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TH-K WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - : ATLANTA, GA., .TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1880.
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ATLANTA, GA.. APRIL 12,M»
It is not too laid for Mr. Tiblen to engage
John Kelly lor the sea<>r..
Tux “magnetism" with whidiMr. Blaine
overpowered Muliigin was only tempo
re. .
Tns Gsssvsswsril »* getting to be as fun
uy, |»ut not a* free from guile, as lire Amer
ican A. Ward.
It is a severe ux upon one’s native ere
dnlity to believe that W. Alroon Wheeler
atill survive*.
CrxrraxATi hits her Mr. Hickenlooperand
fit. I/iuu her llockaday. Now let us bear
from Hhekugger.
Laht Friday eight men were hanged. At
thin rate, what will become of the boasted
republican majority?
Two Ohio men were in New York the
other day looking for their wives. Here is
a clear case of woman’s lefts.
Gborok Franco* Train wili keep on fool
ing around until some serious citizen evt>
Jutes him vriib the butt-end of a brogan.
Jla. riraisuEit pulled Ignatius Donnelly
from an upper berth, and Ignatius ap-
j tears to be an uncommon business-like joa-
aenger.
Tiiekk has been much complaint about
a solid sontlr, bill the Grant managers are
anxious for solid southern delegations to
Ob logo.
Gwoimc Francis 1 rain only htops to take
in water at the twenty mile stations when
he is writing jioetry. He is a coal-burner
George i t _
A couRKarosiiKST wants to know what we
think of Victor Hugo. One issue at a time,
please. Let us aettie this Tammany busi
ness before eroding over into France.
Ooxukr should attach a weatherstrip to
liia jaw, so that when be opens his mouth
to qwak liia inilatned stomach won’ l lie ex-
)XM»etl to the rude gaze of congress.
John diicitMAN’e portrait which the news*
papers are publishing is another strong ar
gument in favor of original sin. It is
enough to make the man l*»ok puckered.
By taking in the amatl towns, the proUW
bilion movement in Georgia will soon be
come formidable. It is a movement that is
calculated to jxrplex many of the i»oliti-
dans.
Dn. Felton has grown so used to contro"
versy that every time he sees his name in a
democratic paper he concludes he is at
tacked. This is unjust to the long-suflering,
hut genial profession.
Mr. Hkccukk is really of more importance
than beseems to iw. He announces that
when his liver is out of ordei the kingdom
of heaven is out of order, too. Did Mr
Beecher ever try blue mass?
. F.t*Mi Ni>3 refuses to be a candidate for
president. The truth is, this severe repub
lican desires to lie in a position where he
can swindle the |.eop!c of the country with
another electoral hill, or join Joe Bradley
on a new commission.
no
i.inuton, in the republican state of
Iowa, went almost solidly for Grant. This
is the result of a free and untrnmmeled
newspaper press printed on white satin. I f
Grant had been a Georgia man, the result
would have been different.
for reel I nr an Impreaalon.
We find the following in the Bain-
bridge Democrat: “The Atlanta Cox-.
yrrrtnox seems now to favor the nomi
nation^ Mr. Jewett Oar impression
hM been all along -that this leading
‘southern daily was for TiWk*n. Impres
sion-, however, are' sometimes errone
ous. The Constitution has great influ
ence, and is edited with remarkable
ability, and Jewett may well feel proud
to number it among h’s supporters.”
Our esteemed contemporary is so accus
tomed to seeing the daily papers devote
themselves to personal partisanship and
ashume infallibility that he is naturally
somewhat confused at the simple impar
tiality of The Constitution. He is so
accustomed to seeing newspapers per
form the feat of ‘ taking aides” in the
discussion of questions of party policy
that in correctingone erroneous impres
sion he seizes upon another. The Con
stitution is in favor of no par
ticular democratic aspirant
against all others. We have dis
cussed Mr. TiMen’s relations to *the
party with some candor, going so far as
to say that if he could demonstrate his
ability to carry New York, his chances
for the nomination ought, under all
the circumstances, to he better than those
of any other candidate. Mr. Jewett’s
prospects we have discussed as a matter
of interest to our readers, but The Con
stitution is not for Tdden, nor Jewett,
nor Thurman, nor Field, nor Davis, or
any other democratic aspirant. It is for
the nominee of the Cincinnati conven
tion, drat, last and all the time; and if
we have seemed to interest ourselves in
Mr. TiMen’s behalf it was simply and
anltly for the purpose ol tdaowing that
there is no element of opposition*to him
as the candidate ol the party among
Georgia democrats.
The Milotfierinif Committer.
We print elsewhere a letter from Dr.
Felton giving details of the action of the
ways and means committee on certain
measures of tariff reform which we have
already printed in one shape and anoth
His remarks nj>on Mr. Townshend’s
method of bringing the question of tariff
reform prominently to the attention of
the house, recall this important fact
which Dr. Felton does not deem worthy
of mention, to-wit : that previous to the
maneuver which carried a tariff bill to
the committee on revision of the laws,
the ways and means committee had de
cided to report no bill looking to tariff
reform at this session. This action was
formally announced to the country, and
it was for this reason the committee was
called the smothering committee. It not
only resolved not to report favorably on
tariff reform bills, but refused to Teport
them adversely, thus smothering the
hills as w ell as all discussion in the
hoti-sf*. Dr. Felton knows whether this
action was taken. It was so announced
in the newspapers and so understood in
congress, and Mr.Townshend’s maneuver
was the direct result of that announce
ment. The temper of the discussion
which that maneuver precipitated was
such as to show the committee that its
policy was a mistaken one, and now, un
der a pretense of favoring tariff reform,
that body has concluded to report cer
tain bills. The details which Dr. Felton
is careful to give in his letter show that
it is tiie intention of the committee to eo
overload special measures with various
items as to invite the antagonism of every
protective interest in the house, and
defeat, if jxxssible, the whole.
With respect to steel rails, it is only
necessary to say that Dr. Felton takes an
exceedingly narrow view of the matter.
The question of cheap and safe railroad
Equipment is as important to the people
as it is to the corporations, and he has no
right to say it is an issue between the iron
interests and the railroad monopolies,
when in trillh and in fact some of the
largest railroad monopolies in the coun
try are opjiosing the reduction of the duty
on steel rails by petition and otherwise.
But we are satisfied to know that Dr. Fel
ton is in favor of reducing the custom
house tax on articles of prime necessity
to the people, if he will bear in mind
that his inqiortanee to this discussion is
simply anil solely due to the position he
occupies as a member of the ways and
means committee, he will he spared the
necessity of suspecting a desire to attack
or defame him in what lias appeared in
Tiie Constitution.
and naya were ordered, and the house the previous meeting in lug
refused to suspend the rales, the vote j own interests, and that the true voice of
being 85 to 117. Messrs. Cook, Felton,! the party was not heard. Therefore,
TIIE LINGERING STAY
XUdioIls, Persona, Smith and Speer voted
••xyf’ Mr. Hammond ™ paired with
Mr.-Bingham.of Pennsylvania; Mr. Ste
phens witliMr. Hammond, of Xew York;
Mr. Blount did not vote and was not
paired. Mr. Townahend moved to sus
pend the roles, bo ss to discharge the
wsys and means committee from further
consideration of the bill placing salt,
printing type, printing paper, and ma
terials used in the manufacture
printing pajwr -on -the free
list, and put it on its passage.
The motion was lost—yeas 112, nays
SO, not two-thinls. Messrs. Blount,
Cook, Felton, Xicholls, Persons and
Smith voted “ay;” Mr. Stephens was
paired with Mr. Oamer, Mr. Speer with
Mr. Newberry; Mr. Hammond did not
vote and was not paired. Mr. Persons
presented the petition of 8,000 citizens of
Georgia, for tiie removal of obstructions
to the navigation of tiie Chattahoochee
river.
The Cincinnati Knqtlfrer announces
that its favorite candidate for the presi
dency will be the nominee of the demo
cratic convention. We desire to add, in
this connection, that the convention will
also nominate tlic favorite candidate of
TheCosstitction. This is the feelini
that animates ail southern democrats.
there will be a contesting delegation from
McIntosh. The question arises, who is
Styles L. Hutchins? Is lie the inimita
ble Styles so well known in Atlanta? We
aeem to see in this shrewd work in Mc
Intosh the hoe Ethiopian band of
Blaine's chief and only colored Ingleman
in Georgia, and it also gives us an ink
ling of how Morgan county was carried
for Mnlligan’a man. The provincial dar
kies really have no sort of show against
the impetuous political proclivities of
Atlanta's Styles Hutchins.
OUR Hew CENSUS.
Or the one hundred and fifty supervi
sors of the census required by law, one
hundred ami thirty-two have been con
firmed by the senate. Nine are pending
for the senate’s action, and nine new ap
pointments are to be made by the presi
dent in place of rejected nominations.
These will be sent' in by the president
this week, and then the work or prepar
ing for the taking of the census will be
gin in earnest.
