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ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 20,1881.
The French have taken Susa, but they have
not taken the wickedness out of the Arabs or
the swiftnessjout of theirliorses. They will have
to occupy a ifrcat many more towns before
the Tunisians become good French subjects.
The drouth is now broken up and abolished,
the 'southwest alone possibly excepted. The
lonff summer and the drouth have departed to
gether, and no one will shed a tear over the
change. The blessed rain is falling once more
in satisfactory quantities.
A national convention of jiostal clerks is
to meet in this city next week, and on the
llth of October the state railway commis
sioners, nearly one hundred strong, are com
ing. If there is one thing above another tiiat
people like to do, it is to come to Atlanta.
And Atlanta is glad to have them come.
Tiie old time “equinox" that the scientists
have tried to rob us of is now about due, and
we hope the elements will show the men of
science that there are some things they can
not comprehend. We speak for nil old-fash
ioned equinoctial storm—one that will fill
the wells and springs and branches, and give
the turnip crop a lwnun.
Turpentine, us well as cotton, is going up,
and thus the farmers in lower Georgia are en
joying a double boom. Turpentine that last
year at this time was worth 31 cents, is now
worth fifty tents, and the tendency is still up
wards. The drouth did not affect the crop,
and yet turj>entine moves up with everything
else. The truth is the country is too prosper-
ous for low prices. Nearly everybody has be
come an active consumer.
Ip onr readers were rich, if Georgia was
blessed with good crops, we would urge a
practical answer to the appeal of Port Huron
for help in taking care of the blinded, home
less, starving people of northern Michigan.
Let us hope that the rich and prosperous every
where in this country will see that the coming
cold weather does not find the afflicted people
of the devastated counties without food or
shelter or medical attention.
ago, took the first prize for claret
at the Paris exposition. Its business,'
from a small lteginning, increased until it
had become immense. Its wines became
famous over the whole country. There were
vineyards established in all the adjoining
counties to supply it with grapes and numer
ous smaller companies organized for making
wine. The other night its buildings were
humed and over 18,000 gallons of wine stored
in the cellars destroyed. So great had been
the success of the company, however, that the
directors at once determined to rebuild and
rented houses in which to press this year’s
vintage.
These are but samples of what money and
sagacity can do in the south. There are oj>-
portunities of this sort to be found in almost
every county in the south. They are waiting
for cash and brains.
The Egyptian colonels are quiet, hut flic
khedivc is practically their prisoner. It seems
that the settlement which tiic colonels ac
cepted was obtained chiefly through the
efforts of General Stone, an American, who
was ap]Kiintcd chief of stair by the khedivc
some time ago. The action of the colonels
may result in a considerable change in the
affairs of a country that comes nearer being
the world's center than any ytlier that can be
named.
The action of the Irish league convention
is convincing proof that the land agitation
will go on regardless of the oi>erations of the
land act; and it is also plain that a land-re
form agitation in England itself ia inevitable.
The liberals seem to be ready to promote it.
Altogether the prospect is not a good one for
“the most powerful aristocracy” that the
world has ever known; for land reform in
volves the abolition of primogeniture and
other important- changes.
The strike at New Orleans was settled
by a committee of the chamber of commerce
acting as mediators between flic contending
parties. After a suspension of work extend
ing through thirteen days, it was agreed that
tlie employers should hereafter lie free to
employ whom they pleased, but they agree to
deal fairly with the late strikers. The tariff
of the workingmen was accepted. In other
words, the employers are now rid of obnoxious
rules, and the laboring men will return totheir
work free from unpleasant conditions. The
settlement will doubtless prove enduring, and
all concerned are glad it has been reached.
The Anglo-French, or even the Anglo
s’ urkisli control of Egypt is imperilled by the
recent uprising of the little army under
Arnby Hey. It is not known what brought
the outbreak about. Some people in England
seem to think that France had something to
do with it—that she desires an excuse for
occupying Tripoli. But the probability is,
the feeling against foreign intefcrcnce togeth
er with a Mohammedan revival, led to the
demand of Cherif I’asha and a constitution.
The mob got the minister they wanted, but
it is not probable that they will secure a con
stitution. for that means indei>endence. The
country is now practically controlled by
Messrs. Blignieres and Colvin, the one an
English officer, and the other a Frenchman,
and the English and French governments
have no intention of turning the finances
and general management of the country over
to its own i>eople. If the revolt is kept up the
Egyptians will reap, instead of independence,
foreign occupation. The Egyptian army is a
mere shadow. Five thousand soldiers from
Eurojic could scatter it like chaff.
THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH.
Two items in the i>apers of the past day il
lustrate the southern development going on
in states outside of Georgia.
A company was organized in Nashville with
$2,000,000 capital for the purchase and im
provement of the Sewnuee eoal mines. This
company was organized by Mr. John H. In
man. Mr. Inman came south for the purpose
of seeing whether or not it was safe to loan
$100,000 on the property, and found it so
tempting that lie and his friends put $2,000,000
in it. It is said that he cleared at present
figures $300,000, and the development of the
property will add to this large sum.
