contrary. Atlanta ia an ambi
tions city, and her people will not ac
ccpt a second-class paper. She wants
at least as g »od a paper as is publish
ed in the cotton states. What
.s the result? The weekly expen
.ire swelled to fully one thousand dol-
1 irH, often exceeding that amount, with
4 tendency towards still higher Ugures
hrongh special dispatches, and
extra editorial labor and
composition. While Atlanta
munis such a paper, she ia not willing
0 adequately pay for it. There
.ire no grounds of com
plaint so far as circula’ion is con
erned ; hut, as the Tribune truthfully
*ays, Atlanta is the poorest city of
its aixein America for advartisiug. We
have no shipping, and will have none
oven if the city becomes a port of de
livery; our jobb9rs d) not seem t«
hmk that their customer? ever read an
Atlanta paper, and our revenue from
tdvertising is thus almost |w holly
confined to the retail trade
brief it takes all the
revenue that tact and enter
prise can muster in Atlanta to keep
atl >at such a paper as the pe »ple of At
anta h* ’ te accustomed to ani
will hr«after de ».*nd.
A nt w p.*per suould therefore be able
*.» crush the existing one—to seize it*
circulation anil business—to, in a word
drive it out of the field ; for the busi
ness is incapable of material di
vision. That two papers can
not exist, in the long - prevailing
learth of advertising, is shown by
roll of papers th t Tub Constitution
uas seen ittsaawav. The list include?
the Opinion, the New Era, the Intelli
gemer, the True Georjian, the Evening
ErpnM, the Nun, the Herald, the Xe
the Courier, the Times, the Comvu
Health, the OmmoireaUh-Herali
and the Tri bun*'— i most exhaus
1 ig the vocabulary of popular titles.
tiOO it will buy 1 tAX) I These papers represent the diflerent line
, when it would former \ | of newspaper activity, iiclnding the
t rutty out Kjsa.
> had
i-t old K
i, it at h«
of all tl
newgpAp•
g Gotten - :i
held hist
presses the passion for crimes, that it
appalls the incipient criminal, and
vinces everybody of the maj-rsty and
s-'rnnesa of the liw.
Our opi .ion is, that these are all in
correct premises. We are opposed to
public executions of any sort; or to a
public administration of the law. We
do not believe that the sight of suffer
ing prisoners has a tendency to check
crime. We Lave no idea that the di
viding of the state convicts into tqaads
and sending them over the stale has
made tbe penitentiary system any more
efficient for the prevention of crime
than it waa when the felons were all
imprisoned within four walls. We are
very positive in our opinion that pub
lic executions subserve no useful end.
We believe, on the contrary, with
Combe, that 14 ev-ry public execution
breeds a new stock of criminals.” We
find that the worst elements of society
are usually present at these public
hangings. In their inflamed eyes, the
man on tbe ecsff *ld, the central figure
vast a c owd, the victim of 60 ter
rible a tragedy, becomes a sort of hero
and a martyr, and inspires more of em
ulation than he does of fear. Tbe mor-
:d love of notoriety that lives in the
hearts of many of our social deepera-
does would lead them to walk in the
racks of the dead man, merely that
they might have so conspicuous an
end. Besides these people, the young
men and boys of the country, usually
attend these public bankings. The
sight of the scaffold and its attendant
sufferings gives them a sort of disre
gard of death and flavors their thoughts
with blood and murder. It gives un
natural and abnormal sensations to the
whole community, and unsettles the
public mind. Physicians .declare, too,
that many a man has been born the
victim of uncontrollable passions, and
possessed of homicidal nature, simply
because his mother, just before his
birth, was the witness of 6ome horrible
scene of bloodstied ; such as a public
execution. This one fact of itself
should be almost conclusive against
public hangings, as it is a well known
fact that women always attend them
m large numbers.
Another very serious objection to
public hangings is the fact that they
never fail to draw a rough and disor
derly crowd. Whi-ky always flows
freely on these occasions, and feeds the
assions of the meeting already inflanr
ed by the sight of the death upon the
scaff ild. Trie day generally closes with
senes of figh f s and a genera display
>f rowdyism. It is much worse than an
ection day scramble—more demoral
iziug and more dangerous.
We hope thut we shall see no mere
public executions in Georgia. It is the
certainly of punishment, and not the
sight of it that makes crime hide its
head, and vindicates the majesty of the
law. Let the decree go forth that all
shall sufier. Let the officers
stand by ibis decree and nothing else
needed. A private execution is
ire impressive to the public, and
more terrible to the criminal, than one
in public. The “e ar chamber” under
stood the refinement of punishment,
and it made its executions not only
private but short. It tried its awfu
hand upon a victim, and he disappear*
ed from the siglit of men forever. The
mystery that hung about its method
nfirmed its dominion. Let us imi
tale in so far that our jail walls shall
hide tho operations of our law—let the
public stand in silent wonderment and
know only when the dishonored coffin
comes from the awful gates of the jail
yard, that the law haa avenged the
wrongs of
While we h ive once and awhile tipped
the old king * re,>r *of, we art- c .id to be
able to say that we have never joined in
the indiscriminate abuse that ha* been
heapul upon him. And we rise this
morning to remark that he never held
suck revel dominion as he holds
never w.te seated ro steauiily <
throne A hale of cotton wa* never so
vvliable *h it is now. It would nevei
buy »o many of the artie’es of pure
necers’.ly as it will buy to-day.
In short, a bale of cotton
never represented so much wealth as
ii d es right now. The decline in
pr.e s has carried nearly every staple
article down to ante-bellum low-water
nwk, and many of them below it ; bu
cotton stdl stands away above the old
tiiuie% and seems to have determined
to come no lower.
Ia*t ns look at the comparative value
ol a bale of cotton ace uding to the
prepent figures. A hale of cotton wil ;
buy 833 pounds of btcoa, when ii wool
forms ri;
yard" ol
JLNbWEHH 2 0 Ct> KM B bFOXDES TB.
McDosocgh Ga., March S5.
Editors Constitution : C.in you tell
me wby the 34:h volume of Georgia report*coats
more than any other volume.
T. C asd W. N*.
Because only a few number* of the book
were printed, and the most of them were 'e-
eiroyed during the war. The book U almost out
of print.
That **D»r.eeof Dealb.
Atlanta, Ga.. Marcn £5,
think
to distribute? H
We have read it. and carefully, too. A dirtier,
nastier book—one fuller of suggestive and vul
gar thought* we never saw. It is not relieved
by a single gleam of decency. Bead it vour*el*
and see what you think of it. It should be sup
pressed rather than distributed.
See ToeMlny * Fairer.
A correspondent a*ks us a number of ques
tions concerning tbe in* email oral Sabbath
rcboo! convention. He will fir d them all an
swered In Tuesday's Constitctiox.
r. nud Ulna at Last.
The follow icg is in response to the
inquiry o “J. M
Constitution:
Calhoun, Ga.. March 23.
Editors Constitution: The address
•Gnu-8 Maurice Thompson, or an we know
him here, "Mat” Thompson, is Crawfordavil e,
Montgomery county, Indiana. B.
SPICE AND SPORT.
2HE WOULD OF CHANCE AND
FORTUNE
. late issue of Tux
‘*XI»e Dance of Death ”
Bomx Ga., March28.
Editors Constitution: What i? the
origin of the phrase * The Dance ol Death."
C.
The phrase bad Its origin in an ancient reli
gious dance, in which a figure of Death swept
i j among the dancers, and selecting a partner,
vanished hom the room. The dance was prac
ticed for many centuries. The phrase ha*
latti-ily be- n given to a celebrated senes of
paintings representing the allegorical dance.
Its last revival i* as tne title of a very low and
vulgar book which attacks the waits, and was
written by a San Franciecau. From this book
it drifted into tbe newspape
There la no Way to do It
‘A. L F ” asks us if all the convicts
have been leased, and A not. bow can be bid lor
number of them T Wen ply that tLey have all
been leased, and there ia no way to get any of
them except by a sub-lease. The lease runs for
twenty years, commercin next April. Ihe
present contracts, aa they expire, are me ged
into that e e.
All About the Botbaehllda.
Dalton, Ga., March 23.
Editors C-institutioIi : Can yon tell
r now much Eat lard owes the Fothscbtlds,
and wbat interest *\ «• pays? Also what is the
ealth of their faml ;J? T M. 0
Your first question is resr kHu'ly referred tc
ie chancellor o? the exchequer rf England, or
the officer that attends to the finances. A s to the
I question, we can find no estimate of the
wealth of the family. There are four establish
ments, at London. Paris, Fr. nkfort and Vienna,
and each one is o* ned se parately. The head of
of the brau'di esbibliahments died some
* ago leaving a personal fortune of over
no.ooo.ooa
II I.on?, n That Way.
