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T±Lti WEEKLY CONSTil' UTION: ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1881.
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ATLANTA, GA , MAY 31. 1881.
Remark by LeDuc:
“ken.”
* My teacup is bro-
Wm Whittaker** ear* as long as bia trial
there would be no question of his repnbli
canUm. .
Remark by Platt—**I came, I saw and
Conk, beard.” (Loud applause under the
counter.)
Thx trouble between the republican fac
tion is like a circus performance in Texas;
somebody is bound to get hurt.
Tax New York boas declares that be pro
poses to pull Platt through. The question
is, will Platt’s suspenders stand the strain?
Samson’* strength was in his own hair.
The strength of the Hon Sitting Bull and
Li Jtribe searns to lie in somebody else'a
hair. B
Job* Slice*a*’* favorite brand of ioe
water is deodorised alcohol. John's tem
Iterance principles stick out even in pri
vate
Tsa republican procession in Albany
would loss iia chief attraction if old man
Sprague should saunter into the village
with a shot- gun on his shoulder.
Is Iowa getting her full share of offices?
Iowa, it will be remembered, la the state
where democrats are not allowed to vote
until all tba republican ballots are counted.
The ax is a good deal of evidence going to
show that the local Ohio statesmen are di
vided on the Conkling affair. As we have
aaid before, the Ohio man, however bumble
his sphere, has viewr.
The rumors in regard to the health of Mr.
Blaine would seem to indicate that, like a
cat, he fights best on his back. This la
also one of the characteristics of old Zip
Coon. m
Why is it that the genuine New Eogland
yankees haven’t got sense enough to sell
their rock quarries and come to Georgia,
where lend is cheap and fertile? There
must be a screw loose somewhere.
Tux moat surprising thing about the
health of Atlanta is that itsbould be healthy
for people who send off telegrams so reck
lessly worded as to convey the impression
that an epidemic of some aort is raging
here.
Mr. Conk lino waa ones known as the
Adonis of the senate. But all is changed.
A man who la compelled to atop and pull
out a javelin that has been hurled under
his coat-tails cannot cut a very graceful
figure.
••Let us cover as with a mantle for a mo*
“raent,” says the Washington Republican,
-the sad reflections which arise in the breast
of every stalwart republican.” Is this a
general order to the party to put on its pan
taloons?
Tiie esteemed Macon Repository of Be
lated Information appears to be of the
opinion that there are already too many
railroads. What our esteemed contempo
rary wants is a coach painted yellow and
drawn by two bob tail hone*. President
Cole will please pause in his wild career of
giving Macon another road.
Larks deliberative bodies seem to be
gravitating towards Atlanta. Daring the
past week the southern Presbyterians
and the planters of the Mississippi valley
deckled to hold their next conventions
in this city. The educators of the coun
try are coming in Jnly, and in October
the Georgia editors, 120 strong, will be
on hand. All are welcome—the more
the mcirier.
The Tennessee funding bill has been
enjoined from carrying out the new
funding law, which provides for an ex
tension of the entire debt of the state to
99 years, the whole being put in at par
and bearing three per cent interest.
This settlement was in every respect a
desirable one, and it is not probable that
the courts will make the temporary in
junction permanent.
The Mexican congress seems to be
ready to grant all the railroad charters
that America waqts. Captain Kads,
General Grant and the eastern combina
tion have each got one or are soon to
have one. The people of Mexico are
altogether willing that the people of this
conntry should have the amplest facili
ties for spending American money on
Mexican soil, and charters are granted to
all applicants.
The Montgomery Advertiser and many
other papers, including some in the state,
are publishing a stupid story relative to
the health of Atlanta. It is needle
say that this story was not set afloat by
the aaraiated press. It is sufficient to
say that there is not a case of scarlet
fever in the city—no epidemic of any
kind—and that the city is surprisingly
healthy, although it contains more filth
than two such cities should.
The Bnxxi case, which engages the at
tention of both this and the Spanish
government, grows ont of the naturali
zation at IUltimo e of one Pietro D. Buz-
si, who owned large estates in Cuba.
Them estates were confiscated in 1870,
and Boxxi as an American citizen claims
damages of the Spanish government to
the amount of $500,(kW. The !*pi
government claims that Buxxi was not
properly naturalized, that he had not
lived in this country long enough to be
come a citizen, and Mr. Blaine is inclined
to hold that no foreign government has
a right to go behind the judgments of
our conns of record in such cases.
The Stale Fair.
The Cojnrmrc-nox has received from
Dr. H. H. Cary, general superintendent,
a copy of the premium list of the Georgia
state fair, to be held in Macon, beginning
on the 17th of October and continuing
one week. The list of premiums is large
and liberal, and well calculated to excite
competition. Its early publication is an
excellent idea, for thoee who desire to
exhibit articles bow have an opportunity
to lie thoroughly informed. Premium
lists will be sent on application to the
secretary. Colonel K. C. Grier, at Macon.
We trust and believe that the fair will
be a success. The grounds at Macon are
the moat complete and comfortable to be
found in the country, and constitute an
attraction not to be ignored. Arrange
ments have been made with the
railroads for the transportation of arti
cles intended for exhibition for one fare,
and arrangements have also been made
for reduced passenger rates.
In addition to the official premiums,
there are a number of special premiums
offered by enterprising merchants and
others. ^The programme has been arrang
ed'so that daring four days of the week,
visitors will have an opportunity of wit
nessing both trotting and running races.
A Lmwn in Ornlihola«r.
The lecture which Judge Bleckley pro
poses to deliver in Rome is entitled
u Many and Mach.” The following par
agraph, relating to ornithology, we have
been permitted to print in advance. As
the humming-bird might say to the flow
er, however, it is a mere taste:
Many bird* of many kinds. W* are not bur
dened witb one ooloreal bird. All flesh under
feathers is not pot up in a stifle package,
fowl of such dimensions would fill Ylojd county
and kava no room for tba openuhouse. It would
be in the way—:.* much bird! Neither are birds,
aay mere than mei . a!!»like The law of differ
ence and variety is applied t y be Creator to all
things but two-apace and time. Naturalists, 1
have beard or read, compote more than four
thousand xlndsof birds, of those beautiful lift:*
creatures called bumming birds, which look
like poetry on wings, there are
to be 4SS varieties, and all ti
In America—not ooe In any other quarter of the
globe. The borne of the humming bird ought to
be the favorite haunt of the muses, and there, H
anywhere, ought to flourish poets and painters,
and great masters In every art pertaining to
beauty, whether in the department of thought,
form, a lor or sound. Lawyers dream over open-
air poetry, and then class it with tarns material;
not being property It has no standing in court If,
in mixed terms of law and art. I defined a hum
ming bird, I would call it a poetic idea In a wild
stale and a great hurry In a flower-cup rifling
the heart of a nower, this bird (s the emeu
beauty tasting the gnlnteawnce of sweetness.
Ttie Alina la and Alabama Railroad
Cenpaay.
A strong company was organized yes
terday, aa will be seen by proceedings
published in another column, to build a
road from Atlanta to Birmingham, Ala
bama, under the charter granted by the
last legislature. A strong company, com-
|tosed of citizens of Atlanta, Colombia,
S. C, Richmond, Va., and New York,
are hacking this company, and while only
five hundred thousand dollars was sub
scribed yesterday, the amount necessary
to organize under the charter, all the
money required to build the road and
equip it in first class style is at hand and
ready to be used. Our citizens may
congratulate themselves that men
who have never failed in any undertaking
have this road in hand, and we promise
that it prill be finished to Birmingham
just as soon as any road can be built that
distance. The road will not conflict with
Colonel Cole’s system, nor with General
Gordon’s Georgia Western. The impor
tance of this line is so great that we are
not surprised to find so many rival com
panies trying to penetrate this territory.
A distinguished railroad man said not
long ago that a railroad from Atlanta
to Birmingham, Ala., wonld be tbe best
payirg road in the United States. When
we consider the various products along
tbe line of gold, iron, coal,
copper, cotton, corn, wheat and
timber, it will be seen that the
local bnsiuess will be immense, besides
this, the Southern Pacific will be finished
6oon, and regular trips all the year round,
from the Mississippi to the Pacific over
this line, will bring freight and passengers
from the western world to build an outlet
through the south and to the South At
lantic ports. These new lines are reach
ing out to resume this business. The
Atlanta and Alabama will, when it is
finished, be a new link in the Richmond
and Danville combination.
Colonel Thomas Hardeman, represent
ing the interests of tbe International
cotton exposition, addressed tbe mem
bers of the Memphis cotton exchange
last Tuesday, setting forth the scope and
purposes of the exposition. He ex
plained that the object was not the
development of Atlanta or Georgia, bnt
tbe development of all the states of the
south, and of southern interests A
committee of five members of the Mem
phis cotton exchange was appointed to
consider the propriety of taking some of
tbe expoeition bonds. This may or
may not be found desirable, bat it is to
be hoped that the sure of Tennessee
will be represented by an exhibit calcu
lated to advertise Lex wonderful rtaour-
The Health or Atlanta.
The following telegram, purporting to
be from Atlant.«, is just now having a
wide circulation in onr exchanges. In
its latest and most approved shape it is
headed, ”An Epidemic in Georgia:
Atlanta, Mat 23.—Nearly all the children
have been withdrawn from the schools here on
account of sa epidemic which began by carrying
off Mr. Perkins, wife, and three children. In thir-
ty-tx hours, eighteen physicians declare it to
be scarlet fever and ooe yedow fever.
Whether this telegram emanates from
one who is intent upon injuring Atlanta
and is using a casual connection with
the press to do so, or whether it is mere
ly the resalt of a desire to improvise a
sensation, is a question hardly worth
considering. The resalt is the same in
either cas?. It is impossible for Tux
Constitution or the citizens of Atlanta
to keep pace with the inventions of those
who seem to consider it their duty to
provide sensations for newspapers at a
as the testimony of the principal physi
cians attest tbe unusual healthfnlness of
the season. So far as yellow fever is
concerned, it has been definitely settled
that the disease cannot originate in this
climate.