The Monticello wine eomjKuiv, of Char
lottesville, Vo., organized about seven years
teutiontothe fact that the capitol had not at that out, however, his changing his attitudes in theleast
time been worn out by biennial sessions. Can as degree.
much be said now?
Many a young lady in society has been deceived
by a clove.
A member of the legislature suggests-that the cir
cuses are very backward this year. This is probably
true; but the time seems fast approaching when
every member of the legislature will be a circus unto
himself.
The intuitions of a good woman are invariably
the essence of wisdom. Garfield, it is said, is
vehemently opposed to any movement which has
for its object the install t n o Arthur in the exec
utive chair. We are b > nd to believe that Mrs.
Garfield is a true Jeffersonian democrat.
THE FARMERS AND THE CORN CROP.
We print this morning a remarkable inter
view with Judge George Hillyer touching the
shortage of the com crop of the northwest
and south. Judge Hillyer is no alarmist, hut
eareful, observant and deliberate in liis opin
ions. His testimony following close ui>on
that of Governor Brown, who wrote of the
condition of the crops in the southwest and
west", is entitled to tiie gravest considera
tion. We have little doubt that the
United .States will grow this year
tiie smallest crop of corn that it
has had in years, and that the price will
be pushed to high figures. We have little
confidence in the great corn reserve that
is said to be in regions so far distant from the
railroad that it has not paid to haul it for
sixty or seventy cents a bushel. Our opinion
is that the shortage will not he supplemented
by the erojis of any areas not usually drawn
on. The pro liability that our cotton raisers
will get a high price for their cotton is of very
little account in a general calcula
tion. The advanced price of corn, fod
der, wheat, meat, hay and other
necessaries, which will follow the price of
eom no matter how high it goes, will be felt
grievously. The increased price of cotton
will hardly do more than counterbalance the
shortage of that crop.
The farmers should, therefore, take the advice
given through our columns and save every
pound of hay that can be cured on their farms.
In the meantime we shall not consider the mis
fortune of the short corn crop without its
compensation if it will teach Georgia farmers
the utter folly of raising cotton exclusively
and dejiending on the west for their pro
visions and forage.
The whole country is prepared to lean fondly to a
wet spell; but the disposition of the wet spell seems
to be the other way.
PROTECTION FOR CONVICTS.
To whatever extent the details of the death
of the unfortunate convict Mathews may be
toned down by additional explanations, the
affair cannot but he regarded as a most horri
ble exhibition of wanton and unjustifiable
cruelty. All its features are so exceptional
that it is not necessary for the press to discuss
or denounce it. It is a most unfortunate oc
currence, but, happily, it will do more to
bring about reform in the right direct ion than
all the clamors of the demagogues and all the
arguments of the sentimentalists. It shows
precisely where a reform in the system should
begin. The convicts arc to be protected from
irresponsible men who are employed to guard
them. The law, acting swiftly iii this in
stance, has already taken this particular case
out of the domain of discussion.
The most important feature of the Hawes
penitentiary bill is that section which pro
vides that the ordinary prison discipline
which is one of the necessities of all punitive
systems shall he administered by some re
sponsible person to be appointed at each camp
by the lessees. Every breach of discipline is
to be brought to the attention of this officer,
and his judgments will necessarily he dispas
sionate. Any guard or other unauthorized
l>erson who shall strike or abuse a convict,
will, under the Hawes bill, be sent to the pen
itentiary for one year. Tins is sufficient to
deter those who are inclined fo be cruel or
brutal, and thus the convicts, as well as the
lessees, will be protected.
But the question arises, how would this law
operate in regard to the convicts employed on
the Marietta and North Georgia railroad?
These convicts were donated to the contract
ors of that road by the legislature, and, as we
understand it, they are not under the control
of the lessees. It may lie that the legislature,
making this donation, empowered
the contractors to assume the authority
well as the responsibility of
the lessees. AVe have not time just at this
moment to investigate the matter. If there
is any omission of this sort, it should he
promptly remedied, so that these convicts
may profit by the protection afforded by the
new penitentiary bill which recently passed
the senate, and which will undoubtedly pass
the house if the reformers in that body are
earnest in their professions.
The dry goods clerk who has overdrawn his salary
to pay his iee-eream bills will regret to hear that the
theatrical season is upon ns.
A dollar will go a long ways in Atlanta. It will
buy a dozen rice birds, or, what is better, twelve
pounds of beef haslett.
Federal oflice-holders in the south should begin
to learn a trade. If internal taxes arc abolished
they will be compelled to scuffle for a livelihood.
The president is constantly achieving victories
over his doctors. Doctor Bliss, however, seems to
bear up under it
One of the depressing resnlts of liver-pad as
tronomy is seen in the remarkable speed with which
the comets retire from our neighborhood.
December is rapidly approaching. December is
the month in whieh congress meets, and everything
poiuts smilingly to the time when Conger will add
the violence of his vocal calliope to the ravages of
the drouth.
The train robbers of Missouri appear to be pro
vided with letters de catch it. We despise to quote
French when there arc no italics in the office; but
under a republican form of government the privi
leges of the individual must surrender to the neces
sities of the public.
Guiteau’s fatigued guard seems to have been a
member of the solid south originally. We hardly
know whether to be proud of him or not.