Bclingbbcke, Ga., March 23.
B ip a land holder. C is a laborer,
and agrees to work for B during the space of one
i»nd B ou the strength of that rgreemtn?
furnishes C rations and money. C of his own
;ccord breaks the agreement. Does C get goods
under false pretences? W. D. H.
We don’t know ihe law of the case, but it
inks thU way according t»ordinary lights. The
circumstances may have justified “C." Bill Arp
raid a fellow $10 In provisions to dig a well
The fellow ate the provisions and didn’t dig tbe
Bill Arp thereupon rendered a bill, “Mr-
s Bill Arp, dr. To one wed which you
didn’t dig, $10 ”
‘•UNCLE REMUS/’
UNCLE REMUS A.\D THE SILVER DOL
LAR.
Wat’s dis ’bout dat silver b : zne ??’
axketl Uncle Remus yesterday. "I heir Min
Sally re 'dm’ ’bout it. and axed her, but sha ?*y
dat 1 mu*’ ax M uiJohu, an’ den I
John, an* Ma- Johu say I mu*’ go ter deee
yer noosepsp -r men w i’t kick uoall de devil
nit—I b’lotve uat wus -1e l&ngwidge be used.
Ua, that’s a.l settled, Ui.c e Remus. Every
thing Is fixed.”
Who hilt de blgges’ ban’ In de game J”
The stiver m.*u They did o't carry all the;
nts, but they are tolerably well satisfied.”
What's de upshot er de frsca-, den ?”
Why we are to have the o;d-f.iRhioued dol-
—tbe old sliver dollar that suiUd eo well.''
I noils d*» I aiu't got mine yit ’’
‘Oh. its too soon yet. They will be put in cir
culation just as fast as tbe miuts can make
item ’’
• VVhar ’bouts la de 'serabiy you speck I’r
settln*, boa* ? How fur back fum de mu i
rsshuus out de »e*d* dux you reckon I is?”
• Oh, the tiilvi rf-lo iare w.ll be circulated just
lik • any other money. You get it if you
it."
••Hav’ fer ter scramble arter it i
c aa be-
vish am! the j>ru-!ent,the bo’d and the
•nations. The Herald, in ita best days,
»a? ceriainly daring enough, and the
Tribune mast have satisfied th>*e who
preferred a gradual and quiet effir: to
>htain a foothold. The plan of the
■aid managers was in truth the only
» that could succeed. They never
buy 300 to 400 yards. It will buy vu,
p-m.ds of sugsr, when it would
formerly bring 450 po inds. It wil
bring Si barrels of fiour, where it would
formerly bring about six barrels. I' j pt'
will bring 35 socks of salt, where ir j
formerly brought about it) sacks. It !
will bring 150 gallons of syrup, 350 i ov
«,> n , ds or ci ffee, 635 pounds of lard.' for oue moment expected to become a
1 350 pounds of iron, 400 pounds of j rival of 1 he Constitution ; they in
cotton bagring. Any farmer who look? i ended to supplant it. They saw t it
over the?* figures wi l see very readily (there was not enough business to sup
th»t lb. i>uic';tu‘in« pj«er ol » h*l» o) j P°rt two accepuble paper.; and
t moil 13 from one-third to one-tali' the bninen haa greatly decreased
greater now than it waa before the war j while the running expenses have
Sh « f ha:?, a.l cotton mauuf&e:ured great!v increased since that time. There
goods and woolen good, have gone | -hould, in the nsual coarse of
d »„ lo rn one-fourth to one-half in Uflaire, be more advertising in Atlanta,
price, wnile cotton still ranges about hut as long as there is not, it ls nMless
on.' i .nr;h igher than before the war «> «*’k «»W “two papers,
The moral ol these figures is plain. | eriorated sheet, are meant. It Adnata
I> is this: toton is and will remain I want* the best paper to the cotton
,h Sing staj'ie ol the country. It is states, .he mast not only get along
tbe beat and mosr lucrative staple crop 1 witn one, bat she must support that
that the southern Uimer can raise, [owe batter than she has in the past.
Bv savin* this, we do not mean to sav ! Oar readers may depend upon « tha.
•hat the farmer should not diversify bi« i Thk Coxstitctios will be kept fnUy up
crops. We believe that he cau predt-! to the patronage that it receives.
*y v rai?«* on the farm ail lt:at he need —
: carry hia family, hi* laborers and H0W shall we UaNO 1BEU?
j. ^ ik'oek through the year. While he ...
ni y not be aole to raise it as cheaply I Th* public eiscuuon of Angtutas
a. he coaid buy it, he
“Well, den. in regA’ds rer dst silver bill, I’d
bln what de liule boy wux w’eu be made amouf
at de cow,"
“Where was that. Uncle Remus?”
“Oa de top rail er de fens. Bui dar's a nuddt
pint, bo*s,” coutiuued the o.d man, refl.'
fsv moment*. “I hear talk d*t de*e ytr Mexl-
kin doller* ain’t up ter high-water mark i
wufueaa.”
• Weil, tho*e who p*y you a Mexican dollar
will sive you a nick l to make up the i
that is if you call tbeir atteutio t to it.”
“Den I don't git de nickel, c x? a silver do:
'cr’s good cuff fer me, weVddcr ? w .e’s Nuniud
State* er w’dder she’s furrin. Nobo ly d
hav’ tor ter coax me fer ter take a silver doEer."
thinking a few minutes, and
A SAD ACCIDENT.
Kail road
Yesterday morning about 10 o’clock
there oocurr d st the Forsyth street railroad
crossing one of those unfortunate accidents
which seem to be 00 frequent in cur city.
The morning passenger train on the Western
tbe trains'are made un and taken apart.
As the cars mot i d rather slowly several boys
limped ou the platform to take a free ride
imoiu; these waa a lad about ten years old.
Tbe Horse and HU Coaeomllanta-
Kaess and Hagsra-Genfral Note*
of Intercot to tbe Fast and Ibi
Fickle.
WAR OF THE SAINTS.
TBE BURNING OF ANTIOCH COL
ORED CHURCH.
The Cbrqnersd History of the Con.
grecaflon — A standln* Quarrel —
Ihe Nccoud « bnrct>-BarLluR.
of Mr. W C. Ruggl. s, who reside* on
Foundry street. When Ihe ctrs were crossing
For-yth *t-eet, young Kurgles endeavored
>o jump off tbe platform. ’ Unfortunately his
feet slipped and he
FKLL ON THE TRACK.
Instant thy heavy coach behind him had
parsed over him and his loft leg was frightfully
cruaned just below the knee. A large crowd
soon c l ecied on the spot where the unfortu
nate child lay tnffering. He was carried as
oon as to-sibie to hts father’* residence, where
ir Willis Westmoreland was summoned to
.•tend him He amputated the cruabed limb
just below the knei with his um-U
akill, and yesterday (afternoon the wounded bov
wu reported as doing very well. Tbe accidem
teaches a lesson, and gives strength to com
plaint whkh we hear frequently made. It Is
said that boys are allowed by the train hands
of nearly all the rewls
e which
e switched to and fro so freely right in the
d, and the triin bands who fall to put
proceed e< .
No; much Not dis season. W’en Mars John
gimme my wages I’ll take de Mexlklu doller
lef do nickel fer him an’ his muider-’n
aw fer ter fight ’bout, an’ I'm bleat ef I don’t
e de ole ’oman ’4 mount ’iia an’ conge
un fer a heap less din d*t Ain't you got a
backet er water dat you want brung, b ws ?”
Whereat, the old man toddled off » the
pump.
li. A".\ ! A UO I'UW.l — O
a -u- i4 u ,*, ,. w certain of Johnaon, under the extraordinary cir
LT-r^always I cumstances that summnded it, has
lie will not have to go in ! provoked anew the discussion of a very
X-kto get I.and will have to ;w»y no j old question, vis: "How shall we hang
iu ■ nts pereentage of interest. oar criminals ? ’
But, heo be ha. raised enongh corn The ivne is of course between public
wu i.3.n and hav to supply his home! vP>i private execnaons. While the
ncW-iee he should pul bie sarplos i ««i«ht of exp.rience and mveatigaaon
crvi' ato outton. ft is the best money ^been “ ° f exscuuona
’ , , ’ ^ raise and the most certain 'here me many who hold to the pirn, of
The south cannot aflord to eater iuto j having them m pubhe. It at certain
-omoe-ition With the west in the that the sight of the felon on tbe
',, aluc i, n oi corn and batxm for the , «-sffoid, the solemnity of the proceed-
eereiai in trket. A fsrmer can raise a 1 inea, she awful drop, and the horror of
hslec roitcnwith iust the same ex- he dteth agoniee. have jb^nefihel ef-
Uncle Beams ami old man Plato,
who are excellent specime:.* of the old-
darkey, met at tbe passenger depot yesterday
and compared cotes.
