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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SEPTEMBER 13, 1881.
THE CONSTITUTION,
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ATLANTA. GA., SEPTEMBER IS. 1881.
Tim news from Senator Hill is reassuring in
??ine particular at least. The freedom with
which the knife has been used in the second
operation justifies the hope that it lias cut
beyond the diseased tissue and left the system
clear. Thousands of Georgians will most
devoutly pray that this may he so.
Thebe is a hurricane loose in the land, hut
it will do no harm in Georgia. It was first
observed on the Carolina coast and is now
moving northward, being due on the New
England coast to-day. If it tarries long
enough at Long Branch to break the heated
term, it will deserve to lie well spoken of
throughout the country.
Thf. president is improving so fast that the
amateur constitutional lawyers are beginning
to fear their new occupation will soon he
gone. The inability question is about to join
Arthur???s cabinet, and even the dispute over
Arthur's birthplace has lost its interest. It
makes very little difference now whether
Colonel Arthur was bom in Camilla or Kam-
sclmtka. * *_
Snow in Dead wood and sunstrokes l>y the
dozens in New York???such facts go to show
that this country is large enough to hold at
one time all kinds of weather. The snow in
the Black Hills is all that is needed to retire
the wheels ami bring into service the old re
liable runners. Wheeled vehicles are not
much more useful in the Black Hills than
sleighs in Georgia.
PREMATURE OBITUARY WORK.
The Constitution challenges' the American
press on one point. We have - never written
an obituary of President Garfield. Of the
thousands of columns of elegiac matter that
rests ujion the consciences of journalists who
doubted when faith was heroism, none can l>e
charged to us. Heaven be praised???ourpigeon-
hole is clear.
Through the darkest days of this struggle
between hope and despair, we have resisted
the temptation to prepare an obituary. Even
when the pastor of the president???sown church,
stealthily and despairingly sought in the pub
lic library, material for the funeral address to
which he had committed himself. The Con
stitution held aloof from the eyclojieilia and
cheerfully cast the campaign history of Gar
field out of the window. ' Even when Dr.
Bliss with liis ???laudable flow of puff,??? was
brighUgt and most liojieful we did not entire
ly give up.
We have sometimes wondered what place
would be accorded us in the journalism of the
future. It may be that we shall go down the
corridrfrs, as the one journal that never wrote
an Obituary of Garfield. That will do!
The forest fires of Michigan were certainly
the most disastrous to human life that ever
occurred in this country, and even the worst
may not be known. The district burned over
i*in the northern part of the state, where
railroads arc not numerous, and the country
is difficult of access. The extent of the dis
aster will not he known until every county in
the burned district has been heard from.
The ecumenical conference of the Metho
dists was iqicncil yesterday in London. This
laxly represents fifteen millions of Methodists.
These millions in. nearly every part of the civ
ilized worltl are divided up into twenty
branches, hut every one of them is a Metho
dist. Their representatives arc met in Lon
don to bring into closer relations these
branches and to promote Methodism general
ly. It will doubtless prove a historic council.
The rise in cotton is the silver lining of a
diminished crop. When the planter adds
about seven dollars to every hale he has made,
lie will proliably have aliout as much money
as he would have had if he had made as much
cotton as lie.expected to make in July. The
rice of cotton is about fifteen per cent higher
than it was a year ago, and it is safe to say
that it is twenty-five per cent higher than it
would have been if the seasons had been
wholly favorable.
lx the past eight months there were 87
failures in Georgia and Florida, their liabili
ties Wing $2,112,411!, and their actual assets
$1,291,GOO. In South Carolina there were 79,
in Tennessee 129, in Alabama 49, and in Mis-
sissipi 99. Bradstrect???s regards these failures
as, on the whole ???no more than the result of
???an ordinarily healthful movement of trade.
The southern states taken together compare
favorably in the tables for the past eight
months with other sections of the country.
The Arizona outbreak will probably W
kept within reasonable bounds and soon af
terwards crushed, there Wing a considerable
force of soldiers in the territory and near at
hand. The opportunity should, however, W
utilized to teach the Apaches a lesson that they
will not forget during this generation. This
may he difficult on account of the numerous
canyons ami the nearness of the mountains
of Sonora; hut unless it is accomplished there
will W no peace in either Arizona or New
Mexico. The Apaches should W* starved and
whipped into submission just ajp the once
warlike Sioux were. The Sioux are now as
peaceful as the Clierokees.
