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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1S80
Lu4 PlratM.
It waa hoped that the recent decision
I of the supreme court, following the in-
I complete and inconclusive investigation
______ ] of the wild land frauds undertaken by
liabi^ASriraituaiJo'iiaai' itwtaiwxxxv'in I the legislature, woaM put a stop to the
— —,,;..ta« btodotazgcofrurel i operation of land pirates in Georgia, but
&lu ^unsfilnlinn.
The"southern cultivator.
*«w W U» ?». te-t-erib. far £» «£*»«•»
ernor Smith taking the law and contract-.' those aggressive natures that is at its best
Major Wallace the practical railroad mat- j when fighting ag^^t odds. Failing
lers, and Colonel Barnett the study of r anything else to fight, he lias frequent-
no*. Atlanta, Georgia.
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THE WEEKLY C0SSTITCTI05.
Til X GREAT SOUTHER* FAHItT PA PEE
Price *1 so per ana am.
not* of 10..,
Clnha of
The Covn. AToa ami Wekxly
id the aae addram 2 60 per annum.
Agents Wanted ererywhereUtjml cr«nln
J ■“ OOHSTITUTIOS-
Atlanta, Ga.
tfous. Addna
the Hawkinsville Dispatch has been put
in possession of facts relating to another
and quite as serious phase of the land
stealing business which has heretofore
iped exposure. The Dispatch says
that their mode of procedure is to forge
deeds and plats and grants. One of the
swindlers sold lands in the neighborhood
of Hawkinsville, took notes for the same,
and then discounted the notes to a citi-
aen of Hawkinsville for fifty cents on the
dollar, and the same person sold lots ol
IMPORTANT.
We send the Constitution and CnlU- I Und to citizens of Pulaski county that he
valor to one address tor $2.30. Thl- I ^ neTer OTra * d - Another plan ol
docs not apply to part subscription. Und ■‘“•“B “ described by the
Bolh subscriptions must be made at the | Dispatch. An unimproved lot
same time. I P°' nte< ' out to the tax collector
| and he is ordered to levy upon it for
PCBLISHEIS 1 HOTICE. I taxes. The lands are thereupon sold to
Holies the dsteatter your name on the paper. It I isfy a fraudulent fi. fa., and in this way a
ts the da. your eaheerlpdeo exptsea Renew I fraudulent! itle isobtained. Thousandsot
zszz °* i * nd •»« «*» in “»««»
——— ■ •*- 1 and southwestern Georgia to satisfy tax
executions issued against men who nsver
owned the lands, and the Dispatch says
that in some instances fi. fas. for taxis
have been issued against men, and lands
which they never owned, or claimed to
have owned, have been sold to satisfy the
executions.
In the same issne of the Dispatch, Mr.
John W. Griffin, of Dodge county, warns
the people of that section against pur
chasing lands “from parties representing
cdonotwlditocredltoat sataetiben, bntbe-
(aum our profit oe the paper ts so smmJl It wtl)
rot par uilownd the paper and collect the Mil*
lorlt afterwards.JoneSwkjtJ
J ATLANTA. GA.. MAY 4,;iHWl.
As goes Conkling «o «oe» the state.
Pbosablv it waa became Whittaker »
for Grant.
What they need at Weat Point it an im
portation of Louisiana wit
CoxcxnacM by tbe entirp deroocrath I « jj_ Dodson, and especially It. II,
la there any diaaMe that Syra | •• Daniels, who claims to bail from Ameri-
■cua.” Mr. Griflin writes to the
Dispatch that he has seen several
I batches of the titles sold by these parties,
I and that not one of them is a genuine
Das Hicx failed as a temperance lecturer | claim. Nome of the deeds and plots
cLorut:
cures?
Ms. Hisnxicxa has again declined. In
deed, Mr. Hendricks seems to he quite a
declining candidate.
but he waa not aold oat by the sheriff. If-
took gin snd sugar and the homestead.
Ir the old thing is to be worked
again, it is none loo soon for the gitte,
Nephew to gel astraddle of the rudder-
pin.
given by them have been sent to the sec-
1 retary of state, and wo may soon expect
to see the whole matter thoroughly ven
tilated
m THE CAPITAL
m. l orlnne Bay (Talma.
The decision of Lord Salisbury in the
la Mr. Blaine prepared to succumb io dis | Fortune bay case will probably lead to
in June? Aa the leader of emotions I reopening of tbe whole fisheries qnes-
Ipolitics, be cannot afford to disappoint tbe I tion. The facto of the alleged outrage in
public expectation. I Fortune hay are these: In December,
Tii* Galveston New* says that the Mexi- 1 ,877 > twenty-two fishing vessels sailed
can veteran “never grows weary of turning I fr° m Gloucester, Mass., to fish for her*
This would seem to indicate that he I ring in Fortune bay, which, under our
"up."
has joined a circus.
treaty with Great Britain, they had a
right to do. While engaged in their le
gitimate occupation they were ordered
by the Newfoundlanders to desist. The
Americans refused, whereupon they were
assailed in force,'several of their seines
were destroyed and they were driven off.
For tiiis the United Slates demanded
from Great Britain $103,000 as damages.
This government paid Great Britain
55,000,000 for the privilege of fishing in
Canadian waters, and in return it was
agreed in the Washington treaty that fish
should be admitted from Canada free of
the general principles, i object of
the law waa to prevent extortion and un
just discrimination on freights wholly
within the limits of this state.
The law requires the commission to re
vise its action at any time it may see fit,
and this provision is a just one, aa all are
abject to e-rors. Many railroad tariffs
are changed by hundreds of special rates.
The commission was not expected to be
perfect- It was intended to fix a limit,
above which no railroad should charge,
battogive ail reasonable latitude, in com
pliance with the law, below such figures.
After patient study, the "Standard”
Tariff was made, upon which all changes
have been made for different roads thus
far.
Tbe roads have full license to charge as
low as they please on passengers, but can
not go over 4 cento per mile. Delegates,
clergymen, 1,000 mile or any other tickets
can be sold at reduced rates, without any
restriction, as the commission desire to
see the people travel aa cheaply as possi
ble. The law relating to passengers '
different from that for freights. The first
circular of the commissioners was to call
on the people and the railroads for infor
mation. The commission sits as a court
hear the grievances from cor
porations or persons. H
other benefit is derived, it gives people
satisfsetion to know that there is a tribu
nal for them-to go before when not satis
fied witli the roads. It is suggested that
the railroads will be called on for farther
information soon, so as to examine more
fully into their condition, and commence
upon contracts. Suggestions aa to needed
legislation will be made later.
Yesterday the tariff was put in opera
tion, and we believe the commissioners
will be successful in their efforts
to prevent extortion and
just discrimination If the
rates pinch at any point, or on any one
article, let tbe people lay their grievance
before the commission in a proper form,
They will have a patient hearing, or
their papers a careful perusal. Let every
individual as well as each railroad try
the tariff patiently. Xo state has ever
abolished a railroad commission where
Once established, and vre feel assured that
the people of Georgia will sustain theirs
when they come to fully appreciate the
scope and extent of its labors.
Tna slalwarts in (aver of Grant are all
endeavoring to eaplain hia recant speeches
Well, well—they will be thoroughly dis
cussed when the campaign opens.
Eli Praxis* no longer adorns his lie-
with attempts at humor, but they continut
to find tavor in the jaundiced eye ot Editor
Mrdill, of Texas, late ot Chicago.
Wxare glad to learn that Postmaster
General Key wouldliketobe vice-president
The fact shows that tbe sun of conciliation
is glowing with a fierce and fiery heat.
Tnx Hon. Ephraim Holland and the gents I duties. Lord .Salisbury claims that the
who train with him seem to be in the di-1 American captains in Fortune bay were
rect line of Texas immigration. Is a wink | violating tbe laws of Newfoundland in at
*<>«•■ anything to a Cincinnati police ot-1 lea8 , two , C specto-they were setting gnd
1 putting out'seines, and hauling and tak-
Jobk K XU.V doesn’t meke profitable bar-1 jng herring on Sunday. A local law tor-
gains. Cornell to turning out all the dem-1 bids the taking of herring by seine be-
ocratic officials he can reach In New York. I tween Uie oq^ <Iay of ()ctobei . and the
John will have to improve if he expect, to 25th day of Aprili and another Uv mak£g
become president, ^ I wor t on s nnday unlawful. Lord Salis-
Tit* Edmunds boom somehow got into I bnry claims that the treaty gave the
the presence of Charles Francis Adams and I Americans no righto that would enable
was nipped in the bud. There to alway.-1 them to ignore local laws. Our govem-
•ome unhealthy symptom connected witli I men t says that this view of the
the honest republican. I wonld practically deprive ns of the privi-
Tnx New York Tribune will not be a I leges for which we have paid heavily
badly frightened about the third term after I would place a colonial act above treaty
General Grant to nominated aa it now seems I righto. As a first stop, it is likely that
to be. Indeed, the versatile editor will em I our government will send ito own ships
brece the idea and indorse the programme to protect our fishermen from mob vio-
"PiiDWowt”—The only way in which we I lenco. fowling JXew England sepators
can identify Jacobs, of Brooklyn, so that I say there are two courses then open—
you would know him when you saw him, I first, to await the time, three years hence
is to stole that he is not an Ohio republican. I when notice can be given of a desire to
The vagueness about this description to ap- terminate the treaty, which wonld termi-
parent only. . I „ate it July, 1885; or second, what is
GAXniLo to really in ikednmps. He has I more radical and to the point, togive no-
aold our his stock-in-trade as a revenue re-1 tice at once that the United States holds
former, and to obliged to pretend that he is Great Britain to have violated the treaty
in favor of John Sherman for presMent It and> thcrefoWi t!ie United Slate9 n ' t
must be humiliating to Garfield, who is I i nntw >, ;# ... „ . .
really a man of brail*, to play second fid- . ,f » but Wl11 P"*** 1 rc *
2T2 j 0 ZT P 7 »*P«* dotiea on fish and let ito fish-
w * • I ermen go on as they did before the treaty
Tn* Ohio delegation will he for John 1 of Washington.
