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A Galveston dispatch says that all on
board the Waco were lost.
A. M. Reynolds & Cos., private bankers
of Newark, New Jersey, have suspended.
Vice President Wilson was taken seri
ously ill in Washington yesterday.
Returns from sixty counties give the
new Missouri Constitution fifty thousand
majority.
The suicide of a beautiful Southern wo
man in Now York is announced this morn
ing.
—*•*
The P. E. Church Congress at Philadel
phia have had a discussion about church
music.
And the Kansas and Missouri bridge, at
Leavenworth, is now in the hands of a re
ceiver.
The latest innovation north of us is
forged railway tickets on the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad. So they go.
New York had a grand wrestling match
Tuesday night between the Greco-Roman
wrestlers, lasting ver five hours.
The veteran legislators of Pennsylvania
had their reunion yesterday at Harrisburg,
and endorsed the Centennial celebration.
A dispatch from Utica, N. Y., gives the
cheering information that the Mohawk
Valley has been blessed with a snow storm,
which prevailed nearly all day yesterday.
Another survivor of the foundered
steamship Pacific has been picked up by a
U. S. revenue steamer, thirty miles inside
the Straits of Fuca. He reports that Capt.
Howell was drowned from the same raft.
The eleventh annual meeting of tho
Western Associated Press has been held at
Detroit, Michigan, and the reports of the
officers show the affairs of the Association
to be in a very satisfactory condition.
Taking the Nashville American'a figures
—soo—as the Democratic majority in Mary
land, the Macon Telegraph cor recta the mis
take and shows that Carroll’s majority is
nearly 14,000. His majority outside of Bal
timore is thought to be about 500.
Disr\eli, the Prime Minister of Eng
land, made an important speech yesterday,
at the banquet of the Lord Mayor of Lon
don. He frankly acknowledged the grave
situation of European affairs, and whilst
takiDg a hopeful view of the future, admits
that the situation is a complicated one.
The speech is an important contribution to
the political affairs of Europe, and must
be read between the lines in order to a
thorough understanding of it.
AMES' OVERTHROW.
The Governor of Mississippi Feeling
“Quite Placid.”
[Vicksburg Herald.l
Motioning the reporter to take a seat,
the Governor sat down at the other
end of the table, and the following dia
logue began;
Reporter— Gov. Ames, I called to see
you for the purpose of obtaining your
views on the situation.
Gov. Ames—l'm afraid I shall be un
able to give you any information. You
will find gentlemen here better posted
than myself, from whom you could get
news more direct.
Reporter —Views, rather than news,
is the desire, Governor.
Governor —I have none to offer. I
prefer to be non-committal.
Reporter —Do you doubt that the
Democrats have carried the State —
that they will have a majority in the
Legislature ?
Governor —On the contrary, I do not
believe tho Republicans will have fif
teen members in the Lower House.
Reporter —Have you had complaint
from any quarter that this complete
revolution has been wrought by unfair
means, fraud or intimidation ?
Governor —Yes, from almost every
county in the State I have had com
plaints of both fraud and intimidation?
Reporter —Will you interfere, or at
tempt to set aside any of these elec
tions?
Governor—Most assuredly hot; I
could not if I wished to do so.
Reporter —Do*you think then the
candidates will contest ?
Governor —No, I think not, generally.
If the defeated Congressional candi
dates contest, it must be before a Dem
ocratic Congress; if Legislative, before
a Democratic Legislature; and if coun
ty officers, before the courts. 1 have
lieai and of but one candidate who even
suggested a contest.
Reporter —Well, Governor, defeat be
ing admitted, I am desirous to know
how lending Republicans, those not di
rectly interested by reason of candi
dacy, feel over it. I should like to know
their views.
Governor (smiling)—You mean my
views, I suppose?
Reporter —If you please.
Governor, (still smiling and answer
ing rather hesitatingly)—Well, if you
Vicksburg people will allow me the ex
pression, placid. I feel quite placid.
THE ILLFATED PACIFIC.
Another Survivor.
San Francisco, November 10.—A
dispatch to the Merchants Exchange,
from Point Townsend, says the United
States Revenue Steamer Oliver Wal
cott, at 3 o’clock Monday morning last,
picked up one of the crew of the foun
dered Steamship Pacific on a raft, 30
miles inside of the Straits of Fuca. He
says Capt. Howell was drowned from
the same raft, and that the Pacific was
jstruck by a vessel under full sail.
Rome Courier : J. H. Camp, whose
f.arm is two and a half miles above this
city on the Etowah river, made 36 bales
of cotton this season on 42 acres, 30
acres of which made a bale to the acre.
He also made 38 bushels of corn to the
acre on 40 acres, and 24 1-2 bushels of
wheat to the acre. The only fertilizer
he used was barn yard, produced on
his own farm.
Willingham: Fitch, of the Newnan
Star, is a sedate and useful member of
the Coweta Bible Society. He is taken
around as an illustration of the neces
sity of vigorously prosecuting mission
ary work throughout the country on
.the principle that “the Greeks are at
our own doors.”
Mrs. Davy, of Tennessee, pretended
she had been drowned just to see what
her husband would do. He hired a
cheap negro to drag for the body and
went to the cornfield at his usual pace.
then she crawled out from under
the house, followed on and blessed him
her hardest.
Boston “The Detroit Free
Press truly remarks that any newspa
per that allows itself to became inter
ested in discussing ladies hose always
comes to some bad end. We learn the
Press is extensively sought fop in this
.section for bustles.”
®)£ GLiQiista Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
FROM NEW YORK.
Suicide of a Beautiful Southern Girl.
New York, November 10.—Mingee
Roane, a very beautiful woman of
Southern birth, aged 23, committed
suicide last evening at No. 180 Fifth
Avenue, where she had been living with
a wealthy young merchant named
Thos. Whitmore. She shot herself
through the heart.