The French in Tunis are not getting along
first-rate. They find that the Arabs are very
much like our Apaches???hard to put down
and still hauler to keep down. Even the aged
Wv is not trustworthy, and there is a feeling
of insecurity in every part of the new acqui
sition. The heat is very great, the climate
unhealthy, and the natives arc rebellious,
crafty and irrepressible. Suppressed and over
come at one point, they break out at another
with all the vengeance that religion and ha
ired of invasion can suggest. A general Arab
uprising from Egypt to Morocco is feared, and
if such an event should take place France may
yet regret the cost, both in lives and treasure,
of her new African venture. *
Sooner or later the fanners of all sections
of this country???particularly those of the
south???will arrive at the conclusion that it
pays Wtter to have small fanus that are well
cultivated, well drained and well irrigated
Irrigation is fast becoming a necessity in a
country that suffers nine seasons out of ten
from drouth. The losses on this account
would in one season provide enough water to
render millions of acres drouth-proof. Ini
gat ion is costly but it is not near so costly as
drouths. There can W no certainty, no steady
profit, in American agriculture unless a rem
edv is provided for our ever recurring drouths.
No man is so blind that he cannot sec how
much ten acres of irrigated land would have
yielded in cotton this season, and there are
thousands of pieces in the state that can
at small expense W rendered productive,'rain
or no rain.
IS IT A MILLION???OR NOTHING?
There is a strange difference of opinion
in the Georgia legislature as to the condition
of the state finances.
The Hon. 1???ope Barrow asserts with distinct
ness that at the'end of the fiscal year there
will lie about $800,000 in the treasury.
Other gentlemen declare that Georgia can
not afford to spend $200,000 for a eapitol this
year, and that with the closest management
her balance will he a scanty one at the close
of the year.
Mr. Rice, of Fulton, replies to this with a
bill providing that only half the taxes for the
f irosent year be collected,as there will be near-
y one million dollars surplus in the treasury.
Now-who is right? Are we rich or poor?
Does tlie present tax rate provide a surplus or
a mere sufficiency? fan the state afford to
to build a eapitol, increase the school fun
Mid improve her departments? Or is she
too poor to do so?
AVe arc glad to be enabled to say that a
special sub-committee of the finance commit
tee lias been appointed to prepare a detailed
statement that will settle these very points,
and show exactly what the state will have
and where it must he used. We need not
say that we shall hasten to lay this report in
ull before a doubting and bewildered public
ATLANTA AN INTERIOR PORT.
The standing of Atlanta as an interior cot
ton port is rising year by year???and the figures
of her trade justify the rank that the cotton
world accords her. AVe give the receipts of
the past few years:
1874-75 ----- 63,130 bales.
1873-76 _____ oo,130 ???
1876-77 - - - - ??? _ 89,671 ???
1877-78 _____ KI0.41S ???
1878-79 _ _ * _ - - 87,853 ??
79-80 _____ 107,443 ???
SO-81 _____ 131,469 ???
It is difficult to say what the receipts
at this port wilTlie this year; but it is safe to
say that they will exceed 100,000 bales'
although the crop in this section has been ma
terially damaged by the drouth. It is also
safe to say that when the Georgia Pacific and
the Cole extensions are completed, an average
cotton crop will pour into Atlanta an amount
approaching 200,000 hales, making the city
second only to Memphis in the list of interior
ports. But after all the amount of cotton that
we handle is not so important as the amount
that we turn into goods; for the spinning and
weaving of one bale of cotton benefits a town
more that the mere handling of twenty bales.
The earnings of Fall River and New Orleans
during the past year fully establish the truth
of this statement.
COVINGTON AND ITS FIRE.
The late disastrous fire in Covington ought
to teach every .town and village in Georgia
a lesson. A flourishing town of fifty years???
growth, it was utterly without any protection
against fire. It had no organized tire com pu
ny, no engine, not even a line of buckets.
Consequently, when a building caught tire,
the flames spread without hindrance, and
consumed everything that lay in their path,
An engine in town on that night would have
paid for itself several times over. Indeed, a
tire engine is like a pistol in tlie west???when
you want it at all you want it quick. Every
village or town in the state???admonished by
the sad results of this Covington fire???ought
to purchase at once an engine of some sort
and organize a company to man it.