We judge from the remarks of Editor Walter, of
the London Times, on the American press, that he
has not been a regnlar subscriber to The Constitu
tion. If tills be true, he owes it to his readers to in
stitute a reform. For our part, we pride ourselves
on the fact that we are able and willing to send The
Constitution to foreign tourists at the rate of $1 a
month. There is no extra charge to editors.
Some of oiir esteemed contemporaries allude in a
jubilant tone to the praise which The Cosstitctjon
lavished upon the present capitol building four
■ years ago. In this connection, we desire to call at-
A young man sends us an essay on “The Plati
tudes of Plutarch.” It is as long as a biennial ses
sion, but this doesn’t matter. Instead of telegraph
ing it, he sent it by mail and now the facts are out
of date, comparatively speaking. As soon as
Plutarch platituded, the information should have
been put upon the wires.
It is given out that Miss Sally Bernhardt proposes
to start a newspaper iu Paris. It will be reman
bercd that Miss Sally has the first requisite of a suc
cessful editor—leanness.
Warner, of Rochester, who suspects that the
heavenly bodies are affected with kidney disease,
has offered a prize of 8200 .lor the best essay on
comets. The essays are to be descriptive anil all
technical terms are to be penned up in brackets.
This scheme looks like it would work.
A young lady of West End, who was serenaded
by an Atlanta youth recently, declares that she had
an attack of male aria. She has now concluded to
wear a sunllower at her belt as an antidote.
Guiteau now knows what it is to be shot at, and
he doesn’t like it. It may be mentioned here that
Guiteau is by no means through with his troubles.
The New Jerseyman who married his mother-in-
law ought to be a statesman. He has discovered
the sweets of conciliation.
A palace car has been named in honor of Emma
Abbott. It is proposed to fit the car for opera by
omitting to grease its wheels. In the bright lexicon
of the operatic stage, one squeak is as good as an
other, and probably lietter.
Complaint is made that when American preach
ers return from Europe they smuggle a guide-book
into the pulpit. •
Your Uncle Samuel is marrying off his younger
relations prejairatory to going to war. This shows
that the obituary which appeared in the editoriul
columns of the New York Herald of Sunday is some
what premature.
Atlanta is the mother-in-law of a new fashion.
When the front hair is made up into little rings
which are subsequently slighly torn up with a fine
comb, the style is known as the Fulton county
fluster. v
A married woman never gets familiar cnoug
with her husband to allow him to sec her sidling
and backing in front of the mirror. When she is
caught at it, she says she Is hunting a pin.
Naturally, the guard who unloaded his blun
derbuss at Guiteau is an Ohio man. The future
historian will comment upon this fact as one of the
least attractive features of the affair.
It is now believed that the backbone of summer
has been sawed in two—and no thanks to Vennor,
neither.^ • .
Several members of the legislature have rushed
off to sow their turnips.
Of oleomargerine, it may be said that cotton seed
oil is butter than this.
If your landlady is disposed to be communicative,
she will tell you that a pullet is not always chic.
Old Probabilities ushered in the rain storm by
prophesying light local rains. O. P. would do well
to* make way for Vennor.
It is a little sad to reflect that there arc compara
tively few colonels in the country outside of Geor
gia.
Six theatrical eomiwuiies have already dissolved—
and the season has barely begun. The gifted min
strel troupes, however, still hold their own.
It is enough to make one seasick to learn that the
czar and the emperor of Germany kissed each other.
They say that William got Alex, by the under lip
and held on like n domincckcr rooster.
Iroquois carried off the English purses honestly.
Otherwise we should begin to regard him as a pos
sible republican candidate for president.
There was a young man from Savannah
Who carried a temperance banuah:
A cinnamon bud
He used as a cud
Whenever he called on his Hannah.
Prince Henry, of Prussia, is a particularly
intelligent young man, and all he saw during his
visit to the roval dock-yard, whether on board ship
or in workshops, was regarded, not with superficial
carelessness, but with intelligent inquisitiveness.
The prince isulrcady a general favorite, particularly
at Osborne.
The execution of Djalel Agha, the Persian
marauder, at Teheran, was an imitation of Anglo-
Indian punisluneni. He was tied fast to an upward-
pointing cannon, placed upon a platform, and then
was so thoroughly “distributed” that only one rib
was found, and this was given to his wives, of whom
he had many. There was not enough left of him to
go round.
A house has just been finished which Queen
Victoria has built for Mr. John Brown within the
grounds of Balmoral, but which that fortunate sub
ject has not vet occupied. It is a spacious and plain
square mansion, occupying a pleasant situation in
the center of a lawn-like expanse of the royal de
mesne, with a carriage-drive leading to it from one
of the avenues.
Dr. Bliss says that when the president was
in the reclining chair Tuesday his attitude was
about thirtv degress perpendicular. Dr Boynton
savs his position was a recumbent one—simply a
change of couches. While the president was in the
chair his daughter Moliie, Luke Rockwell and a son
of tiie attorney general were in bathing. He could
see them plainly, but he made no remark.