It is an easy matter to correct the glar
ing miarep resen tationa of the telegram
which we have quoted, so far as our own
people are concerned, but it is not by
any means an easy matter to correct a
statement-which has been picked np by
the press of the conntry as a sensation;
nor is it an easy matter to keep track of
the reckless statements of irresponsible
persons which may be sent forth to-day
or to-morrow, or any day when there is
the slightest excuse for manufacturing a
sensation.
The scrutln de liste bill that Gambetta
has pushed through the French assembly,
revolutionizes the electoral system of
France, because it takes the right of
electing deputies from the arrondisse-
ments, or districts, and transfers it to the
departments. All the deputies of a de
partment are to be massed on cne ticket
A French department is something like
one of our states, except that it is gov
erned by a prefect appointed by the
central government. The mode of elec
tion will annihilate the power of the ec
centric districts that have heretofore
chosen legitimist or Bonapartist depu
ties. It will consolidate the republic—
and perhaps the power of tbe great
French bosses, and the new chamber,
which is to be chosen next July, is to be
selected in accordance with its provisons.
There is not a department that the ene
mies of the republio can control. Great
is Gambetta.
Tins Irish land bill on a test vote in
the house of commons was approved by
a vote of 352 to 176; but still the paa
of the bill is delayed by speeches and
amendments, and the end is not in sight.
The bill ia really a compromise. It does
not satisfy the land league, and it is very
obnoxious to the landlord class, who con
sider it the beginning of widespread land
agitations. The former say it is not bet
ter than the inoperative act of 1870, and
the latter pronounce it an act of confisca
tion. Tbe bill will nndonbtedly go to
the house of lords without material
amendment, but the action of the lords
upon it may require an appoal to the
country. Altogether Mr. Gladstone’s
slock of patience is being largely drawn
upon.
Tux collapse of the steamer Victoria in
the river Thames, near the Canadian city
of London,will surprise the world,because
it was generally believed that British laws
provided for an inspection that detects
all weakness in a vessel, thereby pre
venting a disaster such as overtook the
Victoria. The boat had on board six
hundred excursionists, mostly of the
middle class, and probably fully one-
third of the entire nnmber was drowned.
Tiie boat appears to have been a frailer
affair than anything ever floated on
American waters. It collapsed nnder its
load of people like an egg shell, without
the intervention of any unusual pres
sure from the boilers or machinery or
from without
There are signs of trouble in the demo
cratic party of Arkansas, growing ont of
the question of the state’s indebted^
These signs are so threatening that the
executive committee has issued an ad
dress urging harmony in the party, and
insisting that the debt question be not
made a test of party loyalty. It is prob
able that the differences will be sub
mitted to the people in the shape of a
constitutional amendment. It would be
a curious evidence of political develop
ment if Arkansas should furnish to the
conntry a companion to Mahone.
The anti-Jewish movements in Russia
are still giving the government no little
trouble. It has issued a proclamation
intended to give the Israelites protection,
but there is not enough respect for the
autocracy to give much weight to a proc
lamation.
If there were a few more Sam Tildens
and Joe Browns in the democratic party,
there would be no mistakes made here*
after.
nou t tie xse ter dat hoBtSfl, en ef I dlda’ c
boT *I» down, den Joe’* dead en 8al’* a wldder.
I dea knows you kin hoT ’im down,' sex Brtr
Rabbit.aeaeo. ‘butylt. el you ’feared, we des
better drap dat Idee en study out some yuther
“Tan,* aezee.
“Brer Fox sorter juboa Tout dlt, bnt he
teedxd ter play blggity ’to' Brer Rabbit,
a he tuck’n ’zrte ter de progranee, en den
Brer Rabbit, he tuck’n tie Brer Fox lerde boa*
tan. en after he git 'Im tie dar hard en £aa\ he
sorter step tack, he did, en put his ban’s ’Umbo,
en grin, en den he aay, aezee:
•“*! erer dey wux a boss kotch.we done kotch
die tm. Look sorter like we done put de bridle
on de wrong eenY seaee. ’but 1 lay Brer Fox Is
got de streak tax ter hoi’ ’im,’ sexee.
“Wid dat. Brer Rabbit cat Im a long switch en
trim it np, en w’en be git it fix, up he step en hit
de bow a rap—pow! De how ’nz dat s’priso at dat
kinder doln’s dat he make one jump, en lan' on
his footses. W’en he do flat, dar wux Brer Fox
danglin’ in de a’r, en Brer Rabbit, he dart out de
way ea holler:
•Hoi’ ’Im down. Brer Fox! Hoi* ’im down!
I’ll stan* out yer en see la’r play. Hoi' 'Im down,
Brer Fox!'sezee.
“Cc’ae, wen de how feel Brer Fox hangln’ dar
onter his tail, he thank sump’nca'us wax de
marter, en die make’im j amp en r’sr wnweren
wasser, en he shake up Brer Fox asms like he woz
ng in de win’, en Brer Babbit, be jump en
holler:
Hol”im down. Brer Fox! Hoi* ’imdown!
Yon got ’im now, sbo’. Hoi* yo'grlp, en hoi’ ’im
down', sezee.
De bom. he jump en be hump, en he rip en
he r*ar. en he snort en he far. But ylt Brer Fox
hang on, en still Brer Babbit skip roun* en
holler:
“ ‘Hoi’ 'im down. Brer Fox! You got 'lmwhar
he can’t needer tack ner squall. Hoi* ’im down
Brer Fox*, aezee.
Blmeby, w’ea Brer Fox git
holler beck, he did:
’How In de name er goodness I gwineter hoi'
de hose down'lew I glt my claw lade groan’?’
Den Brer Babbit, he stan* back little f udder
en holler little loader:
“Hoi* Imdown, Brer Fox! Hoi’ 'im down!
You got *im cow, sho*! Hoi* *lm down! 1
"Bimeby de how ’gun ter kick wld his bebime
legs, ende las’news you, know, he fetch Brer
Fox a lick In de stomach dat fa’riy make ’im
squall, en den he kick *im ag'in, en dls time he
break Brer Fox loose, en soot *lm a-whlrlln*; en
Brer Rabbit, he keep on a jam pin’
hollerin’:
** 'Hoi* *lm down, Brer Fox !*
"Did the fox get killed. Uncle Remus?** aiked
the little boy.
"He wa'n't *xukiy kilt, honey," replied
the old man, "but he wuz de nex* do' ter*t
He *us all broke up, en w'iles he *uz giftin'
well, hit sorter come 'crow his min' dat Brer
Rabbit done play ne’er game on ’im.”
BILL ARP’S WEEKLY CHAT.
PLANTATION STORIES.
ATLANTA’S BRIARIAN ARMS OF STEEL.
Aaetksr Dsvslopmnt ia Dar Railroad Ooxablaa-
float—Th* Atlanta aad Alabama Cen
paay D *cidw to Pask Its Lias
Through to Birmiaghaa.
It will be seen from the account of the
meeting of the directors of the Atlanta
and Alabama railroad company, that a
new railroad is promised to our goodly
city.
Truly, “it never rains but it pours.”
W# hope thif the new enterprise will move
to Its accomplishment band in hand with
Mr. Cole's roads and the Georgia Western.
The Constitution has never had—nor has
the writer of this ever had—but one object,
and that the advancement of Atlanta and
of Georgia. It will be seen that Mr Gor
don feels just as we do about the matter.
In answer to a dispatch announcing to him
the action of the Atlanta and Alabama di
rectors, he telegraphed late yesterday:
All right. I bape the new road Will be built,
it will not Interfere In the slightest with the
Georgia Western, and the more roads A Cantatas
the better for her. My arrangement* are all
completed.” J. B. Gordon.
It is our earnest belief that the buxines
of the coal fields will give the new projected
roads all that they cau handle, and we hope
to see them built. With two roads to
on, two roads to Chattanooga, and two
roads to the ooal fields, Atlanta will
certainly have all the roads she can ever
need. There has never been a race in oz
about Atlanta that will excite more inter-
. e £Mlfe &n tk® race between the Georgia
Western and the Atlanta and felabaxna to
the coal fields.
The Georgia Western.
a new fobce or hands roe the woes—a
GOOD TRADE WITH MB. COLE.
The work on the Georgia Western ia
steadily ahead, three surveying parties being in
being done a* rapidly as the survey will allow,
and new hands will be added as they are needed.
Mr. Wllllsm Redd, Jr., reached the city yes ter
The telegram which we hevy quoted
is calculated to do irreparable damage to
the city. It ia a silly sensation—a reck
less invention—but people at a distance
cannot know this. The Constitution
has sent a correction to the associated
press, bnt many who saw the original
telegram will never see the correction.
And even if the impression created by
this absurd report is removed, there is no
remedy for the repetition of such state
ments. Tba reckless and irresponsible
persons who concoct these sensations are
at liberty to proceed with their work,
and there is no way to reach them.
Tbe telegram which we have quoted
is copied from the Washington Republi
can, bnt we have observed it in various
journals. It has attracted the attention
of the National Board of Health, and
that board has deemed it of sufficient
importance to call upon its representa
tive here for particulars. The attention
of the city board of health has also been
called to the report, and steps have been
taken to place before the public official
correction of the reckless statements in
the telegram.
It is the fashion for the local trews
papers published at points where epi
demics have occurred, and are likely to
Occur, to cover up as far as possible any
facts that might have a tendency to
dmoralize the community or to dam
age the business interests of the place.
The Constitution has never found it
necessary to fall into this fashion. In
the first place, the;* is not the remotest
possibility of an epidemic occurring in
Atlanta; in the second place, if an epi
demic should occur, The Constitution
would regard its prompt announcement
as a public duty.