It was noticeable also that most of the suf
ferers by the fire were totally uninsured. Im
munity from fire for several years had discour
aged the annual payment of premiums and
insurance jiolicies had been generally given
up. This was certainly unfortunate. No man
ouglrt to attempt to carry on any business
without having his goods and his building
safely insured???especially in a place where
there is no other protection against the con- #
sequences of fire. The Covington people have
our earnest sympathies, and we trust tlicir
misfortunes may bring to themselves as well
as to tlieir neighbors the inqiortancc of guard
ing against fire???which comes in the night,
when no man expects it, and is more merci
less than a thief.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PRESIDENT.
Never perhai??s in the history of the Ameri
can people lias there liecn such an earnest and
sympathetic season of prayer, as that which
has brought tlie nation to its knees in the past
few days.
On last Sunday week from a hundred thou
sand churches all over this laud???from the
hearts of millions of worshippers, went up
prayers in behalf of a dying president. A
whole Cliristian people, without regard to
creed, sect, or party, bowed their heads in
supplication for the life of one man. On yes
terday, business was suspended over a .conti
nent, and men left their stores, shops and of
fices, and women came from tlieir homes,
that they might hear from pulpit and forum
the petition of God's people. If there is any
power in prayer???if the prayers of the right
eous avail anything???and we arc not permit
ted to doubt this???surely these prayers will be
answered.
More precious than ever will the life of
Garfield be to the country, if lie is spared now,
Secure in the sympathy and love of a whole
jicople, he can rise above the restraints of par
ty or the demands of i*artisans anil give this
country an administration that will be abso
lutely impartial, enlightened and pure
Chastened by suffering, touched by universal
sympathy, consecrated to a great mission in
tlie very presence of death, his ambition tem
pered and his prejudices lost in a tender sense
of gratitude andlirotherliood, he will bring to
the new discharge of liis duties, qualities that
will make hint in truth and in earnest a pres
ident of the people and for the jicople.
THE SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS.
The September elections are unimportant.
Yesterday Texas voted upon proposed amend
ments to the constitution of the state, respect
ing the site for the State university, the separ
ation of tlie medical college from the univer
sity, the location of the medical college, the
size and powers of the supreme court anil the
district courts, and the term and pay of the leg
islators. The last named amendment author
izes the legislature to sit in regular session for
100 days, the members to receive $5 a day.
Under the present constitution $5 a day is al
lowed for sixty days only, and long sessions
arc discouraged by cutting down the pay of
members to $2 a day for any extension beyond
sixty days. Under the law of 1881 establish
ing the university of Texas, the people decid
ed at yesterday???s election where the universi
ty shall he situated, and whether the
medical department of the institution shall
be located at a different place from the other
departments. The places put in nomination
and submitted to the governor up to the time
he issued his proclamation, were as follows:
For location of entire university???Albany,
Austin, Graham, Matagorda, Waco and Wil
liams???s Ranche. For location of the main
university without medical department???
Caddo Grove and Peak, Lampasas, Thorp???s
Springs and Tyler. For location of medical
department???Galveston and Houston. Elec
tors, however, had the right to vote for any
place.
To-day municipal elections will he held in
California???none of which are of interest out
side of the localities in which they take place.
Next Monday a member of the forty-seventh
congress is to be elected in the second district
of Maine, to fill the vacancy caused by the
election of Mr. Frye to the senate. Ex-Gov-
emor Dingley is the republican, Franklin
Reed the democratic, Judge Washington Gil
bert the greenback and Colonel Eustis the
prohibition, candidate. In 1878, Air. Frye
had a majority of 2,810, and in 1880 a plurali
ty of 1,509: The election of Governor Ding-
ley is generally conceded, owing to the fact
that it was found impracticable to combine
the opposition vote.
COTTON FACTORIES AND PHILANTHROPY
Mr. Charles Estes, of Augusta???who is
now traveling the continent over as an
apostle of manufacturing???says, ???Every
thousand dollars put into cotton factories
will comfortably support five people!???
The statistics show that $1,000 given to
philanthropic purposes will hardly support
five people one year. It costs $200 per
head to support a pauper, or $1,000 for
five.
But $1,000 put into a cotton factory will
give to the five people it supports the
sweetest bread of earth???that earned by
honest labor. Put into almshouses, it
give its stipendiaries the bitter bread of
charity.
