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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1879.
VOL. XL, NO. 4=3
IN THE CAPITOL
A MOVE TO LIFT THE PRESSURE.
Tk# Caseas Dstemiasg to Opts tks Dxr far Fir it*
•Ul Lsgislstism— Saw Georgia Fares O* tks
OfiMiw Tk* Gtt'fU Fear Psr
Cf*t Beadi Up Afitia. Ere.
KpeeUJ dispatch to The Constitution.
Washington, April 9.—.Speaker Ran
dail will not announce the com
mittal* until Friday, but I am able to
Hire in advance the disposition of Georgia
representatives’: Mr. Nicholl*. on foreign
affair*; Mr. Hmfth. on military affair* and
jalenui; Mr. Cook, chairman public build-
mgs and ground*; Mr. Blount, on appro
priations. and chairman of exf’enditurenof
department of justice; Mr. Persons, on
agriculture and naval affairs; Mr. Ham
mond, on judiciary; Mr. Stephens.on rules,
atw! ehairman of coinage and weight.*; Mr.
Felton, on ways and means; Mr. Speer, on
elections.
Commissioner Kaum ha* the Georgia
four per cent, bonds under consideration.
He is to determine the question whether
they are liable to the tax of ten percent.
He And* some knotty questions in bis way,
but it is thought that he will decide that
they are liable to the tax. He is Wing
pressed to make thia decision hy leading
financial men because the use of these bond*
as a circulating medium will be followed by
other states and result in disturbing the
present status of the currency. B.
Mr. Htephens (Georgia) then offered the
following with the request that it be read
and laid on the table for l he action of a fu
ture caucus:
Resolved, That the alma and objects of the de
mocracy of the V idled StoteL as far as we are
chosen by them as member* of the paasaai baas*
of representatives, arc entitled to becunaPWred
as the true exponents of these alms and okjwa
are direct**! with a singleness of purpose to the
re*location of ermsUtutlonal liberty, and with It
the restoration of peace and harmony and pros
perity throughout the length and breadth of the
land; they abjure the renewal of sectional strife;
they accept all the legitimate results of the late
lamented war; they ate utterly opposed to revival
In this country or any part thereof *.f African
slavery or any other kind of slavery
or involuntary servitude except as
punishment for crime; they stand idedged to
Maintain the union of the states tinder the non-
stuutlou with all iu existing amendments as they
shall be expounded hy the supreme mart of the
United State*;they srrrxalnstall unconstitutional
or rrvolntlonary methods; they are for law and
older and the protection of life, liberty and
pc- -fwrty without respect <4 persons or social eon-
dlthins; for the redress of all grievances; they
look alone to the peaceful instrumentality of th«-
mnrtltution. through. Unit, the law-makiiis
power; second, the law-ex pounding power; thlr>\
the law-executing power, and finally the ulti
mate sovereign power of the ttallot-box. They arc
for a free nallol a- well as for
Just fount while they
can then work our mine*. We need cap
ital and men who understand the
basinets—men who can get rid of the
water and quicksand that trouble ua
There ia no doubt about this being a rich
gold region. I have seen front a small pan
of decomposed quartz fifty dollars banned,
and in the Goahen mine the gold is free, and
with the proper washing machinery there
could be thousands of dollars washed out in
a very short time. Thera have been found
as much aa three hundred and twelve dol
lars in one nugvet. There are several mines
on that line. The most successful one is the
Kendall mine. They have struck a lead
that ia very rich. The region of gold is
widening now. and I saw yesterday a vien
on Newforr! creek which, I think, will
prove richer than the veins on Fishing
creek, because it is in a somewhat
different rock—the finest quarts I
ever saw in fact on New ford creek. The
quarts looks almost like diamonds. I do
not write this to excite any one, but I
think it is right :bat we should have the
benefits of what God ha* given ns. Thoe
old hill* here are full of the precious metals,
and not only of gold and silver, but of coj>-
per and lead. I know a poor man who has
to work like the meanest slave, who has
on his little place enough copper to make
him as rich as Vanderbilt. Write us up.
Mr. Editor, and if wc can get men and
means we will soon add to the revenue of
our great old state—the state of Georgia
N. ft
THE COMING COTTON CROP
I able the president to put down domestic violence I
nr Insurrection in any of the states, and In aid of
civil oftcmi^tpMeetmlUlu*, in the execution
of legal prom*. In pursuance of the constitution,
and as provided In the acta of congress of ITW*
•ml UW. But they are utterly opposed to the use
of the military of the I'nited Mate* in controlling
or in any way Interfering with the freedom of
electlo.i*. They are for the Maintenance of the
C ^Hbllc credit inviolate, hut are utterly opposed to
increase of the bonded debt unless the
exigencies of war should render it neces
sary. They are tor the retrenchment of
ex|*'iidttuirs, lessening the burdens of taxation
and a thnnuigh reform in the present unequal and
unjust method «»l rwUlng revenue. They are lor
placing the coinage of gold and silver up»n the
same hading without restriction or limitation
upon the amount of either. They are for reviving
the languishing and perishing industries of the
cxHiutry hy an increase of the volume of currency,
founded on a sound lnwh. sufficient to meet the
urgent demands nl trade in every department of
a Keen by Hr. Prims* Jonea, or
Southwestern Georgia.
Monday one of the patent pumps of
The Constitution tackled. In the rotunda
of the Kimball. Mr. Primus Jones, one of
the leading planters of south Georgia, and
commenced interviewing that gentleman
ujion the condition of the cott -n c op in his
section of the state.
"When did you leave your plantation T*
asked the reporter.
“I intended to leave there last Friday,
but did not get off until the day following.
I wanted to see if the frost was going to in
jure my crops."
"So you had a frost, did you?" remarked
the rejiorter.
‘“Oh, yes; only a light one, however.”
“Uo you think that it injured your cot
ton?"
I hardly think that it did. although up to
the time that I left home, I could not tell
any thing about it. I wan't to get home a*
early as pos*ib!e to find out how I have
*»eeii handled by the unwelcome visitor."
I have succeeded in getting out the first
hale every year*ince the war, with the ex
ception of three, and one of t hoe was de
layed by my wagon breaking down while
the road to the town where I hail shipped
. and the other two year, I did not push
for the prise. If I succeed in getting out the
first bale this year. I intend Pi rest quietly
upon mv oars, and let some one else come
' it for a share of the honor of getting out the
pioneer hale."
Mr. Primus Jones is a brother of Mr. Otis
Jones, formerly of this city, but who, for
the |ia*t three years, ha* lieen planting near
Grantville. on the Atlanta :<nd West Point
railroad. He is one of the most successful
planters in the state, and ha* numerous
friend* and well wishers in Atlanta.
labor and liudui
Without transacting any further business
the caucus adjourned.
WAsmaoTog. I>. C., April 7.—"'he follow-
i**g is furnished by the cmnptroller of cur
rency: "The comptroller of currency has
receive*! front the hank examiner in Geor
gia a specimen of the new four per cent,
roods recently issued hy that state. They
arc in size and color similar to the green-
lmeks and in other re*|*ects. They are a
I*.ml with interest f>nyab)e six years after
date, with six annual coupons amounting
t.» twenty cents each, upon the right end of
tin* note. The comptroller, in his report for
1872 and 187.3, called the attention of emi
gre-*• to the issue of certificates of tins de
nomination of five dollars hy the state of
Alabama, which were receivable in pa
menl of taxes and all due* to the state,
question is likely to nrise whether these
Is.ud-are hill* of credit. The comptroller
ii> In* report of 187*2 said that the constitu-
tim «.t the United states provides that no
stale shall emit hills of credit, and if ha*
Iwrn held hy the supreme court of the
I* hi ted -Slides, in the famous case of Bris
co \s. Bank of Kentucky. iN*ued. by a
state, involving the faith of the state,
designed to circulate a* money on the credit
of it.e-tate in the ordinary course of busi
ness. is a hill of credit.
Other decisions of the supreme court hold
that certificate*, issued by a state in sums
not exceeding ten dollar* nor less than
flftv dollarsreceivable in payment of taxes,
ami the faith ami credit of the state being
for their redemption, are bill* of credit
within the prohibition of the constitut
The following southern cases were decided
in the United Slates supreme curt to-day
Marv U. Gordon vs. James 11. Gilfoil, from
the United State* circuit court of Louisi
ana; curt lu*M* that the plaint iff can tint
have any peroiml decree against the de
fendant, hut is entitled to a decree for the
foreclo-nre at:d sale of one undivided half
of the plantation covered by the mortgage
decree .»• versed, each partv to |«v its own
costs. The Canal hank of New Orleans, et
•I., vs. William B. Partee,
United Stall-* circuit court of the southern
district of Mississippi; decree reversed.
Justice Miller dissenting. I*afayctte M.
Flournoy, t.re-blent, vs. Alfred Lastrapes.
from the United States circuit court of
Louisiana; judgment a rmed with costs.
Jacob McWilliams vs. Frank F. Case, re
ceiver; judgment affirmed with costs and
interest on authority of Kennedy vs. Gib
son, 8 Wallace 198. The Germania na
tional bank of New Orleans vs. Frank F.
Case, receiver; argued.
.Simon Mussina, of Galveston, was to-day
admitted to prac-ice in this court.