New York, November 10.--The own
ers of the Waco say there were a few
cases of kerosene oil on deck, but it was
not considered dangerous under ordi
nary circumstances.
Godspard & Cos., N. W. Clinton and
Henry Fleming, hat manufacturers,
have failed.
Geo. E. Way, tea jobber, and James
Wickham & Son, butter dealers, have
suspended.
The Ville de Paris in Danger.
London, November 10.—There is a
report at Lloyd’s that the Ville de Paris
struck a pier at the harbor, opening her
fore parts. Her position may become
critical if the present gale continues.
Her Arrival at New York.
New York, November 10.—Arrived :
Ethiopia. Arrived out: Sheed, Ville
de Paris, Victoria. Homeward : Hen
rietta, Emma, Secar.
A Wrestling Match.
New York, November 10. — The Greco-
Roman wrestlers, Andre Christal and
Prof. William Miller, met for the sec
ond time last night, at 8 o’clock, at the
Grand Opera House, in the presence of
three thousand persons, and at 1:45
o’clock this morning the match was de
clared a draw, each man having won a
fall.
Forged Railway Tickets.
Forged tickets, purporting to have
been issued by the Illinois Central
Railroad, at Chicago, good for a pas
sage from Chicago to Denver— via St.
Louis, were offered for sale here at re
duced prices. They are pronounced
forgeries by the General Agent in this
city. The officers in Chicago and the
conductors have been notified of the
fact.
STANLEY IN AFRICA.
Interesting Details of the Explorer.
London, November 10.—Two letters
have been received from Stanley, dated
Ulagalla, April 12th and 14th. They
were entrusted to Col. Delbellford, who
left there with some troops April 17th,
who, when near Gordon’s Post, was
massacred, with 36 of his soldiers.
Five escaped, and reached Gordon’s
Station. A detachment was sent to the
scene. Stanley’s letters were found
among the slain, stained with blood.
Stanley thoroughly explored Lake Vic
toria, and demonstrates the unity of
this magnificent sheet of water. Liv
ingstone was wrong in reporting that
Victoria Neyanza consisted of five
lakes. The river Shemeeyee feeds
Lake Victoria Neyanza, and is the ex
treinest source of the Nile yet found.
Stanley had several conflicts with slave
dealers on the Lake. Ou one occasion
he was attacked by 100 natives, armed
with spears, iu 13 canoes. He repulsed
them after a severe fight, killing three
natives. He reached Mtesas’ hunting
camp April 12th. Festivities iu his
honor consisted in pait of a naval re
view ou the lake of 84 canoes, manned
by 2,500 men. Among the lookers-on
were 300 wives of King Mtesas. King
Mtesas has 2,000,000 subjects, is intel
ligent, and is a Mussulman, but Stan
ley regards his conversion to Chris
tianity possible.
RELIGIOUS.
Protestant Episcopal Church Con
gress.
Philadelphia, November 10.—The
Church Congress of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States
reassembled to-day. Papers on the
best methods of procuring and prepar
ing candidates for the ministry were
read. Rev. N. H. Schenek, of Brooklyn;
and Rev. Edward B. Boggs, of New
ark, N. J., delivered addresses. On the
same subject, addresses were delivered
by Rt. Rev. Alex. C. Garrett, Bishop of
Northern Texas ; Rev. Thos. F. Fales,
of Waltham, Mass.; Rev. Edward Sulli
van, of Chicago ; Rev. Dr. Harwood, of
New Haven ; Rev. Dr. Nelson, of Ann
apolis, Md., and others. The Congress
will hold another session this evening.
Meeting of the Missionary Committee
of the M. E. Church North.
The General Missionary Committee
of the M. E. Church in the United
States convened its annual session here
to-day, Bishop Janes presiding, and all
members being present except Bishops
Foster and Haven. The report of the
Treasurer shows the balance of funds
on hand November Ist to have been
$13,288; receipts duriug the year,
$662,485; expenditures, $721,805, leav
ing a debt of $46,030. Besides there
are letters of credit for foreign mis
sions amounting to $135,532, making a
real debt of $185,562.
LOSS OF THE WACO.
Every Soul on Board Thought Drown
ed.
Galveston, November 10.—The im
pression is now gaining ground that
not a soul was saved from the Waco.
New York, November 10. —Mr. and
Mrs. Rogers were of Brooklyn. Fanny
Heeler is a colored girl. Beyond this,
agents here know nothing of the Waco
passengers. The steerage passengers
were mostly Germaus. Capt. Green
man was considered a thorough and au
efficient officer. The mate was named
Nickerson ; Firsc Engineer, O’Hara;
Steward, Wm. Hurley ; Stewardess,
Fanny Best. A li3t of the crew, num
bering thirty, was kept on board.—
Their names are not known by the
agents.
Galveston, November 10.—Two ves
sels are searching for the Waco’s
boats. The mast has buen found, in
dicating that the fire was between
decks. The theory of hope is that the
passengers and crew may have left the
vessel before the flames lighted the
deck and become visible.
Illness of Vice-President Wilson.
Washington, November 10.—Vice-
President Wilson was taken suddenly
ill at his room at the Capitol. His
friends had serious apprehensions, but
at 12 o’clock he was better, and about
being removed to his lodgings.
Wilson much better this evening.
Pulse improving and he converses.
Had intense pain from base brain down.
Right arm had suffered from constipa
tion and lacks nervous energy. Attack
occurred immediately after leaving,
quite hot bath.
Failure of Newark Bankers.
Newark, N. J., November 10.—A. M.
Reynolds & Cos., private bankers, sus
pended yesterday. It Is believed their
assets largely exceed their liabilities.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Disraeli on the Situation of European
Affairs.