Dm* is mighty hard time*. Brer Remus.’’
von’er hoopin’, now. honey; aa’ deyer cittin’
harder. Demndat giua dol.ar des* days is
jonlimber hi?*e f. sho’s youbo’a. He’s
got to git ’rona’ like he wux at a camp-Electin'
rsstle.”
"Dst's w’at I call* knockin’ at de frunt do*,’’
mid old Uncle F.au>. by way of expreasin; his
he*rty assent.
“De time done come. Brer Plato,” continued
Fuels R .mus, “w en niggers ain’t got no:;e i
’▼AUlAge er po’ w’ite folks. Some aa um.
, nrda kia set ia de sun aa* g;t fat. bat wil r
bit’s* *caffl.e and t scramble trem day's e.a
ter day s eeni.au' I'm monst'ous gladw'i
uigat one* el I got er slice er bicoa rine ter
ter gre*X-‘ my stammuk wid ”
• Some er dme yer niggers. Brer Remus, wat
# taa*» 'roan* h suns deyse'f iook like dxt fiey
got lich kia #lks somewhere*.*'
“Nouae ferler bodi-.r 'bout d«rkia-folk*.
Brer Plata Er ’twm'nt fer d«?*e sunshine rig
ger*. de chain gang wool in't be able fer ter dig
a pus' noli. Hit 'ad be mighty nigh ex weax ex
de toddy Wat Mars. John mixes fer de baby
Nigger* don’t ratten on no sausb.ne Wcm you
waxe d« to' day an’ hear de hen’s a cacklin’
an' a squallin', voa’k'n da* put it down dat one
er deee yer sunshine nigger? :» mikin' hi? livin',
sm’ ef a p'ieeceaoo happia fer ter ta uter up,
dere's anudder cusdy lit fer de chain gang "
- Yon’er chawin' guvunment terback- r now.
Brer Rem oa." responded C-cle Pi*:©, approv-
BISBOF FIERCE,
HI* sermons Hero Snndny
List Bnndxy morn if, in Bpite of wind
and blinding dust, the First Methodot church
w*t filled so full that there was not a vacant
seat fro p'he dtor to he alter. The cause of
the 0«afmblf>dKe of this Urge audience, com
posed of m ny of our announcements that
Bi-hrp George F Pierce would preach. He has
been heard time and again in our city, but each
appearance has added to the number of hi
admirers and hi? attractions as a preache i
ne.-er fail to be honored by the puDiic of alj
deLominations. The bishop preached Sunday
on that beautiful scene iu Mark’s gospel, where
Mary annointi the Savior's feet with pre.
clous ointment and w pc* them with her hair.
The f ermon began with a graphic and touch
ing description of the scene, in which there
much of the b-'anty of that f-uitli as rhetoric
for which the bishop is famous.
After telling the story ia his own charming
way. the pieacher drew from it several very
important let sons, the chief of which was that
advice ot Judas to sell the
ointment and give the proceeds to the
p»r was felse in religion
philosophy and that the rebuke of Christ plain
ly u-aches that a present deed of duty should
be postponed in view of a future contingent .
responsibility.
The event described also teaches that all hu-
lan event* conspire, perhaps unconsciously, to
work out the perfect will of God. Ia «p : te of all
apt-arent aberrations and all abnormal acci
dents. still the steady eerene purpose of God is
worked surely to its end The sermon was more
than an hour in length but so full was it of pro
found thought, brilliant fancy, bold Imagination
and original figure* that tt held the closest atten
tion of all the congregation. Several time*
during its delivery the preacher ws* elcquent in
remarkable degree. Hi* fluency i* wonderful,
and bis diction is marked by the most difficult
ports of hi# sotject this peispicuity sirows in
all its power and enables the simplest under
standing to follow the dose reasoning which is
to dearly put. The bishop seems to lose none
of his power as he grows older, while als rich,
harmonious voice maintain* yet o'.d time
volume and ewettneaa. After u * sermon
Sunday morning he made an appeal to
the congregation to raise $3 CC0 to complete the
church edifice by the timed the meeting of the
general conference in May.
Eight number* of the church gave $1C0 each.
Tue bishop announced that a gentleman whose
came he would not rive would dona’e $1QC It
ia very strongly suspected that the donor wai
the bishop himself. Besides the** literal dona
uems, there was raised $1,250 in donations of
vsrioos sixes, 'has making a total ol $1 550
Only snout $1,200 more ia needed to complete
the chutch. which will surely be finished before
the conference meets. The bo-rdof the church
me: las: n gbt to devise the mast practical plan
to raise the dtfidt-
Last Sunday night Bishop Pierce preached
again to a very large congregation. His sermon
was remarkable for the same excellence and
ekqaence which delighted his hearers in the
morning.
Ihe bw*‘*r*
\- K w Yoke, March 37 —The Swatara
has gone to Sinto Domingo, to look i Cough Syrup in time, and remove bom
. . . ... • liant arol I fVt. a. n -- 1 *. ontl e ffnAt rtf vnn f li 1 Cf-'I !Tt,
—The violation of any of nature’s
laws brings ita warning by the feeling
of discomfort. Exposure will induce
colds, throat diseases, consumption,
etc., all of which give warning by a
troublesome eougfc. Use Dr. Bull’s
after the American residents there, and 1 the cause and effect of your discom-
Their interest* danng the revolution. 1 fon, 43
Many of our cit’z ns are in doub*?
a« to the existence of “White Cloud,” the An
gn-ts horse so much ?poken of but so little seen.
Is he mythical?
Wbort eberry Hnckleterry Moore, of Augusta,
come to Atl.nt* Sa- day Dst and stat.d t‘at be
tad been authorised by the owner# of “White
(.load'* to challenge “Storm,” “Min-ie Tayl- r"
or any o'hcr hors in At am* to trot f r from
$250 to $!00. Bill aays th-.t he will polish the
cha lenge when b? returns home in tbe News.
“Kimb e Jackson,” tbe Griffla eti'.iion, at
•resent is too bnsy ploughing to come to At-
linU and wlu $501 So eays Mr. H. L. Travis,
alias John Hightower, in a tecer.t communica
tion to Mr. C int Taylor, of this city, the own -r
of “S'orm.” Now, a-* Mr. Taylor says that be
wi lpay “Kimble Jackson’s” ^xpen-e*, it lo ks
fon y to see Mr. Travis ploughing a hoi
could so exslly come to Atisnta and walk away
with a bundle of five hundred dollar*. This
premium hor-e might even carry back a rec r
of 2:30 if he could be spared from the cotton
pitch at ihe Griffin ra?3 t-ack fo on - single day.
i his five hundred do la's so ca liy to e won by
Kimhle is more than all the purses won by him
ast year amounted to, aud about twice the value
of tbe animal in flush times, ibese are que r
tim rswhen chalenges ere accep ed in a blood
curdling style, and the pa-ty accepting fnils
ei her to come forward or s nd a repreeenta ive
to make the acceptance good.
authorized to state that Mr. Grot Tay
lor his three horses that can throw dust in
Kimble Jackson’e eyes.
There was ,a fine trotting race at Thunderbolt
racetrack near Savannah ou the 18:h ii st. There
three entr.ee, “Hickory Ja-k,” by Mr.
Jack Ctumbtr-i. of Augusta, “Mauu,” by Mr.
Mclutire, sn-i “Ir sh Gir ,’’ by Mr. M J. Doyle.
Hickory J-ck” did not arrive iu time, conse-
qu ntly th.* race waa trot ed iy ’Maud’' and
•Iriaa Girl." The former waa d iven by Mr-
‘at Summ.rs, a well-known handler of horees
who is In tbe employ of Mr. D. yle, while tbe
latter was driven by Mr. M. J. Doyle her owner
Maud ’ won > he tret beat and “Irish Gill” the
three :oliowing which gave her the race.