Sherman, but the fact remains that be is I ”
not popular enough in hia own state to pre-1 p ****** *"
▼ent a Maine senator of disreputable polili-1 . ^ eva awan * fuml blH uken
cal habits from dividing the convention I up “ the senate on Wednesday of last
with him. This ought to put an end to the I w . • ant * disposed of. Mr. Hill voted
John Sherman business. | a K alns t the claims of the insurance com-
— I panies to the fnnd. General Gordon was
Sixes Bill Kemble, of l’h.lsdelphia. has ab8e nt. Mr. Hill voted for the indefinite
been -nienced to jml. no republican to poetponementof the bill, the result being,
safe. The strict administration of justice | v ,. aa 3I n , v> ^ fj
would place the democrats in full pones
alon of tbe country and necessitate the
levying of a direct tax to increase the ca
pacity of the jails.
yeas 31 1 nays 28. General Gordon was
not present when the decisive vote on
this much-discussed question was taken,
but he voted in the affirmative when the
yeas and nays were called ota a motion to
Tux petition that went on to Sherman ]ay the motion on the table to reconsider
from Georgia read, ••Send on your «*., the vote by which the bill was indefi-
man. Whereupon,John's wise misnnder-1 ,
standing rent then, Bateman. It was all - ,
very well, as far aa it went, but some of the I j, 1>r0p08,tl0n *°
delegates prolroled agairut two-doll.r I araC, 1 ul 11 tl ‘ e rid< * r on ,lle arra y a PI>ropria-
lunches, and squealed too soon. | t,on blU b >' add '“S ® proviso imposing a
Micuioax pay. berVrernor a thoumnd ’T.?'“ y i*” 011 ** lo ® ho "' d
dollars a year, and he has to feed and clothe I ■ y weapon at the polls of a
himself. We mention this for the informs e0n 8 res8l0na > electron, both of the Geor-
liou of the Hon. l’otipliar Peagreen, of g,a 8cn * tora voted in the negative. The
Georgia, who lias been fur several yean en-1 Amendment was rejected. All other
deavoringtosoarrangemattenibatourstate I amendments were rejected, and the bill
officials shall be compelled by law to serve I was passed by a party vote.
without pay. I Mr. Garfield moved in the house that
Coxkmxo turns his back on Blaine when I ^ r * Downey’s poem be referred to the
the latter speaks He treated Nprsgue with f committee on rules with iUstructions
the same coolness, but Sprague saw a good I to report whether it should be-
deal more of Conkling's coat-tails than has I come a part of the permanent Kecord.
been vouchsafed to Blaine. Take it all in I Upon this motion, which was carried,
all, our politics are like a bob tail tomcat— I Messrs. Cook, Felton and
a perpetual surprise even to those who have voted “ay;” Messrs. Blount, Xicbolla and
* b * nd »bem. I Stephens voted “no,” and Messrs. Per-
Ttttax to one fact the democracy seems I ®°ns. Smith and Speer did not vote. The
to have lost sight of. The candidate for I object ot Mr. Garfield's resolution is to
vice-president must be a good fisherman. I define the extent of printing speeches
He must be aapable of going off snd sitting I that were never delivered. Mr. Stephens
behind arockforweekssnd weeks at a time. I presented the petition of a large nnmbcr
This to the way Mr. William Almon j 0 f scientists in favor of the metric sys-
Wheeler has earned bis money and made I t em _
his reputation as s statesman. In the house, last Friday, Mr. Ham-
Tux Cincinnati Enquirer says-Conkling I mond, from the committee pn theju-
would make a strong candidate. Troe. It to diriary, called np the bill to authorize
reckoned that the amount of energy he dto ,he registration of trade-marks, and
played in getting out of Rhode Island last made a Iong gpeech on thc 9abject . ^
* **" D hUnJred honsc AJjonroEd before • vote .« token
thousmtd dollar gratn elevator to mo, sec-1 on the bi „ Mr Sieholb presented a me-
oncto. It has been aptly described as a
shuttle, a jerk, and a disappearance. Strong?
Well, we should smile.
morial of over one thousand citizens
of Tatnall, Liberty, Bryan and Bullock
counties, asking for the passage of a bill
to survey the Canoochee river. He also
“Tna Coxxmrttos," remarks a republi
can exchange, alluding to something or. . . ..... . . —. ,
other that .ppeared in there columns, ’due » NBI toappropna»e »5,000for
“the wrong row by the ear.” Very well. ,he ,arve - v of the ^vannah nver below
We care nothing about the sex of the con-1 Augusta.
cent. It to acknowledged to be a hog. and So Georgia bills were introduced last
that is sufficient. Give us the name of an I Monday. Mr. Persons presented a peti-
animal and we will tell you its politics.
Old man Townsend is putting on airs
now,but how does be know that be wouldn't
have mutilated Whittaker if the opportu-
tion of the citizen* of Georgia for the re
moval of the duty on salt, and Mr. Ste
phens presented a large number of me
morials in relation to the metric system.
nity had presented itself? Boats must be I In the senate the SpofTord-Kellogg case
sawed and—according to the rules of the I was discussed, Mr. Hill taking an active
military school—colored cadets most be 1 part in the warm debate that sprang np
marked with a .walloW-Iork in the left ear over the alleged Sutler agreement. The
and an under-bit to the right. Mr. Town- Georgia senator maintained hia cus-
rend s beat plan to to put the officers on the tomart a^r^ivenoM, and showed that
auod and then make a campaign tn favor h# T „ j ua5Uar wilh every bruch of
of reform.
thee
Tbe Rrport ox tne Railroad <
In to-day’s CoxsTrttmox will be found
Wxare emphatically in favor of the ag
ricultural bureau, but we should hesitate
to ure Man argument the (act that a Urge
sum to collected under tbe auepicee of tbe i . . . ,
eommmdoner in theahapeof gUnoirntpre- * he , firs » ***** °* t ^L n>U
tion fre*. Thaanm thus oollroted amounts ^ ““»**.on to thego venter of Geor-
in the Tery nature ot things to a tax upon I S'*- E*-Governor J. M. Smith, Major
the farmers, and iropotuibtlity therefor i, I Campbell W alUce and Colonel Namnel
with the legtolature. We do not desire to Barnett, commissioners, organized No
ire the bureau handicapped by being made I vember 10,1870, by electing ex-Goveraor
ireponaibie for this tax, however necereary J Smith chairman and Robert A. Bacon
aacb a tax may be. secretary. They divided labors, Got-
Wind and Weather Problems.
March and April are the cyclone
months. The weather-wise tell us that
during these months the tropical cur
rents from the Mexican gulf and country
are engaged in a series of struggles with
the polar currents that come down front
the ltocky mountains or the ice-bound
lakes. In some years these struggles are
not very severe, but in others the efforts
of nature to establish a thermal equili
brinm are attended lty disastrous storms
in which the air is transformed in
vapor-laden whirling demons of destrue
dion. This aerial warfare is a matter
great uncertainty and variable condi
tions. Sometimes the dangerous currents
sweep over a Urge stretch of country.
The tornadoes that carried death
and ruin to central portions of the
gulf and south Atlantic states a few years
ago, are illustrations that the people
Georgia can easily recall. The Marsh
field storm was of a similar nature,
first gathered headway in^Ozark connty.
A rkansas, and traveled in a northeasterly
direction across Missouri, Illinois and
portion ol Wisconsin to waste ito force on
the broad surface of Lake Michigan. Its
track was narrow, but its strength and
velocity were fearful. It touched the
earth’s surface here and there, rebound
ing to again dip down, sweeping ever
thing before it. It was, say all who saw
it, a black, funnel-shaped cloud, lined
with white iDside, whirling witli incon
ceivable rapidity, accompanied with
thunder and lightning, and generally with
sheets ot rain, sucking everything into
vortex, and whirling it oat again over the
edges of* its demoniacial funnel. It was
far more powerful than any other storm
of the season, aUhongh ever since the
fourth of last month the northwest has
been subjected to dangerous winds and
tornadoes.