London, November 10. —At the Lord
Mayor’s dinner the Cabinet was pres
ent. Disraeli, answering the toast in
honor of Her Majesty’s Government,
complimented the allusion made to the
settlement of the China difficulties. He
continued : “ I wish I could say that
foreign affairs nearer homo were as
satisfactory as our relations with Chi
na. A partial revolt In Turkey has
produced a state of things such as of
ten becomes critical. The forbearance
of tho Great Powers immediately in
terested produced an effect such as,
some months ago, gave us the right to
believe the disturbance would cease
immediately. Since then a financial
catastrophe has revnewed the struggle
and given anew aspect to all the cir
cumstances. It is impossible to deny
that the cir-cninstances are critical,
but I still have great confidence in
the forbearance of the powers. I have
not merely a trust but a conviction that
means will be found to bring about a
satisfactory result consistent with the
maintenance of the peaco of Europe. I
will not contemplate any other result.
The interests of the imperial powers in
reference to the question are more
direct, but not more considerable than
these of Great Britain. The men who
have charge of our affairs are deeply
conscious of the magnitude of our in
terests which they are resolved to
guard and maintain.” Mr. Disraeli
after glowing references to the India
Colonial and domestic affairs, conclud
ed with these words : “When I speak
here again next year I hope to be able
to congratulate you upon the main
tenance of peace and also upon the
success of our domestic policy. So if
an exigency should arise and the
sovereign be called on to show her
power and force she would be able to
appeal to a contented and confiding
people.”
Cardinal McCloskey.
Dublin, November 10.—Cardinal Mc-
Closkey attends the commencement of
the Catholic University to-morrow,
where Cardinal Cullen will preside as
Chancellor. The University will pre
sent an address to the American Car
dinal. He will embark Sunday on the
Abyssinia, from Queenstown, for New
York.
The French Assembly.
London, November 10.—The Times’
Paris correspondent telegraphs that
the vote in the Assembly yesterday, by
which the amendment to the Electoral
bill was adopted, implies a formal en
gagement to dissolve before March
31st, 1876, because it is provided that
the elections be held iu accordance
with the electoral lists expiring ou that
date.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Eleventh Annual Meeting of the West
ern Associated Press.
Detroit, November 10.—At the elev
enth annual meeting of the Western
Associated Press, the reports of officers
showed the affairs of the Association
in a prosperous and satisfactory con
dition. Arrangements were authorized
for procuring very full reports during
the Centennial and Presidential year.
The following Board of Directors were
elected : James Medill, of the Chicago
Tribune; Richard Smith, of the Cin
cinnati Gazette; W. N. Holden, of the
Louisville Courier-Journal; Jas.G. Sio
beneck, Pittsburg Chronicle; Jno.
Knapp, St. Louis Republican; A. J.
Kellar, Memphis Avalanche; J. F.
Mack, Sandusky Register. The Board
of Directors met subsequently, and
elected the following officers : Presi
dent, Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Com
mercial; Vice-President, Henry W.
Farrow, Chicago Secretary,
H. E. Baker, Detroit Tribune.
A resolution complimentary to tho
old President, Hon. H. N. Walker, upon
his retirement from journalism, was
passed. Mr. Walker was proprietor
and editor of the Detroit Free Press
for many years, and helped to organ
ize the Associated Press, and has been
President from the first.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Meeting of Veteran Legislators.
Harrisburg, November 10. —The re
union of the members of the Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania, from 1813 to 1850
inclusive took place in the House of
Representatives to-day. The meeting
was called to order by Jas. Ross Snow
don, of Philadelphia, the senior speaker
present. Hon. Jno. Strohm, of Lancas
ter and Hon. David Fleming, of Dau
phin acted as Vice-Presidents. Prayer
was offered by Rev. T. H. Robinson D.
D., of Harrisburg, Col. Samuel Shock
Clerk of the House in 1835 acted in the
same capacity and read the minutes of
the last reunion, which were adopted.
Hon. Thos. E. Cochran, of York briefly
stated the object of the meeting. A
number of letters from those unable to
be present were read. A resolution
pledging the members to use their in
fluence to promote the centennial was
adopted.
Minor Telegrams.
London, November 10.—Cook &
Son’s clothing factory was burned.
Six hundred people were thrown out of
employment.
Concord, N. H., November 10.—The
Prohibitory party met to-day. Fifty
delegates were present. A. S, Kendall
was nominated for Governor.
The Kansas and Missouri Bridge,
which spans the Missouri at Leaven
worth, has been placed in the hands of
a receiver.
The Missouri State Central Commit
tee have resolved to erect a fine build
ing in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia,
in which to exhibit the products of
Missouri.
Utica, N. Y., November 10.—A snow
storm has prevailed along the Mohawk
Valley since 10 a. m. to-day, with indi
cations of rain.
A Self-Convicted Thief.
Fort Scott, Ks., November 10.—W.
J. Philpot, night operator, was found
bound with telegraph wire, gagged and
the office robbed of $126. Ho confessed
the binding and gagging himself and
stealing the money, which he restored.
Philpot is in jail.
Boston Failures.
Boston, November 10.—F. Gildowske,
furniture manufacturer, has failed.
Liabilities. $350,000; assets, $150,000.
W. K. Lewis & Cos., pickelers, will
pay fifty cents on tho dollar.
The Era and the Watchman and Re
flector, two leading Baptist papers, are
consolidated.
Adoption of the New Missouri Consti
tution.
St. Louis, November IQ.— Returns
from sixty counties give 50,000 majori
ty for the new constitution.
A.UGLTSTA.. GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Character Sketches—Excess of Labor
ers—Padding the Police—Amuse
mentical—The Weather.
[From our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta. November 9.
John Short is a carpenter. Ho let
loose his first squall among the curling
shavings and mealy sawdust of his
father, who was a carpenter before him.