The track being quite heavy it was credits
as 15 seconds slow. After the race there was a
general dis*-t:sfaction abjut tbe result, and
many persons declared that Bnmmtrs
had pu led hi? “Maud,” not deairing to oct
speed “Irish Girl,” owned and being driven by
hiitmpoye, Mr. Doyle. There i? every proba
bility that another lace will be made, provided
Mr Mclntirecin procure another driver. Tbe
best time ma le In the hut heat snows a speed
of 2.58.
The three h undred mile wa it, Prof. J. E- Con
slgny, the champ on lcng distance walker of
Canadi, complete t his two bun ;re .th mile last
night at 8 o’clock at the Nat on .4 hotel ball
room. His wa k will close ou next Wednesday
ni : ht, 2?tn instiut, at 11 o'clock. It is thought
l y many he will not comp etc his task. It was
mo e - ifficult to arouse him on ye t -iaay than at
any tim-- previoua. It s p ssible that a consid
erable amount of money wi l be wa/cre t that be
wlli no- succeed iu tbis attempt Atra g ments
. re be ng ma *e to have him make a : peed v alk
of flvi-bun :red miles for a purre o' $500 at the
fait grounds.—Mar on T« legrrpb, March 24.
Mr. Cuarles Brown, of Macon, was iu Augusta
Saturday eveniug Ust with thirty game th ck-
eni. They are ol the very finest br ed and al-
most blood red. He will take them to Char
lotte, North Carolina, where a main is to be
fougLt between Georgia and North Carolina on
April Uth.
Mr. C int Taylor, the owner of “Minnie Tay
lor,” has refund $100 for her. This off.r was
msde by Mr \t S Ilolmin, of Bow.lng Green,
Ky Col. W B.rd Berry also mode an oiler of
tbe same amount for tbe mare.
It is said a g« ntl in tn in Athens has made an
offer (er “Storm,” the handsome stallion owned
by Mr. Clint Taylor.
CU. chuck Anderson, of Marietta,' will have
a flue stable of horses on the track the comi ng
seAson.
Thomasville, Ga, claims quite a number o’
runners and trotter*.
Col. C. A. Hamilton of Joae* county, is put
ting several runners in condition at the Macon
track for the spring ml fall meeting.
“dplder,” the Columbus trotter, ia crow-hop
ping in Alabama.
By the departure of Deacon Hodges Chi
cago, Atlanta has lost a gentleman who H
made it quite lively In racing circ.es for tbe
past two months.
Great interest is being taken in Atlanta in
racing circlet.
Beaumont, the dark bay stallion, tbe proper,
tyol Col Chuck Anderson, of Marietta, is still
in Augusts, being handled by Mr Bradley.
Toe Covington C. F. C.. will either attend in
body, or send a delegation to Charlotte to
take part in the chicken main, to be fought in
that city on the 9th of April
There is a general desire by onrturf loving
ciuz.ro? to have a spring meeting the
rec-course.
The open piece of ground surrounded by the
race track at Ogle'horpe park, ie being planted
with clover aud blue grass, byCapt Geo. W.
ii* a, who has charge of the grounds.
The North Georgia Fair and Stcck association
is receiving much encouragement in the shape
of large subscriptions to tbe capital stock of tbe
company. Citizros or Atlanta, from whom
assistance was exp c;ed, have come forward
and subscribed liberally.
'• storm” is considered the best bred stallicn
Georgia. A oremium to this effect was g<
him at the Griffin fair last year.
There are at least twenty horses in Atlanta
that can trot a mile in three minutes.
Chariey Nichols has a number of good tn
ten, which he recently brought from Indiana
The Miliedgevillians can't boast of a tingle
race bone, bat they have several flecks of fine
blooded race ge-.se that show their speed uptn
the Oconee river.
Colonel Fiezzy Stovall, of the Augusta Chron-
and Con, thinks of organ zing a regatta club
the Augusta k—naul, which will be his maiden
float.
Gint Taylor’s stable is the headquorteis for
hone talk.
Oliver Jones ha? sold his race mule.
Mr Andy English has shipped “Kilty Glover'
to August*.
A three days’ racing at Oglethorpe park under
the auspices of the Young Men’s library ts*o-
ciation about the 15th of next month, is teing
much talked about The contest that nun-
attract th* most attention is a race lor buggf
hones that have never beaten 3:15.
The citizens of Atlanta who had money het
•hat “etorm” would outdip “John Kimb'
Jackson” are qaite disappointed about the
Griffin parties backrog out.
THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
TbeTnunaay trots are getting to oe a earure
, at the driving park Two events were advertised
for yesterday, and they were both of an inter
eating character. The “slow” race was on«
Alcalda, winning the flretaecond and filth h<
Belle Dart taking the other two. Mary Harding
won the “fast” race in four hefts, Linck’
Maggie caoturing the second heat. This proved
qaite an upset to the informed, and sadness
settled upon the countenances of those holding
tickets on the wrong neg. Three minutes were
beaten in bo'h race* — Nashville Banner.
Benheba and Clara L, both by Bonnie Boot
land are broken down, and were last Tuesday
Belle Meade stud farm, to be stinted
John Morgan.
A rumor is afloat that Vera Cruz is in the
wont condition of any hone at the Louisville
course.
Tuoee Tennessean* who have b*en backing
Burgundy in the becks for the Kentucky Der
by, have already sunk their funds. This colt
will go direct from Nashville to St. Louis,
understand.
Georg* Rice haa itemed the colt by Pat Mal
loy, dam by Capu Elgee, “Lord Murphy.”
G. W. Stewart’s stable of thorougbreds arriv
ed at LouisTiile lately, to bo trained lor
spring campaign.
R. J. Johnson, of Lexington, has bought
dam of Survivor and Conner. She is to foal to
Waverly. Price paid, $1,000.
P. G Cox now owns the stable of hones that
as once called Dixro A Wimmera. He has
Courier, Radamante and Blue Gown. They go
to New Orleans and frtm thence to 8l Louis.
There are nearly twelve hundred two-year-
olds with engagements to meet on the English
turf between the Lincoln meeting this month,
and the Warwick meeting In October.
LongsulTs hones, comprising Partnership,
Freebooter, George IV., Shylook, Higrin? and
several your* ol*i are to be sold this week.
It is reported that the Long Branch roc
course will be purchased by the American
jockey c ub. and a summer meeting gives. Its
sale under force: reure of mortgage is announced
Sunburst, by Planet, dam Betty Ward, haa
been sold to a Michigander for $500
Barney Kelly, the trotter, has been sold fer
$1,500
Mr. John F. Metrow, of Beacon Park. Boston,
has sold the black gelding, Richard P. to Mr.
R'gers, of Peabody, for I5.0C0. Richard B. has
no recor ?, but vl timed last year, when a green
here*, in IM, la one of hie raoss.
Yes'erday morning about two o’clock
Antioch B<ptist church (colored), situated
Marietta street a short distance beyoud the roll
ing mill, was discovered to be ou fire. An
alarm was given by residents ci the vicinity, and
soro alter the tells at the various engine bouses
were rung aud i general alaim given. The en
gine* res onded
WITH TlKIk USUAL PROMPTNESS
but w reef noservice as water was too far dis
tant to be utilised. The bui.ding, which was a
one story frame, house, waa burning very rap
id y when the firemen arrived on the ground’
and the combustible material of which the
chnrcu was constructed was good food for the
flames to devour, which they did in a very few
minutes Ihe building was, we understand,
uninsured, and w?s a total loss. The property
was not owned by the church, but was routed
by ih.‘ congregation fora place of worship. It
th7t ( is the general impression that the fire was the
work ol an incendiary.
TUe origin o! this church haa an interesting
ory attached Nearly one year -ago the con
gregation of Macedonia cnurch got into a tq tab
iu church affair?, ana the congregation sep
arated.
About half of them, under the pastoral
charge of Rev. Robert Jfcppa, ciiored, branched
off from
MACEDONIA CHURCH,
and after renting the building which
horned yesterday morning, organ
ized a church aud called the work the
Antioch Baptist church, where they continued
their religious recess to the present time. The
other division < t the congregation remained at
Macedonia chdrch, and continned to worship
under the ministerial charge of Rev J M
Jones, colored, who haa been the pastor ol
Vacedou a church for a number of yean.
short time before the division of the con
gregation Macedonia church was discovered on
at midnight. Before the fire had worked its
headway tne fl unis were put out,
AND THE SANCTUARY SAVED.
The cause ol this fire was also said to bo the
work of an incendiary, and a member oi the
cnurch was tried on a charge of setting fire to
building, bat was acquitted after a pie imi-
nary examination In Justice Butts’ court. Tnis
trial caused considerable stir among the mem
bers of the church and was one of the causes
which led to a division in the oongregation.