But all of tlie season's storms have not
been of a sweeping nature. The one
which destroyed Macon, Mississippi,
Sunday night seems to have been of local
origin and career. The day, says one
correspondent, “had been unusually
cloudy and snltry, and at about half past
eight o’clock on Sunday night two ter
rible currents of air, one from the north
east, the other from the southwest, bear
ing clonds charged with electricity, were
hurled together right over the ill-fated
town. It was a war of storms.’'
The Macon storm did not differ
from the Marshfield storm except
the respect that the one swept over
large section, while the other struck the
little town of Macon and was never heard
of again. The conflicting currents cante
in each case from similar directions.
The scientists differ about the imme
diate future. Some think that condi
tions exist—the snows and extreme cold
oi the northwest and ihennusttal heat of
the gulf of Mexico—that will produce
in this country more displays of storm-
energy and many more torrential rains.
But as the snows are now confined to the
Rocky mountains and the very high lands
above Dacotah, it is probable that the
balance of this year’s crop of tornadoes
will be expended on the country west of
theMississippi. The currents will certain-
ly hare to acquire a new direction if they
wreak destruction in the Atlantic states.
Heavy rains and high winds may, how
ever, be expected as offshoots or eddies
of the dangerous currents that seem
be necessary in order to reach a thermal
compromise between the cold of the
Rockies and the heats of the golf.
England’* Slew Rnlera.
The new English cabinet is a very
strong one. At its head is the uncrowned
king of England, while the liberal leader
in the house of lords is the secretary of
state for foreign affairs, and the leader
the lower house is the secretary of state
for India. These appointments alone
a sufficient guaranty that the entire cabi
net will be made up of the best men that
the liberals can master and that
it will be able to com
mand a majority on all important
questions in the house of commons.
For the present the strength of the new
ministry will be measured by Mr. Glad
stone’s remarkable popalarity; bntas the
disgust over Beaconsfield’s policy dies
oat, and the enthusiasm over Mr. Glad
stone’s mental achievements vanishes,
the acts and propositions of the cabinet
will begin to be weighed carefnllv, and
the party in power will be put upon
merits. And right here Mr. Gladstone’!
varied experience will come
his assistance. Let ns glance at his long
career. He was first sent to parliament
in 1832, while the fight over the reform
bill was at its height, and presently came
to be regarded as a “rising young man.'
It was on this ground that Sir Robert
Peel appointed him jnnior lord of the
treasury in ’34, and sdvanbed him to be
under secretary of the colonies a few
months later. Then, Sir R. Peel's brief
administration ended, Mr. Gladstom
who was re-elected—had an opportunity
of showing that he was even stronger
the opposition than he had been in the
government. This characteristic has
stood by him bis lib long. Be is one
ly fought his own party, his earnestm
as a reformer keeping him always ahead
of the body of his associates. Tbe son of
a “warm” merchant of Liverpool, a baro
net, he was brought up to believe in tory
principles; but this belief weakened as
his mind matured. In 1851 he formally
attached himself to the liberal party.
Following this change of base—in July,
1852, when Lord Aberdeen formed his
“coalition” cabinet—he was made chan
cellor of the exchequer; a position that
he also held for a short time in Lord
Palmerston’s first ministry and to which
he was again appointed when Lord Pal
merston took office for the second
time, in 1859. During this period he sat
the university of Oxford, being con-
tinuously returned thence from 1817 nn-
1865. In tbe latter year he was de
feated in his old constituency, but was
returned from south Lancashire. Lord
Palmerston died in October, 1865. Mr.
iadstone succeeded him as leader of
the house of commons. He was now ap
proaching what has hitherto been re
garded the culminating point of his ca
reer. In 1S66 he brought in a reform
bill. This bill was defeated, and the gov
ernment resigned, and so it fell out that
Lord Beaconsfield’s reform bill—against
which Mr. Gladstone fought bitterly—
was passed. But Mr. Gladstone’s triumph
was not lost; it was only delayed. In the
early part of the session of1868hebrouglit
a series of resolutions having for their
object the disestablishment and diaen-
dowment of the Irish church. Lord Bea
consfield’s ministry was out-voted in the
conlmons, but the lords held their
ground. Then came the appeal to thc
country. The general election ot 1868
placed the liberals in power, and Mr.
Gladstone, the head of the party,
was made premier. Tbe series of
great reforms effected during that notable
parliament are still fresh in the public
mind—tbe disestablishment of the Irish
church, the abolition of purchase in the
army, the passage of the elementary edu
cation, judicature and ballot acts, the ne
gotiation of the treaty of Washington and
the settlement of the Alabama claims by
arbilration were among the results of Mr.
Gladstone's administration. Indeed, lie
pressed reform so fast that the nation be
came alarmed. When he brought in his
Irish university education bill a stand
was made. The Catholic members of the
liberal party voted with the opposition,
and the government was defeated by a
rote of 287 to 284. Mr. Gladstone at
once resigned, and the queen very gladly
accepted his resignation and sent for Mr.
Disraeli; but as he declined to take
office, the cabinet was somewhat
rerncdcled and was continued near
ly a year longer—until January,
1874. Then came the sudden announce
ment of a general election; followed by a
most decisive defeat. Mr. Gladstone
himself was re-elected, but rarely occu
pied his seat in the house of commons;
and the ensuing year he published, in a
letter to Lord Granville, his formal re
nunciation of the leadership of the lib
eral party. Bnt the gods dispose in these
matters: Mr. Gladstone no more conld
resign his leadership than he could be
restrained from possessing it by the per
sonal animosity oi the queen. Over his
own declared desire to keep ont of public
life, over the undoubted desire of the
queen to keep him oat of office, he
once more is at the head of the liberal
party, and the liberal party once more is
in power.
Tk« Sera them Cultivator. } some for General Sherman. I thought there
The Southern Cultivator for May appears was somebody fooling them niggers in At-
1 lanta, n.aklng em believe it was old Tecump
., . ... .,. .. i that was a running. The way the radical
acnbenanU the public generally a cheap p^rty tools the darkeys reminds me of old A STATEMENT FOR MR. STEPHSNS
and pleesant substitute for the various and John Medlln. He was a sharp old shoe-
sundry picnics that now seem to threaten 1 maker and loved whisky and had more
■ ways of getting a dram without paying for
THE GRAND CHAPTER.
the counfry. The Cultivator opens «
usual with the familiar talks of the editor 1 go ne and his promises not worth a
to his readers comprising suggestions in re- I cent There was a new grocery opened
gird to the work to be done upon the farm I t ® wn \ * n( * 80 rae * n *
TT -^: .I. JT' - i,„ 1 dered round, and seeing some ginger-cakes
during the current month. The agncultu-] on the shelf he Dricrd etQt Atx % mid he
ral department, among other things, con-1 would take one. The feller laid it down on
tains an essay on the cultivation of sngar J the counter and John handled it awhile,
____ __ \ and asked turn how he sold whisky. “Five
cane, an article on cotton culture, on j ^ a drink « n M he. So John asked
proper utilisation ol labor, on agricultural | \ „ t ^ e b iC k the ginger-cake and give
experiments, on testing soils and manures, | b n some whisky, which, of coune. he did,
on feennud* grass hay, and on various
other .object, of practical and permanent I out. When“tbe‘ feiler reminded
vairfeto the southern farmer. The other I him that he hadn’t paid for the liquor,
departments are full. The inqui-1 John looked at him like he was a>tomshed.
department specially main . “I gi™ yon tbe ginger rake for the whUky"
...... . j • , . ^ I said he indignantly. “But you didn’t pnv
tains its interest, and, in order to make it for the gf^er cake," said tbe feller. “Why
still more complete, the editor invites sug-! you've got your girger cake,” sa ; d John,
gestiori*;inquiries, and answers to questions 1 “ihere jt is on your shelf right where you
that may appear. It ia his desire to make Zm™ ° Ut mU,tering *"
the department a sort of middle ground I i wonder when them yankees will learn
where the farmers may meet to compare I any rensc about the nigger. Don’t they
know white foils are not going to mix
.... .. _ . . .. ■ with em. Haven't they tried it in hotels
able to say that the Cultivator is meeting I ant j railroads an d churches Didn’t thev
with renewed favor in all parts of the south. 1 pass all sorts of laws to make u* mix and
Published by The Coxstitctioh nt $1.501 *behr own people were the first to break em?
per annum.