Mrs. Shaw, the daughter of Professor
Agassiz and wife of the Boston millionaire, has es
tablished over thirty free Kindergarten schools in
Boston and the neighboring suburbs. She has
busied herself so energetically in the work of found
ing the schools and collecting in them the poor little
waifs of the city that her health has given way and
she is suffering from a nervous prostration brought
on by her exertions.
The Hon. Artemus Hale, of Bridgewater,
Mass., is doubtless the oldest ex-congressman liv
ing, having been born October 20, 1783, and is
therefore nearly 98 years of age. He served in con
gress from ]SlT> to 1849. The Hon. Murk Alexander
and Judge James Garland, of Virginia, both served
in congress as far buck as 1832. Judge Garland,who
is now nearly 90 years of age, is still judge of the
hustings court of Lynchburg, Vu.
Clara Belle, of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
who recently went to see a boat race between two
crack crews and was shocked when they appeared
naked to their belts, whieh were below the boat’s
side, and the only apparel visible was some figuring
in India ink on one fellow’s wrist, thought there
was some mistake, as she had never seen an earnest
boat race before, but the other women among the
spectators didn’t iliuch, and so she stood her ground
like a heroine.
William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania,
once lived in a house in Norfolk street, London.
He had a pceping-hole at the entrance through
which he surveyed every one who came to see him
before they were admitted. One of these, having
been made to wait for a long time, asked the ser
vant Impatiently if his master would not see him.
“Friend,” said the servant, “he hath seen thee, but
he doth not like thee.” The caller was one of
I’enn’s creditors.
General and Mrs. ‘Grant arc never seen at
anvof the public hops, and there is not a cottage at
the Branch where life goes on so quietly and iu so
thoroughly domestic a manner—a quiet drive in the
deep laudan, or the society of two or three friends
from the city, being the nearest to dissipation the
family indulge in. But the house over the way,
where Jesse Grant lives, is the center of a good deal
of guvetv, and the lawn is generally animated by
the presence of u number of lively young people.
The aristocracy of Home have divided into
twocanqis; one, including all the younger members
of tiie aristocracy, went with the king, while a few,
who were considered the legitimists, remained
faithful to the pope and the moral principles of the
church. One of the latter, an old prince, hitherto
deemed pious, has left his family for one of the
danseuses of the Costanzi, for whom he has pur
chased a villa and four splendid horses, and who
appears at the opera with him in the most exquisite-
toilets. This moral defection has given great pain
to Leo XIII.
Mbs. Florence, the actress, says that she
talked with the princess of Wales in the box of a
London theatel? and found her charming in man
ners and person. Her voice is soft and extremely
musical, and a slight German acecnt makes her
speech all the more pleasing. Mrs Florence pro
nounces Lady Lonsdale and Lady Mandeville
among the first of English beauties, and says of
Mrs Langtry: “She is not strictly beautiful. Shu
has a fair skin, and large, rouud, dark eyes, which
she uses very expressively, and with all the art of a
professional actress, in conversation. The natural
color of her hair is chestnut, but she is as often seen
with very light or reddish frizzes as with those of
IN GENERAL.
WAITING FOR THE ENGINE
AVERAGE INHABITANT OF
DALLAS AROUSED.
Bill Arp Meanders into Paulding County, and CTieeks
His Reins in DaHas, Where He Catches the Spirit
of the Times, and Takes an Interest in the
Question of Railroad Development.
PERSONAL.
The latest reported wealth of Mr. Tilden is
$15,000,000,
Tinney Rucker is already making prepara
tions for the Gainesville convention.
Mr. Edwin Booth will open liis season at
Booth’s theater October 3rd with “Richelieu.”
Alice Oatf.s lias gone to Australia, and Mr.
Marvin, therefore, has no rival in this country.
Litz once vowed that he intended to retire
from public- life, but twenty-eight years afterwards
he was still before the public.
General Burnside’s fine presence will he
missed: his good intentions for the south by his
education bill will be long remembered.
James R. Keene has jiurchased for $75,000
an English estate, upon which he intends to build
stables for the purpose of training his horses.
■ Mb. Peachy R. Grattam, an old lawyer of
Richmond, Va., and a brother-in-law of the late ex-
Govemor George K. Gilmer, of Georgia, died a few
days ago.
Bismarck is growing fat. In 1874 he
weighed 207 pounds, in 1870, 219; in 18,/, 230; in
1878, 243: in 1879,245; in 1880, 247, and now he turns
the scale at 251.
Dictator Pierola, of Pern, has made a
journey of nearly 1,700 miles, chiefly on mule-back,
and over the rough roads of the Andes, during the
past five mouths.
General Grant is adopting the loud New
Y'ork style of dress. His solemn suit of black has
given way to more swell colors, and he wears a blue
necktie with red poker dots.
The king of the Sandwich Islands, it is said,
will spend the first or second week of October in the
blue grass region, examining the blooded stock, of
whieh he owns considerable.
Lotta has received the new play written for
her by Mr Fred Marsdeu and is said to believe that
it is the best which she has. This is not saying a
very great deal, but everybody will hope that it is
true.
Said old Cornelius Vanderbilt to a young
man who came to tell him the sad story of how he
had lost money by stock operations: “Sonny, don’t
ever buy what you can’t pay for, and don'tseli what
you haven't got.”
