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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER 4, 1881
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THE CONSTITUTION.
Entered at the Atlanta Post-office as second-class
matter, November 11, IK*.
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' We rend The Constitution and Cultivator to one
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Hrription. Both subscriptions mutt be made at the
tame time.
ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBER 4, 18H1.
The donation of $3(i0, l>y General Henry R.
J tick son, to Lucy Cobb institute, might well
be imitated by others.
The Georgia press association, which was to
have met in this city on the sixth instant,
will not meet until the 12th.
??? ???
Tiie attempt of the cotton mills of Lan
cash ire to break down the Liverpool corner in
cotton lias failed. The bulls arc jubilant, and
it is not probable that any further effort will
l>o made to reduce tlie price by stopping con
sumption.
It is quite evident, from indications, that
Arthur will finally place himself fully at the
disposal of the stalwarts. The mysterious
journeys, the stolen interviews and the gene
ral fepling of uneasiness plainly point to the
fact that the stalwarts are in power now.
A k.u> story is that relates! from Boston. A
Savannah girl, who might have adorned
home ami been n joy to her friends???falling,
fell to rise no more. In the hands of the be
trayer and the toils of the al>ortionist, her
bright young life went out in darkness and
despair.
The amateur train roblters in Arkansas arc
all under lock and key, anil the nntlioritics
are considering the policy of n sjiecdy trial.
The trial cannot take place too sjieedily or
the punishment after conviction be too se
vere. This new branch of crime should be
nipped in the hud.
The west lias heretofore taught the cast
many things, hut the latest is an improved
method of getting rid of disagreeable railroad
directors. At a stockholders??? meeting in
Reno, Nevada, yesterday, the obnoxious indi
viduals looked down the liarrels of ugly der
ringers, and wisely retired.
The public debt was reduced last month
something over seventeen million dollars.
The internal revenue receipts arc increasing
rapidly, and so are the imports. The recent
4-all for twenty millions in extended sixes cun
Ik* duplicated lieforc the end of another
month, in the face of such revenues. Let the
<lebt-pnying business go on.
Thbouoiioet the United States and Canadas
110 failures occurred last week, most of them
being of small trailers. In nil the south there
were only twelve failures, much to the sur
prise of those who had read harrowing nc-
4-ounts of the drouth. The Michigan forest
fires led to an increase of failures over the
previous week in that state.
PnEsmEXT Arthur comes from Baptist
stock, but, while lie is not u communicant,
he prefers the Episcopal church. Thus far in
Washington he has attended church at St.
John???s, the old Episcopal church on Lafayette
square, opposite the white house, where Ham
ilton Fish and Montgomery Blair were long
the most conspicuous figures in the congrega
tion. Buchanan was the last president who
attended here. Nearly all the army and navy
officers in the city go there. Attorney-Gen
eral MacVeagh and Postmaster-General James
are also communicants. The rector is Rev.
Mr. Leonard, a young man from Brooklyn,
N. Y., who is now traveling in Europe.
SMALL FARMS IN THE SOUTH.
A bulletin just issued from the census office
is devoted to the number and size of farms in
six southern states. We give, first, atable that
shows comparatively the number of farms in
the six state's:
STATES.
1880.
1870.
1860.
1850.
135,8(11
67,382
Arkansas
94,433
49,424
;*??;oo4
17,758
Delaware
8,749
7,615
6,658
6,063
Florida
23,438
10,241
6,568
4.SOI
Georgia
138,626
69,956
62,003
51.758
South Carolina
U3.8W
51.889
33,171
29,967
Another table shows lio\v these farms were
cultivated in 1880:
?? STATES.
No.
1880.
CULTIVATED BY
Owner.
Fixed
Rental.
On
Shares.
135,864
94,433
8.749
23,4:9*
138,626
93,861
7*> ?????!???
22,888
40,761
19,272
3,197
3,692
43,618
???25,245
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
65,245
5,041
16,198
76,451
46.645
9,916
511
3,548
18,557
21,974
These figures tell the story of the new sub
division movement better than any comment
can. In Georgia at the opening of the war
there were only (52,003 proprietors; in 1880
there were 138,02(5; and this remarkable in
crease occurred almost wholly between 1870
and 1880. Between 1800 and 1870 the increase
was not greater than it was in anyante-liellum
???decade. These facts seem to indicate that the
great industrial change which the war brought
about has only just begun. The bulletin from
which we have quoted further shows that the
number of farms containing five hundred
acres or more is becoming small. In Alabama
only 0,513 farms are over 500 acres, in Arkan
sas 2,441, in Delaware 75, in Florida 1,0?J, in
Georgia 10,508, and in South Carolina 5,328.
Under the census of 1800 a farm of 100 acres
will iloubtlessbe the rule. In most of the six
states the larger numbers of farms are now
under 100 acres.
AN EDITOR???S EARS.
Editor Halstead, of Cincinnati, who has a
quick and sensitive ear, hears, on wliat he
4-alles ???high authority, untinged by feelings
???of any sort,??? that the attack of dyspepsia
which General Grant lmd in full view of the
public shortly after the election of President
Garfield, was brought about by accumulated
knowledge of the fact that the president had
no intention of making him secretary of state.
Editoollalstcad???s sensitive ears also inform
him that General Grant would un
questionably have accepted the office.