Phil Cook’s Defease of the People of the Ninth
District—The Culture of Csrp—The Ex
travagance of the Chinese C m-
mission—Other News.
nessee, though he lias not yet tendered him j — w
the position. Notwithstandit g the preju- proceedings of the Secona uaj
dice that met his entrance to ihe caoiuet, I Session,
the postmaster general is to day the most I ve*terdav morning at
generally popular man in the president’s | This body met yestemay moro^b ^
official family, and his resignation will be I o'clock. The minutes of the pre<*ai g y
regretted more than that of any other man. I were read. The special committeetoi w
It is stated that General Tyner will be ten-1 w as referred the application of certom e-
dered the postmaster-generalship, but this j linquent chapters tor restoration, repo
is ecarcely true, as it would * J * ’ * *
Wasiiisotox, May 1.—Mr. Stephens says
that in justice to him I should make an
addition to my recent declaration that
ministers from Indiana,
who declined the naval ponl
r.Jssass satfStK
ered exactly the thing to have two cauiucA ■ cnapter, nv -- ---v* _
1 Eugene Hale, I chapter,atGiwnesboro, whichwtuadoptecu
on folio at ihe 1 The hour ot 11 o clock having A
who declined me naval piruono ni Tne nour oi iku ,
commencement of the present admin- I special order being the election of tne grmi
istration, is also spoken of, but it officers, was takeni up and resulted, asioi
is stated at the white-house that the I lows: J.W. Oslin. M.lS. Grand High Fnes ,
„ i succcssorship of Judge Key has not l c. E. Lambdjn, K. E.,D. G. H. PnestW.■ •
General Gordon was in no way concerned J y et been seriously considered Judge Key I pollard, K. E. Grand King; W._A. t^rana ,
in giving me the information upon which I to day telegraphed to a prominent Tennes- I R. E. Grand Scribe; Jj»cp« ■J* p Grand
«*«« based ** republican that if the president offered I Qnmd Treasurer; J. K Blacksliear, L. orana
my telegram toTuxCoOTirrcTtox was based th< _ ^ ltkm he thou ., lt h J, thou(d acW r,t. secretary; Caleb W. Key E. Grand Chap-
in regard to what occurred between them | Thc present said to-day that it would be I l a in;’C. iL Freeman, E. Grand TYlerv
in the census committee room. He desires 1 difficult to find as good a man as Judge Key I The committee on finance maae a repo
it stated that S-nator Gordon told me that for the position lie now occupied, and that it showed the financial condino o
« nVwtl * n e;.ii v correct. 1 h ® hated l* art w,th hin >- f >der the law I grand chapter to be good, me report ««
my telegram was .ubstantially coTrec | Judge Baxter, of the United States circuit I adopted. - rennrt in
Such is a fact I telegraphed you the de- I court, can hold terms of the district court ] Tne committee on relief made a
bate between these gentlemen over the I unt l the end of the present administra- I reference to Rockwell chapter, recomrn -
CtK&v nvittpr Mr Stftihens teleeranhed I tion, and as the president is so desirous of I j n g that said chapter be relievea oy re -
Casey matter. Mr. Stephens teiegrapww hQ ^ 0|Bc5al famU tog ether ti „g certain arrearages The
you my report was untrue, | untU h ® re tifies from cilice, Mr. Key's ap-1 motion, pos’paned until the next convoca
UNCLE REMUS’S FOLK-LORE.
The Rabbit and the Bear.
"Dalr voi one season,” said Uncie Remus, pull-
If they want to make West Pointers and
midshipmen out of era why don't they es
tablish branches of that business and keep
em separate. That’s the way we do down
here. Tbe niggers don’t go to school with
tbe white folks. They don’t want to and
we wouldn’t let em if they did. Mr.
Beecher may preach about tbe horrible out-
.... . ., ,, . , _ _ _ i dctcuct may preacu uuoui lue hoiiioiouui,-
ins tbonzblfully at hta wMskara. “a’cn Brer Fox u „ doo i£, bnt he r „ ach social
»y tojblarc’f dat he .peck ha better whirl tn en I e(lua l, ry with the niggers at West Point
pleatja goober patch, ca tn dem days, mon.
“ z tech en go. Be wad weru’t mo'n outs
uf ’fo’ de groun’ ’uz brak’d up en de goob-
Tiik voluntary retirement of Mr. Biom t
from congress at the eud of the term
which he is now serving out, will be con
sidered a misfortune in every section of
the state. He leaves congress just when
he, a young man, could be most useful
in it We claim, indeed, that a man with
his rapacity for public employment, and
with his knowledge of public affairs, has
no right to decline further service while
he is in the enjoyment of good health.
His district will do the whole state, and
for that matter, tbe country a service by
compelling him to serve in the house in
which he has won an enviable reputation
No man need desire a wider field than
the lower house has afforded Mr. Blount
His letter, addressed to the Macon Tele
graph, shows that he has no sufficient
ground for declining a re-election. He
simply says:
Numerous solicitations that I should consent to
become a candidate for the nomloaffui for tbe
47lo congress have been received by me. Frank-
nesa to a constituency which has so frequently
honored me with a seat in the house of represen-
tatirta of the United States, suattests that I should
take thi- open method of replying. I shall nor be a
candidate, but a co-worker with the democratic
party in securing the election ol en acceptable
successor to myself. For the past honors which
have been bestowed upon me. my heart shall ever
turn in grateful recognition to the people ol the
Cth congressional district
The sermon of the Rev.T. DeWitt Tal-
mage on southern affairs appears in this
morning’s Constitution’, the crowded
state of the paper during the past week
precluding an earlier publication. The
sermon was delivered in his own church
immediately after the distinguished
preacher returned from his southern
visit. We lay the entire discourse before
ottr readers, becanse it is in direct con
trast with thc speeches and articles of
many who have visited the south with
sinister motives. Dr. Talmage’s utter
ances breathe the true spirit of Chris
tianity and patriotism. If all who visit
the south would come with motives as
disinterested as his, and would ever after
wards tell the truth as heroically as he
has, discord would be little known in the
future, and peace and fraternity wonld
be speedily restored,
Mn. Sherman is paying off the public
debt very rapidly, the reduction for April
slightly exceeding twelve millions. The
wily secretary is managing the treasury
books so that they will doubtless show
similar favorable balance on the first day
of June. He will not be apt to care
what they show on the first of July, and
then the truth will come out. At pres
ent his shooters are carrying the im
pression that their chief should receive
as much credit on account of the reduc
tions in the public debt as he could ex
pect if he took the money out of hisown
pocket.
Dun dispatches state that a bottle has
been picked up, containing a few lines
from the ill-fated training ship Atalanta.
If this bottle was thrown into the sea by
one of the doomed crew, the ship went
down on the sixteenth of March in
hurricane. She was a heavy-plated ves
sel exactly alike the Earydicc that went
down iD the channel with a loss of 400
lives. The Atalanta set sail from the Ber
mudas on February 7th for England,
having 300 young seamen on board be^
sides its regular crew. Not a word of
news has since been heard from this ves
sel unless the bottle just picked np con
tained some.
Blaine has gobbled np the entire Pa
cific coast, and is now free to apply all
his energies to the half dozen of interior
states that bold conventions next week.
It is only about a month to the meeting
of the Chicago convention, and the tri
angular contest among the republicans
will get hotter and more uncertain as
approaches.
The Pennsylvania mod Connecticut
conventions have resulted substantially
in favor of Mr. Tiiden. General Hancock
is a Pennsylvanian, and the fail ore of his
friends to give him tbe solid vote ol his
native state must be fatal to hia boom.
Tbe sage of Grammercy park is now on
deck.
nor atty other point. Mr. Beecher aitit the
ntan lo regulate society nohow. He lives
_ _ in a glass house. He may throw liis stones
planted. Ole Brer Rabbit, he sot off eu I around at his own folks, but we dont want
de motto -s, be did, en ho sorter shet one I hint to be stinging em down here. Them
congressmen who are making all that fuss
about Whitaker dont care a cent about
him. They are just howling for votes—
tooling the nigger again. Poor darkey; be
hasentgot but one friend, and thals his old
master. Thirteen thousand emigrants
landed in New York last week, and all of
:m gone west—nary one come south—afraid
if tbe nigger—dont want to mix with hint.
Some of em got tired of the Mis-
shsippi swamps last year and tried
(sing to fib ch 11 luns;
Ti-yi! Tungzlec!
Ural tna i “ ’ *
I pick nm c
m pc*.
P^orkvuq’. lilt grow aoIre©,
Ti-yi! dem gooberpra.’
“Sho* ’nufl* vr’en de goobers ’gun tei ripen up,
eve’y time Brer Fox go down ter his patch, he
fine urhar somebody bin grabblin’ ’mongst de
vines, en he git mighty mad. He sorter speck
who de somebody is, but old Brer Rabbit he cov- _ _ „ .. _
his tracks ao cute dat Brer Fox duuner how I to find homes higher up. but found nobody
ter ketch’lm. Bimeby, one day Brer Fox take a to give em welcome—nobody standing at
walk all roun’ de gmou’-pca patch, en ’twan’t the gat® with an nmbrel—no phaton at the
iong’to’he fine a crack in de fence whar de rail depot-ro reception comroif.ee-nonoth-
donebinrabrtght^veenrigbtdar beset’ire ami
trap. He tuck a ben down a hick rj saplin „, av j don ’ t c!lre whether they do or not.
growin’ in de fence cronderca tie onceen una rve learned to chop my own wood and -
plow lino on de top, eu in de udder I catch my own boree and black my own
he fix a loop-knot, cn dat he I boots, but when there’s a darkey about I
fasten wid a trigger right in de crack. Kex’ I make him do it, just to keep him reminded
mawein’w'en ole Brer Babbit come Elippiu’ ’long I »hat I’m the bo*s of the premises and the
en crope thoo de crack, de loop-knot kotch ’im I color line ain’t wiped out yet. law or no
behimede fo’legs en de rapliu’ flew’d up, en dar I * aw - ^ ours, Bill Am*,
he waz twlx’ de heaven cn de yeth. Dar he I
The Georgia Ilnptfat Convention,
The5S:h annual convention of the Bap-
sts of Georgia closed its session in Savan-
txh on Monday last. This session will long
be remembered by all who were present,
and it was a full meeting, over ’AK) delegates
being present. A turn tv ary of the results
of the session will not be inappropriate.