CONGRESSMAN SMITH.
A Talk wills the Representative
I lie Seen ait.
We met Colonel W. E. Smith, member
of congress from the second Georgia con-
gmaional district, yesterday at noon as he
stepped off the train from \Va*hington, and
bad a few minute-’ talk with him while he
wa* watting 'or the train p»ing south to his
home at Albany.
“What is the news at Washington, Colonel
Smith r ’ we said to him.
“Well. I read Sunday morning's Cowan
TfTiojs, and you have all 1 know. 1 left
Sat unlay. I believe The Constitution lias
all the news I can tell about what is going
on. We passed the appropriation bills with
the amendment*, ami I thought while the
fight wa* progressing in the senate I would
lake a :rip home and get my law business
fixed up. 1 will return in four or five
day a ”
“Will Congress consider any new busi
nr* 7"
“It does nor a| pear so now. The denv
cratic caucus lias taken no decided action i
the subject, and ti ere is now no under-
standing «V»m what will be done. The
fact that the 1. * t c adjourn* over fi\>m Sat
urday to Tue*d \ is a clear indication to roy
mind that ' cy intend to adjourn as soon a*
they get through with the appropriation
bills. You see Monday is the day set apart
for the introduction of new business under
our rules, and by adjourning over it defeats
those who desire to introduce new bills. So
far, not more than twenty-five members
have voted against the adjournment, and it
ahows a large majority against the introduc
tion of new matter."
“How is General < tordon
“He is much better. Has been in his seat
since he wa* sick, and is almost well again.
After this short talk with Colonel Mnith,
be left our city for his home. He is looking
well. ^
THE WEALTH OF WILKES
Emms* CoJwnTmog—1 liare been thin
itig that some one more competent would
lav before the public the facts about the
Wilkes county gold mines, and let the cap
italist* of the country know the magnitude
of the gold resources of this jwrt of the
•tale, but I have seen only one or two short
it uires of the subject. And before begin
ning to tell you what I know ab^ut this
matter, let me a»k a question or two: Why
la it that we are neglected by the geological
bureaus? Have we a state geologist"
If so, why dues he not help us
to develop this great enterprise. There
la great excitement and that is about
all. The way in which we find out any
thing. aonte half-way miner will tap a
vein and he will tell the owner of the land
and the owner will say I'll give you such
a share if you will help me work it. But
TURPENTINE.
An intelligent gentleman who has re
cently been in the tur|>entiiie region of
Georgia dropped into The Constitution of
fice yesterday, and we gathered from him
the following points of interest about the
manufacture of turpentine. It covers the
whole subject, and contains a* much in
formation as could be given in a book on
the subject:
1. Any number of pine trees tapped are
called an orchard.
Ten to ten and a half thousand trees
r ed are called a crop.
One to three boxe* arc cut into every
tree within one or two feet from the ground.
4. Seventy-five trees will usually average
100 boxes.
5. One and a nnarter to one and a half
cent* is being jmiu for cutting each box.
0. One man can scrape in one week the
trees of one crop.
One man can gather in one week the
ro*in of two cnqis.
8. A season lasts seven to seven and a half
months.
9. Trees are generally used three succes-
re seasons, though sometimes longer.
10. Where trees are plenty they are by
reference used hut one season, the virgin
r|iciitinc being considered the liest.
11. The first season the rosin is gathered
ery four weeks; after that every six
weeks.
12. Five thousand boxes average daily
during the season one barrel rosin of 280
(MMtnds, including the weight of the barrel,
ami 0 to fit* gallons of turpentine of about
OK pounds each.
13 Eighty men employed in all will pro
duce daily 00 barrels rosin and ;J60 gallons
tar)«ntiM.
14. Turpentine is worth now twenty-six
cents per gallon in Savannah, and it sold a*
high ns sixty cents per gallon in 1875 and
1876 without having cost any more to pro
duce it.
15. lkhin varies now from $1.10 to $4 per
barrel, the lightest colored and freest front
tun**ntine Wing the best.
16. Distilling it too long darkens the
rosin.
17. Rosin generally pays all the expenses
of manufacture, leaving the spirits of tur
pentine clear profit.
18. New oak barrels for tnrpentine cost
New York $1.35 and deliver*! in Savannah
about $1.85each; old ones are cheaper but
less u-eful. ms they sell poorer when filled.
10. Rough pine barrels for rosin aie made
mar the turjieiittne distilleries.
». Distillers sometimes buy and some-
lues lease pine lands.
21. The establishment of a turpentine
still is not very expensive.
22. laborers about stills pet seventy-five
cents per day—often less.
23. Tapping trees retard their growth—
often even kills them, and decreases largely
the value of lumber made of them.
We have thousands of acres of turpentine
lands in this state that can be purcha»cd for
i»tte dollar per acre.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
THE COBB COUNTY GRAND JURY
Addresses 8oas Words c? B?beram sal Troth to tbs
Psblie—Tht Pnvzltac* of Crims-Ths Mof-
fstt Register Lav sad tbs Dog Tax—
Tbs Pistol Qasstica, Etc.
We have secured the proceedings of the
grand jury for the second week of court in
Cobb county, and find them of such general
Interest that we submit part of them to our
readers. The foreman of the grand jury is
Colonel P. W. Alexander, and we take it,
from this Hrcnmstance, a* well a* from the
vigor and finish of the style, that he is the
author of the presentment*. At any rate,
they treat upon the most vital subjects and
will prove to be of very general and *|>ecial
interest They will deserve publication, at
least a* far as they are published here, in
the state of Georgia. After treating of
purely local matters, which are bandied in
ship shape style, the presentments take up
the following matters which are of general
interest:
The alarming increise of crime is
first discussed. It is stated that this
epidemic of violence and crime
may l>e the result of the liberation of 4.000.-
000 of slaves, or the results of a great civil
war, or simply one of the visitations to
which all countries are sometimes lia
ble. In any event the report conclude* that
ft is the duty of all good citixens to attempt
to check this crime, either by repressive
measure* or by the moral and Intellectual
elevation of the people.
TAXING DEADLY WEAPON*.
One of the measures proposed bv the pre
sentments Is a tax on deadly weapons. .A f-
ter denouncing the horrible
way saloon bad to be cut to admit the litter.
A dispatch from Rome to the Daily News
says that Garibaldi slept well Saturday
night. Hb doctor thinks he will leave bis
bed within a week.
A letter from the Cardinkl vicar is pub
lished complaining bitterly of the expense
in Rome of protestant schools supported
chiefly by foreign money. It announces
that the pope has appointed a vigilance
committee to increase and imorove the
Catholic schools, and appeals to the nobility
and clergy to subscribe for their support.
Kissing by Prosy.
Some time since one of the smartest and
wittiest of Cincinnati’s girls went abroad,
and when she returned home about the
first person to congratulate her on her safe
return was Mr. B , a you ns blood of
the city, whose dollars exceeded his sen.se
in the ratio of about a trillion to one.
"Aw, Mbs X ," he said, "permit me
to greet you. I know you have had a very
pleasant trip abroad!"
"Yes,” she answered, “very pleasant In
deed. I was all over the continent, and
through England, Scotland and Ireland "
"Ah. in Ireland, and did you see the
Blarney stone?"
"Yes, I was there."
"Oh, I should so delight to see it. It has
always been a desire of mine to kiss that
celebratedat< ^
opport unity.’
"Indeed! then youshould."
"I know, but I have not done so; but
why shouldn’t I kiss it by proxy? You
have been there and kissed, why should I
not take the influence of the Blarney from
your lira?"—and the smart Aleck stepped
forward to proxify the young lady. But
she drew back, and, looking him square in
the face, said:
I beg your pardon, dear Mr. B .but
sat upon the Blarney stone."
THE ODIOUS OATH.
presentment* go on to say that little good
will come of the tardy awakening of the
public conscience unless radical legal meas
ures are adopted and enforced. It says,
therefore: And to that end we recommend
that a general law be enacted requiring all
dealers in pistols, bowie-knives, dirks,
sword-canes, slung-shot* and other deadly
weapons, to pay a heavy tax. and in addi
tion to nay a tax on every weapon by them
sold or brought into the state, and also to
keep a list of the names of all persons to
whom any of said weapons may be sold,
said list to be certified as correct and laid
before the grand jury from term to tern.
Furthermore, we would recommend
that all purchasers, owners. users
and possessor* of any of said
weapons, except sheriffs, policemen, etc.,
be require! to pay an annual tax on the
same, and the whole fund thus raised lie
devoted to the education of the children of
the state. If the legislature should be in
disposed to press sueh a law for the whole
state, then we trust that our members of
that body will use their best endeavors to
have such a local act passed in Cobb coun
ty. If peaceable people are required to pay
a tax on their watches and hooks, and even
on their heads, why should person* who go
about with deadly weapons strapped to
their sides, prepare! at any moment to
break the peace and commit murder, be
exempt from paying a round tax on their
arms?
the TAxnco or POOS.