In the first case it builds up the country
???supports schools and stores, and makes
idle hands busy. In the last, it stagnates,
paralyzes, impedes.
Money put into an asylum does its work
one year and is gone. Pat into a cotton,
factory it is an investment, that supports
its five people year after year, gives its
owner a handsome dividend???and then
comes back to him unimpaired.
The man who invests in cotton factories,
then, is a true philanthropist in effect if
not in purpose. The returns show that
factories pay, in the south, 22 per cent per
annum dividend. Where will philanthropy
pay better?
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PUBLIC,
The Constitution appears this morning
enlarged, amended and improved. Barring
a few maladjustments incident to a hurried
change, it goes to its readers to-day in the
shape it will hold for the next year or two.
The advance recorded in this change is
in steady pursuance of the policy long ago
marked out by the proprietors of this jour
nal. That policy is to keep The Constitu
tion abreast of the best sentiment of its
constituency and apace with the progress
of the south. Let this progress be ever so
rapid the time shall never come, through
lack of energy or purpose on our part,
when The Constitution shall be one whit
behind the pioneers in the grand work of
development in which the south has en
tered.
It is hut just to say that in the past few
years The Constitution has been advanced
by general sentiment into the very first
rank of southern newspapers. Its circula
tion has been increased until it is second
in this respect to but one, if any, paper
printed in the southern states. Its news
equipment has been improved until it is
equal to all requirements, and has made
the enterprise of the paper a by-word
among journalists. Its business has over
flowed the bounds in which it was once
easily confined, and encroached npon our
news and editorial columns. The present
change, therefore, comes as the conse
quence of a steady and legitimate growth???
a necessity springing from enlarged de
mands and opportunity.
A newspaper, above all things else, can
be put tojudgment on its record. Every
thing that it says or does is filed away for
reference. Its slightest utterances are fixed
in exact type and can neither be evaded or
denied. Its opinions are measured by
events, and its prophecies stand in black
and white nntil they have been realized or
proven false. It is to this test that The
Constitution invites the public. It is npon
its record, as printed and preserved, that it
asks a judgment this morning as it enters
upon a new phase of its career. In all the
pages it has printed, not one line or one
word can be found that was not true to the
political principles it pro essed, and to the
interests of its people. It has never uttered
a note that was at discord with those who
have sought toadvance.our city, state, sec
tion or country. No one will deny that it
has been a powerful agent in bringing
about the material development that just
now draws general attention to Atlanta and
to Georgia. It is to its actual work-^of re
cord and on record???that The Constitution
refers its readers, as against slanders pro
voked here and there by envy or malice???
and it is upon this that it basis its promises
for the future. What we have been able
to do, is but a hint of what we hope to do.
THE OLD TYPE.
Ther is quite a hurrah up-stairs and
down stairs, over the fact that The Consti
tution is to appear this morning in new
type. The enthusiasm is general. It ex
tends from the boudoir used as a compos
ing-room to the basement parlor in which
the educated presses clank their polished
Togs. It has even reached the counting-
room???that mysterious collection of cash-
boxes that have never yet had their fill,
and prosaic figures that are never yet ex
hausted. The pale-faced young man who
comes to search among our exchanges for
erotic poetry for his scrap-book smiles as he
wipes his brow with his elbow, and agrees
that it is all to be very fine and nice. This
is the general verdict. It is sanctioned by
everybody whose opinion is worth any
thing. In short, the new type meet with a
welcome which crops out in the careful
manner in which they have thus far been
handled by the experts of the composing
room. Million and millions of them are al
ready in place and the result may be seen
here, there and everywhere in The Consti
tution???how fine, how fair it is the reader
must be left to judge.
Up to this momentthere has been no one
thoughtful enough to say a word for the
old type that have been so faithful to their
mission. They have been tumbled to one
side with the haste that marks all reforms,
and they now lie in a confused heap, black,
dusty, desolate and mute. They are worn
and battered, and now, having served their
purpose, they are thrown aside. It seems
a pity???such a pity, indeed, that your true
sentimentalist might find it comforting to
Bit by this mass of confusion and weep. A
few hours ago, the little pieces of metal that
form this heap bristled and glistened with
all the ardor of thought. To some they
bore messages of peace, to others they car
ried information, while to all they spoke
after such methods as were given those who
used them to employ.