John began his plain-shoving career
when he was fresh, an<| his mind was
susceptible of being iwell impressed
with the essential indentations of the
hammer and mallet, *ience when he
grew to man’s estate Da had a pretty
good hold on the tru-de. Liko other
people, he fought his way up, married,
and finally dropped himself and his
family possessions inf) a snug little
home, earned and built by his own
hands. The usual mosaic of good and
bad times lay in his pitch upward, but
he managed to keep his head above
water and furnish the necessary food
and flannel for his youngsters. He
gave several years hard work for his
experience, and was rated a good work
man. Character No. 1;
Chris. Dunderblixen drank his first
beer in Faderland, ai ( >d crossed the
big pond in wooden shojis. From Castle
Garden he strode out |o that country
famous for being the objective point of
the course of empire! and the land
suggested by the late Mr. Greeley as a
flue country for youn;|* men. It was
there that Chris, whilec( his hours, gar
nered the toothesorae ghiin, murdered
the adipose porcines, fished for the yel
low nuggets—in fine, itf was there that
he labored with variations. Anything
that came along in sh-ipe of work he
took 1t in. Work to h-:.m was a God
send. Diversified labor was his trade,
and skill was a thing- unknown. In
due time he prospereVf. Not that he
grew suddenly wealth!, struck a rich
lode, or anything of th£t sort, but be
cause he had settled down, mated with
Gretchen, and has begiqi to calmly and
peaceably raise grain and little Dun
derblixens. Character No. 2.
George Washington m a ward of the
nation. He blossomed into Ethiopian
loveliness among the cornfields of
Georgia. Parents, irrespective of scent,
as a general rule, cut out a big hole in
the future into which they aim to push
their first-born. They £all this fanci
ful Aperture—this mythical crevice in
the gray-tinted future-j Ambition. The
producers of George Washington were
no exception to the usial rule. They
saw George’s best palms better than
all others, and longed tcjsee their ebony
progeny as a master workman—a car
penter. They wanted |o see him rise
far above the atmosphere of cornfield
ism in which they had tarried from
balmy childhood. Consequently, the
hopeful scion was plat ted among the
briars of the busy city, (here to mingle
with the tender fibres of his young
brain with the marvellous intricacies
of the carpentering business. Between
nocturnal appropriations and the pro
verbial laziness that freezes to tho de
scendants of the original freedmen,
George acquired a sort pf quasi knowl
edge uf the great business. Mellowing
down from the for
thieving, and gathering decimal frac
tional currency that followed in the
wake of odd jobs, George Washington
finally squatted his Dinjih and piccan
innies into'a home on jiis own land.—
There was always ab; ek step to be
fixed, a paling to nail o i, or a chicken
coop to be erected atn< ng the neigh
bors —jobs that were t >o insignificant
for the white trash—a'id there was
hardly a day that Geordo did not rake
up a dollar or so. Chanjcter No. 3.
Solomon Squirtgun is Jin editor. He
was born where enterprise took its
first start into life. Progression hung
her bright colored curiains over his
steam-rocking cradle; faulting Ambi
tion straddled tho angufir locomotive
of Energy, and holding |loft Brag as a
headlight, scooted along the track of
Life as if shot from q mortar, and
landed Solomon on the orfmson-earthed
spot wo now thrillinglyj and joyfully
call Atlanta. The buoyancy and fresh
ness of youth fitted bin j for his work.
His mission was the illusion of life,
the blowing of the wee v,tal spark that
gasped and twinkled between tho cer
tainty of going out forever and the un
certainty of being fanned into flame.
Enterprise never pales -before perse
verenee, and perseverehie in this in
stance was blowing. Blowing! What
a world of gratitude yve owe that
rounded word 1
That gasping spark kindled. Ten
derly it was taken from i(s lair of old
time ashes, and, likeu frosli baby in its
swaddlings, nursed untii vitality was a
dead sure tiling, and then let loose to
run about and frisk its canning capers
before the admiring gazii of au audi
ence of hemispheres, jiolomon was
then in all bis glory. Having kindled
the fires of progression afid started its
enterprising offsprings oil its way, he
vaults into the editorial chair and
sounds praises. His woriJerful faculty
of blowing chimes in with'the conoord,
and the air is heavy with the breath of
laurel leaves that bloom for the incom
ing immigrant. The geivii of Persian
tradition were but pigmies in the speed
and skill of erecting palaces when com
pared with Atlautian gods. Capital,
the heavy golden syrup that wastes
not its sweetness on the desert air,
poured its wonderful wealth into our
streets and flooded our -projects and
enterprises with a glutful lavishness.
Indeed, his pen portrait i~e of perse
vering progression—his elegant etching
of ennobling and energetf 3 enterprise—
wat alive with color. I to. hues sombre
ly shadowed the mellow-tinted arohes
of the rainbow as it spanned the Arca
dian skies overhead, aud its profile
needed not the finishing? touch of a
Raphael or a Rubens—-is'- was perfect
—preterpiuperfeet. . "r ,
John Short did not escape this land
scape. In the sacredness and quietude
of his home—that home around which
the tendrils of affection bad learned to
twine—he gazed abstractedly on the
picture. Catching inspiration from the
lively colors of tho well drawn original,
he drew a copy and hung;it prominent
ly in the gallery of fus thoughts.
Whether amoug the plan?*, saws and
hammers of the workshops or among
the cunning and loving ; didos of his
children at home, that p|oture prettily
presented itself. Daily, hourly, minute
ly it grew brighter, and as its scenic
beauties grew more radiant all the sur
roundings took a gloomy aspect. Work
seem to have fallen off, money took
sudden wings, the once beautiful homo
looked uncottage-like, unhomelike.
Neighbors looked grum —in fine the
place had lost its charms, and to speedi
ly win a way to fortune and earn a
home as was a home, he ; must hie to
Atlanta.