The presentments also favor the taxing of
dogs, ami the following interesting figures
are.given of the value of dogs and sheep:
Another wise provision of the new con
stitution provides for a tax on dogs, and de
votes the revenue thus raised also to the
vital cause of educating the children of the
state. According to the United States cen
sus, there were in Georgia in I860 a frac
tion over 512.000 sheep. The census of 1870
gives the iiuinber of sheep then in the state
a* 419,465. According to the returns of the
tax revivers, collected under the auspice*
of the state agricultural department, there
were in 1875 only 319,323. This show* a de
crease from I860 to 1865 of nearly 200,000
head of sheep, worth say $500,000. and
most of which decrease whs caused by the
depredations of dogs. Since the emancipa
tion of the colored people, the number of
dog* in the state have increased from about
75,000 in 1861 to about 200,000 at the pres
ent time. In oilier words, a* the dog* have
increased, the sheep have decreased. The
d«>g is comparatively a worthies.* animal,
while the sheep is one of the most valuable,
and is estimated to yield an annual protit to
its owner«>f 63 per cent, notwithstanding
the ravages of the dugs. The agricultural
commissioner estimates the loss from the
depredations of dogs iu Georgia at near
$100, 000 perannuin.ornearly enough to pay
the per diem and mileage of both houses of
the general assembly. Ami yet the dog |*ys
no tax, while the "poor man’s little ewe
lamb" does. The widow’s milch cow and
the farmer’s plow horse are also taxed, hut
not the wort bless cur that sleeps all day and
prowls all night.
A T4X OX LIQUOR DRINKING.
The presentments also favor the taxing of
liquor drinking hy some such machinery as
the Moffett register. It is recited that the
money is needed for the educational fund.
NEARLY A MILLION DOLLAR SCHOOL FUND.
After advocating the passage of the above
taxing laws, the presentment.* note the ef
fect of these addition* to the school fund,
and close this branch of the subject as fol
lows:
Should the legislature pass these t\v<
measures, our school revenue would be a
follows: From present sources, $300,000;
from the liquor tax-$390,000; from the dog
tax. $200,090; total, $800,090. With this
fund, the.state school commissioner says lie
can sustain in every school sub-district of
the state absolutely free schools, for both
the white and colored races, for terms vary
ing from live to eight months in the year.
If this should be done, what a leverage it
would give the true men and women of the
state in their warfare again! crime now a
fearfully in the ascendant in the country
could thus be forcing dog* which d'e
stroy our property, and the men whose in
temperance causes much of this crime, to
unite with ns in putting it down by edu
cating aud elevating all classes of our people.
We comtneml the reading of these pre
sentments to the people. They contain
foud tor reflection, and strike it this most
vital subject now before the peolpe of Geor-
g**-
The presentments will appear in full
the next issue of the Marietta Journal,
is a model report, and wc commend it as
such to other grand juries.
THE ROMANCE OF BETSY PATTERSON
Ttae Wife of i
i the
The Teat Oath to De Applied li
Charleston niafrlet.
Charleston. April 6.—The United States
circuit court for this district will convene
here to morrow. Judge Rond, who is to
preside, arrived this evening. Intense in
terest is felt in the proceedings of the term,
from the tact that 250 well known citixens
of the state have been arrested and will be
tried for alleged violation* of tbe election
laws at the last general election. The prose
cutions are brought under sections 5523.
5520, 5518, 5515, and 551 of the revised stat
utes o; the United States, and are filed
mainly by information, instead of bills of
indictment. The tact that the United State*
district attorney and his assistant, W.
Mackey, tbe defeated candidate for con
gress from this district, avert that thev pro
pose to apply the test oath to all juror*
creates much uneasiness, as the Junes al
ready drawn contain but few white men,
and none who can take the oath. If the
test oath be applied tbe juries will probably
consist exclusively of negroes.
Charleston, April 7.—The jurors in tbe
United States court having been summoned
for to-morrow. Judge Bond adjourned the
>nn to day after reading the docket.
Aai Expected Fartaae.
CtxctSNati, April 9.—William Jenkins,
sexton of the M. K. Church on Walnut Hills,
is believed to be heir to an estate of $7,000.-
London. The Harwoods amas*ed
great fortunes as inn-keepers yean ago two
miles from London. They invested largely
In lands, which are now in the heart of the
city. Heirs for the estate have been adver
tised lor, and Jenkins, upon examination,
finds that hb grandmother was a daughter
of Harwood. He ha* a brother and sister in
Pennsylvania and a sister in Iowa, and these.
Destroyed by Fli
Mem rats, April 9.—A special dispatch
from Coffeeville, Miss., this morning, says
tbe greater portion of the business part of
that town was destroved by fire this morn
ing.
Fifty Thousand Dollars Given to Flak
University.
Nashville American.
Fisk university has just received the large
sum of $50,0w in aid of the great and vitally
important work the institution is doing for
tbe education of the colored people in the
south. This munificent gift comes through
Rev. W. H. Wilcox, of Massachusetts, who
privileged to distribute nearly $1,000,000
tne magnificent contribution of his aunt.
Mr*. Daniel P. Stone, of Malden, Massachu
setts—to the cause of Christian education in
this court nr. Mr. Wilcox has been spend
ing several days at Fisk university, aeon*
panied by his brother. Rev. G. B. Wilco
of Connecticut, a trustee of Fisk univeisit
Secretary G. D. Pike, of the American m
sionary association, and Rev. Mr. Davis,
of Boston. They have thoroughly and crit
ically studied thefactsabont the university,
educationally and financially, and were
greatly pleased with its present condition,
and especially with Its future prospects.
They have visited most of the other institu
tions of learning in the city, and were deeply
impressed with tbe importance of Nashville
as an educational center. We are also glad
to learn that they were especially pleased
and favorably impressed by the tact that
they found the sentiments of the white
peonle of Nashville so generally and deci
Princely bnt Faithless
Husband.
An eventful history is recalled by the
death of Madame Bonaparte. Soon after
Betsy Patterson wa* united in marriage
with Jerome, brother of Napoleon Bona
parte, some one suggested that trouble was
perhaps in store for her. " I would rather,"
she replied, “ be the wife of Jerome Bona
parte one hour than the wife of any other
man for life " She wa* then only eighteen
years of age. Her years have been many;
life with her husband was bnt one hour,
_ iparatively. Jerome Bonaparte and Miss
Patterson were married in Baltimore. De
cern her 24,1803. Tne imperial brother of the
bridegroom refused to recognize the union,
forlutae "the young person/’ a* he termed
hi.* brother’s u*ife. to ever set foot on the
soil of France, and promised pardon to Je
rome only in case he returned alone and by
“faithful* service” sought to redeem his
folly. The French senate formally pro
claimed that the foreign marriage—"pre
tended marriage.” it termed it—was an
nulled. Confronting them with this wall
of opjiosition, the vonng couple set sail for
France, determine*! to plead with the em
peror for favor. They lauded at Cadiz,
Spain. The wife being forbidden passage
on a French vessel, the husband went for
ward alone on bis suppliant mission. This
was about eighteen months after the mar
riage. A few weeks later a son was born
couple. Madam Bona|»arte
never saw her husband but once afterward*.
when on a visit to Europe, and after
Jerome had married Princess Frederica
aihnrina of \V urtemburg. They met in a
ictuie gallery In Florence. It is said he
»re agitated of the two by the
encounter. He was with his second'wife,
whispering to her, "that is my former
wife,” left her and the room. But to re
turn. Jerome, after he left his wife at
Cadiz, nleaded with the eni|»eror honestly
and ardently for recognition of his Ameri
can wife. Napoleon spurned every en-
wrote to his brother: "Your
marriage is null, both in a religious and le
gal point of view. I will never ac
knowledge it. Write to Miss Patterson to
return to the United States, and tell her it
is not possible to give things another turn.
On condition of her going to America I will
allow her a {tension during her life of sixty
thousand franc* |>er year, provided she does
not take the name of my family, to which
she has no right, her marriage having no
existence." Subsequently he granted Je-
irterview. "So, sir," said he, on
seeing him. "you are the first of the family
who has shamefully abandoned his post.
It will require many splendid actions to
wi{te off that stain from your reputa-
As to your love affair with your lit
tle girl, 1 do not regard it!" Jerome was
faithful to his love fora while, wrote lov
ing letters expressive of constancy and de
sire to see his .wife and son, and vowed
eternal faithfulness. In about two years
he wedded her of Wurtemburg.
To the honor of Pope Pius VII be it said
that NatMileoii Bonaparte never succeeded
in inducing him to declare Jerome’s first
marriage null and void. lie not only in
variably refused, but entered a protest
against the second marriage.
Mme. Bonaparte tried, under Natioleon
III, to have her marriage recognized by
Franc*;, hut vainly. It was decreed, how
ever, that her son, Jerome Napoleon Bona
parte, was "a legitimate son of France.’’
The subsequent years of Mine. Bonaparte's
great measure a burden to
otliers, if not to hetself. She had plenty of
means, but her temper was sour and her
tongue poison-tipi**!. She made every
body unhappy about her. Her father, in
hi* will, left her this compliment:
The conduct of my daughter Betsy has through
life tieen so disobedient that in no instance has
iiiMiltcd my opinion «
THE NATIONAL NEEDS.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. STEPHENS.
The Necessity of Eateria^Upsa General Legisla
tion Insisted Upon with flpedal Reference to
the Finance*—Ho* the Democrats
Stand ia Relation Thereto.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Washington, April 6.—Soon after the ad
journment of the nouse to-day yonr corre
spondent called at tbe rooms of Mr. Ste
phens, of your state, at tbe National hotel,
when the following conversation ensued,
which 1 thought might not be uninteresting
to your readers: *
"Well," *aid your correspondent to him,
who is now known the Georgia Com
moner, "you have passed the army bill in
the house at last?’