It seems a pity to bid farewell to these
faithful and uncomplaining chroniclers.
They have been the medium of thousands
of messages to the readers of The Consti
tution; they have embodied information
gathered from the four quarters of the
globe; they have shone with hope and faith,
and they have summoned sweet charity
from her hiding-place in the hearts of men;
they have fought a long fight in behalf o
Atlanta, of Georgia, of the south and of
the country; and through it all, the least
of their errors has been in the direction of
malice. Let us hope that the new type
which take their places to-day will bring to
those who read them nothing but good
news; let us trust that all their messages
will be cheerful???that they will speak only
of prpsperity and progress throughout the
land.
HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE.
The appalling disasters in the northwest re
corded in our columns of yesterday, repeat a
lesson that must finally be understood.
Last winter there were hundreds of men,
women and children frozen to death in Mich
igan, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Villages were
buried to the cliimney-tops in snow;
families blockaded in their homes, died of cold
or starvation; cattle and horses, and sheep
perished by thousands in. their stalls or folds.
The suffering was intense and prolonged, and
the distress universal. This summer the for
ests and fields arc so parched by heat and
drouth that a single spark fires whole counties.
The leaves drop from the trees and crackle on
the dry earth like parchment. Whole towns
are swept before the hurricane of flames; over
five hundred men, women and children are
known to have perished. The wretched peo
ple -hide in the bottom of their wells only 'to
he suffocated by the storm of fire as it sweeps
above their heads. Homes are destroyed;
flocks and herds are burned to crisps, and
fields arc left charred and desolate. In these
accumulated horrors of summer and winter,
the loss of property, of homes and of hope,
were the least lamentable facts.
These disasters are not confined to one year.
Every summer and every winter they ap
proach more or less the dread standard set by
this year. And every year they may be
looked for???the approach of every season may
be watched with fear and trembling. Despite
all this, tlie northwest teems with immigrants,
and each year adds its thousands to the vast
population; and nothing can kill tlie infatua
tion that makes this so.
The states of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
the Carolines and Virginia???the heart of the
south, known as the ???Piedmont??? region???offer
tlie best homes for these people. We have a
climate that is uncqualed. Neither summer
nor winter issevere. People areneither frozen
nor prostrated in this section. There is not a
day in tlie year when work cannot be done in
the open air. AVe have neither malaria nor
epidemic. The soil is fertile, and lands are
cheap???the natives are hospitable and clever,
there are schools, churches, courts, railroads,
towns and cities. The products of all climes can
be grown here and there are health, security
and happiness for the people. Nowhere else
on this continent are all the conditions of
rural prosperity so happily mingled as here.
It may take time???it may take years of bit
ter exjierience???it may take the sacrifice of
life and property and hope???but as sure as our
sun is bright???as sure as our breezes are health
ful, our water pure and our seasons temper
ate and delightful, it will be demonstrated be
yond dispute that this section is ???God???s own
country.???
The esteemed Courier-Journal more than inti
mates that tlie visit of Atlanta business men to Cin
cinnati. ostensibly in the interest of Colonel Cole???s
lines, but really In the Interest of competitive rail
road rates, was a piece of impertinence. At the
same time, these business men thoroughly repre
sented the wishes and desires of those whom the
esteemed Courier-Journal was recently soliciting for
advertising favors, and at that time they were very
nice men indeed. It is astonishing, in these days of
circuses and things, how suddenly a bay horse can
change color.
The hot wave of July has apparently been
warmed over for use in September.
Is its absurd antagonism of The Constitution,
the esteemed Macon Drouth has altogether lost sight
of the fact that important commercial interests of
its city were involved in Colonel Cole???s effort to
lease the Cincinnati Southern???just as it lost sight of
the importance to Macon of the Cole charter. It is
astonishing how a nice family luqicr like the Drouth
can be opposed to a giyat and good newspaper like
The Constitution.
The gaudy appearance of The Constitution is
not a sign of pride. AVe may crow a little, but
strutting is barred.
The editor of the Journal of Progress, one of the
most intelligent colored men in the state, takes an
unprejudiced view of the convict question. He per
ceives that the colored people are as much inter
ested in punishing crime and protecting society as
the whites. He is in favor of the llawes bill. White
demagogues who have been active in stirring this
question may as well be put on notice now that
they cannot deceive intelligent colored people.