This, however, goes without saying. There
is no office with a comfortable salary attach-
o*l that General Grant will not accept, and
his willingness to accept has become so promi
nent a feature of his career that an esteemed
republican journal, opposing his nomination
by the Chicago convention, alluded to him
with unbecoming rage as ???the national mcn-
???dicant. ??? One without ears???we mean one
without ears as finely organized and as deli
cately adjusted as those of Editor Halstead???
would have no difficulty in accepting what
a country jiajicr in Ohio, with a fine air of
foreign culture, calls the portfolio of the state
depart ipcnt. Not getting this, he would have
accepted any other cabinet position, and,
finding that he was to be offered nothing, he fell
a victim to the dyspepsia hereinbefore alluded
to, hut was prevented from falling into a state
of positive decline by a curious suspicion
that, even in private life, bis presence was
necessary to the well-being and safety of the
government. ^
But this is not all the information that
comes to us filtered through Editor Halstead???s
trained ears. He hears that in the judgment
of those very near President Arthur, Mr.
Blaine will be nominated minister to Eng
land, and General Grant placed at the head
of the state dejiartment. Editor Halstead
fails to say what disjosition is to lie made of
Mr. Windom, hut he says that Mr. C???onkling
will l??c made secretary of the treasury. To
this Editor Halstead adds that ???it is known
???that Jay Gould, who has a good deal to say
???about a great many things, and has recently
???given General Grant $25,000 cash and ein-
???ployed him in his Mexican railway
???scheme, has a strong feeling against Secreta-
???ry Windom, and will use his utmost influ
ence to put him out.???
It will be observed that Editor Halstead
hears and knows what the people have all
along feared???that the affairs of government,
in the event of President Garfield???s death,
would fall into the hands of a set of irrespon
sible, reckless men, controlled and command
ed by a set of financial sharpers and gamblers.
Beyond the fact that General Grant has trol-
loped around through various countries and
formed a sort of bottle acquaintance jrith one
of the Hi Jims of Japan, he knows no more
about our foreign affairs than Sitting
Bull. This lack of diplomatic knowledge
might not result to the disadvantage of the
country, but a man who is in the pay of Jay
Gould ought to be kept out of office forever.
Some scientist is endeavoring to confuse the inte
rior of the earth with the south. He says it is solid.
If this Is true, it is time for the organs to sound the
alarum.
Savannah had a riot the other day and Atlanta
made a serious attempt to follow suit Monday. It
should be remarked in this connection that our col
ored fellow-citizens are not making any great repu
tations as champions of the peace and good order of
the state.
While the president was dying, John Sherraann
was on the stump in Ohio abusing and lying about
the south with his customary vehemence. John
ought to hold a caucus with Liza l???inkston and
some of the other girls and start a colony in Utah.
A question for debate???Is medical science scien
tific?
While the papers were discussing whether ladies
should wear crinolines, the dear creatures went off
and put them on and returned looking lovelier than
ever. .
It is said the three boys who rubbed the train in
Arkansas left their tops and marbles in a fence cor
ner.
It is said thatGitcau is engaged to be married.
At any rate, he will shortly be led to the halter.
In clghty-onc days Judge Hilton has swallowed
six hundred and seventy-two bottles of congress
water. We should think that such exergue as this
would kill a man.
Ax Atlanta cignr dealer is making arrangements
to exhibit Sitting Bull in his shop window.
The livery men of Cleveland, Ohio, charged
double and treble prices for carriages the day of
President Garfield's funeral. Cleveland, as we
have previously announced, is in the state of Ohio.
Hayes has traded stock Northern Pacific for a
farm in Dakota. He fs probably the thriftiest fraud
that ever stuffed cotton in the cracks of a cider bar
rel.
There was a young man in Calcutta
Who preferred oilymargarinc to butta,
And for this little whim
The gossips classed him
Among the too utterly utta.
The fast mail is now inclined to play fast and
loose.
Old man Christianey has passed through three
wars, but that which raged on his own domestic
hearth was altogether the fiercest. He admits that
he will never go to war again.
Hay fever would not be fashionable if it didn???t
afford its victims an opportunity to fly to the???ills
they know of.
A malicious western exchange says the passengers
on the robbed trains are always eastern men. This
is bad enough, but it is better than denying that the
robbers themselves arc western men and school
boys.
An exchange says there is a good deal of specula
tion as to what President Arthur will do with the
present cabinet. As a matter of fact there is a good
deal of speculation in the country any way.
Mr George X 8eney is the busiest man in Amer
ica. He is investing in Atlanta railroads and Augus
ta cotton mills and endowing Georgia colleges, and
his charities extend to the Michigan sufferers.
After awhile the Atlanta climate will begin to
prepare itself for the reception of the Savannah
oyster.
j\ professional phrenologist is now feeling
around for the head of the republican party.
The evidence is beginning to accumulate that
Colonel Cole is abroad in the land.
Cheap pig iron is of a great deal more importance
to the country than cheap tobacco or cheap whisky.
The monopolists should bear these facts in mind.
The train robbery in Arkansas would seem to in
dicate that the republican i>arty is gradually ex
tending its operations.
Ia the Fraat Raak.
Greenesboro Home Journal.
In nothing does The Atlanta Constitution
shows it* sagacity and enterprise more than in its
correspondence, domestic and foreign. Letters from
the latter, for the last few weeks, we have read with
peculiar interest. Rev Dr Harrison, in his Veni-
tian Inter, which appeared in Tiie Constitution
of last Sunday, notices a remarkable coffee house in
that city and its patrons, from which we infer that
the antecedents of Us present inhabitants, are not
unlike those St Paul found in his day among the
Athenians.