Atlanta was never healthier than it is
to-day. There are so contagions, infec
tions or pestilential diseases prevailing
in the city. There has been no epi
demic of scarlet fever nor any serious
fears of one on the part of those who are
in a position to know of the sanitary con
dition of the city. There have been ices
than a dozen sporadic cases of scarlet
fever in Atlanta this year, and it is not
known that a single case now exists in
(hp city. The record of mortality, as weil
A Malay Day Willi Dade Brans.
n.
MB FOX CATCHES MR. HORSE.
Thero wui pause after the story ol old Mbs
Goose. Toe culmination was hardly sensational
enough to win tbe hearty applause of the little
boy, and this fact appeared to have a depressing
Influence upon Uncle Remoa. Aa be leaned
slightly forward, gazing into the depths of the
great Are-place, his attitude was oue of penslve-
nesa
“I 'speck I done wo’ oat my welcome up at de
house,” he said, after a while. ”1 mes’ knows 1
Is,” be continued, settling himself resignedly in
his deep bottomed chair. M Kaze dat las’ night.
Wiles you wnx sick, en I went ’n’ sot op wld yon,
I tad my eye on Mbs Sally mighty nigh de whole
blessid time, ea w’en you see Mbs Sally rustlin'
'roan' snakin' like she Axin' things up dar ou de
mantle shelf, en bouncin' de cheers ’roun’, ea
breshin* das’ when dey alnt no das’, en flyin'
’roan* stagin' sorter louden dan common, den 1
dea knows lumpin' done gone en rile 'er.'
“Why, Uncle Remus!” exclaimed the little boy,
lamina waa jnst glad because 1 w«s getting
well."
M^ut or bln.” the old man remarked, In a tone
it was far from emptying conviction. "El
’iwa’n't dat, den she wuz gittln’ tired er seein’
lounjun’ ’roun’ up dar night after night, en
ef 'twa'n’t dat. den she woz watchin’ a chance ter
ter preach ter jo’ pa. oh, 1 done bin knows Mbs
Sally long io’ yo’ pa b!” exclaimed Uncle Remus,
In it spouse to the astonishment depicted upon
the child’s face. ”1 bin knowin* ’er scnce she wuz
so high, en endurin’ er all dat time I alnt seed
no mo’ np’a rpoken omaa dan w’at Mbs Sally Is.
Bat daiaint needer yer ner dar. Yon done
got yo’ strenk back, en now yook’n rash down
yer des like you useter.en we kin set yer en smoke,
en tell talcs, en study up ’mnsement same like
we wux gwiae on 'Io' dem doctor mens got der
dampen on you. Ef dey wus Brer Fox,” the
old man continued, “w’ich dey er nighty nigh
it, ea I wus ole Brer Rabbit, w'ich I ain't ’sputin'
dal I got some erde symptoms. X lay I’d gin dem
doctor mens ooe settin* op—I sho'ly would
”1 mines me er ooe time”—with an infectious
laujb—'”w’en ole Brer Rabbit got Brer Fox in de
■ Grabble w’at a man wus mot' erer got in ylt,
dat 'os w’en he fool ’im ’boot de ham. Alnt
1 never tell you'bout dat? Bntnomaxterellls.*
Hoe cake »iut cook done twel hit’s turnt over a
time or two.
’’Well, after Brer Fox done glt rested
fum seepin’ ont er de way or Mr. Dog, en
aorter ketch up wld hb rations, he ssy ter
hiam'f dat he be dog hb cate ef he don’t aloiate
ole Brer Babbit ef it take ’lmamool’; en dat, too,
ou top er all de 'spe'unoe w’at he done bia had
wld um. Brer Rabbit be sorter git win’ er dis, en
ooe day, w'lka be gwiae 'long de road stndyla'
bow he gwineter hoi’ his band wid Brer Fox, be
aee a great big boss lyin’ stretch out flat on hb
side in de pastor*; en be took’n crops up, tadld,
(er ter see ef dish yer horn done gone en die. He
crope up co he crops ’roun’, en bimeby he see de
bom switch hb tall, en deo Brer Rabbit know be
alnt dead. Wid dat. Brer Rabbit lope tack ter
de Mg road, ea mos’ de fus' man w’at he see
gwineoo by wuz Bier Fox. en Brer Rabbit he
-Brer Fox, fee ta’n roun', be did. en w’en he
aes who callin' 'Im, he come gallopin’ back, ka^e
it seem like dat dea ez gooder time es any ter ter
nab Brer Rabbit; but ’So’ be git in nabbin’dis
tance. Brer Rabbit be ap’a aay. arzae:
-•Comcca. Brer Fox! 1 done fine de place
wharyoo kin lay In fnsh meat 'nuff fetter las’
you plus twel de middle or nex’ year.' sezee.
-Brer Fox. be aa wh*rbouM,en Brer Rabbit,
he say. right over dar lu de pastor , en Brer Fox
ax w'at is it, ea Brer Rabbit, he say w’ich ’twus
a whole horn la;la’ down on de groan’ wtar dey
kin ketch *tm an fle 'im. Wld dat. Brer Fox.
be say eoae on, an of dey pot.
-Wen dey got dar, sho’ nuff. dar lay de bom
all wretch out la de sen, fas’ ’sleep, en den Brer
Foxen Brer Babbit, dey had a ’sputa ’boot bow
day gwineter fix de tarn sab*can’t glt
One say ose way ea de yuther my n er way, ea
dar dey tad It. twel alter w’ile Brer Rabbit, be
say.smee:
“’De ouliest plan wet I knows un. Brer Fox.’
scree, *is far yon ter glt down dar en lemma tie
you lerde bom’ tall, en den, w’en be try ter git
up, you kin hoi’ ’im down.’ aezee. ‘Ef I wuibig
man like w’at you is.* ms Brer Rabbit.
Written lor The Constitution.
Working in tbe field a hot sultry day is
no joke. I've tried it There’s nothing
funny about it. Its not a hilarious or ex
hilarating business. Its not productive of
wit or anecdote. Its nothing but a fact, a
solemn fact. I remember reading about
some ethereal chap who doubted every
thing and waient certain that he lived,
and it occurred to me that the best way in
the world to knock the romance out of a
man and settle his faith was to put him to
h lrd work in the field hoeing com or chop
ping cotton. By the time night comes he
will be convinced hr is somebody aud will
be willing to rest and eat aud go to bed. 1
believe it would prevent suicides and
restore the lunatics to their proper sen:
The trouble ia, most people work tow little
and think too much. The muscles are neg
lected and the brain is overtaxed. I like
work, nevertheless, fact or no fact. The rest
that follows it is a positive luxury, aud the
appetite it gives a man makes him enjoy
his vittels and he dont come poking along
when the dinner bell rings end look over
the table to see whether it suits him or not
in quality or variety, but he comes with a
willing alacrity and sits down and goes to
work. Hog and hominy is as good as quail
on toast. If I had Marcellos Thornton
out here I'd give him
appetite that would run longer than
thirty days and make a useful man of him.
He is a good feller and there’s gum in him,
but his talents have never taken the right
direction. He has been overworking nia
brain, and farming would restore him and
develops fine performer on the hoe and the
chop-ax.
My boys hinted around last week that
they were getting behind with the work—
that there was thirty acres of corn to hoe,
and the bud worm was doing damage in the
bottom, and there was three acres of cotton
to chop out, and a patch of new ground to
sprout, aud the potato slips to plaut, and
they needed another field-hand mighty
baa, and so on, and couldn't get out for
love nor money, and so Mrs. Arp she
looked at me, and I looked at her and re
marked, “Where there is a will there is a
way,” aud I’ll furnish you a good hand for
a week. So I volunteered for the service
myself, and shouldered my hoe like a high
pnvate. You see I’ve been sorter bossing
around and tendin' to the garden and wear
ing an officer's epaulettes, working when
1 felt like it and dignifying myself with age
and playing patriarch, but when the pinch
comes 1 can’t stand back, aud I won't. So
I've tried it a week, and I’m now as stiff
and sore as an old horse. When I set
down I don't want to get up. and the
beauty of it is when I get to work I
don't want to quit There’s an inertia
about it that keeps an old man going. I
didn’t knew it before, but Cobe told me
that it was so with him. He dident want
to go to work in the morning and it most
killed him to get at it, but when he did get
fairly squared to it, and tbe muscles get to
moving like a machine he dident know bow
to stop 'em and was ihe last one to quit the
field. I’ve hoed corn and cotton now for
six days steady, and can cut out a stork
without skeeiing a fly off of a twin one that
grew out from the same root. There’s
nothing like getting the slight of the thing.
A sharp, square-edged hoe and a good eye
and a true stroke is all that’s wanted. Then
you must haye good judgment and quick
judgment about what storks to leave and
what to cut out. One cut of! with tbe cut
worm will come out again, but the bud
worm sucks its hesrt out and you had just
as well cut it up and replant. When a man
gets tired hoeing corn let him chop out
cotton for a change, and when he gets tired
of that let him spend the shank of the
evening in putting out potato slips. We
put out a thousand or so every day, and I’ve
seen things I’d rather do, for it’s a hard
business ou an old man’s back. If it don’t
cure him of spinal afiectiou it will give it to
him if he keeps it up regular, and
I feel like I have a touch of it now.
It wears out the fingers to scratch
the holes in the ground and pieas the dirt
around the plant, and there must be left a
little cup to pour the water in, aud after it
is poured in the dry dirt must be pulled
over it to keep the sun from baking ir, for
we are not having any rain iu there parts
now to save us that trouble. Its uo peculiar
fun to straddle a potato ridge and with
your feet a yard apart and your back at
right angles to’em waddle aloug to the end
of it putting in slips, and by the time you
are done with the j >b most any other kind
of work would be an agreeabie change—
digging poet holes would be gay and festive.