Afar in the west—amoK g the teeming
grain fields —a copy o? this gaudy
chromo flutteringly fell. Chris examin
ed it. He looked at it upUide down and
sidewise. He traced the-- outlines and
retraoed the figures wit) ; a careful eye.
He showed it to Gretchen, she showed
it to the babies. The bright colors
blinded their eyes to “well-to-do” and
presented naught but the glittering in
vitation to come and dwell with us.
True they had now their own vine and
figtree, and prosperity sat complacently
upon the gable of their own house, but
the charm of the picture! and Chris
smoked his pipe with a soothing
chuckle to himself as ho leaned over
his gate that day and bargained his
property to a neighbor. Then Chris
struck out for Atlanta.
This weird portraiture—the gold
framed etching of enterprise—scintil
lated its magic rays in all sorts of
places. Its bright beams ran as nim
bly along the carpeted floors as over
the dirt-begrimed boards of the
hovel. They streamed as lavishly
through the lace-curtained windows of
the manor as through the port-hole
windows of the hut. Liko the genial
beams of a glorious sun, they fell on
the rich and poor alike, but with a dif
ferent influence. Hence the picture
looked as handsome in the lowly home
of George Washington as it did ju tho
parlor of the Western man’s house.
George admired it. The odd job was
an unreliable revenue—a sort of Freed
man’s Bank business. And he, too,
hied to Atlanta.
Solomon Squirtgun, editor, impales
the juicy breast of a quail with his
monogramed fork, sips his beereamed
chocolate and languidly breakfasts.
Tho day has rubbod its eyes and is
now knuckled down to work. Solomon
pompously rushes for his office—his
enterprisoitching studio. He runs
against John Short.
“Do you know where I can get some
work, sir?”
“Why, there’s lots of work to be had.
Here’s Markham putting up a fine ho
tel, there’s the custom house, there’s
Ddd’s building going up, aud Raw
son’s and Wilson’s, and a thousand
other places where you get as much
work as you want.”
“All full, sir; I’vo tried every one.”
Solomon mentally resolves ou giving
his picture another touch of Vermill
ion—
“Do you know vere I can get a leedle
work to do, mister—joost a little for
mine family is sick.”
We can’t be mistaken. This is cer
tainly Chris, our Western friend. s
“Plenty of it. You can get garden
ing, dftch-digging, newspaper selling,
boot-blacking, peanut selling aud lots
of other work. Go ask for it.”
“Me bin here two, tree weeks, and me
ask effry body for work, but me no get
him. There is no work here.”
The young editor skims along the
red-crested pavement like a frigtened
sea-bird. He passes a building going
up. Hard at work with trowel in hand
—perhaps for Jhe first time in his life
—is George Washington! Then the
chrorao has done some good any how !
The Excess of Laborers.
At no time within.my recollection has
Atlanta been so full*of workmen. The
spasm of improvement has spent itself,
and Othello’s occupation’s gone. A
contractor, who boards where I do,
told me to-day that he worked twenty
hands, and when he got through with
his present job he would be compelled
to set his hands adrift, as there was
uot the slightest prospect of more
work. At the same house is an intelli
gent German, who says he was attract
ed here by the march of improvement,
but has had, nor can he find anything
to do. In order to get back home, he
hinted that his only course was to jump
his boarding-house aud foot it. Rather
a reprehensible plan, but nevertheless
the only one. The very cold weather
now setting in drives the negro laborer
in-doors, and this vacuum may be fill
ed iu a measure by such unfortunate
cusses as Chris, described in my pre
amble.
Overcoated.
The Metropolitan police have been
furnished with their winter overooats.
They are made of heavy stuff, reach to
the knees and, like old Grimes’ ooat,
all buttoned up before. The commis
sioners require every button duly in
stalled in their respective holes while
on duty, and the baton and pistol must
be worn where they can be seen. Re
cently very stringent orders have been
enforced J'or the government of this
body. They are allowed no discretion,
but are required to know exactly the
offense committed, where, when and
how, the consequent punishment and
probable effect on the city morals, be
fore they can arrest a person. They
are made to walk only on certain
bricks of the pavement, and on pave
ments of stone or gravel, a line is
chalked out. The s are as fixed as
stars, the lips compressed, and the face
must wear a commingled expression of
submission and dignity.
Amusements.
The newest thing booked in the
amusement line is F. H. Hall’s Theat
rical Troupe, who will give us the
“ Two Orphans.” We’ve had enough
of these orphans ; it is Frenchy from
the word go, plentifully sprinkled with
broad hints and suggestive suggestions
that start blushes ; and then, again,
it’s hprridly monotonous. As this
troupe have no reputation, and was
never heard of here before, the house
will be full—of empty benches.
A Cold Snap.
Winter has toddled in at last—the
air is frQsty and good fires and warm
dry goods in demand. Atlanta seems
to be the rendezvous of cold breezes,
and when it’s cold here, it's cold sure
enough. Maetha.
There is a man in Indiana who takes
thirty-two papers. Need we add that
he walks eight miles every morning
before breakfast, reads without specta
cles, smokes and chews, gave General
Washington a glass of water, votes
the Republican f icket, has no mother
in-law, frequently falls heir to large es
tates in England, never pulls his gun
to him by the muzzle, is always elected
to office, has his winter fu**i given to
him, finds pocket-books on the street,
never knew a day’s illness, and has a
brand new Ulster overcoat! No. To
detail that information would simply
be a work of superrogation.
A bloodhound, which guards the
Hamburg steamship wharves in Ho
boken, saw a mad woman plunge her
head into a tub of water and mud, and
then he run off to pull a guard by his
coat-tails. The guard hadn’t as much
sense as Ihe bloodhound, and when he
got the dog’s meaning through his
wool, the woman was dead.