Columbia, S C Register. .
Which is the greatestest newspaper in the south
ern states? This question, long a mooted one, has
been definitely answered by The Atlanta Consti
tution. When it appeared in its enlarged and im
proved form, a few weeks ago, with its attractive
make-up and captivating dress, it stepped high into
the front ranks of journalism, and every day since
then has been displaying new resources and new
power. Now it stands facile princeps among south
ern newspapers. We desire no better testimony of
the greatness of the gate city than that shown in the
greatness of The Constitution.
PERSONAL.
A. T. Stewart once paid $40,000 for a pic
ture by Rosa Bonhcur, and $00,000 for a Meissiouer.
President Garfield???s favorite poet was
Tennyson, and the poem he loved best was ???In
Memoriam.??????
"I love men,??? said Queen Christine, of
Sweden, ???not because they are men, but because
they are not women.???
Senator Hill writes to a Washingtonian
that his sufferings have been very great. He has
lost one-quarter of his tongue.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, always
charming, witty and active, feels his seventy-two
years only in a slight deafness.
The fathers of General Jackson and General
Arthur were both natives of the conntv of Antrim,
Ireland, and we e both of the 8cotch-insh stock.
Governor Wiltz, the invalid chief magis
trate of Louisiana, was reported dead on Friday.
He is alive, but bis condition is not encouraging.
It is said that President Arthur is the god
father of one of (Secretary Hunt???s children, and
that there has ulways been an intimacy between
them.
What a peculiarly affecting meeting it
must have been???that of Robert Lincoln and Harrv
Garfield, each the orphan son of an assassinated
president.
The extraordinary popularity of the prin
cess of Wales in England is due to good looks, good
nature, and very pleasing manners. She is not in
the least an intellectual woman.
August Belmont, tiie New York million
aire, spends his summers at the United Stutes hotel,
Sanitoga. He pays 81,000 a week board for the half
dozen members of his family.
Dr. J. O. A. Clark, whose European letters
in The Constitution have attracted so much atten
tion, is about fifty-four years old, and is a graduate
of Brown university, Rhode Island, having passed
his freshman year at Yale.
There is a probability of one and a possi
bility of tw<f vacancies in the college of cardinals.
Curdinal Borromco is reported to be dying, and
Cardinal Vincent Maretti is seriously ill.
President Garfield was a frequent visitor
to what is called ???Newspaper Row??? in Washington,
but he was not considered a ???good newsman??? by
the correspondents. He was full of ideas, however,
and was always welcome, f
Judge Joiix A. Cuthdert was born near Sa
vannah in 1780, but he left that city nearly a half a
century ago. He was the first captain of the Re
publican lilues of Savannah, which wusorgauized in
ISOS, mainly through his efforts.
President Arthur has accepted the resig
nation of First Lieutenant F D Grant, Fourth cay-
airy, to take effect October 1st. Since his gradua
tion from West Point Lieutenant Grant has served
on the staff of General Sheridan,at Chicago, with the
rank nud pay of lieutenant-colonel.
Mrs. Parris, the widow of A. K. Parris,
who was governor of Maine from 1822 to 1827, is liv
ing in Washington at the great age of U5 years. Her
faculties are still keen and active, and she delights
in reminiscences, especially likiug to describe the
entertainment of LaFavette upon his lust visit to
this country-
Dr, Bradley, who has become dean of West
minister, is said to be a man \nth a good deal of ad
ministrative ability,but no high literary gifisorsocial
attainments. The Worcester canonry, which his
promotion leaves vacant, goes to W J Knox-Little,
the ritualist preacher of St Albans who gladdened
the hearts of ritualists in this country during his
little tour here a year ago.
The widow of Mr. Singer, of sewing ma
chine fame, some time ago married a certain Vis
count d'Kstcnberg. of uncertain nationality. M
Gailhtudet informs us that the ???American colony???
in Paris is now iu a ferment because the viscount
has suddenly been promoted, or has promoted him
self into a duke at the ridiculously small expense,
it is said, of 50,000 francs.
Jennie Cramer was accounted the hand
somest girl in New Haven. When Mary Flanagan,
a witness in the trial of the Mallcy boys, was asked
if she saw any one In the court-room who resem
bled Jennie Cramer, she made a careful survey of
the audience, and pointing out a young man, said:
???That gentleman looks like her in the face.??? See
the delicacy of that compliment. ???More subtile
web Arachne can not spin.??? O, these women!
Tins is Mr. Blackmore???s latest description
of a pretty girl! For her simple dress, long-waisted,
flowing (and neither skewered in nor skimped to
show a foot squeezed into a lobster???s claw, nor
thatched with stripes of hideous hues,) followed the
elegance of her form, as nature???s self would have
provided if the human race were bom iu husks, as
a comely filbert is. The finish of every part was
perfect, like a sculptor???s dream (but happily quite
unlike his deeds,) from the tapering finger-tips and
nails, resembling the aforesaid filbert, to the carvcn
curves aud flexured tracery of soft little cars that
had never been bored.