But still I like work—farm work; I like its
variety; its something new every day; yon
change your base and then you see the re
sult of your labors. The corn grows and
the lot g rows look so straight and clean and
ornamental. The wheat fields are now in
ail their glorious beauty and the oats have
caught up and are in the head. It looks
like the farmers will work a pretty fair
crop of both—rain or co rain—and there is
no sign of rust as yet. The truth is we
don’t need rain except for the oats, for it
is a good sign of a good crop to have a dry
May. Thi corn and cotton don’t grow off
as fast as we would like it, bnt the roots are
reaching down for moisture and taking
strong bold, and by-and-by when the rain
does come it goes eff all the faster, and if
a drought come- it can stand it better than
il it grew up rapidly with sap from early
So take it all in all, everybody is doing
and the mechanicks are co ng well, and the
merchants are doing well, and the demo
crats are doing well, and now May is almost
gone and none of tixv-e terrible things that
the prophets predicted bsve come to pss3,
and everything looks serene and lovely.
Oar wheat harvest will ccme off in two
weeks and we are going to reap it wi
bran new machine and have a big fr
If you want to see it come up. Tell Howell
and Harris we want a couple of binders to
follow tbe reaper, for we will be short of
hands. I’ll give ’em a dollar a d%y and
board. Howell used to be a good h tad, I
know, for he told me he could Lind a sheaf
and throw it up and bind another before it
comedown. That’s the kind of a man I want
Harris could do it, too, I reckon, if he
could throw the first one so high it wouldn’t
come down at all. Yours,
Bill Aar.
Ksshyill^sBIUlsr; Week.
Nashville. May i8.—Tbe military week of the
exposition dosed yesterday with a grand review
by Major Clapp, al the Sixteenth United States
fnfanuy. Five companies competed,
namely; Crescent Rifles. New Orleans;
Blaff dtj Grays. Mempbi-: Porter
; Sumner Guards. Gallatin, and
Lebanon. Tbe prises of tbe
1 as follows: Artillery target
to tbe Porter Btflea. this city: second prise, the
Crescent Rifles, ol New Orleans; competitive drill
never awarded first prize
prize to Bluff City Grays.
’ —to Howard Reserves, _
drill ol artillery—first prize
•o the Louisville Battery; seoond prize to the St.
BRANCHING OUT
__— odors ted tod
food, looking. He takes bis arrest
qutatiy and assured hia last victim that all would
omeout right.
The lady, who ia thus rendered an object of
itv, tathe daughter of James Hunter, sheriff of
JeRalb county, and Is related to some ol the best
families in Georgia. She is about nineteen yean
of are. and was quite a society favorite She was
in Atlanta, where she waa highly re
spected and esteemed. She married FoUansbee
■ginst the will of her father aud friends. That
the scoundrel is thus brought to justice is doe
►W? n th K untirln 8 energy and exertion of Mr.
first nineteen
Georgia Western as
Gordon agreed.
the nineteen miles. The money has been paid,
and the steel rails, we are authorized to aay, are
at Brunswick subject to Mr. Gordon's order
whenever he is ready for them. At the end of
the nineteen miles Mr. Cole's road branches off
towards Rome, while Mr. Gordon’s moves on
towards Birmingham. This trade was a most
advantageous one for both parties concerned,
and ab via tea the building of the two parallel
tinea for nineteen miles, where one will be amply
sufficient
A rumor was put afloat on yesterday to the
effect that Mr.Gordon had sold out his road to Mr.
Cole—a rumor probably resulting from a mlsun-
demanding of the above trade. Mr. Cole, to set
all such rumors at rest, telegraphed the following
from Macon on yesterkay:
Macon, May 28 —I have not bought General
ordou’s tine to Birmingham. The general f m
confident of building himself.
E. W. Cole.
In Mississippi a force of over a hundred men
are working towards Birmingham and 20 of
the road has already been graded. Asm*
possible other forces will be put on both ends of
the tine and the work pushed ahead vigorously.
States and Territories.
Letter* mailed.
8,891,376
Arizona territory
1,278.4 0
Ualilornla....^
22.563^68
Connecticut
Dakota territory™....
Delaware
District of Colombia
Florida
27,789.876
4,023,708
2J&1928
15,154,620
Idaho territory
Illinois
825,812
66,613,323
Indian territory™..™.-.
Iowa.
Kanaaa
465.452
28,964.592
Main*. re.—
13,215,696
Massachusetts
69.0:0.604
Mississippi..
Montana territory™^
39,702,2uS
1.576,224
New Hampshire.
New Jersey
New Mexico territory™
North Carolina....™..™
Ohio .
7.694,518
20.783.048
1584,70.
211,435.640
8,1X7.012
3,636 880
Rhode Island
7.174 9C0
South Carolina—
7,205.276
11.262.78!
Utah territory
Vermont™
—1 2J96.UI0
7,Q58,G*8
Virginia™ ... ic.874.i0ft
Washington territory™™™— 1.141,452
Wisconsin 22,76j.vi 2
Wyoming territory...™™. — 880.668
The statement also shows the
Onr Two Roads.
The following dispatch was received by e
gen tie mao last night in reply to e dispatch
of inquiry:
New Yobk, May 58.—In reply to inquiry
you are authorized to publish that the organiza
tion of the Georgia Western is completed.
The stares are all taken. Among the subscribers
Hugh J. Jewett and amodatea have one
million five hundred thnn«?pd dollars; the bal
ance is in strong hands. Among the directors of
the ipad are Hugh J. Jewett, president of tbe
Erie railroad, Mr. Anderson, president Tredegar
iron works of Richmond. C. H. Phinizy. president
of the Georgia railroad, P. P. Dickinson, U. S
Grant, Jr., Ed Richardson,of Mim, aud others.
When the Atlanta and Alabama road is built,
Atlanta will have two roads to the ooal fields.
I will be in Atlanta in a few days.
J. B. Goedon.
The Atlanta and Alabama.
THE COMPANY EESOLVES TO PUSH THB ROAD
THROUGH.
The charter members of the Atlanta and Ala
bama railroad company met yesterday morning
in Mayor English's office, having been called to
gether by Mr. Anthony Murphy, who was presi
dent of the temporary organization under the
charter.
After the meeting had been called
to order Mr. Murphy, who has recently been
to New York, said that he thought an Immediate
organization oi the company desirable; that he
was assured that the money necessary to build
the road could be secured at once, and that he
thought It advisable to open books of subscrip
tion immediately.
A motion authorizing the opening of books oi
subscription was adopted, and the meeting ad
journed.
In accordance with the motion t
were openod, and by 6 o’clock yesterday
evening 8300,001, the full amount required by the
charter, tad been taken by the following gentle-
mod:
Anthony Morphy, J F Cummings, 11 CazUeman,
S M Inman, J W English. Langston, Crane A Co,
RC Mitchell, G J Foreacre, E P Howell, John
Collier, L J Hill, Walker P Inman, Hugh T In
man, H E Cummings. J B Cummings, Atlanta;
George W Perkins, W JP Clyde, Frances Smith,
New York; A C Haskell, Columbia, 8 C; W H
Snowden, A 8 Buford, Joseph Bryan, T M R
Talcott, T M Logan, Richmond, Va.
Then a permanent organization waa aflected
by the election of the following officers:
President—A. c. Haskell, of Columbia, 8. C.
Vice-President—G. J. Foreacre.
Directors—A. Murphy, W H. Snowden. A. S.
Buford, Joseph Bryan, J. M. R. Talcott, L. J.
Hill, 8. M. Inman.
Mr. Haskell, the first president of the Atlanta
and Alabama road, la one of the leading railroad
men of ttouth Ca oliua. He is the present presi
dent of the Columbia and Charlotte railroad. At
one time he was o.ie ol the jadges of the supreme
court of South Carolina, aud is a gentleman of
great ability and worth.
Mr. G. J. Foreacre, the vice president, la the
former general manager of the Atlanta and Char
lotte Air-Line. Long since Tie has thoroughly
demonstrated his ability aa a railroad man, and
requires no indorsement at our hands.
The board of directors are all men of high
standing. They live in At anta and Richmond.
A glance at the cam a will be enough to convince
all that they mean buslne a.
We are assured that work will bo begun at
once and continued without interruption until
the road reaches Birmingham, Ala. Thj money
lain tight, and just as rapidly as men and money
be used the road will be built.
TWO WIVES.
Ttae Dnashlcr ef Trie Sheriff of De-
Kalb County the Victim of a ]
amliL
J. T. Buchanan, station-house keeper, has
brought to tight a crime vhich renders two
homea desolate and fills in other convict garb.
Tuesday 1s t one week ago John W. FoUansbee,
an Atlanta resident, married Mlai Hunter, of De-
^Tta marriage was opposed by the young lady’s
father, but with a fidelity that actuates woman
In inch matters. Mi* Hunter disobeyed her
far her. and thereby wreck e 1 her life.
FoUansbee vise to Atlanta in 1175 and soon
found employment wi h Longley A Kobincon, on
Decatur street- To his areodates he said that he
came from Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, and that he
was a married rn,n
in *76 Lougley A Bobinson discharged Follana-
bce. He went to Cherokee county where he re
mained until January last. Then he went to
Decatur, where be entered the governmental ser
vice. Daring hia abode there be met Mia« Hunter,
and after a short courtship was married Tbe
marriage waa published in Thx Coshtitution,
and thus FoUambee's crime leaked out. Mr
Buchanan happened to be aacakpeizteof Failsafe
bee daring his service with Langley A Robinson,
and when he real the wedding notice, remem-
* that FoUansbee tad told him that he was
opened with Fon dn Lac aud evidence of
the trutl — •*— —*
secured.
the truth of Fullansbee's statement to Buchanan
rhargtng FoUansbee with bigamy, and went lm-
medtiuelyto his boarding home oo Mariettasmet.
Follaastac and his wife were oat and thee fficers
remained until 2 o'clock this morning, when the
epupte returned Aa they tbeysxd
the officers approached and arrested him. To Mr
Buchanan's remark “you are mv p.isooer,” Mrs
FoUansbee asked why he was arrested. Mr. I
Buchanan sald,-Mr.Fot!ansbea can lelL” Tom?
log to the man who has made two tires miserable
shesa d. “why are jog * r r *ted #” but FoUansbee
der jned to afisweg Final j Mr- Luctaoau in*
formed Ma. Follanibee that her htuband (?) had
aw: Us and five children ia Fan da Lac, WIs.