The sultan is said to have a singular dislike
to foreign ambassadors, and Mr. Goschen declares
that there is only one way of making one’s self ac
ceptable to the sovereign, and that is never to re
quire anything from him.
Maurice C. Blake, the mayor-elect of San
Francisco, was born in Otisfield, Me, about 1817.
His father was a distinguished physician of Otis
field. The inayor-eleet w as educated at Bowdoin
college, and graduated in 1845 at the head of his
class. He is umarried.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, says that his
wife, who attempted to drown herself at Silver
lake. New Y'ork. a few days ago, is now much beter.
Mrs. Allison has been an invalid for several yeats.
She passed last winter and spring in Philadelphia
under treatment.
Garibaldi’s face is described by a recent
visitor ns absolutely livid, the yellow-white of a _ . _
corpse, and his hair and beard perfectly white. His ! which instructs nearly 1,500 students for a merely
eyes, however, retain fire and move about from side ' nominal tuition, has received scarcely any aid from
to side, following the people about the room, with- individual benefactions.
—Guiteau’s guards are exasperatingly had shots.
—The oldest Mason is not dying with his accus
tomed regularity
Out of every' one hundred inhabitants of
the United States sixteen live in cities.
The most beautiful woman at Saratoga this
season is said to have been a circus rider.
It would seem that Blanche Douglass has
as many husbands as General Morion has wives.
TnF. usual cost to the candidates of an elec
tion to the German rcichstag is about a million of
marks.
Tiie Germany and Switzerland Methodist
Episcopal conference has 9.717 members,showing an
increase during the year of 273.
It is now said that “Clara Belle,” of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, is a young lady of Newport,
Kentucky, who has never been to any of the water
ing place’s.
And still they come. The Virginia Post,
published iu Alexandria, and owned and edited by
colored men, has come out fail and square for the
democratic state ticket.
The city of Baltimore intends to give a re
ception and entertainment to the Frenchmen who
come over to attend the Yorktowu centennial, Octo
ber 10,11 and 12.
A woman who dressed herself ill men’s
clothes and went into the army during the war, so
that she could be with her husband, and who was
wounded in the service, has just received $600 in
pension arrears at St Louis.
A Denver girl advertised for proposals of
marriage. Her father published a catd to say that
her advertisement was merely a foolish freak, and
that nobody should regard it seriously. Then the
girl came out with a declaration that, being of legal
age to choose a husband for herself, she lias taken
her own means of getting suited, and did not meun
to abandon the plan.
Tiie Irish are to have an exhibition of Irish
manufactures in Dublin, hut, us the Philadelphia
American truthfully observes, unless it is pierred
out bv the remarkable collections of the Irish
arcliicologicnl society, and thus made to include
Irish manufactures from the times of Brian Boru to
those of Queen Victoria, it can be little else than a
testimonium paupertatis—a display of their poverty.
It is expected that the yield of wheat on
Dairy mole's famous “wheat patch,” in Dakota, this
year"will be 600,000 bushels. Ths cost of production
averages $7 an aere, or $210,000. The wheat is sold
at an average net price of $1 per bushel, therefore
tiie profit of Mr. Dalrymple’s little garden in 1881,
which is said to be a poor year, will be the differ
ence between $210,000 and $600,000, or the tritie of
$390,000; more than 200 per cent, on the entire iu
vestment.
Said he: “Andyou love me better than all
the world beside?” “Yes.” said she. “ And you
love me better than anybody else?” said he. “Yes,
dearest.” “And you wouldn’t think any more of
me if I was worth a million dollars?” Said she:
“No; andif 1 was a rich heiress, you wouldn’t want
to marry me any more than you do now?” “No,
darling."” They were not lying, gentle reader; they
were simply courting—that was all.”
It will not be long until the United States
will be the wealthiest nation on the globe. She now
stands third in the list, and a good third at that.
England comes first with a capital of 44,000 millions
of dollars; France second with 36,000 millions, fol
lowed closely by the United States with 32,000 mil
lions. The annual increase of national wealth in
Germany is 200 millions, iu England 325 millions,
in France 375 millions, while in the United States it
reaches the enormous figure of 825 millions.
Sax Antonio, Texas, is to have one of the
grandest hotels in the United States. Colonel Ed.
Wiekes has the matter in hand, and Juy Gould and
C. P. Huntington are down for $50,000 eaeh, to lie
increased to $100,008 each if necessary. It will be
known (so it is now thought) as the Great Southern
hotel, and will be the half-way house between the
Citvof Mexico and New Y'ork, as well as between
Sari Francisco and New Y'ork. All the money nec
essary to build a mammoth structure can be had at
once.
A queer conception of architectural styles
they have out west. In Cincinnati they are going
to build a union depot “in the Eastlakc style, with
Queen Anne facades, which go to make up the
modem gothic.” Such a building must be analo-
f ous to the brunette person with Grecian features,
[oman nose and blonde hair. It is to be feared that
the technical phraseology of architecture has about
as much meaning to the Porkopolitaus, as the won
derful French of the fashionable hotel bill of fare
does to its readers.