tion. Senator Gordon remarked that my I few days of that period
telegram purporting togive what transpired n Ir^idSmtoudcred lo Poslm.
between these gentlemen, was substantially 0(neraI Kcy thc notion of district i
correct- This was after the matter was I Q f the eastern and middle districts of Ten-1 regular convocation. ^ ..
made public, aud Mr. Stephens had de-1 nessee, made vacant by the death of Judge | After the transaction of ^ Jock
niaue puoiii, F Trigg. The postmaster-general accepted, I busings, the grand chapter, at 4 o ciock
me “ . I and his nomination will be sent to the sen-1 p m., closed until its next annual con\o<a-
The radicals are striving to make capital I ft »ejust before the adj ramment of congress. I non. ^ .. -
out of tbe resistance to revenue officials in I Nothing was said about his successor, but it I At the meeting of the Grand Council oi
Georgia, by the moonsniners. The— tbe S,^,n^ t w 1 ^ ,C e r fec°«r r «
sioner of revenue has issued orders declaring I I 8U i n „ year: Charles R. Armstrong, Macon,
war to the teeth against the illicit distillers. I \v. c. Dougla**. A. M. Cxrwood, J. O 1 k. L G. Master; William J. Pollard, Au-
Fonr mounted companies will be imrnedi- Hart. W. G. Bowman D. L. Williams ami gusts, D. G Master; TfroniaaBalfrmtyng
. i . .... . 1 tn mmintRiM of A. C. MonJay have been appointed More- I Sivannah, P. C. of the Work, Jrewira r*.
ately organ ztdto scour the mountains of I keepers and p, u . e „ for ti ' e s | xtI , Jforth I Wells, Mawn, Gr^.Treasurer; Andrew M.
north Georgia, break up the stills, and cap-1 Carolina district. I Wolihin, Albany, Gr. Recorder; Hiram
ture those engaged in the unlawful traffic. I I Middlebrook, Columbus, Gr. C. of tlu*
YoRterdav the hou<«e was considering the I The president this afternoon sent to the I Guard; Charles T. Watson, Atlanta, ur.
Yesterday thebot.se was constaering tne fo||owjng nami , mjans . Zlc |„. Slewa ^ ; Charles II. Freeman, Alacon, Gr.
revision of the revenue laws, and ^“ en 4 1 nah B. Hargrove, tnistmaster at Kouie, I Sentinel. . _
came to fix the taxon liquor several south-I Georgia; William W. Jenkins, postmaster I The grand chapter of the state of Georgia
em members offered amendments looking I at Charlotte, North Carolina. I which adjourned yesterday, after fioimng a
to reduction of the tax and exempting a 1 . --- - | session of two day, m Attan^ tojneet
swung, cn he fear’d be gwinter fall, en he fear’d
he vrer’n’t gvrineter fall. Wiles bevruz a fixln’
up a tale fer Brer Fox. he hear a lumberin’ down
de road, en pre-enfy yer cum ole Brer B’ar am
blln* ’long fum whar he bin takin’ a bee-tree.
Brer Rabbit, he hail ’im:
•“Howdy, Brer B’ar!’ | of the seision will not be inappropi
"Brer B’ar, he look’roun’ en bimeby be see I The convention relinquished the stand
Brer Rabbit swingin’ lam de sapliu’, en he holler I irg committee on aged ministers fund and
turned over thelnatter to the different as
sociations in thc state.
ihe relations between the orphans home
and the convention were dissolved. A com
mittee consisting of John II. James. J. K.
Brown and others, was appointed to sell
tbe home and turn over the assets to Mer-
out:
Heyo, Brer Rabbit! How you coma on dis
mawnin'7” -
Much oblije, I’m middllu’. Brer B’ar,’ s-
Brer Rabbit, sczec.
Den Brer B’ar, he ax Brer Rabbit w’at he doin'
np dar in de elements, en Brer Rabbit, he up’n
say bearskin* dullerminnit Brer B’ar, he say
how. Brer Rabbit say he keepln’crowsout’n Bxer I si tnary magazine, w’ith Itev. G. A Xunnnl
Fox’sgroua'-pea patch, en den he ax Brer B’ar I ly, as editor. Some 2,000 subscribers were
ef he don’t wanter make dollar minuit, kaze he I pledged to begin with. #
got big famb'.y er chilluos fer ter take kcer 1 The reports evidenced that contributions
en ded he make sech nice skeer- f “ r missions under the new p'at reached
crow. Brer B’ar ’low dat he take de job, en •! neJr| y dou
den Brer Rabbit show ’im how ter ben’ down de M ^ r " er ‘ h u J,'iveLu y S 5 and ril the
saplin’, en’twan’t long’to’Brer B’ar wnzrwing othcr edncational instituiio.t
in'np dar In Brer Rabbit’s place. OenBrerRab-1 der tbe control of the denomination,
bit, he put out fer Brer Fox’s house, en w'en he I were reported to be in a ffourishijg condi-
got dar he sing out: I tion.
'Brer Fox! Oh, Brer Fox! Come out yer, Brer I Both Mercer university and the Southern
Fox, en I’ll show you de minvr'at bin stcalin’ I Baptist theological seminary at Louisville,
yo’goobers.’ I ^y . received striking tes inionials of the
Brer Fox, be grab up his walkin’-sUck. e n I confidence of the body- , .
. , ’ ., ,. ao, ^„rerara. I The reports of the committee on state
bote un um went ruuuio back down ter de goo- reH jon ‘ a „j of lhe S unday-sch.«.l work
bcr-|iatch,en Wen dej got dar. sho null, dar wuz I a |„ rge and gratifying increase
ole Brer B’ar. I numbers and interest.
•Oh. yes! yoaerkotch’d, is you?’ sez Brer Fox, I The c invention elected ninety-five dele-
en’fo’Brer B’ar could ’splain, • Brer Rabbit he I gates to the Southern Baptist convention, '*
jump up en down en holler out: I being*erititled to that number by reason
Uifimindemouf, Brer Fox; hit ’im iu de ( the large amount contributed to mbsions.
mouf;’ en Brer Fox, he draw’d back wid dt I The Christian Index was warmly indorsed.
w nays oi tnai perioa. i The joint committee on the
Later—At the cabinet meeting this after I of merging the council and royal aren
‘ Tostmaster- gr ees reported, recommending: actioni oi>
judge I that subject be postponed unt.l the next-
‘ Ki ml his maiden I tion to vacate ihe order of Justice 1 . -- - ^ , ,
‘ - r ,Tav in behalf of his bill u> ex- I approving the indemnity bond and the pe I guests gave their word for it that they had
8 revenue mx Bouoradisrilled I titioo of suret ies on theapiieal bond of the never sat down to a handsomer table and
irt? ann'c-R and fruit** raised bv I Western North Carolina railroad company I ?i>ent an evening of greater pleasure. We
MSS!ThJm^ HoDictured for an order to cancel the bond, were ar- are glad _ that they are one and all pleased
walkin’-canc, en blip he tuck ’im, en cve'y Ume
Brer B’ar’d try ter splaiu, Brer Fox’d thower
daemon him.
**WJes all dis ’uz gwine on, Brer Rabbi*-, he I
slip off en git in a mud-hole eu des lef his eyes |
slickin’ out, kaze he kuow’d dat Brer B’ar’d be |
a cornin’ atter ’im. Sho null*, bimeby here come
Brer B’ar down de road, cn w’en he git ter de
mud-hole, he say:
Howdy, Brer Frog; is you seed Brer Babbit j
go by yerr
He des gone by,’ sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man
B’ar tuck off down de road like a sktxr’d mule, en
Brer Babbit, he come outen dry hisse'f in de snn,
en go home to his fambly same cz enny udder I
a.”
The Bear didn’t catch the Rabbit then?" in- |
quired the little boy sleepily.
The committee on decerned mini ters re-
poried the death of fifteen minister* since
the last meeting—the largest mortuary re
port yet presented, being \ X A l>cr cent.
S. A. Burney was re-elected treasurer.
Athens was selected as the next place of
meeting.
J. C. O. Black was elected president of the
Baptist historical society.
Savannah sustained her ecknowledged
reputation for hospitality, and the mem
bers of the convention returned home
proud of the “city by the sea."
