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4 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SEPTEMBER 13, 1881. THE CONSTITUTION, PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE DAILY CONSTITUTION 1?? published every day except Monday, and ia delivered by carriers in the city, or mailed postage free at *1 per month. *2.50 for three months, or *10 a year. THE CONSTITUTION, is for sale on all traina lead- ins out of Atlanta, and at news stands in the princi pal southern cities. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, published every Tuesday, mailed postase free for *1.50 a year-ten cop ies *12.50???twenty copies (SO. Sample copies sent free upon application. Asenta wanted at every post-offlee where territory is not occupied. ADVERTISING rates depend on location n the paper and will be furniahed on application. CORRESPONDENCE containins important news co le: ted from all parts of the country. ADDRESS all'letters and telegrams, and make all drafts and cheoka payable to THE CONSTITUTION. 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.