Jennie June, in licr Baltimore American
letter, says that there is a strong probability
that the white house will witness a wedding
during the present administration???the president
himself being one of the high contracting parties,
and the widow of a well known and very wealthy
New Yorker the other. General Arthur has been u
widower for some time, anil his sister, Mrs MeElroy,
will, it is said, be at present the lady of the white
house: butluter, it is asserted, a lady will occupy
that ]Misitiou who was a wife but for a very bnef
season before she became a widow, and is well fitted
by natural gifts aud accomplishments to grace any
state orcouditiou.
IN GENERAL.
There are sixty thousand boatmen em
ployed on the Erie canal.
With 8,000 horses disabled by ???pink-eye,???
St Louis must be reminded of the days of the
cpizoot.
The Japanese sent 1,272,75G telegrams last
year over their own wires. Pretty good for a people
who have no alphabet.
* There are 2,296,327 Baptists this year in the
United Stutes and Canada, which is again of 163,293
over 1880.
There is in the Paris electrical exhibition
an induction coil capublc of giving a spark forty-
two inches long, and piercing a block of glass six
inches thick.
Tiie surplus of wheat in the United States
this year will reach 100,000,000 bushels. Europe will
need this wheat, and we will add 8125,000,000 of
foreign gold to our bank capitals for it.
Wiiat a pitiable case of precocity was that
in which a London jury rendered u verdict, as the
result of an inquest upon the body of a child four
S ears old: ???Congestion of the brain, brought on
y over-study.??? ->
When General Buckner (confederate) ad
dressed the Grand Army boys in New York on Mon
day, he called them ???comrades.??? He said it twice,
anil they shouted and he broke dowu. The soldiers
understand one another.
Alaska elected M. D. Ball, late collector of
customs, delegate to congress on the 5th instant bva
four-fifths majority. He sailed at once in order to
reach Washington by the time congress meets/ His
mileage allowance will paralyze the treasury.
Camels were tried for carrying freight across
the California desert, a number of years ago, but
the experiment proved a failure. Some abandoned
camels, huwever. lived and bred in the Gila and
Salt river bottoms.???aud it is now said that consider
able herds run wild in Arizona and New Mexico.
The Francklyn cottage is now one of the
historical landmarks of the country. Congress
should consider the idea of purchasing it as a sum
mer home for our presidents. At any rate, eongress
should vote Mr. Francklyu an appropriate testimo
nial to mark the national appreciation of his kindly
action in pbtctiug the cottage at the disposal of the
nation's patient???Troy Times.
Yellow fever is still reported to the
nntionnl board of health as existing in Havana, hut
not to so great extent as hi the summer. All fears
of a visitation to this country are now regarded as
groundless. Every case has thus faxjjccu stopped
at the various quarantine stations. Two fatal cases
have, however, occurred at Key West. Fla. one au
assistant surgeon of the Marine hospital service.
Negotiations are in progress between the
Norfolk and Western aud East Tennessee, Virginia
aud Georgia, which are expected to cause a consid
erable advance in the stock of both companies.
Insiders have been buying Norfolk and Western for
sometime. There 1* quite a large short interest in
the stock, which has been for several days difficult
to borrow.???New York MaiL
It costs something to stop the wheels of
business even for a tingle day. There are, accord
ing to the Hour, ???ten million working people in
the country who average at least 82 a day, which
makes S20,OUO,OOU. and then there is the interruption
to commerce and financial transactions and the
loss of profit on labor. An unexpected stoppage of
a week-day???s work must cost 850,060,000.???
What is known as the Pennsylvania system
of graveyard insurance is bearing its legitimate
fruits. An old gentleman who had passed his al
lotted threescore years and ten was recently insured
for 870,000. A day or two ago he was found drowned
atWilkesbarre. and the probabilities are that he
was murdered. The men who took out the policy
and the ofiicers of the company who issued it
should he punished as accessories.
It is estimated that there are 240.000 drum
mers or commercial travelers in the United States.
Each is supposed to go over his route five times a
year and to carry during the time a ton of baegage.
This baggage being generally bulky it would require
24,000 ten-ion cars to transport the trunks aud outfit
of these mobilized gentlemen. The commercial
traveler is, therefore, a factor iu the transportation
problem os well as the strictly commercial transac
tions of the country.
Some curious statistics have been published
of the cremation furnace erected at Gotha in the
autumn of 1878. Thus far ft has been in use 57
times???once in 1878,17 times in 1879, and 16 limes in
1880. For the present year, up to August 17, only,
the number has been 23. Of the total of 57 eases,
ouly one came from Berlin, 1 from Breslau, 7 from
Dresden, 1 from Fmnkfort-on-the-Maiu. 1 from
Hanover, 1 from Uarlsruhe, 2 from Leipsie. 3 from
Munich, 1 from Vienna. 1 from Paris, and 1 from
Weimar. Gotha alone contributed 23. Only 10
cases were women. Of the 47 men, 19 belonged to
learned professions, 4 to the army, and 4 to the no
bility. There were 10 physicians-.
Go to French girls if you want instructions
how to iret even with a faithless lover. An exchange
tells of how one girl was jilted by a young man who
yielded to the temptation of a very large marriage
Kirtlon. She laid nerplans well. On the eve of the
letrothal, while the affianced pair were feasting and
making merry, she sent a letter to the bride-elect
announcing that she had poisoned ail the food
which furnished forth the banquet. The grim state
ment was read aloud at the table and naturally
caused a panic. The fiancee and her mother were
curried out in hysterics and doctors Ivere summoned
from far and near. One of the dishes was analyzed
and found to contain no trace of poison, and after
further experiment the company realized that thev
had been made the victims of a practical joke. But
the sight of working emetics and stomach pumps
cooled the young man's passion for his second and
wealthier love.