A woman cured her husband of stay
ing out late at night, by going to the
door when he oame home and whisper
ing through the key-hole, “Is that you,
Willie ?” Her husband’s name is John,
and he stays at home every night now,
and sleeps with one eye open and a re
volver under his pillow.
A Detroit lightning-rod man says that
Zach Chandler is the meanest man who
could have been made Secretary. When
the agent called on him he at once
yelled out: “Tum-us ! Tum-us! bring
that pair of boots with torpedoes in the
toes!”
VVINANS’ ORGAN.
The Baltimore Millionaire Building a
Monster Instrument—Music Which
Can be Heard at a Distance of One
Mile.
[ Baltimore Gazetted
Mr. Thomas Winans, the well known
millionaire of Baltimore, has now been
engaged for nearly two years experi
menting, with a view of building an
immense organ at his private residence.
The mansion, with surrounding
grounds, occupy an entire block iu the
western section of the city, and, as
generally known, are beautifully laid
out and magnificently adorned with all
that wealth and a cultivated taste can
suggest. During Mr. Winans’ summer
sojourns at has attached to
his residence a house in which his ex
periments are continued. During the
ensuing winter an organ will be built
at Newport, under his direction, which
will be one of the largest in this coun
try, and will be placed in a building ex
presscly constructed for the purpose.
When the instrument is being per
formed upon, the music, it is stated,
will be heard distinctly for nearly a
mile. But large as this will be,
The Monstei- Organ
which Mr. Winans will have con
structed in Baltimore will greatly ex
ceed it iu dimensions anil power. The
building in which this organ will be
built is situated in the northwestern
angle of Mr. Winans’spacious grounds,
within a short distance of the wall at
the western boundary of the inclosure.
It is built of brick, arid the entire struc
ture will be used for the case of the
organ. 'The dimensions of the interior
of the main organ-room are as follows :
Height from floor to ceiling, 40 feet;
area of floor, 34 feet 6 inches by 24 feet.
There is another apartment two stories
in height, the first of which will be used
for two tanks, which will be described
hereafter, and in the second the great
swell-pipes of the organ will be put.
This apartment will be known as the
swell-house.
The Main Organ
house is pierced by two large double
windows on the north and south sides,
each Bby 6 feet in size. The side next
to the sweliing-house has two of these
windows, the upper one of which opens
out on the roof of the swell-house, and
the other, several feet lower, comes
just beneath the roof, and opens into
the swell-house. A row of heavy slats
is before the latter window, which can
be opened or closed at pleasure from
below. Directly opposite this window,
which is intended to regulate the sound
from the swell-house is a bimilar win
dow opening into the audience-room.
By means of these slatted windows the
music can be rendered soft and low or
made loud and deep. When the win
dow in the swell-house is closed, the
sound will appear as though at a dis
tance, aud the gradual opening of the
slats will, as it were, bring it nearer,
producing a charmmg effect. When it
is desired to have the music heard
through tfc,e grounds and in the neigh
borhood the windows can bo opened
and the melodious sounds will be dis
tinctly audible for a mile. Closing the
heavy iron shutters upon the windows
will coniine the sound iu all its power
within the compass of tho organ-room, i
The Organ Pipes,
between six and seven thousand in
number, will range in size from thirty
one feet high, and two feet by two feet
six inches in diameter down to a pipe a
few feet in length and about one-fourth
of an inch in diameter. There will be
five banks of keys, each operating a
separate set of pipes as follows: The
choir organ, the swell, the solo and the
high pressure. The number of stops
will exceed two hundred.
The Air Supply
for the organ will be by means of anew
process, which is the invention of Mr.
Winans. Instead of the old blowing
apparatus, tho wind is supplied from
tanks, which contain over 200 cubic
feet of air each, which is forced into
the tanks by means of a pump, aud is
again forced into the organ by the
weight of tho heavy iron tanks which
operate upon the same principle as
gasometers. The tanks are surrounded
by water, which prevents any leakage
of air, thus obviating the difficulty of
preventing the leakage that is so often
met with in the old bellows method of
organ blowing. Only one of the pipes
has been placed in position, and its
size may be better understood when it
is stated that it is nearly as large as an
ordinary sized chimney, and towers
above a man’s head after the fashion
of a telegraph pole. All the larger pipes
will be constructed of wood. They will
be arranged in rows, with the small
ones near the performer and the rest
rising tier after tier to the larger ones.
This enables the observer to have all
the pipes in view at once—of course,
excepting those in the swell room,
which, as before stated, is separated
from the main organ room.
Among the Experiments
which Mr. Winans has been making is
one for the purpose of determining the
exact amount of time which is lost be
tween the instant of touching the key
and the production of the sound. This
result is arrived at by au ingenious de
vice of which Mr. Winans is the author.
Two pencil points, arranged in such a
position that one is operated by the
key and the other by the valve in the
pipe. A white disc is set in motion,
running at a uniform rate of speed, and
upon the key being touched the pencil
with which it is directly connected will
strike the peripher of the disc and
make a small dot. As soon as the ac
tion of the key is communicated to the
valve the other pencil is allowed to
strike the disc, making a dot slightly
back of thd other. By ascertaining the
rate of speed at which the wheel is
running and the distance of the dots
apart, the exact difference between the
touch of the key and the response can
be determined.
Thus far Mr. Winans’ work upon tho
organ has been
Only Experimental,
and he has not yet fully determined
upon the time when the actual work of
construction will be commenced, but
liis experiments have been so thorough
that the space of a few months is all
that will be necessary for the comple
tion of the organ when once begun.
When completed Mr. Winans’ organ
will be the
Largest in America.
The largest organ in the world is at
Albert Hall, Eondon. It contains 138
stops and upwards of 10.000 pipes, all
of which are of metal. It was built by
Henry Willis in 1870. There is another
of Mr. Willis’ organs at St. George’s
Hall, Liverpool, which has 100 stops
and 5,000 pipes. The largest organ in
America is in Music Hall, liostoq. It
has four manuels, 89 stops, and 4,000
pipes,
The other large organs in this coun
try, with from 2,500 to 4,000 pipes, and
from fifty to sixty stops, are as follows:
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 83.