A MEMBER of the| legislature says that ladies who
wear sunflowers can't complain of ;a man who
chews cinnamon buds. This is really vicious.
We now know what an elastic affair a biennial
session is. Two more will carry us to the next cen
tennial.
When we reflect that the republic is only one
hundred and five years of age, it is no wonder the
effete monarchies of Europe look upon it ns a giddy
young thing.
Marvin has been married to fifteen women, and
here we are complaining of a few bullet-beaded
Mm-mon preachers who come to Georgia to get a
drink of fresh com whisky. The way to uproot
Mormonism in the republic is to send Marvin to the
Dry Tortugas.
AVe are a logical people. The fact that the Penn
sylvania railroad furnished a special train to con-
vey the president to Ling Branch leads some of our
esteemed contemporaries to observe that perhaps
the railroad discriminations complained of by the
people, are not ns serious as has been supposed.
???The republicans,??? exclaims the editor of an Iowa
weekly, ???are in the field. Our gonfalon is unfold
ed to the breeze.??? This doesn???t sound like it was
written by a man who hasn???t changed his shirt for a
month, and yet such is the condition of affairs.
We have not heard whether the Hon. George Jones,
of New York, has delivered the citizens??? purse to
General Grant. The country has been expecting
something spectacular in this direction.
Mrs. Dr. Ensox.in order to lie on the safe side, has
prescribed nothing but a palmetto fan for the presi
dent. But she has talked eleven robust reporters
into a state of decline.
The general impression among the leading repub
lican journals is, that if Arthur was born in Cana-
ada it was through no fault of his. This view
gives them an opportunity to hit our effete Consti
tution a few extra diffs.
AVe have had three rains in tlie immediate neigh
borhood of Atlanta since last May, That is to say.
tve will have had three when two more showers lay
the dust.
A seven-carat hotel clerk is able to cope with a
nine-pound diamond.
While the rest of the country was praying for the
recovery of the president, the Ohio republicans were
holding jubilee conventions in which knives and
pistols were freely exhibited.
As yet, the lion. Potiplmr Pcagrecn lias made no
attack upon the carp ponds. Perhaps he has re
served this in onler to create a sensation during the
closing days of tlie session. AVe look for the Hon.
Potiphar to allude in scathing terms to tlie foreign
origin of these viciously productive fish.
It is to be feared that the intention of Colonel Co e
to tap Cincinnati right in the center of her dia
phragm doesn???t meet the cordial approval of the es
teemed Courier-Journal.
Poets should now hurry forward tlieir communi
cations. Poems have a'much finer flavor when
printed in new type.
An assistant private secretary will receive the
cards of oftice-seekers at Washington.
There is a good deal of fluctuation in prices, but
tlie farmer always pays the highest. It is strange
the legislature neglects to look after the interest of
the agricultural classes. he members are always
too busy.
AA'hii.e the president is permitted to drink only
koumiss, the stalwarts are fattening on boneset
bitters. _
Those who thought that the stalwarts had been
subdued can get reliable information by applying
to Editor McCullagh, of the SL Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
It Is remarked of St. Louis editors that they are
more or less pigeon-toed???a state of affairs brought
on by dodging brickbats.
There are days???nay, whole weeks???when the
leading Chicago editors refuse to pass tire time of
day when they meet each other in the highway.
The school misses, with new bangs and new
books, have made their appearance. One would
think the season was spring, but it isn???t. At least,
it is a very warm spring.
The public may as well reconcile itself to the in
evitable. The liver-pad astronomers are hunting
high and low for a new comet.
David Davis is looming up as the possible tempo
rary president of the senate. Georgia enters her
Uncle Joseph E. as a compromise candidate.
It has been ascertained that the white house in
September is available only ns a receptacle for pri
vate secretaries.
It is understood that General Grant and Hugh
Hastings were perfectly willing for the president to
be carried to Long Branch. This settles the legality
of tlie proceeding.
The Sprague estate seems to be as difficult to
wind up as the family quarrel.
Thebe was a young man of Atlanta,
AVho went out one day for a santa,
And, tripping along in a cauta.
Where tlie dollar emporium
Held forth in its glorium,
He pulled out a nickel installta,
And purchased his sweetheartan ear-ring,
A neat little, sweet little queer ring;
A quite little, bright little dear ring;
And it shone with such luster,
This five-cent cluster,
It affected the fair maiden???s hear-ring.