BLOUNT MUST STAY
Right Where he is, In the Public
(Service*
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Maco$, April R0.—Pursuant to the call
published this morning, a large meeting
i Special dispatch to Thc Constitution. I again next year at Macon, was m many
certain amount of liquor from the opera-J The following decisions in southern cases ] respects the finest body of
tiona of the revenue law. A republican I were rendered by the United States supreme I Georgians that we hhve seen gathered to-
leraber read a newspaper article reilecting I court to-day: gether in some time. Among the n*un« ol
« thfr ninth district I Thomas J. HoUingsworth vs. John T. I delegates in attendance upon the meeting
m the people of the ninth Geor^ ad st . I p|i|lf ef a , Fronl the United States circuit I we notice some of the leading residents oi
accusing them of murder, robbery, arson, I wurt ^ western district of Texas. Judgment the state. This being so, it was not at all
etc., in connection with the violation of I affirmed with cost®. I surprising to sec the brilliant and handsome
the revenue laws of the country. The I W. S. Hu»n*cutt, etal vs John B Peyton. I manner in which these delegates were en-
K “ visofl rtaL F.om United States circuit cuii-t, for 1 tertained by Mount Zion chapter di
member from the ninth, Mr. bi , I the western district of Texas. Judgment I their visit to Atlanta. That they were
on a pleasure trip, but gallant I hil. Cook I re versed, and cause remanded for a new I pleased with their treatment and the proa-
replied to the charge. He administered a I trial. - I perous condition of the gate city, we have
rphnke tn the men who were trying I Fierro Yougue vs. Emery, Clapp et al. | only their word for it. borne oftlieueie-
to make nolitical catiital out* ol I From the United Slates circuit courtforthc I gates who had not been here in years past.
L ^ and ^SontntW and district of Louisiana. Decree affirmed with were much surprised to see the advance-
thA matter. and elooueniiy ana | i A||j|nta and ber business inleresm..
AntiAeTiaio lie denounced I American cotton tie company vs. John | They had only seen Atlanta in-ito cbila-
^^k^d fSre Jnd hU^ A. K ein et al. From the United States hood, ami were surprised to find how rap-
ne-u manner earned conviction to the minds I circuit court f«»r the district of Louisiana. I idly it had grown in the past few years.
cTl is S Judgment affirmed by a divided court. During their stay here the delegates wave
tikA nrriKUN and sat down amidst round> I bmteof New Hampshire vs. Smteof Lou-1 entertained in the best possible manner by
Aiminiise' Anv Georgian would have I isiana. Motion to file cross-bill granted I Mt. Zion chapter, and everything done to
hAAn*immd nf General Cook and his speech I an< l subpiena directed to issue, returnable I convert each drowsy moment into one ef
« P aTnow the ^rde of thSth on the first Monday in AngusU bright and sparkling enjoyment.. The ban-
will thank him for bis timely defense I In liie Florida railroad casra to day, a mo-1 quet g.ven them was goiton up in the best
Hon.Henry Persons made his maiden | tion to vacate the order of Justice Bradley, | style that can imagined, andaome of the
speech yesterday in behalf of hia bill t
empt from re 11 ~ At -
[pUrrwi.o'dteUt.-.h.^ H« Pictured I toj-an order to cance. the bond, .ere - | aregt- ,, ^ 8umc : entat .
the oppreanve ttxai'on oo ,b « fan >>« b I tr ctions exist in the city to warrant their
surnlu, fruit demonstrated that it was I Special dispatch to Thc ConsUtntion. 1 ' arty return. As it is a settled tact that ttie
gurploatrult. ana ueinonstrateu The nresidenthaa uar.lnned for eo,si Is. chapter will meet the cmmiut year in Ma-
havi^r P i?M^ . con. we will have to com,.remise the mat-
ratherthaa let ItTeni rot under the tree's. I court martial ten.nice'of two years in the I !® r , b >' havln « 11 nlcet 1, ® rB tb ® - vear fjlluw '
Conger replied to him. and the high tariff I Texas state prison at San Antonio. Max- I
members voted down his bill. I well was formerly a secret service detective, I
The culture cf tlie carptisb has proven I and afterwards second lreuteiunt of ihe I iinici.v a-nn««o».
successful. Some of them in the Alonu I Twentieth infantry. I Genuine Hop Bitters are put up in square
ment grounds Weigh ten and twelve poi"Hte. I J paneled, anibtr-colored hot tlei", with white
Tbe two year olds afe nine and ten ilich» I Washington, April 2!)—Private advictsl iaitel on one side printeti in black letters,
long. There are (estimated) oVcr a half rail I received here front New York throw a good I and green hop cluster, and on the other side
lion of these fish in that pond. This ts the I deal of light o*< the democratic situation in | yellow paper with red letters; revenue
same specieis of lidi that were distributed I that state. They are to the effect _ib*t il?e I stamp over the cork. This is the only
in Atlanta last fall by the State agricultural I anti-Tilden men have made up their minds I f rm in which genuine Hop Bitters are put
department, thesame having beeu furnish- I that the pafty shall be united in favor of I and the sole right to make, sell, and use them
ed by Professor Baird. I any nomination that may be made at Cin-1 is granted to the Hop Bitters Manufacturing
Hun. Jno. C. Nichoi’a will leave for home I cinnati Prominent leaders of the Tam-1 Co , of Rochester, N. Y„ and Toronto, Ont..
in a few days to attend sortie important I many faction say they are Willing to go I by patents, copyright and trade mark. All
cases in which he is engaged. C. H. W. I with Kelly in his fight against Tilden’e I others put up in any other way or by any
I nomination, but beyond that they will not I one else, claiming to be like it or pretena-
W A81H5GTON, April 28—There have been I go. They are for harmonious and united I inp to contain hops, by whatever names
i irood deal of speculating as to who would I action *»» the campaign that will follow I they may be called, arc bogus and unfit for
igooaaeaiot.i»TCuiaunbM raw o w the convenlion and thcy wil , not permit use; and only put up to sell and cheat the
be appointed district attorney for Georgia. I Kelly to stand in the way; the wtaie of New I people on the credit aud |M>pularity of Hop
I believe that l am in possession of correct I York must give its vote to the democratic | Bitters,
information, and that is that Farrow posi I ticket, and nothing in the shape of personal
.ill h« ptrtnrvrttntpil hnt that I shall prevent it. If Tiiden shall be
lively will not be reappointed, but <»at I choiceo f the democratic uaiional con-
Bigby will. I notice in f ns Cokstitction I vention he will receive the support of tlie
that Farrow has been appointed ad interim. I democrats of New York. It is even said by
This will hold until his successor ■« a P re W K0 . rkiB S w j'»
. , . , ... . _ , _ I TVmmany that Kelly will endanger his
pointed, which will be shortly. I supremacy, and even bis membership in
the honse to-day the I that organization, should he stand oat
committee having charge of thc I against the wishes of the national democ-
district tax hi" reported it to the house foi I r, j^j e Kellopa election contest ha, been
consideration. In the district are a largo I sc j aside for the present to give way to the
number of private schools and colleges, the I Indian appropriation bill. It is said that,
al
Remus, by way of reply. “I ain’t got no time fer |
ter be aeUia’ yer proppin yo’ cyc-leds open.”
"Jump up fum dar, honey!" exclaimed Uncle I composed of thc best and most influential
1 c?» ; zens of Bibb county, assembled in the
superior court room to-night
to indorse the course oi Hon. James
H. Blount, member of congress from this
district, with a view to inducing him to
reconsider his determination, recently pub
lished, of retiring from tne public service
at the close of his present term. Tlie char
acter and standing of those who comjiosed
the meeting ought to be sufficient to over-
BILL ARP DESCANTS
Catholic school buildings being particularly I before final action is taken by t he senate,
ihe bill taxed 1 IShif«ni I ^ff«^ovefttolrtrenyeanwlth sktn dlwase tn
, .j, I deliver tn defense of bis title to the seat, will I my bands and limits, causing constant irritation,
all school buildings, and was urged by the I pitch into the record of Senator Ban Hill, of I depriving me of rest and attention lo busloeM
committee. Mr IB’.ount took the floor sgiinst I Georgia. A senator said this morning he I sought many remedies here and elsewhere, i
tt, and ins speech ot stew moments sue- I (‘“[j bt ’ ea informed tbnt Mr. Kellogg had I
ceded in whtpping the fight. Herald the ‘J of’HSg
public school system of the district had I it. It is understood that Mr. Kellogg’s I causing at letfarth impaired sighu Internal and
seriously interfered with the private schools I reason for doing this is that Mr. Hillat-1 «J^wU^^teMireropiwrfhed by slecttmt
and it was ns Utile as congress could ’lo to I ^t'liS/r^T.tto^uVia.’r 8 ” 8 °’ H another, irad a consultation of sevcnd^U^lDg
exempt ail property used for educational ‘"The^mnUtm^weslS in New York l Z}£7o?.
purposes from taxation. A large number I and in the New England states is strikingly I lowing advice for four months without any per-
of teachers afterwards paid their respects to ’*^S, W Jh«w *SmI'SSMS'S& STSSi
Mr. Blount and thanked him for his effort .V/t WS 'S&t
i their behalf. I ties. The savings banks of Massachusetts I days being nearly cured. Tbe phyeleians pro-
The treasury department has received and New York snd Win. H. Vanderbilt Uonn^ my ^ the m«t rivaled one tost
Upon tbe Keccnt Sermon of Brother
Talmsgf, and Other Subjects.
Written for The Constitution.