Trinity church, New York; Plymouth
church, Brooklyn; St. George’s church,
New York; Tabernacle, Brooklyn; St.
Bartholomew’s, New York, and the
church of the Holy Trinity, also in the
metropolis.
A BEWITCHED BOY.
Wonderful Performance of Henry Os
car Diener—Feats that Rival Trained
Acrobats—Superstition in Pennsyl
vania.
Pottstown, September 18.—You have
no doubt, ere this, heard about the be
witched Diener boy, at Boyertown. This
story is the event of the season, and
nothing else is talked about in this re
gion. For the purpose of getting the
facts in the case, we yesterday visited
Boyertown and interviewed the lad and
his parents. The lad said he was nearly
ten years old, and that his name was
Henry Oscar Diener. He is of stout
build, regular features, rosy cheeks,
clear, intelligent, blue eyes, and prom
inent forehead.
He converses with ease, and appear
ed to have had some little education.
His general appearance indicated
health, and no matter what produces
the “ spells ” with which he is afflicted,
no bodily ailment was noticeable. Here
is what his father, Adam Diener, and
his mother, who formerly resided at
Heading, had to say about the remark
able affair:
Last March, one year ago, he had
the first spell, and with the exception
of several months last spring he had
one, and sometimes two every day.
While the fit is on, his eyes become
glassy, face contorted, hands cold and
skin of a livid hue. He will spring
over chairs, sit on their backs squirrel
fashion, suspend himself by his hands
to nails in the wall, jump out and in
windows, and perform a feat which the
most expert show actor would not dare
to undertake—that is, of walking
around the room on the sutbase, the
width of which is not over one inch.
He at times becomes furious, and the
family are obliged to keep their dis
tance. He scratches and bites, but
does not raise an arm to strike. He
passes around the floor on all-fours,
like a dog or any other four-footed ani
mal. He imitates to perfection the
mewing of a cat, the barking of a dog,
the chirping of a bird, neighing of a
horse, and the bleating of a lamb. While
the spell is on, he frequently breaks
crockery ware and upsets the furni
ture, but was never known to sustain
any injury therefrom. The fit, or what
ever it may be termed, usually lasts
about half an hour, and when it leaves
him he awakes as though from a
dream, seemingly much refreshed. He
can tell all that took place while in that
state with a clearness and minuteness
most lemarkable. Now the family really
believe that the boy is bewitched, and
base their arguments on the following
incidents connected with the affair:
The first day he had a spell, it was
brought about, they say, through him
falling out with an old woman of
seventy, residing with her daughter in
Engleville, about one mile distant. This
woman is said to be a sort of sorceress,
and from some cause not explained,
she took a deep dislike to the boy. He
passed her house daily on his way
to school, and upon one occasion when
he refused to accept a piece of bread
from her hands, she went over a long
rigmarole of incantations, and remark
ed that the devil would take possession
of his body for a certain time every day
of his life. Last April the old hag visit
ed Chester county, and remained away
until about two weeks ago. Most re
markable to state, the boy had no spells
while she was gone, but on the very
day of her return they returned also.
The woman on that day was seen by
the neighbors in front of the boy’s resi
dence, making peculiar motions with
arms, and drawing circles in the sand.
Last Thursday week Mr. Diener took
his son to Reading to a witch doctor,
on Neversink street, who now has his
case in hand. No jihedicine was pre
scribed, the modus operandi of the
treatment being purely of the black art
kind, and the family are forbidden to
divulge the nature of the cabalistic
signs and incantations they are obliged
to perform.
Yesterday, one week ago, while fath
er and sou were on a settee in a down
stairs room, the boy broke out, and af
ter squirming round the room, sudden
ly seemed to pick up something from
the floor. He closed his hand and re
fused to open it until he returned to
himself, when it was found to contain a
twenty-five cent note. He says he saw
the money flying across the fields, com
ing from the direction of the witch’s
house, and enter the window and drop
to the floor. He further says that a
long red string was attached to it,
which disappeared again out of the
window. The father says no one in the
house is known to have had a single
cent of money less than asl bill. The
scrip was placed under a glass, and by
instructions of the doctor (?) it was torn
in half last Sunday, the one part be
ing retained while the other was burn
ed in a brimstone fire.
Mr. Diener, the father, is a man of
ordinary calibre. His wife seems, men
tally, the stronger of the two. Both
are firm in their belief that the boy is
bewitched. The neighbors to a great
extent share in their opinion, and in
consequence considerable excitement
exists in that locality. Hundreds visit
the boy daily, aiid the story we have
related here is the one repeated by the
party to all those who call— Beading
Eagle.
Athens Watchman : The Washington
Gazette has found him—we mean the
meanest man in Georgia—a young man
in Wilkes oounty, who confessed to his
sweetheart to whom he was engaged
and who was anxious to have the mar
riage ceremony consummated, that he
had not the necessary amount ($1.56) to
purchase the license. The poor girl
raised $1.55, which she had been care
fully hoarding, with which to buy a
Christmas dress, and sent him to town
to procure the necessary license. He
invested the money in a license to
rqarry another girl ! For real, unmiti
gated meanness, this case is without
parallel, so far as we know. * * Mrs.
Susan B. Golding, one among the oldest
residents of this city, died suddenly at
her residence on Thursday morning
last, In the 76th year of her age. It is
believed that she died of apoplexy.
The deceased was highly esteemed by
all who knew her.
A reverned ballot-box stuffer has
been discovered in the person of the
Rev. P. St. Clair, of Des Moines Con
ference, who made it appear that eight
men were able to cast twelve votes. He
has been placed on trial.