??? Philadelphia has the largest Presbyterian
church membership, 26,316; New York comes next
with 18,155, and Brooklyn with 11.159. Chicago has
6,241, and no other city in the union reaches up to
5,000. Newark has 4,765; Cincinnati, 3.886; Sail
Francisco, 3,788; Pittsburg, 3,777: Rochester. 3,685;
Cleveland, 3,356: Baltimore, 3,258. Twelve Presby
terian churches report a membership of a thousand
or over. They are as follows: Dr. Talmage???s,
Brooklyn, 2,471: Dr Cuyler???s, Brooklyn, 1,761: Dr
Kittredge???s, 1,755; Dr Hall???s, 1,7:50; Dr Parkhurst???s.
New York, 1,560: Dr Crosby???s, New York, 1,384: Dr
Dunn's, Philadelphia, 1,240; Dr Shaw???s, Koohester.l,-
298; Dr Booth???s, New York, 1,193; Dr Bevau???s, New
York. 1,100; Dr Hemphill???s, San Francisco, 1,044; Dr
Hastings's, New Yorx, 1,000. Besides these there are
fifty-six churches each having over five hundred
members, some of them laekiug oply a few score of
one thonsand. while therearea large number which
have between four and five hundred members.
THE OPENING DAY.
The Details for the Opening Ceremonies of the Cotton
Exposition. On Wednesday.
I. Preliminary Provision???The gates of the ex
position will be opened to the public October 5tli, at
9 a m, at the established rate of admission, fifty
cents; also the gates for photographic and other
passes and complimentary letters of udmissiou. A
special entrance will be provided for the admission
.of persons holding complimentary letters of invita
tion to the opening exercises. These letters will
admit holder and ladies and need only to be shown
to gate keeper and retained by owner.
(Special cards of admission will be issued to the
chorus, who will enter at tiie same gate with those
holding complimentary letters.
Turnstiles for the admission of exhibitors and
their necessary attendants will be open at 7 o???clock
a m, and they will be admitted to *he exhibition
buildjngs for the purpose of having their exhibits
in proper shape for inspection on the opening of the
doors. The exhibition buildings will be closed to
guests until the conclusion of the opening ceremo
nies.
If. Locality of the Opening Exercises???The
formal opening exercises will take place iu the area
between the railroad building nud the graud stand,
at the west end of toe ground, where suitable plat
forms for speakers and reserved seats for the guests
of the exposition and for the music and chorus par
ticipating iu the exercises will be provided. During
the ceremonies the matter of preserving order will
be in eliarge of detachments of the exjiositiou
guard, under the direction of the chief of the de
partment of protection.
III. Position of the Escort???Batteries of the
Fifth artillery furnished from McPherson barracks
by Colonel Hamilton commanding, will reach the
ground at 8 a m and take position on the summit of
the ridge west of the speaker's stand, where an en
sign of the United States will lie erected, and from
that point the salutes of the day will be fired as
hereinafter stated.
The special escort for the officers, speakers and
guests of the exposition will be furnished by the
Gate City Guard, Captain J F Burke comminuting,
ami the Fifth artillery, Colonel Ham
ilton commanding. These commands will
reach the ground by train at 10
a m. and will torm in line at Central avenue, di
rectly south of the main building and await the
arrival of the officers and guests to whom they are
to act as escort.
A detachment of the exposition guard will be on
duty at the exposition dejait and en route from the
platform to the plaec of holding the opening exer
cises to keep the route clear mid preserve order.
IV. The Special Official Train???Officers, speak
ers and others participating in the opening exercises
and distinguished guests of the cx(>ositiou will as
semble at the uniou depot iu Atlanta at ten o???clock
a m, will there embark upon a special train provided
for their transportation to the exposition depot. The
train will leave the union depot at 10:30, and its
departure will be signalled to the exposition grounds
by telegraph und the fact announced to the public
by the tiring of a gun from the battery. This gun
will be the signul for the assemblage of the people
about the stand on which the opening exercises will
occur.
Complimentary letters of invitation will admit
Bolder and one lady to this train. The order of
procession on reaching the grounds will be as here
inafter stated, und guests are particularly requested
to enter the trains as near in the same or
der as possible. Ladies will accompany their es
corts in the procession: on reaching the stand
guests will occupy tiie seats provided in the same
order and as will be designated by cards on the
seats.
On the arrival of the train the escort will take
position and ihe procession will form in the follow
ing order:
Fifth Artillery band.
Gate City Guard, Captain Burke, Commanding.
His Excellency Governor Colquitt, President of the
Exposition.
Director-General H I Kimball.
The Executive Committee.
Company ?????? Fifth Artillery, Colonel Hamilton
Commanding.
Orators of the Day, Bishops, United States Judges,
United States Senators, Members of
Congress, Governors of States
and other guests.
Company Fifth Artillery.
Supreme Court of Georgia, Ex-Governors of Georgia.
State Ofiicers, President of the Senate, and Speaker
of House of Representatives of Georgia.
Mayor, Council and City Ofiicers of Atlanta and
Commisssioners of Fulton County.
