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£ I f.BCriggv CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO. 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*. 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