"Yes," said Mr. Stephens, "and by a very
decided majority." -
Correspondent--What was the vote?
Mr. Stephens—143 for it and 122 against
it, giving 2G majority for the bill with the
repealing clauses iu it. The bill was*
stronger than the democracy. It received
the vote of every democrat and all the
green backers except two.
Correspondent—Will it probably pass the
senate as in the house ?
Mr. Stephens—I have no doubt of it.
It may be discussed there a week or ten
days, out I have no doubt that it will pass
there just as it went from the house.
Correspondent—What about the veto;
and if Mr. Hayes doe^ veto it, what then?
Many of the radicals -ay he certainly will
veto them.
Mb. Stephens—I kr lw some of them say
IN GENERAL.
iWO. >he ha* caused i
ble than all my other
folly ami misconduct have c
anxiety and Iron
"The Memoirs of Madame Bonaparte.
Written by Herself,” have of late occupied
her {>en, and it is probable they will inter
est the curious world for a few days, at
least, when published. Madame Bonaparte
as 94 years old last month.
Any person who lives to be GO is very apt
to survive nearly all the friend* of his
youth, and when lie has lived to be 70 be
finds very few of the intimates or acquaint
ances he lias enjoyed in middle age Last
ing to 80 or 90 he is destined to a kind of
isolation as respects affection or sympathy
which is very painful. »f he has any sensi
bility or love of his fellow* left at so a«*
vanoed a period. Going beyond 90 to 96 f«
example, a* Mine. Patterson-Bonaparte did
—he survives all his contemporaries; he be
come* a human anachronism. When she
died the last direct connection with tbe
family of the great Napoleon will be broken.
She outlived everybody, and almost every
thing. Her husband, the youngest brother
of Napoleon, who married her at 19, and
lived to be 76, has been dead 19 years.
All the actors in the great war* of the
French emperor, every character in that
grand and startling drama
which he was the hero, appear
now to belong to ancient history.
Elixabeth Patterson, the pretty daughter of
the Baltimore merchant.was married twelve
years before the first battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon was then first consul, and Jerome
Bonaparte was onlv a lieutenant in the
French army, his imperial brother not then
baring power to knock down the anointed
sovereigns of fc.uro{«e and set up the mem
bers of his family in their stead. After
Waterloo, Mme. Pat terson-Bona part e at
tracted wide attention in Paris from the
most distinguished people. Wellington ad
mired her beauty; Talleyrand compl*
roeuted her; Mme. De Stael called hi
lovely. A few years ago the secret corres
pondence reciting the negotiations which, it
was fondly believed, would result in placing
on Betsy Patterson's shanely head one of
the ravished crowns Napoleon was prepar
ing to distribute to his brothers, was fouml.
it is said, among the rubbish of a Baltimore
rag-shon, and destroyed. It would read
strangely by the light of subsequent events.
. ift veto,
tve heretofore rested upon grounds
of unconstitutioiiality or hasty and incon
siderate legislation. But the president
certainly could not hold the position that it
is unconstitutional to repeal any law what
ever, whether be thinks the law repoded
was constitutional or not. Nor could he
hold that this ia hasty or in
considerate legislation, for it has
been the subject of discussion for upwards
of fourteen years. Since the beginning of
the government no act of congress rej>ealing
an act was ever vetoed by a president.
Moreover, Mr. Hayes was reared in that
school of politicians, who were opposed to
the exercise of the veto in anj* case, and one
of the grounds for which he voted for the
impeachment of Andrew Johnson wa* his
exercise of veto power. So I do not in anv
event expect_a veto. If he does not wish
to sign the bill with his approval he may
let it become a law by not returning it to
the house within ten days after it is pre
sented to him; and in that event it would
become a law under the constitution with
out his signature or approval. So 1 do not
expect any veto; still, there is very little
certainty what any man in public or private
life will do nowadays. But iu reply, to your
question "what then in case he doe* 'veto
it?" All I have to say now is that sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof.
Correspondent—Is it probable that we
will have any legislation on the line indi
cated in your caucus speech as published in
the New York Times?
Mr. Stephens—I cannot say. There was
a s* rt of a test vote upon that subject in
the house this evening. It was on a motion,
after the passage of the army bill, to ad
journ over till Tuesday. The object was to
defeat the introduction of bills on Monday.
Monday, you know, is the only day that
hills can be introduced in regular order.
The object of this motion, therefore, was
to stave off the introduction of bills of
general legislation. This question to ad
journ over was decided by a vote of 155
yeas to 109 uays. It is a very notable fact
that on this question the republicans stood
in solid column—save one—against general
legislation for the relief of the country.
They evidently want affairs to regain as
they are. They nnmbered 121, and with
them stood 34 democrats. The 109 consisted
of one repuolican, a few greenbackers and
more than^ two-thirds of the democratic
party. It is true, some new members,
and I have just seen one of
this class—democrats—voted to ad
journ over without understanding the
objector effect of the motion. This vote clear
ly demonstrates that more than two-thirds of
[lie democratic party in the house, and
more than a majority of the greenbackers,
are in favor of pursuing that line of policy
which I indicated in the democratic caucus.
Now,whether the thirty-four democrats who
voted to-day to defeat legislation will con
tinue in tlieir alliance with the republicans
for th3 accomplishment of this object, I
cannot say. I do hope they will not, but if
they do, of course they will defeat all leg
islation looking to the reliel of the country
from the evils of radical misrule for the
last ten years in matters of currency,
finance, taxation, banking, etc., which have
resulted in the present prostration of all
the industries of the country.
Correspondent—Have the democrats any
clearly defined line of policy on these
questions? And what seems to be the
trouble about progressing with the business?
Mu. Stephens—A large majority of the
democrats are decidedly in favor of the
renewal of the unlimited coinage of silver.
England and Gertuanv are about to cliange
their policy on the silver question. A like
majority of the democrats are also in favor
of an increase in the volume of currency,
resting upon a sound basis. Some are in
favor of coin and bullion certificates, such
suggested hy me. Some are in favor of
the issue of greenbacks backed by the faith
ami credit of the government for their re
demption. But these points of difference
could easily be reconciled on consultation.
The object on all sides is relief against Dres-
ent contraction and such relief as shall be
founded upon the soundest principles of
political economy ; three-fourths are in fa
vor of a modification of the present iniqui
tous system of internal revenue and three-
fourths of them, nay, nine-tenth* of them
are in favor of a modification of the present
unequal and unjust tariff. A like propor
tion, I think I may say, are in favor o! re
galing the present prohibitory tax on
state banking. On all these as well as other
important questions an overwhelming ma
jority of the democrats in the house are
for remaining here and legislating in
correcting the abuses and reforming the evils
of the maladministration of public affairs
of the last ten years which has reduced the
country to its present deplorable condition.
The trouble of progressing with this busi
ness of reform is this: About twenty dem
ocrats—perhaps hardly so many—represent
what may be styled without offense as the
monied power of the country. This small
minority of the party are in full accord
with the majority on the questions involved
in the army bill and the legislative bill; but
they are utterly opposed to disturbing the
existing status ot tbe financial, currency
and taxation questions; hence a few of the
timid and time-serving who agree with a
great majority of the party as to the nec
essary reforms, go with this small minority
rather than split the party. This, I think,
is a correct statement of the issue. Hence
I think unless public sentiment is aroused
and the democracy throughout the land
shall be fully awakened to the responsibili
ties resting upon them and the expectations
—Great distress exists in Bavaria.
—Hie Bolivian army would feel lost aud
home->iek on Boston common.
—General Shehnan now visits the con
gressional .'tileries every day.
. —Mr. Gladstone has been confined to his
home by a < oId and sore throat.
—Gxeat excavations are going on among
the ruins of the ancient capital of Bulgaria
—Timova.
—Should affairs in Burrnah demand ac-
tive interference, Lieutenant General Elm-
hirst will assume the command.
—-The democratic state convention of
Ohio which is to meet at Columbus, June
4, will consist of 633 delegates.
. T,F r ^ d ?P t ^yes ■will not, after all, go
to the iwcific coast during the coming sum
mer. ana says he expects to pass most of
the season at Washington.
— ne S ro * who tried to send
one of bis offspring through the {ost-office,
was promptly arrested for attempted black
mailing.—Boston Post.
—Bismarck, we learn, reads American
papers. Bismarck is a great statesman,
ana it was his wisdom and diplomatic skill
which prevented a general war in Europe.
“It’s only a spring opening, ma, ex
plained that awful boy, as lie exhibited his
torn trousers after a leap over the picket
fence.—Boston Transcript.
—Detroit proposes connecting itself with
Canada by bridging the Detroit river. This
opens up a new route to defaulting Ameri
can bank presidents and cashiers.
—The audacious Pinafore sailed even Into
tbe grave and reverend senate Monday af
ternoon, Mr. Morrill quoting one of its
popular phrases in the peroration of his
speech.