The race of the republican aspirants
is by no means as one-sided ns some may-
think it is. The actual preferences, aside
from the doubtful workings oi the unit
rule, of the delegates elected are said to
stand as follows:
Blaine. Grant. -Sherman. Edmund...
Maine _H - _
Vermont — * — —
Rhode Island. a — —
Sew York IS .vi i
Pennsylvania Ji SG —
Indiana -«i — a
Kansas .10 — —
Texas SO 2
North Carolina 1 — ~
Total 100 »2 ~
OF WINTER 1STHE LAP OF SPRING
(Ml* Forth a Few Remark* from Bill Arp. Where-
ia Hs Indulge* ia Reflections Suitable to
the Season and its Exigencies—
Polling thAfiglf* TafbiEtc.
Mr. Hendrick* still refuses the second
place on the democratic ticket. It strikes
us that if the democracy were to he more
earnest in its insistnnee, so to speak, the re-
Jusal of Mr. Hendricks would absorbs good
deal more of the public attention.
\VRdo not desire to see Mr. George Wil
liam Curtis seriously engage in practical
politics. Not at all. We want to see him
flirt around on the edges and keep the vivid
imagination of Mr. Hayes supplied with
facts in regard to civil service reform.
Dr Garcelon has returned the money
belonging to the state of Maine, arid the
republican* now breathe easier. He had
5**25, and with that amount he could have
demoralized the Blaine gang in Maine by
buying them at their own price—th»ee for
a dollar.
“Tm: Constitution having dropped Til-
den," remarks the Augusta Chronicle, “is
“surveying the lieUl (or a new departure."
Our typographical resources do not )>crniit
US to Teprint ibis remark with the sug
gestions of stress which appear in the origi
nal, but we cheerfully admit that it pos
sesses all the symptoms of a genuine j jke.
Mr. Sam Randall’s refusal to recognize
Weaver, the Iowa grcenbacker, 'fir several
weeks, is pretty much of a piece with a pol
icy that prompted him to pack the wavs
and means committee with protectionist*.
Mr. Randall's success as a politician will
doubtless he greater hereafter than his suc
cess as a democratic office holder.
The New York Tribune talks vaguely of
a fresh veto. Is it possible that the amiable
Mr. Rogers has dusted off the de facto back
bone and carried it from the woodshed to
the back parlor? It is to be feared that the
Washington correspondents are not keeping
as close a watch upon the movements of
the amiable Rogers a* the true interests of
the country demand.
*Tt must be confessed,” remarks the edi
tor of the New York Times, in the tone of a
person concealed under a raattrass, “that
“the attitude of the democracy is a threat*
"eningonc.” If the editor of the Times
will come out from under the lied and ex
plain who and what it ia the democracy
threatens, he will confer an inestimable
boon on a Nation with a self-cocking N.
The colored brother (roua North Carolina
occasioned aoine disturbance in the recent
elections in Indiana. This was probably
the result oi a new rebellion in the south.
The Indiana democrats—regarding the
matter from the *tand-j>oiiu of the worthy
editor of the Burlington Hawkeye—are un
doubtedly making a laborious effort to re-
easlave the unfortunate negroes. Let us
all unite to depreciate such efforts.
Tiir colored voters who emigrated to In
diana, seem to have stuck their beads into
a political hornet'* russL These unfortu
nate people will discover, finally, that they
are less of a problem at the south than any
where else. If they could all be transferred
to the north to morrow, they would en
counter prejudices a thousand fold more
intense than any that ever exissed, or ever
could exist, at the south. The negroes can
only learn by experience that the senti-
Hforcl* In I'oncrcM.
The bill to provide for celebratiug the
one-hundredth anniversary of the treaty
of peace by ho'ding an international ex
hibition in the city of New York, In 18S3,
was taken up Wednesday of last week
and passed, the vote being, yeas 20, nays
21. .Senators Gordon and Hill were ab
sent when the vote was taken. They
were present shortly afterwards when a
vote was taken on an amendment to the
deficiency appropriation bill,defining the
pay, qualifications and appointment of
special deputy marshals of election.
Both of the Georgia senators voted to re
tain without amendment the clause ap
propriating $000,000 for the payment of
the fees utul expenses of “United .States
marshals ami the general deputies” dur
ing the current fiscal year. In the
house Mr. Hammond, front the judiciary
committee, reportei back adversely a
bill in which a claim was made on the
government because the claimant had
thought from it some land at a sale under
the confiscation act, the title to which
proved defective. Mr. Blount presented
the petition of J. Ciieeves, surviving part
ner of Ubeeves & Ozl»orn, asking that his
claim for pay for tobacco seized and sold
by the government be referred to the
court of claims—also, a similar petition
from R. A. Young A* Bro.
When Mr. Singleton moved, last Thurs
day, that 5,000 copies of the reparts on
Chinese immigration be printed,Mr. Reed
moved to lay the resolution on the table,
and the yeas and nays were ordered.
Mr. Cook alone of the Georgia delega
tion voted “av." Tiie resolution was
adopted. Mr. Nicholls presented the
memorial of the Georgia and Florida in
land steamboat company, for an appro
priation to dredge out Habersham’s cut
and Jrkyl creek.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments to the star route deficiency
hill, the vote l>eing 1*1 to 83. Messrs.
Cook a ad Felton voted “av;” Messrs.
Hammond, Nicholls and Smith voted
"no;" Mr. Stephens was paired with
Mr. Blount, and Mr. Speer with Mr.
I-oring. Mr. Nicholls presented a bill to
appropriate $7,000 to improve the in
land navigation between Savannah and
Jacksonville.
lu the Record of the 4th inst. appears
a speech of Mr. Blount on the star route
deficiency bill. Mr. IV.ount has the floor
so much in pushing through the general
appropriation bills, that he rarely has
time to prepare a sj»eevh oi considerable
length, i i the one before us he unmer
cifully exposes the crookedness of Gen
eral Brady's management of the star
routes.
Senator Gordon presented on Monday
the petition of Rachel M. McDonald, of
Stilesboro, Bartow county, praying to be
compensated for Jtwo males furnished
to the army. No Georgia bills were
introduced under the call of states. Un
der the new rules of the house Mr. Wea
ver moved to suspend and pass two res
olutions—one in favor of the issue of all
It is nowfetated that Bcaconsfield will
resign as soon as the queen returns fr«
Germany. It becomes in that event, un
ler the English system, his duty to inform
the queen who the leader oi the liberals
is—that is, who she should send for to
make up a new cabinet. This will be
either Mr. Gladstone, Earl Granville or
Lord Ilartington. If she sends for a man
whom the liberals do not want, that man
wiil, in the natural course of things, re
fine to form a cabinet, and in this way
the real desire of the party will be reach
ed. Mr. Gladstone should be the new
premier, and it begins to look as if be
will be.
Events across the water are occurring
with great rapidity. Russia suddenly
acquired a dictator in General Melikoff,
the Jesuits were told to go In France
Bcaconsfield was unexpectedly upset in
Great Britain, and now the great Bis
marck insists that his health will not
permit him to longer discharge the du
ties of chancellor. It is to be remarked
however, that Bismarck’s health did not
liegin to fail until an adverse vote was
recorded in the imperial parliament,
The probabilities are the emperor will
find a way to pacify his minister. It is
not a difficult matter to reverse a vote in
the German parliament, and that course
will probably be adopted.
It is morally certain that Grant will
carry the larger parts of the Illinois, Ken
tucky and Missouri delegations, but while
he is doing that fihennan will carry Ohio,
perhaps Connecticut, and parts of nearly
every southern delegation, ami Blaine
will get the balance of New England,
Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, with repre
sentatives in nearly every other delega
tion to be elected. The southern votes
wiil be cast in about three equal parts for
Grant, Sherman and Blaine, In the
the course oi the next ten days conven
tions will be held in Massachusetts, Con
necticut, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri,
and the results in these states will be apt
to show whether Grant can be nominated
or not.
Iaatrnetious to (he Eitaroeratonv of
the Atlanta District.
Editors Constitution: Permit me. in
answer to the many questions, that are
asked as to the number of enumerators,
their territory, duties and compensation, to
respond through your widely circulated
journal.
Countie* are to be subdivided into dis
tricts containing not more than four tb»His-
and people, according to the census of 1870.
each of their subdivisions constituting an
enumerator s district; and no appoint mem
will be made until the subdivisions are dc
fined.
Enumerators must be appointed withou
any reference to their political preferences
and associations. As I snail be sworn to
obey tliis rule, whica also seems to me an
eminently proper one, 1 shall to the best of
my ability, render strict obedience
Each enumerator, after being confirmed
by the superintendent of the census. at
Washington, receives a eomtnisnon from
the sujK-rvisor of bis district, and take* en
oath to perform hi* duties with fidrtitv.
He is required to visit every dwelling in his
subdivision, and there to aak the questions
contained in the schedule furnished him
and to make a record of the answers.
Persons refusing or neglecting to answer
truly, according to their best informatio i.
are liable to a fine of one hundred dollar*
For cutnpensauon the enumerator r»-
ceives two [-J)cents for each name recorded
two (2> cents for each death, ten (10) cents
for each farm, and fifteen (15)cents for each
industrial establishment. In sparsely settled
or otherwise peculiarly difficult regioos,
special compensation, not exceeding four
dollars a day, may be award -d.