This intelligence staegered the lady and rendered
her speechless for a short white, but soon realizing
her rained catditioa, the lady rallied and in
plain language denounced the scoundrel, but
wfcej tbe officers started off with their pcirooer
she resented an&betged for his tretdjta
FEDERAL STATISTICS.
Im Relation to the Business of the Pofe
Washington, May 26.—A statement has
been prepared at the post office department
by the committee appointed to conduct tbe
official count, showing the amount of mat
ter mailed in the United States during the
year ending Dec. 31,1880. This it the sec
ond count of mail matter made by the de
partment, that made in 1879beir gthe first
The statement U based upon an actual
count of matter mailed at the different
post-offices during the first seven
days of December, 1880. It shows that the
number oi pieces of all classes made during
the year was 2,720.234 252. The whole
number of letters mailed was 1,053,252,87C,
orau average of 21 for each man, woman,
and child iu the United States; 324.55C.440
postal cards, 812,032.000 newspapers, 40,148 -
792 magazines and other periodicals, and
21,515,832 packages of merchandise. The
following table shows the number of letters
mailed in each oi the states and territories,
and the average number mailed by each
person:
Average
foreach
2976
1626
85 31
11.48
8.49
25.32
22.29
17 84
18 45
8.84
40 25
22*4
3154
2218
IS 37
11.75
19 42
21-24
11.15
1519
7 91
17.30
42 35
number of letters mailed by each oer^on in
fifty of the prominent cities: Albany, N.
Y., 4656; Alleghady, Pa. 1616; Atlanta,
Ga ,6022; Baltimore, 33 36; Boston. Maes,
8418; Brooklyn, N. Y., 34 58; Buffalo, N.
Y., 3054; Camden, N. J., 12.80; Charleston,
8. C , 42 19; Chicago, 111., G108; Oibcianati,
Ohio, 57 55; Cleveland, Ohio, 44 Cl Colum
bus, Ohio, 56 83; Dayton, Ohio, 36 84; Den
ver, Col.. 98 10; Detroit, Mich., 53 61; Fall
River, Mass., 15 15; Hartford. Connecticut,
85 89; Indianspolis. Ind, 47 25; Jersey
City, N.J., 1166; Kansas City, Missouri,
102 23; Lawrence, Massachusetts, 23.99;
Louisville, Ky., 45 65; Lowell, Mass.,
22.01: Lynn, Mass., 21 85; Milwaukee, Wia,
42C7; Minneapolis, Minn .54 38; Nashville,
Tenn , 4317; Newark, N. J., 3892; New
Haven. Ct., 116 30; New Orleans, La., 46 72;
New York. 100.98; Oakland, CaL, 2318;
Paterson, N. J, 13 77; Philadelphia. Pa.,
62.01; Pittsburg, Pa, 43 44; Providence,
R. L 33.11; Reading, Pa.. 18 43; Richmond,
Vs, 78 09; Rochester, N. Y.. 39.93; St.
Louis. Mo , 4607; St. Paul, Minn., 6654;
San Francisco, Cal. 39 41; Scranton. Pa„
14 27; Syracuse, N. Y , 460ft; Toledo, Ohio,
40.07; Troy, N. Y., 65.42; Washington, D.
C, 102 74; Wilmington, Del, 27.9G; Wor
cester, Mass., 44 88.
THB CHURCHES.
Atlanta Selected far the Heat General
Assembly.
Staunton, May 25.—At the meeting of the gen
eral assembly last night the establishment of a
new synod was recommended, to be known as
nresbvterv. asking for Information as to whether
the deliverance of the assembly of 1877 ou danc
ing tad been repealed or affected by subsequent
tag the accounts of various permanent commit
tees. The committee ou semiuariia made a report
imlortiug the election ot Dr.* Palmer, of New
Orleans, to the chair of paztor of theoloqy, in the
Columbia seminary. It also recommends the
restoration by the assembly of ownership and
control ol the Columbia seminary to the synods of
South Carolina Georgia aud Alabama.
A long aud animated debate ensued on the
propriety of Dr. Palmer’s leaving New Orleans,
which was participated lu by Dr. Girardeau, Dr.
WiUon and other prominent commtalouers. No
defiinite action was arrived at.
Dr. bcheuck, of the Presbyterian historical
society of Philadelphia, and Dr. Uoge, of Rich
mond, addressed the assembly ou the lmporunce
of iu co operation with the historical society in
the preservation of the records and ktatistL a of the
church.
At
Dr.
forth iho duty of — ^
to put a stop to divinity studenU attending
northern institutions instead of Union and Col
umbia seminaries. Adopted.
The judicial case of W. T. Turner, ofGcorgi*.
waa discussed out no Vote was taken up to the
time of adj jummenL
Stanton, Va., May 27.—The Presbyterian as
semby was to-day engaged for the most part in the
dUcnvlon of various overtures from the different
synods upon the proposition to revise the hymn
book. An animated debate ensued. Dr. Hoyt, of
tion of the book of
by Mean. Scribner
... — by Dr. Mullaly.who
objected to encouraging New York firms on Ihe
ground that In Scribner’s Magazine bad been
pub! hbi-d objectionable articles, and for farther
reaum that he wanted all the patronage bestow
ed up n southern concerns.
Dr. Mullaly’a position was strongly assailed by
Rhv. D. Davies, who deprecated sectionalism and
did not desire to see the southern church cat off
from the rest of the Christian world.
No definite action was taken.
church as prosperous with a promising outlook.
Just before the adjournment this evening,
Atlanta, Ga., waa fixed upon aa the next place of
Buffalo. N. Y., May 28.—The ninth day’s
slon of the Presbyterian generalamemb.y opened
to-day with service conducted by Revs. J. aud M.
C. Harris, of South Carolina, followed by Dr.
Page, of Rochester. The committee on the next
place of meeting reported Springfield. Illinois, aa
the place, and that the sermon be preached in the
first church of that city, and the remaining ses
sions be held, if tbe assembly so vote, in the
capital building, according to the invitation of the
governor and the legislature. The report waa
^RerK. W. Patterson, D.D. of Chicago, pre
sented the report of the Handing committee on
systematic benevolence. Daring the past year
there has been «n increase of three synods and
30 presbyteries organized, and acting, either on
the a-acmhliea* plan of benevolence or some
other similar plan. This leaves only seven of
our 38 synods, and 52 presbyteries ont of 175,
that are not known to co-operate with our plan.
of the church a
s all reported to have received
increased contributions to their treasuries
ranging from about $3,0 0 to $.0,009 each,
except the freedmeaa’ committee, which has
received $3^00 less than within the preceding
year, bnt it suffered nodeereass in tbs Elite of tbs
church. The net Increase of the contributions is
upwards of $85,630. Almost all the regular causes
of benevolence report balat.cea in their treasuries.
celved ’nothing from 1,7m churches, aud
of foteign alslons was treat
likewise by 2,3*0 churches. Farther
n flatten is needed in the synods, presbyteries
and churches. Tbe report dosed with a number
’Die. U f EcU, ArClb.ld McClure, Wm IMi-
well Tnomu lUue. W^doC^teeena H C Noble.
Tbe .Memblr .1 tbe ooocluMou of tbe oaocbibc
session, adjourned untilMorday morning.
Tbe Great Exposition.
Sparta Times and Plant r.
The cotton exposition la still looming np. It is
bound to be such a success that Georgia and the
entire south will be proud of It. We wish to
suggest to Atlanta right here that if she desires to
keep up her well established reputation she
mu-t provide room for everybody. She needn’t
be anyways stingy either in providing, for there
is going to be a crowd there, and such a cue aa
Atlanta never saw We have no doubt in the
world about the exposition being § success, bat
*' ~re go, at we expect to do. we want a place
stay at and a Led W steep on. It
has been a long time since we put at ”8prawla,”
and that experience taught us that it is not a good
place to put up at. It has only ooe thing to re
commend it, and that is the cost of it; bnt this
does not recommend when we consider tbe after
part in the way of doctors bills, etc. Let The
Constitution continue tbe good work by keeping
the importance of the thing continually be-
f we the people of Atlanta, un*ii they stall have
t aad famished more hotels.
Governor Brown has locked at the matter with
his usual sags - '* - — 3 *—
Colonel Helen
fore yesterday
-X da nat 1
Lome extension will injure the State road. Tbe
business ol that road Is now as large * s it can
pet-ibiy handle, and is growing roostantiy. We
should have a demand for a double track on the
whole length of our road in the next year or two
1 think that Colonel Cole’s proposed road will
only take the surplus of our freight, and will
really not ir jure us. lam sore that the new
road will help Atlanta, Lome and the state oi
ATLANTA’S LUCK
DISCUSSED AT THE KIMBALL HOUSE,
The Reception Tendered Colonel Cole Last Night
Proves a Regular Love Feast-Atlanta’s
Future as a Railroad Center
Discussed—The Speeches.
Atlanta gave Colonel Cole a reception last
Thursday night at the Kimball house.
At 9 o'clock the breakfast room doors
were thrown open and Colonel Cole, Colonel
Humes aud Mr. McCracken, accompanied
by many of Atlanta’s business men, en
tered. The room was brilliantly illumin
ated and handsomely decorated with
evergreens and flowers. The table, extend
ing from one end of the room to the
other. was only what Mr.
Scoville, of the Kimball, could make. In
the middle of the table was a large pyramid
of the choicest fruit*, around which beauti
ful dowers in abundsned bad been woven,
and at each end of the table was a similar
pyramid. Bouquets in abundance decorated
the table, greatly beautifying its appear
ance.
Major Crane occupied the head of the
table. Upon bia left was Colonel Cole, and
uponh is right Colonel Humt-s.