Mayors of Cities.
Citizens??? Exposition Committee.
Representatives of the Press.
Vice-Presidents, Shareholders and other invited
Guests.
V. At the Platform???Whetiphe procession ar
rives at the platform aud during the time when the
proper disposition of the guests and participants is
being made, music will be furnished by the band.
When all is in readiness for the opening of the ex
ercises, they will proceed in the followihg order:
vi???order of exercises:
1'Music??????Hail Columbia??????Fifth Artillery Band.
2 Prayer, by Rt Rev Robert W B Elliott,Bishop of
Texas.
3 Presentation of Buildings and Grounds???Address,
Director-General HI Kimball.
4 Acceptance of Buildings and Grounds???Address,
President A H Colquitt.
5 Music???National Airs, Solos???Fifth Artillery
Band.
0 Address of Welcome, by Hon Zebulon B Vance,
of North Carolina.
7 Music???Medley of Airs???Fifth Artillery Band.
8 Responses to Welcome, Address by Hon George
B Loring, of Massachusetts. %
9 Music???German National Song???Tumverein
Double Quartette.
10 Address, by Hon Daniel W Voorhecs. of Indiana.
11 Exposition Ode, Written by Paul H Huyne, of
Georgia.
12 Music??????Hallelujah Chorus??????Chorus of 800
Voices, Directed by MrC M Cady, of Georgia.
VII. Declaring the Opening???On the conclusion
of the ???hallelujah chorus,??? President Colquitt will
unnouuce that the exposition is duly opened; the
director-general will give the signal for the rais
ing of the burgee on the main bnilding, then upon
all the other exposition buildings; also for the sa
lute from the battery-
The officers and guests will then make the tour of
the main building and such others us the director-
general may select.
On the raising of the burgees and the firing of the
salute, the doors of all the buildings shall be
promptly thrown open to the public.
By order of the executive committee,
HI Kimball, Director-General,
John B Gordon, Chief-Marshal.
On the Death of Garfield.
??? BY MARTIN MACMASTEB.
Ah! Garfield, our president, has left us at last.
His sufferings are over, his sorrows are past.
He has left us, and gone on a little before.
To greet us, to meet us, on yon beautiiul shore.
He was ready, and waiting, to answer that call,
Which sooner or later must come to us all.
Willing to stay, yet ready to go,
Calmly, he waited, God???s will for to know.
For long dreary weeks, on his bed has he lain,
Weary and worn, with anguish and pain.
But meekly and calmly, resigned to his lot.
Like his Master, he bore it and murmured not.
Though you once wore the blue, and I wore the gray.
Oh! Garfield, we mourn thee, we miss thee to-day:
For a true, noble soul from this world has sped.
And a brother beloved lies cold and dead.
Like a hero he lived, tike a martyr he died;
In affliction???s sore furnace, full well was he tried???
It is right, it is well, it is all for the best.
For the Master has taken His servant to rest
Atlanta, September 21,1881.
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
THE STATE AS A MOTHER WITH
TOOMBS AT THE BREAST.
Some Complaints that the Child "Pulls??? too Hard???
The Need of Work at Home and Self-Indepen
dence???What our People Should do???
Colonel Cole's Railroad Extensions.
Written for The Constitution.
Old Georgia is slow but slie is right sure.
Tiie sovereigns who lmve just adjourned didn???t
gi.\e anything to help out the exposition anil
maybe that was right and so the people are
waking up to tiie emergency. Everywhere I
go up in tiie mountains I find tiie people with
a pocket full of rocks and all sorts of miner
als and useful timber, which they turn over
to tiie railroad agents for tiie graiid exposi
tion. I???ve no fear now but what our good old
mother, as General Toombs calls her, will be
fairly displayed. Well, she is a good old
mother, hut sometimes I think the general
sucks her too much and too hard considering
and now I suppose as the legislature has au
thorized tiie attorney-general to sue Joe
Brown and company and break tip the lease,
the general will have a tit of his own and pull
at it harder than ever.
I???ve seen beautiful specimens of gold-hear-
ingquartz, and silverore, and copper, and lead,
and marble, and slate, and kaolin clay, and
manganeese and corundum and so fortli and
so on, and when we do build a state house I
hope it will he built out of our own material
from the bottom to the top. I hope our own
architects will draw the plan and our own
people will do the work, for it???s a shame on Us
that we have to depend upon our northern
brethren for everything from a fish-hook to a
meeting house. I never saw such white oak,
and hickory, and poplar, and pine, and ash
and elm trees as arc along the line of Mr.
Cole???s road in l???aulding and Polk counties,
and our people ought to make their
own wagons, and tubs, and buck
ets, and wheelbarrows and ax-lielves
and washboards, and plows, and brooms, and
furniture, and if we don???t know how let???s get
Major McCracken to bring down some men
from Ohio to teach us, and let us begin to util
ize the good things that tiie Creator has given
us and he independent. I want the major to
dot his whole line with small factories that
will give employment to our poor children,
and furnish a market for our timber. Why
can???t our folks make as good a wagon as the
Whitewater, or Studebaker, or Jackson? I???m
told there arc are over fifty thousand of ???em
in Georgia, and they cost us about five million
dollars. The time used to he when there was
a wagon shop at every cross-roads, and two or
three in every village, but these northern me-
clianicks have dried ???em all up. They
couldn???t compete, for they didn???t have
any machinery, and had to do all
their work by hard licks. Railroads
are ??? good things, but if our folks
haven???t got anything for ???em to do hut bring
us down goods and yankec notions and meat
and corn and hay from the north and take
hack nothing hut cotton that dident average
two cents a pound profit, they arc not going
to help the country very much. We must fix
up to compete with northern mechanics and
northern farmers, and wc can do it.??? I see
acres upon acres of good native grass every
where I go; enough to winter all of our stock,
if it was saved, but there are no mowing ma
chines to speak of, and the ground is rough,
and the rocks liavent been picked up and not
one man in ten has got even a sqytlie blade.