For neglect or violation of duty the
enumerator will be liable to a heavy* fine,
or to fine and imprisonment, according to
the gravity of his offense
Any person receiving a fee for securing
position for another as enumerator, will
held guilty of a misdemeanor, and become
liable to a fine of not less than five hun
dred. or more than three thousand dollars,
at the discretion of the court.
E*ch enumerator must begin bis work
on the first Monday of June, and complete
it in ciries of 10,000 or upwards within two
(2) weeks, in other districts within three (3)
weeks. And each enumerator
required to work on every
week day, without intermission, until his
task is completed. If he fails thus to pros
ecute his work it will constitute ground
for his removal, and for failure lo make his
returns at the time prescribed bv law he
forfeits his pay.
R is well known that there have been
great deficiencies in tne returns of previous
years, and it is my desire, if possible,
make, the census of north Georgia an t_
ception in this respect, to which end I ask
the earnest co operation of north Georgian.'
and especially of the enumerator* that
shalj be appointed.
What the numberof sub divisions will
be I cannot say until 1 obtain all the ir.for
mat ltm necessary to making them accurate
ly. Bui it will probably ba between
seventy-five and one hundred. While the
number of applications received far ex
ceeds the larger of these two numbers, there
is a deficiency from some counties, espe
cially desirable to be remedied in case of
remote counties, as the time prescribed by
law for completing the work of subdivision
and appointment will soon expire. And
any deficiency in the report of population
will affect the ratio of north Georgia’*
presentation in congress.
As yet,'no application* have been
ceived from White, Union, Towns, Rabun,
Habersham,. or Chattooga. But one for
e«ch, has been received from Lumpkin,
Haralson and Dawson, ar.dtwo from Walk
er, Gilmer and Codosa.
In conclusion, while I shall aim, to the
best of my judgment, aided by the advice
of some of Georgia’s most honored sons, to
nerform my sworn duty, and while 1 should
be glad to appoint every good man who ap
plies, (especially, if he need* the conipen
satinii.) and to secure him double pay,
possible, I must needs (lhappoint mat
and in so doing, I ruefully anticipate the
fate of a friend, who was umpire at a baby
show, where, of cour.-e, every mother was
confident that her darling was the be?t.
brightest and handsomest baby that ever
found its way into this breathing world
He wrote to me that, by his decision, he
had made one friend und forty-nine ene
mies. With best wishes for the continued
prosperity of Thk Constitution, of Atlan
ta, and the United States.
II. I*. Gattiikli..
ment with which (be people of the north
•re »uppore4 lo re.-ari liim couKl not exist ‘ by the govenunent, «nd none
a... through the medium of s lin per- through bonk corporations, anil the
Spec live. Race prejudices at the north a re other in favor of the earliest possible other meeting for yesterday, in which
potion), imoleiani but vindictive.
The CossriTVTtos is bravely ami pa
tiently trying to gather the news of the
state as soon after the occurrence as pos
sible. For that purpose it has engaged
the services of local correspondents ii
nearly every considerable town; but its
system of correspondence will not cover,
and cannot be made to cover, a great
many events of interest in the smaller
places and in the country proper. It
therefore bexs the assistance oi all who
desire to sec the news of the state
freshly and projierly collected each morn
ing. Ii every such a person will prompt
ly send in information of any occurrence
which is of interest to the public, the
work will be accomplished. Much assist
ance will supplement the work of our
army of correspondents, and give all a
chance to know what transpired in the
state on the previous day.
Mn. Geahstoxe's chief personal tri
umph is found in his return for the pre
cinct legally known as Kdingbnrpli coun
ty, or Kdinburghshire, or Midlothian. It
lies almost wholly without the city of
Kdinbuigh, and is almost entirely owned
by the duke of Buccleuch. At the last
general election in this precinct only
2,700 voters went to the polls and the
election resulted in the return of the earl
of Dalkeith, who is a son and heir of the
duke of Bucclench. The earl of Dalkeith
is forty-nine years old and is widely pop
ular among the peasantry of liis father,
far more so, indeed, than the old duke
was, but the magic of Mr. Gladstone';
eloquence won the battle. Mr. Gladstone
received 1.590 votes and the earl of Dal
keith l.StiS, Mr. Gladstone thus being re
turned by a majority of 211 votes. Tiie
contest was the most spirited one ever
fought in Edinburghshire since the pas
sage of the first reform bill. Each party
used its utmost endeavors, and
voters came to the polls—148 more than
at the tormer election. Cnder the cir
cumstances Mr. Gladstone's victory is re
garded as a great triumph.
Tut;::: is deep trouble among the re
publican brethren in Georgia, deeper,
indeed, than a casual observer would
suspect. First, there is a wholesome
desire among the colored voters to crawl
from under the thumbs of the white re
publican office-holders. Second, there
a natural desire on the part of some of
these office-holders to retain their influ
ence and to be conspicuons in the work
of leading the colored people into the
■Sherman camp. Third, there is an at
tempt on the pan of a few non-office-
hold ing republicans to carry the Georgia
delegation for Blaine. As may be sup
posed the clashing of these conflicting
interests occasions more fuss than emp
tying a bag of marbles on a tin
roof. There was a meeting
of the colored voters in McIntosh
county last month to select delegates
to Atlanta, and one Styles L. Hutchins
was chosen. The chairman of the
county committee, however, called an-
THE DBXTH-RoLl..
The Oldest Sin.on in America (tone to
Ills Best.
f’tsclx.vAii, A,iri 8—John Best, of
Guernsey connty, Ohio, the oldest |M«son
in America, is dead. He wa. born in countv
Tvrnnt* ln*)antt in \i<n» 17k• a..., j
ing letter from Senators Morgan and Har-1
ris: |
Washington. April S. 1*80—Hoc. John
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SJSrtE.* * : violent assault upo? W. L Clark, white
Tyrone. Ireland, in May, 1780; emigrated
Pennsylvania in 1811, ami engaged in farm
ing in Washington comity. In 1S5G here
moved to O:iio. lie was initiated a
Mason in ISO:, in Ireland, and was
soon exalted to the holy royal arch
degree Upon leaving ' his native
land Mr. Best was granted a withdrawal
c»rd and as soon as possible after locating in
Waldington county. Pa . he united his for
tunes with a lodge at the countv seat. He
tAsset! through nil the degrees to that of
Knight Templar in Ireland, but did not re
ceive the degrees of ciypric masonry until
after the organization of Washington Conn
cil No. 1, November 10, 1847 During the
“Morgan excitement,” Mr. Best remained
loyal to the cause of Masonry, and of the
eleven companions who resuscitated chapter
130 of the jurisdiction of Peuusylvar.ia he
w;n the only survivor.
DEATH OF MRS. HENNKN.
New Orleans Democrat.
Once more has remorseless death Invad
ed the household of tlio Hood family, and
now are the orphans of the late deadchleftain
left desolate indeed! Bereft last vear atone
blow of both father and mother ‘their help
lessness awoke the sympathy of the whole
country, but there was one left who
had loved and cared for them from their
iufanev, and who, as nearly as might
be, filled a mother’s place,* minister
ed to their wants and watched over
them with a tenderness that was at oi.ee
beautiful and touchmg. The aged grand
mother accepted the care of the bereaved
little ones as a holy charge.and every energy
of her life, every pulsatiou of her warm and
noble heart belonged to them. Her veiv
existence was bound up in these, her pre
cious but unfortunate grandchildren, and
the thought of parting from them or of
seeing any of them removed from the dear,
warm nest of the home where t-he trad
watched over and sheltered them so long
was anguish to her
Stricken with age, with grief, and
many infirmities, even her great love for
the darling little flock to whom ahe was
father, mother, everything, could not stay
the relentless hand of death Yesterday at
2 o’clock a m. tbe soul of Eleanora Rober--
Hennen was called her.ee, and the Is.
bora of a devoted woman were dosed upon
the earth. If there be truth in im mortality,
then from her celestial home a blessed spirit
will watch with angelic love ami tenderness
over those dear, desolate children, who
were the only tendrils that bound her to
the earth—the only flowers that blossomed
*“ her heart.
Who can measure this loss to the orphan
children of the lamented Hood? Who may
dare to fathom the depth of even their
childish anguish, left as they now are with
out a natural protector—their last propahd
stay removed, and fac«* to face at their ten
der age with the hard world! The winds
of adversity have not l ee i tempered to
these lambs of our fold, and in their early
youth have they been made “acquainted
with grief.”
Mrs. Henneiu wa3 the widow of the late
Duncan N. Ilennen. the distinguished
jurist, ar.d the daughter of the late Dr.
R »hertson, who was an emiuent physician
i Nashville, Tennessee, fiihe was the first
white child born in Nashville, and has been
a resident of New Orleans for more than
forty years. She'was a woman of many
noble qualities of mind and heart, and her
death will.cause profound sorrow not alone
i the immediate circle of her home, but
herever she was known. She has gone to
her rest after a life well spent, leaving be-
nir.d her memories which in warm and
loving hearts will be her best and most fit
ting monument. _
The Die Tax fairs Mettled.