Major B. E. Crane arose aud said: "As the
president ol the board of trade ol Atlanta I ex-
an upon
ithenssd
to say that the Macon and Brunswick road will
be built to Atlanta justaaaoou as men aud money
can accomplish the work. 1 am also
assured that the road from Atlanta to Rome will
be pushed forward with equal rapidity.
-This city of ours has tad a rapid growth, bnt
these roads will give ns new energy and a new
impetus In our onward march. It will make os
tbs railroad center of the south
aid effectual.y connect us with the north, east
and west, aud place us on an equal footing with
any town in the country, and tneu If we can’t
hold our own let us go to the wall.
“thedistinguished gentleman before uswas the
first to conceive this great line from the east
to the west, and aa the president of the Nashville
and Chattanooga,he worked for itscousummatioD,
but jnst as he was about to accomplish bis designs
his rivals outstepped him, and for the time
Colonel Cole was defeated. About that time I
met Colonel Cole aud ho then said io me:
Ihe railroad map of the south la not
that no man in New York had the of
the people to a greater extent than Mr. 8eney.
During these remarks Mr. <> lc was jreqwj^
interrupted by applause, and whenever “f
of Mr. seney was announced there *“■
of the committee on rewlutsons was called on
for his report, and submitted the following.
The committee designated by the board of trade
to report resolutions to this meeting, beg to tub-
it tbe following: .
The business men of Atlanta having been ad-
▼ired ol Prreldenl Cole’, prerencs in
were unwilling th»t he ibonld co aw»y "Jtlvouj
betne n-ked to name ihe time umt would
eultnla convenience to receive them end beer
IKU O) lUUl K1U U» WKIU wvuunw
The construction of two important roads to At
lanta. both to be finished and equipped In leas
of a new era in her bUtory-
month and the year when one man perfected s
combination of railway interests which is toe®*
targe Atlanta’s trade facilities east. west, north,
and south. That man is colonel K. ». Cole.
Therefore. Resolved, That nelt interest. if no
other motive, calls upon every citizen of Georgia
Resolved. That the business community hope
io be able at no distant day to demonstrate more
fully than can be done by words, the estimate
they place upon the service Colonel Cole has
lately rendered Atlanta and the state of Geotata
thrice welcomed as Atlanta’s benefactor* always
arc. John N. Dunn, Chairman.
John Stephens,
Jonathan Norceosa
THE REVISED BIBLE*
Uowr If Is Deceived bjr »ii« Clergry of
Atlanta.
The excitement over the revision of the King
James version oi the New Tea ament is beginning
to touch Atlanta, and yesterday a Constitution
reporter called upon several prominent ministers
AILAiYTA’S HEALiH
WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT IT.
ThaMsdical Authorities T-ka sp tLa Slanderous
Dispv.ch » and R qa«at I-Jormvion Thereon
—Tae AtlantaDocta.-* Gif• Answer,
R..fating the Ohargtr.
of Colouel Oo.e waa proposed the room fairly
rang with cheers.
Colonel Cole arose with an ease and grace
that assured all present that he was well
eutitled to the respect and esteem which he
has won from his fellow men He said*
“I am not in the habit of making public
speeches. My life has been one of action rather
loan of words; bnt 1 am glad to be present with
you this event g, and tnus meet so many of
the intelligent business men of your city; aud to
them return my thanks for their cordial reorp-
tion cf my associates and myself Here, in the
beginning I desire tossy, that in the construc
tion of our system of roads in your state we do
not wish io antagonize any like Improvement;
but on the contrary hope thut our
roads may - develop untold and
unknown advantages to them
Aa you know my former efforts;to bu.ld a road
to the sea were frustrated, but 1 now feel confi
dent that belter streets? will attend me this time.
Now I have every assurance of success. 1 have
with *me, in this enterprise, those who acknowl
edge no defeat, and if your people will only ex
tend the aid we shall ask, and 1 assure
1?
trate a vast area of southern territory and
sure that the ro*d< we now contemplate building
will develop to a greater extent the rcsoutoea of
that section, and especially of Georgi*. than any
of the other lines. One of these roads. It is true,
wilt prove, to a certain extent, a competition tor
a Georgia road. 1 refer to the Western aud At
lantic road—but 1 claim that whilst It may com
pete to a certain exttut it will also increase the
business of that road by giving it a uew trade irom
a field or territory now uukuown practically to
your cjmmercc. In this the ouly road that can
possibly be injuriously affected by the lines I
represent there is but one, and my policy will be
Conservative and harmonizing with all my con
nections and rivals. I am. myself, a largo stock
holder, bnt with my stock in the lease of the
Western and Atlantic road*! will not part. The
immense amouut of business done by the Western
and Atlantic road convinces me that It will be
necessary either to supply it with a double track
or to build another line. It hi obvious that the
latter scheme is the more profitable, and therefore
I have espoused 11 Now. for thb>, as well as for
other reasons eiven, 1 contend that the new road
great injury
* road.
Romo will
to the Western and Allan tic
The road to Rome will tun a sufficient dittany?
Western and Atlantic railroad does not enjoy,
expect, in very many ways, to cultivate new
burinesa for the road to Rome, which the West
ern and Atlantic railroad will never secure;
aud in that manner greatly enhance
the commercial interests of the cities
~ and Chattanooga;
and advantage to the Western and Atlantic
railroad, whlch.connects the cities of Atlanta and
Chattanooga, now in addition to the connec
tion between them over the Rome road to Kings
up of Atlanta aud Macon, by the completion oi
Through tire kind avs - f Dr. J.uues B.
Baird, corres|*or.dent !cf the national board
of health, ata! member of the Atlanta
board of heilth. The Constitution is en
abled to give its reader-* the Inmefit of the
following correspondence, wh eli hss been
provoked by false nnd sensation'll telegrams
which were sent from the city about the
time of the deaths in the Perkins family.
The letters explain themselves, and must
serve to convince the most skeptical that
the city whose reputatiou for freedom from
the causes which bring about epidemics
has been greatly misrepresented. The fol
lowing are tbe letters which have been
written upon the subject:
THE NATIONAL KJARtt oF HEALTH INQUIRES.
National Bosun ok Health, Washington,D. C..
May 24th, i8Sl.—Dr. James B. Baird, correspond-
e of yellow fever, in
*“ 1 enough to report
l are able toascei-
T. J. Turner,
Secretary National Board of Health.
AND DR. BAIRD rUSHKS THE INQUIRY.
Office or secretary Board oi Ileslth. of the
chyof Atlanta—Atlanta, May-.6.18M: William A.
Armstrong, M.D.. President Board of Ileslth, At
lanta: Dear Sir—Please inform me If you know of
the existence ia this city, of auy ca»es of scarlet
fevet.or of tho prevalence of any other contagious,
infectious. «»-•«-» —• »- * *■ -
Atlanta. It is neatly printed, unabridged, and
copies of that
days,but owing hi uicuw****** ***»i -«.»-«
advertised, the sale has been limited to about
three dozen copies. The books will bo here
in great numbers In a few days, and as General
Evans remarked yesterday, the probability is that
the Bible will have sucti a univera.l reeding as has*
never been known in this country before. The
first use of the new version In the palpirs of At
lanta wss made Sunday, by Rev. R J. Cooke,
pastor of tho Marietta street Methodist church.
He took for his text a portion of the 3:t*$verae of
the 18tu chapter of John, which ia aa follows:
•To this end was 1 bom, and for this cause
came 1 Into the world, that 1 should boar witne*
unto the truth.”
The new version teas follows:
“To this end have I been born, and to this end
have I come into the world that 1 should bear
witness onto the truth.”
Rev. R. U. Foute, rector of &t Philip’* church,
preached strongly against the revision Sunday,
taking the position that the Christian religion
will bo weakened by the changes, and
answer will oblige. Yours t uly.
pestilential discarcs. An immediate
*■”“ ” * nly.
Jas. B. Baird.
AND IS ANSWERED MY THE ATLANTA HOARD.
Atlanta, May 28,1881—Dr. James B. Baird—My
Dear Doctor: Replying to your note of this dale.
i occasional mild, spo
radic case has been met with, but 1 have not
seen a fatal case, except in the instance or a sin
gle member oi the I’erkii-s family, which 1 raw,
iu consultation with the a’.teudiug physician, a
few hours before death. 1 have heard of uo case
by any one for a c«c to originate in this city.
Yours truly, Wm. S. Armstrong. M.D.,
President Board ol Health.
TUB SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS IS SOUGHT.
Office of Secretary Board of Health of the
will point
_ evidence that the teach*
lugs of the past were incorrect. lie thinks it will
be a clue in the hands of Ingereoll, the Uuiver-
stllsts and the Unitarians with which the religion
of Jesut Christ will be pummelcd. He is deci
dedly against the revision, but declined to sub
mlt to an interview. _
Dr. D. W. uwin, pastor of the First Baptist
church, said that he had not seen the revision
and would not express an opinion until he had
made a thorough study oi the change*.
Dr. J. H. Martin, pastor of the First Presbyte
rian church, had not seen the revision, bnt
aaid that from the extracts which he had
seen he was inclined to tfavor it, although he
considered that the translator* had made some
Infelicitous changes. He had always considered
a revision desirable.
Rev. C. A. Evans, pastor of tho First Methodist
church, said: “You are aware that I preached a
sermon on the subject a few days ago, in which 1
Indorsed the revision. The interest* of Chris
tiauity demand a pure translation of the word of
God. A living language la liable to change and
words take on new uieauinn. This with the er
rors of translation and of grammar rendered
the new version absolutely necessary. I look
upon the book which is now before us in the
light of a revise proof sheet which, when subjected
to the criticisms of the world will be itself revised
and then presented to us as a pure an > trust
worthy translation It will take some time to
get it generally adopted. Many people influenced
By the reverence which they have for the Bible
their father* wiU
intelligent
3
once, — — —
must admit its superiority and when this gener
ation has psstod away I predict that It will have
gained an almost universal adoption. One thing
Is certain, it will create stable reading withiu
the next two months such as we have never ex-
Dr. Spalding, of the Second Baptist church,
said:
“From earliest manhood I was taught by my
father to consult the Greek text when studying
any part of the New TestamenL The efforts of
various persons to improve oar version of th<*
scriptures were very commendable. Campbell
ami McKnlght’a translation, and the revision
line, most benefit the Central railroad,
even though relative competitors, and the
new lines we are to build must bo a
great advantage to whole state oi Georgia
and. as mid above. In aiding, those roads will
profit Atlanta to a great extent. Your city is the
half way house, between the west and the sea;
and most, therefore,profit, because of its location.