The causes which led to the fire yesterday
morning
WILL BE RIGIDLY SIFTED,
and if possible a cine to the origin discovered.
We understsud that when the ccnjreg&tion
separated it was decided by a vote of t e mem
ben of the cba:ch that tbe building, with the
land upon which it stood, would be sold aud
the proceeds divided between the two congre
gations Whether this was done we are unin
formed. The half oi the proceeds to go to the
congregation of tbe brunch church was to be
ppi:ed - o a but Id it g fund for the nutpise ol
a new c .urch ior the Use of the congre-
.lion of the Antioch Baptist church.
t° yonr correspondent that
president alluded more than once
— .v'* 18 “tjxck Howe was to
mike upon the administration, and,
while he spoke no word which led his
companion to form a conclusion that
he was worried over it, his actions un-
mtstakably rave evidence that he was
tie is wise enough to know that ht
cannot expect to continue to receive
party support while he snubs those
who pass upon his appointments, and
is amiably stubborn" enough to keep
in the path he has marked out, because
to do otherwise now would be retreat,
mg under dre aud show signs of
ct uy in his personal character, which
would invoke nothing but contempt
trom hts present admirers. The dem-
ocrats generally seem to be pleased
with the speech, and will order a large
number of copies for circulation in the
south. They say its vein oi sectional
hate will stop any independent move
ment in that eection, and keep the
democracy solid; that there will be no
defection eo long as northern senators
furnish such pabulum as did Howe to
1 1 AH TIRED.*'
liOlfi£*4 HOWL.
What In Said ol tbe Autl-Adm|»|N
irnttou rirade-CotilillUK Prepare*
appleuieutarjr fiMsanlt.
Washington, March 26. — Howe’i
speech ia the subject of comment, prin
cipally on sccouut of the advance ad
vertising given it. Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, says that there was nothing
it to annoy sou:hern democrats;
that he said nothing in it to call for a
response. Ben Hill was exceedingly
anxious to reply, and it was all that
Thurman and ot ere could do to re
strain him When the senate went
into executive session, Hill expressed
grets That he had not
KICKED OVER THE TRACES
and respond d. Senator Eustia, of Lou
tsiaua, eaid that Howe groealy mi. rep
resented Judge Whittaker, and be
wanted to correct his statement; but
Thurman and others insisted that
nothing should be said. The general
disposition among democrats is to allow
Howe’s speech to pass unanswered.
Mr. C inkling has collected some mate
rial for a speech, but is reported as ii
dined to wait for Senator Matthews’.
Special to the Louisvill • Courier-Journal.
There were two classes of listeners tj
whom the speech g ive general satisfac
tion. One was the class of
IRRECONC1LABLES,
who regard the bloody shirt and the
carpet-bagger as essential to the future
of the republican party, and who be**
rate the president for not coming up to
tl e ideas and demands of the maenine-
politicians. All these, as a general rule,
sat profoundly attentive to the speech L
save one senator, who went to sleep
within the reach of the orator’s long
arms and legs. Conkling and Blainb
looked happy. Mr. Wm. £. Chandler
was promptly on hand to hear and wit
ness the execution of his policy. The
other set who were tickled with the
speech was the very small clique of
democrats who have not got over the
hallucination tha., by some sort of jx>
litical incantation and combined with
Conkling and the republican leaders,
Hayes will yet be turned out of the
White House, aud Samuei J. Tilden in
yested with the purple. This last class
egard Mr. Howe as a champion repre
sentative of honesty in politics. The
democrats listened to Howe curiously.
They Had heard the war blast, and
wanted to see on what lice the battle
was to be pitched. It was evident that
Howe’s tactics were, by
IN&ULTS TO THE SOUTH,
to provoke southern senators into
sectional debate. Howe’s partisans
gave out in advance that the southern'
to be insulted until they
would be forced to answer. Of course,
if they did this, they would be held up
as impenitsut rebels. If they sat
silent, they would be held up as con
fusing themselves guilty, as indicated
by the elongated bore from Wisconsin,
fhe democratic senators up to this
time have shown no disposition to re
plv. They seem to thi. k the time has
gone by when the jawbone of ax
a danger us weapon,
THE MEANING OF IT ALL.
Special in Cincinnati Enquirer.
The speech has not created more
than*a ripple of passing excitement.
The real feeling uppermost is to divine
what it really means. 1 here are muny
who believe that the republicans who
are dissatisfied with Hayes induced
Howe to make it as an initial attack,
be followed by the Goliaths of the party
in a movement which has for its end the
reading of Mr. Hayes out of the repub
lican camp. There is no use to con
ceal the tact that the radical leaders
have made up their minds to stop dilly
dallying. They propose to make one
final effort to force Hayes to take the
back-track, or to rely hereafter on
democrats tor his support. And just;
here is the dilemma. If Hayes is to be
upheld by democrats,they want a more
liberal share of the patronage. If
democratic senators, in the event of
the president’s complete abandonment
by his party, consent t9 nold the ad
ministration up by the tail, as it were,
they will hardly care to do it if Hayes
continues to make republican appoint
ments, and worse still, personal ap
pointments. If th9 issue was joined
as to which party is to support Hayes,
it wduld not be a month, u it falls to
the lot of the demxrrats, before the
leaders of that party would be quar
reling over the spoils as much as re
publicans are. The trouble witn the
president seems to be tnat he means
well, but demonstrates badly. Repub
licans are vexed, not because he occa
sionally appoints democrats to office,
but because he refuses to take coun-.el
and advice of the party iu selecting
persons for public service. He would
no doubt act tbe same with the demo
crats if he received the support of that
party in congress, and the position of
affairs to day would be reversed in three
months: * because, unless Hayes does
make up his mind that he cannot snub
senators with impunity, he cannot ex
pect nor will he receive the honest sup
iffects a total indifference to the gloomy
situation in whicn he finds himself.
Nevertheless those who know him in*?
timately do not hesitate to say that he
i is ill at ease. An Ohio gentleman who
A Tennessee Tonug Lady Commit*
utclde.
Nashville, March 27.-The Ameri
can this morning prints the following:
The residence of &qoire Lice Scates
who resides three miles north of Mc-
Lemoresville, war, Friday last, the
scene of a terrible tragedy. The fol
lowing are as near the facta as your
correspondent haa been able to pro-
cure: *
Enquire Scates had a beautiful an l
intelligent daughter, Elvira, who had
been, since last Christmas, often very
melancholy and despondent, telling
hprfr-ends that she was greatly trou
bled, though they could nevei Induce
her to tell them what the trouble waa
enday morning last there appeared
nothing unusual about her. Sue waa
moving around and actiug in a manner
that gave no suspicion of the terrible
event that was to follow. Early in the
morning Elvira had requested her la
ther to
LOAD THE RIFLE,
which he had been in the habit of
keepipg in the house- He complied
with her request, having no suspicion
that anything was wrong, and some
time afterwards left the house and went
mill, leaving no one at home but El-
-aand a younger sister. The young
ladies paised the time as usual until
about 1 o’clock in the afternoon. They
$ere both sitting in the same room, E -
vira reading a book, when she suddenly
rose, saying,
“i AM TIRED,”
an ^ J®ft the room, going into another
j djoining, and iu which the rifle was
kept.
It was not more than fifteen minutes
afterwards when the younger sister
heard a ringing report, and rushing in,
found her sister lying on the bed, her
clothing saturated with blood, and
SHOT THROUGH TUE HEART.
The only movement Elvira made
when her sister appeared in the door*
way, she placed her hand upon her
n >Bom. Tbe rifle was lving upon the
floor but a short distance* from the bed,
and as no string was attached to the
tngeer, she must have pushed the
hammer back with her foot, and sud
denly letting it fall, occasioned the dis
charge.
The young lady was about seventeen
years of age, and much esteemed by
everyone who knew her. It is reported
that she had had a quarrel with her lover
ashort time before, and that this was
the cause of the melancholy event.
Esq Scates is an honorable and re
spected member of the community in
which he resides.and has the sympathy different kinds,
of a great number of friends in hia great «»***«•«
affliction.
AGRICULTURAL.
IHR FIELD, THE FARM,
AND HOUSEHOLD.
otton — torn — Pofatoe* — Flowrr*-
Tt»e Horae— Rural New* — ft'a-iu
Note* —Fur Farmer*’ Wives— Ir 1st*
JPotatoe*—Home and Household.
GOOD AS GOLD
The citizens’ Bank Pay Out tbe Yel
low HiulTlor Check*.