On Friday Attorney-General Ely settled
me of the larges: oi the celebrated rail
road tax case*, in which the state claimed
from certain railroad* taxes dae for the
from 1S74 to 1879 inclusive.
The Georgia railroad had previously paid
Written for The Constftution.
Winter still lingers in the lap of spring,
dont blame the old gentleman for setting
there as long** she will let him, but I wish
he would make haste aad go. This
queuing of youtb with old age is amusing
for a little while, but we can gtt sick of it
quicker than anything ia tbs world,
never see an old grat-headed wiidower mak
ing a fool'of bimsd^about avc»ung woman
but what I think of winter trying
wed the buds and blossom:
the spring. I never hear of a
nice young girl marrying an old man for
hi* money but wbat I think of the same
thing. How his cold hreatli freeze* on her
warm lips and hia thin and icy arms chills
the blood that conrte* in her youthful
veins! Such things will happen, and 1
cant belt* it; hut it always makes me sad.
At such tines I want to be young and rich
and marry her myself, just out of flit*.
Its so canaturaj and out of *eason. “Oh.
the snow, the bnrilulsnow,” somebody said,
but it’s not batifol to me now. I’m
thinking of the wheat in the boot, and the
early corn, and potatoes, and the frnit crop
l never did like a north wind io the spring
of the year. Its shore to brine a cold sickly
rain, or a snow, or a sleet, or something. Its
if! wind thaf comes lo uj from that quar
ter anyhow. They never blow any thing
kinder refreshing, and I reckon would freeze
Oil to the vitals if they could. ,
We thoughDfce spring had come, and the
bird* anc^ihe trees, and the flowers, and the
turkey hen^nAiA th* little wreus thatjire
building their nests in the porch thought
too. * Bufit* a great mistake. The car
pet3 have been taken up a little ahead of
tml the children have had to
put on their^sikoes and stockings again.
We’ve done cleaned up the premises once—
a regular spntv; rejuvenation—raking and
burning and w hite-washing outdoors, and
scouring, and cobwebbing, a.ul quicksilver-
ndoors. Besides it being a fit and
proper time for it, we were expecting com
puny, and so 1 was gently put in harness
and went to work with a will. My wife
wanted t’je front walk bordered with nice
shapely truck, and a ditch cut. wide enough
to fill ap with rich soil all sifted fine for
the flower seed When I had finished that
job siae had me to white-wash the rock and
sow the seed, and then she wanted two or
three little circular holes dug and filled up
in the same manner, and I d.d it so nice
she wanted two or three more*, and kept on
wanting until she got to nine, and then
she said. the dog would be capering
all over them in the night, and
1 had to split up 144 little sticks and slake
the dog out, and then she wanted enough
of those beautiful wild lilies from the
swamp to border a terrace, and they had to
he spaded up with enough earth to keep em
from knowing they had jeen moved. Its a
good idya not to lot a man know the exteut
of his job; when I look around the front
yard and survey the umoantof work that
has been so quietly drawn out of me. I t-
pnrnd of tm labors and an azed at 4uy d
cility. It seems to me now that ii’s ?
done; everj thing is done; but I reckon not
I reckon not. Mrs. Arp has got some more
developments slowed away in her fertile
brain which will come forth in due time
rihe won 1 , tax me beyond endurance. She
will temper the wind to the shorn lamb. 1
very frequently feel like I was a lamb. But
then she pays well—pays promptly, not in
filthy lucre but in smiles and grateful
J-Hiks—not in romantic rliapsodies or gush
ing torrents, bat in thar calm and serene
glow of satisfaction which lights up her
appreciative countenance and makes me
feel proud to do her bidding borne folks
would rather hear a woman exclaim, “Oh!
my—how lovely—how beautiful—exquisite
—splendid—best man in tac world—come,
let me kiss you, you dear old feller.” I
dont think 1 would like that. I reckon
not, though, as it was never tried on me;
canit say for certain—may-ne I would.
Everything around ami ahnut our prem
isvs is mighty clean ami nice now. I wisl
it would stay so. I don’t care so much
abpot it^juysclf, but it harmonizes with
Mrs. Arp andithe girls aud the scriptures.
I’m afraid I Jfni a little heathenish about
such things^ for I dont like to live under
such constraint—to have to scrane my
shoes so inirfh and shut the doors and hang
up ruy hal and empty ihe wash-bowl. I
don’t like to see the ashes taken up
quite so clean and so often
and so much sweeping ami scrubbing I
dont think the broom ought to be set in
the corner upside down nor the clean towel
hid in the washstand where me and the
little boys cant liml it. I think I would
like a room somewhere close about where
me and the childreu could do as we please
and enjoy a little dirt on the floor and
throw i lie saw and the hammer and a few
nails around and kick ofTour mutldv shoes
and mould bullets and popcorn and play
horse and marbles and tumble up the bed
ami do as we plca-e and clean up thing*
about once a mouth. But there’s no room
to spare and so l have to endeavor to
live like a gentleman whether I want to or
not. I’ve got an idea that a little clean dirt
is healthy. I’m afraid that little tender
children are washed ami bathed too much.
They get puny, and pale, and delicate.
Poor little thing-i. Its very disagreeable to
em. I never saw one that liked it, and
that* pretty good evidence its not according
to nature. Once a week is very reasonable,
but this every night’s business is a sin.
They say it keeps the pores open, but mav-
be they ou ;htent to be kept oj»en all the
time. The surgeons say that a handfui of
fresh earth bound on a flesh wound or a
bruise will cure it up. and I’ve found out
that the best cure for scratches in horses
feet is walking in fresh plowed ground,
never s*w a healthy child that dident lov_
to play in the dirt, and the sand, ami make
frog houses and mud pies. But still
I don’t go to extremes. I don’t want em to
get so dirty their skin hasent got any pores
at all ar.d their little ear* would sprout tur
nip seed. Everything mu>t be done in rea
son and in season. There’s some things I
am mighty particular about—such as clean
dishes aad butter and milk and sausage'
meat. I saw a woman milking the other day,
and she pulled the calf away by the call’s
tail ami then wiped off the cow’s tits with
the cow’s tail and went to milking. I
thought there was too little water and too
much tail in that, though I icckon it's none
of tuy business. Everybody has to eat their
prek of dirt, they say: but I don’t want
mine in butter. Bill Arp.
GENERAL GORDON TO MR. STEPHENS
had had a conversation General Waller!
permtendent of census, and went irameeiiatelv
__ Mr. Stephens** room an 1 informed him of yonr
conversation with General Walker: that rou re
quested Mr. Stephens to go with von to General
Walker, and unite with you in asking for Pr.
Casey’s appointment: that Mr.Stephens declined
to go with von, and gave as his rea-oa that he had
recommended other persons, of whom Mr.
McWhorter was one. Thereupon Mr. Stephens
ffenied that he had recommended Mr. Me Wh-*rter.
Yon ruid: “Take care. Mr. Stephen*, the records
—. Mr. Stephens rejoined that
.Jr. McWhorter, bnt had not
recommended him. and that he had so stated to
you,” Mr. Stephens futbermore stated that he
hadaai i toyou that }ou c uld say to General
Walker that he preferred Pr. Casev, or that he
his first choice.
i»u then said ih t rou had stated to General
Walker wnat Mr. Stephens had said to you. but
that it was unavailing and Mr. McWhorter was
appointed. Very tru.y your*.
John T. Morgan.
[ Indorsement of the foregoing by Senator Harris ]
My recollection of what pa**ed upon the occa
sion referred to above corresponds with hat ex
pressed br General Mo gan. with this addition:
General Gordon stated that when he called at the
room of Mr Stephens that Mr. Stephens invited
into a private room, and that when in the
tn e said to Mr Stephens that he believed
... 110 would go with him to see General
Walker, and each of them ioln in an earnest ap
peal. that Dr. Casey would In* appointed. Mr.
.Stephens said that he did not remember that
General Gordon had expressed such au opinion,
but that he had asked General Gordon to wy to
General Walker that D \ Casey was hi* first choice.
Respectfully, Isham G. Harris.
In the same letter, published in the
Chronicle of Tuesday, Mr. Stephens refers
to me in this language:
When General Gordon arreed with General
fe!ker that ii was a fair and Just dUtiibur* *
these appointments to give two of them
democrats and three to the republicans, and this
agreement had been acted upon by the appoint
ment of the two democrats—Clifton in the third
and Harris in the fifth—this, of course, settled
the matter of the political character of the su
Tfae Supervisor Question Still Ag(.
toting Onr Public Mr*.
Washington, April 5.—Editors Chronicle
and Constitutionalist, Augusta, Ga.: In
response to Inquiries from friend* in dif
ferent sections of the state, I wish to say,
through your columns, that it is not my
purpose fo be a party to any controversy
with Mr. Stephen*.