—It is* an odd coincidence that ona of
Governor Hubbard’s sons shduJcL have run
away with a Colt operative, and one of his
daughters with a horse o)>erative. as her
groom.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
-Wooden shoes are still in common use
among the French peasantry. It is said that
about four million |>airs are made in France
yearly. They are made of maple and are
cheap and serviceable.
—Princess Beatrice is {»articulurly fond of
lace, and has a collection which can hardly
be equaled. It contains a part of that
Aleneon which wa* found in a lumber-room
some (years ago at St. James's palace, and
which is said to be worth about $100,000. It
dates from the time of Henry Vill.
—A young man, who had tried every
thing else and failed, writes to the Vicks
burg Herald to inquire the requisites for a
good reporter, and gets for answer: "A
bottle of whisky, a lead pencil, a cast-iron
constitution End a rhinoceros hide."
—Senor Marco Salor, a prominent Naples
merchant, is now in the United States mak
ing extensive purchases of rosin, petrolium,
grain and manufactured goods. He thinks
a large trade will be carried on between
Philadelphia and the Mediterranean ports
during the coming summer.
—Although the small girl does not have
the privilege of playing with her “dollies"
on Sunday, she is amply compensated for
the loss of their company by being dressed
like a doll herself and taken to Sunday-
school, there to learn the folly of being
given to the extravagances of fashion.
—The New York Tribune says: "An
Englishman arriving in New York last
week remarked to a friend that he was
never so sick as on the {tassage over. Hi*
friend redlied: ‘What, never?’ And he
answered: ‘Ah, now, I begin to feel at ’onic,
you know; we’ave’ad that bad for some
time.’ ’’
At Vienna the Hungarian women are
considered the prettiest and best dressed,
the fair-haired Poles and Bohemians the
must stylish, the Viennese the sauciest,
most coquettish and attractive, and the
Croats the ugliest. The daughters of sunny
Italy were in much favor in the capital o‘f
Francis Joseph before he lost them with
their provinces.
—Senator Don Cameron lias leased for a
term of years the handsome Ohio stone
mansion of ex-Governor Shepherd, on Far-
ragut square, in Washington. It is probably
the most elegantly furnished private house
in Washington and the senator takes posses
sion of house and furniture on the 15th
instant. The rent is said to be $6,000 a
year, which is considered very cheap.
—There are ten girls in a Pennsylvania
family whose "Christian” names are these:
Emma Angelina Adlet, Lovinia .Serena
Cornelia Alice Ellen Amanda, Torvilla Su
sanna Corilla, Francina Telara Cencillia,
Perlina Sibylla Agnes, Christiana Effilmlia
Eliza, Annie Olivia Virginia, Ida Cora Jo-
rine and Mary Anna Alecia.
—All nations have some special attitude
of semi-repose, or, to use a military term, a
non-official "standing at case." Thus the
Neapolitan leans against a wall, the Span
iard folds his arms, the eastern sits emss-
legged, and the African squats. In the
United States fingers derive rest from whit
tling sticks, and the old Quakers found re
pose in twirling their thumbs.
—There was outrageous fraud in a Phila
delphia pie-eating rhatch. The contestants
were three in number, and one of the largest
of the variety theaters was crowded with
spectators. Three pies were placed on a ta
ble, on the stage, and the referree said,
"Ready—go." Each man grabt>ed a pie.
and shut his mouth on about a quarler of
its surface, but there was no swallowing,
for the pie was filled with leather, straw*
and nails.
I am almost as inky," writes Clara
Morris to the Washington Capital, "as Mr.
Boffin was after his wrestling mutch with
the pen. You probably remember that that
gentleman managed to get ink clear down
to the calves of his legs." The Washington
Capital is Donn Piatt’s shameless paper.
We need not say tliat this extract should
not have been printed. Hit him twice, Mr.
Harriott—hit him twice —Buffalo Express.
—The palace of the Elysee, which in its
decorations and furniture was good enough
for the crowned guests of Napoleon III. and
for the late ruler of France, Marshal Mac-
Mahon, is not, it seems, n a sufficient
sumptuous state for President Grew. A
supplementary credit in the budget of 1879.
amounting to 400,000 francs, is demanded
"pour le service du Palais de 1’Elysee.” The
furniture is said to be worn out through tbe
generous Irish hospitality of MacMahon.
—When the now famous Zulu, Cetewayo,
. as prince imperial, he gave his father
great trouble, for instead of looking after
tbe royal cattle, his special duty, he passed
nearly all his time at Grey town, the nearest
Vnnlicti tmrn Thorp ho himsplf
AGRICULTURAL.
.'HE FIELD, THE FARM, THE GARDEN.
Grapes—Flowers—Hogs—Watch—Birds—Sheep—
Clover-Watermelons—Vegetables—Grape-
Rot—Farm Notes—3 ;eet Potatoes—
Agricultural Items, Etc,
8IIEEP.
The severe winter just passed has taught
some sheep-breeders tliat they must always
be ready for the worst. It is folly to think
that sheep half fed and exposed to the
storms, snows and rains of winter can
stand it. Winter is a had time to expose
sheep; so too is spring with its sleet or cold
rains. Sheep not only require care and at
tention in the winter, but should have pure
water and good shade in the summer. The
best8lieep for this locality is the common
young ewes of tbe country bred to Merino
bucks; this will give a healthy sheep with
wool sufficiently long. Give them a plenty to
eat of grass and some com. Have the Iambs
to come early. After sheep-shearing, it is a
good plan to dip in strong tobacco wuter.
But we have not the space to s;>eak of
sheep, aud can only reneat what The Con-
stitetion has often said, and that is there
are not a sufficient number of sheep in our
state, and sheep culture does not receive
the care it should. Go to some of the
counties in Georgia where they have sheep
aud the owners will tell you that it pays
theni, and see how they neglect a business
which pays. A large majority of the sheep
are small, degenerate animals; unprovided
with cultivated graa«, tiny roam where thev
please, unprotected from thieves or dog*.
Even this kind of management pavs and
with a business like management, u ‘ hand
some dividend would be made.
MAXE IT PLEASANT.
City people expend money on their
homes to make them cheerful and agreea
ble to their families. Is there no good rea
son why farmers should not do the same?
City people have various ways to pass off
tlieir idle hours, or to hunt up things that
will interest them. In the country the far
mer’s family sj*end the greater juirt of
their time at home; how necessary to make
that home attractive. Fix up your home,
my friend; do away with the rail fence
around your house; let not gourd vines fes
toon it, hut have a neat fence, even if nec
essary a cheap one. Go to the woods and
select some pretty young trees and trans
plant them to the yard; the only cost will
be a little time and labor. Add shrubs and
flowers and grass. If you cannot afford
paint for your house, whitewash it; it will
cost but a trifle and will add so much to the
appearance of your home.
WATCH.
There Is no business, or calling, or profes
sion, that requires more watchfulness and
good sound judgment than fanning. Manv
farmers do not watch or make the most of
their opportunities. There are others that
do, and they are enabled to pay their debts,
educate their families, have the ordinary
comforts of life and lay up something for
old age. The farmer, like every other busi
ness man, must watch all the details of lilts
business Farmer, watch your labor. I)o
not take too much laud in hand to cultivate
—if you do you will get behind. Do not try
to plant am! work all of your land, but
plant only a |>art and work it thoroughly.
Do not keep mean stock or too much of it.
Get a good breed of cows; do not keep too
many and take care of them; give them good
food ; they wiU repay you. Watch over your
tools and keep good ones. Worn-out plows
and broken hoes scratch the surface of the
soil aud will accomplish but little. Good
tools require less work, give better cultiva
tion and produce better crops.
SMOKED MUTTON HAMS.
A lady writes from Dooly county asking
how to cure and smoke or dry mutton hams.
Fat young mutton is best. Rub it thor
oughly with a mixture in the proportion of
one part of sugar to two of salt, ami half
an ounce of salt{>etre to one pound of the
mixture. Place the meat in a covered ves
sel, and turn and beat it twice a day for
three consecutive days. The fourth day
wipe the scum from the meat, wash it witlii
cider vinegar and again mbit with the mix
ture. The day after beat aud turn it; repeat
these alternate operations for ten days, being
careful to remove the scum before each
rubbing, and to turn the meat every time.
After this it must be smoked for ten days.
To be used the same as smoked beef or ven
ison.
HOGS ANN DISEASE.
In answer to a DeKalb county corres
pondent we reply, that in our judgment
there arc many owners of hogs who are re
sponsible for the diseases of the annual.
They are too careless with them, think too
little of their comfort or health. Dry hard
corn is about all the food they get, and any
kind of wratcr. How many of our farmers
ever havtf a shelter for their hogs in had
weather? How many of them ever change
their feed from dry corn to chop feed and
corn well soaked? And not only this, but
what farmer provides charcoal, pure water
• a change of feed for his hogs, or ha* a
■ass lot or clover patch for them to run in?
STATE AID TO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.
Vermont appropriate* annually $3,7UO and
does all the printing of the board.
Massachusetts makes an annual appro-
pi iation of $3,000.
Tennessee gives $8,000 annually.
Nebraska grants $1,000 annually to the
state agricultural society to be paid out in
premiums.
Kansas appropriated last year $14 800 and
makes an annual appropriation of $200 to
each county or district agricultural asso
ciation.
Ohio
agricultural _ .
of it* publications and other necessary
penses.