Tiie productive property and income "of
the principal American colleges is given in the cur
rent number of a monthly review. Columbia col
lege has the greatest resources; property valued at
$4,763,000. with an income of $315,000. Harvard is
second with productive assets of $3,165,000, with an
income of $231,000. Johns Hopkins university has
$3,000,000 of property, and an income of $180,000.
Yale has property to the amount of$587,000, with an
income of $136,000. Most of these Institutions have
been liberally endowed. One of the greatest of
American colleges, the university of Michigan,
Written for The Constitution.
Dallas, September 17.—I’ve seen higp;r
towns than this town, where the population
was more thicker, more denser, as Cobe says.
A man told me before I got here that I could
tell the town when I got to it by a wide place
in the road, hut 1 found several stores, and
some nice dwelling houses, and plenty of
flowers, and a good court-house, and a brick
jail with nobody in it, and that’s a mighty
good recommendation for any people. Pauld
ing has a voting population of 1,500 whites
and 300 negroes, and Judge Underwood gets
through his court business in three or four
days at a session. Bartow and Floyd have got
about twice as many people, and brag about
their high civilization and refinement, and it
takes twelve weeks in a year to keep up with
the court business in each county, and the
like of tiiat is what shakes my faith in the
morality of big towns and cities, and wealth
and an overdose of education. I like these
primitive old-fashioned, hard-working country
people because they are honest. I want ’em
all to be able to read and write, but 1 wouldn’t
send ’em to college if I could. Now and then
you may find one who would profit by it, but
in nine eases out of ten it spoils the boy and
a good citizen is lost to the state. I’ve, seen
the ignorance of our country people slurred
at by northern newspapers, but I’m not
ashamed of ’em. I’m willing always to put
’em side by side with their masses in every
thing that constitutes good citizens. The dif
ference between us is. they have
got one standard and we have
got another. How to make money
is theirs—“get money, get money; put money
in thy purse honestly if thou const, but at all
events get money,” as Iago said. Solomon
says, “rejoice in thy labor and do good in thy
life, for all else is vanity;” and Ben Franklin
never said a truer thing than that idleness is
the parent of all crime. So when I .see these
humble farmers at work in the field I’m not
afraid to take shelter under their roof. If my
horse gets sick they will doctor him. If my
buggy breaks down they will mend it. Con
stant industry is the salvation of a man. He
rejoices in his labor apd lias no inclination to
steal or cheat or take the nigh cut to fortune.
I found the good people of Dallas all jubilant
and serene; a hundred souls made happy by
the prospect of a railroad coming to their
town. For weeks they have labored and en
treated and reasoned with the magnates; for
weeks they have lived in a state of alternate
hope and fear, for the New Hope line was the
shortest, and that left them out in the cold,
l’unkin vine and Raccoon creeks meandered
through rough ravines and wild mountain
gorges, and the surveyors hunted in vain for
an easy route. Line after line was run, and
at the last it was rumored tiiat Dallas was
doomed and then the people were
sad and town lots were offered at
twenty-five dollars with no bidders, and old
Father Foot said he was too old to move, and
should stand by the flag, and the preacher
fixed up a consoling sermon for next day’s
service, and his text was, “Blessed are they
who expect little, for they shall not he disap
pointed,” and Braswell—the indefatigable,
irrepressible Braswell, who, like Colonel Jones,
of Rockmart, had pulled off his coat and roll
ed up his sleeves and put on his seven leagued
boots and piloted the surveyors into a thou
sand thickets, and tip muscadine vines and
down into dens and caverns, hunting for a
way from Dallas to Rockmart. Oh, Braswell,
where was lie?
There was the Braswell line and the Jones
line and the Spinks line and the wild turkey
line and tiie red fox line and various other
lines ranging from two hundred to a thousand
feet grade per mile, and I saw a drawing of
one of ’em which went through a tunnel and
immediately crossed a bridge five hundred feet
high slanting upwards and ending in the
mouth of another tunnel, and a mule was
pulling the engine and there was a man on the
mule with a thrash pole ten feet long, for you
see the boys have to work up at night all "the
ground they have gone over by day and send
it to Mr. Samples’s headquarters, who has to
decide which line is the best.
About 2 o’clock in the afternoon .of Satur
day a cloud of dust was seen rising afar off on
the Powder Springs road and soon the form of
a horse and buggy and a man driving furious
ly was seen and his driving was like the driv
ing of Jehu, and his horse was all in a sweat
of perspiration, and his whip was wore off to
the handle, and it was Ragsdale—Ragsdale,
the mail man, and his face was all aglow and
his eyes shone like crystals as he opened
his mouth and spoke and shouted, they are
coming by Dallas. The railroad is coming
by Dallas. Hurrah for Dallas, it‘s all settled.
I heard the letter read, the things happened,
the bullgine is a coming shore. When Jie had
given all the particulars and convinced the
doubting, some of ’em cut the pigeon wing,
and some turned a summerset, and some run
’round the court-house, and some threw up
their hats and kicked ’em afar offas they came
down, and hollered “All Hail Columbia,
Happy Land,” and the married men hurried
home to tell their wives, and the boys run all
about town blowing like a locomotive toot,
toot, to-oo-oot, pish, ish, isli and shouting,
“All aboard. Go to the Foot house, sir; carry
your baggage, sir; buy a Constitution, sir.”