His explanation and defense of his con
duct in the appointment of Mr. Simmons
and Mr McWhorter, I have no interest
controverting. Having nothing myself to
explain, 1 have not deemed any statement
from me necessary. My silence, however,
must not be construed into an acquiescence
in the correctness of his referen
actions. These references, so far as they
purport to be positive statements of fact,
are entirely erroneous, and so far as they
are designed to be inferences, are unfound
ed and unjust.
Desiring to waive any dispute with Mr.
•’rtepbei-s.as to any rnatu-r resting in his or
tuy memory alone, I will iliustrate by citing
those only upon which the recollections of
other perrons can be invoked. In his let
terof the27ib ult., published in the Chron
icle of Tuesday. Mr. Stephens first men-
t;ous my name in connection with tbeoc
currences in tire room of the senate com
mittee on census, during the debate over
Mr. Simmons. I refer to rhl\ with pain,
and would,; not'do so at all, but for the fact
that the following letter from Senator
Morgan, Alabama, who wa* the
committee at whose invitatiou we were
both present, and the indorsement of Sen
ator Harra. of Tennes?ee. may serve to
correct Mr Srephens’s recollection of what
occurred between u* in his own room, as
well a* in the room of the committee or
census. 1 have not asked the northern gen
tieuien wh# were members of thatc raiuiit
tee for a statement of facts, because I did
not wish ta involve them in a purely local
controversy.
The folitwing are the first references in
Mr. Siephois’s letter to myself :
2- It is uttirly untrue that I was In any way
••coraplicatet*’ in general Walker’s office with a
“recuzameuiation of Pr. Casey” and “indorse
ment of Jufce McWhorter.”
It is ureriy untrue that General Gordon
stated to mein the senate census committee that
I was so * complicate J.” and when 1. denied it
“■ * ’* Beware, the record is clo e at
I inntterings came from the black cloud of
1 delegate*, and it veas plain that thelrorm
I would soon be upon us.
CAPITAL TALK
HEARD IN THE CAPITOL CORRIDORS.
As Lspartant Coafen
asd Georgia People, Wherein Atlanta’s
Interest are Taken Care of—
* A Grain Elevator
the vials of u«s long
publicans. The remarks that General Gordon
made in the senate census committee about hav
ing Simmons rejected with a view of getting Mr.
Griffin, a democrat, or my friend. Colonel Mark
W. Johnson, appointed. 1 looked upon as entirely
illusory. According to the agreement and under-
standmg between General Gordon and General
Walker, two only of the districts were to be filled
by democrats*
The following letter from General Walker
will show that (hi* positive assertion of Mr.
Stephens of an “agreement and understand
ing between General Gordon and General
\Valker’’has no foundation whatever in fact,
and furnishes another instance of those
strange aberrations of intellect into which
Mr. Stephens is too often betrayed by the
intensity of his prejudices. Here is‘Gen
eral Walker’s letter
Detartme t of the Interior. Census Office,
Wash ngn-tt, P. C., April ‘2, 1SS0.—Pear General
Gordon: Your note of yestardav is received. In
reply I would say that at no time was there an»
tgreemem between us, as to the manner in which
the five supervisor* to be appointed In Georgia
should be divided as to political affiliation*, m-r
was the matter ever the subject of conference be
tween us. I simply announced to >ou, as a thing
deteimiued upon, that of the five three would be
republicans and two democrats. You remarked
that you v,ouIfl have preferred that the propor
tions should be reversed; that is, that the*«
should be three democrats and two republicans,
but that it was a matter for the executive to de
cide.
This was upon the occasion wheu you celled to
urge the api>ointmeut of Dr. Casey, of the second
district. Very respectfully,
Fp.ancis A. Walker.
Superintendent of Census.
lion. John B. Gordon, United StatesSeuate.
From this assumption of an agreement,
which had no existence, Mr. Stephem
seem* to draw the inference that I brought
about the defeat of Dr. Casey and the ap
point men t of Mr McWhorter. He also
seetus to think that I called upon him in
the interest of Dr Casey, not of tuy own nc
cord, but because General Walker sent me
to him He says that 1 told him that “Uei<
era) Walker is about to appoint the super
visors of census for Georgia, and asked me
to come up here and see you and know
whom you wish for the second district."
I confront both these assumptions with the
following letter from General Walker,
which shows, first, that 1 pressed the ap
pointmentof Dr Casey, and that I neither
“commended" nor “indorsed” Mr Mc
Whorter; and. secondly, that I did not call
upon Mr Stephens at the instance of Gen
eral Walker:
Washington. March 14, 1680.—Dear General
Gordon: lu response to your letter of the 13th
instant, I take pleasure in saying that no one at
Pital urged Dr. Casey’s appointment
Jr *—
urged
■ zealously than yourael ; that you
him exclusively, so far as my knowledge
lief extends: una lastly, that 1 did not. so far as
l recollect, at any time a&k you to ascertain Mi
Stephens’s wishes respecting the
pxintment of supervisor in that
triet, or request you to confer with Mr. Stephens
for that or any other pu.pose.
i may add, beyond the scope of your inquiry
that, from first to last of our conversations re
specting the appointments to be made in Georgia,
1 derived the i upression that you desired the ap
pointment of Dr. Casey more than that of any
other gentl man in any district of the state: and
that if It had rested with you. Dr. Casey .would
have been appointed in preference to anv other
person.
It had, however, at an early date been deter
mined to appoint a republican in that district,
and I so informed you. Very truly yours,
_ , . , Francis a. W alker.
I submit these papers without comment
Very respectfully, J. B. Gordon.
Jessie Raymond Agnlu.
Washington, April G.—The case of Jessie
Raymond vs. Senator Hill came up in the
circuit court to-day. On motion made by
Senator Hill’s counsel, that the casa be
stricken from the docket on the ground
that the suit was instituted by the plaintiffs
attorney without her consent and against
her protest, the court took the papers,
Later in the day Mrs. Lockwood appeared
with Miss Raymond and later in open court
swore to an affidavit that she had author
ized the institution of the suit and still
authorized it* prosecution and that her
claim for damage* was just and true. The
court took the motion of Hill’s counsel
under advfcement.
Washington, April O.—Jessie Raymond
developed her purpose in returning to
Washington. She has denied all tne afli
davits she once made exonerating Senator
Hill, and denouncing Mra. Lockwood for
bringing the suit, and ha* in open court ex
pressed lier wish to go on with the suit.
Mrs. Iaockwood has been re-employed,
and the case will proceed in earnest. If
she will confine herself to the coart-room
Mr. Hill will not care, for when it comes
to irial he will be thorougly vindicated.
Fifty witnesses from Atlanta and as many
from Albany, Ga., will testify to the wo
man’s character, and to her attempt to lay
‘‘Tommie" at the door of a half dozen gen
tlemen before she thought of trying to
make Mr. Hill father hiru.
.Special dispatch to The Constitution.
In the circuit court to-day Judge Cox re
fused the motion of Senator Hill’s counsel to
strike the case of Raymond vs. Hill from
the docket, and held that, inasmuch
Miss Raymond had stated in open court
that she authorized the institution of the
suit, the case must be tried.
At six o’clock this morning Johnson C.
Whittaker, the colored cadet of the West
Point ciass of 1876, was found bound hand
and foot in bis room at the barracks, in
half unconscious condition, with a piece of
one ear cut off, the other slit, and bis head
bruised. lie stated that three masked men
attacked him while be was ia lied, some
time after midnight, anti committed the
outrage. General Schofield and Command
ant Luzelle ate investigating the affair. It
is believed that the outrage was committed
by cadets.
The Great Stetbodlut Order.
The first Methodist society in America (of
five members) was organized in October,
1766, by Philip Ktnbury, a local preacher.
The first general conference was held i
Baltimore, 1702 At this early date in the
history of the church, the book concern
(previously opened at Philadelphia) was
formally established by general conference
action. To-day the book concern of the
Methodist Episcopal church is the largest
religious publishing house in the world.
The statistic* for the Methodist Episcopal
church are as follows:
Number of annual conferences
Total number of preachers, itinerant and
Numberoflay members i,c^,hx7
Number of Sunday school scholar*
The get.era! Miuiuiary ol Methodists in
M K. church, south
African M. K— -ziFsos
390,900
.... D2,:s00
pent up and mighty wrath upon his dt- The Statu* of the Kellogg Caie-A OhorgUBcala-
There w*s a conference held Wednesday
morning at the Kimball house between
Colonel Wad ley, Governor Brown, General
Alexander and Mr Newcomb, and all dif
ferences which have existed between the
panics have been harmonized.
There was a mutual contract and agree
ment entered into between th^ railroads
for mutual protection and exchange of
business, the Western and Atlantic giving
far as lie* in its power with
out infringement upon its charter or its
contract with the state.
The negotiations opened by the arrival of
Mr. Newcomb in Georgia closed with a con
ference at the Kimball house be* ween New
comb, Wadley, Brown and Alexander. The
most important feature of this conference
was the agreement that coal should * e de
livered into Atlanta at reduced rates.
