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4 THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER 4, 1881 ?????W??????BM???M?????? THE CONSTITUTION. Entered at the Atlanta Post-office as second-class matter, November 11, IK*. Weekly Csa.tllutlon, price tl.S# per annum. Clut* of twenty, $20, and a copy to the getter up of the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS,$1.00. Pmpertaat. ' We rend The Constitution and Cultivator to one addreasfor 82,50. This does not apply to past tub 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.