Indiana grants an annual appropriation
of $7,500 for agricultural and geological
survey, with expense* of needed attendants.
The state aud county agricultural socie
ties of New York receive annually $20.-
000 with office room and furnished *at tiie
state capitol.
Virginia makes an annual appropriation
of $5,000, and gave to it* agricultural col
lege I a* t year $16,200. The geological sur
vey ha* drawn from the treasury $45,000.
i’ennsylvania has three experimental
farms on each of which it expends $1,000
annually. It gives- annually* $8,950 to the
’nterest* of agriculture, publishes in addi-
ion 14,600 copies of the Agricultural Re-
J *ort of 650 pages, and pays a bounty of
100 to each county agricultural society.
English town. There he amused himself
after bis manner, drinking brandy, which
he could not get at home, and smoking
s, which his dignity prevented bis
g among his own people. He paid
court to the ladiea and had the reputation
of going the pace.
—Tbe king came up from Wall street—
He’d been making honey:
Tbe queen was down at Stewart's,
Spending time aud money.
In came Princess Meg,
Kbsed him fondly, meekly,
. Brought his slippers and cigar.
A Brilliant Sclcer.
Special dbpatch to Tbe Coustttutkm.
Chica«to. April 10.—During a thunder
orni yesterday evening a meteor, which
looked while in the air to be about one foot
diameter, fell to the ground on the south
side, burning into many pieces just before
striking. It* was while with beat and tbe
fragments resembled clinkera. The wire of
-lephone connecting two business offices
the south side, was struck by lightning
_ ut the same time, and electrical fluid
entered the office and played havoc with the
furniture.
Ttae C hicken FigtaL.
Norfolk. April 7.—The cocking main be
tween Pennsylvania and Virginia com
menced here to-day. each side producing 25
birds, and 19 were matched. The ton test is
for $25 a battle and $509 on the odd fight.
Six fights occurred to-day. Virginia won
two a judgment on a foul count
ia the fourth battle. Pennsylvania
the miner will sell his interest for a' few | three fights, making it three ami three. .
dollars, perhaps to a man as poor as he is, I the judgment under rule No. 9. New York aooomi
and tbe mine is not worked. I knuw | regulations. Numerous sporting mer # « —
of several mines where the owners - northern and southern a ties are pi
rny we most make a crop, and maybe we and the betting is accordingly lively.
News from Italy.
London, April 7.—A correspondent of the
Times at Rome says now that the wild ru
mors as to the object of Garibaldi’s visit to
Rome have proved groundless it is averted
that he has come to die in the city, to attain
which for Italy all his strivings were di
rected. His friends distinctly assert that
politics are wholly unconnected with
bis coming here. He found that
his health was not improving at Uaprera,
and thought that the mineral springs, near
Civita V» coelin*, might benefit hi* gout.
Garibaldi iu replying to the syndic, who
visited httu on his 'arrival, said he did not
himself know the reason of his visit. A
more pathetic scene than that of Garibal
di's was seldom beheld. Shouts were raised
as the train entered the station, but they
were silenced by the circulation of a re
port that the be was on his death-bed. He
was carried from the train on a mattress on
a large litter. He lay extended and mo
tion las. with his eya closed and a red
handkerchief bound around his bead. It
looked as though tbe corpse was being car
ried in state. It was found impassible *-
remove him from tbe litter, which '
placed on an open carriage.which was driven.
' * a mournfully silent crowd.
to the house of his son. Menalti Garibaldi.
It was so impossible to move tbe general
that at Civita Yecchia the side of tbe rail-
THE NEW KINGDOM.
Tirnova. April 9.—JIk- Bulgarian assem
bly have i«aed six more articles of the con
stitution resolving that there shall be no
censorsnip of the press. Even religious
publications are to be free, though a cen-
shorship therefor was demanded by
some clerical deputies. The as
sembly has also resolved against the
creation of a senate, after a
violent debate, during which the advocates
of a senate quitted tbe house. Tbe national
party are greatly satisfied at the progress
made, and hope to finish tbe constitution
before caster. The election for the sixtf 5
six additional members who, with the pres
ent number shall elect a prince, has been
fixed for the 24th instant.
The assembly has passed 38 more arti
cles of the constitution, including the
amendments in favor of triennial parlia
ments, universal manhood suffrage and
equal electoral districts.
London. April 9.—The Tima* Tirnova
dispatch says the Bulgarians are determined
to nave a national democracy of the several
simplicity. All parties are united in tbe
determination that the legislature shall be
elected wholly by tbe people.
to the Pacific, anil front tbe gulf to the
lake*, there can be little hope for any im
provement in our existing state of affairs
from the present session, or from the pres
ent congress.
Correspondent—Do you think there will
be any change made at this session in tbe
pension law*, so as to embrace the soldiers
and the widows of soldiers in the Mexican
war?
Mr. Stephens—This question stands with
the others aliuded to. This eminently iost
measure ought not to be ignored, aiid this
congress ought not to adjourn with a deaf
ear to the appeals of justice in this |matter
that come up from every quarter. Mem
bers of congress are now* paid by the year,
they are salaried officers of the government
as much so as the judges of our courts,
federal and state, ana they ought to remain
here and perform their duties, as judge* do,
and they will be derelict in duty if they do
not, and. in my judgment, an indignant
>le will hold them responsible if they
l now, in the hour of greatest need,
shirk their duty—adjourn aud go to their
homes without even making an attempt to
right the wrongs which are fast tending to
bring general bankruptcy and ruin upon
tbe whole country.
Correspondent—Is not congress given too
mnch to president-making?
Mr. Stephens—Now you hit tbe nail on
the head. This is undoubtedly the chief
trouble. What the great mass of the people
of this country, in every position of life and
in every dei«artruent of labor and industry,
want, is good government. Wise, equal and
just laws for the protection of life, liberty
and property faithfully executed. The vi
tal question with them is not so much who
governs as bow they govern. It is not so
much who is to be president as to the prin-
aplraand policies of his administration. If
the present state of affairs in relation to
finance, taxation, currency, and other mat
ters of deep interest to the people are to re
main as they are, it matters little to them
who is president. In that view a presiden
tial contest is degraded with nothing but a
miserable scramble for office—a contest be
tween tax-payers and tax-consumers. Then,
if not before, tax-payers must take care of
—N. Y. Mail.
—Rudolph, future emiieror of Austria,
promises to be an accomplished and schol
arly sovereign. He isan excellent linguist,
a good scientific student, anti has also fine
literary abilities. As he desires to *]ieak
the language of every race be will one day
have to rule over, he is now studying Turk
ish, that he may not be at a loss if he ever
finds himself in Bosnia. He speaks ten
languages already, seven or eight of which
are used in the Austro-Hungarian eninii
He is very popular with his soldiers, whe
he always addressa in Czechian.
—When cows are exposed to a cold rain
storm, there is in a few days quite a reduc
tion in the yield of milk.
—In this climate grape vinra do bat
when fed on mineral fertilizers in the forms
of coal and wood ashes, spent lime, old
mortar and the like. They do not require
strong nitrogenous manures.
—Most of the diseasra of cattle are by
wrong treatment, too much feeding at one
time, too little at another; too rich at one
time, too poor at another, etc. If cattle
and horses were fed, watered and used
properly there would be little disease.
—Wheat, oats, barley and rice are some
times called silica plants, because in their
composition fifty or more per cent of silica
is' found. Peas, beans, clover and lucem
are called lime plant*, as they contain fifty
percent of lime, and for tbe same reason,
turnips, beets and potatoes are called potash
plants as they contain from seventy to
ninety per cent of alkaline salts in their
ash.
watermelons.
Sandy soil is the bat adapted to water
melons. Horse manure is a desirable fer
tilizer. Laud to be cultivated in melon*
will do bat when well broken up in Feb
ruary or March. Perhaps as good a plan
for planting as any is to lay off the ground
from seven and a half to eight feet each
way, spade out a hole in each cross, take
out five or six shovels full of earth, put
into each hole two shovels full of manure
and two of earth, mix well with some
pronged instrument, then raise the lull a
little above the level of the earth. In this
coudilion the ground should remain until
planting time. Six or eight seed should be
put in a hill and covered from one to one
mid a half inches deep. After the plant is
up hoe it well and keep this up once every
week. Plow with a shovel plow every two
E weeks until they begin to hear. The first
lowing to be done one week after the first
oeing. We should have stated that the
plants should be thinned to two in a hill as
soon as they have two leava beside the
germ leaf.
In former issues of The Constitution
will be found other modaof planting and
culture.
FLOWERS.
We are fully aware of the fact that some
of the readers of The Constitution laugh at
the ideaof a farmer devoting any of his time
or attention to flowers. Yet why should he
not make more attractive his home by cul
tivating flowers, and give a pleasure to his
family and make them more refined by
their presence? The writer often, in n cm-
ory, gora back to the days of his boyhood,
and traverses tbe old public road from Mil-
ledgeville to Greensboro, and visits the farm
of one of the Jordans, some five miles from
the former place. It was always a pleasure
to stop and admire the sweet and beautiful
flowers which added another charm to this
country home.