Working Up Bn-Im???.
San Francisco Post
A solemn-looking man recently walked into the
office of the Putalumu Peavine and handed a paper
over to the advertising clerk arid said ???I will pay
you vour top advertising rates to have that printed
in your ???Answer to Correspondents??? ??? column every
other week during the summer.??? The item read:
"Amateur Sailor???The quickest way to bail out a
boat while sailing is to pull out tlie plug in tlie bot
tom.???
???I???m afraid we can't do it.??? said the clerk, regret
fully, ujion which the solemn party folded up the
paper and walked out with a deep sigh.
???Who is that '.???"???asked the editor, lookiDg up.
???It's the new coroner.???
PERSONAL.
John Kelly still considers himself a bigger man
than Tilden.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean gets into O???Donovan
Rossa by calling him a ???vox et practcreiv nihil-ist!"
Senator Thurman abstains from public speaking
on account of ill health.
The health of Governor Wiltz, of Louisiana, lias-
slightly improved. He is a victim of consumption.
Mil Freeman, tlie historian, will sail for this
country on the 27th of September, and will deliver
his first lecture in Boston.
Stokes, who killed Jim l???isk, is in the oil business
and is very wealthy. He lias sobered down and is
an exemplary citizen.
SrE.vKEK Bacon likes the Atlanta climate, but he
doesn???t want to be kept away front his constituents
so long.
Mr. Stephens's new book is to lie a political his
tory of the United States. It was undertaken at the
solicitation of the Appletons.
Mit. John T. Waterman, editor of the Athens
Banner, the banner editor in more senses than one^
was in tlie city yesterday.
Mrs. William A'anderbilt is driving Saratoga
belles wild with envy of her sixty bonnets and loiids
of priceless lace. She had to engage an extra room
just for her own trunks.
Major Charles Ould, of Powhatton, Vn., still has
his old war steed in his stables. Tlie animal, though
he is 27 years old and carries two bullets in his car
cass, is still sprightly and will jump a fence ns high
ns liis back.
Mu. Rudolph, brother of Mrs. Garfield, says that
his sister's faith has always been strong regarding
the president's recovery, and slie expresses implicit
confidence in Ilr. Bliss and liis treatment of the
case.
Rossi 4s 52 years old. He is tall, well made,
broad shouldered, and with a fair complexion. In
liis movements he is graceful, and liis carriage is
that of a courtier. He lacks tlie grace and majestic
presence of Salvini, but is more relincd and invests
his impersonations with a rare grace.
Lott a Crabtree is sjiendlng the summer on tlie
border of lake George. She lives in a pretty cottage
built by Robert Dale Owen on the side of a hill that
sliqies to the water???s edge, where a quaint little pier
nftiinls a lauding place for her miniature boat, in
which the actress rows herself.
The Hon. Patrick Walsh lias, it is said by a friend,
cleared over 850,000 by liis recent railroad invest
ments. outside of certain heavy losses he made, in
common with other Augustinus, in Memphis and
Charleston stock. We sec no reason why this
shouldn???t make our genial contemporary comfort
able.
General Eugene a. Carr, who is reported killed t
with liis whole command, by the White Mountain
Apaches, was bom in New York. He entered the
array from the Military academy on September 1,
1S46. He rose step by step in rank ns follows: Bre
veted second lieutenant Mounted rifles, July 1,
1N50; second lieutenant, June 30, 1851; first lieuten
ant of cavalry, March 3, 1S55; captain Fourth cav
alry, June 11, 1858; brevet lieu tenant-colonel, Au
gust 10, 1861, for gallant service at Wilson???s
Creek; colonel Third llliuois cavalry, August 16,
1861; brigadier-general of voluuteers, March
7,1862, fur distinguished services at tlie battle of Pea
Ridge; major Fifth cavalry, July 7, 1864; brevet-
colonel, May 17, 186:!, for gallant mill meritorious
services in the nctinu of Black river bridge. Miss.;
major-general of volunteers, March 11,1865, for gal
lant mid meritorious services in tlie capture of Little
Bock, Ark.; major-general brevet, March 15, 1865,
for gallant and meritorious services in the field du
ring the war; mustered out of volunteer service,
January 15, 1866; transferred to tlie Fifth cavalry,
April 15, 1ST:!, and to the Sixth cavalry, April 29,
??? 1879.