Everything that passes Irom the one section to
the other most uecestiarily enter your city. And at
to lbs advantage this will woik, you, gentlemen,
we mean
accomplish
just what your papers have said we will do. We
have the money necessary to complete these
enterprise*, and if we can secure sufficient labor,
trains from Atlanta to Macou will be running by
January 1st And if »e can secure labor, 1 under
take to mv that trains will be pa sing between
Rome and Atlanta by March IsL The building
___ iey—8i6,ioo,coo—j
secured. Soon after the syndicate waa formed
there was auy amount of talk thereof. The
rapidity with which the money was subscribed
was simply astonishing. So great was the talk
thus c cession ed that a gentleman approached
me and saying that he heard I waa buying ail the
railroads in the country, tried to sell
140 mile road in fifteen minutes. I nis was
work, and I declined. [Laughter.] But
serious, we shall build this road almost as rapidly
m the gentleman attempted to effect the tale.
In this building we shall attempt to
harmonize all opposing Interest and shall deal
(ably with all opponents; but 1 could dwell all
night upon railroads. Again 1 my that I suj-
cerely thank you for this princely welcome and
1 hope that all we desire may be accomplished.
Aa I said before. I son not a public speaker,
but 1 have with me a gentleman—
I refer to General Humus, of Memphis, who does
all that for me.”
Colonel Cole returned his seat amid great ap-
ruarks waa perceptible *«
all sides,
will
minds of anyone who heard him.
In New York he may have secured the money
with which to build his road, but last night in
Atlanta he secured friends who will gladly ha 1
tbe initiation of his proJ«cL and when his labors
shall have been completed, tbe oolonel will
findta the^ hearts of the people of Atlanta a re*
Major Crane proposed the “Blaff City on the
Mississippi” and called upon Colouel Humes for
Colonel Hnmea replied by saying that he waa
overwhelmed by this compiimeuL Uo referred
to the history of Atlanta aud Its brilliant career
in the past. He said two facts had always pre
sented themselves. Ooe la that she is aud will be
tbe railroad center of the south. There are ihote
-Ter to build ’ -•-* • c
111—■Igpl
who offer to build her roads to oonutetber with
,h * **«—*—i--• -*— —-he Atlantic
money and
river and
their own
--- Jie city l
They do not do it became of an
oo.cn, using
f «Jriu»gs. but became they see Ler^mportanca
and realize theTuliglory of her futures They
are putting their money Into the enterprise
because they feel confident that thay will
ai d make satisfactory returns on the outlay. Ihe
oolonel oooetives this Let and come* to you
and says he is not Riven to talking, yet, by single-
ncm of purpose, he has rLen to the position of the
kin* of the south. He was once an
bumble boy and drove a two-horse team, butty
dint of that entei prise, which ia truly American,
be haasaromtd the leadership in railroad circles?
His discretion gu ded him then and still guEltd
when he sought Atlanta as the railroad center
Tfae.e is no doubt about Atlanta’s future, and
them roads and her trains wpl reach tbe far wesL
transporting the products of tbe south ooe wav
and the products of the west the other way
These new roads are the shortest routes from
Atlanta to the w» sL
To the toast ’-City of Atlanta.” Mayor Eneluh
responded substantially as follows; “1 think
everything which should be said about Atlanta
has been said, not ouly by Dr. Miller, but by the
chairman, Mr. Crane. The brightest day of At
lanta’s history Is Just beginning to dawn. Thi*
day has long been loi ked for. It L the answering
of our prayers. Atlanta, like other cities, has had
hex reverses, bnt she also has had her portion of
good fortune, and her pnspecta for the future
should send a thrill of p easure through every
*-sme. Her credit is good and floats a five and a
til per cent bond at par. Promptly paying her
ist debts haa made her credit, and the must and
All march on to the reward which awaits her.
i reply to Colonel Cole’s complaint that he can’t
d into the city. 1 have to my that he shall get in
god 1 ran get pim ftt. 1
Colooel McCrsckan, Colonel Cole’s chief of coa-
““ very unexpect
mid: “Mycoming*
ed and 1 can scarcely rtal.sel am here, and were
It Lot tor tbe fact that I see before me the faces of
these who welcome me. I wonld almost doubt it
1 have been engaged for a number of vean in
the construction of railroads and about one
month ago. atlhe sogeestion of frlendr, made a
two weeks’ tour of the toutherfi states to satisfy
myself about the poscfbilltky and demands for
ratirosds in this section. 1 was pleased with what
at the
the matter
tut could do L
flays ago when I
I formed that the road would bp built, and we
have eome to build it ’’
Tho following tetegmm waa then read t
toe*. Stay 20 —The empire state of the
penh deajrts to join the empire state of the south
In developing iu railroad*, commerce and manu
factories aad in kindling a fraternity that shad
George L Seney.
rcssttussK
to dor people, and for him
_, —taped was apparenL
Colon*! Cole arealn took the floor, and in * hriel
speech spoke oFalr. beney. He reviewed'tik
many virtue* in language that added much to the
high tsterm In whichMr. Seney is held bj our
He speke of the great *b:lityof the gen-
tore cnihustastic than eyer,
JbiXtaT
Is m the right direction, has been made by those
who command general confidence, and will re
sult, I doubt not, in supplying the world with a
revised translation which will win iu way to the
front rank. By slow stage* It will mo7e forward,
commending itself steadily to the enlightened
judgment of Christendom. ’
Rev. John W. lieidt,o! Trinity church, re
plied as follows to a querry from the reporter:
“I am glad of the Lew revL-ion. It is the result
has been studied, compared, tested by every rule
of translation aud construction, aud the final
rendering agreed on. 1 coufcss to disappoint
ment in some changes. They affect my precon
cepttons and limit
“rings which appeared
new version is most timely. It fiuds the Christian
world engaged in table reading as perhaps never
before; and now a fresh interm is excited to
compare the old and new. Tbe word of God
will be more to the world ou account oi this re
vision than at any former i or i-*-i. This condition
will be favorable to the spread of gospel truth
throughout the earth. 1 am not afraid of the
new Bible. We have the old one, too. and both
are sufficient for instruction in righteousness
* . «'* * yenjyn was slow in coming into
As King Ji
general use, so wilt this Victoria ven-ion be; not
m slow, but requiring time. God speed the
knowledge of His word.’
«S^ 1 u.c^h.'il3f loro ’ u ’ rleu “ lrwt
••youwUhto know wbkt I think ol the rertoed
venton? Well, alteraereral mouth, rewtipcahonl
it In pepen. muednea anil ravlewi, aad .tier .
cental etudjr of tbe book itaclf, I conceive It to be
one of the grande.! achievement! of the century;
end cert.inly It ought to be when eome of the
tipcat biblical fachol.r. of Europe and America,
h.vo given it theft deetcu thought enriched by
jut .ccumutaUone of mend knowledge.
The crilteal .ludy ef all ancient manurcrlp .
known previous to revliloobaintUcd forever tho
authority ol tbe aeooud text, and wbeuwen-
member that thuwaa done by men thoroughly
acquainted with the destructive criticism, ot the
nuonalietlc Khoolr of Germany, England and
France, we cannot too highly appreciate the
lahoriol thoee mmi of God who have given u.
Si* Ordering on abeolnto purity.
The rendering of the text & all that caribouf.
tired; It Is clear, euphonlotu, end critically cloee
»the original, aa every mlniater moat know who
haa any anowfedge of the Greek text. Innum-
ber.efpuce.itl. Infinitely .uperlor to the old
vcralon in bringing ont the real Idea of Iho avan-
gelUt or apoaUe. and the latter l«ct will giro
tuch an lmpetua In time to ChItalian thought aa
waa never belore dreamed of. Itba treaauryof
rich jewelato.il thinking preacher. Some op!
pot l.lon will he made agaluat it by thoee who
love the old. through amoclatioii, which la
natural,and by other, who perhap. have been
(Jnappolntcd In the tcclariaa cxpectatioui and
2a!? ignoraut mlnlatcra
wl > u > to prejudice the people
egainat IL Ten or fifteen yean
> wln ed She3
arouud ihe Kugllah heart, but aU or aeren
JutodltlaatSabbath
In my pulpit, aud will continue to doao. I want
my people to have the word ot God. The Heim,’
diet Kpuoopal church depoaltoriee will baveenor
mouaaauaui the new vendon, at lean among onr
preacher, who are moving in advancedUnm.”
An efTirt ana made to we BUhop Beckwith and
Dr. Boggr, but they are both out or the city.
THE SUFFRAGE WOMEN.
Tbe Spectacled remain Aai
Ulrica In
Special dlapalch to The OouatitoUon.
Cotton. Hay 27,-Tke eeoond day ot tbe Notional
Woman’, .uifrageconvention opened with prayer
by Ilev. Ada C. Cowles. Utae Anthony then
prta uted a aerie.of resolutions aa the platform
of the convention. Getting forth that ft U the duty
of coagremlo submit a proptalilon lor a sixteenth
amendment to the national couaUtntlon that
shall prohibit reveral states from disfranchising
thcirrllllMlifm lomttnf Aftiaw. iL.a r« a ..
their citizens on account of sex,
ticg the proposed woman’s suffrage amendments
in Iho ktMtf-u nt Inrllwn. Ttea^...7 _
that in submit-
. —.—w-—e-—~ —— ~ - v...._ge amendments
iu the states of Indiana, Oregan and Nebraska!
women hsvn rlM.lv sh» rl.hi .i ..... .
rijfrt totroteoa ^ques
tion; that It Is the duty of tbe women ot Texas
to aval! themselves of their acknowledged right
to vote: that the right of suffrage should be bawd
without distinction of
“■ri^ltovernment in the exeretied
this right a Ponding the dUcuM-inn these resolu-
ou the table. After a number of
for the oooouraglng word* of tho gaveraor.