Cheap coal ha* been for years the desid
eratum in Atlanta, it has been for this
that she basso urgently pressed the build-
rag of the Georgia Western. It is this that
has been the only thing she needed to make
her a great city. This was secured at the
conference on Weonesilay.
When Mr. Wadley and Mr. Newcomb
agreed on a basis it was understood that the
situation was one of peace, as Mr Wadley
a* said to control the Western and Atlan
tic, and General Alexander, who controlled
the Georgia, acquiesced heartily <>n coming
Atlanta the triumvirate met Governor
Brown, and speedily became a quadrilateral
alliance. Governor Brown agreeing to all
that had been done, and indorsing with
his wise counsel and his unerring sagac
ity the schemes already outlined.,, and
proposing new one*. There is no doubt
that this four-sidtd combination is the
strongest ever made in the south, and it
cannot be broken, and it i* a triumph to
young Victor Newcomb, its projector.
The figures for cheap coal for Atlanta,
they are authorized, are as follows:
Coal will be delivered in Atlanta to mr
ufactnrex* at 12 cents o bushel or $r.a it
and to dealers at 14 cents a bnsl.el or
a ton. This includes the price of the coal
and the freight also The j resent priee of
coal i*r,-j cents a bu: hel from the deal'
$7 3u a ton. This reduction i* in the ireignt
alone, the price on the Western and At
lantic railroad being cut in one-half ex
actly, and the Nashville and Chattanooga
being cut quite as deeply. On the Western
and Atlantic the rate is now cent a ton
per tuile, which is the bare o»*t. ol carriage.
These rates will go into operation al
once, and will be the mnniauent rate*,
shall thus have, without u day’s delay
the expense of a dollar, the chief
benefit that vre should have had front
Georgia Western, viz., cheap coal. This
road, operated under the most formidable
conditions could hardly give us cheaper
coal than we shall have immediately, as
the result of tne Kimball house conference
and the negotiations that preceded
With coal at $3 a ton to manufacturer*,
who now nay $5 for it, we shall ha\
more trouble.
The erection of a grain elevator is
underconsiderat ton, and it is understood
that with the proper c,-jperation of the
people of Atlanta measures will doubtless
soon be effected for the erection of a grain
elevator at this place. The alliance and
agreement enterhI into between t!
spective road*, wM! redound, not only to
the advantage of the city of Atlanta, but to
the state at large and cannot be otherwise
than favorable to the interests of the entire
people of Georgia.
The (ieorgin Western,
THE CHANCES OV ITS BUILDING—’THK VOEK
OOlKfi AHEAD.
In the matter of the Georgia Western
We lia^e never wavered in our belief that
the Georgia Western road wiil he built, and
built in the near future !
We have written it up, followed itaroun-
travelled with it, slept with it, sut up wi»b
it—we have seen it set up, knocked down,
stall-fed 'and starving—run over, bus:led
about, gouged and pummelled, but we have
never yet weakened in our confidence that
the scheme would triumph, and that too
very soon!
A people that have built such a city as
Atlanta twice in forty years—once out of a
chinquapin thicket, and again out an
ash neap—cannot need a thing as badly
as we need the Georgia Western, and try
as hard to get it, without making the nftb
We are jus: as certain to get it a* the buy
was to catch the ground hog.
As to the prospect*. Captain Gioster is
still engaged in the survey ami is now regu
larly in camp at the river, makingan instru
mental aad final survey. The remark there-
fore, that “Newcomb has played his little
engineering corps for all that it is worth,"
does not seem io cover the case. Cat.
Gioster has order* logo ahead rapidly i
hi* work.
Major Lockhart, ihe game veteran in
enterprise, will take his brown linen shirt
from the valise in wnich it lias been banish-
el for three days, and forswearing white
Ur.en for a season will go to Montgomery
on Thursday to get the charter for the Ala
bama part of the road |ierfected. This show.,
that the major “lias not played his brown
shirt for all it is worth ”
The devotion that Major Lockhart lias
shown to this enterprise, and the sincerity
with which he has always met our people,
should satisfy them that there is no need
for alarm unttl he becomes alarmed. His
record in Tennessee in railroads is that of a
man of energy, sagacity and vigor, who has
never been wnipped in a tussle, but who, in
language of Colonel Darden, of the
Blood horse association, “has downed every
thing that tackled him."
Finally, we have the highest authority
foi saying that Mr. Newcmib has not agreed
atid will not_ agree to make any contract
that prohibits hi* building the Georgia
Western, at least as far as the coal fields.
We know further, that he favors and that
the officer* of the road, Mr. DeFuniak, Mr.
Si&hltuan, Maj. Lockhart, and all. think
that the safe and proper thing for the com
pany to do is to build the road at least to
the c -aI field*. Of one thing there may be
an absolute certainty, that r. Newcomb
meant what he said and s|>oke with author-
iiy and sincerity when he said that the
company would see to it that none of its
officials should be discredited, and that no
course should be taken that would pui a
stain upon any representations made by
those tvho represented it. .
We see no cause for any excitement
depression. It is our opinion, and we hold
ii as strongly rs ever, that the re a 1 will be
promptly built, even if it is built only to
the coal-fields. The contract between New
comb and Wadley may have removed the
necessity for the immediate building of the
road, but we are very certain that it d
not and will not prevent Its hein>; built
a short time. If not desirable as a through
line, it ia essential to Atlanta a local
rente to cheap c iai, and wheu any tiling is
necessary to Atlanta we have an abiding
faith that it will have to come!
TUE SELMA, ROME AND DALTON.
Selma, April?.—By a decree of the su
preme court of Alabama the Selma, Rome
and Dalton railroad, from Selnm to the
Georgia state line, hai been ordered to be
sold on Monday, June 18. The sale is to
take place at Selma and the minimum price
*- $1,500 000. *
New York, April 7.—At a meeting of the
directors aDd large holders of fir.-t and sec-
°»d mortgage bond* of the Srima. Rome
and Dalton railroad, held here this evening,
it was decided to organize for the putcha-e
of all clashes of securities of the road The
Fanners’ loan .and trust company of New
York was api>ointed transfer agent for the
stock. The meeting agreed that an appeal
be taken from the recent decirion of the
state court of Alabama to the United .State s
supreme court.
A RICH SCENE.
voted head, and declaring with measureless
fierceness and St Yitusdance gesticulation
that he could cover consent to disgracing
himself by making him chairman of the
meeting At this the Bryant backer*
howled with prolonged delight their un
qualified approval. And just here the gen
eral exercises were happily varied with an
impromptu aud spirited dialogue.
Postmaster Conley arose and mildly sug
gested that Bryant, white, had perhaps
been a lit Lie too :-evere; that he should not
impugn the mot ve* of a man like Clark,
who might, i: elected, give satisfaction in
the chair. “I would not condescend to
have a cot troveroy w.tli you.” lohiiyob-
rvei Bryant to Conley." [Sensation ]
You. who have not appointed an}* negroes
as clerk* in the post office, sir." ‘ That’s
not so." said Conley. “I have It nr
three carriers and one office
boy, and their nmfies are on
the cay roll as clerks.” [Intense but sup
pressed agitation among the Conley back
ers, and groans of disapproval by the Bry
ant crowd ]
“They are not clerks," thundered Bryan t
white. [Bigsensation ]
“You’re a liar.” based Cooley, advancing
with raised hand toward* Bryant, white,
[tremendous sensation} who turned pale,
tint .stood his ground. At this juncture.
John Conley, son of the postmaster
stepi*ed in * front of Bryai.t. wane,
and planted a powerful blow on lus
cheek with hia fist, which staggered the
man from Maiue, but Skowhetao quickly
recovered hisbalai.ee and clutching con
vulsively at young Conley, wounded him
iu the vest. The delegates sprang up as one
man in ihe wildest excitement, Conley’s
friends grabbed Conley and Bryant’* friends
grabbed Bryant, and ihe po-tmusier who
was still renching for the Skowl eganite,
was home swiftly past him by the dak ti-V
of delegates which swept madly around ihe
hall. Fora time it seemed as it theie would
be a general battle between the two
impassioned wing--, the Bryant tu*-ii
being deluded into the belief that those
who had gobbled up Bryant were realty as
saulting him. and the Conley men being
under the hallucination that the c incher*
of Conley were beta upon personal violence.
But such was not ti e case, and before the
row hud become general the friends of the
two combatants bait, to a certain extent,
subsided, which intopreted means that
their frenzied rotary career had been
abandoned, and each particular man was
endeavoring to explain his posi
tion to etcry other delegate
at the tip top of Ins voice, and every otittr
delegate in turn was putting his whole soul
into bis lungs lor fear that somebody
in the hall might accidentally im
agine that he could caich the drib
of the conversation, which had
suddenly become general and wn« mj-
preuiely animated Ami then the j»olice
appeared upon the scene, which seemed to
intensify the univer.-al liveliness, ill.* con
vention feeling sain tied that it could not
be arnsu d fur disorderly conduct—that is,
by only two policemen. A deb gtu* named
Fowl was so demoralized by the
turn which affair* had taken, that at the
beginning of the disturbance lie fled the
had and made track* for Buck bead, the
district front which he hatted. At the
earnest solicitation of Mr Jesse Jackson
(white) Fowl was induced to return, on
ootid it ion x however, that Jts*e would sit by
him during the remainder of the meeting
and reach him how to vote. We have
never learned who was elected chairman of
the meeting, lmt we do know that owing
to circumstances which can never lie clear
ly understood. Mr. Editor (’lark
suddenly quit the arena, andJ<-r»y Jones,
the sole remaining nominee, a stoutisli,
huff colored titan, took the chair, amid a
medley of noises that the Wall street stuck
exchange can never hone to duplicate.