Ncedent tell me they can???t get ???em. We
dident have ???em at my house and no money
to buy ???em with, hut \ve got one thing at a
time and paid for it in broken doses. These
mncliineathave paid Jor themselves and more
too, in the savingoFlabor, and the grass cut
with a mower during the last month
on my farm has brought more
money than the wheat that was
cut off the same land, last July. It has
jwid for the mower and the horse rake
twice over and was easy work, both on man
and beast. We would have cut for our nabors
but the rocks were in the way and so their
hay is lost, and it was of more value than
their cotton crop. My boy lias got hint a Hed
rick press and is haling his hay in small pack
ages, and lie is going to press a small hale of
fine cotton that come from Miss McCrac???s
cotton seed. It will be a hundred and twen
ty-five pound package, put up after Mr. At
kinson's plan, and I believe myself that these
big 500 jHiunil hales will go out* of date before
long and small packages take their place. The
boy is going to send this bale to Judge Hen
derson as a sample, and he is going to send
sjiecimens of corn and oats and hay of all
sorts, red top and crab grass and clover
and pea-vines, put up in ten
pound packages by a little hand
press of liis own invention. He was raking
up the other day with a horse rake and I was
sitting on the piazza looking at him, which I
frequently does, when suddenly he stopped
and hollerd ???snake.??? He had seen that snake
before when he was cutting the grass but he
got away, and so I jumped for the gun and
Airs. Arp throwd down her work, and the
children all run to the front, and the snake
was coiled up under the rake, while my boy
was setting up there over hint, and as I come
nigh he straightened out and started off and I
just took a running sig|^ hlowed him into
giblets, and he was an oTU highland mocasin
and measured five feet long, and was cither
six inches round or six inches through, one
or the otiier, I ain???t certain which, and
I carried him up to the fence and
all the family come down to pe
ruse him, and Mrs. Arp said it had
a mate and the mate would come to it and
bite some of the children for revenge, and so
we had to take the snake away off, and Mrs.
Arp, she lias been on the lookout for tiie mate
ever since, and peruses the garden anil the
front yard, and the back yard, and ain???t right
shore" but what it is in the house under the
bed. Ever since mother Eve got fooled so
bail in the garden of Eden it looks like that
woman has a mortal dread of snakes???but if
they did let us down from paradise in the be
ginning, they have raised us up ever since,
and Mr. Alexander was talking to me altout
???em yesterday at Marietta, for he had just
got a present of a gold watch onra birthday,
and he told me that lie did verily believe
that there wasent a man in heaven but wliat
some good woman sent hint there. And I
said amen with as much feeling as if I had
got a gold watch myself. We men are rough,
unseemly creatures compared witli women,
hut these little evidences of love and sympa
thy, such as gold watches and the like do
wake up our smothered emotions powerfully,
don???t they?
Well, I see that King Cole has been buying
up a few more railroads. I wonder how many
more he wants. He reminds me of old Tom
Little on the Chattahoochee who keeps on
buying land, and when I asked him if lie
wanted all the land in the country, he said,
???Xo; he only wanted all that jinetl him.???
Rill Arp.
Buried In the Ruin*.
St. Joseph, October L???A special to the Gazette
from Centralia, Kansas, says Mr D Watts???s house,
situated five miles south of Centralia, was blown
down, and himself, wife and four children were
buried in the rains. One child was killed and an
other fatally hurt. The house caught fire but was
extinguished by the neighbors.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
Arkansas has 967 postoffices.
Mississippi has 1,182 miles of railroad.
Mississippi state grangers are being reorganized.
Apple trees are in bloom in Central, Arkansas.
A white frost in Gregg county, Texas, last week.
Coup???s circus will visit Charleston S C, October 15.
The pecan crop of Louisiana will be a large one
A white snake has been killed near Danville,
Vo.
Florida will not mako much of a potato crop this
year.
Birmingham???s, Ala, new market will cost over
S8.0U0,
Yazoo City is the sixth town in size in Missis
sippi.
Coal deposits are being found in Bandera county,
Texas.
The tide of immigration flows regularly into Ten-
Arkansas state fair opens at Little Rock, 17th of
October.
ViftiitSTA state fair opens October 17and continues
ten days.
The oil mills of Eufauln, Ala, have been put in
operation.
Tennessee is the second peanut producing state
in the union.
The state fair of Arkansas opens at Little Rock
October 17th.
Lexington, Kv, has forty-five doctors and forty-
five lawyers.
Cholera is playing havoc with the hogs of South
east, Arkansas.
Harvesting rice iu Louisiana; has been the best
season for years.
Montgomery, Ala, has received up to date 5,564
bales of cotton.
TiiEasscssmentsof niilroadsin Kentucky amounts
to $31,699,548.03.