But Braswell! where was he? In due time
he put in an appearance, but nobody knew
where he came from. Going up to Dr. Foster
he said solemnly: “Did you sa\
you would take six thousand dot
lars for your farm—railroad or no rail-
oad.” “Yes,” said the doctor. Quietly pull
ing out a roll of money as big as your arm he
handed it over to him and said “count it and
make me a deed” and then, and not till then
were all doubts removed and the railroad
question considered settled.
Dallas is the high and dry center of a good
deal of space, and as Judge Underwood re
marked Paulding is the best county in the
state to the looks of it. They have got very
good crops and their cotton is moving to mar
ket rapidly. Most of their farmers will make
coni enough to do ’em and a little to spare and
it wouldent be a bad idea for a man who is
had off at home to take up winter quarters there
on the line of the railroad. He could get
plenty to do and work for his teams, for it will
be lively times along the line this winter.
Commodore MeKechney has got a wagon load
of money and is going to scatter it, and if our
people don’t get their share it will be their
own fault. Tiie people of this country have
been lonesome for a long time. Some "of ’em
never saw a bullgine, ami so the Marietta folks
thought they would educate ’em’ to it by de-
grees, and they sent two young men over to
Powdqr Springs on bicycles, and as they came
rolling down tiie street, the noiseless*things
slipped up on a mule with a man on it, and
the glitter of the silver spokes a whirling
around scared the animal and left the man on
the ground, and he followed ’em up for
a fight, and they apologized
in most respectful language, but
took on powerful and said that the next time
they come a runnin’ of their dumed old spin
ning wheel along side of his mule, he’d be
dogond if he dident gewliallop the spizirenk-
tuui out of’em. Thinks I to myself if a little
bicycle is going to upset a feller that way,
what will they do when the locomotive comes
thundering along, and tooting a horn that
shakes the air for a mile. But it will all work
out right in the long run, and as Mr. Shak-
speare says, all’s well that ends well.
Bill Arp.
The debt of Austin, Texas, Is $150,000.
Quincy, Florida, is to have a wine factory.
The rice crop of Louisiana, is unusually line.
The chestnut crop of Tennessee will be large.
The value of the sheep In Texas is $13,800,000.
Birmingham, Alabama, will have an opera house.
Florence, South Carolina, wants a street railroad.
Middle Florida is suffering much for the want of
rain.
Arkansas boasts of twenty first-class watering
places.
Mobile received during the year 392,319 bales of
cotton.
There were 104 deaths in Richmond, Virginia, last
mouth.
The Alabama state fair opens on the 7th of No
vember.
Drouth is killing the trees in some sections of
Virginia.
There is a water famine in the Vienna section of
Louisiana.
The farmers of Florida are raising jute to cover
their cotton.
Sells Brothers’ circus will visit South Carolina
in November.
Tropical fruits and vegetables are plentiful in
Kcv West, Fla.
Last week one firm in Pensacola, Florida, shipped
north 3,000 fish.
Many fanners in upper East Tennessee are plow
ing wheat lands.
Dry murrain is playing sad havoc with cows in
north Alabama.
The public .schools of Knoxville have eighteen
hundred pupils.
Hoc cholera seems to be spreading in various sec
tions of Virginia.
The dried fruit crop of East Tennessee thisseason,
is simply enormous.
North Carolina furnishes most of the mica now-
used in this country.
Louisiana has ins varieties of trees well suited
for lumber ami fuel.
The Wateree river, in South Carolina, is lower
than it has ever been.
The mines of North Carolina have produced
1,000,000 in five years.
The log and lumber business of East Tennessee is
grow ing to be immense.
Baltimore is exercised over its Baltimore Oriole
and October celebration.
Over $15,000,000 were handled in Montgomery,
Ala.’s trade the past year.
Mrs John Platt, of Nashville, gave birth to trip
lets last w eek—three girls.
Nearly two thousand of Knoxville’s, Tcnn., pop
ulation are going to school.
The drouth has killed a good many apple trees in
Shelby coauuty, Kentucky.
W W Bruce lias paid $20,000 for the opera house
property in Lexington, Kv.
The result of Major Bell, the Texas evangelist’s
work In Bell county, is 1,014.
Considerable quantities of wine have been made
in Columbia. S C, this season.
A storm destroyed churches, school buildings, and
crops in Dallas county, Texas.
The Tennessee river at Chattanooga is lower than
it has been for over fifty years.
A man in Greene county, Alabama, killed sixty
squirrels last week in one day.
Louisiana has a school population of 290,036. Of
this number 189,657 are colored.
Thirty-one divorces have been granted in Talla
dega county, Alabama, this year.
Forf.paugh'8 show, which will visit Nashville the
26th, has 20 performing elephants.
The manufacture of sheep cheese is one of the
promising industries of Chattanooga.
Crops in all parts of Tennessee will turn out much
better than was thought awhile bock.
Arkansas lias eleven daily newspapers—an in
crease of five since the first of January.