Tb© lIUsiMippi\»iioy Plaatei*.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
XxMrma. MayML-Tfce Missi^Upi Valky oot-
ton plan ten asaoefation met In regular annual ma-
yretentay afternoon at the grounds
Ctouriy tai- tJao .
There was a large attend
ance of delegates from all thoooiion state* The
meeting opened with t»r*yer by Bishop Oulntart
of Tennessee followed bv*an address ofwelcome
^f°?* ®lai*P« oi Memphis, which wss
replied to on beh&lf of th* association by
Ge*re*al James R. Chalmers. Addresses were
rosdo hr Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia, *uid
Bop, L. K. Chittenden, of New York. Ttenlcbt
atbreratowoperaebouw, Colouel F. c. Mo££
president of the a<aociatloo, read Ue
annual address which treated of tho a-xuJlture
and manufacturing future of th© coato. th* Mis-
«« toe future
Oilerialnea to Uet Util at u
HriTuviLcx, N. c,. Hay it-lhuw.
r.wn, a widower living heathen? wSri
way from Us huge yeuerday, irevtoThia three
ttiidren .lose w the tot The youngmt ol rb«
children, a h y of three yeare; had tour 1-1?
aickiy. and the two oiderchfuSn, » boy and
conceived the Idea ol pu-.tlug hSouuJ fbe fl.’
They accordingly tied a rope around hla u*ck
K“F ,0 a J"“t of tbe h?u£ wh5£
few ainutre later by a colo-M
«■ the
P5i hod finally regained consciousness. Rr
turning homeward sometlmt later, she sUmoed
‘fKSSSSd
burial, dug the child up aafl wreled Uto
bouae. Toe child dtafl to-ruylromuSzhotk
Fin© Wheat.
gJL r fSSS*of f ito2uS£ u iSc , .y , ^Sfi???,‘?S
ne spore o^ tee gnat ability of the gen- wih he read* for hTrv«. 1 ^ .'fcJS* Tertety. and
hu philanthropic disporition, and mid
telegram from this city, declaring that nearly all
the children have been withdrawn from tbe
public schools here on account of an epidemic
which began in the Perkins family, ana which
in the language of the telegram, “Eighteen phy
sicians declared it to be scarlet fever, and one
yellow fever.’’ 1 desire to inquire oi you, offi
cially, how many children have been withdrawn
or are now absent from the schools through fear
of an epidemic of scarlet fever or any other dis-
Yonr immediate attention is respectfully re
quested. Very truly,
James B. Baiun.
AND HR REPORT8 THE ATTENDANCE AS USUAL.
Office of Superintendent of Public Schools,
Washington street.
May
Sec
retary Board of Health, Atlanta, Ga —
Dear Sir: In answer to your note of to-day, asking,
me to state officially * how many children have*
been withdrawn irom the public schools through
tear o! an epidemic o( scarlet fever, or of any
other disease,” 1 would state that on Wednesday
Thursday and Friday (Uth, 12th, lnih iustar.u
quite a number «>( children were withdrawn from
the schools on account of the deaths in tbe Per
kins family—two of whom were pupils in the
schools aud died afters brief illness, supposed to
have been scarlet fever. The alarm sutisidi d at
once, and on Monday following all. or nearly all
oi tho children returned and are now in the
schools. 1 know of no epidemic prevailing iu tbe
city, and judgiug from tue large uumber of chil
dren in at eudance on the public reboots 1 am
sure the city haa not, in a nnmber of yean, been
In a more nwtithy condition than at present..
Very respectfully, W. F. Slaton,
Superintendent City Public Schools.
AND THEUEUrON DR. IIAIRD REPORTS.
Atlanta, Ga., May 2G, 1881.—T. J. Tar it
D., Secretary National Board of Healt . wijh
ington. p. C.—Dear Sir: Your favor of the
&* t t?V< inc V > L inB< i I lP plng ,rom lhe cJlumMof
tho National Republican, referring to an alioZod
epidemic of scarlet fever and a Twodble «*a2 of
yellow fever lu this city, and rcquSung informs-
tion in relation thereto, is before meT 8
The fscis are briefly these: About < n
stactalady and her two children were suddenly
Pronrinent symptoms being sore
throat, vomiting, purging*nda cutaneotueffior-
££ss» .‘is
“ d “ dl ' d -^7
,. 11 —tooogbt by Uie attending, and aome of
M ?”f?, ,e v«r. notooe, at leaat, of the conaulUne
ttojaWamdtoMtod from thu oplnlrui. andif
acted es hla wriUvc belief thalffiTfonV tkauS
toe °f. impure mil water.
_ The puMloaUari Of the foregoing fact., more or
dUlrmatag event, so promptly proclaimed, as the
°i a terrib *e epidemic of malignant
impelled,by lS“»
UM: r ch J ,dren their
mrefevSiUd,
vanished.
A sporadic case of acarietina ia rarely reported -
tKMklbly there have been a dozen cases, all ir •*
tn the city this year, with three or lour SeV IS;
those which occurred in p- f ti.
kins’* family—but, so far an I ■■ inforw Si .
dtrejae haa never prevailed In Atlauto^J;
I t ia impooJble to conceive how
reference to the existence of a J? 1
fever originated. No care of
ever developed In thla criv v«t h-JL b “
f nl epidemic of ik7* • during the fear-
quarantine precautions 7 whaSsSS and
»agla Instance’ 1 ^ has toe
- ,b '—-*
Vd e £J^a“.L!S
sagr&ssj’E rnssr
faygtNtoijsSi H A,^.?Si
Very truly, Jas. R. Baird, M. D.
Springfield, Mass., Republican.
—Edgar T. Pagr, Esq , Druggist, wrifesn*
front Chicopee Falls that Mr. Albert. Guen-
tlier, nnder Wilds bote!, has used that re-
™vere £j e nf £ 8t ' , JacobN 0i >. for a
severe case of rheumatiam and it cured
hlagic. He also list.1 it with
great success among his hors r s, in cares of
sprains, aorea. and it cor,. every tune!.
STATE-HOUSE CLEAN INCS.
Tux governor left for Nashville, yesterday.
Cavrant Naurs retained to the etty last night
( Tna quarterly crop report la abjul ready to go
WkSgAT expxrtmeutei Plat hall up
UtI^r?SS £ ^ »».•»<>
J2S- S S «P to the bade coal mine
yesterday to inspect the convict camp there.
tbe coinmltJee appointed
r tho last general assembly to Irzaeut the cmT.
«™J*?****}hm dry yeatero^ en rouS^m
C&SVmuSX?- u - torn,
to'ifSSeM SMS So££3
re!K? y i. ,n ’“h'toO sentenced to eST&re
S3?’®-
. *xd the county i.hyticiau is-
surd h pardon to Walter hirt. a fourteen yei»r
old boy who was convioted of larceny fromthe.
J 1 ®*" *nd sen ten cod in March to six months on
the public works of Fulton ocuuty. The boy iu
dyii g of consumption. y u
Sell* Brother*’ cJ.cti*
to-night, fu the act where Butler .hoots a •
from the head of BaogLman, Butler mlLio’hi 0
murk and the bullet tlruck Bauahmkb re
hied Just above the eyebrow. The Sli
ted the bone, but la Dot 1 llj I&!»_}.
A txTTka was received at the comptroller r.r,.-
rai .office yesterday from toe "GuarenrlS
pany of North America," lutj.ted’
atking re me questions with, new tocfliSb
“fW, T, be *“*»■»! the rempSifi
fiinitolng reliable men with goed bondsrebard?
tion. where they are requited to atm tbfl.*fl!i
would be quite i novelty here. tlv< - ,llwa “ i
*rw Mmn Awaftlag Owner.
Ihe Chanty hospital at New OrlCAne
Ixttneiatia, ia the recipient of over a rii, 1!ir.,
?.'rI.“r *o'. b * the LonisianaStrie frot
tery for the grant of its franchisers; and M
A ihruphin No. 212 Broadway, New York
ctty.New York, or at New Orleans lim£
has made the announcement that on
Wt.h <ite next Grid StS-JuStS
Bistributioc. among holders of $10 tickets
?- r 'ftto’tocal pans thereof over half a mii-
Uon dollars will be autribiued, under the
T lie^r^frd “toh^etoem of General, G.
Louisiana, end Juba] A.
zjbrif of 1 rK .' : n *’*• commissioners on
behalf of the ticket holders and the man-
•wmat. iu.y24d*7it
-Queen Victoria refnwd to reerjv* a
per r«s who became a widow not v.. r , p,.,”
ago, and who has since contracted, a Z-ond
marriage. The queen thereU^ dSt
second mtrria,., ■ though
mrri^“ government u mostly to blame
Became it aide fo Petoaal Busty by restoring
co „r and lustre to gray or faded bair. and
to benefleui to the scalp, is why I-jrkei's
Hair Balaam is such a popular dreeing,
may20-dim tue* ihurtat AwkyJ***. 3dp
Rai I rood OlUrlal* In Town.
( i l< A wHi r \ 2 * ner * 1 manzgvr of the
Ja u.' w l Ul otiii-r oflictal* of mat
oommizdoa for the purpose of Die-
■eating certain facta relative to their road. 1
Mre. Caroline Norton was at » chanty-
fair bantering Lord Suffolk ♦,* buy some,
trifle at an exhorbitant pric*. ’••Doa’i yoc,
know, ’sard his lordshij^OLfeaUinK
feebly, “rba: I iyu me prodigal son'.*'’
”No.” waa ihe answer, thought you were,
the lotted «UL' A