On Siturday morning, those persona
who presented chtciu to the cashier of the Cltl
bank, were surprised to see that genUe-
E BEHIND HIS TAWNY MUSTACHE,
aud reach under rhe counter and present shining
yellow gold In payment of their d -afts.
The gold wss paid out at par, ju«t as green
backs would have been, aud the cashier an
nounced himself ready to keep ap the lick. The
most of the customers preferred to take only a
piece or two of the gold, and the balance of
their checks in greenbacks. About on* thous
and dollars was paid oat, we believe. Oue man
deposited back in .the bank oa yesterday sixty
dollar* of the gold that had been paid oat on
Saturday, and doubtless the most of it will find
its way back within a few day* after the novelty
has worn off.
WHAT IS SAID ABOUT * THK GOLDEN DRIP."
.We dropped in at the bank on yesterday (to
have a f2,C0j check cashed), and asked Presiden
Brown what he meant by thus resuming specie
payment, without giving due notice to the gov
ernment.
“Well,” said he, smiling, “a gentleman came
in here on Saturday and deposited one thousand
dollars in gold, dollar for dollar, and we thought
we would pay oat gold in the same way. It is
worth in AUanta only a fraction above par. Yo.a
could prooabiy not sell It at a half cent pre
mium. Indeed, we found that many of oar
customers woald not take the go.d. but
preferred the greenbacks. There is a little
temporary demand for the gold on account ol
the novelty but I think that a thousand or two
thousand doilats in gold is all that would be
needed to satisfy all callers for gold.”
“Will yon continue to pay it out?"
“Oh, ye*. U any ol our customers want
geld we will let them have it”
And here we gathered up our $2,OCO and de
par led.
SOMETHING OP A SHOWER THIS EVENING.
Th* Constitution will pay off its employees
this afternoon In gold. The pay-roll amounts
several honored doila»,and will make a very
respectable shower of the yellow ducatx
We learn that one or two other bank* in the
city have announced their readiness to pay gold
for checks upon demand. There is little proba-
bUIty, however, that the yellow boys will drive
the greenbacks out of the market It appears
that the gold, after a few days’ trip around the
city, will find Its way back to the bank vaulta
and that the reliable old greenbacks willcou
tiuue to do the hn«lne»« of «h • city.
FLOWERS.
We do not propose that the farmer,
like Cicero, should sleep on roses and
violets. Tnat, like Verres, he should
ride on cushions filled with rose leaves.
Nor, like Propertius after death, be
buried in them, hoping that the earth
would lie lightly on him. But why not
have a few flowers and shrubs around
your house to add to the pleasure as
well as refinement of the family ? Se
lect some flowers that make the best
show without great expense, that are
easy of cultivation, and arrange them
about your yard, according to height
and color.
Work good rich manure into your
ground ;and see that the soil is freed
from lumps, rocks, &c. Do not plant
small seed too deep; just cover lightl-
with fine Larger seed can be
sown deeper: In transplanting, cho.se
a cloudy day, and shade or cover the
plants if the sun comes out warm and
bright; disturb the roots as little as
possible; water for a few dj*vs at sun
set, if *hev wilt much, and care for
them until well established. It does
not require very great care or trouble
to have your yard in flower beds, edged
with pansies, iris, daises, some species
of pinks, or violets.
There is nothing that adds more to
the attractiveness ef a country home
than flowers, and the care and expense
are more than made np for in the
pleasure they afford.
POTATO LAND.
Have your land thoroughly aud deep
ly broken, seeing, too, that it is fertil
ized with stable manure, cotton seed
or wood ashes. As soon as you have
the slips bigin to set out. If at any
time your sups are ready, it is unnec
essary to wait for rain; make a loblolly,
by mixing cow manure with water, and
apply to the end of the slip, or get wet
mud (rich soil) from some creek or
branch bottom, and apply to the root
of the slip, and then set out, Dressing
the slip fir—ly in the ground.
THE HORSE.
Grease Heel—Poultice the heel for
several days with ground linseed and
bran, and, before applying each pouU
tice, sprinkle the heel with fiuely-pow-
dered charcoal. Then dress the wounds
in the heel occasionally with carbolic
acid, one drachm; sugar of lead, one-
half ounce; rain water one pint; mix
and apply with a sponge. Stop him
from work.
Colts—A dark stable is a poor place
to keep a colt.
Colic H rses subject to it should
never be watered for at least one hour
either before or after feeding. They
ehould be fed regularly three times a
day, on food of go d quality, aud iu
limited quantity. It is a good idea to
mix cut hay, straw or chaff with the
oats. It is imprudent to give a full
meal to an overworked Dorse A good
general reii edy for colic: Carbonate of
ammonia, 1J drachms; bicarbonate
soda, 2 dracums; laudanum, 1 ounce;
water, 8 ounces; mix for. one dose.
This dose may be repeated in one hour
if necessary.
Check Heins - Put them on a draught
horse aud they will injure aud worry
him more than the ordinary work he is
required to perform.
IRISH POTATOES.
We have received two or three letters
asking something of the varieties of
Irish potatoes. As our dealers offer
' do not like to ex
press an opinion. We will say that
mere are several new varieties which
are highly r-pjken of. The Trophy, a
new seedling of theKuby, impregnated
with the Excelsior, aud an improve
ment on both They are of medium
size, productive, a good keeper, some
week or too later tnan the Early R tse.
It is white, and of excellent quality
wi-On baked.
The Triumph is a cross of the Early
Hose and Peeriesi. It is productive, ol
good quality, and matures some ten
days in advahee of the Early Hose.
The Harlequin is a new variety, with
variegated foliage; about as good qual
ity as the the Early Rose, and matures
about the same time.
The Superior—a cross between Brow
nell’s Beauty and the Peachblow, rip
ens early, keeps well durieg winter,and
retains its mealiness through the entire
E<?g Evting Hens.—A sure cure is | fill in a tumbler by your plate each
onintftULan'oKoci meal; moisten with your coffee, tea,
milk, or warm water, 'and eat or drink
all of it with your food. Be sure not to
leave it till through eating.
—The iuice of elderberries or burnt
cloves will blacken the evebrows.
—Lemon juice applied several times
daily will sometimes remove freckles.
Another, equal parts pure glycerine
and rosewater, apply every night and
allow to dry.
—To renovate silk, take hot water
enough to sponge theamouutyou want
fo clean, and put in all the old black
kid gloves you have and boil in the hot,
water. When cool, take the gloves out
and sponge the silk on the right side,
then press wi.h a hot iron, and it will
look like new.
THE UF-COONIRY.
What a Member of the LrzUlatar*
Tttlnb* About tbe (sentiment Iu
tbe Seventh.
We had the pleasure on yesterday of
a call from Mr. A P King, one of the member*
from Floyd county, and a moat careful ob
server, and experienced politician.
We qu-’shoned Mr. King casually as to tbe
feeling ap in tbe seventh, and he informed us as
follows:
•We will all go for Gordon for senator, I think
against the field. That la certainly my pdktioi.
in the race. I am for him against anybody. I
don’t think he will have any trouble.
“As tor the governor’s race, everybody ap
there admire General Co'quitt very much, and
are his friends. If ne don’t run, Gen Toombs
in my opinion, will carry that whole section
hardly thing any local <*n be found
strong enough to consolidate the section. I
think that Senator Jim Brown is the strongest
of the possible candidates up there.
ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT.
“Can Dr. Felton make the race lor governor
in the independent schedule, and whip the
fight?”
‘Oa. no! I don’t think the independent move
ment has any strength, except a local strength.
This strength is confined prettv mnch, 1 think.
district. Tne independent move-
grew out of abuses in the conven
tions, and haa been strengthened by renewed
. ‘ was an organize!
until after the Kingston
I then determined
submit to such dictation no o>nger.
these cause* do not exist elsewhere, and, of
coarse, the same strength cannot be found else
where.”
“WMF
seventh as he ha* heretofore bad?"
“Wi l Felton find a* strong a following in the
Felton will c rtalnly teat him, or any other
non 'hat can be nominated.”
“Weal abiut th* speakership 7'
“1 think our people will combine on some one
rom tnis end of the state. We f*el that we
_>eed *ot depend forever upon Macon to fareish
ns a speaker. I am dispose! to favor Hammond
or Mynatt from this county. I do not knew how
this will be, however, as it la too far off to i pec
ulate on."
-What about tbe eapitol ?“
Well, we are quietly waiting for Atlanta to
CORN.