Better late than never, but it does seem | come any ordinary reasons which prompt
tome Brother Talmage has been a long I '* r - Blount in retiring. *
Tbe meet-
time finding out we were a good people I j b f Hq *“ l ^Whittle to the^ha^
down here. Fifteen years is about suffi-1 a nd Hon. R. A. Nisbet, secretary. A series
cient for a scholar lo learn all about the I of highly complimentary, resolutions were
whole world and the rest of mankind in- by ll "j nll ™aZrd IZiertou.
eluding Asia and Afnca and the Zuloos, I w i 1Q warmly indorsed the public career ot
but we’ve been living right here almost in I the member from the sixth; in which be
sight of the tabernacle. Brother Talmage I was frequently applauded by the large au’
has been over to Europe and come back | xlience.
begins to take some interest
The Southern Baptist Convention.
The Southern Baptist convention, which
.net in Atlanta last year, convenes in ses
sion this year at Lexington, Kentucky, on
! Thursday next. A special train will leave
Atlanta Wednesday at 3 o’clock for Isl
ington, following immediately behind the
regular passenger train for Chattanooga.
This train will be made np of passenger
in us. I’m glad of it. He talks splendid
ly and I enjoyed it. He is doing us justice.
One time there* was a man who had a wild
boy, and one Cold night he told him to go
out to the wood pile and bring in a back
log to put on »l»e fire. Tne boy went, but
he never came back In a hurry. He took
shin ss a sailor and went siluvvr the world „ ....
and was cone fifteen year-, but he came h o{ , he Cincinnati Southern railroad
borne one cold night, and looking through I d in be puUed byone of ,he maxnifi.
the window saw the old roan at prayers 1 - - •• — •
So he hunted round the wood pile aud
shouldered a big stick, and when prayer:
were over he walked in, and says he, “Dad
dy, here’s that back log you sent me after.”
Bro. Talmage has brought in the back log
at last, but we might have froze to
death several times awaiting on him. Our
northern brethren are mighty slow scholars.
Every year or so some one or two of em
come down to make a recognisance and
they go back and say we are all right-
great people—splendid people, have been
slandered awfully and so-fortb, and right
straight we hold up our heads and wag our
toils just like a dog when he gets a kii.d
word from his master. Mr. Beecher come
dowq, and Dr. Vincent come down, and
General Grant come down, and General
feherman and several others, and they go
back and say, “boys there’s no harm in them
a.■■ .1 .AHih ihan arn all riohf " hnt
fellera down «outh—they are all right,” but
bless my soul nobody believes em, and we
have got to enlighten em one st s time just
like we did Brother Talmage, and its going
to take two or three thousand years to do it.
Bro. Talmage made the best talk for us
that’s been made, snd tbere’ssomecomfortin
iMhougb I dou’t see as how it’s going to do
us any particular good. We want our
rights. We want our crippled soldiers snd
soldiers' widows pensioned just like them
on the other side, srd I want some great
man like Dr. Talmage to get up on a stomp
and say it ought to be done. 1 ve said it
before, and I’m going to keep saying it,
there ain’t agoing to oe any real peace un
til we are put np on an equality with ’em
in every respect. When an old man makes a
will and cots out some of the children it
always breaks up the pence in that family,
and tkongb they may compromise like Bill
Vanderbilt did with Neil and his sisters,
it don’t restore psternal harmony by no
means. We are sorter like tbe niggers in
tbe Atlanta convention. Wc want onr
shared Uncle Sam’s property. They can't
S ut ns off with a little lorg delayed praise.
Ir Talmage savs tbe north has not done
os justice. We'll, that's so: but we want to
know about wbat time they will do it.
There was a darkey in the calaboose and he
sent for Judge Underwood and told him
what be was putin there for, and ihe judge
•aid: “Well, Jack, they cau't put you in
here for that. Its against the law.’- “Is
dat so. Mss John,’* said Jack “Iis so.
Jack,” said the judge, “ihey can t put you
in here for that. "But I is in here now,”
siysJsck. "Mss John, shore as you’re born
I uia here right now.”
Somehow 1 can't help thinking of thi
sort of things whether they fit np exactly
or not. Old Iran I sain came to me the
other day and wanted to know when con
gress was going to do anythiog for the col
ored man. He said he had been voting for
em evei since the war and they had prom
ised to do something but they dident do
narv thing. Said be had done give up the
mule and the 40 acres of land but that the
white folks was getting garden seed from
Washington and they Indent sent any to
him, I told him that the darseys had
as well quit expecting anything more
they already got. for this was a white
man’s ountry and them white
foilry up yonder was a fooling of
»m I told him how they d me that darkey
at West Point and advised biro to let poll-'
tics alone. When I a«ked him who he
wanted for president, he said some of em
wxa gwine to vote for General Grant and men.
cent locomotives of ttiat line. This train
will reach Lexington on Thursday morning
at 6 o’clock.
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Ticknor. one of
tbe trustees of tbe theological seminary of
Louisville, accompanied by his son, pa-sed
through Atlanta on his way to Lexington,
where he goes for the purpose of attend.ng
the convention. The Georgia delegation
will doubilesi go by special train on
Wednesday. The Cincinnati Southern dis
plays a good deal of enterprise in sending a
srxeial train to Atlanta. The arrival and
departure of thU train will attract consider-
ab'e interest in this city, as it will be the
first full train of passenger coaches of the
rincinna’i Southern ever seen in this sec
tion.
Pennsylvania Democracy.
Resolved. 1. That we, the democratic p
Pennsylvania in convention assembled,
our vows ol fidelity to the fundamental
pies proclaimed and practised by the illu
men who settled our free institutions and
founded the democratic party and protected and
preserved them. ....
•J. Thai the Just powers of the federal union,
rights o r the states, and the liberties of the people
are vital ports of one harmonious system, and to
rave each part in its whole constitutional vigor is
to "save the life of the nation.’’
?m That tbe democratic party maintain?-, u it
ever has maintained, that the rai itaryare nnd
ought to be in all thiugs subordinate to the civil
authority. It denied, as it ever has denied, the
right of*the federal administration to keep on
foot at the general expense a standing army
to invade tbe states for political purposes without
regard to the constitution* restrictions, to con
trol the people at thep >lli protect and encour
age the fraudulent counts*r v oti*. or to inangu-
rate candidal. ■ rejected by the majority.
4. That tbe right to a free ballot iq the right cf
preservative of all rights and the only means of a
peacefuly redressing grievances and reforming
abuses. Tbe presence at the polls of a regular
military force and ol hosts of hireling officials
claiming power to arrest and imprison citizens
without* warrant or hearing destroys all free
dom of elections and upturns jhc vtry foundation
of se f-government. We call
cUlzms to aid us in preserving
ui< __ _ institutions
from' destruction by these imperial methods of
superrurine tbe right of suffrage and coercing
popular will; in keeping the way to the ballot
box open and free, as it was to our fathers; in
removing the army V> a safe distance when the
people assemble to express their sovereign pleas
ure at tbe p oils, and in securing obedience to
their will when legally expressed by their votes.
5. That Rutherford B. Hayes having been
placed in power against the well known and le
gaily expressed will of the people Is tfce repre
sentative of con«piracjr and his claim of right to
surround tbe ballot boxes with troops and depu
ty marshals to intimidate aud obstruct eleuto-s,
snd hi* unprecedented use of the veto to main
tain this, is an insult and menace to the country.
d. That tbe democratic party, as of old. favors
the constitutional currency of gold and silver and
paper convertible into coin.
7. That we are opposed to the system of subsi
dies by the general government aud to the ap
propriations of public moneys or credit to any ob
ject bnt the public service.
g. That the democratic party renews it* ex-
prerrion of sympathy with tabor and it* promise
of protection to its rights.
9. That wo look with alarm upon the pr
lion* of the great transportation compjntoL and
until they accept the cons iration of IKK. in
good iaitn. thev should remain the object* of toe
utmost vigilance and jealousy by both the
larare and the people.
JO. Relates to local affaire.
11. That ihe great fraud of by which,
upon a false count of the electoral vote* of three
states, the candidate defeated at the polls was
sealed in the presidential chair, was ihe most
deadly blow ever aimed at our system of repre
sentative government. Tne necessity of rebu
king that great wrong Imposes a more sacred
duty upon the people of the union than was ever
addressed to the consciences of a nation of free-
(uticura
BLOOD AND SKIN
REMEDIES.
Spain, that the Spanish government has I ascertained, more than one-half of thi ns
issued orders prohibiting the importation I tional debt, all of which is non-taxahle, is
into that country of swine and their meats I ^ ew York and New England capi-
from the United States on account of I At the cabinet meeting to-day the were-
trichina:. It is probable this will have a I tary of the treasury read statements show-
tendency to make bacon cheaper. I ing the financial condition of the treasury.
The Massachusetts press ssrocistign »U *?>, SSMSSaSL^
• 1 “"“'' r, ,. present month will aggregate $10,000,000 to oqm«nen-i ti.T#
.ted Washington. They are a good looking. [ &2.000.000. _ l irtK finSn? romS? ttSSt^ ttS
until I began the nae of the Cun-
jolly set of fellows, but most of them
An official communication to congress j
January 24, 1879.
skin Tumor
For 20 Years Entirely Cared*
Mcssr*. Weeks & Potter: Gentlemen—I have
Humor for twenty years,
remedy or treatment that
rived to take part in the spring races, com
mencing early next month.