Tiffs was a Bryant victory, ami is said to
have been brought about in a novel manner.
Just Indore* ’ dinner time a pie
man entered the convention, and was
h light out by the leaders of ihe
Bryant wing, ami the pie* judiciously
distributed among the wavering delegates.
In this way the ranks of the opposition
were sadly weakene 1, and for a time it
seemed a* if not a Conlt-y man would i»e
left And then it was lhai by »
whelming vote the Bryant chimu
cernled the rostrutu.
The morning hours bad been devoted to
war and the election of the chairman
after a brief recess, the convention
reassembled, and Colonel Bryant,
while. having obtained the ‘floor,
offered a resolution that the roll he called
and the six gentlemen receiving the high
est number of votes should be declared
delegates, and the six getting the next high
est, alternates. Tiffs resolution was satis
factory to the convention ami was adopted
by a large majority. After thieeor four
hours of voting, and much intense figurff g
by the chairman ami secretary,
who were approaches! in the
iqost sociable anil informal manner by
each and every delegate during the entire
count, to see if ihe summing up accorded
with the results readied by them. After a
vasuitaiof oily whispering io and affec
tionate hugging of the dark and perspiring
and familiar de.egate.on the part of Colonel
Bryant, wno despite the pics, seemed fea r
In I that the Conleys would yet defeat
him. After any amount of noisy jug
gling and suppressed wire work im?,
Jerry Jones, the chairman, read the names
of the six delegates ami the six alternates.
The first name which Jerry sounded was
regti- that of Colonel Bryant, white, who haff re
ceived the smallest vote cast. This brought
Postmaster Conley to his feet. He stated
that as Mr. Bryant was not among the.*
who got the highest vole, he was bv
means elected, whereupon the irionda
Bryant began a series of bootings ami yel-
lings and screeching* and howling*
ami whistling* and stampings,
that were frightful to hear
Then they paused and all the
delegates addressed the chairman at the
same time mid at great length, each matt
speaking as if the chairman was about
eight miles m the conn try, hi id if he didn’t
hear him ntonce. death would i in media ely
ensue. Suddenly everybody hushed right,
up, and Bryant, white, made a sjKCch. For
a moment you could have heard snow drop
on snow, but a* soon as the spraket’s
remarks indicated that he considered him-
M?:f elected, the Conley crowd
broke forth more boisterously than
ever, nod then every delegate
felt called upon to give his ixruliar vi.
of the situation by a prolonged series ...
shouts, and he did it. At length the chorus
grew weaker and eighteen or twenty dele
gates hoarsely moved to adjourn. \Vith
great difficulty conqiarutive quiet was re
stored and a vote was taken. It was an
pounced that nineteen Lad voted to ad
journ and twenty nine had voted against it.
Whereit|»on screeching was renewed, ami a
very small black-man shrilly screamed
above the deafening din:
“Bryant dun beat ’ini agin!’
Conley* now distinctly moved that the
six receiving the highest vote be declared
elected by the chair, this being based upon
wag War in Fall Blast—Ihe Fight in the
Home Over the Army Bill-Colonel
Eosby’a Practical Patriotism.
Colored M. J£ ........
Evangelical Association
Untied Brethren..... 154 7*16
Union merican M. K
Total Methodists in CnIted -rate*....3,4 r.luo
Methodists in Canada pan **
111.C66
Grand total in 1879
4,165.015
An Impartial example.
Darien Gazette
We most respectfully beg to differ with oar en
teemed contemporaries of the Maoou Telerrapb.
aad the Savannah News, in regard to Tilden'
strong; n in Georgia. We believe that a majorit,
of the people are in favor of the nomination of
majority
. - — — —v .. v _.nation of
THden. Let these paper* follow the example of
The Atlanta Constitution and uke an impar
tial census of the prominent democrats c f their
sections. That is tne only way to get at the
Yonr Uncle Samuel.
Dai :j bridge Democrat.
The machine managers jast now aeem to have
$44,000 as arrears of taxes. Yesterday the
suits against the Central and the Augusta
and Savannah railroad* were settled, the
roads agreeing to piy a total of $96,833 86.
Of this amount $86,750.41 was paid by the
Central aud $10,083.45 by the Augusta and
Savannah railroad.
It ia thought that all the suits now being
prosecuted bv the attorney-general against that he said:
various railroads will net tne state about hand-’' Noting of the sort occurred at that
a quarter of a million of dollars. Great ,
fir ti. fl 7 M | >iih 11 u uterly untrue that General Gordon
Credit is due Muj ir LIV lor the zeal with called upon t»c at anv time with ni»camaze a:
which he has represented the state's interest the door andaskei me to go wi h ham to General —
MU2E5! 5522**• —" Df - CM ^ a! 3% £^r DO Si% td &!7rewr.u.y.
iv.vtatm ol the public Jrbt. Theyew he stttee tb* Hutchins packed dn been I submit,in this connection, the follow- J»dthe numbers pterions Stone.con- i
The Connij Convention or 1'nlion**
Purll-CoIor+cl PairlolN.
On Thursday morning at 10o’clock the re
publican county convention met at King’*
hall ob Peachtree street for the purpose of
electing delegate* to the republican state
convention, which meets in this city on tne
2lst of this month, to send delegates to the
national republican convention at < hicago
This county convention was rumpo-ed
of about sixty delegates—six
from each ward and three
from each militia district. There were pos
sibly half a dozen white members of the
convention, the negro element being fear
fully and wonderfully predominant, not
only In the matter of members but also by
reason of intense and continuous perfume.
It is a small dingy loooking hall, guiltless
of ventilation, ana the nigro bed a perfect
ly fair chance which he promptly im
proved.
The trouble began shortly after the dele
gates had taken their seats a d the hail had
put on a fringe of spectators, mostly colored
and few in number. A gentleman, whose
name we didn’t catch, nominated Mr.W. L.
Bryant’s own resolution.
Bryant moved to lay Conley’s motion on
the table.
At this, a little nigger with a tremendous
voice yelled out, “I moves to lav the mo
rion to lay on the table on the table," with
such impassioned earnestness that the en
tire convention was fairly convulsed with
laughter for ten mirmres
nearly s o’clock, and the re
porter, turning his back on the raging,
rampant, wrangling body, le t the hull.
As he reached the head of ihe steps he
glanced back just in lime to see Captain
Jackson Mclrenry, colored, spring to the
chairman’s side aud waving his hands above
the seething mass of black statesmen, t'air-
.y shrieked: “You ail got ter do
>umpen. and do i: mighty quick, for I have
•t ter have dis hall to anil tuy company
The following were the delegates and al
ternates when the reporter left: James
Tare, 44; C. C. Winhush. 4.;; W. II
Smythe, 40; J. II. Del, moth. V,7\ J. M
Jones, .W; A. II. Bate, ;«•
Alternate*: J C. She. ton,
31; A U. Bock. 32; W I.
A. La ham. 32; J E. Bryant 30
The Tiring in Krttlnl, mid Atlanta Get*,
the fcebool.
Monday morr.ffnr St-tre School Tom mi -
sioner Oir got a fehgrain from Nashville
stating that the Normal school at Nashville
will cei'tainly conic to Atlanta. This is
authentic, tire thing is atanlutelv settled,
and a grand thing it is for the gat- city
which never fails to get the best of every
thing.
Washington, April 10—I telegraphed
you last week that the Kellogg case would
be called up last Tuesday, aud so it would
have been, but for the lengthened debate on
the Indian bill. The case will certainly be
called up next Tuesday. Senator Hill will
dose the debate. The case will probably
consume the entire week, and may be run
into the next. There is a disposition, how
ever, on tiie part of some democrats to let
tiffs matter lay until after the fall election,
which is not a bad idea.
The movement to hold an anti-third term
convention in St, Louis on May f»;h, by tbc
republicans, is gaining ground and promises
to be a meeting of formidable proportions.
Neariy^aU of the northern states will be
represented. New York and Massachusetts
will l?e represented by some of the strongest
republicans in that party. The object
of the convention is to protest against the
nomination of Grant a* a nomination that
wo**Id be hurl fill to the country and fatal
to the party. The object of the convention
is not to inqxise any other man on the'party.