The> fountain presented by Miss
Uotta to San Francisco has hecome a
popular institution. Says a local paper:
“As the pearly drops fall into the ele
gant basin tfje ’Friscan thinks he hears
the far-off tinklings of her banjo, and
goes and fires stones at a Chinaman, to
slow music.”
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WIT AND WISDOM.
The wife of Omaha’s Mayor locks
the doors on him after 10 p. m.
Every donkey that has a cold uoty
a-days flatters himself that he is a
horse.
Again do we have to pay our atten
tion to this mongrel whelp.—Beginning
of a Mississippi editorial,
W.by is a drunkard like a bad poli
tician ? Because he is always poking
his nose into measures that spoil the
constitution.
Li itle Harry, five years old, was call
ed to see the new baby. After a mo
ment’s contemplation, he turned to his
expectant papa with, “We don’t need
that.’’
Go to law, will you ? It cost a Prov
idence doctor $6 to get an attachment
the other day on some property, the
sale of which subsequently realized
fifteen cents.
Californians say they can tell an
Eastern man as soon as he makes a
purchase. If there’s two cents change
coming to him he wants it.
A Chicago man has lost his cheek.
The doctors took it away in removing a
cancer. He won’t feel at home any
more in Chicago.
Voltaire said : “The more married
men the fewer crimes, there will be.”
He reckoned on the theory of Bene
dicks being home at 9 p. m.
The price of squaws has declined on
the approach ol’ winter. One can now
be purchased for $7 in cash and a
pound of powder.
The New York Herald will have it3
Stanley letter about once if so often,
even if someone in the office has to
consult a map of Africa and write it.
Politics is the same all over. The
man who runs for constable is just as
soundly abused by the papers as the
man who runs for Congress.
A Pennsylvanian named Wingert cut
his toe off because of an aching corn,
and then hung himself because of the
aching of the amputated toe.
Donn Piatt lias reached home from
Europe. He says there is no place like
Washington, and any person who was
ever in that towm will agree with him.
The faculty at Hamilton College ob
jected to the boys hoisting a cow to the
roof of one of the buildings, and so the
freshman class quit and went home.
A noble Omaha mastiff has saved the
lives of three children within a month
past, and bitten fourteen men who call
ed to sell a patent clothes-bar.
A mosquito hasn’t been seen in Texas
since the cyclone. These things are
always managed for the best, though
we sometimes can’t see it at first.
Poor Carruth ! But then, what satis
faction was it for a man to live with a
bullet rattling around his skull and
people continually inquiring how it
feels ?
Santa Anna has gone into the poul
try business, and will mpw raise hens
instead of rebellions, though he con
fesses that, he’d like one more little re
bellion.
Dakota lightning goes for live Block
with great zeal. A recent bolt killed
fourteen horses and live steers, when
it might as will have struck a cheap
dog.
Mrs. Livermore says that marriage
and a home are not all that woman
wants. She’s just right. They’d want
something more if in Heaven—proba
bly want to fly down and show off their
azure robes.
A Virginia editor apologizes for a
skip of three weeks by saying that he
was very sick and didn’t want to spoil
his chances for Heaven by writing any
puffs.
A San Francisco boy has had one of
his ears cut off by a street car. It is
teo late now to find out what his head
was doing all the time to keep clear of
the wheels.
Caleb Cushing says that the United
States will have a population of 50,000,-
000 in five years from now, and yet he
has never done anything that we can
hear of to aid the cause.
The London police have suppressed
all the matrimonial newspapers in that
city. They were an inducement for a
good man to throw himself away on a
poor woman.
An lowa editor has been shot for
speaking of a man as a “viol wretch.”
Served him right, Tne dictionary must
be upheld if all the editors iu the coun
try are laid out.
A Nebraska doctor furnished a scalp
ed soldier with a piece of Buffalo hide
and* made his head as good as new.
The only trouble with the hair is that
it “sheds” twice a year.
Boucieault is said to be clearing
$7,000 per week. If he keeps on this
way withdrawing money from circula
tion, it won’t be long before the rest of
us won' t have money enough to buy a
codfish.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Sylva
nus Cobb, Leon Lewis and Ned Bunt
line are all sick in a heap. Any ono
who says that Providence isn’t around
these days is mistaken.
The moral of the Virginia City fire
is: If you don’t want your town to burn
up get a supply of water and fire ap
paratus. It doesn’t do a bit of good
to stand and yell at a conflagration.
A New Jersey woman has invented
“an everlasting clothes line;” but alas !
the head of the family has to arise in
the night and take it in to avoid a
shower, tile same as with the old ones.
“The proof of virtue fe ill /struggling
with misfortune,” said Franklin: If
he had (been turned out doors for non
payment of rent, he would have leaned
against a lamp post and called himself
a jackass for having written that sen
tence.
Charles Turner, of Wisconsin, left
home five years ago to make a fortune
and return and marry his own true
love. He came back the other day and
found%he had been married and was
patiently waiting for him.
Now that foreigners are at last al
lowed to travel in the interior of China,
what a splendid new field is thus unex
pectedly opened for the life insurance,
lightning rod, and sewing machine men
of America.
It is confidently asserted that the
one thing more difficult than the pas
sage of a camel through the eye of a
needle is for a handsome woman to
make up her mind to shake hands with
a small-pox patient.
A than with theories says: “I make
ft a rule to never lend money to men
who part their hair in the middle.” He
is right, of course; but he could have
truthfully added that he had no money
to lend. —New Orleans Republican.
A wee bit of a boy, having been
slightly chastised by his mother, sat
quietly in his chair for some time after
ward, no doubt thinking profoundly.
At last he spoke out thus: “Muzzer, I
wish pa’d get annuzzer housekeeper—
I’Ve got tired o’ scein’ you round,”