Flowers, even if luxuries, should grow
around the farmer’s home. Got! made them,
they have their office to perform, and why
should not the farmer "consider the lilies of
the field,” as well a* anyone else? If ex-
itensive and troublesome flowers cannot be
had, then the farmer can get those simple
aud cheap, that are within his reach, such
as catinos, aster, phlox, pinks, pansies, roses,
verbenas, double |ioppia, balsam, lady slip
per, sinnia, fortulacca, mirabilis, or four
o’clock, cacalia, and there are various
others, all pretty, and require but little
care.
hogs.
A correspondent in Newton county writes
that he has a very good stock of common
hogs and desires to improve them, and asks
what to do—whether to sell them and pro
cure pure bred or to cross?
In reply we will say grade pigs will an
swer his purposes better than pure bred.
High bred animals are nearly always small
er aud more finely organized than their grade
progeny. Their greatest value consists in
producing an improved progeny from our
common stock. This is large in size, and in
every way more valuable for the market or
for home use than the pure bred sire would
have been.
MANURE MAKING.
How many Fulton county farmers have a
manure heap, or give it thought? If ma
nure is made iu tbe stable, or under the
shelter, it is thrown up in the fence-corner,
exposed to wind and rain, its life bleached
out, and after this it is carted out to the
field.
Collect vegetable refuse and the animal
manure of the farm and mix. To it add
old sod, swamp tnuck, leaves, ashes, and
salt. This will make a good compost for
top dressing the garden, or to use on the
land any other way.
CLOVER.
There are localities in the state where a
greater amount of clover should l>c culti
vated. It cannot be questioned but that it
is a great renovator to worn-out soils. For
this it should be cultivated. Yet, this is
not all. It ntaka excellent pasturage. It
throws its long tap root deep down into the
soil and stands a drought well. When cut
at the right time, and cured in a proper
manner, it make* nutritious hay. All ani
mals like it. This crop should he more ex
tensively cultivated.
GRATES.
We have received a letter front Walton
county asking one or two questions about
gnqie culture. If our correspondent will
CAIN’S COLUMN.
THE BLACKAMOORS OF SOCIETY.
A Shocking Tragedy in Iowa, in whioh a Huiband
Attempted to Mnrdtr hit Wife, Failing ia
whioh Himself and His Paramour
Take a Deathly Poison.
• appropriates annually $3,000 to the
Itural Board, pays for the printing of
—Of Clumber bouse, tbe country seat of the
Duke of Newcastle, which has just been de
stroyed by fire, an eminent English archi
tect has said that "it embraces inagnificense
and comfort more than any other noble
man’s mansion in England, with, perlia|*s,
the single exception of the Duke of West
minsters new house, near Chester." This
mansion consisted of three parts, two ■
and a main building, that l* to say, some
thing like tbe capitol at Washington. The
central part, tbe part destroyed by fire,
fared a fine artificial lake, and was oma
mented with a very light Ionic* colonnade,
which bad a pleasing effect. In this central
part was tbe library, the grand drawing
room. the state dining-room, the duke and
duchess’s bed-room, and the duke's study.
All these apartments were richly furnished
and tbe most valuable paintings hung on
tbe walls. The library was especially rich
in a chosen collection of foreign and clas
sical literature. Among other valuables,
tbe duke’s bed-room contained an immense
vellum pedigree of the family. Tbe grand
drawing-room contained a capital portrait
of Rembrandt, by himself; also, paintings
bv Snyders. Claude Lorraine,- Castiglione.
Teniers, Van Dyke, Reubens, Sacchi, Salva
tor Rosa and Michael Angelo. But tbe
greatest glory of Clamber was tbe state
dining-room. -This magnificent apart
ment was sixty feet in length, thirty-four
in breadth ana thirty in height. It was
sufficiently large to accommodate two-hun
dred at table. Tbe ceilings and panels
were extremely rich in stucco and gilding,
and there was a grand marble chimney-
piece and steel grate of exqusite workman
ship. The ornaments of this august apart
ment consisted of seven painting* valued
alone at $225,000.
To the geological survey it appropriates
$50,000 annually.
CULTIVATING PEACHES.
We have a letter from Walton county, to
which we reply—
The experience with many is, cutting
back in early spring causes a second growth
wood for next year’.* fruiting. There
is no doubt about it that it is a good plan
when the young peaches are small to thin
them out; in fact some six inches apart on
the limb is near enough. When they are
thinned there is no dang r of the branches
breaking with the weight. Not only this,
but a greater vigor is given the tree. A
large number of half-formed peaches ex
hausts the vitality of tbe tree u uch more
than a small number of good peaches would.
The fruit is greatly improved, is richer and
has more juice. Thinning peaches also
sometimes prevents rot. Where there is
toe much fruit much of it will rot, as also
the limbs on which it grew. The best time
to thin is before the stone is formed. It is
generally the early varieties of peaches
that most need thinning.
As to the peach borer, a solution of soft
soap with an equal amount of water,
nbbed on the trees and about the roots,
in effectual preventive. A little carbolic
acid added will cause a more lasting effect.
Leached ashes or coal ashes are good to ap
ply around the roots.
SWEET POTATOES.
In reply to a letter received from Clayton
county we will say to our correspondent he
will, by looking in back numbers of Tue
Constitution, find answers to a number of
his questions about potatoes. To have the
best results there should be a greater or lew
amount of sand in the soil for i*otatoes.
Some persons think that the lay of the land
or its exposure has much to <lo with the
growth of the potato. Tlie>^thiuk the laud
should lay to the south or southeast, and
that the ridge* should run north and south,
so as to receive the benefit of the sun on
both sides of the ridges. Potatoes do not
require much moisture, and bottom land
does not furnish the best soil for them. Po
tatoes need heat and moderately dry
ground. Potatoes generally are better in
dry season than a wet one—they are not
poor or watery. Late in the season, when
the tubers are dug, some persons save the
vines for feed. A good u-« to pm them to is
to tuni under when green, and they will a*
sist to keep up the fertility of the soil,
Ground intended for potato*?* should be
mellow, though some think it shoulJ not
be plowed deep, as tbe j-oiatoe* would be
long and rooty, and long potatoen are not
very good, as they do not fill out well and
are’hard to dig up.
FARM NOTES.
—Black pepper is a good remedy for the
cabbage worm.
—A cow giving milk requires about 80
pounds of bone material a year.
—Crows, blue iays and robins eat a little
corn and a few cherries, yet they are friends
to the farmer and deserve hb protection.
les b suitable for grapes, if not too wet.
Set the vines eight or ten feet ajmrt. The
first season allow only one shoot to grow.
Late in the fall this should be trimmed
back to within twenty-four inches of the
ground. The second season two or three
shoots may be |>ermitted to grow. The vine
will by that time be under full headway
and in bearing condition.
VEGETABLES.
There are a large number of Fulton coun
ty farme rs who do not attach enough im
portance to having good vegetable gardens.
This is poor economy, and is an injustice to
the farmer, as well as hb family. Why not
have a good garden ? Many farmers are per
fectly satisfied during the year to have a
few turnip greens and roasting ears, when a
little more ground and a little extra trouble
would give him fresh, crisp lettuce, rad
ishes, early cabbage.tomatoes, English peas,
celery, egg plants, mustard, etc.
Make your ground line and rich and sow
good lettuce every two weeks from now to
the middle or last or June. Select deep,
finely pulverized and rich ground, and
raise good radishes, not tough and stringy,
or soft and sj*ongy ones, but such as are
sweet and erbp. Raise a plenty of pepj>er,
the long variety for soups, stews and for
poultry, and the sweet Spanbli and Green
Mountain for your wife to pickle green.
Have egg plant; grow it in rich, finely pul
verized soil, two and one-half feet apart.
Have a plenty of tomatoes; they are excel
lent for the table, and no trouble to grow.
Transplant a sufficiency of cabbage; give
them a rick soil, cultivate often, keep tbe
weeds down, fight the cabbage worm, and
you will raise all the heads wanted.
Have a good garden; manure it liberally,
and grow a full supply of vegetabla and
small fruits.
GRAPE ROT.
We have before us a letter from a gen
tleman in Taliaferro county, asking for some
receipt to prevent grape rot. We would most
cheerfully impart the information desired
to him if we possessed it. If any of our
Davenport, Iowa, April 8.—One of the
most remarkable and melancholy tragedies
that has ever occurred in the state of Iowa
took place in ihis city lut night, resulting
in the almost instantaneous and totally un-
exnected death of two young people, both
well known as respectable and genial per-
sons. Harry C. Watt, with his family, oc-
ctipied apartment* over hb cigar store, on
Third street The family consisted, beside
himself,, of his wife, his little daughter
Edna, his wife’s sbtera, Misses Louisa and
Amelia Filter, and a boy who worked in the
store. Louisa has worked for the last two
C rs in a well-known dry goods store.
t night the family had company, the
visitors departing between 11 and 12
o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Watt soon after re
tired; Miss Amelia had gone to bed and
her sister was preparing to do so, when she
went to the bureau and drank off the con
tents of a glass. Almost immediatedlv she
fainted away. Her sister screamed and
called for help, when Mrs. Watt came rush
ing into the room. Watt soon followed
but remained only a moment. He sent the
boy for a doctor and returned to his room.
Shortly after he was found in the agonia of
death, lying in the comer of hb room. He
died quietly in a few moments. He ended
hb life really before Louisa did, but
she lingered only a few seconds afterwards.