In resp n?e to letters inviting co-operation
at St, Louis, some of the republicans write
that they will not try to keep Grant from
the nomination, but that if he is put on
the party, they will crush him at the poll*
in November As I telegraphed yon yester
day. Grant will not be nominated. There
is no chance to harmonize, ar.d hi* best
friends will not take the responsibility of
insisting upon his nomination, with ibis
formidable split staring the party in the
face. 1 may not be a prophet, but some of
the leading u»en of Ivrth patties thii k now
ti nt Grant, will not be nominet iif, whereas
a few weeks ago they thought differentlv.
The reader* of The Constitution will
recollect that about a month ago Mr. Dar
nell, assistant Uni ed .States district attor
ney, published an open letter stating his
reasons for writing a favorable letter of
Colonel Farrow to the department oi jus
tice. In that letter he held out to the pub
lic that he was above the conspiracy to in
jure Colonel Farrow, and that a* an act of
simple justice, unsolicited by Colonel Far
row, he felt called upon as an honorable
man to state that the charges made against
Farrow were prompted because he (Farrow)
would not join the crusade against Marshal
Fi’Ziitnons; that the charges made
againet his personal and official char
acter were untrue, eic. While he pub
lished this letter he ha* been writing
letters to the attorney-general and the
treasury department, abusing Farrow and
charging bun with neglect of duty. The
occasion of a recent letter*w’as the tendered
resignation of Darnell. The result of these
letter*, taken in cuinrction with the nr*t
letter written by Darnell, ha* materially
s lengthened Farrow, and I think he will
be sptedily reappointed. It i-» viewed now
a* a family row among republicans, and ns
no charges made i-g tins! Fat row have been
sustained, they have served to help him.
Darnell’s resignation ha* not been accepted,
and it is not likely to be, as it is said Far
row is going to prefer charges agffji-t h.m
for conduct unb* c uinng an officer and gen
tleman, and that be is gu'ity of falsehood
in two or more of the letteis he has written
here. Farrow publicly proclaims his abil
ity and readiness to lix the charge on Dar
nell as snow as the investigation ;< made.
One of these letter*, signed by Darnell, is
said to be in the handwriting of a clerk in
Collector Clark’s office, which will add to
the complication.
The |N>stmaster-general has issued orders
prohibiting C-e delivery of letters addressed
toTremont spoon company alias Wildes \
Co , of Boston, on the ground that they are
conducting a fraudulent busine.ss thrnuuli
the mails For the last moiiih they have
flooded the south with their circulars.
Mr. I’at Calhoun, of Atlanta, is in the
city en route for New York.
In 4'onicr: mm.
THE IIOUsE.
tin motion of Mr. Worn! the house con
curred in the senate resolution, providing
for the appointment of two members of the
senate finance committee and the house
ways and ni?ans committee, as a joint com
mittee to take into consideration the alleged
lo?s of revenue arising from the evasion-ff
tax on cigar* and other articles subject lo
excise duty, and what remedy can be pro
vided by law.
The house then having dispense! with
the morning hour, at 12:35 went into n
com in it tee of the whole, Mr Springer in
the chair on the armv appropriation bill,
and a general debate wat cmnme<-ced upon
the amendment prohibiting the use of
troops at the polls a* a jiolice fojee.
Mr. Sparks opened the discueeion. He
called the attention of the house to ihe fact
that this identical clause bad already been
added to the appropriation lull It made
a prohibition of tiie n«e of army, on the
contingency that the appropriation should
not apply if the army were used in a cer
tain way. He had understood
that the great leaders on the other
side had acceded lo the amendment. The
vote upon the amendment I ai t-hmvn
that hut twelve republicans hud voted
against iu He confessed that the amend
ment did not meet his views. This tame,
cowardly amendment did not come up to
that stat.dtrd of legislation on the
subject that he would have wished,
and if ^ ho had the power lu
would in.-ist on somethirg much stronger
than this, and unyieldi gly insist on its
adoption. He would wipe out this un-
American. republic?!), undemocratic, vil
lainous srattile which owed its existet <:** to
ti*e inspiration of fanaticism and to an er.i
of hate. -
Mr Conger—Will the gentleman slate on
what side hste and fana leisnt was?
Mr Spark?, (not noticing the question,)
It off graces ihe statute books and iti-tilislhe
sovereign people of this country. With this,
I am done.
Mr. Conger—D ks the gentleman intend
to answer where fanaticism was?
ti r r ^F ar * is —* a,u answering ques-
Mr. Conger (sarcastically)—! will venture
to say that the gentleman may answer with-
•out being m danger of being shot on the
spot
The general debate was continued bv Mr.
Hawley of Connecticut, who twitted
the democratic party upon their
evident intention not to i,an
ticipate in the debate, sarcastically in
quiring whether it was afraid that it would
hung about the election of General (•rant,
or whether the »tentortau tones of the
whisperer of Gramercy park had prohibited
discussion.
Mr. Ifobesan, o! New Jersey, followed
with a strong HiTech in opposition to the
amendment, <■ intending that it meant that
mm ary power should not be subordinate
to civil power.
Messrs. Kiefer, Mc«’oid. Haskell and Frye
a so t-pokc against the clause aud all of
the gentlemen endeavored r.i draw
the democrat* into a debate, but they re
mained silent. Mr. Conger railed' at the
democrats for what he called their coward
ice. their paralysis, their dumbness ami
their unwillingness to debate the pending
Itiestun Wiiln.u*. action the committee
arose, and at 5:10 adjourned.
Ohio Looming l’p.
St. Louis Post-Dl*patch.
Small catt«c* have often gre.t effe-t Ws*er-
make*, no doubt unin-
entlii th * m <lH ’ b»tere»Mi*g and influ-
entiai srat • In the union Tne *»...
coostitixtfonal •mrttdmeut* remove* Indiana
* ' er of
elec-
J. 1 ™! X- vcmbffr-llk- alHtm oth“ V £?i"» «
Octooen Their influence upon
eleeflon 'v.w trern
cet»tOhi<
Indiana voted ...
the following .Vo vein I
Another Parts dispatch s
foreign flashes.
despatch to 1’
rul«te __
mission
Uttl IM.-f.-U IL«tlMIIUIlMl ll]«H *
companions.
A DISPATCH from 8t. Petersburg to the Dailv
New> says the departure of Oe eral skobeloff for
centra! Asia Is still uncertain. The opinion is
current In some circles that his movement* wi.l
depe d on the change In tiie Kuzlidi ministry.
, At the preliminary nxetingof the representa
tive* of the Irish associations in London, IiSt
ir, *7,*?^*vr* W tV fur ? c i 1 t,M *rga Izea pub-
ic rerepU.m far Mr.« has. *. Parnell <, n his a--
riial in London. All th*-Irish organizations of
the metropolis will he Invited to participate.
A Paris dispatch bishop of Anger- ha*
induced hut diocesan archbishop of Tours and nf.
ious congregations. K
Tiie Pari-correspondent of the London Times
Krapotkiac, brother of General ICr«n-
oifctue, who was as-iLssiusted by the nihilists it
Kieff, but who is himself editor of the midlist
organ, he Tocsin,’ at Geneva, has been reouest-
«<* ‘i«i«
•nrt bu «xorfin,ly m.tXto i LK
Montreux, in the canton of Vand. ^
The Widow’* Crown.
London. April 8.—Ex-Em press Eugenie
before starting for Zululand, presented her
Clark, « hue, of revenue f«n:e. as chairman, imperial crown to'the ‘eburehtf 1 **.^? ^' yer c,lre >
whereupon, another gentleman.* hoee name Itaine Des Yickories Paris, it i. r ' ? o**e u-ed
E’SS'K-SS: =S“A5ZJ.
now the only October state. If
A Novel Feature.
a5?I?wi Apr!l . 8 '~ A i P scia I from Komi
n j tac, tv taco min, say- there was a novel
feature at the municipal ejection here. ve«-
teroay SiriR V an, a native of Chin,, took
out naturalization paper, and cast ir* lirst
h.™ T ««*»»• He lias lift *1
Wri?. I- "1° jear- lias learne.1 t> rwf.i and
write l.ngluh and discarded hia-Chinese
cosmme.std . however, retaining!! aqueqn.
lie is the only one of hi. nationality in this
**roIlt, 81,-00.
TOm long years oS oed-riddrn
S ' C Jir e r ! ' , .r? ,tln, ''* 2<W 0 er .'ear, total *! M0
Wtw !»st S, "PP*<1 bv lime
8h?h?. i lI 'i? taken by my wife,
one has dnne her own housework for a vear
SSEiSfW ll;SS °' a llay ’ a*" 1 1
N\ K KVrmer kn0W for their >*nelit.”—
From lion. Andrew Corn nail.
Kx-Metnber of Legislature, New York State.
It it to Alexa . !, ? ru R»y. Jan. a, 1890.
,A?vWarner ; k Oo._U.no,: I have licen
oler hVif ,’ la *•»* yean*, and in Oj-
rommen JlT? b- T * ry *' vere «>'"<*• I <>‘en
commenced lakl.,8 your Safe Kidney an I
hi!? £'1!T “'‘ll" 1 relief at onee. I
twu hot tire and feci as well a*
con ' i ,ru 'y- A.‘cb»\WAf.L.
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