If your ground was fully prepared
the working of yonr corn will depend
somewhat on the nature of the soil. If
you did your duty lo the crop before
planting, by thoroughly breaking the
ground, perhaps as good a plan for the
first working is to bar off with a turn
plow, lapping up the earth in the mid
dies, leaving the corn standing on a
narrow ridge for the p esent. Others
deem it sufficient to run round the corn
deep and close, a single furrow. Others
again run a single scooter furrow deep
on each side of the corn. If the land
has not been sufficiently prepared, the
better plan is to run a good aiding fur
row with a long narrow scooter, and let
the middles be broken out. Watch
your plow hands and see that the voung
corn is not covered; for this purpose,
let the hoe hands follow, uncovering
the corn, chopping oat grass and re
ducing the stand of corn to on^ stalk.
cotton.
In some sections of the state the corn
crop has been planted, and prepare
tions are actively being pressed for
planting the cotton crop.
In time, the farmer should have de
cided what land to plan 1 ; how plant L
how cultivate, and have had his land
all thoroughly broken ap. If the work
of plowing was well done the benefits
will be seen m the future in the crop.
Now lay off your rows for the cotton,
with a shovel; the distance between
rows, as a matter of course, will vary
according to the quality of the soil. In
previous articles we have given direc
tions as to how to prepare the beds.
When ready for planting, the center ol
the bed is opened with the ccooter
plow, and the seed scattered iu the hot
tom of the bed. Home parties use
patent planters, but they require watch
lulness and care to make perfect work,
i'be planter must use judgment in se
lecting gpod sound seed. Should tbe
planting be followed by heavy rains
biking winds, run a light harrow over
the bed to loosen the surface. After
he cotton is up and has several leaves,
let the chopping out be d me. Run the
bar side of a tnrn plow next to the
cotton, throwing the earth and grass
from the plants, leaving them on a
ridge. Following the plows come the
hoe hands, chopping out and cutting
out the grass, leaving three or four
plants in a bunch, the richness of the
soil to regulate the distance of the
bunches. In a few days ran round
your cotton with the shovel side next
to the plants, throwing back the earth
to them and let the plowing continue
between the rows until the land is
broken and the grass covered.
At the next plowing the hoe hands
follow, chopping out all grass and thin
ning the cotton to one stalk.
One great requisite in making a cot
ton crop is to have a good stand, and
to have a good stand you must have
sound, healthy seed, and in having
yonr ground in such order that when
the seed germinate they ran break
through the sutface.
the farmers’ wives.
To Coor Cabbage.-Firstboil it until
tender in water enough to cover it;the
pour the water off; some milk with an
I rode out with him on Sunday aaifl don*-.'
spoonful of flour is then added; let it
stew about five minntes, and it is done.
Ducks.—Hens make very good moth
ers for duck hatching. Yonng ducks
should be kept away from tbe water
until they are three to five weeks old.
Many young ducks are killed by cramp
_ w and chills from allowing them to rush
SriakS“jM n h “^^u^'*?“ water before the down upon
iu When she does w« will stood hy sod see it their skin is thick enough to resist these
to cut off the hen’s head.
Roaches. Five cents worth of pul
verized borax spread where roaches
come, or in their hiding places,will run
them off.
For Preparing Lard to Keep
Through Summer. To one gallon o
lard put ore ounce of sal soda, dissolved
in a gill of water. D i not fill your ket
'tie more than halt full for it will form
and perhaps boil over. No other water
ia required than what the eoda is dis
solved in. When it is done it is very
dear, and will keep two years. Strain
through a coarse cloth and set away.
Fried Chicken.—Put one pint of
cream into a frying-pan lirg^euongti to
hold a chicken, and set it over a mod
erate tire until it begins to color; then
lay into it one chicken, nicely dressed
and cot in joints, and fry until the un
der side is nicely browned ; when the
cream acquires a rich brown hue dip
enough to serve as sauce for the dish,
and set it aside to keep hot Season ihe
chicken with pepper and salt, and turn
it over in the pan. Let it brown equally
all over. Do not let the cream hum.
When done lay it upon a flat dish, and
pour the cream into the center.
Brandikd Peaches.—Four pounds of
white sugar, dissolved with a verv little
water; let it come to a boil. Add four
boneds of jaeeled peaches; let
iaem boil fi ye minutes. Skim out the
peaches, and let the syrup boil 20 min
utes. Add one pint of the best white
brandy, and remove at once trom the
tire. Place the f uit in gloss jars that
have been rolled in hot water. Pour on
the hot syrup. When cool, seal up.
To Preserve Corn.—Take good corn
boil until the milk is Killed; when cold
cut from the ear and put in a s’one jai;
allow one pint of salt for three pints ot
corn; put in a layer of salt and one of
corn until the jar is full; when opened
for use remove the top; soak till fresh;
then season as you would fresh corn ;
add one tablespoonful of white sugar,
and cook in milk or cream.
Pickled Onions.—One peck of amaT
onions; peel and lay them in salt
water, strong enough «o bear an egg.for
three days; take them out and’pu?
them to soak in fre a h water for one day;
then put them in milk; when come to
a boil take them out and drain until
dry; place them in jars with red pepper
pods; boil the vinegar and spices to
gether; when lukewarm pour it un the
oniont; in a few days they are fit for
use.
Tomato Pickle*.—To one-half
bushel of green tomatoes, sliced, take
one ounce each of cloves, white mus
tard eecd, Cayenne pepper,and allspice
in the berry, one pound sugar, three
tablespoonfuls ginger and six onions;
add vinegar sufficient to cover the to
matoes; place all on the stove and let
them teald (not boil) for an hour.
One of the Indispensables - A bot
tle of spiri’s oi ammonia at hnu-e
cleaning. Keep the bottle tightly
losed. Pot a teaopoonful of ammonia
oa quart of warm soap sud*,dip in a
flannel cloth and wipe dust and fly
specks To a pint of suds add a tea
spoonful of ammonia and dip your
silver in it; rub with a brush and polish
with chamois skin. It is excellent for
washing mirrors and window*; pui a
few drops of the spirits on a piece of
paper and rub offsp .ts or fingermarks
on the glass It will take out grease
from every kind of cloth; put ou the
ammonia' nearly clear, lay blotting
paper over the place and press a hot
fl at iron over it for a few moments.
Use ammonia to clean laces and mus
lins, nail and hair brushes, put a te
spoonful ot ammonia into a pint of
water, and sh ike tne bruBh through
the water, when they look white rinse
them in clear water and put them in a
w*rm place to dry.
Economy, to renovate black silk, boil
an old kid giove (cut tt in sm all shred )
in a pint of water till the water is re
ducetl to ha'f a pin t , then sponge your
silk with it, fold it down, and ten min
utes after iron it on the wrong side
while wet. If dirtc ion^are followed,
the silk will retain its s? f ness and las
tre, at the same time have “the body'
of new silk.
Asthma.—Two teaspoonfnls of salt
in a half g'ass of brandy mixed, and
drank rapidly will prevent and avert an
attack of asthma.
Ringworm Remedy.—Oil of paper
made by burning a sheet of ordinary
writing paper upon a plate, will cure a
ringworm, which is caused by conta
gion or some impurity in tne blood ;
the oil will be seen after the paper is
burned in the form of a yellow spot;
this applied with the finger twice a day
will in a very short time cure the
worst of ringworms.
rural news.
—During the past four months Ameri
can produc a ra have shipped to England
about 600,000 barrels of apples.
Rev. Mr. Mayo, of Massachuusetts,
says that the averag • American agricul
ture is simply an assault and battery
on nature.
—Five million cans of corn are pack
ed annually in Maine, yielding a busi
nets to the state of $l 150,000, and giv
ing employment to about 10 000.
—A Montgomery county, Pa ,’ farmer
has a three-acre orchard. From the
sale ot hpples from the trees - from hogs
and sheen which run in the orchard,
wool, etc., his yearly sales reach $900
We manufacture in this country
62,000,000 gallons of dis illed spirits -
year, and it requires ou au average 32
bushels oi corn to ihe gallon, or in
round numbers, 232,000 000 bushel'.
Oor es'imated crop for 1877 was 1,280,
000,000 bushels, so that only about oue-
titih, instead of nine-tenthB, goes into
distilled spirits.
FARM NOTES.
—Corn cobs are an excellent absorb
ent to place behind cattle in sta le; the
cobs soak up << great deal of liquid and
soon decay iu the manure heap, adding
their own substance lo increase its fer
tilizing value.
—Horse colic —take a table spoonful
of lard (not too soft) and place on it
about as much red precipitate as will
lay on the point of a pocket knife blade,
then give it to the sick animal; if it
falls to afford relief, repeat in fifteen
minutes.