IN GENERAL,.
Southern ladies at Saratoga cat sugar oil
cucumbers.
Women wlio pick tlieir teeth at hotel tables
always wear diamonds.
^ There are 585 Chinese children in the San
Francisco public schools.
Brooklyn has the best water and the worst
hotels in tlie country.
King KaLakua???s army consists of sixty
men. He ought to possess this country's alleged
navy, which would about match his army.
Guiteau wants to he married. It would
serve him right if somebody should take him at his
word. Nothing is too emel for him.
Tiie room in which the president is lying
in Mr. Kmncklyn's eottnge at Klbenni, is lined
with cork to insure dryness at all times, ns well us
to lessen the efi'ects arising from occasional fogs.
It is related of Mr. Spurgeon that he was
once addressed in the street by a person who, with
A single peach was the price of a horse and
sleigh in Delaware recently. George Thompson,
who farms the place of Dr Lee Cummins, on the
line of the W ilmington anil Northern railroad, for
the shares, made an agreement Inst winter to dis
pose of liis share of tlie pencil crop to B B Allen for
a horse and sleigh valued at Slot). After diligent
search in the orchard two peaches were found, one
of which Mr Thompson delivered to MrCtimminsns
his share, and the other he handed over to Mr Allen
according to agreement.
While we are enjoying what some people
believe to lie a heated term that beats the record,
and which superstitious people hold to tar the pre
cursor of a dissolution of tlie world, it is well to turn
to the record and see just where we stand. The dry-
spells that have become historic were in the sum
mer of 1630, twenty-four days; 1635, forty-one days:
1687, seventy-five days; 1662, eighty days; 1663, fortv-
fivcduys; 166S, eighty-one dues; 1694, ninety-two
???lays; 1704, forty days; 1715, forty-six dues;???1718,
two days; 1876, twenty-six days.
Kahoma, Mo., February fi.???I purchased
five In it ties of your Hop Hitters of Bishop A:
Co., last fall for my daughter, ami am well
pleased with the hitters. They did her more
good than alt the medicine slie has taken for
six years. WM. T. McCLURE.
The above is from a very reliable farmer
whose daughter was in jmor health for seven
or eight years, and could contain no relief
until she used Hop Bitters. She is now in
as good health as any person in the country.
We have large sales, and they are making re
markable cures. W. II. BISHOP & CO.
WhutOur Neighbors Say.
Washington Dost.
The Atlanta Constitution is now an eighth page-
paper, and the metropolitan journal of the south.
New York Times.
The Atlanta Constitution, which is, nil things
considered, the most enterprising and prosperous
l??tper in tlie south, has been enlarged ami taken the-
quarto form.
Memphis Avalanche.
That able and prosperous southern newspaper,.
The Atlanta Constitution, is now printed in an
eight page form, witli tlie pages cut and other im
provements.
Traveling Men
find it hard to keep in good heulth, owing to the
constant change of water, diet, and the jarring of
the ears. AH these tilings injure the kidneys, while
Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is eertain to
counteract them.
sep2???d2w guff iveil fri& wky2w Slip
Business Girls of the West.
Chicago Letter in Boston Transcript.
To a Bostonian traveling through the western
country some things look very queer. A little inci
dent that I saw at Quincy, 111., I thought worth
while to write you about. We arrived at the depot
hard on to midnight anil made our way to tlie foot
of the depot to a row of omnihus.se.s and entered
one. When full, to our astonishment a rather pre
possessing young lady came to the door and asked
for our baggage checks, and later for onr coach fare,
ufter which she alighted mill called to the driver:
???All right, Charlie.??? Inquiry revealed to us the fact
that tlie girl had - just bought out the 'bus line anil
runs the business.??? Think of a Boston girl doing
this!
Complicated Diseases.
A prominent gentleman in Cerro Gordo county,
Iowa, writes us that he finds Kidney-Wort to tie the
best remedy he ever knew for a complication of dis
eases It Is the specific uetiiin which it has on the
liver, kidneys anil bowels, whieh gives it such cura
tive power, and it is the thousnnil^jf cures which
it is performing whieh gives it ithreat cclebritv,
Liquid (very concentrated) or dry, both act efficient
ly.???N. II. Journal and Courier.