Senator Ailiron, republican, attempted to |
re-pects to the president in a body. Several I ^^^pi^^^csr^of’lSTS—Firet*’quarter I ^^7^o^ 1 '^^^io 1 re 1, ^Stevc 'they^ilu’do
female editors accompanied the party, but I $0,849 231.75. second quarter $7,404 0S4 30; I ySalfrertiae themtodo. ^ ™ 7 Ul
they were lean ^ind Ugly. I total $14.253,310 05. 1870—First, quarter* t,
Yesterday a couple ot race horses froT If l?f•’T*’ 20 ' 2 05 '’
. n u-n i *> * -r, I total $14,442,215 01. 1880—First quarter
Atlenta, Ben Hill and Round Dance, ar-1 $7,588,875.55. ?ccond quarter $8,301,00057;
totol $15,050,482.12. The amount of postage
stamps, 8tani]>ed envelopes and |>ostal cards
issued to postmasters upon requisition dur-
ing nine months ended March 31, 1880, was
put a rider on a military bill, requiring the I $23,!ff!>.335.82, being an increase over the _ ^ ^
president each year to appoint two negroes I amount issued during tbe corresponding I ne»lL*of ioour yesra’ duration!*aatf which had
to West Point as cadets. Mr. Maxey ob- of * h f. previous fecal year of *
. . . _ 4 . . I $3.010 002 1 j, or a little over 14 tier cent,
jectal, aa the law gives the president ten The returns from ninety-eight principal
appointments, and he was at liberty to ao-1 offices—those in which the free delivery
point all of them negroes if he desired. I system is in operation—show an increase in
This amendment was^voted down. A num- j lulonUis^ended^MarelfaMast of 13 03 per
cent as compared with thc sales for the cor
responding nine months of the previous
ber of army officers were not very compli
mentary in their allusions to Mr. Allison I
Respectfully yours, JOS. W. ESTABROOK.
Ikuuju, July 2,1879.
scalFhead
For Four Yearn Fared.
Mrs. A. Swift. Everett, Mav., writes: “Tho
Ccticcra Remedies cured my child of Fcald
Head, covering the scalp and lower part of the
neck, of four years’ duration, r — — * *~ * —
slsted all the usual remedies.’’
THE CUTICURA SYSTEM
Or Treating Kntnon of the Blood,
Skin and Scalp witli Loss of
Hair.
and the republican party for this effort to I ***** J ear *
force negroes in West Point.
Cadet Andrews, who, in his testimony I
before the Whittaker investigation at West I
Point admitted that he was prejudiced I
against the negro as a class, and did not want I
GLITTERING GOLD.
skin, the natural purifiers of the bodfy. Next, to
heal every external evidence of dlrease and re-
*itore the beauty, whitenesa aud freshness of the
Skin and quantity and quality of the Hair. Cur-
Tbe Wild Hunt Tor Vein* and Nugget*’
Gainesville Eagle.
While there is never a week or hardly a ,.„ waMre .
to fall into ranks with colored cadets is from I day that one cannqi hear or see something I ncys and i-kin of every trace of blood'
Indiana; hii fat her is a preacher and a pro- I about the wonderful gold deposits that lie 1 vlgoratca the brain and nervous foiccs an<]
nounccd republican. Andrews’s testimony I around and about us, almost at our very I 11
led a number of republican papers to assert doors, yet it is rarely that we have so much I f^^^JJrebt-it^ulcera iSSi anTduiSKr-
that he was from the south. It seetns that J interest and excitement as in the last few I Ing wounds, allays inflammation, itching and tr
ail of the prejudice against the negro is not | days. Of course like everything else that is I riution. and heal*, it is the aweetest, cleanest and
alone to be found in the south, but that in I commonly talked of, we hear it until it be-1 beat Hair «rau>rer and Beautlfier In the world.
Indiana, the place to which the negro i» I comes au old song, but two or three weeks I SESSfJ^JailiiJ^andfortSe tSSetTbrthaSd
now "rxodnsting,” white people are pain-1 ago when a man came through Gainesville, I nursery. Is unrtvall-d. It and the Cuncona
fully sensitive cn the subject. land drawing his silk handerchief out I Shaviko cJoae, the first and only medicinal aoap
General Hancock is here and will be con-1 of his pocket, unwound it from around I prepared expressly for khavlng, are prepared from
suited in regard to the contemplated aboli-1 a chunk of bright yellow gold about ■ ttrTIC “
tion of the department of We->t Point and I the sha{>e and size of a small trout fish, and
its restoration to its former condition. This I said it was picked up by the side of a small
will aas'gn General Schofield to another | branch near his house, and that a hatful of
post, in case the plan receives the approval I smaller nuggets bad been picked up there
of the president I in a day or two, then people rubbed their
I eyes and made several remarks. The news
Washington. April 30. —It is safe to tele-1 WBa . Poieedabroad, and the result has been
graph you that Collector Atkins, of the'l a P i ncreaae d activity and mtensined ex
port of Savannah, will not be reappointed ciiemeut on the subject of mines, claims,
It is understood here that Atkins applied I “Oda, rttk
to be reappointed some weeks ago. and that I , a y the town was full of strange
he was then told that he would not be. I Every hack, saddle horse and vehi-
I am unable to learn who wants the I . e ln were pre«ed into service to
place, but I think any republi- I transport.tb e eager and excited crowoi that
icura Resolvent U cathartic, diuretl?, resolvent
il absorbent. It purifies the blood, liver, kid-
” * - * on*, in-
CUTICURA REMEDIES
ror Blood, Hkla sod Mcalp Humors
of influence in Georgia will apply I wer ? rostiing to where wealth wta Wing
-» • | scattered around^in boulders to_ be bad for
in time to prevent a democrat fairing I f
heir to it. In this connection it is rumored tfcl 5 P ,ck, "*“P’ Three hack loads of
— - and capitalists went to Dahlonetra to
prospect, arid look after interests whicu
that a number of changes will be made in
the collector*tijoffice in Savannah at an early
day. No special reason is alleged for the
change, bui from what I consider good au
thority, I am led to believe some of the
shining lights will be called upon to hunt
new places.
Hammond’s speech on the trade-mark bill
gained him a complete victory. The com
mittee reporting the bill, said
the amendments to it were not
those of the committee, but of Mr. Ham
mond. The opponents of the bill cited this
fact, and urged that the committee did not
agree with Mr. Hammond, but notwith
standing. the bill as amended by Hammond
pa sed by a decided and large majority.
This serves to show how strong Mr. Ham
mond is with tbe house.
Telegrams from New Hampshire report
the state as anti-Grant. Senator Logan, who
has returned from Illinois, announces that
after a conference witli Grant be is able to
state that Grant is in tbe bands of his
friends, and that they will not with
draw him until be is beaten, no
matter bow many ballots are
taken. It is conceded that Grant is de
featedin Maryland, and that8bermar* will
have that state. Mermen will have
eighteen delegates from North Carolina
Tbe anti-tbir I-termers are at work, but it
matters not who ia nominated by the repub
licans, a democratic victory is m store for
the country.
Postmaster-General Key will leave the
cabinet. The president has decided to ap
point him to the vacant judgeship in Teo-
tbey already had there. Two hack leads
went to Nacoocbee valley where the big
find alluded to above had been made.
Among these was the Messrs. Luimden, of
Macon, father and brother of the young nren
wbo had struck it so rich, and who are in
terested in the mines.
Altogether there is a boom in mines,
mining lands and interests in this vicin
ity. Messrs. Van Bleck & Son, who are here
representing a substantial mining company
are making large and profitable purchases
Others are doing likewise.
There is no sort of doubt that this sec tion
is as rich in gold denosilsas the Black hills,
or any other of the famous sections which
have passed into the history of the country.
It is ta-iy of access too, and unless we are
much mistaken the next ten years will see
every valley and hillside alive with men
delving deep in the bowels of the earth
for tbe precious metals that lie buried be
neath its aurfaec.
The DeahTbat*not the Jfan.
Syracuse Herald.
The nation now posoeare* Thomas Jefferson’s
writing desk, hut we lookarouud in vain fora
Thomas Jefferson.
Better Times.
The business rev.val and new era of pros
perity which is n.*w fairly inaugurated, is
in keeping with the increased health and
happiness seen all over tbe land, and is one
of tne results obtained from the introduc
tion of Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure. “Tbe changes wrought by this rem-
edy.'* says Rev. Dr. Harvey, “seem but lit
tle less than miraculous.”
58 febl—d24m sun wed fri <&w24m 3c*p
street,
and b
V — Druga..^. .
SO cents; large boxes,
containing two and one half times the quantity
of small. $1. Resolvent, tl per bottle. Cert-
ccea Mu>rcrsal Toilet foat. 25 cents. Cutt-
ctra Medicinal Sraviso 8oap. 15cents; in bars
for Barbers and large consumers, SO cents.
COLLINS*. VOLTAIC PLASTERS
Instantly relieve Pain, Soreness and Weakness.
451 apr21—dly wed snn Awkyly nx rd mat B
(i8S!IPE%
&IffER s
Fortify the System
ten, which renders digestion eiy and
counteracts biliotune* 8 . and keens wSi? 4^
order, and so genial and beaefiSnt