—To have good laying hens, keep
them well oh food not too fattening, and
give plenty of green stuff and a shel
lered yard.
— Do not forget to have a chufa lot
Plow them in rows some two and a half
feet a part some twelve to eighteen
inches in tbe row, with light, shallow
cultivation, on sandy land.
—Your farm is your fixed capital
the improvements you make on it a
investments, if you make them wise 1
they will add to your profits.
—For warts on cows’ teats, touch
each wart two or three times a day
with a email swab dipped in nitric acid
Persist in this treatment for a week
Be careful not to put on too much,
to touch any part of the bag but the
wart, keep from yonr hand anl cloth
ing.
—The pulverization of the soil
plowing, grubbing, harrowing, rowing,
hoeing, and other operations is a main
department of agricultural labor.
HOME AND HOUSEHOLD.
—Slow aud long cooking will make
tongh meat tender.
—Let your pot be boiling when you
put your meat in it»
—One onnee of kerosene oil with one
grain of morphine is good for burns.
—For hoarse ess: The white of two
well beaten etrg*. two tablespoonsfu
white sugar, hatf a nutmeg, grated, s
pint of warm water; stir well and drink
often.
—Mildew can be remedied by
UB6 of chloride of lime; about a
spoonful of lime to two gallons of wa
ter, being careful to dissolve well. Le
the clothes lie in that a short time,then
rinse thoroughly and lay on the grass.
—Coarse, damp salt sprinkled
carpets before sweeping prevents dust
ar<s ng, make" them look fresh md
new, and preven.s moths getting in
them.
—For dyspepsia, get clean, fresh
bran, sift, if you prefer, through a very
coarse sieve. Place a large tablespoon-
CARVBD
» DR A TH.
Jrntous Negro Lover 'm* a Rival
Frarlally— Ihe Mayer .File* From
JaNiice
Yesterday morning Joe Thrash, col
ei, died at bis home in tho third ward, near
iht cemetery. His death was enured by a
FEARFUL CCTTISO
he received the night previous at the hands of
a negro named Tom King, wnc has since 11 d
from justice, is now anxiously looked for by tho
officers of the city and the state.
It appears that tho case preajuts an iustauco
r
RAMI BLOOI8HED
quite unpsi don able la ihe eyes of the law.
The circumstances as ga<h>rod from ■ veral
conflicting reports seem probably to have been
as follows :
Tom King visited regular y a negro girl named
Wilson who resides in a two room nouse in the
first ward, near the negro college, wi!h a com.
panion named Sar.th Stubbs. The two girls, It
believed, lead
A GAY LIFO,
and the former was under the special care of
Tom King, who visited her quite frequently.
On tbe fatal night the fickle remale and a ne
gro named Joe Thrash, a rival of Tom. as it ap
pears, were seated in the girl's room talking
quite familiarly together when tho lover enter
ed aud soon became
TERRIBLY IRATE.
He and Thrash got into a quarrel which w a
y conducted for a few minutea, and them
Tom King drew a k* lie with a huge blade, and
with this deadly weapvn ho ratde a lunge at
Thrash. There was an ugly gash In hi* aide in
consequence. Another blow of the knife aud
tho blood came
FRXSH FROM ANOTHER WOUND.
Still another gash followed and the
wounded man su ik weak anl help-
under his fierce assailant. Tho
women, frightened fearfully, endeavored to
intercede and to prevent the bloody work
Tb«y did not succeed until the victim had re
ceived the deep gashes that were to prove his
death wounds. The case was kept remarkably
close all that night. The police received no
inkling of what had happened.
Tne wounded man steadily sank uuUl yestcr*
moru lug
the effects of his w.muds. Sarah 8'uHbs,
ol the women in the hnu*c where the fatal
ffray occurred, has euel out before Justice
Henry Taunt r a warrant cha'ging Tom King
th murecr The warraut In now in the hands
the ■ Sects of the law, but no news of Tom
hdl. It appears that after the deed of
oiooi he
MADE HIS ESCAPE,
has not been seen in the city i-inca. It will
difficult lor him to • scaps He Is a negro ol
maracd features, and if he is not soon cap'ured,
full description of h m will be published, and
thousand eyes of the injured law will hunt
out the fugitive.
r*|»llOl Nut**.
— 1. J. C'erne its Haa been c.Mutnis-
aloned a commissioner of Elbert county.
--The precincts of the eapitol were
quiet yejjterd <y.
Th° M owintr j’i=it ; c*8 of he neace
' ' el: John Ityall#, for the
K. Mailing,
commissi • i
:«9th di tnct G. M. of „
the 103 d di tdcl G. M. Gilmer county.
The foil »wnj5 notaries public have
Bernard Curley, for thi
f r*lbot conn v. E imont
• Ta-b'4
_ Si r et G
Walker bounty; M. G. Icra- nt«. for tno
953! dis ret G M. of Waikcrc uulv; J bn II.
g, lor tue 923th dia.ric. G. M. of Houston
DOWN IN DIXIE.
—Wheat crop prospects are very
good over the state of Louisiana.
Not a single death reported in
Chattanooga last week.
— Diphtheria in a very malignant
form is in Columbia, Tenn. Nearly
every child attacked has died. .
—'Th** A'abama medical! convention
meets at Eufaula on the 9th proximo.
—A number of Chicago gentlemen
prospecting in the iron and coal re
gions of Alabama.
The Southern Presbyterian goneral
assembly will meet in Knoxville on
May 16lh.
—A man in North Carolina has ini
vented and patented a machine for
picking cotton, w' ich he claims will do
the woik of one hundred men.
Mrs. Haskall. prate librarian, is
preparing the biographies of the gov*
ernors of Tennessee from the beginning
of the stale until the present period.
Judge Hawkins, ex-member of
congress from Florida, whose death we
lately mentioned, was married seven
rimes, and, we believe, outlived all of
wives.
-Hampton endorsement meetings
are being held all over South Carolina.
The people know who is their friend
and the man who has saved them, and
they are not so ungrateful as to ignore
him.
—The executive mansion at Frank
fort, Ky., is a rickety old edifice, built
1808, and two of the workmen en
gaged in its construction, Metcalf and
Letches, afterward occupied it as gov
ernors, the former working on the
stone masonry, the other carrying
mortar in a hod for the bricklayers.
—Virginia and Tennessee last vear
went far ahead of North Carolina,
which has long headed the list, as pro
ducers of peanuts. The estimated fati
ng off this year in the three states is
five hundred and fifty-two thousand
bushels, or more than one-third of a
crop.
—Charleston, 8. C., is receiving the
same treatment at the hands of the
legislature that Vicksburg got from the
Mississippi legislature. She has been
put into a black district where the
chances are all in favor of colored
epresentation in the legislature. The
Vickaburgers, however, went faithfully
o work and elected a democrat and a
good man. General Cnaimers, from
heir black district. Charleston can,
j doub*, do the same thing.
—Judge George S. Hawkins, former
ly member of cor.gress from Florida,
died at Mariana, in that sta'e, on the
14 h inst., at the ripe age of 77 years,
fudge Hawkins had b*na citizen of
Florida for fifty two years. He was a
captain in tbe Seminole war, and re
ceived & wound while in that service
wnich lamed him for life, and from the
effects of which he haa been unable to
walk for the past eight vears. General
Loring, of Confedente and Egyptian
fame, was his orderly sergeant during
lhat camnaigi. At tbe time of his
death Judge Hawkins was engaged in
codyfying the laws ct Florida, and had
accomplished much of the task.
A Horse I'rrmallnD.
Cincinnati, May 27 —A special dis
patch says Dr. Jacob**’ barn near Madi
son, Wis., waa burned Monday,together
with a number of imported stock, in
cluding H'aliions R bbie Bums and Na
poleon III and short horns Haron and
Cates the VI besides an amount of
■r^ain. L >83 not stated ; insurance $12,-
o°°. ti
Aegro Mnrdereri v *»nge.l.
New York, March 27 -D-.xer Mc
Creary and Fortune Buab, colored,
were hanged at Barnwell Court-house,
Friday, for the murder of Stephen
Eoicks, hia wife and two children. Af-
er killing the parents, the murderers
fired the dwelling and the children
were burned to death.
A Bell able Article.
It is a pleasure to commend an ar
ticle of a th roughly relltb e character, and we
do not be*lta e to do so it epea-it g of Doolsy's
Yeast Powder, whi h an experience of over
ten yean convrocea as 1* tho beet aid most re
liable baking powder In th* market,