Tiif. new artesian well at Charleston, .South Caro
lina, has reached a depth of 1,101 feet.
Nashville is to have a mammoth manufactory of
barrels, hubs, spokes, axe handles, etc.
New Orleans owns 552 vessels, with a tonnage of
85.310. Twenty-one are ocean steamers.
The university of North Carolina opens with a
larger number of students than since 1860.
About one-tenth of Arkansas is covered with the
yellow pine, which attains an enormous size.
Many mountain counties iu Kentucky report the
best corn crop they have laid in fifteen years. *
Mecklenburg county, Virginia, will make a tre
mendous quantity of applebrandy this year.
Twelve hundred and fifty-five vessels entered the
port of New Orleans In the past business year.
Tiif. state fair of the East Tennessee stock breeders
association will beheld near Sweetwater October 3d.
The Tennessee annual conference of tiie M E
church south will convene in Lebanon October 19th.
Forty-three wool growers in Tom Greene coun
ty, Texas, sheared the past spring 412,210 pounds of
wool.
At Galveston, Texas, employes of all sorts from
cotton handlers to barbers have struck for higher
wages.
Of over 700,000 square miles of timber lands in this
country, the south owns 460,000, or nearly two-
thirds.
Four large cotton seed oil mills in Memphis, have
been running ull the year and three will be started
this fall.
Before the end of the year over 125 houses will
have been erected in Knoxville, Tenu, during the
year 1S81.
T. J. Jarnagan, a merchant near Tate Spring,
Tennessee, bought $1,000 worth of dried fruit last
Saturday.
The forest acreage of North Carolina is probably
greater than three or four of the northwestern states
combined.
\ Talladega man with a two acre patch of mel
ons, made $207 profit and $50 to treat on, and a good
crop of hav.
Two gentlemen in New Orleans have succeeded
In making a first rate article of butter from the oil
of cotton seed.
Thf. woolen mills company, of Charlottsville, Va.,
during tile past eleven months have sold $120,857
worth of gooas.
The city council of Charleston, South Carolina,
refused to reduce the license on Coup’s circus, from
$300 to $100 per day.
Water has given out at the lunatic asylum at
Lexington, Kentucky, and they now haul it for the
use of the patients.
Last year there were 1,980 looms in operation and
105,136 spindles in South Carolina; 37,621 bales of
cotton were consumed.
There are 348 convicts in the North Carolina
penitentiary—65 whites. Fifty-one female convicts,
only two of them white.
Tiif. National association of fire engineers, at its
recent convention made II M Young, of Augusta,
one of its vice-presidents. q
During the year South Carolina has put two new
cotton factories in operation and six more are being
built with southern capital.
Twenty thousand sets of Mr. Davis's books were
delivered in the southern states w ithin twelve weeks
from the day of its publication.
During the month of May last the Knights of
Honor of Kentucky paid out $80,000 to the wives
and children of deceased Knights.
There are two regular licensed colored lawyers
practicing in the district court at Brenham. One of
them is employed in five divorce cases.
The consumption of grate and stove eoal in Nash
ville has doubled within the past two years, while
the consumption of steam coal has trebled.
8 E Callahan, of Mecklenburg, Virginia, has a
stalk of corn bearing thirty-one good cars. Twenty-
nine will average over four inces iu length.
A lumber firm has contracted for 5,000.000 feet of
nsli, poplar and walnut timber in Buncombe, Mad
ison and Haywood counties. North Carolina.
Thf. Wallace Brothers, of Statesville, North Caro-"’
lina, will exhibit two thousand specimens of medic
inal herbs, at Atlanta, grown in tiiat state.
United States Senator J S Williams, of Ken
tucky, has sold his crop of tobacco from 75 acres for
$21,419.06, or an average of nearly $:W0 per acre.
The water question is becoming troublesome in
Natches anil other locali ties in Mississippi. On Fine
ridge, drinking water is procured from mud-holes
and hog-wallows.
At Raleigh, S C, a few nights since, Robinson’s
elephant “Chief,” the same who killed his keeper
at Charlotte last year, killed a dog and committed
other mischief.
In Botetourt county, Va., Berry Nouryer will can
for sale this year 150,000 two and three-pound cans
of fruit, T. C. Denton 100,000 cans, and J, C. Moor-
wain 200,000 cans.
Shreveport, Louisiana, last year handled J7.49S
bales of cotton, imported $11,253,960 worth of goods,
and exported $.5,537,COO worth. Pretty good fora
12,000 population town.
The colored society of Richmond, Va., have or
ganized a social club. The club room will be
somely furnished. They will also have a billiard
hall, restaurant and reading room.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, will go to-
Y'orktown in style. He is to be accompanied by six
companies of soldiers, whose expenses his excel
lency will pay out of the stutc treasury.
At the sale of the racing stable of the late
H P McGrath, near Lexington, Kentucky, last
Friday, forty-three animals brought $31,055. fcusan
Ann. a Lexington mare, brought $6,500.
Within the past week 32,000 acres of United States
lands at $1 25 per acre, and 20,000 acres swamp and
overflow,lands at 25 cenLs per acre—all wild lands—
have been purchased at the proper office in Jackson,
I Miss.