Thirty-four lodges of secret societies assemble
iu Lexington, Ky.
Sharks have never been seen in Red river in such
numbers us this year.
A great many northern people arc going to spend
the winter in Mobile.
A number of artesian wells have been bored in
Marksvillc, Louisiana.
A new water works company has been organized
at Birmingham, Ala.
The 11th of October a new newspaper will bo
started in Aiken, S C.
A steam cotton factory Is soon to be erected at
Sweetwater, Tennessee.
The South Carolina prohibition convention meet 1 *
at Columbia, 27th iust.
??? Montgomery???s, Ala. cotton factory will be in op
eration by December 1.
Scarcity of corn and a short mast will make meat
dear all over Arkansas.
A large jute factory will be put in operation in
New Orleans next week.
The campaign in Virgiuiu is becoming lively???
duels and rumored duels.
A larger acreage of wheat will lie sown in Ken
tucky this fall than usual.
Mississippi state agricultural and mech inical col
lege is crowded with pupils.
The new artesinn well at Charleston, S C, has-
reached a depth of 1,165 feet.
The cotton states pay the north $150,000,000 annu
ally for wheat, com and oats.
Governor Cobh, of Alabama, killed five deer
within the past eight days.
Mississippi writes fewer letters to the inhabitants
than any state in the union.
Arkansas will make more cotton than she-
thought for a few weeks ago.
Tiie annual Tennessee Methodist conference will
be held nt Lebanon, October 19tli.
The depth reached in the artesian well at Dur
ham, North Carolina, is 1,530 feet.
In Alabama there are 6,500,000 acres of govern
ment land aud 11.000,000 in timber.
Seventy-three new buildings have been erected,
in Troy, Ala, since the first of May.
Large deposits of gold have lieeii found in the
bed of Little river, Blount county, Tenti.
The Masonic grand lodge of Kentucky meets in.
the Masonic temple, in Louisville, October 18.
On an average the cotton and corn crops of soutlx
AlalNUna are better than they were last year.
The old convent in St Augustine, Fla, is being
demolished to make room for new structures.
The state convention of the Young Men???s Chris
tian association meets in Knoxville Ootobcr 13th.
Henry Joses, n colored liarlter of Knoxville,
Tcnn. died suddenly in his chair Tuesday night.
In proportion to population, there is more build
ing going on in Arkansas City than in any town in
that state.
The wild geese are making their appearance in
Arkansas, and an early and very cold winter is
predicted.
The 1,090 fanners in Hamblen county, Tenn, will
produce this season 20,000 bushels of droid fmit
worth $50,000.
Patrick Henophix, a small man of Washington
county, Tennessee, has a 12 year old son who weighs-
143 pounds.
The White Sulphur springs, of Virginia, will be- \
kept open during the month of October. There are
200 guests there now.
Considerable damage has been done by high
water along some of the East Tennessee streams,
washing away mills, luinlier, etc.
Judging from the number of special terms of the
circuit court of Alabamn, it would seem that viola
tions of the law are on the increase.
A bona fide bet of 81,000 was mndc by a promi
nent cotton facior of New Orleans, September 23d,
that the cotton crop this year would not be six mil
lions of bales.
Three brothers in Warren comity, Vo, have not
spoken to each other during forty years, owing to a
dispute about a eow in the settlement of their
father???s estate.
DRIFTING.
I core not whither the tide may go,
Or whether it comes in the ebb or flow.
In dancing waves, ns if in play
Or mountain billows with silvery spray;
No; wliiche???cr it lie, content am I
To watch the billows or waves go by.
it.
If joy should place, some summer???s day.
Her brimming cup to my lips and say:
???Drink of happiness, drink your fill.
Drown every care, drown every ill.
To-day is all we call our own,
To-morrow ere it comes, has gone,???
III. ??
Unable to resist tiie tide
That bears me now by Pleasure???s side.
Deep of the eup I drink, nor care.
What future ills I soon must bear.
Content to let the future be;
The present is enough for me.
iv.
Rut should the tempest o???er me roll;
Should friendship pale and love grow cold,
My soul with clouds o???ershndowed be,
My way grow dark, I may not see
If life should seem one weary day
And clouds obscure my onward way,
v.
I will not murmur at my way,
But meck???y bow my head and say.
It is my Heavenly Father???s will
The clbuds arc dark just now, but still
Somewhere the sun is shining bright;
???Tis not forever hid from sight
vr.
My life is in God???s hands, I know,
. So let the tide come, ebb or flow, ???
Let sunshine cheer, or clouds hang low;.
My bark safe guided by HLs hand
I shall soon be anchored in that land
Where friends to part no more, shall meet
And rest be found at Jesus's feet.
Cedartown, Ga.
Working for Conkllng.
Washington, October 1.???The report comes from
New York that Arthur has tendered a place in the
cabinet to Judge Lapham, the new senator from
New York. This would leave to Governor Cornell
the opportunity to call a special session to elect a-
senator, opening the way for Conkling.
Another Catnpipue.
By a large majority of the people of the
United States have declared their faith in kid
ney wort as a remedy for all the diseases of
the kidneys and liver, some, however, have
disliked the trouble of preparing it from the
dry form. For such a new candidate appears
in'tlie shape of Kidney wort in liquid form.
It is very concentrated,*as easily taken and is
equally efficient as the dry. Try it.???Louis
ville Post.