Thb afternoon, at the coroner’s inquest, it
was conclusively shown that the tragedy
was a premeditated suicide. It came out
that a letter had been found in Watt’s
pocket, addressed to hb wife, and that in
this letter he had told the whole story of the
deed and the cause of it It was intended
by the physicians to hold a post-mortem
examination of the bodies, but thb the
wife forbade after reading the letter, as
there could be no doubt of the nature of
the deed.
Mrs. Watt positively refuses to make the
letter public, but enough is given out
to atablish the fact that Harry Watt and
Louisa Filter had loved each other; that
they had not only loved unwisely but illic
itly, and that they had determined to end
their troubles mutually with their lives.
Thb was the cause of the terrible tragedy.
Several days ago Watt got nrussic acid. It
is believed that he prepared a dose for Lou
isa, which she drank as stated. As soon a*
the alarm was given after she was taken ill,
he went to her room, satisfied himself, and
then returned to his room and poisoned
himself. A bottle with prussic acid in
it was found in hb room.
Some months ago a revolver which
Harry Watt held in his hands went of£ the
bullet striking hb wife in the breast. Her
life was despaired of for a time, but she
finally recovered. To-day the event has
been recalled, and the two acts put together
resulting in the expression of the hasty
opinion that at that tune Harry Watt con
templated the murder of hb wiie to put her
out of the way.
Galveston, Texas, April 2.—The follow
ing list b sent as a partial memoranda of
tlio9e unjustifiably killed in Texas the past
month:
L Cumminei geu McGrath. Houston.
2. Doran kills Gibson, Bren ham.
S. Sam. Cranlcy Mils Thoa A. Hanks, Tex
arkana.
4. Jones kills Morse, Calvert.
5. Hoyt kills Powers, Pilot Point.
6. Rogers kills Thompson, near Whltesboro.
7. Andy Cooper kills Johnson, Elm Fork.
8. Edwards kills Oliver Adams, Weatherford.
9. Barlow kills his wife, near Corsicana.
10. James Currie kills B. C. Porter, MarshalL
11. Hawkins kills J. M. Watters. Sherman.
12. Frank Connor kills a convict, Midway.
13. John Dillard *) were kiUcd in a general
and y shooting scrape near
14. Henry Jones ) Clarksville.
15. Alex. Cuvitt kills Armstrone, near Biran.
16. Dick Thurman kills Henry Elliot, Belton.
17. Lewis kills Joseph Schunath, near Marion.
18. Weir kills K. C. Ayres, Whltesboro.
19. McLaughlin kills DrisoolL Spanish Fort
20. Walter Barnes's murdered body found in
Shelby county.
Agricultural Items.
—One hundred and thirty-nine packaga
of foreign cheese, valued at $9,976, were im
ported in New York last week.
—There are 3,800species of grasses, only
some fifteen of them arc ranked among the
cultivated or more highly nutritious kind.
—In 20 years the United States ha* in
creased 138,000,000 bushels in its produc
tion of wheat; and its live stock $1,081,*
000,000.
—Spinach is an important industry for
the Virginia farmers. The Norfolk steam
ers are carrying into northern markets
2,000 to 3,000 barrels each trip, and it selb
at $1 per bushel.
■Illinois has 800,000 milch cows. To
properly care for them and their products
requires the labor of 40,000 men ana GO,000
horses. Their money value b placed at
$124,800,000.
—Clover stands a dry season well and
grows, while a shorter rooted grass will dry
up. It is of great value for wintering
sheep, cattle and horses, and forms a good
pasture grass.
Sunday School Convention.
To the Pastors and Sunday-school Super
intendents iu the counties of Milton, Spald
ing, Pike, Ujison, Fayette, Henry, Monroe,
Crawford and Houston: I am authorized to
ioint as many delegates, from each of the
ive named counties as it b entitled to
members in the house of Representativa in
the state legblature, to attend the Georgia
Sunday-school Convention, to assemble in
the city of Macon, Ga., on the 30th and 31st
of May next. Please send me the names
of suitable Sunday-school workers, who
will go, and I will appoint as the names
are received.
Papers in these counties please copy.
Dp. A. G. Thomas,
Vice President Ga. 8. 8. A-,
Fifth Congressional Dbtrict.
Atlanta, Ga.—apr8 It
Atlanta’s Foresight.
Chattanooga Times.
In no one thing have the merchants and bus!-
ness men in general of Atlanta better shown
their foresight than in the way they persistently
support one first-rate newspaper to the neglect of
all mere-ventures in that line. And the managers
of The Constitution appreciate the situation
and meet the demands on it by making It one of
the liveliest, newsiest and best printed and edited
papers in the United States. They have lately
procured an expensive new printing machine
from Hoe A Co., and propose to keep the lead they
have so intelligently and gallantly worked for
and attained. If every city in the south of their
dimensions and smaller would imitate the exam-
pie of Nashville and Atlanta in this particular the
press of the section asa whole would soon become
an educator, an advertiserand blessing in general,
of which onr people might be justly proud. And
that is what we are coming to. Adventurers and
pretenders will have to abandon the field or eke
out their living on quack nostrum advertising
obtained from eastern patrons. When an Ameri
can commonity want a certain thing It fa not go
ing to be long before it obtains that thing, and the
southern cities want and will have real newspa
per*- m
A Programme for the Democrats.
Washington Sunday Herald.
First, aa the senate has to consent to all the ex
ecutive appointments, it ought to leave all Mr.
readers know a preventive we will gladly
insert it in these columns if sent to us. Ex
periments have been made and there are
tacts and observation* from grape growers
which show that perhaps the problem may
yet be solved.
Grape rot is not confined to the vine
yards of onr state, but prove* injurious to
tfce grape in every state in which It grows,
and attacks the Concord and the Ives, Hart
ford and Iona varieties, as well as others.
The experience of some is, that vines of
thrifty growth and on rich and moist soils
are most liable to the disease, and that old
vine* are more liable than young ones.
Heavy rains in June and Jnly very often
bring the rot, especially if accompanied by
hot weather, and but little wind and a low
barometer. Another experience is, that
soils which allow the water to soak in deeply
are worse than where most of it turns off.
Vineyard* on elevated |K»itions and hard
clayey slopes are least liable to the disease.
Another experience is, that vines trained
aeainst buildings on the east and south
side* where most sheltered from rain and
dew, are not as much affected with rot, and
vinra growiug on trees where the fruit is
largely sheltered from above, but open to
free circulation of air, generally e*caj>e dis
ease. Some persons have saved their fruit
from rot, a* well as insects, by
paper bag over each cluster soon
berries are formed and letting remain until
ripe. This has been known to protect from
rot, and also from insects and birds. Others
again have seeded their vineyards with oats
in tbe spring so that the ground would be
well covered with the crop at midsummer,
then mowing and laving it as a mulch on
tbe surface till danger of rot has passed.
Others again have trained their vinra on
flat trellis or poles within two feet of the
| ground, so as to shade tbe entire surface,
aud the result was an exemption from rot.
Again, tbe roots of vines have been fer
tilized with ashes, bone dust and super
phosphate ; the result was that tbe growth of
the vine was promoted, while the tendency
to rot was not lessened.
At any time, if any of our readers, after
observing facts and trying experiments,
will give us their experience we will be
nt executive and sen-
soon change their opinions with respect to the
vital necessity of keeping obnoxious statutes in
force. Hecond, pending a solution of the ques
tions which brought on the extra session, con
gress ought to take up a biU taxing incomes
above a certain amount, and, In the same bill,
take off from none articles of general consump
tion, to tax which is to tax the poor ss well as the
rich, an amount of revenue equal to or greater
than that which ft is exftccted to raise on incomes.
Third, congress might profitably occupy Its time
n re-enacting the bill for the full remonetization
of silver that naa been once vetoed.
Tbe Dreadful Southern People.
Detroit Free Press.
It is dreadful how theee southern people will
fully deprive the colored citizen of their rights.
A colored boy stole Mrs. Senator Gordon's pocket-
book a few days ago and was raptured. There
is no sort of doubt but he had every right to a cell
in the prison, yet he was rudely deprived of this
boon because Mrs. Gordon refused to prosecute
him. How much longer will the free people ol
the north stand this sort of thing?
The Con *li tut ion.
Quitman Free Press.
Too much cannot be raid In commendation of
this leading paper of the capital and metropolis
of Georgia. It has few equals in the south, and
perhaps no superiors. The Constitution Is backed
with enterprise, energy and talent. Its future is
—The manure of sheep is a rich fertilizer I pleased to publish it for the public benefit.
Nubaerlbe For The Constitution.
Dalton Enterprise.
A great many people express a desire to be kept
posted In the matter of the Cox trial, the man
who ruthlessly murdered Colonel Alston, in
Their Next Tribulation.
Nashville American.
One hundred thousand copies of Garfield's
great speech about nothing have been ordered.
Government officials may prepare for voluntary
contributions on the involuntary plan.
A Good Man to Hang.
TooBnforcl U pntaUy Inunt bat, u Oor-
ernor Wbe nid of old John Brown, tbuaort of
ciKf people ahoald be burped.
One or the Beat.
Angnsu Evening New*.
Tot Xiwnx CONsrrrcnoK li one of the bert
pepenln America.